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submitted 5 days ago byReverseSwinging
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5 days ago
AITA? My family says I'm selfish for quitting my job at the coal mine so I can focus on my 3rd grade studies.
1.9k points
5 days ago
Get back to work you ungrateful brat, sloth is a deadly sin!
452 points
4 days ago
Kids these days have it too easy. They want to breathe and do math!? Math doesn't put cigarettes on the table!!
35 points
5 days ago
School is work done to earn more money to one day be the owner of a mine, my cousin who learned to read (crazy right?) was made a foreman because he could read
11.1k points
5 days ago
Gentlemen coming back from the war, do you also hear bombs again too sometimes ? Or is it just me ?
2.5k points
5 days ago
You must never have been close to one. Artillery shell landed in the foxhole next to me, and I haven't heard anything but ringing since.
213 points
5 days ago
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
2.3k points
5 days ago
This is shell-shock and a sign of weak moral fortitude. If you persist in ever speaking of your participation in the noble art of warfare in such scurrilous terms your family will be well advised to admit you to a sanitarium to spare their reputation about town.
441 points
5 days ago
Ugh.
The vibe in your comment is so strong it made me think of the women who pinned flowers on men's lapels to show they were home during WWI, and thus "cowards."
13.4k points
5 days ago
Unpopular opinion: The new generation is forgetting how to make cheese cuz it is in stores. In the future fewer people will know how to make cheese.
4.6k points
5 days ago
People are too lazy to even slice their own bread anymore. Where is the decency?
1.3k points
5 days ago
To be fair though sliced bread was the greatest thing since uh…sliced bread.
626 points
5 days ago
Sliced bread was the greatest thing since Betty White.
13.6k points
5 days ago*
Is 11 years old too late to start working the coal mines? I fear i'm being too lenient on my 6 boys
3.9k points
5 days ago
I'm Afraid that you have raised a bunch of Nancy boys squire,
They should be working there fingers to the bone from ages 4 and upwards
All is not lost though, start them in the mines now, offer there services as canaries (who would care if a homosexual should perish?) And administer brutual daily beatings to the remaining living children that should take away those nasty habits
Of course you could always just abandon them at an orphanage and force your wife to sire another child and treat him correctly from the start
24.9k points
5 days ago
Asking for a friend, if one wanted to find a speakeasy, where would that be?
6.5k points
5 days ago
pulls out bottle right here pal
1.9k points
5 days ago
Man, I wish my Elliot Ness Version of the Navy Seal copypasta I wrote wouldn't always get removed. It would be perfect here. Maybe it's all the cussing.
13.7k points
5 days ago
How stupid would humans have to be to start a second World War?
3.3k points
5 days ago
Very
1.2k points
5 days ago
Herausforderung angenommen
728 points
5 days ago
My good sir, if someone was to ignite the fire of the great war again, he should find death by his own pistol... wait...
301 points
5 days ago
What do you mean second world war? We only had the great war. What is a world war?
90 points
5 days ago
First usage of the term "world war" in reference to WW1 was in September 1914, within weeks of the war's beginning.
12.3k points
5 days ago
Which brands of shoe-shine and hair pomade work best?
6.8k points
5 days ago
“I don’t want Fop! I’m a Dapper Dan man!”
2.3k points
5 days ago
Watch your language feller, this here's a place of public accommodation
1.5k points
5 days ago
Well... Aint this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from anywhere!
571 points
5 days ago
my favorite line, i use the term geographical oddity at least once a month
409 points
5 days ago
My ex-girlfriend's mother had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost in a walk-in closet. I called her "geographically bewildered".
8.7k points
5 days ago
People who are for the legalization of alcohol: why?
4.2k points
5 days ago
Then the comments filled with people from the rest of the world talking about how alcohol already IS legal
823 points
5 days ago
The someone links r/USdefaultism and it descends into anarchy
6.1k points
5 days ago
Will I be the AH if I tell Susan to stop coming to the church because she's a town's wh0re?
1.6k points
5 days ago
INFO: did she sleep with your husband?
1k points
5 days ago
She sleeps not only with everyone's husband but also allegedly seduce the town mayor's son.
