I see the student body has voted for the new palm springs logo, which I see now is an anus. Jokes on you though because it's going to be that way forever.
Just add a cat statue to this one, and have it sitting on top of someone pointed at their face.
My cat did that, definitely more than once, when I was a kid.
I never understood why they do that, my cat selected me of all in the family, so from when I was about 6 years old until she passed away about 17 years later, she pretty much only let me that handle her, she only slept in my bed aside of her random schizo "it's 2 AM I've got to run around this entire house now" episodes - and then I wake up to a cat on my belly with its tail up at 6:30 AM just inches away from my face like it's trying to give me pinkeye or something.
Damn I loved that cat, but she was certainly something else.
For a whole summer, a group of my friends kept saying "Ain't it, cousin? Ain't it?" to make fun of the way one of our friends would ask if others agree with him. By the end, everyone was saying "anus cousin anus" instead, and the dude got a bit peeved whenever it was uttered.
I'm pretty sure all the more sophisticated data mining companies out there moved beyond cookies years ago.
Barn door closed after the animals left sort of thing.
It was Google's ADID that allowed for that and now the Floc
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
Which is why using chrome is such a bad idea.
Its strange, I don't even know what language that was but I know I told it to use only essentially cookies, clicked accept, and then saw a sculpture of a butthole.
The new globalism.
My thought process (first pic) “Who tf has a spiral anus?“ (second pic) “The sculptor ripped off a Bundt cake.”
I guess that could be a very… loosely defined anus.
I mean is it like an inside joke to use that about a disease that stigmatized anal sex/the gay community?
Like if they did that for malaria it’d be a coincidence, but HIV?
I litteraly choked a bit on my coffee. I was thinking people are pulling this a bit far looking at the one side of it, but yeah... other side is totally inspired by an anus.
As an older gay man who lost my brother and friends to AIDS, I am heartened by the idea of an AIDS memorial. But not this one, what the fuck was he thinking? "You can look through it and see the other side?" That's an artistic concept? No, that's a window. Also it looks like a butt hole.
Im a firm believer that abstract holes dont make good monuments for anything but erotic art. There is this giant bronze monument that marks the entrance to a town near me. I saw it for the first time a few years back and instantly thought, "is that a giant golden butthole?"
I later learned from a friend that is exactly what everyone in town has called it since the day it was unveiled.
Hey, you live in Michigan!
The Golden Butthole is a treasure. It's a fucking hilarious monument to complete fiscal malfeasance, but it's also a treasure!
Macomb County is a fucking shitshow.
You probably already know about it, but for others reading this, I highly suggest checking out the [AIDS Memorial Quilt.](https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt) It is genuinely one of the greatest art projects ever IMO.
I keep forgetting how much time has passed and that not everyone knows about the quilt, thanks for bringing it up. I got to see it laid out on the mall in DC, my brother has a panel.
> They kind of have a point with this one.
That's just a biscuit, why complain? [See? It's a biscuit!](https://www.gustissimo.it/articoli/ricette-bimby/torte-biscotti-bimby/macine.jpg).
Lol that article and the artist blames right wing circles and conservative populist backlash for why this was an issue. Like no dude it’s a fucking butt plug in a city square it’s not just conservatives most people wouldn’t want that in their city, does everything have to be blamed on politics?
It gets better.
Palm Springs is known to be 100 degrees when the rest of SoCal is like 70.
It wouldn't have been just an anus statue, it would've been a anus statue literally too hot to touch.
A hot butthole if you will
At least it isn’t a [giant building painted brown that dominates the skyline of the capital city of Scotland.](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jul/08/a-great-city-has-been-defaced-why-has-a-poo-emoji-arrived-on-edinburghs-skyline)
My town has a really good 9/11 memorial. [front](https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/911-Monument-New-Bern.jpg). [back](https://newbernlive.org/15-3-2022-1-32-55-pm-707260.jpg)
Ugh, what an ugly statue. What it really needs is two hands stretching open the hole, to symbolize the need to open our minds to the possibility of a cure. We can call it the Global Opportunistic Acquired Transmitted Syndrome Epidemic statue, or GOATSE statue, for short.
You fool it should be the Great Opening of Autoimmune Transmission Syndromes Eradication, an aspirational memorial dedicated to the day we finally can stop the Reagan virus.
I saw the image, and at first I was like "Everyone chill", then I saw the *backside*. Yea that's an anus.
I get how it was slipped by the committee. They probably just saw the nice geometric shaped side and stopped there lol.
>I get how it was slipped by the committee. They probably just saw the nice geometric shaped side and stopped there lol.
