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A group of frontiersman advertising for wives, United States, Montana 1901 /r/ALL
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Dude with the cat is pulling out all stops. He’s determined.
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It worked on me 🤣 I was like hey he looks pretty smart and he's got a cat. I'm in
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jul 01 '22
Yup can shoot a bear and write poetry. Probably has a fine piercing baritone.
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u/yankiigurl Jul 01 '22
My soulmate was born in the wrong era 😂
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u/Journier Jul 01 '22
if you look real hard, he might still be there, only one way to find out.
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u/MAXQDee-314 Jul 01 '22
Yep. Got a house, and roommates who are all healthy. Solid spelling and printing skills. And a dog.
Also, you would be my wife and nobody else's...right?
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u/glassandstuff Jul 01 '22
Same. I was like “dibs on cat guy”
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u/MAXQDee-314 Jul 01 '22
Is the guy to the left holding a raccoon or another cat?
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u/glassandstuff Jul 01 '22
Maybe he just rolled up a blanket for the photo since no one would be able to tell the difference
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u/MAXQDee-314 Jul 01 '22
Considering that they are looking for "wives", he just might be "uncomfortable."
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u/lordtweakslide Jul 01 '22
There's a slightly clearer picture where you can see it's a puppy from the dog by the door.
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u/MAXQDee-314 Jul 01 '22
Dogs, puppies, cats. Reading, writing. home building. I believe they may be considered a tempting group of fellows.
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u/PlayfulParamedic2626 Jul 01 '22
Wives: couldn’t be any worse than my Ex-boyfriend! He didn’t even like cats!
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u/kingofkyiv Jul 01 '22
Can I interest you then? https://i.imgur.com/lmBkNAI.jpg
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u/Silly00rabbit Jul 01 '22
Is the guy on the far left flexing with a cat too? I can't tell.
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u/catsonthemats Jul 01 '22
I actually think it's a puppy based on the length + girth of the body, and the length and size/shape of the paw hanging over his outside arm, plus the larger black dog by the door. Probably a hound in training.
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u/ccg5058 Jul 01 '22
My vote is ground hog, he was the one missing a little something in the group
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u/catsonthemats Jul 01 '22
I change my vote to groundhog.
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u/Sticky_Quip Jul 01 '22
Could also be a beaver. Beavers were very valuable for a long time in preindustrial America.
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u/catsonthemats Jul 01 '22
Not many beavers are going to be out playing in the snow or allow a grown ass man to hold it like a puppy. Those fucks are aggressive and carry diseases.
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u/SolidBlackGator Jul 01 '22
Looks like he got jealous of the other guy and carved a cat out of an old stump.
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u/Charles_Whethers Jul 01 '22 •
"You likes a good tummy rub, don't you Splinters? Yes, you does. Yes, you does."
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u/Ok_Mycologist_5569 Jul 01 '22
I think it’s a baby bear! These guys are nailing it!
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u/ecn_ln Jul 01 '22
I legit thought that too. Whatever it is it seems heavy enough, by the way he's holding it.
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u/Yowz3rs87 Jul 01 '22
I thought he was holding a sack
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u/ShartThrasher Jul 01 '22
You're right, his left hand is definitely holding his sack.
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u/Don-Keydic Jul 01 '22
Hat?
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u/Ninja_Dynamic Jul 01 '22
It’s a hat but it is blurry because of the long exposure time required by early cameras.
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u/Icy-Consideration405 Jul 01 '22
It's either a puppy or a bear cub. It wouldn't sit still either way lol
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u/Dc9Ten Jul 01 '22 •
His previous sign was “Pussy Wanted”
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u/AdministrationSea728 Jul 01 '22
His first sign he misspelled “pussy” with “Posse” and that’s how the other guys showed up.
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u/conjurer28 Jul 01 '22
That's exactly what happened!
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u/Hingl_McCringleberry Jul 01 '22
It's true, I was the cat
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u/sockbref Jul 01 '22
r/quityourbillshit McCringleberry. Cats don’t play NCAA football.
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u/turdpimpin Jul 01 '22
It looks like the only guy without an animal is on the far right. I wonder if he got chosen last?
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u/2Cthulhu4Scthulhu Jul 01 '22
1901 in the wilderness and my man out here supporting the back legs to not stress the spine.
