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What did the Romans ever do for us?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

1. Beat the Yanks and Brits to benefit from slavery.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Built the roads???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Built a nice wall,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toilets, underfloor heating

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Gave the OP his name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Orgies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gave us long and completely unpronounceable names for innocuous stuff like flowers and medical stuff

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember a scene from Alexei Sayle one time

*Roman soldier approaches a regal looking figure*

'What shall we name this wall Emperor Hadrian?'

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"Built a nice wall, "

Two nice walls.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live in a village with the remains of Roman Baths, Amphitheatre, Barracks and Roman Legion Museum. So a lot

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By *angerousEyesMan
over a year ago

weston

I give up, what did they give us?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"

Apparently, introduced black people to Wales too.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Candles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The film Gladiator.

Russell Crowe- dirty sweaty and stubbly in a leather skirt and a shiny helmet

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"I give up, what did they give us?"

Much of Time Team.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did any one mention the Wine !!!

They came here on their holidays ,,true

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

History

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Numerals

Sandals

Blinds

Polanski

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Calendar

Though i dont quite think Richard Whiteley was the first presenter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

and alot of ruins...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Ridiculous football chants.

ie Up the VIlla.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"and alot of ruins..."

in Colchester which they also gave us as our capital city

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gave the OP his name.

"
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You know a funny fact is most Romans spoke Greek

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chariot racing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They probably gave us the concept of swinging?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Eboracum

And it's lovely inhabitants.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Concrete & a huge amount of architecture

The basis of a legal system

Our alphabet

About half of our language

A massive cannon of art and literature

An idea of unity

Against that:-

The Catholic Church

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Caeser salad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They weren't that clever!.. They pretty much stole all their ideas from Greeks and then sacked the place and set the world back for the next 1800 years after trashing the Greek advances!

Still at least they inspired the Germans

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Quite a bit of the world's vocabulary...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They probably gave us the concept of swinging? "

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I'm inclined to agree with your idea

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By *o-jCouple
over a year ago

Outskirts of Notts

Using lions for sport

Jo x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They probably gave us the concept of swinging?

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I'm inclined to agree with your idea "
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I think native Americans might have beaten them to that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They weren't that clever!.. They pretty much stole all their ideas from Greeks and then sacked the place and set the world back for the next 1800 years after trashing the Greek advances!

Still at least they inspired the Germans "

Yeah the Germans are also world leading at engineering and building too... pretty thick then...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They weren't that clever!.. They pretty much stole all their ideas from Greeks and then sacked the place and set the world back for the next 1800 years after trashing the Greek advances!

Still at least they inspired the Germans

Yeah the Germans are also world leading at engineering and building too... pretty thick then... "

ehh set the world back MDCCC years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They weren't that clever!.. They pretty much stole all their ideas from Greeks and then sacked the place and set the world back for the next 1800 years after trashing the Greek advances!

Still at least they inspired the Germans

Yeah the Germans are also world leading at engineering and building too... pretty thick then... "
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No the German advancement came in chemistry in the late 19th century actually

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Orgies

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By *lueAlMan
over a year ago

Snaresbrook - South Woodford

No one has mentioned Aquaducts, so we can get nice clean water into the middle of town, and let us clean our sweaty bits after the orgies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Orgies!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"No one has mentioned Aquaducts, so we can get nice clean water into the middle of town, and let us clean our sweaty bits after the orgies."

Ah!

But the baths, my man, what a site to behold!

You can see a little of their glory preserved here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei_Martiri

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Forums

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Forums

"

(*fora but hey)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A ten foot mahogany statue of the Emperor Julius Caesar with his cock hanging out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"No one has mentioned Aquaducts, so we can get nice clean water into the middle of town, and let us clean our sweaty bits after the orgies."
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Mesoptania and Crete has the earliest known aqua ducts, although the Romans built them on a much grandeur scale

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You need maths to build shit

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Forums

(*fora but hey)"

Did they invent and name Margerine

yrs

Flora

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Are they to blame/thank* for Gyppo's?

