Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[News] Should the United Kingdom Give Back the Elgin Marbles?
- Thread starter Cowfold Seagull
- Start date
dsr-burnley
Well-known member
- Aug 15, 2014
- 2,968
It'd be a bit rough on the USA. Every single man-made object over 300 years old (and many of the younger ones), apart from the few that survive from Indian manufacture, would have to go "back home".
I didn't realise we bought them. I assumed we nicked them.
Can't we sell them back and spend the money on a couple of new nukes?
GT49er
Well-known member
No need to bring nukes into it. As I suggested earlier, selling them back to Greece would be a good solution - it would be an acceptance by them that we had no obligation to give them back and had done nothing wrong; we bought them, then sold them back - purely financial transactions, setting no sort of precedent for anybody else to come demanding 'their' stuff back as a right.
- Mar 23, 2023
- 2,510
100% for two reasons:
- so I don’t have to hear about this nonsense again
- marbles is a shit game, Elgin should never have invented it
- so I don’t have to hear about this nonsense again
- marbles is a shit game, Elgin should never have invented it
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It was the Turks that sold them because the Ottoman Empire ruled Greece at the time. They had no right to sell them. as they were just the occupying force.
I think the Greeks have been hard done by.
The thing is Elgin bought them from an occupying power (the Ottomans). When Greece got independence (~25 years later) they asked the British government, who got the Marbles from Elgin, to return them. We've been saying no for almost 200 years.
Edit: I see @Thunder Bolt just beat me to it
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
Or a few Gyros and some Mythos.
Perhaps he will think that they ought to return much of the country to the indigenous peoples, the French, the Spanish, and the Brits.They do need to be careful about suggesting all this ‘returning’ mullarkey.
Imagine if Uncle Donald thinks he might be able to return swathes of African Americans back to the mother continent?
jackalbion
Well-known member
- Aug 30, 2011
- 6,017
Yes, the thing in Athens looks shit without them.
cheshunt seagull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,694
Yes and then we can work out an agreement with the Greek government for temporary exchanges, joint exhibitions etc. The argument about the Museum being a safe pair of hands has been somewhat undermined by allegations of collection items going missing and not being catalogued.
5Ways Gull
Well-known member
Only if Trump gives back the Gulf of Mexico.
?? I think you’re getting confused. They’re quite small and glass ball shaped?
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
Aa mentioned on another thread, they weren't ours in rhe first place, give em back.
slartibartfast
Well-known member
Yes.....