I was all about Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, a collection of facts a lot of which probably aren’t true but it was entertaining.
But this was absolutely the backup option.
“Oh, sulfates huh? Tell me more. Rinse and REPEAT?? The fuck outta here.”
I’ll forever be grateful to those thronal thespians of the page, who told me exactly whence the phrase, “Close, but no cigar,” came from.
magazines
This honestly. Lots and lots of magazines in a basket on the wall.
'member Reader’s Digest?
My parents had that but for some reason I chose the shampoo over it
Gotta be careful reading those dr bronners, you might get sucked in to the cult
Dude wtf is that… I bought some spearmint toothpaste off Amazon didn’t pay attention to anything, just wanted spearmint. Package came in and it was Bronners. The box scared the shit out of me so much I immediately through it in a closet because I was too scared to open it.
Haha that’s fair. Honestly though they make legitimately good products and while some of the stuff they have written on there is a bit cuckoo, it seems well meaning and some of the ideas they present (e.g. taking care of the earth and each other) are actually good
My first language course
The modern Rosetta Stone.
Telling the world not to cover a radiator/other such heating apparatus 😁
What the languages look like to me (top-bottom, left-right): Swedish, Norwegian, German, Finnish, English, French, Polish.
I know English and French, am learning German, and have seen a TON of Finnish and Polish stuff (mostly music lyrics). The other 2 are clearly northern Germanic languages, but it’s hard to tell which (the first one can’t be Danish because they usually use ø instead of ö, and I don’t think Danish usually uses å, but the second one also looks like Swedish to me… so it’s a shot in the dark).
You’re right about first two being Swedish and Norwegian and half right and half wrong about Danish letters: we use ø rather than ö, but we DO in fact use å.
The only difference between this particular phrase in Norwegian and Danish is that we’d use an æ (equivalent of Norwegian and Swedish ä), making it “tildækkes”. Danish and Norwegian are very much mutually intelligible, especially in writing 🙂
“Wait. ALL this shit. On every bottle?”
Dr.Bronner’s typesetter
eye twitching
ALL ONE.
(LABEL)
When as a kid you sit in the bathroom and start reading bottles of shampoo and then cutting off the first letter each time.
“Shampoo” “Hampoo” “Ampoo” “mpoo” “poo” “oo” “o” “”
And for reason poop was like “Get me the fuck out of this body right nooowww!!!” after you read something.
The first bottle I got had some wonderful shit about helping PTSD patients and research on psychedelics.
The one I have now reads like the psychotic ramblings of a cult leader…
Love the soap but holy crap the labels are wild.
He ate all the psychedelics
“God wants me to go home now”
Dr bronners does support some pretty great, progressive politics. The new bottles have a lot less religion on it. Still the same quantity of text, though.
I had a dedicated place for comics. I weekly rotated the content and always had entertainment. Maybe I should start doing this again.
That Castile soap is great, especially for oil/grease.
Not only that but they are a fantastic company and treat their employees really, really well.
What is even the point of bringing up mastodon in the title? This meme is old as dirt.
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After escaping from a mental institution in 1945, he went into business
That explains the bottles.
Seriously though, glad he got out. His ramblings were coming from a good heart and his soap is legendary.
p e p p e r m i n t
I used to work at a book store and the smart phone killed sales of uncle John’s bathroom reader.
Sodium lauryl sulfate
somethingsomething thiazolinone
Methylchloroisothiazolinone
If you used someone’s bathroom back then who had Bronner’s, you really hit the jackpot for reading
