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Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it.

https://greg.org/archive/2018/02/22/brickelangelo.html

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s one of those towel pills. Just soak it in water.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instant Michelangelo! Grows to full size when wet!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Michelangrow?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good news, it's a suppository.

Edit: I just saw the article and the author's own joke is the best actually.

In another context, their form is obviously a lingam; and we all know Michelangelo loved the lingam.

Lingam is a devotionary shape associated with Shiva that looks like this, and also a dick.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now that's pretty inventive. Did they do this with more statues? This hardly seems like a one off idea that wasn't used elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Possibly Ukraine not being run by fascists might have something to do with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder which works better. Sandbags are certainly faster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Both would be ideal. Sandbags for fast, light projectiles, and bricks for slower, heavier ones. Sandbags will stop damn near any bullet, but you can shoot arrows right through them. I'd assume the same would be true for heavy shrapnel, flying rebar, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The statue still exists, so I guess it worked out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a rock that keeps away sharks and bears if your interested in buying it, I've always had it and have never been attacked by either thus proving it works. /s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I didn't say it worked, I said it worked out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would you care to read the article? They weren't thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

reminds me of the time cuntykarenmomtwats tried removing the david from school curriculum because PeNiSbAaAaAaAaD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a bomb hitting close enough just make the bricks likely to collapse onto the statue and cause damage? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

If the bomb hit close enough to directly damage the bricks, it was gonna damage the statue anyway. This is for when a bomb hit close enough to and debris flying towards the statue, so that the bricks take the damage instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

he's a brick 🎶🎵🎶🎵 howse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

when he says he's all bricked up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Given that the statue and the material surrounding it are different could we then just do an MRI of the cairns and see the sculpture, that would be pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You know, I bet they dressed the naked statues in actual clothing, just like they painted them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago