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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Randler posted:

Yeah, America totally adopted the customs of the various Native Indian cultures they conquered and exterminated. :rolleyes:

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MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

Berke Negri posted:

Romans didn't adopt the Greek gods

uhhhhh

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret
How would the Romans have felt about the gentle and misunderstood lowland gorilla Harambe?

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

disjoe posted:

Without Christianity there is a real, non-zero possibility we would all be worshipping a sun god right now.

What a missed opportunity.

no we'd just be worshipping some other eastern cult adopted by a different rich roman

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Randler posted:

Yeah, America totally adopted the customs of the various Native Indian cultures they conquered and exterminated. :rolleyes:

we love holding them up as proud and noble people, now that we have nearly killed them all

Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe

corn in the bible posted:

that depends on what you mean by tomahawk but it's not an entirely untrue statement


pipe tomahawks are cool as gently caress and they definitely don't predate european contact

all axes are cool, friend. that being said the dude who thought his axe was really cool but maybe he could smoke it? genius.

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

pangstrom posted:

How would the Romans have felt about the gentle and misunderstood lowland gorilla Harambe?

They would've thrown a Christian child into the ring and killed it afterwards too.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?

pangstrom posted:

How would the Romans have felt about the gentle and misunderstood lowland gorilla Harambe?
Harambe would have been in a gladiator fight or smth

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!
"this sucks", says Flavius Iulius as he puts on sasanian afternoon wear and grooms his celtic mustache. "i loving hate this. this is lame af"

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

pangstrom posted:

How would the Romans have felt about the gentle and misunderstood lowland gorilla Harambe?

well the Phoenicians made it to west Africa and thought gorillas were hairy savage cavemen

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret

disjoe posted:

Without Christianity there is a real, non-zero possibility we would all be worshipping a sun god right now.

What a missed opportunity.
Sounds like this would unbalance a lot of video games, for example salamando would be OP in The Secret of Mana. Not a great situation if you ask me.

disjoe
Feb 18, 2011


Luigi Thirty posted:

no we'd just be worshipping some other eastern cult adopted by a different rich roman

What do you think the cult of Sol Invictus was

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

Randler posted:

Yeah, America totally adopted the customs of the various Native Indian cultures they conquered and exterminated. :rolleyes:

the american constitution was p influenced by the iroquois confederacy constitution

Disinterested
Jun 29, 2011

You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

Rollofthedice posted:

"this sucks", says Flavius Iulius as he puts on sasanian afternoon wear and grooms his celtic mustache. "i loving hate this. this is lame af"

They liked to complain about it way more if it was something women did or liked

the original whining about the trade deficit is romans whining about what it costs the roman empire to buy chinese silk for women

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

disjoe posted:

What do you think the cult of Sol Invictus was

elagabalus did nothing wrong

Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe
ugh, the price of fish sauce these days. it's those drat women and their Chinese silk I tell you

visceril
Feb 24, 2008
The original TEA Party was Judah

Twerkteam Pizza
Sep 26, 2015

Grimey Drawer
Dustin is my favorite character on this show

Also all the synth music is nice

Disinterested
Jun 29, 2011

You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

visceril posted:

And there's the kernel of truth to some weird wrong meme

?

Mecca-Benghazi
Mar 31, 2012


as a child, the excuse that people wanted to buy asian things so much that they would sail across the ocean for them never really made sense to me. like, don't you have your own spices???

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Aeryk posted:

ugh, the price of fish sauce these days. it's those drat women and their Chinese silk I tell you

loving liberals, back in my day we ate cabbage for every meal like the founders intended :catosay:

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

as a child, the excuse that people wanted to buy asian things so much that they would sail across the ocean for them never really made sense to me. like, don't you have your own spices???

As a child when they said "spices" I thought they meant the stuff on tortilla chips.

Turns out that was just salt.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


highlight of the day imo

Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

as a child, the excuse that people wanted to buy asian things so much that they would sail across the ocean for them never really made sense to me. like, don't you have your own spices???

spices native to Europe are pretty dire.

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

Disinterested posted:

They liked to complain about it way more if it was something women did or liked

the original whining about the trade deficit is romans whining about what it costs the roman empire to buy chinese silk for women

yeah romans were super misogynist

though they lost to some greek city states at the Ancient Misogyny Olympics

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!
ironically pronounced as "amo"

Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe
here's list of native European 'spices'

Bear’s garlic (ramson) (Allium ursinum)
• Blue Fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea)
• Borage (Borago officinalis)
• Caraway (Carum carvi)
• Celery (Apium graveolens)
• Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
• Cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
• Gale (Myrica gale)
• Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
• Juniper (Juniperus communis)
• Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
• Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)
• Water cress (Nasturtium officinale)

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
as far as seasoning goes, europe basically has salt and this plant that also acted as an abortifacient that got driven to extinction for obvious reasons

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


they didn't adopt

they chose to ADAPT

Disinterested
Jun 29, 2011

You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

Rollofthedice posted:

yeah romans were super misogynist

though they lost to some greek city states at the Ancient Misogyny Olympics

there's research recently that shows roman women were better than some had previously thought and that a lot of the whining is more of a response to that than we've maybe realised

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

Rollofthedice posted:

the romans adopted a lot of foreign things, esp. if they could simultaneously describe it as backward, barbarian, and in the words of one ancient roman patrician, "totally gay"

This British historian seems to disagree. Actually it is woman who hold all the power during old times!

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
yeah id sail around the cape of good hope on a rickety wooden ship too if the alternative was borage

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

paranoid randroid posted:

as far as seasoning goes, europe basically has salt and this plant that also acted as an abortifacient that got driven to extinction for obvious reasons

and vinegar

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

paranoid randroid posted:

as far as politics goes, europe basically has salt

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU
The Maidan documentary is pretty good

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

Aeryk posted:

here's list of native European 'spices'

Bear’s garlic (ramson) (Allium ursinum)
• Blue Fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea)
• Borage (Borago officinalis)
• Caraway (Carum carvi)
• Celery (Apium graveolens)
• Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
• Cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
• Gale (Myrica gale)
• Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
• Juniper (Juniperus communis)
• Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
• Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)
• Water cress (Nasturtium officinale)

caraway and chives are pretty pro tbh

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
It feels kinda weird to group salt with the other spices.

Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe
mmmm mugwort bread again

Chelb
Oct 24, 2010

I'm gonna show SA-kun my shitposting!

Disinterested posted:

there's research recently that shows roman women were better than some had previously thought and that a lot of the whining is more of a response to that than we've maybe realised

that's very interesting!

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Aeryk
Aug 31, 2006

Ah. It must have been when I was younger.
Fun Shoe
if you grew up with that selection, you'd murder for ginger too

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