I love this pensioner.

84 points

Get that person a beer! 👍

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If you zoom in on the pic it rather looks like they were having one while spray painting!

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76 points

Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.

LMAO

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19 points

I’m gonna do that now.

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The pensioner was put through the meat grinder because of Thatcher.

Good for him.

Edit: I can’t find a picture of the graffiti. This is the best I can do:

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My guess is that the word was “bastard”.

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29 points

They should put a statue of him spray painting it on her statue. He’s the hero.

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21 points

(It’s a woman)

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7 points

I misread the number of asterisks and was really hoping it was “bitchass”

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3 points

Be pretty funny if it was “white bastard”.

(Not sure if the Sam Kerr story has made headlines outside of Australia? If not my comment is in reference to that.)

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54 points

One of the best things about Maggie Thatcher is she’s dead

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As the saying goes, you should only say good things about the dead. So Maggie is dead. Good!

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I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.

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I don’t think she’ll be happy to see this, when she’s looking up on us.

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I’m sorry, what?! Who the fuck in 2022 thought “You know what we need? A statue of one of the most hated women in recent history!”?

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The Grantham Community Heritage Association erected it through donations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(Grantham)

Who on god’s earth would donate to memorialize the wicked witch of Britain is beyond me though.

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The fact that that needs to have disambiguation parentheses is even worse: it means there’s more than one statue.

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