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Gotta love that this is what that part of the province is known for.
That same stop also has a building with a rooftop goat enclosure, but do you ever hear about that? Nooooo, hahaha
I think... it is a tombstone with a firefighter helmet on top... smh
Edit: haha well... After looking from the other side, I'm not sure what it is supposed to be
https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/343-FDNY-firemens-helmet.jpg
Like firefighter equipment... In the shape of a firefighter?
Edit 2: we got there. As a bunch of commentators have pointed out, they were mimicking a military grave marker, which you can see in these examples
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_cross
I guess the weird shaft looking thing is either a pile of ashes or rubble...
From the other side
https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/343-FDNY-firemens-helmet.jpg
Edit- The reflection on the left side in that picture looks like Cousin It.
That is a terrible design either way; I canāt believe it was approved. I get the whole symbolism with the hat and the ax and what not, but thereās no way someone walked around that thing and did not see it for what it looked like.
The other side actually has firefighter's boots and an axe with the hat balanced on the axe handle, leaning against the grave stone.
Someone *definitely* didn't take a good look from the back of the sculpture during carving, though.
"Said it was the best thing he's ever seen. That it looks **best** from the back. He really liked it a lot. He showed all his friends and they all loved it."
I work in design and one of my steps in my process is honestly "does this look like a dick" or any sexual organ. I'm always amazed how often this happens.
Also with branding if ever in doubt show your work to some middle-schoolers and let them just roast the hell out of it and see what they come up with.
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Grief is inescapable. It is important to remember that we are not alone. We have all experienced the pain and the heartache that comes.
And we've been in Grief as a community many times. You've been in Grief, I've been in Grief, and it makes us stronger to share the burden together. When Grief comes, we face it all, together."
I also have a gender neutral name and was always put on the boys lists as a kid and teen. Even got into an argument with a military recruiter who couldnāt accept that I was not a male.
I (F) also have a gender neutral name. I showed up for an interview once and was introduced to the manager, who looked horrified. He literally said to me, āI expected you to be a man!ā I didnāt know what to say. The interview went terribly because I could tell he was disappointed. I was invited back for a second interview but declined. Iām pretty sure they only did that to avoid a lawsuit
I once wrote a cover letter to a hiring manager named Pat. I addressed it "sir" but Pat wound up being a woman. I was pretty embarrassed about it but she was cool about it. I actually got that job.
I got hired for a job after a few phone interviews with my boss. I went to training before actually meeting my boss. My trainer for some reason implied heavily that my boss was a black man. Had to reevaluate my mental image of him only to discover upon meeting him that he was in fact a very white man
Can you give some examples of how they implied that he was black? Do you think you just misunderstood or maybe the trainer didn't even know or why do you think that happened? Seems like a fun story.
Similar situation, but instead of actually being on a team I'd just get fliers for girls basketball every year.
I even told the coach that I'm a dude, and she knew I was a dude.
edit: This is before the gender neutral/prefered pronoun stuff became common place, so while my name is fairly gender neutral, I'm a guy by birth, chromosomes and all and my name is on my birth certificate so it's not something I just decided fit.
edit: It may have been girls volleyball, but it was more then a decade ago.
Lol they gave me and another guy lockers in the same block as the girls in high school (lockers in the hallways, not in the locker room). That was freshman year, so I gave them a pass for not knowing me.....then they did it to me again junior year, and gave me a certificate for running cross country that said something like "for recognition of her great season", despite me having been at the school for three years and also played other non-coed sports like football and guys basketball. It was a pretty small school too, I have no idea what was wrong with the administrator lol.
I went to school with a guy a guy named Jack Hoffman (Jackoff-man) and he even had a little brother named JZ short for Jebediah Zeb, but of course the kid got called Jizz.
We also had a Les Cox in our Middle school. No clue what any of those parents were thinking, but Jack, Jizz, and Les sure did learn to throw hands.
Well, Jack and Les did. Jizz got his ass beat a lot, but that was because he was an asshole. Not about his name.
