r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 24 '26

ಠ_ಠ This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits

Bart from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

EDIT: I will no longer read and respond to comments, I think I've read pretty much all the arguments people (mostly men) give me against my post, so feel free to scroll down to check my responses before commenting, kay bye :]

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u/taxiecabbie Aug 24 '26

People probably also made them out of sticks.

Those just didn't last.

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u/Elu_Moon Aug 24 '26

Everyone seems to forget that we actually know very, very little of what happened during Stone Age. Best we can do are guesses, and we can only guess on what we have found. And just because we haven't found something, doesn't mean it wasn't there, like all the organic-based stuff.

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u/Machaeon Aug 24 '26

Likely some of the oldest technology other than stone hand axes and simple shard blades was...

String.

There is SO MUCH that can be done with string, and it's a foundational technology to so many other things that require attaching two items together. But it's organic and won't preserve well.

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u/NeblessClem Aug 24 '26

As said by Spike Milligan "String is a very useful thing Rope is thicker But string is quicker"