The Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic : worldnews

[-] DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 95 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] Death__BySnuSnu@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GOD DAMN MONGORIANS!!!

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

AWRAYS TRYING TO BREAK DOWN MY WAL!

[-] protist@mander.xyz 21 points 11 months ago

*Mongol horde

(The Huns attacked Europe)

[-] TheHotze@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I thought Hun was a generic term like barbarian

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 14 points 11 months ago

No, it was a specific tribe.

However there were "barbarian" tribes near China named the Dzungar and the Xiongu, both of which are a bit like "Hun" and either of which are suggested to perhaps be the eastern side of that same tribe.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

Dumbass hicks are in every country.

[-] jrbaconcheese@yall.theatl.social 51 points 11 months ago

Same two guys were just at Sycamore Gap in England, what a weird coincidence to get the same assignment twice!

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago

The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there's not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Now there's even less of the original wall.

[-] Bloodwoodsrisen 9 points 11 months ago

Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it's already the Ship of Theseus and always was.

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

The Huns: finally!

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Contractors are the fucking worst...

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[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Two workers near the Great Wall go missing.

[-] hakase@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

The invasion of Russia begins.

[-] 10EXP@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I can’t help but wonder that literally sounds like what happened the first episode of Attack on Titan.

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

What are you talking about? It was the Collosal Titan that destroyed the wall, wasn't it?

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

That's just what they tell you.

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Not sure if you're joking, but someday in 2030, when they finish airing, I'll rewatch the complete series.

[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

This just reminded me I was waiting for this argh.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Oh no, not some old ass wall

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

I dont understand how this wall is not considered an ecological disaster.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Shitty, but it also looks like that section of wall is just earthwork. Maybe a professional will chime in and say there's something valuable about it, but given that it's already mostly gone from erosion, I'm not sure if anything was actually lost here.

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