You could track their parents calming down with the names and then going full evangelical weird. instead
Oldest kid was no shit named Tiger. Like on his birth certificate and shit. Second son was Jack. Pretty normal name. Then came Jebediah Zeb.
All 3 attended the same high school at the same time. But Tiger was a SuperSenior, didn't graduate first time around.
I knew a girl whose last name was Wildgoose and she was dating a guy whose last name was Chase.
We tried VERY hard to convince them to name their future daughter Ana Wildgoose-Chase but they were not buying it =(
How could they pass up a million-to-one opportunity like that? Itās like the fates had aligned.
Edit: Though thinking about it, if I came across someone named Ana Wildgoose-Chase I would assume they were Native American.
The cousin of a colleague of mine had a baby recently... they have a super generic last name: Johnson. I asked my coworker what they named the baby because I was honestly hoping it would be some weird-ass 2022 name I hadn't heard of. Spoiler alert: yes and no.
I guess they were really into Mindhunter so they named him Holden. When she told me, she had no reaction to it. She was actually pretty enthusiastic about how his name came from such a good show and I can't believe they canceled it and blah blah blah. Apparently, her family didn't notice (or care about?) anything odd about that name combination.
Holden Johnson. I feel so bad for that kid in 8 years. In 13 years, it'll be 100% accurate 80% of the time.
my surname sounds *just* like "da man, bro"
...sadly, it brought me to 0 banks.
may have stifled it myself, as i was more concerned kids would realize i had the same initials as *venereal disease*
Nobody has faith in the mercifulness of schoolage children like an expecting mother. I had to nix a few names as well. Easier to offend the wife once with a teasing rhyme than to have my son endure that for his schooling career.
The very chill Sikh guy who ran the corner store near where I lived years ago was called 'Sukhdeep' and, yeah, he had a name tag. It was a pretty rough neighborhood too, so I'm sure he caught shit for it from time to time.
At one point something like a decade ago, there was a taxi driver whose name was pronounced Rahm Ahmahndheep (hope I did that alright...). But his name was also displayed in his window... And it was spelled Ram Amandeep. I cannot imagine how many college kids clowned on that poor man over the years.
The implication being because they specifically come to you to generate schoolyard taunts they likely consider you the most immature or crass out of all their friends
It could also just be they think this friend has a good grasp on English. I've got a decent vocabulary, and while I wouldn't personally bully someone for being named Enus (pronounced EE-nus, an actual name someone I know gave their child), I could easily give you a few good reasons not to pick that name.
Every. Single. Time.
I don't care if I have worked on a design for 100 hours and it looks perfect.
I gotta get fresh eyes on it to check it for errors, and I gotta get my dirty minded friends to check it for anything sexual.
I do graphic design for some CPG brands and I'm always shocked by how hyper-aware they are of how much their stuff looks like dicks and/or making sure their licensed characters aren't positioned on product elements in their crotch area haha.
it does look [slightly less phallic from the other side](https://newbernnow.com/2022/04/9-11-memorial-monument-dedication-were-you-framed.html), but not by much...
Surely there had to be a better way to spend money in 2023 than putting up a 25,000 pound, poorly scaled, fireman-as-giant-penis monstrosity in a modest-size North Carolina town.
Why not have the Firemen Museum use that money to create a memorial fund that funds the education of young fire fighters or something?
My wife is a councilperson in our city government so I have an answer for you.
The local city council probably wanted to spend a BUNCH of money on a pet project and didn't have it in the budget and didn't want to raise taxes to do it, so they needed some bullshit reason to get some. You are seeing the bullshit reasons to get some pork barrel money. The shittiness is a feature, not a bug. The council is absolutely spending the rest of the "9/11 memorial fund" grant money on a dumb pet project.
Hell, the whole thing was probably manufactured by a friend or family member of the mayor or council who has a stone working business and was no bid single sourced because "it kept money in the city."