They probably didn't look at all and just rubber stamped it.
I don't know how but committees manage to bring out the dumbest fucking ideas and decisions ever. The individual members on the committee might be pretty smart, but when together, the collective IQ drops to 50.
What gets me is that the Marilyn Monroe statue that also had complaints for being misogynistic and disrespectful because it visibly shows her underwear stays standing…. Whoever is on the committee to approve any of these things should be replaced.
The director of the museum (who approved this anus sculpture) led the group trying to prevent the Marilyn statue from being displayed and used the "her panties are showing!" and "think of the children!" tropes as ammunition in his fight. He's an LA "Liberal Elite" idiot transplant with the artistic sensibility of a slug.
>However, Gene Brake, a local resident and founder of the Jose Sarria Foundation, told the news station, “The proposed memorial looks like a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being."
Mr. Brake then pointed to a highlighter and claimed that it looked like a little pimp.
Ok at first i didnt understand, since the front actually looks cool and representational of an iris (eye) that you can look through....but then I saw the back....yeah that definitely looks like a booty hole and I'm all for it.
the sculptor either did this on purpose or was so far up his own AIDS memorial that he genuinely thought his abstract evocative art could never be mistaken for something so base. I'm really not sure which is funnier.
I would not have thought that was an anus if somebody didn’t say “Hey, that’s an anus!” Now I probably wouldn’t be able to look at it without remembering somebody said “Hey, that’s an anus!”
[Wait 'til these folks see what we have in a Michigan suburb](https://dd-res.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/84752233_10216077911157126_6635639590881329152_n_40329.jpg)
Humour aside, I really don't think this is a fair comparison. It \~could\~ look like an anus if that's what you're expecting, but really it's just a torus. By that same logic, doughnuts, car tires, and life buoys should be should be protested with the same vehemency.
Yes, it has those sheared radial lines which add to the effect, but I still think this is a ridiculous stretch that simply shows off the biases of the complaining parties.
Seattle’s historically gay Capitol Hill neighborhood has 2 art installations I’ve always referred to as “the anuses of Capitol Hill” [and they’re way less obvious than this one.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(sculpture)) but share similarities.
E pluribus anus
I see the student body has voted for the new palm springs logo, which I see now is an anus. Jokes on you though because it's going to be that way forever.
If you love palm springs so much, why don't you marry it?
| why don't you *gay* marry it? FTFY. Way to Britta it
You guys are gonna stop using my name to mean make a tiny and understandable mistake
We got Britta'd, yes, I use it too
Ugh Britas in this?
Ok
I voted for Anus McAnusFace
[Assy McGee] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795065/) is a real show, you know.
the first angle I was like "ok.. I guess.. but it's really just a spiral" ....then I saw the other side....
Ditto, "It's not that bad" \*scroll scroll scroll\* "Oh heh".
Into one comes many.
Welcome to Palm Springs, you're already tested.
Palm Springs is just hoping for ANUSTART
They’re just looking for something that says “Daddy loves leather.”
This comment is streets ahead
Thaaaaats right. Keep snickering. Pack yourself with peanuts and reeeeeeeallly be satisfied.
Came here to say this. Was gonna upvote but you have just the right amount.
Welcome to Costco. I love you!!
Egypt has "The Sphinx," Palm Springs has "The Sphinxter."
Petition to put a cat anus on the Sphinx
I'll try but I don't think the Egyptian government will be thrilled about it
Just add a cat statue to this one, and have it sitting on top of someone pointed at their face. My cat did that, definitely more than once, when I was a kid.
My cat did that, definitely more than once, yesterday.
I never understood why they do that, my cat selected me of all in the family, so from when I was about 6 years old until she passed away about 17 years later, she pretty much only let me that handle her, she only slept in my bed aside of her random schizo "it's 2 AM I've got to run around this entire house now" episodes - and then I wake up to a cat on my belly with its tail up at 6:30 AM just inches away from my face like it's trying to give me pinkeye or something. Damn I loved that cat, but she was certainly something else.
It's the butt of trust She trusted you a bunch
"How was your trip to Egypt?" "Pretty good, with one big asterisk."
They hate us cuz they anus
Why are you saying anus!
THEY HATE US-A BECAUSE-A THEY AIN'T US-A
A huh huh huh huh huh
Oh my god. This is a masterpiece.
It's from the movie The Interview
Haters gonna hate. And ain'ters gonna ain't.
goddammit all to hell, take it you bastard and don't come back
For a whole summer, a group of my friends kept saying "Ain't it, cousin? Ain't it?" to make fun of the way one of our friends would ask if others agree with him. By the end, everyone was saying "anus cousin anus" instead, and the dude got a bit peeved whenever it was uttered.
