Et tu, Brute?

ferrets54

Blood! Tits! Gratuitous swearing of every variety! An entire ancient empire populated with cockneys! Yes! It's back! Rooooooooooooome!



Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me whatever loose body part flies off camera! And let's have some gigantic penises for good measure! This Sunday Rome is back for its second season, with no doubt some civil war goodness. Ahhhh.

Now, I'm not saying I've already seen the first episode of the second series, but if I had, fuck me that's some heavy stuff. Poor Vorenus.

Silmaril

somebody's spilt Ribena on the street.

Dr_Keenbean

Is this show any good? I'm an ancient history nerd and I was contemplating the DVDs.

Silmaril

I've never seen it, but my boss is a history buff, and pretty anal about details and accuracy, and he loved it.

ferrets54

Dr_Keenbean wrote:

Is this show any good? I'm an ancient history nerd and I was contemplating the DVDs.

It's very, very good. Imeansely well produced in every way, and as far as story telling goes it will have you on the edge of your seat every minute.

Slungsolow

so are you saying that you put a spoiler in the first post?

zhen_rogue

littwentythree

Brute. God.

ferrets54

Slungsolow wrote:

so are you saying that you put a spoiler in the first post?

Um, not really. If you've seen the first season you're not going to be expecting a happy party of kittens and cream.

PotU

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

ferrets54

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

I studied Latin for four years so I feel a little red.

littwentythree

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

But he's adressing him and it's singular and and...

Yeah, it's no big deal.

Edit: Well, now it is.

Darth Waiter

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

To be foul, not everyone reads.

PotU

ferrets54 wrote:

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

I studied Latin for four years so I feel a little red.

It's so fuckhard to learn it, I hate it.

Darth Waiter

PotU wrote:

ferrets54 wrote:

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

I studied Latin for four years so I feel a little red.

It's so fuckhard to learn, I hate it.

'

Christ, you ain't kidding. I took Russian in school and had an easier time learning a completely new alphabet than I did conjugating a series of ten verbs in Latin. I honestly think that the Roman Empire would have achieved total conquest if not for the fucked up language everyone had to learn. No wonder the Picts were so pissed about having the Romans on their home turf; it meant 12 years of schooling just to buy a chicken.

Air

i saw this picture and thought this was about 300 but then i had a brief glance at some of the words and i guess this is about something else i dont care about








who here likes apple crumbles?

Silmaril

Air wrote:

i saw this picture and thought this was about 300 but then i had a brief glance at some of the words and i guess this is about something else i dont care about








who here likes apple crumbles?

That looks like a horrible apple crumble.

ferrets54

Darth Waiter wrote:

PotU wrote:

ferrets54 wrote:

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

I studied Latin for four years so I feel a little red.

It's so fuckhard to learn, I hate it.

'

Christ, you ain't kidding. I took Russian in school and had an easier time learning a completely new alphabet than I did conjugating a series of ten verbs in Latin. I honestly think that the Roman Empire would have achieved total conquest if not for the fucked up language everyone had to learn. No wonder the Picts were so pissed about having the Romans on their home turf; it meant 12 years of schooling just to buy a chicken.

I never learnt the cases. Most the time I would translate based solely on the context.

lostwords

I dare say, Dutch Apple Pie is the bestest. You get that apple crumble feel, in pie form.

PotU

ferrets54 wrote:

Darth Waiter wrote:

PotU wrote:

ferrets54 wrote:

PotU wrote:

littwentythree wrote:

Brute. God.

To be fair, not everyone know what a vocative is.

I studied Latin for four years so I feel a little red.

It's so fuckhard to learn, I hate it.

'

Christ, you ain't kidding. I took Russian in school and had an easier time learning a completely new alphabet than I did conjugating a series of ten verbs in Latin. I honestly think that the Roman Empire would have achieved total conquest if not for the fucked up language everyone had to learn. No wonder the Picts were so pissed about having the Romans on their home turf; it meant 12 years of schooling just to buy a chicken.

I never learnt the cases. Most the time I would translate based solely on the context.