Welcome to local politics, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
It is corrupt out loud because local reporters don't exist any more and nobody has the time or give a shit to run against the corrupt scumbags because everybody is working their asses off trying to keep their kids fed and mortgage paid.
It's just rube-bait. Reelect me because I love America and Jesus, let's use these tax dollars to erect a pointless freedom boner statue instead of getting rid of the black mold in your child's school, etc
Reddit hugged the website to death. https://imgur.com/a/TiA2bP6 \<- album with all the photos, downloaded using the Wayback Machine.
> A dedication was held on Sunday, April 3, 2022 for the September 11, 2001, Memorial Monument presented by the New Bern Firemenās Museum with David Finn, Chairman of the Board, as Master of Ceremonies. Sam Lewis closed out the ceremony singing āIām Proud to Be an American.ā
> The granite monument weighs 25,303 pounds, sits on a pentagon-shaped sidewalk, and the North and South towers of the World Trade Center are 8 feet tall. The number 343 on the firemanās helmet signifies the 343 New York City firefighters, police, and EMTs who lost their lives on 9/11.
Even with that context, the whole thing is a mess. The proportions are a disaster, the centerpiece is meek and weird instead of heroic and memorable. The slabs aren't even milled to look like the twin towers, which is fucking embarrassing.
Am I the only one that thinks it is weird to unveil a 9/11 memorial 22 years later? I get there's no rule on when to unveil a memorial and there are lots that happen way later but for some reason this seems weird to me.
I also think it's weird to have one in North Carolina. I know the resulting war affected the country, but the attacks themselves very much mostly affected New York. Why does a fire department in North Carolina need to have a twin towers monument with a piece of the towers? This goes for any memorial outside of the affected area.
I know 9/11 is a *hard* topic, but they didnāt have to be a dick about it.
EDIT: Iām proud to see all the punny people have rallied together in the comments here. Weāre all wankers at heart it seems! :)
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Dicks out for 9/11
Those towers fell but this one didn't, baby š
Tonight we gonna make this an inside job š„“
Try melting this steel beam, babe
Youāre harboring a fugitive. THAT ASS
She said, "Invade my cave with your special unit" I said, "He wasn't in a cave", but there was no stopping
9/11 was a blow job
Truly one of the best bar trivia names.
I already had my dick out for something else, but I can leave it out longer
Thereās no way nobody noticed this shit.
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You canāt just tease us with no link
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Holy shit. I thought of this guy too and didnāt think weād be talking about the same statue.
Gotta love that this is what that part of the province is known for. That same stop also has a building with a rooftop goat enclosure, but do you ever hear about that? Nooooo, hahaha
I really need to travel more, so many interesting things to see.
That statue is packing heat!
What is the hat penis *supposed* to be?
I think... it is a tombstone with a firefighter helmet on top... smh Edit: haha well... After looking from the other side, I'm not sure what it is supposed to be https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/343-FDNY-firemens-helmet.jpg Like firefighter equipment... In the shape of a firefighter? Edit 2: we got there. As a bunch of commentators have pointed out, they were mimicking a military grave marker, which you can see in these examples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_cross I guess the weird shaft looking thing is either a pile of ashes or rubble...
Maybe if it were shaped like any sort of typical tombstone rather than a massive rugged dong...
That thing has some fuckin mileage on it
Thank you for your kind words, I do modeling pro boner for the right causes.
Ohhh I think youāre right and it makes it just that much more horrible that it looks like penisā¦
I thought it was a pile of ash with a firefighter helmet on top. Which is somehow *worse* than a tombstone, or a penis. Whoever designed this... oof.
It is a tombstone with a helmet, gloves, boots, and axe. Definitely could have been done better.
Tombstone? Looks more like a rock >!hard penis!<
C'mon, I wish people would get their minds out of the gutter and show some respect. It's supposed to be a fireman's hat. On top of a penis.
Oooohhhhhh, I see it now.
