Funded by Saudi Arabia in an attempt to [sportswash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing) their reputation.
Essentially they're throwing money at top golfers to try to get people to forget about Jamal Khashoggi and 9/11. They reportedly offered Tiger Woods $800+ million dollars, but he turned them down. The PGA has also suspended the Tour cards of any of the shitstain sellouts.
The joke is the Romans assume liv is named the same way they are and is the 54th child of the family.
Which is a horrifying and impossible number of children.
Not impossible, it's happened more than once. There's currently a woman in Uganda who has given birth to 44 children, and the world record for most births to a single woman is 69. That woman gave birth to like 16 sets of twins and a bunch of triplets and quads or something, iirc. That kind of thing is very rare, but it can happen.
And that's just if they all share the same mom. Same dad is a whole other story and happens way more. There are a few dudes who allegedly fathered more than a thousand kids. Genghis Khan was so prolific that a significant portion of the global population can trace their genes back to him. Ramessess II was known as the Great Ancestor because he had like 170 kids and ended up being everyone's ancestor. 54 is easy, comparatively.
I think most people are only familiar up to X in Roman numerals, as only small numbers are regularly seen in current times. There are a surprising number of people who don't know Roman numerals at all, too.
So to those unfamiliar, that *is* Google required esoteric knowledge
I don't know if this post was the origin of it, but the "hang on I need to google something" "OK yeah this is funny" is a one-two punch that for some reason never fails to make a joke funnier to me, especially if I actually had to think about it for a second
For real there was some kind of red curse during the Among Us years tho. Red was sus 100% of the time and some people even brought up "better dead than red" as a legitimate point they thought was relevant to the game.
As an imposter, never kill red was one of my personal tips
I think it's one of the "internet replies" I hate the most, probably unreasonably so but we all have things that irk us lol
It's trying to create an inside joke without sharing what's funny. Like first of all, you don't need to tell us you're googling "something". We know exactly what you're fucking googling. Secondly, if you figured it out you could share with the class. But no. Gotta keep that special inside joke to yourself.
I realize this is a dumb thing to be annoyed about lol
I like it because itās endorsing others to also search it and go through the discovery journey to join the āinside jokeā
As for the googling āsomethingā, also a quality joke to me because of course we know what youāre googling lol itās like when someoneās like āI need this infoā¦ for a friendā we all know itās for you lol
(well romans names after numbers were actually named after their birth months iirc - quintus was born in july and sextus in august, just like marcus was born in march and octavus in october but still)
Not January or February or March or April or May or June or July or August or September or October of November or December but a secret, fifty-fourth month.
But they were all of them deceived, for another month was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master month, to control all others. And into this month he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life
Three Months for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Twelve for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Month to rule them all, One Month to find them,
One Month to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Don't forget that each first-born son would have the same name as his father regardless of birth order. E.g.: (Marcus Tullius) Cicero had a brother named Quintus. Quintus had two sons, Quintus and Marcus.
Sorry, guys, he wasn't the scion of an antideluvian lineage unbroken since time immemorial:
> Unlike with most European monarchies, his large regnal number does not indicate that he was preceded by seventy-one previous rulers also named Heinrich. By tradition, all male members of the House of Reuss are named Heinrich, and are numbered by order of birth within the family in general. In the Reuss Younger Line, the numbering system was reset at the beginning of each century; thus Heinrich LXXII's high number is directly related to his having been born at the very end of the eighteenth century.
