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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23664433

US singer Kelly Clarkson bought the turquoise and gold ring for £152,450 at auction last year, outbidding the Jane Austen's House Museum.

Culture minister Ed Vaizey put an export bar on it until 30 September.

lol I don't get this situation at all but it makes me laugh. Then the whole nation gets together and has a big fundraiser to match her bid like she was trying to run off with Air Bud. Poor Kelly Clarkson.

 

[Lkr]

sounds like we need to provide them with some freedom

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

I'm glad England is so honorable when it comes to making sure artifacts rightfully stay in their home countries.







Oh, wait...

 

[Escape Goat]

Whoops. I guess Kelly didn't get the memo.

 

[WrenchNinja]

It should be in a museum

 

[Screaming Meat]

She can stay at mine, if she likes... unless she starts singing.

 

[Guevara]

I'm glad England is so honorable when it comes to making sure artifacts rightfully stay in their home countries.







Oh, wait...

Seriously. Biggest hypocrites ever.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Didn't think Kelly Clarkson had that kind of money.

 

[Nitemare1]

lol I don't get this situation at all but it makes me laugh. Then the whole nation gets together and has a big fundraiser to match her bid like she was trying to run off with Air Bud. Poor Kelly Clarkson.

I LOL'd for real!

But really, she bought the damn thing. Let her take it home. It's not like she's going to destroy it or something.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway.

 

[freshair]

Haha, why even allow foreigners to bid if you're just going to cop out like that?

 

[ShaneDude]

Wow hypocrites. How about you return all of India's treasures before you ask for your ring back.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Didn't think Kelly Clarkson had that kind of money.

Kelly Clarkson has a metric fuckton of huge hits. Why couldn't she?

 

[fallengorn]

Didn't the Culture Minister do the same thing for another artifact? I feel like this happened before.

 

[Showaddy]

Wow hypocrites. How about you return all of India's treasures before you ask for your ring back.

Technically we're not asking for it back if we've still got it.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Seriously. Biggest hypocrites ever.

Hypocrites? Yes. Biggest ever? Arguably not.

 

[R10Neymarfan]

The musuem needs another 49,000 pounds. what's stopping Kelly from just plan out offering a million for it?

She has the money lol

 

[Angry Grimace]

The musuem needs another 49,000 pounds. what's stopping Kelly from just plan out offering a million for it?

She has the money lol

Its not worth a million, probably.

 

[daviyoung]

Please all take this opportunity to shit on England, no matter how tenuous or irrelevant.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

That's some hater shit.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I agree it belongs in a museum. I don't think something so rare and valuable to literature should be in some music star's home. I realize money can get you just about anything, but you can't replace history.

 

[Andrew.]

Kelly Clarkson is still around?

Apparently so.

 

[MIMIC]

Take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway.

You stole my joke!

OK, here's one. "They can't catch her if she's already gone." ba-dum tssss!

 

[Kinyou]

I'm sure Miss Austen regrets

 

[Angry Grimace]

Kelly Clarkson is still around?

Apparently so.

Dude, what are you talking about? She had a No. 1 hit last year.

 

[NekoFever]

We didn't steal from those countries. We owned them at the time, so it was our property!

 

[Eidan]

Why even put it up for auction in the first place? If the idea was to have it go to the museum, why not just sell (or hell, GIVE) it to them?

 

[Angry Grimace]

Why even put it up for auction in the first place? If the idea was to have it go to the museum, why not just sell (or hell, GIVE) it to them?

I doubt whoever owns it is super rich. All of Austen's work is public domain now.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

It should be in a museum

 

[mre]

I agree it belongs in a museum. I don't think something so rare and valuable to literature should be in some music star's home. I realize money can get you just about anything, but you can't replace history.

Jane Austen's ring is "valuable to literature"?

 

[Wafflecakes]

Kelly Clarkson is still around?

Apparently so.

Get ouT!



Feel sorry for Kelly. The ring obviously meant a lot to her if she would wear the replica her Fiance had made to the inauguration. They should never have let her bid if they didn't intend to let her keep it.

 

[GillianSeed79]

I agree it belongs in a museum. I don't think something so rare and valuable to literature should be in some music star's home. I realize money can get you just about anything, but you can't replace history.

It's not like the ring wrote Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen did. If it makes you feel any better, it's not like it would probably fit on Clarkson's finger anyway.

 

[daviyoung]

Jane Austen's ring is "valuable to literature"?

Not at all. This is simply a PR drive for the Austen museum.

 

[thesuperfunk]

Didn't the Culture Minister do the same thing for another artifact? I feel like this happened before.

You might be thinking back to when this first happened weeks back?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I'm glad England is so honorable when it comes to making sure artifacts rightfully stay in their home countries.







Oh, wait...

BaHahahahahahaha

 

[Trick_GSF]

I wouldn't mind putting my finger in Kelly's ring.

 

[Wafflecakes]

I'm glad England is so honorable when it comes to making sure artifacts rightfully stay in their home countries.







Oh, wait...

I know right?

 

[Andrew.]

Dude, what are you talking about? She had a No. 1 hit last year.

Get ouT!

I don't follow the mainstream music guys. I'm too cool for that shit =P

 

[OchreHand]

Weird to see Kelly Clarkson in any kind of drama. She's one of the few pop stars that manages to avoid controversy, except her battle with Clive Davis.

 

[NinjaFridge]

Didn't the Culture Minister do the same thing for another artifact? I feel like this happened before.

All the Egyptian stuff.

 

[Wafflecakes]

I don't follow the mainstream music guys. I'm too cool for that shit =P

Too cool for amazing music.

At least you are honest!

 

[Log4Girlz]

At least england wouldn't just take national treasures back to the motherland to hoard.

 

[WedgeX]

It belongs in a museum.

 

[winjet81]

I agree it belongs in a museum. I don't think something so rare and valuable to literature should be in some music star's home. I realize money can get you just about anything, but you can't replace history.

Not sure why Kelly Clarkson is being ridiculed here... it was the Austen family that put the ring up for auction, so they're the ones who are being cavalier with respect to the historical significance of this ring.

 

[Race to be King]

Can't we just hide it with our 'acquired' goodies in the British Museum?

 

[Red Liquorice]

Please all take this opportunity to shit on England, no matter how tenuous or irrelevant.

lol. As someone who isn't patriotic in the slightest, it's funny to watch people pounce so quickly!

 

[Plywood]

I feel like I'm missing something about the importance of the ring, other than the person it belonged to. Aren't her works more important than her ring? Why is this a big deal?

 

[Screaming Meat]

Too cool for amazing music.

 

[Phire Phox]

She'll be fine. What doesn't kill her makes her stronger.

 

[daviyoung]

Can't we just hide it with our 'acquired' goodies in the British Museum?

If anything, it belongs in the podunk Jane Austen museum in Hampshire, not the British Museum.