The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan And yet I wouldn't trade places with one of them.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan yeah, let’s bring back the feast of st. John the Baptist and Lughnasadh.
I could use some summer holidays. (The dutch have none between may and december)
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
We only need 1 feast day... eat the billionaires day
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan I have 146 days off per year, 104 of them are weekends, the remainder I can take when I wish. My working day is 7.5hrs long sat at a desk with a constant flow of coffee and snacks. I'll take that over back breaking toil, serfdom and plague.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan Agreed, & ya know what? Even though it sounds so silly doing things like “no work on the sabbath day” where some families would take it so seriously that they would sit and do as little as possible (because they would work extra the day before so little had to be done on the sabbath) and you know what? I think just the rest alone is the most important part! We need more rest, and days set aside where we are to do absolutely nothing!!!
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan I have two days off every week. That's 104 days per year. Add to that 6 weeks of paid vacation. That's another 30 days. To top it off there are about 10 public holidays per year like easter, christmas etc.
144 in total 🥳
Yet, there is still only one country in the world where citizens experience true freedom
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We only need 1 feast day... eat the billionaires day
@adamantichrist @Daojoan No. They'd be completely inedible - far too bitter.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan And a working week of Three days for the Lord of the manor, the same for yourself, and one a day of rest for the Lord of Heaven.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan not just stopping work but actively coming together as a community to celebrate. Sure we have the weekends that the other replies all talk about, but they're not a community day
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan Yeah, besides Sundays there would be one to two days a week without work, but you were expected to gather for religious or community ceremonies.
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@adamantichrist @Daojoan No. They'd be completely inedible - far too bitter.
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@Daojoan I have 146 days off per year, 104 of them are weekends, the remainder I can take when I wish. My working day is 7.5hrs long sat at a desk with a constant flow of coffee and snacks. I'll take that over back breaking toil, serfdom and plague.
@nohaironheed @Daojoan this weird nostalgia for mediaeval feudalism confuses me... you'd have been subsistence farming - basically on the starvation line - on the days not working for your lord, including maintaining your own hovel, so those feast days basically came off your own back. "oh yay, i get to spend a day eating the food i grew and postponing all my tasks till tomorrow!"
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@nohaironheed @Daojoan this weird nostalgia for mediaeval feudalism confuses me... you'd have been subsistence farming - basically on the starvation line - on the days not working for your lord, including maintaining your own hovel, so those feast days basically came off your own back. "oh yay, i get to spend a day eating the food i grew and postponing all my tasks till tomorrow!"
@ASprinkleofSage on the plus side, your heating bill would be less because you'd probably be sleeping in the same room as your cow. Child care would also be cheaper because the children who survive infancy will all be working with you in the field, mine or quarry. Happy times!
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@Daojoan OK, here's the issue. We have fifty-two feast days a year where work simply stops right now. We call them "Saturday".
Like, for my family in Poland it was a *big fucking deal* when they finally got Saturdays off some time in the seventies.
@iris_meredith @Daojoan now we need to work on celebrating St. Monday
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan Southern Baptists have some serious potluck dinners. Of course no drinking or dancing.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan 'Sorry m'lud, can't be actionin' the spreadsheets on the Feast of St Ignatius now, that'd be impiety, my apologies to t' stakeholders' - me, a bottle and a half of parsnip wine into Wednesday in my finest, mud free tights and codpiece.
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@ASprinkleofSage on the plus side, your heating bill would be less because you'd probably be sleeping in the same room as your cow. Child care would also be cheaper because the children who survive infancy will all be working with you in the field, mine or quarry. Happy times!
@nohaironheed @ASprinkleofSage *Yorkshire accent* a cow?! You were lucky. We 'ad one chicken and 'ad to take turns wearing it as a hat
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@nohaironheed @ASprinkleofSage *Yorkshire accent* a cow?! You were lucky. We 'ad one chicken and 'ad to take turns wearing it as a hat
@http_error_418 Eeee lad, you were lucky to have a chicken to share. We had a gerbil between us, which we would use to warm each finger in turn.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan Many countries are talking about implementing a 4-day workweek these days.
Also, I lived for a while in Bavaria, Germany, and got the impression that they still have a ginormous number of saint-related holidays there.
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@Daojoan Feast days were/are primarily a catholic church feature; the protestant reformation effectively did away with them
