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Post by westender on Nov 19, 2010 8:51:55 GMT -1
;D Berlusconi has spent thousands on 'restoring' missing body parts to some classical statuary at his place.... Diana has a new hand and Mars has a new boaby. Ye don't do this to classical statuary! You just don't. You can't make it perfect again once its perfection is lost. Only an ignorant vulgarian would try. ....enter this horrid wee man. Bernini would have battered his lights in. (the man who reported the story on this morning's Today programme was called David Willy. Hurray!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2010 21:34:50 GMT -1
;D Berlusconi has spent thousands on 'restoring' missing body parts to some classical statuary at his place.... Diana has a new hand and Mars has a new boaby. Ye don't do this to classical statuary! You just don't. You can't make it perfect again once its perfection is lost. Only an ignorant vulgarian would try. ....enter this horrid wee man. Bernini would have battered his lights in. (the man who reported the story on this morning's Today programme was called David Willy. Hurray! On a par with Professor Nutt, the former drugs czar (whatever one of thae is)  Wee Silvio obviously has a 'thing' about reinventing lost glories. He's had a wheen of cosmetic surgery performed on himself lately---not to mention the horrifyingly obvious hair weave. He's like the Tommy Sheridan of Milan, only not quite as tanned  |
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Post by westender on Nov 20, 2010 10:38:35 GMT -1
;D Berlusconi has spent thousands on 'restoring' missing body parts to some classical statuary at his place.... Diana has a new hand and Mars has a new boaby. Ye don't do this to classical statuary! You just don't. You can't make it perfect again once its perfection is lost. Only an ignorant vulgarian would try. ....enter this horrid wee man. Bernini would have battered his lights in. (the man who reported the story on this morning's Today programme was called David Willy. Hurray! On a par with Professor Nutt, the former drugs czar (whatever one of thae is) Wee Silvio obviously has a 'thing' about reinventing lost glories. He's had a wheen of cosmetic surgery performed on himself lately---not to mention the horrifyingly obvious hair weave. He's like the Tommy Sheridan of Milan, only not quite as tanned I suppose he's merely following the glorious Italian tradition of witless/vain/insane vulgarians getting to be leader...though absolutely sans taste of any description except bad. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2010 19:02:35 GMT -1
I suppose he's merely following the glorious Italian tradition of witless/vain/insane vulgarians getting to be leader...though absolutely sans taste of any description except bad. Too right, I mean what did the Romans ever do for US? ;D |
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Post by westender on Nov 21, 2010 22:40:04 GMT -1
I suppose he's merely following the glorious Italian tradition of witless/vain/insane vulgarians getting to be leader...though absolutely sans taste of any description except bad. Too right, I mean what did the Romans ever do for US? ;D Its leaders, nothing. Its institutions and culture - all bigger and more enduring than any one man - (damn near) everything. And they never conquered Scotland! - so we gave civilisation the remaining bits & pieces it needed after the Romans were gone.  |
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Post by ozneil on Nov 21, 2010 23:15:10 GMT -1
well at least not futrher North than Antonines wall! But there again why would they want to  |
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Post by tigger on Feb 7, 2011 16:59:44 GMT -1
They got to Twechar between Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch - built a fort there and manned it with Syrian mercenaries - you can still go and see it today - had hot water and central heating plumbed in to help beat the damp - not far from the excellent Stables pub for anyone who fancies an afternoons amateur archeology. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/846377 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/128421and www.vintageinn.co.uk/thestableskirkintilloch/ And growing up in Greenock there was the legend of the ninth legion getting massacred somewhere up the Strone (it's still a very rough area  )behind Cartsdyke - I know of a former Glasgow University lecturer who, as a young man swore to having seen the ghost of a roman legionary when living in that area. |
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Post by westender on Feb 7, 2011 17:20:05 GMT -1
And growing up in Greenock there was the legend of the ninth legion getting massacred somewhere up the Strone  .... Hence the Greenock Ptolemies...? Wha daur meddle wi' us!? |
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Post by notanimby on Feb 7, 2011 17:35:21 GMT -1
They got to Twechar between Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch - built a fort there and manned it with Syrian mercenaries - you can still go and see it today - had hot water and central heating plumbed in to help beat the damp - not far from the excellent Stables pub for anyone who fancies an afternoons amateur archeology. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/846377 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/128421and www.vintageinn.co.uk/thestableskirkintilloch/ And growing up in Greenock there was the legend of the ninth legion getting massacred somewhere up the Strone (it's still a very rough area )behind Cartsdyke - I know of a former Glasgow University lecturer who, as a young man swore to having seen the ghost of a roman legionary when living in that area. There are ra remains of a roman fortlet on teh moor between port glesga and greenock FYI - therz merr ptolemys in port glesga than there is in greenock apparently |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2011 18:54:45 GMT -1
Likewise the remains of the Roman bathhouse in Bearsden. An almighty piece of engineering, to be found on Roman Road, unsurprisingly.. ;D Also if you head up over nearby Boclair Road there's fragments of the Antonine Wall to be seen in the graveyard just before you get to the roundabout to Kirkie/Milngavie. I can recommend the pub there, the Tickled Trout. |
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Post by hollowhorn on Mar 16, 2011 23:49:25 GMT -1
anyone who fancies an afternoons amateur archeology. Are you offering to lead such a sally? |
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