Syt's Pictorial Collection of Stuff and Things (image heavy)

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Syt

#255
December 14, 2018, 05:42:14 AM
Some PR ads:


















And a special one for Tyr (though I believe RH actually lived this ... :hmm: ):

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Savonarola

#256
December 14, 2018, 12:07:46 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 14, 2018, 05:42:14 AM
And a special one for Tyr (though I believe RH actually lived this ... :hmm: ):



This is still common practice in Australia :outback: (mining apprenticeships, I mean, not girls refusing to go out with men who weren't miners.)  A number of people I met at the mines had started an apprenticeship program at fifteen.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Tonitrus

#257
December 14, 2018, 12:32:38 PM
It's actually probably a great thing for those boys with a "fuck school" attitude.  Better than the streets/crime anyway.

Barrister

#258
December 14, 2018, 12:38:32 PM
It is still quite possible in Alberta to go out with little formal education and start working on the oil rigs and make good money.

But not at 15 years old... that part just boggles my mind.
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derspiess

#259
December 14, 2018, 01:27:15 PM
The guy with the white mask/hood in the classroom concerns me a bit.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Richard Hakluyt

#260
December 14, 2018, 02:11:59 PM
After being "asked to leave" by boarding school I got a job at one of the colleries in my local town. Some time later my best friend started as an undergraduate at Durham university. I started going over there at weekends during term time. The advert was correct, I was a hit with the girls  :cool:

Happy times, physical work during the week and the university at weekends  :cool:

Richard Hakluyt

#261
December 14, 2018, 02:17:45 PM
I love this thread btw Syt; some good stuff here.

Syt

#262
December 14, 2018, 02:22:54 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 14, 2018, 02:11:59 PM
After being "asked to leave" by boarding school I got a job at one of the colleries in my local town. Some time later my best friend started as an undergraduate at Durham university. I started going over there at weekends during term time. The advert was correct, I was a hit with the girls  :cool:

Happy times, physical work during the week and the university at weekends  :cool:

That's why the ad made me think of you. :)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Richard Hakluyt

#264
December 14, 2018, 02:29:49 PM
Just youthful high spirits  :blush:

Malthus

#265
December 14, 2018, 02:30:22 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 14, 2018, 02:29:49 PM
Just youthful high spirits  :blush:

Tell the story!  :)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Richard Hakluyt

#266
December 14, 2018, 02:39:09 PM
Oh there is no story as such; just standard late teen stuff involving parties and girls. I was unfortunate in that I didn't go to boarding school till i was 15 (when it became a necessity due to my father's posting), so I was used to my freedom by then. While I was at the mine I studied and passed the necessary A-levels (public exams at 18) to get on and went back to the old school for a reference for university. My former nemesis, the senior housemaster, was very decent about it and gave me an excellent reference...which did make me feel a bit guilty for being such a pain in the ass  :lol:

Syt

#268
December 15, 2018, 06:19:50 AM
Said it before, will say it again - I love me some nice winter mood images.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#269
December 17, 2018, 09:44:00 AM
Throwback! The Coke vending machine at Brussels airport in 2008, when we had our Languish meet.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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