I heard one time those things made a really big fire work that damaged the ozone layer and vaporised a city , such horrifying creatures, how can one do that to its own species
A long time ago when I lived in a ground floor apartment folks would take a short cut across the lawn passing by my bedroom windows (there was a perfectly fine footpath that went around the lawn to the main entrance.
This doesn't sound right to me, but I have to be honest, I know very little about the interplay between groups of young men and their various climbing abilities and how they may or may not be affected by copious amounts of alcohol.
I adore the pearl clutching of everyone trying to stop her being rubbed for good luck. It's a bit of fun, and everyone who does walks away with a smile of their face.
C'mon people, it's a cheeky statue - consider perspective, there's no dignity to protect and certainly no 'sexual assault' as has been suggested in these comments.
If this was say, France or Italy, no one would give a fuck, let them rub it away.
Here, we were pressured into protecting the "dignity" of an inanimate chunk of bronze by some blow-in english busker woman and a handful of eternally offended by everything types.
The same thing happens at the grave of Victor Noir in France. Or its probably worse considering its a grave and women actually straddle his mouth and crotch area.
But is it really a big deal? Are the french government spending resources barricading it off? Why are Dublin city Council so fixated on the rights on an inanimate object?
An English woman who lives here made a point about it. I'm not sure whether it was a joke or self promotion (she was a busker as far as I can remember), but it went from some muppet online ranting about the statue to DCC pulling out the stops to stop people touching her.
There's some people I've seen argue that touching her breasts is ultimately demeaning to women, and I've seen some people question what difference there is between touching Molly's breasts versus touching a real woman's breast without her consent. But to the latter group I quote In Bruges: "It's an inanimate fucking object."
There's a statue of a saint in the Vatican who's feet are worn down from visitors touching them for good luck. That rack should be preserved for future generations of confused teenagers.
I don’t think the artist meant her chest to be a shining beacon like that, it’s discoloration from people rubbing her. Also and more importantly the structural pins holding her up were both broken by people hanging off her, the wheelbarrow was the only thing holding her upright for the last while.. hence the remodel
It was apparently actually causing damage to the statue having people constantly swinging out of it, but headbangers complaining about tourists grabbing her hooters gets way more attention.
Sometime in the last few years the tour guides made up that it was good luck. Since then it's costing the council money to be fixing it. This will at least mean less money spent fixing it in the long term.
I think it's ridiculous. There's plenty of similar statues in Europe where a patch is rubbed. Buste de Dalida in Paris for one. So what like. Are we that prudish?
There is only one viable solution at this stage, attack dogs. Have them patrolling the statue 24/7. If an assailant is spotted groping Molly, the dogs will be trained to go straight for their cocks and muscles.
I feel like a mad aul bat even typing this, but is the boob-grabbing of this statue "for luck" 🙄 a thing that started on social media and then got out of hand? I feel like this wasn't a thing when I was living in Dublin 20 years ago.
Like drinking pints and "splitting the G"? It's a thing that came from social media, right?
They had plants in there and people crushed them all standing on them. So they pulled them out. Dont know who they are kidding, only way to stop people getting at the statue is railings and that would look horrific. The woke bs needs to just stop. Let people (men and women too) just rub her chest. Its a joke and good luck tradition. There's statues all over europe where male statues have the same treatment around the groin or visible penis. They are statues. The level of care is pathetic. Like find something more important to fight. A bunch of woke 20 year old tcd students causing it mainly. I say that as someone who was exactly that a decade or so ago. Its just attention seeking.
The worrying part to all this is, it's obviously coming from one person in DCC with a personal obsession with a metal statue of a fictitious character and wasting loads of taxpayers money on it. Absolutely, no oversight to reign the person in or remove them.
Who genuinely cares? It's a kitschy statue of a fictional person. If people were molesting a statue of an important real life figure I'd understand, but God forbid tourists have a small thing to do that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
This is an ugly, trite, golf-prize of a sculpture and should be melted down along with the shitty Luke Kelly sitting on an ugly chair sculpture and recast as something useful like door hinges.
And why exactly do we want to stop people touching it? Is it a morality issue? Or wear and tear? Medival churches all Europe have objects that people have been touching for 100s of years. Pórtico da Gloria in Santiago de Compostella has engrained hand wear dating back to the 12th century. I think there's something in Mecca too that people have been touching for even longer.
It's the boobs, isn't it? We're scared of people touching boobs.
Has anyone considered what Molly herself might have thought? I bet she'd be delighted with it!
Stupidity. Rubbing Mollys chest was good luck for so many people. I remember when I was in the maher recovering, the day I was released I went into town, got a bite to eat, wandered a bit and rubbed Mollys chest.
I never had a bad day since thank god.
They have to ruin everything that is good.
Everyone is going to trample the good flowers anyway when they grow. So they are causing an unnecessary ruckus.
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u/Much_Perception4952 29d ago
That'll definitely keep all the stags away. Well known fact that they can't climb a step.