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27 Feb 10 - 03:38 PM (#2851743) Subject: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie Over to you |
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27 Feb 10 - 03:45 PM (#2851750) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Amergin They gave us orgies.... |
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27 Feb 10 - 03:47 PM (#2851751) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: peregrina They wore socks with sandals. ! and made garum instead of nam pla. |
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27 Feb 10 - 03:58 PM (#2851760) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: fat B****rd Is this a cue for a'Life of Brian' routine? |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:10 PM (#2851765) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Underfloor heating... Straight Roads... Verulanium... The (incredible) Roman Baths of Bath...(if you've not been..GO!) Good to see you back, Johnus MacKenzieus (although, according to this site, your Roman name is.....Mamercus Postumius Regulus (goshus!) :0) Er...my name, apparently, is Publius Porcius Vulso. LOLus |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:11 PM (#2851766) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Doug Chadwick Well, for those of us south of Hadrian's Wall, all sorts of things that come with the benefits of being in the empire. But for those in the barbarian north .... ??? DC |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:17 PM (#2851773) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: gnu HEY! We are only barbarians on the rink. |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:20 PM (#2851774) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 They gave us Kirk Douglas? And....men in short skirts!! (methinks I may now be in trouble for making a sexistumus commentus) Some wore shorter skirtuses than others! :0) |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:20 PM (#2851775) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie Hypocaust |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:21 PM (#2851776) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Typocast |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:32 PM (#2851785) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T Roman salad, and where would Greco-Roman wrestling be without them? Most historians believe that Roman soldiers were the first people to use condoms...and the Rome connection remains to today. |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:35 PM (#2851786) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie Did they invent condominiums then? |
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27 Feb 10 - 04:50 PM (#2851797) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie Football A calendar which doesn't fit The Welsh flag |
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27 Feb 10 - 05:18 PM (#2851812) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T If it weren't for the phrese, when in Rome, do as the Romans do....we would be a heathen lot....well maybe we are? |
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27 Feb 10 - 05:25 PM (#2851815) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T the Lupine Roman Harness For Small Breed Dogs ,ust have had something to do with them. And, let's not forget the Roman Nougat candy. Then there are the roman numerals and Roman polanski...who can not possibly count the girls he has done in any numeral system. |
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27 Feb 10 - 05:59 PM (#2851843) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T Did they have anything to do with Romanians? |
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27 Feb 10 - 06:04 PM (#2851847) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie Yes. They wiped out the Dacian civilization and repopulated the land with Roman citizens. |
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27 Feb 10 - 06:36 PM (#2851871) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T I believe they influenced Italian expressions, like: Desso fai silenzio … girati … fammi concentrare che ti devo massaggiare i piedi. Oooh, mi fai il solletico … no, non ti fermare! Mi piace. |
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27 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM (#2851872) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T I suspect there was no romance, nefore the romans. |
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27 Feb 10 - 06:53 PM (#2851886) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie No, Romance was after the Romans (in both senses). In the Mediaeval period, the Roman Empire was seen as the high point of civilzation. |
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27 Feb 10 - 07:01 PM (#2851893) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Bert Did they have anything to do with Romanians? Yes. They conquered the place and gave it their language which is the closest living language to Latin. They invented the safety pin. They gave us a good many words for our language. They introduced many inventions, concrete and the Roman arch for two. |
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27 Feb 10 - 07:12 PM (#2851904) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie What did the Romans ever do for us? by Terry "Python" Jones |
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27 Feb 10 - 07:17 PM (#2851910) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Rog Peek Gave us the expression "wrong end of the stick"? Rog |
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27 Feb 10 - 07:20 PM (#2851915) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Monique About Romanian being the closest language to Latin, check the long last post but two |
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27 Feb 10 - 08:05 PM (#2851955) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: GUEST,Devon Arthur, or Artorius (as he may have been Roman), and the post-Roman anarchy fog in which to thrive, to be recorded much later and much more hyped, as the folk tradition usually enables ... |
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27 Feb 10 - 09:58 PM (#2851998) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Rapparee The Koreans have had sub-floor heating for many, many centuries, probably pre-dating Rome. The Keltoi invented the safety pin and what became the Roman gladius. But... The Romans DID give us Nero and Caligula and Octavia and Valeria Messalina, not to mention that bane of students everywhere, the self-serving De Bello Gallico. |
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28 Feb 10 - 04:15 AM (#2852077) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 This is an interesting 'facts' site... They invented fire stations and public toilets. Damn clever, those Romans. |
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28 Feb 10 - 04:45 AM (#2852086) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave Hanson They beat Scotland at rugby yesterday. Dave H |
