Canyon Eyesore
 

A mess.

This just disgusts me.

I actually think it's kind of cool. No way would I walk on it though.

But remember, everybody said the Eiffel Tower looked like crap when it was first built too.

I'd love to visit.

Unique, it is awesome. As a precedent it is worrisome.

Oh, I hate to admit I would love to walk on it. The idea of it disgusts me. As if someone broke anything precious in half, I would have to look inside, but mourn the loss of the beauty of the whole.

I think it's awesome.

I can see my bowel movement from here!!!

How long befiore the first jumper? with or without chute?

With chute - one week.

Without chute - one month.

please. get over yourself

if the savages can eek a living out of whitey with it, then god bless em. why you gotta be trying to hold the red man down, rage?!

Coming from you, hilarious, especially after my second post in this thread.
Thanks, I needed that this week.:p

IMO, this is the equivalent of building a casino on top of the rim of the canyon.
Perhaps we should build a restaurant around Old Faithful and boil lobsters in it?

I think it's silly. A gaudy tourist trap. I would never pay that kind of money to go on it. I'd probably be a bit afraid to anyway.

But I've got no problem with it. It's located in a very remote area of the canyon that I'd wager nobody here has ever visited before. It's nearly 100 miles outside the National Park Border, in a part of the canyon that is much smaller and (comparatively) less spectacular than where the National Park is. You have to drive for an hour or so on indian reservation dirt roads just to get to it.

It's their land, let them do what they want to with it. They have a hell of a lot better record taking care of this planet than we do.

For those of you with Google Earth, check out: lat 36.012 long -113.811 to see how far away it is from everything else.

It's a mile and a half down a side canyon from the river, so even rafters will have a hard time seeing it. They may be able to see it if their guides point it out, and they have good vision, but they won't see it otherwise.

It still does. But because it's now historic French crap, people seem to accept it better.

I love it. Didn't realize it was on a side canyon though.
I've been wondering, since they said they would build it a year or more ago, in a sandy environment how will they keep it from getting scratched so badly you won't be able to see through it?

I drove out to the Grand Canyon National Monument on the north rim, down stream from the Park. A couple hours, over dirt tracks, through absolutely barren wastes. At the rim there was nothing but a trash barrel and a sign saying don't fall in.
Unlike the Park where you can't see the river well because its a mile down and 3 or 4 miles out, at the monument you're looking right down at the river, more than a mile down.
Pucker power squared! :eek2:

I'm not losing any sleep over it but it is a defacement of the canyon and probably shouldn't have been built.

And the load limit is so high they will never exceed it. But at 4,000 feet up, you'd have about 20 seconds to say: "If I ever get my hands on that Beestie dude, I'm gonnaa..." before you went splat.

A defacement to the canyon? Do you know how big the canyon is? Christ, they don't even try to recover crashed aircraft. How far out in the middle of nowhere this is. Hours drive through nothing. Who owns this area? They do. How much better this is than any of the National park service rim projects. Orders of magnitude.
This wouldn't make a pimple on the ass of a flea, on a camel, on Noah's ark ,on the great flood as seen from Pluto. :smack:

I should be able to put my gum on the Mona Lisa... just on the corner though.

I think it's really cool--I hope they do very well from it.

That Chairman is a funny, funny man!

:worried:

Oh, the irony.

You can when you own it. I can already hear you bitching about people telling what you can/should or cannot/shouldn't do, with your own property. :rolleyes: From here.

"I can hear the glass cracking."
Yeah, he's a barrel of fucking laughs.
Wall-uh-pie.
More like Canyon-floor-uh-pizza.

This will end badly.

Scale it? You can spit over it. More likely somebody falling off trying to whiz over it. :lol:

Now look what you've done. I have to add that to my list of PIHP. (places I have pissed)

The floor is made of diamonds?

Now that's just funny!

fabulous outdoor fucking spot!

PIHF!:p

Just don't tell anyone you did it in the Grand Canyon. They might think you were talking about your partner. ;)

"Oh God, oh, oh oooooohhhhhhhh ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt........ka---splat!!!"

Bungee jumping and parachute jumps.

I like it. I understand the valid complaints about cheapening the grandeur of the canyon, but hey...its gonna be just another rubble filled shallow depression in another billion years, so who's gonna know?

