What next? Will the Fr*nch stop women from sexually assaulting Victor Noir's memorial? Will New York visitors no longer be able to rub the balls on the Charging Bull? The world just ain't what it used to be, I tell ya.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Don't rub your balls on the Charging Bull.
what if the bull is already at 100%?
"Dublin City Council do not want anyone to touch any work of art whether indoors or outdoors to avoid damage and costly repairs," a spokesperson said.
However, [The council] said that these options (moving the statue/raising the plinth) would be "costly", adding that placing a railing around the artwork "may increase risk".
So it would be be less costly to just leave it? I swear, this subject is not indecent enough to warrant this amount of attention, resources, nor effort. Please work on something else.
What costly repairs would a bronze that's touched more require?
Skin oils alone will corrode various metals over years. Also, lots of touching will basically erode it, hence the "polished" look on the statue's entire cleavage
Someone in government just learned why the boobs are shinier than the rest and was immediately outraged
Ah, I remember the old statue molesters website, they were more innocent times.
.....Gene Wilder?
..........Gene Wilders tits?
Now there's a sentence I wasn't expecting to read today.
For anyone that doesn't want to click the link
Although they definitely should.
The built-in address bar is amazing. Very period. I can almost taste Jeeves.
Oh wow. Things you never knew existed…
I was having a conversation with someone the other day about lost websites, including this one. I only managed to track it down from a comment I made on a forum about a tonne of links I sent to a news site, which included a jokey aside about statue molesting. Blimey that was hard work. Now to find Fat Chicks in Party Hats and Portal of Evil...
This is beautiful. There's no internet like old internet.
But it's my only line!
put something in public space
the public collectively does something with it
no, you weren’t supposed to do that
Just grope the rest of it, FFS. And the wheelbarrow too. When the whole thing is a uniform color, I don't think anyone will give a shit anymore...
It's a novel solution - it needs more molesting not less.
Isn't there some grave that women wanting to be pregnant grind on? Are they going to ban that too?
Victor Noirs statue/grave as mentioned elsewhere in the comments.
Can everyone please stop touching up statues and grinding their bits on them please.
Why? Because in 472 years of constant touching the statue would be damaged enough to require a capital repairment? Last time I checked Dublin wasn't in the USA or Iran. So we can rule out sanctimony, correct?
Ireland is heavily Catholic. You cannot rule out sanctimony.
Lol, yes you can. Catholic by demographic, nobody practises in reality.
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Isn't the UK also very prudish historically?
Historically yes, but it’s ok because this statue isn’t in the UK either.
I'm actually quite ignorant to how that works now. So Ireland is still part of the EU, right? And is it entirely its own country at this point, is there still some vestigial connection?
Yes, the Republic of Ireland is still part of the EU, however most of the northern part of the island is still occupied by the British and is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain And Northern Ireland.
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at this point
Man how old are you?? I'm just joking but yeah, it's its own country now. You might be thinking of Northern Ireland that's part of the UK (and not part of the EU)
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"Boobs are... uh... hard... like bronze."
Literally 1984.
Literally 2025.
The statue wasn't well received when it was unveilled.
Great display of virtue signaling, if I ever seen one. And nothing lasts forever; if it breaks, have another commissioned, you prudish lot of sycophants.
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Lol the patina wore off 🤣
There's a dog statue somewhere that's polished like this too because people pet the dog.
I think there’s one in Tokyo. A famous dog who kept going back to the train station everyday waiting for his master who had died iirc.
Edit: Hachiko
Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh
I mean she does have some nicely shaped ones.