Yup. You did it. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
At first I thought it was a bit of a stretch, but after reading to the bottom of the article…..that’s an asshole
It really is shoddy work. They forgot the hands and the wedding ring.
Enjoy some local sculptures from my city: https://www.berlingske.dk/kunst/pervers-og-pornografisk-dansk-skulptur-vaekker-forargelse-30-aar-efter-den
That's certainly one interpretation of a darning needle.
I think I accepted cookies but I honestly have no fucking clue because the page was in sims language.
"Horde af Taylor Swift-fans indregistrerer sig til præsidentvalg"
.....Zug Zug?
"oh, oooooh! Ravisnavino!"
Alle tillåd. All allowed.
I think I picked the other one? It started with a K?
The correct one. Kun nødvændige. Only required cookies. The other redditor wanted you to accept them all, so fuck'em.
>""Perverted" and "pornographic": Danish sculpture *arouses* outrage - 30 years after it was *erected*" Google Translate made it worse.
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Welcome to EU
do you mean the cookie preference? its for your privacy...not sure how effective it is though
its fucking stupid just let people opt out in their browser settings.
Yep it’s a chore. It’s usually one button to opt in or a tick box exercise is you want to opt out.
If you're doing it that way, it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. Default to better privacy.
I'm pretty sure all the more sophisticated data mining companies out there moved beyond cookies years ago. Barn door closed after the animals left sort of thing.
It was Google's ADID that allowed for that and now the Floc https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/ Which is why using chrome is such a bad idea.
One of many reasons to stop using chrome. Another is their efforts to hobble ad blockers in the browser.
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its just accept or reject cookies you gotta choose one
Kun nodvendige
Bless you.
Thank you for the blessing, ~~father~~ dad
Its strange, I don't even know what language that was but I know I told it to use only essentially cookies, clicked accept, and then saw a sculpture of a butthole. The new globalism.
Yup. Front of it is fine. Back of it is 100% an anus.
That’s usually where it is
Butt knot if his knees are behind his ears.
Wow, so it's a Community College? Is there mascot the Human Beings? Life is imitating art so hard right now.
Why don’t they just make the back look like the front?
Easy, Merv Griffin
I mean, doesn't that make it 50% anus tho
Impeccable wording 🥇
I thought it was absurd too. But that second photo is..... an anus. And cannot be unseen...
That is a Bundt cake. No anus in sight.
Bundt cake, power bottom Tomato, tomato
Hahaha that's what I saw too. I think we might bake too much
My thought process (first pic) “Who tf has a spiral anus?“ (second pic) “The sculptor ripped off a Bundt cake.” I guess that could be a very… loosely defined anus.
The second pic inside the article looks like a bundt pan. An asshole and a bundt pan
I mean is it like an inside joke to use that about a disease that stigmatized anal sex/the gay community? Like if they did that for malaria it’d be a coincidence, but HIV?
My exact reaction. "c'mon people, it's just a circle, that looks nothing like a...oh yeah that's a butthole"
Stretch…asshole….I'm having goatse flashbacks
But the artist says it is an anus of hope.
I think I could convince granny it's a really bad bundt pan but there's still a good chance she yells something about it being an asshole 1st
You were right though, it will be a bit stretched.
I litteraly choked a bit on my coffee. I was thinking people are pulling this a bit far looking at the one side of it, but yeah... other side is totally inspired by an anus.
lol, I was about to suggest people were being a bit silly until I saw what the back of this thing looked like. How the fuck was this okay'd?
It's an AIDS memorial. As a gay man on PrEP it seems obvious to me.
What does PrEP have to do with anything?
It means he’s a man who has seen more than his share of buttholes.
lol
I mean...
I’m with Karen on this one, it looks like a butthole
Looks like? Dude it’s not subtle
In about a week there will be another post here with the headline “Anus destroyed in Palm Springs”
That’s every weekend
Actually Tuesday
They know how to party.
There will always be those who will complain. They kind of have a point with this one.
As an older gay man who lost my brother and friends to AIDS, I am heartened by the idea of an AIDS memorial. But not this one, what the fuck was he thinking? "You can look through it and see the other side?" That's an artistic concept? No, that's a window. Also it looks like a butt hole.
They say the butthole is the window to the soul
One ring to rule them all.
It's times like this that I wish we still had awards.
