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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't rub your balls on the Charging Bull.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

what if the bull is already at 100%?

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What costly repairs would a bronze that's touched more require?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For anyone that doesn't want to click the link

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Although they definitely should.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

The built-in address bar is amazing. Very period. I can almost taste Jeeves.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

.....Gene Wilder?

..........Gene Wilders tits?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Now there's a sentence I wasn't expecting to read today.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow. Things you never knew existed…

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least zombo.com is still going

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Right then, that inspired me to start Relics of the Old Web.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

This is beautiful. There's no internet like old internet.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

TShirt hell? Now that’s a website I’ve not heard in a long time.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But it's my only line!

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

put something in public space

the public collectively does something with it

no, you weren’t supposed to do that

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

It's a novel solution - it needs more molesting not less.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't there some grave that women wanting to be pregnant grind on? Are they going to ban that too?

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Victor Noirs statue/grave as mentioned elsewhere in the comments.

Can everyone please stop touching up statues and grinding their bits on them please.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

"Boobs are... uh... hard... like bronze."

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Literally 2025.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if we "motorboating" it ?

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lol the patina wore off 🤣

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a dog statue somewhere that's polished like this too because people pet the dog.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Lairo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I mean she does have some nicely shaped ones.

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