The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 21:17:13 GMT

tokeriis@helvede.net — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:17:13 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 18:34:31 GMT

highlandlawyer@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:34:31 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 16:02:35 GMT

n_dimension@infosec.exchange — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:02:35 GMT

@NAB @adamantichrist @Daojoan

Marinate in honey

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 16:01:51 GMT

n_dimension@infosec.exchange — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:01:51 GMT

@pdcawley @iris_meredith @Daojoan

I think some prog Euros are bringing in 3 day work weeks.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:47:24 GMT

avirr@sfba.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:47:24 GMT

@Daojoan Of course people and animals won’t feed themselves. All the normal domestic tasks still have to be done.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:46:39 GMT

bergerode_cyber@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:46:39 GMT

@Daojoan Feast days were/are primarily a catholic church feature; the protestant reformation effectively did away with them

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:43:41 GMT

bontchev@infosec.exchange — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:43:41 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 14:38:44 GMT

nohaironheed@mastodon.scot — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:38:44 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 14:32:49 GMT

http_error_418@hachyderm.io — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:32:49 GMT

@nohaironheed @ASprinkleofSage *Yorkshire accent* a cow?! You were lucky. We 'ad one chicken and 'ad to take turns wearing it as a hat

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:50:45 GMT

boysenberrycider@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:50:45 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:22:36 GMT

mmm_kay@kolektiva.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:22:36 GMT

@Daojoan Southern Baptists have some serious potluck dinners. Of course no drinking or dancing.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 11:24:20 GMT

pdcawley@mendeddrum.org — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:24:20 GMT

@iris_meredith @Daojoan now we need to work on celebrating St. Monday

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:42:28 GMT

nohaironheed@mastodon.scot — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:42:28 GMT

@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!

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 09:51:12 GMT

asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:51:12 GMT

@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!"

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 09:26:22 GMT

adamantichrist@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:26:22 GMT

@NAB @Daojoan an acquired taste

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 08:55:09 GMT

feinstruktur@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:55:09 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 08:29:08 GMT

wheresalice@woof.tech — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:29:08 GMT

@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

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 08:06:46 GMT

epistatacadam@toot.wales — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:06:46 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 07:45:48 GMT

nab@mastodon.me.uk — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:45:48 GMT

@adamantichrist @Daojoan No. They'd be completely inedible - far too bitter.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:55:08 GMT

sorenladegaard@social.vivaldi.net — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:55:08 GMT

@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

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:39:42 GMT

em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:39:42 GMT

@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!!!

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:29:40 GMT

nohaironheed@mastodon.scot — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:29:40 GMT

@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.

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 06:02:43 GMT

adamantichrist@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:02:43 GMT

@Daojoan

We only need 1 feast day... eat the billionaires day

Reply to The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. on Wed, 27 May 2026 05:14:29 GMT

onnob@mastodon.social — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:14:29 GMT

@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)