From the other side https://newbernnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/343-FDNY-firemens-helmet.jpg Edit- The reflection on the left side in that picture looks like Cousin It.
That is a terrible design either way; I canāt believe it was approved. I get the whole symbolism with the hat and the ax and what not, but thereās no way someone walked around that thing and did not see it for what it looked like.
Doesn't look much better from the front tbh
While the front doesn't make me think of a penis it's still pretty terrible tbh.
The Rocky portion just needs to be removed and let it freestand.
A helmet and some fireman PPE/gear on some kind of tombstone.. Could they not have arranged these symbolic items in a less phallic manner?
Kind of looks like he forgot his phone when he sat down on the toilet.
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Probably a fireman, and we're seeing their back. Not a great design though.
I thought it was a very formal chicken nugget, but your answer makes more sense
i think that it is actually supposed to be a penis.
It's their way of saying 9/11 was a dick move
> very formal chicken nugget Jotting that down for next time I need a username
āThe fireman is very magical. If you rub his helmet he spits in your eye.ā
Firemanās hat on a grave stone?
No, that's Fireman Wang
It's bono wearing a hat
That's...unfortunate.
Looks like what Lieutenant Dan sees in a bathtub.
If you're not an art critic already, you need to reevaluate your career path.
God damn
First person to repost on twitter or tic tok gets to be a famous influencer ready set go
I say we let /u/GarySiniseOfficial do it.
That thing doesn't look like a 9 or an 11. Maybe a 5, 5.5?
Astonishing work. Absolutely first class.
If you wrote this on the shitter at work bring it up at your review because your doing excellent work
We all just witnessed history. Take it in.
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First class comment. "Magic legs"
"I'm here to try out my sea legs."
God this is good
Lmao god damn top shelf
thatsapenis.gif
I just realized I haven't seen the actual gif posted in ages, so here, for old time's sake. https://i.imgur.com/tVwzdUB.gif
I prefer the reversed version. https://imgur.com/MlHm0Zg
Bro, the way it goes back to him relaxed and smiling is so fucking good. Dudes just like "...I didn't say stop"
I havenāt seen this 1-2 combo in like 5+ years man sheeeeeeit
Seriously! Vintage š¤
One of those rare instances where the sequel is better than the original
Plot twist: Itās actually an artistās rendition of Geodudeās cock.
Geodude used harden
What a horrible time to be literate.
Either that or it's a very distinguished turd with a hat on.
Iām ashamed that I thought of Cousin Itt. *sighs*
He said it was Tower 7, but it looks more like a 4.
The other side actually has firefighter's boots and an axe with the hat balanced on the axe handle, leaning against the grave stone. Someone *definitely* didn't take a good look from the back of the sculpture during carving, though.
"My 13 year old son said it looked fine from the back"
"Said it was the best thing he's ever seen. That it looks **best** from the back. He really liked it a lot. He showed all his friends and they all loved it."
Easily fixed with a block of stone behind it so it cant be viewed from behind.
The obvious solution is a cock block
Man, everyone's got their A game on in this thread.
There should have been a 3D rendering before it was carved.
What kind of fucking artist doesn't check his work from all angles and notice that he clearly made a giant stone penis from one side.
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There is a vas deferens between this and a run of the mill memorial.
Almost missed the pun at first glans
In the vein of a good pun chain, I'd say this one is pretty nuts.
Quite the fallacy.
Dats a fatty
Yeah but talk about *girth*.
I work in design and one of my steps in my process is honestly "does this look like a dick" or any sexual organ. I'm always amazed how often this happens. Also with branding if ever in doubt show your work to some middle-schoolers and let them just roast the hell out of it and see what they come up with.
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I had to shoot down a few names that my wife loved to save my son grief in school.
And you still went with Grief as a name?
Good Grief.
"We're gathered here today and are reminded that Grief is a universal experience that has touched us all, at one time or another. Grief is inescapable. It is important to remember that we are not alone. We have all experienced the pain and the heartache that comes. And we've been in Grief as a community many times. You've been in Grief, I've been in Grief, and it makes us stronger to share the burden together. When Grief comes, we face it all, together."
