>TFW you will never be a medieval European monarch
ITT: 21st century plebeian feels
>>431689
>you will never fight for the fatherland in WW 1
>you will never watch as your comrades get mowed down by allied machine gun fire
>you will never watch your friend get his brains blown off in a trench in Belgium, and have to clean bits of his brain off your coat
>you will never get both of your legs blown off by a landmine and be bound to a wheelchair for as long as you live
life is suffering
>>431689
>You will never be the only surviving monk of a monastery during the black death
>Tfw you will never be a minor noble and spend your days carousing around you land
>Tfw you will never get an arranged marraige w/ qt3.14 foreign noblewoman and have her raise your children
>Tfw you will never compete in a tourney or answer your lords call to war
>>431689
So what you wanna die like a bitch face down in some random creek in Anatolia?
You will never work the fields 15 hours a day and die at 25
Now i shit post
>>431901
>die at 25
Retard spotted.
>>431901
Modern work hours are longer than in the middle ages and if you survived childhood, you'd likely live well past 50.
>>431689
>romanticizing history
>>431913
>Modern work hours are longer than in the middle ages
Surely you don't mean daily work hours.
They did have way more holidays.
>>431934
>the entire length of human history was shit and we only got it right in our life time
>tfw you will never be a British Officer or Sepoy adventuring into Central Asia to plan out the defense of India against Russians.
Just started reading The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk and its shaping up to be one of my favorite books.
>You will never be a well to do commoner in the 29th century enjoying full perfect and free virtual reality all day in which your consciousness is expanded far past normal human limits and you can truly contemplate the mysteries of the universe, never feeling a shred of discontent or unhappiness while living in a society that would be classified as near Utopian today.
Feels bad man
>>431901
>work the fields 15 hours a day
You would had worked 6 hours max. It's like all you retards never had picked a hoe in your lives. The best thing about agriculture, specially when growing grains, is that you just worked a season a year.
>>431998
They worked eight hours a day at the most, often less
>One day's work was considered half a day, and if a serf worked an entire day, this was counted as two "days-works."[2]
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html
>>432277
This depends ENTIRELY on class relations. Off-season corvee was a common practice, and there's a whole school of economic history that analyses the labour-days split between lord and serf throughout europe.
Bother, just bother. Start by reading some Past & Present.
She said she wanted me to treat her like a princess. So I sold her away in an arranged marriage with my neighbors to end a feud.
>>431689
What's so great about living in an era where you had to poop in a bowl?
>>432357
only at night when it was cold. They had outhouses and toilet rooms.
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>you will never live in 17th century Venice/Saltzburg
>you will never have everyone praising your shit violin playing
>you will never be recruited by one of the big names and become a royal court musician
>you will never live the high life playing/writing music, eating/drinking fancy and fucking traps in brothels
>>432196
You're right. It's still shit.
>>431689
>you will never be an English longbowman of the 15th C
>you will never be paid peanuts for risking your life for the gain of the sovereign
>you will never get dysentery and die cold and wet in a ditch in Northern France
>>432277
>trying to argue with americans
They still think the milk is a substance that comes from the super market.
>>431689
JUST ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER
>>434134
>they're wrong so they must be American
Is your insecurity so great that you have to shoehorn le Americans are fat and stupid meme in every thread?
>>431689
>you will never watch your beloved wife die during childbirth over a trivial complication
>you will never experience the joy of having your baby son die during the winter season
>you will never experience the mystery of not knowing where you got that STD from that peasant grill you raped
>you will never be called to fight a months-long war because your lord's half-brother decided he wanted a few more acres of land than what he was supposed to inherit
>you will never experience the joy of surgery without anesthetic and by doctors with no understanding of sterilization
>you will never be murdered by your close relatives for your titles
>>434301
never say never m8.
you're a big solar flare away from possibly experiencing all those things really.
>>434301
>you will never be called to fight a months-long war
Most wars in medieval times were shorter than those in modern times. Serfs were needed to work the fields, so levies had to finish the job quickly to get back to work.
Nobles and their retainers could devote themselves to war full-time though.
>you will never be born into the pre-unification German nobility
>you will never be schooled in Latin, Greek, German, French and English, history, philosophy and theology and mathematics
>you will never be part of a circle of passionate and youthfully romantic and ideologically revolutionary students in an important university town who devotedly attend the lectures of the greatest philosophers of the day
>you will never slowly expound your system in a series of essays in a publication run by your friends
>you will never inherit a vast fortune, allowing you to focus on your various passions in philosophy, history and the arts without having to follow a specific career path
>you will never marry a beauty whose perfection demands you write heartfelt, if somewhat amateur poetry about her
>you will never conduct secret affairs with younger actresses despite both your love of your wife and children, and your growing conservatism and level-headedness
>you will never increasingly attract fame and admiration as a polymath as you grow older
>you will never have a group of followers who worship you after your death
why even live m8s?
