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I mean, there's definitely gonna be worse out there, but I once saw a tattoo on an online post, of presumably their date of birth in roman numerals.
Problem is, there was only one "M", so it looked something like: IV/X/MCXCIV
But I figured, alright, let's not assume things, maybe they're a history buff and something cool happened on that day in 1194.
But if I remember correctly, I found some list of all Wikipedia articles for specific dates and that day did not have an article, because nothing noteworthy had happened.
So, yeah, I guess we do have to assume that they are in fact a vampire.
Oh man, there's something that really frustrates me about people with Roman numeral tattoos that do not follow the actual conventions of Roman numerals whatsoever.
Like you moron, there is a numeral for the year you were born. You don't separate out each digit you fucking dumbass
OH that makes so much sense! I had no clue how you'd even parse that lmao
Can you explain? I thought Roman numerals was just chaining together the various letters
1997 is not I IX IX VII, for 1 9 9 7
It's MCMXCVII for 1000+(1000-100)+(100-10)+7
Assuming 4/10 is 4th October, shouldn't the day be written like "a.d. IV Non(as)" (4 days until the first kalend)
To be honest, I have no idea. I'm not a Roman numerals/date crack myself. The tattoo definitely wouldn't have been faithful in that regard, but it's also not like they intended to be accurate down to that level...