What a king 👑
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u/Legitimate-Try-242 Jul 01 '22
These four men in Montana (near Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park) at the turn of the 20th century advertised their want for wives on the side of a cabin. From left-to-right they were: Bill Daucks, Frank Geduhn, Esli Apgar, and Dimon Apgar. Frank, and Dimon eventually married, but not mail-order brides.
Courtesy of Glacier National Park Photo Archives, photo HPF 9871. (From google)
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u/Whatever748 Jul 01 '22
Nice, so the cat guy at least was able to marry
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u/siccoblue Jul 01 '22
He's the one that I would be shocked if he hadn't. These days it's totally normal to have a dude have his picture taken with a cat but I'd imagine in the 1900s that was a pussy magnet with them thinking "oh I bet he's so tender and loving"
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u/NoninflammatoryFun Jul 01 '22
Well and if you’ve read stuff like little house on the prairie, cats could be hard to find and you NEEDED them for rats and stuff.
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u/IconWorld Jul 01 '22
He doesn't actually need to hold the cat. He's such a pussy magnet, it just sort of stuck to him.
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u/millese3 Jul 01 '22
Esli Apgar and Dimon Apgar
We stayed at glacier national park 5 years ago at Apgar campground. I feel like that cannot be a coincidence.
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u/Rawrby Jul 01 '22
Might actually be named after them! How cool is that :)
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u/RonnieVanDan Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
The Apgars in this picture appear to be the sons of the campgrounds' namesake Milo Apgar. Frank Geduhn (cat guy) supplied cabins to early tourists in the area.
https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/education/west_side_history.htm
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u/millese3 Jul 01 '22
Exactly what I was hoping someone would find. Thanks for the link!
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u/TrumpWasABadPOTUS Jul 01 '22
Love how the guy with the chubby cat was in charge of supplies. Taking a little off the top, but not for him.
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u/cubbyatx Jul 01 '22
Did Frank and Dimon marry each other? Asking for a cat
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u/Kingkongcrapper Jul 01 '22 •
Frank: “Okay, so which one of us is going to be the wife?”
Dimon: “Well between the two of us you’re the only one with the pussy.”
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u/sneakyfattwatbadger Jul 01 '22
The original Tinder
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u/Big_PapaPrometheus42 Jul 01 '22
Timber
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u/victory_zero Jul 01 '22
Timdber.
In the logo the "db" has a distinctive you-know-what-I-mean look, wink wink.
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u/munk_e_man Jul 01 '22
Looks like a 69 where both people are lying down the same direction facing away from eachother.
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u/1-cupcake-at-a-time Jul 01 '22
Second from the right is giving Blue Steel, but he’s overshadowed by the cat dad and his fuller mustache.
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u/StealinMagnolias Jul 01 '22
I was about to say! Second from the right can GET IT!!!! But the cat dude was probably better company 😭
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u/StardewRedemption Jul 01 '22
I think the second from the right has a dog? So either would have been my choice.
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u/StealinMagnolias Jul 01 '22
Second from the right also looks like he would murder me and wear my skin into the wilderness. So idk. Maybe it’s cat guy for me after all.
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u/oilerfan1999 Jul 01 '22
It puts the lotion on the skin
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u/StealinMagnolias Jul 01 '22
Or else it gets the hose again
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u/oilerfan1999 Jul 01 '22
Could you imagine answering their ad, and then having to chose one? I’d be banging all 4 tbh.
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u/DeplorableWe Jul 01 '22
Second from right IS the dog. They are talking about the dog…. Probably
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u/VetteL82 Jul 01 '22
*chick shows up
“Is your three friends going to live with us?”
“They’re not my friends, and yes they are.”
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u/short_fuzed_frenchie Jul 01 '22
Dude with the cat was ready to put on his vogue face.
Damn
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u/OhGodNotAnotherOne Jul 01 '22
That's Bubbles great-great-grandfather with a fucking nice kitty there.
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u/swamppanda Jul 01 '22
If being a cat dad can't lure in the ladies, nothing gunna work.
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u/DannyAvocado_ Jul 01 '22
I wonder if this still works. Given how my dating life is going, I might go down this road
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u/catsgonewiild Jul 01 '22
Grow a good moustache and pose with your cat. I’m at the point where I would consider it simply not to have to pay for rent and food on my own.
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u/DannyAvocado_ Jul 01 '22
Cat isn't a problem. Unfortunately, however, I can only grow a paedo-stache, and therefore decided to go with a beard.
