WARNING: This blog contains copious amounts of adult GAY material. If that's offensive to you, please leave now. All pix have been gleaned from the internets so, if you see a picture of yourself that you don't wish to have posted here, please leave a comment on the post and I will remove it with my apologies.I REPEAT: If you see a picture of yourself that you don't wish to have posted here, please leave a comment on the post and I will remove it with my apologies.
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Thank you for these these memes that made me smile.
Love the poetry of the one with the dandelion.
Fun fact: the name comes from French "dents de lion" - lion' teeth - for the leaves seem to have been bitten by a lion, and dates around the Middle Ages/Renaissance, a time when the province of Aquitaine was English territory, remnant of the Plantagenet heritage. In half-north France dandelions were called pissenlit, literally "pee in bed", for the soup made from their fresh leaves has diuretic properties. That's the name that's still in use.
Yes, thanks for these things to make us smile!
On the two "not offending" items, in the 1990s, our company hired a consultant to get us up to speed on new legislation and orientations on things like workplace safety, sexism, not offending anybody, and related things.
Things like female pin-ups, even the clean ones, were deemed offensive to females and/or sexist in nature. The consultant also mentioned off-color jokes. He noted that he had to stop telling jokes which he would not tell to his 5 year old daughter, for example.
Then things seemed to progress to where that if a male complimented a female on her nice dress (or hat or shoes), she could become offended or perceive he was hitting on her. As if only her closest friends could do such things. NOT to forget the "wolf whistles" of the 1940s and 1950s! Suddenly, it seemed, many well-meaning compliments were offensive to females! As if they were the victims of the situation. Of course, the males perpetrating these things obviously thought "I'm hot too", to get attention to themselves, to be noticed.
LOTS of things we did in the 1950s to 1980s "for fun" can now send people to a therapist, it seems. Or it's now termed "bullying"?
Laurent - That's very interesting trivia about the dandelion.
Cdadbr - The world has changed a lot since the 1950s.
# & #2: sadly true!
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