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Romans kept it simple. Pay for sex using a coin with two people having sex on it
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magic_patch
2012-01-04 08:15:56 AM
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Candygram for Mongo
2012-01-04 08:16:37 AM
But what if you can't get them off the coin?
GonzoNihilist
2012-01-04 08:19:46 AM
It's an ode to the eutscians
Norv Turner
2012-01-04 08:19:50 AM
If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
/double standards
OldManDownDRoad
2012-01-04 08:20:16 AM
Jake Havechek
2012-01-04 08:22:57 AM
Comicus:
But we Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that's coming quickly.
Gordon Bennett
2012-01-04 08:26:26 AM
Well, of course. Writing "Good for one knee-trembler" on the coin wouldn't work without a population that is nearly universally literate.
/if you flip the coin over can you use it to get anal?
Arkanaut
2012-01-04 08:29:07 AM
Yo dawg, I herd you like paying for sex...
Slartibartfaster
2012-01-04 08:31:20 AM
Norv Turner
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If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
/double standards
spurious comparison
both should be legal, but are unrelated as to why
/ anti abortion, pro choice (if it was my choice Id answer no, Its not my choice... but I dont like the idea of my mom making that choice without asking me)
// coin collector (particularly roman ones..... Id LOVE to see that token..... own it ... then get time travel working and ..... get more coins for my collection O:-) )
Norv Turner
2012-01-04 08:34:35 AM
Slartibartfaster
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Norv Turner: If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
/double standards
spurious comparison
both should be legal, but are unrelated as to why
/ anti abortion, pro choice (if it was my choice Id answer no, Its not my choice... but I dont like the idea of my mom making that choice without asking me)
// coin collector (particularly roman ones..... Id LOVE to see that token..... own it ... then get time travel working and ..... get more coins for my collection O:-) )
That's the first, "I'd be a time traveling whore" I've ever seen
Jake Havechek
2012-01-04 08:39:49 AM
Biggus Dickus?
karnal
2012-01-04 08:40:46 AM
Here's another coin they found along the river - wonder what it was used for.
pkellmey
2012-01-04 08:43:25 AM
Norv Turner
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Slartibartfaster: Norv Turner: If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
/double standards
spurious comparison
both should be legal, but are unrelated as to why
/ anti abortion, pro choice (if it was my choice Id answer no, Its not my choice... but I dont like the idea of my mom making that choice without asking me)
// coin collector (particularly roman ones..... Id LOVE to see that token..... own it ... then get time travel working and ..... get more coins for my collection O:-) )
That's the first, "I'd be a time traveling whore" I've ever seen
You need more Dr. Who in your life.
Readysteadystop
2012-01-04 08:46:02 AM
Imagine some roman punk kid gluing one of *those* to the sidewalk.
gunga galunga
2012-01-04 08:47:16 AM
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health and coins with coins with people havingt sedx on them, what have the Romans ever done for us?
i.r.id10t
2012-01-04 08:50:17 AM
Only two though?
dragonchild
2012-01-04 08:52:21 AM
Norv Turner
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If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
Well, there are valid reasons for banning it, but it's mostly because Americans are prudes. You can't fark a fetus.
Jake Havechek
2012-01-04 08:53:18 AM
He has a wife, you know. Do you know what she's called? She's called... Incontinentia. Incontinentia Buttocks.
some_beer_drinker
2012-01-04 08:53:55 AM
gunga galunga
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All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health and coins with coins with people havingt sedx on them, what have the Romans ever done for us?
i was gonna ask what they have done for us lately, but i guess you got too excited, and blew it. nice work, loser.
Leeds
2012-01-04 08:54:28 AM
Dear Jerk
2012-01-04 09:14:24 AM
I have a token like that. It says "Heads I win, Tails you lose."
ChrisDe
2012-01-04 09:24:09 AM
The woman appears to be lying on a bed or couch on her front, with the man positioned behind her.
I thought Romans were Catholic?
Mayor Bee
2012-01-04 09:31:53 AM
Duh. It goes in her coin slot.
Jake Havechek
2012-01-04 09:37:37 AM
ChrisDe
:
The woman appears to be lying on a bed or couch on her front, with the man positioned behind her.
I thought Romans were Catholic?
Not until 312 A.D. Before that it was all doggy style, baby!
karnal
2012-01-04 09:40:31 AM
ChrisDe
The woman appears to be lying on a bed or couch on her front, with the man positioned behind her.
I thought Romans were Catholic?
They were very anal about their religion, it seems.
SonOfSpam
2012-01-04 09:49:56 AM
Article says the coin was found in a bank. Nothing remarkable about that.
/but was the anus remarkable?
Gabrielmot
2012-01-04 09:53:21 AM
But how do you make
change
for this coin?
68???
HailRobonia
2012-01-04 10:11:28 AM
This was probably found in a kinky-ass brothel:
Old_Chief_Scott
2012-01-04 10:15:41 AM
It's a good thing I saw this thread. It's obviously in need of a professional stand-up philosopher.
Gordon Bennett
2012-01-04 10:17:33 AM
Gabrielmot
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ut how do you make change for this coin?
