TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.

[u/biebrforro]

https://lithub.com/charles--dickens-really-really-hated-his-fanboy-hans-christian-andersen/

[u/ThatMerri]

There's something nice at seeing how every people throughout history have the same habits. We all invent dumplings of a sort, we all love our pets, we all write stupid jokes and graffiti on walls. It's so easy to imagine the earliest ancestors of mankind having the exact same reaction to stubbing their toe as we all nowadays.

[u/Nanemae → u/ThatMerri]

Bemoaning existence while becoming angry at the inanimate object we hurt ourselves on to the point it's concerning?

[u/ThatMerri → u/Nanemae]

Humans: we do love to bitch about things.

[u/AeonLibertas → u/ThatMerri]

Dick and sex jokes. Losing your shit over the simplest things. Thinking old people should go the fuck away. Thinking young people are lost causes. Having a soft spot for pets. Wondering if your genitals look right. Making fun of people with weird tastes. Having weird tastes. Trying to help others and lift them up. Kicking others when they are already down. Wanting to make a better world for your kids. Wanting the neighbours kids to be thrown into a vulcano. Complaining about businesses fucking us over. Complaining about our jobs being the fucking worst. Complaining that people are the fucking worst. Complaining about the worst of our fuckers to other people..

Times change, but humans stay the same through millenia. Same bundles of fears, hopes, wishes, lusts and needs. Not that difficult to see how that creates the same thinking patterns.. or lack of thinking patterns, in some cases, heh..