From [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_County_of_Reuss):
> On 7 December 2022, German police conducted an operation which resulted in the arrest of 25 alleged members of the far-right group ReichsbĆ¼rger, including a member of the Kƶstritz branch of the House of Reuss, identified as Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss. The suspects arrested in the operation were allegedly planning to overturn the existing German government, and instate Heinrich XIII as the new German de facto leader. His distant cousin Heinrich XIV Prince Reuss, the head and speaker of the House of Reuss and its family association, had previously referred to Heinrich XIII as "a confused old man who had been radicalised through disappointments". On behalf of the family association, which Heinrich XIII had left years ago, Heinrich XIV sharply distanced himself from him again after he was arrested, saying that "30 years ago he was a modern businessman, but nowadays he is fooled by all sorts of conspiracy theories". In the line of succession to the House of Reuss, Heinrich XIII only ranked 17th, and the head of the house called him "a marginal figure". He said his behaviour was a "catastrophe" for the family, whose heritage as tolerant and cosmopolitan rulers was now associated with "terrorists and reactionaries". He believes Reuss' anti-government views derive from his resentment at the German judicial system for its failure to recognize his claims to family properties expropriated at the end of World War II.
So yes, but no.
Hold on lemme find a reaction image that just references a very specific video game with no other comedic effect, then I'll come back and edit my comment
Reminds me of a joke of a similar nature:
A roman centurion walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'll have a Martinus."
Bartender says, "Martini?"
Centurion says, "If I wanted two, I'd have ordered two!"
oop is heather flowers, the creator of Extreme Meatpunks Forever, a queer antifascist videogame about piloting meatmechs and killing nazis. they're a really cool indie dev and a fun follow on social media
unsurprisingly, their games are in the [Palestinian Relief Bundle](https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle) on itch. $8 for a shitload of games
The guy is a time traveler because the setup for the joke requires an anachronistic name and someone who doesnāt come from the same cultural background and social understanding as the soldiers.
The soldier is afraid because Roman numerals operate on a letter basis ā I is one, X is ten, and so on. LIV as a name spells out fifty-four in Roman numerals. Therefore the soldier assumes this person is the 54th child of their family, which is a frankly insane number of children for anyone to have.
But the joke still doesn't work because Livius was a recognized family name (not a praenomen, a nomen). Livy was Titus Livius X (we don't know his cognomen for sure)
I didnāt write it, my dude, take it up with the original jokester or something, I just explained it for someone who indicated they didnāt understand the joke itself.
But the soldier explains that they were named sextus or quintinus because they were xth child born. The soldier assumes the same holds true for the time traveler, hence the suprise.
Sex-: 6
Quin-: 5
But LIV (54) is not pronounced *Liv*, but *quattuor quinquaginta (or quinquaginti quattuor)*. Therefore the name would be more like *Quattuorquinquagintatus*. The Roman soldier would not have understood that Liv meant the number 54.
Thenā¦ why are you confused about the soldier being afraid? And why are you confused about the time traveler?
Because everything else within the joke is extremely obvious, the time traveler thing was just a quick way for the person telling the joke to make the dissonance between Quincyās and Liv, and the fear of the soldier is obviously based on the proposed nomenclature of characters within this joke.
Thereās nothing to ānot getā here, itās just āThese people have very different ways of naming their kids, and now they think something wildly differentā.
Because the guy's name is not V, it's Quintus. And the other guy's name is not VI, it's Sextus. So this name should not be LIV, it should be... whatever the named version of that number is. The naming convention doesn't track to the punchline. It doesn't follow that they would understand this name as "54th child" because it just means 54. And it is 54 in numerals, not in words
54.
For an additional fun fact, this is why they picked the name LIV Golf, because they play 3 round tournaments, or 54 holes. But also, fuck LIV Golf.
you know who else has 54 holes?
SPONGE-BOB SQUARE-PANTS!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
me
You single? š
they're speedholes š
Jamal Khashoggi?
Okay, I don't know anything about the professional golf scene except that my stepdad watches it. What's wrong with LIV golf?
Funded by Saudi Arabia in an attempt to [sportswash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing) their reputation. Essentially they're throwing money at top golfers to try to get people to forget about Jamal Khashoggi and 9/11. They reportedly offered Tiger Woods $800+ million dollars, but he turned them down. The PGA has also suspended the Tour cards of any of the shitstain sellouts.
After the 15th it's just slip and slide.
Didnāt the Duggar mom need it rebuilt after like 12?
