Posted on 11/21/2016 6:19:29 AM PST by C19fan
When people think of Rome they think of the Coliseum, but this year the Coliseum has an ancient athletic rival: the Circus Maximus. After years of excavations and improvements, Rome’s charioteer stadium—the ancient equivalent of a NASCAR track—is finally open to the public. But however you feel about the races there’s plenty of interesting stuff to be seen here; the ancient world’s largest shopping mall, among them. But for my money one of the most interesting features is the well-preserved and very public ancient latrines, which operated with water siphoned from the nearby aqueduct. Bear with me. They’re a testament to Roman engineering and evidence that even though the Romans had a highly developed sense of decorum, they didn’t mind emptying their bowels en masse.
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Some place still haven’t...........like San Fransicko.............
Pretty sure the poster meant the West wouldnt match the sanitation infrastructure AGAIN until the Eighteenth Century.
Having rudimentary plumbing and waste removal, at all, was almost miraculous in that era. There were areas of Italy where people still dumped their “night soil” out into the streets as recently as the 50’s, my dad used to tell of having to walk out on the street in the morning to avoid it at certain ports of call while in the Navy.
Didn’t the people in the Middle Ages just toss their waste out the window?
I think Fenway Park still has some of the original equipment installed.
They did right up to the modern era, 50’s at least.
What? signs saying “bathroom equality - bathrooms for all”?
Some truth to that although Medieval Cities tried to collect the waste into cesspits because it was valuable as a fertilizer.
Mexico is still an ancient bathroom.
Cess pits or “midden heaps” to use an archaic term.
CC
Our mistake was letting liberals’ diversity revert the “when in Rome do as the Romans do” to “barbarians, you’re better than Romans, do what you want and the Romans must accommodate you”.
San Francisco was all for public nudity, until they realized no one wanted to sit on a bus or restaurant chair after some one else’s naked butt was on it.
I'm beginning to believe the Victorians were perhaps one of the most advanced, civilized forces world history has seen. I don't believe present history is far enough removed for proper perspective (typical leftist-modernist historians are still reacting against them as regimented, overly religious, or cruel), but in terms of influence on the world and advancement of mankind, they were huge.
LOL - good one Candida Moss ...
We used to have similar arrangements on large US Navy ships. You had a trough with mounted toilet seats on top with no dividers. Those sitting downstream saw and smelled everything coming from upstream. The onboard latrines used salt water.
My dad used to laugh about those latrines. Digestive distress wasn't uncommon aboard ship, so seeing a solid log somebody laid come floating underneath and past everybody on it's way out to sea provoked a chorus of "you lucky b*tard!"
The idiocy of the “transgender” reference at the end frustrates me.
He admits the sexual segregation helped women - while then implying that we should break it for the sake of mentally ill people because it was OK with the ancient world, who didn’t give a flip about women.
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