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about 12 years ago · edited about 12 years ago · History

I like this site. Old pictures of people who are mostly long dead.

It's sort of grounding that no matter what you are or are going through these dead folk have pretty much been there before.

The thing I like about photos is that they can be picked up and looked at. I know the cloud is similar but what if the cloud dies one day? The we will be a a dark age like the time of the Romans f*cking off back home and the Saxons taking over, ok I judge everything by the history of the British Isles.


The 60's and 70's photos are really strangely haunting to me as I was a baby then and it looks just as it did. If you know what I mean. It's also the vibrancy of the colors of the 60's and 70's pics - it defines it for me.

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about 12 years ago · edited about 12 years ago · History

Come again?


Anyway, the Romans weren't all that great (apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system and public health).  The Saxons were not too bad either (at least they weren't Normans).  Just the next wave of immigrants who have shaped the British Isles.

Just imagine what Stig would have made of all of the different ethnic groups that have come and gone since his time.


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 12 years ago

OK I have just found the site. 

Rather random isn't it.

Is there an Oz site "Look at moy"?


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 12 years ago
Junior82 wrote:

Come again?


Anyway, the Romans weren't all that great (apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system and public health).  The Saxons were not too bad either (at least they weren't Normans).  Just the next wave of immigrants who have shaped the British Isles.

Just imagine what Stig would have made of all of the different ethnic groups that have come and gone since his time.


Yeah I love the fact that racial purity is a load of old cobblers. My point was that there was loads written about my homeland by the Romans, (burning druids that sort of stuff), and then they f*cked off and we don't know what happened until the Saxons turned up and wrote the Saxon Chronicles. I wonder if the Cloud went down would future Phil's and Mick's go "Well we just don't know what happened  future Tony, as we have no pictorial records".

That's why I like that site - it's saddening but amazing.

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about 12 years ago

Not enough saxing until they moved in. Then therewas Wessex, Sussex, Middlesex and ESSEX (woot woot). So much sexing going on that the damn Vikings wanted to get in on it.

And then someone invented TV and it all went pear shaped.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 12 years ago

Another random black and white picture site

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/50-unexplainable-black-white-photos

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about 12 years ago

A few of those black and whites look obviously photoshoped

Grumpy old bastard alert

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