What unofficial / fun names are there for monuments where you live? (lemmy.world)

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In Dublin there was a monument locally called "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi" ("floozie" is someone promiscuous) which apparently the artist quite liked. It got moved off the main thoroughfare at some point.

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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Talus Balls / Big Balls / Shiny Balls

It's the Talus Dome, which was dumped cynically by a loud highway bridge on a steep hill because there was a mandatory art % budget that had to go into some public projects at the time IIRC.

Most everyone makes fun of them, although the look kinda cool up close. Also a guy got trapped inside semi recently lmao: https://globalnews.ca/news/9773983/talus-balls-dome-art-west-edmonton-repairs-delay/

Oh balls!

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I used to go to uni in this city which had the "horse's butt" / "horse butt". It's just a regular horse soldier kind of statue, nothing special about it; however, due to it being right in front of one of the university buildings, among students it (or the surrounding area) was called like that. I doubt the creator had the title "horse's rear" in mind.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Officially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(sculpture)

Locally: butt plug gnome

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

A red version was unveiled in May 2018 in Oslo, Norway. The unveiling was done by a man pulling off the cover, suspended by an overhead crane with hooks through his skin.

Hey uuh what the fuck

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Welcome to Norway, home of the stave church, cheese slicer and death metal!

Oh, and this is in my home town:

Norway can be extreme sometimes (maybe that's why there's an Extreme Sport Festival).

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Just last night I learned what a stave church was, and that many of them were burned down in arson attacks by people in the black metal scene in the '90s. Now I learn that what I've always known as a cheese slicer is from Norway. (Funny coincidence about who settled here...)

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

It's not the cheese slicer I fear. It's the cheese. Brunost is... different.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's different, but also really good! If you had it by itself, it's not a good experience. From what I've heard, the best way for foreigners to try brunost is on a waffle. You should try it!

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I was in Norway some years ago, visiting a friend in her summer... hut? Everything about it was great, but that cheese was not mine 😅

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's supposed to be a CHRISTMAS TREE? hahahaha

[-] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Idk if it classifies as a monument, but I present touchdown Jesus from southern Ohio.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

100% what I was after when posting. That's a great name haha.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 0 points 2 months ago

Isn't it gone now? I recall that God was not amused, and it burned down after a lightning bolt hit it.

[-] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah It was struck by lightning and burned down. They rebuilt it a few years later with a doofier Jesus.

There was a whole debate amongst the locals ala “is it right to rebuild it?” “Was this a message from god?”, some people were mad they rebuilt it, everyone hated the new design, then everyone moved on.

People over the age of like 30 still call him touchdown Jesus. It’s not the same anymore but it’s what immediately came to mind when I read the prompt.

[-] Norin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

We have The Bean here in Chicago, and the artist hates that we don’t call it “Cloud Gate.”

But, like, look at this thing. It’s a bean.

[-] univers3man@piefed.world 2 points 2 months ago

Also important to note that the artist fucking sucks, so we live calling it the bean to piss him off.

[-] ijustliketrains@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Titty Sphinx

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, I can see that. What's the unofficial name though?

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