• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    I mean, there’s definitely gonna be worse out there, but I once saw a tattoo on an online post, of presumably their date of birth in roman numerals.
    Problem is, there was only one “M”, so it looked something like: IV/X/MCXCIV

    But I figured, alright, let’s not assume things, maybe they’re a history buff and something cool happened on that day in 1194.
    But if I remember correctly, I found some list of all Wikipedia articles for specific dates and that day did not have an article, because nothing noteworthy had happened.

    So, yeah, I guess we do have to assume that they are in fact a vampire.

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      12 hours ago

      Oh man, there’s something that really frustrates me about people with Roman numeral tattoos that do not follow the actual conventions of Roman numerals whatsoever.

      Like you moron, there is a numeral for the year you were born. You don’t separate out each digit you fucking dumbass

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      10 hours ago

      Assuming 4/10 is 4th October, shouldn’t the day be written like “a.d. IV Non(as)” (4 days until the first kalend)

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        5 hours ago

        To be honest, I have no idea. I’m not a Roman numerals/date crack myself. The tattoo definitely wouldn’t have been faithful in that regard, but it’s also not like they intended to be accurate down to that level…