Women delivering ice, traditionally a man's job, USA, WW1, 1918

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Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Compare and contrast

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I picked a bad presidential term to stop huffing glue

mhague@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

We should legalize glue. It's got other uses besides mind altering experiences.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

AI p i z z a

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

It's never too late to pursue your dreams

Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Is the guy on the left cross eyed?

msprout@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

God. I love a woman in overalls.

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Hope they are wearing steel tipped shoes

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm pretty sure those didn't become a regular thing till the 1930s in the earliest. So probably not. That's also a fair bit over anyone's safe lifting limits.

msprout@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Believe it or not, that's what dutch clogs (sabots, the teardrop-shaped wooden shoes) were for. They were around as early as the 1500s.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

True! It was pretty much the go-to safety shoes during the industrial revolution, and the agrarian safety shoe long before that. (Gotta spend those long winter nights doing something when you can't plow the fields)

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Yeah those hook handle things make me super nervous. Seems like that ice would just slip the fuck out.

AJ1@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

possibly wingtipped

Damage@feddit.it · 7 pts · 1y

Sidewalk ice for your whiskey