Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?

• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And spears and slingshot bullets and arrows and armor and...

  https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/messages-on-missiles-to-sling/amp/

  Among other things, Greek bullets found inscriptions like “Got you!” or “Ouch!” In turn, during the war of Rome with allies (90-88 BC), engravings were found on the missiles: “For Pompey’s Backside!” (it is about the famous father Pompey the Great – Pompey Strabon’s Gnaeus) or “Take that!”.

  source

  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    War. War never changes.

    source