Channel 4: building a roman villa

[Deckerd]

UK viewers should catch Rome wasn't built in a day if they can. Bob might be along to give his verdict too. It's got everything. It's educational, it's entertaining, it's unintentionally hilarious.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

What's the Latin for builder's crack -- rima aedificatoris?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

UK viewers should catch Rome wasn't built in a day if they can. Bob might be along to give his verdict too. It's got everything. It's educational, it's entertaining, it's unintentionally hilarious.

And here I am, right on cue. Like your dancing monkey...
It was an interesting show, bit of a cop out on the whole "It must be authentic thing" why not hire the man power needed then, rather than 6 guys to add drama? But it did make me laugh at how our lazy modern builders were whinging and complaining about wanting to leave at 4 and all that.

 

[ITL]

Dicky Bow Academic blowing a gasket about Forbidden Wheelbarrows was hi-larious!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Dicky Bow Academic blowing a gasket about Forbidden Wheelbarrows was hi-larious!

I thought even the ancient Greeks had wheelbarrows. Well, according to Wikipedia they did. Maybe slaves (aka "tools that talk") were cheaper.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Dicky Bow Academic blowing a gasket about Forbidden Wheelbarrows was hi-larious!

"I'VE READ BOOKS!"

 

[Deckerd]

The labourer was brilliant when he got a telling off from the site boss. "I think he should apologise and buy me a cake".

We said at the offing that even if only 6 builders had been used, there would have been about 20 slaves and various donkey carts.

 

[ITL]

....donkey carts.

With wheels that don't fall apart after 20 seconds.

 

[Deckerd]

....donkey carts.

With wheels that don't fall apart after 20 seconds.

To be fair, all they needed were iron pins on the hubs (which they worked out) and an iron axle (which they didn't).

 

[ITL]

Yep. Builders are funny.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

....donkey carts.

With wheels that don't fall apart after 20 seconds.

And actual donkeys doing the pulling not 3 overweight bloke who are used to standing around all day and knocking off at 4.

 

[Deckerd]

We thought the site manager was bang out of order sacking the chippy. Everybody else, when something went wrong the site manager says "fix it". When the carpenter fucked up instead of saying fix it, he fires him on the say-so of someone who isn't actually attached to the project in any way. Then to pile insult on injury, they give the job to TWO men who produce period specific timbers professionally, with machined timbers in their own workshop. It was bloody unfair, especially since the site manager loathes the 'labourer', openly calling him a fat tosser, yet he never manages to fire him.

What a great show. It's unmissable.