American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once said: "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." Let's explore that tail, shall we? It's not an easy task, but Bored Panda put together a list of photos that capture this elusive silhouette quite well.
From a meatball that has spent decades in epoxy to 1,800-year-old Roman leather sandals, the things you're going to see below have all faced the biggest battle in the universe — the passage of time — but took different wounds. Continue scrolling to compare them and if you want more of the same, fire up our similar publications here, here, and here.
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The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea
Shout Out To Lodge For Replacing My 14 Year Old Dutch Oven Because The Enamel Chipped. No Hassles, Just A Free Replacement In The Mail One Week After Contacting Them
My Grandmother Has Kept Her Elementary School Lunch Box In Nearly Pristine Condition For Over 70 Years
I Inherited My Grandma's Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
The Knife At The Left Was Used By A Butcher For 5 Years Straight. The One At The Right Is The Exact Same Knife, But Brand New
This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
Brickwork By The Sea
My Work ID Has Been In Its Plastic Holder For So Long That Itâs Imprinted This Ghostly Image Of My Face
My Neighbors Have An Old Chair With Plants Growing Over It
I Found This Leaf With Only It's 'Veins' Remaining
The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces
My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since
160 Years Of Foot Traffic Over The Step Into My Local Pub
This Tree Eating A Postbox
This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock
A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt
I Went Into The Office For The First Time Since March 2020 And Found The Kiwi I Left In My Desk
You Can Tell Where People Tend To Line Up At This Brooklyn Hardware Store By Where The Linoleum Tile Has Been Worn Away To Reveal The Original Ceramic
Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation
I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design
About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots
Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised
Great Grandmother's Potato Peeling Knife Still Used By My Grandmother In Her Late 80âs. She Says Her Mother Used It When She Was A Child
Keep it forever! My grandma gave me an old lamp that has been used in our family for over 90 yrs. Doesn't match any decor and the plug is weird but I'm keeping it forever!
Well-Pet Ducks
Bathrooms At My Engineering University
My first reaction was men are taller so naturally push on the door higher than the positioned "plate". Then I re read the title and sadly realised that females are still grossly under represented in most engineering departments.
@Andrew- OR, they (women) are cleaner than their male counterparts and actually use the "handle area" to push the door open? ....Nope! I side with you on this one! Your comment is sad but true.
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I agree with you all that this is MOST LIKELY because there are more men than women. Could it also not be that it's because people are more commonly right handed, so the women's washroom allows them to easily use their right hand to push open on the plate, where the men's is worn out beside the plate because it's awkward to reach across your body to push directly on the plate?
Hey..at least there was a women's restroom. My sister was the first woman to take HVAC classes at her technical college. If that wasn't proof that HVAC is mostly a male populated career, the fact that she had to go across campus to find a women's restroom between classes should have been a clue.
Nothing is stopping women from becoming engineers in the country except for lack of interest.
And sadly people who think like you are a big reason they are not interested. SMH
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Interesting that this pic is causing so much stir. Bobert Robertson makes a good point. Most people are right handed, so the womenâs bathroom door protector is in a better place than the menâs bathroom door protector. Second, yes the engineering field is mostly men, but that is simply due to less women applying for engineering degrees. It has nothing to do with gender bias so can we stop getting upset about this? Less women engineering applicants = fewer women graduating as engineers. Simple math. It has nothing to do with ability or some sort of gender bias. Should we tack on the % of men who fail to get their engineering degree? Itâs a very difficult degree for anyone to earn. Also, there are fields dominated by women (healthcare, education), so letâs ease up on assumptions that there are biases happening that are preventing women from becoming engineers just because of this picture. We all have the same opportunities if we are determined enough.
Your point about gender bias I think is an incorrect analysis of the issue. Are universities not accepting female engineering applicants, No quite the opposite. Infact due to the imbalance I believe female applicants may have a slight advantage over male applicants if there is a surplus of engineering applicants. The gender bias starts long before university applications begin. It is a societal bias. I wouldn't necessarily expect females to ever outnumber male applicants but I believe it should be far higher than it is today.
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I was thinking how much cleaner the girls were rather than there must be less of them.
Men care about things, women care about people. Given freedom to choose, each chooses what attracts them. In Scandinavian countries, which have the most freedom for women, hardly any women choose engineering.
They're lucky to even have women's rooms! At my school (granted, it was physics and chemistry, not engineering) if you were a woman who had to go, the closest bathroom was three floors up where they taught nursing.
I also think that a majority of people are right-handed and push open doors with their dominant hand.
Our Physics department didnât even have womenâs washrooms in it until about 30 years ago. Even then, there were only two installed in a four story building. I fought to get the menâs only facilities on the floors with no womenâs facilities turned into gender-neutral ones.
The first thing that came to my mind was that I also prefer to avoid pushing the metal plate because that's where loads of other people have placed their hands. Now I see most of us do that. I'm going to start kicking doors open.
No it's because there are such a small number of women who do engineering. I know I studied it, attended the lectures, I stayed and did a PhD. I was there for almost a decade (I did a 5 year undergraduate double degree). There are hardly any women
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Sad so few female engineers, but guys thatâs brass hand plates are there for a reason
Either the men who attend have small bladders or there's a small percentage of women who study at this Engineering University. I'm gonna assume the latter. SMH đ
Very small % of women who do it. I am an engineer
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If this doesn't say that the industry isn't balanced well!
Nope. The men's room door is clearly worn from more use of both hands and feet. The contrast illustrates the gender disparity in technical education schools.
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I think everyone knows that women are in the minority in engineering, by quite a long way.
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My Nana Has Been Using The Same Deck Of Cards For 10 Years And Theyâve All Grooved To Her Hand Placement During Shuffling
Does she always win? She's probably memorised every little blemish on the back of each card.
100-Year-Old Logging Truck, Abandoned And Overgrown By The Trees It Once Helped Cut Down (Lynn Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film
Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer
A Tree Trunk With A Silver Kennedy 1/2 Dollar Coin
These Hand Prints In A Cave In Southern Utah
Faded Sign From The "War On Drugs" Era
30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy
60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle
Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick
Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use
Progression Of A Broom At A Machine Shop
This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine
This Guy Dancing At The Same Place For Weeks
Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii
A 39-Year-Old Fan Which Turns 40 Tomorrow
My Dadâs Tree Is Swallowing His Thermometer
This Pumpkin Got Tossed In The Chicken Run Last November But Other Animals Ate The Insides, Leaving A Fairly Intact Shell
Wear Marks In The Floor Of A Repurposed Leviâs Denim Factory. Someone Spent Their Whole Life Working And Standing In This Spot. Lamyâs Building, Sedalia, MO
That person was dead long before they died. Imagine heaving to spend every day of your working life being confined to a few square feet, probably doing the same mind numbing work day in and day out.
My Teal Post-Its Turned Green While I Was Out Of The Office For 15 Months
Basketball I Got 5 Years Ago vs. Basketball I Got Today
Found This At My Local Pharmacy
This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use
Note: this post originally had 113 images. Itâs been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didnât sit well with me. Iâm skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didnât sit well with me. Iâm skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
