Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki’s from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/

“Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color.”

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    The crazy part is it was less painful then what they were doing without the chainsaw…

    On the plus side I believe that was the same time they invented vibrators, and when women complained about how shitty everything was, they’d just go get vibrated to cure their “hysteria”.

    Here’s a very upbeat song by Riki Lindholm about it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8y-6Jf4nA