The Ancient Romans were Sh*tposters

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  • Scientists have recently begun cataloguing graffiti found in Ancient Roman cities such as Pompeii. This video goes over some of my favorites.
    Sorry for the censored title, RUclips's got some silly rules.
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  • @Huggbees
    @Huggbees  Год назад +5289

    Look man, if it was up to me, every single title to every video on RUclips would have lots of amazing profanity. But they've got arbitrary rules on what I can and can't put there, so enjoy your free asterisk.

  • @FulgrimDragon
    @FulgrimDragon Год назад +6632

    I love how bathroom grafitti is the most human way to tie us to our ancestors

    • @chilfghfh1949
      @chilfghfh1949 Год назад +105

      @Tacidian On November 20th I read your comment and then decided to post this.

    • @heaterpastel9997
      @heaterpastel9997 Год назад +55

      @@chilfghfh1949 On November 22th, I replied to this comment and decided to go sleep for 5 consecutive 60 minute's

    • @ElpatitoCuakHD
      @ElpatitoCuakHD Год назад +16

      November 22th

    • @BlissfulHues13
      @BlissfulHues13 Год назад +8

      Tuesday Nov 22nd

    • @sup7499
      @sup7499 Год назад +16

      @Tacidian on November 22nd, I decided to stay up very late and join in this chain.

  • @LegacyCatalyst
    @LegacyCatalyst Год назад +20811

    Reminds me of this cave art somewhere in Europe, the writings were 20ft up on a wall. When they actually got up there to translate it, all it said was: “This is very high.”

    • @ye11owman29
      @ye11owman29 Год назад +4174

      trolled

    • @jlco
      @jlco Год назад +3510

      That has some Elden Ring energy.

    • @Demonic_Tang
      @Demonic_Tang Год назад +3384

      It was in the Nordic regions of ancient Europe, made by vikings about 1500 years ago. Viking humor has always just been big trolls

    • @dane1382
      @dane1382 Год назад +2180

      @@Demonic_Tang TFW you get to the attic in the Hagia Sophia and find some medieval Viking graffiti. you translate it, and it just says "Halfdan was here."

    • @2-bit567
      @2-bit567 Год назад +1270

      Has the same energy as the sign that says "There are no Easter eggs up here. Go away." In San Andreas

  • @modifiedakm2651
    @modifiedakm2651 Год назад +11568

    Imagine making a joke so good that you made someone laugh 2000 years later

    • @therealdarklizzy
      @therealdarklizzy Год назад +733

      Imagine archeologists discover our comments one day...

    • @rxwrxo
      @rxwrxo Год назад +359

      @@therealdarklizzy how would archeologists uncover our jokes. Just try and explain

    • @Mr-Chick
      @Mr-Chick Год назад +90

      @@rxwrxo I think he is broken

    • @therealdarklizzy
      @therealdarklizzy Год назад +281

      @@rxwrxo They would dig them out from the dirt and carbon date them.

    • @grousewithakeyboard
      @grousewithakeyboard Год назад +64

      @@therealdarklizzy Most jokes are not written they are either spoken or added to the internet

  • @benb1396
    @benb1396 Год назад +2128

    They weren’t shitposting everywhere. They were shitting everywhere.

  • @_space_cat_
    @_space_cat_ Год назад +1058

    "If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girfriend"
    This man doesn't fear to declare that waifus are real and proud to have one for himself. Absolute chad.

    • @mewmew8932
      @mewmew8932 11 месяцев назад +68

      The og rizzler

    • @melonmusk8924
      @melonmusk8924 11 месяцев назад +93

      Except he had a real woman, not a 2d waifu.

    • @MasterChaoko
      @MasterChaoko 11 месяцев назад +49

      ​@@melonmusk8924The ancients had to make do with what they had

    • @ligma445
      @ligma445 10 месяцев назад

      that or he could be saying his girl is as fat as the planet Venus

    • @LethargicScientist
      @LethargicScientist 10 месяцев назад +13

      The original wife guy

  • @AgentTasmania
    @AgentTasmania Год назад +9982

    I genuinely love this kind of "people were always people" historical minutiae

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona Год назад +575

      Unironically it’s like my favorite thing about
      - history
      - people
      We were always chaotic goofballs. Always 😂

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Год назад +103

      TIL how to spell minutiae

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Год назад +121

      Minutiae Means:
      The small, precise, or trivial details of something.

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Год назад +4

      *minute

    • @X3GreenTea
      @X3GreenTea Год назад +56

      @@alex.g7317 minutiae and minute are two different words

  • @pezzie3201
    @pezzie3201 Год назад +5867

    Imagine the mountain exploding one day and having your deepest desires uncovered like 2000 years later

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Год назад +47

      Lmaoo

    • @cy_torrent
      @cy_torrent Год назад +268

      We just exposed Lesbianus' Likes

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Год назад +299

      Imagine in 2000 years when historians are looking at your browsing history

    • @Jesse-xg8rk
      @Jesse-xg8rk Год назад

      Or your shitting spot

    • @danielfleck8065
      @danielfleck8065 Год назад +43

      @@himanbam :(

  • @ultracrit9531
    @ultracrit9531 Год назад +5820

    Human comedy has not changed in the slightest. Some Roman lead sling bullets excavated from battlefields have had messages such as "ouch" "crack your teeth" "catch" and "attack Pompeii's arsehole" engraved onto them

    • @anawfulperson
      @anawfulperson Год назад +840

      and then people think modern humor was invented like 3 years ago

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Год назад +514

      "War never changes."
      Also, "Ave, true to Caesar."

