Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system…

20 Replies to “Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system…”

1. Can you patent something invented more than 2000 years ago?

   (Answer: Yes if you give it a modern twist).

2. What would the mafia do if Quebec used self repairing concrete.

   1. switch to dairy?

      oh yeah , already done.

3. Well, those Roman better save their money. They still owe the Brits reparations.

   1. Ordain, I had similar thoughts. The Romans discovered that quicklime was the key to self-healing concrete. Science was pretty advanced back then. Some academics today would say this was a tool of white privilege and colonialism when in reality it benefited mankind, sorry, humanity.

4. Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system

   …and throwing Christians to the lions, what have the Romans ever done for us?

   There corrected!

   Are you not ENTERTAINED!?! 🙂

   Cheers

   Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

   1st St Nicolaas Army
   Army Group “True North”

5. “You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the fetus gonna gestate, you gonna keep it in a box?”

   Sorry, thought we were doing Life Of Brian.

   1. I thought it’s about the oil industry verses the environmentalists.

      1. You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working classes…

         1. Oh, ‘ere we go again… Just shut up and keep digging for filth! There’s a lovely pile over there…

   2. Such a great movie. “People’s front of Judea….$&@&”

6. But, but, but the science is settled! Nothing can change or be improved on…

   (must add pronouns) I’m old enough to use Thee and Thou.

   1. Thee man
      Thou art

7. Nobody wanted Rome to fall but everybody wanted a piece.. The Germanic Kings filled their graves with Roman trinkets, true.. It was a love hate relationship.. It was also shocking how low taxes were.. The average citizen paid like a weeks wage a year for all the perks Rome had to offer.. No reason for it to fall, yet it did..

   The power of tribalism and the mistakes of foreign mercenaries in charge of your security.. As the empire expanded ROMANS had better things to do than defend themselves.. They got soft and embraced multiculturalism.. It done them in..

   It was so sad and pathetic that nobody could even be bothered to put pen to paper to record what happened.. So self evident that nobody could be bothered to record the shame of it all..

   1. Of course it was recorded. In Roman times nearly everything was written down. But huge amounts of materials were destroyed during the emerging Dark Ages in the late 5th early 6th centuries. Large parts of it were done by various Christian sects burning materials deemed heretical to their particular branch. Christian “monks” alone purged the great library of Alexandria at least twice before the Islamic conquest in the early 7th century. If you want to know what happened, start by reading Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

      1. I…what? No, virtually none of that is true.

      2. Morality is the word, the lack thereof.

8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzolanic_activity

   This isn’t exactly newly discovered material or reaction? What “new” is being discovered here? It kinda sounds like all the “green” energy robots who claim that solar panels are “new and improved” … or that wind energy is “more energetic than ever before” … or “Tesla is developing a game changing new battery”.

   It sounds like new wine in old wine skins … reinventing the already invented … with no appreciable gain.

   1. Like fashion styles

9. I expect the WEFers all consider themselves the new Romans. The will to power, driven by utter ruthlessness.

   And, lest we forget, a key aspect of Roman culture was a slave-based economy. As was was making examples of troublemakers by death by crucifixion.

   Rome had no mechanism for reform since it was a dictatorship by elites, and that is why simple barbarian tribes were able to finish it off.