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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:11 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated 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 |
Date: December 24th, 2015 5:12 PM Author: slippery main people Tbf, 700 years ago you'd have been an indentured servant (like you are now) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29447965) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:13 PM Author: contagious twinkling idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29447970) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:14 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated 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? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29447979) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:15 PM Author: contagious twinkling idiot Don't forget bountiful quantities of mead, peasant free love, and practically every other day being some saint's feast day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29447988) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:17 PM Author: Dead Pozpig It's a free country. Nothing is stopping you from being a construction worker, a farmer, from living off the land, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448007) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:19 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated Stage It's too late for me... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448014) |
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Date: August 30th, 2026 12:07 AM Author: Ass Problems wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#50103206) |
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Date: August 30th, 2026 1:36 AM Author: Oh, you retrieve? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#50103293) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:21 PM Author: honey-headed windowlicker 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 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448019) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:22 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated Stage life expectancy was not 35
average lifespan =/= life expectancy |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:25 PM Author: honey-headed windowlicker 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. |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:26 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated Stage mere survival and comfort aren't the paths to happiness. explain why poor nations report higher levels of happiness than many developed ones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448048) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:27 PM Author: honey-headed windowlicker They have much lower expectations? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448053) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:32 PM Author: Zombie-like Medicated Stage partly. modest expectations, stronger familial ties, support networks, limited options (too much choice makes people unhappy), religion, defined social role, simple pleasures. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29448077) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:15 PM Author: fragrant anal parlour useless brakes thx libs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3078682&forum_id=2Elisa#29447982) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 5:16 PM Author: Aggressive bawdyhouse "sick building syndrome"
lol wtf this is a real thing? |