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  • @ElderScrollsObbsed Then you can also say that it's Alessia's and Reman's Empire.

  • LOL, first time seeing this and its still funny today. Check out our sketch group for more funny videos!

  • @OddSqodd You are a stupid spammer who said: "first time seeing this and its still funny"

  • I used to argue like this, til I took an arrow to the knee

  • @aceyoyodude What a stupid comment. They aren't arguing. Take your silly memes elsewhere.

  • EU sceptic meeting?

  • @modladd took away the star rating system that was superior to the like/dislike

  • ...EDUCATION?? Romans educating Jews?? Give me a fucking break

  • @metyuewb This is a comedy Chill.

  • @irishxxkelt Shit are you a Roman??

  • @metyuewb Minime. Ego mulier Hibernica sum.

  • @irishxxkelt Én meg magyar zsidó, oszt?

  • @metyuewb No.

  • @irishxxkelt It was a statement, with the last word a rhetorical question.

  • @metyuewb Am sorry, but I don't speak or read Hungarian.

  • Ohhh, peace. SHUDDUP!

  • This is what the Stormcloak meetings in Skyrim look like.

  • @ProudAtheist90 except they found one!

    They banned TALOS!

  • @thawhtet8

    They were forced to do that by the Thalmor :P People seem to forget that Talos isn't only the main god of the Nords. It's also the main god of the Empire.

    They had to ban their own God, to prevent a war for which they weren't prepared. A sacrifice for the greater good.

    The Nords don't have more right to be mad than the Imperials.

    Anyway, I'm going off topic. This scene is just brilliant. xD

    "Ooooh, Peace. SHUDDUP!"

  • @Zeghart I thought Thor was the Nordic god of war.

  • @irishxxkelt Pretty sure that's Tyr (funny "y').

  • @thawhtet8 Wasn't that a good thing? Don't want the humans thinking they come from gods, do we? I mean, we saw how that turned out IRL.

  • @ProudAtheist90 Well, the entirety of Skyrim had already been built up by the Nords. The only presence the Imperials had was through the Jarls they bought or their little bases or the forts they took over. They didn't bring the Nords anything they didn't have; in fact, the Nords fought for the Imperials in the war and feel that they fought and bled for nothing, seeing as the Imperials bent the knee. Then tried to take them over and subjugate them. Not even CLOSE to the same thing

  • @TwyztdValkyrie Thanks for the info, Ulfric.

  • @TwyztdValkyrie The nords created the empire, as they were the first humans to settle. Also what does Skyrim have to do with this?:/

  • @ProudAtheist90 What have the Imperials ever done for us aside from giving us roads and training most of our soldiers and I guess that the fact that the most popular god (Talos) founded the empire... so aside from that, What have the romans ever done for us?

  • @ElderScrollsObbsed To be fair, the Medean Empire of today is no longer Talos's (or rather, Tiber Septim's) empire. Tiber's Empire died with Martin Septim.

  • @altmanstudios Same founded empire just that the Septim line is dead.

  • @ProudAtheist90 I dont get it

  • @biirraann You would have to have played the video game "Skyrim" to get it.

  • @ProudAtheist90 I am playing it. But I havnt joined the stormcloaks or Imperials. Im like lvl 9

  • @biirraann In this video, replace the word "Romans" with "Imperials" and you basically have the typical stormcloak rants you hear in the game.

  • @ProudAtheist90 This just made my day. God bless this comment.......or Brian bless this comment (if that's what you believe in.)

  • @ProudAtheist90 Why can't I go anywhere without hearing about skyrim? lol

  • @bloudlk Because it is the best sandbox of all time! OF ALL TIME!

  • @ProudAtheist90 Nords sailed from Atmora to make the empire- wait, why am I arguing on YouTube!?

  • How to answer a rhetorical question (?)

  • push one, very often... i think he had fathers in jurassic age :D

  • Im joining the peoples front of Judea

  • You can't,as an intelligent human being,compare the Roman Empire during its Golden Age and the corporate imperialistic scum like the USA administration,if you do however the only excuse is that you are either retarded or a brainwashed redneck "patriot".

  • @moonkick360 Waah, Wine, Complain, Do this as much as you like on political videos, but I'll be damned if you take away Monty Python from me.

  • @Nationofhonor Man you got me all wrong,I am also pissed about the idiots arguing here about politics,I just wanted to say how idiotic it is to argue about that because this video has no reason to be compared to anything other then other Monty Python cutscenes.

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  • A link from my "International Political Thought" course brought me here, lol...

  • ..and the i phone...oh they talking about the romans not the americans

  • So why is it that arguing over the internet is automatically less valid than arguing in "real life"? If anything, online arguments are superior because you can fully research and provide sources to back up your arguments, you can form your argument as you like and take your time doing it, and you don't need to worry about saving face. Arguing has never made more sense than now with the internet.

