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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 36 points 3 months ago

imagine explaining this irreparably convoluted joke to an ancient greek philosopher

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 23 points 3 months ago

This post would instantly kill a medieval peasant

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I think they'd get it after a little supplementary media. I don't know how much they would approve of, but they would get it.

The opposite would be true for soldiers of the time. They would approve but they probably wouldn't get it.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 months ago

i think plenty of greek soldiers were actually well educated iirc

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just don't imagine a dude who spent 20 years thrusting spears near the mediterranean as very adaptable or imaginative. They'd spend the first week in the future in shock.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 3 months ago

Only if they couldn't find somewhere to thrust their spear 😏

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 months ago

like you wouldn’t spend your first week in the past the same way ;)

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I'm in 2025 and yeah theres definitely some long term shock, crippling fear of the world.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hey

They didn't just thrust spears

They also thrust their "spears" into their battle-brothers

Greek soldiers were SUPER GAY.

What I'm saying is -- If a lost hoplite ever found themselves in the 21st century, alllllll you'd need to do. Is point them to the nearest gym. They'd bond with the local queer gymbros and IMMEDIATELY feel right at home.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

tbh I feel like Greek philosophers would be surprisingly chill about someone being called drag.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

One of them is only known to history by his literal wrestler alias, because he was a wrestler before he became a philosopher.

Greek philosophers would be more perturbed by the fact that we don't have slavery (/DO have automaton slaves for a lot of jobs but DON'T spend 99% of the day fucking around, and instead just keep producing more and more useless shit) than anything related to our jokes and memes.

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