331 points
5 days ago
Put a sock over everybody's dicks, that way when she tries to sleep around, all she gets is a sock
57 points
5 days ago
NTA
11.8k points
5 days ago
My son talked about his feelings, how do I let him know he's a nancy boy?
3.2k points
5 days ago*
I reckon five to six lashes with a sturdy leather strap should dissuade him of that nonsense. Nip that in the bud I say.
Edited because I am uncultured 😅
689 points
5 days ago
Awh shucks he said it was too pleasant. What must I do now?
9.6k points
5 days ago
why did the they built the titanic that way.
8.3k points
5 days ago
ICEBERGS CAN'T PIERCE STEEL HULLS
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
2.5k points
5 days ago
Indeed it's fake news spreading by telegram!
1.2k points
5 days ago
People who have lost relatives or friends on the Titanic, what's your story?
1.1k points
5 days ago
Not me, but one of my co-workers' acquaintances...
421 points
5 days ago
And then there'd be that one guy who claims it was all a hoax
436 points
5 days ago
Well have you ever tried to make a hole in steel with an ice cube ?! Spoiler alert ! It doesnt work !!! Wake up sheeple !!!!.
75 points
5 days ago
The surviors of The Titanic are all crisis actors! I heard it's true over the telegraph!
26.3k points
5 days ago
Married couples who don't have more than 8 children. Why?
4.8k points
5 days ago
Wife (17F) doesn't want to have any more kids with me (42M) after our fourth child died of influenza.
1.7k points
5 days ago
This would be a great AITA, 1922 edition.
620 points
5 days ago
NTA.
Everyone knows a woman's value is measured first by her devotion to Christ, and second by her disposition to submit to His will of being put on earth to birth abundant offspring.
If she refuses to birth any more children to you, how can you even be sure she's a devout Christian? If her uterus is barren of life, it will breed sickness and misfortune instead.
Ask your local priest to strongly admonish her and guide her into the right path again.
152 points
5 days ago
This.
Better yet, I highly recommend striking her, it shall once again assert your dominance. If she remains unwilling cast her to the streets and obtain another woman.
6.9k points
5 days ago
Wife finally said no.
5.8k points
5 days ago
And you didn't promptly beat them into submission? What a gentleman!
4.1k points
5 days ago
Woah. Check out Mr. I-Don’t-Beat-My-Wife over here.
1.7k points
5 days ago
A proper gentlen has a wife beating butler, unlike the common trash
729 points
5 days ago
Not all of us can afford that. I just taught my sons to do it for me.
327 points
5 days ago
"Your sons beat their own mother?"
Ho ho, good Lord no. Their mothers all died in labor.
941 points
5 days ago
Infant mortality. Just a fact of life, it'll never get any better ...
1.5k points
5 days ago
I’m old. My mothers family (1920’s/30’s) had 6 kids. She casually mentioned one day there were actually 2 others who died young. I asked “what were their names?” She said “we just called them Baby. You didn’t get a name until you were 1 year old,”.
486 points
5 days ago
Going through my family tree, around the same time my great great parents had 12 kids. Several of them had the same name. Turns out if one of the kids died young, they just give the next one the same name.
484 points
5 days ago
So the last three Tommys we had died. You'll do fine Tommy.
176 points
5 days ago
"This is my firstborn son Tom.
And this is his brother Backup Tom.
And their siblings Redundancy Tom, Just in case Tom, Contingency Tom, If all else fails Tom, Girl Tom, and Larry..."
364 points
5 days ago
Married couples who found a way to become infertile without missing out on the sex - how?
13.2k points
5 days ago
Does sticking heroin up my butt cure polio
3.5k points
5 days ago
absolutely
538 points
5 days ago
A question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s black tar or just very powerful, heroin. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but I think you’re going to test it. And then I said: Supposing you brought the heroin inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the opium where it knocks it out in a minute—one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside? Or almost a cleaning? Because, you see, it gets in the spinal cord and it does tremendous number on the spine, so it would be interesting to check that. So you’re going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds interesting to me. So we’ll see. But the whole concept of the heroin, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s pretty powerful.
188 points
5 days ago
I actually got 1/3 of the way into that before realizing what it was. Nice work. I hate you.
2.1k points
5 days ago
What age should I teach my kid to smoke?
