I bought a wall clock with Roman numerals.. Next up; learn how to read Roman numerals 🥔😚

@Elessar very good!

Could you get me a Martinus please?
Potato's service is appalling.

@basilfawlty89 I can get you a Martini

@Elessar if I wanted two, I would've asked for it!

@basilfawlty89 Who stops at one? Aside from yanks

@Elessar
https://buonissimo.ca/salute-our-guide-to-drinking-in-moderation-the-italian-way/

Only cause I care, little buddy! 🤗

@basilfawlty89 That's propaganda from the healthcare industry, because they're afraid that those of us who cure themselves with Campari will put them out of business /s

@Elessar ...when you say cure, do you mean you're turning your liver into guancile?

@basilfawlty89 Hey my grandpa is 86, been drinking nothing but homebrew "wine" that is easily 2x as alcoholic as the one you find on the shelves, and has got better liver parameters than myself 🙈

It's all relative I guess. My mother is nearly 100% alcohol free minus for the occasional half glass of white at celebrations, and she's got steatosis

@Elessar
And there I was expecting it to appear “before it” from right to left 🥔🥴

@BittersweetPotato Before in reading order from the POV of a Roman

@Elessar
Why does he have lettuce leaves on his head though?

@basilfawlty89 Just in case you have to cook a pork lamb and you're suddenly out of laurel

@Elessar

I'll add a note about a little oddity regarding traditional clocks.

The Romans originally wrote the number four as IIII. Eventually, they developed the subtraction convention and wrote it IV.

Although it is inconsistent to do so, a traditional clockface uses IIII for four, but it uses IX for nine (rather than VIIII).

I have occasionally seen a clock with "IV", and that is a giveaway that the clock is newer, and not an antique. In fact, I just did a google search for "Roman numeral clockface" and found "IV" well-represented. Proof that digital images are not antiques! 😄

Also an indication that "doing your own research" online can be misleading!