When you thought your day couldn't get any worse (79 AD edition)

[Dowly]

Pompeii: New find shows man crushed trying to flee eruption (https://phys.org/news/2018-05-pompeii-eruption.html)

Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.https://i.imgur.com/feeBIM9.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/ZxGZCcX.jpg

[Schroeder]

Probably still better than dying in boiling poisonous gases as most people in Pompeii.:dead:

[Mr Quatro]

Probably still better than dying in boiling poisonous gases as most people in Pompeii.:dead:

So true :yep:

[August]

But definitely not as good as reading about the eruption a few days later in the Rome Daily Herald while sipping on wine and eating grapes.:yep:

[Catfish]

^ »It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.« (Livius)

[Aktungbby]

Probably still better than dying in boiling poisonous gases as most people in Pompeii.:dead: DID U MEAN A PYROCLASTIC SURGE? https://media2.giphy.com/media/6uDcFFR8WmpJ6/200w.gif AS OPPOSED TO GOOD OL' KILAUEA LAVA FLOWS? https://media1.giphy.com/media/pNB8kbA0dNhZK/200w.gif IN EITHER CASE, 'PLINY THE ELDER' BEER IS GOOD' FOR WHAT ALES U!:Kaleun_Cheers:http://www.sonomamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RUSSIANRIVER147_724091-1024x682.jpg

[Reece]

That should sell well in Hawaii.:doh::oops: (bad taste :dead:)

[STEED]

Looks like pain killers are not needed.

[Jimbuna]

But definitely not as good as reading about the eruption a few days later in the Rome Daily Herald while sipping on wine and eating grapes.:yep:

True that :yep: