The Off Topic Topic

[Richard Hakluyt]

It appears to be 42% and 12 years in England & Wales.

[Grey Fox]

Quebec doesn't keep divorce stats further than 2008, we topped out at about a 50% rate.

Quebec's marriage rates have plummeted from 90% before 50 first marriage to a 30% before 50 first marriage in ~50 years.

[Syt]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

[Malthus]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Heavy Metal: now too damned intellectual for metalheads. 

[Valmy]

Just saw a survey that shows that roughly 60% of marriages in Spain end up in divorce. Average length of a marriage that ends up in divorce is 17 years.

How does that compare to your countries?

17 years? Well nobody can say the Spanish don't give their marriages a chance. Though you guys also get married at a rather shockingly low rate compared to us.

It appears to be 42% and 12 years in England & Wales.

The US is slightly lower at about 41% but we only last about 8 years before divorcing.

[Syt]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Heavy Metal: now too damned intellectual for metalheads. 

*cough* https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/mar/21/whymetalfansarebrainier



(Though there's probably studies claiming the opposite, too )

[Josquius]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Who is paying for that PhD. What a niche.

[Malthus]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Who is paying for that PhD. What a niche.

It probably sounds less niche if you label it something like 'studying the continuing influence of the Western image of ancient history on a specific aspect of popular culture". 

[Malthus]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Heavy Metal: now too damned intellectual for metalheads. 

*cough* https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/mar/21/whymetalfansarebrainier



(Though there's probably studies claiming the opposite, too )

The 'popular' view of heavy metal fans was formed in the 1980s, and doesn't at all reflect contemporary reality  - it's forty years out of date, and in popular culture, forty years is an eternity.

I mean, think of some folks approaching the 1920s, with a view of the culture of the day formed in 1880 ...

[The Larch]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Who is paying for that PhD. What a niche.

Apparently there are whole academic publications centered on Heavy Metal (the guy mentions "Metal Music Studies", where he's a published author) and international societies of researchers in the topic. Can't be that strange. 

[Sheilbh]

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with a Professor of Classical studies who looks at the themes of and inspiration from Greco-Roman history on heavy metal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e7w4n7/hi_im_jeremy_swist_ama_about_grecoroman_antiquity/

Who is paying for that PhD. What a niche.

It probably sounds less niche if you label it something like 'studying the continuing influence of the Western image of ancient history on a specific aspect of popular culture". 

Yeah - reception is a very popular bit of classics now. And better the academics who can study heavy metal and the poor academics who spend their time analysing Troy and Oliver Stone's Alexander biopic

[Iormlund]

Just saw a survey that shows that roughly 60% of marriages in Spain end up in divorce. Average length of a marriage that ends up in divorce is 17 years.

How does that compare to your countries?

17 years? Well nobody can say the Spanish don't give their marriages a chance. Though you guys also get married at a rather shockingly low rate compared to us.

It appears to be 42% and 12 years in England & Wales.

The US is slightly lower at about 41% but we only last about 8 years before divorcing.

Well if you are going to get divorced, earlier rather than later has its merits. No kids for one.

I know a few 40 year olds that had to move back with their parents whilst still paying the family flat where the ex lives with the kids.   

[Josquius]

But then the breeding part done and kids produced they have fulfilled the meaning of life and can enjoy themselves with the rest of it.

[Syt]

Marie Fredriksson of Roxette has died, aged 61. Brain tumor.

[The Brain]