The dictators of the Front Line

[Nickdfresh]

I really should have taken c-dog to the old soccer stadium before being deposed...

[FORD]

I really should have taken c-dog to the old soccer stadium before being deposed...

If you would have told him you were going to Applebees, you wouldn't have needed to chloroform him to get him in the van.

[kwame k]

I really should have taken c-dog to the old soccer stadium before being deposed...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Nickdfresh]

I could have driven the "Free Apps!" van.

[Seshmeister]

Sesh, you know what a Roman road looks like. Just drive north on M11 towards Cambridge (as an example), and there is a road that crosses it from east to west. It is crushed limestone gravel, and there are not two "tire lanes" with grass growing in betwixt them. ;-)

Looks nothing like that road in Gladiator.

Oh I know....details, details.

Looks like CG to me anyhoo.

I guess that they must have had roads that weren't 'Roman' roads as well in the empire and were a bit shit.

When I was in Pompeii all the roads look as though they have tire channels in them but I think that was maybe something to do with water drainage. I only remember it because I had a hangover and kept tripping up.





It's all a slightly odd argument anyway since it's a depiction of Roman heaven so they could have put freeways or hover cars in there if they wanted, who knows what Jupiter built.

[Seshmeister]

No one could ever accuse any of the threads here going a little off topic could they?

[Angel]

no one could ever accuse any of the threads here going a little off topic could they?

never!!!

[Hardrock69]

Yo Sesh, I just spoke with my former g/f. I was in the UK visiting in 1989, and we drove by it several times. She was the one who pointed it out to me the first time we drove past it.

Imagine you are on the M11 going North. On the right, it looks like a white road coming from the distance, and ending about 100 meters from the side of the motorway.
Then, on the left side, about the same distance from that side of the motorway, it picks up where it left off and disappears into the distance.

I could swear it was the M11, but in recent years I have tried to find it on Google maps satellite view, and absolutely cannot.

It could have been one of the A roads, and it would have been around Suffolk, as my g/f was in the USAF stationed at RAF Lakenheath at the time. She cannot recall where it was, though she does recall driving on roads in the area that have been in existence for almost 2,000 years.

[vandeleur]

My first flat was on the fossway , the road from segadunum to pons aelius . Which is wallsend to Newcastle for none roman soldier folk :-)

[vandeleur]

Here is a fucker , there was hot running water used to heat buildings at both sites ( central heating ) and when I bought the flat it only had a coal fire . The bastards 2000 years before me had better heating lol

[Hardrock69]

Damn, man!

That is something though that you do not see a lot of in the US. The percentage of buildings older than 150 years is pretty low, but over there I am sure there is a lot higher percentage of buildings over 500 years old, lol.

It was so cool to walk around the town square in Cambridge and see a stone arch doorway with the year 1430 or something like that carved in it.

[vandeleur]

I live in Newcastle , google it when ur bored it is a city with a fantastic history .
Any hoo my good pal does work with the Newcastle lit & phil society .
His basic job for them is to do city tours , it's class way to meet female students .
But I've did the tours with him loads we have some fantastic buildings .
The keep in the center of town , was built during the original Norman invasion , the one standing is from 1178.
So it's like the trendy new one :D

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Sorry Sesh we used to keep your Scottish kings in this.

[Hardrock69]

Lol. Yes.....I mean, white people did not settle over here before what....the early 1600s? Shit...white folks been trucking around Europe for several THOUSAND years minimum! :D

[FORD]

Probably one of the oldest buildings on this continent would be the San Xavier mission located just a little south of Tucson AZ......



It was built in 1797, though it's actually the second mission building. The original was built a century before that. Not sure if they demolished that building to build this one or what, exactly, but they obviously did the job right the second time, because it's still there.

When it was built, Arizona was a Spanish colony, then became part of Mexico, and was finally annexed into the US. And the mission happens to be located on the Tohono O'odham reservation, so I guess you could say it has survived 4 regime changes, and still standing.

Just a cool damned building that even non-Catholics can appreciate.........

[vandeleur]

That is a gorgeous building