I guess when you say something along the lines of "Sorry, your value as a partner was always just easy access to the spot between your thighs, once that lost its allure, your value on the single market hit rock bottom."... I expect boiling blood coming from their ears.
It's some severe entitlement issue bullshit to expect to be seen as a desirable partner to anyone, after you've fucked your way through god knows how many beds or refused to have a relationship with anyone cause they didn't meet some weird and unrealistic expecations.
Well, I wouldn't advise that nowadays, but in a house like that viking one, it should work rather well and people wouldn't be as prissy about the resulting smells as people today are.
Incidently, you can use the fireplace to cool down the house during summer. When you light a very small fire, the draft that carries air upwards will suck in colder air from the outside.
Also funfact: in pre-modern times, some cultures would rather use smoke to make their clothes smell good and kill pests than to wash them. Exposing some silk dress to a bit of smoke for some time is less harmful than forcefully washing it in a tub and scrub it.
Actual article written in 2008, that doesn't say this at all.
If anything, the original article shows how complex a pandemic like the Chink Stink is and how secondary infections can ravage your body by taking advantage of its weakened state. The word "mask" isn't even used once in the entire article, so it's really quite something else to use it to push some stupid narrative about masks being more harmful than (supposedly) Covid, when this article is available for free and can be found within a minute of looking to find out that this claim is utter nonsense.
