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you dopes realize millions and millions of people lived perfectly happy lives (before you even get to the Mozarts and Billy Shakes) long before 1900?

Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Oct 11 '22, 12:08

how bad could it have really been?

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for me, it's the where. ancient cities had some really great culture, progress, and way of life. middle ages deserve their reputation. - colin Oct 11, 12:44 1
- Romans had a sophisticated civilization, especially health care...except for all that slavery and dead match fighting. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 13:10
I'd just like to go back to the time before social media. -- nm - pmb Oct 11, 12:37 3
- yeah, but then you'd get mad at the classifieds in the newspaper, bulleting boards.. when does it end?? -- nm - colin Oct 11, 12:41 2
  - Letters to the Editor section was absolutely Twitter before there was an internet -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 11, 13:39 1
    - But so much easier to avoid. And not then followed by thousands of equally awful replies. -- nm - pmb Oct 11, 14:32
I mean, if you lived past childhood, maybe. -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 12:33 2
- roll the dice. you could be the next Mary Shelly too -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 11, 12:41
- And child birth, doctors literally refused to wash their hands, they were gentlemen therefore could not be filthy, dirty hands were a sign of pride. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 12:37
There's a couple of medicines that make me going back too far not realistic. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 12:23 10
- Right? Mercurial moods would lead to a short life. -- nm - TWuG Oct 11, 12:27 5
  - also, breathing. Breathing is good. -- nm* - Reagen Oct 11, 12:38 4
    - Yeah. Also, you'd be killed for being a giant. -- nm - TWuG Oct 11, 12:42 3
      - Our village is saved - The Mountain has arrived! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:43 2
        
        didn't The Hound & The Mountain usually destroy villages? -- nm - mud Oct 11, 13:01 1
        
        You're probably right, but don't tell them that -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 13:15
- Allergies alone make it a stern, "NO THANK YOU!". -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 12:26 3
  - May not have allergy problems given more biodiversity (and not all male trees) -- nm - spamlet Oct 11, 12:29 2
    - The all male trees thing that went around a while back was mostly debunked fwiw -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:30 1
      - See ... it's actually climate change doing its nefarious work. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:38
I'm sure billions of happy people lived back then. - ReluctantCynic Oct 11, 12:19 9
- I think the problem with chris's theorem is that they didn't know any better. Send me to ST:TNG times and bring me back. - crash davis Oct 11, 12:23 8
  - Exactly. -- nm - pmb Oct 11, 12:37
  - Too true. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 11, 12:34
  - Send me to ST:VOY/LD times. And don't bring me back. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:25 5
    - I'll hang out at the Daystrom Institute and keep AGIMUS company. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:29 4
      - Who was that archaeologist woman that tormented Picard? Vash or something? -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 12:51 3
        
        this hottie? -- (pic) - mud Oct 11, 12:59 [Attachment] 1
        
        yep -- nm - crash davis Oct 11, 13:02
        
        Yes, that sounds right. IIRC Boimler doesn't like her either. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:54
This post, on National Coming Out Day no less?! (I joke, I thought it was a good joke to make here) -- nm - MDH Oct 11, 12:17
Have you read "Factfulness"? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 12:15
My answer is 2009 -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 12:13
They also shit in holes in the ground and lacked modest medical advice. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 11, 12:12 1
- Penicillin insulin statins and floss... candle light -- nm* - zeitgeist Oct 11, 12:21
pffft, rumours -- nm - mud Oct 11, 12:11
Yo, I’ll go way back to make sure it’s Adam and Steve. -- nm - Qale Oct 11, 12:10
Yersinia pestis you sap -- nm* - crash davis Oct 11, 12:10

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you dopes realize millions and millions of people lived perfectly happy lives (before you even get to the Mozarts and Billy Shakes) long before 1900?

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