• Dragon
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    755 minutes ago

    I visited a 17,000 year old cave painting site in France, and the whole walk into the cave there are modern day graffiti signatures like “Bob, 1992” etc. but then you start to notice that the years go back further and further…1827…1761…1597. Then you get to the old cave art and it kind of feels like a continuation of the same shit, just some people leaving their scribbles on a rock like they have been probably since they discovered how to do it.

  • @[email protected]
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    153 hours ago

    I had a book of graffiti, one of them was described as an arrow written up a wall next to a urinal up to the ceiling where a message read “by the time you’ve read this message, you have pissed on your shoes.”

  • tiredofsametab
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    365 hours ago

    I would unironically watch something called ‘Ancient Shitposting’ that focused on old graffiti and pisstakes. It would still be more relevant to history than most of what is on channels with History in the name these days.

    • @FooBarrington
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      I want a spinoff focusing on animals fucking with humans in ancient times, like paw prints in bricks or on documents. Must be a treasure trove of hilarious antics throughout the times

      • tiredofsametab
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        220 minutes ago

        I know a number of Roman and medieval European tiles have been found. I’m sure there’s more around the world because cats gonna cat.

  • @Dasus
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    84 hours ago

    Probably not “Marcus is gay” since they didn’t have a similar idea of sexuality, it being more or less a free-for-all.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      213 hours ago

      Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

      Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

      Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

      I have buggered men

      Secundus likes to screw boys.

      If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.

      The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

      • @Agent641
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        355 minutes ago

        Yo Imma need Attice’s digits, and a bag of sestertii

  • @[email protected]
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    949 hours ago

    I liked the story about the “very high” runes and so I found a source. Apparently, the writing was “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up”.

      • @samus12345
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        87 hours ago

        Best use of a time machine ever, carve that in ancient Norse runes for future people to find.

        • @FooBarrington
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          34 hours ago

          Nah, go further back and carve next to all kinds of fossils the word “dog”

          • @samus12345
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            14 hours ago

            Finally, we’ll know where the word came from!

        • Robust Mirror
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          45 hours ago

          Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they’re referencing the runes.

          • @samus12345
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            24 hours ago

            “Nooo, we were trying to spread the meme, not destroy it!”

  • @portuga
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    137 hours ago

    People think humanity is so much more evolved now but it has been actually the same shit from thousands ago or whenever recorded history goes back.

    Also: portuga was here

    • tiredofsametab
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      Always has been. This is where the whole “Dark Ages” idea comes from, IIRC: people further on in time wanting to separate themselves as special and more advanced.

      • @portuga
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        64 hours ago

        We’ve evolved technologically, not psychologically

    • @hate2bme
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      389 hours ago

      Too bad it would never happen on the history channel, it involves history.

      • @marcos
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        78 hours ago

        They can always claim it’s aliens. And then translate it all, with the people’s names, and keep claiming it’s aliens.

  • @Warl0k3
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    429 hours ago

    There’s a pyramid with hieroglyphics carved onto the side that roughly translate to “This End Up”

  • Zloubida
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    58 hours ago

    Vikings (and Varangians) loved write silly things everywhere.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    04 hours ago

    Yep, same graffiti means people haven’t changed at all. It’s so obvious!

  • @[email protected]
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    28 hours ago

    Those who forget the past, are condemed to repeat it.

    Let’s just forget everything, ok?