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[–] meanmon13@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What really gets me is he carves their names into a structure and adds the date. The date was 23... As if 23 means anything to a structure that was built by people who were around in the actual year 23.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They would have written XXIII.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure that at that point, they weren't dating things off Christ's birth.

looks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar

After the institution of the Roman Empire, regnal dates based on the emperors' terms in office became more common. Some historians of the later republic and early imperial eras dated from the legendary founding of the city of Rome (ab urbe condita or AVC).[32]

So it'd be more like the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius.

[–] DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best part of this is that they signed their names and filmed it. Like, if you're going to commit a crime, maybe don't document it? idk

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Looks like it might not have been filmed the actual couple doing it, but by a bystander. They're being told off for it, as the guy does it, too.

Still, these people are culturally brain-dead, and unable to grasp the concept of respect.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every Italian grandmother should be allowed to line up and spank him, with a frying pan.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Better, mattarello

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Italy's culture minister says a tourist who was filmed carving his and his girlfriend's names into the Colosseum in Rome should be "identified and sanctioned".

If only he left behind some permanent evidence of his identity.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Can we give him to ISIS? They could enjoy destroying historical structures together.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

Should've carved a penis. It'd be the same thing and the Roman's would approve.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago

The guy who filmed it said they talked to a guard about it and they didn't seem to give a fuck..

So if the angry officials actually care they should probably be funding better guards and training for them.

[–] PhineaZ@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago

Tbf, Italy (or rather Rome) did not take care of the Colosseum for the most part of its history. Heck, carving your name and/or a penis into it pretty much has a tradition now, and as much as I hate destruction of historical or cultural objects the Colosseum is probably one of the monuments where it hurts the least. That still doesn't make it legally or morally right, but it's not as bad as it could be.