Is anyone else worried that people made up the citizens of Rome just before it fell?

[EstimatedProphet]

People! Just like in the US! PEOPLE were the citizens!

We're doomed!

[mondo joe]

1. Plastic contaminated bottled water = lead contamined bowls

[Eric J in MN]

2. What is the plastic doing to us? NT

NT

[mondo joe]

3. Nothing that I know of.

Just playing along.

[seemslikeadream]

5. You know what plastic is made of?

a main ingredient in petrochemicals is OIL

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. and did you know margarine is nearly identical in chemical make-up to plastic?

:scared:

[seemslikeadream]

9. I know and do NOT eat that stuff

or margarine either ;)

[Uncle Joe]

12. I heard that if you leave bottled water in a hot car, it leeches toxins in to the water. n/t

[Eric J in MN]

18. What do the toxins do to us? NT

NT

[Uncle Joe]

19. If I remember correctly there was a suspected link to cancer, might have

been breast cancer, this was a few months ago and the people in the office were talking about it. I rarely if ever buy bottled water, but in the summer, some of my coworkers carry them around like canteens.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Ah.

The first time I read that, I thought you said "lead contaminated bowels".

I'm a biologist. I was trying to figure out the connection. Then it hit me. D'OH!

[MrCoffee]

4. well damn, i wasn't worried at all before i read this!

thanks a pantload, chet

[Orrin_73]

6. The day rome fell

“I scarcely knew my own name; and for a long while I was silent, knowing that it was a time for tears.”

St. Jerome

following the sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth, who ravished the Eternal City on August 24, AD 410.

St. Jerome to Marcellinus and Anapsychia, A.D. 412, Letter 126

[AlCzervik]

7. Wut? Zomg Noes!!!!????

[taterguy]

11. That's one of many things that keep me awake at night

[bridgit]

13. not just that, but property owners were considered more 'citizen' than others...

there goes the neighborhood :(

[Warpy]

14. Did you know that the people initially welcomed the barbarians

who finally overthrew the Caesars and sacked their palaces?

That's how bad things had gotten.

That's how bad things are getting.

People will nothing left to lose will welcome any change at all.

[tomg]

15. Where are the Visigoths now that we need them? nt

[Uben]

16. We are the Visgoths

You ready>

[tomg]

17. Sounds good to me. nt