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Posted: 10/31/2018 11:57:24 AM EDT
The "Statue of Unity", a 600' tall paunchy, slouching figure of Sardar Patel, first Deputy Prime Minister of India who did most of the skull cracking for Gandhi necessary to lash India together and then was largely forgotten by most of the rest of the world, has been inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Modi. Aside from old scars from his enforcer days and eye popping cost for an ego stroke in a nation afflicted by poverty, the statue has been criticized for being skinned in 1700 tons of bronze panels made in China, as India lacks foundries capable of manufacturing them.
AFP Financial Express Indian and Chinese troops sporadically shoot at each other along their mountainous border, the Chinese having an upper hand thanks to recent logistical improvements. The countries eye each other as possible adversaries in a major war. Chinese oil supply routes pass India in extreme vulnerability and one of the primary goals of the Chinese naval build up is to thoroughly overmatch the Indian Navy, and the Chinese are indeed pulling well ahead. Inaugural confetti: Under construction - compare the foot to the next photo for scale: Unintentionally symbolic quality control before applying about a million pounds of caulk: Attached File The detail around the eyes, though, is impressive as shit when you realize how big it is. |
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Waste of $$ and buying from your future enemy seems even more so.
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One day in the future, someone will find that sticking out of the sand by the surf and scream "YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!"
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Pretty cool, especially since it wasn't my money. View Quote Still $100 million/yr as of 2013 |
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It won't be long before the locals start to scrap it for cash for the bronze.
That's a hell of a statue but the sculptor who created the model for it should have at least TRIED to make it a bit more heroic. Not Superman level, but a slightly smaller gut, diminished wrinkles, better posture...the statue looks like somebody who is thinking "I need to take a shit...or maybe I just did, in my pants." . |
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The fitment between those panels is atrocious. 400 million and it looks like that?
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In a year or two they will discover it is riddled with electronic spy devices and communication jammers.
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My Indian coworker is going off. She said Patel was “useless”.
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To be fair, our Statue of Liberty came from France, so I'm not sure how much room we have for trash talk. However, I must say that thing is ugly as sin. It looks like a modern art piece intended to make some snide remark about something. Now don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to date the Statue of Liberty, but she does make a handsome monument.
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/aid_jpg-723207.JPG Still $100 million/yr as of 2013 View Quote |
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In before an earthquake or a Pakistani terrorist group knocks it down.
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LOL.... both nations are Nuclear Powers and have millions of people shit in the streets.
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It is the subtle look of disappointment in the subject's face that really pulls this all together.
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To be fair, our Statue of Liberty came from France, so I'm not sure how much room we have for trash talk. However, I must say that thing is ugly as sin. It looks like a modern art piece intended to make some snide remark about something. Now don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to date the Statue of Liberty, but she does make a handsome monument. View Quote India paid a military rival to make that statue for them -- they funded their enemy. |
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Pretty cool, especially since it wasn't my money. View Quote https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/IND This is of course the type of project that makes you question giving aid. Just to drag it off topic a little though... Caravan countries. https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/GTM https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/SLV https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/HND https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/MEX |
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They can put it in the river of garbage.
Disgusting filthy shit hole. I will never in my life go there again. The air smells like shit. Really, like fucking shit. |
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So did they build it first in china then cut it apart with torches to ship to India
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Only Indians could find that inspiring. It’s a very strange culture. Very strange indeed.
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Headline in the near future:
600 killed in statue collapse Approximately 600 were killed today along with dozens injured in the collapse of the “Statue of Unity”. Workers died from falls from home-made scaffolds and ladders as well as being crushed by the falling statue. The victims were involved in the illegal scrapping of the statue materials, which included bronze and steel in order to try and feed themselves. One man we talked to after the tragedy was excited, “All this debris covers such a large area! Can you just imagine the areas to poo in now!” |
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Wow 400 million. They could've installed a toilet in every Indian household, along with the plumbing and sewer system
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And yet most of them shit in the street or on the beach and wipe their asses with their hands.
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They could've built the greatest statue of an Indian ever, but no. https://i.imgur.com/3Bpzb5I.jpg View Quote For those that don't know, there was a bug in the original Civilization game where in the code Ghandi had an "aggressiveness" set at 1 on a scale of 0 to 255. However if you subtract 2 from 1 you don't wind up with -1 when using an 8 bit integer, you wind up with 255. So in most games Ghandi would usually go below zero and the number would wrap around making Ghandi an EXTREMELY aggressive asshole dropping nukes on people left and right for even the most MINOR of reasons. The Civ development team has kept the joke running by making Ghandi kind of an asshole in ever version of the game. |
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The fitment between those panels is atrocious. 400 million and it looks like that? View Quote |
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What a waste of money. I wonder if it's built like the buildings in their ghost cities.
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That is the best bug in a video game ever. For those that don't know, there was a bug in the original Civilization game where in the code Ghandi had an "aggressiveness" set at 1 on a scale of 0 to 255. However if you subtract 2 from 1 you don't wind up with -1 when using an 8 bit integer, you wind up with 255. So in most games Ghandi would usually go below zero and the number would wrap around making Ghandi an EXTREMELY aggressive asshole dropping nukes on people left and right for even the most MINOR of reasons. The Civ development team has kept the joke running by making Ghandi kind of an asshole in ever version of the game. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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They could've built the greatest statue of an Indian ever, but no. https://i.imgur.com/3Bpzb5I.jpg For those that don't know, there was a bug in the original Civilization game where in the code Ghandi had an "aggressiveness" set at 1 on a scale of 0 to 255. However if you subtract 2 from 1 you don't wind up with -1 when using an 8 bit integer, you wind up with 255. So in most games Ghandi would usually go below zero and the number would wrap around making Ghandi an EXTREMELY aggressive asshole dropping nukes on people left and right for even the most MINOR of reasons. The Civ development team has kept the joke running by making Ghandi kind of an asshole in ever version of the game. |
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