Silliness Question Everything? - Page 1038

binaryhermit · 10-25-2023, 02:18 AM

Does anyone else find that question a bit condescending?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 02:27 AM

It was meant humorously... sorry if it came off as something else. Hasn't the topic always been mostly unimportant in this thread?

neil_swann80 · 10-25-2023, 03:52 AM

Wait... should I be offended?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 04:07 AM

Isn't there always some reason to be offended?

neil_swann80 · 10-25-2023, 04:15 AM

Were people always so easily offended?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 04:35 AM

Do you remember all the duels in The Three Musketeers?

Martinoptic · 10-25-2023, 05:32 AM

Did the Musketeers offend someone?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 05:50 AM

They took offense at everything, just like other contemporary nobles, didn't they?

Martinoptic · 10-25-2023, 06:24 AM

Were the nobles thin skinned?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 06:34 AM

I guess they were just bored with nothing to do most of the time, so they sought their entertainment where they could. No TV, movies or social media at the time, was there?

neil_swann80 · 10-25-2023, 07:06 AM

Libraries, taverns and brothels are surely entertainment enough?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 07:32 AM

Most of them weren't readers, just like most people today aren't, and taverns and brothels require money (quite a lot of those nobles weren't rich); in earlier times the main occupation of idle nobility was warfare, but by the 17th century most European armies had professional soldiers for that, so what were the poor bastards to do but duel among themselves?

Martinoptic · 10-25-2023, 10:27 AM

A lovely(truly) long sentence with subordinate clauses isn’t it? Do you not feel for the poor nobles?
Do you like my Halloween avatar?

neil_swann80 · 10-25-2023, 10:57 AM

Were the musketeers not wealthy noblemen with access to the establishments of entertainment I specified?

Who wouldn't love your ghoulish avatar?

Sirtel · 10-25-2023, 11:00 AM

They became wealthy later in life, but at the time of The Three Musketeers they were often cash-strapped, unless I remember it wrong?

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10-25-2023, 02:18 AM	#15556
binaryhermit Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,732 Karma: 20469902 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Lockport, IL Device: Kindle PW4, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Does anyone else find that question a bit condescending?

10-25-2023, 02:27 AM	#15557
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	It was meant humorously... sorry if it came off as something else. Hasn't the topic always been mostly unimportant in this thread?

10-25-2023, 03:52 AM	#15558
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Wait... should I be offended?

10-25-2023, 04:07 AM	#15559
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Isn't there always some reason to be offended?

10-25-2023, 04:15 AM	#15560
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Were people always so easily offended?

10-25-2023, 04:35 AM	#15561
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Do you remember all the duels in The Three Musketeers?

10-25-2023, 05:32 AM	#15562
Martinoptic Bibliophist Posts: 7,205 Karma: 7237230 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: England Device: none	Did the Musketeers offend someone?

10-25-2023, 05:50 AM	#15563
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	They took offense at everything, just like other contemporary nobles, didn't they?

10-25-2023, 06:24 AM	#15564
Martinoptic Bibliophist Posts: 7,205 Karma: 7237230 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: England Device: none	Were the nobles thin skinned?

10-25-2023, 06:34 AM	#15565
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	I guess they were just bored with nothing to do most of the time, so they sought their entertainment where they could. No TV, movies or social media at the time, was there?

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10-25-2023, 07:06 AM	#15566
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Libraries, taverns and brothels are surely entertainment enough?

10-25-2023, 07:32 AM	#15567
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Most of them weren't readers, just like most people today aren't, and taverns and brothels require money (quite a lot of those nobles weren't rich); in earlier times the main occupation of idle nobility was warfare, but by the 17th century most European armies had professional soldiers for that, so what were the poor bastards to do but duel among themselves?

10-25-2023, 10:27 AM	#15568
Martinoptic Bibliophist Posts: 7,205 Karma: 7237230 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: England Device: none	A lovely(truly) long sentence with subordinate clauses isn’t it? Do you not feel for the poor nobles? Do you like my Halloween avatar?

10-25-2023, 10:57 AM	#15569
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Were the musketeers not wealthy noblemen with access to the establishments of entertainment I specified? Who wouldn't love your ghoulish avatar?

10-25-2023, 11:00 AM	#15570
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,617 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	They became wealthy later in life, but at the time of The Three Musketeers they were often cash-strapped, unless I remember it wrong?