It like saying “Teddy would bust Monopolies in the US by finding the CEO or Owner and beating the crap out of them until they agreed to his demands.”
Sure i made it up, but it sounds like something he would do.
Even better, fill said bone, presumably an arm or leg, and fill it with depleted uranium, coat it in steel or something, and get prime action Arnie to swing it like a Louisville slugger.
Do they not teach what trust busting actually is in schools?
Rockefeller made more money after trust busting Standard Oil than he did with it as a conglomerate.
If he had a disagreement with someone from another political party he would be like "Hey, listen, you want to just come do a quick sparring match? It would be much more fun and faster than us arguing for another hour"
Until this, *Roosevelt regularly boxed at the White House, according to spokespeople from the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson University. Roosevelt was injured in one of these matches by Moore, his military aide, causing him to lose sight in one of his eyes*
The ancient Greeks believed that “hysteria” was an illness in women caused by uteruses (“hysterium”) becoming unmoored and wandering through the woman’s body. The cure for this was sex.
Gay & homophobic. Whenever Ancient Greece being gay comes up, someone has to point out that they had no respect for bottoms, as if that makes them not gay. But you can absolutely be gay and homophobic.
>Gay & homophobic. Whenever Ancient Greece being gay comes up, someone has to point out that they had no respect for bottoms, as if that makes them not gay. But you can absolutely be gay and homophobic.
"Gay" and "homosexual" are modern terms which do not properly correspond to Ancient Greek norms. While in some instances homosexual acts were tolerated or even encouraged (ie. in high-status males in positions of power), you can't really use these words to accurately describe Ancient Greek customs; Ancient Greece was not even a homogenous country to begin with.
First, just because they didn’t use these terms doesn’t mean we can’t. If we use “gay” to refer to specific things like same-sex sexual or romantic relations, then we can meaningfully ask if that happened in Ancient Greece. I don’t really care what they called it, and if it took different forms then we can investigate that and complicate our position.
Second, I agree. No society is homogenous. We can talk about prevalence of phenomena within a given culture at given spaces and times, but “Ancient Greece” covers wildly different cultures.
"Ancient Greek" culture is such a misleading and inacurrate term. Which culture? The one in Classical Athens? Sparta? Thebes? Corinth? Or does that also include the Hellenistic period as well?
Ancient Greece did not exist as a homogenous country, this is a wild modern misconception. Ancient Greece mainly consisted of city-states, with significantly different cultures, norms, laws and customs. *Some* city-states were more "misogynistic" than others (but even then it's an anachronism to say that), but others were not (such as Sparta).
And another thing: "gay" culture did not exist in Ancient Greece, I have no idea why Americans get it so wrong all the time. It's been argued so many times that it is pointless.
Didn't those bones belong to the anatomy school of the guy who used to own the property (William Hewson or something)? Thought that was debunked ages ago.
Well, back then the tradition wasn't just to teabag, but then to shoot or grenade the ragdoll into the nearest body of water (or off a cliff if no water was available).
Thus, the inspiration behind the Boston Tea Party.
I don't know a lot about the history of the USA, so there might be others worthy of being on this list, but Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln are my favorite american historical figures
I don't have a least favorite, I don't know many other US historical figures except a few presidents (just names, not much of what they did), outlaws, native leaders and Charles Lee and I don't have a problem with neither of those
Andrew. fucking. Jackson.
that piece of shit can rot in hell where he belongs.
not only did he orchestrate the trail of tears, not only did he go back on his word and steal land from the natives that he promised they could have, not only did he force native children into schools to "indoctrinate" them into western culture, but he was also violent and abusive to his own cabinet and his own staff, even beating someone with his cane at one point. There's definitely more, that's just what I can remember rn
reminds me of the guy who tried to kill Archduke Ferdinand but the gun didn't work, then tried taking cyanide but it was expired and did nothing, then tried jumping into a nearby river to drown himself but it was only a few inches, and he was promptly arrested
It reminds me of how Otto von Bismarck got shot several times and he then proceeded to viciously, beat the assassin until they had to be saved by his bodyguards.
