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Jul 9 2017, 07:07 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-40547691So some bright spark has decided that our beloved Lake District should be given UNESCO status. Now I am all for conservation but history shows us that when we place these things in the hands of people who live miles away then it is a recipe for disaster, ( a bit like the pricks in Westminster ). Most people only visit the lakes in summer but it is a landscape forged by millenniums of weather, ( usually VERY wet ), hill farming and a singular lack of human intervention. I do like the passing reference to Stonehenge and, as anyone who has had the misfortune to drive down that way of late will testify, what a pig's ear they have achieved with that.
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Sep 13 2017, 05:08 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Sep 13 2017, 02:45 PM) Surprises me that no one has suggested moving the stones. If stone age man can, ( supposedly ), drag the wretched things all the way from Wales , a low loader should have no problem taking them back . On a par with the Elgin marbles it's a wonder that the Welsh office hasn't already petitioned . We could throw in Avebury stones as a gesture of goodwill .
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Sep 14 2017, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Sep 13 2017, 06:08 PM) If stone age man can, ( supposedly ), drag the wretched things all the way from Wales , a low loader should have no problem taking them back . On a par with the Elgin marbles it's a wonder that the Welsh office hasn't already petitioned . We could throw in Avebury stones as a gesture of goodwill . On the matter of the marbles, given the state of the Greek economy, now would be a good time to offer them a few bob to settle the sale question once and for all. We could do it via their EU bankers whilst we are still technically 'in' and knock it off our final settlement. Job done; triples all round.
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Sep 14 2017, 05:22 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Sep 14 2017, 04:15 PM) On the matter of the marbles, given the state of the Greek economy, now would be a good time to offer them a few bob to settle the sale question once and for all. We could do it via their EU bankers whilst we are still technically 'in' and knock it off our final settlement. Job done; triples all round. Not such a daft idea OTE . Certainly it is something on the table which at the moment seems singularly lacking .
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Sep 15 2017, 08:19 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ Sep 15 2017, 07:44 AM) Why not just give 'em back? Which ? Stonehenge or the Parthenon coving ? Next we will be returning the Moon rocks .
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Sep 15 2017, 11:21 AM
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Sep 15 2017, 09:19 AM) Which ? Stonehenge or the Parthenon coving ? Next we will be returning the Moon rocks . They were taken from Greece whilst it was occupied by the Turks. If I'd bought a bit of French property from the Nazis in WW2, should I not feel a moral duty to return it to the people the Nazis took it from?
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Sep 15 2017, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ Sep 15 2017, 12:21 PM) They were taken from Greece whilst it was occupied by the Turks. If I'd bought a bit of French property from the Nazis in WW2, should I not feel a moral duty to return it to the people the Nazis took it from? Rather different situation; the Marbles were purchased by agreement from a legitimate civil authority in a time of peace. Rather like our dear Government selling off our assets at knock down prices back in the 1980s. Now, there's a thought, perhaps we should be demanding the return of our airports and such like back from their continental owners.
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