[News] We want our Marbles back, we want our Marbles back...

[nicko31]

Does anyone really give a f**k? Just give them back, its means a lot to the Greeks and very little to us

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes, there’s not much shelter from the sun. Did you see all the lovely artefacts on display found when digging for the metro for the 2008 Olympics? It’s the next station from Syntagma Square beginning with P. Panastimio?

Almost right

Panepistimio

 

[halbpro]

I hear the argument and the Greek claim to the marbles but possession is nine tenths of the law , and at the time the Greeks weren’t taking care of them . It is all the result of Empire and Britain raided the world for stuff.
I know I have spent many happy times in the British Museum looking at them and stuff from all over the Middle East . I would not like the next generation to be deprived of that.

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]

Yes, there’s not much shelter from the sun. Did you see all the lovely artefacts on display found when digging for the metro for the 2008 Olympics? It’s the next station from Syntagma Square beginning with P. Panastimio?

Ah, the Italians will be wanting them back before long.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Ah, the Italians will be wanting them back before long.

What? What has Italy or even the Romans have to do with a temple dated approx 495BC?

 

[PeterT]

Hong Kong was on a 99 year lease and now given back.

If you knew that, why did you lump it in with Gibraltar?

Ad hominem. Ignore list. Quite exciting, my first ignore!

 

[Wozza]

 

[Bry Nylon]

...if we chucked out all the parts of Britain that didn't make a net contribution to the exchequer we'd be left with the Square Mile, Canary Wharf and Aberdeen.

...plus the pay & display carpark at Durdle Door.

 

[Bob!]

Rishi, Rishi, give them back.
Rishi, give them back

 

[el punal]

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 . . . .

 

[Wozza]

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.

Give. Them. Back!

 

[wolfie]

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 . . . .

They can't. We've got 'em.

 

[US Seagull]

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...

www.theonion.com

 

[nicko31]

Starmer meeting with the Greek PM today...

"the marbles are not on the agenda"

That translates is they'll soon be heading home

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Starmer meeting with the Greek PM today...

"the marbles are not on the agenda"

That translates is they'll soon be heading home

I hope they are.

 

[Bob!]

Starmer meeting with the Greek PM today...

"the marbles are not on the agenda"

That translates is they'll soon be heading home

They should be

 

[PeterT]

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.

 

[Eeyore]

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.

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.

 

[PeterT]

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.

 

[maffew]

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