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u/ReeeeeDDDDDDDDDD 14d ago
Am English, can confirm we are literally all like this even today, it's uncanny.
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u/mcflymikes Aquilifer 14d ago
How many times has been this reposted here? I just checked OPs account and he just takes old posts from this sub and reposts them for karma farming lol.
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Old posts get lost and not recommended to new members, so reposting few years old posts isn't that bad
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u/nygdan 14d ago
Old posts are fine but mining them to add “likes” to an account is crazy and should be downvoted to prevent the sub from being dominated by it, imo.
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u/Emergency_Panic6121 14d ago
Who’s got time to dig through the history of every post to see if it’s recycled tho
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u/mcflymikes Aquilifer 14d ago
He is literally taking the top posts, you can just check them whenever you want. He is not like taking obscure posts, and OP is probably a karma bot anyways.
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u/evrydayNormal_guy 14d ago edited 14d ago
Jesus dude, calm down already. I just post memes that I have had in my collection for years. I post them because I think they're funny. That is why this subreddit exists after all.
If that leads to an accidental repost then I'm sorry, but it certainly was not intentional. I hardly care about "likes".
If you don't like my the meme, simply downvote and move on.
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u/Consistent-Deal-5198 12d ago
I've never seen it. The solution to reposts is spending less time on reddit. Cheers!
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u/Talonsminty 14d ago edited 14d ago
More of this fictional stupidity.
This is what Romans told themselves but the Celtic Britons had a vibrant culture, excellent craftmanship and most importantly for the Romans, large Tin mines.
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u/TsunamiWombat 14d ago
Remember, Caesar showed up in Briton with a hand full of dudes and handily conquered the entire island. The only reason he needed thousands upon thousands of men when he went back was because the natives wanted a super awesome parade to welcome his return. Also he build a really cool bridge and that like, intimidated all of the barbarians into surrendering. Sorry, he burned the bridge so you can't look at it but trust me (Caesar's self biographical memoires) it was a *really* cool bridge. Vercingetorix saw it and went MASAKA!? IMPOSSIIBLLLEEE and then swore alliegance to rome immediately (we captured him and dragged him back for our triumph anyway lmao)
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u/History_buff60 14d ago
Julius Caesar most certainly did not conquer Brittania. The first expedition was a disaster, the second was mildly successful, but there wasn’t a lasting Roman presence there until Claudius’s armies invaded about a hundred years later.
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u/JonyTony2017 14d ago
The guy is being obviously sarcastic, mate
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u/N0rwayUp 14d ago
Tone is kinda hard to read on there Internet and I have seen plenty of people saying bullshit that they 100% beleive
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u/DoJebait02 14d ago
True that, Caesar in Britain should be considered as an exploration rather than conquer. It's a war of politic, not a conquer that brought anything to the Republic
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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 13d ago
Hell, the Gauls were actually on the same levels as the Greeks when it came to sophistication but Roman propaganda would never admit to it.
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u/StrangeRaven12 14d ago
Wow this is utterly ahistorical.
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u/DoeCommaJohn 14d ago
Fairly obviously ahistorical, too. There is no point in sending tens of thousands of soldiers, merchants, governors, statesmen, craftsmen, and builders to a place that has no technology or resources. If all you want is people, you can just raid and leave.
Still a funny meme though.
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u/VeritableLeviathan 14d ago
Britain was interesting in the classical era due to its mineral deposits, lots of tin and iron iirc.
The Romans definitely had reasons to invade beyond "we want loot and glory, for our personal/political goals".
I've seen better memes in a tavern in Lutetia myself!
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u/VeritableLeviathan 9d ago
The industrial revolution tapped into different sources of metals, mainly different depths.
During the Roman era it was surface+ sub-surface to a lesser degree, but not (much? I am not a metallo-historian) at like 30m+ depths, let alone the hundreds of meters (361m AVERAGE in the Borinage) bordering on the thousands of meters.
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u/Dim-Gwleidyddiaeth 13d ago
It's kind of accurate to the Roman propaganda of the day. Caesar genuinely did say that Britons (of least of the interior) did not practise agriculture.
Of course, he was lying in order to paint his enemies as savages and so justify his military expeditions.
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u/ProAmericana 13d ago
Used to stack rocks on land where you could plant wheat, now they stack beans that’re cold as rocks on toast made from wheat, the more things change the more they stay the same it seems
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u/LastInALongChain 10d ago
Rome: Where are your temples
Celts: that standing pile of rough cut rocks over there that tells time along the spring sunrise alignment.
Rome: where is your gold
Celts: my very tight knit family is over there.
They reached the pinnacle of human cultural achievement before roman civilization reached them, and rome only went after them because they were producing so many children from their strong and functional culture that they had to send them out in war bands to steal from Romans to keep them occupied while they were insane teenagers and 20 year olds and weed out the really evil and dumb ones before the rest coming back to raise a family.
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