All you got from college was that damned tattoo 10 24 2022

So per research awhile ago, the word British comes from the word prickish.  Meaning tattooed.

And England (Britain) was founded by the Roman Empire.

So were the Roman soldiers' slaves? No, that isn't what I just read.

But what I read was when the Romans conquered an area they sold off the men as slaves.  And slaves were tattooed.  Initially they were tattooed on the forehead.  But Constantine changed that.  It is said they were tattooed to make them easier to control.  But soldiers were frequently tattooed too.

I never knew that the Romans tattooed on the forehead!

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So was England initially a penal colony?

No it appears England was never a penal colony.  Was England started as a penal colony from continent Europe? Generally, islands had been used as penal colonies. - Quora

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And it appears that slaves were forbidden to serve in the Roman Army.

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This post was just meant to be humorous at first.  A play on the Cheech and Chongs song were it talks about getting a job so you don't become like the Finkelstien _____ kid.

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Roman soldiers were paid in salt.  It is where the word soldier comes from.  Sal dare- to give salt to.

Which brings up an interesting point.  You had a meritocracy in Greece.  Then you had Celtics mining salt in meritocracy form.  Whereby the more they mined the more money they made.

And here you have the Roman Empire.  The more people they captured and sold into slavery the more they could convert that meritocracy system into one of ....horror.  Pay your soldiers to make slaves of the free workers in the meritocracy and give the workers pay to the soldiers in the form of what the workers produced- salt.

I think some people have this taking mentality hard wired into them.

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Ever see a college graduate you has a tattoo from the fraternity they were a member of?

And you ask yourself, "Who do they serve?"

And then you read how they hazed someone to death.

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