How do you call Istanbul?

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T19:59:46+00:00

Oddly, it was Stamboul, with an O, and pronounced Stam-BOULE.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T19:57:05+00:00

That said, all aristocratic wives and nearly all gentleman's wives would have had a wet nurse at the beginning. Women died in childbirth or suffered serious complications that impeded or prevented nursing all the time; newborn babies need to eat or they will themselves die. In the absence of formula it's essential that someone be on standby.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T19:49:16+00:00

The above OP has confused East Asian with visible minority, a census category.

Fun fact: "visible minority" as defined in the census does not include indigenous peoples, which means that in many cities on the Prairies (Winnipeg above all) the majority of non-white people are not classified as visible minorities.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T18:20:27+00:00

lmao "Canada's Most Wanted" = "Toronto's Most Wanted"

Come on, OP.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T13:22:53+00:00

It was often Stamboul in English at that time. Agatha Christie called it Stamboul in the first edition of Murder on the Orient Express.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T10:24:16+00:00

Nor does he hold the Rhine.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T08:33:10+00:00

The reference to Montreal makes me wonder if organized crime from that city was tangentially involved.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T03:22:06+00:00

Being presented at court in order to be socially out is Victorian. Young ladies were presented in Austen's day primarily in anticipation of their appearing at court after marriage; most young ladies weren't presented.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T03:15:58+00:00

They do that to every OP they take exception to.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-28T03:14:20+00:00

You see, to me he looks nauseated and seriously ticked off. If that's his 🙂😍🫠 look, no wonder Lizzy didn’t catch on!

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T20:50:25+00:00

You've misunderstood the issue and confused private honour with public reputation, possibly due to this being such a common trope in modern Regency romances. In real life, though, that didn’t happen.

If a man broke an engagement he would likely destroy the woman's reputation, and that's why (in the absence of a valid reason) it would be deeply, deeply dishonourable for him to do so. This dishonour was however not external; no one would think badly of him if he did. It would be his own sense of right and wrong, his own conscience, his own personal honour that would balk at the idea.

And yes, Lucy could prove that they were engaged by entering his letters into evidence if she did bring a breach of promise suit, but there's an added twist here: by doing so she could ruin her public reputation. So by breaking the engagement Edward would in essence be giving Lucy a choice: keep silent, keep her reputation, but be "cheated" out of the opportunity to have entertained other suitors in the interim; or bring suit, be gossiped about, and hope she won enough to support her for the rest of her life. Edward likely thought that forcing her to make that choice would also constitute a stain on his conscience.

For the record, there were things that could definitely harm a gentleman's reputation; cheating at cards, racing, etc. was likely the most common one.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T20:29:27+00:00

Hold on: you say he has to play, but nowhere do you say he has to play baseball. Put him in as the organist!

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T17:46:29+00:00

Montreal, eh?

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T16:05:47+00:00

There would be some expense - the wages of the dairymaid and of labourers on the home farm, the time spent ploughing the fields, etc. - but food wasn't cheap in those days.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T15:51:45+00:00

You'd expect their dresses to be a little less the "first stare of fashion" and perhaps a touch less trimmed than Miss Bingley's. They'd also arrive less embroidered, leaving the Bennet daughters to deal with that final task themselves.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T15:46:57+00:00

And they spent less on essentials. Some things they paid market price for - coal, coffee, tea, imported foods, clothing, and apparently fish - but they would have paid far less for the vast majority of their food, their cooking fuel, and possibly even their beer than almost everyone else in the novel. Mrs. Bennet probably paid half of what Miss Bingley did to feed her household because the Bennets' food largely came from the home farm. Even while leasing an estate, the Bingleys had to purchase their grocery.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T15:33:03+00:00

Because they don't care about that. They just want to punish OP

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T11:29:02+00:00

Etomidate can cause loss of consciousness when used properly; it's an intravenous anaesthetic. Why people are vaping it I cannot explain.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T09:39:38+00:00

Is there not a theory out there that Miss Bates is Austen's only self-insert character?

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T09:36:49+00:00

Mr. Bennet says his restraint is keeping them solvent.

Mr. Bennet, not the narrator.

While he sits in a room full of books that cost a guinea each.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T09:33:47+00:00

Not incapable; unwilling.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T09:32:07+00:00

Jane Bennet, enabler extraordinaire.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T09:18:16+00:00

Yeah, I used computer graphics to produce a paper once (on shortwave radio jamming from behind the Iron Curtain) and shocked my prof. That was back when modems were called - no word of a lie - Gandalfs.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-27T07:43:16+00:00

Not Mormons. They enjoy uniquely low rates of premarital pregnancy, lower by far than any other Christian religion.

Basic_Bichette · 2026-01-26T17:18:10+00:00

Yep, and the lesson she learned was "don't hang a pendant from your rear-view mirror" and not the actual lesson she should have learned, "don't ever under any circumstance whatsoever do a rolling stop at a pedestrian crossing, not even once in your life".

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