The entire British Museum, really.
The entire British Museum, really.
A rich American managed to buy the original London Bridge and have it shipped to Arizona and nobody said boo, so why this ring is so all fired important I don't get. This is the same nation that threw an absolute shit fit over Austen being on the ten pound note, for God's sake.
The tone of this story makes it sound as if Clarkson was doing something either immoral or illegal, neither of which are true. She bought the ring in a legal auction at Sotheby's in July 2012, over a year ago for more than $244K. This wasn't some back alley, "let's screw the English" deal. When Clarkson was told…
Let's all bask in the ridiculous of people in the UK whining about their priceless artifacts being taken to other counties.
In this new spirit of keeping works of art in their countries of origin, I have to guess that the Parthenon Marbles are being crated up this very moment.
As my name clearly indicates, I do love me some Jane Austen. But, this is ridiculous. Rich Americans buying things from Europe is a grand tradition. It's not like France is mad we have Van Gogh and Monet at the Art Institute.
Yes! I don't understand why they bothered to put it up for sale in the first place if they were going to be so touchy about it.
Fine, England. It's on. Now, how about returning most of the stuff in the British Museum? Oh, and French folks? I'm also side-eyeing the Louvre.
I'm sorry but why put it up for sale at all if you were just gonna take it back? Am I missing something?
In other words, you were all set to write a Jez article criticizing critics for obsessing about Kate's weight. When they didn't come, you had to write your article anyway, so you wrote an article about the lack of critics obsessing about Kate's weight. Okeedoke.
Wait, why not? It would fit right in with his well known policy of "only attending events at which nobody is sporting a Swastika" and "only attending events where babies are not being eaten" and other "only attending events that pass a threshold condition of everyday decency". Shouldn't at least a token presence from…
Tweet that man! He is way too smart for this shit.
Bill Bailey, you are about to get tweeted, by MOI!
In fact, I'm surprised that the organizers invited him in the first place if this incident is indicative of the attitude they have towards feminists.
Oh god, I'll feed the troll. But I will regret it.
He is a bit of a jerk. I also thought it was pretty annoying that when faced with his own death, he decided that he was an agnostic instead of an atheist.
Bill Bailey is wonderful and I'm so sad he's involved.
If Dawkins is a headliner, I'm certain he'd make sure that skeptchick couldn't be there.
Wait... they didn't even get skeptchick? She rocks my socks!