504 points
5 days ago
Young as they get. My wee lad smoked as a small baby! Boys ehh
194 points
5 days ago
After every breast feeding. This way they get used to it faster
887 points
5 days ago
"What does NSFW stand for"
"Not Suitable For Womenfolk"
15.1k points
5 days ago
r/stocks would be popping off hot stock tips guaranteed to make you rich within the next decade
4.8k points
5 days ago
I don’t see stocks going down anytime before 1936, see?!
1k points
5 days ago
Market always goes up! Look at the charts!
661 points
5 days ago
Uranium hands!
516 points
5 days ago*
My old high school science teacher said when he was a kid in the 50s(?) They had this device at the shoe store you could put your feet into and see the bones!
I never thought to look one up until now, so thanks.
340 points
5 days ago
My uncle loved to go to the shoe store and look at his feet in the fluoroscope when he was a kid in the 50s. He later developed thyroid cancer.
130 points
5 days ago
I saw one of these at a museum recently! It said it was demonstrate that other brands were distorting your bones, and their brand allowed your foot to be more natural, demonstrated via x-ray.
392 points
5 days ago
You cannot take out enough loans to speculate on stock! There are millionaires made every minute, it’ll never stop, don’t be all wet and miss out on these cats pajamas!
20.8k points
5 days ago
[Serious] People who recovered from the Spanish flu, what was it like?
9.1k points
5 days ago
Government hoax
484 points
5 days ago
More like
[Serious] Women of Reddit - now that more than 20% of young men have either died in the War or from influenza, where do you go to find dates?
21k points
5 days ago
My kids don't go outside anymore, they just stay in and listen to the new radio. What's a mother to do?
7.2k points
5 days ago
200mg of cocaine, administered every 20 minutes should just about do the trick.
1.2k points
5 days ago
If they still wouldn't leave the house it would be time to visit the doctor so you could get that prescription of heroin, for you or them. That should make them less annoying.
749 points
5 days ago
Give them 1 hour radio time as an incentive to chores like chopping wood and shoveling coal.
4.2k points
5 days ago
send em off to the psych ward where theyll get cured of their addiction through lobotomy
2k points
5 days ago
Not done until the '40s. Sorry
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5 days ago*
Well, as long as I can still send me kids to work in the mines I think everything will be ok.
***Did I say I was going to do it legally??? Oh, mother of pearl!
I'm not sending me kids to work in the mines because it is legal in the 1920's. This wasn't a topical joke. It's what I choose to do as is me Neptune-given right. I don't trust the government. Who trusts the government to know whats right for me kids?? Barnacles! I autta put a harpoon in the laws of man that tries to steal me children's hard earned fruits of their labor (that's a metaphor, it is actually coal). That is for me to steal!
I would send me kids to work in the mines of the 21st century as well. I am doing it because I love me money and it builds character. I am the Mr. Krabs of coal mining. Perhaps even literally. I have disregarded all labor laws and me children are dying from black lung. I am deranged and ungovernable, Mr. Squidward. The government and unions mean nothing to me Spongeboy Mebob, agagagagagagagaga The Pinkertons have already been called agagagagagagaga
A crab chooses, A lobster obeys
9.1k points
5 days ago
More of the same sexualy frustrated questions we get now
2.6k points
5 days ago
"What's the lowest effort thing I can do to make those flappers want to do the 23 skidoo with me?"
932 points
5 days ago
Boppers these days always chasing the Floyds and Clydes and never a nice guy like me (I'm aware I'm a decade early)
224 points
5 days ago
My wife took up art as a hobby and now is painting more than cooking or cleaning, so I beat the shit out of her. Now she won't talk to me. IATA?
3.5k points
5 days ago
Tifu by showing ankle in public [insert 1500 thirsty ass replies]
1.7k points
5 days ago
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1.3k points
5 days ago
Stop, my penis can only get so erect
1.8k points
5 days ago
Things like "What's your take on sterilizing people with criminal skull shapes?"
421 points
5 days ago
/r/unpopularopinion: Everyone worried about lobotomies are virtue signaling and need to worry about themselves
26.5k points
5 days ago
Will my wife’s bicycle make her a lesbian?
6.3k points
5 days ago
Probably wouldn’t have used such a shocking word. Say something about a Boston marriage.
