Get that person a beer! 👍
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If you zoom in on the pic it rather looks like they were having one while spray painting!
Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.
LMAO
I'm gonna do that now.
The pensioner was put through the meat grinder because of Thatcher.
Good for him.
Edit: I can't find a picture of the graffiti. This is the best I can do:
My guess is that the word was "bastard".
They should put a statue of him spray painting it on her statue. He's the hero.
(It’s a woman)
I guess the article linked to says it is (I read a different article about this earlier to be fair), although I also think that's a guess by police that it's a woman if that photo is all they have to go on.
I think that scarf gave it away ;)
Does it? I'm a man and I wear a scarf.
Ooh! Are you the infamous Red Baron?
Does your scarf look like that or is it more of a tails flapping kind of thing?
That would depend on how I tied it. It could also be an ascot, which men also wear sometimes, especially older men.
You’re right. Looked at it again, and I can see an old man.
Do you have an ascot?
I do not because I think they're kind of pretentious, but I am also not that old and American, so it's a little different.
I am totally not trying to brag, just giving this as an example: My dad was a film historian. When I was a teenager, he had some directors come to the university for a conference. One of them was the director Peter Bogdanovich. He wore an ascot. I thought he was a tool because of it. I was right too.
Since I'm on this subject, John Landis was also at the conference. He was a very nice guy. He also did a showing of An American Werewolf in London and got up in front of the crowd when it was over and said, "I haven't seen this movie in 15 years and I forgot how much it fucking sucks." I enjoy directors with a lot of humility and self-criticism. It's the sign of an artist.
I watch that movie every 10 years or so, and every time I think, “oh yeah that’s why I didn’t like it” but I actually do like it a little bit because I’m a fan of crappy horror
I actually quite like it, but I didn't make it. And as someone who has worked in creative fields most of my life, I totally understand that feeling. I am very often dissatisfied with things I did a long time ago (I don't even like watching them) and find all kinds of flaws with them that I wouldn't make now.
You always have more to learn in any field and knowing that is really important. But the drawback is you look back on previous projects, especially old ones, and the flaws are really obvious to you. Sometimes even things you didn't realize were flaws.
I misread the number of asterisks and was really hoping it was “bitchass”
Be pretty funny if it was “white bastard”.
(Not sure if the Sam Kerr story has made headlines outside of Australia? If not my comment is in reference to that.)
One of the best things about Maggie Thatcher is she’s dead
As the saying goes, you should only say good things about the dead. So Maggie is dead. Good!
I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.
I don't think she'll be happy to see this, when she's looking up on us.
I'm sorry, what?! Who the fuck in 2022 thought "You know what we need? A statue of one of the most hated women in recent history!"?
The Grantham Community Heritage Association erected it through donations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(Grantham)
Who on god's earth would donate to memorialize the wicked witch of Britain is beyond me though.
The fact that that needs to have disambiguation parentheses is even worse: it means there's more than one statue.
Keep doing it. Do it at night, so no one can catch you on CCTV. Make it too expensive to keep cleaning so they are forced to remove it.
No statues for traitors.
I would do it. Pull it down like a Confederate statue.
Give it the Jebediah Springfield treatment.
Try an angle grinder instead of paint.
Margaret Thatcher the Milk Snatcher
Not to mention the jungle canyon rope bridges.
If it's bronze, someone should hit it with a tomato based sauce. And the timing was probably intentional.
I don't know if the timing was intentional or not. It's not the first time it was appropriately vandalized.
It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn't approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn't notice it either.
I hope I'm half as cool when I'm their age.
The nanas are alright
Shouldn’tve pinched me wellbeing, simple as
Based granny.
Do people still walk past and play "Ding-Dong, the witch is dead!" on speakers?
Oh man that would be so good.
I think this pensioner has a good idea and I would like her to take this idea further. Could we, perhaps, smack the statue up with a large demolition hammer?
🫡
What a ledge.
For a moment I thought this was something that happened during 8M.