Medieval people had bathhouses & did not all die before 35...

Not quite, the chart can be a little confusing.

The blue bars are the total number of people still alive, while the orange bars are the percentage of the original total that die in any given bracket, not the percentage left alive from the last bracket that died.

So the percentage of the total number of people born 25 years ago that die in that bracket is similar to the percentage of the total number of people born 55 years ago that die in that bracket, but the number of people remaining at 55 is more than halved from what it was at 25 so your chances of dying more than double. (And the orange applies to the blue from the last bracket, so the orange 30 are the people from blue 25 that died, but since orange 25 is about the same as 30, and 60 is about the same as 55, that doesn't change much.) And by 75 that same similar percentage of the original total is almost half the people remaining from 70 (which is why the blue is nearly halved from 70 to 75).

To put it simply, every bracket subtracts the orange from the previous blue. If the orange stays the same while the blue goes down, your chances of dying go up.

Details are sometimes important.

Or bile.

Well, auto correct friend. It tried to correct 'firend' to 'fires' just now for me. A single misspelling isn't AI evidence. Humans fuck up too and in context, any auto correct would assume pre over pig before a hyphen.

AI is awful but don't create a Spector of it.

Yes. Look at post history for this user

Yeah, I just finished writing another comment in this thread that breaks down part of that myth in more detail. But it's pervasiveness is so extreme, just like the 'flat eath' myths and general medieval ignorance and cruelty.

Not exactly. Mutliple bacteria thrive in alcoholic beverages (certainly sub 20% abv) when exposed to air (there were no air-tight storage solutions yet). The alcohol they made was far from sterile, as it would have been kept in barrels and they are ideal places for colonies to hide and be rekindled. Luckily most of the bacteriae that form in that manner are actually not unhealthy (like vinegar or pediococcus (feet bacerium)) or too bad tasting. If you look up Belgian wild ales you'll find a whole amount of people who go crazy for those kind of beers.

The brilliant part is that the algae and bacteriae that make water taste nasty when put in a wooden barrel, make beer taste better, hence me saying it keeps better. And the alcohol content would be less. But people drank a lot of water too. It's free and falls from the air and from streams and doesn't involve boiling. It's way to convenient and way too important for people to ignore.

Futhermore, you need good water to make good beer. Almost every brewery will praise their wellwater.

The alchohol content also meant it was sterile

Not true. The amount of alcohol required to reliably kill bacteria is higher than most spirits you can get at the store.

IPA's (or India pale ales) came about because most beer spoiled from bacteria in the time it took to reach India (from England). Brewers started adding more hops because it acted as a preservative, and the new beer style was called IPA after the route that created it

It's been way longer. The 'dark middle ages' stuff is mostly from the 19th century. Folks like Edward Gibbon were sitting about Rome and it's legacy as being the epitome of civilization, comparable to the conremporary post emigrant enlightenment civilization.

The middle ages where painted as particularly stupid and filthy. It needed to be, cause nineteenth century society was the epitome of filthy, with crowded cities with the human first for the industrial revolution.

Therefore the dark ages, where mankind were ignorant and unaware of the benefit of modern hygiene had to be even worse, right?

That's where most of our mutual understanding of that period comes from, and it's rather silly. I'm not saying the middle ages where the cleanest era in human existence, that would most likely be when there were very few of us. But the common picture is flawed af

Nah I heard it before the history channel existed

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I guess we just downvote to discourage people from doing it.

This is a myth, FYI. Those times are kinda equivalent to taxes+rent. After those 1440 h for your local lord, you still need to run your own farm to feed yourself.