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Living in medieval castle, drinking beer, listening to Greensleeves by the fire

your arm around your young bride. fast forward 700 years....
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
Tbf, 700 years ago you'd have been an indentured servant (li...
stubborn aromatic party of the first part
  12/24/15
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Grizzly titillating station
  12/24/15
so outdoor manual work (which science shows makes people hap...
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
Don't forget bountiful quantities of mead, peasant free love...
Grizzly titillating station
  12/24/15
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Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
It's a free country. Nothing is stopping you from being a co...
olive talking address
  12/24/15
It's too late for me...
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
wow
Zippy Cordovan Brunch Degenerate
  08/30/26
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Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
“It's a free country” Okay, I lol’d
Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
Living in one bedroom thatched hut entire family sharing one...
Obsidian stock car ticket booth
  12/24/15
life expectancy was not 35 average lifespan =/= life expe...
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
OK, if you could survive the 80% child mortality and grow to...
Obsidian stock car ticket booth
  12/24/15
mere survival and comfort aren't the paths to happiness. exp...
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
They have much lower expectations?
Obsidian stock car ticket booth
  12/24/15
partly. modest expectations, stronger familial ties, support...
Mischievous blue stage
  12/24/15
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Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
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Deep Theater Stage
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Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
thx libs
massive low-t place of business
  12/24/15
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Deep Theater Stage
  08/30/26
"sick building syndrome" lol wtf this is a real...
Swashbuckling Theatre
  12/24/15
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Cerise dysfunction toaster
  08/30/26
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Zippy Cordovan Brunch Degenerate
  10/12/26


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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:11 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

your arm around your young bride.

fast forward 700 years. sitting in office afflicted with sick building syndrome, staring beady-eyed at computer screen, anxious about a cold call you have to make, looking forward to another night alone in your rented box seeking comfort with yet another glowing screen

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447951)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:12 PM
Author: stubborn aromatic party of the first part

Tbf, 700 years ago you'd have been an indentured servant (like you are now)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447965)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:13 PM
Author: Grizzly titillating station



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447970)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:14 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

so outdoor manual work (which science shows makes people happy; construction workers have shockingly low rates of depression), followed by a night by the hearth, beer, my young bride, the sense that God loves me?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447979)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:15 PM
Author: Grizzly titillating station

Don't forget bountiful quantities of mead, peasant free love, and practically every other day being some saint's feast day.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447988)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103918)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:17 PM
Author: olive talking address

It's a free country. Nothing is stopping you from being a construction worker, a farmer, from living off the land, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448007)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:19 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

It's too late for me...

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448014)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:07 AM
Author: Zippy Cordovan Brunch Degenerate

wow

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103206)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 1:36 AM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103293)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:23 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage

“It's a free country”

Okay, I lol’d

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103924)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:21 PM
Author: Obsidian stock car ticket booth

Living in one bedroom thatched hut entire family sharing one bed, backbreaking labour in the fields from sunrise to sunset every day, have young bride because previous wife died in childbirth having her 12th kid (but only 3 survived), facing starvation every year if crops fail, no immunity to disease, face full of rotting teeth, life expectancy of about 35, subject to arbitrary whims and oppression of your feudal lord etc etc

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448019)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:22 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

life expectancy was not 35

average lifespan =/= life expectancy

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448022)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:25 PM
Author: Obsidian stock car ticket booth

OK, if you could survive the 80% child mortality and grow to an adult without picking up some awful chronic disease then your life expectancy was probably around 45-50.

This is leaving out extraordinary life shortening events like major wars, famines and bouts of the Black Plague.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448036)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:26 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

mere survival and comfort aren't the paths to happiness. explain why poor nations report higher levels of happiness than many developed ones.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448048)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:27 PM
Author: Obsidian stock car ticket booth

They have much lower expectations?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448053)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:32 PM
Author: Mischievous blue stage

partly. modest expectations, stronger familial ties, support networks, limited options (too much choice makes people unhappy), religion, defined social role, simple pleasures.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29448077)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:23 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103923)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:23 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103921)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103919)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:15 PM
Author: massive low-t place of business

thx libs

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447982)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:24 PM
Author: Deep Theater Stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103925)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:16 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Theatre

"sick building syndrome"

lol wtf this is a real thing?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#29447994)



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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:45 PM
Author: Cerise dysfunction toaster



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50103966)



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Date: October 12th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: Zippy Cordovan Brunch Degenerate



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2#50186290)