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re: What do ya'll think it was like living in the old days? Say 1880s
Posted on 6/13/21 at 3:56 pm to BluegrassBelle
Posted on 6/13/21 at 3:56 pm to BluegrassBelle
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The average life expectancy in the 1880s was mid 40s.
This has always been a misleading stat. Infant mortality and childhood diseases drove the life expectancy down. However, if you survived to adulthood, your chances of living into your 70s or 80s were pretty decent.
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 3:57 pm
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Posted on 6/13/21 at 3:58 pm to RollTide1987
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This has always been a misleading stat. Infant mortality and childhood diseases drove the life expectancy down. However, if you survived to adulthood, your chances of living into your 70s or 80s were pretty decent.
The fact that there was a decent chance I’d have to bury one or more of my kids isn’t exactly selling that time period for me.
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:25 pm to LetTheTigerOut
quote:i truly am not trying to be an a-hole when i say i honestly think this is just objectivity. by almost any quantifiable measure, people live better lives now
It is your subjective opinion
and thats before we get into the fact that we arent talking about the wealthy, which the average person in 2021 also has a better quality of life by essentially every single quantifiable measure, but the dirt poor rural people who probably never left their hometown and maybe made $5 in a year
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:26 pm to Teslarocks
Hasn't really changed much in some places
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:33 pm to Teslarocks
Smelly
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:36 pm to Teslarocks
Travel ball was more local.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:37 pm to crash1211
Foster and Lloyd!
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:38 pm to WestCoastAg
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Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:43 pm to Teslarocks
That was when the words Furmunda Cheese and Swamp arse were coined
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:50 pm to LetTheTigerOut
There's a great scene in the movie "The Good Old Boys", set in the early 1900s, where Tommy Lee Jones speaks at the funeral of an old-time cowboy, and says something like this:
He was followin' them old longhorns up to Kansas when most of us were followin' our momma's around the yard. It was him and his kind that fought the Indians, droughts, floods, prairie fires and locusts, so we could have this easy life we're livin' today. So, get a good look at him, cause they ain't makin' no more like him.
He was followin' them old longhorns up to Kansas when most of us were followin' our momma's around the yard. It was him and his kind that fought the Indians, droughts, floods, prairie fires and locusts, so we could have this easy life we're livin' today. So, get a good look at him, cause they ain't makin' no more like him.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 5:00 pm to Teslarocks
Better than the 1780s but worse than the 1980s.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 5:09 pm to LetTheTigerOut
quote:because we live in a society that actively looks for these things and then tries to treat it
How is it that if we have so very much, and all the extra luxuries and the leisure time to enjoy life, that so many people are psychologically messed up, and are hurting mentally and emotionally?
you are going to find stuff if you look for it. i feel pretty confident if we had a way to actually measure collective mental health, which we dont, that we would find people are by and large more healthy now than at any point in time in human history
Posted on 6/13/21 at 5:13 pm to mattz1122
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16 hours a day
6 days a week and 8 on Sunday.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 5:43 pm to Teslarocks
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What do ya'll think it was like living in the old days? Say 1880s
Posted on 6/13/21 at 6:01 pm to WestCoastAg
This post was edited on 7/1/21 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 6/13/21 at 6:19 pm to Teslarocks
Very little leisure time. No AC. It sucked big time.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 6:21 pm to LetTheTigerOut
People were just as mentally screwed up back then, they simply didn't mention it.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 7:22 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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I don't think there was much income in rural areas. You pretty only had what you could grow, hunt, and make.
I was fascinated with Maine history when I used to live up there...it's tough living, but there are so many resources and so few people that you can basically live there off the land if you want. You just need a little garden, a little pasture, and a little bit of woods make a go of it. You can do that now, so I'm pretty sure you could always do that if you wanted.
Anyway, the most interesting thing about Maine life in the 1800's is that there was a major source of income for every town. It was "the mill." There were thousands of little towns all around the state that each had its own mill. One town would mill out lumber, the neighboring town would process cotton, the neighboring town was a refiner of leather, the next town over would have a grist mill, etc...Yeah, I'm sure working and living was harsh, but like others said, the communities were closer and developed distinct personalities based on what they were doing there. Every town had a specialty.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 7:27 pm to joebauers
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Huge Bush
I’m okay with bush.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 7:29 pm to jamiegla1
quote:Dude I live in west Africa. Americans are humongous pussies compared to the rest of the world. I see 12 years olds walking busy streets with no traffic laws just to go to their ditch digging jobs on a daily basis. Most American parents freak the frick out if any kid under 18 is within 5 feet of a busy street.
I think we are giant pussies compared to men in those days.
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 7:30 pm
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