I've seen them on Sky News, innocent looking cats being given enormous bunches of bananas as a peace offering by tribesmen from further down the river wearing black tights.
The males of the new tribe - I didn't notice any girls or women - do seem to have a remarkable, unprecedented anatomical feature. Instead of what are known as 'private parts', each has a small, dense pea-souper fog, or perhaps a very dense cloud of very small flying insects, very uncomfortable if they bite. How on earth do the poor fellows reproduce?
The video came from the Brazilian government, which surely can't have tried to fake anything. But it's not inconceivable that the clips have passed through pathetic US hands on their way to Europe. Tchah! And Tchah!
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There are some very strange 'modesty' issues on broadcast TV in the USA. Odd for a country that produces so much porn and has legal brothels in some states.
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They go together actually Sp. 'Victorian values'.
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Recently after crossing Stateline from Idaho to Nevada we drove into the first town, called Wells.
I commented to my chums that Donna's Ranch was close to the outskirts, rather than out in the middle of nothing. Silly me. It was a different kind of ranch. Pays a lot of tax to the State so I am told, but that's another thread altogether.
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They go together actually Sp. 'Victorian values'.
Silly me, you are right. The Victorians put 'dresses' on piano legs 'less the men got excited but had some of the finest pornography known!
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'The Victorians put 'dresses' on piano legs'
No they didn't - urban myth I'm afraid
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>>>> 'dresses' on piano legs'
>> No they didn't - urban myth I'm afraid
But there was in some strata of society a front of extreme moral probity, maintained up to a point by the existence of these bordellos and so on providing the gentlemen with some sort of relief.
It wasn't as people imagine though, much more normal and humane in reality. Protoplasm won't stand for anything else for long.
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>> Protoplasm won't stand for anything else for long.
It occurs to me that those Indians would be extremely puzzled if they got to see the cut of that film that was shown to us.
Although it's said that real backwoods people don't recognize themselves on film or know what the representation is well enough to decipher it. I have no view on this.
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'The Victorians put 'dresses' on piano legs'
No they didn't - urban myth I'm afraid
Looked it up - oops.
But they did do a lot of other things. The word 'rude' changed its emphasis from when might still speak of a rude hut, meaning a rather basic and crudely finished hut to the far more common, rude word. But the original meaning of rude even there was along the same lines and a word of Anglo Saxon origin would be said to be rude.
When a perfectly good Anglo Saxon word got used in a species name, they would rename the species to 'avoid' offence. The bird now known as the 'Wheat Ear' has nothing to do with wheat or ears but in fact, has a white bottom and until the Victorians got 'offended' was called the White a***. Note the swear filter has got excited, the word with stars in it should be obvious I hope.
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"The bird now known as the 'Wheat Ear' has nothing to do with wheat or ears but in fact, has a white bottom and until the Victorians got 'offended' was called the White a***"
Interesting but wrong I'm afraid.
No doubt the derivation of the name Wheat Ear that you cite is correct but it has nothing to do with Victorian morality. The bird was know as the Wheat Ear long before Victoria was born let alone came to the throne. The name change is nothing to do with prudery, it seems to be just a change in pronunciation that has occurred over the centuries
Here is a copy of a print from dating from 1812 clearly showing the the bird as the Wheat Ear.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Print-Stone-Chat-White-Ear-1812-Buffon-Birds-Plate-127-/141363752059?pt=UK_art_prints_GL&hash=item20e9efac7b
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Here is a copy of a print from dating from 1812 clearly showing the the bird as the Wheat Ear.
I'd not advocate buying this sort of thing from eBay. Sure the seller could be right, but it could be the bird had two names for quite a while, but what we don't know is the proportions of the population using either name.
I must admit though, I thought I was on safer ground as the book I got it from was written by someone with a very good understanding of language.
Postscript - please don't buy prints ripped from books. It's a terrible thing to do, but all too common.
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"but it could be the bird had two names for quite a while, but what we don't know is the proportions of the population using either name."
