Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (The aqueduct...)

[FoxySpiritOfJazz]

To be honest, Reg reminds me a lot of today's politicians.

[Menckenperson]

Show this to anyone who thinks Columbus was a thug and never should have come here.

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

Imperialism is good.

[melsyize]

class!

[fatheroflatus]

Oh, peace!

[Simonxp911]

lol.............

[GaryNull]

and the roads....................

[juampy69]

Never, in the history of movies, had been defined so well the idea of civilization. We tend to think that civilization is art, languages, paintings. Nope: civilizacion is irrigation, sanitation, public order, drinking water, vaccines. Only people who can enjoy those things on a daily basis can say that civilizacion is art or languages.

[Sough]

@juampy69 You kinna need language to do all of those things

[juampy69]

@Sough Of course, but language as a simple tool of communication, not as a theological being protected by UNESCO and a supreme entity which deserves that millions of dollar are spent in its protection. I know what Im talking about. I live in Spain where languages are mystical beings which have been deprived of its tool value.

[TheHungryFart]

"Cut her head off?"

"Cut all her bits off"

[ruVader]

I wonder who were 3 people who disliked it.

Missclicked I guess.

[violinoamore]

@ruVader Funny that some people regularly care, as if they lose something through people who click on dislike :)

[dorsal08]

This scene is like the Spanish Inquisition sketch where the Cardinal keeps adding more and more key weapons to their chief weapon, Suprise.

[dorsal08]

There's nothing more annoying than a person who answers a hypothetical question!

[juampy69]

This is the best definition ever said of what civilization means. Civilization is not books, languages or museums. They are beautiful ornaments but the real civilization is sanitation, hospitals, vaccines, laws, judges, hot water, heating, cars and fridges. 

[AWinterGirlA]

LOL!!!!

CAN´T STOP LAUGHING!!

I really.., always.... loved this scene!!!

Take care

Winter

[PETC19]

and vine hahaha

[justmikedamnit]

Monty Python FTFW.

[boredjoewo]

This is a perfect video showing the mindset of the American Teabaggers. Coming up with a scorched earth policy to get their short term wants without knowing history nor the present nor how it could possibly affect the future.

[LG112108]

wow...that's all i have to say is wow

[liamcitytillidie]

what did the romans ever do for us? give me forking essays.

[jamesjnr67]

@liamcitytillidie are you nuts

[MegaUbermensch]

Don't fight the NWO, it's futile....

[siltu]

massa

[mahalatade]

Allways ROTFL. :D

otherwise: liberty is the highest human value not these things.

[billyysands]

what a brilliant movie

[lumpjacket1]

if by liberation to Palestine you mean a police state, slums, no infrastructure, no economy .... i agree...the Jews HAVE liberated Palestine- from anything approaching liberty.

[billyysands]

one of the ironies of the history of ALL of humanity down the ages is the rapid propesity in which the oppressed and persecuted of the world become the oppressors and percecutors once they get the upper hand, dont blame the jews,it part of the human condition.

we are all cruel homicidal monekeys

[magicalboredom]

@lumpjacket1

Except that it's Hamas that's enforcing the Police State, not the Israelis. The Israelis aren't forcing women to wear burkas, or stoning gays, or shooting at people for singing in public--that's all on Hamas. In addition, Israel forcing the Palestinians to have far too many children, leading to intense overpopulation.

Israel isn't blameless, and shouldn't be cutting off aide, but it's not the soul arbiter of injustice, either.

[anonUK]

@magicalboredom:

Well said! Yes, of course, Israel has acted terribly in many ways- and llike anyone who has been bullied for years, takes huge pleasure in bullying people who are even weaker than themsselves, which is unjustifiable. However, the chief oppressor of the Palestinian people on a day to day basis in the Gaza Strip is their own government with its extreme Islamist policies.

[clydebear]

@magicalboredom- the jewish people are the only people in the world to claim a land in the name of their religion and in doing so to forcibly remove other peoples from their homes, some of which have been theirs for generations. Nobody else has ever done this. To then add insult to injury you claim that this is somehow their own fault because of their own internal machinations. What warped and twisted logic you have.

[firemin]

@clydebear -Not just Jews. British/Americans slaughtered the Indians in North America. The Spanish tried to wipe out the tribes of South America. The Chinese in Tibet. The Indonesians committing secret genocide on the people of Papua while the American goldminers pretend it's not happening. The British in Australia near 100% genocide with the Tasmanian aborigines. Most of these have been done "with God on their side". Not to mention all the witches burnt for weighing as much as a duck!

