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Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 1:54 pm
by Jorge
E.H. Ruddock wrote:This trend on social media is getting pretty annoying
It was already pretty annoying by the time Spike started the thread but now it's reached the saturation point where my aunts and uncles are posting about it
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:20 pm
by Bammer
Jorge wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:This trend on social media is getting pretty annoying
It was already pretty annoying by the time Spike started the thread but now it's reached the saturation point where my aunts and uncles are posting about it
Somehow I remain blissfully unaware of this and just thought spike had a weird thread idea
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:22 pm
by BurtReynolds
Don't be a meme hipster. It's ok for the normies to enjoy as well.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:24 pm
by tree_
i also do not know anything about this being any kind of trend in any way whatsoever anyway no how way any way no how way
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:26 pm
by Bammer
It just hadn’t crossed my digital path. Until now.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:34 pm
by Anders
It’s big on tiktok. Quite sure it started there.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:38 pm
by tree_
Anders wrote:It’s big on tiktok. Quite sure it started there.
That's odd. Ticktock trends are usually awesome.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:41 pm
by BurtReynolds
They think this is overplayed, but they'll go watch Barbie?! Figures.
- Spoiler: show

Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 2:53 pm
by Chris_H_2
i knew it had to be something when, on the same day that spike posted this, the onion published something on it.
i'm more disappointed that spike just co-opted the idea and passed it off as his own.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 3:34 pm
by spike
Chris_H_2 wrote:i knew it had to be something when, on the same day that spike posted this, the onion published something on it.
i'm more disappointed that spike just co-opted the idea and passed it off as his own.
This was not my intent. I figured most of you would know about it, but I guess I’m just more hip to the scene than the average RMer. *struts*
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 3:42 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
spike wrote:Chris_H_2 wrote:i knew it had to be something when, on the same day that spike posted this, the onion published something on it.
i'm more disappointed that spike just co-opted the idea and passed it off as his own.
This was not my intent. I figured most of you would know about it, but I guess I’m just more hip to the scene than the average RMer. *struts*

Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 3:50 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:07 pm
by spike
If you’re walking around a city (with the exception of some of those goofy cow trail cities out east), you’re thinking about The Roman Empire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:08 pm
by tree_
That's like saying if you're living life you're thinking about the ocean.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:12 pm
by spike
tree_ wrote:That's like saying if you're thinking about life you're thinking about the ocean.

Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:27 pm
by Chris_H_2
spike wrote:tree_ wrote:That's like saying if you're thinking about life you're thinking about the ocean.

hahaha
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:33 pm
by tree_
That guy definitely thinks about the ocean at least 5 times a day. I assume this because he writes so many lyrics about the ocean. In how many songs do you think he mentions the ocean at least one time? Comment below with your guesses. Don't forget to smash hard that like button and subscribe for more content like this.
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:53 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
tree_ wrote:That guy definitely thinks about the ocean at least 5 times a day. I assume this because he writes so many lyrics about the ocean. In how many songs do you think he mentions the ocean at least one time? Comment below with your guesses. Don't forget to smash hard that like button and subscribe for more content like this.
Thanks for explaining the joke, chud
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 4:57 pm
by tree_
yeahhhh buddy
Re: How often do you think about The Roman Empire?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2023 6:41 pm
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Don't be a meme hipster. It's ok for the normies to enjoy as well.
This is perhaps the biggest issue with the jorge account
That is definitely not the biggest issue