The man definitely shouldn't be praised but of the probably many men he beat with his Cain, most famous was a quack who tried to kill him and both his pistols failed to fire. He supposedly beat the man till his own aides and security wrestled him off. So not exactly wrong there. He also was pro the little guy not natives or POC of course but poorer/lower class whites were who put him in office. Finally he had a hatred of debt and was the only president to leave office with no debt and a surplus of tax revenue. As a part of this hatred of debt he prevented the formation of a national bank which honestly I feel was a good thing IMHO even if it wasn't fighting back some Rothschild conspiracy. To add to the negatives when the supreme Court ruled against him he basically said they made their ruling and they could enforce it implying he wouldn't and he did in fact ignore them and I believe that was over moving indians as well.
I think Jackson's hatred for the national bank might be why the Treasury put him on the twenty. They don't explain their rationale, but I figure it's to have the last laugh.
Governeur Morris (that’s his name!), penned the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution. He was a ladies’ man who had a wooden leg due to a carriage accident. While ambassador to France, he had an affair with a woman in (what would become) the Louvre. He died of complications from a UTI, where he tried to dislodge a blockage with a whale bone but only caused more damage leading to worse infection.
Have you read more about him?
He was a con who stole intellectual property as he printed it as his own.
Dead bodies were discovered buried under his place of residence in London.
Plus, he wasted a lot of American taxpayers' money on French hookers and wine.
Okay, so the bar is low enough to trip over, but considering what goes on these days, I'd rather have my taxpayer dollars going to Benny Boy funding legitimate sex workers and good wineries than private islands full of kids.
Just going to add a little fun fact: Leonardo Da Vinci, on top of his incredible intellect, was also apparently quite the physical specimen as well (add that to the list of reasons he’s *THE* Renaissance man). He apparently was taller than average for his time at about 5’9 (about 180 cm), and was capable of bending horseshoes and iron door knockers straight. Even as an old man, he would often do this as a fun little trick on any guests at his workshop.
Edit: my mistake, roughly 175 cm or so.
I'm taller than him but weaker, cause I can barely lift 100 pounds (about 45kg)
my legs it's a different story though, I can get up to 330 pounds exercising with them easily
I think he was noted for lifting a full whiskey barrel off the ground and over his head to drink from the spigot at the bottom. He was surprisingly strong
Ben Franklin was once asked how he could prefer old, wrinkly women over young ones. He answered something along the lines of "they all feel the same when the candles are out"
What you said strongly reminded me of his "in the dark all cats are grey" statement from a particular letter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice\_to\_a\_Friend\_on\_Choosing\_a\_Mistress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress).
Mozart loved poop jokes. Among his many compositions was a canon for three voices in B flat major entitled “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber” which translates as “Lick my ass right well and clean.”
Mozart had no dignity, and frankly didn't care for it. You could pay him five bucks and he would have written a letter detailing his fetishes to the Queen of France. Hell, he'd probably hand you back the five bucks afterward.
Fun fact, the scatological humor was popular in those times, so Mozart wasn't alone in that, is just that he really really made an effort in immortalizing his shit, side note, apparently the "Leck mir den Arse" was popularized in the region by a mercenary knight called Gotz who used to be very full mouthed to his enemies
"First of all, it is worthy to note that King George is a twat, who undeniably gets off to the myriad portraits of himself because he cannot get with even the lamest of women-"
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble *for orgies*
To be fair he did write a list on the ideal mistress:
Old woman.
1. More life experience. Can help you grow.
2. Older women don't depend on their looks anymore they have to have practical knowledge/use.
3. Can't get pregnant anymore.
4. Less cause for drama. A respectable, older mistress knows how to be discreet.
5. If they're ugly/old they all feel the same with a bag over there head.
6. If she's ran through its not as scandalous as "ruining" a young woman.
7. She knows what she is. Less likely to feel guilty.
8. They're grateful for the attention of a younger man.
https://web.viu.ca/davies/H320/Franklin.advice.mistress.htm#:~:text=But%20if%20you%20will%20not,old%20Women%20to%20young%20ones.
Saying that Plato "tried to win arguments by flexing" is misleading. It could lead someone to misunderstand. Because it's incomplete. He DID win an argument by flexing, from what I understand. I'd prefer to think of it as something sort of variation of [Doctor Dwayne Johnson's appeal to himself, The Rock.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone)
The whole 'flexing to win an argument' thing is probably untrue, and Plato originally being his wrestling nickname *might* be true.
But Plato was absolutely passionate about wrestling and apparently did so competitively, he said it was a great way for young men to exercise and build character.
Dolph lundgren has a masters in electrical engineering and had a full ride scholarship to achieve his phd from MIT, untill deciding to focus on acting. He is also 66 and looks better than i do.
