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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Mon Jul 14, 2014, 03:18 PM Jul 2014

How do you know you are middle aged ... LOL

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How do you know you are middle aged ... LOL (Original Post) pbmus Jul 2014 OP

That IS cute... dixiegrrrrl Jul 2014 #1

In the Middle Ages redwitch Jul 2014 #2

Love it! Coventina Jul 2014 #3

Get off my portcullis! denbot Jul 2014 #4

... Kali Jul 2014 #5

The armour doesn't fit like it used to... Historic NY Jul 2014 #6

Just watched a show about Henry VIII's armor csziggy Jul 2014 #7

Yes he was, I seen it at the "Tower", in London. Historic NY Jul 2014 #13

the algae in the moat is so thick you can't see the fish. Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2014 #8

Goddam bowstrings. trof Jul 2014 #9

Now I've got a hankering to go out and buy Art_from_Ark Jul 2014 #10

That was BOSS! trof Jul 2014 #11

Yes, it preceded Bitchen' denbot Jul 2014 #12

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. That IS cute...

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 04:00 PM

Jul 2014

like the play on words there.....

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

2. In the Middle Ages

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 04:02 PM

Jul 2014

In the Middle Ages ©2000 Michael Jerling

In the Middle Ages
The world went dark
Everything together
Just fell apart
King in his castle
The drawbridge up
You could pray in a cathedral
Sleep in a hut
Live like a monk
Die of the plague
If you need a vacation
Go on a crusade
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
In the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages
Conditions were brutal
You could rail at society
But it was feudal
Health care was holistic
The food was organic
A few little maggots
Didn’t cause a panic
They would bleed you with leeches
For your fevered cough
They would cast out your demons
While your leg rotted off
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
In the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages
The Earth was flat
That was no bull
The Pope saw to that
Beowulf was a literary hit
But no one could read
So it didn’t sell much
To paint in perspective
In Florence or France
You would just have to wait
For the Renaissance
In the Middle Ages
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Coventina

(27,121 posts)

3. Love it!

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 04:12 PM

Jul 2014

But then, I'm a quasi-Medievalist.

denbot

(9,900 posts)

4. Get off my portcullis!

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 04:22 PM

Jul 2014

"Yells while shaking fist in air"

Kali

(55,014 posts)

5. ...

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Mon Jul 14, 2014, 06:13 PM

Jul 2014

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

6. The armour doesn't fit like it used to...

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 06:19 PM

Jul 2014

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

7. Just watched a show about Henry VIII's armor

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 06:29 PM

Jul 2014

Made for him after he'd gotten old and fat. They had to add extra sections to make it a 51" waist, make the helmet larger, shorten the torso, add sections to make it more flexible.

They showed a shot of his armor next to a "normal" size one for the period - his was massive!

http://www.museumsecrets.tv/dossier.php?o=101

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

13. Yes he was, I seen it at the "Tower", in London.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 09:44 PM

Jul 2014

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

8. the algae in the moat is so thick you can't see the fish.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 07:09 PM

Jul 2014

trof

(54,256 posts)

9. Goddam bowstrings.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2014, 07:53 PM

Jul 2014

Cheap hemp shit from the fucking FRENCH! fer Chrissakes.
After 4 or 5 plucks they're shredded.

Why can't we get the good linen stuff from the flax we grow right here in Shropshire?
N-o-o-o-o-o.
THAT we sell to the damned Dutch.

The king is an idiot.
So is the king's Exchequer.

And we're running out of yew trees.
They're using them for fucking FIREWOOD!
HELLO?
Yew trees?
Bows?
National defense?