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Here, in the heart of Antwerp is a fountain statue of a heroic young fella, holding up the disembodied hand of a giant who lays decapitated and "disarmed" below. He is supported by 3 lusty maidens, and water squirts out from all the places where the giant should be bleeding.
Brussels, however, home of Central office of the European Union has this little fella as a mascot. You can't get away from him there -- paperweights, postcards, place-mats -- you name it. And it's been going on for centuries. The grand building shown here on the central square has a whole floor dedicated to the little penis-clenching cherub, dressed up in every imaginable costume from every imaginable period. It made me proud to be from a country that is merely associated with hamburgers and nuclear weapons.
There he is, with the colors of the You're-a-Peein' Union, just pissin' it all away.
Timeless.
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