* as it's a democracy, you choose.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit"

That would come under education

Roman numerals

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They weren't that clever!.. They pretty much stole all their ideas from Greeks and then sacked the place and set the world back for the next 1800 years after trashing the Greek advances!

Still at least they inspired the Germans

Yeah the Germans are also world leading at engineering and building too... pretty thick then...

ehh set the world back MDCCC years "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Garum

*vomits*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke"

So USA then in todays world...

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

And vomitoria - but contrary to popular belief, these were entrances/exits in the Colosseum and Circus Maximumus through which crowds could be easily facilitated.

Nowt to do with sticking fingers down yr throat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke"

is that why phil collins went solo ?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Utterly debauched rulers who's vices I could only aspire to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals "
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The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Had a wank whilst a city burned down?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!"

Fibbonacci

Next question.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world..."
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Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"I live in a village with the remains of Roman Baths, Amphitheatre, Barracks and Roman Legion Museum. So a lot "

I used to live in Caerleon!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!

Fibbonacci

Next question. "
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Show off

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

Plumbing is quite useful, as is concrete.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dubious gene pool that spawned the likes of the preposterous, Silvio Berlusconi.

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

Did they invent pizza? Pizza is pretty fucking good, whoever invented it should get a medal.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!

Fibbonacci

Next question. .

Show off "

* Fibonacci was not Roman

He came from Pisa in the 13th cent. AD.

Have another role of the dice...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Condom's and tampons

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I live in a village with the remains of Roman Baths, Amphitheatre, Barracks and Roman Legion Museum. So a lot "

Bloody Romans leaving their derelict eyesores of buildings all over the place.

Least the pikeys burn any caravans they leave behind

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison "

When it's put like that it is... might do a bet at Ladbrooke for a big puff of star spangled banner in 2776 and leave to a decendant to collect

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

Cesarean sections

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!

Fibbonacci

Next question. .

Show off

* Fibonacci was not Roman

He came from Pisa in the 13th cent. AD.

Have another role of the dice..."

It was only ever a guess, going by his name. Couldn't be arsed to google myself like.

But i'm sure he would have had at least a day trip there.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison

When it's put like that it is... might do a bet at Ladbrooke for a big puff of star spangled banner in 2776 and leave to a decendant to collect "

Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House. "

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Toga parties, that's a fair bequest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do. "

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that..."

They made some great posters in their day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Those leather strip skirts that seem popular among sub men in the fetish scene

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison

When it's put like that it is... might do a bet at Ladbrooke for a big puff of star spangled banner in 2776 and leave to a decendant to collect

Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House. "
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Hillary?? Good God I suppose it's better than Palin but not much better.

I'm hoping Bernie sanders gets in or at least has a good run because lordy lordy those Americans just go goo goo ga ga when you mention... Socialism

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others"

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that...

They made some great posters in their day. "

In the forums?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that..."
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Ahh the great republic/democracy debate.

Pity we've not seen either recently

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison

When it's put like that it is... might do a bet at Ladbrooke for a big puff of star spangled banner in 2776 and leave to a decendant to collect

Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House. .

Hillary?? Good God I suppose it's better than Palin but not much better.

I'm hoping Bernie sanders gets in or at least has a good run because lordy lordy those Americans just go goo goo ga ga when you mention... Socialism "

At least Palin looked raunchy and shaggable. There's a reason Bill needed Monica's assistance.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that....

Ahh the great republic/democracy debate.

Pity we've not seen either recently"

'Autochthony' I think they called it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that...

They made some great posters in their day.

In the forums? "

Fora

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that....

Ahh the great republic/democracy debate.

Pity we've not seen either recently

'Autochthony' I think they called it"
.

They've renamed tsprisocracy.

You let people vote then you fuck it off anyway and just sign

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


" Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House.

Goggle Septimius Severus - 2nd cent AD emperor from north Africa.

The Romans had many emperors from parts of the empire - Spain, Germany, Thrace, Syria, Mauritania... just off the top of my head.

The Romans did NOT (underlined three times) have a concept of race or racism like we do.

Unlike, say the Athenians, who were racists supremacists to the core but they invented 'democracy' so don;t worry about that...

