Comment on These Have Been Found All Across Ancient Rome (Nobody Knows Why)
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The “Everybody had one” caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they’ve only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.
Are you interpreting it literally? It’s a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it’s just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.
Whether it actually was common though, I don’t know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.
It’s a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.
“Everybody had one” is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is just a flat out lie.
Yeah, this video is poorly researched clickbait.
Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Patently
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks, I’m dyslexic and that’s where the spell check got me.