True but we now know it wasn't the Victorians who originally gave it the name "Wheat Ear which is what you originally stated.
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"Sure the seller could be right,"
Nothing do do with the seller. If you zoom into the print you will see that that Buffon's original print clearly shows "Wheat Ear" in the title, surely indicating that the name was in common use in 1812, in the reign of Georg IV
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Anyone would think you are sticking up for them :o)
While you are right on the cases in question, at the very least the Victorians were somewhat two faced. Although one can argue, that's no different than today, just the items under consideration have changed.
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"at the very least the Victorians were somewhat two faced. Although one can argue, that's no different than today, just the items under consideration have changed."
Absolutely. All individuals and societies are hypocritical. Part of the human condition.
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>> There are some very strange 'modesty' issues on broadcast TV in the USA. Odd for
>> a country that produces so much porn and has legal brothels in some states.
For quite a while the NBC standards department decreed that it was ok to show a character cavorting with his mistress, as this would show us what a bad person he was. But it most certainly was not ok to show him cavorting with his wife.
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>> >> There are some very strange 'modesty' issues on broadcast TV in the USA. Odd
>> for
>> >> a country that produces so much porn and has legal brothels in some states.
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>> For quite a while the NBC standards department decreed that it was ok to show
>> a character cavorting with his mistress, as this would show us what a bad person
>> he was. But it most certainly was not ok to show him cavorting with his
>> wife.
The (magnificent) film "Kind hearts and Coronets" had to have a different ending for release in the states. The film story line in the and ending in the UK was ambiguous, but for release in the states the ending had to show the "murderer" not getting away with the crime
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In one report it was said the tribes were displaced by drug gangs and oil prospectors.
They are in act looking or their luggage which was held back @ Gatwick last weekend.
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>> >> >> The film story line in the and ending in the UK was
>> ambiguous,
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My memoirs? My memoirs !
Brilliant.
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A few years back, some over-the-edge loon released a ranting self-video in which he berates everybody and everything for his woes.. then proceeds to kill 32 folk at Virginia Tech.
the video was released - with all his swearing bleeped out, and his mouth pixellated.
Amazing, really. He wipes out 32 people, injures a score more, but his worst crime is swearing, according to the nanny-staters!
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>> Instead of what are known as
>> 'private parts', each has a small, dense pea-souper fog,
The privacy even of imaginary Neanderthals is usually respected by the contrary methodology, by making them so hairy that their bodies become as innocuous as highland cattle.
Oughtn't their faces to have been pixilated out to avoid contravening privacy rules?
When small my daughter commented, "That man's made of lego!".
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Two cartoons featuring the new tribe in the comic today. The Matt was beautifully drawn as usual, but the tribesmen's small dense pea-soupers were hidden behind various objects. The big political cartoon featuring our three party leaders as tribesmen gave them leaves to hide their modesty.
I'm disappointed frankly, especially in Matt. Perhaps there were team orders that no reference should be made to that fatuous interference with the Brazilian film, for fear of upsetting the world's leaders.
One of whom admitted yesterday that the CIA had 'tortured some folks' at a time of great security stress. That's quite an admission. While the torture of enemies might sometimes seem justifiable, it's hard to imagine good guys torturing 'folks' surely?
:o}
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Didn't Bush, in his customarily inappropriate way, refer to 'the folks who did this' shortly after 9/11. He, of course, knew no better; disappointing that Obama used the same stupid word.
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Interesting
Probably explains the origin of the name Fuzzy Wuzzies. Who no doubt had the same fog surrounding their nether regions.
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CGN, long famous as the debunker of urban myths, turns his hand to creating one for himself. :)
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Indeed.
Remember, you saw it here first! :-)
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>> Indeed.
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>> Remember, you saw it here first! :-)
Every idea uttered on the web will turn up in someone else's wise words somewhere or sometime.
Remember you heard it here first
or maybe not
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New tribe found up Amazon - Slidingpillar
