The yellow silk robes were for his coming of age ceremony when he turned 19 last September. He left in a black garment, symbolizing adulthood.
His father, the emperor’s nephew, is next in line for the throne, as the emperor himself has no son.
The government had been debating allowing female succession until he was born. That debate is tabled for now, but if he has no son, either they’ll have to accept an empress or there’ll be no more royal family.
One an incongruous fit, only a few I’ve never seen, or maybe just don’t remember… And I think only one I’ve never heard of, which surprises me cos it’s got Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers.
I couldn’t think of anyplace besides maybe a preserve or a sanctuary where tigers and bears shared the forest, since they live in different habitats, and mostly, different countries.
And in a protected place like a preserve, I wouldn’t think they’d allow a tiger to get close enough to hunt a bear. Maybe, but it seems antithetical to their mission
Google Lens is iffy with searching moving gifs, and didn’t come up with a location or even an accurate description, but Wikipedia noted two places where they might cross paths in the wild.
One was India, but the bears there are called sloth bears, and they’re golden.
The other was “Far Eastern Russia”…. which has black and brown bears, and some tigers. It even said they compete for prey, but a very hungry tiger might try stalking a bear, though it’s usually unsuccessful, which just may describe this scene.
So all I can say at this point is that this might be in Russia.
Sigh… you really don’t seem to get it.
It was not a “scolding”… it was more of a plea.
You’re not a poor victim of my “scolding”.
Had you not said that, I wouldn’t be writing this.
I never said I didn’t want new information. There are several people here who often correct me, or I correct them, all politely, and we enjoy the exchange.
Last night, same as last time, I did not present that information, as a fact, but, said that since I found nothing else, I will give you what I found on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is written by contributors, and we all know it can sometimes be wrong. I trust it to a degree, because many contributors hang around correcting it, though they can miss.
I don’t sleep well, so I come here at night, and respond to or research a number of posts. It takes a lot of time, actually. I also told you I’m older than you… actually quite a bit older… and I get tired trying to counter all your “corrections”.
I never say I have the final word, I just do my best, and I try to give my sources, if I think there could be an error, as I did this time. I don’t have time, well after a reasonable bedtime, to keep rechecking each item, especially when I’ve already looked at a lot of websites and drawn a blank.
You come in the morning, younger and with fresh energy, and focus on one or two of my comments.
If you find other information, great.
But you don’t need to make it a correction to me personally, and especially, you don’t need to say “Please check your facts”. To me that is very rude, and I wouldn’t say it to anybody here, including you.
There are pictures in one of my high school yearbooks of students using chairs to cross a flooded breezeway.
I went to a small private school that used a local church. There were 2 buildings, joined by a covered breezeway. That area often flooded with heavy rains. It was the only way to get from one building to the other when changing classes.
I don’t know whether I should be proud or embarrassed that I can answer all but two, and I recognise those songs, too, but just can’t think of the word for the blank.
Luckily for me, they’re all old, or I wouldn’t have a clue.
The file name of this gif is “council-of-men-approves-this-drop”….
But I get the feeling they made that up.
Image search says they’re on a bridge, dropping that stone into the river…. Looks to me more like they’re in a quarry…
But I don’t think anybody actually approves of what they’re doing, except for some other jerks.
Am I seeing it wrong?
If the place is old, and not in use, they’re lucky the railing withstood the weight of that stone, and didn’t let them fall alongside it. It’s a long way down!
Wow. I would have expected a bit more organization.
I dunno why, though… I worked very briefly in the catalogue department at JC Penny, in the late 1980s, and it was pretty disorganized.
It wasn’t where things were shipped out… They came from a huge warehouse somewhere. I worked in the local store, in a department on the lower level, where people picked up items that were shipped to them.
It’s a lot cheaper almost everywhere to have your items sent to the store, and go pick them up, than to have them delivered to your home.
It had an additional convenience factor I didn’t expect… Most people opened the packages right there, and I’d estimate well over half were immediately returned. Clothing, more like 80%.
Some people ordered the items COD, which means they paid at our registers, we went into the back room and brought out their packages, they opened.them… and 5 minutes later I had to walk them to a different register at the other end of the long counter, where we processed returns.
Clothes that looked substantial in the catalog were flimsy polyester junk when seen in person. It made me wary to this day of ordering clothes from catalogs or online.
