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My Co-Workers are Ridiculous #6
Josh: Derek, all women want you, and all men want to be you.
Derek: And all fish fear me!
Josh: Yes, and all fish fear you.
Me: …
Hand grenades get their name from the pomegranate, pictured above. The French word for the fruit is grenade, and the weapons are not only shaped like the fruit, but early ones had seed-like shrapnel inside.
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
Art’s great nudes have gone skinny
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.
Wow wow wow. Eye-opening.
The people pictured above aren’t people — they’re statues. They are part of roughly one hundred similar statues which, together, comprise a sculpture called “Another Place,” situated at Crosby Beach in England, facing toward the Irish Sea. Each “person” is a 6’2” cast iron creation weighing about 1,400 pounds. The statues are often submerged at high tide, re-emerging as the tide ebbs.
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
There’s something so lovely about this.
The best Amazon reviews possibly ever: Buyers review the Bic Pen.
My favorite:
Worked fine with my right hand, but when I came to use my left hand my writing came out looking like the work of a complete imbecile. I can only assume Bic have created a right-handed only pen, and would caution left-handers to “try before you buy”.
“While this pen is functional and easy to use, a downside is it only supports one default font (that appears to be user specific?). I have tried multiple times to access Helvetica, Times New Roman, Impact etc. to no avail… I don’t even see any input buttons.
The default font is pretty shoddy looking, resembling Comic Sans.
An update would be appreciated Bic!”
