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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Fucking sports is overweighted in populace's brainspace mostly bc of ancient "bread & circuses" theme

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:46 PM

Sep 22

(broad generalizations follow: )

Obese from extended sense of "bread" and easily amused by circuses, which is a word from the root "circ" and was the round or oval shaped arena where gladiators in helmets battled each other.

History doesn't repeat, but its rhymes can't be beat.

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Fucking sports is overweighted in populace's brainspace mostly bc of ancient "bread & circuses" theme Bernardo de La Paz Sep 22 #1