people must have been so dirty all the time in the past, but they were used to it so I suppose it didn't bother them
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
I loved visiting Versailles a couple of years ago and realizing the extent to which all my household furniture is more comfortable than theirs, that in his entire life Louis XIV never slept on a bed even a fraction as nice as my childhood one, let alone my luxuriant adult one
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Replying to @tomgara @sonyasupposedly
my big takeaway was the detail that there were, of course, no bathrooms so men just pissed in corners and everyone else, except for the top dozen or two members of the court, used the gardens for all of their business.
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The biggest lesson of history is that, up until around 1915 or so, everyone smelled awful all the time.
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Like, deadly awful.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink …
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Replying to @janecoaston @chrislhayes and
And yet - I hate to be the one to have to make this explicit - they still had enough sex with rancid, smelly people to have billions of children.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @janecoaston and
Then all of the horses. I grew up in an area where people had horses. We had flies everywhere. I didn't really put that together till I was an adult and didn't have to go on fly patrol with a swatter. I love horses but they bring a lot of flies.
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"Somewhere in here, there must be a pony"
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