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

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

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

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

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

It's about 90% effective.

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

Epic self-burn?

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

Not as much as their republic

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

there were once Romans there

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Actually it's a reference to Alice in Wonderland.

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

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

Historically

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

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

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

Does that mean Skeletor is one who dries people?

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

Skeletor is Ben Shapiro's alter ego confirmed!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rome shall rise again!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago

Lol wtf, sounds like a interesting history.

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

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

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

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

Thank you, wikipedia, for good exploratory search

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

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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 week 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 week ago (1 children)

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

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

They’re smarter than the average bear for sure.

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

Those caves are an intelligent bunch of holes.

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

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

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

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

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

Its called bears cave because bears made it

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

Is bare cave a pleonasm?