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(09-01-2017, 05:30 PM)Robert Vermaat Wrote: http://pictorial.jezebel.com/bro-my-god-...l_facebook
Lol their a bit late with that one I would say.....
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How about 8 modern guys zipped back to Rome to be trained as intellectuals?-- Pliny style... Tacitus style.
Naw. Not dumb enough.
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dat sounds fully sick bro
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Nuk, nuk, nuk, nuk!
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puff.
will be great circus for the plebs
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' . . . they'll live and fight as gladiators did 2000 years ago.'
I didn't think you were allowed to kill anyone these days.
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Not having seen any publicity for this I thought, despite the dodgy title, a programme about modern people living as gladiators might be watchable. After about a minute I ran screaming from the room.
Here's the Radio Times review, if you dare read it:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-09-1...lity-show/
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It's already been cancelled.
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(09-18-2017, 12:06 AM)Flavivs Aetivs Wrote: It's already been cancelled.
Phew!.... Breaths a sigh of relief, that program would have set back the work of historical Buffs everywhere by decades, if not a couple of millenia....
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(09-18-2017, 12:06 AM)Flavivs Aetivs Wrote: It's already been cancelled.
Where did you find that, Evan? I've searched in vain for such encouragement.
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