What’s Surprisingly Old Or New?
I recently found out that medical amputation is a really, really old procedure. As in, the first known example was performed on Borneo over 30,000 years ago, and the patient survived for a number of years.
I also found out that the first doorknob wasn’t patented until 1878. The inventor was only sixteen! Osbourn Dorsey, who was born enslaved in 1862, expanded on previous methods for latching doors with the now-common turning knob.
Let’s Talk Surprisingly Old or New
For example, where I once worked there was a couple who said they were just friends, but everyone knew they had been going out for a long time.
Except they weren’t, until one day when they were, in fact, finally a couple. The relationship that everyone thought was old was finally a real thing.
Have you ever had a neighbor with a cat or dog you always assumed was maybe three, only to find out one day it was actually 13?
Or, have you ever met some guy you swore was 50, but turned out to be maybe 22, like the Republicans in this video from The Onion?
Ever brought in a family heirloom to be appraised, only to find out it was only 30 years old? Ever found out your brother at 12 was using the same toothbrush he was using when he was eight? Ever opened a package of Oreos, took a bite, and then quickly looked at the expiration date and realized they date back to the Kennedy Administration?
When were looks deceiving and old was young or young was old?
surprising….i dont think so….but i am so annoyed at old being new again todays…..
i swear to peanut butter…..half the big hits in the charts here are 90s reworks with different lyrics
ive heard this before…and you made it worse…. so fuck off and go invent 2022 music you lazy fucking wankers
i mean really…..
the original gave me anger issues…..
fucking grow a creative bone!
You think of the difference between the music of 1932 and 1952, or 1952 and 1972, and then you think about how little has changed between 2002 and 2022. It’s sad.
also…whilst im still in a mood… mostly music induced but thats besides the point
i’d like to lay to rest the old myth that the netherlands is a liberal free country
you know when we scrapped the law forcing trans people to be sterilized if they take the op?
2014
fucking blew my mind that
i really dont know how we get that image of being all accepting liberal free types……..fucking killer pr i guess
In the US a lot of credit card companies wouldn’t give a card to a woman unless she had her husband’s signoff until the 1970s, even if she made all the money in the family. I think a lot of laws are still on the books letting girls as young as 12 get married off.
There’s a cat down the street named Socks. She’s very friendly and personable. Also very small. Her owner says she’s 14 years old. I would have sworn she was just past being a kitten.
I’m allergic to cats, but I will pet Socks. I extend this courtesy to no other feline.
Coincidentally the ads BTL of that doorknob post consist of modern day doorknobs:
I’m sure there are a lot of people who would like to give those knobs a 360 degree turn.
I have a contractor who I thought was in his early twenties…. He’s in his fifties. I am not usually that far off base. This guy’s blood must run with the fountain youth water.
There was a dog in the grocery store a couple weeks ago, who I would’ve sworn was *approaching* 2-ish.
The goodboy very much appeared to still be in the puppy-crazies that labradors *tend* to age out of, somewhere around 2…
Turns out, the goofball was more than FOUR, and a failed service dog😉😆😂🤣
Fwiw, it was obvious *why* he’d failed as a service dog–he LOVES people & smells *much* too much to stay “on task” for more than about 15 seconds!😁
This boi has “friends” EVERYWHERE, and felt the need to grind his neck into any & every floor-smell he crossed paths with, should his owner become stationary for more than 30 seconds😂🤣
It was such “Lab puppy” behavior, that i’dve sworn he was *close* to two, but definitely *not* past, rather than the 4 year old he was!😁💖💞
Lily used to surprise almost everyone who guessed *her* age, too. Folks always thought she was a minimum of three years under her age–and were shocked every time I said she was 13 (or 12, 11, 10, etc.).
It wasn’t until her last week or so, that we were able to walk on a block, with another dog across the street, without *some* jump/bark-ish acknowledgement of them–and even *then,* I’m pretty sure that the only reason she ignored those two dogs, was that her night/evening vision was fairly low, and that her sense of smell had faded quite a bit over the last couple years.
Just a friend???? Sure…