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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 143 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Strange woman here, anyone knows where I can buy swords in bulk, preferably with a pond thrown in? It's for... a personal project.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

Are we to believe that famous actress Margot Robbie doesn't have some sort of connection for bulk medieval weaponry?

I am shocked and dismayed.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.org 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That wasn't really a thing in medieval times. I'm afraid an axe will have to do.

[–] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Of course! It's the superior siege engine.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, that was invented to make beheadings more humane...let's go back to an axe.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

guillotines are renaissance era.

[–] draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.

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[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

See, that kind of back talk puts you first in line for the period-inaccurate execution.

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[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thats not medieval, thats everywhere exept the US of A.

Where I live, apprenticeships are officially regulated and for many proffessions you are not allowed to open a business without proper qualification.

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[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL that the US doesn't have apprenticeships. We have them over here in Australia, for the usual trades. But we also regulate a lot of those things - we're not allowed to handle our own electrical work if we're not trade qualified.

How does it work in the US, if a kid wants to become, say, a plumber?

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year "off".

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean the reality was that the time "off" was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you'll quickly realize it's a LOT of work.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Our leaders fighting in the wars they start.

You wanted it... go fucking get it cowards.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cloaks would be cool. I know that's more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn't matter.

[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a cloak vendor bookmarked. I haven't pulled the trigger because I don't know if I wanna be the cloak guy, but dammit I want a cloak.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't just say this without posting the link to the cloak vendor!

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Catapults, just to irritate the trebuchet people.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Inns, especially if they've got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.

[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds an awful lot like restaurants and jobs...

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Peasant uprisings, to take down the kings of today.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Fucking guillotines already

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random pedestals with swords driven into them lol

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe a system where strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might actually be better

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Dueling. I say we use it as an option to reply to a civil lawsuit. Able bodied adults only, no proxies, and if you refuse then you have to do a trial and they can weigh your refusal as evidence against you.

Swords only, no guns.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mandatory longbow training for yoemen and yoewomen. Let's get those skills trained up in case we're ever facing a charge of French knights.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess we could use a little ice age right around now, and it would also be nice to have a Renaissance around the corner.

Someone said inns and taverns, and yes it's a missing piece of housing here - long term hotels with food, bars/restaurants with rooms to rent above.

Not much though, it is not a time I'd visit.

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[–] Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Royalty and nobility taking part in actual on-the-ground warfare. I'd be curious if that would have any effect on military operations...

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Bathhouses. The local Quicklee's just doesn't do it.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unplug for a few days and this pops up on my feed. ??????????

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[–] venoft@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing he’d like to bring back from the medieval.

Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you can’t hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.

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