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5 Surprisingly Weird Things You Didn't Know About Rome

askmen.com — In Rome, it was considered decadent to vomit between meals...

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  • inactive, on 02/06/2009, -2/+65I don't get my history from AskMen. thanks, though.
  • moothemagiccow, on 02/06/2009, -2/+48dear god askmen.com sucks
  • Mo0man, on 02/06/2009, -1/+35*****, that Caligula thing is getting annoying. He didn't threaten to make his horse a consul cause he was crazy. He did it cause he wanted to give a huge middle finger to the current consuls.
    Not crazy, Bad Ass
  • YME1280, on 02/05/2009, -0/+28Oh, well, when in Rome.
    Yes?
    Please, go on.
    Uh, do as the Romans do?
    It's an old expression.
  • inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+236. Contrary to popular belief, it WAS created in a day.
  • mikek814, on 02/05/2009, -0/+15gotta try Rome underground
  • HadBeans, on 02/06/2009, -0/+14Wow the city of Rome had a belly button....

    The County that I grew up in had an arsehole and we lived there. What a ***** place.
  • had3l, on 02/06/2009, -0/+13Yes, you gotta love those articles that assume that we are all idiots.
    "Here are some things you don't know!" "How are we sure you don't know?" "Because you are reading Askmen.com!"
  • gullydwarf, on 02/06/2009, -1/+14i knew the first 3, just sayin.
  • AoiTakuma, on 02/06/2009, -0/+11Buried because they couldnt fit 5 things on one page. And the explanations were about a paragraph a piece.
  • Akairenn, on 02/06/2009, -1/+12Dugg. I'd argue that he was slightly eccentric, but I always sympathize with the man. I have no doubt that were I in the White House at present, and had to deal with the likes of Pelosi, Reid and the rest... I'd be shaking my fist and screaming at the Lincoln monument, as well as threatening to make my dog Secretary of State.

    But hey, at least they hinted at the fact that when in Rome, if there was a hole, it was socially acceptable to stick something in it. Still, nothing on the list should come as a shock to anyone who's studied even basic Roman history. Or has even watched Rome. (Go watch Rome. Best television ever.)
  • rvaldes04, on 02/06/2009, -0/+10yeah, his name was romulus
  • ryancowan, on 02/06/2009, -1/+11Good job reading the article, that's actually #5.
  • inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're
  • idavidtang, on 02/06/2009, -2/+10KILL IT WITH FIRE.
  • had3l, on 02/06/2009, -0/+8Well, it actually probably was, some Mario-looking bloke stepped on top of a hill, stuck a flag in the ground and said: "I declare this a place, a Roma!"
  • kanimara, on 02/06/2009, -0/+7This Caligula guy sounds hilarious. Telling his soldiers to attack the sea?
  • had3l, on 02/06/2009, -0/+6I get my history from HBO, thank you very much.
  • cleovii, on 02/06/2009, -2/+8CE does not mean Classical Era, wtf. And why use BCE and CE at all if you're going to say BCE means Before the Christian Era?
  • orion846, on 02/06/2009, -1/+7CACK!
  • necromancer, on 02/06/2009, -1/+6Yeah... makes you wonder about the rest of the facts.

    (For those not familiar with it, CE/BCE = Common Era/Before Common Era.)
  • BestDudeEver, on 02/06/2009, -0/+5Id rather get my history from cracked, but thanks for trying
  • rdldr1, on 02/06/2009, -0/+5Vomiting between meals in order to continue to gorge yourself actually originated in ancient Greece.
  • JT3989, on 02/06/2009, -2/+6That was actually pretty interesting. Now I wanna go on Wikipedia and read about Rome.
  • Akaricloud, on 02/06/2009, -1/+5This could lead to some serious time loss on Wikipedia if your not careful.

  • thisisparta, on 02/06/2009, -0/+4There are a lot of things i dont know about Rome.
  • siandt, on 02/06/2009, -0/+4I have stores of much better trivia:

    Romans were largely superstitious, and would consult omens before undertaking any kind of military venture, often birds. Swans, doves, birdy entrails, or even sacred chickens. You watched these chickens, and depending on whether or not they ate their grain, you either had the Gods' OK to go to war or unfavorable omens which meant you should stay home and sail another day. Publius Claudius, during the First Punic War (before the naval battle of Drepana), consulted the sacred chickens, but they refused to eat. His response: throw them overboard. "Let them drink, since they refuse to eat."

    The best part? His subsequent crushing defeat.
  • cryonix, on 02/06/2009, -0/+4Vomitoriums are good and all,
    but Masterbatoriums! thats where the moneys at.
  • inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+4A lot more interesting than the junior high level "trivia" from Askmen.com
  • bonjourmr, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3He was actually one of the better leaders of Rome, albeit ***** insane.
  • groo68, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3If you had one leg shorter than the other you mean?
  • exploringfox, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3Who didn't know these?
  • drex8, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3Popular Topic Pages on AskMen:

    Cheating, Hair Loss, Retirement, Strip Clubs and Vasectomy.
    (links are near the bottom of the page)
    lol
  • jba68, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3Romulus, slayer of Remus, son of a she-wolf....
  • acaloiar, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3I'm waiting for the day one of these digmongers title their story "10 Things you didn't know were BREAKING".

    No we are not all ignorant. Not every story is breaking. Last but not least, every story does not have to be in list form.
  • inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3C stands for Current or Common, not Christ.

    (Note, sometimes C stands for Cookie)
  • Radan, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2Good freaking god! Normally I wouldn't complain about stuff like this, but for the sake of all that is holy, five one paragraph long items on two pages?!
  • rugabug, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2Not everyone is a Christian.
  • theodenking, on 02/06/2009, -1/+3You're thinking of the Greeks.
  • jba68, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2hardly
  • bmystry, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2FYI they had good surgeons that used many tools similar to the ones in use today. You could also get stabbed for no apparent reason but then you just good to the surgeon.
  • CDollars, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I'm not sure but I think that's called bulimia.
  • had3l, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1They apparently had a severe case of rural-urban migration there, with people being unable to return to their homes and all.
  • Louay, on 02/06/2009, -1/+2your right he didnt threaten, he did make his horse consul ...crazy no bad ass yes
  • siandt, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1That's nothing. Xerxes had his soldiers whip the Hellespont for its insolence, throw chains at it, reprimand it ("you're a muddy and salty river!"), and even brand it.
  • InfinitySnatch, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1Caligula sounds like a pretty alright guy.
  • siandt, on 02/06/2009, -1/+2Yeah, and most of them are more interesting than these.
  • siandt, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1Lies. Aeneas founded Lavinium. Romulus founded Rome.
  • cleovii, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1I know C stands for Common (or Current)- that was my point exactly. If you know enough to use the terms BCE and CE, then you should understand that you're avoiding using Christian terms for time, and therefore really shouldn't be defining BCE as Before the Christian Era.
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