Yep, I don’t get this at all. Is it supposed to be funny somehow? It just seems like a random set of panels. OP, what motivated you to post this?
My favorite is “I lived through the Cold War”, as though being a veteran of propaganda saturation makes them an authority.
So what? Most books sit on shelves unread until they are recycled by Half Priced Books. Might as well use them until they fall apart instead of display them to look smart.
Chicken soup for the soul, not the organs.
And I hope we’re imagining the same kind of suckerfish.
There are new versions with extremely similar names.
Or one of those fish that clean the side of the tank in Chinese restaurants.
In my personal opinion, those folks need to lighten up. We’re talking about a completely fictional realm where there is plenty of fantasy diversity expressed in other ways, written by a British man who was born in 1892. Enjoy it or don’t, but there really isn’t much foundation to assume that Tolkien was trying to be racist with his literary choices.
From the Wikipedia article on Tolkien and race:
In his personal life, he was anti-racist both in peacetime and during the two World Wars.
Sure, we can throw in some black characters in new productions of his work, but judging the man by modern standards is just looking for outrage.
They ignored a load of other really massive crimes from Trump’s first administration—why would they have gone after him for this one?
This is just a glory hole with extra steps.
This is not very well thought out. People survive accidents all the time, far more than they die from them. It is confirmation bias that makes you feel like it is easy to die from one because people only focus on the bad ones. Normal injuries and close calls fly under the radar.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54393323
(German, 1863-1906)
Sophie Sperlich was a well-known artist in Munich, her home town. Although not much information is available about her, she was a popular artist painting both dogs and cats. Her paintings are in the same style as those of Julius Adam and Henriette Ronner-Knip. Many of her works were used as postcard illustrations.
More cats: https://artvee.com/artist/sophie-sperlich/
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43902681
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40347903
Saint Jerome as the Representation of Melancholy - Farrukh Beg (1615)
Farrukh Beg (Persian: فرخ بیگ; c. 1547 – after 1615), also known as Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian miniature painter, who spent a bulk of his career in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, praised by Mughal Emperor Jahangir as "unrivaled in the age."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14301149
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16769691
Cat peeking out of a Nazi Sd.Kfz.222 armored car, date unknown, Interwar or WW2-era
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14524208
Louis Coulon, trade unionist, with a cat in his 10-foot long beard, France, 1890
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/31940719
Taking Time to Smell The Zinnias - Jonelle Summerfield (2016)
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/historyporn@lemmy.world/t/992926
British soldier with the trench cat, France, WW1, 1918
She sounds like someone who has no understanding of what autistic people are like, and was applying the standards of a neurotypical relationship to her interactions with you. She could and perhaps should have taken it upon herself to learn, but your dad also really dropped the ball by not preparing her.