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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Keep balloons secure! This includes Mylar balloons, and also balloon animals!

It is NOT good for the environment to let them blow away in the wind, or untie them, so they fly like jets.

Rubber, both natural and synthetic, which is actually a plastic, does not biodegrade.

…..

Aside from the pollution, look at this photo, showing the effect of allowing a balloon duck to escape, and mate with wild waterfowl.

Do not allow this plastic DNA hybrid to proliferate!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Was wondering where you were going with the balloon rant.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
8 months ago

I hope it was a pleasant journey😁

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

You were even more loony than usual, Susan!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
8 months ago

Don’t you mean bal-loony?

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Well, that seems highly unlikely.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Horses are known for being social and interested in other animals, so… who knows, maybe. If it’s a fantasy image, it’s still nice. 🐎🐢🐎

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I tried to search the image, and found what seems like a lot of similar photos…. I’d say at least a dozen.

Some were the same horses, or one of them, with the turtle…. but some were different horses, or maybe a horse standing in shallow surf with a dolphin.

Which to me means one of two things:

1) This actually happens more than you’d think.

Or…. 2) it’s a popular prompt for AI.

Before you jump to conclusions… I don’t see weirdnesses that would point to AI. The animals look natural, with no extra ears or eyes, all feet accounted for, etc.

So maybe it really does happen more than it would seem.
Or maybe AI is getting better.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

I think the (curious) horse nudged the turtle with it’s nose; the turtle snapped at it and the horse pulled back. The turtle is pulled upward by it’s grip on the horse.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
8 months ago

It makes sense, but sea turtle jaws are very strong, and can break heavy clamshells. Bites are painful.

Yet neither horse in the picture looks alarmed, or has its head pulled back.

Both have their noses calmly extended forward, which is also mirrored in their forward-facing ears.

Startled horses get a wild look in their eyes, and their ears swivel outward, as their noses jerk upwards…

You can even see it in the muscles of their necks.

The turtles mouth, too, seems to be open, not clamped onto anything.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

No way can a sea turtle lift itself up on its flippers like that. I would bet photoshop.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Or AI…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

looks-like-another-one-of-those-stupid-incredible-journey-v0-vrg1v9ldm6pc1
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

He’s still young, but starting to question the beliefs of the sun-worshipping cult in which he was raised.

He’s thinking of making his escape… but his roots run deep in the community.

Last edited 8 months ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

NAMES
Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster
I’m guessing that they are watching an audition(s).

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Excuse me. I have an appointment for some porcelain worship.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Gosh… there was so much back then, to make your husband stop loving you.

If you were female, you had to live in constant dread.

It seems so obviously ridiculous now… well it did then, too

But I do remember, when I was 13, all the other girls were starting to wear lipstick and stockings, and I wasn’t allowed either.

Not for religious reasons … or I guess anything other than my parents wanting to keep me 12. My dad thought anything grown up was a threat to my innocence.

My mother finally decided I should be allowed those things, and my dad said okay, but he would choose them. They didn’t tell me.

My birthday is in April, so I was getting closer to 14 by the time he surprised me for Christmas.

The other girls wore pink lipstick… But he thought the only “proper” lipstick was red. Teenage stuff was inherently wicked.

So he bought me deep red lipstick completely unsuitable for an innocent adolescent.

When I took a chance with having permission, and bought myself some pale pink, he told me it made my lips look like a cow’s @ss, and no man would ever kiss me looking like that.

So yeah…. These ads weren’t pure fantasy.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Oh…. that was in Libya, where I could only shop at the PX.

A couple years later, back in the states, I discovered the wonderful world of dime stores and cheap makeup.

Tangee was very popular… I think by then it came in 3 shades, but they were all color-changing. I think they were about 39 cents, instead of a dollar fifty or so for Revlon at the PX.

The original was translucent orange in the tube, the other two a bit pinker or darker…. But just like in this ad, they were supposed to change into your perfect shade on your lips.

Every one of them turned bright Crayola orange on me… And so did some of the regular pink lipsticks in other cheap brands.