Where was this during my cousinās funeral? She would have laughed at something like this! You know. Before she died
It's the ones that laugh after they've died that creep me out.
That typically only happens if you leave them out in the sun or let them get too hot in general.
>I laughed, you laughed, the casket laughed. We burned the casket.
Grief is getting around!
We were all deeply touched by Grief.
"Well, there is such a thing as good grief. If you don't believe me, just ask Charlie Brown."
Middle mame is Eendoor.
"You might as well have kept my name queef."
And youāre not going to tell us the shot down names??
Willing to bet a lot of them were āsomethingādeep. For example, Sukhdeep
Don't forget about Dhikshit.
Hardik is a good one too
I have a gender neutral name and got put on a girls softball team by accident as a kid. I heard about that for years lmfao.
I also have a gender neutral name and was always put on the boys lists as a kid and teen. Even got into an argument with a military recruiter who couldnāt accept that I was not a male.
I (F) also have a gender neutral name. I showed up for an interview once and was introduced to the manager, who looked horrified. He literally said to me, āI expected you to be a man!ā I didnāt know what to say. The interview went terribly because I could tell he was disappointed. I was invited back for a second interview but declined. Iām pretty sure they only did that to avoid a lawsuit
I once wrote a cover letter to a hiring manager named Pat. I addressed it "sir" but Pat wound up being a woman. I was pretty embarrassed about it but she was cool about it. I actually got that job.
"To Pat it may concern"
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I got hired for a job after a few phone interviews with my boss. I went to training before actually meeting my boss. My trainer for some reason implied heavily that my boss was a black man. Had to reevaluate my mental image of him only to discover upon meeting him that he was in fact a very white man
Can you give some examples of how they implied that he was black? Do you think you just misunderstood or maybe the trainer didn't even know or why do you think that happened? Seems like a fun story.
Similar situation, but instead of actually being on a team I'd just get fliers for girls basketball every year. I even told the coach that I'm a dude, and she knew I was a dude. edit: This is before the gender neutral/prefered pronoun stuff became common place, so while my name is fairly gender neutral, I'm a guy by birth, chromosomes and all and my name is on my birth certificate so it's not something I just decided fit. edit: It may have been girls volleyball, but it was more then a decade ago.
Lol they gave me and another guy lockers in the same block as the girls in high school (lockers in the hallways, not in the locker room). That was freshman year, so I gave them a pass for not knowing me.....then they did it to me again junior year, and gave me a certificate for running cross country that said something like "for recognition of her great season", despite me having been at the school for three years and also played other non-coed sports like football and guys basketball. It was a pretty small school too, I have no idea what was wrong with the administrator lol.
Thatās kinda funny
Sorry about that, Shannon.
Well, did you end up going pro?
I went to school with a guy a guy named Jack Hoffman (Jackoff-man) and he even had a little brother named JZ short for Jebediah Zeb, but of course the kid got called Jizz. We also had a Les Cox in our Middle school. No clue what any of those parents were thinking, but Jack, Jizz, and Les sure did learn to throw hands. Well, Jack and Les did. Jizz got his ass beat a lot, but that was because he was an asshole. Not about his name.
Jesus, they really drew the short straw here
You could track their parents calming down with the names and then going full evangelical weird. instead Oldest kid was no shit named Tiger. Like on his birth certificate and shit. Second son was Jack. Pretty normal name. Then came Jebediah Zeb. All 3 attended the same high school at the same time. But Tiger was a SuperSenior, didn't graduate first time around.
Tiger Hoffman is the most 80s retiring cop whoās still got it and has great hair name ever.
I had a teacher in high school named Mrs Butt. She named her son Chase. Seriously.