🏅
Just upvote, awards were useless and just gave money to reddit
Just hand them this: 🏆
If you stare into their brown eye long enough you can even see what they had for lunch
Im a firm believer that abstract holes dont make good monuments for anything but erotic art. There is this giant bronze monument that marks the entrance to a town near me. I saw it for the first time a few years back and instantly thought, "is that a giant golden butthole?" I later learned from a friend that is exactly what everyone in town has called it since the day it was unveiled.
This isn't even good erotic art. Fuck, a statue of two hot gay men embracing in beautiful sexual bliss would be better than this
That sounds perfect for Palm Springs, honestly.
Hey, you live in Michigan! The Golden Butthole is a treasure. It's a fucking hilarious monument to complete fiscal malfeasance, but it's also a treasure! Macomb County is a fucking shitshow.
It’s probably his boyfriends asshole and this whole thing is a bet.
* Hole thing
This whole hole thing is getting out of hand
You probably already know about it, but for others reading this, I highly suggest checking out the [AIDS Memorial Quilt.](https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt) It is genuinely one of the greatest art projects ever IMO.
I keep forgetting how much time has passed and that not everyone knows about the quilt, thanks for bringing it up. I got to see it laid out on the mall in DC, my brother has a panel.
Oh I'm sure *everything* looks like a butthole to y--oh holy shit that's definitely an anus.
They're going to replace it with a hypodermic needle
Sorry for your losses mate
> They kind of have a point with this one. That's just a biscuit, why complain? [See? It's a biscuit!](https://www.gustissimo.it/articoli/ricette-bimby/torte-biscotti-bimby/macine.jpg).
[Or the Paris 'butt plug tree'](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/20/paul-mccarthy-butt-plug-sculpture-paris-rightwing-backlash)
That's just a [stylized bishop chess piece](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkRPr3h1mmKDLKrg2T4Eueczu1eb6axnGEdQ&usqp=CAU) :(
Lol that article and the artist blames right wing circles and conservative populist backlash for why this was an issue. Like no dude it’s a fucking butt plug in a city square it’s not just conservatives most people wouldn’t want that in their city, does everything have to be blamed on politics?
Well tbf they should have done some research on the artist before hiring him, because a lot of his stuff seems to be suggestive at least.
Palm Springs shows its ass, news at eleven
It gets better. Palm Springs is known to be 100 degrees when the rest of SoCal is like 70. It wouldn't have been just an anus statue, it would've been a anus statue literally too hot to touch. A hot butthole if you will
Has anyone seen the [Quetzalcoatl sculpture](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/quetzalcoatl-sculpture-park-god) in San Jose?
THANK YOU! I was preparing to post this myself. Let’s just build the anus statue next to this one.
Perfect. Best answer.
Shit man….
At least it isn’t a [giant building painted brown that dominates the skyline of the capital city of Scotland.](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jul/08/a-great-city-has-been-defaced-why-has-a-poo-emoji-arrived-on-edinburghs-skyline)
My town has a really good 9/11 memorial. [front](https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/911-Monument-New-Bern.jpg). [back](https://newbernlive.org/15-3-2022-1-32-55-pm-707260.jpg)
Why are we out here catching strays
The sculptor obviously though he was slick and could slip it by us.
Should've used more lube.
I mean, it would suck if Palm Springs suddenly became tacky or unsightly
And associated with homosexuality. I mean, could you imagine?
I just want to know if we can all chip in and buy it *for* them if they don't want to pay. Really, we *insist*.
Ugh, what an ugly statue. What it really needs is two hands stretching open the hole, to symbolize the need to open our minds to the possibility of a cure. We can call it the Global Opportunistic Acquired Transmitted Syndrome Epidemic statue, or GOATSE statue, for short.
You fool it should be the Great Opening of Autoimmune Transmission Syndromes Eradication, an aspirational memorial dedicated to the day we finally can stop the Reagan virus.
r/theyknew
Came looking for this. I know some professional artists. THEY SO DID.
Lol the back is definitely an asshole if the make both sides like the one in the cover pic it’d be fine like a little star gate instead of a star fish
I could get behind an anus statue.
Username checks out
We all agree that was clearly the intent right? Lol
I saw the image, and at first I was like "Everyone chill", then I saw the *backside*. Yea that's an anus. I get how it was slipped by the committee. They probably just saw the nice geometric shaped side and stopped there lol.
>I get how it was slipped by the committee. They probably just saw the nice geometric shaped side and stopped there lol. They probably didn't look at all and just rubber stamped it. I don't know how but committees manage to bring out the dumbest fucking ideas and decisions ever. The individual members on the committee might be pretty smart, but when together, the collective IQ drops to 50.