    • @ultracrit9531
      @ultracrit9531 Год назад +1

      @@Xbalanque84 Fuck the NCR

    • @dane1382
      @dane1382 Год назад +385

      for those who dont know: pompeii was also the name of a great roman general, caesar's rival

    • @2-bit567
      @2-bit567 Год назад +67

      @@Xbalanque84
      Legion ain't funny enough to be Roman

  • @samuraijackoff5354
    @samuraijackoff5354 Год назад +1707

    These and Japanese/Chinese poems/letters about how weird their pet cats were are the best. I still love the painting of an armoured walking his pet cat.

    • @lightmorrison5404
      @lightmorrison5404 Год назад +57

      Where could I find those poems

    • @CA-9526
      @CA-9526 Год назад +85

      Rich ancient Egyptian making their dead pet cats into mummies seriously be like:

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks Год назад +19

      I believe that image is just a recent illustration, not genuinely ancient

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel Год назад +79

      There is a poem written in the 9th century by an Irish monk who lived in a German monastery about how the monk liked to watch his cat hunt mice while he studied.

    • @elhugox1
      @elhugox1 Год назад +110

      Wasn't there one about a monk that said "no wind can push me", then another replied "fart", then the monk enraged when to the guy house, and the guy went "so, no wind can push you, but a fart is enough to send you here"?

  • @Felix-xv3wg
    @Felix-xv3wg Год назад +738

    For some reason this reminded me of how the Yucatan peninsula was named.
    When the Spaniards arrived at the Yucatan peninsula they asked the natives there what the name of their land was. The natives replied in their language “I don't know what you're saying” and the Spaniards took it as one word and now the name of that place is the "Yucatan peninsula"

    • @thedarklrd6714
      @thedarklrd6714 Год назад +197

      That's so weirdly funny. The "I don't know what you're saying" peninsula

    • @gabry2558
      @gabry2558 Год назад +44

      So same as kangaroos if it's true for both cases

    • @arkle519
      @arkle519 Год назад +23

      lol I didn't know such an elegant sonuding name had such an frivolous etymology

    • @vornamenachname989
      @vornamenachname989 Год назад +68

      Same with kangaroos actually, James Cook's men asked the locals for the name of the weird animal jumping on his hind legs, and the local just said "kangaroo" or in English "What did you say?" and they thought that was the actual name
      Edit: Forgot to write name at the end lmao

    • @lilenwasnothere6867
      @lilenwasnothere6867 Год назад +43

      the avá people (or the guaraní) where named guaraní because that's what they yelled when they saw the spaniards. it meant "attack them".

  • @waffler-yz3gw
    @waffler-yz3gw Год назад +4974

    i love stuff like this because it shows how even though they were alive thousands of years ago, had completely different culture and spoke an entirely different language, they still had a sense of humor

    • @greenishpiss3588
      @greenishpiss3588 Год назад +160

      I find it beautiful.

    • @DecisionsAreQuestionable
      @DecisionsAreQuestionable Год назад +274

      humour brings us all together as a species

    • @nyancatpoptart5441
      @nyancatpoptart5441 Год назад +116

      @@DecisionsAreQuestionable unfortunately humor no longer is looked upon as acceptable anymore. So we are all divided.

    • @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger
      @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Год назад +158

      @@nyancatpoptart5441 My favorite stance on this is: everything is sacred or nothing is.
      I prefer the latter - mock everything, laugh at everyone.

    • @alejandropetit6573
      @alejandropetit6573 Год назад +32

      @@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger same, I understand why firmalities exist, but I still love living life while laughing at everything, including myself, and just knowing that at the end of the day it's alright to screw up from time to time

  • @Anime-Control
    @Anime-Control Год назад +3590

    I’ve got to wonder if that baking bread one was a Latin euphemism lost to time, or if that guy was just really excited about making his bread

    • @wakawakawakawaka8804
      @wakawakawakawaka8804 Год назад +541

      You know what, that's actually a possibility.

    • @jeremiahvires7864
      @jeremiahvires7864 Год назад +471

      I was expecting him to say "this is a euphamism for losing his virginity"

    • @MerkyMan_
      @MerkyMan_ Год назад +15

      I believe by making bread. he means taking a shit.

    • @red5t653
      @red5t653 Год назад +430

      I mean isn't there that whole saying about pregnant women having a "bun in the oven?"

    • @shaventalz3092
      @shaventalz3092 Год назад +209

      He put a little bun in the oven, wink wink nudge nudge.

  • @hannahbrown2728
    @hannahbrown2728 Год назад +4917

    As a history dweeb Im delighted you mentioned Herculaneum with Pompeii. So many folks ignore it despite it being just as important if not at least as well preserved. Edit: I wish I was a baker

    • @spicy1615
      @spicy1615 Год назад +101

      You know... I always wanted to be a baker

    • @axeljuarez1593
      @axeljuarez1593 Год назад +77

      I respect the dream of wanting to be a baker

    • @Knap4501
      @Knap4501 Год назад +44

      Dude I remember touring Pompeii and seeing “so-and-so was here” and campaign slogans all over

    • @fabioalbert101
      @fabioalbert101 Год назад +10

      You wish you were Hannah Baker?

    • @kmcclellan9820
      @kmcclellan9820 Год назад +9

      I'm a baker. It's alright.

  • @cherrypopscile3385
    @cherrypopscile3385 Год назад +263

    The funniest thing about that bread quote: That quote outlived the autobiography of a roman emperor.

  • @FedericBan-tz9cq
    @FedericBan-tz9cq 11 месяцев назад +118

    The fact that Secundus had to clarify three times that it was the spot where he defecated, like an animal marking his own territory, never ceases to make me laugh.

  • @OhPhuckYou
    @OhPhuckYou Год назад +8009

    "Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity." I think this is my new favorite Roman quote.

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Год назад +610

      I want to see that in the original Latin.