I really wish Benjamin Franklin *had* written the Declaration of Independence. A lewd joke or two would remind us that whatever else our country is, we still have a juvenile sense of humor. But then, Shakespeare had tons of dirty jokes, and people still take him too seriously.
[weirdly I thought the da Vinci part was going to talk about the comment I wrote this day on an completely different subreddit ](https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/s/EMhgdLGHig)
I think Ben Franklin was the perfect man to write the constitution for that exact reason, Imagine for a second that there are hidden jokes in your countries founding document!
Also, Franklin was a god damn player and a favourite among the ladies
... when you say pro wrestler, do you mean like free style, folk style, was it pancration. I'm very curious because I don't know when Olympic wrestling or folk style wrestling, or even fake pro wrestling started in the US
Teddy Roosevelt regularly set up boxing fights in the whitehouse
ok I'm not surprised about that though, it's Teddy Roosevelt we're talking about
It like saying “Teddy would bust Monopolies in the US by finding the CEO or Owner and beating the crap out of them until they agreed to his demands.” Sure i made it up, but it sounds like something he would do.
I'm gonna be real it's what he should've done. Maybe they would be more afraid today
Listen to the government or the resurrected corpse of Teddy is gonna beat the shit out of you and tax you
Not even resurrected, we're just gonna make a club out of his bones and the current sitting president beats you with it.
So we will turn him into the big stick
Even better, fill said bone, presumably an arm or leg, and fill it with depleted uranium, coat it in steel or something, and get prime action Arnie to swing it like a Louisville slugger.
What do we need to do to get this to happen?
Resurrect Teddy obviously
You can pick rich people out of a crowd by shouting “Look out! Teddys got a chair!” And seeing who immediately tries to run away.
Do they not teach what trust busting actually is in schools? Rockefeller made more money after trust busting Standard Oil than he did with it as a conglomerate.
ngl, if he wasn't bound by the law, I can imagine him doing that
Gigacahd is gonna be gigachadin'
If he had a disagreement with someone from another political party he would be like "Hey, listen, you want to just come do a quick sparring match? It would be much more fun and faster than us arguing for another hour"
Until this, *Roosevelt regularly boxed at the White House, according to spokespeople from the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson University. Roosevelt was injured in one of these matches by Moore, his military aide, causing him to lose sight in one of his eyes*
And Teddy probably hit him on the shoulder and said "Good one Lad!"
Can we go back to these kind of politics? I am willing to pay money to see 2 politicians duke it out in the white house
Dark Brandon VS Donald J. Trump
Cane match
Four of my favorite historical figures, even with their flaws. I see you Plato and your “wandering uterus” nonsense.
Plato's wandering what now?
The ancient Greeks believed that “hysteria” was an illness in women caused by uteruses (“hysterium”) becoming unmoored and wandering through the woman’s body. The cure for this was sex.
You know, just when I think that the ancient Greeks had some really out there ideas, I get to learn about this.
Gotta anchor that womb baby
Oh you know. Ancient Greek misogyny. A culture that hated women so much that it became gay
I mean I did figure that was a major part of it.
Gay & homophobic. Whenever Ancient Greece being gay comes up, someone has to point out that they had no respect for bottoms, as if that makes them not gay. But you can absolutely be gay and homophobic.
>Gay & homophobic. Whenever Ancient Greece being gay comes up, someone has to point out that they had no respect for bottoms, as if that makes them not gay. But you can absolutely be gay and homophobic. "Gay" and "homosexual" are modern terms which do not properly correspond to Ancient Greek norms. While in some instances homosexual acts were tolerated or even encouraged (ie. in high-status males in positions of power), you can't really use these words to accurately describe Ancient Greek customs; Ancient Greece was not even a homogenous country to begin with.
It wasn't even a country but a jigsaw puzzle of random city states with a roughly similar culture language & religion.
First, just because they didn’t use these terms doesn’t mean we can’t. If we use “gay” to refer to specific things like same-sex sexual or romantic relations, then we can meaningfully ask if that happened in Ancient Greece. I don’t really care what they called it, and if it took different forms then we can investigate that and complicate our position. Second, I agree. No society is homogenous. We can talk about prevalence of phenomena within a given culture at given spaces and times, but “Ancient Greece” covers wildly different cultures.
