The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped.
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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
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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 Of course people and animals won’t feed themselves. All the normal domestic tasks still have to be done.
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@iris_meredith @Daojoan now we need to work on celebrating St. Monday
@pdcawley @iris_meredith @Daojoan
I think some prog Euros are bringing in 3 day work weeks.
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@adamantichrist @Daojoan No. They'd be completely inedible - far too bitter.
Marinate in honey
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We only need 1 feast day... eat the billionaires day
@adamantichrist @Daojoan
There are about 4 thousand billionaires worldwide, but say we take double that to cover hangers-on, near billionaires, etc. Taking a carcass weight of 80kg, that's 640 thousand kg, about 14% of which is bone, so about 550 thousand kg of "flesh".Among 8.3 thousand million people in the world, that's 550kg among 8.3 million people. That's not even a mouthful each.
So basically to eat them, you need to boil them up for soup. That is called a stock option.
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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 In Denmark we recently lost our "Great Prayers day" which since 1686 had replaced a number of penitence days. So you could say that Christian reformation was what (partly) happened.
In all fairness the 20th century gave us weekends, 37 hours workweeks and min. 5 week holidays.
