re: #140 EmmmieG

Do you know what the first thing we would notice about the past? Here’s my guess

If we went at night? The darkness of it all

If we went during the day? The smell. No deodorant, little bathing, lots of manual labor, and bad lavatory systems

One of my history teachers in college, describing industrial age England with his Liverpool (liverpudlian?) accent:

“The streets were coovered in shit. Coovered. In Shit.”

Not news to me, or him, and he was clearly using the line as a shocker to get the other students to think differently about the past, but still… Covered in shit! They never put that in the movies!