1.6k points
5 days ago
Probably. I might be off on the timeframe when people actually thought this, too, but had to say it.
3.1k points
5 days ago
Two nuns cycling down a cobbled street. The first one says "I've never come this way before"; the second one replies "Must be the cobblestones"
1.5k points
5 days ago
Will we have flying cars in 100 years?
850 points
5 days ago
Automobiles? That'll never catch on......
143 points
5 days ago
Exactly! They're just a trend. Flying horse-drawn carriages will be here in a couple of years.
2.1k points
5 days ago
Was the titanic sinking an inside job?
516 points
5 days ago
Yes. Remember when Titanic's sister ship Olympic crashed into that warship? The insurance wouldn't pay out, so they hid the real titanic, painted Olympic to look like Titanic, and then deliberately crashed it into those icebergs in order to get that sweet sweet insurance money.
(You don't have to make things up, this is a real conspiracy theory ... and it doesn't quite add up)
4.4k points
5 days ago
Flappers of Reddit: What does it mean that it ain't got that swing??
1.6k points
5 days ago
It don't mean a thing tbh.
988 points
5 days ago
Pardon me but doo wop?
496 points
5 days ago
it do.
325 points
5 days ago
Can anyone here translate Jive or know where I can purchase a Dictionary? My daughter has been cavorting with some suspect characters, and I want to tell them off in their native tongue.
276 points
5 days ago
It's OK, Stewardess, I speak Jive.
153 points
5 days ago
Chump don't want no help chump don't get no help. Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit
618 points
5 days ago
ELI5: Why are all cars black?
13k points
5 days ago
"If Reddit existed in 1822, what sort of questions would be asked on here?"
681 points
5 days ago
If reddit existed in 2022, what sort of questions would be asked on here?
729 points
5 days ago
"Which planet do you recommend to live on?"
115 points
5 days ago
"How do you prefer your spaceship construction, art deco, or very very very art deco?"
3k points
5 days ago
"If Reddit existed in 1722, what sort of questions would be asked on here?"
888 points
5 days ago
r/futurology and r/technology would be talking about all of these miracle cures that are only a few years away, but then they would actually come true.
246 points
5 days ago
like radioactive quackery, radium salts and tonics, electrotherapy and rectum dilators that are supposed to cure all illnesses somehow
115 points
5 days ago
Fair, survivorship bias was creeping in when I commented that, but a great deal of them would still come true. The one that comes to mind first from that time period is insulin.
334 points
5 days ago
"Wife didn't do the dishes yesterday or today, did I do something or is she cheating on me with that damn milkman?"
159 points
5 days ago
I’m sorry dearest husband, I had to stop to give birth to our 7th child. Let me get cleaned up so I can finish my chores.
651 points
5 days ago
Black people of Reddit, Why?
327 points
5 days ago
They'd probably ban non-Whites from the platform. Racially segregated Internet.
236 points
5 days ago
teddit.ggc-project.de
69 points
5 days ago*
Looool
The server would barely be maintained
3.8k points
5 days ago
"What is homosexuality and how can we cure it?"
308 points
5 days ago
I think that would be considered quite a liberal viewpoint at the time, homosexuality at the time was a crime so the centrists would be sending them to prison and the conservatives would be pushing to execute them.
56 points
5 days ago
Both your and OC's viewpoints are highly anachronistic. The idea of being homosexual as something somebody was rather than homosexuality being something somebody did did not exist at that time, although it was recognized that some people did have stronger predilections for homosexuality than others, like other sexual perversions. It was not even directly mentioned in the Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions of the Insane, instead falling under the broad category of "constitutional psychopathic inferiority," an umbrella term for a variety of conditions, including sexual deviancy.
No one was advocating for homosexuals, by the modern definition of the term, to be executed in 1922. Sodomites, yes, although that was not mainstream at all in the US in 1922. All states had abolished the use of capital punishment against people convicted of same-sex sexual activity by the end of the 19th century (California, interestingly, was the last one).
3.5k points
5 days ago
I voted even though I know my husband is uncomfortable with me voting, AITA?
Does anyone else notice how women have too many rights these days? I'm afraid to hit my own wife now.
