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Life in the 1500s

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  • #52
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    o1s1n wrote: »
    You'd be surprised how many classical civilizations had plumbing, running water and central heating. It's pretty amazing really.

    versailles stank of ****e.

    http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.ie/2014/04/the-lack-of-toilets.html


  • #53
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,265 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    ScumLord wrote: »
    People tend to think stress is bad for you, but it seems stress is only really bad for you if you believe it's bad for you. Just because they would have had busy and stressful lives doesn't necessarily mean they didn't enjoy the majority of their day.

    If you were living in a fertile area with lots of food and wildlife to hunt, you could have a pretty nice life. I don't think it would be any more stressful than what a lot of people do today (IE, sitting in an office with a deadline looming, working on something abstract which really has no bearing on their life other than earning money)

    That's it, I'm packing it all in and moving up the mountains :pac:


  • #54
    o1s1n
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    Beano wrote: »
    versailles stank of ****e.

    http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.ie/2014/04/the-lack-of-toilets.html

    Sounds no different to Temple Bar/O'Connell street :pac:


  • #55
    TheEnigma
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 41 ✭TheEnigma


    Apart from the clan battles and the war with the English, well come to think of it that would be easier than office life


  • #56
    mariaalice
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    You'd be surprised how many classical civilizations had plumbing, running water and central heating. It's pretty amazing really.

    That's another thing the romans had all that yet it was abandoned by future generations that came after them, how come the technology was not keep in use.


  • #57
    Dr.Winston O'Boogie
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    But they had free water at least.


  • #58
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    Dr.Winston O'Boogie wrote: »
    But they had free water at least.

    The Romans had a water tax.


  • #59
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Dr.Winston O'Boogie wrote: »
    But they had free water at least.

    Free untreated water you mean, in the 19th century people dying of scarlet fever and other illness was not uncommon all cause by drinking from a contaminated well.


  • #60
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    mariaalice wrote: »
    That's another thing the romans had all that yet it was abandoned by future generations that came after them, how come the technology was not keep in use.
    Some romans had those things, most were crammed into high rise apartments with nothing of the sort.

    Romes wealth moved east and I'd say people just couldn't afford to keep the staff and slaves needed to keep these things running. A lot like we today depend on commodities being imported from all over the place IE: The coal you put in your fire or the TV in your sitting room, Rome was a city that was made possible by the empire importing things from all over Europe. Rome couldn't even feed itself, it depended on imports from Egypt, once the wealth moved east they simply didn't have the money or population to pay for all that stuff.

    Similar things can happen today with industries slowly disappearing and being exported overseas. We used to have a much more self sufficient country years ago but now that we can import product cheaper from overseas most people have forgotten the skills that were common 100 years ago. If global trade collapsed tomorrow it's likely we'd be living pretty basic lifes for a while.


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  • #61
    Beano
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    That's another thing the romans had all that yet it was abandoned by future generations that came after them, how come the technology was not keep in use.

    Yes, but what did the romans do for us?


  • #62
    gladrags
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Sounds no different to Temple Bar/O'Connell street :pac:

    Deja vu at work.

    Temple bar was part of the old city going back to 1600 or earlier(need to check exact date).

    You can only imagine what was flowing into it from the castle and liberties etc.


  • #63
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Gladrags, was that deliberate?


  • #64
    Rory28
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    TheEnigma wrote: »
    Nordies were the most powerful people on the island in the 1500s , last to fall to the english

    Skyrim belongs to the Nords!!


  • #65
    gladrags
    Registered Users Posts: 6,028 ✭✭✭gladrags


    Philo Beddoe wrote: »
    Gladrags, was that deliberate?

    "Many sources agree that Temple Bar Street got its name from the Temple family, and specifically Sir William Temple (provost of Trinity College from 1609-1627), whose house and gardens were located there in the early seventeenth century. However, given the existence of a storied district of the same name in London, it seems that the new Temple Bar street of Dublin must have been a nod to its older and more famous cousin."

    The name temple bar was there prior it becoming a so called "cultural quarter", in the 1980's.

    The old dubliner pub and the palace bar were the 2 pubs on the street,with one pub the other end.

    That street was mainly residential,old tennements.

    The area is mentioned in several maps and docs going back to the 1500 or so.


  • #66
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Meathlass wrote: »
    Well, there was this thing called The Famine ....

    There was no famine.

    https://wtpotus.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/a-can-of-worms.jpg


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  • #67
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    In other words, bunk?

    Not only that, but the phrase "piss poor" isn't seen in print until after WWII.

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pis1.htm


  • #68
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Chucken wrote: »
    There was no famine.

    https://wtpotus.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/a-can-of-worms.jpg

    Well, technically you're right - there was plenty of food about. The problem was that a lot of the indigenous Irish couldn't get their hands on it.


  • #69
    recylingbin
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    Melisandre121 wrote: »


    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!"
    Ah yes. That's certainly the way to do it. dad, you're the filthiest. You jump in first. And John and Kevin, you go next. You're only half caked in sh*t. Mary, c'mon now, don't be afraid. It's water. Of course it's clean. You need to get that spud clay from under your nails. Now throw little Colmcille in there.
    2 days later...
    Anyone seen Colmcille?


  • #70
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    blackbird98 wrote: »
    Oh no it's not!!! good read though...

    Origins: In a nutshell, this article about "Life in the 1500s" is nothing more than an extended joke, someone's idea of an amusing leg-pull which began its Internet life in April 1999. All of the historical and linguistic facts it purports to offer are simply made up and contrary to documented facts:
    Read more at http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp#RF1lQzjEfxt2fQ5Q.99



    But see also https://xkcd.com/250/
    The MythBusters are even more sinister.


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