Rome

My mum went to Italy not that long ago. Apparently there was a priest dressed as Jesus and you could get your picture taken with him. :lol:
 
so this has nothing to do with the neo martial industrial music act?

I had a friend who lived and worked in Rome for six months, and it was definitely a love/hate relationship. She got into a vespa accident and wiped out and had to go to the hospital. She had surgery and had to stay in the hospital for five days and have all sorts of tests run. In the end, she didn't have to pay a dime (yay socialist healthcare!). However, her driver's license was confiscated by the Italian police who basically wanted to extort $800 out of her in exchange for her license. That's a really watered down version of the story, but in the end, she came back from Rome with a really unhappy feeling about it and really viewed it as an extremely corrupt state

she also said there are pickpockets and gypsies everywhere

My advice is to avoid all governmental interaction. They don't have the best interests of the people in mind, especially bothersome tourists.
 
she also said there are pickpockets and gypsies everywhere

This is very true, stay away from Gypsies and Arabs. Just don't make any contact with the brown people, especially since you'll probably look like a tourist. You will know exactly why when you get there.

Other than that, Rome is fucking spectacular. Just watch your stuff closely and just be careful in general.
 
I'd like to see Rome but have more interest in England, Ireland and Scotland and zero interest in anything middle east Egyptian related.

Funny coments about Italians, I had an Italian girlfriend, first thing her father said to me upon introduction was "what the fuck do you want ?" We quickly became tight and he was the only one besides her I like being around. I also liked working for Italians though it gets trying at times they do have a demeanor all thier own.

I have long been wondering due to the expance of Rome into the north just how much Roman is in Northern European blood ? We speak of Celtic or Anglo Saxon but just how pure could it honestly be ? Does anyone one scholarly have any idea ?
 
I am laughing at the blood statement, because it's a ludicrous to measure culture by means of biological relation. If you are talking about the effects of roman culture within the rest of Europe then all can agree that there was quite a large impact.

Also, we don't speak "Celtic" or "Anglo-Saxon".
 
WHO GIVES A FUCKING FUCK ABOUT PURE BLOODLINES

Go put on your hood and measure some skulls.

WOW ! Is this coming from the person that made a generalization about Italians ? I could "go off", seems easy enough apparently but I understand certain reactions.

Actually my question stems from being on a metal forum where much former "pagan" knowledge (and pride) exists and as I said I have been wondering how much the initial European population was diluted with Roman blood during the expansion of the empire to the north. All I know is that its said that many soldiers were in one area long enough where they had native wives. Frankly Im just wondering how much Roman blood I personally could have.

I do love my hoodies, a necessary comfort for me in the winter but I would like to suggest you calm down and stop throwing spears of assumption, its unproductive.
 
The answer: a lot.

It's not blood, it's cultural influence. But considering the Romans were quite rapey, I imagine a lot of cross-breeding must have happened.

Italian is not a bloodline, it's a culture.

You probably do have some Roman blood, as well as the blood of many others. Would it taint your perception of yourself to know that you are probably a blood-mutt?
 
I am laughing at the blood statement, because it's a ludicrous to measure culture by means of biological relation. If you are talking about the effects of roman culture within the rest of Europe then all can agree that there was quite a large impact.

Also, we don't speak "Celtic" or "Anglo-Saxon".

Actually in psychological communities is has been found that various ancestrial heritages have their personality traits. Not that I care, not what the questions was about. Im also sure you are smart enough to know what I was talking about when I said "we speak", surely lack of the word "about" couldnt have thrown you... come on
 
Ancestral heritages and personality traits...please provide links to relevant articles that are not from **********.org
 
damn it why is "st0rmfr0nt" blocked on here? fucking oppressing everyone.

if ancestral heritage has personality traits, why is there such varied personality among members of the same bloodlines? it has nothing to do with your ancestry but your own personal wiring.
 
The answer: a lot.

It's not blood, it's cultural influence. But considering the Romans were quite rapey, I imagine a lot of cross-breeding must have happened.

Italian is not a bloodline, it's a culture.

You probably do have some Roman blood, as well as the blood of many others. Would it taint your perception of yourself to know that you are probably a blood-mutt?

I requested that you calm down and stop with the assumptions... are you capable ?

Now you said the Romans were quite "rapey", yet I know you are smart and educated so I know you are aware of all the various methods of domination applied by all peoples thoughout history, hopefully I have hit home and you will now STOP!

Most are knowledgable of the influence of Roman culture but they also became part of the communities and marraiges and children did take place, Im just wondering how much as per my origional question.

Im an American part of the origional melting pot, of course I know Im no straight "blood". Our last name is so odd our family never knew what the heck our heritage was. A Aunt traced it and most of my ancestry has been chased back to English, Irish and Scots, thus my queries about Roman. My sister sat in Rome and had a old woman tell her she knew she was Italian which seemed odd to us. Perhaps this is common for them to do with tourists, but also she said she saw similiarities. However her husband says he saw alot of people that looked like Dad in Wales. Its just a curiousity thing that came to mind with the topic of Rome. Until now I never knew it was a bad thing to query ancestry..... Jesus Fucking Christ !
 
Actually in psychological communities is has been found that various ancestrial heritages have their personality traits. Not that I care, not what the questions was about. Im also sure you are smart enough to know what I was talking about when I said "we speak", surely lack of the word "about" couldnt have thrown you... come on

The key word in that first part is "psychological communities", which of course might have findings of that nature since it based on the perspective of the community as a generalized whole; if you take into context however the traditional validity behind belief structures on a number of subjects versus historical or biological data, you still find that people by and large are completely misinformed and just plain wrong about a lot of things.

I also never assume that what I read is coming from an informed source (no offense), just like I don't try to ascribe more data than there may actually be in any given sentence when written by someone (unless of course said writer has a history of esoteric patterns in either speech, beliefs or writing).
 
I like how you assume that when I said the Romans were rapey, I must also be saying that the Saracens, Chinamen and European settlers were not rapey. ho ho ho!

You're getting so angry! It's hard not to wonder when you use phrases like "diluted" to describe Romans mating with "Europeans" though.
 
Ancestral heritages and personality traits...please provide links to relevant articles that are not from **********.org

I can not, it came straight from the horses mouth when I was subject to consuling which I did not like or conclude. However I would say from your very post regarding Italian behavior and my various experiences that there is alot to it. For example my sense of humor SUCKS! and the Brits are known for odd humor and stiff "upper lip". So personally I dont think I can deny certain genetic traits. But please, once again this is NOT my point nor anything I would care to discuss after being assulted continously over something I was not even talking about so I have no desire to continue.
 
I like how you assume that when I said the Romans were rapey, I must also be saying that the Saracens, Chinamen and European settlers were not rapey. ho ho ho!

You're getting so angry! It's hard not to wonder when you use phrases like "diluted" to describe Romans mating with "Europeans" though.

1st para - Because I clearly was talking about intermarriages.

2nd - How else would you discribe a change in local ancestries at that time from a occupation than diluted ? Sorry I dont have all the words in the dictionary at my disposal, just a common man ya know, never with any desire to be "PC"... a pathetic and poser trend