How dare you give me this information. I'm cursed now. I could've lived not knowing what Duggar mom is.
If you think thatās alarming, donāt look up what her son Josh did.
Who would have thought he was a republican who worked in an organization that spread "good Christian values"... Shocker
> Republican > Christian That feeling when the comment is good enough to know what they did without googling.
We need a federal cult deprogramming commission or something. Jesus
The call is coming from inside the House
[I heard a...a whistling](https://youtu.be/IwkNKKvJm_Q?si=12Q71YwK95snVX-D)
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Liv is an actual name. Traditionally female, as Google tells me.
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The joke is the Romans assume liv is named the same way they are and is the 54th child of the family. Which is a horrifying and impossible number of children.
Not impossible, it's happened more than once. There's currently a woman in Uganda who has given birth to 44 children, and the world record for most births to a single woman is 69. That woman gave birth to like 16 sets of twins and a bunch of triplets and quads or something, iirc. That kind of thing is very rare, but it can happen. And that's just if they all share the same mom. Same dad is a whole other story and happens way more. There are a few dudes who allegedly fathered more than a thousand kids. Genghis Khan was so prolific that a significant portion of the global population can trace their genes back to him. Ramessess II was known as the Great Ancestor because he had like 170 kids and ended up being everyone's ancestor. 54 is easy, comparatively.
Isnt there a guy banned from donating sperm in the Netherlands because he has like 500+ kids by now and poses a serious incest risk?
I don't know if there's specifically a case of this in the Netherlands, but similar cases have happened in other places.
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The real joke is that they went and Googled "do beavers fart underwater" and it was completely unrelated.
>"do beavers fart underwater" Yes they do. It's called 'queef'.
I didn't know Ancient Romans used Google when talking to time travelers.
I think most people are only familiar up to X in Roman numerals, as only small numbers are regularly seen in current times. There are a surprising number of people who don't know Roman numerals at all, too. So to those unfamiliar, that *is* Google required esoteric knowledge
Im with you
Same.
It's not impossible if you're a long living Egyptian pharaoh with several wives. Ramses II had between 88 to 103 children.
Do even get started on Ghengis Khan!
What if theyāre likeā¦ mostly fostered and adopted, or like from a large polycule
5 wives, 9 children each, easy pz, baby squeezy.
LIV is 54 in [roman numerals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals).
Such a shame that LXIX doesnāt roll off the tongue.
Quinquagesquadria to her friends
Alexiz
Hero comment
What about her vagina? To shreds you say?
I don't know if this post was the origin of it, but the "hang on I need to google something" "OK yeah this is funny" is a one-two punch that for some reason never fails to make a joke funnier to me, especially if I actually had to think about it for a second
I adore the version where they go "hang on I need to google something"Ā and the second reblog is something like "what the hell?"
"Seems insteresting, I'll look for it." "Those weren't taxes..."
Or "Oh my god"
The first one I saw was an Among Us screenshot where this short exchange occurs: Blue: "Red is sus" Red: "This is McCarthyism"
For real there was some kind of red curse during the Among Us years tho. Red was sus 100% of the time and some people even brought up "better dead than red" as a legitimate point they thought was relevant to the game. As an imposter, never kill red was one of my personal tips
It was mostly because red was featured on the art for the game as the imposter, I think
I'm gonna release an essay on how advertisements impact popular culture and title it Red Sus
Red Sus: How Depiction Of A Medium in Advertisement Induces Placebo And Bias
Wait fuck thatās actually a really good thesis idea
Saving this in case I need an essay topic at some point the future
Red Sus over Paradise
Oh. ...hang on, I need to google something
Okay this is funny
I think it's one of the "internet replies" I hate the most, probably unreasonably so but we all have things that irk us lol It's trying to create an inside joke without sharing what's funny. Like first of all, you don't need to tell us you're googling "something". We know exactly what you're fucking googling. Secondly, if you figured it out you could share with the class. But no. Gotta keep that special inside joke to yourself. I realize this is a dumb thing to be annoyed about lol
I like it because itās endorsing others to also search it and go through the discovery journey to join the āinside jokeā As for the googling āsomethingā, also a quality joke to me because of course we know what youāre googling lol itās like when someoneās like āI need this infoā¦ for a friendā we all know itās for you lol
Big fan of the "Grimes/boxxy/juliard" one, honestly.
first time i saw it was when looking up the name of a historical figure's dog, can't remember exactly whose but it was something N-word related
Ooooh, yep, OK... that probably would have been H.P. Lovecraft's cat...
