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Jalisco Lancer
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Topic: Complaint to a local newspaper Posted: 02-Nov-2004 at 10:50 |
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cattus
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Posted: 02-Nov-2004 at 12:22 |
wow, is this guy a local?
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Jalisco Lancer
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Posted: 02-Nov-2004 at 12:37 |
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Cornellia
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Posted: 02-Nov-2004 at 20:36 |
He honestly believes that the pyramids have no architectural merit?
But a WalMart does?
Now that's scary! And incredibly hard to believe.
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Genghis
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Posted: 02-Nov-2004 at 20:45 |
I agree with Jalisco, those pyramids are a great historical, cultural, and architectural treasure.
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Posted: 03-Nov-2004 at 03:03 |
He's probably hoping that Walmart will do a booming business in selling sun block and bad hats to the tourists. And little hammers for the tourists who want to chip off a piece of the pyramids to take home. And zip-loc plastic bags to carry the chips in. The really lazy tourists can buy their archaeology chips in the special, air conditioned "selling our patrimony" department of the store. When the tourists have chipped the pyramids away, then they can use the land to build condos and time shares that look like Teotihuacan. In the aerial photo I can see perfect locations for the Pool and tennis courts.
All you'll need then is an onsite MacDonalds and an ice cream/coffe shop at the top of the largest pyramid.
Have you forwarded his comments to the Ministry of Culture or whoever it is that is responsible for protecting and maintaining the site? I'm sure that both they and UNESCO would be interested to know that the site that they have worked so hard to protect has no architectural merit.
Someone should also perhaps point out to him (politely of course) that while controversy does sell newspapers, stupidity doesn't.
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Posted: 03-Nov-2004 at 04:40 |
Or perhaps the newspaper or the journalist (journalist my arse!) is on the payrol of some investment company with interests in the region.
As they say in detective books: "find the motive and you will find the murderer"
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Posted: 03-Nov-2004 at 04:45 |
Hmm, then i suppose the old "Journalists are interlectual whores" adage is true
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Posted: 04-Nov-2004 at 19:47 |
This is ridiculous, a Wal-Mart conveys more cultural achievement than ancient pyramids. You really should rip into this guy.
On a side note South Park just aired an episode that showed how wal-mart is taking over the world.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2004 at 21:35 |
Soon the bastards will want to put a Starbucks on top of all of them, so people can buy their sh*tty, overly-roasted, and overly-priced coffee.
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Cornellia
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Posted: 05-Nov-2004 at 09:08 |
I read in our local paper that the Wal-Mart there had opened despite the sizeable protests.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 15:57 |
They do sorta look like little hills, though.
I personally find the whole thing a disgrace. It would be as if Disney wanted to build an amusement park in Colonial Williamsburg, in the US...
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 17:47 |
Hugo - I am guessing that you haven't heard about the Civil War Battlefields Theme Park proposal?
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 11:12 |
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Hugo - I am guessing that you haven't heard about the Civil War Battlefields Theme Park proposal? |
That's not the weirest plan. In Lithuania a Soviet camp has been rebuilt to 'Stalinland', a soviet-style Theme Park.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 13:58 |
Stalinland, you enter the park and have so much fun you don't want to leave...oh, and because your not allowed to.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 18:50 |
Stalinland. talk about poor taste. It really makes you think about ill-conceived themed parks. Here are two:
Genocide-landia: ride rollercoasters named after famous, multicultural genocide campaigns from all around the world.
Serial Killer World: Eat cotton candy as you meet Jeffry Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Jack the Ripper. Located in Washington State, U.S.
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Posted: 15-Nov-2004 at 23:54 |
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Posted: 16-Nov-2004 at 11:14 |
Although she was sorta cute when she was in school, though. So what is her ideology now? Still leftist?
What happened to that newspaper?
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Posted: 16-Nov-2004 at 11:27 |
Change the cute line. She wasn't. I was confusing her with another person.
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