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		GJim 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of... Everybody now has antibiotics, oral contraception, machines to preserve and cook food, clean, heat your home, pass messages and put on music and plays in your living room. Who now needs dozens of personal physicians (practicing 19thC medicine!), prostitutes, cooks, maids, messenger boys and musicians?

nephihaha 4 days ago [–]

I don't use most of the things you described. I don't sleep around so don't need two of those.

My home is currently unheated thanks to high utility costs and taxes.

The last three times I was on antibiotics they did almost nothing for me.

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