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The other day I walk into my colleague's office and while we're engaged in conversation I notice someone quite visibly drew a penis and a vagina on a whiteboard otherwise filled with transliterations from an ancient language there. I point it out to my colleague, and the conversation went something like this:

Colleague: Oh yeah, the ex-gf of [other guy who works in the office but wasn't present at the time] drew that.
Me: Don't you think it's a little inappropriate?
Colleague: Dunno, I guess so?
Me: *says nothing but looks at him meaningfully*
Colleague: I mean yeah, we get students in here regularly.
Me: *says nothing but looks at him meaningfully*
Colleague: And I guess it's not all that good that that part of the whiteboard is located right next to where the student would be sitting at the desk here.
Me: *says nothing but looks at him meaningfully*
Colleague: I just don't want to be the spoilsport who removes it because of some uptight prude puritanism, I mean it's just in good fun.

In case you're wondering about NSFW regulations at a public university in Germany...
 
Could you argue that these drawings accurately represent that ancient peoples were just as immature as we are nowadays and liked engaging in some lighthearted shenanigans? :D
 
Perun said:
If I were to do that, I'd just show one of those Roman phallus statuettes with a phallus.

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Which reminds me, is the memetic Sumerian joke about the dog in the tavern and opening "this one" a double entendre on brothels or not, what do you think?

ur-gir₁₅-re ec₂-dam-ce₃ in-kur₉-ma
nij₂ na-me igi nu-mu-un-du₈
ne-en jal₂ taka₄-en-e-ce

I need to be certain, so that if I accidentaly time travelled there, I'd know if it's safe to use as a joke.

:ninja:
 
Magnus said:
Per: *says nothing but looks at you meaningfully*
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Me: I mean, the double entendre theory about taverns being also brothels is not mine, it's an actual expert theory from the 50s, I think?

Per: *says nothing but looks at me meaningfully*

Me: What? Still too dirty for you? Since when are you Germans so obsessed with purity? [*it hits him*] Oooooohh......
 
There's a famous inscription by the great Khan Hashtag saying, Even if a man lives well, them messages keep coming all the time.
 
I've started clearing out my mailbox. I used to just sort all e-mails into individual folders, but I stopped that practice in 2011. It's been bothering me for ages that I have tens of thousands of e-mails in my inbox, so I started sorting them a few days ago. It sounds like more work than it actually is, because for the most part it's just a matter of sorting a few mails per page and then deleting the immense amount of junk mail, but it's been quite a trip down memory lane. Rediscovering mails by people who have been out of my life for long, some of them deceased, and then seeing when particular people entered my life... a lot of forgotten joys and disappointments. And now I've reached Spring of 2020, and damn is it eerie to see it all unfold again.
 
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