Well, you’re wrong.

You’re extrapolating from one painting by Jerome. They were not fat, generally.

All gladiators were slaves, so make that 100%

Uh, you know The Dating Game once existed, right? Kids.

Ruskin, on his wedding night, was shocked to discover that women, unlike statuary, had pubic hair.

Regency women also wore filmy dresses, and frequently left one breast exposed. God damn the Victorians and their middle class morality.

Yeah, and Romans weren’t inked all to hell, either. Jesus, these idiots with total upper body coverage, from second digits of their fingers to their goddamn necks. That’s an addiction, not a statement.

I would say “popular classicist.” Mary Beard hasn’t done any real scholarship in 20-30, years, though when I was in grad school her book on society in the late Republic was well regarded.

We intentionally hire the least intelligent, least educated, and most authoritarian candidates to be cops. Not surprised that they suck at thinking through things.

No, dude. When a guy is not an imminent threat, but he won’t respond instantly to commands? Oh, yeah, kill him. You must be a kid, because this shit DIDNT happen like this before. Cops de-escalated dangerous situations, instead of artificially creating scenarios in which lethal force would be absolved.

Black man swinging a bat? Life threatening. White man (apparently also out of his mind) on the street with an ASSAULT RIFLE, FIRING IT ON THE STREET? Oh, they talked him down. And released him. See the difference?

Not if the rest of planet earth minds their own business

Now, you are somebody with the right to speak to this. How involved was the rest of your family in the procession? Were you on your own?

You can’t compare that experience to being a small child at his mother’s funeral. The pomposity of people who think all loss is equivalent. You’re fucking narcissists.

You bought the magazines. How do you think the market for exploitative pics got started? If people could get their own lives...

Jesus, maybe it wasn’t our place to watch it at all, and we have no relationship to Diana to mourn.

That’s not true. Royal cortèges have hosts of dignitaries, and the pride of place is not always limited to offspring. Consider Jackie Fischer following Edward VII.

The key is HOW OLD were the kids asked to follow the cortège, you dope. All parental loss is not equivalent. Also, when George V rode in his father’s cortège (at age 43, you idiot), the Africans and Indians were wogs fit for British rule. We advance.

Word. Getting chummy with American culture ruined the British. Churchill said, after Trinity, that “the idiot child has the matches now” and sometimes I think he didn’t mean mankind.

Look, the one thing you CAN say about the royals is that they have all been bred for centuries to do it. It’s been that way since Victoria.