Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[drunkenshoe]

Anyone who takes knitting for granted or think it is something you could just pick up and do when you have nothing to do, absoluely has no idea about it. I'm not even going into gender thing...pffft.

Thinking now, probably the low quality of last generation 'hand knitted' material owes to a lot to that prejudice. It was started to be seen trivial and low class at some point?

I've found a few scarves -just scarves not even something complicated- mom knitted when she was in her 20s, I can't believe the quality of..what is that called in English, noose, stitch? How do I know that beca%u0131se I haven't seen anything like that even in main stream high end shops.

But something tells me this is also about the self reliant, fixing qualities of that generation. My aunts and esp. my gran was the same. They all say -gran's dead- they are too old to do it anymore. Mom knitts but she is never staisfied with it.

They also sewed like professional tailors. (Gran did it professionally for some time.) Same story. Too many times I gave the answer of 'nope, hand made by mom' to a 'Where did you get that?' question in my youth.

To be honest, I'm ashamed to be the descendent of those women in that department. We didn't get its value at the required age and they've also never forced us. They should have.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was once bored enough to teach myself how to use two ten-key calculators at the same time.

[Baruch]

Looks like a hot dog cooker to me.

We used an electric hot dog cooker in "shop" in Junior High.  A cord to the wall, a rheostat to control the current, a board with two nails in it.  You impaled a hot dog across the nails to complete the circuit.  This was a teaching moment, about the dangers of electricity.  Snowflakes would ban it now ;-)

[Baruch]

I was once bored enough to teach myself how to use two ten-key calculators at the same time.

The monkey in Dilbert can use his feet and his tail as well.  Why he is the best programmer in the company ;-)

[Baruch]

Did you know that people thought they were some kind of bird eggs in olden times?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose_myth

But what about the character, Barnacle Bill?  Used in multiple media because ... alliteration I suppose ;-)

You know that hose (now socks) were originally worn by men only, and women knitted them all.  That is why poor people might still "darn" socks.

[Hydra009]

[Baruch]

Watch out for the giant AI guardian beach balls!

[Unbeliever]

Did you know that people thought they were some kind of bird eggs in olden times?

No, I did not know that. Not surprised ,though, people then, as now, believed all sorts of silly stuff

[Baruch]

No, I did not know that. Not surprised ,though, people then, as now, believed all sorts of silly stuff

People today are stone age to people 10,000 years from now.  Particularly the "stoned" part.

[trdsf]

Life hack!

Probably the same mind that brought us this:

[drunkenshoe]

No, I did not know that. Not surprised ,though, people then, as now, believed all sorts of silly stuff

LOL But it makes sense though when there is no knowledge. Look at that. It looks like a hatched egg. I bet if the pen holders, the noble class men I mean, have asked the sailors they would get an idea. Maybe that's how they found out. In their position, sailors probably even had to eat them on ocassions. Although religion wise it could be forbidden too.

[GSOgymrat]

[Baruch]

In other news, dogs would wear Covid masks even if there was no Covid, as long as the pack leader does ;-)

[Hydra009]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think she'd get some takers on that.