>>431689
>You will never be a boy slave in room that serves at QT mistress
>she will order you around but never hurt or abuse you due to your utmost compliance
>she will free you when you become a man due to your years of loyal service
>you will be there when she dies, both weeping together
>>431689
>you will never be a late antique universal monarch
>your majesty will never keep civilization free from chaos and barbarians
>you will never send your hosts to genocide the vandals or the hephtalites
>You will never be a Diadochi
>you will never be a batshit insane warlord who murders all opposition without pity or remorse
>You will never be a post-Soviet mob boss.
>>434902
That's a lot of pomegranate.
>>431891
The ratio of monarchs dying in some horrible way versus the monarchs who died stuffing their faces is pretty one side. Lampheys have killed more English kings than all the battles of the middle ages.
>you will never be a young peasant growing up in a village in the 1890s
>you will never enjoy the agricultural education of a peasant, grow up singing ancient runo songs, praying to thousands of years old sacral stones in sacred groves and hear your grandfather tell you stories from when all of your people were serfs
>you will never play with other village boys and cause all sorts of funny trouble while being the farm herder of sheep and cattle
>you will never discover the world of books and literature while in the village school and you'll never ask for some old journals from your teacher that he orders from the city
>you will never be given a present of a fresh print of your national epic by your village teacher for christmas
>your parents will never have a lenghty discussion with your village teacher and will never agree to send you to the city to go in school, instead of helping them and inheriting a part of the farm one day
>you will never experience the modernity that is the railway, the telegraphe, the crowds of the city
>you will never first time understand the difference between social classes
>you will never have street fights with the german and russian boys
>you will never join the local literature society for your peoples youth
>you will never fall in love the first time with a girl of similar background, while asking her to a waltz on the National Museum fundraising night that you helped to organize
>you will never go to the university and discover a world of lectures, interesting professors, of cold apartments and half-hunger in the name of education
>you will never see that look in the eyes of your parents, who can't understand this foreign, non-agrarian world you've stepped in but who are proud of you nevertheless while you visit your homefarm during the holidays
>you will never join a student corporation, composed of the future intellectual elite of your people
Cont. 1/?
>>435514
>you will never learn gentlemanly behavior, how to duel, how to drink for days on, how to debate and how to fight
>you will never create life-long friendships there, while spreading illegal pamphlets on the streets of your city and running away from the Czars police forces
>you will never get a glimpse of the poverty and hunger the city proletariat endure and you will never understand that some of your countrymen have become so radicalized and fanatical that they don’t even care for the well-being of their own people anymore, only their ideology
>you will never cheer whole-heartedly when you hear the news of the end of this despotic monarchy and the proclamation of a Russian Republic
>you will never have to deal with demoralized russian soldiers , who have lost all respect for civil rules and laws and morality more and more every day while still going to lectures and the University library
>you will never fight with the scarcity of food and the looming hunger, with your old parents working double-time on your family farm to keep up the farm on the war-time while supporting you
>you will never see again that beautiful girl you fell for while looking for some salted fish on the market
>you will never spontaneously invite her to your place to drink coffee at your place
>you will never search for a bag of coffee beans in hunger-hit city, and finally get it in exchange of a valuable pocket watch your village teacher gave you when you joined university
>you will never drink coffee with her and read to her some of the poems and articles you’ve published in the half-underground magazine that you and some of your equally romantic nationalist friends make
>she will never stay for the night
>you will never have to leave her because of the bolshevik coup d’etat and the closure of schools
>you will never come back to your farm, and spend your free time watching the forests and fields, thinking of her
2/?
>>435519
>you will never cheer when you hear the news of the proclamation of the Republic of Estonia and be angered when the Imperial German army occupies your land
>you will never have to walk on streets while having the local germans and the German army speak about their plan to turn your land into a german colony
>you will never join the underground para-military force
>you will never anticipatedly wait for more news about the crumbling of the German forces on the Western front
>you will never patrol the streets for safety and try to stop the demoralized germans soldiers from vandalizing while wearing an old russian rifle and a ribbon of your national tricolor, made by her, on your arm
>you will never go to the front in corpore with all the members of your student corporation to protect your young country from the coming bolshevik invaders
>you will never be so afraid before your first battle that you start running the second you hear a lone gunshot
>you will never be given a slap on the cheek, a shot of spirit and a gun back into your hand by your officer, a young veteran of the WW1, and have him never mention this ever again
>you will never harden with battle to battle, while retreating because the bolshevik masses are too much
>you will never participate in the battles that manage to stop the red tide just 30 km away from your national capital, where you swear not to retreat for a step anymore
>you will never meet with finnish volunteers, create the feeling of being one tribe and one blood again in the fires of battle and go on a counter-attack again
>you will never liberate the university city again with a suprise attack, only to find your love shot with hundreds of other civilians by the inhuman bolsheviks in the railway station
3/?
