Brendan

Yeah that's what internet forums are for.

I put it all down to the transperambulation of pseudocosmic antimatter.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I got beasted last time I took a grim view of a > cyclists behaviour, Blimey that sounds nasty.

Infernal velocipederists.

Crona Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What I don?t get is that since replicas will be in > their places why not return the real ones back? Me either. I think it is perfectly sensible and proper too. I just think that the whole national pride, they?re ours, no they?re business is pointless.

I don?t know much about this so I chased up a couple of wikipedia references to see what academic work there is on it. This article summarises it well I think: http://ww2.jhu.edu/foundations/?p=8 especially the section on the acquisition of the marbles. Few interesting points: It was never Lord Elgin?s intention to remove the marbles. He intended to make casts of them but when he found out they were being broken down and used to make mortar he decided to remove them. Although this was a controversial decision it was agreed to and he paid a considerable amount out of his own pocket for them. It was by no means a British funded act of cultural conquest. Elgin then had to petition the British government to buy them off him which happened eventually to a degree. The British themselves were quite critical of the acquisition of the marbles. Some because they felt they should stay in Greece but most because they thought they weren?t pretty enough. So from what I can make out they were under threat and bought, legally by a wealthy diplomat with a concern for their historical value* from an empire that was by all accounts just as powerful as Britain at the time and they now belong to academia not the Greeks or the British. So the two schools of thought that are sold to the Prat on the Clapham Omnibus i.e: ?They?re ours we own them, Bloody Greeks, Britain you?re the best, whoo hoo, Ingerland, Ingerland, we brought them back on the boats during Dunkirk didn?t we? Where?s the Partereen anyway, is it in Faliraki?? or ?This is another example of our shameful colonial past, I?ve been wringing my hands so much over this morning?s paper that my latte?s gone cold. What was it we did to the Greeks again? It must have been terrible as everything is so cheap when I go there on holiday**? are both nonsense as usual. Nationalistic fervour on the part of the Greeks is just as misplaced. *Although reading between the lines it was arguably also an ill thought-out business venture. **Believe me there are a lot of things taught in your history curricula which are more recent, shameful and worthier of your guilt if you insist on filling your liberal boots with the sins of your fathers.

hmmm, I'm wiz planking in Brixton tomorrow morning (weather permiting) so not sure if I'll make it back to ED. May have to watch it (or maybe just the first half) in the Far Side (which is a great little pub by the way and very accomodating for the sport if you ever find yourself around Stockwell Road)

What time does the match start?

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I fear > the Lions will be blown off the park as the Boks > have superior handling skills, speed and power. I don't know they'll probably just lose by 7 runs again.

Now, now let's not get violent.

Story of my life ? Social Distortion (guitar hero? I have no idea what you mean)

Report it to the police.

Girl From Mars - Ash

EDOldie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Time was they used to have a collection of antique > clocks in there, don't think any of them worked. Don't they have those anymore?

See it's not just for trying to look into your neighbours' windows.

Yup, google street view confirms, a dirty great clock.

Isn't there a dirty great clock on the outside of the building?

Leicester Square.

...shoot you in your canoe and bugger you in the woods

Shall we say, the Barley Mow at about 1pm?

My only friends are make-believe anyway so I just tell them any old crap.

Is this the real life Or is this just Battersea

And another thing: Seven Runs! How the fuck do you loose a 20-20 match by seven runs when you?ve built a proper opening partnership after 9 overs, have another six recognised world class batsmen to come in and basically just have to tick it over at seven an over to win? I realise the ball wasn?t coming on, it was a slow wicket and the bowling attack was doing a good job with the spinners and some fine death bowling but still Jaques, I?m pup?s nuts, Kallis had it in him to knock off another eight.

Galileo!

Bastards forced me to get completely legless last night to deal with the disappointment and now I have to submit 2 articles by noon and meet some twonk about twonking twonk stuff and be all tie wearing and non sweary for an hour and my head hurts something horrid and there seams to be two of everything. Bastards!