Ya, blah blah friggin blah let's pee over the side and we'll be done before it hits the mule train at the bottom.

Maybe YOU'LL be done when it hits the bottom, but I'll still be whizzin' when they get to the top. :o

ha, i could have filled the fuckin' thing up this morning....peed so long i got bored.

All 300 miles of it? :eek:

I think it's pretty damn ugly.. then again it's their land and they can do what they want with it.. which brings up a question.. what do you think are the nations/worlds ugliest 'landmarks?' (having only seen a good chunk of america, I can't actually comment on the rest of the world..).. personally I'm going to have to think about that one for a while...

I'm going out on a limb here and say that this contest was over before it started.
The Nathan Forrest statue in Brentwood, Tennessee.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...rrest_bird.jpg
I was living there when it was put up and holy Lord is it hideous. The thing is on a stretch of private property that is next to I-65 and is surrounded by Confederate flags. You wanna talk about an eyesore.. "The horse and rider stand 25 feet high".. there ya go.

That is gonna be hard to beat.

"... it's as if the colorful Civil War general tumbled out of some horrific, injection mold nightmare."

Is he wearing a dress?

That would be hilarious but no I don't think so. It looks to be a long outer coat that officers wore.
http://z.about.com/d/saltlakecity/1/0/C/u/CRW_1008.jpg

That is pretty ugly.

I can beat that four ways till sunday---but I don't know how to link the page!


Someone tell me how to do it and you can see the most hideous POS eyesore in America. The Giant Jesus in Monroe, Ohio, Solid Rock Church.

Oh wow Bri.. that's nuts.
Copy the URL from the address bar at the top of your browser, then click on the little blue globe with two chain links (it's right below the pale smilie face on the reply box tool-bar-ish thing). Paste, enter, BAM!

I can't get it to work! when I did manage to get it up there, the page said 'could not find'---help me out?

Oh, that is horrible. I think that is worse than the confederate dude.

It looks to me like what would happen if Jesus was a cartoon character. You, know...he was walking on the water, then realized what he was doing, and...splash!

Here y'go Bri

Am I the only one who keeps reading the title of this thread as 'Eeyore'?

I dunno... the Confederate sculpture is uglier, but the Jesus sculpture is larger and thus more attention-demanding. I just can't choose!

Maybe we need another field of 64 for this. Just in time for March Madness!

field of 64 - worst monuments/statues/tourist attractions/landmarks?

hm, it has potential...

Oh, Ibram, thank you v. much for doing that for me.

It's pretty scary, no?

The beautiful part about this whole monument and it's owner?

the monument was built using illegal immigrants (in an area that really hates illegals) and the owner/spiritual leader of Rock Solid Church? He's a known drug smuggler (he uses the horses on his huge horse farm), high school drop out and all-round shady guy.

But, hey.

That's how we like our Christians in Ohio: Dumb, crazy, involved in felonious activites and dedicated to a Giant Jesus. The fourfecta of the Ohio Christian Right!

It's pretty awe inspiring to drive by this Great Work. AND! It's right next door to the Flea Market! How cool/handy is that? I can pay my respects to Giant Jesus (please, don't smite me!) and then go buy quarts of apple butter, decorative toilet paper dollies and NASCAR bandanna's! It's a win-win!

I just realized that steel loop will make one hell of a lightning rod.

wow..I thought I had seen some ugly 'art' but that really takes the cake.. the candles and all the presents.

Which are you talking about?

The Confederate statue is horribly, horribly creepy. It is so obvious that it comes to life at night and stalks the back alleys in the area, killing the drunks and the homeless...

But I quite like Jesus in the Bath. If that was in my area I would have countless shots of myself high-fiving the Lord.

It may be worse than you think. Forrest commanded the Confederate troops at Fort Pillow who killed a large number of Black troops. There is an argument over what went on but it is often interpreted as a massacre based on race.

HiJack! Griff I just finished Fort Pillow by Harry Turtledove. Wild guess,but I think Forrest had something to do with kkk.
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:) good guess!

Where'd they find glass-bottomed immigrants? Were they ground into a fine paste then molded and fired in a kiln? ;)