Apathy Tree

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.

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?

plop plop

Well good thing I learned brail

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).

I’ve been invited on a few cruises.

I was in the navy, and immediately launch into a tirade about how top heavy and unsafe those things are.

“Well it’s never been a problem for us”

Okie dokie, I took statistics, so hard pass all the same :)

I use the great fairy fountain from old school Zelda (ocarina of time specifically) as my wake up alarm, as it’s very peaceful to wake to. But still nerdy. It went with Navi going “hey listen!” Every time I got a text ;)

Mostly I use my watch alarm tho, which is vibration that starts gentle and gets stronger, and that’s plenty.

If I get shocked awake I have a panic attack. I try to avoid that.