Split rent and food, and chill with someone you can halfway tolerate - sounds like a great deal
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u/coff33andb0nes Jul 01 '22
Consider for a moment the kinds of women who'd be interested in that lol
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u/DannyAvocado_ Jul 01 '22
Given the kinds of women I've met through online dating, I'm sure this would be an upgrade.
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u/KeziaTML Jul 01 '22
At this point, "has a full time job that is not in MLM" is a desirable trait.
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u/AngryMegaMind Jul 01 '22
Who are they advertising to. Is there a lot passing trade in the wife market.
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u/treefitty350 Jul 01 '22
By 1901 the indentured servitude and basic slavery of daughters was probably drying up to some degree on the western frontier. The California Gold Rush had already happened and the trails to Oregon and California were much more forgiving than in the past, meaning people were less likely to drop their daughters off on the way and women were less likely to settle somewhere along the path. I mean, shoot, Ford will have been founded 2 years after this picture.
50 years earlier though? I’d bet that they could find or buy a wife in a week’s time.
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u/BlueBabyButterfly Jul 01 '22
Drop their daughters off along the way. Damn.
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u/treefitty350 Jul 01 '22
For the wagons at the time, it may have come down to ‘selling’ their daughter or bringing them along and gambling that you all have enough to survive the rest of the trip.
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u/Upandeggum Jul 01 '22
Yo why does this look like an album cover for an awesome country album
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u/Stiefschlaf Jul 01 '22
Is Frontier Black Metal already a subgenre?
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u/thats-gold-jerry Jul 01 '22
Closest thing I can think of is https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Mz5qpR3WxbcBwZBsmraWE?si=c59E81x4QvqL0EtlTYbF2Q
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u/Stiefschlaf Jul 01 '22
I love how metal never disappoints, no matter how random it gets. Thanks, I'll check that out later!
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u/Test19s Jul 01 '22
Black metal is so fascinating. It’s literally what people thought rock and roll was all about back in 1957 and it has so many different underground niches (even if some of them are full of Nazis or misanthropic anarchists).
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u/Otherwise_Ad233 Jul 01 '22
From South Park: "Hi, um, we're Crimson Dawn, and, uh, this is a song I wrote about living on a farm out in the country."
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue Jul 01 '22
Almost. There’s an American subgenre of black metal that merges bluegrass and other folk influences. Panopticon and their album Kentucky is my favorite. Nechowochen mixes in some more Native American sounds and are great. Aggaloch touches on the folk side, though they’re a bit more ambient and not quite as heavy. Definitely check out their album The Mantle Though. Not a whole lot of it out there, but good stuff.
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u/sdjsfan4ever Jul 01 '22
I'm gonna tell my kids this was Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
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u/Princessferfs Jul 01 '22
I’m gonna tell my grandkids that this was The Sugarhill Gang.
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u/thelurkertwopointow Jul 01 '22
Before Dating Apps.
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u/Fishliketrish Jul 01 '22
Eh its still this bad in montana
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u/WaddlingHippos Jul 01 '22
I went to Montana as a kid. My main memory is just the vast open areas without a single other soul in sight. Also bears.
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u/Archerstorm90 Jul 01 '22
Was going to say. I lived in in the mountains in Northern California, I sympathize. The joke among the young men was that she isn't your girlfriend, it's just your turn.
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u/DragonfruitMission77 Jul 01 '22
I live in Montana. I’m pretty sure this photo could have been taken yesterday (other than a little update on clothing style).
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u/ParrotheadTink Jul 01 '22
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers vibes. I ❤️ that movie
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u/theonetruegrinch Jul 01 '22
STOP, YOU'LL HIT DORCAS
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u/Uknown98 Jul 01 '22
2 tubs of lard, twenty pounds of chewin tobacco, and you wouldn't happen to have a wife around here would ya?
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u/Beasty_Glanglemutton Jul 01 '22
That movie is so funny to watch with a modern sensibility. Basically seven dudes decide they need wives, so they go to town and grab them. It's pretty much just kidnapping.
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u/Acceptable-Pace-5601 Jul 01 '22
Mom named him Frankencinse ‘cause he smelled so good (*fight immediately erupts)
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u/SoyElReyPutos Jul 01 '22
Left to right:
1- Hope this prop dog works.
2- I can keep a fat cat happy, I can provide for you, too.
