ApathyTree

This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we've found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest. 

The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph's origins.

In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned "Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910," which translates roughly to "men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910."

The anecdote in question:

Last evening over an early dinner in New York a dear old friend visiting from Australia gave me this postcard which he found lately in a museum bookshop in Germany. The caption reads Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910. The first phrase is difficult to translate with equal concision, but surely means [men made more] beautiful by stripes, and presumably therefore drips with irony.

iPhones don’t shut off when you do that, but 5 rapid presses of the power button return it to the encrypted lock state, and require full password to unlock, exactly like full rebooting does. This is enabled by default iirc.

It also quickly vibrates a unique short pattern to let you know it worked so you can do it without looking at it.

If you want to fully shut it down, you can either long press the power and volume up, then drag the power off slider, or do the 5 press thing above and drag the slider.

I only know of google voice, but they will issue a free number for you, and you can use that to send and receive all communications you’d get on a real phone line, so calls, voicemail, and texts.

You.. toast it and then egg wash it, and then eat it without cooking the egg..?

I mean that sounds nasty af to me, but you do you :)

There was a bar near me that still had one of these things until quite recently, and yeah it was always on the ground and gross and stuff. I just used a napkin the few times I went there.

But then they had a fire and got rid of them. Now they have a freestanding roll of paper towel that’s always wet and falling on the floor which is much better…

A prior owner of my house was a mason. I know this because I get his union stuff (I’ve lived here for 15 years; at this point it’s not my problem).

He installed a huge fireplace and hearth.. on top of 2 layers of old hardwood flooring.. so when I ripped that out, I made the hearth unstable. Yay! It’s also an absolutely massive radiant structure, and everyone is shocked that it’s… designed for a small pellet stove.

It’s both well done, and not well done at all.

If there’s fake ones and people show up for them because they saw them on the map, are they fake?

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Well good thing I learned brail

Yeah it’s only until the end of July, it was just to help out a friend until either I was ready to move or her staffing picked up, and her staffing picked up, so I’m out.

It’s not my cup of tea, but it is what it is, and I figured getting out of the house once a week would be, like, good for me or something.

I missed this reply in my inbox, I’m sorry.

I appreciate your words.

This specific dude has made some really questionable comments about how other people have seen him as a “potential perp” but he’s for sure do nothing of the sort, and he’s always complaining his adult kids want nothing to do with him because his evil ex-wife tells lies, blah blah blah, so yeah..

I’ve actually been involved with men of that sort before, so it’s a massive turnoff (not sexually, just interpersonally) to be around.

Idk, if it happens again I’m probably just going to kick him out rather than deal with it. If my boss has an issue with it, too bad. I’m not going to be there long enough to give a shit.

It was over the course of half an hour, rather than a single quotation, but fair enough.

And your right that they don’t pay the same heed.. I wish there was a magic phrase that actually worked to stop some of that crap and also relieved the discomfort, but alas.

They gave all they had. And then some, Jesus.

Most animals have better births than humans but I, a human woman, would not want to be a kiwi bird (avian variety, IDK what words mean over there).