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This is the result . . . when you’re having a terrible cold, sore throat, trying to handle your camera and playing around with photoshop at the same time – well, I experienced the world turned upside down and very much blurred :)
Two minutes shy from the end of 1.5 hour tennis training session this morning I run forward to hit the ball when CRACK. I stop as if shot. My Achilles Tendon has snapped.
They say it's a six month full recovery time and at least eight weeks before I can drive. This is going to be really tough to get through, the sun is out I have at least two full-time jobs, children and a 365 project in play. I will try to carry everything on if I can.
The only thing that really hurts is my sense of humour... it was last seen teetering on Beachy Head. That, and I was due to pick up a new road bicycle after tennis.
To take my mind off the fact that I had to go and have a wisdom tooth extracted this afternoon (I broke it eating a Riesen chocolate chew), the Boy humoured me and we went to Toys R Us to check out the state of the shelves.
He actually pointed out this set to me, which according to the tag claims to be the 'ultimate tiny toddler collection'. However, of the 11 canonical Disney Princesses, all of the ethnic minority characters - Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan and Tiana - are missing. Whut?
To start with, we wondered if it was just old stock, but no - there's Rapunzel and Merida. Looking at the dolls themselves, it's clear that there's little (if any) variation in the facial sculpts, which might lend itself more easily to white characters (although obviously they all look vastly different anyway). But would it be so hard to attempt some other characters? I mean, there's even an empty balcony space for goodness' sake!
We live in the UK, and Europe has sometimes missed out when it comes to issues of non-white dolls, but this is ridiculous. I'm not white; back in the '80s, my parents had to try pretty damned hard to find me a Chinese-looking doll (I had a Cabbage Patch Kid, who was awfully cute). But that was the '80s. This might seem ironic coming from someone whose dollying pretty much exclusively consists of Disney characters, but I don't actually like the Disney Princess official franchise - I don't like the redesigns, and I feel that they actually pervert many of the positive strengths of character and versatility that the real film characters have to offer. For example - I get that Mulan looks pretty in her dress, but she sings *a whole bloody song* about how that isn't really her. Rapunzel's hair is a shackle - both literally and metaphorically. Her short brown hair is a symbol of her freedom, and her difference. Why is that always pushed to one side?
Anyway, basically, this is all a long-winded grumble about what is at best thoughtlessness and at worst racial princess profiling. Let me just say that I'm looking forward to getting my hands on Go Go Tomago. ;)
(P.S. Sorry about the long rant again, guys. Blame it on the dental extraction.)
...So long, and thanks for all the grass !!!
Porte ta serviette sur toi toute la journée, peu importe où tu vas.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, (H2G2) de Douglas Adams.
Pour ceux qui aiment les livres de science-fiction humoristique !
I was amused by the symbol for "Pi" on a building in Valletta. (It wasn't a shop as far as I could see - the door was closed)
I found this priceless warning on a mining lease in an Outback community where people may be tempted to try their luck on another man's claim.
According to local legend, Balmuto is haunted by the ghost of Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, a cousin of the laird of Balmuto. Whether or not there is or was ever a ghost, I won't speculate on, but the story of why there might be is an interesting one!
Sir Alexander Boswell is described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as a "thoroughgoing Tory", who had a particular dislike of the Whigs, a political party who had been the main rivals of the Tories from the 1680s and were later to evolve into the Liberal Party. He was elsewhere described as a "gentleman gifted with much witty pleasantry and caustic humour."
In 1822, a number of articles were printed in The Glasgow Sentinal, a newspaper known to support the Tory party, criticising the Whigs and ridiculing James Stuart of Dunearn in particular, a lawyer and Whig politician, implying that Stuart was a coward and a bully. Stuart initiated legal proceedings against the publishers, in the course of which he got to see the original manuscripts for the offensive articles. While reading them he recognised the handwriting as that of Alexander Boswell.
Stuart presented Bowell with a note, detailing his grievance and asking Boswell to confirm or deny that he was the author of the offensive material. When Boswell refused to do so, Stuart challenged him to a dual.
The dual was initially arranged to take place in Edinburgh, but the local sheriff got to hear about it and arrested both men, only releasing them on condition that they kept the peace within the county and city of Edinburgh. The dual therefore took place in a field just outside Kirkcaldy, on the morning of Tuesday 26 March 1822. The rules for the dual, agreed in advance by the Seconds, were that the protagonists should stand 12 paces apart armed with identical pistols and shoot as soon as the command was given.
Boswell, as the commanding officer of the Ayrshire Yeomanry, was experienced in the use of firearms, while Stuart had never fired a gun before, however when the smoke had cleared and the dust had settled, it became evident that while Boswell's shot had missed, Stuart's shot had struck Boswell's collarbone before travelling down his spine. Boswell was brought here to Balmuto Castle and attended by two Kirkcaldy surgeons, but died the following day.
James Stuart of Dunearn was charged with murder. At the trial it emerged that Boswell had told his Second that he bore Stuart no ill will and that he intended to aim high and deliberately miss. After being shot he commented that he might not have raised his pistol high enough to demonstrate his intent. Stuart in his defence confirmed that he had no inclination that Boswell had intended to miss and, had he known, would not have gone ahead with the dual. The trial lasted one day and the jury found Stuart not guilty.
Primary source: "Haunted Kirkcaldy" by Gregor Stewart.
(As an aside, Charles Stuart had no children, but his sister Mary married John Burnett of Kemnay, my wife's 3x Great Grandfather.)
Il a quelquefois des associations d'images ou de panneaux voire de commerces qui font le bonheur des amateurs.
En l'occurrence il manque un magasin de...... papier peint !:-))
Voix off : Tu me fais Che !!
...Ne monte pas sur tes grands cheveux
Voix off : On dit ne monte pas sur tes grands chevaux !!
J'ai bien vu que tu n'es pas à cheval sur la formulation !
Cette photo à déjà été publiée dans la série "Les improbables du canal de l'Ourcq"
I hope you see it. If not, take another look.
I saw the potential for visual humour and quickly composed the shot to line up the hand sign with his arm. A moment later, he looked away, and the overall effect was lost. You see it, or you don’t. A moment that made me smile.
Many of my images have little elements like this, for those who look, to discover.
Nishiki Market in downtown Kyoto, Japan.
Glasgow, early 1980s. Always a popular challenge for drunks or student pranks, this caught my eye because one of them made the decision to place a traffic cone on the horse's head! Attention to detail. I like that!
.....Pour ne pas se prendre une valise !
Un des évènements les plus suivi dans le monde, que ce sport populaire qui met des étoiles dans les yeux des enfants et des adultes !
Un des évènements les plus suivi dans le monde, que ce sport populaire qui met des étoiles dans les yeux des enfants et des adultes !