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May 13, 2021 2:47 PM Subscribe
Ummmmm, the other day I was looking up why Norwegians put photos of royalty in their outhouses because I heard an explanation for it on this podcast*, and for whatever random reason, this came up in chat with coworkers. My coworkers were all "citation plz?" and thus I went a-Googling. I didn't really find anything else on this topic, but I'm sure my Google results are disturbing now.
* This, according to the podcasters, was because people used to use magazines to wipe, but it felt disrespectful to wipe with the requisite photo of the royals that was always in the magazine.
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:18 PM on May 13, 2021 [2 favorites]
* This, according to the podcasters, was because people used to use magazines to wipe, but it felt disrespectful to wipe with the requisite photo of the royals that was always in the magazine.
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:18 PM on May 13, 2021 [2 favorites]
Wait - there are people who don't disable Google search history?
posted by Cardinal Fang at 11:22 PM on May 13, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Cardinal Fang at 11:22 PM on May 13, 2021 [1 favorite]
Not really related, but earlier today in a picture I saw a nice flag on someone's garage wall, and wanted to know what it was (expecting it to be something horrible, TBH), so I googled for "red flag with squiggly white and blue and fleur de lisle". And it bloody well worked! Even if the flower decoration is called "fleur-de-lis" and not whatever bastardization of French I came up with.
(It's the flag of St Louis, Missouri)
posted by Harald74 at 4:20 AM on May 14, 2021 [1 favorite]
(It's the flag of St Louis, Missouri)
posted by Harald74 at 4:20 AM on May 14, 2021 [1 favorite]
I did not know FiveThirtyEight had a mascot.
Now I wish I did not know FiveThirtyEight has a mascot.
posted by tommasz at 6:23 AM on May 14, 2021 [2 favorites]
Now I wish I did not know FiveThirtyEight has a mascot.
posted by tommasz at 6:23 AM on May 14, 2021 [2 favorites]
tor, incognito mode, DuckDuckGo, flushing history, disabling history... so many ways to keep big brother at bay.
posted by greenhornet at 6:06 PM on May 14, 2021
posted by greenhornet at 6:06 PM on May 14, 2021
well, uh, some of us forget things and rely on our browser history to help us find them again
posted by mosst at 9:58 AM on May 17, 2021
posted by mosst at 9:58 AM on May 17, 2021
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