Barometer posted:

So much so that you can always spot them!


"Hold it, buddy...let's see your feet and underwear..."

Defenestration posted:

Terrifying Effigies posted:

quote:

A 1944 opinion poll found that 13% of the U.S. public were in favor of the extermination of all Japanese.

Broken Machine posted:

I was at the supermarket today, and saw the following bottles up on a shelf:



Picked up a bottle of the Riesling, not quite $5 and not a bad wine. I'm just stumped that there is an honest-to-goodness Lucky Duck line of budget wine.

Broken Machine posted:

It bugs me when artists depict the crucifixion with the nails going through his hands. People were crucified with the nail in between the radius and the ulna of the forearm. A nail through the hand like that would just rip out.

quote:

The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

Pfffffffffft posted:

Pretty tame for Joan Rivers, i mean she said Phyllis Dillers whole act was based on her looking like an idiot a few days after she died.

Radbot posted:

Yeah, I used to be a Stalin apologist until I learned about the Holodomor. Wasn't an easy way to justify that one in my mind.

quiggy posted:

Oh poo poo right I forgot that infertile women are actually men. My bad, you win.



This is the trans flag flying over the Castro in San Francisco this past 11/20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is the first time it has ever been raised there.

quote:

The leader of the Blackville Club arose last Labor night
And said, “When we were on parade today
I really felt so much ashamed, I wished I could turn white
‘Cause all the white folks march’d with banners gay

Just at de stand de German band
They waved their flag and played ‘De Wacht am Rhine’
The Scotch Brigade each man arrayed
In new plaid dresses marched to ‘Auld Lang Syne’
Even Spaniards and Sweeds, folks of all kinds and creeds
Had their banner except de coon alone
Ev’ry nation can brag ‘bout some kind of a flag
Why can’t we get an emblem of our own?”

Chorus:
For Ireland has her Harp and Shamrock
England floats her Lion bold
Even China waves a Dragon
Germany an Eagle gold
Bonny Scotland loves a Thistle
Turkey has her Crescent Moon
And what won’t Yankees do for their Red, White and Blue
Every race has a flag but the coon

He says, “Now I’ll suggest a flag that ought to win a prize
Just take a flannel shirt and paint it red
They draw a chicken on it with two poker dice for eyes
An’ have it wavin’ razors ‘round its head

To make it quaint, you’ve got to paint
A possum with a pork chop in his teeth
To give it tone, a big hambone
You sketch upon a banjo underneath
And be sure not to skip just a policy slip
Have it marked four eleven forty four
Then them Irish and Dutch, they can’t guy us so much
We should have had this emblem long before”

Repeat Chorus

Madison posted:

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.

quote:

Amsterdam still looks liberal to tourists, who were recently assured by the Labour mayor that the city's marijuana-selling coffee shops would stay open despite a new national law tackling drug tourism. But the Dutch capital may lose its reputation for tolerance over plans to dispatch nuisance neighbours to "scum villages" made from shipping containers.

...

The camps where antisocial tenants will be rehoused for three to six months have been called "scum villages" because the policy echoes proposals from Geert Wilders, the far-right populist, who last year demanded that "repeat offenders" be "sent to a village for scum".

...

Those deemed guilty of causing "extreme havoc" will be evicted and placed in temporary homes of a "basic" nature, including converted shipping containers in industrial areas of the city. "We call it a living container," says Boer. Housing antisocial tenants in these units, which have showers and kitchens and have been used as student accommodation, will ensure that they are not "rewarded" by being relocated to better accommodation.

Dutch newspaper the Parool has pointed out that in the 19th century troublemakers were moved to villages in Drenthe and Overijssel, which rapidly became slums. But Boer insists that the administration has learned from past mistakes and is not planning to house the antisocial together.

It would be more accurate to call them "scum houses" than scum villages, says Boer, "because we don't want to put more than one of these families in the same area". After up to six months in these houses, scattered around the city, the tenants will be found permanent homes. The city government anticipates moving around 10 families a year into this programme, which starts in 2013.

