I don’t mean sympathy for the evil deeds they did…
But for the fact that their average age was 19, and they were indoctrinated into the belief that dying for Japan was honorable, and necessary, as by that time, it was considered the only way to stop the Allies.
Some were as old as 22, and had children, more were 17, and barely trained as novice pilots. Some wanted to do it, others did it because they thought their friends or family would be disappointed, otherwise.
They all expected to die.
Thousands of them did.
Japan was a warrior nation for hundreds of years, with a samurai code that lasted into the 20th century, and said defeat was shameful, surrender more so.
If they had to abort missions because of aircraft failures, or missed targets, a lot of them faced shame and disgrace. Some went out again, in spite of the stress.
My dad had a book about them… I don’t remember the author or title, only that in my teens, I read a chapter or two and had to stop.
“Kamikaze” means “Divine Wind”. It’s based on a legend where the good guys were losing the battle until a great wind from the Heavenly realm blew away the enemy.
Ignorance used to promote products. And doctors used to bleed you to let out the “bad humours”. And the sun used to revolve around the flat earth before Galileo and Copernicus straightened it out and taught it how to behave.
This must be another in the long list of ways some women were alleged by advertisers to have done something to lose their husbands’ affections, and must quickly buy products to help.
Whether they used the wrong mouthwash, gained a few pounds, wore the wrong lipstick, or just didn’t get the laundry white enough, it seems Mr. Right was ready to hit the road, in search of perfection.
…
After all, he went to work every day, just to buy her potatoes to cook for him, and if she was very very good, a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
All she had to do, if she played her cards right, was stay home, raising the children, cooking perfect meals, doing the shopping, cleaning, laundry, and every other chore that arose …
Meanwhile, her hair should always be neat and shiny, her breath sweet, her figure slim…. and (we’re getting to this ad) her whole body clean and perfume scented, and ready for his… um….pleasure, at any moment.
….
It’s kind of disgusting, but I’m pretty sure this one is trying to be subtle… so subtle that in 2025, we don’t get it.
From its invention in the 19th century, up through the 1960s, Lysol only came as a concentrated liquid…. you can still buy it… and everybody knew that this same stuff that cleaned floors was also added to water and used as a douche… until the late 1960s some doctors even recommended it.
Now it’s considered totally unsafe, even damaging.
But not only that, though the manufacturer would never come out and recommend it, and doctors warned against it, most people believed using it that way would prevent pregnancy.
So this preventable (with Lysol) tragedy is that she might have some “feminine odor” (easily cured with soap and water, but they were using scare tactics)… or maybe she was refusing to avoid having another baby.
Today we’d never put it near those parts, so the ad makes no sense… Not that it ever did.
I have finished reading “Jaws” by Peter Benchley.
It was a reprint 30th anniversary in a paper back edition.
The accompanying text and photographs in it caused me to go back and watch the movie in full because Benchley was integral to the screenplay.
I still say the movie was badly acted but Benchley recognized that movies and books are wide-apart genres and adapted accordingly.
If you liked the movie, you’ll still like it after reading the book, but be prepared for Bruce (the production people’s adopted nickname for the movie’s mechanical shark / after a lawyer) in the book to be almost a background character rather than the “star” as in the movie.
You guys know I don’t like watching scary movies, or gore, or violence.
I got dragged by my partners to see Jaws, when it was new, at a big theater in San Francisco with all the bells and whistles then available. Huge screen, special sound… I don’t remember exactly, but it was an event. We sat way down in front.
I was planning to hide my eyes for most of it.
Then the big rubber shark shows up.
It almost got comical.
I didn’t mind, cos I’d rather watch comedy than horror, any day.
But thought it failed as horror, though to my benefit.
.
I see Buddy!
Who nose what evil lurks in the hear of men? These noses don’t!
NOSE!
(missing you Montana lady)
They mostly all seem to be sniffing the small, aging black lab in the middle.
She looks a bit long in the tooth for puppies… but it does make me wonder whether… you know…. she’s indeed female, and the time is right.