They made some great posters in their day.

In the forums?

Fora"

I did that already for the benefit of the Latin scholars amongst us. You're just showing off now :P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Chariot racing "

It's just a shame they didn't have bloody great big V8 engines in those days...can you imagine how much more exciting that would have been...'F-us 1-us'

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Lol - I found a reference to complaint by an elderly Senator that 'the youth of today are just interested in wine, women and fast horses'.

Plus ça change?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Although one of my favourite sayings in the world is one of the poet Martial's epigrams:

"I fell in to love like a cockroach in to a basin."

Class in a glass.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

11 more posts and i can mention Centurions/centuries.

Didn't they also invent Decimalisation?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison

When it's put like that it is... might do a bet at Ladbrooke for a big puff of star spangled banner in 2776 and leave to a decendant to collect

Well, they have had a black president.

Next up it may well be Hillary ,so why not a big puff from the White House. .

Hillary?? Good God I suppose it's better than Palin but not much better.

I'm hoping Bernie sanders gets in or at least has a good run because lordy lordy those Americans just go goo goo ga ga when you mention... Socialism

At least Palin looked raunchy and shaggable. There's a reason Bill needed Monica's assistance. "
if by shagable you mean she looks like she's been fucked in the head

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not. "

I don't know it would depend what you class as reinforcement.

Prestressed steel reinforces concrete was obviously an in possibility without major hydraulic equipment but they may have used some form of composites with materials.

Regular iron wouldn't be much use.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wait until Biggus Dickus hears of this!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Wait until Biggus Dickus hears of this!"
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Bollocks... That's a made up name

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!"

abacus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Wait until Biggus Dickus hears of this!.

Bollocks... That's a made up name"
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He was Greek anyway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need maths to build shit

That would come under education

Roman numerals .

The Greeks were writing shit and doing maths 800 years before the Romans had even done numerals.

Name a Roman mathematician!

abacus "
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Yeah that says it all the Romans had a fucking abacus and the Greeks invented the computer..

Fucking splitters

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not.

I don't know it would depend what you class as reinforcement.

Prestressed steel reinforces concrete was obviously an in possibility without major hydraulic equipment but they may have used some form of composites with materials.

Regular iron wouldn't be much use."

No - Roman concrete was not reinforced - they did not have the technology.

They used a light, quick-setting mixture of volcanic stone (turfa) and quicklime - a bit like Portland cement.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

See: the dome of the Patheon - the largest free-standing cast concrete dome on the planet for over 2000 years...

Absolutely stunning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Rotunda

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over a year ago


"See: the dome of the Patheon - the largest free-standing cast concrete dome on the planet for over 2000 years...

Absolutely stunning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Rotunda"
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That's because the Nazis were on there side

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ooooohhh !

My master Ludicrus Sextus has been banging on about that thing for years

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"That's because the Nazis were on there side"

The Nazis?

Eh?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That's because the Nazis were on there side

The Nazis?

Eh?"
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Ohhhh I've just got it in for them tonight with their bloody leather coats and face slapping.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The film Gladiator.

Russell Crowe- dirty sweaty and stubbly in a leather skirt and a shiny helmet "

And a ridiculous name

Maximus.........biggest

Decimus..........tenish

Meridius............around the middle

Obviously didn't have a Latin script consultant!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
Aquaducts?

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over a year ago


"The film Gladiator.

Russell Crowe- dirty sweaty and stubbly in a leather skirt and a shiny helmet

And a ridiculous name

Maximus.........biggest

Decimus..........tenish

Meridius............around the middle

Obviously didn't have a Latin script consultant!"

Maybe he's well hung and that's what google translate turned up?

What do i know, can't even get my own correct.

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over a year ago


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us? Aquaducts? "
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We already had fucking roads... It's bollocks.

