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Curious: how people pay debt back in the olden days?

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  1. Invisible Fan

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    You bred like rabbits back then and bartered your daughters for various goods and services.
     
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  2. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    It’s called a ‘dowry’ in civilized countries.
     
  3. Space Ghost

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    these days you can get them free. You get what you pay for.
     
  4. Buck Turgidson

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    How many sheep/grains/daughters do you want?
     
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  5. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Buck is rich in virgin pay.
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Oh no no no no. No no no.

    No.

    I've got other "interesting trades accepted" though.
     
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  7. Ottomaton

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    What's the exchange rate? How many sheep per daughter? or daughters per sheep, maybe...
     
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  8. Buck Turgidson

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    No Daughters for **** sake, we're not savages, right? Yall missed me replying to the "back then" part, yeah?

    Right?

    Dunno about the exchange rate, but my brother has been trying to get me into breeding meat rabbits, for restaurants and such, so that may throw things out of whack until the market settles.
     
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    One of the best swordfights in the series. Well chosen.

    Michele Fairley, who played Catelyn ("Cat"), Ned's wife, is an excellent actress, but I agree. She just didn't look the part. Cat was supposed to be a great beauty in her youth, one that "Littlefinger" spent decades yearning for, but Fairley was badly miscast for such an important role, in my opinion. The other Tully sister? Not much of a role, but played the loon well enough.
     
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  10. Buck Turgidson

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    "YOU DON'T FIGHT WITH HONOR ?!?"

    "He did."
     
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    I’m still waiting on my 2 chickens and a goat. I thought that was the perk of marrying an Indian.
     
  12. Buck Turgidson

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    What are you going to do with 1 goat? Or should I not ask?
     
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  13. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    Cabrito?
     
  14. CCorn

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    Idk. It might be cool to have Tom Brady around.
     
  15. Buck Turgidson

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    You want a kid for that.
     
  16. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    It can be quite tasty.

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  17. Buck Turgidson

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    Yes, I've cooked about 50 of them or so. Young goats are called "kids", that's what you want to eat, not an old one. Old goats are good for eating weeds and brush, milk, and making more goats, which is why I asked what the hell he was going to do with 1 goat.

    :)
     
  18. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    I recall goats being called kids. Never thought cabrito was only the younguns. But I did find this.

    https://heavytable.com/the-goat-why-you-should-eat-it-and-a-recipe/

    Of course, my brother has a couple of TN fainting goats. Those are always fun.
     
  19. CCorn

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    I’ve gone 31 years without eating any children.
     
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