Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: maninthestreet on March 08, 2009, 11:21:04 pm
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Following on from the recent thread 'What has Shakespear(sic) ever done for you?' I thought I'd start a new thread about what the Romans have done for us.
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The thing that you drive your car on? I think it is called a road normally?
Paul... :-)
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Well they gave us the "standard" railway gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches - if you believe popular folklore. It is based, apparently, on the grooves worn in Roman roads by the wheels of their carts, based on the width of a horse's ar*e!
Rick
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Regular baths.
Well they gave us the "standard" railway gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches - if you believe popular folklore. It is based, apparently, on the grooves worn in Roman roads by the wheels of their carts, based on the width of a horse's ar*e!
So Brunel had damn great horses on the GWR then?
Colin
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Well they gave us the "standard" railway gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches - if you believe popular folklore. It is based, apparently, on the grooves worn in Roman roads by the wheels of their carts, based on the width of a horse's ar*e!
Rick
A horse 4 feet 8.5 inches wide, is a very big horse.
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ONE MASSIVE ASS! :-)
bIT LIKE swambo! :o
Paul... :-)
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The romans gave us the dimensions for the space shuttle solid rocket boosters.
The boosters have to travel from the factory to the launch site through a rail tunnel.
The engineers designed the boosters to fit through the tunnel, on the rail cars riding
on standard gauge rail tracks based on the wheel ruts of a roman chariot based on the
width of a horses a$$. (two horses wide for chariots) %)
(James Burke - Connections television series)
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:-) well said UMI, swambo's a$$ is still hooge thogh.
Paul...
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I rest my case - and my ar*e
Rick
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... have a look at "The life of Brian", there you will see what the Romans had ever made for us... 8)
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off the top of my head:
Peace, roads, a monetary economy, glazed windows, underfloor heating, mass production, Architecture ,Art ,Literature ,Language,Sanitation, Aqueducts, Education, Irrigation,The calendar, Cement and bricks, Public heated baths, Turnips and carrots, Paved streets and pavements ,Apples, pears and grapes , Benefits (free food) for poor citizens, Roads, Wine, Cats, Stinging nettles,Street Cleaners ,Shops, Laws, Tenement Blocks, Public order, Firemen and Police, Parks ,Cabbages & peas, Public libraries, Public notices and advertisements, pottery, literacy, improved agricultural techniques, Christianity, public buildings
My history teacher would be proud
Glenn
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Plumbing, and as a result, lead poisoning.... %)
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And blocked drains? :-)
Paul...
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Ok, apart from:
Peace, roads, a monetary economy, glazed windows, underfloor heating, mass production, Architecture ,Art ,Literature ,Language,Sanitation, Aqueducts, Education, Irrigation,The calendar, Cement and bricks, Public heated baths, Turnips and carrots, Paved streets and pavements ,Apples, pears and grapes , Benefits (free food) for poor citizens, Roads, Wine, Cats, Stinging nettles,Street Cleaners ,Shops, Laws, Tenement Blocks, Public order, Firemen and Police, Parks ,Cabbages & peas, Public libraries, Public notices and advertisements, pottery, literacy, improved agricultural techniques, Christianity, public buildings......
.....what have the Romans dones for us?????
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The gave us Mayhem! - Didn't they invent the Forum? be grateful!
Colin
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Nice one, Colin.
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UMI, I don't think the Romans gave as many people lead poisoning, as Al Capone did!! {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Thet started building the town that I came from.
What a pity they didn't hang around long enough to complete it.
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Were to start on this one. Replaced a possible good system of government with the nightmare of continual dictatorships and for the best part of 400years behaved worse than the people they claimed to be civilizing.
Bowwave >:-o
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{-) the aquaduct {-)
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They also gave us model boat combat using real people like nautical gladiators on small scale galleys. Called "Naumacia" it was fight to the death for prisoners, slaves on specially built "ponds" unless the Emperor decided otherwise. Makes the ball bearing crowd look kind of soft.
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... if I go just 1 mile further, I can see the rest of the Limes, that roman border which divided the barbarians.
