Are students more grown up and serious now than almost 20 years ago when I was one? We would given our full support for that thing, and thought it was extremely funny. Fuck! 20 years.
Perhaps if the students are told it’s someone playing Quidditch they’ll be more on board with it.
This is the UK and it should be funny for all ages and all genders
Just The Guardian having a moment
What reputation?! xD
With a statue like this on campus , people will think imperial’s students are all blokes.
Jesus Christ, what kind of boring students would _oppose_ “phallic” statues?
Cerne Abbas Giant, watch your back mate they’ll be coming for you next 🙂
Lol it’s imperial. I was there for 5 years and some of the people I met were the most stuck up, boring people on earth. A minority I might add, but the nature of imperial attracts them.
Luckily I managed to find a good bunch/work behind the bar, but some people don’t know how to live life, just solve nth-order derivatives and complain about those having fun
Amazing stuff. Impressed the visualisation artist restrained from using a silhouette whose gaze was purely on the giant steel cock.
I’m glad the Guardian blurred out the penis on the silhouette, so that it didn’t offend anyone. Whew.
Why are young people such prudes these days? I blame social media. These are the same people who think a 25 year old dating an 18 year old is “paedophilia.”
Isn’t this abstract art 101 – check that it doesn’t look like a sexual organ?
It usually does, that is the central challenge of abstract art.
Anybody can arrange some random shapes. The skill is doing it in a way that doesn’t look like a dick.
Students have a terrible reputation as it is… How would this damage it?
Took me a while to see it as someone squatting, as opposed to more elaborate bodyweight exercises.
But penis? No. From that angle it looks more like a mildly constipated man trying to carry a girder that is a bit too heavy. Maybe he has a hernia rather than constipation though?
I dunno what is going on with the kids at Imperial or what kind of penises they’ve encountered, because I feel like I’m probably more penis-brained than average and yet I’m struggling to interpret it as penis even with diagrams, a photograph, and the Guardian illustration so helpfully provided to accompany the article.
Though I do enjoy that they gone direct to penis, from something at the wrong location relative to the rest of the body, and which is nearly as big as the figure is tall. Amazing.
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Are students more grown up and serious now than almost 20 years ago when I was one? We would given our full support for that thing, and thought it was extremely funny. Fuck! 20 years.
Perhaps if the students are told it’s someone playing Quidditch they’ll be more on board with it.
This is the UK and it should be funny for all ages and all genders
Just The Guardian having a moment
What reputation?! xD
With a statue like this on campus , people will think imperial’s students are all blokes.
Jesus Christ, what kind of boring students would _oppose_ “phallic” statues?
Cerne Abbas Giant, watch your back mate they’ll be coming for you next 🙂
Lol it’s imperial. I was there for 5 years and some of the people I met were the most stuck up, boring people on earth. A minority I might add, but the nature of imperial attracts them.
Luckily I managed to find a good bunch/work behind the bar, but some people don’t know how to live life, just solve nth-order derivatives and complain about those having fun
Amazing stuff. Impressed the visualisation artist restrained from using a silhouette whose gaze was purely on the giant steel cock.
I’m glad the Guardian blurred out the penis on the silhouette, so that it didn’t offend anyone. Whew.
Why are young people such prudes these days? I blame social media. These are the same people who think a 25 year old dating an 18 year old is “paedophilia.”
Isn’t this abstract art 101 – check that it doesn’t look like a sexual organ?
It usually does, that is the central challenge of abstract art.
Anybody can arrange some random shapes. The skill is doing it in a way that doesn’t look like a dick.
Students have a terrible reputation as it is… How would this damage it?
Took me a while to see it as someone squatting, as opposed to more elaborate bodyweight exercises.
But penis? No. From that angle it looks more like a mildly constipated man trying to carry a girder that is a bit too heavy. Maybe he has a hernia rather than constipation though?
I dunno what is going on with the kids at Imperial or what kind of penises they’ve encountered, because I feel like I’m probably more penis-brained than average and yet I’m struggling to interpret it as penis even with diagrams, a photograph, and the Guardian illustration so helpfully provided to accompany the article.
Though I do enjoy that they gone direct to penis, from something at the wrong location relative to the rest of the body, and which is nearly as big as the figure is tall. Amazing.
EDIT: needs more penis.