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[quote]A Russian performance artist was hospitalised Sunday after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.
A video of the graphic action, available on Russian websites, showed artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum being covered with a blanket by police officers while horrified passersby looked on.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic.
The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a "police state".[/quote]
So, let's go over why nailing your testicles to a brick is a bad idea. First of all, it means that you're stuck in one place for the duration of your protest. When protesting, you want to be able to move around so that your message can reach more people. If your testicles are nailed to a brick, your message is limited to the people crazy enough to get near you, and that's not very efficient.
Secondly, bricks are very hard to nail through, unless you have a nail gun. And since this guy was naked, I have to assume that he did not. So he either nailed through his testicles into solid brick, in which case he is insane, or he actually put the nail into a crack between the bricks, which would make him a bit of a pussy.
The moral of this story is that you shouldn't nail your testicles to a brick in public. It's not a good way to protest.
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[quote]If your testicles are nailed to a brick, your message is limited to the people crazy enough to get near you, and that's not very efficient. [/quote] And yet, here we are, in America, on the other side of the -blam!-ing world, having never met this man or seen his action, talking about what he did. What we should be talking about though is why he did this: Russia's slow decent into a police state. Or at least, his perceived decent into a police state. [quote]It's not a good way to protest.[/quote] And standing around with signs and shouting is better?
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It's also November in Russia. That must've been cold.
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Too late.
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KINKY AS [b]F[/b]UCK!!!!!!!!
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He got himself out there though... Ehhhh I'm not sure what to make of this.
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Since no one's bothered to say it yet... would his message have reached this far around the world if he had of just walked up and down chanting it like every other putz? No.
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wasn't planning on it but thanks for the tip.
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This thought should never cross anyone's mind, never mind not doing it in public.
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You probably shouldn't do it in private either, really.
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God I remember reading that... I don't want to know how the police removed him...
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Ouch.
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[quote]stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights[/quote]Oh, well that explains it.
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Everyone knows that self-immolation is the best form of protest.
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That will work..
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to be fair, he only nailed himself by the scrotum. Not his actual testicles UNIMPRESSED.
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That's one hell of a protest.
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My balls started to hurt reading that... Although that's pretty impressive that he managed.
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[i]Guys, it's ok to nail your testicles to a brick in your own home, just don't do it in public![/i] What I got from the OP.
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[quote] The moral of this story is that you shouldn't nail your testicles to a brick in public. It's not a good way to protest.[/quote] I've been living my life all wrong!
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Natural selection? Assuming it got both balls?
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I to learned this the hard way.
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Well, you sir win the award for biggest "What the actual hell am I reading?" moment. Congratulations!
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Well darn, there goes my Saturday...
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[quote]put the nail into a crack between the bricks, which would make him a bit of a pussy. [/quote] I laughed so hard at this XD
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>russian
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[quote]The moral of this story is that you shouldn't nail your testicles to a brick in public. [/quote] I don't think the last to words are relevant