You won't see a newspaper article like this nowadays

[Ottavio Caruso]

Teach you how to have a bath? Though the Anglo tribes rejected the suggestion.

[Ottavio Caruso]

You savages north of the border never had the privilege of being civilized by the Roman.

[alan_m]

Yep, many of us Brits didn't even bother with inside toilets and bathrooms until the mid 20th century :)

Were Roman bath-houses for the common man or mainly for the elite of society?

[Joe]

And neither are the Scots or Welsh at war with the English...

[charles]

And that was part of the reasoning behind the EU. We wouldn't have these fights.

[alan_m]

Wasn't the League of Nations and United Nations meant to fulfil that role. I'm sure that the EU will work just as well in times of real crisis :)

[Colin Bignell]

The baths were open to all walks of society, but some parts of the bath-house, such as the library that some had, may have been reserved for the elite.

[The Natural Philosopher]

The theory was that we would all be identically enslaved...

[Max Demian]

Why didn't the Romans use soap? The Celts had it.

[Ian Jackson]

But neither the LoN nor the UN had/have any primary financial or commercial interests in preserving the peace.

[Colin Bignell]

The Romans would have known of soap from the Greeks, but it was a very expensive luxury item and oil was a lot cheaper.

[Custos Custodum]

"They create a wasteland and call it peace"

Pax Romana / Russki Mir

[Joe]

I think you mean 'wishful thinking' rather than reasoning. I believe Jeux Sans Frontieres worked better.

[Tim Streater]

And none of those have succeeded, because, as I keep pointing out, it only takes one to make war. As we observe today.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Defo the elites only, that is, anybody who was a "Civis Romanus". And don't forget brothels. Pompei was an open-air brothel for mercenary soldiers.

[Custos Custodum]

We rejected the idea of communal latrines (bring your own sponge on a stick). Except at Scout camps.

[Rod Speed]

Everyone, even the slaves

[Rod Speed]

Not so true of the Irish and Basques etc tho.

Tho even those two have come to their senses to some extent now.

[Rod Speed]

More likely just of no interest to the illiterate

[Rod Speed]

They did