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Gaius Marius was a Roman Statesman in the late Republic era. He was known for reforming the Army, and serving multiple consulships in a row, despite the fact there should be a ten year gap between each consulship.

Hmm, wonder what drew my mind to that?

Oh also he helped create the first Dictator for life in the form of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Suck it, Caesar!

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There's a book about him and others who set the stage for the transformation from Republic to Empire coming out called The Storm before the Storm writen by Mike Duncan, creator of the History of Rome podcast. Go preorder it! Here's the first chapter!

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    In hindsight I'm more like Gaius Graachus, I didn't seek a second consecutive term, but I got one.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    This chat is 100% Quid suggested and endorsed.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    @jungleroomx I uh have 2 headhunters in Path of Exile.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    @jungleroomx I uh have 2 headhunters in Path of Exile.

    I just want you to know I'm silently hating you to death rn.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    @jungleroomx I uh have 2 headhunters in Path of Exile.

    I just want you to know I'm silently hating you to death rn.

    me this morning: "there's Cadiro again bet he will have nothing useful to sell aga-"

  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    @Abdhyius idk man

    dentists are CONVINCED that everyone has a dentist phobia

    I have a needle phobia (but need tons of needles) and so I take ativan before appointments. On like 5 or 6 occasions I have had to correct the dentist THAT GAVE ME THE PRESCRIPTION after she's said something like "Oh, did you remember to take your ativan for your dental phobia?" or "well, I know dentist appointments make you anxious, but,"

    bitch we have had this conversation 10 times

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    bleric I'm drawing something I want you to see

    oh shittttt 'Mika starting to art too! RADICAL!

    (Please disregard if you've been arting for a while and i just wasn't aware)

    lol

    I went to art college

    o-oh...

    I don't know how i missed that.

    sorry. :S

    it's perfectly okay

    I didn't graduate or anything

    just a year there, then I had a kid and transition and divorce and blah blah blah

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Every so often I encounter someone who thinks that only a job which involves manual labour is Real Work

    And every time I have to fight the urge to sit them down and interrogate them about what exactly it feels like to be perpetually stuck in the 1800s

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I'm afraid of going to the dentist because it's like dealing with a shady mechanic who always tries to upsell you on shit but instead of your shitty PT Cruiser this is your body

  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    I'm afraid of going to the dentist because it's like dealing with a shady mechanic who always tries to upsell you on shit but instead of your shitty PT Cruiser this is your body

    u should go to the ones my parents see, they are very nice and reasonable

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Any fear I have of needles got forced out of me by necessity.

    I still don't look when I get a blood test or injection, but it's not like I panic and try to flee.

  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Any fear I have of needles got forced out of me by necessity.

    I still don't look when I get a blood test or injection, but it's not like I panic and try to flee.

    over time I have worked my way from '4+ nurses have to hold me down for a blood draw' to 'can donate blood and mostly be fine', but needles jammed into the fleshy, muscular back corner of my mouth is still too much for me to handle sober (and I still sobbed uncontrollably post round 1 of needles during the root canal even tho I was on 2.5 ativan at the time)

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    I'm afraid of going to the dentist because it's like dealing with a shady mechanic who always tries to upsell you on shit but instead of your shitty PT Cruiser this is your body

    u should go to the ones my parents see, they are very nice and reasonable

    that is a bit of a drive though

    and I'm NEVER down there :razz:

  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    I'm afraid of going to the dentist because it's like dealing with a shady mechanic who always tries to upsell you on shit but instead of your shitty PT Cruiser this is your body

    u should go to the ones my parents see, they are very nice and reasonable

    that is a bit of a drive though

    and I'm NEVER down there :razz:

    idk my Gangan used to fly to phoenix any time she needed to see a dentist

    seems good ones are few and far between enough that it may be worth

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    @Abdhyius idk man

    dentists are CONVINCED that everyone has a dentist phobia

    I have a needle phobia (but need tons of needles) and so I take ativan before appointments. On like 5 or 6 occasions I have had to correct the dentist THAT GAVE ME THE PRESCRIPTION after she's said something like "Oh, did you remember to take your ativan for your dental phobia?" or "well, I know dentist appointments make you anxious, but,"

    bitch we have had this conversation 10 times

    I just want a dentist to once just give me more than they think is enough

    because please, I'm not panicking because it might hurt, I just like any other healthy person greatly dislike pain so I at least try to make you give me more anesthetic, without having to say "yeah that does really hurt (like I said it would)" before getting more

