Yup! Looks like it was released in 1977. Reminds me of my grandpa letting me mow his lawn with a big reel-type mower that pulled itself. I think I started when I was about 8. I don’t think I destroyed much of the garden…luckily, no dogs.
I just wonder why somebody captioned it a 2-year-old girl.
Makes me think of what I wrote yesterday about Brenda Lee, whose agent or producer thought they’d get better publicity by saying she was 9 when she was about 13.
Did somebody think think this photo would evoke more sympathy by saying a probably five-year-old child was only two?
My mother couldn’t wear flat shoes till she was probably in her 50s…. her foot muscles were distorted, and her calf tendons shortened, by wearing high heels.
Till then even her slippers had to have wedge heels.
My son (DPT) ran across that with patients who were bedridden for some time. He had to fashion foot supports so they could walk as they were rehabbing.
The Elephant Gate (Entrance) at Carlsberg Brewery, Copenhagen, Denmark – Architect – Vilhelm Dahlerup, 1901. Made out of granite from the island of Bornholm.
It was a popular magic symbol in north America, and in the Indian sub continent it was a symbol to ward off evil.
After WW2 all the counsel’s if Indians all came together and agreed to stop using it.
I have a photo of my grandmother in the early 1900’s standing in front of a quilt with it as the prominent theme.
Another thing those evil people did was to steal an important symbol in their faith.
Up until WWII, the symbol was used in the Boy Scouts as a statement of achievement. I was in an antique shop many years ago and saw a weaving with the symbol on it and the letters “B. S. A.” If I hadn’t learned about it being in the Boy Scouts shortly before then, I would have definitely been talking to the proprietor of the store.
I had a few from an early 20th century line called “Swasticklers”… They had striking red and black borders with swastickas, surrounding a joke printed in the center, instead of a picture.
The humor leaves a bit to be desired… some jokes just don’t age well. But somebody must have thought they were funny…. and the swasticka was obviously meant to be something good.
I was shocked when I first saw them, but one time when I was at the library, I looked up swasticka, and saw all the uses made of them over the years. They were a popular good luck symbol before the Nazis took them over.
So, the legislation that the UK government introduced to “Protect the kiddies from inappropriate things on the Interwebs!” (Read: Censor/Ban anything we don’t want the population to see/hear. Be a ‘Nanny State’ and not treat them like adults), is getting to be annoying……
The meme website Imgur has geo-blocked all access from UK IP addresses. This is in response to the UK government preliminary fining Media Labs (Corporate owners of Imgur) for allowing NSFW images (Mainly adverts, and there’s been outright pornographic AI ads on there recently) without any age verification being in place. This puts Media Labs in a bit of a corner as they recently fired all the remaining DEVS/Mods and outsourced the Mods aspect to a third party company that does such work. The Dev team is, by the looks of it, contract hire software companies when needed if something breaks. What this means, in effect, is that it will cost Media Labs money to put such systems in place, and that means their profits from the site will be ever so slightly reduced. The other alternative would be to actually stop serving ads from any company that wants to give them money to do so, while not taking any interest in what those ads actually are. This would also cost them profits. So they just up and geo-blocked all UK IP addresses, it was cheaper.
I didn’t want to get a VPN, but it’s looking more and more like it’s going to be essential if you actually want to use the Internet in any meaningful form. One of the users in the Discord I’m in is having to use a VPN so they can do the research they need (Medical subjects) because the sites have pictures of unclothed humans on them.
Imgur is a lot more than a meme site… It’s a photo hosting and photography site.
A lot of people have their family and travel photos there, and there are interest groups and even a couple of comics there… in fact Cleo and Company came close to moving there, before Nighthawks found WordPress!
No, not “silly”. Things are getting sttuppiider…
Our “Liberal” government here in Canada is trying to do the same thing, they want to be able to control the messages that you hear. On TV. On the radio. On the Internet. Government says one thing, they spew about being altruistic, but they really want and do the opposite.
It is Orwellian: Control the message; control the people.
This is happening everywhere in the so-called “Free” world. It is nuts. It is failure.
The future, I fear for my 6-year old grandson — we 70-year-olds have experienced a lot of changes in our lifetimes, but he will see probably more, and our current way of life and culture and plain existence with be but a slim memory to him.
It is everywhere.
Even here, we question photos, AI or mis-captioned; when it should be interesting, and not jaded. It is a deadly trap that we ALL are falling into, myself included.
