Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Discofan]

I was once called by a company to tell me that I'd won a time share. I had a hell of a time persuading them that I had no interest in paying them money every year for as long as I lived at some escalating rate of inflation determined by them. In the end, I had to write them a letter telling them to desist from trying to foist off this albatross on me. Interesting scam, that was...

They never take "no" for an answer.

That's why I usually tell them anatomically what they can do with their offer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Back in ‘07 when my family flew to Mexico for my brother's wedding, almost immediately after we landed at the Cancun airport we were literally surrounded by a CROWD - yes, a CROWD - of people trying to sell us timeshares.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Did prisoners ever actually wear zebra patterns or was that an invention of old cinema because it showed up distinctly in black and white?

 

[Sibyl]

Did prisoners ever actually wear zebra patterns or was that an invention of old cinema because it showed up distinctly in black and white?

https://www.interweave.com/article/weaving/a-history-of-prison-stripes/

 

[oberth]

https://www.interweave.com/article/weaving/a-history-of-prison-stripes/

Eventually, by the mid-twentieth century, these prison stripes fell out of favor and solid-colored jumpsuits became the norm.

the fact that the nazis used such a pattern in concentration camps might have had something to do with the 'falling out of favour'

 

[zhe Färängisieve]

https://www.interweave.com/article/weaving/a-history-of-prison-stripes/

classic outfit

 

[JirinPanthosa]

So that was the norm for a century? Now it evokes the image of a silent comedy routine with a guy grimacing evilly and throwing a bomb around.

 

[Discofan]

Did prisoners ever actually wear zebra patterns or was that an invention of old cinema because it showed up distinctly in black and white?

They've discovered that zebras have zebra-patterns to confuse and therefore avoid mosquitoes. The eyes of the mosquitoes can't process that kind of image and make it therefore difficult for them to land.

For what I gather, prisoners used to wear colorless cheap clothes, these clothes were extremely uncomfortable (for one thing they itched like crazy ) plus they didn't cost much. It was the same thing with some monks, by humility the clothes they wore were purposely cheap and ugly, to the prisoners however it was part of their punishment.

 

[auntiehill]

the fact that the nazis used such a pattern in concentration camps might have had something to do with the 'falling out of favour'

Not exaclty. Quora points out:

This was during the height of the progressive era, Federal prisoners stopped wearing the stripes in 1914, and Floridian prisoners wore them up until the mid 1930's. North Carolina kept the stripes until 1958, and by 1970 most Americanprisons had adopted orange as their go to color.

 

[oberth]

Not exaclty. Quora points out:

scribble's source (which i quoted) says mid 2oth century

 

[Discofan]

People who remain skinny have actually less efficient bodies than the ones who get fat. That's the one time when I am glad to be so inefficient.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I was at the movies recently, and they played the trailers for "It, Chapter 2" and "Joker" right after each other. I couldn't help but chuckle, it felt like the WB's Evil Clown Double Feature.

 

[Discofan]

People who are born today have a good chance of seeing the 22nd century. I'll be long dead by then!

 

[Butters]

The way science is heading, picking apart every single thread in the fabric of reality, understanding completely how we tick, there are probably people alive now that will see the 32nd century.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

People who are born today have a good chance of seeing the 22nd century.

Maybe they'll actually get to see 100 Years...

 

[Discofan]

Maybe they'll actually get to see 100 Years...

That way if the movie is a total fail, they'll never know it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I have visions of them opening up that vault in 2115 and finding it's just "Never Gonna Give You Up" on a continuous loop...

seriously, are people even going to remember that sucker is in the vault? And how will they PLAY the damn thing?

 

[Discofan]

^ I have visions of them opening up that vault in 2115 and finding it's just "Never Gonna Give You Up" on a continuous loop...

seriously, are people even going to remember that sucker is in the vault? And how will they PLAY the damn thing?

Believe it or not something similar has been done in 1907 and then 1912 and the records have been released in 2012 for the latter.

Here's an article (it's a compendium of famous opera singers singing opera areas): But it's different since the Operas are all well known and the singers have left their mark in history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/arts/music/17vaul.html

 

[Butters]

Apple are doing their own street view maps, and I’m going to be on it.

 

[zhe Färängisieve]

Apple are doing their own street view maps, and I’m going to be on it.

the small town of Butters, Arkansas?