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Rough Roman Memes

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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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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

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

Expectations: "You have 30 seconds to explain why Germans still exist"

Reality: "What the fuck is pasta?"

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

Reality: “What the fuck is pasta?”

"You've invented MORE forms of bread? Human ingenuity never ceases to impress!"

One of my favorite tidbits about Ancient Rome is that they maintained a little mud hut in the middle of the Eternal City exactly as it (supposedly) was from the earliest days of Rome. Romulus's personal residence. Maintained as a squalid little thing as a reminder of just how far human technique had progressed since the days that a little mud hut was the residence of a Roman king.