I remember people saying that libraries in the US canāt ban people watching porn on the library computers because freedom of speech or something and that homeless people deserve to watch porn too. I want to believe they were yanking my chain but it just sounds very American hah
If youāre homeless in a Republican state, jerking off in the library, you get a free bus ride to a democrat state. Then everyone from the Republican state criticizes the state you were sent to for allowing homeless people to jerk off in the library.
Youāre thinking of public transit. Theyāre talking about privately owned long haul buses (Greyhound) which are definitely still a thing, and Republicans have absolutely loaded them up with homeless people to ship them off to another state.
Which is fair, but the aforementioned Republicans donāt use public transportation. They use taxpayer dollars to charter busses or planes to get undesirables out of their state.
My classical studies minor (and Dan Carlinās Hardcore History podcast) make me want to say:
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
(The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)
Which, Tacticus wrote. Cicero lived during the fall of rome
I think he wouldāve said āO tempora, o mores!ā (Oh the times! Oh the customs!ā¦ ish) that lament he used often when describing the stateās decline.
I love this meme on every level. Iām going back to my corner
*he fall of the Republic. The Imperial era (Principate + Dominate, if you distinguish) in the west lasted another five centuries and its successors took a while to fully fragment. The eastern empire is a whole different chapter.
My own amateur attempts at understanding sources (and Bret Devereauxās blog) make me want to point out that Romeās decline wasnt such a clearly defined moment as the ascent of Caesar.
Tacitus was another century and change later. He will have grown up in the tail end of Neroās reign end, witnessed the Year of Four Emperors and spent most of his early adulthood during the reign of Domitian, whose authoritarian style further curtailed the Senateās powers.
Before that background, itās not hard to see why heād believe the fall of Rome to be imminent, depending on when exactly he wrote that sentiment. I donāt know what itās from (but maybe someone else here does?), but Iāll place it shortly after the end of Domitianās reign, about 100AD.
By the assassination of Domitian, Tacitus was 40. The city had (supposedly) been founded ~850 years ago, the Republic had been formed ~600 years ago, survived for ~450 years, and the Imperial era was ~150 years old. It would go on for another ~380 years. If we calculate from the legendary founding 753 BC to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD, Rome lasted just about 1200 years.
He obviously couldnāt have predicted any of that, but writers predicting the impending doom is such a common phenomenon, you could make a drinking game out of it: Go through the list of famous Roman authors and drink every time you find one bemoaning how far theyāve fallen from the glorious past. For the sake of your liver, you probably should limit it to Rome, because that trend is still going strong.
is sex even that common libraries, its mostly homeless people, and only one instance a patron was āresearchingā on PH on thier public computers like 10 years ago, he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.
Europe Pub (PieFed)
Literally 1984.
Pussy eating only !!!
Great, what is the point of having a library then???
itās a good place to put spices?
Every sign has a story
It does indeed š
I remember people saying that libraries in the US canāt ban people watching porn on the library computers because freedom of speech or something and that homeless people deserve to watch porn too. I want to believe they were yanking my chain but it just sounds very American hah
Theyāre yanking more than just a chain.
What else? Are they yanking the levers at the chain-making factory?
They should add a little beaded curtain that gives access to PCs that are designated crank stations.
lol
Someone needs to be hired to wash āem in between uses (could stink up the whole library)
The crank stations? Or their users?
If youāre homeless in a Republican state, jerking off in the library, you get a free bus ride to a democrat state. Then everyone from the Republican state criticizes the state you were sent to for allowing homeless people to jerk off in the library.
The only reason this is easily verified to be false, is that the word ābusā was included in a statement regarding the USA
Youāre thinking of public transit. Theyāre talking about privately owned long haul buses (Greyhound) which are definitely still a thing, and Republicans have absolutely loaded them up with homeless people to ship them off to another state.
greyhounds exist
No, itās actually quite easy to verify.
They are joking about the poor state of public transit in the US
Which is fair, but the aforementioned Republicans donāt use public transportation. They use taxpayer dollars to charter busses or planes to get undesirables out of their state.
especially when the origin state is red
Also free, we can charge them somehow maybe
slaveryindentured servitude?i want to disagree with you but iāve worked in homelessness before.
My classical studies minor (and Dan Carlinās Hardcore History podcast) make me want to say:
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
(The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)
Which, Tacticus wrote. Cicero lived during the fall of rome
I think he wouldāve said āO tempora, o mores!ā (Oh the times! Oh the customs!ā¦ ish) that lament he used often when describing the stateās decline.
I love this meme on every level. Iām going back to my corner
Fuck you for triggering that hell of a trauma Latin cause me.
Consider me fucked
*he fall of the Republic. The Imperial era (Principate + Dominate, if you distinguish) in the west lasted another five centuries and its successors took a while to fully fragment. The eastern empire is a whole different chapter.
My own amateur attempts at understanding sources (and Bret Devereauxās blog) make me want to point out that Romeās decline wasnt such a clearly defined moment as the ascent of Caesar.
Tacitus was another century and change later. He will have grown up in the tail end of Neroās reign end, witnessed the Year of Four Emperors and spent most of his early adulthood during the reign of Domitian, whose authoritarian style further curtailed the Senateās powers.
Before that background, itās not hard to see why heād believe the fall of Rome to be imminent, depending on when exactly he wrote that sentiment. I donāt know what itās from (but maybe someone else here does?), but Iāll place it shortly after the end of Domitianās reign, about 100AD.
By the assassination of Domitian, Tacitus was 40. The city had (supposedly) been founded ~850 years ago, the Republic had been formed ~600 years ago, survived for ~450 years, and the Imperial era was ~150 years old. It would go on for another ~380 years. If we calculate from the legendary founding 753 BC to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD, Rome lasted just about 1200 years.
He obviously couldnāt have predicted any of that, but writers predicting the impending doom is such a common phenomenon, you could make a drinking game out of it: Go through the list of famous Roman authors and drink every time you find one bemoaning how far theyāve fallen from the glorious past. For the sake of your liver, you probably should limit it to Rome, because that trend is still going strong.
Disappointing.
I would expect a sign in a library to say, āNo fellatio in the library.ā
What if dick sucks me?
I thought it said duck sicking.
Too much bread.
They could have just said āDo not feed the ducks.ā
no sounding in the library. thought that was implied with the āshut your gob you titā rule
I mean to be fair their used to be a lot of cam girls/porn made in the library. Not sure if it is still a thing.
I need to read more
Kendra Sunderland.
I copy pasted this comment from that post with the elephant sucking his own dick:
āJokeās on you. That looks like a lot of funā
Why do we even have libraries than?!
So, no libraries for Trump, I guess?
Its so joever š
This is fucking communism.
Stupid rules exist because of stupid people.
Donāt fuck in the stacks is pretty standard really. People still do it but its annoying mostly
Cicero lived in the Roman Republic
Iām beginning to think memes arenāt real?
He also didnāt speak English IIRC.
Sounds donāt fossilise so we canāt be sure
is sex even that common libraries, its mostly homeless people, and only one instance a patron was āresearchingā on PH on thier public computers like 10 years ago, he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.
Somewhere a professor is getting an APA citation thatās like
I think this is quite a sensible rule that is just not stated explicitly very often
Unless itās after hours. Thatās when they start shooting porn.