undefinedreference In reply to JohnVascoPipere [2020-03-29 13:29:06 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I guess as a resident of London, there's no chance of escaping History, even if you wanted to. Not sure about this place, I do know that in Roman times Bataves dwelt here, who fed their babies beer (or mead, I suppose) immediately after they had been weaned, because the water in these swamps was too foul and putrid to be drank. They would cross the river Rhine in small boats at night, in order to raid Roman outposts, until these got so fed up with it that they decided to build a bridge across the river. Which, so the story goes, they completed after about ten days, and once they had crossed it, they were met with Batavian warlords who had cast their shields and weapons to the ground and immediately and unconditionally surrendered. Not, so the stories goes again, because they feared the Roman military might, but because they had never seen a bridge of that serious format in their entire lives, and figured that a people who could build one just like that were probably not to be messed around with

What I like about this particular snippet is that it shows how old people whining about the baneful and pernicious influence of media on the youth are of all times!

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JohnVascoPipere In reply to undefinedreference [2020-04-01 09:06:22 +0000 UTC]

Your right but the world has always been the same except now we have Wi-Fi and know what's going on, people have always moaned and complained and if they had access to Twitter back in the dark ages then everyone would be on it, what we are witnessing here is the fall of the Roman empire but with broadband.   

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