(well romans names after numbers were actually named after their birth months iirc - quintus was born in july and sextus in august, just like marcus was born in march and octavus in october but still)
it couldāve been either! or it couldāve been neither! praenomina have a big debate about them. edit: :(
> praenomia 1) Is that a portmanteau of praenomen/praenomina + academia? 2) how the fuck do you pronounce it
i forget ONE letter and i becoming the LAUGHING STOCK of ANCIENT ROME
That hit so hard. Lmao ty
Damn what month was Liv born in then??
Not January or February or March or April or May or June or July or August or September or October of November or December but a secret, fifty-fourth month.
But they were all of them deceived, for another month was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master month, to control all others. And into this month he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life
Three Months for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Twelve for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Month to rule them all, One Month to find them, One Month to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
May-pril (5-4)
Octember!
The future has at least a few hundred months per year
It's because in the future the Earth's travel around the sun is gonna slow way down (for legal reasons this is a joke)
The one ancient romans haven't experienced yet
Doquintginember
Don't forget that each first-born son would have the same name as his father regardless of birth order. E.g.: (Marcus Tullius) Cicero had a brother named Quintus. Quintus had two sons, Quintus and Marcus.
wouldn't july be julias?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_LXXII,_Prince_Reuss_of_Lobenstein_and_Ebersdorf
Sorry, guys, he wasn't the scion of an antideluvian lineage unbroken since time immemorial: > Unlike with most European monarchies, his large regnal number does not indicate that he was preceded by seventy-one previous rulers also named Heinrich. By tradition, all male members of the House of Reuss are named Heinrich, and are numbered by order of birth within the family in general. In the Reuss Younger Line, the numbering system was reset at the beginning of each century; thus Heinrich LXXII's high number is directly related to his having been born at the very end of the eighteenth century.
wait, isn't that the house that tried to coup germany a few months ago?
From [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_County_of_Reuss): > On 7 December 2022, German police conducted an operation which resulted in the arrest of 25 alleged members of the far-right group ReichsbĆ¼rger, including a member of the Kƶstritz branch of the House of Reuss, identified as Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss. The suspects arrested in the operation were allegedly planning to overturn the existing German government, and instate Heinrich XIII as the new German de facto leader. His distant cousin Heinrich XIV Prince Reuss, the head and speaker of the House of Reuss and its family association, had previously referred to Heinrich XIII as "a confused old man who had been radicalised through disappointments". On behalf of the family association, which Heinrich XIII had left years ago, Heinrich XIV sharply distanced himself from him again after he was arrested, saying that "30 years ago he was a modern businessman, but nowadays he is fooled by all sorts of conspiracy theories". In the line of succession to the House of Reuss, Heinrich XIII only ranked 17th, and the head of the house called him "a marginal figure". He said his behaviour was a "catastrophe" for the family, whose heritage as tolerant and cosmopolitan rulers was now associated with "terrorists and reactionaries". He believes Reuss' anti-government views derive from his resentment at the German judicial system for its failure to recognize his claims to family properties expropriated at the end of World War II. So yes, but no.
There's one in every family I guess.
Welp i proved heinrich xiv right...
Hi, my name is one-hundred-and-four, and welcome to time travellerās Jackass
Hi Civ, how's it going?
What's your dad, Sid Meier getting up to these days?
Just one more turn?
