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I feel like the world's tallest bin might lose out this round, which really is a damn shame since it's so absolutely shit in both idea and design ❤️❤️

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…AN ODE IN PRAISE OF THE CAPTAIN COOK STATUE

WHO SAYS WE DON’T HAVE HISTORY AND CULTURE?

For fifty asphalt bordered years,

Ten metres of low grade concrete

Crumbled in a tropical rain

Scented with salt and diesel fumes.

A pallid blob of civic pride

Only held together by

Layers of hurriedly applied

Cut price and flaking paint.

A masterpiece, it flipping aint.

Icon of Terra Nullius.

High above his skinny white thighs

A pair of puzzled vacant eyes

Gazed past a weird, fascist salute

Made by his empty, grasping hand…

Long, long gone, his memory clings,

To this damaged and stolen land;

‘Cos in between the strip of tar

And closed motel that bear his name

Stood this symbol of his fame...

PC

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It has to be the Spud. It LOOKS like a shit, so it's obviously the shittest big thing.

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Glad that Potato Shit thing is still hanging in there - like the big Arse Dag it is!

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Well I absolutely loved Captain Cook and was sorry to see him go. Now Cairns can continue in its goal, which is to look the same as any other Australian whatever.

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The worst of these would have to be ' The Tallest Bin'

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Captain Cook has been removed

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The worst 'Big' that we have seen is The Tallest Bin in Kalgoorlie

Sorry Kalgoorlie but you are a great town. Well worth visiting

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Nothing in Australia could be more shit than the big potato, which looks more like a big shit than a potato! We have a winner!

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