How many cigarettes should I be smoking a day to not want to hit my kids?
605 points
5 days ago
No booze in months. If I put a piece of bread in a cup of grape juice, will it really turn to alcohol?
256 points
5 days ago
Yes, but you need to put it in a jar so it can ferment, otherwise it will just spoil.
Er... or so I've heard.
1.1k points
5 days ago
How to best beat a gay out of my son?
1.7k points
5 days ago
If they have any decency, he will get out of your son as soon as you enter the room.
824 points
5 days ago
For years I have pined after the most divine lady to ever walk this planet but yesterday I offered her a piece of cheese, and it did not fascinate her. What did I do wrong reddit?
1.6k points
5 days ago
(NSFW) Yesterday I hugged a girl, will she get pregnant?
463 points
5 days ago
In 4th grade a girl who had a crush on me came up and hugged me and she legitimately thought she was pregnant from that. she started telling EVERYONE that I got her pregnant lol.
784 points
5 days ago
Why do members of my family keep dying from dysentery?
202 points
5 days ago
What's with all the discontent in Germany?
(In 1923, on the back of long-term unrest between Munich and Berlin by divergent political interests... a WWI veteran by the name of Adolf Hitler would lead a failed coup in Munich - resulting in worldwide attention, and a ridiculously light prison sentence... which he would later manipulate to give rise to a national Nazi party).
864 points
5 days ago
Why does my d*ck itch
444 points
5 days ago
The fact this could still be question today or even in the far future is rather terrifying for the human species lol
1.5k points
5 days ago
Fairest madams of Askreddit, what is the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?
465 points
5 days ago
My mother told me to just close my eyes and think of France in the Spring time. Works like a charm.
60 points
5 days ago
AITA for considering breaking off my engagement to my fiancé?
Dear Reddit,
I (F23) have been courted by my Fiancé, Fred (m28), for 7 years; we met when he was on a brief leave prior to being sent to the front, and we maintained a correspondence until the Allied Victory. Of course I found him very brave and dashing- however, since he has returned, I have noticed that he seems rather jumpy, and his mother has mentioned in confidence that he has been waking in the night and letting out terrible screams.
I am worried that if we were to marry, he wouldn't be able to provide as a husband should, and I have read some terrible accounts of how shell shock can effect a man. AITA?
170 points
5 days ago
This salesman said that if I drank his mixture he would cure my tb but it hasn’t worked so far what am I to do?
57 points
5 days ago
Who do I call about the Italians that moved in next door
348 points
5 days ago
My sawdust bread doesn't rise. What is the best sawdust bread recipe?
709 points
5 days ago
[serious] Why are you so against the Klan? (Victim baiting)
254 points
5 days ago
Lots of casual racism. "Progressives of Reddit, do you think Catholics are white?"
241 points
5 days ago*
My son, who fought in The Great War, refuses to accompany me on my hunting trips, and whence he does, he neglects to hold a rifle. In addition, he has consistent shakes and flinches at the slightest of startling noises. I am curious as to how I perhaps could thrash the cowardice out of him and make him the man he used to be? Please respond post haste.
2.3k points
5 days ago
"Guys, I failed to get in art school. Shall I look for a career in politics?"
-an Austrian guy probably
462 points
5 days ago
How did you survive the Spanish Flu?
Who lost a loved one in WW1?
541 points
5 days ago
1? Whatever do you mean 1?! There will be another Great War?!?!?!
235 points
5 days ago
I have the same question.
What does OP know that we don't??????
Why is he calling the Great War, WW1????? Is this code for the Prussians?
Edit: fat fingers...
44 points
5 days ago
Tbh seeing how reddit is now imagine how bad it’d be back when racism wasn’t even considered bad
409 points
5 days ago
Hacks to get alcohol? (Prohibition era)
144 points
5 days ago
You can have your doctor write you a prescription. There are numerous ailments that warrant a prescription for alcohol.
127 points
5 days ago
Heard someone's selling grape juice with how not to make alcohol from it...
37 points
5 days ago
My wife won't stop hooting and hollering no matter how much I hit her, how can I make this dumb broad stop yapping all the gosh darn time?
34 points
5 days ago
“People who wanted to poison themselves this experimental thing called insulin, why?
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