Garbage is in the eye of the beholder ...

[dogtag]

And that's what I see, garbage. Yes, smash it up, it's an eyesore,
and offensive to everybody, not just Islam. My opinion of course.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...ive-Islam.html

[Vern Humphrey]

There was little chance I'd vacation at the Maldives, and now there's zero.

[clintonhater]

...offensive to everybody, not just Islam.

In which Islamic country is trash offensive? Or for that matter, human feces, animal guts, etc. I've traveled in 3 of them where not much offense was taken.

[dogtag]

In which Islamic country is trash offensive? Or for that matter, human feces, animal guts, etc. I've traveled in 3 of them where not much offense was taken.

Not Trash, Garbage. There's a difference.
Trash is crap that goes into a landfill..
Garbage is stuff you dump on the unsuspecting public on the pretense
of it being artwork -in this case some kind of metal contraption.

[Major Tom]

My small town of 20,000 population has a really nice public park. A few years back, some city council decided we needed some "art work" there. They commissioned an artist (metal sculpture) to create something (at $5000) . The outcome was called the "Shroud". It looks like a ten foot tall dick. And that is what everyone calls it.

[dryheat]

Phx. got this giant net strung up between poles. Looks like big condom.

[dogtag]

In front of the BofA in San Francisco is a piece of "art" - it's a big black lump that looks like coal.

[Vern Humphrey]

My daughter took me to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There was a Japanese bale of hay on display (the Japanese buy hay in one ton square bales -- cheaper to ship.) There was a gold-plated pitchfork and a gold thread. Someone was explaining what a great piece of art it was.

I said, "hmmm . . . suppose I bring in a ton of horse manure and a gold plated manure fork. I'll call it, 'There's gotta be a pony in here somewhere.'"

[Mark in Ottawa]

Hey guys

You are all criticizing the kind of abstract art that I love (seriously). So what's wrong with a 20 foot condom or a 10 foot dick? I must say however that our local art gallery (the National Gallery of Canada actually) was sort of pushing the envelope with a sculpture consisting of a pile of cut pieces of thick felt. I think that it was called something like "265 pieces of felt"

In any case, if the artwork got everybody thinking about it, then it worked its magic.

Just to be a pain, the kind of art that I hate is the kind that portrays kids with dogs or fields with cows or pictures of mountains. Easier to just take a photo.

[Vern Humphrey]

Hey guys

You are all criticizing the kind of abstract art that I love (seriously). So what's wrong with a 20 foot condom or a 10 foot dick?

Well, for one thing it makes it damn near impossible to zip up your pants -- and dangerous, too.

[dryheat]

Well, Mark your right. We are discussing how stupid some art it.