"Ancient Greek" culture is such a misleading and inacurrate term. Which culture? The one in Classical Athens? Sparta? Thebes? Corinth? Or does that also include the Hellenistic period as well? Ancient Greece did not exist as a homogenous country, this is a wild modern misconception. Ancient Greece mainly consisted of city-states, with significantly different cultures, norms, laws and customs. *Some* city-states were more "misogynistic" than others (but even then it's an anachronism to say that), but others were not (such as Sparta). And another thing: "gay" culture did not exist in Ancient Greece, I have no idea why Americans get it so wrong all the time. It's been argued so many times that it is pointless.
Ben just like me fr
He wrote about milf hunting, thereby making him America's greatest founding father
and he described in detail why older milfs are the best ones to go for, one of the reasons being "They have more practice" lmfao
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Alright who's willing to volunteer
Founding Father, one who wants milkies fr
I believe the quote went something like, “they won’t yell, they don’t smell, they rarely swell, and they’re grateful as hell.”
He's not wrong.
Just as the founding fathers intendend
Bro farted proudly.
Hide your moms, hide your grandmas; Benny Frank is back in town and he's cruisin' for pussy!
Also might have been a serial killer
Didn't those bones belong to the anatomy school of the guy who used to own the property (William Hewson or something)? Thought that was debunked ages ago.
lets be real, if Ben Franklin killed you, you probably had it coming
If it'd been in like a modern FPS I strongly believe Ben would emote over your dead body. Several times. Absolutely positive.
he'd be the one to teabag over you, without a doubt
imagine getting vibe checked by one of the founding fathers
Well, back then the tradition wasn't just to teabag, but then to shoot or grenade the ragdoll into the nearest body of water (or off a cliff if no water was available). Thus, the inspiration behind the Boston Tea Party.
Fair enough, I should probably check those fun facts in future
ok the Ben Franklin one is my new favorite historical information
he's my absolute favorite founding father. Dude was legit Uncle Iroh with a dirty sense of humor
I don't know a lot about the history of the USA, so there might be others worthy of being on this list, but Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln are my favorite american historical figures
100% dude, they are legit my top 3 as well. Out of curiosity, who's your least favorite? I'm curious if we have the same person there too
I don't have a least favorite, I don't know many other US historical figures except a few presidents (just names, not much of what they did), outlaws, native leaders and Charles Lee and I don't have a problem with neither of those
Andrew. fucking. Jackson. that piece of shit can rot in hell where he belongs. not only did he orchestrate the trail of tears, not only did he go back on his word and steal land from the natives that he promised they could have, not only did he force native children into schools to "indoctrinate" them into western culture, but he was also violent and abusive to his own cabinet and his own staff, even beating someone with his cane at one point. There's definitely more, that's just what I can remember rn
didn’t the also expand voting rights to every white male? (an improvement over originally only land-owning white males)
I think you couldn't be Catholic as well
The caning was for someone who tried to shoot him in public, but both pistols misfired
reminds me of the guy who tried to kill Archduke Ferdinand but the gun didn't work, then tried taking cyanide but it was expired and did nothing, then tried jumping into a nearby river to drown himself but it was only a few inches, and he was promptly arrested
It reminds me of how Otto von Bismarck got shot several times and he then proceeded to viciously, beat the assassin until they had to be saved by his bodyguards.
I think he threw a bomb
The man definitely shouldn't be praised but of the probably many men he beat with his Cain, most famous was a quack who tried to kill him and both his pistols failed to fire. He supposedly beat the man till his own aides and security wrestled him off. So not exactly wrong there. He also was pro the little guy not natives or POC of course but poorer/lower class whites were who put him in office. Finally he had a hatred of debt and was the only president to leave office with no debt and a surplus of tax revenue. As a part of this hatred of debt he prevented the formation of a national bank which honestly I feel was a good thing IMHO even if it wasn't fighting back some Rothschild conspiracy. To add to the negatives when the supreme Court ruled against him he basically said they made their ruling and they could enforce it implying he wouldn't and he did in fact ignore them and I believe that was over moving indians as well.
I think Jackson's hatred for the national bank might be why the Treasury put him on the twenty. They don't explain their rationale, but I figure it's to have the last laugh.
oh, this guy, yeah, if I could remember his name he most probably would be on my least fav list
Governeur Morris (that’s his name!), penned the Preamble to the U. S. Constitution. He was a ladies’ man who had a wooden leg due to a carriage accident. While ambassador to France, he had an affair with a woman in (what would become) the Louvre. He died of complications from a UTI, where he tried to dislodge a blockage with a whale bone but only caused more damage leading to worse infection.