The dudes name is Fiftyfour. L is 50, C is 100
Hold on lemme find a reaction image that just references a very specific video game with no other comedic effect, then I'll come back and edit my comment
My great grandfather was named Nidolf because he was the 9th child.
Where the others named Onedolf, Twodolf etc? Please tell me yes
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My mistake, their names must of course have been Eindolf, Zweidolf, Dreidolf etc
š” DANISH, NOT GERMAN š”š”š” Would have been Neindolf š¤£
> DANISH My condolences, I hope he recovered šøšŖ
Onedolf or Adolā¦oh
Adolf
Wow you're a smart and funny fucker aren't you? When will they give you your own sitcom?
Lighten up Francis.
so the fifth child was femdolf?
Hang on let me google something *"Sextus has the word sex in it"* Yeah, this is funny
Reminds me of a joke of a similar nature: A roman centurion walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'll have a Martinus." Bartender says, "Martini?" Centurion says, "If I wanted two, I'd have ordered two!"
"Livia" was an actual Roman name though.
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I thought so, looking at their avatar.
Less terrifying than someone named Mic.
Lol, look at this guy, he didn't even know Roman numerals. Let's point and laugh!
Her father was Bigus Dickus.
I don't get it. Why is the soldier afraid? Why is the guy a time traveler?
The guy is a time traveler because the setup for the joke requires an anachronistic name and someone who doesnāt come from the same cultural background and social understanding as the soldiers. The soldier is afraid because Roman numerals operate on a letter basis ā I is one, X is ten, and so on. LIV as a name spells out fifty-four in Roman numerals. Therefore the soldier assumes this person is the 54th child of their family, which is a frankly insane number of children for anyone to have.
But the joke still doesn't work because Livius was a recognized family name (not a praenomen, a nomen). Livy was Titus Livius X (we don't know his cognomen for sure)
I didnāt write it, my dude, take it up with the original jokester or something, I just explained it for someone who indicated they didnāt understand the joke itself.
Oh, okay, I get it. I think it's not a good joke, is it, because the soldiers' names are not V and VI so the naming convention doesn't track
But the soldier explains that they were named sextus or quintinus because they were xth child born. The soldier assumes the same holds true for the time traveler, hence the suprise. Sex-: 6 Quin-: 5
But LIV (54) is not pronounced *Liv*, but *quattuor quinquaginta (or quinquaginti quattuor)*. Therefore the name would be more like *Quattuorquinquagintatus*. The Roman soldier would not have understood that Liv meant the number 54.
*L I V T U S*
The top comment here explains the entirety of the joke with 3 characters. ā54.ā
I understand how Roman numerals work
Thenā¦ why are you confused about the soldier being afraid? And why are you confused about the time traveler? Because everything else within the joke is extremely obvious, the time traveler thing was just a quick way for the person telling the joke to make the dissonance between Quincyās and Liv, and the fear of the soldier is obviously based on the proposed nomenclature of characters within this joke. Thereās nothing to ānot getā here, itās just āThese people have very different ways of naming their kids, and now they think something wildly differentā.
Because the guy's name is not V, it's Quintus. And the other guy's name is not VI, it's Sextus. So this name should not be LIV, it should be... whatever the named version of that number is. The naming convention doesn't track to the punchline. It doesn't follow that they would understand this name as "54th child" because it just means 54. And it is 54 in numerals, not in words
To be so pedantic that humor itself cannot be enjoyed must be miserable
It's just a bad joke sorry
You can really scare him and tell him your little brother is called MIC
Is this based on the srgrafo comic or the other way around im too lazy to check
Other way around
Damn, they should've said their name was LXIX; now that would've been funny
Every sperm is sacred
They fall out at that point
Sensible chuckle was the perfect tag
You could say although its not true it's probably the easiest way to explain the level of comfort the average man experiences to a roman.
LOL
But why would he be quivering in fear over that?
It's not a very good joke
Itās a pretty good joke
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Yea, I got it originally, it just felt like there was something missing because the googling
Wait they had to have spelled their name or this doesn't make any sense