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This is a link post Teenage tourist carves name into Egyptian Relic.
"Ding Jinhao was here."
 (I helped save b3ta! BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Wed 29 May 2013, 21:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post i have mixed feelings about this,
one one hand it's a horrible act of vandalism on an ancient cultural item in a world where there are much easier and less destructive ways to express yourself.

on the other hand i kind of think that it's something humans have always done, and that cave paintings, and archaeology from Rome, has shown that we have always done this as a base method of expression, or a desire to be "remembered"... and it is quite effective in achieving that aim.

on the other hand, FUCK why have I got 3 hands, what's wrong with me? Should I cut one off, or just live life with an extra five fingers.

i'm so confused.
 (DefyingDarwin Old, untalented and white,, Wed 29 May 2013, 21:49, , Reply)
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Yeah, he's only 15 so I feel obliged to cut him some slack but it's still rather tragic. There are sites closed to the public because of this sort of thing.

It's not as bad destroying entire statues; ala the Bamiyan Buddha Statues in Afghanistan.
 (I helped save b3ta! BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Wed 29 May 2013, 22:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post In fairness, he also did it several years ago when he was a kid. It's only now it's got the attention.

(I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Wed 29 May 2013, 22:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post you can have a wank
and give yourself a round of applause at the same time
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Thu 30 May 2013, 0:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahaha :)

(Tupperware Box Full of Angry Bumble Bees , 30p each or three for a quid, Thu 30 May 2013, 0:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post On the subject of graffiti
I went to Istanbul and was standing in the big mosque Ayasofia and I noticed these wierd scratches in the balcony I was leaning on.

A sign underneath said they were Viking runes. That fucking blew my mind. Over a thousand years ago huge hairy vikings were standing in this enormous mosque in Constantinope... What must they have been thinking when at home they had at best big wooden barns. Sometimes these huge gulfs of time open beneath you and you almost get vertigo thinking about it.

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 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan liked your link on, Thu 30 May 2013, 0:31, , Reply)
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Erik Forkbeards mum smells of herring
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Thu 30 May 2013, 4:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Runes were still being used until recent history
It might be some Swedish aristocrat doing the Grand Tour.
 (I helped save b3ta! WeirdWeb, Thu 30 May 2013, 7:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post The Volga Vikings had extensive trading routes all over what is now the Middle East.
Originally from Scandinavia, they followed the Volga through what is now Russia, and eventually founded Kiev. They called their new country "Rus"; the first few kings of Kievan Rus had Nordic names, but they Slavicised after about four generations. Eventually, Kiev became the capital of the emergent Russia: it wasn't for a few centuries that the capital moved to Moscow.

Anyway... point is, they were trading with the Turks in Istanbul both from the East and - via the Mediterranean - the west.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 30 May 2013, 8:45, , Reply)