Liffey gets new Statue

tba · 16-01-2009 04:11PM #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0116/1232059653964.html

10 years in planning? Thats a long time.

Anyway it looks a bit mad.

mayordenis · 16-01-2009 04:12PM

tba wrote: »

Anyway it looks a bit retarded.

I agree

Aldebaran · 16-01-2009 04:17PM

tba wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0116/1232059653964.html

10 years in planning? Thats a long time.

Anyway it looks a bit mad.

That link doesn't say it was 10 years in planning, it says it recieved planning permission for 10 years.

gurramok · 16-01-2009 04:19PM

Hate to have bought an apt around the quays with that thing blocking your view.

Notice how this has not been costed in a time of a public finance crisis?

Smells like the spike though.

DonJose · 16-01-2009 04:20PM

"THE ERECTION in the river Liffey of a 46m (150ft) sculpture of a human figure – almost the same height as the Statue of Liberty – has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0116/1232059653964.html

Hard times indeed

Rob_l · 16-01-2009 04:21PM

I like it!

funk-you · 16-01-2009 04:22PM

I like it. Can't think why though...

-Funk

Mingey · 16-01-2009 04:22PM

It looks crap. I don't want it. I didnt want the spire either. they look crap.

MagicMarker · 16-01-2009 04:25PM

Is he supposed to be taking a piss?

CreepingDeath · 16-01-2009 04:28PM

DonJose wrote: »

"THE ERECTION in the river Liffey

Just like the "Tart with the cart" and the "Floosey in the Jacusi"...

I propose that this "erection" be called the "Stiffy in the Liffey".

* You heard it here first folks :cool:

Sandraf · 16-01-2009 04:29PM

So what's this one going to be called ? The jumper ??

Looks like someone just copied the Belfast female version!. See below ..

www.flickr.com/photos/funfil/954580340

The Saint · 16-01-2009 04:32PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Just like the "Tart with the cart" and the "Floosey in the Jacusi"...

I propose that this "erection" be called the "Stiffy in the Liffey".

* You heard it here first folks :cool:

The Spire has been called the stiffy by the liffy already.

Anyway, I like it. Thought the Spire was pretty pointless though.

Setun · 16-01-2009 04:34PM

gurramok wrote: »

Hate to have bought an apt around the quays with that thing blocking your view.

Notice how this has not been costed in a time of a public finance crisis?

Smells like the spike though.

Anthony Gormley is a pretty well reknowned artist, I find the piece interesting although that artist's impression in the article doesn't really do the piece much favours. It's better than the spire though - what a dull unremarkable piece of crap that is.

swingking · 16-01-2009 04:38PM

Who is going to fund this

PLease oh please tell me it's not taxpayers money. For the love of god

I swear if the government fund this then I will leave this sh1thole of a country

Sean Quagmire · 16-01-2009 04:40PM

I like it, it looks great

Riamfada · 16-01-2009 04:40PM

They are both dull unremarkable expensive pieces of crap.

iPlop · 16-01-2009 04:40PM

10 years FFS you could draw that in 2 seconds .Some feckin' waste o' money ,like the spire a big needle to show everyone the place is full of brass monkeys!

mikom · 16-01-2009 04:41PM

Fill it with skangers and set it alight.

"Come, it is time to keep your appointment with The Skanger man."

:pac:

Morlar · 16-01-2009 04:41PM

I give it a week before someone climbs up it/jumps off it/crashes a boat /jetski into it.

Isn't that a rip off of the one in Berlin ?

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1792-20315

Roadend · 16-01-2009 04:41PM

The Saint wrote: »

Thought the Spire was pretty pointless though.

That's because you haven't been to the top of it

gaz wac · 16-01-2009 04:44PM

swingking wrote: »

Who is going to fund this

PLease oh please tell me it's not taxpayers money. For the love of god

I swear if the government fund this then I will leave this sh1thole of a country

Who else is going to pay...the locals !!

biko · 16-01-2009 04:45PM

Permission for the Liffey sculpture, which is based on casts of the artist’s body, was sought by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
Hope he/she is not a fatty.
I will not pay for this.

bizmark · 16-01-2009 04:46PM

Looks like a support for christmas tree lights

whiskeyman · 16-01-2009 04:58PM

bizmark wrote: »

Looks like a support for christmas tree lights

Would be class if Arnotts / O'Neills plonk a great big Dublin jersey on it for GAA matchdays!

They did it for the Angel of the North by the same guy...
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nechronical/apr2008/4/4/8519C24B-C890-F918-38B2C67757CE731D.jpg

Maybe put a Brazillian one on 'Christ the Redeemer' and we'd be on our way to have a Statues XI!

16-01-2009 05:08PM

I think it looks quite good.

Something like that in O Connell St. would have been infinitely better than the spire.

Abi · 16-01-2009 05:11PM

swingking wrote: »

Who is going to fund this

PLease oh please tell me it's not taxpayers money. For the love of god

I swear if the government fund this then I will leave this sh1thole of a country

^My thoughts exactly.

Will appear on our next payslip as 'The stoopid statues levy'

*screams*

Zangetsu · 16-01-2009 05:12PM

Its a symbol of the government looking down at us and calling us fools...

"Hey guys! Look what we're doing with your money!"

Smurfpiss · 16-01-2009 05:47PM

I think it looks f*cking class.
hopefully it'll come to life and start terrorising the city.

how bout... tinker by the stinker?
(since its a tin man?)

Crackerspray · 16-01-2009 05:57PM

Looks like a great new jumping point! Just hope they dont try and pull the 'I swear, it wont cost anything to maintain- sure the lights last forever and it'll clean itself' sh1te!!

Cionnfhaolaidh · 16-01-2009 06:15PM

The Wire in the Mire

thebman · 16-01-2009 06:20PM

Can we only afford the frame or something?

Liffey gets new Statue

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