Comments on: Greeks, Romans wiped their asses with pottery discs http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921 History fetish? What history fetish? Sat, 25 May 2013 15:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nigel http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-697308 Nigel Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:05:52 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-697308 Similar use of smooth river stones of an acceptable texture is still practiced by some. Better than nothing. Similar use of smooth river stones of an acceptable texture is still practiced by some.
Better than nothing.

]]> By: rwmg http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-649691 rwmg Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:22:54 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-649691 No breathings? No breathings?

]]> By: miss sophie http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-648424 miss sophie Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:02:29 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-648424 the one that finds the mistake in my posting ...shall grab the first 'pebble'. :hattip: the one that finds the mistake in my posting …shall grab the first ‘pebble’.

:hattip:

]]> By: RM http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-647838 RM Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:49:13 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-647838 If you even slightly injure your trap door (so to speak) on the edges of those chips and then choose the sponge later on, it would be like rubbing salt into a wound. Being a woman, I would imagine that the sponge was likely for front door use also. Those chips make the sponge on a stick seem like absolute heaven. I couldn' help but think that the caesars had a specific servant (or however many) that sat around all day making chips from busted amphorae for his household and friends. That is just my imagination going on vacation in the toilet roll tube, but hey...TP specialist, poor guy. If you even slightly injure your trap door (so to speak) on the edges of those chips and then choose the sponge later on, it would be like rubbing salt into a wound. Being a woman, I would imagine that the sponge was likely for front door use also.

Those chips make the sponge on a stick seem like absolute heaven.

I couldn’ help but think that the caesars had a specific servant (or however many) that sat around all day making chips from busted amphorae for his household and friends. That is just my imagination going on vacation in the toilet roll tube, but hey…TP specialist, poor guy.

]]> By: RM http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-647779 RM Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:24:03 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-647779 So does this mean that the ancient Greeks and Romans invented hemorrhoids? (haha) Not just that, but then, after you take care of business, you go and finish shopping for dinner. Even if you took care of business before leaving home and washed, god knows how many people have picked up and examined tose vegetables before you did. NO WONDER people were dying of everything under the sun. Ick. So does this mean that the ancient Greeks and Romans invented hemorrhoids? (haha)

Not just that, but then, after you take care of business, you go and finish shopping for dinner. Even if you took care of business before leaving home and washed, god knows how many people have picked up and examined tose vegetables before you did. NO WONDER people were dying of everything under the sun. Ick.

]]> By: miss sophie http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-647365 miss sophie Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:33:00 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-647365 He he ...τρέις έισιν ίκανοι πρωκτόν απομάξαι λιϑοί. ... :yes: If only all the Papakonstantinous, Papandreous, Papademos, ... Venizelos knew that; ... and may the ostrakoi be sharp ! - Don't miss the next BMJ christmas issue :skull: ! He he …τρέις έισιν ίκανοι πρωκτόν απομάξαι λιϑοί. … :yes:

If only all the Papakonstantinous, Papandreous, Papademos, … Venizelos knew that; … and may the ostrakoi be sharp ! – Don’t miss the next BMJ christmas issue :skull: !

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-646682 livius drusus Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:32:06 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-646682 Is it one of the giant industrial rolls? Those are the worst. Is it one of the giant industrial rolls? Those are the worst.

]]> By: livius drusus http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-646671 livius drusus Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:28:37 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-646671 Are the Christmas issue articles fakes, though? It was my understanding that the articles are on funny, picayune and off-beat topics often filtered through a humorous prism, but they're still peer reviewed and the authors don't make up research or anything. I may be wrong, of course, in which case :notworthy: to the BMJ. Are the Christmas issue articles fakes, though? It was my understanding that the articles are on funny, picayune and off-beat topics often filtered through a humorous prism, but they’re still peer reviewed and the authors don’t make up research or anything. I may be wrong, of course, in which case :notworthy: to the BMJ.

]]> By: rwmg http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-646613 rwmg Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:07:43 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-646613 Two of the comments to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2264464/They-bit-scratchy-The-ceramic-gaming-pieces-new-research-claims-Roman-equivalent-loo-roll.html" rel="nofollow">the Daily Mail story</a> on this suggest that it actually comes from one of the joke pieces that the BMJ usually includes in its Christmas/New Year issue. Two of the comments to the Daily Mail story on this suggest that it actually comes from one of the joke pieces that the BMJ usually includes in its Christmas/New Year issue.

]]> By: D. B. Cooper http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/22921/comment-page-1#comment-646587 D. B. Cooper Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:55:05 +0000 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/?p=22921#comment-646587 I'll never complain about the cheap 2 ply in the office WCs again. I’ll never complain about the cheap 2 ply in the office WCs again.

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