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[–] 72 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Oh my God it's the second coming of Ecce Homo

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    [–] 82 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    At this point some of these "accidental" restorations have to be on purpose.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Never attribute malice to that which is easily explained by incompetence.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hanlon, huh? There are times when i find this razor hard to apply. Especially when thinking of the government.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Only intentional malice could explain systemic corruption.

    No law maker just coincidentally aligns their values with lobbyists after receiving six digit election campaign donations.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    modern day relics: boost church attendance and pilgrimage by butchering one or your ancient sculptures or paintings. it’s about as honest as claiming you have the left testicle of joseph in your church.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Reminds me of

    this Trump picture

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    Troma going all out to promote the Toxic Avenger movie.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    There's simply too many things to restore. They are building metro in my town now. They started working on a new line, digging under first street and boom, Roman graveyard. Had to examine and remove 500 graves before they could continue. It's like that all the time. So yeah, sometimes people don't wait for specialists or permits and fuck things up. It's not that often and it happens to some less important works. It's only in the news because it's funny.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeah there's too much stuff to restore.

    Every time anyone wants to do anything new in my city, there's a choir of old people moaning about the removal of old stuff.

    Seriously.. if they want to keep that shit, put it in a museum. We don't need your old railways in the center of the city for memorials. We don't use them. You don't use them. They haven't been used for 70 years. The same kind of shit is present in each and every city throughout Europe. It has no preservation value. We can remember your great grand uncle's achievement in other ways. Take a photo and look at it as fondly as much as you want.

    It's apparently wildly surprising that humans were all over Europe thousands of years ago. Come on. They had feet, of course they shat in the shrubbery where we live. We do not have to preserve all of it.

    I surely don't hope future generations dig out the shit I've posted online.

    When they invented LIDAR scanning and flew over Germany, they found a lot of old stuff in the dense forests that had never even been investigated. It was silently decided not to even attempt to dig all that shit out. Good call Germany. We don't need any more stone axeheads in the museum. They're not that different, and I don't care if you can trace your lineage to the man who made it. We're not keeping that rock.

    People should have a right to be forgotten.

    Ötzi never asked to be dug up. People made stories about how he died of cold. Other people say it was sacrificial. The latest I've read was that he a tumor in the ass.

    Have some decency. Leave that shit alone. The wearing of time is prettier than restoration anyway. It's a solid reminder. Restoration of artifacts is like botox to a 70 years old.. you're gonna look like shit either way.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Looks like that cantina guy in A New Hope who threatens Obi-Wan.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    Better than I could’ve done..

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Damn, the after looks like a face after reconstructive surgery from being mauled by an animal.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Spain is just paying tribute to its 20th-century avant-garde heritage, i.e. Picasso and Dali.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Spain is on a roll.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    That can’t be accidental? Someone has a shitty humour.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Picture from OP's meme can be found here (via article in OP's link): https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/11/11/the-potato-head-of-palencia-defaced-spanish-statue-latest-victim-of-botched-restoration

    It lookes like they ruined more than just the face. All the decorations to the right of the face looks different as well.

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    hold on i've got a clay mask i made in middle school that looks JUST LIKE THAT

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    ... The land lord special.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Jim Carrey vibes

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  • [+] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [+] -12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    That's A+ work if it was done by any of the overgrown toddlers in government in the US, Russia or Israel.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    As someone who is currently feeling disheartened at... gestures wildly... I thought a nice, light piece about a botched art restoration in Spain would be a safe reprieve... But nope, you managed to tie it back in to world politics. Congrats I guess.

    I think I need to get off social media for a bit.

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