• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    i just assumed everyone is just grossed out by it regardless of whether they fucking cleaned it in bleach, there’s simply no way to make a shared sponge feel acceptable

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

      We are all products of the conventions of our times.

      less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

      Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      9 hours ago

      This so much. I would use virtually anything else before I would willingly go near a public asshole cleaner.