Who would like to go back to the middle ages?

[tyred]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/arid-40898054.html

I can see the appeal in some ways of living a simpler, more sustainable life but I think most would get bored very quickly and it's no great fun sitting in a smokey room with your eyes watering.

 

[Donger]

Ah, the good old days of serfdom, plague, leprosy and eating turnips. What's not to love?

 

[Grant Fondo]

What?, back to a time when privileged gentry suppressed the poor and feathered their own nests. No thankyou.

 

[classic33]

My ancestors were living in a stone building back then. The remains of which can still be seen today, just outside Killaloe

 

[craigwend]

I'm sure someone will resurrect a thread from then...

 

[a.twiddler]

Average lifespan about 40. No modern remedies for illness, maybe herbal remedies, bleeding, cupping and leeches. No anaesthetics or antibiotics. No clean water unless you were lucky. Lice, fleas and internal parasites were an accepted part of life. A life ruled by the church. Ignorance and superstition was rife. Education was reserved for the privileged, not even that if you were a woman.
A vast gulf between the privileged, who had power of life and death, and the peasantry.
Gripping as a costume drama or a thundering good read, not so hot to live through. No time to sit about in a smoky room with your eyes watering when you probably would spend all your waking hours working at something just to exist, unless you were one of the privileged few.

 

[wiggydiggy]

No thanks!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes, I would!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Average lifespan about 40. No modern remedies for illness, maybe herbal remedies, bleeding, cupping and leeches. No anaesthetics or antibiotics. No clean water unless you were lucky. Lice, fleas and internal parasites were an accepted part of life. A life ruled by the church. Ignorance and superstition was rife. Education was reserved for the privileged, not even that if you were a woman.
A vast gulf between the privileged, who had power of life and death, and the peasantry.
Gripping as a costume drama or a thundering good read, not so hot to live through. No time to sit about in a smoky room with your eyes watering when you probably would spend all your waking hours working at something just to exist, unless you were one of the privileged few.

Apart from all that, it was quite nice.

 

[PeteXXX]

No cars when you were out for a ride....

Oh, wait... No bikes!!

 

[markemark]

Brexit has brought us a few steps closer.

 

[biggs682]

Just move to Wellingborough

 

[Sittingduck]

Plagues sweeping across the globe...
The rich getting richer and the poor struggling to afford to live...

Not much changes, except maybe electronic shifting systems and data analytics to supplement your riding

 

[welsh dragon]

Like a lot of films, it sounds great but in practise would be dreadful. No sanitation, no medicines, no Drs, no proper heating. Dreadful Inadequate fabrics for clothes. No supermarkets. No transport.

Diseases and deaths that today we can cure. Thanks but no thanks.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I am currently in my Middle Ages. It’s okay actually.