The idea that your body chemicals will cause then to become a flattering color for you is nonsense.

It’s about pH… And your body has no idea what color it will make or what looks good on you.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Yes it has – no lipstick at all.
Fortunately my husband told me very early in our relationship (before we officially dated, but hung out a lot together – all our friends considered us a couple before us, but it took us not many weeks) that he didn’t care about make-up on a woman. So I stopped using any.
Still fair skin and smooth lips 42 years later. Same husband, too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
8 months ago

Gosh .. yes, I wore lipstick in my teens, because it was the era in which one did… especially teenagers trying to emulate adults.

That desire for perceived sophistication, in my experience, seems to last only through early adulthood.

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My mother wouldn’t go out the door, even to the beach, without lipstick, rouge, and eyebrow pencil.

I gave up lipstick sometime before maybe age 25, probably cos the dinosaurs kept eating it, and I’ve never owned the other two, or foundation, or powder… or whatever.

Every time Mom saw me, till she passed in 1979, she would tell me I needed lipstick. I have a good friend I haven’t seen in 2 years, cos she’s moved far away, who is 96… She still says that too.

I did wear eyeliner and mascara for a while longer, because that was a 70s sort of thing, along with a brownish pink clay dust we put on our cheeks….. but I rarely remembered.

I think I still kind of like the look of mascara but I threw my last tube out maybe 20 or 30 years ago, when I realized it was at least 20 years old. So “liking” didn’t translate into “remembering to buy or wear.”

Last edited 8 months ago by SusanSunshine
P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

If I’m gonna kiss, I want to kiss lips, not some chemical film.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
8 months ago

I would think kissing lipstick would be horrible… but in my Dad’s time, it denoted femininity.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Flavored lipsticks were fun.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

One girl I was sweet on dosed her lips with cherry chapstick before standing under the mistletoe. WOW!!!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

You have to wonder what’s got his attention. Beyond just cooling off.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
8 months ago

He’s just blowing bubbles.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
8 months ago

I think we’ve all seen or seen video of doggies blowing bubbles.
It seems to be aa thing.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

“Roger that, flight WF101. You are cleared for landing on runway 1E.”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Orville!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Gooney Bird on final approach. CLEAR THE RUNWAY!!!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I’ve seen zucchini way larger – unintentionally.
Look up “Herkuleskeule”.
Still delicious, btw.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
8 months ago

My friend Jenny preferred the oversized zucchini when she made zucchini bread.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Got the seahorse.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

I think i got the candle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Before you said you wanted to re-use this picture, I posted a list of about 20 things I saw in it…. Not that I remember them all.

The candle….
Behind the left hand piggy (the one in the striped pants), there’s a tall bookshelf. The candle is hidden in the bottom righthand edge of it… between the books and the pig.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Do you think they got informed consent ahead of time? I would not want to be there when he wakes up.

Alexikakos
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8 months ago

 
Malaysian Katydid.
It’s carnivorous.
 

 

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Alexikakos
8 months ago

Carnivorous? Katy did NOT!

Alexikakos
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8 months ago

 
Decided one of two things:
1) Not good to eat.
2) I’m not wasting any more time on this thing and I don’t understand why “those things” (substitute the fox word for humans if you know it) do.
 

 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
8 months ago

I needed to see that.
Thank’s Alex. 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Now ‘splain it to me, please.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Fox stole his GoPro.
Those front legs going at it together looks like Fawn running for fun.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Oh!

I didn’t get it cos it’s still taking pictures of the fox… But i guess they’re from the vantage point of hanging from his teeth… 😁

Alexikakos
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8 months ago

 
What happened here (music = terrible)?
 

 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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8 months ago

As we see the duck heading for the runway, I’ll offer you a pilot.

This is:
Amilia Earhart

Emilia-Earhart
Last edited 8 months ago by More_Cats_Than_Sense
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
8 months ago

A completely unintentional fashion icon, half a century later.

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
8 months ago

That may be the first picture I’ve seen of her where she’s not smiling.

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