why do you hate the ancient romans?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m Jewish, so obviously I have a problem with the fact that the Romans destroyed our Temple, massacred millions of my ancestors, and exiled my people from their land.

But there are more reasons to hate the Romans. Here’s a few:

– Nero Burning ROM: Doesn’t always work when I try to make bootable CDs.

– They invented the fresco, which is awfully like Fresca, a terrible drink.

– They invented candles. And this Vanessa person has done a pretty good job of explaining why candles are bad:
http://www.wnba.com/fire/vanessa_vision2.html

– They stole the Greek gods. How lame is that?

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Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace – shut up!

3

“All roads lead to Rome.”
Talk about being Romo-centric.

4

You people are a bunch of bigots. I thought that we got rid of such blatant Romo-Phobia back in 700 A.D. :smiley:

5

They had slaves

6

This is from the Talmud:

7

It’s their fault that railroad tracks are that width.

And I gotta admit I got a problem with that whole “tossing the Christians to the lions” business. <hijack> If you rent the DVD for Gladiator, take a moment to see the cut scene of Maximus watching Christians being attacked by lions (tigers?) in the ring. Moving and chilling. </hijack>

8

Too many people named Naughtius Maximus and Biggus Diccus. Freaking Romans.

9

Those Roman bastards killed my dog! :frowning:

10

Well, they DID come up with a few of their own…demi-gods really, but still, it showed a little initiative.

Lessee…off the top of my head…there was Saturn, an ancient Italian deity, the founder of the Saturnalia. Terminus, the god of landmarks (no kidding). And Flora, the goddess of, um, flowers…and Pomona, the goddess of pom-poms.

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“We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.” - Jack Handey

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:mad:

Whaat?! how can you NOT like the Ancient Romans? They completely and uterly rock!! Gladiator is the bomb. These guys knew how to have fun, man. :stuck_out_tongue: Admit it, the only reason you’re being so cruel is because they can’t come over here with their chariots and whatnot and beat you to a bloody pulp, right?

13

The Romans invented the basis of modern civilization: Concrete.

And they were engineers; how could you not like that?!?

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Because they came up with a whole bunch of legal maxims, and what is worse, every damned one of them is in Latin. Why couldn’t they spear English like decent people?

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As concrete has been banned from this board on MANY occasions, I hardly think dropping his name will do much to further your argument. And calling him “civilized,” well, you obviously don’t know him as the rest of us do. :wink:

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I’m sorry to say that I LIKE the Romans.

But, I also love ancient history; it’s a weakness.

Sure, they killed folks, screwed up their society with all those orgies and bread and circuses (sp?), enslaved millions of people, but, hey! they got the job done, didn’t they? You can’t argue with success! :smiley:

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A schoolboy plaint

Latin is a dead language,
It’s plain enough to see.
It killed off all the Romans
And now it’s killing me.

18

Well, Spavined Gelding, decent people don’t spear the English. We just don’t liek them very much is all. :smiley:

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I don’t personally hate the Romans, but one guy who did was Petr Beckmann, who wrote the wonderful book A History of Pi. This book is also wonderfully cranky, reflecting the author’s dislike of Aristotle, the Soviet Union, and the Roman Empire. Read it for the the excellent history and mathematics, but also beware of his prejudices.

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I hate those pansy Gladiator uniforms. I mean, men in leather miniskirts is so 1995. And those so-called breastplates didn’t really protect you from anything, they just caused funny tan lines.