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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mrsid2 on January 29, 2002, 10:26:25 AM
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Does anyone else than me find this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1788000/1788845.stm) thread amusing to say the least?
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There are folks that are uptight and then there are folks that are upTITe. Well you will find out. Still to think that more of our tax dollars will be spent covering up a big gold gazonga makes me sad. Blame Jonathan Beck.
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I'd laugh if it was a joke. Seems like it's not.
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Well this proves it...........conservatives don't like breasts!
:D :eek:
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*Sigh*
It's just another example of how hung up we Americans are with the human body. It's just plain silly. That statue is a work of art not a Hustler centerfold. Take the curtains down and give the money to a family of one of our servicemen/servicewomen who is overseas away from family.
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Who spent the money in the first place to buy the damn bronze thing? I say, while it is popular, auction the statue off. No need for curtains then.
If our judiciary need to see naked breasts, let them spend their own quarters in a nearby peep show.
Next thing you know, they will use my tax money to buy stuff even more offensive (to many people I have no wish to offend) , like picture of (alleged) virgin Mary covered in dung and place it in a public museum.
Oh, wait - they have already done that in Brooklyn!
miko
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What amazes me is that camera crews would go out of their way to get the bare breast in the shot. If there's not enough news.. create it.
And I personally feel the money could have been better spent baring the other breast on the statue. I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.
To each their own.
AKDejaVu
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I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.
I've been informed that this was a misstatement. The FDPs don't necessarily "want" to remove the loin cloth... as a squad. It turns out that one of them "tried" to remove it... but chipped a tooth.
AKDejaVu
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Too bad it wasn't A Nude Male statue in background...Can you imagine the in-fighting among Press to get the angle shot..:)(Also would save tax $$'s as all you'd have to do is hang a fig leaf)..:D
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
What amazes me is that camera crews would go out of their way to get the bare breast in the shot. If there's not enough news.. create it.
And I personally feel the money could have been better spent baring the other breast on the statue. I've also heard that the FDPs wanted to take it a step further and remove the loin cloth from the male statue nearby.
To each their own.
AKDejaVu
Nooooooooo!!..Keep the Loin cloth!!!:D
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sirloin. The male is on the right side of the great hall.
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Miko, all artists aren't as bankrupt as the person who made that so called piece of art like the one you describe. You seem to be using that one example to label all artists as "worthless" or vulgar. I beg to differ. The female figure has been a subject of artists for hundreds of centuries. I don't see anything offensive in that bronze statue.
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You know, it really was a nice looking boobie too :( Though I do find it funny/interesting that the photographer went out of his way to put that boob over Ashcroft's right shoulder, why not the left shoulder? ;)
Oh yeah, why is this news?
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I read somewhere that clinton wanted to spend 16 thousend to have the statues breast enlarged. But they found they could not do it, without defaceing the work of art.
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I thought it was a hat rack ...
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Ashcroft was having problems speaking after experiencing a redirection of blood flow upon viewing the statue.
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Press bias in its purest form...again.
Photographers have
gone to great lengths
in the past to capture
the scantily-clad
female statue in the
background as the Justice Department's top
brass addressed the world's press.
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Originally posted by banana
Miko, all artists aren't as bankrupt as the person who made that so called piece of art like the one you describe. You seem to be using that one example to label all artists as "worthless" or vulgar. I beg to differ. The female figure has been a subject of artists for hundreds of centuries. I don't see anything offensive in that bronze statue.
And I agree with you about that perticular statue - because like you I was raised in modern christian tradition as influenced by classical greece, even being an atheist.
But there are people in US whose tradition/religion considers it sacrilege to display images of animals/people. There are people who consider nudity very inappropriate.
Their money went to pay for that act and they did not have any choice in the matter. Paying taxes and chosing what how are spent is not voluntary in US.
The government was created for specific purposes and it was given power to use coersion to extract money.
People agreed to those functions of governemt and the majority who did not was forced to comply - to pay for defence, borders, banking system, etc.
Now they are in a culture business among other things that no one can opt out from. That is called bait and switch tactics.
If they need statues, let them ask for donations. French donated us that huge Lady Liberty statue and then citizens chipped in to pay for the pedestal - becasue they liked the statue.
Government should stay out of such subjective things like art - not because there is something wrong with art (even with "bancrupt" art), but because government has that unique power of coersion.
miko
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I think the drapes were a pretty good solution. He's the boss, it's his show, and I'd say he can have whatever background he damn well pleases for his press conferences. At least he didn't alter the statues. If they ever remove the drapes, I hope the cameras go all-out to get some shots a-la Austin Powers.
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Why didn't John Nazicroft go all the way and get some large burkhas made. :rolleyes:
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I wonder why they didn't just put two pieces of red tape on the nipple (the bad part of breast) like they seem to often do in tv.. lol.
For some reason there are people in US who get offended by nipples. Even bronze ones.
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wow! i actually had to go all the way back to my grandfather's generation to find a word exactly suitable for someone who buys curtains to cover nude statues:
"fuddy-duddy"
we need a contemporary word so if anyone has a suggestion...
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Ashcrofty!