And it gives me again the convictian, that nothing lasts forever.
Egyptian kings?
Carthargo?
Venezia?
Maya?
Inka?
Old Greek confederation?
Persia?
The Celtics?
All gone with the wind....
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Ok, apart from:
Peace, roads, a monetary economy, glazed windows, underfloor heating, mass production, Architecture ,Art ,Literature ,Language,Sanitation, Aqueducts, Education, Irrigation,The calendar, Cement and bricks, Public heated baths, Turnips and carrots, Paved streets and pavements ,Apples, pears and grapes , Benefits (free food) for poor citizens, Roads, Wine, Cats, Stinging nettles,Street Cleaners ,Shops, Laws, Tenement Blocks, Public order, Firemen and Police, Parks ,Cabbages & peas, Public libraries, Public notices and advertisements, pottery, literacy, improved agricultural techniques, Christianity, public buildings......
.....what have the Romans dones for us?????
You've just sailed completely over the head of nearly everyone! - No big Python fans on this thread then {-) {-) {-)
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Were to start on this one. Replaced a possible good system of government with the nightmare of continual dictatorships and for the best part of 400years behaved worse than the people they claimed to be civilizing.
And don't forget taxes. Another great invention of theirs.
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Were to start on this one. Replaced a possible good system of government with the nightmare of continual dictatorships and for the best part of 400years behaved worse than the people they claimed to be civilizing.
Bowwave >:-o
Their lasting achievement was to create institutional corruption as a way of government. The rest of the world has been following their example ever since. Of course, they could well have copied it, but they definitely refined the process.
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The metric system.
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That was Napoleon!
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Ok, apart from:
Peace, roads, a monetary economy, glazed windows, underfloor heating, mass production, Architecture ,Art ,Literature ,Language,Sanitation, Aqueducts, Education, Irrigation,The calendar, Cement and bricks, Public heated baths, Turnips and carrots, Paved streets and pavements ,Apples, pears and grapes , Benefits (free food) for poor citizens, Roads, Wine, Cats, Stinging nettles,Street Cleaners ,Shops, Laws, Tenement Blocks, Public order, Firemen and Police, Parks ,Cabbages & peas, Public libraries, Public notices and advertisements, pottery, literacy, improved agricultural techniques, Christianity, public buildings......
.....what have the Romans dones for us?????
You've just sailed completely over the head of nearly everyone! - No big Python fans on this thread then {-) {-) {-)
nitpicking and pedantry?
most of that list was already here.
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Naw colin. the little dictator made every one on the continent change the way they held their sword from the left of the body to the right hand side, because he was left handed.
Thats why they drive on the wrong side of the road on the continent these days.lol {-) {-) {-) %%
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And as a kid I used to like Asterix and if it was nt for the Romans the wee fella and Obelix would have been bored :}
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Ok, apart from:
Peace, roads, a monetary economy, glazed windows, underfloor heating, mass production, Architecture ,Art ,Literature ,Language,Sanitation, Aqueducts, Education, Irrigation,The calendar, Cement and bricks, Public heated baths, Turnips and carrots, Paved streets and pavements ,Apples, pears and grapes , Benefits (free food) for poor citizens, Roads, Wine, Cats, Stinging nettles,Street Cleaners ,Shops, Laws, Tenement Blocks, Public order, Firemen and Police, Parks ,Cabbages & peas, Public libraries, Public notices and advertisements, pottery, literacy, improved agricultural techniques, Christianity, public buildings......
.....what have the Romans dones for us?????
thank god for maninthestreet, the first 1 to get the joke. i set it up & waited for someone to knock it down {-)
although its been funnier reading the replies from some members!!!!!
Personally i 've always thought 'the life of Brian' had a more plausible plot than the nativity
cheers Glenn
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The metric system.
I thought it was th duo system 12 months, 12 pence , 12 inches and all that ?
Bowwave
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Sophia Loren
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Cement, Hobnail boots, 'Beware of the dog' signs, Honey roast door mouse,delicious, Pantomimes.