I just read an article that expounds on this.
:eek:
I think this can easily be explained by the fact that Chinese travelers are new to traveling and learning the customs of others. In a few years, things should smooth over.
Even Pompeii had graffiti in its time.
They really have to put up a sign in Chinese by the Louvre to tell the Chinese tourists not to take a dump in the courtyard?
I gave the Chinese a little more credit than that.
Kids pooping and peeing in the middle of restaurants is a lot worse.
Give me a crying baby any day!
On a full scholarship to the archaeology program…
I lived in southwest China for a few years, and I sometimes saw parents helping their kids (usually 5 and under) piss or shit on the sidewalk. Those kids usually wore pants with a slit in the ass area so that you could open it up for easy access. The parent would hold the kid in the air, open up the slit, and let the poop come out. Usually this would happen over a planted tree in the sidewalk, thankfully.
Never saw adults doing this shit though, so I’m still a bit mystified by the Louvre sign. And none of the people I saw doing this would have been able to afford a passport and trip to Europe.
The British Museum is outraged at this destruction of cultural heritage.
Wow, that’s stupidity with malice aforethought. Weapons grade stupidity.
They should line up every person who lives in his city so they can all one by one give him dope slap upside the head.
Do you have any friends who have worked in retail clothing shops? Ask them about the poop. http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=12181833#page:showThread,12181833
Well, so much for my hopes that in another 3,000 years the distant descendant of Erich von Daniken would rediscover the temple and declare it proof that Chinese aliens had built the pyramids.
As it happens, the graffiti removal technique they resorted to was an ancient Chinese secret.
Not to defend the scrawling kid, but aren’t some of the scripts we know about only known from graffiti or other random inscriptions?
I was at the Lourve this past October. In the men’s room closest to the main entrance 5 of the 6 urinals were covered in plastic and clearly out of order. Of the 4 stalls only 2 were working. The place was overrun with tourists, Chinese and others.
I can’t read Chinese so I didn’t see the sign, but I imagine there were plenty of folks from all over the world who were carefully considering their options that day.
The Rosetta Stone of defacement.
“For a good time, call upon Hatshepsut”
Gesundheit
Well I never had any plans to go to China but now I am planning on definitely not going if it’s so common to have kids pissing in the middle of restuarants.
Aww, go on: you can feast on Virgin Eggs
For some reason I read that in the voice of Kristen Wiig’s Target Lady.
Catcher in the Rye redux.