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Post by robeiae on Mar 10, 2017 19:37:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 19:50:17 GMT -5
They just don't make statues like they used to.
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Post by michaelw on Mar 10, 2017 20:02:11 GMT -5
I think they should re-bury it, so archeologists 3,000 years from now can discover it all over again. Why take that joy from them?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 20:14:22 GMT -5
I often wonder whether our era will leave behind anything remarkable for archaeologists thousands of years from now, and what they'll make of it. Our buildings will not age into beautiful ruins. We won't leave mummies in magnificent tombs.
I'm picturing lots of those plastic ring things that hold sixpacks of soda together, a few non-working i-phone shells...
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Post by robeiae on Mar 10, 2017 21:08:38 GMT -5
Sub-zero refrigerators and Led Zeppelin's fourth album.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 21:37:58 GMT -5
Maybe a few Twinkies.
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Post by Don on Mar 10, 2017 21:49:33 GMT -5
I often wonder whether our era will leave behind anything remarkable for archaeologists thousands of years from now, and what they'll make of it. Our buildings will not age into beautiful ruins. We won't leave mummies in magnificent tombs. I'm picturing lots of those plastic ring things that hold sixpacks of soda together, a few non-working i-phone shells... Personally, I consider myself fortunate to have lived in the first era that will be archaeologically significant due to the excesses of the petite bourgeoisie and peasantry, rather than those of the ruling class. I much prefer the equality of the six-pack to the grandeur of castles and cathedrals erected as the legacy of the era's "one percent," as it were, at the cost of the virtual enslavement of civil society. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 22:05:15 GMT -5
Yeah. Not me.
ETA:
I once parted ways with a traveling companion in Europe who kept grumbling about how he couldn't enjoy looking at cathedrals and such without thinking of the poor persecuted downtrodden peasants who built them. It got old after a while.
I pointed out that
(a) the skilled stone masons who built those cathedrals were likely comparatively well paid for that era, and likely pretty damn glad to have the work,
(2) king, pope, stone mason, and peasant alike from that era have been dust for centuries now, so we might just as well enjoy the magnificence they left behind, and
(III) STFU,
but it didn't do any good. So I went my way and he went his; I enjoyed my historic buildings in peace for the rest of the trip. I'm not sure how he spent his, but I like to imagine him in a pub somewhere, grumbling about the plight of the underprivileged medieval stonemason.
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 10, 2017 22:14:38 GMT -5
Kinda cool, but I'm a little bummed this thread had nothing to do with Ozzy Osborne.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 22:27:43 GMT -5
You can make it about Ozzy, Vince524 . That's what derails are for. |
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 11, 2017 9:29:51 GMT -5
You can make it about Ozzy, Vince524 . That's what derails are for. Well in that case in 500 years, Ozzy might still be around. He's pickled himself enough. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 10:03:13 GMT -5
Perhaps archaeologists will find Ozzy's pickled corpse along with the plastic soda can holders and Zeppelin's fourth album.
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Post by robeiae on Apr 7, 2017 17:48:21 GMT -5
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