I do not know how to fix it. I do not know IF it can be fixed. I do not know if even the will to fix it exists anymore.
I am sad. But forever hopeful and forever thankful.
So ends my rant.
Apologies.
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Umm…I don’t think that’s yours, buddy…
It is now!
He’s happy.
You are missed over at Citizen Dog.
He looks like he’s so proud of himself !
You kinda got to wonder about the backstory….
For one thing… the person who took the picture must not have been screaming at the dog. I don’t see any fear or guilt in that happy smile.
Is it because the dog had permission to eat the cake?
Doubtful. Who lets a dog eat a whole cake.
Or did the photographer WANT to scream, but held back, seeing a perfect photo op?
Is this a super fancy, extra large birthday cake… or did Doggo just spoil somebody’s wedding day?
All of the above. Since it is white cake and white frosting it may be doggo’s birthday cake.
He does look like maybe he has permission, but wow… That’s a lotta cake for a dog!
,
Looks like
He’s got a ball.
so he does….I imagine he training them. m
I can pretty much hear. : “SIT!”
..
“You think I’ve got big teeth?”
I guess he was listening to Dr. Demento after all:
I’m looking over
My dead dog Rover
Who was hit by the power mower
gruesome ol song
Yup! Looks like it was released in 1977. Reminds me of my grandpa letting me mow his lawn with a big reel-type mower that pulled itself. I think I started when I was about 8. I don’t think I destroyed much of the garden…luckily, no dogs.
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Poor kid. It was sweet of her doctor to sit with her. I hope she came through it with flying colors.
Sweet picture, and I agree with Liverlips.
I just wonder why somebody captioned it a 2-year-old girl.
Makes me think of what I wrote yesterday about Brenda Lee, whose agent or producer thought they’d get better publicity by saying she was 9 when she was about 13.
Did somebody think think this photo would evoke more sympathy by saying a probably five-year-old child was only two?
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“Wanna hear a secret?”
And I’m an emu on my mother’s side!
Edgar Degas
I love it.
aha! then you shall see more
Cool! I love impressionism in all it’s forms.
I’ll second Happy3’s comment. You have good taste and find some interesting stuff.
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Manhattan, Lower East Side…. Ca 1941.
looks pretty grim living there
People seem to have fond memories, though.
Lots of immigrant neighborhoods may have contributed to that…. a sense of place.
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Handsome creature!
Cave woman: Dear, I want a coat made out of lots of those skins!
“Do or do not. There is no try”
Achieving zen.
The red-shanked Duoc monkey from Vietnam.
I was thinking he looked like an old Bohemian artist in cool clothes…
So it cracked me up when I was searching the picture.
Most of the results labeled the monkey…. but a couple were, instead, links to clothing retailers.
,
Yecccch!
I suppose it could be done as an implant. But why???
I can’t even look at it!
Somebody tell me when I’ve scrolled past it, so I can open my eyes.
I am with you. !!!
I Agree. it’s awful. but it might be a statement against these idiotic shoes
Mom said hers ruined her feet.
My mother couldn’t wear flat shoes till she was probably in her 50s…. her foot muscles were distorted, and her calf tendons shortened, by wearing high heels.
Till then even her slippers had to have wedge heels.
My son (DPT) ran across that with patients who were bedridden for some time. He had to fashion foot supports so they could walk as they were rehabbing.
,,
Didn’t be alarmed at the inappropriately young age of his date…
That’s his daughter.
Frank Sinatra, with daughter Nancy, and Yul Brynner.
What, inappropriate young age? Don’t you have a 23 year-old boyfriend? 😉
Um… sure.
He’s so secret that even I‘ve never met him!
,.
Sometimes you kinda forget how tall it is.
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I’m not playing “Snap” with her!
Ricky Jay’s daughter?
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Got it. But I’m not telling…
Same here.
Easy.
Yes….
All of them…
Hexagons would be right, not octagons.
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Aw …hee halways makes that face.
That is a joke that would have been a big hit on the eponymous TV show. Which is to say, a Loooooongg groaner.
Hee hee — “The Big Nap”
The Elephant Gate (Entrance) at Carlsberg Brewery, Copenhagen, Denmark – Architect – Vilhelm Dahlerup, 1901. Made out of granite from the island of Bornholm.
Two things:
Swastikas were not originally invented by the Nazi Party. They were originally peace oriented.
