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[–] Usernamealreadyinuse 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[–] Hobbes_Dent 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] SidewaysHighways 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ggppjj 12 points 2 months ago

It's about 90% effective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Epic self-burn?

[–] captainlezbian 20 points 2 months ago

Not as much as their republic

[–] Quetzalcutlass 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

there were once Romans there

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mynameisigglepiggle 6 points 2 months 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] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean Skeletor is one who dries people?

[–] A7thStone 3 points 2 months ago

Skeletor is Ben Shapiro's alter ego confirmed!

[–] nexguy 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] FooBarrington 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington 5 points 2 months 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.

[–] AngryCommieKender 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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......

[–] stupidcasey 2 points 2 months ago

Rome shall rise again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

(They controlled present Romania as well)

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

Lol wtf, sounds like a interesting history.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

Thank you, wikipedia, for good exploratory search

[–] stardustpathsofglory 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nexguy 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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

[–] marcos 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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

[–] nyctre 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] marcos 0 points 2 months 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.

[–] nyctre 2 points 2 months 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.

[–] SkunkWorkz 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Badeendje 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They’re smarter than the average bear for sure.

[–] ladicius 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Those caves are an intelligent bunch of holes.

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

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

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

Its called bears cave because bears made it

[–] lath 0 points 2 months ago

Is bare cave a pleonasm?