First time I’ve ever heard of ratepayers. Statues pretty cool though, and if you can have a bloodied guy with nails stuck through him on display, I don’t see this as any worse. Won’t somebody think of the children!
Pretty cool statue to be fair.
I say leave it, it’s a cool statue
> “It seems a bit strange for a place like Hillsborough,” he said. “Cernnunos is completely pagan… so it seems strange for Hillsborough.”
> “If you go down to Belcoo [in Fermanagh] you will find a stone which is associated with this, known as the Crom Cruach. On the top of the stone, the first born child of the year was placed and beheaded [as a fertility rite].” There is much local mythology about the site, he said.
So there’s plenty of local history relating to various pagan gods, yet a statue commemorating it isn’t suitable?
““If this character was in a cartoon you would not show it to the kids in case it gave them nightmares,” he said.”
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Shut the fuck up you wet wipe. I used to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog that had scarier and more bizarre things in it. I never had a nightmare.
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First time I’ve ever heard of ratepayers. Statues pretty cool though, and if you can have a bloodied guy with nails stuck through him on display, I don’t see this as any worse. Won’t somebody think of the children!
Pretty cool statue to be fair.
I say leave it, it’s a cool statue
> “It seems a bit strange for a place like Hillsborough,” he said. “Cernnunos is completely pagan… so it seems strange for Hillsborough.”
> “If you go down to Belcoo [in Fermanagh] you will find a stone which is associated with this, known as the Crom Cruach. On the top of the stone, the first born child of the year was placed and beheaded [as a fertility rite].” There is much local mythology about the site, he said.
So there’s plenty of local history relating to various pagan gods, yet a statue commemorating it isn’t suitable?
““If this character was in a cartoon you would not show it to the kids in case it gave them nightmares,” he said.”
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Shut the fuck up you wet wipe. I used to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog that had scarier and more bizarre things in it. I never had a nightmare.