What unofficial / fun names are there for monuments where you live?

7 months ago by khannie to c/asklemmy

In Dublin there was a monument locally called "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi" ("floozie" is someone promiscuous) which apparently the artist quite liked. It got moved off the main thoroughfare at some point.

slazer2au 34 points 7 months ago

Officially https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Locally: butt plug gnome

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JusticeForPorygon 14 points 7 months ago

A red version was unveiled in May 2018 in Oslo, Norway. The unveiling was done by a man pulling off the cover, suspended by an overhead crane with hooks through his skin.

Hey uuh what the fuck

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P1nkman 8 points 7 months ago

Welcome to Norway, home of the stave church, cheese slicer and death metal!

Oh, and this is in my home town:

Norway can be extreme sometimes (maybe that's why there's an Extreme Sport Festival).

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SwingingTheLamp 3 points 7 months ago

Just last night I learned what a stave church was, and that many of them were burned down in arson attacks by people in the black metal scene in the '90s. Now I learn that what I've always known as a cheese slicer is from Norway. (Funny coincidence about who settled here...)

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SeductiveTortoise 2 points 7 months ago

It's not the cheese slicer I fear. It's the cheese. Brunost is... different.

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P1nkman 3 points 7 months ago

It's different, but also really good! If you had it by itself, it's not a good experience. From what I've heard, the best way for foreigners to try brunost is on a waffle. You should try it!

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khannie 8 points 7 months ago

That's supposed to be a CHRISTMAS TREE? hahahaha

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Maestro 4 points 7 months ago

Rotterdam represent!

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Norin 32 points 7 months ago

We have The Bean here in Chicago, and the artist hates that we don’t call it “Cloud Gate.”

But, like, look at this thing. It’s a bean.

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univers3man 13 points 7 months ago

Also important to note that the artist fucking sucks, so we live calling it the bean to piss him off.

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Stern 9 points 7 months ago

Anish "Only I may use this black paint" Kapoor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor

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Norin 4 points 7 months ago

If there’s one thing the people of Chicago hate, it’s the Packers.

If there are two things all the people of Chicago hate, it’s pretense.

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Hossenfeffer 3 points 7 months ago

If there are three things all the people of Chicago hate, it’s ketchup on hotdogs.

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ijustliketrains 18 points 7 months ago

Titty Sphinx

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SeductiveTortoise 10 points 7 months ago

Yes, I can see that. What's the unofficial name though?

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VirtigoMommy 15 points 7 months ago

Idk if it classifies as a monument, but I present touchdown Jesus from southern Ohio.

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khannie 6 points 7 months ago

100% what I was after when posting. That's a great name haha.

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SwingingTheLamp 4 points 7 months ago

Isn't it gone now? I recall that God was not amused, and it burned down after a lightning bolt hit it.

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VirtigoMommy 7 points 7 months ago

Yeah It was struck by lightning and burned down. They rebuilt it a few years later with a doofier Jesus.

There was a whole debate amongst the locals ala “is it right to rebuild it?” “Was this a message from god?”, some people were mad they rebuilt it, everyone hated the new design, then everyone moved on.

People over the age of like 30 still call him touchdown Jesus. It’s not the same anymore but it’s what immediately came to mind when I read the prompt.

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LORDSMEGMA 8 points 7 months ago

My friends and I always referred to the Salesforce Tower as the "Sales Dong"

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BertramDitore 5 points 7 months ago

Ha! We call it the Battlestar.

Always thought it looked like the Battlestar Galactica standing straight up.

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khannie 4 points 7 months ago

The big phallus in San Francisco? Sales Dong is a great name.

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123 2 points 7 months ago

We are more basic and stick to "penis tower". A true to life embodiment of capitalism.