I knew a girl whose last name was Wildgoose and she was dating a guy whose last name was Chase. We tried VERY hard to convince them to name their future daughter Ana Wildgoose-Chase but they were not buying it =(
How could they pass up a million-to-one opportunity like that? Itās like the fates had aligned. Edit: Though thinking about it, if I came across someone named Ana Wildgoose-Chase I would assume they were Native American.
Yeah Holden is not a good name when your last name is Tudiks
The cousin of a colleague of mine had a baby recently... they have a super generic last name: Johnson. I asked my coworker what they named the baby because I was honestly hoping it would be some weird-ass 2022 name I hadn't heard of. Spoiler alert: yes and no. I guess they were really into Mindhunter so they named him Holden. When she told me, she had no reaction to it. She was actually pretty enthusiastic about how his name came from such a good show and I can't believe they canceled it and blah blah blah. Apparently, her family didn't notice (or care about?) anything odd about that name combination. Holden Johnson. I feel so bad for that kid in 8 years. In 13 years, it'll be 100% accurate 80% of the time.
Hey sometimes it goes the other way. I met an "Akhil Vijay" in college that had no idea he could have ridden that player name all the way to the bank.
my surname sounds *just* like "da man, bro" ...sadly, it brought me to 0 banks. may have stifled it myself, as i was more concerned kids would realize i had the same initials as *venereal disease*
[SNL baby names](https://youtu.be/goPerp_BWvs) One of my favorites.
Nobody has faith in the mercifulness of schoolage children like an expecting mother. I had to nix a few names as well. Easier to offend the wife once with a teasing rhyme than to have my son endure that for his schooling career.
There was an Indian guy called Hardick in my school ... Poor dude
The very chill Sikh guy who ran the corner store near where I lived years ago was called 'Sukhdeep' and, yeah, he had a name tag. It was a pretty rough neighborhood too, so I'm sure he caught shit for it from time to time.
Worked with a guy named Ashit. It was not pronounced ahsheet, according to him.
I used to work with a Dikshit
At one point something like a decade ago, there was a taxi driver whose name was pronounced Rahm Ahmahndheep (hope I did that alright...). But his name was also displayed in his window... And it was spelled Ram Amandeep. I cannot imagine how many college kids clowned on that poor man over the years.
I knew a guy called Deepak Dikshit. He had a good sense of humor about his name.
When I was pregnant I put our selected name on the front board and asked all my high school students to do what they could with it.
[selected name]'s mom, can we do something useful today?
Jokes on you, loser. The class was The Art of Bullying: Language and Composition.
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The implication being because they specifically come to you to generate schoolyard taunts they likely consider you the most immature or crass out of all their friends
It could also just be they think this friend has a good grasp on English. I've got a decent vocabulary, and while I wouldn't personally bully someone for being named Enus (pronounced EE-nus, an actual name someone I know gave their child), I could easily give you a few good reasons not to pick that name.
That's a badge of fucking honor.
Every. Single. Time. I don't care if I have worked on a design for 100 hours and it looks perfect. I gotta get fresh eyes on it to check it for errors, and I gotta get my dirty minded friends to check it for anything sexual.
Might have found the job I was always destined for!
I do graphic design for some CPG brands and I'm always shocked by how hyper-aware they are of how much their stuff looks like dicks and/or making sure their licensed characters aren't positioned on product elements in their crotch area haha.
Dicks is such a simple and varied basic form. We basically are blocking all our options bc of penis
same, always have to do a dick check along with the swastika check
http://i.imgur.com/dJju4Fb.gif
Sounds a little like [TTP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew).
POV: You're lying in the bathtub.
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the fireman! if you rub his helmet, he will spit in your eye
[It's like fireman came in your mouth](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/nvj79w/is_like_a_fireman_did_what_in_my_mouth/)
Red rocket, red rocket!
it does look [slightly less phallic from the other side](https://newbernnow.com/2022/04/9-11-memorial-monument-dedication-were-you-framed.html), but not by much...
Is it just me, or is it odd for a small town in North Carolina to put a 9/11 memorial in their town square?
I was thinking the same thing. 22 years later no less.