The cases are no problem, but the tenses, those are some bitches.

Air

Silmaril wrote:

Air wrote:

i saw this picture and thought this was about 300 but then i had a brief glance at some of the words and i guess this is about something else i dont care about








who here likes apple crumbles?

That looks like a horrible apple crumble.

it seems like the ones that actually photograph properly are either apple pies or some other kind of apple crumble

man i used to hate apple pies and shit but i have come around

Monkeybomb

This show cannot be talked about enough. It is very, very good.

Pullo and Vorenus' stories are way better than anything going on with the Julii.

ferrets54

Monkeybomb wrote:

This show cannot be talked about enough. It is very, very good.

Pullo and Vorenus' stories are way better than anything going on with the Julii.

Which are nonetheless very, very good.

Callius

I made a Marc Antony jungle-fever joke in a thread a few days ago.

It felt really good.

Darth Waiter

PotU wrote:

ferrets54 wrote:

I never learnt the cases. Most the time I would translate based solely on the context.

The cases are no problem, but the tenses, those are some bitches.

Cases and tenses in Russian tend to be fairly easy; most of them repeat. Besides, there's only one accent in any Russian word, so you could have a word that is literally 20 letters long with a chunk of four consonants right in the middle and it's no big deal because the rest of the word is kind of garbled and rushed. If you enunciate in Russian, it means that you're a stuckup-prick who doesn't belong in anyone's home. God, I wish You had given me that translating gig before I joined the marines; I'd be so much more wealthy right now. *sigh*

AHH!

first season was awesome.

Going to watch the second on HD wowee

Bacon-BuTTy

How many episodes are in the first season?

I've been contemplating DVDs too.

Im not going to ask wether i should or not, im pretty sure the answer is obvious.

ferrets54

Twelve episodes. BBC doesn't do long series, plus it costs a fuckton of moneys.

Dr_Keenbean

Silmaril wrote:

I've never seen it, but my boss is a history buff, and pretty anal about details and accuracy, and he loved it.

This sold me. Best Buy has the DVDs for $60 (as opposed to the usual $85) and you get a free disc with the 1st episode of season 2.

Picked that shit up on lunch.

Monkeybomb

Dr_Keenbean wrote:

Silmaril wrote:

I've never seen it, but my boss is a history buff, and pretty anal about details and accuracy, and he loved it.

This sold me. Best Buy has the DVDs for $60 (as opposed to the usual $85) and you get a free disc with the 1st episode of season 2.

Picked that shit up on lunch.

It takes some liberties, mostly for the sake of pacing, but it's typically just stuff like leaving out some battles or secondary characters in the stories.

Because of these choices, though, the show moves pretty fucking fast. I dare say this show is a "can't miss thrillride" filled with "edge of your seat excitement."

-Tom Porter, Boston Herald

naporeon

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

nexuscrawler

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

naporeon

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

I think your sarcasm detector needs a new battery.

nexuscrawler

naporeon wrote:

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

I think your sarcasm detector needs a new battery.

I think yours does too

Monkeybomb

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

I think your sarcasm detector needs a new battery.

I think yours does too

I think mine does too.

I just wanted to be included.

naporeon

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

I think your sarcasm detector needs a new battery.

I think yours does too

Fair enough. But in my defense, your joke was fucking stupid.

Shujin Katana

you know i don't speak spanish

Hybrid

I would love to watch this but seriously man fuck Channel 9

naporeon

Monkeybomb wrote:

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

nexuscrawler wrote:

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Because you don't have to spoiler 2000 yearold history

I think your sarcasm detector needs a new battery.

I think yours does too

I think mine does too.

I just wanted to be included.

Man, do I look like I'm made of 9-volts, here?

ferrets54

naporeon wrote:

A civil war, you say? You fucker. Why didn't you spoiler that shit?

Christ. I spent ages trying to work out what spoiler slug was talking about.

ferrets54

[spoiler:aa0ff7e76d]Rome falls.[/spoiler:aa0ff7e76d]