PieFed"5'6? Good lad, we'll teach you the rest by beatings"
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FUN FACT: There’s some limited evidence that literacy was higher in the Legions than in the general population. Not because it was a recruitment requirement, but probably due to a mixture of the low literacy of rural areas, that almost all promotion opportunities in the Legions required literacy, and the fact that bored soldiers pass skills around almost as often as STDs.
Everyone can still join the army though 🧐
Was turned down, can not confirm.
Long list of automatic DQs anymore.
Maybe it’s harder than I’ve been lead to believe. I haven’t actually finished an application yet. My country is low on troops tbf so that impacts it
At least in the USA, you don’t have to be an exceptional specimen, but you can’t have any problems which would be logistically challenging… or most mental health diagnoses.
“But isn’t that just excluding the people who actually have the stable home life to have their mental health examined earlier in life rather than meaningfully improving the mental health standards of recruits?”
…
¯\(ツ)/¯
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FUN FACT: There’s some limited evidence that literacy was higher in the Legions than in the general population. Not because it was a recruitment requirement, but probably due to a mixture of the low literacy of rural areas, that almost all promotion opportunities in the Legions required literacy, and the fact that bored soldiers pass skills around almost as often as STDs.
You just gave me a mental picture of soldiers partially clad in armour, one teaching stuff to another while engaging in gay sex.
“It’s not gay if there’s no penetration.” - Romans, probably
“Its not gay if you’re the top.” - The Egyptians
Pretty sure that’s the Romans, too. (And more accurate than what PugJesus said.)
Funny enough, I actually did a deep dive on Roman sexuality not too long ago. I put the “It’s not gay if there’s no penetration” bit because references to intercrural sex (favored amongst the Greeks) and frottage are nonexistent, while handjobs are considered ‘spicy’ but not really sex - and thus not really ‘gay,’ since the perception of Romans of ‘effeminate’ sexuality was centered around sex, not romance.
For that reason, it seems intuitive to suspect that Romans probably didn’t regard these acts as sex - if they did, either condemnation (especially of political enemies) or depiction would seem likely, especially with their taste for pornographic artwork.
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That’s why they call it a brojob.
Well, I guess that makes everything other than lodging a Neutron into another Atom, as not-gay.
Because you need to be able to read recruitment advertisement?
I mean, the army will take almost anyone now too lmao.
Was turned down, can not confirm.
Long list of automatic DQs anymore.
Using “anymore” with a positive statement is a weird regionalism. In most of the world, it only goes with a negative.
I do pilates anymore [<- doesn’t work, you want “still do pilates” or “still do pilates these days” or something]
It hardly snows in the winter anymore [<- works because it’s describing something rare]
It’s long-established in its usage and while you can call it a ‘regionalism’, it’s accepted in numerous regions with significant geographic and cultural distance.
If you aren’t the kind of person who kvetches about “ain’t”, or kvetch, for that matter, don’t kvetch about positive anymore.
“I do pilates anymore” would be saying that I didn’t do pilates before, but I am now. So ‘still’ would make the sentence express the opposite of what it’s trying to.
It works because it didn’t used to rain in the winter all the goddamn time. Climate change has caused weather patterns to change, so if someone says “It always rains in the winter anymore”, that is saying that it used to snow in the winter (implicitly when what they remember they were young rather than speaking from a statistical analysis), but now it always rains instead.
If you say so. To me that sentence makes no sense.
It’s not a construction that I would use often, but it definitely makes sense to me. Kind of a synonym for “these days.”
Apparently not though, because apparently:
Excuse me, but my region uses ain’t but not “positive anymore” (which I’d literally never heard of as being anything but a straight-up mistake until your comment), so I’m gonna kvetch all I want!
Grue rings for his nurse while in the hospital. “Mr. Grue, what’s the problem?”
“I can’t kvetch.” Grue says.
A little confused, she asks, with more precision, “Does something hurt? Do you need pain relievers?”
“I can’t kvetch about pain.” Grue says again.
“Are you comfortable? Do you need any pillows or blankets?”
“I can’t kvetch about how comfortable I am.”
“Oh, is the food not to your liking? We can change your menu if you like.”
“I can’t kvetch about the food.”
Fed up with this one answer, the nurse asks with frustration in her voice, “… Mr. Grue, what exactly IS the problem?”
And Grue says, “I CAN’T KVETCH!”
First time in my life that I’ve seen it, and I’ve been online since times of analog modems. I’ve seen literally used to mean not-literally. I’ve seen “could care less” to mean “couldn’t care less”. But I have never seen this usage of anymore. Long established might be a stretch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore#Examples
“A servant being instructed how to act, will answer ‘I will do it any more’.” (Northern Ireland, c. 1898)
I might have meant “widely used”, after all, English is not my native language…
So you talk like you’re from the 19th century?
My rule of thumb is that anybody who talks about having a high IQ doesn’t.
–Isaac Asimov, “Thinking About Thinking”
I think I might enjoy hanging out with the kinds of people who could get admitted to Mensa. But, I don’t think I’d ever want to spend any time with anybody who actually wanted to be in Mensa.
That would be legitimately useful experience for the militaries of the time
Imagine joining the Legions to get away from farmwork and then you end up on a foraging detachment literally cutting wheat with a hand sickle to keep the army fed in enemy territory.
A day in the Legions is like a day on the farm…
How do you feel about dumb old Gaul?
“It’s dumb”
(Happy approving scribbling of notes)
It’s dumb but it makes sense on the business side. The reason they don’t hire over qualified people is because training costs money and they don’t want to hire someone that will quit at the drop of a hat as soon as someone offers them anything higher.
I think it’s meant more as an exaggeration of a different phenomenon in modern job hunting, as the guy says that he’s not qualified ENOUGH for the pizza delivery job
Uh, you can get a job with the military pretty easily. Some won’t qualify, but most will be happily accepted.
Fuuuuuck that
You don’t want to be blown to pieces and then die in a foreign land? ARE YOU A COMMUNIST?