nicko31
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Does anyone really give a f**k? Just give them back, its means a lot to the Greeks and very little to us
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[News] We want our Marbles back, we want our Marbles back...
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Thunder Bolt
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Why do the next generation of Brits get to see them in London while the next generation of Greeks don't get to see them in Athens?
dejavuatbtn
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Ah, the Italians will be wanting them back before long.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
What? What has Italy or even the Romans have to do with a temple dated approx 495BC?
Ad hominem. Ignore list. Quite exciting, my first ignore!
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...plus the pay & display carpark at Durdle Door.
Bob!
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el punal
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Cue the song for tomorrow night :
“ You can stick your f***ing marbles up your arse,You can stick your f***ing marbles up your arse,
You can stick your f***ing marbles, stick your f***ing marbles . . . . ”
You know the rest . . . .
Nah, you're alright.Cue the song for tomorrow night :
You can stick your f***ing marbles up your arse,
You can stick your f***ing marbles, stick your f***ing marbles . . . . ”
You know the rest . . . .
Give. Them. Back!
wolfie
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They can't. We've got 'em.Cue the song for tomorrow night :
You can stick your f***ing marbles up your arse,
You can stick your f***ing marbles, stick your f***ing marbles . . . . ”
You know the rest . . . .
US Seagull
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British Museum Under Pressure To Return Looted Hello Kitty Phone Case To Mall Kiosk
LONDON—Facing numerous calls for the institution to finally make amends for historical wrongs, the British Museum was under pressure Tuesday to return a looted Hello Kitty phone case to a mall kiosk. “It is long past time for the British Museum to atone for its sins and return this novelty Hello...
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nicko31
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Starmer meeting with the Greek PM today...
"the marbles are not on the agenda"
That translates is they'll soon be heading home
"the marbles are not on the agenda"
That translates is they'll soon be heading home
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I hope they are.
Bob!
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They should be
I’m guessing it’s not about the marbles as such, it’s more that it would set a precedent as to what else would need to be returned and that list would be pretty much endless.
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In fairness, the British Museum does seem a little, well, not British. I mean, if you were showing someone round your house it would seem a little odd when you were showing off all the stuff you had pilfered whilst on an extended world trip.
I don’t disagree, although I’ve actually never been there myself.
But then you could say pretty much the same thing about every museum and art gallery in countless other nations too. I’m just wondering where this starts and stops.
I don’t know if we just get to hear about it more in this country because it involves us? It’s a bit like the Spanish claim on Gibraltar which goes back to the early 18th century and the Spanish Wars of Succession which seems to be in the news a lot. I was in Madrid at the weekend and I saw it on a scarf at the football, for example. But much later territorial ‘disputes’ like France getting Nice and Corsica from Italy in later peace treaties from the Napoleonic Wars (I haven’t double checked that, it’s from memory) never seem to come up any more. Edit: Corsica became part of France in 1768, Nice in 1860. Today we view those changes as permanent and beyond dispute, yet changes pre-dating both (Gibraltar) are considered up for grabs 320 years later!
We are probably seen as a soft touch these days, which may be true, especially since Brexit which lost us a lot of friends.
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maffew
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Anything stolen should be returned to its origin/original owner if they want it simple as that.
Thieves don't get to keep stuff they have nicked so other people can benefit from it, same difference
Thieves don't get to keep stuff they have nicked so other people can benefit from it, same difference