v for frequency?

Could make people (i.e. the child readers) think that all similar disabilities are psychosomatic.

"Romantic" as in "common in romances" i.e. stories.

Yes, it's a common idea that, e.g. stoneagers didn't live past their twenties. I suppose it's due to a sentimental attachment to childhood. You might as well say that fish fry only live a few hours as most are gulped up as soon as they hatch.

Stupid typo. 9x13" glass pan.

Children think Santa Claus is real.

Eventually most of us grow up.

"Romantic" as in:

"Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around

Byron, Shelley, Keats, Blake

That is not what 'Romantic' means, Humpty Dumpty.

And romances are not just 'stories' Any more than a Koenigsegg is 'just' a 'car.'

TB, like sex was common in life. And a highly emotional thing. Naturally it featured in *emotional* stories.

But the *Romantics* were a very special movement, and if you didn't bother to read the links I posted then you are not worth arguing with.

Thank You, Cindy. That is a very short and rather limited, but accurate as far as it goes, description. My mistake was assuming that 'everybody knew that already'

Its more nuanced than that. Certainly infant mortality was high, still births common, but then you had to run the gauntlet of all the childhood diseases that were rampant, that you had little or no resistance to and no vaccines for. If you survived measles, mumps, German measles, Scarlet fever and didn't catch polio, meningitis, small pox cholera, typhus, typhoid, die from food poisoning or massive bacterial infections after scratching yourself on a pitchfork... you could still die from a myriad other causes in your teens twenties thirties and forties, and if you lived to 50, then if cancer didn't get you heart disease probably would.

I got a massive abscess in my neck after handling some rock wool, in S Africa. I asked the doctor who lanced it cleaned it and gave me the antibiotics 'what most patients came in for' And his answer was telling 'Raging bacterial infection, like yours, Prior to antibiotics that would have been life threatening'

We forget that the 19th century was absolutely full of things that could easily kill you, and did, at *any* age: Being run over by a horse was far more common than road accidents today. As was dying in childbirth in your teens twenties and thirties.

Technically, shorn of accidents, people could easily live to 60 or 70, before succumbing to 'diseases of the old' but that doesn't mean that many actually did.

The chances that something would get you meant that the overwhelming majority didn't make it past 25.

I don't recall I ever did. As the youngest in the family with fairly vindictive older sisters, they made sure I was disillusioned.

Although an alarming number do not, and most people have at least one unresolved childhood issue.

The revisionist left is always trying to alter the truth so sometimes Cindy needs correcting.

Same here. Computer screens are kind of mid level, so you use the middle part of progressive/varifocals.

But make sure that you *try* varifocals - get your optician to give you a deal whereby he will make up varifocals but allow you to return them and replace them with two pairs of single-prescription (eg distance and reading) if you don't get on with varifocals.

I contemplated varifocals when I started to need glasses for reading about

I am. Anything you do to milk impairs the flavour. And as for modern, homogenised, "standardised" milk. Just white water.

If an oppressive government is starving its people and arresting/torturing/killing dissidents, do the developed countries of the world have a moral obligation to intervene?

North Korea. Cuba. Haiti. Zimbabwe. Many others.

I think so.

You were making sense until that last bit.

Kids like sweet stories with happy endings. And presents under the tree.

Yes, they can wait until college to major in psychology and anger and despair.

Like making yogurt or ice cream?

And as for modern,

Doesn't taste like water.