• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    I first learned about Commodus when as a kid, it was because I asked my grandmother why she always referred to a toilet as “the commode” and got an explanation about Commodus being an extremely unpopular ruler. Now, I’ve since been told that this isn’t where that term comes from at all and that the reference to the Roman emperor is just a popular misconception, but still, you have to fuck up real bad I’d think for people in a country on an entirely different side of the world the better part of a thousand years later to still think that it would be fitting for your name to be literally shat on.