The Colloseum
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- scarabin
in rome.
do you think we should rebuild it to its former glory? like using the same travertine it was built with and using only plans from its time?
or do you think we should just let it decay like it is?
- chz0
it should be rebuilt and then Rome should get an NFL team called the Gladiators.
- scarabin0
it's so fragile right now; one earthquake will bring it down
we could lose it forever
- GrammaSeff0
by rebuild do you mean tearing whats left down? fuck all that
- jevad0
leave it
- skelly0
so if and when it falls they can build a new one. until then leave it.
when in rome do as the vandals.
- scarabin0
the effing christers used half (!) of the colloseum's stone and removed all of the iron supports that held it all together, to use on their own buildings. now the only thing that's holding it together is gravity and good design
- GrammaSeff0
antiquity bitches
but if it comes to the point of the rebuild.. just erect a super walmart. sell the gladiator gear in the sport section
- cosmo0
let the historic structure stand.
- emokid0
i like where gramma is going with this
- quickanddirty0
I think the Italians spent a lot of money restoring it to 'as is' instead of rebuilding it. I think they also sprayed it in some sort of protective coating.
- scpgt0
i visited it last week. as you do.
looks healthy enough to me. (all things considered).
though it did have a lot of scaffolding on it.
leave it as it is.
- mrdobolina0
put a stripper pole in the center of it.
- Bluejam0
make it hq for the soon to be released i-am-italian campaign by McDonalds.
- tkmeister0
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
that being said, leave it. u don't have to destroy it, you don't have to rebuild it.
- fadeproof0
"as my uncle Olaf used to say, don't fix it if it aint broke."
- zaire0
They should make it a dome and put more luxury boxes in.
- flavorful0
make it hq for the soon to be released i-am-italian campaign by McDonalds.
Bluejam
(Sep 9 05, 06:06)Hahahah