instant signs of being a pleb

[klappa]

the only footwear i might wear indoors is socks

shoes indoors (or any footwear exposed to the elements outdoors and also worn inside indiscriminately) are one of the major signs of being a pleb

I'm always wearing only underwear and a shirt in my apartment.  Did I go too far?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

not far enough

[klappa]

Too much chafing. 

[ncba93ivyase]

my parents wear their shoes inside everywhere

smh

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i'm so sorry

[me003]

i have shoes on right now!

[Samus Aran]

i don't take them off in other ppl's houses unless they specifically ask me to

what the fuck

i've also never heard of not washing rice lol

[snoorkel]

I WEAR SANDALS IN MY HOME LIKE THE REST OF THE ASIANS I LIVE WITH

what

is sandals your word for slippers

[strongbad]

Working at jimmy johns

[Daddy]

I WEAR SANDALS IN MY HOME LIKE THE REST OF THE ASIANS I LIVE WITH

what

is sandals your word for slippers

well technically they're flip flops thou

[Commander Fuckass]

the only time i don't take off my shoes if i'm come in the backdoor

[Snowy]

• low to middle class


• small business owner


• complete lack of understanding of the law


• no advisers to the king


• thinks they have influence just because of the second samnite war


• likes animal collective

just do it for reverend green

[Hiro]

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Plebs
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For the TV series, see Plebs (TV series).

In ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census. Shopkeepers, crafts people, and skilled or unskilled workers might be plebeian (/plɨˈbiË�É™n/; Latin: plebeius).[1] From the 4th century BC or earlier, some of the most prominent and wealthy Roman families, as identified by their gens name, were of plebeian status (see Roman naming conventions). Literary references to the plebs, however, usually mean the ordinary citizens of Rome as a collective, as distinguished from the eliteâ€"a sense retained by "plebeian" in English. In the very earliest days of Rome, plebeians were any tribe without advisers to the King. In time, the word - which is related to the Greek word for crowd, plethos - came to mean the common people.

Contents

    1 Plebs in ancient Rome
        1.1 Noble plebeians
    2 United States military academies
    3 British Empire
    4 See also
    5 Notes
    6 References
    7 External links

Plebs in ancient Rome

In Latin the word plebs is a singular collective noun, and its genitive is plebis.

The origin of the separation into orders is unclear, and it is disputed when the Romans were divided under the early kings into patricians and plebeians, or whether the clientes (or dependents) of the patricians formed a third group. Certain gentes ("clans") were patrician, as identified by the nomen (family name), but a gens might have both patrician and plebeian branches that shared a nomen but were distinguished by a cognomen, as was the case with the gens Claudia. The 19th-century historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr held that plebeians began to appear at Rome during the reign of Ancus Marcius and were possibly foreigners settling in Rome as naturalized citizens. In any case, at the outset of the Roman Republic, the patricians had a near monopoly on political and social institutions. Plebeians were excluded from magistracies and religious colleges, and they were not permitted to know the laws by which they were governed. Plebeians served in the army, but rarely became military leaders.

Dissatisfaction with the status quo occasionally mounted to the point that the plebeians engaged in a sort of general strike, a secessio plebis, during which they would withdraw from Rome, leaving the patricians to themselves. From 494 to 287 BC, five such actions during the so-called "Conflict of the Orders" resulted in the establishment of plebeian offices (the tribunes and plebeian aediles), the publication of the laws (the Law of the Twelve Tables), the establishment of the right of plebeianâ€"patrician intermarriage (by the passage of the Lex Canuleia), the opening of the highest offices of government and some state priesthoods to the plebeians and passage of legislation (the Lex Hortensia) that made resolutions passed by the assembly of plebeians, the concilium plebis, binding on all citizens.
Noble plebeians

During the Second Samnite War (326â€"304 BC), plebeians who had risen to power through these social reforms, began to acquire the aura of nobilitas, "nobility" (more literally "notability"), marking the creation of a ruling elite of nobiles that allied the interests of patricians and noble plebeians.[2] From the mid-4th century to the early 3rd century BC, several plebeianâ€"patrician "tickets" for the consulship repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation.[3] Although nobilitas was not a formal social rank during the Republican era, in general a plebeian who had attained the consulship was regarded as having brought nobility to his family. Such a man was a novus homo, a "new man" or self-made noble and his sons and descendants were nobiles.[4] Marius and Cicero are notable examples of novi homines in the late Republic, when many of Rome's richest and most powerful menâ€"such as Lucullus, Crassus, and Pompeiusâ€"were plebeian nobles. Some or perhaps many noble plebeians, including Cicero and Lucullus, aligned their political interests with the faction of optimates, conservatives who sought to preserve senatorial prerogatives. By contrast, the populares or "people's party", which sought to champion the plebs in the sense of "common people", were sometimes led by patricians such as Julius Caesar and Clodius Pulcher.[citation needed]
United States military academies
Main article: Plebe summer
Plebes (first year students) marching in front of Bancroft Hall, United States Naval Academy

In the U.S. military, Plebes are freshmen at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Valley Forge Military Academy, the Marine Military Academy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Georgia Military College, California Maritime Academy and the Philippine Military Academy.
British Empire

Early public schools in the United Kingdom would enroll pupils as "plebeians" as opposed to sons of gentry and aristocrats.

In British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and South African English the back-formation pleb, along with the more recently derived adjectival form plebby,[5] is used as a derogatory term for someone considered unsophisticated or uncultured.[6]
See also

    Bread and circuses
    Capite censi
    Plebe summer
    Plebeian Council
    Proletariat
    Roman Republic
    Toff
    The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising by Gunter Grass.

Notes

    Richard C. Beacham, The Roman Theatre and Its Audience, p.14-15, Harvard University Press, 1991
    E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967), p. 217.
    Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (University of California Press, 2005), p. 269.
    Fergus Millar, "The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic, 200â€"151 B.C.," as reprinted in Rome, the Greek World, and the East (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), p. 126; P.A. Brunt, "Nobilitas and novitas," Journal of Roman Studies 72 (1982) 1â€"17.<
    "plebby". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
    "pleb". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 September 2012.

References

    Jackson J. Spielvogel (2008). World History: Journey Across Time. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
    Scott Wertsching (2008). What is a Pleb?. Rome: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.

External links
   Look up pleb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

    Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, article Plebs
    Livius.org: Plebs
    Texts on Wikisource:
        "Plebeians". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
        "Plebeians". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
        "Plebs". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

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    Ancient Rome
    Social groups
    Social classes in ancient Rome
    British society

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[Commander Fuckass]

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Is David king of the plebs then?