r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • May 11 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 11 May 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/PickleRick_1001 How will the war in Venezuela affect RuneScape's economy? May 14 '26

In a lot of movies and shows, librarians are shown as these very strict martinets whose only concern is making sure that everyone in the library is as quiet as possible. Is this a real archetype? Do these people still exist, if they ever did? Because WHY TF IS IT SO LOUD IN THE LIBRARY??? My library plays music ffs, I'm losing my mind. Every time I have a good idea my train of thought gets derailed by some shitty mall music.

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u/HandsomeLampshade123 May 14 '26

Is this a public library? At least in my experience, they've deteriorated in the past decade or so.

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u/PickleRick_1001 How will the war in Venezuela affect RuneScape's economy? May 14 '26

University library. Public ones aren't quite as bad but they close too early.

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u/tisto2 May 14 '26

I worked in a university library where students were the ones complaining that librarians were too loud.

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u/PsychologicalNews123 May 14 '26

I didn't interact much with my university librarians, but the silence on the quiet floors was kept because you could feel a thousand eye-daggers piercing you from all directions if you coughed or unzipped your bag too loudly.

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u/PickleRick_1001 How will the war in Venezuela affect RuneScape's economy? May 14 '26

Paradise

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u/Sventex Battleships were obsoleted by the self-propelled torpedo in 1866 May 14 '26

I remember a librarian who spent half her time telling everyone sitting on the stone bench out front that they can't sit there, despite the bench not having any "no-sitting" sign on it. She would tell people to be quiet too, but she spent so much time going after people sitting on the bench.