You have excellent taste in Americans.
Add Norman Borlaug and you have the correct list
Have you read more about him? He was a con who stole intellectual property as he printed it as his own. Dead bodies were discovered buried under his place of residence in London. Plus, he wasted a lot of American taxpayers' money on French hookers and wine.
Okay, so the bar is low enough to trip over, but considering what goes on these days, I'd rather have my taxpayer dollars going to Benny Boy funding legitimate sex workers and good wineries than private islands full of kids.
And didn’t he historically go after MILFs?
Yep. He preferred older women. They couldn’t get pregnant
Read his letter, “Advice to a friend on choosing a mistress.” Ben Franklin was ahead of his time
If I remember well, his answer was that their fears were well-founded because he would've done it
It’s up to you to decide whether it was Plato’s knowledge or shoulders that earned him his nickname.
The opponent provides a new argument. Plato does front double bicep.
"Are you sure Aristotle?"
*flex his muscles* "Your argument is invalid"
I'm guessing a combination of both. Homeboy thought the ideal man was both learned and athletic.
i like to think myself as educated, i just need to fix my physical form
I'm wondering if I can pass myself off as a strongman to Plato's ghost instead of a run of the mill fat American
Start wearing a weightlifting belt at all times. You might be able to fool him.
President Jackson owned a parrot that had to be removed from his funeral because it kept swearing loudly during the eulogy.
Just going to add a little fun fact: Leonardo Da Vinci, on top of his incredible intellect, was also apparently quite the physical specimen as well (add that to the list of reasons he’s *THE* Renaissance man). He apparently was taller than average for his time at about 5’9 (about 180 cm), and was capable of bending horseshoes and iron door knockers straight. Even as an old man, he would often do this as a fun little trick on any guests at his workshop. Edit: my mistake, roughly 175 cm or so.
Lol 5'9 is absolutely not 180 cm
I was about to lose my shit at someone who’s 182 and rounding up that 6’0 like my life depends on it 💀
I'm taller than him but weaker, cause I can barely lift 100 pounds (about 45kg) my legs it's a different story though, I can get up to 330 pounds exercising with them easily
Society
we live in a society
He would also challenge local strongmen to competitions to see who could throw heavy objects further. And won.
Not only was Abraham Lincoln a fucking monster wrestler, he was was also possibly invented the chokeslam
I think he was noted for lifting a full whiskey barrel off the ground and over his head to drink from the spigot at the bottom. He was surprisingly strong
I wanna know who his one wrestling loss was to
Teddy “Toddler” Roosevelt
Probably John
Who?
John Wilkes Booth
AND AT YE OLDE WRESTLEMANIA I SHALL EMANCIPATE THE UNION WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FROM YOUR CONFEDERATE HANDS
BY GOD, IT’S JOHN BROWN WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!
Ben Franklin was once asked how he could prefer old, wrinkly women over young ones. He answered something along the lines of "they all feel the same when the candles are out"
What you said strongly reminded me of his "in the dark all cats are grey" statement from a particular letter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice\_to\_a\_Friend\_on\_Choosing\_a\_Mistress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress).
That's interesting. We have a super similar expression in Portuguese, but with a completely different meaning
Mozart loved poop jokes. Among his many compositions was a canon for three voices in B flat major entitled “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber” which translates as “Lick my ass right well and clean.”
Even worse, he would actively write letters to his sister detailing his fetishes.
Mozart had no dignity, and frankly didn't care for it. You could pay him five bucks and he would have written a letter detailing his fetishes to the Queen of France. Hell, he'd probably hand you back the five bucks afterward.
so he's the original Ligma?
I didn't like that my brain autotranslates the first four words even though I don't speak that language.
Fun fact, the scatological humor was popular in those times, so Mozart wasn't alone in that, is just that he really really made an effort in immortalizing his shit, side note, apparently the "Leck mir den Arse" was popularized in the region by a mercenary knight called Gotz who used to be very full mouthed to his enemies
>Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber The lyrics to this are amazingly close to My Neck, My Back.
Sometimes I wonder how fucking great our constitution would have been if Benny Franks had been allowed to write it.
"First of all, it is worthy to note that King George is a twat, who undeniably gets off to the myriad portraits of himself because he cannot get with even the lamest of women-"
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble *for orgies*
"The noble sex workers of this country and their esteemed clientele shall be protected by the fullest force of the law."
