Today in 117AD Hadrian, the adopted son of Trajan, became the new Roman Emperor. Trajan had ruled for nearly twenty years and had enlarged the Empire greatly. Hadrian in his twenty one year rule would be just as good for Rome. He left behind four great building works, which remain today.
The first was to rebuild Agrippa’s Pantheon, adding the 141ft diameter Dome. It has massive bronze doors and now a church, has buried two of Italy’s kings and the artist Raphael amongst others.
On the river Tiber is the Castel San Angelo, another stone dome building, this one built as his own tomb. It has been used as a fortress by more than one Pope when Rome has been threatened. It housed Pope Clement VII when the forces of the (Spanish)Holy Roman Empire sacked the city in 1527. It is well worth a visit if you ever go to Rome. A coffee from the battlements’ cafe’ is a good end to a walk around the military museum it is now.
The third monument is the beautiful Villa at Tivoli.
Lastly is the wall he had constructed in the North of England to keep out those pesky Picts(Scots). It was 15ft high and stretched 73 miles from coast tocoast and there was a fort every five miles.
Hadrian had been unwell for some time and despite seeking death and requesting it of his adopted son Pius, who refused to aid him, he died aged 62 in his villa at Baie on the Bay of Naples.
Emperor Mollari's Rant Line
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That’s why the military is great! When I’m on leave, I can expect NO calls about work, unless there’s some paperwork that needs some information that only I can give. Other than that, I’m kinda tired of it… :roll:
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I also don’t like people who eat things with faces on them. They should rip the faces off first, THEN eat it!
I’m all over the place on this one. I’m thinking about things you can eat with faces, as usual I have a hard time keeping my mind out of the gutter…
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@ncscswitch:
Back on the rant front…
Being on vacation, and because your company gives you a cell phone, a lap top, and a wireless broadband card, they expect you to still be answering your phone and checking your e-mail while you are on vacation…
I had more than a dozen phone calls TODAY, with multiple voice mails from co-workers (despite my outgoing message stating I am on vacation until 1 OCT) about inane CRAP, and asking why I had not responded to e-mails…
Can you REALLY take a vacation in the modern era of wireless telecommunications :?
I left the laptop and the wireless card at work, and my phone ringer is OFF! :-D
u need to put in autoresponse on ur phone and email sayin
"me on vacation
u gtfo unless it emergency
if it not emergency and u still call/email, call ur next of kin and funeral director first"
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Or how bout this:
“Hey Buddy, there’s no “u” in vacation”.
That’ll teach’um.
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Well, I could not check e-mail right now if I wanted to… I deliberately left the laptop at work, and I do not have access to our secured network on my home system.
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
As for the spelling thing…
The one I use at work is after my Ops Manager lets fly with "There is no I in TEAM:
To which I respond, “But there is an M-E in it” :-D -
@ncscswitch:
Well, I could not check e-mail right now if I wanted to… I deliberately left the laptop at work, and I do not have access to our secured network on my home system.
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
As for the spelling thing…
The one I use at work is after my Ops Manager lets fly with "There is no I in TEAM:
To which I respond, “But there is an M-E in it” :-DThere’s also M-E-A-T in it, so I say, you want me to work, let’s see some sirloin first, mister! Booyah!
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He said MEAT…. :-D :-D
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@ncscswitch:
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
Look, idiots (90%+) will assume ur still checking ur regular voice mail.
If you leave a message like “I am NOT CHECKING MY VOICE MAIL U IDIOTS U NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE HELP U” (say that part REAL loud), then they will try other means.
u gotta be like REAL obvious about it tho . . . ppl can be reeaaal stupid. if ur all polite and like “im not back until Oct 1”, they like “OKs tee heez, imma leave a voice mail, he never said that he isn’t going to be working while he’s on vacation tee hee heez!!!1!”
I hate working with idiots, but that’s wat u get, o wellz.
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@ncscswitch:
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
Look, idiots (90%+) will assume ur still checking ur regular voice mail.
If you leave a message like “I am NOT CHECKING MY VOICE MAIL U IDIOTS U NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE HELP U” (say that part REAL loud), then they will try other means.
u gotta be like REAL obvious about it tho . . . ppl can be reeaaal stupid. if ur all polite and like “im not back until Oct 1”, they like “OKs tee heez, imma leave a voice mail, he never said that he isn’t going to be working while he’s on vacation tee hee heez!!!1!”
I hate working with idiots, but that’s wat u get, o wellz.
Yes,you can make big fools out of people. its fun. I sometimes pretend I’m psychic and come out with these visions that are really obvious but people still fall for them.
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I hate people who think you can just believe something for no reason. If you cannot provide a logical reason, then I see no point in taking or listening to what you are saying.
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I hate people who think you can just believe something for no reason. If you cannot provide a logical reason, then I see no point in taking or listening to what you are saying.
Logical reasons are easy to concoct. That’s why I demand empirical reasons.
But I don’t hate those people - that’s most of my extended family. I’m a skeptic in a very church-active family. Not conservative or fundamentalist, but very actively involved in churchwork. So if I hated my whole family for their superstition, that would put me in an awkward spot.
I just accept it as part of human nature. Not everyone is comfortable challenging and rejecting the basic worldview they were taught as children - it’s a pretty traumatic process.
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My new rant…
People who give you Karma (especially smites), but don’t post the fact or why.
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@Emperor:
My new rant…
People who give you Karma (especially smites), but don’t post the fact or why.
I just like clicking stuff. You were posting in the wrong place at the wrong time, brotha.
(actually, I haven’t smitten/smited/smote anyone here)
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I admit, I have given you several. But based on your total, I am a VERY small portion of your smites.
I am just waiting to crack 100… no idea who my Secret Admirers are… :-D
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Switch I would’ve just smited you but its GD … if you are in another one of my unread threads i will :wink:
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Thanks! I just hit triple digits!
I am so popular!
:-D
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What I don’t like is that there is no candidate that i particularly like , primaries are soon and I can’t even start a thread to rant about it.
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I think we should bring back PD but try to keep it on the Presidential Race rather than all of politics.
This way we can keep those damn canadians out of the conversations :wink: -
@AJ:
I think we should bring back PD but try to keep it on the Presidential Race rather than all of politics.
This way we can keep those damn canadians out of the conversations :wink:that reminds me and the fact the dollar is wrecked. its ruined. look at the euro and canada and the pound then look at us. Then tell me we are still the best. How do we manage to be number 1? and have a wrecked dollar, a wreck school syestem, a the inabilty to wage war, our obesity problem, and we have NO allies.
America is a bunch of stupid fat ignorant pigs. Everything is so f*cked up and yet were number 1? not for long is alll i have to tell you people. hope that not a shocker. The people who run our oligarchy are retards.
Rant done
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@AJ:
I think we should bring back PD but try to keep it on the Presidential Race rather than all of politics.
This way we can keep those damn canadians out of the conversations :wink:that reminds me and the fact the dollar is wrecked. its ruined. look at the euro and canada and the pound then look at us. Then tell me we are still the best. How do we manage to be number 1? and have a wrecked dollar, a wreck school syestem, a the inabilty to wage war, our obesity problem, and we have NO allies.
America is a bunch of stupid fat ignorant pigs. Everything is so f*cked up and yet were number 1? not for long is alll i have to tell you people. hope that not a shocker. The people who run our oligarchy are retards.
Rant done
Hooooo-eeeeee! Bring it on!
I think you’re #1 in terms of nuclear weapons, money spent on military, and GDP, that’s still something. China, India and Europe are catching up tho…
And, you’re definitely #1 in terms of national debt!
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