BTW… dunno about elsewhere, but the US Postal Service no longer accepts packages tied with any sort of string. You can still buy balls of “package twine”. Just don’t use it on packages.
The post office may not want twine, but the trash collectors here won’t pick up branches or trimming unless they’re tied up. I use twine to tie up the nandina trimmings I put out every fall.
I don’t know whether you mean on the ground or in your yard waste can
We can’t put anything outside our cans. But we can throw them in unbundled… though they theoretically won’t take anything over 1½ inches thick, or thorny, but they rarely check.
I don’t know what I would do if they one day wouldn’t take my bits of blackberry vine! I couldn’t carry them anywhere, and I don’t know where that would be anyway.
Leucism (/ˈluːsɪzəm, -kɪz-/) or leukism, is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes.
~Wikipedia.
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A mommy is a mommy. 🙂
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He might be a mommy. 😀
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I should save this to practice for the untitled ones.
where did they find the ones for Marilyn, Lucy and Judy?!!
Not the best but at least I recognized them… I didn’t recognize Grace Kelly.
Well.. I probably wouldn’t have, if they weren’t all labeled.
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The yellow silk robes were for his coming of age ceremony when he turned 19 last September. He left in a black garment, symbolizing adulthood.
His father, the emperor’s nephew, is next in line for the throne, as the emperor himself has no son.
The government had been debating allowing female succession until he was born. That debate is tabled for now, but if he has no son, either they’ll have to accept an empress or there’ll be no more royal family.
I like what the heir has done to his hair!
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A lot of great movies here!
One an incongruous fit, only a few I’ve never seen, or maybe just don’t remember… And I think only one I’ve never heard of, which surprises me cos it’s got Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers.
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…oops…
I couldn’t think of anyplace besides maybe a preserve or a sanctuary where tigers and bears shared the forest, since they live in different habitats, and mostly, different countries.
And in a protected place like a preserve, I wouldn’t think they’d allow a tiger to get close enough to hunt a bear. Maybe, but it seems antithetical to their mission
Google Lens is iffy with searching moving gifs, and didn’t come up with a location or even an accurate description, but Wikipedia noted two places where they might cross paths in the wild.
One was India, but the bears there are called sloth bears, and they’re golden.
The other was “Far Eastern Russia”…. which has black and brown bears, and some tigers. It even said they compete for prey, but a very hungry tiger might try stalking a bear, though it’s usually unsuccessful, which just may describe this scene.
So all I can say at this point is that this might be in Russia.
Please check your facts on sloth bears.
They’re not golden.
I tried to hold back after your scolding, but that’s just wrong.
Peace.
Sigh… you really don’t seem to get it.
It was not a “scolding”… it was more of a plea.
You’re not a poor victim of my “scolding”.
Had you not said that, I wouldn’t be writing this.
I never said I didn’t want new information. There are several people here who often correct me, or I correct them, all politely, and we enjoy the exchange.
Last night, same as last time, I did not present that information, as a fact, but, said that since I found nothing else, I will give you what I found on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is written by contributors, and we all know it can sometimes be wrong. I trust it to a degree, because many contributors hang around correcting it, though they can miss.
I don’t sleep well, so I come here at night, and respond to or research a number of posts. It takes a lot of time, actually. I also told you I’m older than you… actually quite a bit older… and I get tired trying to counter all your “corrections”.
I never say I have the final word, I just do my best, and I try to give my sources, if I think there could be an error, as I did this time. I don’t have time, well after a reasonable bedtime, to keep rechecking each item, especially when I’ve already looked at a lot of websites and drawn a blank.
You come in the morning, younger and with fresh energy, and focus on one or two of my comments.
If you find other information, great.
But you don’t need to make it a correction to me personally, and especially, you don’t need to say “Please check your facts”. To me that is very rude, and I wouldn’t say it to anybody here, including you.
I would just like this site to be polite.
So yeah… Peace.
I wrote “Please check your facts on sloth bears.”
Misquoting is rude, too.
“Sorry! I thought you were someone else!”
Must be some kind of sanctuary as it looks like the tiger is trying to play with, and not hunt, the bear.
You don’t think he’s after a nice bear sandwich?
I’d like to think he’s actually playing.
Shere Khan and Baloo (yes; he is a sloth bear)?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250805-living-with-the-face-clawing-sloth-bear-that-scares-tigers
Good read!
