They destroyed a fucking stone by burning?
WTF is wrong with these people!
Pete the pissed orf!

b*gger - missed it. P*ss repeat x 1,000,000.

Will have to keep an eye on the cable repeats.

Mad G

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PeteG

Next on BBC2:

A bunch of investigators show how the windows of important buildings can be smashed by throwing things at them. The last 10 minutes of this show take the form of a groundbreaking interactive TV experiment in which viewers are invited to try and break some windows of important buildings for themselves.

And:

Kicking old ladies. How do we kick old ladies? How did our ancestors kick old ladies? Understand how hard it was for them to kick old ladies. Helicopters.

etc.

golly! i am so relieved to find these posting today. watching yesterday, as excited as i had been (and yes! i did remember!) i found i was disapointed /outraged/bored/ and altogether pissing myself at the prats who were involved.....'the last time i raised s tone this big was in egypt haww-haw--hawwww'' right t*** if you'd have said that in front of me as small as i am i would ahve wanted to chin you, what a wan***

burning stones to see how difficlu it was....buggar me! what an inventive and forward thinking appraoch that was! well done chaps!
i found alot od it crap, rubbish, my kids know more about it all, and they are pretnetios helicopter walkie talkie buffoons.
but i wondered, is this just me? am i getting all uppity over nohting...do i actually know less than these people so therefore should shut my gob/thoughts

anyway enough of rant, cheers guys 'n'gals for making me awre that my gut feelings of outrage last night are justified

disappointed ( who has never been to egypt )
pixie
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I saw the prog, and was hopping up and down with fury at that twat going on about big blocks in pyramids etc ... oh, for decent Curse ...

anyway

I wasn't outraged at all about the stone burning. I can see why some people were, but I genuinely thought that it does fall into the category of reasonable experiment. A big part of archaeology has always been experimentation, to see if what was thought was or wasn't possible. When carbon-dating takes place, a part of the sample is destroyed.

Perhaps going to that autopsy has changed me a little too much ...

I think it does feed into the debate about "what is a sacred space", and what is acceptable within there ... perhaps if we were all *really* serious about protecting that area, we wouldn't drive our filthy cars and dirty old buses right in there.

What *really* wound me up (though I'm sure it was just the editing) was the "nipping over to the dig in the chopper whilst the fire warms up". Haven't these people heard of bycycles!!

But maybe we could put in a bid for a new show, where we either burn or dangle from a helicopter that irratating twat

RG

Well history records that archaeological vandalism is a portent of disaster. This evening 3 people died when two cars crashed head on at the Swindon stone north of Avebury :(
PeteG