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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] NiPfi 18 points 2 months ago

Bush did...

[–] IndiBrony 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why can't they both be right?

[–] idunnololz 3 points 2 months ago

So wholesome

[–] Noodle07 2 points 2 months ago

Jet fuel ability to melt steel beam is quite a hot topic

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Notice the crossed X of 2 towers falling, and the third tower which can be in either location, representing the uncertainty of tower 7. Tilting this 3rd tower slightly (slight damage) and touching it to the other 2 (which is the media claim of how it fell) gives you the European number 7. The Romans did 9/11 and have been planning it for millennia.

[–] HowManyNimons 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Roman times they wrote 9 as VIIII. So if the characters are Romans it's 11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

True, these might be MEDIEVAL Roman numerals but they're still ROMAN numerals.

[–] Rolando 6 points 2 months ago

It's x with a bar over it. Isn't it the mean of all data points, or something like that?

[–] Alexstarfire 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

DOCH DOCH DOCH DOCH DOCH DOCH DOCH DOCH !!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

6 .... six!

the other person looking at it

9 ... nine!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The barbarian says "it's clearly three".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

whoever wrote the numeral intended for it to be one or the other, not either or, depending on where you stand. so one of the perspectives is objectively wrong, and the cartoon is bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, technically, the cartoonist wrote it, and intended it to be both, to prove a point.