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[–] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

It's about 90% effective.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Epic self-burn?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Not as much as their republic

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

there were once Romans there

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

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago

Actually it's a reference to Alice in Wonderland.

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

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Historically

[–] Diddlydee 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does that mean Skeletor is one who dries people?

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Skeletor is Ben Shapiro's alter ego confirmed!

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Rome shall rise again!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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......

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

(They controlled present Romania as well)

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lol wtf, sounds like a interesting history.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] uis@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

Thank you, wikipedia, for good exploratory search

[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks 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@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks 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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks 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@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They’re smarter than the average bear for sure.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Those caves are an intelligent bunch of holes.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] wewbull 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its called bears cave because bears made it

[–] lath@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Is bare cave a pleonasm?