Bridgerton: What Life Was Really Like In The Gin-Crazed Georgian Era | History Of Britain

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  @atleast14hamms · 5 years ago (edited)

  imagine hating the working class so much you literally make it illegal for them to get their own food and then killing them for acquiring it

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  @sagefields · 5 years ago

  tbf, Bridgerton doesn't show us ANYTHING about Georgian life.

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  @TheMangakaOtakuLife · 5 years ago

  “people were spending all of their earnings on the essentials and it still wasnt enough” <br><br>wow kinda sounds familiar

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  @PrussianFrost · 5 years ago

  When you realize the rich are still keeping people down.

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  @robertgary3561 · 5 years ago

  This is why the British call the operating room a &quot;theater&quot; and is confusing to the rest of the world.

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  @amandamccallum6796 · 5 years ago

  Great documentary, Tony sells himself no need for clickbait title. Has nothing to do with Bridgerton.

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  @8698gil · 5 years ago

  It&apos;s so hard to believe you could be KILLED for hunting a rabbit, and that to feed your hungry children. &nbsp;Why were these laws so unfair? &nbsp;It isn&apos;t as if the gentry are going to even miss a few rabbits.

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  @LG-jb9zs · 5 years ago

  you know your pork is too salty when you can use SALT WATER to wash it off

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  @funsizedi88 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Just goes to show you that no matter the time, being poor has always been made into a crime. When he says that &quot;she was arrested for trying to make a living as a poor woman in a rich man&apos;s world&quot;, it reminds me of the petty pot dealers and sex workers here in the US, getting years and years in prison, being branded as a criminal for life and being shit on by society. I&apos;ve known many a people who grew up in section 8, had a full time job, 40 hr was the minimum(construction/waiting tables was the best paying) yet still had to do something on the side to make it, like selling weed or pulling tricks, if they were lucky(from a legal standpoint),it would just be stripping and maybe boxing/racing. Either way, just tying to survive when finishing high school and having a car that runs is the gold standard, was never easy. I wonder, if us &quot;debt slaves&quot; ever had time enough to do something about our plight, just how fast heads would roll from the ruling class? <br>Rant over.<br>EDIT: To be clear, I grew up in a 2 parent home, my parents were married and didn&apos;t have children until they were married. Neither went to college, because their parents couldn&apos;t or wouldn&apos;t help them, so dad was in the trades and mom worked at an interior design company, both full time. We were poor, not because they spent too much, we never had new cars, vacations, luxuries, etc because my parents paid cash and that was it. I got everything on my own, my car, my small cleaning business, trade school and even bought a small house at 25. Married and a 1st time mom as of 2 years ago. We get by on 1 income, which is about what both of my parents made, while I stay home. When I go back to full.time work in another 2 or 3 years, that will raise our income by about 60% and we will still live the way we do and save. We own our home, husband had a degree and I worked full time for 4 years while he went back, so he could work less. We have made many sacrifices, and even raised his exs son after she died. Was it easy?? HELL NO. IT CAN BE DONE WITH THE RIGHT ENCOURAGEMENT AND SACRAFICING ALL OF YOUR TEENS AND 20S. Most people are raised the same way the last 2 or 3 generations were, and assume they can never do better. With the way the school system is, that is no help whatsoever. College per year for in state university is about $40k/yr, which for the kids I grew up with, was at least a whole years pay for their household. No one gives loans to kids from where I grew up.

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  @catonkybord7950 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91GrrWaUSRc&amp;t=914">15:14</a> How much salt must&apos;ve been in there if they used freaking sea water to make it less salty?

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  @belle16117 · 5 years ago

  My 6th great grandfather was taken by a press gang in the 1730s in Edinburgh. He ended up being left in Boston by a french ship that had taken him prisoner. He never saw his Scotland family again.

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  @Lolli-n3x · 5 years ago

  The poor couldn&apos;t hunt? what horrible evil people.

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