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Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« on: December 03, 2020, 01:27:35 PM »
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen.

I'll go for two to three weeks before it has its first alteration.

I've been looking forward to seeing in what way it becomes adapted.

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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2020, 01:38:54 PM »
At the one end of my road stands a statue of an earlier PM which has its own tradition of adornment.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_the_Duke_of_Wellington,_Glasgow
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2020, 01:46:38 PM »
The Traffic cone on Wellington's bonce in Georges' Square, Glasgow, is now a tourist attraction. As a concession to the season, sometimes it is adorned with tinsel.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2020, 01:49:14 PM »
If the council want to stop people climbing the statue to put a cone on it, why don't they just leave the next one in situ? (I assume they remove them.)
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2020, 01:54:17 PM »
A terrible waste of money, but I don't think posters should be hoping it is vandalised!
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2020, 01:57:29 PM »
Quote from: Rev. Isambard Mousepractice on December 03, 2020, 01:49:14 PM
If the council want to stop people climbing the statue to put a cone on it, why don't they just leave the next one in situ? (I assume they remove them.)
   

They used to....but the cost of sending some bloke to remove the cones thoughtfully replaced by local citizens was too high.
Now they rely on the wind,which never blows in the direction they would wish.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2020, 01:58:03 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on December 03, 2020, 01:54:17 PM
A terrible waste of money, but I don't think posters should be hoping it is vandalised!
Hoping? I'll travel there and do it myself! I sincerely hope it gets the Edward Colston treatment.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2020, 01:59:06 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 03, 2020, 01:57:29 PM
   

They used to....but the cost of sending some bloke to remove the cones thoughtfully replaced by local citizens was too high.
Now they rely on the wind,which never blows in the direction they would wish.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2020, 02:05:11 PM »
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2020, 02:36:22 PM »
Best place for the statue - just to keep the vandals away - is the bottom of a mineshaft.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2020, 02:58:27 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 03, 2020, 02:36:22 PM
Best place for the statue - just to keep the vandals away - is the bottom of a mineshaft.

Yes but it wouldn't be as much fun.

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P S If it was plonked it down to the bottom of a mine shaft we wouldn't be able to take so much pleasure seeing the ingenuity of effort put into humiliating the memory of that terrible woman.

If it was repaired or cleaned up after each event, when it has been wrecked again, how frustrating that will be for all of those  Thatcher-enthusiasts.

Yes, it'll be another opportunity to make a bet, perhaps betting on how many times do they have to wreck it before they give up restoring the vile woman's statue?   

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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2020, 08:34:38 PM »
Grantham is my home town.  Just a few metres from the proposed site for the statue to Margaret Thatcher stands an existing statue commemorating a local lad who did quite well. I should hate to see his monument suffer because of the proximity of a new one. His name  -  Isaac Newton.

Another local celebrity who deserves a statue is Nicholas Parsons. His father was a GP - who delivered Margaret Roberts. The room in which it is believed she was born, above the former corner shop which is now an alternative health centre, is now a massage parlour.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2020, 09:10:21 AM »
Quote from: ippy on December 03, 2020, 02:58:27 PM
Yes but it wouldn't be as much fun.

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Some of us would laugh, though.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2020, 10:03:06 AM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 03, 2020, 02:36:22 PM
Best place for the statue - just to keep the vandals away - is the bottom of a mineshaft.
What mineshaft?
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2020, 10:49:45 AM »
Quote from: jeremyp on December 04, 2020, 10:03:06 AM
What mineshaft?
   


Well, there's one a mile from my town...there's a memorial there to those who died in one of the many disasters, and the 'A' frame which held the wheels for the lift over the shaft'ss still thwere, and an iron hatch covering 200 feet of the six hundred feet sgaft. That would do nicely.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2020, 12:24:41 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 04, 2020, 10:49:45 AM
   


Well, there's one a mile from my town...there's a memorial there to those who died in one of the many disasters, and the 'A' frame which held the wheels for the lift over the shaft'ss still thwere, and an iron hatch covering 200 feet of the six hundred feet sgaft. That would do nicely.
Well, erecting it down there would save us the trouble of pulling it down and dumping it down there.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2020, 12:53:57 PM »
Quote from: ippy on December 03, 2020, 01:27:35 PM
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen.

I'll go for two to three weeks before it has its first alteration.

And how long before a Tory is caught trying to have sex with it?
« Last Edit: December 04, 2020, 12:56:12 PM by Richard Skidmark »
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2020, 01:43:27 PM »
Quote from: Richard Skidmark on December 04, 2020, 12:53:57 PM
And how long before a Tory is caught trying to have sex with it?

Odds on, when you look at their track record it'd more than likely he'd be a member of the clergy as well, if that did happen.

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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2020, 11:14:30 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 03, 2020, 02:36:22 PM
Best place for the statue - just to keep the vandals away - is the bottom of a mineshaft.

Very subtle Anchor, When Arthur Scargill dies an effigy of him could go there too & keep hers company.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2020, 08:31:51 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 06, 2020, 11:14:30 PM
Very subtle Anchor, When Arthur Scargill dies an effigy of him could go there too & keep hers company.
   
No argument from me.
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Re: Should be a good laugh, Margaret's statue going up in Grantham
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2020, 01:44:46 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 06, 2020, 11:14:30 PM
Very subtle Anchor, When Arthur Scargill dies an effigy of him could go there too & keep hers company.

It would be pistols at dawn! ;D
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