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Aaaand I have a new book to add to my TO READ list!

Read that book. It came off as somewhat propagandized in some spots, but it still rang a LOT truer than the trash that was Memoirs of a Geisha.

which just proves the bonmot that history is written by the victors.

It's just anti-Catholic propaganda, really. It's amazing how much dearly beloved stuff from that period is just anti-Catholic propaganda.

I want to point out that Sewell is repeating an oft-presumed but unproven idea - that people in Tudor England must have smelled worse. That's unprovable because smell is so ephemeral that we cannot smell the odors from back then. I'll list a few of the presumptions in discussion here, with the hope that we can better…

Which is incredibly funny because types of underpants (for men) most definitely *did* exist in the High and Late Middle Ages. Though my personal research (I'm a medievalist researching on the Ethiopian Empire) does not really cover Europe, I've seen enough hour-book illuminations to know that you can find lots and…

Considering that at the time he had an open, festering wound on his leg, it's pretty likely that he was the smelly one and also I think now historians feel that he was simply casting around for reasons to put her aside.

Even at the time, people knew they didn't smell so fabulous. That's why they carried pomanders! More info, and how to make your own, here.

Yes but she executed those who belonged and would belong again to the status quo. England, in historic terms, is Protestant post-Henry VIII, even though it was also still full of Catholics. But the Protestants wrote the textbooks.

ZOMBIE FACE CELLS DEMAND BRAINS!!! BRAAAAAAIIIIIN FACIALS!!!!

Hah. And people laughed at me when I ate my mother's coconut scented shampoo.

Woah woah woahhhh, now! When was the last time you sat down and jammed out to the Deliverance soundtrack?!?

Big Brother was Dutch originally. But I take your point - Britain has plenty of trash TV. Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, anyone?

Didn't Big Brother start in the Netherlands?

But they did give us Simon Cowell...

Big Brother is a Dutch franchise, but there are plenty of truly awful homegrown, exploitative, lowest-common-denominator British shows.

Oh man, I would have been been screwed with these rules. When i was in middle school and early in high school it was the end of the crop-top era. ALL tanks and shirts were on the shorter side (now, they're often hip-length tunics) and although I'm short I have a reeeally long torso. My dad would tell me to cover my…

You go grandma! Fuck tradition and pull that curtain aside and get a good look. 10,000 strange men can watch but what about grandma?

Comment section filled with typical American responses. Hurrr durrrr look at that goop, look at that gunk. Ethnic food is like strange and stuff.

GET SOME HOT WATER! GET SOME IODINE!