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Author Topic: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!  (Read 1771242 times)

scriver

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2400 on: December 08, 2013, 07:46:59 am »

That big long country between France and Germany.
That's a river, Descan.

...No. I'm preeeetty sure that's Lotharingia.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2401 on: December 08, 2013, 01:53:24 pm »

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Lenin statue in Kiev got smashy-bonked with a hammer.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2402 on: December 08, 2013, 02:02:30 pm »

that's just rude, these statues should be just moved to a museum not smacked with hammers of the sledge variety
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2403 on: December 08, 2013, 02:15:15 pm »

that's just rude, these statues should be just moved to a museum not smacked with hammers of the sledge variety
Honestly, I'd like to see that. A mob of people, picking up a statue and bringing it to the nearest museum.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2404 on: December 08, 2013, 02:16:43 pm »

Yeah, Lenin was an okay dude and doesn't deserve to get smashed. Now if it was a Stalin statue I would've asked them to pee on its remains.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2405 on: December 08, 2013, 02:19:52 pm »

Yeah, Lenin was an okay dude and doesn't deserve to get smashed. Now if it was a Stalin statue I would've asked them to pee on its remains.
What if that was a statue of Nero? He has killed a lot of people too.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2406 on: December 08, 2013, 02:21:40 pm »

Yeah, Lenin was an okay dude and doesn't deserve to get smashed. Now if it was a Stalin statue I would've asked them to pee on its remains.
What if that was a statue of Nero? He has killed a lot of people too.
Don't kill the messenger, it's not the statues' fault if they're carved in the image of despots. Leave them be in museums, they are all a part of history.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2407 on: December 08, 2013, 02:24:27 pm »

I am uncaring as to the fate of dictator statues.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2408 on: December 08, 2013, 02:25:25 pm »

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2409 on: December 08, 2013, 04:48:23 pm »

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Lenin statue in Kiev got smashy-bonked with a hammer.
First reaction: At last

Second reaction: It would be better to wait till victory and sell it on an auction to anyone willing, National property shouldn't be wasted like that.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2410 on: December 08, 2013, 05:01:33 pm »

Well, reminds me of what happened with King Leopold II 's Statue in Kinshasa. They removed it from it's previous location, and moved it to the nearby garbage dump.

They put it back later, but only for a day. I have no idea where it is now.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2411 on: December 08, 2013, 05:12:29 pm »

On other hand remains of the statue will be used on the barricades. It's Lenin's way to use statues
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2412 on: December 08, 2013, 05:16:07 pm »

On other hand remains of the statue will be used on the barricades. It's Lenin's way to use statues

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #2413 on: December 08, 2013, 05:35:35 pm »

I am uncaring as to the fate of dictator statues.

From a historical point of view it might have had some level of significance... Maybe. Or it could have been one of countless similar statues. As long as some sort of record survives I'm ok with it. I doubt it was that special in any way, but it could have been.

It is kind of like people getting upset that the statue of Hussein got toppled and destroyed when it should have been preserved for history... But if it were never toppled and destroyed it would never have been historically significant and nobody would ever care about it.

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« Reply #2414 on: December 08, 2013, 06:20:53 pm »

If anyone wanted justification for my deep, deep loathing of the Scottish media and the Scottish Labour Party, take a look at the photograph they took of Douglas Alexander, one of my all-time least favourite people in British politics. The photograph was attached to a long-winded article by him about how we should reject independence to show solidarity with working class people in the rest of the UK, an article fawned over universally by political editors, who hailed it as a "new phase" in the debate. They obviously have no recollection of the use of that same argument in 1979 against devolution.

But yes, look at the photo. It's the one at the top:

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The second image was added for comparison by my pro-independence compatriots.

If anyone wants to read the article, here is a link.
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