The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

And became even more beautiful.

[Ideologue]

Indeed.  It's just steam, and represents warmth and entertainment--life itself--for millions.

Pity we'll have to take it out with precision daylight bombing when the Fourth Reich comes.

[The Brain]

One of the most beautiful places in Germany:

Horrible. Just horrible.

[jimmy olsen]

I thought the population of the empire fell because of plague and endemic warfare. Hard for me to believe that life expectancy increased.

http://ancientbodies.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/are-dead-babies-good-evidence-for-a-roman-brothel/#comment-2463

Were the herbal contraceptives effective? Demographic evidence suggests that couples were successfully controlling family size in the first five centuries of the Christian Era, when the population of the Roman Empire declined as life expectancy increased. As Tschanz says,

    For centuries historians paid little attention to ancient accounts of plants possessing birth control properties, referring them as "ineffectual potions." Modern laboratory analyses however suggest that the  plants used in these potions were effective and ancient women probably had more control over their reproductive lives than previously thought.

[Josquius]

Woman watches too much Total Recall.
Gets surgery.
It is...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/woman-adds-third-breast-by-undergoing-surgery-participate-reality-show-1466531

[garbon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcSqIuqkz4

That's some bad behavior on the part of that "former" reporter.

[Syt]

According to a recent survey by a news magazine, my district, together with Vienna's Inner City, has the highest quality of life in Austria. 

[Josquius]

If I read such a report about somewhere I'm living it would only make me angry I wasn't getting it.

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Caliga]

Woman watches too much Total Recall.
Gets surgery.
It is...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/woman-adds-third-breast-by-undergoing-surgery-participate-reality-show-1466531

Bookmarked for later.

[Valmy]

    For centuries historians paid little attention to ancient accounts of plants possessing birth control properties, referring them as “ineffectual potions.” Modern laboratory analyses however suggest that the  plants used in these potions were effective and ancient women probably had more control over their reproductive lives than previously thought.

'For centuries?'  Translation: they found a singular quote from Gibbon and decided that was a consensus.  I mean never mind that Historians are not chemists.  Also: Romans bitched all the time about low birthrates so I have a hard time believing historians really thought Roman women were just pumping out babies against their will.

[Liep]

According to a recent survey by a news magazine, my district, together with Vienna's Inner City, has the highest quality of life in Austria. 

If I read such a report about somewhere I'm living it would only make me angry I wasn't getting it.

[Jacob]

    For centuries historians paid little attention to ancient accounts of plants possessing birth control properties, referring them as "ineffectual potions." Modern laboratory analyses however suggest that the  plants used in these potions were effective and ancient women probably had more control over their reproductive lives than previously thought.

'For centuries?'  Translation: they found a singular quote from Gibbon and decided that was a consensus.  I mean never mind that Historians are not chemists.  Also: Romans bitched all the time about low birthrates so I have a hard time believing historians really thought Roman women were just pumping out babies against their will.

I thought it was well known that the ancient Romans had a plant based contraceptive, and that the plant went extinct due to overuse?

[Valmy]

Pretty sure Historians have all agreed for centuries on the opposite Jake.  God I hate articles like that. 

[Ideologue]

If I read such a report about somewhere I'm living it would only make me angry I wasn't getting it.

Classic Josq.