    I don't know when this fad started, but it's silly and has to stop.

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  • @Kazumaster Yes correct, BUT this particular situation is different. These are constructive arguments, the actually "arguing over the internet" defense involves pathetic children who talk shit over the internet because of their in-capabilities to do so in real life. But actual arguments over the internet backed with facts and whatnot, are perfectly valid and i dont think anyone really has a problem with this. Its just the "shit" talkers.

    =(

  • nobody can say shut up! like john cleese

  • From our father's fathers. And from our father's father's fathers. And from our father's father's father's fathers.

  • just like the fucking piece of shit stormcloaks!

  • @Canucks327 No need to steal jokes from reddit.

  • stormcloaks vs imperials

    internet argue gogogogo

  • stormcloaks 

  • Think of this as The Romans represent Valve, and these guys are all other developers.

  • So are these guys Pagans or Jews (looks like there's a desert outside and they're kind of dressed up like Jews did in Passion of the Christ)?

  • is this from a movie? I would love to watch a movie like this

  • @yamahatyros2 It's called "Life of Brian", go watch it.

  • Whaddup, Digg!!

  • Ulfric Stormcloak and his followers in a nutshell!! (Skyrim Reference)

  • Sounds like the Repulicans talking about Government.

  • @irllcd13

    ... You're saying the government invented plumbing? And roads... And, medicine? And, education? Lawl, this video was just saying that the Romans invented all that stuff...

  • @Tuth9 No, I'm not saying that. What sort of idiot would think I was suggesting such a thing?

  • @irllcd13

    So what do you mean? You said it "Sounds like the Repulicans talking about the Government." (learn how to spell Republicans, btw) so what did you mean by that?

  • @Tuth9 Republican have a habit of complaining about things they wouldn't know how to fix.

  • @TheDumbGorilla

    Lawl, ok, you believe that. Like, what, the school system? You have no IDEA how much money is spent on each student in public school. Why can homeschool parents give a good (maybe even better) education, with SOOO much less money. If I remeber correctly, it's close to $10,000 per student in public school. Could be wrong though.

  • @Tuth9

    10K per student doesnt seem bad ...... teachers of quality, a school building and facilities, guidance and opportunity for the future ...... is 10K expensive or you think people can do that themselves?

  • @jrobs7002

    Well, it's 10K BEFORE facility, plus, homeschoolers USUALLY get a better education, and I doubt most homeschoolers have their parents spending 10K on them. I doubt our education system has a money issue...

  • fresh water? they killed their people with lead poisoning from the aqueducts....

  • @looker768 Not from the aqueducts themselves, but from their drinking vessels and especially from making wine.

  • @looker768 Considerably less people than cholera did though, and it was a very slow process. It was a significant improvement on that which had come before the Romans made their mark.

  • @looker768 aqueducts were stone, the indoor plumbing used lead pipes which caused lead poisoning.

  • "ohhh peace...SSSHUT UP!"

  • Occupy Palestine?

  • Hilarious that people actually think our fathers and mothers.. sisters and brothers.. friends and other loved ones serving in the military, are nothing more than ruthless sick demented killers, who simply go and butcher completely innocent people for their own gleeful exuberance. Anyone who thinks so, is not only ignorant.. but quite possible mentally retarded.

  • @simplespiral oh, gee, I dunno...if you want to "defend America", you might as well do that on your own soil. Who gives you the right to march into other countries and "defend America"? That's bullshit.

    What? Do you honestyl believe that if you don't do this, those tiny ass arab countries will one day grow so powerful that they will invade american soil?

    Lawl.

  • @Griesmayer um yeah that could happen

    im not saying were always justified but its still a valid concern bcuz they have oil which gives them a lot of power

  • @abcdefghijklmnop8500 even the richest oil nations (UAE, Kuwait, etc.) only have enough money to build fancy hotels and luxury shopping malls.

    Heck, even Russia would go bankrupt if it ever tried to invade the US. You guys are too paranoid. Sure, stuff like 9/11 could happen again, but a full blown invasion? Only in Hollywood.

  • Show this to anyone who wishes columbus never came to America.

  • Whenever a Libertarian starts to argue, "but what has the government ever done for us?" I direct them here.

    :D

  • @mojorhythm You mean an anarchist.

  • @mojorhythm to be fair : The government just takes our taxes, uses them for it's own expenses and then uses the rest for public services.

    The government didn't do anything for us. We (the people) did.

  • @tommmyabc I take it then you're a self-funded fireman and police officer and you organized that construction/built of your own accord the local subway networks, local library, local hospital and local public schools and a dozen other local buildings then? Did you of your own accord research, create and distribute any of the dozen vaccines needed in the last five years?

    Huh? What? No, you're not and you didn't?

    I guess you didn't do as much as you like to conceitedly think you did.

