Retard kings of old

[Ed Anger]

What's with nero's neck beard

History's first hipster.

[Malthus]

That's what I meant. Even if the Lagids were all fatasses, clearly they did something right with Cleo.

All accounts of the time, and her face on the coins, point that she wasn't specially physically attractive either. She had the Lagid protruding eyes and thick neck as well.

Modern reconstruction:

Cleopatra was ... a Jewish American Princess? 

[Martim Silva]

This bust of Cleopatra, currently in the Altes Museum in Berlin, was made during her lifetime and presented to her, so it's a safe bet to assume it's a quasi-pic (it also used to be painted, like all ancient statues/busts):

What's with nero's neck beard

Nero used a beard to hide as best as possible the fact that his body had a nasty skin disease that made it spotted. It also made him smell bad, regardless of how many baths he took. But his head was undamaged, and he tried to focus people's attentions to it.

[Ideologue]

Inbreeding is worse than I thought.  She had no pupils.

[dps]

People always look like shit on ancient coins.

She was also supposed to have a beautiful voice iirc.

Ask grumbler about it.

[Fireblade]

Estelle is a stupid name for royalty.

[Threviel]

Estelle is a stupid name for royalty.

And Mary for that sake, the english form of Maria, not a swedish name at all.


So the consensus of the thread seems to be that no one know of any case of Downs or Cerebral Palsy or the like among old royalty.

[Fireblade]

For that matter, why does Sweden even bother having a monarchy these days? It's too polluted with common blood. 

I mean, damn, it's already bad enough some French peasant is on the throne, now you've got the offspring of a personal trainer, of all things, set to inherit the crown.

[Fireblade]

[Drakken]

For that matter, why does Sweden even bother having a monarchy these days? It's too polluted with common blood. 

I mean, damn, it's already bad enough some French peasant is on the throne, now you've got the offspring of a personal trainer, of all things, set to inherit the crown.

Because having retired politician as presidents in Sweden would be a worse lot, and the King of Sweden has been so thoroughly castrated of his residual powers in 1974 that there's no reason to remove him. Besides, that French peasant was Maréchal d'Empire and one of the few generals Napoleon, by then, was scared of.

That said, that guy doesn't look like a gym trainer at all, more like a computer geek to me.

[Threviel]

The fuck! How do you know what that says?

[Ideologue]

I understood "Swedish Kingdom" and "therefore."

[Ideologue]

For that matter, why does Sweden even bother having a monarchy these days? It's too polluted with common blood. 

FB, you forgot to sign in as Lettow.

[Fireblade]

The fuck! How do you know what that says?

Jag är från Skåne, ditt jävla pucko. 

[Razgovory]

I understood "Swedish Kingdom" and "therefore."

I imagine Fabrikdirektor means something like factory boss.  The "Chips" part might refer to microchips.