And we didn't need public order until they got here and started nailing people up, yes nail em up best thing they ever did for me, bloody marvellous

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Depravity:

Move over, Caligula! Book reveals the story of cross-dressing boy emperor Elagabalus, whose savagery and sexual hedonism were unparallelled...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079169/A-book-Roman-Elagabalus-reveals-story-cross-dressing-boy-emperor.html

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What's the point in giving us roads anyway.... They didn't give us cars, here's a fucking road you'll make good use of this in 1500 years, yeah thanks yer big nose twat... What if I wanna go round a bend though

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over a year ago


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not.

I don't know it would depend what you class as reinforcement.

Prestressed steel reinforces concrete was obviously an in possibility without major hydraulic equipment but they may have used some form of composites with materials.

Regular iron wouldn't be much use.

No - Roman concrete was not reinforced - they did not have the technology.

They used a light, quick-setting mixture of volcanic stone (turfa) and quicklime - a bit like Portland cement."

Define "reinforcement " as corse weave hessian is a great material for reinforceing and shaping decorative plaster and and concrete works along with wire.

After all people reinforce mud and shit with hay it's not a highly technical practice for low stress members

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

something to discuss in the forums

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cake...?

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over a year ago


"What's the point in giving us roads anyway.... They didn't give us cars, here's a fucking road you'll make good use of this in 1500 years, yeah thanks yer big nose twat... What if I wanna go round a bend though "

Some would say you already have.

Not me though, i'm tolerant of differences.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not.

I don't know it would depend what you class as reinforcement.

Prestressed steel reinforces concrete was obviously an in possibility without major hydraulic equipment but they may have used some form of composites with materials.

Regular iron wouldn't be much use.

No - Roman concrete was not reinforced - they did not have the technology.

They used a light, quick-setting mixture of volcanic stone (turfa) and quicklime - a bit like Portland cement.

Define "reinforcement " as corse weave hessian is a great material for reinforceing and shaping decorative plaster and and concrete works along with wire.

After all people reinforce mud and shit with hay it's not a highly technical practice for low stress members

"

Was thinking of modern high tensile steel rebar but yours is good enough, reinforced it was then.

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over a year ago


"See: the dome of the Patheon - the largest free-standing cast concrete dome on the planet for over 2000 years...

Absolutely stunning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Rotunda"

That's right up on my list of buildings to visit, - terrific race, the Romans!!

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By *at2Couple
over a year ago

north Down

The Babylonians used to ask "what did the Symirians do for us".

The Eygptians asked "What did the Babylonians do for us".

The Persians asked "What did the Eygptians do for us".

The Greeks asked "what did the Persians do for us"

The Romans asked "what the fuck" and stole the lot and in the end gave us this post in this forum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What's the point in giving us roads anyway.... They didn't give us cars, here's a fucking road you'll make good use of this in 1500 years, yeah thanks yer big nose twat... What if I wanna go round a bend though

Some would say you already have.

Not me though, i'm tolerant of differences. "
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I'm over tied or in Latin I'm over ligatum ....

Or as the Greeks would say I'm fucked

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Babylonians used to ask "what did the Symirians do for us".

The Eygptians asked "What did the Babylonians do for us".

The Persians asked "What did the Eygptians do for us".

The Greeks asked "what did the Persians do for us"

The Romans asked "what the fuck" and stole the lot and in the end gave us this post in this forum."

And the Greeks are now asking, wtf have you German and other EU bastards done to us?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

am pretty sure they brought carrots ... fkn hate carrots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Concrete the foundation of the modern world.

The ability to have something that can set and harden when wet or even completely underwater was a major turning point allowing the creation of artifical harbours and ports which helped them spread so well compared to others

Just out of curiousity, did they get around to inventing re-inforced concrete. I'm guessing not.

I don't know it would depend what you class as reinforcement.

Prestressed steel reinforces concrete was obviously an in possibility without major hydraulic equipment but they may have used some form of composites with materials.

Regular iron wouldn't be much use.

No - Roman concrete was not reinforced - they did not have the technology.

They used a light, quick-setting mixture of volcanic stone (turfa) and quicklime - a bit like Portland cement.

Define "reinforcement " as corse weave hessian is a great material for reinforceing and shaping decorative plaster and and concrete works along with wire.

