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SuddenDownpour ,

"These are our ANCIENT TRADITIONS"

Yeah sure they are buddy, people in this town were totally exploding fireworks 300 years ago at 4AM. Is being a drunkard your family tradition too?

Silentiea ,
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I mean the day drinking is probably a lot older as a custom than the little bombs, but

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I mean, yeah, alcoholism has genetic factors and it's not like drunks are bad at breeding.

Bartsbigbugbag ,

China is probably the one place that can lay claim to that particular tradition being ancient. They go hard for spring festival.

TotallynotJessica ,
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Even if something is "natural," that doesn't mean it's good.

luciferofastora ,

Slipping in mud and landing face-first in animal droppings is perfectly natural too

TotallynotJessica ,
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We only grow old and die because of mother nature. I normally like dommy mommies, but this one can fuck off.

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Tar_alcaran ,

"how we lived our entire history" is generally "as hunter-gatherers, who died when something went slightly wrong".

Daxtron2 ,

Slightly deeper than normal scratch? Massive infection and death

Fedizen ,

get a cavity? hope you enjoy slow, painful decay

psud ,

Luckily they didn't, until they invented grain farming and storage and bread every day

Hunter gatherers before 10k years ago (before Egypt learnt to farm) had great teeth

Daxtron2 ,

This isn't universally true. There were less incidences of general tooth decay due to different microflora than we have now, but people absolutely still got dental issues that would result in systemic infections and death.

psud , (edited )

Sure. Tropical people have always had fruit, some had sugar cane. People fought and their teeth were damaged

But dental cavities and abscesses are caused by sugar in your mouth, and bread has always been good at getting stuck between people's teeth, while their saliva converts the starches to sugars

Archaeologists determine whether a skeleton came from a hunter gatherer or a settled farmer by their teeth

Microflora in your mouth - perhaps they did have different, there's no evidence, but if so I would guess that one's mouth microflora changes depending on what one eats

Note that the process that damages teeth is fermentation - where sugar is fermented, liberating energy, carbonic acid. That doesn't happen in the absence of sugar that persists in your mouth

Daxtron2 ,

that one's mouth microflora changes depending on what you eat

Yeah that's what I meant

psud ,

So your "their teeth were good due to different microflora" can be simplified to "their teeth were good because they didn't have tooth damaging food"

Daxtron2 ,

The original claim was dental issues were generally a death sentence, which was true whether or not they're more common now.

flying_sheep ,
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Until? The “hunter gatherer, then farmer” progression is a story, not reality. People sometimes did one in summer, the other in winter. Or gave up farming when they found nice herds.

TimewornTraveler ,

example?

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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One reason non-heteronormative sex is so demonized in countries that were formerly under British occupation is because of the influence of the British customs and laws.

gnutrino ,

If we're going to be saddled with 19th century British customs they could at least have left in all the drugs.

meleethecat ,

We do have the gin.

nicknonya ,
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it is our god given RIGHT to buy morphene over the counter!

peto ,

If they are that old.

lugal ,

As if 19th century Britain was a monolith

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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BarrelAgedBoredom ,

i am PISSED. Rrrroyally PISSED

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