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LORDSMEGMA 2 points 7 months ago

Absolutely. Not gonna lie, it is pretty cool seeing the glans all lit up

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dkppunk 8 points 7 months ago

It’s not a monument, but I drive by California’s boobs pretty often

San Onofre’s nuclear power facility

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LORDSMEGMA 8 points 7 months ago

We always called em the nuclear tities

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elfharm 6 points 7 months ago

Atlanta has the BAY Bridge. Atlanta is nowhere near any bay of any kind and it's just a bridge over the interstate. BAY is actually an acronym so the real meaning is the Big Ass Yellow bridge, although the news and other "clean" sources will use the term but say it's the "big and yellow" bridge.

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PetteriPano 5 points 7 months ago

Posankka. Pig duck.

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jordanlund 5 points 7 months ago

Actually the official name with a fun pronunciation:

Champoeg State Park.

Champoeg - Sham-pooie.

https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=79

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tanisnikana 3 points 7 months ago

I had my high school reunion there. Lovely in the summer, dreary in the winter.

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BurgerBaron 5 points 7 months ago

Talus Balls / Big Balls / Shiny Balls

It's the Talus Dome, which was dumped cynically by a loud highway bridge on a steep hill because there was a mandatory art % budget that had to go into some public projects at the time IIRC.

Most everyone makes fun of them, although the look kinda cool up close. Also a guy got trapped inside semi recently lmao: https://globalnews.ca/...

Oh balls!

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Rhynoplaz 4 points 7 months ago

Pig Hill. Legend has it that a family with major facial deformation (pig faces) due to inbreeding lived up there in the woods and killed hikers who got too close to their homestead.

A local filmmaker made a horror movie about it in the past few years. I haven't seen it, and I don't know if it's available online.

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Lushed_Lungfish 4 points 7 months ago

It's not exactly a landmark or monument, but National Defense Head Quarters in Ottawa has a few:

The Cowering Inferno

The Shit show on the Rideau

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The_Almighty_Walrus 4 points 7 months ago

Sterling Heights, Michigan has the golden butthole

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toffi 4 points 7 months ago

Bierbrunnen aka The penis or cock They even put giant condom on it for world HIV day once.

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perishthethought 4 points 7 months ago

In my state, Colorado in the western US, we have this statue.

blucifer

Official name: Blue Mustang

Our name: Blucifer

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FollyDolly 3 points 7 months ago

Oh so THAT'S where my sleep paralysis demon lives.

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hitmyspot 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, don't worry, in real life it was just a crime ridden street hole with lots of heroin addicts and drunk people.vomiting.

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ohulancutash 3 points 7 months ago

Reality Checkpoint

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khannie 1 point 7 months ago

Oh that's a cool one!

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SwingingTheLamp 3 points 7 months ago

Our university mascot is Bucky Badger, sometimes expanded to Buckingham U. Badger. It's gone now, but that explains why we called this sculpture Buckingham Phallus:

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hitmyspot 4 points 7 months ago

It's like something from the bone temple.

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Dicska 3 points 7 months ago

I used to go to uni in this city which had the "horse's butt" / "horse butt". It's just a regular horse soldier kind of statue, nothing special about it; however, due to it being right in front of one of the university buildings, among students it (or the surrounding area) was called like that. I doubt the creator had the title "horse's rear" in mind.

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Bonifratz 3 points 7 months ago

The German city I used to live in has an oversized pedestrian overpass with three large openings or holes. It never had an official name (as it was never intended as a monument or sight), but right from the start it was locally known as the Elefantenklo ("elephant loo"), or E-Klo.

These days it's often considered Gießen's most well-known landmark, which... tells you something about the place.

German wiki with photoa: https://de.wikipedia.org/...

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S_H_K 2 points 7 months ago

Monumento a Luis Battle Berres
We all call it.so much "Los cuernos de Battle" (Battles's Horns) most don't even know it's real name.

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Hr24 2 points 7 months ago

In Perth, WA we have the Cactus, the official name is "Grow Your Own", but it's definitely The Cactus.

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Hr24 3 points 7 months ago

We also had The Kebab (officially the Ore Obelisk), but it was removed for maintenance years ago, and recently forever replaced with an astronaut, unfortunately.

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