Fun Fact I bet you don't know

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fun fact: this is simply incorrect. It was simply an occupational descriptor. OED has a citation from 1280 when none of our current cultural baggage applied.

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• JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like 6 months ago everybody decided to start telling me what “spinster” means for some reason and it remains the only context in which I’ve ever heard it used

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Spinster means a person so good at riding a bike, they got an award made of wool. Usually fashioned by unmarried women.

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• KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I could not verify the “so good at weaving that she was financially independent” part. According to wikipedia it originally refered to women who spun wool - usually unmaried women. Over time it became derogatory.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s so much more complicated than that, it seems. Wool was a major business, even back then: cambridge.org/…/A173396BD9F8E10E74634263506620BE

    While I don’t think that article proves or disproves a woman being financially independent through spinning, it does hint that wool was extremely expensive, big business and it took quite a bit of cash to buy the raw materials.

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• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spin on my face

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    spits on your face

    …did you say somethin’?

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More please

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  there’s layers to my man Mickey7

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• Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you know what fun is op? Ill try to enlighten you.

  What’s the difference between 5 black guys and a joke…you can’t take a joke.

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I thought that was a pretty fun fact. Learned something new

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    • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well I like tuna, so carry on w them good vibes.

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