Explanation: Cicero was a politician in the Late Roman Republic, whose writings have remained widely read into the modern day for their skilled use of rhetoric and the Latin language.
… he was also an insufferable spineless weasel who loved to praise himself. And a literal slumlord.
A Roman senator was fifteen minutes late to the Senate on a day Cicero was giving a speech. He sat down and quietly asked the senator next to him what Cicero was talking about. The senator replied, “I don’t know - he hadn’t got to the verb yet!”
Except for the skilled use of language, we know his ideological descendant.
Who was the lad that told Alexander to get out of his sun? Well known for all sorts of public indecency. He sounds fairly insufferable too.
Diogenes of Sinope. He wasn’t entirely insufferable, though, because at least he was funny.
Being funny is the cure to being annoying
The duke of Wellington could qualify, he nearly annoyed England into a 4th civil war when he was in politics.
I’m putting Piers Gaveston on the list. He’s the one who wore the Queen’s jewels at her coronation and generally pissed enough people off until they straight up murdered him. Some of that was obviously the King’s fault, and sprinkle some sexual politics on top, but the stories about him personally also make him sound like a prick who irritated everyone around him on purpose.
If the real dude was as annoying as the Skyrim character of the same name: I get it.
The opposite - insufferably serious and stuffy.
That’s very much worse. Can’t stand people who have no sense of humor.
“That’s not a hoarker, that’s my wife!”
“Welcome to Tides of History. I’m Patrick Wyman. Thank you for joining me today.”
How many people can hear this post?
