The hair thing was huge, for a long time. Sometimes they'd weave them into jewelry, like rings and bracelets. The use of hair as a keepsake has allowed us to have the DNA of numerous famous people, and discover much about their lives, and deaths.
And the long shoes is still a thing. There's a certain branch of Mexican music called Tribal Guarachero, where the players have these boots with absurdly long pointy toes:
I remember doctors smoking during my annual school physical as a kid. Nothing like a doctor asking you to turn your head and cough, with a cigarette hanging from their lip.
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How accurate are these statements about the past? | Spyke
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Normalize the eyebrows thing again
The hair thing was huge, for a long time. Sometimes they'd weave them into jewelry, like rings and bracelets. The use of hair as a keepsake has allowed us to have the DNA of numerous famous people, and discover much about their lives, and deaths.
And the long shoes is still a thing. There's a certain branch of Mexican music called Tribal Guarachero, where the players have these boots with absurdly long pointy toes:
I'm trying to figure out how pebbles and broken pottery is ever preferable to a few soft leaves.
I don't know about pottery shards or leaves; I coulda sworn that the Romans were using sponges on sticks by then anyway.
I mean as long as you realize they're not including the very relevant information about where it was normal.
The 12th Century one seem very reasonable.
Have you been reading Robert Rankin?
The smoking one is real. You can still find commercials from the 50s about doctor recommended cigarettes.
I remember doctors smoking during my annual school physical as a kid. Nothing like a doctor asking you to turn your head and cough, with a cigarette hanging from their lip.