abadidea2d ago

A visual novel plotline sprung to life:

- Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors

- During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed to go and reported that there were really, definitely secret rooms under the school

- The staff found a mysterious iron door in the basement that apparently no-one knew the purpose of; after getting it open, they found some sort of disused furnace… which opened directly into an entire ancient Roman villa

https://nos.nl/artikel/2617238-scholieren-vinden-1800-jaar-oude-romeinse-villa-onder-eigen-school-in-rome

Scholieren vinden 1800 jaar oude Romeinse villa onder eigen school in Rome

De domus ligt volgens archeologen in een gebied waar grote Romeinse figuren als Augustus, Cicero en Pompeius woonden, maar waar weinig over bekend is.

Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤2d ago
@0xabad1dea
For decades! How long does it take to graduate from high school there?
Show threadabadidea2d ago
@sloanlance … you must have gone to a very happily boring school, if the seniors never told you any horror stories about things that happened long before you arrived, and you didn’t have anything to tell the incoming freshmen…
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤

@0xabad1dea
Yes, I definitely did go to a boring school. Miserably so. I was happy to leave.

But you missed my point. It was just a very silly joke. Not a good one, actually. That was, does it actually take decades for a student to complete that high school?

I guess I should use sarcasm punctuation or silly emoji to mark my feeble attempts at humor.

Jun 7 at 5:02amPachli