Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

 
Or you could become a monk.
No worries, cradle to the grave socialism, but not much in the way of
food, no shagging (officially) and an awful lot of god bothering. But
you learnt to read and write

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I think mediaeval monks ate pretty well, certainly better than the
peasants. Ascetics they weren’t.