Sniffing the wrong end for that…
True.
It’s crowded, so I thought maybe they were taking turns? Probably not.
Maybe she just rolled in something tasty..
Or the photographer sprayed her with Eau de MilkBone😄!
Anything that smell like food would work with Buddy.
Japanese Kamikaze pilots on eve of battle-1945
I hope that they don’t take the puppy.
:’o(
Be sad for the men, too. Boys, mostly.
I don’t mean sympathy for the evil deeds they did…
But for the fact that their average age was 19, and they were indoctrinated into the belief that dying for Japan was honorable, and necessary, as by that time, it was considered the only way to stop the Allies.
Some were as old as 22, and had children, more were 17, and barely trained as novice pilots. Some wanted to do it, others did it because they thought their friends or family would be disappointed, otherwise.
They all expected to die.
Thousands of them did.
Japan was a warrior nation for hundreds of years, with a samurai code that lasted into the 20th century, and said defeat was shameful, surrender more so.
If they had to abort missions because of aircraft failures, or missed targets, a lot of them faced shame and disgrace. Some went out again, in spite of the stress.
My dad had a book about them… I don’t remember the author or title, only that in my teens, I read a chapter or two and had to stop.
At the risk of repeating myself — :’o(
Upper right is “Wrong Way” Hidashi. The “Divine Wind” pilot who flew 27 missions.
So they’re not all kamikaze pilots.
“A B C D E F G H, I got a gal in kamikazi…”
“Kamikaze” means “Divine Wind”. It’s based on a legend where the good guys were losing the battle until a great wind from the Heavenly realm blew away the enemy.
..
Jacksonville- 1910
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“Lysol”, for feminine hygiene ???!!!
Yep.
Ignorance used to promote products. And doctors used to bleed you to let out the “bad humours”. And the sun used to revolve around the flat earth before Galileo and Copernicus straightened it out and taught it how to behave.
This must be another in the long list of ways some women were alleged by advertisers to have done something to lose their husbands’ affections, and must quickly buy products to help.
Whether they used the wrong mouthwash, gained a few pounds, wore the wrong lipstick, or just didn’t get the laundry white enough, it seems Mr. Right was ready to hit the road, in search of perfection.
…
After all, he went to work every day, just to buy her potatoes to cook for him, and if she was very very good, a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
All she had to do, if she played her cards right, was stay home, raising the children, cooking perfect meals, doing the shopping, cleaning, laundry, and every other chore that arose …
Meanwhile, her hair should always be neat and shiny, her breath sweet, her figure slim…. and (we’re getting to this ad) her whole body clean and perfume scented, and ready for his… um….pleasure, at any moment.
….
It’s kind of disgusting, but I’m pretty sure this one is trying to be subtle… so subtle that in 2025, we don’t get it.
From its invention in the 19th century, up through the 1960s, Lysol only came as a concentrated liquid…. you can still buy it… and everybody knew that this same stuff that cleaned floors was also added to water and used as a douche… until the late 1960s some doctors even recommended it.
Now it’s considered totally unsafe, even damaging.
But not only that, though the manufacturer would never come out and recommend it, and doctors warned against it, most people believed using it that way would prevent pregnancy.
So this preventable (with Lysol) tragedy is that she might have some “feminine odor” (easily cured with soap and water, but they were using scare tactics)… or maybe she was refusing to avoid having another baby.
Today we’d never put it near those parts, so the ad makes no sense… Not that it ever did.
Re: Your first sentence… …YUP ! !
Pinterest-free:
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A fortuitous juxtaposition! Glad somebody caught it so we can share.
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Her Majesty.
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Looks like a bit of an advantage for a soccer (football) player when he’s starting out.
a brief glimpse of the painting on the wall in the Torrence family home
‘The Shining’-1980
I have a guess, but it’s not firm.
It’s not empty. It contains air.
I got the blue box again.