  • @ThePitofSidLord and how do our benevolent overlords in city hall do all these wonderful things so efficiently ( <-read with massive sarcasm); through taxing the productive part of society, that's what he means by "we the people". and are you really bragging about hospitals, public schools and police? 

  • @MOONDOGGIESWTF I brought a car once, but it doesn't mean it was made entirely by me because I payed for it, idiot. Same applies here.

    I never bragged about anything. Read what I write before you respond to it.

  • @mojorhythm

    Government gave us NONE of those things, moron.

  • @zed6952 - You missed the point. YOU are part of the government.

  • @Hodenkat

    Nah mate, I am not part of the government in any sense of the word. I am a citizen. It would behoove you to use a dictionary more frequently.

  • @mojorhythm So if I take money from you under threat of violence, buy you a pair of shoes that I have decided that you need - but that you might neither need nor want - I have given you a pair of shoes, following your logic?

  • @ChipsHandonJr - If you don't want or need the shoes and you don't want anyone taking your money to buy you shoes when you didn't ask for them, then you should go live where there are no other people.

  • @Hodenkat In other words you agree with everything the government does, all the time? Like using your tax money to go overseas and kill people? Like making laws that censor the internet? Like spending $10,000,000,000 per year subsidizing corn farmers so companies can get under-priced corn syrup, then tax soft drinks containing corn syrup because it's not good for you? If not, I guess you too should go live where there are no other people. You tool.

  • @Hodenkat It saddens me to see that in less than 350 years, the attitude of the average American has gone from "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." (Thomas Jefferson) to "If you don't support the government you can just get out."

  • @ChipsHandonJr That analogy is completely retarded; a government wouldn't just suddenly buy a pair of shoes--somewhere along the line we must have asked it to. The government is just a bunch of people we pick to run the public sphere for us. If the government violates the social contract and goes rogue, then the population ought to overthrow it.

  • @mojorhythm Stealing money and giving it back to me in a beneficial form is still theft, sweetheart.

  • @kirby4d

    This is not the right room for an argument.

  • @mojorhythm *facepalm*

  • @mojorhythm Governments have given us all this have they?

  • Seriously, what DID the romans do for us?!?!

  • How the fuck did this get into a discussion about the Iraq War?

  • @CrazyEddi3 Becuase liberals are being pussies and bitching about themselves and their country.

  • uh, didn't the middle east build aqueducts before the romans?

  • @nactan Yes, but they were like trenches in the ground. the Roman aqueducts were much more I don't know ... modern.

  • So none of you think that the United States invaded these sand nigger countries because the men they were supplying, supporting, and hiding deliberately and maliciously attacked the United States on the basis of the outright insane beliefs and ideals contained in Islamic culture which in many cases such as sharia law demands that Western Civilization be destroyed and the oppression,if not extermination, of all non-Arab males must take place to appease 'allah's' will?

  • Oh my God, you guys arguing down there are sooo cool.

    Arguing over the internet is such a noble pastime.

  • @IncurablePessimist Ikr? they should go to the argument clinic.

  • aahh now i have to find rebelyells comment!

  • ...oh peace! shut up.

  • what have corporations and the banking system ever done for us? ;)

  • WOw... what happened to discussing the VIDEO? everyone wants to argue about politics and war- just enjoy the video and share a few laughs why dont ya.. holy shit... its all in the PAST anyway, cant rewrite whats already been writtin so why fight about it da?

  • I really love the first troll who says "The aqueduc ?" and the wtf face of Reg'

  • press 9 for a bit of a surprise 

  • This is fab!!

  • 23 people were not colonized by the romans

  • @redstar12345 Shut UP. 

  • ♫♪ Someone needs to learn the meaning of ‘rhetorical question’ ♫♪

  • 22 people support the damn Romans...

  • I love the part of " and from our fathers fathers fathers"!!! his face is sooo funny while saying that!

  • did they bring peas or peace? I missed that one ^-^'

  • WAIT TILL BIGGUS DICKUS HERES OF THIS!

  • What have the Romans ever brought us? Well, there's ...Fear, Surprise, and a Fanatical Devotion To The Pope.... sorry, wrong sketch.

    And the Roman Empire ?....It is deceased ... it has passed on ....it has ceased to be. It is not pining for the fjords. It is an ex-empire.

    And now for something completely different.

  • @ProNorden What are trying to say exactly? trying to be funny? Roman culture was grand and it was the birth place of modern day democratic republics like todays. Both the greeks and the romans contributed to almost everything we have today in western society. The roman empire was a grand and powerful empire! Greed and corruption brought it down, from the inside out. What a magnificent period that was. I bet all romans were proud of there country.

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  • @kimplin ...."Trying to be funny?" Yes, obviously. Not very well perhaps, but obviously. Are you familiar with the two other sketches I referred to ?

