The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

The annual Wiener Festwochen cultural festival is starting soon, the motto this year: "V is for LoVe" (someone got paid too much for that ).

https://www.festwochen.at/en/home

Posters and such have gone up around town including one placed at the square with the Russian war memorial where on Friday the Russians will hold their annual victory ceremony. The poster is about 3x3 meters (10x10 feet for your anti-metricans ) and shows two men, nude, entwined with each other. It's fairly tasteful, and no frontal nudity or even buttcracks are shown - you can see an example of the image here (would post it, but it seems borderline when it comes to nudity ... then again this is posted around town here ): https://i.imgur.com/gGHUKuK.png

For reference about size/location of the poster, an archive image from 2021:



(There's also a tamer poster of two black women on the other side of the square.)

Can't help but think both posters, especially the one with the guys, were put on the "neutral" ground in front of the square as a bit of a middle finger to the Russians.

[Sheilbh]

No one cares about all the shiny crotchs out there? People just seem to like to assault statues

I think the French have had to put up fences around Oscar Wilde's grave.

[Duque de Bragança]

No one cares about all the shiny crotchs out there? People just seem to like to assault statues

I think the French have had to put up fences around Oscar Wilde's grave.

À l'époque, l'œuvre suscita l'indignation en raison de l'exhibition des parties génitales proéminentes de l'ange surplombant le caveau[3]. Une anecdote veut qu'en 1961, deux Anglaises outrées saisissent des pierres en bordure de l'allée et lui fracassent les testicules qui, pendant deux ans, ont servi de presse-papier au conservateur du cimetière[4].

En 2011, il est restauré (à l'exception du sexe du sphinx amputé en 1961, remplacé par une prothèse en argent sur une idée de l'artiste Leon Johnson en 2000[5]) grâce à la famille d'Oscar Wilde et au gouvernement irlandais. Des vitres plastiques de deux mètres de hauteur ont été apposées sur les parois de pierre pour empêcher que ses admirateurs ne s'approchent et déposent le traditionnel baiser sur ce haut-lieu du romantisme, le monument étant couvert de rouge à lèvres depuis le début des années 1990[6].

Two English women broke by stoning the testicles  of Oscar Wilde at the Père-Lachaise, so it's not just groupies. 

Not exactly fences, more like plexiglas to prevent the "traditional" lip-sticked kisses.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombe_d%27Oscar_Wilde

Other tombs at the Père-Lachaise have groupies as well, such as Victor Noir

L'œuvre est conçue dans un réalisme qui entraîne certaines personnes superstitieuses à toucher le gisant depuis des années, d'où une oxydation de la patine et une érosion du bronze que présente la statue de nos jours sur le relief du visage, l'impact de balle, la partie virile et les chaussures. Un folklore veut en effet que les femmes en mal d'enfants touchent le gisant, voire le chevauchent, afin d'être rendues fertiles[13],[14]

It's a kind of fertility idol, with the prominent crotch being more "used" than the rest.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombe_de_Victor_Noir

Wikipedia article of the day:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_sculptures_présentant_des_marques_de_frottement

Statues being more used than usual. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

No one cares about all the shiny crotchs out there? People just seem to like to assault statues

There's a bronze statue in the entryway of the mall at Columbus Circle in NYC that has a very polished knob, if you catch my meaning.

Edit:

Apparently, it's part of a pair.

[viper37]

Ok, this one is funny. Even the police officer can't stop laughing. 

[Syt]

The annual Wiener Festwochen cultural festival is starting soon, the motto this year: "V is for LoVe" (someone got paid too much for that ).

https://www.festwochen.at/en/home

Posters and such have gone up around town including one placed at the square with the Russian war memorial where on Friday the Russians will hold their annual victory ceremony. The poster is about 3x3 meters (10x10 feet for your anti-metricans ) and shows two men, nude, entwined with each other. It's fairly tasteful, and no frontal nudity or even buttcracks are shown - you can see an example of the image here (would post it, but it seems borderline when it comes to nudity ... then again this is posted around town here ): https://i.imgur.com/gGHUKuK.png

For reference about size/location of the poster, an archive image from 2021:



(There's also a tamer poster of two black women on the other side of the square.)

Can't help but think both posters, especially the one with the guys, were put on the "neutral" ground in front of the square as a bit of a middle finger to the Russians.

So, by yesterday evening the gay couple poster was removed (presumably temporarily, the frame is still there.).

However, this morning there were small signs in front of the monument with quotes from women from 80 years ago describing how they were raped by the Red Army soldiers. I assume as soon as the Russian embassy notices they'll have them removed asap. There was a police van nearby, but apparently they consider those signs not a vandalization of the monument and didn't seem interested in removing them.

[Razgovory]

So finding a new apartment is tough.  Nobody will rent to a person with an eviction.  We have money to pay, but nobody will accept us.  Raz maybe be homeless next month.

[Valmy]

So finding a new apartment is tough.  Nobody will rent to a person with an eviction.  We have money to pay, but nobody will accept us.  Raz maybe be homeless next month.

Goddamn that's bullshit.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

So finding a new apartment is tough.  Nobody will rent to a person with an eviction.  We have money to pay, but nobody will accept us.  Raz maybe be homeless next month.

Goddamn that's bullshit.

Seconded.  Really sorry you're going through this.  Wish there was something we could do.

[Razgovory]

I just got a maybe on a trailer.  That's my last hope.  After that I am going to charities.  We have money, not a lot, 4.5 K a month.  It should be enough to pay for a 2 bedroom, but the eviction is preventing anyone from renting to us.  It's stupid.  As you can imagine, I've been a bit on edge for the last few months.

[Razgovory]

Well that seem to have fallen through.  I will talk to a lawyer tomorrow.  I don't have any other options at this point.

[Valmy]

Well that seem to have fallen through.  I will talk to a lawyer tomorrow.  I don't have any other options at this point.

Yeah. There has to be a renter of last resort. Something.

[Grey Fox]

You should move here. You wouldn't have been evicted.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Well that seem to have fallen through.  I will talk to a lawyer tomorrow.  I don't have any other options at this point.

 

[Admiral Yi]

I learned a very weird fact yesterday while watching an old 60 Minutes interview with Roy Cohn.  Bobby Kennedy also served as a legal assistant to Joseph McCarthy.