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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world

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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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Itโ€™s one of those towel pills. Just soak it in water.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Instant Michelangelo! Grows to full size when wet!

[-] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Michelangrow?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I wonder which works better. Sandbags are certainly faster.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 7 points 4 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.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

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

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't a bomb hitting close enough just make the bricks likely to collapse onto the statue and cause damage? ๐Ÿค”

[-] Liz@midwest.social 10 points 4 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.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

he's a brick ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต howse

[-] OkGo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 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.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

when he says he's all bricked up

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago
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