Is it really that strange that people think about the Roman empire when things related to it are all around us? Even the white house is built to look Roman. Not to mention all the documentaries and games that touches on Roman stuff.
If you ask men how often they think about different manufacturing processes you will probably get similar numbers, or even higher, for the same reason.
I don't think it's funny because it's "strange". It's funny because it reminds people that they can have very different inner worlds to people they share their life with.
But people already know that? Everyone knows men and women think about very different things.
But I guess it is similar to the old meme where a woman worries why the guy is so distant that day and if he doesn't like her any longer, and the guy is just thinking hard about why his motorcycle isn't starting.
But that explains it: it is funny the first time you see it, but these differences aren't funny when you already are aware of them. Everything is a first to people. So I don't find it funny since I have seen similar things many times before and have grown tired of it, while others here finds it funny since it is new to them.
I find it interesting but for the diversity of “why”
I have an Italian American friend who weirdly into the Roman Empire, kind of in a weeb kind of way but he’s a tatted up (Roman Republic full back piece!) Army veteran who would Kimura my ass if I he sees this.
I have a friend just nerdy as shit and into history. He constantly talks about this podcast or that.
I have an ex-roommate / philosophy major, so it comes up a good bit.
I have a friend into Stoicism. Oddly not a philosophy major.
I have a friend rich in small arms, ammunition, and those rice ration buckets because we’re destined for a failure of the Republic as they had.
I have a friend with the same belief, except he just wants to fiddle so I’m pretty sure I won’t bother raiding his house if either of them are correct.
If you ask men how often they think about different manufacturing processes you will probably get similar numbers, or even higher, for the same reason.