Fuck you talking about, on loan? We either nicked all that stuff good and proper or got a dodgy receipt from some Turkish bloke.
Hell half the stuff people say we stole from Egypt we actually stole from the French (who stole it from Egypt). Can’t tell me fighting the French and looting them is wrong.
And don’t believe that rubbish about the Sphinx being too big for us to pinch. We’ve just got nowhere flat enough to put it except Wiltshire and who wants to go to Wiltshire?
Emotional_Newt_2227 on
Mate I love the confidence but imagine someone broke into your house, took your grandma’s jewelry and then said ‘well actually we got a dodgy receipt from your neighbor so it’s fine.’ That’s literally the argument. The stuff isn’t yours and It never was. Return the artifacts.
Simurgbarca on
I am shore some people say. “The britush museum peotect tthem! With out them all of things destroy!”
SampleDisastrous3311 on
Dont worry, once sense comes back this time period will be known as the age of idiocy .
DefiantPosition on
I always hate the argument that the British “legally bought” it from local authorities. Because in many cases like Egypt and Greece the local authorities at the time, the Ottoman Empire, was an illegal occupying force that had no right to sell the possessions of the country it was occupying.
If we were to follow that same logic than the art stolen by the Nazi’s also shouldn’t be returned. Since the Germans also “aquired” those by “legal” means.
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If they could they would
“We are just preserving it”
Fuck you talking about, on loan? We either nicked all that stuff good and proper or got a dodgy receipt from some Turkish bloke.
Hell half the stuff people say we stole from Egypt we actually stole from the French (who stole it from Egypt). Can’t tell me fighting the French and looting them is wrong.
And don’t believe that rubbish about the Sphinx being too big for us to pinch. We’ve just got nowhere flat enough to put it except Wiltshire and who wants to go to Wiltshire?
Mate I love the confidence but imagine someone broke into your house, took your grandma’s jewelry and then said ‘well actually we got a dodgy receipt from your neighbor so it’s fine.’ That’s literally the argument. The stuff isn’t yours and It never was. Return the artifacts.
I am shore some people say. “The britush museum peotect tthem! With out them all of things destroy!”
Dont worry, once sense comes back this time period will be known as the age of idiocy .
I always hate the argument that the British “legally bought” it from local authorities. Because in many cases like Egypt and Greece the local authorities at the time, the Ottoman Empire, was an illegal occupying force that had no right to sell the possessions of the country it was occupying.
If we were to follow that same logic than the art stolen by the Nazi’s also shouldn’t be returned. Since the Germans also “aquired” those by “legal” means.