    • @Gabriel-br4qe
      @Gabriel-br4qe Год назад +344

      real mgtow moment

    • @amelia078
      @amelia078 Год назад +186

      @@TurtleShroom3 I've been looking everywhere but so far I haven't been able to find it rip

    • @lukegavin124
      @lukegavin124 Год назад +197

      This is the greatest quote ever made

    • @lilbluridinghood6296
      @lilbluridinghood6296 Год назад +456

      Chaotic bisexual energy right here.

  • @DrNotnert
    @DrNotnert Год назад +3196

    The things in the graffiti they left shows just how little we have actually changed in thousands of years. My personal favorite of the ones I've seen is "Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog"

    • @johnsherfey3675
      @johnsherfey3675 Год назад +659

      I feel like this is the ancient version of "get a room".

    • @aquelacoiso6684
      @aquelacoiso6684 Год назад +597

      @@johnsherfey3675 If I recall correctly, performing oral sex on girls was a taboo and made people see the man as less masculine. So this would be the same as someone from a rural part of Texas writing "Brian, stop fucking men's asses on the alley"

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona Год назад +118

      @@aquelacoiso6684 ancient Pompeii dj khalid

    • @johnsherfey3675
      @johnsherfey3675 Год назад +41

      @@aquelacoiso6684 Aww okay that makes sense.

    • @JudgeNicodemus
      @JudgeNicodemus Год назад +177

      @@aquelacoiso6684 if i recall correctly it was because Romans put great emphasis on oratory skills. So, as a man, giving oral to a woman was actually gonna get you seen as a slave in those times, it was a worse position to be found in than with another man in you.

  • @SuperSimputer
    @SuperSimputer Год назад +2317

    I love how all of them are about shitting or sex, except the one with two bros just hanging out, which could very well still be about shitting or sex

    • @thedarklrd6714
      @thedarklrd6714 Год назад +329

      Ah yes, the two most important things to human culture

    • @forestdude5168
      @forestdude5168 Год назад +200

      @@thedarklrd6714 and also the one dude baking bread on 19th

    • @soylentgreenb
      @soylentgreenb Год назад +89

      @@forestdude5168 Yeah, but I figure that's still just a euphemism for pinching off a loaf.

    • @peanutcake.
      @peanutcake. Год назад

      @@forestdude5168 Unless he shit the bread.

    • @MightyCaullie
      @MightyCaullie Год назад +37

      The guy who made the bread on April 19th and the two friends, both are very wholesome

  • @wfcoaker1398
    @wfcoaker1398 Год назад +131

    "I made bread" is the Roman equivalent of meal pics on Facebook.

  • @pfcparts7728
    @pfcparts7728 Год назад +259

    My saddest one but favorite one:
    “We two dear men, friends forever were here. If you wish to know our names, it is Gaius and Aulus.”
    - found left of Pompeiian bar door
    😢
    Hope they’re reincarnated somewhere in modern Rome, still drunkenly writing their names and shitposts on a bar wall somewhere.

  • @hobobohemian
    @hobobohemian Год назад +1095

    This reminds me of that one inscription in the Hagia Sofia that was in Norse runes and people tried to decipher it and when they did it was a random carving by a Norse hired guard that said “Halfdan carved this”

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Год назад +191

      And thus did Halfdan achieve a form of immortality, known across the globe by many, centuries after his passing. =^[.]^=

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas Год назад +107

      He was probably a vangarian guard then. They always did have a weird thing going on compared to most other Vikings.

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 Год назад +80

      Halfdan when Wholedan walk in: ᛘᛋᛘᚴ

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Год назад +16

      When long enough time vandalism turn to hystoric artefak

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Год назад +3

      @@Demicleas what do vikings have to do with Hagia Sophia???

  • @Enderlinkpawnu
    @Enderlinkpawnu Год назад +1559

    man these guys were wild. Imagine being so proud of your sex life that you just have to write it down on a wall for everyone to see.

    • @moratolca
      @moratolca Год назад +188

      we do the same on the internet tho

    • @Enderlinkpawnu
      @Enderlinkpawnu Год назад +96

      @@moratolca I don't know saying the same thing on Twitter doesn't have the same gusto as literal graffiti.

    • @moratolca
      @moratolca Год назад +175

      @@Enderlinkpawnu i agree. tweeting something takes seconds. but getting some paint and going out at 4am takes some real determination

    • @iplaygames8090
      @iplaygames8090 Год назад

      @@moratolca 4 am? You mwan at noon while shitting on someone porch

    • @corndogonasticc
      @corndogonasticc Год назад +38

      I love how it technically works the same as twitter, just less effort lmao. Human moment in 4k.

  • @versebuchanan512
    @versebuchanan512 Год назад +369

    Never forget Gaius and Aulus, besties for eternity.

  • @peterkimball3323
    @peterkimball3323 Год назад +83

    This is a big win for us. It proves without a doubt that shit jokes, farts, and sex jokes are not inappropriate, it could be the very thing that makes us human. Faith restored

  • @Tony36271
    @Tony36271 Год назад +226

    3:23 “are you winning son?” 😂

    • @LandonMac32
      @LandonMac32 Год назад +23

      Omg I didn't think about that lmao

  • @bionicbirb9104
    @bionicbirb9104 Год назад +735

    If you visit Pompeii, you can both visit the brothel (with Latin graffiti complaining about stds) or buy bookfuls of nsfw graffiti from the Romans

    • @circumferenced
      @circumferenced Год назад +26

      Who do i gotta ask

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes Год назад +10

      I remember reading it. I liked it

    • @gabry2558
      @gabry2558 Год назад +26

      The brothel even had the "menu" on the wall in tiny mosaics

    • @arbsallaku6478
      @arbsallaku6478 Год назад +23

      waiiiiiit....the romans DID HAVE FANFICTION

    • @milkuetea
      @milkuetea Год назад +7

      Man, even if I would've died I wish I lived in the shit post capital pompeii in one of my past lives

  • @frownyclowny6955
    @frownyclowny6955 Год назад +1071

    Gaius and Aulus’ message was so genuinely sweet to me that I wanted to honor them in a series I’m concepting. Sort of an “ordinary people from two different time periods reaching out” sorta thing

    • @mildlymarvelous
      @mildlymarvelous Год назад +77

      Ikr? It genuinely touched my heart. Literally friends forever 🥺

    • @spacecowboy7568
      @spacecowboy7568 Год назад +129

      @@mildlymarvelous And they ASKED if we wanted to know their names! Dead for over a thousand years and still has manners!

