"This one's not for the kids": A candid look at Pompeiian Graffiti

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  • Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
  • Please note: this lecture does cover adult themes and is not recommended for people under the age of 15.
    Presented by Nathan Leber and in association with The Roman Archaeology Group and the University of Western Australia.
    This lecture was recorded on the 18th August 2010 at UWA.
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  • @kekero540
    @kekero540 3 роки тому +195

    “On April 19th I made bread.”

    • @Psspr273
      @Psspr273 Рік тому +1

      Yo my bday

    • @Psspr273
      @Psspr273 Рік тому +4

      Imma do that from now on

    • @blorger
      @blorger Рік тому +8

      @@Psspr273 bro even changed his name to bread

    • @Yoiyejsjwjanbsej
      @Yoiyejsjwjanbsej Рік тому +3

      @@blorger that’s dedication

    • @delbertgrady4790
      @delbertgrady4790 Рік тому +1

      Why is it strange that I found this comment on this exact day. I ask you sir, have you made bread today?

  • @cazek445
    @cazek445 3 роки тому +165

    "We pissed in the bed, it's not our fault; there was no chamber pot"

    • @SFVYachtClub
      @SFVYachtClub 3 роки тому +37

      reads like an angry review posted from a burner yelp account lol

    • @timesthree5757
      @timesthree5757 2 роки тому +9

      That's no excuse you pay full rent.

    • @matiasdelatorreoverton3612
      @matiasdelatorreoverton3612 Рік тому +4

      @@SFVYachtClub ancient karens be like

    • @diakritika
      @diakritika 4 місяці тому

      @@SFVYachtClub I came here to say exactly that :)

  • @daorignaldumbucket
    @daorignaldumbucket 2 роки тому +100

    Humans are always gonna human, regardless of culture, time, or language

  • @notsocrates9529
    @notsocrates9529 2 роки тому +89

    4chan before the internet, I love it.

  • @justasingledoor5178
    @justasingledoor5178 3 роки тому +78

    Man has changed very little

  • @phantomaviator1318
    @phantomaviator1318 Рік тому +17

    "Bro wheres the bathroom i crapped the bed"

  • @cynthiaisabell3001
    @cynthiaisabell3001 2 роки тому +26

    I wish so many slides were not cut off

  • @NimrodelMirage
    @NimrodelMirage 2 роки тому +30

    Cacator is such an hilarious word

    • @MassimoShire1981
      @MassimoShire1981 10 місяців тому +3

      Still exist in Italian language, cagatore, same meaning as Latin.

    • @rogeriomonteiro760
      @rogeriomonteiro760 5 місяців тому

      It exists still in all modern latin languages with the same meaning. Some words do not change in 2000 years of History.

    • @NimrodelMirage
      @NimrodelMirage 5 місяців тому

      @@rogeriomonteiro760 yes I know I'm a french speaker lol

    • @rogeriomonteiro760
      @rogeriomonteiro760 5 місяців тому +1

      @@NimrodelMirage In fact in my language ( portuguese ) it is cagador.

  • @slook7094
    @slook7094 6 місяців тому +20

    It really shows that we really have not evolved at all in 2000 years. Imagine what future archaeologists will think of our memes.

    • @robertmcmanus636
      @robertmcmanus636 4 місяці тому +2

      They'll probably wonder at our stupidity, as do I.

  • @lisascenic
    @lisascenic 5 місяців тому +5

    Thank you to the whims of UA-cam for sending this lecture my way
    Now let’s study curse scrolls!

  • @kathyevans3251
    @kathyevans3251 2 роки тому +18

    I loved it.I am fascinated by history.Pompeii is a topic I and currently reading about

    • @kwimms
      @kwimms 5 місяців тому

      It's all fake dude.

    • @PeachysMom
      @PeachysMom 4 місяці тому

      @@kwimmsyou’re fake.

    • @xmaseveeve5259
      @xmaseveeve5259 3 місяці тому

      Do you know it's a hoax?

  • @mosterchife6045
    @mosterchife6045 Рік тому +24

    Makes me wonder what people thousands of years past our time will be writing

  • @PaisleyPatchouli
    @PaisleyPatchouli 5 місяців тому +3

    Brilliant! Universal concerns remain!

  • @irenemax3574
    @irenemax3574 4 місяці тому +2

    "SATIN RULEZ"
    "WELL... IT'S A NICE FABRIC AND ALL, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT RULES..."😅

  • @Slartyfartblarst
    @Slartyfartblarst 4 місяці тому +1

    @12.57 An alternative translation might be: I wonder, wall, what stops you falling, 'neath the weight of all this scrawling.

  • @griffinrails
    @griffinrails 2 роки тому +8

    hectic piece braaaaaaaah

  • @clairmoon06
    @clairmoon06 Рік тому +10

    Cant get over the fact that samius literally said "kys!" to cornelius:( wonder what he did lol:((

  • @Itachi21x
    @Itachi21x 2 роки тому +47

    Ancient shitposting

    • @ADrunkCrayfish
      @ADrunkCrayfish 2 роки тому +10

      Best description I’ve seen.

    • @matiasdelatorreoverton3612
      @matiasdelatorreoverton3612 Рік тому +6

      Considering there was a tendency for writing in walls with shit. Shitposting is a very accurate term

  • @krumplethemal8831
    @krumplethemal8831 2 роки тому +22

    Lovers, like bees lead a honeyed life..
    That is until you get stung by your significant other.

