born 1990 in an eastern european SSR, months before the dissolution

  • sima [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    we didn't have one in my family. we just scraped sand on our teeth with our fingertips

      • sima [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        just a silly joke, sorry to alarm you:) we did not in fact have to share toothbrushes

          • sima [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            no worries that's fair

            my mum's biggest complaint about her life in the USSR was that the party meetings took too long, she was bored often. idk, sounds pretty dystopian to me

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              "The problem with Socialism is that it takes up too many evenings" -Oscar Wilde

            • duderium [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The only meeting in history that didn’t take too long is the one in Space Mutiny where one guy gets impaled by the other guy who’s like an expert in ancient dentistry.