After all people reinforce mud and shit with hay it's not a highly technical practice for low stress members

Was thinking of modern high tensile steel rebar but yours is good enough, reinforced it was then. "

We reinforce with lots of different things. The basic re bar you see is the crudest form.

Much more preferential is rods that are hydraulically stretched (elasticaly ) as the concrete is poured and set then when the tension is relaxed they force the concrete into compression massively increasing its load bearing qualities when in beams etc.

We also reinforce with plastics and now we're staring external reinforcement with carbon fibre and epoxies. If you ever see an old concrete bridge with lots of black stripes ion it's underside (like giant strips of duct tape) they're reteofit carbon fibre reinforcement.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"am pretty sure they brought carrots ... fkn hate carrots "

Carrots were purple before selective breeding in the 17th century to create an orange vegetable in honour of the Dutch royal house of Orange.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"am pretty sure they brought carrots ... fkn hate carrots

Carrots were purple before selective breeding in the 17th century to create an orange vegetable in honour of the Dutch royal house of Orange. "
fucking hate the Dutch the bunch of clog wearing orange cunts!..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who said whiskey makes you friskey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It should be whiskey makes you violent and angry... But obviously in a rhyming way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"am pretty sure they brought carrots ... fkn hate carrots

Carrots were purple before selective breeding in the 17th century to create an orange vegetable in honour of the Dutch royal house of Orange. "

i know thats why i hate them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They stood on the shoulders of geniuses stole their shit, smashed them into oblivion with slaves then used the geniuses technology to give us gladiators, barbarism, hedonism and religion!

Held it together for a thousand years with capitalism before disappearing up their own arseholes in a puff of white smoke

So USA then in todays world....

Errr yeah there's definitely a comparison "

Not us then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"am pretty sure they brought carrots ... fkn hate carrots

Carrots were purple before selective breeding in the 17th century to create an orange vegetable in honour of the Dutch royal house of Orange. "

wow learn something every day - googled and looked so pretty purple and orange

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon


"The film Gladiator.

Russell Crowe- dirty sweaty and stubbly in a leather skirt and a shiny helmet "

Helmet? Helmet?...can't remember seeing his helmet..was it a bath scene?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Orgies "
ah....no. The Greeks had them first. Romans gave us rabbits and cabbages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

MDCCLXVI

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Archways

Swinging

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By *andom2chatMan
over a year ago

A Galaxy Far, Far Away & Spain

A propensity to invade, stick up a flag, & say "this is ours".

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By *r Man.Man
over a year ago

London

Leave!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"

Brought peace?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cats ..they brought us our moggies

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over a year ago


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Brought peace? "

Oh peace ..shut up!

there is one of us who would gladly suffer death to rid this country of the romans once and for all....

awww Life of Brian

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Brought peace?

Oh peace ..shut up!

there is one of us who would gladly suffer death to rid this country of the romans once and for all....

awww Life of Brian"

Are you a member of the peoples front of Judea, small world

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

130+ comments and no-one mentions roman law- basis of most European legal systems.

They also pretty much created the modern city.

Romantic languages- eg French,Italian.

Spanish.

Shame about the men in sandals thing though

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By *andy_tomMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

They left gold in them there fields, all you have to do is find it ,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All they did was take our jobs and council houses.

Oops sorry that was the Romanians

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Got the Greeks to pay taxes.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

A rather charming mystery concerning the IX Legio

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Watling Street

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"130+ comments and no-one mentions roman law- basis of most European legal systems.

They also pretty much created the modern city.

Romantic languages- eg French,Italian.

Spanish.

Shame about the men in sandals thing though "

Oh yes I did

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Concrete & a huge amount of architecture

The basis of a legal system

Our alphabet

About half of our language

A massive cannon of art and literature

An idea of unity

Against that:-

The Catholic Church"

^ Aqui

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fleshlights

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Ica crema

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Intriguing personalities and great stories that echo through the ages.

Oh, and don't forget the roads

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By *o-jCouple
over a year ago

Outskirts of Notts

And Chelsea football club .

Jo x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They gave us, the definition of unequivocal arrogance.

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