anyone else wish you lived in ancient rome?

Admit it, you're most intrigued by the rampant homosexual relations.

I've had a recurring dream where I'm in the Roman forum, fighting a bunch of ancient Roman soldiers.

yep. not me. have fun in your disease-ridden world, though. i'm quite sure you'd never hack it.

Yeah, love the random assassinations and executions and whatnot. Don't even get me going on the poor sewage systems, when can I start?

I wish txRUNNERgirl lived in Ancient Rome so that we'd finally be free of her myspace blog style prattle.

No. However, being born 30 or 40 years earlier is a different matter.

I wish you had been there just to experience ancient dentistry. Life expectancy of 37 is just a side benfit.

I had a dream once where I was a christian back in old Roman times. Of course after spreading the word of the man upstairs I found myself arrested and banged up with the local Dons -King, Rumsfeld and Tim. Anyway after I gave a centurion a bit of verbal over the delights of Michaelangelo’s latest fresco (I’m more of a di Caprio fan myself), I found myself with running nose buried up to my neck in the middle of the Colosseum. Seconds later I heard the roar of the crowd which is answered by the roar of a somewhat emaciated lion. I'm thinking if only I'd done more sprint drills. Anyway this lion charges at me and with a deft manoeuvre I swing my head back (a la Eric Liddell in Chariots) and then to the side and bite on his lionhood. Bobbit-like he collapses in a heap rolling on the floor resembling a poleaxed Italian striker. Someone in the crowd bellows 'Play fair you dirty b@&tard' and then with not a hint of a camera in sight a somewhat psychotic Russell Crowe came up to me and kicked me in the nose. Before I could yell ‘freedom shorts’ he’d whipped out his sword and that’s where it all went dark. Then I wake up head in a bucket, face caked in snot and blood wondering what happened last night. That's the last time I go drinking with Visi the goth especially when there's a lambrusco promotion night on at Giovanni’s.

Chet Again wrote:

I wish you had been there just to experience ancient dentistry.

I think the Brits still do.

Yeah, a world without orthotics....that would have been wonderful

I could perhaps like it if not for the malaria, smallpox, and extremely poor personal hygiene and almost total lack of dentistry

Only to see Jesus and have him as my very bestest friend.

Chet Again wrote:

I wish you had been there just to experience ancient dentistry. Life expectancy of 37 is just a side benfit.

Off topic, but something that's always bothered me about a lot of historical movies. All the characters have great teeth! Even movies that go through great pains to try for historical accuracy.

If that was what it was like in the olden days, I want to live there. I had to go through years of painful orthodontics and my teeth still aren't right.

I just had a good laugh at that.