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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 27 points 2 years ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Instant Michelangelo! Grows to full size when wet!

[-] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Michelangrow?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 17 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I wonder which works better. Sandbags are certainly faster.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

he's a brick ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต howse

[-] OkGo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

when he says he's all bricked up

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
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