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(International Business Times UK) Interesting Romans kept it simple. Pay for sex using a coin with two people having sex on it   (uk.ibtimes.com) divider line 49
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2012-01-04 08:15:56 AM
I'd buy that for a dollar!
 
2012-01-04 08:16:37 AM
But what if you can't get them off the coin?
 
2012-01-04 08:19:46 AM
It's an ode to the eutscians
 
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
 
2012-01-04 08:20:16 AM
img152.imageshack.us
 
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.
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 08:29:07 AM
Yo dawg, I herd you like paying for sex...
 
2012-01-04 08:31:20 AM
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:-) )
 
2012-01-04 08:34:35 AM
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
 
2012-01-04 08:39:49 AM
Biggus Dickus?
 
2012-01-04 08:40:46 AM
Here's another coin they found along the river - wonder what it was used for.
www.freakingnews.com
 
2012-01-04 08:43:25 AM
Norv Turner: 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.
 
2012-01-04 08:46:02 AM
Imagine some roman punk kid gluing one of *those* to the sidewalk.
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 08:50:17 AM
Only two though?
 
2012-01-04 08:52:21 AM
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.
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 08:53:55 AM
gunga galunga: 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.
 
2012-01-04 08:54:28 AM
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2012-01-04 09:14:24 AM
I have a token like that. It says "Heads I win, Tails you lose."
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 09:31:53 AM
Duh. It goes in her coin slot.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 09:53:21 AM
But how do you make change for this coin?

68???
 
2012-01-04 10:11:28 AM
This was probably found in a kinky-ass brothel:

i3.photobucket.com
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 10:17:33 AM
Gabrielmot: ut how do you make change for this coin?

It's called snowballing.
 
2012-01-04 10:24:14 AM
pkellmey: 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.
 
2012-01-04 10:27:12 AM
So did they have a special place for it, or did they just eunt domus?
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 10:41:03 AM
LadyMech: 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.
 
2012-01-04 11:13:39 AM
dragonchild: 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!
 
2012-01-04 11:22:54 AM
HailRobonia: 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.
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 11:49:43 AM
Mayor Bee: Duh. It goes in her coin slot.

Only after coming out of the man's coin purse, of course.
 
2012-01-04 11:57:29 AM
People called Romanes they go the house?

/oblig
 
2012-01-04 12:35:04 PM
meanmutton: 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.
 
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.
 
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".
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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/
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
2012-01-05 05:03:00 AM
Penny for the dwarf?
 
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