3-Im standing like this bc I need the extra space, if you know what I mean.
4-fukk am I doing this for... I banged all 3 already.
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u/gwdope Jul 01 '22
The tough, gruff, rugged, miner showing off his chonky cat for his old timey tinder bio is special.
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u/dylansuedereid Jul 01 '22
Every time I see this photo posted somewhere, Senor Drippy Drip with the cat gets a lot of attention.
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u/nollsgame80 Jul 01 '22
Two guys already got all the pussy they need.
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u/crazythinker76 Jul 01 '22
That was from the sign they posted the week prior. Decided to make a new sign.
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u/jwally65 Jul 01 '22
Make you wonder how much "Broke Back Mountain" there was going on back then.
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u/wishitwouldrainaus Jul 01 '22
I personally think numbers 1 and 2 look nice. Need a good scrub and some new threads but, I don't know, I like their stance and energy. My choice of husband was an absolutely abysmal failure so a man that actually works for his family, alongside his missus, has glasses, maybe reads and likes animals, well, its incredibly politically incorrect but if I was on the frontier, I'd give it a shot. I'm a bloody good cook and thrifty, can sew, like knitting, reading and taking care of animals, I used to be a good horse rider, grew up milking cows, keeping chooks for eggs and food, I could've done worse. I'm gonna get shot for this...
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u/unemployedbuffy Jul 01 '22
None of this is politically incorrect unless you're also implying that you'd want all women to stop voting or whatever - you're just describing what you'd want for yourself. That's always been allowed, and what you describe sounds pretty chill tbh
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u/wishitwouldrainaus Jul 01 '22
Fuck no! Women absolutely should do whatever they want and aspire to be wonderful to themselves and each other. I'm aware of the lifestyles women lived in those days. Just mostly bloody brutal. I am aware that I only speak from a position of some privilege and choice after centuries of having no rights.
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u/AthemisRising Jul 01 '22
Outlander... Montana edition.
Sad that season 6 sucked but would still recommend the show if this is your fantasy! It's spicy but loving and very true to the books.
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u/WaddlingHippos Jul 01 '22
I did something like this but switch the genders. My wife earns good money and we live rural. I take care of our house, help her with her work, and I take care of the animals. I know how to knit, sew, do laundry and maintain the house overall. Its honestly an amazing life and I would be happy to live out the rest of my days like this.
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u/cherokeeinjen Jul 01 '22
So what’s the plan here? Just sit around all day and wait for a women to walk by? Do they have chants? Do they recite their finest qualities when someone promising is near?
So many questions.
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u/andio76 Jul 01 '22
Man 1 : "Well...only so many times you can snuggle up to a bushy beard!"
Man 2 : " Wait....we all have beards"
Man 3 : "Exactly...
Man 4 : "Well...I have Pussy"
Man taking pic : " That's called a cat Steve"
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u/LucindaBobinda Jul 01 '22
Does that guy on the left have a puppy?! Puppy, tie, mustache, suspenders - would def marry. Guy in the doorway is a lot cuter though. Maybe that’s his dog standing by him? Might be a toss up between those two.
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u/TheTolkienLobster Jul 01 '22
Man oh man that is some perspective. I complain about having to sit at a desk for 8 hours 5 days a week but these guys probably never stopped working until there was no light to see by. Grateful for the hard work of the people who came before us to give us the life we enjoy today.
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u/iuytrefdgh436yujhe2 Jul 01 '22
It's funny how the comments to this thread tend to fall cleanly along 'It's redditors/incels/tinder/internet group I don't like' and 'Okay cat guy can get it though'
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u/Neighborhood-Any Jul 01 '22
The man with the cat understood how Tinder works over 100 years before it's creation.
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u/blueleader11 Jul 01 '22
I’m sure women where just wandering through the forest all the time.
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u/WaddlingHippos Jul 01 '22
Imagine you're a poor women in one of the major cities of the time period. If you had some skills in taking care of the home, these men might be a way to advance your own life, gain access to property, and have land to give your children. Sure the life is hard, but it could be better than what they had in the cities.
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u/MarcasV86 Jul 01 '22
Yep, there's me holding my cat just waiting for the wives to start rolling in
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u/kuluka_man Jul 02 '22
Everyone keeps mentioning the guy with the cat, but is the guy on the far left not holding a damn raccoon or something? Wtf is that?
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