• Guy Dudeman
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    I just love that modern archaeologists are literally digging through ancient human excrement to learn about how we used to be.

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      And I love that they find funny ways in which we’ve always been human, like the penis graffiti in Pompeii.

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        Ancient graffiti is literally some of the funniest shit in all of recorded history.

        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.

        Lesbianus, you defecate and you write, ‘Hello, everyone!’

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

        Aufidius was here. Goodbye

        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.

        We have pissed in our beds. Host, I admit that we shouldn’t have done this. If you ask: Why? There was no potty

        Chie, I hope your haemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before

        O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in rui

        No matter when or where, we’re all the same dumb fucks deep down writing on the walls of the toilets.

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          You missed my personal favorite: a viking burial mound on whose walls, some seven or eight feet up, is written, “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up.”

          Viking men averaged out at 5’7" (173cm), so he must have been lifted by someone.

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            Ancient graffiti is glorious.

            Almost as endearing as ancient pet mausoleums.

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      Archeologists dig through ancient poop to study parasite loads of past populations.

      All data is valuable to someone’s specialization!

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      Roman latrines are a great source for information on what Romans were eating and how their health was, how does one even get in that field?

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      We use it to fuel our power grids too! At a certain point everything just becomes biomass 😅

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    This I guess would be like that scene in HBO Rome, where Servilla curses Caesar. She etched his image on a tin sheet like this, cursed it, scratched it, poured blood and other stuff on it, then rolls it up. Pretty cool to find out the show was pretty accurate in their representation

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    In diesem Häusl wohnt ein Geist,

    der jedem, der zu lange scheißt,

    von hinten in die Eier beißt.

    or

    Upon this john a ghost resides

    maliciously his time he bides -

    if too much time you take here shittin’

    then from behind your balls get bitten.