Maybe they’re afraid some people would live there.
It would be a huge investment, in any case, to build and maintain rooms large enough to hold that many reclining people, when the actual need was infrequent, and to monitor the usage and safety of the area.
A lot of people would probably figure they didn’t need a hotel, at normal times, and make use of the beds and bathrooms, when they’re not actually stuck.
I think the airlines find it more economical to send passengers to a hotel, weather permitting, if there’s a rare actual breakdown.
If it’s a weather delay, it’s beyond their responsibility to have maintained facilities to house everyone, just in case.
Looks like it allowed very limited motion, guided by the heavy cable from the surface…. I’m surprised it allowed any, given its obvious weight.
You can see the claw hands, operated from inside… A very modern notion, for its day, which was back in the era of men wearing ties and straw boaters on boats.
Okay, I just searched the image…. A couple of sites said it was 1916, but the two with the most reliable sounding information (yes, I know… great criteria for judging) both say 1907.
“Explorer O.E. Gandy stands in his iron suit, weighing 540 pounds, before making a dive where he would reach a depth of 230 feet. 1907.”
It’s called the Macduffie suit in some results, the Iron Man diving suit in others, and is reportedly “equipped with electric charging systems and pressure protection mechanisms” to keep the diver safe in deep water.
Very interesting. Thanks.
I’m curious though about the cattle the high altitude people use as beasts of burden.
Do they have evolutionary adaptations too?
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Goof!
I know that look so she has to be!
I have pictures of me looking at TV that way…
Comfy?
She thinks so. 😀
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I used to watch them every morning at my clients home. .
Thursday night? We never missed an episode!
Reruns. Every morning.
I didn’t figure you had clients during the first run 😁
No spoilers necessary!
Until I read SusanS’s spoiler boxes (Below), I had no idea who they were, or what the show was. Not something that would have been aired in the UK.
Some of us need the Spoiler boxes! 😉
Sorry, I forget my English cousins aren’t swamped by American culture like we are…
Sorry, Steve… some people may still want them….
Fur those still guessing… especially if it wasn’t part of your past…
This is
My Dad didn’t like it… too rural for his tastes… so we rarely watched it. I did catch up later in reruns.
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I wanna know what he’s using for bait!
His younger brother!
the 16th President
Funny how things change, isn’t it…
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I think the signboards are kind of a giveaway…
As if the cats didn’t look fake enough 😁
Eww…
It’s beyond fake…. If you look at them individually, some are incredibly creepy.
Some are only partial animals…. And the row between the two levels of windows are sitting on a ledge that doesn’t exist.
And, busses dont have running boards.
Nobody could herd cats like that. {^¿^}
lunch break at a war plant in Baltimore – 1943
Which one is Rosy?
Just ask them which of them is a riveter.
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Nope…
I think so. Kinda. Maybe not?
Ok… If a teddy bear counts…
How about…
Definitely.
Thanks.
That’s what i got.
I’ll stick with my first guess!
I need a bigger screen.
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So where are the married ones?
They don’t bother using this satellite dating app.
She’s gonna have to deflate something to get out of there…
The whole picture may not be AI but you can’t tell me some parts are not enhanced.
I think you’re right – she’s probably a brunette.
Sleeping in an airport. I dont understand why airports dont have couches and cots for stuck people.
Maybe they’re afraid some people would live there.
It would be a huge investment, in any case, to build and maintain rooms large enough to hold that many reclining people, when the actual need was infrequent, and to monitor the usage and safety of the area.
A lot of people would probably figure they didn’t need a hotel, at normal times, and make use of the beds and bathrooms, when they’re not actually stuck.
I think the airlines find it more economical to send passengers to a hotel, weather permitting, if there’s a rare actual breakdown.
If it’s a weather delay, it’s beyond their responsibility to have maintained facilities to house everyone, just in case.
Another example of the slogan “The customer is always trash…”
‘New York Movie; Edward Hopper 1942
Is she sneaking in or sneaking out?
Looks like she’s waiting to trip up anyone coming down the stairs!
Poor lady… accused of bad behavior, when she’s only doing her job, and I don’t even think she likes it.
She’s wearing a jacket with a high collar and epaulets, and wide legged trousers with a red stripe… her own fancy shoes, to look nice in the theater.
That’s her uniform, as an usher.
She has no place to sit, unless the theater doesn’t fill, in which case she can grab a seat for a few minutes here and there.
But it’s early now, and hardly anyone is seated. She’s waiting for more to arrive, so she can guide them.
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Checking out his new haircut, in his reflection.
…WHAT DID YOU SAY?…
It’s BISON!
It looks pretty BUFF to me.
Um…. I think Happy³’s comment is about the strip.
Deep Sea Diving Suit. From the looks of it, meant for some deep stuff given how solidly it’s built.
Very ‘Robbie the Robot’ 😉
Looks like it allowed very limited motion, guided by the heavy cable from the surface…. I’m surprised it allowed any, given its obvious weight.
You can see the claw hands, operated from inside… A very modern notion, for its day, which was back in the era of men wearing ties and straw boaters on boats.
Okay, I just searched the image…. A couple of sites said it was 1916, but the two with the most reliable sounding information (yes, I know… great criteria for judging) both say 1907.
“Explorer O.E. Gandy stands in his iron suit, weighing 540 pounds, before making a dive where he would reach a depth of 230 feet. 1907.”
It’s called the Macduffie suit in some results, the Iron Man diving suit in others, and is reportedly “equipped with electric charging systems and pressure protection mechanisms” to keep the diver safe in deep water.
I can hear him saying, “Oil can! Oil can!”
How things change!:
The current deepest scuba dive is 332.35 meters (1,090 feet)
The current deepest free dive is 253.2 meters (830 feet)
“For various values of safe…”
Some of which are lower than one would prefer.
Yeah, Cleo’s just playing.
The problem is, Cleo plays for keeps.
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Clara and Claude are lucky Cleo doesn’t “play” with them.
Somehow she absorbed the fact that they’re her “parents”…. I dunno about owners…
And that you don’t shoot your parents, or dynamite the hand that feeds you
Somebody put that video together, joining “Secret Agent Man” with images of James Bond.
It seems weird, because that was the theme song for “Danger Man”, shown in the US as “Secret Agent”… the images should be of Patrick McGoohan!
He starred in that one before he created “The Prisoner”… It was not to be missed in our house!
Thank you.
Fun fact: Patrick McGoohan was meant to play James Bond.
glad that didn’t work out
I have to agree.
Have you seen that “Number 6” is back commenting on GoComics?
No, cos I’m not.
I didn’t know he was gone.
Very interesting. Thanks.
I’m curious though about the cattle the high altitude people use as beasts of burden.
Do they have evolutionary adaptations too?
Yaks do.
To go with the attachment from today’s London “Daily Mail” below.