Tearing down statues

Mr Jack said:
Complete aside: but, actually, gladiators very rarely fought to the death. While some died in the arena and there were some fights to the death these were usually between criminals who had been sentenced to death in the arena: actual gladiators were much too valuable to be routinely thrown into fights to the death.
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That's true, however vast numbers of people were killed in the arena. I did see an estimate of over 3 million, over the course of the several centuries of the Western Roman Empire.

I have also read that several animals (e.g. North African elephant) went extinct due to capture for the games.

Ah, the good old days.
 
mattyg said:
I saw the judgment on the news the other day. How the hell can that NOT be criminal damage. Have they just made case law that we can pull down statues just because a large number of people disagree with them
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Tell me you don't know about law by telling me about law.
 
mattyg said:
I saw the judgment on the news the other day. How the hell can that NOT be criminal damage. Have they just made case law that we can pull down statues just because a large number of people disagree with them
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No it's what happens when you get a Jury who are a bunch of BLM supporters, they just ignore the law and give the verdict they would like rather than one supported by the evidence
 
I have never heard of the bloke, and I think in this day and age, the statue should have been moved to a museum before it was torn down (I believe they tried?) . But it just proves the similarities between today's woke generation, and cults, because ISIS did the same thing to offensive religious statues in the middle East.

Very dangerous precedent set by the jury.
 
i-bert said:
I have never heard of the bloke, and I think in this day and age, the statue should have been moved to a museum before it was torn down (I believe they tried?) . But it just proves the similarities between today's woke generation, and cults, because ISIS did the same thing to offensive religious statues in the middle East.

Very dangerous precedent set by the jury.[/QUOTE the woke are ignorant fools

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Caracus2k said:
In the legal sense juries can't set precedents.

Juries don't provide explanations as to how they come to their decisions (unlike judges generally do).
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I mean that it will not be a deterrent against future destruction of offensive symbols.

I take it those that agree with the verdict feel the same regarding the vandalism of the George Floyd monuments?
 
et tu Tony,

in retrospect it is an interesting observation, although we do not know the idenity of those who accepeted cautions with fines and community service as the Colston event.

the seemingly disproportionate then, component of white UK folks showing indignation attending protests, empathy, versus the USA is noteworthy,

but then the whole adoption of the usa initiated BLM cause, effectively levelling the UK inequalities with those in USA, diminished/set-back, the UK.

Had to laugh that the bbc in it's regular woke fashion had to report oprah winfrerey comments on Poitiers death, perhaps satirical though.
 
I cant make out what you are trying to say in your post. Either you have drunk too much or me. But what does this mean? Is it some sort or conspiracy? Is it code words?

jpaul said:
Had to laugh that the bbc in it's regular woke fashion had to report oprah winfrerey comments on Poitiers death, perhaps satirical though.
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Tony Edwards said:
You guys are funny.
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no, there's very little funny about most of the posters from both 'sides' of this pointless argument - some of the posts and some of the posters are an utter embarrassment (again from both sides) how this round and round thread is still going and indeed these people are still being allowed to post is beyond belief. i imagine whoever actually owns overclockers now would have a **** fit if they knew about some of the tripe that is posted on these forums.

i genuinely love these forums, they are my go to for all sorts of info and a laugh from time to time but eventually there's going to be some bad press from some of the crap that's posted on here and that'll be the end of them or at least the end of the non tech side of things. i'm actually surprised it's never made it to the front page of the daily mail/sun/any other sensationalist gutter press rag.
 
Thekwango said:
i'm actually surprised it's never made it to the front page of the daily mail/sun/any other sensationalist gutter press rag.
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Why would a gutter press rag do a story around what a couple of middle-aged men are arguing about on one of many forums? I mean there are worse comments on multiple daily mail articles every single day.

I enjoy this forum as well but it isn't that deep.
 
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