greeting your relatives
sometimes I see older people and I’m like... how do you do it? how do you cope with the loss of people and places and things as life progresses
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Absolutely OBSESSED with this teapot from 1882
This caption is really underselling it. From auction description:
A ROYAL WORCESTER AESTHETIC TEAPOT AND COVER, DATED 1882
The double-sided vessel finely modelled, one side as an effete young man, the other side as a lovesick maiden, the spout formed by their conjoined โmediaeval handโ, their other arm forming the handle, he sports a sunflower, she a lily on their neatly tailored 'Greenery-Yellowyโ suit, inscribed underneath 'Fearful consequences through the laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of Living up to oneโs Teapotโ,ย 15.5cm high,ย puce factory mark, registration mark and designerโs name 'Budgeโ (restored) (2)
This celebrated teapot satirises Oscar Wilde and the entire Aesthetic movement that swept the London art scene around 1880. The principal inspiration was Gilbert and Sullivanโs comic operetta 'Patienceโ, first performed in 1881. Worcesterโs design also pokes fun at an exhibition held at the Grosvenor Gallery when a single Chinese teapot was put on display to represent perfection in design and visitors were invited to go home and 'Live up to itโ. The inscription alludes to this, as well as the controversy still raging over Darwinโs theories on Evolution. The identity of 'Budgeโ whose name appears on the base has proved elusive but may possibly be a pseudonym chosen by Worcesterโs Art Director, R W Binns.
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I don’t think bombing civilians in war torn countries is an unfortunate necessity like it literally doesn’t have to happen and I don’t understand how people can be so indifferent about it if their team is doing it....you know 90% of the victims of Obama’s air strikes were civilians. And civilian means woman, girl, or male child under fighting age. Adult men weren’t counted towards civilian death tolls. So the actual civilian death toll is closer to 100%. Our military is literally a terrorist organization and nobody cares as long as the president is a decent orator. All of those people are just as real as you are. A million innocent people have died as a result of the Iraq war both directly and indirectly and only a handful of us seem to lose any sleep over the fact that this terrorism is done in our names witn our money. People talk about them like they’re cockroaches. It makes me sick to my stomach
