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InvisibleHeavyDutyJudy
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the 1500's sucked
    #4985841 - 11/27/05 09:58 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,
and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell,
so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the
custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.



Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had
the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then
the women and finally the children last of all the babies. By then the water
was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."



Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other
small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the
saying "It's raining cats and dogs."



There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a
real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up
your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the
top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.



The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence
the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep
their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you
opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."


In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always
hung over the fire.
Every day they lit the fire and added thing s to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner,
leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the
next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a
while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas
porridge in the pot nine days old."



Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When
visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a
sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a
little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."



Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or
so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.



Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the
loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."



Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road
would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on
the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around
and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom
of holding a "wake."



England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places
to bury p eople. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25
coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized
they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist
of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie
it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the
"graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by
the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."


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InvisibleFreedomFight
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: HeavyDutyJudy]
    #4985875 - 11/27/05 10:31 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Happy birthday and awesome post


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I do not sell anything.
I am, however, a very curious individual.
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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: HeavyDutyJudy]
    #4985881 - 11/27/05 10:37 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

And lets not forget such quaint customs like bleeding. The 1500's sucked. as did the 16, 17 and 1800's. In retrospect, things really didn't start to get better overall until the 20th century......


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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: Le_Canard]
    #4985994 - 11/27/05 11:19 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Everything prior to the century where the world fought two long bloody wars (as well as many other smaller wars), with gruesome and unprecedentedly destructive weapons, pretty much sucked.

Things still suck though, they're just less backwards in doing so.


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InvisibleHeavyDutyJudy
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: FreedomFight]
    #4985999 - 11/27/05 11:22 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

FreedomFight said:
Happy birthday and awesome post




Thank you :smile:


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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: Konnrade]
    #4986000 - 11/27/05 11:23 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Well, true we did think of new and better ways to kill out fellow humans in the 20th century, but I was thinking more along the lines of improvements of the overall life of the common person in the west...


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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: HeavyDutyJudy]
    #4986003 - 11/27/05 11:24 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Oh yeah, and happy b'day! :laugh:


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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: HeavyDutyJudy]
    #4986021 - 11/27/05 11:35 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

HeavyDutyJudy said:
The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep
their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you
opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."





although nice explanations they're more fanciful than factual, for instance;
straw from grains and such are called silage, not thresh, the wealthy people had
rugs at the door just like modern times, they did come up with weaving a few
weeks before the 1500's... bringing 'silage' in and piling it up in the entry
would have it tracked all over the house, wouldnt their servant have been made
to clean out the old stuff before putting down the new?


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OfflineUnagipie
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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: HeavyDutyJudy]
    #4986030 - 11/27/05 11:40 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

It pretty much sucked to be a woman back then. Not only were you treated like shit, but you ran the risk of being accused of witch craft


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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: Unagipie]
    #4986044 - 11/27/05 11:44 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Unagipie said:
It pretty much sucked to be a woman back then. Not only were you treated like shit, but you ran the risk of being accused of witch craft




You all hear what he's saying?! He's a witch! BURN HIM!


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Re: the 1500's sucked [Re: Konnrade]
    #4986082 - 11/27/05 12:04 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

HE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!!!


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