Meme Thread for Memes and other assorted Lulz

[Speaker to Animals]

They weren't built by slaves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... laves.html

[Okeefenokee]

I am a firm believer that slavery was one of the greatest errors of America, however net positive it was at the time.

Agreed. I'd say THE greatest. Maybe women's suffrage. It's too soon to know.

[Okeefenokee]

They weren't built by slaves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... laves.html

I learned this in grade school, in Georgia.

[Penner]

That is believe to have been a government job creator since the Pharaohs hired all of their workers. Pretty much to believe to have been a mixed of skilled and unskilled workers (paid, fyi)

The mud-brick tombs were uncovered last week in the backyard of the Giza pyramids, stretching beyond a burial site first discovered in the 1990s and dating to the 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.), when the great pyramids were built on the fringes of present-day Cairo.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus once described the pyramid builders as slaves, creating what Egyptologists say is a myth later propagated by Hollywood films.

Graves of the pyramid builders were first discovered in the area in 1990 when a tourist on horseback stumbled over a wall that later proved to be a tomb. Egypt's archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said that discovery and the latest finds last week show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination.

Hawass told reporters at the site that the find, first announced on Sunday, sheds more light on the lifestyle and origins of the pyramid builders. Most importantly, he said the workers were not recruited from slaves commonly found across Egypt during pharaonic times.

https://www.usnews.com/science/articles ... d-pyramids

[Okeefenokee]

That is believe to have been a government job creator since the Pharaohs hired all of their workers. Pretty much to believe to have been a mixed of skilled and unskilled workers (paid, fyi)

That doesn't even come close. It was the resting place of the god-king. Egyptians didn't have jobs in the sense we have them. Everything belonged to the Pharaoh. There was no concern with employment numbers. They didn't have jobs programs.

The job of engineering a pyramid was a high position of honor granted in childhood. Pyramid builders were chosen as children and raised to adulthood for that single purpose. It was possibly the greatest honor for a citizen, and no lowly slaves need apply.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Humping slabs for the god-king?

Sounds like a jobs program to me.

[Speaker to Animals]

Humping slabs for the god-king?

Sounds like a jobs program to me.

Literally free beer comes with the program too.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Humping slabs for the god-king?

Sounds like a jobs program to me.

Literally free beer comes with the program too.

And people say government can't get anything right.

[Speaker to Animals]

Humping slabs for the god-king?

Sounds like a jobs program to me.

Literally free beer comes with the program too.

And people say government can't get anything right.

I know, right?

Let's see if the Superdome is still standing five thousand years from now.

[Okeefenokee]

Humping slabs for the god-king?

Sounds like a jobs program to me.

Literally free beer comes with the program too.

And a state burial site adjacent to the god-king.