today i am learning about how a bunch of show robots got built in the 30s and apparently nearly all of them could either smoke cigarettes or shoot guns
@Dayglochainsaw those were the two activities back then
@robotcarsley not quite, there was also "wearing a hat"
@Dayglochainsaw @robotcarsley
It might amuse you to know the hatmakers association in New York literally used to pay people to go around beating up men who weren't wearing hats or were wearing out of fashion hats.
@floppyplopper @Dayglochainsaw some serious Terry Pratchett shit right there
@robotcarsley @floppyplopper oh yeah ive heard about that, it lead to eight days of riots once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot
@Dayglochainsaw @floppyplopper ah yes, I think there was a dollop about that. I also appreciated this
@robotcarsley @Dayglochainsaw
Makes gun toting robots carrying out an armed rampage seem tame by comparison.
@robotcarsley they made sure everyone wore a hat by having the old timey police go around truncheoning random skulls under the assumption that if you were wearing a hat it would cushion the blow enough for you to survive