    • @PrimataGamer
      @PrimataGamer Год назад +14

      That sounds interesting! Good luck on your series

    • @floptaxie68
      @floptaxie68 Год назад +3

      Wow that’s awesome

    • @undreadecembrie
      @undreadecembrie Год назад

      I have never heard something cringier or more boring.

  • @David_Brinkerhoff93
    @David_Brinkerhoff93 Год назад +1947

    'TODAY I BAKED BREAD"
    IMPLYING THAT the bread you ate on April 19th was baked with the same hands that wiped his ass on that stool.
    It's a greatest shitpost

    • @balonkita185
      @balonkita185 Год назад +82

      So that's what it means. Damn

    • @misterkillroy2952
      @misterkillroy2952 Год назад

      Oh, the poetics of the shit post

    • @TheNapster153
      @TheNapster153 Год назад +61

      This comment does not have the consent of the Guild of Millers.

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 Год назад +40

      I think he just pushed a giant loaf out his oven and it was steaming and spreading much aroma.

    • @Emanuele_Polisena
      @Emanuele_Polisena Год назад +7

      delicious 😋

  • @Mr._Pancakes
    @Mr._Pancakes Год назад +79

    4:19 Missed opportunity for Gayus and Analus

  • @boxcarjoefromhalflife2
    @boxcarjoefromhalflife2 Год назад +34

    i like to imagine that the female gods to the ancient romans were like anime waifus to modern day weebs

    • @wesleyfilms
      @wesleyfilms 4 месяца назад +3

      There’s were probably more than a few weirdos into Medusa and other monster girls lol

    • @LovedLamb
      @LovedLamb 3 месяца назад +3

      😂 I mean Greek Goddesses which were the same as Romans had fanclubs such as women who done rituals for Demeter.

  • @justsomeeggsinapot1784
    @justsomeeggsinapot1784 Год назад +1850

    Fun fact, one guy is found encased in ash just jackin it. The world was collapsing around him and he decided to get one last one out.
    Legend.

    • @jokerman9623
      @jokerman9623 Год назад +372

      I hope he was able to relieve himself before being encased in ash

    • @OhPhuckYou
      @OhPhuckYou Год назад +138

      I'm getting ready to do the same thing.

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Год назад +185

      Honestly, even as a teenager learning this I was like "yep, makes sense to me"

    • @Littlefighter1911
      @Littlefighter1911 Год назад +63

      Stress relief.

    • @Masterdeath16
      @Masterdeath16 Год назад +193

      the thing is he never got to finish because if he did he would not be in that pose

  • @thebush6077
    @thebush6077 Год назад +896

    Is it weird that this is really humanizing and connecting them for me. Like, before they were just mysterious ancient people I never thought about beyond existing at some point... But now I'm realizing yeah they weren't actually that different...

    • @Paronak
      @Paronak Год назад +90

      I shat in this spot

    • @PoeticNixon
      @PoeticNixon Год назад

      Humans have always just been that, humans. Moving around our rock and trying to make sense of the world. And sharing our shit spots

    • @cybr69lol
      @cybr69lol Год назад +75

      Today, on the 21st of November 2022 8:11 p.m. GMT +8 I took a shit on the toilet

    • @blo.8679
      @blo.8679 Год назад +20

      I blo, peed a little and took a poop when reading this comment.

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Год назад

      I poo pooed farted

  • @tweedledoo22
    @tweedledoo22 Год назад +14

    On April 19, he made bread. ON APRIL 19, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AND INDIVIDUAL MADE BREAD. ON THIS VERY DAY, APRIL 19, CENTURIES AGO, A PASTRY WAS MADE. WE SHALL REJOICE THAT ON THIS DAY, APRIL 19, SOMEONE MADE BREAD TO EAT.

    • @SlicedBread2014
      @SlicedBread2014 Год назад +1

      3 cheers for the ancient bread baker hiphip

  • @billclinton3862
    @billclinton3862 Год назад +42

    "Oh my lusty son, With how many women have you had sexual relations?"
    I did not have sexual relations with any women

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani 21 день назад

      I momentarily thought this was a reference to Bill Clinton

  • @gabebenson6105
    @gabebenson6105 Год назад +556

    The one about sticking it in fire burning you feels like the earliest attested version of “Don’t stick it in crazy.”

    • @endymallorn
      @endymallorn Год назад +47

      Or, watch out for the clap.

    • @trueblueclue
      @trueblueclue Год назад +57

      I thought he caught an STD

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Год назад +20

      All of these answers are gold

    • @ShinChara
      @ShinChara Год назад +5

      It's referring to the Flame Atronachs in Skyrim.

    • @surrk1057
      @surrk1057 Год назад +3

      @@ShinChara they limited edition tho

  • @Eggyteevee
    @Eggyteevee Год назад +424

    Something I learned today: shitposting is enraised in the human nature, and we cannot change this

    • @normanclatcher
      @normanclatcher Год назад +12

      The enraisement can be settled with a cold shower.

