What skills do you have that would have...

[butters]

...kept the wolf from the door a few centuries ago?

 

[MonaLittle]

None. I would have been wolf bait.

How about you, Chippy??

 

[RobDownSouth]

Oh boy, a manly man testosterone thread!

 

[butters]

None. I would have been wolf bait.

How about you, Chippy??

some wolves will be lickin' their chops

plenty, but if we're talking ladylike gainful employment then it'd be sewing, especially embroidery. i have a very neat hand.

 

[butters]

Oh boy, a manly man testosterone thread!

chopper in hand?

 

[Bad_Doggie]

I can put mechanical things together, from design through development to product.

200 years ago I would’ve been in my element.

Woof!

 

[butters]

I can put mechanical things together, from design through development to product.

200 years ago I would’ve been in my element.

Woof!

excellent - a man who can not only tinker but can make stuff work. this is good *nods*

 

[Bad_Doggie]

excellent - a man who can not only tinker but can make stuff work. this is good *nods*

You're not planning a Lit-Amish community are ya?

Woof!

 

[kotori]

As an architect, I like to think my services would have been useful in 1813, or 1613. We trace our professional pedigree back to Iktinos and Kallicrates in Periclean Athens at least.

Now, would a bastard born in the Irish Midlands have received the education and training in the 1780s? Perhaps not. But maybe I'd have found a place on a building site in Nash's London.

 

[Aquagal]

...kept the wolf from the door a few centuries ago?

I can sew well, so I can make myself a red hooded cape, and keep my just sharpened knife hidden. I can get close up and take my knife and with an upward action in his sternum and twist it.

 

[girlsmiley]

skills.

is vagina a skill?

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm pretty good with a Bow and a crossbow I'd have been a good hunter.

Also all joking aside if its a skill we possess now, never underestimate the ability to read and write. Many were illiterate centuries ago.

 

[lovecraft68]

skills.

is vagina a skill?

It is the world's oldest profession

 

[warrior queen]

I can catch, kill, skin and gut, and cook my own food.
Plus I almost never call anyone to help me fix stuff.... self-sufficiency is the rule.
So long as I wasn't in the era where witches got burned, I'd be fine.

 

[butters]

You're not planning a Lit-Amish community are ya?

Woof!

not so much on the amish thingy - just nosy, i guess it's all very well being able to programme a computer, but how what sort of transferable job-skills do we have that would have seen us not starving or freezing? my main one is adaptability.

 

[Adre]

skills.

is vagina a skill?

If used well. And often.

 

[butters]

As an architect, I like to think my services would have been useful in 1813, or 1613. We trace our professional pedigree back to Iktinos and Kallicrates in Periclean Athens at least.

Now, would a bastard born in the Irish Midlands have received the education and training in the 1780s? Perhaps not. But maybe I'd have found a place on a building site in Nash's London.

ok, we'll keep you. you can work alongside bad doggie

I can sew well, so I can make myself a red hooded cape, and keep my just sharpened knife hidden. I can get close up and take my knife and with an upward action in his sternum and twist it.

ooh, i s-s-saaaayyyyyy

skills.

is vagina a skill?

depends on its training and vocational diligence

 

[Bad_Doggie]

skills.

is vagina a skill?

Depends what you can do with it.

Were there Ping-Pong balls 200 years ago, that's a neat trick.

Woof!

 

[Adre]

I'm a decent cook and a fairly competent sailor. A position on the Nina or Pinta maybe?

 

[girlsmiley]

If used well. And often.

depends on its training and vocational diligence

Well in that case, I haz mad skillz.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm a decent cook and a fairly competent sailor. A position on the Nina or Pinta maybe?

Or the Good Ship Lollipop.

 

[thør]

...kept the wolf from the door a few centuries ago?

I can patch fish nets. I can work at any port.

 

[butters]

I'm pretty good with a Bow and a crossbow I'd have been a good hunter.

Also all joking aside if its a skill we possess now, never underestimate the ability to read and write. Many were illiterate centuries ago.

so they could use you as a guard or huntsman - bit of both, and yeah about the writing thing. that would've been pretty cool, unless they murdered you having first gotten you to write out some verwy important dockewment

I can catch, kill, skin and gut, and cook my own food.
Plus I almost never call anyone to help me fix stuff.... self-sufficiency is the rule.
So long as I wasn't in the era where witches got burned, I'd be fine.

so - poacher? take care, they used to cut yer hands off n stuff. they'd probably hire you in the manor house kitchens. at least it'd be warm in winter.

 

[butters]

Depends what you can do with it.

Were there Ping-Pong balls 200 years ago, that's a neat trick.

Woof!

well, there were always conkers....

I'm a decent cook and a fairly competent sailor. A position on the Nina or Pinta maybe?

any port in a storm or kitchen in a blizzard *nods*

Well in that case, I haz mad skillz.

*snort*

I can patch fish nets. I can work at any port.

wtf is that bear doing?

mending the nets, sir

oh... carry on then.

 

[zipman]

I'm a decent shot, with either gun or bow.

And I'm smart, which helps regardless of the century.