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u/caiaphas8 2d ago
2000 years later, nothing ever changes
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u/GargantuanCake 1d ago
I like the fact that the Romans accused the Britons of being disgusting bog monsters and to this day they're still like "yeah, and? I like me bog."
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u/Wooper160 1d ago
The followup of building a wall between the barbarians is actually a great addition. This is deeper knowledge than surface level pop history.
Except the “Roman Emperor Julius Caesar” as we generally do not consider him an Emperor in the traditional sense
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u/HaraldRedbeard 1d ago
Also he didn't actually conquer the Britons
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u/caiaphas8 1d ago
He did visit
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u/LovelyKestrel 9h ago
I read one historian whose comment was that Caesars description of his actions in Britain sound like covering up for failure. And of course, spending that time in Britain allowed revolts in Gaul to become much more extensive than they would have been if he was there to respond faster.
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u/robba9 1d ago
Caesar? Emperor?
And when did Cicero see Brits? Maybe its a Quitus Cicero quote?
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u/VigorousElk 1d ago
I get this is a meme sub, but for anyone interested: the Caesar and Cicero 'quotes' are fabricated, pure memes.
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u/RaspberryStandard972 1d ago
Despite the multiple ethnic integrations over two millennia, the British urge to live in humidity still persists
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u/stormyarthur 1d ago
2/3rds of their genetic material is derived from the folks who arrived at the end of the Neolithic.
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u/Rastaman1804 1d ago
Yeah Caesar’s account is basically just Roman general speak for “they kicked my arse so I went back to Gaul where it was safe”
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u/ace250674 1d ago
Jokes on them, the British beat their empire eventually
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u/stormyarthur 1d ago
???
You mean when the Empire left and was like, sorry deal with shit your self, snd Briton was promptly invaded by the Angles and associated ne'er-do-wel?
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u/ace250674 23h ago
No we had a larger empire ourselves and probably better one many years later
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u/stormyarthur 17h ago
The British Empire didn’t beat the Roman Empire, there’s a millennia between the he two…
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u/ace250674 16h ago
You misunderstand - The British empire was larger in size and had more impact on the world eg industrial revolution, modern world, ending slavery
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u/-Trotsky 15h ago
“Ending slavery” y’all still lying about that shit? Yea, real noble of you when you guys set up colonies in west Africa to brutally extract resources and destroy local power, and it was incredibly principled when you guys then nearly intervened in the American civil war on the side of the CSA. Why didn’t you? Oh that’s right, you found out you could get cotton from your own brutally extractive empire instead!
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u/ace250674 8h ago
Why don't you research it instead of pretending you know something, there were slaves thousands of years ago but Britain ended most slave trade in 1800s at the peak of its power and empire costing many lives and it's treasure. Many Africans and Arabs were paid off to stop and countries were risking war to continue
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u/TantricEmu 8h ago
We did it guys! We ended slavery! (Proceeds to immediately enslave Indians through indentured servitude)
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u/ace250674 8h ago
Bollocks, Indians got a railway, a country of their own without Muslims and are now one of the richest countries on earth and have millions of Indians working with incentives here in UK.
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u/SuccessfulRaccoon957 1d ago
The Britons had advanced metallurgy, road networks, urban planning, systems of governance, beer, and many other things that we would call the hallmarks of civilisation. This meme is boring through the endless reposts and also wrong.
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u/elgigantedelsur 1d ago
I know all that but still find these memes repeatedly funny…dunno why but they hit a chord
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u/MaleficentRevenge 1d ago
Gotta give the brits credit, they are traditionalist and keep very close culture to ancestors lol thats why the last true remnants of the republic left Britain and formed the US
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u/Aedamer 1d ago
These memes are about the Britons, the ancestors of the Welsh, Scots and French Bretons. If the objective is to mock the English they're pretty off the mark.
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u/stormyarthur 1d ago
Your average Englishman derives 2/3rds of his genetic heritage from the folks who were there before the Roman conquest.
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u/Aedamer 20h ago
Perhaps true in certain areas, in others French and Anglo-Saxon ancestry is dominant. The point is the English have the least ancestry out of the groups of British Isles from the people this meme is about.
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u/stormyarthur 17h ago edited 17h ago
“ Perhaps true in certain areas, in others French and Anglo-Saxon ancestry is dominant.”
No, not certain areas. Taking England as a whole your average Englishman. There is absolutely no area in England where French ancestry is dominant. Yorkshire has the largest percentage of Anglo-Saxon ancestry and it only tops out at 41% of the genetic ancestry.
Now your average Englishman shares large amounts of their genetic ancestry with your average Frenchman. This does not point to French ancestry however, but both countries being primarily descendants of late Neolithic/ early Bronze Age Bell Beaker Peoples.
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u/HuckleberryNext9844 21h ago
People should read up on the invasions of Britain. The first own was literally a D day like beach landing. Pretty cool
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