this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 21 points 2 months ago

Don't rub your balls on the Charging Bull.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 34 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 29 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For anyone that doesn't want to click the link

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Although they definitely should.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow. Things you never knew existed…

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

At least zombo.com is still going

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.....Gene Wilder?

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

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

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[–] NaibofTabr 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

But it's my only line!

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months 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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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Literally 2025.

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if we "motorboating" it ?

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Lol the patina wore off 🤣

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago

Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh

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