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Год назад +9

      The only good thing about us arguably

    • @Eggyteevee
      @Eggyteevee Год назад +10

      @@hossdelgado626 depends of the pov tho
      A m o g u s

    • @Eggyteevee
      @Eggyteevee Год назад +14

      @João P K in their case, yeah

  • @dschehutinefer5627
    @dschehutinefer5627 Год назад +248

    The thing that impresses me the most about Roman graffiti is that I feel like it's also a good indicator about how surprisingly literate city-dwelling Romans were. We know there were schools and teachers for the upper class and some of these boys were probably among those crass and bored enough to write these graffiti, but I feel like their omnipresence in these preserved cities makes it much more likely that these were simple commoners who had to learn to read and write in order to get by one way or another.

    • @gayusschwulius8490
      @gayusschwulius8490 Год назад +4

      Some estimates say that over 90 % of Roman citizens were literate at its peak, and in Italy itself it was probably even higher than that. They really had a very solid culture.

    • @germanmemerboi3157
      @germanmemerboi3157 Год назад +18

      Afaik, they even had public teachers teaching kids in the street, so for an ancient culture, comparatively well literate.

  • @bleachedforeskin1431
    @bleachedforeskin1431 Год назад +27

    There was a map found in a home in Pompeii, and above the town where mount vesuvia had been drawn, smoke was added above it. Someone had taken the time during a horrifying event to record it, not knowing if anyone they knew or loved would survive. They were funny, and they were philosophical, and they sought to be remembered after they were gone. They were human.

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 8 дней назад

      "Well, I'm fucked, better note what happened"

  • @nibulsheep8214
    @nibulsheep8214 Год назад +72

    I love how these graffitis just show how persistent the Human spirit is, it doesn't matter how many years pass, nor how many cataclysm we suffer, the human will always remain an animal.

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Год назад +7

      I mean we are animal .to big to be germ to fast to be plant 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Raphe9000
    @Raphe9000 Год назад +935

    Fun fact, that "weep you girls" graffito is actually a poem written as an elegiac couplet, so it can be sung like the works of the greatest poets.
    "Vōs mea dēservit iam verpa dolēte puellae
    pēdīcat cūlum cunne superbe valē"
    "-" represents a long syllable and "u" a short one. In this poem, "x" is long (though it can be a short syllable in the place of a long one in some other poems). A ˈ means the syllable is stressed (which in Latin is independent from syllable length, though you can use said length to know where stress will fall).
    A vowel with a - over it is held for around twice the length. Any syllable ending in a consonant is also held at that consonant for longer.
    - u u / - - / - - / - u u / - u u / - x
    - - / - - / - / - u u / - u u / x
    ˈVōs ˈme a / dē ˈser / vit jam / ˈver pa do / ˈlē te pu / el lae
    Pē ˈdī / cat ˈcū / lum / ˈcun ne su / ˈper be ˈva / lē

    • @CleopatraKing
      @CleopatraKing Год назад +124

      HELL YEA FUCKIN OTHER LATIN STUDENTS

    • @kell_0741
      @kell_0741 Год назад +71

      ayy get a load of this guy

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Год назад +26

      *[INSERT FLASHBACKS TO "SHADILAY" HERE]*
      Sometimes, I really love our species.

    • @WestOfLee100
      @WestOfLee100 Год назад

      what the fuck?

    • @sneeble8342
      @sneeble8342 Год назад +8

      This was not in fact, a fun fact

  • @gkraith2995
    @gkraith2995 Год назад +411

    Just looking into historic findings of people in the past really cements the "the more things change the more things stay the same"
    I also recommend a youtuber called toldinstone for roman history more focused on roman's everyday life. My favourite is his videos about imaging how a time traveller will deal with visiting ancient rome.

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Год назад +6

      Thanks for the recommendation! Will check

    • @dildoswaffel6144
      @dildoswaffel6144 Год назад +1

      @@nickkohlmann why is war bad?

    • @zhiracs
      @zhiracs Год назад

      @@dildoswaffel6144 because the motherfuckers who start them never actually fight themselves.

    • @dildoswaffel6144
      @dildoswaffel6144 Год назад +2

      @@zhiracs look up general butt naaked

    • @mehmetgurdal
      @mehmetgurdal Год назад

      Oh jeez.
      Now I have a week worth of binge material and won't be able to get work done.
      Are you happy now? :D

  • @ferretyluv
    @ferretyluv Год назад +737

    It wasn’t social media. It was bathroom graffiti, which hasn’t changed in millennia.
    It’s “CEL-a-dus” and “Thray-shun.”
    I’m sure the “I made bread” thing was a euphemism or an inside joke.

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Год назад +26

      I Made bread in bathroom graffity implilyng he bake the bread after or before go to bathroom the same day with same hand !!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @soloapricot
      @soloapricot Год назад +18

      In fact, I remember one very local arthouse film about two prisoners, where one of them comes with a plate of shit to the other and literally says, "brother, I brought some sweet bread to eat", so I suspect the essence of the inscription may be in such an idiotic but funny statement and if so, it's funny how much the choice of words, the very essence of humor and so on has not changed in a couple of millennia

    • @pedrofreitas4262
      @pedrofreitas4262 Год назад +3

      You mean Keh-la-dus and Tra-ksi-ahnus (or Tra-ks, depending of how is writen in the original)?

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 Год назад +2

      Made bread was a euphemism for taking a dump, a good firm stool looked like a loaf of bread 😅

    • @user-wz6qy1sz4m
      @user-wz6qy1sz4m 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@soloapricotthe green elephant

  • @stuckonaslide
    @stuckonaslide Год назад +61

    5:16
    first historical account of
    "fuck around and find out"

  • @darkranger116
    @darkranger116 Год назад +372

    I love how the Romans were like "state sanctioned violence, femboys and shitposting"
    And Americans just straight up copied the homework.

    • @alexodeh
      @alexodeh Год назад +38

      America and Rome are literally the same state with language differences

    • @pleasureisgood5957
      @pleasureisgood5957 Год назад

      I wish,npt enough femboys.in America,we need more.