[RasMajnouni]

@clydebear Heard of Muslims?Why did Islam start with one man,conquer all of Saudia Arabia &the whole Middle East including Palestine,all North Africa,into Spain &half of europe 800 years ago?Come that land mass to Israel.P.S.Americans did that to all of the continent in Divine Faith,everybody has an angle when they conquer.But Buddy,we were here 3400 years ago until 2000 years ago & Jews in small numbers have always been here.Tell me where you live,I know who you conquered.

[xTjPx]

the 3 Mediteranean cultures:

Jews, Greeks and Italians are responsible for civilizing the western world.

I can't imagine this world without them!

[billyysands]

in antiquity perhaps but more recently the

biggest advances were the french giving us the enlightenment and french revolution and various protestant nations(UK GERMANY) that gave the world

the protestant work ethic and industrial capitalism which is why northern euope

eventually surpassed the lazy drunken catholic south(joke)

[shitake555]

and dont forget the second world war and natzism, they have also given us them.

[lexagon]

No. The first university (Bologna) and the originating point of the Renaissance was in Italy. And I'm not Italian, those things are just plain historical fact.

[lexagon]

Renaissance slowly began with the city-states of Italy adopting a new view of antiquity, especially of classical Greece and Rome. In addition, there was the Carolingian renaissance some centuries before, which was due to economic and social stabilization. Most of the advances came from Byzantine and Arabic sources, which had preserved a lot of the manuscripts of the greatest minds of antiquity. This being said though, I find Celtic history fascinating as well, it just has little to do with this.

[anonUK]

@lexagon:

Imagine the Welsh asking "What have the English ever done for us?" I won't imagine the Irish doing this as I don't want a barrrelful o' shoite on me head.

[tuftybox1821]

@xTjPx

There was also the Phonecians, of course, whose exploring voyages delivered us our alphabet. And who were interested only in trading, not conquering - seems pretty civilised. :)

[sisok]

what what yeah sure the israelis have really liberated the palestinians dawg

[FlowerPax]

Yo mama is the virus of the white humanity.

[xhagast]

And don't forget Iran. Rich country with plenty of oil and NOT a desert like Saudi Arabia. The mullahs have ruled it for almost 30 years and the place is a mess and miserable. The people want a change there. They don't like the US but as long as the US does not attack them they don't have much against the US anymore. If they could get a democracy you might even see them becoming friends of the US. They have been told that the US is a threat but nothing is happening so they are not listening

[charlesdarwin55]

So true

[tallkell]

The funniest bit in comedy history... except perhaps Romanes Eunt Domus, Biggus Dickus, PFJ, the Knights who say Ni, arguement clinic, re-enactment of Pearl Harbor, the killer rabbit of Caerbannog, etc, etc...

[SilverSiana]

My English tutor actually showed the Romanes Eunt Domus scene in his lecture, to illustrate the importance of getting your grammar correct!:)

[kengcarson]

isn't wikepedia fantastic?!!!

[Darkscamp1]

i watched this in school lol

[revengeofcleveland]

although the expression may be used more generally for all ancient speakers of the Gaulish language (a derivative of early Celtic) who were widespread in Europe and extended even into central Anatolia by Roman times. The Gauls were Celts which was a word coined in the 17th century to describe the people that inhabited the British Isles and Gaul, which not only consisted of France but parts of Spain (see Gallaecia nowadays Galicia), northern Portugal and northern Italy.

[Anaris10]

Vercingetorix or Tecumseh,Both Native Unifiers trying to preserve a way of life.Both sacrificed on the altar of "civilization"

[revengeofcleveland]

well french civilization was worht saving

i'm not really sure about the cherokee

[Anaris10]

I'm sure you know they weren't French until the Franks invaded,Hence the name.The Gauls still practiced human sacrifice,not so the Cherokee,who in fact developed their own alphabet.Much more legible than the Celtic Ogham alphabet,which was primarily used only on grave inscriptions.So,why not the Cherokee?

[revengeofcleveland]

The Franks or Frankish people (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an ethnic group living north and east of the Lower Rhine. Under the Merovingian dynasty, they founded one of the Germanic monarchies which replaced the Western Roman Empire from the 5th century. The Frankish state consolidated its hold over large parts of western Europe by the end of the eighth century and the Carolingian Empire and its successor states were Frankish

[revengeofcleveland]

Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine. In English, the word Gaul (French: Gaulois) may also refer to an inhabitant of that region,

[revengeofcleveland]

they were celts as am i..i am what i am...

