Cheers!

 

Another stinking hot day.

Another week at work completed.

Time for a chilled glass of something.

Cheers.

Bonus - Look-In Star Portrait Challenge

Perfect for Soaring

 

With the 2026 Winter Olympics in full swing, today's slide harks back to 1979, and a sight/site that appears to be Lake Placid in NY.

Or maybe it isn't.

But, probably the ski-jumping venue.

Bonus - People are weird. ‘Penisgate’ at the Olympics: why inject acid into your penis, and what are the health risks?

Superbowl Watch Party?

 

As the slide dates from 1979 (and probably England), they would have been watching Superbowl XIII. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 35–31.

As said before, 1979 clothing wasn't all New Romantics and Post-Punk - A lot of fashion was ... unfashionable. Like the carpets.

Bonus - 

The Retro Deco Motel

 

After yesterday's accidental duplicate, here's a slide you definitely won't have seen.

Looking like a Wes Anderson film set, this image dates from 1979, but shows an older, art deco motel and swimming pool. An artfully empty-of-people pool.

Anyone know what/where?

Bonus 

Christmas Fashions

 

More Festive slides, and here's what the well-dressing girl from 1979 would be wearing for the Chrimble Season.

Classy.

Bonus - So, only one cat has been sent into space (and returned safely, tho' briefly. Can you guess which country achieved that unique achievement?  Answer.

Bonus 2 - In rainy weather, keep your owl dry.

Event at Wastwater

 

I like this slide for its old-master painter-y style.

From a set of slides that seemed to show some Geography Field Trips to the Lake District. This one is marked as April 1977  and Wastwater.

Bonus - Innovation Strikes In The Field Of Chimpanzee Rectum Adornment

"No Bicycles"

 

...but what is the hidden message?

The photographer clearly posed this young lady beside that sign....but why?

You don't suppose that there was some implication about being the village bike, do you?

Bonus - 

Some More ... Folk Dancing

 

When the mood takes you, you just gotta dance.

Sept-79 Kishinev Trade Union Palace

Bonus - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Let's get high in the back office

Time for some .... Folk Dancing.

 

No, this ain't the lowest scoring act from Midwest America's Got Talent.

No, the slide was labelled as "Sep-79 Bucharest - Folk Dancing".

And it's probably better than 90% of the shite on Simon Cowell's shite-fest-TV.

Bonus - Deception, Misinformation and Ruses in Warfare.  Horrible formatting, but fascinating stuff.

Look. David's On The Telly

 

Tho' to be honest, it's a small tourist repro of Michelangelo's statue of David in Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze. (Florence).

Actually on the TV screen is what seems like an advert for a MIL Marquis Farm Tractor Front Loader.  My all-time third favourite tractor front-loader attachment.

Bonus - 

Anya's Christmas Outfit

 

All ready for the big day.  A new Christmassy Outfit, a big tree, and a shit-load of presents under it's boughs.

Lucky Girl.

Bonus - YouTuber Accused of Crashing a Plane for Views. Now the Feds Are Investigating.

Result...

The Dance of the Record-Setting Tractor Production Factory No.8.

 

Written on the slide was "Sep-79 Kishinev, Trade Union Palace" but anyone who knows their Soviet Era Tractor Dances will recognise the outfits and choreography as the Dance of the Record-Setting Tractor Production Factory No.8.

With Yuri Putin (No, no relation) leading the performers. Later that year, be would tragically killed in an unfortunate slurry-pit test-facility accident.)

Bonus - Was there less lightning than usual during COVID lockdowns? Yes

Bonus 2 - Giant Black Cock.  Dare you "click for bigified"?

It Takes A Nation To Hold Us Back

 

I know nothing about this slide (location, event) other than it was processed in May 1979.

However, I like to think that it was some big protest that lead to the overthrow of a dictator or corrupt region.  Maybe in Alabama. :-D

Bonus -  A 'fatberg' in the sewers? What a waste

Bonus 2 - A llama in a lobster costume, that is all...

Some Local Folk Dancing

 

September 1979, and in Bucharest the Tomas Futoz School of Folk Dancing are performing their dance "The Dance of the Green Hat" for an audience of tourists.  Little could they expect what would happen next.

 Yes, just 45 seconds later, Ludmilla Vortflash sneeze, causing the elastic in her knickers to fail and ... well. You can imagine.

Bonus - Primark now selling Greggs branded clothing and shoes. 

Is this just the stupidest thing ever? Or have I lost touch?

Horse-Riding, with a Princess

 

An Austin Princess, if you hadn't realised.

Bonus - 

"No Bicycles"

 

An early example of anti-bicyclist prejudice.

Slide dates from 1979, but from the subject's fashion sense, it could have been any time from 1934 onwards.

Bonus - The mystery of ancient roman dodecahedrons. And it's probably been solved !

Bonus 2 -      

Normal Service Has Been Resumed

 

And here's a picture of a Funny Looking Kid to celebrate.

Thank You Virgin Media for eventually solving their problem. It's a pity that outages happen, and it's a pity that I have to spend cold hard cash to cope with such extended periods, but at least the issue was sorted within 36 hours.

Bonus - R.I.P. Sean Lock.

The Christmas Angela

Yes, it's March, and I'm posting Christmas Slides.

So Bite Me.    My Blog,My Choices :-)



Corona-Resistance Bonus : Covid-19 can't spoil spring romances.

Bonus - Making Small Improvements.

The Hotel Room Observation

That is a strangely unpleasant hotel room, and a debate-ably tedious image.

Dating from 1979, it's flouncy, girly sort of decor...made "special" for one reason.  It's one of those things that you cannot un-see.

The bedspread.

Why did the designer of the fabric patterns model it on a rash of excrement smears ?

Bonus - The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper. Yum Double-Yum

Bonus 2 - Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, and 30 More Directors Pick Favorite Horror Movies

Darkness In His Heart

I'm not sure if this is a badly exposed photograph, or a stylish, artistic slide.

You could help me decide.

Bonus - Do you have trouble sleeping due to recurrent dreams?

You may now.