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Postby Cymru Tyn Val » Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:41 pm

I support this move; mainly because I want to see the IRA blow it up just like Nelson's Pillar. Then again the miners might get to it first.

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Postby Vassenor » Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:44 pm

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New Benian Republic wrote:Why not just let the memory of her rust in peace... Peices...

Agreed. As part of a working class originally northern family with strong ties to the mining industry, I can never forgive her for what she did to our miners, no matter her intentions. I too hope she, and her memory, rusts in pieces.


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Postby The Princes of the Universe » Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:48 pm

New DeCapito wrote:Here's what I propose: we make a 250 foot high statue of Thatcher out of coal. Then we burn it.

Can we put one of Reagan next to it?
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Postby New Benian Republic » Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:50 pm

Cymru Tyn Val wrote:I support this move; mainly because I want to see the IRA blow it up just like Nelson's Pillar. Then again the miners might get to it first.

The IRA leftovers simply don't have the material to do something like that.
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Postby Mesoland » Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:53 pm

Vassenor wrote:
Mesoland wrote:Agreed. As part of a working class originally northern family with strong ties to the mining industry, I can never forgive her for what she did to our miners, no matter her intentions. I too hope she, and her memory, rusts in pieces.


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We should remember what she did, not who she was.

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Postby AiliailiA » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:26 pm

An iron statue of the woman who destroyed Britain's coal industry. How ironic!
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Postby Valystria » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:29 pm

I am okay with this if we can have a 250 foot statue of Cameron, and then a 250 foot statue of Osborne once he becomes Prime Minister. Both at different universities of course. It would look out of place having two 250 foot Tory statues in the same place.

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Postby Salus Maior » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:31 pm

Nobody needs that big a statue.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:44 pm

Valystria wrote:I am okay with this if we can have a 250 foot statue of Cameron, and then a 250 foot statue of Osborne once he becomes Prime Minister. Both at different universities of course. It would look out of place having two 250 foot Tory statues in the same place.


They must go next to the giant thatcher statue, till there is a row of 250 foot tall statues stretching as far as the eye can see. A giant disraelie a giant pitt, a giant mrs. Peel. It shall be as glorious as britian.
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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:47 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Valystria wrote:I am okay with this if we can have a 250 foot statue of Cameron, and then a 250 foot statue of Osborne once he becomes Prime Minister. Both at different universities of course. It would look out of place having two 250 foot Tory statues in the same place.


They must go next to the giant thatcher statue, till there is a row of 250 foot tall statues stretching as far as the eye can see. A giant disraelie a giant pitt, a giant mrs. Peel. It shall be as glorious as britian.


Hang on....this is all happening in Kent. We could totally build them along the white cliffs of Dover.

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:02 pm

Fartsniffage wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
They must go next to the giant thatcher statue, till there is a row of 250 foot tall statues stretching as far as the eye can see. A giant disraelie a giant pitt, a giant mrs. Peel. It shall be as glorious as britian.


Hang on....this is all happening in Kent. We could totally build them along the white cliffs of Dover.

That'll keep the French on their toes.
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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:07 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:
Hang on....this is all happening in Kent. We could totally build them along the white cliffs of Dover.

That'll keep the French on their toes.


Indeed. An with a touch of animatronics we could have Maggie dropping her handbag on illegals. :)

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Postby Atealia » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:35 pm

Vassenor wrote:
Ifreann wrote:For reference, the actual Colossus of Rhodes was 30m(98ft) tall.


250 feet is more on the order of the Statue of Liberty.

The statue of Liberty is about 300 feet tall with the base. If you took away the base then it's only about 150 feet tall. If this height doesn't include the base then we are looking at a statue of nearly 100 feet taller than what is probably the most famous statue in the world. It would also be within the top 25 tallest statues in the world. Overall this idea is absolutely insane but I would be lying if I said I didn't find it interesting.
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Postby Digital Planets » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:45 pm

Oh so the goddamn Brits can petition for a 250 statue of the Iron Lady, but I can't even have a 10-foot statue of Mussolini? Double fucking standards.
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:47 pm

Digital Planets wrote:Oh so the goddamn Brits can petition for a 250 statue of the Iron Lady, but I can't even have a 10-foot statue of Mussolini? Double fucking standards.

You can have a six inch Mussolini.
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Postby Digital Planets » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:49 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Digital Planets wrote:Oh so the goddamn Brits can petition for a 250 statue of the Iron Lady, but I can't even have a 10-foot statue of Mussolini? Double fucking standards.

You can have a six inch Mussolini.


Do I look like a pencil dick?
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:52 pm

Digital Planets wrote:
Ifreann wrote:You can have a six inch Mussolini.


Do I look like a pencil dick?


Having really amusing images of you stroking your dick moaning "Il Duce...."

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Postby The Princes of the Universe » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:53 pm

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Digital Planets wrote:Do I look like a pencil dick?

Having really amusing images of you stroking your dick moaning "Il Duce...."

:rofl:
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Postby Kubra » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:18 pm

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Digital Planets wrote:
Do I look like a pencil dick?


Having really amusing images of you stroking your dick moaning "Il Duce...."
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:26 pm

Kubra wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:
Having really amusing images of you stroking your dick moaning "Il Duce...."
this image will never leave

This is our life now. We can never unthink this.
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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:35 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Kubra wrote: this image will never leave

This is our life now. We can never unthink this.


You're welcome. :)

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Postby Calimera II » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:59 pm

Good lord. What a horrible idea.

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Postby Farnhamia » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:00 pm

Calimera II wrote:Good lord. What a horrible idea.

No, it's a great idea. The could build it so that it had a PA system that would broadcast Thatcher's speeches across the land. I guarantee you, there would never be another Tory government again.
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Postby Greed and Death » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:04 pm

Cut social services and start a poll tax to pay for it.
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Postby Fartsniffage » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:08 pm

greed and death wrote:Cut social services and start a poll tax to pay for it.


So what's already happening?

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