How is Rome more jock than nerd??? All the fucking technology? Even their army was run by nerds with every various level of organisation having specific supply chain, materiel requirements, supporting staff requirements all spelled out before hand down to the dinarius.
... new compass just dropped...?
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Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Rome: “People who are too thinky are suspect. The disabled are morally impaired. Abstract ideas are for dweebs. Philosophers OUT of the city of Rome! Be tall or be ignored tbh. Provincialism/anti-provincialism (GO HOMETOWN). Real men have scars. Sports riots.”
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah I might have been mixing “preppy” with “nerd”. I can see it, super organised and aesthetic but not really nerdy and thinky.
Endmaker@ani.social 4 weeks ago
What is a “prep”?
PugJesus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Snooty, upper-class types.
Erusset@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Watch an 80s or 90s comedy movie
Hegar@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
Meh Sparta were always preppies pretending to be jocks. I have more servants than anyone and still need daddy persia to defeat athens 🧐😭
I would also quibble about mycenae and the hittites’ placement.
The frequent association of myceneans with piracy and raiding seems more jock than nerd to me.
And the hittites often erupted into disruptive bouts of sibling-killing without the adequate succession planning a nerd would have. That’s jock and goth. Plus they literally cursed the city they then made their capital. That’s way goth.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’m a little sad the Goths aren’t on here
PugJesus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Top-right, pure goth-jock.
Gudeliva will crush your skull in a wrestling match and then use your blood for eyeliner.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can’t way to talk to someone and they mention Egypt.
internal monologue : Ahh yes… The goth nerds…