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[weeds]

Apparently this has been installed at a round-about...

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181213/5fa968ffef6c4e0cf2d475b9d857f394.jpg

Wonder if it comes complete with a water fountain.......

[scarry]

Maybe they have seen your Avatar and are doing their best to copy it[thumbsupbig][biggrin]

[weeds]

Maybe they have seen your Avatar and are doing their best to copy it[thumbsupbig][biggrin]

LOL......Er yes I been meaning p change that avatar....just don’t get on a computer these days.

[rangieman]

A monument to the Nsw Hwy Patrol [bigwhistle]

[cuppabillytea]

A trafficking engineers cockup?

[Toxic_Avenger]

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/d8bf63c9ace5beb585dcfab76ffaa10f

This monument was erected in Newcastle in 1988.
After 30 years of going strong, standing to attention on the foreskhore, it was dismembered a few months ago.
RIP big penis.


https://www.youtube.com/watch'time_continue=28&v=YLIKMs85Rho

[cuppabillytea]

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/d8bf63c9ace5beb585dcfab76ffaa10f

This monument was erected in Newcastle in 1988.
After 30 years of going strong, standing to attention on the foreskhore, it was dismembered a few months ago.
RIP big penis.


https://www.youtube.com/watch'time_continue=28&v=YLIKMs85Rho

Coming soon, to a roundabout near you. Or words to that effect.

[350RRC]

Well I won't mention (too much) the cypress sculpture of Mary McKillop in Dartmoor outside the general store when viewed from behind.

DL

Gotta get around to posting pics!

[rammypluge]

Apparently this has been installed at a round-about...

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181213/5fa968ffef6c4e0cf2d475b9d857f394.jpg

Wonder if it comes complete with a water fountain.......A local i know saw it today. Says it is halfway between the hwy and byron.

[rammypluge]

Silver birds are being attached to it. From a distance, maybe they will represent the 'fountain's' spray? I guess we will see, men and women.

[Zeros]

Is this a joke ??

[rick130]

A local i know saw it today. Says it is halfway between the hwy and byron.So that's why they are taking so bloody long on that intersection.
It's a joke in the region that BB Councils roads are easily the worst in the region, they are atrocious, yet they've erected a large phallus in the middle of the runabout?
Must've only gone up this week, I was there three days last week, just been up and down the highway the last few days, didn't have to go into Byron

[rammypluge]

I dont know the ins and outs of the region, but obviously it gets a massive amount of tourist traffic, and tourists dont pay council rates. So maybe the state of the roads and public art funding is more in the hands of state and federal government? I dont know.

[rick130]

Tourist numbers into the bay are huge, and there's only two roads in and out, this one is the main road in from the Pacific highway.
The congestion of a morning is almost Sydneyesque.
The shame is that almost all the roads across the council area are buggered, patch upon patch upon patch, potholes everywhere.
In comparison Ballina to the south and Tweed to the north have lovely roads on the whole.
I think the problem with Byron, and someone with a better handle on local government history can correct me, is that the present situation is a result of budget and planning decisions from 15-25 years ago.

I blame the bulk of the 'tourist' problem on Queenslanders coming south to find a nice, relatively quiet beach, or a beach they can surf when there's a southerly/sou'easter. [emoji12] (had to slip that one in [emoji56])

[scarry]

Tourist numbers into the bay are huge, and there's only two roads in and out, this one is the main road in from the Pacific highway.
The congestion of a morning is almost Sydneyesque.
The shame is that almost all the roads across the council area are buggered, patch upon patch upon patch, potholes everywhere.
In comparison Ballina to the south and Tweed to the north have lovely roads on the whole.
I think the problem with Byron, and someone with a better handle on local government history can correct me, is that the present situation is a result of budget and planning decisions from 15-25 years ago.

I blame the bulk of the 'tourist' problem on Queenslanders coming south to find a nice, relatively quiet beach, or a beach they can surf when there's a southerly/sou'easter. [emoji12] (had to slip that one in [emoji56])

I think its the southerners coming up for a bit of warmth in the cooler months.[bighmmm]

Many of the beachside mansions there are owned by people from Sydney and further south.😜

[rick130]

Many of the beachside mansions there are owned by people from Sydney and further south.[emoji12]

True, but in terms of day trippers on any given weekend the number of Qld registered cars outnumber all others by about two to one.
Or at least half. [emoji12]

[rammypluge]

Visitors from north and south. Plus all the backpackers cars. Plus the major festivals bringing in the numbers. Plus the lack of train line.

There would surely be a lot more rates revenue from suburbia, and less visitors, in places like Ballina.

Did anyone notice the rings on the sculpture, they keep it from reaching full size.

[scarry]

And in todays paper,

"Passing drivers have been yelling abuse at an artist working on a "phallic" sculpture at Byron Bay."[biggrin]

What a waste of $55K.

A petition has also been started to pull the half built installation down....

[rick130]

From the Echo

The world gets a giggle out of Byron's shiny new member... – Echonetdaily

Well, Ballina has the Big Prawn so Byron has one upped them with the The Big Dick? [bigwhistle]
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[edit] This is a positive comment
"It’s only a matter of time before Hare Krishna devotees annoint this lingam with ghee. That could become an annual ritual and should boost tourism.":lol2: (https://www.echo.net.au/2018/12/locals-get-giggle-byrons-proud-new-member/)

[bob10]

The Batoota Advocate has a good article on this. I will not post it, because it could upset the ladies. You have to understand the Batoota Advocate is a satirical site.

[rammypluge]

Look how much publicity it has already given Byron. They could get decades of publicity out of it.

Maybe Byron Councillors are learning from Trump.

[Zeros]

That would be politics.

I'm offended by the willfully immature, sexist, boring aesthetics and ridiculous cost of the thing.

Hopefully the 'artist' intended it to be a reflection of the rampant capitalist greed that has swamped the once magnificent and humble place Byron used to be. The irony of which would be its only saving grace, yet still dumfoundingly stupid.

[rick130]

I had to go and check it out today.
Unsurprisingly the photos are taken from the worst possible angle.
Driving along Ewingsdale Dr you can see straight through it, and it's obvious that the covering is like flocks of birds (seagulls?)

This is the main entrance to the arts and trade/industrial area of Byron, so not really out of place either.
Thank god the bloody roundabout is open though, the roadworks have been going for what feels like forever.

[Zeros]

I had to go and check it out today.
Unsurprisingly the photos are taken from the worst possible angle.
Driving along Ewingsdale Dr you can see straight through it, and it's obvious that the covering is like flocks of birds (seagulls?)

This is the main entrance to the arts and trade/industrial area of Byron, so not really out of place either.
Thank god the bloody roundabout is open though, the roadworks have been going for what feels like forever.

Still sounds horrendous - a flock of seagulls on a fat chip?

[trog]

Horrendous , I agree . But for some reason the phrase reminded me of the 80’s synth /hair band of that name 🤢

[rammypluge]

My local contact reckons the "professional whingers" were complaining long before it got built. Reckons it is less phallic than the byron lighthouse.

Maybe we could do with another photo.

[rick130]

Horrendous , I agree . But for some reason the phrase reminded me of the 80’s synth /hair band of that name 🤢

:o
Now you're showing your age :lol2:

[trog]

:o
Now you're showing your age :lol2:

Been in my mid 20’s for thirty years now !

[discorevy]

I can think of a couple of towns the would suit having a giant drive through chocolate starfish at the entrance[bigwhistle]
oh , and one at the exit of course