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I thought of that too!
But the only Lion nearby is the retired astronaut on yesterday’s forum… he was a Detroit Lion.
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“Would you like to come home with me? I’ve got fresh milk for you!”
“OK”, said the boy…
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Tat’s cold!
Inhale…
Exhale..
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And we find ourselves
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I don’t think I could do it.
Not only does my fear of heights extend to having to hold on to something when I’m standing on a chair, but those chairs look very flimsy.
I don’t know what it is, because it’s not particularly warranted, but I always have this nervous fear that I’ll knock everything over.
There are pictures in one of my high school yearbooks of students using chairs to cross a flooded breezeway.
I went to a small private school that used a local church. There were 2 buildings, joined by a covered breezeway. That area often flooded with heavy rains. It was the only way to get from one building to the other when changing classes.
It can only be to keep their shoes dry. The water is only a few inches deep!
And on the street, not even that. I’d chance it.
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Main Street, Brattleboro Vermont, July, 1941.
Photographer… Jack Delano
For some reason, it was subtitled on some sites, “No parking on Main Street” … but it looks to ne like there are parked cars… So…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I don’t know whether I should be proud or embarrassed that I can answer all but two, and I recognise those songs, too, but just can’t think of the word for the blank.
Luckily for me, they’re all old, or I wouldn’t have a clue.
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The file name of this gif is “council-of-men-approves-this-drop”….
But I get the feeling they made that up.
Image search says they’re on a bridge, dropping that stone into the river…. Looks to me more like they’re in a quarry…
But I don’t think anybody actually approves of what they’re doing, except for some other jerks.
Am I seeing it wrong?
If the place is old, and not in use, they’re lucky the railing withstood the weight of that stone, and didn’t let them fall alongside it. It’s a long way down!
it’s guy thing
“Nine million more and we’ll have this thing filled in!”
It’s a good thing tat one kid in back has a parachute.
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The shipping department at Macy’s in New York. 1940’s.
Wow. I would have expected a bit more organization.
I dunno why, though… I worked very briefly in the catalogue department at JC Penny, in the late 1980s, and it was pretty disorganized.
It wasn’t where things were shipped out… They came from a huge warehouse somewhere. I worked in the local store, in a department on the lower level, where people picked up items that were shipped to them.
It’s a lot cheaper almost everywhere to have your items sent to the store, and go pick them up, than to have them delivered to your home.
It had an additional convenience factor I didn’t expect… Most people opened the packages right there, and I’d estimate well over half were immediately returned. Clothing, more like 80%.
Some people ordered the items COD, which means they paid at our registers, we went into the back room and brought out their packages, they opened.them… and 5 minutes later I had to walk them to a different register at the other end of the long counter, where we processed returns.
Clothes that looked substantial in the catalog were flimsy polyester junk when seen in person. It made me wary to this day of ordering clothes from catalogs or online.
BTW… dunno about elsewhere, but the US Postal Service no longer accepts packages tied with any sort of string. You can still buy balls of “package twine”. Just don’t use it on packages.
strings play holy-hell with automated postal machines
Yeah, I could see that.
I guess when they wanted string, there were no machines.
I actually stopped using it long before that, because my brother-in-law had a temp job during Christmas season, sorting parcels.
He said they pick up packages by the string and throw them, and they get better treatment without it. LOL
The post office may not want twine, but the trash collectors here won’t pick up branches or trimming unless they’re tied up. I use twine to tie up the nandina trimmings I put out every fall.
I don’t know whether you mean on the ground or in your yard waste can
We can’t put anything outside our cans. But we can throw them in unbundled… though they theoretically won’t take anything over 1½ inches thick, or thorny, but they rarely check.
I don’t know what I would do if they one day wouldn’t take my bits of blackberry vine! I couldn’t carry them anywhere, and I don’t know where that would be anyway.
Clever Dogs.
It would be interesting to test the limit. Break the biscuits in half, so you won’t give too many.
Let him watch you slowly pocket them… then see if he can tell 3 from 4, or 5 from 6.
Of course, he may be judging by the smell of more biscuits in your pocket, not the count… But it would be fun.
With Buddy, it’s all about the smell.
Leucistic Bald Eagle.
Leucism (/ˈluːsɪzəm, -kɪz-/) or leukism, is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes.
~Wikipedia.
A bunch of stuff from today’s London “Daily Mail.”