Yet Another Reason Why I Oppose "Public Art"

If you live in a land down under, the town of Yarra to be exact, you are the proud (?) new owners of a six foot tall statue of...a banana! A banana with a skull carved into it. Wait a minute...to inspire you to drive more carefully?

The council splashed $22,000 to create the sculpture, which was part of a Transport Accident Commission (TAC) grant. The artwork is part of an initiative to activate and improve road safety...

Road Safety? Yeah. Right!

Because nothing says I'm going to pay more attention to my driving than, "Look over there! Is that a statue of a skull carved into a giant banana?"

Twenty two thousand dollars?? This is where we need Mick Dundee to step up and say, " 'Ats not a banana! This is a banana!" Communities that have to live with "public art" should have the final say of what gets foisted on their communities. Or better yet, don't have any taxpayer funded art. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France, but private funds paid for the pedestal. If the people want it badly enough, they'll pay for it themselves!

Crocodile Matt D.

Matt Damon is moving his family to Australia, because he hates Australians, er, Trump! Maybe he could invite some of his liberal friends to join him? Australia used to be a colony populated by criminals. Damon's #MeToo buddies might fit right in?

109 Year Old Australian Man Knits Sweaters for Injured Penguins

Wow, a 109-year-old Australian man, Alfred "Alfie" Date has been knitting since the 1930s, and knits sweaters for endangered penguins!


I kid you not.

Update: Mr. Date turned 110 last November

Peters and Weiners and Bare, Oh, My!

From the "You can't make this stuff up" department, an Australian politician named "Peter" has had to resign after sexting a picture of his "down under" in a glass of red wine.

We may have found the Australian version of Anthony Weiner. Peter Dowling, a member of the Queensland parliament in Australia, ended up resigning in disgrace this week after he got caught in a sexting scandal of his own. But it wasn’t just that detail that got him in trouble, it was also his misuse of government travel funds with the woman he was having the affair with, and the fact that in one of the sexts he had his penis in a glass of red wine.

Dowling, who, by the way, used to chair the Ethics committee, was caught after his mistress, Fiona Simpson, sent a letter to the parliament detailing exactly what kind of scandalous activity he was up to.

(Emphasis mine)

Perhaps, he should have gone with a nice Chardonnay???

Cross posted at LCR.