Voltaire has a very interesting comment in his Philosophical Dictionary which goes as follows
"Do you really and truly believe that the Herulian Odo, surnamed Acer by the Romans, and known to us by the name of Odoacer, had only Herulians in his train, and that Genseric conducted Vandals alone into Africa? All the wretches without talent or profession, who have nothing to lose, do they not always join the first captain of robbers who raises the standard of destruction?"
It's an interesting statement and it really made me consider how exactly the Ostrogoths and Vandals were really able to take down Italy and Africa.
Surely, the "wretches" who had nothing to lose would fear the approaching Goths and Vandals.
But at the same time we are reminded that these people were Christians and also "Foederati" so this is where the lines get a little blurry for me.
The people of the empire didn't see these groups the same way they once saw the Cimbri descending down on them or perhaps the Huns who they saw as infinitely more savage.
We know Odoacer by the name "Flavius Odoacer" but this is a very Latin name. Historian JB Bury also says the following
"Orestes was killed at Placentia along with his brother Paulus outside Ravenna. The Germanic foederati, the Scirians, and the Heruli, as well as a large segment of the Italic Roman army, then proclaimed Odoacer "Rex Italiae"
Now clearly, if Odoacer and his men had imperial ambitions, they would hail him as "Augustus" but this wasn't the case. Why not? Wouldn't it be more impressive to have that title rather than king of Italy? And what's with the Roman legions backing Odoacer in the first place?
How disorganized was this empire by the mid 5th century?
I'm mostly reading pop history, so this might be a stupid question. I was reading about the vandal sack of Rome and I kept thinking about this. I'd like to hear some comments from people who really knows about this stuff.
It seems to me that nobody could oppose the vandals militarily right then. A nd Huneric's marriage to Eudocia made him the only man with a semblance of imperial legitimacy. Backed by a vandal army already occupying Italy, how could he be stopped from just imposing himself as emperor?
I know the Roman elites were really prejudiced against germanic folks becoming emperors. But once a provincial emperor was also unthinkable, and when a militarily strong provincial seized power this was eventually accepted.
Edit: I made a confusion there between Eudocia and her mother.
*Gender, not genser
Hallo folkens! I mangel på annet forum/nettsted så stiller jeg dette spørsmålet her :) Har seg sånn at jeg for noen måneder siden sølte whisky på denne genseren, jeg prøvde å vaske den men den ble etterlatt med en gul-aktig farge som vises mest på de hvite stripene. Noen som har erfaring med dette, altså jeg vil få de hvite stripene hvite igjen uten å ødelegge resten av fargen, usikker på om det er mulig men vil prøve :) Setter pris på all hjelp.
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I'm curious to know where the learners hail from. For example mine is the Portuguese language.
Jeg burde ha laget dette innlegget på norsk lol
Im trying to craft a gift for a dear friend of mine and they are obsessed with norway ; so im looking for ideas to include in my design that would give a " norway " vibe or somehow relate to norway.
Aside from the flag , what would you suggest ? Any ideas are appreciated !
noen som vet om noen vestnorske utrykk?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Sidder lige og genser “Fie” dokumentaren på DRTV. Men hvorfor var det at Fie (oprigtigt) flyttede ud af det første hus som hende og Boris boede i? Var det fordi de ikke havde råd eller?
Do your worst!
Har følt på det hver jul og bursdag i flere år nå at jeg ikke klarer å slappe av i desember eller uka før bursdager fordi jeg stresser med å skaffe gaver.
Og det er ikke bare å gi gaver som stresser meg men også å få gaver. For det blir jo som regel noe "tusen takk for genseren (som ser jævla stygg ut og som jeg ikke kommer til å bruke og du inkluderte ikke byttelapp og hva faen er poenget med dette?) tante Hilde."
Er selvfølgelig litt min egen feil at jeg får gaver som ikke treffer blink når jeg aldri gir folk en ønskeliste. Men det er fordi jeg ikke har noen ønsker. Jeg har 5 gensere. Jeg trenger ikke flere. Hvis noen spør hva jeg ønsker meg så sier jeg bare penger og så får jeg genser.
Kall meg bortskjemt eller egoistisk hvis du vil, men hele greia med gaver har blitt en veldig negativ ting for meg. Jeg har en boks med gaver som ble åpnet og aldri sett på igjen. Jeg trenger dem ikke, jeg ønsket meg dem ikke og det er bare mer unødvendig forbruk.
Ble litt rant men hele tingen bare plager meg.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