  • @ProNorden Umm no i thought u were trying to troll or voice ur hate of the roman empire i suppose. Which was odd cause most people dont really bitch about topics that old. My bad man.

  • @kimplin ...If you haven't seen the 'Spanish Inquisition' sketch and the 'Dead Parrot' sketch by the Python team, check them out here on You Tube. They're classic, and you'll probably enjoy them. Also the 'Cheese Shop' sketch.

    As for any serious points raised in 'Life of Brian' there are a few and they're very well done, as with this sketch.

  • @kimplin Rome? The birthplace of democracy? Is that a joke? Quite apart from all the older democratic states around in the ancient world (Athens, anyone?), Rome was never particularly democratic, even when it was a republic.

  • @HermogenesZither

    Kimplin is probably one of those ultra-nationalist types who glorifies the idea of empire and dismisses atrocity as "strength" so long as the victor is on his side or he can conceivably trace his culture back to that empire.

    You can tell from his vehement support for America's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan elsewhere in the comments.

  • @darkmiles22 yes rome was awesome and america is awesome. do you disagree?

  • @kimplin I very much disagree. Try reading up on what our country did to the Philippines.

  • @HermogenesZither i mentioned the greeks to you nutsack.

  • Makes me think of the Americans meeting before the Independence. What has the Brits ever done for us? lol

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  • '.....well, alright....but aside from that ...What has the British Empire eve done for us, eh?'

  • Bloody Romans...

  • "oh peace, SHUT UP!"

  • politics / religion... just a good living for some

  • anyone remember the SNP advert? :L

  • Pontius Pilate did actually build the Jerusalem Aqueduct. This and other facts are in a new outrageous book "The Life of (Brian) Jesus" by the films Editor.

    "It's gripping stuff. Lots of interesting research and lots of blasphemies. I've got my kids into it as well.' - Terry Gilliam

    "A joyfully mischievous journey of discovery." - Terry Jones

    "I threw my copy in the bin, as instructed by Sarah Palin. My lawyers are currently looking at a copy and rather enjoying it." - Michael Palin.

  • what have the romans ever done for us?

  • "Oh! Peace. Shuddup!!!".

  • "they brought piggies" -"Oh shut up!"

  • @commandergree1231

    It's "Brought peace."

  • @Dracoa79 oh, hard to understand with him mumbling, either way i laughed my ass off >:P

  • @commandergree1231

    S'ok. Mistakes happen. No worries.

  • The coolest thing about Python's influence is being able to sit in a business meeting today, get asked a similar question, answer with "the aqueduct", and have half the room rollin' on the floor.

  • American meeting about the British 1776

  • tea party: what has the govt ever given us?

  • Brought peace??? SHUT UP! T_T

  • Hah! All those things the romans gave were thrown to the ground with the middle ages!

  • @WhiskeyTango12 Considering that their country isn't really any better off, I don't really count that as an improvement.

  • @emerald7273 Oh shut the fuck up you boring git

  • what was the last thing the black hooded man said?

  • @alarik95 he says "brought peace"

  • @emerald7273 I'm talking about the entire point of the movie. And yes, I know this is a parody of the contradictions of the Union at the time.

  • @emerald7273 It is a mockery of organized religion, yes, but it is primarily an observation, under existentialist principles, of man and his purpose and how such purpose was undermined by inferior men and ideals.

  • @painlessissuicide yeah...no i think not

  • This will go down in the history books

  • Bloody Romans!

  • @rebelyell1983x Actually, I'm curious. What the fuck have we done for the Iraqis other than destroy their country?

  • @Marche102 Liberated them from a ruthless dictator maybe?

  • @WhiskeyTango12

    You mean invading a country on the basis they had weapons when that was a total lie, was a waste of resources and lives and totally got away from the actual enemy we ended up ignoring for 5 years after the invasion?

  • @AmericanNohbuddy You asked what we did other than destroy their country, I gave you an answer. I'm not trying to start a debate here, and I agree with you, but even though the War in Iraq wasn't justified, they did take down Saddam, so there's that.

  • @WhiskeyTango12

    At what cost? It was a waste of time.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy At too high a cost. I didn't agree with the Iraq war. I'm just giving an example of what good if any came out of it.

  • @WhiskeyTango12

    No good came out of it.

  • @Marche102 Well smart ass we rid there country of a horrible dictator. What else u want to hear? Wanna bitch about bushes excuse to go to war? The war on terror was inevitable. It started in the 80s as afghan was occupied by the russians. when Saudi arabia requested our help during the gold war osama was butthurt that the saudis refused his help and thats when he started the jihad on america. Learn u damn liberal learn! Do not be swayed by the propaganda!

  • @kimplin Um, when did the topic switch from Iraq to Afghanistan, and why do you think history started in the 80s? I assure you, the U.S. has been involved in the region for far longer.