First World ProblemsOnemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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Because of the concept thatit had been "saved for the Nation" - as if it was imperative somehow for our cultural history that it remained in the UK. If it was something like Shakespeare's First Folio, a Turner or Gainsborough I could understand (somewhat). But it's a painting by an Italian, commissioned by a Spaniard, of a Greek myth...
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...'a painting by an Italian, commissioned by a Spaniard, of a Greek myth'...That makes it Welsh.
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Yes. It's £45m worth of whatever, which has been saved, and will be sold in the future for more than that.That's all.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 13:41,
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