It's called snowballing.
HailRobonia
2012-01-04 10:24:14 AM
pkellmey
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You need more Dr. Who in your life.
Dr. Whore. Travels through time in a red-light sexbooth TARDIS (which stands for Temporarily Available Rendezvous Dealing with Intimacy and Sex).
And the sonic screwdriver is, um, very sonic, very screw, and very driver.
MBooda
2012-01-04 10:27:12 AM
So did they have a special place for it, or did they just eunt domus?
LadyMech
2012-01-04 10:27:49 AM
Was anything like this found in Pompeii? If not, how much business was the British brothel doing? Or was it just clever advertising?
\I always thought the whore's sandals with the advertising (Follow Me!) was kind of neat.
HailRobonia
2012-01-04 10:41:03 AM
LadyMech
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Was anything like this found in Pompeii? If not, how much business was the British brothel doing? Or was it just clever advertising?
\I always thought the whore's sandals with the advertising (Follow Me!) was kind of neat.
They've found these coins just about wherever the Romans went.
I like the footprint advertisements... an outline of a foot on the pavement with directions to the brothel... the footprint was basically "your foot needs to be this big to play" to keep the kiddies out of the whorehouse.
meanmutton
2012-01-04 11:13:39 AM
dragonchild
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Norv Turner: If abortion is legal, why isn't prostitution? I mean, it is her choice after all.
Well, there are valid reasons for banning it, but it's mostly because Americans are prudes. You can't fark a fetus.
Huh, I didn't know that prostitution was only illegal in the United States. Thanks for correcting that for me!
Ishidan
2012-01-04 11:22:54 AM
HailRobonia
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I like the footprint advertisements... an outline of a foot on the pavement with directions to the brothel... the footprint was basically "your foot needs to be this big to play" to keep the kiddies out of the whorehouse.
Try that today, you'd be sued for discriminating against midgets.
TV's Vinnie
2012-01-04 11:36:38 AM
I wish our nation's governments would stop trying to control our dicks and just allow brothels to become legal (and taxable). We'd never see another recession or deficit again, guaranteed.
MythDragon
2012-01-04 11:49:43 AM
Mayor Bee
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Duh. It goes in her coin slot.
Only after coming out of the man's coin purse, of course.
Mad Canadian
2012-01-04 11:57:29 AM
People called Romanes they go the house?
/oblig
dragonchild
2012-01-04 12:35:04 PM
meanmutton
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Well, there are valid reasons for banning it, but it's mostly because Americans are prudes. You can't fark a fetus.
Huh, I didn't know that prostitution was only illegal in the United States. Thanks for correcting that for me!
What is this about Americans being so self-centered? What I posted by no means implies Americans are the ONLY prudes.
Metraxis
2012-01-04 12:59:55 PM
Minting coins again every time you need to change prices seems silly. I'd guess the 14 was a room number.
Gabrielmot
2012-01-04 01:00:17 PM
Gordon Bennett
:
Gabrielmot: ut how do you make change for this coin?
It's called snowballing.
I was hoping someone would take this and make it funnier, thank you sir.
/For those of you not familiar with my lame joke, 68 means "blow me, I owe you one".
vpb
2012-01-04 01:56:52 PM
Why couldn't this be a unit of currency? If Greece goes off of the Euro it could adopt the Trick.
It wouldn't be as deflationary as the gold standard, and the supply would grow at the same rate as the population.
bighasbeen
2012-01-04 04:11:51 PM
Metraxis
:
Minting coins again every time you need to change prices seems silly. I'd guess the 14 was a room number.
According to Terry Jones' Ancient Inventions series that he did for the BBC the relative cost of the various, uh, services, are the same today as they were back then.
Shadow Blasko
2012-01-04 04:14:21 PM
Mad Canadian
:
People called Romanes they go the house?
/oblig
Incidentally, this record is available in the lobby/
My-beard-is-grey
2012-01-04 05:11:10 PM
TV's Vinnie
:
I wish our nation's governments would stop trying to control our dicks and just allow brothels to become legal (and taxable). We'd never see another recession or deficit again, guaranteed.
Nice theory, but it hasn't worked in my country. Brothels and prostitution are legal (which is a good thing) but we still suffer economic recession.
TV's Vinnie
2012-01-04 05:38:58 PM
My-beard-is-grey
:
TV's Vinnie: I wish our nation's governments would stop trying to control our dicks and just allow brothels to become legal (and taxable). We'd never see another recession or deficit again, guaranteed.
Nice theory, but it hasn't worked in my country. Brothels and prostitution are legal (which is a good thing) but we still suffer economic recession.
Send them here. It's almost as bad as Saudi Arabia with all the sexual repressive laws.
Mouser
2012-01-04 05:57:34 PM
Metraxis
:
Minting coins again every time you need to change prices seems silly. I'd guess the 14 was a room number.
Either that, or the picture was a description of a "Number 14". Assuming that Numbers 1-13 weren't kinky enough for you.
ShonenBat
2012-01-05 05:03:00 AM
Penny for the dwarf?
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