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All of the meads and ales are microbrews | 16 | 27.12% | |
Book chapters always start with big artistic letters | 6 | 10.17% | |
Delightful intermingling of church and state | 0 | 0% | |
Feudalism saves time on election days | 2 | 3.39% | |
Get to throw apples at Newton and tell him how you can throw the heavier ones further | 1 | 1.69% | |
Get to wear tights without ridicule as long as you call yourself a minstrel | 0 | 0% | |
Golden era of public pillories | 0 | 0% | |
Good chance that people you don’t like will die of plague at some point | 5 | 8.47% | |
Goodell isn’t there to ruin jousting tournaments | 12 | 20.34% | |
Great serfing | 3 | 5.08% | |
Greensleeves is on all the radio stations. | 1 | 1.69% | |
If you lose your hair, you can just tell people you’re a monk | 0 | 0% | |
If you’re nice, the village guard will let you work the drawbridge | 3 | 5.08% | |
Lot of manual labor means low obesity rates | 8 | 13.56% | |
Lots of opportunities to go horseback riding | 6 | 10.17% | |
Making accusations of witchcraft when you get annoyed at someone | 6 | 10.17% | |
Monk chants rock | 1 | 1.69% | |
No bad TV | 1 | 1.69% | |
No electricity = plenty of sleep | 10 | 16.95% | |
No new world means no tension about Chiefs and Redskins team names | 4 | 6.78% | |
No one questions you if you walk around twirling a morning star | 3 | 5.08% | |
Occasional crusades | 7 | 11.86% | |
Opportunity to watch the sun revolve around the earth | 1 | 1.69% | |
Pushing Vikings into moats from atop castle walls | 6 | 10.17% | |
Rancid meat, and plenty of it | 0 | 0% | |
Raping and pillaging is a viable career option | 16 | 27.12% | |
Remarkably easy to find a blacksmith when you need one | 6 | 10.17% | |
Robbing and killing as a highwayman would be much easier than it is today | 8 | 13.56% | |
See a heretic? Burn them! | 7 | 11.86% | |
Summer evenings are really quiet and peaceful if you’re not being pillaged | 5 | 8.47% | |
Wearing suits of armor | 14 | 23.73% | |
When you road trip, the bars are full of actual barbarian chicks | 15 | 25.42% | |
I don't think the middle ages were all that great | 12 | 20.34% | |
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06-19-2015, 06:26 AM | #31 |
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In the cities, the stench must have been terrible. Disease, crime, low life expectancy, no way to climb up the social ladder.
No thanks. On the other hand...no leaches ie cell phones. When the sun sets, go to bed. No car traffic. Kids would listen instead of xbox/game boy/social media. ETC |
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06-19-2015, 06:58 AM | #32 |
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06-19-2015, 08:29 AM | #33 |
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Bet those Ales were very tasty and potent with alcohol content. And Turkey legs.
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06-19-2015, 09:24 AM | #34 |
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And we thank you for that.
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06-19-2015, 09:30 AM | #35 |
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Canterbury Tales did badass road trip stories before badass road trip stories were cool.
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06-19-2015, 09:53 AM | #36 |
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Stargazing would be more wondrous.
Im counting no condoms and fewer STDs as a win. Sword fights. |
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06-19-2015, 09:56 AM | #37 |
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06-19-2015, 10:15 AM | #38 |
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Witchcraft accusations
Quiet summer evenings Bars full of scantily clad barbarian women |
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06-19-2015, 10:19 AM | #39 |
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what about the king's right of "jus primae noctis"??
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06-19-2015, 10:42 AM | #40 |
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Cons:
They probably haven't bathed in a week so their snatch smells like a pile of dead fish while their teeth are rotting and breath rancid. Even if you decide to have a roll in the hay, there's no modern deodorant so you likely both smell like a sack of wet shit afterward. |
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06-19-2015, 10:47 AM | #41 |
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nothing, why would any of you shit bastards enjoy raping and pillaging?
WTF? middle ages sucked
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And of course theres would always be the option of finding some idyllic, undisturbed stream and freshening up that way. |
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06-19-2015, 10:54 AM | #43 |
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come down with any illness worse than a cold = 50/50 you die
anything requiring stitches = 50/50 you lose that appendage cavity = drink some rum and grab a pair of pliers live past the age of 35 = doubtful
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06-19-2015, 10:58 AM | #44 |
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Apparently they had less issues with cavities than we do currently given the lack of processed sugars in their diet. I'm not sure how true that is, but...
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So cavities may have been rare, but when you did get on... I think I'll stick with our current system of more cavities and more anesthetic.
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