https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5YbE05CAAE6UbQ.jpg:large
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Well good god, guess he made an impression on the sculptor.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
also he looks like wayne rooney
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
but mainly what pplains said O_O
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30570465 cheeky headline
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 22 December 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ronaldo+statue+erected&tbm=nws
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 22 December 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Love-Lucy-Get-Rid-of-this-Statue/337376016351514
http://i.imgur.com/oez11Vc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2nPIbtO.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Would not have gotten this one in 1000 tries.
http://i.imgur.com/mh22OWa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CJ0a3sU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WfwBOM5.jpg
Vaclav Havel? No, but good guess… you got the ''post- cold war politician'' part right!
― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Hey man he brought home the bacon to Palm springs
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 4 April 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
that lucy statue is legit terrifying
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CUCatjW.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/W2ktgtY.jpg
Brian Terry continues to be honored after his murder while protecting the United States border.A statue was erected in his honor at the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Base on Bisbee, Arizona last week.The statue depicts Terry carrying a fellow soldier on his shoulders and is based off a photo that family members called “iconic” in nature.
A statue was erected in his honor at the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Base on Bisbee, Arizona last week.
The statue depicts Terry carrying a fellow soldier on his shoulders and is based off a photo that family members called “iconic” in nature.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 17 May 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
I think we've come around full circle.
― pplains, Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
Herman Munster, war hero
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
I have mixed feelings.
http://i.imgur.com/va0jw4K.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
oh god
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
hahaha I wonder if my brother with paraplegia would lol if I sent this too him with txt "I FOUND UR GRAVESTONE BRO!" Pretty sure he would then post it on FB.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
and then my mom would see it and I would catch hell
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/06/world/06CHINAMAO01/06CHINAMAO01-master675.jpg
― del griffith, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Saw this on fb, meming is not mine. Weird/funny more than ugly.
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/575244_10150763841566205_529399520_n.jpg?oh=977c7b534eb66aedef4e7e30114c590c&oe=570428A6
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
Pat Tillmann lives on... in dog form.
https://asunow.asu.edu/20161109-sun-devil-life-unleashing-tillman-asus-new-police-dog
― del griffith, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/805sXa5.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Cost: $35,000
http://i.imgur.com/CE8cTDe.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
Fellatio pic in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
― nickn, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Statue of broadcaster Wogan unveiled in native Limerick https://t.co/OzmoeW0AQq pic.twitter.com/ilcE1bT1EG— RTÉ News (@rtenews) June 24, 2017
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
https://s4.postimg.org/psz18adj1/image.png
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Wcibwx9.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Is that a statue or a dude in a costume?!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
This thread's reminded me of this statue, which I guess isnt that ugly per se, but every time we drive past it, my bf mutters darkly (in the voice of the statue) "I'm gunna fuckin kill you and everyone you care about!"
https://melbourneartcritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dsc05381.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
THE BROS
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Cat in the Hat resembles Terry Wogan statue.
― pplains, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Or vice-versa, who tf knows, we're through the looking glass here people.
Trayce, have you seen this monstrosity? http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8590026-3x2-940x627.jpg Admittedly it's more who it's commemorating that's the problem here...
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
shoulda carved back the torso & hung a set of swings off his ears
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
I saw Tony Abbott on the beach once, coming in from a surf - he has that stupid duck waddle walk even when there are no cameras around.
Terry Wogan statue looks a bit disconcertingly like Nick Cave
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 26 June 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
Ha yeah I havent in person but I gather that went up in the avenue of PMs thingy in Ballarat a while ago. Euugh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
Why is Don Revie wearing a dog collar?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
I had heard about these awful, ugly statues, but had never bothered to look them up. GOOD LORD.
http://i.imgur.com/mPHKEvd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OHyiKZZ.jpg
They used to sit in front of the U.S. Capitol until they were removed finally in 1958.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
And when I say "in front of the U.S. Capitol," I do not mean in some obscure clearing behind a tree on the lawn or somewhere. I mean
http://i.imgur.com/7Ge8iqK.png
^ Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, 1861.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Not creepy at all.
http://i.imgur.com/pdnXlPC.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
'Hey, we just got here. Did you guys find a place yet?
y. Pretty high up. Good view.
Cool. Where you guys at?
Uhhhhh
http://i.imgur.com/H3BtvSi.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
"The Rescue" is the name of the frontiersman statue. It's got a neat Paul Harvey/Raiders of the Lost Ark twist:
In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments. Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.
In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(statue)
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
amazing. 1958 sounds about right.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
It does, even though 1958 doesn't strike me as the most enlightened year.
Reminds me of the Confederate flag flying on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. "What if we took it down, would that make it all better?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
yeah this shit is baked into the country we'll be removing problematic statues and flags for a long time
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
On a pure artistic level, though, the statues are fine.
― nickn, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
that's amazing. i had no idea.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"
sounds like they were semi-woke by 1939
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
pplains you gotta bundle that up in a nice 4-pic tweet package so i can retweet the shit out of it
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
gah
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link