the stinking enigma Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) . Edited June 12, 2020 by the stinking enigma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 2 hours ago, woolley said: Expand on that? ETA: OK, sort of get it. Apart from the reparations for colonial crimes bit. These are the stated aims. Maybe they want the gold reserves? Too bad. Gordon Brown got there first. They've been buying back into gold in a big way this last year or so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Mr Newbie said: Can we take the statue of T E Brown down. I don’t think he was a racist but his poetry was shite. Tell me, do you work for MNH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Mr Newbie said: Can we take the statue of T E Brown down. I don’t think he was a racist but his poetry was shite. Pains me to say it but you’re bang on. On the grounds of artistic merit that statue is embarrassing. Damn funny when when someone cones his head though. 2 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 12 minutes ago, Uhtred said: Pains me to say it but you’re bang on. On the grounds of artistic merit that statue is embarrassing. Damn funny when when someone cones his head though. That's one of my favourite Manx customs. We drove past it a few days ago and it had a cone on its head. My son roared with laughter, obviously had not seen that done before. I told him it is a custom that goes back to beyond living memory. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Just to circle back to Fawlty Towers, apparently the Netflix version was the unedited one where the Major says the "n" word twice, and "wog" once. So it's probably going to be replaced with the edited version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Gladys said: That's one of my favourite Manx customs. We drove past it a few days ago and it had a cone on its head. My son roared with laughter, obviously had not seen that done before. I told him it is a custom that goes back to beyond living memory. So when he goes to Uni - any Uni in any town or city - he can pass the custom on when they all come back from the pub. I think it's a far better civilised statement doing that every other Friday night rather than mob ripping a statue down? I worked on the TE Brown statue building and got to know the person who built and owned it. A small stocky Irish chap, and very wealthy. I always reckoned the statue was of him but he just got someone to say it was oor Tom so that he could get to have it displayed. Edited June 12, 2020 by gettafa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dog's Dangly Bits Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 48 minutes ago, Gladys said: That's one of my favourite Manx customs. We drove past it a few days ago and it had a cone on its head. My son roared with laughter, obviously had not seen that done before. I told him it is a custom that goes back to beyond living memory. It's a right of passage for any decent night out. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJR Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Just thinking about those protesters and in a new age of massive unemployment send them to Egypt to take down the Pyramids.That may keep them quiet for a few thousand years.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 There's a statue to the umpire Dickie Bird in Barnsley. His finger is up giving a batsman out. So every weekend there's a bra or a condom hanging off Dickie's digit. Sometimes on a Sunday morning Dickie has been seen tidying it up. But it can have serious consequences... https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calls-statue-replaced-memorial-teen-22183651 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Ah but is the Standard Banks performance in South Africas apartheid years whiter that white? Look out Thomas!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 All statues of people are weird. What are they for? What's the actually point of them? What are we supposed to do with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I don't care if it's Nelson or Norman Wisdom or that really weird one of Phil Lynott. What are they for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Primarily they were an Artform, it was convenient for the artist to get a commission so they they could be paid for producing something particular, allowing them to unleash their artistic licence on their own conceptions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Public perception changes. a hundred years ago maybe people were more prone to venerate the VIPs of the day. Now, Google and Wiki inform us in a depth they did not have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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