Yuck!

[brewer]

What did the Romans ever do for us? Despite all the hot baths and smart multi-seat public lavatories, the surprising answer turns out to be lice, fleas, bed bugs, bacterial infections from contamination with human feces, and 25ft-long tapeworms, a misery spread across the empire by the Roman passion for fermented fish sauce.

Bold mine.

Sounds like a pretty good protein source to me. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

[downbeatplumb]

And the wine. That's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.

So apart from the wine, the aquaduct, sanitation, public order and the roads what have the romans ever done for us?

[Mermaid]

Ooh! This is my line of work.

I work with a parasitologist who teaches paleo-parasitology at his university, I am in nerd heaven when I talk to him. He has done some digging around in those ancient latrines and the ID work, too. Parasites are COOL.

[Cyberman]

And the wine. That's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.

So apart from the wine, the aquaduct, sanitation, public order and the roads what have the romans ever done for us?

... Brought peace?

[brewer]

And the wine. That's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.

So apart from the wine, the aquaduct, sanitation, public order and the roads what have the romans ever done for us?

Vomitoriums and orgy's.

[Minimalist]

So apart from the wine, the aquaduct, sanitation, public order and the roads what have the romans ever done for us?

Vomitoriums and orgy's.

And your point is?

[brewer]

Vomitoriums and orgy's.

And your point is?

If that's not civilization I don't know what is.