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He monkeyed with the courts, and didn't hire enough judges to do the work, and so a person had to wait so long for his case to come up that he got sick of waiti
by htaunay 10y ago
He monkeyed with the courts, and didn't hire enough judges to do the work, and so a person had to wait so long for his case to come up that he got sick of waiting, and went home, and so never got what was coming to him.
He made a lot of new jobs, and give them to loafers that nobody knowed nothing about, and the poor people had to pay the bill, whether they could or not.
Making us pay taxes without asking us whether we thought the things we had to pay taxes for was something that was worth paying taxes for or not.
Time passes, but some things don't change.
- Yhippa 10y agoOne cool thing about learning Latin in high school was reading books from two-thousand years ago. Take Ovid's Ars Amatoria for example. He was the original PUA (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria): "The first two books, aimed at men, contain sections which cover such topics as 'not forgetting her birthday', 'letting her miss you - but not for long' and 'not asking about her age'."
- schoen 10y agoI didn't remember that the ancient Romans observed birthdays as we do, but sure enough, it's in there: > Magna superstitio tibi sit natalis amicae: > Quaque aliquid dandum est, illa sit atra dies. ("Your girlfriend's birthday should be a source of great dread for you: whenever it's time to give something, that's a dark day.")
- talideon 10y agoIt's important to note that Ars was intended to be satirical. However, when it was rediscovered, a lot of the context surrounding it was lost, so people too it seriously... and it became the basis of courtly love and thus modern romance.