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Portchester Castle in Portsmouth...an originally Roman building/complex...has grafitti covering about 2000 years on it! I imagine nearly all buildings of similar age do.

Romanes eunt domus!

Potter wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:28 am
When I was doing some work in an old castle years ago, there was some graffiti carved into a wall from the 17th century, it was a name and a picture (IIRC) a violin. Someone probably went crackers when they first saw it, but now they have a protective glass over it and show it off to be wondered at.

Yeah, one of the towers guarding the port at La Rochelle was used for prisoners of war in the 1700s. The pow graffiti is actually really interesting.

DefTrap wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:30 pm To be fair, they've been doing it for centuries. I wonder at what point 'just graffiti ' becomes a protected historical artefact?

The Colosseum has over 6 million visitors each year. If they all scratched their names, there'd be nothing left of the place

Horse wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 8:31 am

DefTrap wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:30 pm To be fair, they've been doing it for centuries. I wonder at what point 'just graffiti ' becomes a protected historical artefact?

The Colosseum has over 6 million visitors each year. If they all scratched their names, there'd be nothing left of the place

If the Italians had looked after it a bit better and it was still able to be used for what it was built for I doubt there'd be as much graffiti.

Potter wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:28 am

DefTrap wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:30 pm To be fair, they've been doing it for centuries. I wonder at what point 'just graffiti ' becomes a protected historical artefact?

When I was doing some work in an old castle years ago, there was some graffiti carved into a wall from the 17th century, it was a name and a picture (IIRC) a violin. Someone probably went crackers when they first saw it, but now they have a protective glass over it and show it off to be wondered at.

Wonder if that will ever happen to my c1976 "Dave & Tracy 4 eva 2 geva" at Tilbury Fort?

Scumbags who leave beer cans on beach. Especially when there are recycling bins 10 meters away.

For balance, the view the other way makes me smile. A lot.
Beaches are full with locals till way after dark.

gremlin wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:07 pm Fucking moronic individuals...

"Police hunt man filmed carving names on Colosseum"

Go look at it, enjoy the experience and take some photos. Why vandalise it, you brainless fucktard?

Thats not how you spell Romani ite domum.

Yorick wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:54 pm Scumbags who leave beer cans on beach. Especially when there are recycling bins 10 meters away.

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Amazes me too. Especially when dogs get banned from beaches, but people do this!

Got caught in the rain this morning and my backpack leaked and now my lovingly crafted sandwich is duck food!

Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:44 am Got caught in the rain this morning and my backpack leaked and now my lovingly crafted sandwich is duck food!

Quack.
Thank you.
Quack quack.

gremlin wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:07 pm Fucking moronic individuals...

"Police hunt man filmed carving names on Colosseum"

Go look at it, enjoy the experience and take some photos. Why vandalise it, you brainless fucktard?

...and it turns out he's from Bristol!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 8:23 am

gremlin wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:07 pm Fucking moronic individuals...

"Police hunt man filmed carving names on Colosseum"

Go look at it, enjoy the experience and take some photos. Why vandalise it, you brainless fucktard?

...and it turns out he's from Bristol!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405

It's second nature for us Bristolians, he probably thought it looked a bit bland and was tunnelling his inner Bansky!

Gonna take him a while to tunnel with just a key.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:38 am Gonna take him a while to tunnel with just a key.

His lack of colourful spray paint too.

He could of at least done a few Fat Caps or Hollows, poor show tbh...

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 8:23 am

gremlin wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:07 pm Fucking moronic individuals...

"Police hunt man filmed carving names on Colosseum"

Go look at it, enjoy the experience and take some photos. Why vandalise it, you brainless fucktard?

...and it turns out he's from Bristol!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66063405

Putting his'n'hers names should help identify them

There's a chambered cairn on Mainland, Orkney, Maeshowe, built the better part of 5000 years ago. The Vikings carved runes into some of the stones about a 1000 years ago. One set of runes, high up, reads 'This is really high up' or something similar. Humans, unimaginative vandals since forever.

cheb wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:54 pm There's a chambered cairn on Mainland, Orkney, Maeshowe, built the better part of 5000 years ago. The Vikings carved runes into some of the stones about a 1000 years ago. One set of runes, high up, reads 'This is really high up' or something similar. Humans, unimaginative vandals since forever.

Apparently they found some graffiti daubed on the wall of a Broch in the Orkneys that said "I am a gay, signed William Wallace"

Just found out that, despite my winter boss telling me that he planned to pay more than minimum wage because he felt that people worked better if they felt they were earning a proper wage, he did only pay me minimum wage. It just looked better because of the amount of over time I did

Yes yes. It was my fault because I didn't check, but I trusted him and really hit the ground running with the job so didn't have much time to do translations and ask questions outside the actual job. Stupid. My own fault but FFS!!

I did seriously work over and above because I did think he valued his employees. I did change that view by the end of the season, but having just read (and translated!) my summer contract that I KNOW is minimum wage because he told me it would be, it's paying me more than the winter contract base rate!! (Only cos SMIC/minimum wage has gone up since 1st May). Google confirmed.


So, 100% need to work for someone else for the next winter season!!

Road closed notices. There's a trend round here to post 'road closed' several junctions from the closure with no info and as a result people have learned to ignore them as there's a good chance the closure is past where you want to go.
Yesterday there was a fuel spill on the A26* and as expected they put up vague road closed notices miles from the problem, no diversions or advice just vague closed signs. As a result everyone is ignoring it until you get to the point where the only road round it is a mile long single track country road, nobody in sight to manage traffic and the chaos is incredible as lorries try and use this road.
If only somebody in the Highways Agency would update the closure database so satnavs avoid it then it would be much better as it's not due to reopen until Monday.

* At Eridge for anyone thinking of heading that way this weekend.