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This oversized ice phallus puts the "man" in "snowman."
Today (March 
is International Women’s Day. On this day last year, some Slovenes in the town of Šmarca celebrated by: (I’m guessing) getting drunk, and then (I’m guessing) getting high, and then (I’m guessing) getting bored, and then (I’m no longer guessing) building a titanic penis out of snow. (Notice howI wrote that they were building it instead of erecting it — I’m way above those kind of cheap jokes.)
The red letters you see on the roof say: "Za 8. Marc," which means what you think it means: "For the 8th of March."
I suppose there are a couple of ways to react to a thing like this, depending on your politics. It could be a harmless juevenille prank, an offensive piece of misogyny, or just a sculpture built by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It’s worth noting that two thousand years ago, in ancient Pompeii, an ice sculpture like the one above would have fit in perfectly with the local décor. Back then a phallus was considered a force for good, and the perfect idea for home decorating. The Romans had phallic wind chimes, phallic lamps, phallic bird baths, and big brick phalluses just for the hell of it. (Here’s a small sample of some of the erotic art of Pompeii, if you’re curious.) Nowadays, of course, even a partially topless statue in Rome’s heir is too scary to consider. So much for progress.
Happy international women’s day!
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This is only a temporary piece of - äh - art. At home somebody put a huge phallus sculpture into the Wattenmeer. (Wattenmeer is the part of the North Sea that you can see when the water is gone for 15 kilometers at low tide) Water comes, water goes, phallus stays.
I thought that`s what ladies want. A phallus that stays
/me ducks.
There is one quite like this one across the street where I live … only without a red head … I wanted to take a pic of it and post it, but then I thought: Ahh, probably Michael has already done that;))
Here’s a picture novala took of the Wattenmeer-Phallus in Dangast. (Hvala novala!)
Bojana: it’s always nice to hear that people are thinking of me, especially when they see gigantic ice phalluses (phalli?).. If you do take a picture, let me know!
To all women out there … happy whatever today, followed by an advice, try to be less picky and be more generous, we also want our share of the plum-cake!!!
This reminds me of the story of how Madame de Gaulle, when asked by a British reporter what she was looking forward to now that her husband Charles had retired, responded, in her thick French accent, “I only want what every woman wants, a penis.” The nonplussed reporter thought for a moment and then gracefully concurred, “Ah yes, Madame, happiness.”
Thats great. Our march 8th celebrations
have turned into politically correct bore
fests. I wish someone would erect an ice
penis here while the weather holds.
Thank you for this posting. Seeing once more all these Roman artefacts from Pompeii was a very sobering but playfully refreshing sight, maybe the sophistication of a culture can also be measured by its ability to laugh, converse, or at least be tongue-in-cheek, about sex. Which brings us to obscene Justice (’Obscene Justice’, here is a cool name for a band).
As for Women’s Day, it was abolished by Thatcher in Britain, along with Mayday, for being stalinist holidays.
No women’s day in US of A. Only mother’s day. I guess you don’t count as a woman unless you plop out a kid or two.
Oh, for Heaven’s… Have you no shame? First a German porn star, then a thong, and now this. I can see clearly why you keep it like this… * retires to grumble about Carniola’s outrageous web traffic stats *
Happy Day to all Women.
@ Loxias:
Women’s day is not an official holiday in Slovenia any more, but many people still celebrate it. My family celebrates it occasionally.
Every man has fetishes, some of Mike’s are obviously the standard ones: female breasts, asses, and well… i guess penises (/me hides) :>
They still celebrate Women’s Day in Croatia and in Bosnia, usually by giveing women flowers. The Irish I knew in San Francisco used to mark the day by protesting the strip searches at the women’s prison in Maghaberry, by picketting the British Consulate there. Once they got a double plus good picket in because Margaret Thatcher was in town, and they ran all over looking for her so they could picket her. That was amuseing. It almost was like a Flash Mob only that hadn’t been invented yet.
I had not realized that like May Day, such an ICONICALLY commie socialist type day, International Women’s Day was contributed by American Socialists.
It’s always been a policitally correct ‘holiday’.
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check this date at this site, and you will sese they have a rose for March 8 !
Oh come on, it’s funny! Why the hell should the penis become a taboo, why should it offend women or anyone for that matter? I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, I’m a d*ck, proudly
Don’t let political correctness become sexism against men!
Every man has fetishes, some of Mike’s are obviously the standard ones
I hope you’re ready for my non-standard ones, because they’re so disgusting that they even make me sick to my stomach.
Let’s not elaborate the fetish thing
When I saw the picture of the original post, I exclaimed out loud:
“OMG!!1 WTF?!?/”
Looks like someone was happy. But I doubt it was a woman. :p
Yeah I think even a horny girl elephant would flee that thing, especially since it’s made of ice!