The temporary dwellings will be heavily policed, but antisocial tenants will also have access to doctors, social workers and parole officers. "They are taken care of so the whole situation is not going to repeat at the new house they are in," says Boer.

Radbot posted:

Hey, he owned the shores of Tripoli, he deserves a Marine Corps ribbon.

Noooo! Everybody edit in a photo before you're probated!

Mister Bates posted:

Pawnee. Also the only flag I've ever seen which includes another, smaller flag as part of its design.

serewit posted:

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Wow, what happened in 1835?

quote:

This American experience was not unique, for a glut of distilled spirits has preceded industrial development in many modern nations. A mid-eighteenth-century craze for gin preceded England's Industrial Revolution, mid-nineteenth-century distilled spirit binges preceded the rapid transformations of Prussia and Sweden, and an upsurge in vodka consumption preceded the industrialization of Russia. In each of these cases, as in the United States, agricultural surpluses had created conditions favorable to rapid industrial development.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This just got posted by my ultra republican, NRA supporter family




"Take this picture and sure it and share it again. Print flyers,show it to your parents, your preacher, and your coworkers. Spread the god drat word Tryranny is alive and well!"

Joementum posted:

He's intimidating even with a basket of puppies.

Bohemian Nights posted:

Speaking of comics, anyone remember Prez?

zoux posted:

White people in the artforms of the people they were there to exploit/enslave/colonize:

quote:

The Country of Da Qin, is where western businessmen are gathering. The king wraps his head by cloth in pyramid shape. This land produces coral, gold, brocade with pattern, silk cloth (without pattern), pearls, etc.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Oddly, considering what a horrible poo poo he was in just about every other possible way, Goering had something of a soft spot for animals and championed a number of measures against animal cruelty throughout the Third Reich.

quote:

The money that Franklin designed and printed for New Jersey in 1737 marked a unique advancement in technology. In an effort to prevent counterfeiting, a special form of “nature printing” was used. This consisted of making a lead casting of an actual single leaf, and using this as part of the design on the printed note. The outline and veins of each leaf were unique, and thus could not be duplicated by any other printer.

Franklin’s nature printing was so successful that it was used on numerous issues of State and Continental paper currency until 1780.

Mr Cuddles posted:

A whole set of these here:
http://geniscarreras.com/philosophy.html

HCO Plumer GCB GCM posted:

How very Marie Antoinette.

Yes, I often pop to the corner shop for a pint of milk and pay with a credit card.

Volcott posted:

Constitutional monarchies in the British style bring in far more dosh than they cost their nations in upkeep, primarily through tourism. They're essentially living national treasures.

I really don't understand why some people have such raging hateboners for anyone with a crown.

Radish posted:

That led to this story about how clearly unions are unneeded since American employers have learned from the early 1900s that worker safety is very important.

Goatman Sacks posted:

The best Sapeur:

Forgall posted:

Fishstick posted:

Obamaphones are another manufactured rightwing outrage about a Reagan era policy that provides discounts on phones to people with a low income.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I'm not spun up on Greek lit: what's the right parallel to draw for a character who sells out his values for power, and it comes back to bit him in the rear end?

Zeroisanumber posted:

That was not helping. Unless the car is on fire or the occupants are otherwise in danger, please, please, please do not move them or touch them or do anything except talk to them and ask them to hold still.

trapped mouse posted:

Not to mention Jim Sturgess:



Turning into this:



To play as a Korean. In 2012.

The dressing up as other races by white people is a long, long practice that has often been used to keep people of color out of Hollywood, preferring the much safer white actor, the one who is more likely to bring in ticket sales. It is often used to mock the person of color, with the added benefit of not needed to cast someone who would be more likely to get offended by carrying out racially stereotypical acts.

If this were no longer a problem in our media, it might be a little different. However, the altering of skin tone/facial features in order for a white actor to play a non-white role, or a white person to dress up as a person of a different race is all too common, and it's frankly awkward. If someone really, really wants to dress up as a person of color, then fine, dress up as the character without darkening skin. Better yet, just go as a different character. It's not worth getting caught up in racism in society just so you can pull off your Richard Pryor costume, or whatever.