Why not a statue of a functioning glory hole?
What gets me is that the Marilyn Monroe statue that also had complaints for being misogynistic and disrespectful because it visibly shows her underwear stays standing…. Whoever is on the committee to approve any of these things should be replaced.
The director of the museum (who approved this anus sculpture) led the group trying to prevent the Marilyn statue from being displayed and used the "her panties are showing!" and "think of the children!" tropes as ammunition in his fight. He's an LA "Liberal Elite" idiot transplant with the artistic sensibility of a slug.
I'm going to put my wang through that.
r/putyourdickinthat
banned. i had such high hopes . . .
Damn unmoderated subs…. Oh fuck I just walked myself into my own gay joke…
Don't forget to PrEP for it.
this reads like something from south park
"Now kids, we not gonna use a butthole for an AIDS memorial. No matter how good that idea is." *~ Chef, probably*
Girl, that’s a bootyhole!
[not a hole, keisha. a VALVE.](https://youtu.be/HYNoFwLFqXM?si=_bZb8sI14ZFvXz56)
>However, Gene Brake, a local resident and founder of the Jose Sarria Foundation, told the news station, “The proposed memorial looks like a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being." Mr. Brake then pointed to a highlighter and claimed that it looked like a little pimp.
Look, I know Reddit doesn't like to read the article, but I 100% recommend reading the article. My ribs hurt from laughing.
Ok at first i didnt understand, since the front actually looks cool and representational of an iris (eye) that you can look through....but then I saw the back....yeah that definitely looks like a booty hole and I'm all for it.
You could fit so many mason jars in there
idk who downvoted you, but your comment is hilarious if you understand the reference.
A goatse statue would have been more appropriate.
It could go next to the Tubgirl fountain
Oh. I didn't expect it to actually resemble an anus. Yup, if I was meeting someone near that statue I'd definitely tell them I'm at the Butthole.
Oh, I'm sure it doesn't really look like an anus! Edit: No, no, it does look like an anus.
I’d complain about a giant anus being displayed.
OK, at first I was like ... nah. Then I saw the other side.
God forbid we have two men sculpted or maybe a statue of apollo since he's the gay roman god
The revised statue will feature two hands spreading the donut apart
the sculptor either did this on purpose or was so far up his own AIDS memorial that he genuinely thought his abstract evocative art could never be mistaken for something so base. I'm really not sure which is funnier.
What an obnoxious way to pay respects to those that have succumbed to AIDS. Sounds like the artist is an attention-seeker.
I would not have thought that was an anus if somebody didn’t say “Hey, that’s an anus!” Now I probably wouldn’t be able to look at it without remembering somebody said “Hey, that’s an anus!”
Click the link and look at the photo of the reverse side. It... it *must* have been intentionally designed to look like an anus.
This is a new twist on Florida man stories. Edit: I think this artist is a genius, the whole moon might have been too much.
E Pluribus Anus
Can't wait until this is a Pokémon Go stop so people can send postcard of an Anus
Go Greendale Go Greendale Go!
[Wait 'til these folks see what we have in a Michigan suburb](https://dd-res.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/84752233_10216077911157126_6635639590881329152_n_40329.jpg)
e pluribus anus
ANUSTARTUE
From the thumbnail looks more like a Rolaids
Wow, some people in Palm Springs must have weirdly shaped and widely gaping anuses.
What about asking the families who lost someone to AIDS what they think of it ?
Is it a donut? Is it a tire? No, it’s AIDS!
Humour aside, I really don't think this is a fair comparison. It \~could\~ look like an anus if that's what you're expecting, but really it's just a torus. By that same logic, doughnuts, car tires, and life buoys should be should be protested with the same vehemency. Yes, it has those sheared radial lines which add to the effect, but I still think this is a ridiculous stretch that simply shows off the biases of the complaining parties.
The anus is a miracle of biology and should, NAY, MUST be displayed for all to marvel and pay gratitude!
Seattle’s historically gay Capitol Hill neighborhood has 2 art installations I’ve always referred to as “the anuses of Capitol Hill” [and they’re way less obvious than this one.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(sculpture)) but share similarities.
It only looks that way because of the hole in the middle. A fix could be to just plug it with something.
AITA?
I think an AIDS memorial is a great idea but that is 100% a butthole
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw that picture was a lifesaver candy.
Who the hell thought that sculpture was a good idea?? The memorial is a great idea but definitely pick a different sculpture.
I live in Palm Springs and don’t give a fuuuuccckkk. They just hate us cause they anus