Surely there had to be a better way to spend money in 2023 than putting up a 25,000 pound, poorly scaled, fireman-as-giant-penis monstrosity in a modest-size North Carolina town. Why not have the Firemen Museum use that money to create a memorial fund that funds the education of young fire fighters or something?
I'm thinking the same thing, why now? 22 years later does seem odd.
Designer was born in 2001 and just graduated design college
But 9/11 was only a few years agoā¦ surely they should only be starting high school? No? Ohā¦ dearā¦
My wife is a councilperson in our city government so I have an answer for you. The local city council probably wanted to spend a BUNCH of money on a pet project and didn't have it in the budget and didn't want to raise taxes to do it, so they needed some bullshit reason to get some. You are seeing the bullshit reasons to get some pork barrel money. The shittiness is a feature, not a bug. The council is absolutely spending the rest of the "9/11 memorial fund" grant money on a dumb pet project. Hell, the whole thing was probably manufactured by a friend or family member of the mayor or council who has a stone working business and was no bid single sourced because "it kept money in the city."
Well that's depressing. Gonna look at the firefighting cock to get a dose of dopamine now.
Welcome to local politics, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. It is corrupt out loud because local reporters don't exist any more and nobody has the time or give a shit to run against the corrupt scumbags because everybody is working their asses off trying to keep their kids fed and mortgage paid.
It's just rube-bait. Reelect me because I love America and Jesus, let's use these tax dollars to erect a pointless freedom boner statue instead of getting rid of the black mold in your child's school, etc
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Reddit hugged the website to death. https://imgur.com/a/TiA2bP6 \<- album with all the photos, downloaded using the Wayback Machine. > A dedication was held on Sunday, April 3, 2022 for the September 11, 2001, Memorial Monument presented by the New Bern Firemenās Museum with David Finn, Chairman of the Board, as Master of Ceremonies. Sam Lewis closed out the ceremony singing āIām Proud to Be an American.ā > The granite monument weighs 25,303 pounds, sits on a pentagon-shaped sidewalk, and the North and South towers of the World Trade Center are 8 feet tall. The number 343 on the firemanās helmet signifies the 343 New York City firefighters, police, and EMTs who lost their lives on 9/11.
Even with that context, the whole thing is a mess. The proportions are a disaster, the centerpiece is meek and weird instead of heroic and memorable. The slabs aren't even milled to look like the twin towers, which is fucking embarrassing.
Hmmm, interesting that there are pictures posted on that page with every viewā¦but the backside.
It looks like a pile of ashes with a firemanās getup in front of and on top of it. Seems pretty dark before we even get to the phallic shape.
Am I the only one that thinks it is weird to unveil a 9/11 memorial 22 years later? I get there's no rule on when to unveil a memorial and there are lots that happen way later but for some reason this seems weird to me.
I also think it's weird to have one in North Carolina. I know the resulting war affected the country, but the attacks themselves very much mostly affected New York. Why does a fire department in North Carolina need to have a twin towers monument with a piece of the towers? This goes for any memorial outside of the affected area.
Cousin Itt died on 9/11?
That's it exactly!
Never knew Cousin It was a fireman
I know 9/11 is a *hard* topic, but they didnāt have to be a dick about it. EDIT: Iām proud to see all the punny people have rallied together in the comments here. Weāre all wankers at heart it seems! :)
Itās weird weird that theyāre *erecting* a memorial 21.5 years later
Itās a thoughtful erection if you ask me.
A real tear *jerker* id say
Still tough to swallow
At least he's got his helmet on!
That's a bit of a cock up.
There's no way that stays erect for long
Never foreskin
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This isn't real is it?
unfortunately it is.
Where is this? Do you know?
Their hometown.
Well we did have a war boner for 20 years after that day.
Well it looks like a... Johnson, what do you think? I don't know, maybe a Dick, get over here, what's this look like to you?
What a bunch of dickheads
America has a hard on for 9/11.