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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

ALL HOUSE CRITTERS ARE BADASS! YOU PET THAT HOUSE PANTHER UNLESS IT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO. SOME HOUSE PANTHERS ARE PERSNICKETY LIKE THAT.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

YAS! I'M DOING MY CROSS-STITCH AND IT'S WICKED AWESOME! DO STUFF! PET DOGS! PET MORE DOGS!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

... then going to gym class and having the PE teacher mock you for not doing laps fast enough while you're worrying about your "pad" either chafing or going on walkabout...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My classmates just used unholy amounts of toilet paper, like the almighty intended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What's up, chicken butt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

We debated diapers for after my partner's colonoscopy, because we weren't sure what to expect. We decided against them, but he did sit on a puppy pee pad the rest of the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's things like this that keep me using an ad blocker. I was researching when sunflowers develop their seeds, for crying out loud. Screenshot of a plug-in which has blocked ”127 ads" on this page Edit: this was on Opera. It's.. fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thankfully, I've not heard of that around here. The public library I worked at was chill about everyone visiting, including several people I'd consider "problems": dude that always sat next to the teen section and complained the teens were loud while being louder than any teen, and other dude that would sit in the middle of a row of public computers and turn off the ones on either side because she didn't want to sit next to anyone else.

The only time we kicked anyone out was when someone was vaping. The only time someone got banned was when they were racist in response to being told they couldn't vape in the library.

ETA: "around here" is suburban New England

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And you don't have to wind onto them--just sort of stretch the skein over it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Embrace it. I have a bumper sticker with a rainbow unicorn on it that says "stay weird". Have had it for at least half a year now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried the new Heinz pickle-flavored ketchup?

 

Image description: woodblock carved into the form of the Biblical Samson holding open a lion's mouth. The carving is fine and the wood is dark with the ink used in printmaking.

This is the woodblock used to make prints similar to the one previously posted, https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/892435 .

Found at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336211

 

Image description: 2-column handwritten text. Small doodle of Samson holding open a lion's mouth, in the upper right corner.

Found at: https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/roymanucoll/m/011roy000001b12u00080000.html

 

Image description: statue of Samson attempting to open the mouth of a lion whose mouth is firmly shut.

Found at: https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20453994

 

Image description: black metal candlestick. Samson sits on top of a lion and holds its mouth open. A column to hold a candle comes out of his back.

Found at: Candlestick: Samson and the Lion - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_16915

 

Image description: Image is straight up at a ceiling. There is a center circular medallion with a naked man sitting on a lion. The man is holding the lion's mouth open. There are two other lions partly in frame--one left and one right of the scene. Around the circle is gold and red braid. Outside of the circle are filigree decorations. Overall colors are red, white, blue, gold.

Found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dun_deagh/7274023374/

 

Image description: Item is an unglazed terra cotta tire. It looks a bit dirty or sooty, but is clearly still yellow-tan. It depicts a 3d scene of a man with long hair, a hat with big feather, and tunic. The man is sitting on a lion and holding open a lion's mouth. Behind the man and lion is a stone (or brick) wall about waist high. Above it is an archway. Outside the archway is a floral decoration.

Found at: Met Museum___

 

According the the Met Museum, coconuts were exotic to Europeans and a cup made from a coconut could be used to neutralize poisons.

Image description: Tall silver and coconut goblet with lid. The bowl is made of most of a coconut, the base, stand, and lid of the goblet are made of silver. The coconut is engraved with biblical scenes, including Samson holding open a lion's mouth. Cherubs look on and there's filigree. There are also silver rams and roman? soldiers connecting the silver base and the top of the goblet.

Found at: The Met

 

Image description: a statue of Samson (with stylized hair in coils?) holding a lion by its lower jaw and its tail. The lion is suspended in the air. Image is black and white photograph. In the background is a flag with a spoked wheel on it.

Note: statue was in the "transportation" area of the NY World's Fair, in front of the Ford building. Other flags included air planes, propellers.

Related images: NYPL: scrapbook page of the fair (where you get a better view of the flag in the background--them emblem is a wheel, not the swastika I worried it was)

Further away view of the statue, with transportation-related flags in the foreground and the ford building in the background

NYPL--image of lady in 1930s garb standing on the statue. The statue is huge.___

Found at: New York Public Library

 

Image description: Oil painting framed in an ornate floral frame. The painting is of a black-haired woman sitting on a wooden travel trunk or bench. Next to her is a lion cub. Another cub is cradled in the woman's lap and she bottle-feeds it. In the background there is a cage on wheeled (like for an old-timey traveling circus) with three adult lions in it--2 female and 1 male. The adult lions are watching the cubs. On the ground nearby is a black metal contraption that might be a food bowl on an arm, so that the adult lions can be fed from outside the cage, and the bowl retrieved.

Found at: https://kunkelfineart.de/en/artwork/meyerheim-paul-feeding-the-cubs/

 

Image description: painting of a marble statue of Samson holding open a lion's mouth.

This is a detail from this painting:

Image description of full painting: huge painting, framed, of the Christian Madonna with baby Jesus in her lap. She is seated on a throne. To her left is a blue-robed religious figure with a bishop hat. To her right is a kneeling white-robed man and a standing armored man. There are tiny statues to her left and right, one of which is the detail image.

Found at: wikipedia. In collection of the Groeningemuseum.

 

Note: Image is cropped to just Samson and the Lion.

Image description: Medieval illustration, from a book. On the left half, Samson (long haired, blond) sits atop a lion. He holds open the lion's mouth. The lion's tongue sticks out. On the right half, slightly closer to the viewer, are an older man and woman. They're clad in long green and red robes. The woman has a white head-covering. The man has a green head-covering. They're both looking away from Samson and the lion. The woman's hands are clasped in prayer.

Found at: The New York Public Library

 

Image description: this object is an ivory comb. It has two sets of teeth, separated by an engraved scene. The set above the scene has finely spaced teeth. The set below the scene has wider teeth. The wider teeth have been damaged, and re-attached with silver. The scene is of Samson holding open a lion's mouth. Around him are animals--a sheep, a monkey, birds. The scene is surrounded by vines.

Found at: Louvre

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