RAGE!!
i am literally fuming. steam from the ears and everything. and it's not just because i'm greek, that really has no impact on the issue, if it was any other country that had been treated like that i would be mad too.
the fact that they still call them the 'elgin' marbles is bad enough. they're not the elgin marbles, he didn't make them, all he did was steal them.
some stupid bitch was so incredibly insulting. she actually said "well it's like this, if a mother was abusing her child, you wouldn't let her adopt another would you?" i had visions of stabbing her. in a totally non-violent way of course.
the simple fact is that they think they are better than greece. they say they won't return them until greece can prove that they can look after the artefacts in greece first. the extensive restoration at the parthenon is one of the largest and most respected projects in the world. currently there is work to build a museum at the base of the acropolis that will house the marbles and other statues and artefacts, and display them in the same way they would have originally been seen. except without a full set. and the british museum are now arguing that the greeks are stupid for doing this because it is on an archaeological site. but anywhere in the vicinity will be. at least this way they are preserving what is already there (a byzantium site which is protected and visible underneath the museum, they even made a feature of it). so they moan if there isn't a museum there in which the remaining marbles can be seen and protected, but they moan as soon as the greeks do something about it. yes the greek government made some big mistakes in the past, but you need only look at recent successes to see that they only want to preserve their history. take the new underground train system for example, the government invested millions to provide a good efficient transport service that would help reduce congestion and pollution which is a major problem in athens (because of its geography as well as the density of the population) that affects the decomposition of the parthenon. during the building of the underground train system, a lot of excavation went on and all artefacts found remained in their original positions in glass cases so they can be preserved and displayed.
one guy even said that the marbles would not be returned because it represented a part of world history, of british history and made up the exhibition of conquests around the world, like they have chinese, indian, african artefacts. it doesn’t represent fucking world history, what it does is provide a reminder of how britain was this 'great' empire who invaded, enslaved and colonised.
you know what really takes the piss? the british museum won't return them because they say the greeks won't look after them and it's their duty to stop them ruining an important historical and cultural collection. turning a blind eye to the blatant up-their-own-arses holier-than-thou attitude, the fact is they are complete fecking hypocrits. there is obvious damage to the marbles dating from when the marbles were being 'looked after' at the british museum. a 'failure of curatorship' in their own words, led to an acid based solution being used to clean the sculptures and marbles. so as all you of who have done gcse chemistry will know, acid decomposes carbonates, which any fool would know the marbles contain.
the debate has gone on for 200 years. apparently there are good arguments on both sides. hmm. i fail to see this. as far as i can see britain has removed some of the marbles that belong with the rest of them in the parthenon, an icon of greek history and culture, displayed it in their own museum as part of an exhibition to show off how good they are at thieving, vandalised the artefacts through stupidity, and now refuse to give them back and have the cheek to insult greece's ability to look after them.
what's wrong with this?
GIVE THEM BACK YOU STUPID FECKING THIEVING CUNTS!
the fact that they still call them the 'elgin' marbles is bad enough. they're not the elgin marbles, he didn't make them, all he did was steal them.
some stupid bitch was so incredibly insulting. she actually said "well it's like this, if a mother was abusing her child, you wouldn't let her adopt another would you?" i had visions of stabbing her. in a totally non-violent way of course.
the simple fact is that they think they are better than greece. they say they won't return them until greece can prove that they can look after the artefacts in greece first. the extensive restoration at the parthenon is one of the largest and most respected projects in the world. currently there is work to build a museum at the base of the acropolis that will house the marbles and other statues and artefacts, and display them in the same way they would have originally been seen. except without a full set. and the british museum are now arguing that the greeks are stupid for doing this because it is on an archaeological site. but anywhere in the vicinity will be. at least this way they are preserving what is already there (a byzantium site which is protected and visible underneath the museum, they even made a feature of it). so they moan if there isn't a museum there in which the remaining marbles can be seen and protected, but they moan as soon as the greeks do something about it. yes the greek government made some big mistakes in the past, but you need only look at recent successes to see that they only want to preserve their history. take the new underground train system for example, the government invested millions to provide a good efficient transport service that would help reduce congestion and pollution which is a major problem in athens (because of its geography as well as the density of the population) that affects the decomposition of the parthenon. during the building of the underground train system, a lot of excavation went on and all artefacts found remained in their original positions in glass cases so they can be preserved and displayed.
one guy even said that the marbles would not be returned because it represented a part of world history, of british history and made up the exhibition of conquests around the world, like they have chinese, indian, african artefacts. it doesn’t represent fucking world history, what it does is provide a reminder of how britain was this 'great' empire who invaded, enslaved and colonised.
you know what really takes the piss? the british museum won't return them because they say the greeks won't look after them and it's their duty to stop them ruining an important historical and cultural collection. turning a blind eye to the blatant up-their-own-arses holier-than-thou attitude, the fact is they are complete fecking hypocrits. there is obvious damage to the marbles dating from when the marbles were being 'looked after' at the british museum. a 'failure of curatorship' in their own words, led to an acid based solution being used to clean the sculptures and marbles. so as all you of who have done gcse chemistry will know, acid decomposes carbonates, which any fool would know the marbles contain.
the debate has gone on for 200 years. apparently there are good arguments on both sides. hmm. i fail to see this. as far as i can see britain has removed some of the marbles that belong with the rest of them in the parthenon, an icon of greek history and culture, displayed it in their own museum as part of an exhibition to show off how good they are at thieving, vandalised the artefacts through stupidity, and now refuse to give them back and have the cheek to insult greece's ability to look after them.
what's wrong with this?
GIVE THEM BACK YOU STUPID FECKING THIEVING CUNTS!