Gladiators were tree huggers!!!!!
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Pride of Lions
I am now official
Yeah, there's always Juan isn't there?............
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Real men eat meat :139: :67:
Pride of Lions
I am now official
:1: Absolutely!......
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DeanoVilla
One Bloody Number
I met Jet at the gadget show one year and she signed my poster of her. She was fit as fcuk and definitely my favourite gladiator.
upthevilla
Vital 1st Team Regular
Yay, go vegans. Katie boo boo
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Villan Of The North
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Is that a euphamism? :34:
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:19: I knew one of yo lot would say that :19:
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
I'm not quite sure he will.
"Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans, according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard discovered".
LOL. They were fatties.
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So would they have qualified for the overweight obese bonus by the government then? :139:
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Villan Of The North
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Interestingly (or perhaps not) I actually know a bit about this.
Gladiators (or at least the sucessful ones) were extremely well trained, skillful, strong and quick but also, intentilnally, a little overweight. They ate all that they wanted/reasonably could because a good number of gladatorial matches were what were called blood matches. Very few matches were death matches but sometimes they died during blood matches. A blood match was, in effect, a sort of point scoring match, the idea being to draw blood from your oponent 3 times in order to win. The most skillful gladiators rarely killed by accident but still won their blood matches. Gladiators were overweight because a layer of fat protects all (most) of the important blood vessels, so in effect, they would bleed when cut but would be very unlucky to die from their wounds, they would be mostly superficial where as skinnier combatants would regularly die as a result of such matches, their shallow wounds would damage muscle and major blood vessels rather than blood poor fat.
For my next enthralling lecture I will talk about the mating habits of the patagonian brown snail. :33:
Gladiators (or at least the sucessful ones) were extremely well trained, skillful, strong and quick but also, intentilnally, a little overweight. They ate all that they wanted/reasonably could because a good number of gladatorial matches were what were called blood matches. Very few matches were death matches but sometimes they died during blood matches. A blood match was, in effect, a sort of point scoring match, the idea being to draw blood from your oponent 3 times in order to win. The most skillful gladiators rarely killed by accident but still won their blood matches. Gladiators were overweight because a layer of fat protects all (most) of the important blood vessels, so in effect, they would bleed when cut but would be very unlucky to die from their wounds, they would be mostly superficial where as skinnier combatants would regularly die as a result of such matches, their shallow wounds would damage muscle and major blood vessels rather than blood poor fat.
For my next enthralling lecture I will talk about the mating habits of the patagonian brown snail. :33:
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Already knew this, it was discovered some time ago.
"unbearable" For a God I think I'm quite modest and humble, I don't even smite people for standing in my presence AND I even allow people to speak directly to me! :98:
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
I forgive you, for you know not what you do.
Indeed, and the man is spot on :35:
HeathfieldRoad1874
Miserable Sod
They are known to have consumed large amounts of Bone Ash, to ensure they had a healthy calcium intake.
Even then, these Vegan/Vegetarians were taking supplements to compliment their diet.
Even then, these Vegan/Vegetarians were taking supplements to compliment their diet.
