Today's Daily Mail stroy - What did the Romans do for us?

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The Lone Gunman replied

4 September 2008, 08:02
What is a "stroy"?
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Churchill replied

4 September 2008, 08:02
Originally posted by Diver View Post

Hmm! I wonder how resistant the scot's are then

Hadrian may have done them a favour building that wall

What about Offa and his dyke?
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Diver replied

4 September 2008, 07:23
Hmm! I wonder how resistant the scot's are then

Hadrian may have done them a favour building that wall
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DimPrawn started a topic Today's Daily Mail stroy - What did the Romans do for us?

4 September 2008, 07:21
Today's Daily Mail stroy - What did the Romans do for us?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mans-AIDS.html

Well, apart from the usual answers of roads, sanitation and a fondness for wine, it appears they have also made us more vulnerable to HIV.

According to genetic research published on Wednesday, when Julius Caesar made his first exploratory visit to our shores in 55BC he triggered a chain of events which may have lowered our resistance to the virus which leads to Aids.

The theory is that as the Roman Empire spread so did an unknown illness that killed those carrying a gene that would one day give their descendants resistance to the virus.

As a result, today's inhabitants of nations once conquered by the Romans tend to lack the gene and so are more susceptible to HIV.

Gave us AIDS! The dirty immigrant b@st@rds!
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