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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad's workplace had something similar in the 1960s-70s. It was a plane hangar that was used by the baggage handlers.

The walls were cinder block so hollow from top to bottom, they would open up the boxes of the mini alcohol bottles that would go on the planes and take handfuls of them out, once the bottles were empty they would dump them down the same hole until they actually filled one up then started on a new one.

That would have been a surprise when that hangar got demolished and that wall opened up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If they aren't going to recycle which rarely happens even today that is probably just as good of a solution as landfilling them, those little bottles are littered all over the earth. When they demolish a building they would trash all that debris anyway, but yeah a hilarious find, hundreds of them lol.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Wet shaving is still very much a thing; in fact in the last decade or so, it's had a renaissance of sorts (tho it was probably re-gaining popularity already in the early 00's). I've been a wet shaver for 2.5 years but decided to buy me an electric shaver because these days I have less time for wet shaving. It can done be quickly but what's the point if you've got to rush it. Links for those who got curious:

https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/

https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/media/

https://sharpologist.com/

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven’t seen it mentioned, maybe I didn’t look hard enough. Wouldn’t this be a huge problem for water damage and mold between the walls? All I can think about is all that shower water + steam getting in there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our house had one of these slots. When we remodeled the bathroom there was just a huge pile of razor blades. No water damage or mold, just a pain in the ass removing those walls since it was those small slats with nails and cement (I think it was cement?). Just lucky the only asbestos was on the pipes in the basement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

small slats with nails and cement

Lath and plaster. It's how they made walls before sheet rock (drywall)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Curious as to why this fell out of fashion?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not just hotels, but regular homes too.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought people use those plastic blade disposal container that has a slot on top that you throw away once it gets full nowadays.

It's not built into the wall, but the base principle still hasn't changed even after all these times.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I got a can of chicken broth, knocked a slot into the top with a flathead screwdriver and a hammer, poured out the stock and rinsed and dried the can. It lives in the cabinet beneath my sink and I drop my blades in it when I'm done with them. That was about 10 years ago. The thing is maybe a third full.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuckin razor blades. Where do they go?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For some reason I read th his in the vouce od Dara Ó Brian. "It goes into the waaal."

(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxOb8-d7Ic)

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