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ Год назад

      @@alexodeh
      Based on slavery: check
      Aggressive expansion and genocide: check
      Love their army: check
      Morally and sexually deviant: check
      Crazy inflation and rotten economic system: check
      Probably going to be toppled by crazy Christians: check
      Works because of an army of (wage) slaves: check
      An aristocracy pretending to be a republic: check

    • @alexodeh
      @alexodeh Год назад

      @@_blank-_ yes

    • @stephenrusso6019
      @stephenrusso6019 Год назад +15

      @@alexodeh probably going to go out the same way too. It's Ironic really being of Italian origin. this is what my ancestors saw but even dumber. The similarities between the two are actually pretty disturbing.

  • @lordfriedrick7911
    @lordfriedrick7911 Год назад +84

    That "On april 19th i made bread" has another significance...
    Let's just say that writing was on the same wall where Restituta was nominated...

  • @jckitkat4499
    @jckitkat4499 Год назад +90

    Always remember that several people in Pompeii, in their final moments decided to get one out and ended up doing it for the rest of time

  • @HighGradeTitanium
    @HighGradeTitanium Год назад +687

    With the restitutus and restituta thing in Roman culture girls would take on the feminine version of their husbands name after marriage and before marriage their names would be the feminine form of their father’s name and they would’ve differentiated from their sister by order of birth such as “prima” being what the first born daughter was called and “secunda” being what the second daughter would be called. Kinda fucked up they didn’t get their own names but this was like 2000 years ago.

    • @renderproductions1032
      @renderproductions1032 Год назад +55

      That’s pretty crazy, although it is quite similar to what we have today with last names.

    • @Astavyastataa
      @Astavyastataa Год назад +89

      Bruh the men were also named by numbers. This was common across the world. Get out of here with this SJW crap.

    • @shadowcween7890
      @shadowcween7890 Год назад +83

      @@Astavyastataa Why is that the response? It's just weird to have a family name but not your own name. No thing more.

    • @Astavyastataa
      @Astavyastataa Год назад +40

      @@shadowcween7890 that was literally common practice throughout history for many ages and is still the case in many places. Don’t apply modern cultural sensibilities to history.

    • @diegoidepersia
      @diegoidepersia Год назад +67

      @@Astavyastataa romans while they did sometimes number the children it was the norm for females and a less strict rule for men

  • @Relaxin-N-Chillin
    @Relaxin-N-Chillin Год назад +21

    Holy shit this is the high/middle school toilets but old and in a fancier language.

  • @thepit7868
    @thepit7868 5 месяцев назад +4

    A friendship like Gaius and Aulus's is something many of us can only dream of.

  • @rainonanya
    @rainonanya Год назад +186

    As a classics student who recently visited Herculaneum and Pompeii, and someone whose day has been real sh¡tty; this video was honestly a gift from the gods and the perfect way of drying tears, thank you huggbees.

    • @ynpavo
      @ynpavo Год назад +5

      hey bro, I'm here if you need to talk to someone

    • @rainonanya
      @rainonanya Год назад +3

      @@ynpavo thank you so much, I really appreciate it

    • @ynpavo
      @ynpavo Год назад +3

      @@rainonanya np bro

    • @DJHastingsFeverPitch
      @DJHastingsFeverPitch Год назад

      Don't you mean a grift from the gods

  • @TheInvisibleCactusYT
    @TheInvisibleCactusYT Год назад +293

    This is exactly why I love this channel
    In a word where all content and media is reposted and recycled, it’s so refreshing to have so many original ideas for videos!
    And it’s entertaining every single time

    • @V_SABITRON
      @V_SABITRON Год назад +27

      Huggbees is just reposting memes from 79 A.D. smh

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Год назад +1

      @@V_SABITRON lmaoooo

  • @Lozoot2
    @Lozoot2 Год назад +43

    I can't believe you didn't cover my favorite piece of ancient graffiti:
    _"Lo, my gentile readers, this wall engraving hath been commissioned by Lord Raid, Legend of Shadow. Come hither, using mine reference words "Fecal Wall", to acquire riches and women as your heart desires!"_

  • @jarekwrzosek2048
    @jarekwrzosek2048 Год назад +15

    Caius and Aulus: The best bromance you never heard of.

  • @thedarkness4052
    @thedarkness4052 5 месяцев назад +3

    "You that shits in this place" might be my favorite line of all time.

  • @GoofballAndi
    @GoofballAndi Год назад +91

    aw yeah, was waiting for a video on the best bromance in history
    GAIUS AND AULUS
    BROS4LIFE

  • @Edens_Bones
    @Edens_Bones Год назад +66

    Huggbees humble beginnings with How it’s Made evolving into this..? I’m here for it.

  • @nintenx1235
    @nintenx1235 Год назад +124

    You ever wonder why we call money "bread" it's because in ancient times bakers were GETTING. THAT. BREAD.

    • @PossibleBat
      @PossibleBat Год назад +17

      Even better, salary, comes from salt, as in ancient people were payed in salt (rare resource, very valuable, to preserve food amongst other things)

  • @marti5420
    @marti5420 Год назад +35

    5:32 I audibly awww'ed at that.

  • @Blaze_1379
    @Blaze_1379 11 месяцев назад +8

    me when a mountain explodes and 2000 years later historians check your search history:

  • @poketales9207
    @poketales9207 Год назад +37

    reminds me of some ancient viking writing found waaaay up high in an ancient cave, which once was thought to be religious, actaully saying "this spot is high"

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Год назад +5

      I remember reading about Varangarian runes in Constantinople literally reading "[DUDE'S NAME] carved these runes!".

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Год назад +1

      Troll 100

  • @JTheDemiboy
    @JTheDemiboy Год назад +415

    thank you for the history lesson my teachers wouldn't give me because it's "Too unscientific" and "What the fuck is this" and "How did you get in my house" like, just tell me nicely.