It was a popular magic symbol in north America, and in the Indian sub continent it was a symbol to ward off evil.
After WW2 all the counsel’s if Indians all came together and agreed to stop using it.
I have a photo of my grandmother in the early 1900’s standing in front of a quilt with it as the prominent theme.
Another thing those evil people did was to steal an important symbol in their faith.
Go visit any Buddhist temple.
Up until WWII, the symbol was used in the Boy Scouts as a statement of achievement. I was in an antique shop many years ago and saw a weaving with the symbol on it and the letters “B. S. A.” If I hadn’t learned about it being in the Boy Scouts shortly before then, I would have definitely been talking to the proprietor of the store.
I used have a lot of old postcards.
I had a few from an early 20th century line called “Swasticklers”… They had striking red and black borders with swastickas, surrounding a joke printed in the center, instead of a picture.
The humor leaves a bit to be desired… some jokes just don’t age well. But somebody must have thought they were funny…. and the swasticka was obviously meant to be something good.
I was shocked when I first saw them, but one time when I was at the library, I looked up swasticka, and saw all the uses made of them over the years. They were a popular good luck symbol before the Nazis took them over.
OMG… you can find a picture of anything on the innerwebs ..
we’ve had that capacity for years but when I’m rewarded with a deluge of examples at the touch some fingers, I I still marvel and shake my head.
I think it’s ’cause I’m old enough to know when it was….diffrent
I was a big fan of libraries….you ‘member those
When I got my first computer… well, my first Internet connection, cos my first couple of computers had no modems…
I said it was like having the library on my desk.
Then I got a smartphone… behind the curve, 2010… I had the library in my pocket.
I’ll never get over it
I miss card catalogs.
So, the legislation that the UK government introduced to “Protect the kiddies from inappropriate things on the Interwebs!” (Read: Censor/Ban anything we don’t want the population to see/hear. Be a ‘Nanny State’ and not treat them like adults), is getting to be annoying……
The meme website Imgur has geo-blocked all access from UK IP addresses. This is in response to the UK government preliminary fining Media Labs (Corporate owners of Imgur) for allowing NSFW images (Mainly adverts, and there’s been outright pornographic AI ads on there recently) without any age verification being in place. This puts Media Labs in a bit of a corner as they recently fired all the remaining DEVS/Mods and outsourced the Mods aspect to a third party company that does such work. The Dev team is, by the looks of it, contract hire software companies when needed if something breaks. What this means, in effect, is that it will cost Media Labs money to put such systems in place, and that means their profits from the site will be ever so slightly reduced. The other alternative would be to actually stop serving ads from any company that wants to give them money to do so, while not taking any interest in what those ads actually are. This would also cost them profits. So they just up and geo-blocked all UK IP addresses, it was cheaper.
I didn’t want to get a VPN, but it’s looking more and more like it’s going to be essential if you actually want to use the Internet in any meaningful form. One of the users in the Discord I’m in is having to use a VPN so they can do the research they need (Medical subjects) because the sites have pictures of unclothed humans on them.
Things are getting silly.
Imgur is a lot more than a meme site… It’s a photo hosting and photography site.
A lot of people have their family and travel photos there, and there are interest groups and even a couple of comics there… in fact Cleo and Company came close to moving there, before Nighthawks found WordPress!
The world is getting stranger by the day.
ah yes. the day I found WordPress
a date which will live in INfamy
No, not “silly”. Things are getting sttuppiider…
Our “Liberal” government here in Canada is trying to do the same thing, they want to be able to control the messages that you hear. On TV. On the radio. On the Internet. Government says one thing, they spew about being altruistic, but they really want and do the opposite.
It is Orwellian: Control the message; control the people.
This is happening everywhere in the so-called “Free” world. It is nuts. It is failure.
The future, I fear for my 6-year old grandson — we 70-year-olds have experienced a lot of changes in our lifetimes, but he will see probably more, and our current way of life and culture and plain existence with be but a slim memory to him.
It is everywhere.
Even here, we question photos, AI or mis-captioned; when it should be interesting, and not jaded. It is a deadly trap that we ALL are falling into, myself included.
I do not know how to fix it. I do not know IF it can be fixed. I do not know if even the will to fix it exists anymore.
I am sad. But forever hopeful and forever thankful.
So ends my rant.
Apologies.
I worry too, about the young and what they will inherit
I worry more about him seeing less, and learning less and only being allowed to know what the government wants him to know.