Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

[JellySlice]

Mary Beard in yesterday's Times:

[StoatofDisarray]

I hate the Romans already!

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

The Romans were absolute bastards. Even if they did give us the roads.

[TeenPlusTwenties]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

[Chiochan]

turns out we already had the roads, imperialist basterds always taking credit for what other people had invented!

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10367457/Roman-roads-were-actually-built-by-the-Celts-new-book-claims.html

[MockersthefeMANist]

The Romans never left. We are them. The DNA says so.

And they were certainly not all 'white,' which was a meaningless term in their world. Certainly not Roman Governor of Britannia Septimius Severus, the only 'black' member of our ruling class until Princess Meg.

[Ummmmcake]

Oh dear lord. And men people say that mumsnet are just a bunch of women who like to bake.

[ScrimshawTheSecond]

at that link, Chiochan - might need to order that book!