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