8 Craziest Customs of Ancient Rome

rome wasn't built in a day they were too busy doing this other crazy stuff let's talk about that good mythical morning ancient Rome was one of the longest-lasting empires in human history for good reason they did a lot of amazing things they came up with roads they came up with concrete that came up with flushing toilets a lot of the stuff that we use today but they did a lot of other stuff that I'm very glad that we did not pick up from them and that's what I'm gonna be testing you and you on today as we play when in Rome fill in these blanks with the weird things Romans did while they were in Rome okay link if you get five out of eight of these you get a ancient Roman themed prize Oh what about that I had no titillating here's the first question the Roman goddess clois Sina had a dirty job she ruled over Rome's gigantic blank mmm what did Rome have a gigantic version of hmm I don't know something clo'es inna brood over Rome's Rome's gigantic sewer system dirty job somebody's got her some God's got to rule it I'm sorry the answer is just sewer oh it's good yeah sewer system you're right right off the bat interestingly they called it the cloaca Maxima which means big drain and interesting cloaca is the word for the orifice that all birds reptiles and marsupials have where everything comes out I'm talking about everything and I've always wanted to be a bird but I found out about this I don't want to be a bird anymore man cloaca it did the bat balances out the flying with the sewer bottom keep your Chloe Co birds Romans exclusively wash their laundry in their own blank cloaca noooo okay imma answer everything with cloaca now that I know what that is that's only the answer to the first one and actually okay well that's not my answer but it seems like it should be something like that wash their laundry in their own office like runoff runoff yeah like water more specific what like okay toilet run off I'm gonna give it to you link it's suing its pee-pee just the pee they would they separated the pee in the poop because there's ammonia in the pee and so it actually can have some sort of you know oh my property uh but could you imagine what they all smelled like like they paid them so when I when I pee myself the reason I changed my pants is because of the smell well and just out of principle - and moving forward I'm just gonna be like hey I'm just doing my laundry Oh God I'll pick on me Romans it only happens once a year legend has it the Emperor Caligula had a few screws loose in the old noggin right before his assassination he tried to appoint his blank to the highest elected position in government first of all Caligula is a cool name and depending on what goes in this blank I think people should name their kid that okay well if you knew a little bit about his life you would take that back oh yeah bad person weird dude I take it back all right he was assassinated though that's good then yeah he was killed he tried to appoint his he's crazy so I'm gonna say appoint his own portrait to the highest elected position in government well that would have been me it's like wrong hole where the mouth is and then anyone can lead the country okay that's wrong that's a better idea than what he did because he tried to elect his horse interesting it actually worked for a while until everybody realized it was a horse Wow yeah until if you don't look at it yeah if you just listening to it talk you might not know it's a horse it wasn't mr. ed along with gladiator blood women were also known to mix gladiator Blanc and with their face creams to improve their complexion are you not entertained I see that movie in a while I don't know exactly how he said it not like that so first of all they used blood first of all they use blood so it gave you that part if you're gonna use blood in your facial cream where'd you go from there is what my guess I have to guess yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna go with spit I can see him like entering the Coliseum like but they made a little scratch on the side by spitting in vials if you hadn't gone sweat you would have been right it's spit and so you were wrong yeah actually I don't know how they collected it that's better than blood blood and sweat in there which gives me an idea that you got somebody out there you're crushing on you should be like hey baby you look like your face has been covered in gladiator sweat and blood yes I'm right I'm writing that down I'm making how they were saliva that one flamingo blinks were considered a delicacy in ancient Rome flamingo blanks is this plural or is this ownership um this plural it could also be flamingo Blanc was considered a delicacy in ancient Rome that would also like I said it's plural yeah well I've made it plural you just give me the single feathers eyeball I'm not gonna disqualify you if you do singly or singular okay I'm thinking so hard that I'm not listening to you okay you seem confused I'll just let it go it of confuse myself um man see you make me guess things like what I'm about to guess and this is not it's not like I'm coming up with this is that what I think this