Thread: Would we have been better off if the Romans won... whatever it was they was fightin?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Newcastle, i believe, is the settlement you are on about?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

No. I'm talking about Stoke. Saxon name, Roman foundation.

Meanwhile, the owners of Google are astounded at the website's sudden implosion.

"There was an extremely frantic 10 minutes" a spokesman said...normal service should resume forthwith..

^Jobbing historian, Slap. Several years before the mast. Long time ago now, though. Believe it or not people actually knew things before google existed.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

They had coke back in those days as well?

Or was he just a bit simple?

He took off his royal attires so he looked like a common soldier so as not be singled out. I have never heard the "bare handed" story before. I thought he was killed leading his men in to battle, presumably armed for war.

Originally Posted by chitown

I have never heard the "bare handed" story before.

Because I made that bit up. I'm a sucker for a bit of romance and I couldn't figure out a way to work the angels and the statue into the story. I bet you the bare-handed thing'll be common knowledge after the search-engines get it, though.

Originally Posted by chitown

presumably armed for war.

Also presumably bare-handed, presumably also possibly armed with ninja death stars, presumably pre-incarnated as Emperor Palpatine's favourite General. Who knows? Let that be a lesson for those slap-heads who think everything comes from Google!

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Roman foundation

That'll be the same Womans that planted all the dodgy specimens of cwo magnon bones in the gwaveyard at Sertoke, but convieniently forgot to leave a villa or two (with mosaic) anywhere nearer than Wall.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Jobbing historian, Slap. Several years before the mast. Long time ago now, though. Believe it or not people actually knew things before google existed.

I heard that there is a Woman libwawy in Oxes-Fjiord.
Is this twue?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Let that be a lesson for those slap-heads who think everything comes from Google!

Unfortunately, I'm a touch on the retarded side..and am prone to uttering sentences such as..'let me google about that for a moment'..

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Not sure, let me google about it a minute..

Insulsissimus est homo

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Insulsissimus est homo

I fail to see how my sexual preference has any relevance to this topic, Bob!!

The Roman Empire was a very good manager/administrator at it's peak, but not such a great inventor. Most major technological advances of the era are owed to the Arabs and Greeks. In fact, once the Christian cult had become widely disseminated within the Empire/Europe and codified, several centuries after it's namesakes death, it became a 'censor' of knowledge & technology enhancement for over a thousand years, until the Age of Enlightenment. Some comparisons with the theologic/secular struggle within the Islamic world, methinks.

Originally Posted by sabang

Some comparisons with the theologic/secular struggle within the Islamic world, methinks.

They are in agreement that large nostrils begat small secular struggles.
"Unite the world in the shadow of the nose" was a popular cry of the day.

Originally Posted by sabang

In fact, once the Christian cult had become widely disseminated within the Empire/Europe and codified, several centuries after it's namesakes death, it became a 'censor' of knowledge & technology enhancement for over a thousand years, until the Age of Enlightenment.

True but only because western europe had descended into a type of barbarism where only a few were educated and literate.

The renaissance is postulated by some historians to have been due to the the fall of the eastern empire to the Turk, causing a large group of highly educated people to flee to the west.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

(Where are you from DrBOb ?).

Judea.

Really?

Monty Python's Life of Brian was actually banned for eight years in the Republic of Ireland. Along with the lisp.

Originally Posted by sabang

The Roman Empire was a very good manager/administrator at it's peak, but not such a great inventor. Most major technological advances of the era are owed to the Arabs and Greeks.

That's the exact reason for the decline of the Roman Empire. Labor was supplied by slavery and scientific research was seen as a lowly activity undertaken by laborers. Fundamentally the Roman empire committed suicide, if this thread continues I'll write more about this when I'm less devastatingly drunk. Right now I have some big, non-ancient, problems to deal with. Anybody on TD want to offer me a job

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I'll write more about this when I'm less devastatingly drunk.

Poofy Roman wine or devastatingly strong Druid Fluid?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I'll write more about this when I'm less devastatingly drunk.

Poofy Roman wine or devastatingly strong Druid Fluid?

Major fear, when this thread started I was full of the ho-ho ha-ha spirit. In the last hour or so things have become severely effed-up

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Poofy Roman wine

Stolen from the Phoenicians.

Originally Posted by Plan B

Would we have been better off if the Romans won

The Romans had a good thing: a short time costed only 2 axis , the same as a wine cup. Then came the Pope and the feminazis and the price skyrocketed.

Originally Posted by wefearourdespot

short time costed only 2 axis

WTF is an axis and at which point in the 2,000 years of Roman history would you have paid 2 of these mythical axises for a shag?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Err, they did win.

They did win a few battles, but at the end of the day, most of us don't speak Eyetalian.

Even less remembered, is that an overwhelming percentage of supposed Roman development, Roman civilisation, and Roman inventions were defused from the other more advanced ancient civilisations from Africa and the Orient...

Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

Our judicial system is based on The Roman Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law"). The Corpus continues to have a major influence on public international law. Its four parts thus constitute the foundation documents of the western legal tradition.

To say the Romans 'lost' is a peculiar blind sighted arrogance on the part of the Anglo Saxon tribes.

Is it ?

Only England did not take part in the wholesale reception of Roman law. One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered. Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers. As a result, the English system of common law developed in parallel to Roman-based civil law, with its practitioners being trained at the Inns of Court in London rather than receiving degrees in Canon or Civil Law at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge.

Roman law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by blue

Don't know about the middle east ,it was the Romans who made the province Palestine ,named so --to annoy the Jews -after the Jews long gone enemy the Philistines .

Romans were very gay too ,we would probably have 8 or 9 HIV type diseases ,rather than the 1 ,that the modern day homosexuals developed

There is a Teakdoor discussion of the origins of word Palestine or Palestinian here:

https://teakdoor.com/issues/5837-pers...tml#post185948

(Starting with post 164 and ending with post 170.)

The original Pales: the ass-god topic was sent to the ether to make space in The Lounge.

It seems most of you lot didn't do much at school.