The general theme for all today’s posts will be “unrestrained boobage” (gratuitous sample below the fold).
If you are of gentle disposition, or of a censorial nature, you may want to skip today altogether and come back tomorrow.
Tag: Things of beauty
Art, music, whatever
Big Mermaid
So much for art, then. It appears that while the doughty Danes had such a good record of resistance against the real Nazis, they’re going to submit to the Feminazis:
A revealing mermaid statue in Denmark is set to be removed after it was deemed ‘a mans hot dream of what a woman should look like’ due to its large breasts.
The Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture is reportedly taking down the massive 14-tonne Den Store Havfrue (the Big Mermaid) from Dragor Fort after criticism from locals.
Politiken’s art critic, Mathias Kryger, branded the statue ‘ugly and pornographic’, while Sorine Gotfredsen, a priest and journalist, wrote in the newspaper Berlingske: ‘Erecting a statue of a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to promote many women’s acceptance of their own bodies.’
She said it was encouraging to know that many people find the statue ‘vulgar, unpoetic, and undesirable, because we’re suffocating in overbearing bodies in public space’.
So because “many people” find the thing (things?) objectionable, it’s “Bye bye statue”, then?
For those Readers who couldn’t be bothered to follow the link, here are pics of the offending artwork:
And in profile:
Wasn’t sculptured boobage the very origin of the term “statuesque”, anyway?
Stupid Danes.
Oh, and speaking of stupid Danes, here’s what the above-mentioned “art critic” looks like:
…and the priestly journalist:
Go figure, huh?
And to help you banish that foulness from your mind, here’s our own favorite statuesque lovely, Kelly Brook:
…who makes Den Store Havfrue look positively anemic by comparison.
Thursday Landscape
So… you want to go hunting in southern Africa, do you? Well, see if you can spot the lion:
If it took you longer than five seconds, too bad, you lose.
Random Totty
This is BritTV soap actress Nikki Sanderson:
And now you know.
Out Of The Loop
The other day I was confronted by a situation that has become depressingly familiar: an allusion to someone who is clearly well-known to many, but whose existence had hitherto been completely unknown to me.
In this case, it was the redoubtable Tom Knighton, whose substack efforts are definitely worthy of subscription in general, but sadly out of my reach because #Poverty. Writing a very Kim-like essay (minus Kim’s swears), he was talking about the evils of technology being used to spy on people and control their lives — in this case, electricity supply — which is an issue near and dear to me, as Loyal Readers will be aware.
However, towards the end, Knighton writes this:
When I thought I wanted a cyberpunk future, I meant with Dina Meyer running through the streets of some city while we tried to find a cybernetic dolphin, not this crap.
Who?
It turns out that this Dina Meyer is an actress who has had a fairly long and interesting career, with appearances in many, many movies and TV shows: none of which I’ve ever watched, other than (in the TV case) a few episodes of a show in which she may have appeared but clearly didn’t register with me. Here are a few examples, just to illustrate the situation.
Apparently, Miss Meyer started off her career in Beverly Hills 90210, of which I’ve never watched a single episode. She’s also appeared in some movies (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers, Saw I-III, Dragonheart and one of the Star Trek movies), none of which I’ve seen because their genres (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) have absolutely no appeal to me.
While Tom Knighton clearly knows who she is and uses her as some kind of cultural reference, it’s perfectly possible that as good an actress as she may be, Dina Meyer has heretofore floated completely under my finely-adjusted and alert Totty Radar, however much of a cultural lodestar she may be. Lest others find themselves sailing with me on board the same Ship Of Ignorance, therefore, I submit the following:
It seems somewhat strange that she’s survived and prospered thus far (into her late 50s, good grief) without my ever having spotted her before, but it’s a factor of her role- and genre choices rather than my inattentiveness.
Anyway, there’s no need to thank me: it’s all part of the service.
Random Totty
Meet Tasha Ghouri, a Brit chick who’s famous for having been on some TV shows or something.
An interesting note: one of the shows she appeared on was the awful Strictly Come Dancing, which is interesting because she’s stone deaf, and has been since birth.