Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Things That Grew Classier Over Time


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various things that grew classier over time. Definitely had no idea that lobsters were commonly fed to prisoners back in the day, and had a reputation for being the cockroaches of the sea. 

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Text - Vionrd • 6h Living or staying in the topmost floor. Before elevators were invented, people from the low class generally occupy the top floors while high-class people resided in lower floors. Reply 248 ...

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Text - Faith1_2 • 8h Being tan used to indicate you worked in the fields. Now it indicates you are wealthy enough to hang out and play tennis or whatever. Reply 449 ...

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Text - FiliaSecunda• 4h Reading novels. In the 1700s people thought it was something frivolous for flighty women that would rot your brain. Nowadays many people consider any reading at all better than TV or video games, the new brainrot bogeymen. (Though of course there are exceptions.) * Reply 108 ...

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Text - Vievin • 8h At least where I live, eating brown/black bread. It used to be the poor people's bread, the rich people ate white bread. It has flipped in the last decade, and now brown/ black bread is very popular among the rich for being healthy or something, and white bread is the poor people's bread. Reply 151 ...

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Text - Woodpecker_Live • 9h Champion brand clothes. That was the cheap Walmart brand in the 1990's. Reply 297 ...

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Text - M_Ad • 8h Until the late 1800s oysters were dirt cheap. In medieval times up to well into the 18th century even working class people at them in large quantities. Reply 86 ...

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Text - Prasiatko • 7h Maybe not trashy but when my mum was young they used to use kale as animal feed it was so cheap and nobody wanted to eat it. Now it's some kind of superfood apparently. Reply 106

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Text - jasenzero1 • 9h Eating lobster. Used to be so abundant it was fed to prisoners. Reply 249 VillyD • 9h It was known as the cockroach of the sea 86 ...

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Text - longliveniko • 5h Wearing vintage clothes/second hand. Years ago it was only for poor people. Reply 223 ...

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Text - PhoneJazz • 5h Living in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. Reply 25 ...

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Text - lionfish-ru • 7h rock-n-roll. remember that scene from back to the future ? Reply 1 70 ...

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Text - humanhomie • 5h Depending on the quality, fake Christmas trees. Used to be ugly no matter what and a real tree was considered so much better. Now they make some really pretty fake trees and a lot of people consider buying a real one an environmental no-no. At least, that's the mentality I grew up around. Reply 29 ...

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Text - gizmosbutu • 1h A well designed and executed and placed tattoo. Not too long ago, people with visible tattoos were passed up for job opportunities regardless of qualification because of any visible tattoo. I manage a Health Care IT shop so we are very visible be it site visits or Teams/Zoom meetings. I also have very visible tattoos as does half my staff. However, I've seen a shift in perception with clinical staff in the past decade and a half or so. We used to get told to wear long slee

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Text - wisedoormat • 9h fitness fashion, wearing gym clothes during daily activities. i think the classiness perception is from healthy lifestyles being associated with wealthier people and the quality of some fitness wear does indicate a certain budget. combined with the indication of time management.. having a job, a familiy, a social life, education... AND you're able to the gym and stop by for groceries on your way home? plus the colors, so colorful! Reply 394 ...

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Text - KMerrells • 3h Credit cards. Their use was pretty much restricted to poor people who were forced to use them because they didn't have enough money at the time. Now they're not only commonplace, but certain types of credit cards are seen as symbols of high status. Reply 1 12 ...

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