View Poll Results: Which is the worlds greatest ever civilisation

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  • USA

    1 2.33%
  • Roman Empire

    12 27.91%
  • Ancient Eygptians

    6 13.95%
  • Greeks and Alexander the Great

    6 13.95%
  • Genghis Kahn

    2 4.65%
  • Chinese Dynasties

    12 27.91%
  • Incas

    4 9.30%
  • Spanish Conquistadores

    0 0%
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    Quote Originally Posted by namtrak
    Maybe I should have clarified the question.

    The greatest bunch of people who got together over an extended period of time and did amazing ****?
    The Liberal Party
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    Monty Python
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocker
    Why doesn't the British Empire get a guernsey in this poll? It has to have a stronger claim than the Incas, whose only achievements were in Peru. The British Empire ensured that English became the premier world language that it is today. It also ensured that numerous countries, including Australia, became, or at least aspired to ....
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    My fault entirely, I thought I did - I'm not sure I can go back and add them in, anyway I suppose the poms are used to being an afterthought anyway - just ask Tony Blair..



    Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Nutter
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
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    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
    They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    They also invented the bagpipes and that one feat alone obliterates any brownie points they might have accrued throughout history, including their general belligerence towards the English .
    Actually silentC they stole the bagpipes from the Irish. God knows why.
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    The bagpipes go a lot further back than that, the Egyptians and Greeks used them along with other races.
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    [QUOTE=Zed] they had raiding parties to get wives and horses etc QUOTE]

    They didn't go raiding for horses until after the white man came. They didn't have any to raid until then. The only method of locomation they had was either walking or skateboards
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    Quote Originally Posted by namtrak
    Maybe I should have clarified the question.

    The greatest bunch of people who got together over an extended period of time and did amazing ****?
    The Australian Cricket Team

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    The bagpipes go a lot further back than that, the Egyptians and Greeks used them along with other races.
    Again....... WHY?????????????????? What is it with these people??????????
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    Actually, I have to come out and confess that I find a pipe band quite stirring. I wouldn't go out and buy a recording of them or anything but the few times I have seen a live pipe band playing, it has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. They could be standing up to leave I suppose - but that would only make the few left on my head even more lonely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simon c
    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
    the aquaduct ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo
    The Chinese without a doubt
    I am with "brother" Wongo (I found out 4 years ago I am from good chinese stock )
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    Quote Originally Posted by simon c
    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
    ORGIES
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC
    Actually, I have to come out and confess that I find a pipe band quite stirring. I wouldn't go out and buy a recording of them or anything but the few times I have seen a live pipe band playing, it has made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. They could be standing up to leave I suppose - but that would only make the few left on my head even more lonely.

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    Mate, you need a holiday!

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    And not a Roman holiday, either!

    Well, my Granny was a MacKay....

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