Spanish government says no to testicles for lion statue

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Thatā€™s creative, thinking, Mr Minister.

A natural battery.

Galvanic corrosion is serious business.

It absolutely is, but I believe Truck Nuts are nonconductive, so thereā€™s a possible solution.

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Thereā€™s a sacrificial anode joke in here somewhere.

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Somehow, I read that headline as ā€œtentacles.ā€

Wert is a major asshole.

And is, in fact, the most hated minister EVER in Spanish history.

DaoĆ­z may have no testicles, but Wert has no cojones.

I have a 3 word solution:

Pepperā€™s Ghostā€™s Testicles

Thank you. Carry on.

May I interest you in this fine piece of steampunkery?

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why exactly is Wert a major asshole.

In the states, Bushā€™s Justice Minister, John Ashcroft was known for being a bit of a prude, but his attitude towards pornography and nudity was overshadowed by his acquiescence to Torture.and (possibly) the surveillance state.

well, donā€™t let him got to Wall Streetā€¦

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Iā€™d object on the basis of it being a historic piece of art, but the corrosion angle (if true, Iā€™m no metallurgist) is a good reason as well. Itā€™s not like heā€™s arguing to scrape the balls of the other statue.

You donā€™t straighten the Pisa tower, either.

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The Wall Street Bull has testes?!?!

Its disturbing that the sack is somewhat polished.

Dont get me wrong I love a bull market as much as the next guy. But to ā€˜tickle the sackā€™ of a statue in the hopes of a few more bucks is a bit much for me.

Perhaps itā€™s my meager balanceā€¦

Well, Wert has achieved what no other minister of education has achieved ever: to be hated by every single part of the cultural and educational world in Spain: students and teachers from kindergarten to university, parents associations both secular and religious, unions and political parties, even in itĀ“s own party!
He is an authoritarian, regressive, sectarian, religious fanatic, nationalistic, narcissistic that wants to impose Catholicism as a obligatory study subject at par with mathematics, he not only promoted the layoff of tens of thousands of teachers (the government says 10.000, unions says 90.000), promoted private institutions over public ones, slashed public funds for schools so there are some educative centres with no money to maintain/repair a heating system or pay cleaning services while diverting great sums of money for religious centres that promote segregation by sex, has proposed copayment for high school exams, slashed scholarships on both national and international level (Erasmus Programme), decided not to pay scholarships already granted until the EU came and threatened Spain with heavy fines, he wanted the Catalonian students to ā€œadopt the ways of the Spanishā€, he said that overcrowded classrooms were good for students because ā€œthey could socialise moreā€, he suppressed ā€œEducation for Citizenshipā€, a subject on democracy, human rights, sexual and cultural diversity and swapped it with other that doesnā€™t ever knowledges that gay people exist, and funded a biographical dictionary of Spain that not only didnā€™t mention that Francisco Franco was a dictator but also lauded him as ā€œsaver of the motherlandā€.
Basically he is doing all everything he can to set back the Spanish educative system 70 years, to the good old days of Franco and National Catholicism.
So he has being declared ā€œPersona non grataā€ in every cultural event. In the last national annual film awards (Goya Awards) he declared that he couldnā€™t assist to the ceremony because he already had an appointment with the United Kingdom department of education in London, but when reporters contacted the department they were told that that was false.

TL;DR: He is a national catholic fascist and a coward.

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You think thatā€™s polished, you should see Victor Noirā€™s crotch.

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So bad all around. Makes one doubt the corrosion story.

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