is the right answer testicles Oh when in doubt guess testicles on this show you know flamingos actually don't have testicles I do not know that because it's a fall but they do have tongues no but it was linked famille tongues but let me go Toros only got one tongue well Sosa flamingo tongue but link flamingo tongues were a delicacy you don't have to just have one you can't just have one trust me you try it's like a Lay's potato chip you've tried it yeah man and where was I while researching this where was it you didn't do it at the zoo yeah they've got us bats wrong I've got a myth in and out now Roman bathrooms were a very popular area animal cell for socializing and part of being social means sharing right four Romans that included sharing a sponge on a stick that they used for a sponge on a stick huh they used for you're gonna love this getting that unreachable spot on their own back right no socializing I'm gonna say as hydration I think they would drink each other sponge I hope not because they used that sponge for butt wipe I would have accepted wiping the butt fecal residue removal or booty cleaning but you didn't say any of those who said drinking oh man yeah they wiped your butts with it man weird Roman historian Livy and they shared it yeah they shared it yeah they were very intimate Roman historian Livy claimed to have witnessed one of the first-ever blank sightings way back in 20 well 214 BC 214 BC I'm gonna say I'm sorry are we playing a game yes we are uh I mean UFO sightings UFO you know they went on the forums I'm not sure that's right because I have fo written here Oh like that's right you yes that's right it is a UFO you described a series of floating ships in the sky moving back and forth and interestingly Livy had the exact same haircut as the ancient aliens guy look at that right there on his bust oh wow that's who he's emulating looking at the UFOs now link you have only gotten three right mmm so I but I did it so when it comes down to this one you know what if you can get this one right s fifty percent you still get your prize man what am I gonna do I'm just gonna throw the prize away if I don't give it to you that's right ancient Romans would carve winged blanks and carry them around as a way to ward off evil children and conquering generals wing blank ward off evil - the way you ward off an evil child is you just like put your palm on the forehead it's like BAM give him the photo really yeah evil child go right away okay what about a I mean I don't mean forcefully I just mean like you a kid away we understand I mean this would what this would ward away me just just to give you a little hint I don't want to see this wing kid winged or not I don't want to see this carry them around is a way to ward off evil children oh this is tough man can I get another hint you really want me to win you have one so do i one I have one itch whoa they don't know the answer you never look that closely but I'm assuming as one I have one nose that's true that's true I have what could you put wings on it would be very scary weird you're gonna make me guess this huh man okay wiener is that right please be right dancer is Wiener Lane yes put wigs on a waiter in a wind they call them phalluses but yeah they carried around wing phalluses it was a thing congratulations link you have one we don't show me a picture and you have one bottle of sweat as well I'm glad I'm glad it wasn't a wing Paola black gladiator sweat really yeah I think Alex Mike - sweat another thing I don't know how they made it I didn't I'm not asking too many questions and he what he's in there thanks for liking commenting and subscribing you know what time it is hi I'm William and I'm from Rome Italy and it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality have you gotten the brand new mega cool Willet poster well it's only available at rent link calm quest or make your life more mega cool yes also get mega cool by clicking through to good mythical more where we are gonna play wet head it's working our heads gonna get wet auctioning a air up of hajar there an arab jar well look at it right here we got us some I gotta have us a table I got our self-drive looks like it's got water in it it's not water I spent a little bit air in there there's four you give us the water back and you keep the air this is a little bit mean we're going where we're gonna go nobody's bidding I think nobody's better because I think is gladiator swear it's not gladiator sweaters nothing it's nothing is clear it's clear didn't get away slowly let's get it back away set it all to fit it on a four dollar for another thirty to thirty I didn't do it no no no minimize the embarrass six six five four three two zero dollars zero dollars so now he'll be good you'll get two up for one thing okay can I have a 50% chance link what are the chances what are the chances please be the one please be it please be it

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Length: 11min 41sec (701 seconds)

Published: Mon May 02 2016

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[u/AnnobalTapapiusRufus]

Their fact-checker could use a touch up on Roman history.