    • @RadioMan2023
      @RadioMan2023 Год назад +4

      Lol

    • @NewCanada
      @NewCanada Год назад +8

      He has a point. How did you get in his house? 🤔

    • @alfatazer_8991
      @alfatazer_8991 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@NewCanada Through the front door duh...?

  • @Justanotherpersonontheinternet
    @Justanotherpersonontheinternet Год назад +53

    This is going into my “insult your worst enemy” playlist

  • @eges72
    @eges72 Год назад +5

    This is incredibly similar to those random "shitposts" in communal toilets in the Ottoman era, such as: "Bunu yazan Tosun, okuyana gosu,n" meaning "Tosun who wrote this, will beat anyone who reads this" so hilarious even if it doesn't make any sense 😂

  • @jamiejames416
    @jamiejames416 Год назад +11

    Nordic runes were once found on the hagia Sofia, everyone expected it to be some amazing. When translate it simply said, "Halfdan was here"

  • @fedoramaster6035
    @fedoramaster6035 Год назад +70

    5:00 a Thracian is also a type of gladiator. I’ve heard of that graffiti in reference to gladiators, and in rome they were seen as basically sex symbols. So it’s more likely he was a gladiator than some dude from the balkans. Especially because thracians were seen as barbarians, so it’s not something you’d generally catch a native bragging about.

    • @kukifitte7357
      @kukifitte7357 8 месяцев назад

      A thracian is just someone from thrace

  • @gregoryhouldsworth2189
    @gregoryhouldsworth2189 Год назад +84

    It's nice to know that, although we are worlds apart in terms of technology, ancient humans were pretty much exactly like us.

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva Год назад +13

      i wouldn't say "worlds apart"... These guys had better concrete and roads that we have now , had running water and home-heat systems , advanced knowledge of germs , efficient sewers , compass and observatoriums , flexible glass , surgical instruments , and even analogical computers like the famous antikythera device.
      The Romans were so ridiculously advanced , that many of their inventions weren't re-discovered until the 18 century.

    • @joe-op2gr
      @joe-op2gr Год назад

      @@Dan_Kanerva shits crazy

  • @FlameAtronauch
    @FlameAtronauch Год назад +40

    I love the new angle Hugbees is working on, putting some kind of self-reflecting message at the end of his videos. Really makes me appreciate the already fantastic content that much more

  • @majorpwner241
    @majorpwner241 Год назад +14

    1:15 The greenscreen made it look like his headphones are just kinda floating there. I would like to acquire some of these futuristic floaty phones.

  • @Konstantinsen
    @Konstantinsen Год назад +15

    There's actually a whole list of all the recorded graffiti in Pompei and Herculaneum (and elsewhere across in the former Roman Empire) and a lot of it is basically the same stuff. Even an entire menu chiseled on a wall was uncovered in Pomeii after they excavated a thermopolium (an ancient Roman restaurant/buffet line), prices and all.

    • @kevaughnmerrill6534
      @kevaughnmerrill6534 Год назад +2

      That's awesome. An accurate roman menu with prices!

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 Год назад +4

      I know it's dark to say this, but thank god Mt vesuvius nuked pompeii and burned it to the ashes, since it preserved almost everything

  • @al145
    @al145 Год назад +82

    I heard somewhere that back then "baking bread" could be a euphemism for taking a dump, pinching a loaf as it were. Taking the Browns to the superbowl, or the coliseum in this case

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Год назад +3

      Yeah, it's a long brown round thing that's steaming hot. Drawing the same joke with the same logic isn't hard, just speculation on our part without something to back it uo

    • @orfeo793
      @orfeo793 Год назад +3

      yeah, thought that euphemism was obvious to most people haha

  • @D3vilrain
    @D3vilrain Год назад +38

    My favorite part of history is when mount Vesuvius said "It's Vesuviusing time." And Vesuvius'd all over Pompeii

  • @presentrama
    @presentrama Год назад +186

    you know you're a geography person when you knew about thracian being from the balkans without this guy telling you

    • @jextra1313
      @jextra1313 Год назад +44

      I feel like being bosnian gives you a slight advantage

    • @ZALJK
      @ZALJK Год назад +7

      whats up my epic balkan bro

    • @awesome346
      @awesome346 Год назад +2

      Jesus loves you!

    • @chadiusgigadious7017
      @chadiusgigadious7017 Год назад +3

      I’m not a “geography person” and I knew it. I guess it’s just my chad energy then.

    • @presentrama
      @presentrama Год назад +1

      @@jextra1313 that is true though

  • @Boris-ui8sk
    @Boris-ui8sk Год назад +12

    In many medieval manuscripts knights were depicted fighting snails as a sort of parody of traditional stories of the time.
    It was accentually a meme.

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement Год назад +16

    3:57 That's gotta be the baddest coming out sentence ever.

  • @Xbalanque84
    @Xbalanque84 Год назад +32

    7:08 Centurion: "Between the dates of April 19th and April 22nd, I teleported bread."

    • @goldngamer1365
      @goldngamer1365 Год назад +5

      *HOW MUCH?!?!*

    • @Blueskies2513
      @Blueskies2513 Год назад +5

      ​@@goldngamer1365 i have done nothing but teleport bread for the past 3 days

    • @CatiosPizza
      @CatiosPizza Год назад +2

      ​@@Blueskies2513☠️

    • @Merasus
      @Merasus Год назад

      ​@@Blueskies2513 VHERE!?!?!? VHERE HAVE YOU'VE BEEN SENDING IT!?!?!?

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani 20 дней назад

      ​@@Merasus -said the medicus, in a strong gothic accent

  • @KandyKoatedCreature
    @KandyKoatedCreature Год назад +65

    4:00
    Mans really said "To hell with Pussy... BUSSY'S WHERE IT'S AT!!!!"
    LET'S FUCKING GOOO!!!

