The tough part is convincing your wife that this is research.
Sue Williams, an English artist has been given a $35,000 grant from the National Lottery to look at women’s backsides. Williams was has been handed the cash to – and we quote – “explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks”.
It gets better. In addition to merely observing the asses, Williams will be paid to “create plaster cast moulds of women’s behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.”
Emma Geliot, a representative of the Arts Council of Wales, the organization that awarded the grant, said: “This produces a tee-hee response but there is a serious point.”
Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Adrian Sanders, a member of the Culture Committee, questioned the wisdom of the grant and suggested that others would question it, too.
The editorial board at IHateTheMedia.com is outraged by this story. It’s just not right that someone else has figured out how to get paid to do something we’ve always been willing to do for free.
Source: The Sun UK
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I volunteer to help make the molds.
I volunteer to interview the models.
Hey Ray, get this. My college student son works at the hot nightclub in town and his latest duty is “Model Recruiter” for some of the late night modeling shows they do with the local college girls. Ha Ha! Talk about a great job for him.
Did Emma say what was the “serious point”?
I would do this for a lot less than $30,000.
Beware all you free lance gynecologists out there. Throw Madeline Albright’s cement mixer into the mix and all of a sudden $35,000 seems hardly worth it.
LOL LOL LOL – Blush Blush.
I am sure my husband would be willing to help.
The world is tottering on the edge of disaster and an artist (???) is going to make plaster molds of ladies butts – “explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks
Future generations are going to laugh so very hard when they read about this era.. they won’t believe it: possibility for inflation world wide, the Islamic extremists are threatening nuclear war, environmental worries (real or not) – Energy problems we can’t even begin to solve and they are giving 35,000 dollars to an artist to study ladies butts!!!
When our family faces a stressful time.. lets say the possibility of unemployment .. we have a long list of things we won’t buy, we cut back, we don’t do some things, we even eat differently.. luxuries fall by the way side – make sense? So why doesn’t any government on either continent seem to understand such a simple principle? .
It is said that there are over 50,000 battered women in America and all this time I been eatin’ mine plain.
I have to go to my job tommorrow now and try to enjoy it, thanks.
“…create plaster cast moulds of women’s behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.”
That is silly. I can tell you where women’s asses belong in contemporary culture for free! It’s right above the legs, on the backside.
Well I’ll be! I’m an ARTIST! I never knew it NOR was I ever paid for it….. well, I guess I did “pay” for it when I was still married! AND when I got UNmarried! OUCH!
A terrible waste all that money could gone for a soup kitchen for a homeless person and is instead squandered on this ABOLISH THE NATIONAL LOTTERY