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They're doing WHAT?????
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http://pictorial.jezebel.com/bro-my-god-...l_facebook
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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#2
(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..... Big Grin
Ivor

"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
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#3
How about 8 modern guys zipped back to Rome to be trained as intellectuals?-- Pliny style... Tacitus style.
Naw. Not dumb enough. Cool
Alan J. Campbell

member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians

Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)

"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
             Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
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#4
dat sounds fully sick bro
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books
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#5
Nuk, nuk, nuk, nuk! Big Grin Tongue
Alan J. Campbell

member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians

Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)

"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
             Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
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#6
puff.

will be great circus for the plebs
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#7
' . . . they'll live and fight as gladiators did 2000 years ago.'

I didn't think you were allowed to kill anyone these days.
Michael King Macdona

And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
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#8
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/
Carus Andiae - David Woodall

"The greatest military machine in the history of the universe..."
"What is - the Daleks?"
"No... the Romans!" - Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens
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#9
I read it.  And there is only one appropriate response:
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"Live and fight like gladiators did 2000 years ago"?  By having them drag miniature chariots and their girlfriends catfight over clothes?  They might as well put "We think the general public doesn't have two brain cells to rub together" in the opening credits.
Dan D'Silva

Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.

--  Gamma Ray

Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...

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#10
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.... Big Grin
Ivor

"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
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#12
(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.
Michael King Macdona

And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
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#13
Nice thumbs-down Wink review:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakil...50d8f1175f
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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