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"5'6? Good lad, we'll teach you the rest by beatings" Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

That would be legitimately useful experience for the militaries of the time

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 8 months ago

    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...

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