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28 Feb 10 - 10:27 AM (#2852226) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie As I said above, they did give us football. |
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28 Feb 10 - 10:40 AM (#2852233) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Abdul The Bul Bul Warmongering suppressors of quite well civilised societies for the time. They sucked all the wealth from the "Empire" to support their 'civilisation. Bit similar I think as it may have been if Hitler had won. Al |
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28 Feb 10 - 10:42 AM (#2852236) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie I was trying not to mention the fasces. |
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28 Feb 10 - 11:35 AM (#2852264) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie They invented fire stations and public toilets. We used to piss on the campfire, to make sure it was out, before we decamped. Does this mean it's a Roman custom |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:00 PM (#2852575) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: GUEST Sorry Bert and Rapaire, the safety pin (fibula) was around the Mediterranean before the founding of Rome, and before the Celts were in the neighborhood. Earliest are late Bronze Age (2nd. millennium B.C.). When safety pins were patented in the 1840s, the design was very similar to the early Mediterranean ones. None of the descendants of the guy who filed the patent bothered to sue. Maybe they were too stuck up to bother. |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:10 PM (#2852584) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T They built fine urban aqueducts and roads...and gave employment to lions at Roman games....it was so successful that may actually have endageres the Barbary lion numbers in the wild? |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:22 PM (#2852592) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: GUEST,Sandy Mc Lean ( can't find cookie ) The greatest army of their time could not take Scotland and built a great wall to keep the Picts from kicking the shit out of them! Suas Le Celt! |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:36 PM (#2852596) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Bert Thanks GUEST, I stand corrected. That is another falsehood I learned at school. |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:38 PM (#2852599) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T I suspect the Romans would have done better in Scotland if they could have persuaded the Campbells (versus the MacDonalds) over to their side? |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:52 PM (#2852609) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie The Roman army was overstretched by the time they got to Scotland. They committed a disproportionate number of legions to Britain, unlike Germany where they wihdrew, or Dacia (Romania) where they wiped out the native people and planted a friendly population. It's probably significant that the British were the only Romanised Celts to retain their language rather than adopting Latin. Even the English with a millenium longer haven't managed to erradicate British. |
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28 Feb 10 - 07:54 PM (#2852610) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T "The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-fve years than the Roman army subjugated in four hundred" is it true? |
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28 Feb 10 - 08:11 PM (#2852622) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T Maybe this, in some cases: "In a Roman household, sex was in plentiful supply. Except, so it seems, between the actual married couples" More info here: http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-household.html |
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28 Feb 10 - 09:03 PM (#2852655) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Rapparee A centurion, a Celt, and a Teuton walk into a taberna.... |
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01 Mar 10 - 12:58 AM (#2852721) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Gurney AS Bert implied, if it wasn't for the Romans, the Empire State Building would be a pile of sand..... The question has been fairly comprehensively answered in 'The Life of Brian.' |
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01 Mar 10 - 03:52 AM (#2852762) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie They kept the Christians down? ;) |
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01 Mar 10 - 05:54 AM (#2852824) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie By inventing the Roman Catholic Chuirch. |
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01 Mar 10 - 06:45 AM (#2852846) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: G-Force Roman blinds. Roman candles. |
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01 Mar 10 - 07:58 AM (#2852901) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T They gave us orgies.... Where's mine? |
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01 Mar 10 - 08:05 AM (#2852911) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Dave MacKenzie Roman noses, Roman hands! |
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01 Mar 10 - 11:19 AM (#2853107) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Acorn4 Existentialism. (X is ten)! Sorry! |
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01 Mar 10 - 11:50 AM (#2853140) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Arnie I live near Dover (Dubris), and we've still got a Roman lighthouse sitting on top of the eastern cliff. It used to have a neighbour on the western cliff but that fell down a few hundred years ago. Rowing galleys over from France at night, the crew would simply aim between the two lighthouses, which burned wood, and arrive at the harbour. We also have the remains of a fine Roman house in the town with painted plaster walls and a mosaic floor. Amazing to thing that the Roman fleet was based here and defended the British coastline for around 300 yrs. The Goodwin Sands just off our coast were the graveyard of many Roman galleys with urns, coins etc. still being discovered there when the tide is out. |
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02 Mar 10 - 11:53 AM (#2854177) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie SNCF Ferries, still do the same thing, I believe. |
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03 Mar 10 - 09:19 AM (#2854924) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: Ed T Standardised army rations. |
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03 Mar 10 - 09:35 AM (#2854941) Subject: RE: BS: What did the Romans ever do for us? From: John MacKenzie I know of a stand at ease army, is that any good? Or is that irrational? |