Two women, desperate for original selfie, carve initials into Rome's Colosseum - Polidicks

[QUOTE=gudman;47300169]Well, in a thousand years their carving will become historical legacy just like any other marking made there by people in Middle Ages.[/QUOTE] But in the meantime, we should be mad.

[QUOTE=Deng;47299608]I bet 2000 years ago, if you were a roman defacing the place, somebody would be upset with you. Who's to say these two girls graffiti won't become important in a few thousand years? Historians diligently copy down pictures of cocks and lewd graffiti all the time.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;XbI-fDzUJXI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbI-fDzUJXI[/video] immediately made me think of this

[QUOTE=spiritlol;47298677]Haha yea we can always just make another one right?[/QUOTE] Why not

[QUOTE=LVL FACTORY;47301371]Why not[/QUOTE] Somehow I'm not surprised that you need to told why we can't build another two thousand year old historically and culturally significant landmark.

[QUOTE=itisjuly;47298622]Mad people who hold historic objects as sacred incoming. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Why reply" - Craptasket))[/highlight][/QUOTE] Vandal spotted, someone get the Legions

This is why I don't visit Italy.

[QUOTE=Zatar963;47299582]I never got the "should have thought of [I]x[/I] before doing [I]y[/I]" argument when the punishment is so much greater than the crime. I agree that they should not have done what they did, but they also could not have predicted their lives being ruined over a relatively insignificant moment.[/QUOTE]Well the point is that they shouldn't have done it, regardless of how trivial a crime it was. The reason it's such a big deal is because it's the [I]Roman Colosseum[/I]. I suppose it makes more sense when you think of another similar situation. So it's one thing to vandalize someone's car, but it's another to vandalize a significant political figure's car (or rather a historical car would be more fitting to the source material). So the issue is that they didn't even think about the implications of vandalizing a wall, but more worrying is they didn't consider the implications of vandalizing a historic artifact.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;47299446][URL="http://mentalfloss.com/article/32276/11-colorful-phrases-ancient-roman-graffiti"]Yep.[/URL] And [URL="http://www.kashgar.com.au/articles/The-Bawdy-Graffiti-of-Pompeii-and-Herculaneum"]yep.[/URL] [I]“Lucius Pinxit.”[/I] [img]http://www.explore-italian-culture.com/images/ancient-roman-graffiti.gif[/img][/QUOTE] People never change heh.

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;47301219]But in the meantime, we should be mad.[/QUOTE] Not saying we shouldn't, we totally should. The lack of respect some people seem to have towards various things of historical value (especially when talking about ancient ruins and the like) is astounding. "Heh, old rocks". Could've been worse though. At least they didn't 'take souvenirs' like many tourists try to do.

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;47298621]Yeah just look at ISIS[/QUOTE] And napoleon

Whatever... I mean, yes... put 'em in a cell for a night, fine 'em a few thousand Euro for historical defacement- and then let's get on with it. Their inscription will likely be worn away from weather and aging over the next 5-50 years (depending on locale). It's not like ISIS, where they're going in and destroying 5,000 year old statues and sites.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;47299482]I think it's fair to say the graffiti of a roman pleb 2000 years ago is a bit more important and enlightening than the graffiti that some people wrote so they can take a selfie that will be non-existent data in 5 years time when they get a new phone and generic social media platform #27 clears all of the useless shit out of it's backlogged archives Assuming the Colosseum is still around 1000 years at this rate, this kind of stuff will just be confusing and annoying to people studying the ruins[/QUOTE] I dunno about enlightening. Unless you're stunned that people 2000 years ago scrawled cocks on walls or whatever. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt there were a lot of Roman philosophers scrawling on the Colosseum wall. Personally I don't mind that this happened, in my mind it's just another part of the building's history now.