>You will never live past 45
>You will never know a town which does not smell like crap
>You will never stop smelling of crap because bathing encourages sinfullness
>You will never live in a house that's not partly made of crap
>You will probably never go more than 30km from the place of your birth
>You will never learn to read or write
>You will always be a subject bound to obey the whims of your knight, baron, count and king rather than a citizen with rights and a say in how your nation is governed
>You will never make more than a couple of shillings a year
>You will never have a child without worrying about him/her dying from illness in infancy
>You will never know what it is like to enjoy a pizza with a side of fries along with a hot cup of tea
>You'll always have to worry about some succession dispute or territorial conflict leading to a war, in which armies will march by and steal all your food as they go and maybe refrain from raping you if they're in a good mood
>Your children and grandchildren and their grandchildren will never know anything better for another twenty generations until James Watt gets his steam engine working
MFW
Filthy peasant.
>>434324
Who the fuck drinks tea with pizza?
>>434363
I drink tea with literally everything.
I have a cup of tea with my beer.
Being a peasant in England wasn't as bad as being a peasant in eastern Europe.
Anyway you forgot to mention
>1/3rd of the year celebrating various religious holidays and drinking and enjoying life.
>no botnet
>generally pretty decent varied diet of bread and legumes and salad and whatever else you could grow in your tiny back garden.
>comfy village community were everyone brews their own beer and everyone helps and shares tools during harvest time.
>feasts at the lords manor on special days
>relative freedom. Freedom to own property and buy your way or of serfdom if your wanted. Actually lords increasingly just asked for money from peasants during the middle ages. No one was enslaved.
Of course life was much much worse on continental Europe and whilst serfdom died out in favour of landlordism and semi freedom in England by the 14th century, in Europe serfs were ruthlessly exploited for centuries, especially in eastern Europe where you pretty much were a slave with no rights.
So this is /his/'s first copypasta, huh?
>>434324
The Lord of the Manor would almost certainly allow you to go on pilgrimages. Who knows, he might even take you on road-trips if he likes you enough.
Unrelated, but funny story: this late-Roman (about 400 AD) official was going from Egypt to Antioch; he brought with him nearly 100 gallons of wine for personal use and another some 30 gallons for the three slaves he brought with him. And this was just for the away trip.
>>434324
That's actually wrong. Peasants were really clean, each town or village had a "lavoir" where people washed clothes and themselves.
They started to get shitty after the Great Plague (Because they thought water made the plague easier to come) and it went downhill from there.
Hell, I read things from the Napoleonic era, about how it was demanded to prefects to civilize the french rural lands because there were atrocious things. Midwives getting their shit-stain fingers into the pregnant lady's womb.
Everywhere from 1400 to 1800 was the era of shit, indian-tier. Then everything was far better.
>>434324
All wrong
Especially the age thing. People dont understand how averages work8221
>>434576
>generally pretty decent varied diet of bread and legumes and salad and whatever else you could grow in your tiny back garden.
And you starved if the weather was poor, which it often was. hooray!
>>434827
by saying he's wrong you're as wrong as he is.
there wasn't a "peasant" community - different nations had different living standards for their lower classes... and since he never even spoke about era he has a wide margin to make such bold statement.
>>434324
>numerous skeletal remains of people over 45
>towns passed extremely specific laws about who was responsible for cleaning the streets
>bath houses in most large towns and numerous accounts of people bathing
>apart from all the ones made out of stone and brick or just using clay for the daub
>apart from all the ones who travel to other towns to sell their goods, or go to court, or travel to the other side of the world on pilgrimage
>apart from all the ones who had a trade and needed to be literate and numerate to run their business
>apart from countries where there were parliaments in place restricting what the king and nobles could do
>wage for a unskilled farm labourer (litterally ditch digger and stuff carrier tier) was £2 a year
>implying the same can't be said for all of history right up to today
>not having fatty disgusting food to eat is a bad thing
>implying the same can't be said today
>seriously suggesting that like in 1346 was exactly the same as life in 1781
It's like the last 100 years of research and study was all for nothing.
>>434324
The "medieval people never bathed" thing is a pretty old meme. It was kind of true in some parts of Europe, and I'm sure the average person smelled bad by our standards (no deo, no toothbrushes, less frequent laundering) but not absolutely widespread. Depended on your water sources, really.
>>434324
>You will never live past 45
That's a lie, many people lived beyond 70.
>>434983
Indeed. The lesser expectency is mainly due to high infant mortality which curbs the average
>>434324
It was much better and healthier than this, there was even decent deodorant. A Medieval peasant probably had better teeth than you do.
>>437024
Unlikely. I mean I agree it's not as bad as people like to think. They didn't brush their teeth, though they had tooth-picks and suchlike. The main thing is that they didn't eat sugar very often, but cavities, gum disease and dead teeth were common problems. Wisdom teeth will crowd the average jaw nowadays, but in earlier times it was likely that one or two teeth had come out so that the wisdom teeth would 'replace' them.
