Were the Roman Aqueducts used as Water Slides?

YouTube ^ | April 1, 2022 | toldinstone

[SunkenCiv]

No, they were not.

You can read the original version of my answer to this question, which appeared on the AskHistorians subreddit, here.

Were the Roman Aqueducts used as Water Slides? | April 1, 2022 | toldinstone

[SunkenCiv]

The aqueducts were awesome manifestations of the Roman knack for practical engineering on a monumental scale. This video explores how they were constructed and used.

I'd like to thank Woosh Pipe and Drain of New York City for sponsoring this video.

How did Roman Aqueducts work? | March 18, 2022 | toldinstone

[SunkenCiv]

I think the tunics and togas mitigated against the use of water slides.

[Yo-Yo]

Follow up question: If not, why not?

[SunkenCiv]

Most ancient people could have used a good scrubbin’, at least.

[dfwgator]

Ok, but apart from the water slides, what have the Romans ever done for us?

[TexasGator]

“Follow up question: If not, why not?”

Why follow up with a question already answered?

[FreeperCell]

Oh. I’ll settle for just the watersides.

[Larry Lucido]

I'm sure H.E. Pennypacker will get around to it.

[Red Badger]

Sliding your butt on bare cement and cobblestones would give you a road rash of epic proportions................

[COBOL2Java]

I think the tunics and togas mitigated against the use of water slides.

[Steve_Seattle]

Sounds like something from The Far Side. I remember one cartoon depicting two sentries standing atop The Great Wall of China. One was telling the other, "This should keep that dog out."

I don't know if this is something I saw, or something I made up, but I had an idea for a cartoon depicting Noah's Ark with a long row of different kinds of dinosaurs waiting to get on board, and Noah telling them, "Sorry, we're full."

[PGR88]

Follow up question: If not, why not?

Because the corn-dog and 32 oz cola to sell to the water-slide customers had not yet been invented

[M Kehoe]

I'll buy it.

In Florida during the summer, it rains every day. Sometimes really hard. Large puddles form in the strip mall's parking lot.

All you need is a Jeep, rope, piece of round plywood and your underwear.

I'm sure some kid found the aqueducts fun on a hot Italian summer day. (Just don't pee in the pool)

5.56mm

[Radix]

The Romans built bath houses just about every where that they went. Heck, half of the towns in Germany are referred to as ‘Baths’ or ‘Bad Something.’ Well, maybe not quite half, but they have a lot of them.

[gundog]

I enjoy a Caesar Salad, now and again.

[SunkenCiv]

Aqueductape.

[SunkenCiv]

In Italy, they eventually had a lot of bad abings.

[SunkenCiv]

• Claudius' Naumachia on Fucine Lake (Those About To Die, chap III) [11/24/2005]

[SunkenCiv]

And of course, they loved to jump chariots through rings of fire right after one of those “slides for life”.

I miss Dan Fleenor.

[Sans-Culotte]