Wild Bill@midwest.socialM to Everett True Comics@midwest.social · 4 months agoEverett knows how to get by without potions (February 23, 1909)midwest.socialexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1173arrow-down1external-linkEverett knows how to get by without potions (February 23, 1909)midwest.socialWild Bill@midwest.socialM to Everett True Comics@midwest.social · 4 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRexelpitlumlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·edit-24 months agoI just realized what the vase-like thing on the left is and now I am feeling slightly nauseous thinking about it. Wild times, and only just a hundred years ago…
minus-squaresinkingship@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months agoNow I’m intrigued. It is the waiter’s carafe, isn’t it? But if I’m right, what’s wild about it? So I must be wrong?
minus-squareRexelpitlumlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·4 months agoIt’s a spittoon. People used to chew tobacco and then occasionally spit into these. So this would be filled with a brown soup of saliva with soaked tobacco remains distributed in it.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoMy grandfather uses tin cans. He left one in my car once. Only once but holy fuck.
I just realized what the vase-like thing on the left is and now I am feeling slightly nauseous thinking about it.
Wild times, and only just a hundred years ago…
Now I’m intrigued. It is the waiter’s carafe, isn’t it? But if I’m right, what’s wild about it? So I must be wrong?
It’s a spittoon.
People used to chew tobacco and then occasionally spit into these.
So this would be filled with a brown soup of saliva with soaked tobacco remains distributed in it.
My grandfather uses tin cans. He left one in my car once. Only once but holy fuck.