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The action began at 13:00. Around 14:30 the artist was taken by ambulance to the First City Hospital. After going to the hospital to deliver him to the police station, “China Town”.
In a statement about the artist’s action, called “Freeze”, it is noted that it can be regarded as a “metaphor of apathy and political indifference and fatalism of the modern Russian society.”
Pavlensky known for other high-profile protests. May 3 this year, he went to the building of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg naked and wrapped with barbed wire. Campaign “Carcass” symbolized “man’s existence in a repressive legal system, where any movement causes severe reaction of the law, bites into the body of an individual.”
That’s gotta hurt a lot!!
I believe the phrase you may have intended is “balls to the wall”. It is not a sexual reference. Aircraft of the previous century typically had three main engine controls – throttle, mixture, and propeller pitch (controlling RPM). These were purely mechanical controls, presented to the pilot as shafts protruding through the firewall and instrument panel, terminating in balls about 1″ diameter for the pilot to grasp. “Balls to the wall” means all the balls pushed to the firewall. Full throttle, richest mixture, and highest RPM. Give it everything it’s got.
It’s a mid-west term “balls out”.
Like this man went to the extreme, so he went balls out. LOL
I grew up in the midwest and never heard that term. I suspect it is a perversion of the term I have suggested, with the users unaware of its origin.
Well Warren, we must have not grown up in the same part of the mid-west.
It is rather vast area, wouldn’t you say?
Different dialects and what nots.
Dunno about all your definitions. But I think it may be safe to say he won’t be going balls anything anymore. Now when people talk about him it will go something like this. “Dis is Ivan, he used to have a lot of balls, but not so much anymore”…
I really don’t think he has the balls to do it again…..My Bad!