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Basically the boomers were the last generation to enjoy socially acceptable drug dependence, because like many things they pulled up the ladder and still expect the same results from drastically different material conditions.
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Speaking of bored housewives, there is a job related to this that appears in most of Agatha Christie's stories, a job that no longer exists - the female companion. The job was basically for a woman to be a friend to a wealthier woman. At the lowest levels (still in the middle class, mind) this job seems like it at most could include some occasional cooking or light dusting, but usually a companion was decidedly not part of "the help". It would not do to befriend the help after all, so a companion certainly held a certain status above most other employees, so the fact that they were still paid at all usually had to be handled with some finesse from both parties. Even so, this was a proper job that was advertised in newspapers and everything, and companions would have references from the women they had previously worked for when they applied for a new position. They were employed by both married and unmarried women, but it seems like rumors could start fermenting if an unmarried woman lived with the same companion for too long. These rumors are only alluded to in the vaguest terms in a few of the books, usually only something like "who knows what kind of jealousies can develop when two women live together for so long.", which is what a policeman says in After the Funeral after a woman who lived with only her companion ends up murdered.
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Sweevo posted:"Horny Widow" was a common character trope in older literature. The idea was that because they'd been married and experienced sex they became insatiable and ready to jump into bed with anyone. Any woman whose husband was dead, away for extended periods, or just couldn't perform somehow was seen as an easy target for smooth-talking cads. So books from the 1800s-early 1900s are full of 40-something widows seducing or being seduced by handsome younger men. I expect, having done absolutely no research, that there were also a lot more young-ish widows around, what with the Great War etc.
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drrockso20 posted:I mean once that happened Housewives mostly just switched over to sleeping pills or "diet pills" and of course lots of booze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zxBNz3XbM
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Basically the boomers were the last generation to enjoy socially acceptable drug dependence, because like many things they pulled up the ladder and still expect the same results from drastically different material conditions. loving boomers won’t let me get addicted to drugs! What assholes.
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i mean have at it *gestures at opiods* even the lovely otc ones are addictive
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thetoughestbean posted:loving boomers won’t let me get addicted to drugs! What assholes. Yes.
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They don’t prevent you from getting addicted to drugs. They just crush you with the prison‐industrial complex if you do.
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thetoughestbean posted:loving boomers won’t let me get addicted to drugs! What assholes. Yeah. It sucks actually.
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One last Agatha Christie fun fact. Christie invented a character that was a very thinly veiled self-insert that appeared in a few of her stories - Ariadne Oliver, a famous writer of mystery novels starring a foreign detective. This character was mostly there to poke fun at both herself and the kinds of readers who took her books too seriously. She was mostly used to say things like that of course she knows that real life murders are very different from murders in her novels. The fun fact comes in Cards on the Table, a book from 1936, when she explains why the murderers in her books almost never used guns. Here Ariadne explains that any time she included a gun in one of her stories and got some terminology slightly wrong she would be absolutely flooded by mail from readers complaining about it, so it was much easier to just stick to knives and poison. So already in the 1930s, gun nerds were already so insufferable that the most successful crime writer of all time did her best to avoid writing about guns just to avoid getting mail from them.
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Offler posted:One last Agatha Christie fun fact. Nerds. Nerds never change.
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Offler posted:Speaking of bored housewives, there is a job related to this that appears in most of Agatha Christie's stories, a job that no longer exists - the female companion. "Just roommates" is a trope older than time (It's lesbians)
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Some people also are bi...
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doverhog posted:Some people also are bi... Yeah, but then you'd just get married and have a close personal "maid" or something like that.
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Everything I know about Edwardian lesbians I’ve learned from You Rang M’Lord?
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Alhazred posted:A fun fact about this is that Charles XII fled from a war he was losing against Peter the Great. His host, Ahmed 3rd, then got so sick of him that he sent 4000 soldiers to get rid of him, the only thing that preventing the soldiers from massacring Charles XII and his entourage was the sultan had given strict orders that the king in exile was to be captured alive. Charles XII then spent a year in a prison cell and only decided to return to Sweden when he learned that he was going to be replaced with his sister. During his time in exile he had racked up a huge debt and his debtors went with him to make sure they got paid. Charles XII then disguised himself with a brown wig and fled from the debtors. For a long time I only ever knew Charles XII from the sabaton album that came out when I was a teenager. It was fun to learn years later that he was less the war god of nerd metal and more a total goober stumbling from shenanigan to shenanigan. Greatest accomplishment: invention of IKEA food.
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Letmebefrank posted:https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1623676900722843649?t=_HgxkHKvpAOGlRYiVpVCZA&s=19 It's a vagina 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:For a long time I only ever knew Charles XII from the sabaton album that came out when I was a teenager. It was fun to learn years later that he was less the war god of nerd metal and more a total goober stumbling from shenanigan to shenanigan. Greatest accomplishment: invention of IKEA food. Him bringing back the meatballs is probably apocryphal
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Gaius Marius posted:Him bringing back the meatballs is probably apocryphal Yeah. it was dolma  Kåldolmar in 
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Carthag Tuek posted:kåldolmere ftw I saw on Youtube an American put catsup in and on cabbage wraps 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I saw on Youtube an American put catsup in and on cabbage wraps i may have done that as a child, but when i became an adult i put away childish things
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Replying to a seven year old post to say (I learned this recently) that the legend of Santa was also partly inspired by Odin, the long-bearded figure riding through the sky on his eight-legged horse. One of Odin's names is Jólnir, meaning "Yule figure". Since Odin was worshiped by the Anglos, it's no surprise it was incorporated with St. Nicolas into Father Christmas and so on.
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Santa Claus is actually derived from the Dutch Sinterklaas, the feast of Saint Nicholas, a tall, solemn bishop who gave children gifts and treats on December 5. The Dutch brought Sinterklaas with them to New Netherland/New York. In the early 1800s Washington Irving mentioned Sinterklaas in some of his writing, which apparently led to the poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" which introduced Santa Claus in his familiar bowl-full-of-jelly form to the United States.
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I’m in camp “Sleipnir didn’t originally have eight legs. That’s just how artists depicted the speed of the steed.“ Loki def. birthed Sleipnir though. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 13:47 on Feb 16, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:I’m in camp “Sleipnir didn’t originally have eight legs. That’s just how artists depicted the speed of the steed.“ Hanna Barbera rear end mythology
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To Hel with the Dráugìr in Gård six
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:To Hel with the Dráugìr in Gård six JabberJörmungandr
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Platystemon posted:I’m in camp “Sleipnir didn’t originally have eight legs. That’s just how artists depicted the speed of the steed.“ But how were the eight Iegs pIaced on the body? Four pairs of two Iegs? Or four front Iegs and four backIegs?
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Four and four, but four point down and four up and they're constantly rotating
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BattyKiara posted:But how were the eight Iegs pIaced on the body? Four pairs of two Iegs? Or four front Iegs and four backIegs? Think "Biblically accurate angel except with legs instead of eyes."
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caspergers posted:Jólnir, meaning "Yule figure".
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Alhazred posted:The Christmas Dude. * Yule Dude 
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Sorry for posting just a twitter link, I think it fits the thread to a t (to a c?), though: https://twitter.com/vagina_museum/status/1628403345198022656?s=20
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