Dublin's Molly Malone statue to get stewards to stop 'groping'
Dublin's Molly Malone statue to get stewards to stop 'groping'
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Dublin council acts over Molly Malone statue groping complaints
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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.
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Don't rub your balls on the Charging Bull.
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what if the bull is already at 100%?
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Someone in government just learned why the boobs are shinier than the rest and was immediately outraged
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"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.
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What costly repairs would a bronze that's touched more require?
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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
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Ah, I remember the old statue molesters website, they were more innocent times.
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Oh wow. Things you never knew existed…
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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...
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This is beautiful. There's no internet like old internet.
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.....Gene Wilder?
..........Gene Wilders tits?
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Now there's a sentence I wasn't expecting to read today.
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TShirt hell? Now that’s a website I’ve not heard in a long time.
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But it's my only line!
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put something in public space
the public collectively does something with it
no, you weren’t supposed to do that
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Literally 1984.
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Literally 2025.
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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?
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Ireland is heavily Catholic. You cannot rule out sanctimony.
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By identity perhaps, but the influence of Rome is greatly diminished these days.
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Lol, yes you can. Catholic by demographic, nobody practises in reality.
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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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Or just say you don't understand it kiddo, and go back to your cheeto dust stained controller lmao
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I don't eat cheetos and I don't play.
Try again at insult. You need some practice.
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Lol ratiod
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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...
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It's a novel solution - it needs more molesting not less.
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What if we "motorboating" it ?
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No marine vessels with or without motors will be allowed on church grounds or the surrounding pavement. Please contact the Transportation Department if you are not quite sure how to safely bring a motorboat into or out of Dublin.
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"Boobs are... uh... hard... like bronze."
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Lol the patina wore off 🤣
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There's a dog statue somewhere that's polished like this too because people pet the dog.
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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
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Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh
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I mean she does have some nicely shaped ones.
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