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Grandparent comment is a triple entendre: the historical British tendency to take priceless cultural treasures home with them for display is being inverted; the modern British tendency to retire/vacation in Spain is being noted; and I think there's also a jab at Brexit disallowing easy movement, as more people can more easily see a thing exhibited in an EU museum than in a British one due to the Schengen area.

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Looks like it breaks multiple guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I read through the guidelines and couldn't find any rules it was breaking. What guidelines do you believe are broken by the top comment?

It's breaking "don't be snarky" at the very least, although that rule is barely ever enforced

>Don't be snarky.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

Calling this "flamebait" or "ideological battle" is pretty over-the-top.

Because it's entirely one sided and anyone that was to challenge it knows their comments aren't welcome.

Sometimes guidelines are meant to be broken, and I think taking an opportunity to make a jab at the long history of British colonialism and cultural appropriation was worth it.

How many of these 'cultures' being appropriated were the same culture or inheritors that the British 'appropriated' from? How many of these cultures respected these items on a cultural level? How many just happened to be living in the same physical location where these items are from but had no cultural connection (Rosetta stone)? It's a pretty one sided conversation you all are having, and one that can't be expanded without breaking the guidelines, hence the guidelines. But it's ok because you are directing this at an 'out' group.

I'll allow it.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when tasteful multi-layered entendres on HN were appreciated.

This is in fact what we designed our multilayered packaging on for our delicious Milano cookies.

A multi-layered delight of highly processed wheat with Italian history.

accounts like yours, on the other hand, are obviously low-effort and should be removed.

I think we can both agree that effort and quality of outcome are not always proportional.

You have no idea how much effort Pepperidge Farms put into that last comment.

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