[revengeofcleveland]

Vercingetorix (pronounced [werkiŋˈɡetoriks] in Latin), died 46 BC, was chieftain of the Arverni, originating from the Arvernian city of Gergovia and known as the man who led the Gauls in their ultimately unsuccessful war against Roman rule under Julius Caesar. Known primarily through Caesar's accounts, Vercingetorix's revolt is frequently used as a heroic example of Gallic virtue and resolve

[Anaris10]

I already know all this stuff!I've read Caesar's stuff and how they were the Keltoi to the Greeks,Also,the book of Galatians was addressed to the Celts in what is now Turkey.Celts also served as mercenaries in the Middle-East.Why would I know this? Because I am Irish-Scottish-Welsh as well as Miwok and Cherokee Indian.

[revengeofcleveland]

well what do want a fucking cookie? i'm FRENCH why do you think i have this outrageous accent!~

[Anaris10]

Don't you know we ALREADY have one!

[Repsaj67]

This is supposed to be a crypted justification for British colonialism, e.g. in India or in Africa.

[kenzi57]

Thats one way of looking at it. You could substitute Romans for say another country and see what the results were . . . . . .

[davoisakoollord]

pretensous

[revengeofcleveland]

they're comedians they are ridiculing nin com pupe leftists..but actually if you try to look at it objectively many not all but many nations benifited from colonialism when you add it al up..for example look at africa now hacking each other to bits with machetes totally incapable of self rule..reverting to savagery..on the other hand you have places like ireland and sigapore which have execelled once the british were expelled depends on the individual situaiton

[revengeofcleveland]

singapore

[iloveflapjacks]

Leftist ideology gave rise to most of the civil works that have benefited all humanity.

Revolution and imperialism aren't politically exclusive.

[revengeofcleveland]

When I traveled for a decade in the former Soviet Empire I heard heart-wrenching stories from people who had suffered in the gulag thanks to the thugs who were running the Soviet Union. These stories need to be told. Yet when Lee Edwards initiated his effort to build a small monument to the millions upon millions of the victims of Communism he had to undertake a tremendous effort to obtain the funds to build that monument.

[revengeofcleveland]

Do not get me wrong. I am glad he did what he did but if, on account of the murder of six million Jews we have a Holocaust Museum in Washington and in other cities as well, why not something similar depicting the brutal murder of 30 million Ukrainians.

[revengeofcleveland]

Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked. But there is a larger lesson to be learned from this horrendous sacrifice to one ideology. That is that no one can be trusted with power.

[revengeofcleveland]

The more power the center has to impose the beliefs of an ideological or religious elite or impose the whims of a dictator, the more likely human lives are to be sacrificed. This is but one reason, but perhaps the most important one, for fostering liberal democracy

[AnnieCh85]

"from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers lomao

[VIKINGLC]

The romans were (i think) good for people, AFTER said people had been conquered, PROVIDED said people were obedient to them (the romans that is)

however, the base of the roman empire always was warfare, and they were harsh when conquering and when putting down uprisings.

(I am by no means an expert, and might very likely be wrong on a few, if not all of my points.)

[revengeofcleveland]

tell that to the people of carthage or gaul

tel that to vercingetorix

[YummyMamma]

chop all her bits off! L.M.A.O!!

[wildbillcleveland]

you know the romans did do a lot for the ancient world i nver thought of it that way..

[jednako1]

Well, they did that for themselves first of all. The "public benefit" was somehow only secondary effect. Reg was right that "The roads go without saying" mainly from military and commercial reason. There isn't much difference for example between the Romans and the English in their way of conquering and colonizing the world.

Sorry for annoying lecture.

[JackWarren2]

needless to say they still did a lot for the ancient world...like for instance...lay the foundations of modern europe

[dorekatja]

"Oh, peace. Shut up!" xD

[wildbillcleveland]

absolutely brilliant

[Tareltonlives]

"And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we chop her up, and that we shall not submit to blackmail!" "No blackmail!"

[Ahlih]

the aqueduct, and the sanitation, and the roads, irrigation, fencing,education, and the wine, public bathes, safe to walk in the night...brought peace...best line ever

[TotemChakraProduct]

The Romans are very inventive! Especially the wine!

[borgduck]

Me & my girl we love each other.

[neviusprime]

Awesome.