>>435528
>you will never apply to go to the elite units of armoured trains and fight with the fury of a thousand winters while attacking the well-prepared numerically superior enemy positions in front of an important city because you know that every second late is another innocent raped, tortured and killed by the Reds
>you will never get used to the life of a soldier, kill the russians without remorse, drink vodka and play cards, be constantly on the lookout for tobacco and always complain about your equipment, clothes and the lice
>you will never take part in the war against the germans, who still try to create a colonial state on the lands of your people and your neighbours and friends the Latvians
>you will never crush them and pay back the debt of your ancestors being the serfs and slaves of the germans for 700 years
>you will never take part of the invasion of Petrograd as your country’s support to the Russian whites and liberate the villages of Ingrians, your kinsmen and protect the Ingrian villagers from the excesses of drunk russian whites
>you will never start to dream of an united Finnic nation with your Ingrian and Finnish volunteer brothers-in-arms and swear to fight until Ingria and Karelia are liberated as well
>you will never curse your country’s leadership the first time when you understand that the united Estonian-Finnish attack on Petrograd will not come
>you will not save an Ingrian family from local bolshevic bandits and arrange a place for them to Estonia in your armoured train
4/?
>>435514
>>435519
>>435528
>butthurt belt history
>relevant
waste of paste
>>435535
>you will never celebrate the end of the war and go back to the university, while visiting the grave of your love every week, then every month, every 3 months until the pain fades away
>you will never become a good literate and a cultural activist, slowly gain fame and better career options, marry with the pretty daughter of a good publishing company and start a family with her
>you will never become part of the elite and acquire yourself a beautiful house in the city, help your brother financially to develop your family farm and make the old age as comfortable as possible for your parents
>you will never start to become disillusioned with the way your country is leaded after the failed communist putsch and join the national para-military to be ready one day when they come again
>you will never take over the running of your father-in-laws company and experience the last golden days of the roaring 20s
>you will never almost go bankrupt with the international Depression
>you will never see a new and pure political party, with values and opinions that you like in the Fascists and join them
>you will never once again speak to large masses about the need for national unity, publish pamphlettes and articles and have that same sense of enthusiasm as when you were a young student
>you will never be jailed when the democratic forces take the power in the country because your party is going to win the first presidential elections
>you will never be released and stop all political activities and give up the running of the company and instead focus on growing your children in a patriotic home and writing historic novels about the golden moments of your country
5/6
>>435546
>you will never be angry and scared in the inside when your government decides to give into Soviet demands and agree to be occupied
>you will never be arrested with your family and sent to Siberia, where your family is left to themselves, without a home or any food in some godforsaken rural village and you are interrogated and beaten by the NKVD and then worked to death in Gulag
>you will never think of your first love and you will never feel remorse because she is after all these years still closer to your heart than your own family
>you will never die on foot when you, blind from tiredness and hunger, misstep into a pile of snow
I try to live as true to the values of that generation as I can, but it's not the same
>>434918
pretty sure that's caviar m8
>>434134
>They don't have halal milk so they must be wrong
>you will never be a fashionable businessman in the 1960s
>tfw countries are now entitled to own land
>>431689
>you will never watch your child die of dysentery at age six
feels fine, desu
>you will never join a Freikorps Abd liberate Germany from Napoleon
>you'll never be a loyal guard to a noblewoman and give your life for her
>you'll never joust for a fair maiden
>you'll never try to transform lead to gold as an alchemist
>you'll never hear tales of the wondrous things in the new world
>>431689
>tfw you will never be a Waffen-SS officer
>tfw you will never be stationed in occupied Poland
>tfw you will never execute civilians for the fun of it
>tfw you will never work at a concentration camp
>tfw you will never kill thousands of Poles and Jews
>tfw you will never fake your own death escape to Argentina before the reds get there
>tfw you will never enjoy life in south america knowing you got away with genocide
>>435627
Salmon roe is not caviar you damned pleb.
>>432277
>The best thing about agriculture, specially when growing grains, is that you just worked a season a year.
lol
>>431689
>you will never be king
Pretty sure that's a common feel for plebs across the ages.
>You will never live in a world where this was the best map
>You will never live in a world where your countrymen are discovering and colonising new continents
>you will never be one of the first Europeans to visit Hangzhou
>you will never sack Rome
>>434902
>tfw my mom used to be an account for some mob guy who got killed in a motorcycle Kalashnikov drive-by
Fucking 90's Ukraine, man.
>>440053
accountant*
>>435566
Thanks for the story.
>>434902
This one hurt. Never released how much I would like have that status.
>>435566
I crei evryteim Mr. Double dubs
>>431814
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48
>>437377
>the fluid pressed from fruits is not juice!
>>432311
And then everything got worse during the industrial revolution?
>>431934
Only appropriate comment.
