This is a misinterpretation of a study on peasant life. It called certain religious days “holidays”. What it meant was those days were days they didn’t have to work for their lord. Peasants were obligated to work a certain number of days per year on the lord’s land. The other days they still had to work their own land. Agriculture was back breaking work and if you weren’t working in the fields you were constantly working on things like making cloth, repairing things, preparing food, etc.

Right up there with customer service lines that just have menus of canned responses that don’t address your need. No, I don’t need to hear your hours, I don’t need to know where you are, I can find all of that online. I need to talk to a human being.

Vietnam draft…

Every generation thinks they are special or have it the hardest

Tell them it is a tax haven

Fellow Xer here. My optometrist fitted me for my first pair of glasses for reading and said “welcome to your 40s”. I keep a cheap pair in every room and the nice prescription ones in my home/work offices.

Not sure what this has to do with boomers. I’ve heard people of all ages grumble about having to wear glasses.

The reasons I’ve heard (hah) are:

1. They cost a lot
2. People are biased against people who they see wearing hearing aids
3. It makes you feel old and face aging

I go on Wikipedia to look up a region in central Europe and an hour later find myself reading about obscure events in the 30 years war.

You need to arm 100 guys? 100 spears is a lot cheaper and easier to train than 100 swords.

Your brain deliberately forgets trivial stuff. Do you really need to remember every lunch you had? Same goes for all the mundane stuff in history.

On the other hand so little of the mundane stuff was recorded that when we do see it it can be a window into how people actually lived, like Samuel Pepys diary. The daily stuff was so accepted as boring and common knowledge that it wasn’t considered worth recording.

Dennis is doing “hummingbirds” right now

“Area rug in front of the litter box, CLEAR…”

hork hork hork hork hork

…check on bed then check under the bed…

Beans, beans the musical fruit…

Americans are interested in American politics. Next thing you’ll tell me is Europeans are interested in European politics. I never hear about Brexit…

Are they dim!?

They fetishize the struggle; they don’t actually want progress, they want to complain.

In the past they were sitting in cafes across Europe, chain smoking and writing pamphlets.

I’ve thought about that. Games, especially ones with development like RPGs, provide that sense of accomplishment that life rarely gives or doesn’t give clearly. Promotions at work might be years apart, buying a house, etc but I can feel like I got something done on a daily basis in games, plus I get a little chime sound and a popup when I do!

Eh, you are just finding out there is more to life than tv and games