  • @TheUnillustratedChaos
    @TheUnillustratedChaos Год назад +250

    I wonder if the people back in those days had something like "My Immortal". Like, did people write steamy and godawful fanfics about roman gods doing it and it was so notoriously bad that it actually got a bit of attention? (maybe even a venus self-insert fanfiction 😁)

    • @FredFake
      @FredFake Год назад +128

      Like 90% of Greek tales involve one god or another fucking something, so I would say you're pretty spot on.

    • @takebacktheholyland9306
      @takebacktheholyland9306 Год назад +85

      therr must've been 100% it's just lost to time, i mean if Dante's inferno was a fanfic about his political enemies dying in horrible ways then surely there's more to it than just that

    • @bluexephosfan970
      @bluexephosfan970 Год назад +40

      Not written fanfiction, most means of writing then were either limited, impermanent, or expensive, but in other media forms like memorizable stories or plays or what have you, yeah probably lmao

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Год назад +18

      @@bluexephosfan970 That implies that some scribe never got bored... I'm sure there's some codified stuff too. Its just most likely extremely obscure or burned down at Alexandria, cause only the important stuff was widely distributed.

    • @ye11owman29
      @ye11owman29 Год назад

      not really bc not that many people could read or write even in Roman times

  • @portalfreak7628
    @portalfreak7628 Год назад +36

    6:08 Honestly what floors me here is the fact that apparently the word "potty" existed in the times of ancient Rome

  • @dontparticipate240
    @dontparticipate240 Год назад +4

    “The one who buggers a fire burns his penis.”
    I felt that one.

  • @bobby_greene
    @bobby_greene Год назад +122

    To be fair, the last one was probably about a turd that was shaped like a loaf of bread

    • @exotic1405
      @exotic1405 Год назад +2

      Sneaky

    • @greenhowie
      @greenhowie Год назад +7

      careful it's not in the oven too long or you'll struggle to get the door open

    • @bobby_greene
      @bobby_greene Год назад +6

      @@greenhowie worse than that is when it overproofs and gets too gassy and spills out of the pan

  • @N0VaDa
    @N0VaDa Год назад +51

    It's incredible how Andrew can make a video about any random topic, and yet somehow it fits perfectly in what you call 'huggbees content'

  • @griddy_energy_official
    @griddy_energy_official Год назад +33

    "What was one thing you can name originated from Ancient Rome and changed the world?"
    "Shitposting"

  • @curtisthomas2670
    @curtisthomas2670 Год назад +3

    He left out the most direct "l screwed the barmaid"😅

  • @Glitch-Gremlin
    @Glitch-Gremlin 5 месяцев назад +3

    6:42AM CST April 7th 2024: I'm currently Making the Shit on the "Wall" of My Toilet. Praying no gigantic burning rocks find me.

  • @KeenC
    @KeenC Год назад +31

    If the Roman’s aren’t talking about Qundale Dingle when I get my time traveling device done, then I’m gonna be disappointed
    I’m back and I see why they fell

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Год назад +46

    Imagine a graffiti artist who only tags historical graffiti in proper Latin. Just to confuse people and see if anyone gets it.

  • @totsugekiii
    @totsugekiii Год назад +25

    I remember first reading up on some of the Pompeii graffiti a few years ago and it's still one of my favorite things to go back to and read. Really just goes to show how the only thing that's changed is where we put our messages.
    Thank you for covering this very important topic.

  • @user-cf4sc3kn5f
    @user-cf4sc3kn5f Год назад +9

    Historical moments like this prove that throughout time, as much as humanity has changed, we've also been that same kind of person for centuries.

  • @_s_9920
    @_s_9920 Год назад +4

    The dude writing about beating Venus to death seemed to be heartbroken and was cursing them for ever falling in love to begin with. Sadge.

  • @andrewevenson2657
    @andrewevenson2657 Год назад +18

    That person who baked bread on april 19th has had so much more of an impact than they ever could have imagined. Their measly message has now reached thousands of people in the far future. Imagine, dear reader, if you wrote something today, for it to be read to thousands of people in the distant future.

  • @Monkiydude
    @Monkiydude Год назад +32

    3:23 sounds like the earliest version of the "are ya winning son?" meme.

  • @chillzedd8179
    @chillzedd8179 Год назад +39

    Im pretty sure that "baking bread" was slang for taking a shit back then.

  • @theaetherknight5614
    @theaetherknight5614 11 месяцев назад +4

    Secundus. The first man in recorded history who made a literal shitpost.

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 Год назад +4

    Pompeii was more sh*tposty than most, I suspect. Don't ever forget the guy covered in ash after the volcano exploded who was holding onto his junk, in a desperate race against time to rub one out before the poison cloud overwhelmed him (you know he failed because his hand was still there)

    • @user-ye4ek7gq5c
      @user-ye4ek7gq5c 9 месяцев назад +1

      Well, if that guy failed (which is a logical conclusion), then some of those who didnt have their hands on their junk must have succeeded

  • @whatbroicanhave50character35
    @whatbroicanhave50character35 Год назад +14

    Loving the frequency of uploads right now. I rewatch these videos so often, it's so exciting to get something new!

  • @mecoolguy3780
    @mecoolguy3780 Год назад +86

    Thanks for what you do, man who hugs bees.

  • @Selatapey
    @Selatapey Месяц назад +1

    I love the “On April 19th, I made bread”, it feels like the ancient equivalent of saying “I did something at some point”

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 Год назад +3

    "Because this shit is getting hot"
    ....
    I'm really hoping that "getting hot" thing isn't a disguised reference to the volcanic eruption that killed the person that wrote that and everyone he knew.

  • @DrPie0licious
    @DrPie0licious Год назад +75

    Reminds me of the story (probably not true, idk) about the ancient writing that was found inside one of the Pyramids. When it was finally translated, it read something like "the foreman making us build this pyramid is a dick"