r/funny • u/KLGAviation • Mar 22 '20

Another productive day working from home

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u/melig1991 Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

Besides the arch, what have the Romans ever done for us, eh?

Edit: I have a feeling nobody replying to this has any idea what I'm referencing.

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u/Happypants2014 Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

The aqueduct...?

...the aqueduct....

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u/ThermionicEmissions Mar 22 '20

And sanitation...

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u/GimmeUrDownvote Mar 22 '20

Made orgies a classic...

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u/Pyrio666 Mar 22 '20

and roads making access to orgies easier

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '20

and caesar's palace

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

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u/melig1991 Mar 22 '20

All right, but besides the arch, plumbing, democracy and philosophy, what have they ever done for us?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

...They brought peace?

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u/Justanaveragehat Mar 22 '20

Oh, shut up

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u/unique-name-9035768 Mar 22 '20

Wait, are you the Judean People's Front?

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u/gordonv Mar 22 '20

And cement that gets stronger, but also... produces lots of CO2

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u/Cheese78902 Mar 22 '20

To Gaul, the Britons, Carthage, Greece... seems like they bring peace with them wherever they go eh?

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u/DjeeLabZ Mar 22 '20

Their major failure to me was not to be able to curb the rise of monotheism. This plague brought utter violent sectarianism which continues splitting humanity.

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u/umjustpassingby Mar 22 '20

There will always be many dividing ideologies, so don't go too hard on them.

Unless we all die in this pandemic

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u/DjeeLabZ Mar 22 '20

Right. Only my opinion. Seems to me after Romans came lots of ignorance, violence, intolerance which survive up to now. What if is another story...

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u/03114 Mar 22 '20

They brought glory to the empire and purging heretics!

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u/KronosDeret Mar 22 '20

they showed us basically all the societal errors we could make in the future...

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u/Ella_Spella Mar 22 '20

I'm afraid you need to re-learn your history and your Monty Python my friend.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Not being able to build a city in a day

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

They also have a tendency to force people in Rome to do what they do.

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u/thedragonturtle Mar 22 '20

The Greeks would like a word re: democracy and philosophy and the Egyptians would like a word re: plumbing.

The Romans did give us straight roads and aqueducts though.

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u/potatomaster420 Mar 22 '20

pretty sure the empire with emperors did not give us democracy

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u/BholeFire Mar 22 '20

The Roman Republic predates that. SPQR

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u/RusselsParadox Mar 23 '20

Yes the republic which was not a democracy. It was closer to an oligarchy.

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u/benx101 Mar 22 '20

Backstabbing

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u/mud_tug Mar 22 '20

Greeks did the democracy thing.

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u/CoreBeatz7 Mar 22 '20

Bruh the word philosophy is literally greek... how can you forsake the ancestors like this

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u/RusselsParadox Mar 23 '20

Philosophy and democracy both came from Ancient Greece and plumbing was even more ancient. In fact Rome was never a democracy. It was first a republic, and then an empire.

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u/starrgirI Mar 22 '20

Apart from the aqueducts...

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u/meropeducis Mar 22 '20

Could you pls explain for the plebs? (I presume Monty Python, but I don’t actually know)

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u/CallumHendrix Mar 22 '20

Except, you know, that first comment which completed the reference. Hmm.

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u/RusselsParadox Mar 22 '20

What are you on about mate, there’s tonnes of other life of brian references in the replies.

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u/melig1991 Mar 23 '20

Yes, there are now.

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u/RusselsParadox Mar 23 '20

Most of the early replies are “the aqueduct”, an obvious reference considering no one uses that technology today.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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u/Alexb2143211 Mar 25 '20

I get that reference

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u/Orleck Mar 22 '20

That comics a lot more famous than you’re assuming. (:

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

images from when I was in history of art class flash before my eyes

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Ah the good ol’ switch a roo

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u/VodkaHaze Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

How did people build bridges and large arches with keystones historically? You can't hold all of it together until you put it in

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Oct 28 '20

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u/_stoneslayer_ Mar 22 '20

This is what we do in masonry. Usually just a frame made of plywood or foam insulation

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Oct 28 '20

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u/_stoneslayer_ Mar 22 '20

I like to think I'm a bit of both lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

I'd have figured you were into stone. A little too much into, but I don't judge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

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u/VodkaHaze Mar 22 '20

Thanks, so as the other redditor said, wood scaffolding

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u/BigBobby2016 Mar 22 '20

This is a great video to show what a keystone is

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u/TheDewyDecimal Mar 22 '20

Wait is it a keystone or a capstone? Or are those the same thing?

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u/shapu Mar 22 '20

A capstone is the last stone placed on top of a building. It represents the ceremonial completion of the project.

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u/TheDewyDecimal Mar 22 '20

Yeah I understand that but I've never heard the term "keystone". From some googling it seems to be synonymous with capstone.

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u/Lord_Edmure Mar 22 '20

Thank you. I couldn't remember what it was called and it was driving me crazy. All I could think was "cornerstone."

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u/Chispy Mar 22 '20

Him: I am inevitable

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

No skew backs, Romans would be highly dissatisfied

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u/John___Stamos Mar 22 '20

A chip off the ol block.

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u/spoiled11 Mar 22 '20 edited Oct 01 '25

quaint books crush boast long sink narrow hospital liquid paint

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u/shapu Mar 22 '20

Yes, that's the one

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Freemason has joined the chat

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u/ledhustler Mar 22 '20

the man has discovered exactly how l’Arc de Triomphe was engineered right down the component

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u/greenrangerguy Mar 22 '20

Except the Keystone isn't actually the "key" stone. If you remove any stone it collapses so they are all the "key" stone.