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> I've grown thinking about pre-medieval times as a landscape of ruins. Jimmy Carr joked about that in QI once, how movies and series set in ancient Rome and G
by vanderZwan 5y ago
> I've grown thinking about pre-medieval times as a landscape of ruins.
Jimmy Carr joked about that in QI once, how movies and series set in ancient Rome and Greece also tend to do this.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rbknKBJvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rbknKBJvc
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIn aegyptus they'd be sort of right. The Egyptian ruins were as old to them as Roman ruins are to us.
- leeoniya 5y ago"This video contains content from Fremantle International, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
- vanderZwan 5y agoSorry about that. I looked for official clips (it's just before a relatively famous segment) but they don't include the Jimmy Carr joke
- mercer 5y agoThey do say that about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is!