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meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry
In your opinion, does Nero get way more poo poo than he deserves? :pseudo:

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meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry
Why did Rome produce so little iron?

meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry
The justification for such boards and lists are that parents should not be allowed to give children names that will be a significant burden for them later on, not to defend delicate sensibilities.

Also, to protect the names of noble families of course :v:

meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry
Also, I imagine coloring them was a display of wealth: fancy colors were poo poo expensive and drowning those bad boys in paint served the same purpose as bling.

meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry

Tsaedje posted:

We also have the world's oldest recorded joke from the Sumerians: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap"

...I don't get it :saddowns:

meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry

Grand Fromage posted:

I'm watching a BBC documentary called The Other Pompeii, about Herculaneum. You should find it and watch it.

The only wooden roof piece that survives from the Roman world.



Painted, naturally.

Is that a phillips screw on the middle right?

meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry

quote:

no society has given much pride of place to plumbers

Ahem.

The Cappadocians :colbert:

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meatbag
Apr 2, 2007
Clapping Larry

PittTheElder posted:

Yeah, this definitely happens. There was a sealed cask of some sort of alcohol pulled out of the Baltic within the last year or two. Not Rome old, but still pretty damned old.

That was early 19th century champagne, if we are talking about the same thing. drat valuable, and perfectly drinkable apparently.

http://www.visitaland.com/en/facts/champagne

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