link? didn’t catch that one.

Here you go.

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Try reading about the Punic Wars some times. Cannae would have been a nightmare to witness.

Given the size of the disaster, the bloodletting must have proceeded throughout most of the day. Rome’s loss screams out to us still: 50,000 dead, a figure so conspicuous that historians have mulled over it ever since. Polybius, whose writings remain a primary window into the military affairs of the Republic, gave a figure of 70,000 dead. Livy, a Roman historian writing during the first century BCE, offers a figure of 50,000, which has acquired the weight of orthodoxy over the years, not least because it is simply more comprehensible. Nobody in the records gives a smaller figure.

This is simply staggering. Cannae’s death toll (Punic losses were between 6,000 and 8,000) sounds more like plague mortality. No army in antiquity had likely suffered anything like this, amounting to a near-gutting of Rome’s militaryage manhood. Descriptions of the battlefield are graphic even for ancient sources, conjuring images of a plain packed with eviscerated dead and dying, the survivors lingering in a kind of hell.

“Some they found lying with their thighs and knees gashed but still alive,” writes Livy, “these bared their throats and necks and bade them drain what blood they still had left. Some they discovered with their heads buried in the earth, they had evidently suffocated themselves by making holes in the ground and heaping the soil over their faces.”

And Robert the Bruce was much more historically significant to Scotland than William Wallace. He travelled to the Vatican to get the Pope’s support.

He did lead them to battle and victory in the last scene using William’s wifes love hankie as a catalyst.

leper hockey game had faceoffs in the offensive zones

laughed my ass off.

/also a leper joke

then there’s a long joke about someone dipping toast into a wound, but it’s long

yea…they took some liberties with that tho. the real robert de bruce was dead before william wallace was captured.

And Robert the Bruce was much more historically significant to Scotland than William Wallace. He travelled to the Vatican to get the Pope’s support.

is that what the old scheming dude in Braveheart had? Was he a leper?

yea…they took some liberties with that tho. the real robert de bruce was dead before william wallace was captured.

Spence and gg are married to each other?

That will be news to my husband.

The hottest unsigned progressive death metal band in the rust belt. Featuring spencer096 on lead guitar, Death Colony. They’ll be at playing before the open mike nights, each Monday at the Ha Ha Hole in Pico.

that reminds me…merry metal mursday!

wait, what?

info.

The hottest unsigned progressive death metal band in the rust belt. Featuring spencer096 on lead guitar, Death Colony. They’ll be at playing before the open mike nights, each Monday at the Ha Ha Hole in Pico.

wait, what?

Leper Colony.

“Homer! Bart! You’re not lepers, it’s just oatmeal!”
“Oh, we know. We figured out when dad ate one of his lesions.”
“But why didn’t you say anything?”
“Because we got a free vacation to Hawaii, and all we have to do is go through a few hours of blinding electroshock therapy a day.”

I’d like to know about the other 2% and why it was not purchased.

Leper Colony.

on lanai too? i know there’s one on molokai.