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    Muh feet hurt

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I've never had a fear of needles

    I always look, it's fascinating

    although I still don't know why needles in the mouth are so unpleasant compared to anywhere else on the body

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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    okay I got the stuff to try making this tonight

    Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Risotto With Frizzled Sage and Brown Butter

    except the miso

    which means I have to make a trip to the asian grocer, which also means I will probably pick up some bulgogi to make

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    also it is super nice outside today so the windows are open

    hooray fresh air

  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaasrrrgggggggghhhhhh

    Trump is such a piece of shit I can't even deal with it this morning

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Hello

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Hello

    hmm, yes

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    the hell did I miss in the equifax thread?

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    Wtf is frizzled sage

  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    the hell did I miss in the equifax thread?

    A spam-vertisement for hacking services (including change your grades, wipe your criminal history, and drivers license) in borked English.

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    the hell did I miss in the equifax thread?

    A spam-vertisement for hacking services (including change your grades, wipe your criminal history, and drivers license) in borked English.

    Untrustworthy swedes

  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    wipe your criminal record seems a little implausible.

    They moistly come out at night, moistly.
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    jungleroomx I uh have 2 headhunters in Path of Exile.

    I just want you to know I'm silently hating you to death rn.

    me this morning: "there's Cadiro again bet he will have nothing useful to sell aga-"

    I should be there soon with my SR witch!

    Deathless 70 Atrizi last night at 82 so hopefully...

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    bleric you ever been to a dentist that used NO2?

    I ain't give a fuck on nos

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    man this cold/sinus infection is pushing on the back of my eyes, they squeak if I rub them and it hurts to look at things that are bright

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    My dentist problem is my tooth nerves have the drug tolerance of, like, 80's style corporate drug addicts.

    They can shoot me full of everything under the sun, my whole face and mouth completely senseless, all biting my tongue and barely able to speak, and still when the drill gets in there intense white-hot pain.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    redx wrote: »
    wipe your criminal record seems a little implausible.

    all of them seem more than a little implausible to me at least

    all of them also carries possibly years in prison so no thanks

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    My dinner is stubbornly refusing to cook itself no matter how hard I think about how someone should start cooking dinner.

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    man this cold/sinus infection is pushing on the back of my eyes, they squeak if I rub them and it hurts to look at things that are bright

    Trepanation starting to make sense.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaasrrrgggggggghhhhhh

    Trump is such a piece of shit I can't even deal with it this morning

    Beast told me what he tweeted about PR at mile 18 of the run and it was the closest real feeling of not being able to actually even that I've had

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  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    bleric you ever been to a dentist that used NO2?

    I ain't give a fuck on nos

    yes twice, when I was a teenager getting the re-cap and my first 4 fillings, and once when I was a bab and getting the og tooth cap

    nos is the way and the light

    basically no one around here does it tho :/ we had a whole convo about it in chat the other day


    the time I had it when I was a teen, there was a like, ceiling tv in the room, and it was playing hellboy

    that was a time !

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    *opens fridge*

    *stares at stuff to make dinner of*

    *eats an apple*

  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I've never had a fear of needles

    I always look, it's fascinating

    although I still don't know why needles in the mouth are so unpleasant compared to anywhere else on the body

    I can look or not look no big deal. Shots incisions, etc.

    But ask me to poke myself and it is suddenly a much huger deal.


    Also anything near my eyes freaks me out.

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Why wouldn't people have a dentist phobia?

    "I'm going to shine a light in your eyes, strap you down, take multiple aggressive-looking metal implements, some that make sounds, and get all. Up. In. Your. Face."

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular

    That is extremely creepy, but the audio brings me back to some 1990s video game audio.

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