  • @Dracopol
    @Dracopol 4 місяці тому +3

    18:34 Prostitution is the second-oldest profession, after hunting, because only after you've hunted and gotten food will the prostitutes be interested in what you have to trade, innit?

    • @louisestaats234
      @louisestaats234 3 місяці тому +1

      Well, gardening was the first profession. They lived in their own garden, you know.

  • @microfighterz
    @microfighterz 2 роки тому +9

    This was so fucking funny

  • @LostCylon
    @LostCylon 4 місяці тому

    Oddly, both amusing and informative. I never learned latin in school, but even I picked up on some of the things wriiten beforehand :)

  • @scoon2117
    @scoon2117 Місяць тому +2

    Oh cmon we r adults, show us everything 😢

  • @CONNELL19511216
    @CONNELL19511216 2 місяці тому

    The kids know it all already!

  • @xmaseveeve5259
    @xmaseveeve5259 3 місяці тому

    Very clever.

  • @user-jq3eq7ep4t
    @user-jq3eq7ep4t 5 місяців тому +1

    That's not textbook Latin! They often drop the accusative ending -m. And I never learned Latin handwriting, so some of the graffiti are very hard to read. Even when they carefully printed, II and IIII were strange to me. This was interesting and a lot of fun.

    • @davidwright8432
      @davidwright8432 3 місяці тому

      ... and the King's English is not spoken by most of his subjects. Plus ca change ...

  • @johnandmarylouwilde7882
    @johnandmarylouwilde7882 4 місяці тому

    What happened to the prudish Perth I knew in the early 1960s

  • @chaffcutter58.
    @chaffcutter58. 4 місяці тому

    Onya mate takes an Aussie to carry this one with humour.

    • @davidwright8432
      @davidwright8432 3 місяці тому

      Hmm. The Romans carried it with much humor, two thousand years earlier than the first 'Australians' - not to be confused with aborigenies .

  • @rantallion5032
    @rantallion5032 5 місяців тому +1

    censorship is sad-

  • @ScooterFXRS
    @ScooterFXRS 3 місяці тому +1

    But what about the children?

    • @rossjohnson1872
      @rossjohnson1872 3 місяці тому

      Was no childhood in Rome, just bully brutishness from the big ones. Little people got bent over.
      Christianity was a social revolution.

  • @noname-by3qz
    @noname-by3qz 2 місяці тому +1

    Wait. 4th minute...Why would someone write 3AD? If Jesus was supposedly born just 3 years before, he wouldn't even be known yet. What is the actual date it really says??

  • @darialomurno05
    @darialomurno05 Рік тому +6

    What? I thought that people in those times weren't able to write nor read

    • @realemperorkuzco
      @realemperorkuzco Рік тому +4

      Not necessarily

    • @AViewCado69420
      @AViewCado69420 Рік тому +6

      Apparently literacy rate back in the peak roman era was relatively high when compared the medieval era

    • @llywrch7116
      @llywrch7116 5 місяців тому +2

      The meaning of "literacy" in the Ancient World is a debated topic. For example, just because a person was literate enough to keep business records (which relied on a number of abbreviations) did not necessarily mean he could read a lengthy text, say Caesar or Vergil. If a person knew his letters well enough to sound out the word -- & there is evidence that people at that time habitually read out loud -- he could understand most of this graffiti. And that level of literacy can be achieved with a few months of schooling.

  • @davepowell7168
    @davepowell7168 4 місяці тому

    Tame

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432 3 місяці тому

    'Candid' look? Minime vero! Bowdlerized and censored. Decorum est nunc in terra Australis.

  • @caloman420
    @caloman420 Рік тому +1

    This guy is tweaking hard lol

  • @informant09
    @informant09 Рік тому +11

    "Please dont be offended"
    When you sell your soul to ideology

    • @VH-ew7oq
      @VH-ew7oq Рік тому +10

      I don't know about all that but it's annoying having extensive warnings about vulgarity then go on to extensively sensor it and constantly apologize for it. Like holy shit dude, none of the worst versions of these are worse than high school locker room talk. Imagine getting offended by 1,944 year old bathroom wall scribbles.

    • @SimplyApollo
      @SimplyApollo Рік тому

      I'm pretty sure he was mostly talking about the homosexual and little boy slide. Most people now a day are okay with acknowledging sex between adults, but talking about specific sex positions like sodomy and other devious acts is clearly still offensive today

    • @blondequijote
      @blondequijote Рік тому

      @SimplyApollo damn snowflake generation can't accept that real men kept their swords in each other's sheaths. Maybe the wokeism infiltrating the military will show that it might take a kick in the ass to get recruits in gear, but they gotta keep their gear in their asses to keep their asses in gear.

    • @lainhikaru5657
      @lainhikaru5657 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@SimplyApollo"Devious acts" lol, we humans haven't changed at all in millenia then since it seems a bunch of prudes still exist.

  • @FrankJoseph-tp2jz
    @FrankJoseph-tp2jz 3 місяці тому

    So the British claim to have invented humor, no twere the Latins

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 Рік тому

    So they used B.C. in B.C. ? 🤪 Just saying.

    • @irenemax3574
      @irenemax3574 4 місяці тому +1

      Oh, I know this one!: The graffiti names the consuls, Marcus Lepidus and Quintus Catullus who did their consul thing together for one year only, the year that modern folk call 78 BC.

    • @rossjohnson1872
      @rossjohnson1872 3 місяці тому +1

      You missed it. A.D. just meant yesterday.

  • @theretardedmonkey100
    @theretardedmonkey100 5 місяців тому +1

    An awful lecture on a fascinating topic.