I wonder, do the people here who talk about indoor plumbing and washing realize those were common throughout the Roman Empire? Maybe it’s Attilah et co you should speak with.
I do. 
The Romans had flush toilets and hot and cold running water.
Course it was hot and cold running thru LEAD pipes… 
Particularly when you’ve been going back and forth on overthrowing her for pretty much your whole life.
U.S. Grant - You’ve hit your peak. Forget politics.
Gen. John Sedgwick - Quit making wisecracks about snipers and get you ass behind a tree!
Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate - Think microcomputers.
James Dean - It’s a good day to stay home.
Pharoh - Let 'em go.
Douglas MacArthur - Remember what they told you at the Point about obeying superiors?
Marie Antoinette - “If you can keep your head when all those about you are losing theirs . . .”
G.W. Bush - bin Laden isn’t in Iraq.
And then some words which, thankfully, were not spoken - Mrs. Edison: “For gawd’s sake, Tom, turn out that light and come to bed!”
Tom Fogerty? Are you sure you didn’t mean his brother John? John was the one who was screwed over by Fantasy Records, signing away all rights to his Creedence records. After CCR broke up, Tom continued to record for Fantasy throughout the 70s and 80s until his death in 1990.
Duh, my bad.
If this is meant to play on the belief that Patient Zero singlehandedly spread HIV to North America, it’s wrong. He was called Patient Zero because he was the origin of one particular epidemiological study.
Well, I didn’t think it was all him, but he did get around, did he not, even after he knew he was infected?
Al Gore: Use Clinton’s legacy in the campaign.
To: The American founding fathers.
Put the bill of rights first!
Like this:
Article One, Implied powers.
There are no powers implied in this document. The Government may exercise only those powers specifically granted herein.
Tris
And yes, God could sink it. Lots of things could sink it, like… oh, maybe, sending it at high speed through Iceberg Alley.
Jayne- slow down when following trucks and do NOT have anything to do with Anton LaVey.
And God, if it’s 6,000 years old, make it LOOK 6,000 years old, and if it’s billions of years old, have your secretary Moses write it that way & not get all poetic about “days”.
Just a quick question: Wouldn’t this mean that it would take a Constitutional Amendment to allow the gov’t to regulate things like radio/TV waves?
Whether the FCC is always operating in the public interest is another issue. I’m just thinking that in many ways the flexibility of the Constitution has worked in the country’s favor by allowing things to be considered that were completely beyond the knowledge of the Founding Fathers.
Indoor plumbing is very nice but it all comes to naught if a whole city is shitting where it eats. That is, once the waste is in the pipes there is still a massive disease risk if it’s going (untreated, but treatment technology was beyond the people I was talking about) into the same lake or river drinking water is taken from. I don’t know how big of a problem this was during the peak of the Roman Era.
Derleth, I can’t speak for the whole of the Roman Empire, but my understanding is that the city of Rome’s water supply was generally coming in through the aqueducts from sources many miles removed from the city. Which, I think, meant that it was nearly impossible to contaminate the drinking water supply with the city’s sewage.
Doesn’t say anything about how clean the water was from the people living around the resevoirs, of course.
Actually, my advice would be: “Don’t shuffle papers when you’re talking. It’s really distracting to those of us trying to listen in all these years later.”
And then there’s my crazy psycho edition:
To Tim McVeigh (while serving in the 1st Gulf War): “You go on ahead and look for snipers. We’ll just stay back and keep a lookout.”
To Charlie Manson: “Dude, it’s just a song.”
To David Berkowitz: “Dude, it’s just a dog.”
To Osama Bin Laden: “The family business can really use another hand”
I don’t know about Rome’s reservoirs, but those for Pompeiopolis (Pamplona) and Segrobriga (Segovia) is Spain didn’t have anybody living there. If the water had been in a nice place to live in, the town would have been where the water was.
Treatment technology was beyond the Victorians, too – they basically just pumped the sewage from London out to sea, untreated.
The Romans surely let the sewage flow downhill toward Ostia or something. Other people downstream may have had their drinking water contaminated, but Rome would have been drawing from uphill – through the aqueducts otakoLoki mentions.
IANARC, but…
I am not a Roman Citizen
Well, no. Have you see what those guys look like these days? The pallid complexions, the gaunt figures, the exposed dentition? Ewww.
He certainly wasn’t the most responsible sexual partner (before AIDS - and more importantly for Mr. Dugas, before we understood AIDS, responsible sexual partner had a different meaning) , but its debatable whether he ever had any knowledge that what he was doing was endangering lives. And he isn’t a single handed cause of the spread, there was no shortage of men who had a lot of sex with other men in the early 1980s.
However, if I could go back in time and convincingly warn gay men about the dangers of sex in the late 70s early 80s, I would. Unfortunately, I don’t know if it would help, early warnings did very little good. Why would gay men need to use birth control?