[Ice]

What did the Romans ever do for us? 

Brought peas?



 See what I did there?

Oh, shut up.

[tode]

Hang on, hang on. Carrots come from Afghanistan, dont they? Not sure where brought peas come from.  You cant blame the Romans for everything  

[aelf]

Hang on, hang on. Carrots come from Afghanistan, dont they? Not sure where brought peas come from.  You cant blame the Romans for everything  

the Romans brought them here from Afghanistan, i assume. Time Team told me it was the romans and Baldrick wouldn't lie to me! 

[Paul Plots]

So the Romans have a great deal to answer for:

Straight roads = speeding traffic
Rabbits = munched veg plots
Ground Elder = rotten recipes and back aching weeding
Carrots = worrying about carrot fly

I wonder if they introduced the hoe?

Sausages were their idea!

[aelf]

I think they also started global warming with all that marching and invading rabbit/carrot/groundelder free lands! 

[Ice]

I wonder if they introduced the hoe?

Well, the soldiers had to do something when they weren't building aqueducts, good roads, introducing sanitation, using medicines, bringing order culture and peas. 

[Yabba]

don't forget edukayshun, we'd all still be in mud huts on windy roads if we wusn't edukayted ... blooming romans, sixteen years of my life wasted at school because of them :|

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[Ice]

It wasn't all wasted on me 'cos I can still work out the Roman Numerals at the end of films to see what year they were made.  You would be amazed how useful that is......not.

[JRRD]

It wasn't all wasted on me 'cos I can still work out the Roman Numerals at the end of films to see what year they were made.  You would be amazed how useful that is......not.

I do that too....... have a bit of a  'when was this made ?'  obsession with old tv programmes....    my husband doesn't have a clue about Roman numerals and I just don't understand how he doesn't know them !!!

[Ourveggiepatch]

That was one of my earliest memories at school - remembering those funny lines, in fact I was asked to dress up as a witch for the paper (dont know why) but on the day I had to stay in class to learn roman numerals - I am scarred to this day.

So Romans brought me trauma from my childhood something I may never recover from - I always wanted to be a witch!

OVP.

[Yabba]

It wasn't all wasted on me 'cos I can still work out the Roman Numerals at the end of films to see what year they were made.  You would be amazed how useful that is......not.

ahah, you wuz from one of those posh families huh?  :blink:

we weren't allowed to play with numbers

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[digalotty]

in 1939 they ivented the reverse gear

[Paul Plots]

don't forget edukayshun, we'd all still be in mud huts on windy roads if we wusn't edukayted ... * romans, sixteen years of my life wasted at school because of them :|

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Just 16 and you're complaining..... I've been there for 34 years and still no end in sight.
Down with the Romans!!  hoe, hoe....

[Ourveggiepatch]

Definately not from a posh school - was a christian school in Bristol which is even more confusing why I was nominated to be a witch!

Anyway if it wasn't for the romans then we wouldnt have time team digging up roman stuff or students playing in the mud!

OVP

[Paul Plots]

Definately not from a posh school - was a christian school in Bristol which is even more confusing why I was nominated to be a witch!

Anyway if it wasn't for the romans then we wouldnt have time team digging up roman stuff or students playing in the mud!

OVP

Time Team also spend a good deal of time sifting through the midden heaps left by the Ancient Britons 

About a year ago, on Grade 1 agricultural land where a new housing estate is to be built up the road from me, the remains/burial site of a Bronze Age warrior was discovered.  A very rare find as it was a high caste member of society judging from the things buried with him. So, the Romans weren't the only crowd around...

Back to "hoe, hoe, hoe": When the Romans settled they often built along the edges of previous Iron Age settlements so their roads are not always dead straight - they wiggle as did the edges of Iron Age fields due to the way the oxen walked when ploughing (reverse sigmoidal curves).
How straight are your hoe-lines?? 

Just thought I'd tell you while I wait for a coat of paint to dry  Don't you just love holidays!!