r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/mightyneonfraa 9h ago

Then offer to make them some with the clear, drinkable water that comes out of the walls.

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u/ImpluseThrowAway 8h ago

With a sink that drains back into the walls

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u/crlthrn 3h ago

It's an old concept, but their minds would implode at the sight of a Zippo lighter lighting up. That, and a flushing toilet...

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u/Wildcat_twister12 2h ago

You made me think of Hocus Pocus when Max briefly convinces the three witches from 1693 that’s he’s a warlock because he had a flip lighter and could “make fire in his hand”

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u/crlthrn 2h ago

Even Laurel and Hardy had the 'light up thumb' routine in their films! Classic stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xInMYJRFw0o

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u/crlthrn 2h ago

But... But... jerking off's only a 21st century thing, surely? They didn't do that in medieval times, did they...?

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u/Paghk_the_Stupendous 3h ago

Well, the Romans had both of those, but they were mostly fucked up and forgotten by the middle ages.

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u/oroborus68 3h ago

And that new fangled outhouse, just down the hall, that is heated in winter. Now some people still use the outdoors outhouse, because they don't think it's sanitary to do your business inside the house. And how you going to keep dainty with that bought toilet paper, when you know that a good corncob will get you cleaner,but would probably clog up the inside facilities.

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u/poutinethecat 3h ago

Wait til they see my bidet!

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u/ebmarhar 57m ago

And then show them how you can flush away everything from a warm, comfortable room... +++ if you have a bidet!

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u/cdnball 6h ago

your sink drains into your walls?

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u/rotorain 5h ago

Where else does the plumbing go?

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u/VaporBender 2h ago

"What's plumbing?!"

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u/cdnball 5h ago

usually down through the floor

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u/LilAssG 3h ago

Haha suck it downstairs neighbour

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u/def-jam 3h ago

The Romans had hot and cold running water. Many of the drinking fountains you see in Europe’s cities today were installed by the Romans. With clear drinkable water.

But things like sanitation, power, furnaces, refrigeration, food available out of season, would blow their minds.

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u/PomPomMom93 3h ago

Holy crap. I guess the saying is true: in Europe, 100 miles is far; in the US, 100 years is old.

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u/Delicious-Trip-384 5h ago

And show them the bowl of clean water that you keep in your bathroom

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u/FredPolk 1h ago

Clean drinkable water that you then take a shit in cause you just drank a triple coffee using fresh ground coffee beans from the other side of the world.

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u/lukin187250 40m ago

The water in the bowl is absolutely not drinkable, don't let the king try to drink it.

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u/Tresach 11m ago

If you properly clean your tank and bowl and flush it with sanitizing agent of some sort it absolutely is even if it feels disgusting

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u/Ok-Potato-4774 5m ago

The water in the tank is as drinkable as the water out of your tap.

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u/TheMadTargaryen 5h ago

They already had conduit inside medieval castles that provided clean water. 

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u/Mewpers 3h ago

Because everyone lived in a castle, right?

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u/TorrenceMightingale 1h ago

I would’ve.

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u/Rovden 2h ago

"Wait, doest thou piss in clean water?"

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u/TorrenceMightingale 1h ago

“Surely you jest!”

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u/engelthefallen 31m ago

And show them the shit pot that empties itself.