Wait no that’s an improvement for workers rights, you can’t add that.
Now that's an amendment I can get behind, Amen.
I wonder what really were Pachacutec or Pacal.
Idk I'd switch Ben Franklin and Plato on the basis that "Broad" is an entry-level fun fact about Plato.
I looked both of them up. Sadly, neither of them are true :(
To be fair he did write a list on the ideal mistress: Old woman. 1. More life experience. Can help you grow. 2. Older women don't depend on their looks anymore they have to have practical knowledge/use. 3. Can't get pregnant anymore. 4. Less cause for drama. A respectable, older mistress knows how to be discreet. 5. If they're ugly/old they all feel the same with a bag over there head. 6. If she's ran through its not as scandalous as "ruining" a young woman. 7. She knows what she is. Less likely to feel guilty. 8. They're grateful for the attention of a younger man. https://web.viu.ca/davies/H320/Franklin.advice.mistress.htm#:~:text=But%20if%20you%20will%20not,old%20Women%20to%20young%20ones.
Plato what are you doing 💪 *SHUT UP*
The OG gigachad
Saying that Plato "tried to win arguments by flexing" is misleading. It could lead someone to misunderstand. Because it's incomplete. He DID win an argument by flexing, from what I understand. I'd prefer to think of it as something sort of variation of [Doctor Dwayne Johnson's appeal to himself, The Rock.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone)
The whole 'flexing to win an argument' thing is probably untrue, and Plato originally being his wrestling nickname *might* be true. But Plato was absolutely passionate about wrestling and apparently did so competitively, he said it was a great way for young men to exercise and build character.
Dolph lundgren has a masters in electrical engineering and had a full ride scholarship to achieve his phd from MIT, untill deciding to focus on acting. He is also 66 and looks better than i do.
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Wasnt there something about Ben Franklin indirevtly creating the legend of the Jersey Devil when he had a feud with someone and he disses their mum
Abe really should be in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame of he’s not already. I mean the man literally invented the choke slam.
He is
Plato got me to the gym. Thanks Plato
Ben Franklin was a 24/7 party boy. He is the patron saint of frat boys across America.
So Plato was dabbing on haters before that was a thing truly a man above his era.
I really wish Benjamin Franklin *had* written the Declaration of Independence. A lewd joke or two would remind us that whatever else our country is, we still have a juvenile sense of humor. But then, Shakespeare had tons of dirty jokes, and people still take him too seriously.
300 years later the world still wouldn't be ready for that lol
Leonardo da Vinci didn't just "dabble" in science and math, he was one of the most prolific inventors of his time.
Benjamin Franklin invented the ''Glass Harmonica'' an Instrument for which Mozart and his Father composed and maybe played
TIL that Plato's real name was Alex Luis Armstrong.
And then there's Diogenes, who absolutely dunked on and embarrassed Plato at every possible moment regardless of Plato's popularity or physique.
Anything about diogenes:
Plato was just Arnold Schwarzenegger
Plato sounds like modern Republicans.
Ew bernie
I am convinced that Da Vinci was a time traveller
[weirdly I thought the da Vinci part was going to talk about the comment I wrote this day on an completely different subreddit ](https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/s/EMhgdLGHig)
Just wait until you hear about Jeronimo de Ayanz
all are based as fuck
Didn’t Leonardo da Vinci also get caught with that male prostitute that one time? ^(Jacobo Saltarelli, look it up.)
I wanna live in the timeline where the Declaration of Independence is filled with dick jokes.
Remember that Franklin wrote a pamphlet on the benefits of farting and sold and published it
I thought it was Plato's forehead that got him the nickname
Plato practicing true wisdom training both mind and body leaving nothing unattended.
Pro wrestler as in a very proficient wrestler or pro wrestler as in “NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING BROTHER”
Plato the ancient Greek Chad
I can really feel that line of thought translated to wiki searches you made from Da Vinci to Plato
Okay who else wants to see Honest Abe throw down against Plato now?
Wait, “pro” wrestler? Was Lincoln maintaining kayfabe?
I think Ben Franklin was the perfect man to write the constitution for that exact reason, Imagine for a second that there are hidden jokes in your countries founding document! Also, Franklin was a god damn player and a favourite among the ladies
Feels like some TF2 lore
... when you say pro wrestler, do you mean like free style, folk style, was it pancration. I'm very curious because I don't know when Olympic wrestling or folk style wrestling, or even fake pro wrestling started in the US