How often do you think about The Roman Empire?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

How will Jorge recover from this

He will drown himself in an aqueduct

[Anders]

Not on a daily or even weekly basis, but certainly it pops into my mind here and there, or if I'm watching a movie or show about that period. Historically, as far as Romans go, in the last year or two, I have thought most about the Fall of Constantinople.

[Jorge]

I never think about the Roman Empire

but you just did

I did not

I have never thought about the Roman Empire and I never will

[Anders]

Have you seen the series Rome from HBO?

[tommy]

Have you seen the series Rome from HBO?

Good shit, pal

[BurtReynolds]

Not a day goes by that I don't think about retaking Constantinople and reuniting the east and west.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Every day. I love reading about Hadrian’s Wall.

Brittania is a good fictional series about that time, i wish they’d bring that back.

[spike]

If you’re not thinking about The Roman Empire a lot, you have Low T.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

Throw Your Hadrian Down

[E.H. Ruddock]

PICTure in a frame

[E.H. Ruddock]

If you’re not thinking about The Roman Empire a lot, you have Low T.

[Ello Sailor]

Spike is so bored he morphed into Deb. T is back on the menu, sboys.

[doug rr]

never

[tommy]

The Roman Empire sucked ass. Hannibal should have finished them off when he had the chance.

[Chris_H_2]

the male bath houses are where it’s at. can’t get enough.

[spike]

The Roman Empire sucked ass. Hannibal should have finished them off when he had the chance.

what a dumb take, even by your standards

[The Argonaut]

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

[Chris_H_2]

The Roman Empire sucked ass. Hannibal should have finished them off when he had the chance.

what a dumb take, even by your standards

which part? the one about hannibal finishing off an empire that didn't even begin until about 160 years after his death?

[tommy]

The Roman Empire sucked ass. Hannibal should have finished them off when he had the chance.

what a dumb take, even by your standards

Pretty rude.