Piss Off - A Belgian novelty shows what the good people of Brussels...

[paineinthearse]

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Piss Off A Belgian novelty shows what the good people of Brussels really think about George W. Bush.
by Paul Belien

02/22/2005 8:40:00 AM

The newest Belgian fad--a Bush urinal sticker.

Brussels

WHEN JOHAN VANDE LANOTTE, Belgium's Vice Prime Minister, goes to the toilets today, he finds the urinals in the offices of his ministry decorated with stickers. They show an American flag and the head of George W. Bush. "Go ahead. Piss on me," the caption says. Vande Lanotte is one of Bush's hosts in Brussels. Is peeing on your guest's head appropriate? In Belgium it is. After all, Brussels' best known statue is that of "Manneken Pis," a peeing boy.

The piss stickers, specially made to be used in urinals, can be seen these days in the public toilets of Belgian schools, youth clubs, and pubs. They were designed by Laurent Winnock, president of the Young Socialists, the youth branch of Vande Lanotte's Socialist party. Winnock did his creative work during his office hours, which would not be worth mentioning if Winnock did not work in the offices of Vice Prime Minister Vande Lanotte, as one of his press spokesmen.

Last Friday, Belgian television asked Robert "Steve" Stevaert, the Socialist party leader, what he thought of the stickers. It had not been his idea, he stressed, but he refused to distance himself from it. He hardly could, seeing as the stickers can be ordered for free through the party's official website. For Belgian television viewers the message was clear: Bush may be our government's guest, the ministers will greet him, smile and tell him that he is most welcome, but we all know what they think of the bastard.

For those who missed the "subtlety" of the urinal stickers, Laurette Onkelinx, the Belgian minister of Justice and one of the Socialist party's most powerful figures, let go during prime time on Sunday evening, as Air Force One was about to land in Brussels. "I would rather have had John Kerry visiting us," she said on television. When the interviewer asked whether it was not undiplomatic to say so, she answered: "No. That is how I feel about it."

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Dr. Paul Belien is the author of the forthcoming book A Throne in Brussels on the "Belgianisation" of Europe (Imprint Academic, May 2005).

[Gloria]

1. Great work, Belgium. Am sad that your Shortwave broadcast

will be ending in March....a sad day indeed. It's a wonderful half hour every day....

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Here's a copy of the picture.

A W urinal sticker.

[paineinthearse]

3. Thanks for posting the image!

Where do I get one? Or 1000?

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I don't know where you would buy one,

but you could always just print a bunch out, and tape them to urinals. They really should have used an open mouthed picture of Bush though.

[Straight Shooter]

4. I think someone should market little GWB "floaty photos" for commodes

Just drop them in the commode, let them float on the water, sit yourself down and give him the business, then flush him away. Or the men can use the GWB floaty photos as target practice :D

[anarchy1999]

5. I'm laughing and crying at the same time and thinking "Oh, my God"!

Damn, can anyone alert Nostamj or MoPaul?

[paineinthearse]

6. See related Mannekin-Pis thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3193666

"I've been trying to get my wife to special-order me a fountain shaped like the Mannekin-Pis, which is a legendary statue in Brussels...."

[paineinthearse]

7. Photo of & info about the Mannekin Pis statue

http://www.liv-coll.ac.uk/pa09/europetrip/brussels/brussels1.htm

Mannekin Pis
A little further away but in easy walking distance is perhaps, Brussels most famous landmark - the Mannekis Pis. He is surprisingly small — approximately 24 inches high, standing on a pedestal supplying a constant stream of water to the basin beneath him. The story goes that a wealthy Brussels businessman whose small son went missing decreed that if the boy was discovered safe then he would build a statue of the boy in whatever pose he was found to be in. Apparently the boy had merely got lost whilst wandering in the woods and a search party found him — peeing against a tree. The statue has a very special place in the hearts of the locals and he is dressed in a different costume every day.

[NervousRex]

9. I kinda like this version...