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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does it work? I just need to sustain, not decimate

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It's about 90% effective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Epic self-burn?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Not as much as their republic

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

there were once Romans there

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's called a rabbit hole because rabbits live there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Historically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Actually it's a reference to Alice in Wonderland.

Yes, I've been down a rabbit hole rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The word skeleton comes from the Ancient Greek word skeletós, which means "dried up".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does that mean Skeletor is one who dries people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Skeletor is Ben Shapiro's alter ego confirmed!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Word skeletons are just strings of letters...I thought.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kind of weird since Roman's where like everywhere in eruope at one point.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I assume so. Just compare the amount of resources both parties are able to invest in PR - if the Romans had defeated them, you'd have heard by now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought Julius Caesar declared them gods after two of em completed 11 tasks, with a distant ancestor of John Oliver officiating the tasks, and then the entire village broke The Circus Maximus during the 12th task......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Rome shall rise again!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not so much north of the Rhine, which still leaves a lot of Europe Roman-free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not Romania though, well…old Romania yes, but they moved it

(They controlled present Romania as well)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lol wtf, sounds like a interesting history.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(the rabbit hole was literally just the first paragraph on Wikipedia about Romania)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Started at Information Retrival and ended up at collective intelligence​.

Thank you, wikipedia, for good exploratory search

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess it would have been faster if he just looked in the bears cave instead of a rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It is known that bear caves typically contain libraries on etymology of country names.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

eunt domus

Spoilers for Life of Brian, which I still need to see. But seems pretty funny.

spoilerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One of the many places that claim to be the real descendant of the Roman Empire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

According to the anthem, romanians claim to have the blood of the romans and the name of Trajan, meaning that everyone in Romania had fathers that had fathers that had fathers... that were the sons of the roman emperor that conquered Dacia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I remember it right, you used the name of the people that used the name of the people that claimed that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You remember wrong. It just means "of rome" and it's that because it was a roman province. There's a difference between "of rome" which is what "român" means and "the true descendants of Rome" which is what you're claiming. We've never claimed to be more Roman than Italians or anything. That'd be stupid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The language they speak is also not a Slavic language but closer to Italian.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They’re smarter than the average bear for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those caves are an intelligent bunch of holes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Romania used to be called Dacia before the Romans committed genocide over there. It was named after the car brand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Modern cave came from Old French which took it from Latin cavea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's a soy sauce situation. Bears are named after bears cave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Its called bears cave because bears made it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Is bare cave a pleonasm?