Thanks. But that isn’t the empty cup i see. 🙁
Just as I suspected in my post…. I see three for consideration, and that’s one of them… But I don’t think any are actually empty.
Huh????
I wouldn’t call any of them empty.
A few that have inside colors that coordinate with the mug color, rather than some shade of brown.
Off to the left there’s a blue one with blue-green inside, on either side are pinkish cups with a different pink inside.
But it’s not the same color as the cup … So they could be full of something other than coffee or tea, like blueberry or cranberry juice.
Gonna check the solution Alexi posted. BRB
Didn’t we do this one before and there was a cup that was distinctly the same color inside and out?
Similar, not the same.
I thought it was a duplicate at first.
I don’t keep records but I do keep most of the solutions, if I’ve posted one…. not that it helps, if they were years ago.
I generally solve them again before I go looking through my folder.
This time I found it, in the not too distant past. It has no animals, only cups, and yes, the inside of one cup is clearly empty.
..,
Specifically, the Pillars of Creation.
“The Gripping Hand.”
~L Niven & Jerry Pournelle
I saw it coming up and called it the”Camel Nebuls…”
,
I’ve seen a lot of things like this that turn out to be true, but so far I don’t believe this one.
Someone needs to use an eye-dropper tool in a drawing program to pick up one of those colors and draw on the other, to see whether they match.
My present tablet software can’t do it
A
B
I couldn’t believe it either, that’s why I made time to do this.
Take two 3×5 cards and lay them on the screen so all you can see is a strip through the a and b. Worked for me.
I can do it. bu it takes way too many steps … maybe tomorrow…
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Yeah, down is a bit trickier (I hope it’s OK)
He seems to be pretty confident.
Looks like another structure that needs to be electrified.
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f62f.svg
I see that some of my emoticons, too, straight off the keyboard, have started posting as links.
Some work as intended, some don’t. 🙄
When we started here, they didn’t work at all … I remember nighthawks tried a WordPress layout that included some, but it wasn’t very good.
Then text emoji started turning into real ones… Then most of the keyboard ones started working.🤞🍀
Now maybe we’re regressing.
If you see any links in this comment, they’re just emoji.
No need to bother following, unless you actually want to see them
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f62f.svg https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f601.svg
There seems to be a gold-digger among today’s near-sighted lovers.
Her mama taught her (as mine tried but failed to do) that “It’s as easy to love a rich man as a poor one.”
In this case, even if he’s kind of a pig.
The first (presumably) song link is non-functional.
yes, so I saw this morning. So I replaced it with a little Roy
Gracias.
I have finished reading “Jaws” by Peter Benchley.
It was a reprint 30th anniversary in a paper back edition.
The accompanying text and photographs in it caused me to go back and watch the movie in full because Benchley was integral to the screenplay.
I still say the movie was badly acted but Benchley recognized that movies and books are wide-apart genres and adapted accordingly.
If you liked the movie, you’ll still like it after reading the book, but be prepared for Bruce (the production people’s adopted nickname for the movie’s mechanical shark / after a lawyer) in the book to be almost a background character rather than the “star” as in the movie.
the main thing I didn’t care for was the affair between Mrs Brody and Matt Hooper—completely unnecessary and distracting
I thought the same.
It made absolutely no sense within the plot.
You guys know I don’t like watching scary movies, or gore, or violence.
I got dragged by my partners to see Jaws, when it was new, at a big theater in San Francisco with all the bells and whistles then available. Huge screen, special sound… I don’t remember exactly, but it was an event. We sat way down in front.
I was planning to hide my eyes for most of it.
Then the big rubber shark shows up.
It almost got comical.
I didn’t mind, cos I’d rather watch comedy than horror, any day.
But thought it failed as horror, though to my benefit.
Whatever the top video is, it’s just a black square for me.
Roy now
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LOL!
“Death from the ankles down!”
One of the weirder things you’ll see on the web.
Just stop and follow the one instruction when you get there, it doesn’t take long.
https://pointerpointer.com/
Cool! Fun!
Utterly pointless.