• Aielman15@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Expectations: “You have 30 seconds to explain why Germans still exist”

    Reality: “What the fuck is pasta?”

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      Reality: “What the fuck is pasta?”

      “You’ve invented MORE forms of bread? Human ingenuity never ceases to impress!”

      One of my favorite tidbits about Ancient Rome is that they maintained a little mud hut in the middle of the Eternal City exactly as it (supposedly) was from the earliest days of Rome. Romulus’s personal residence. Maintained as a squalid little thing as a reminder of just how far human technique had progressed since the days that a little mud hut was the residence of a Roman king.