Look at all that hair! Fashion in the 1970s was all about the hair. When high school and college students went all out for their formal dances or homecoming courts, some of the women reverted back to the earlier bouffant styles for the special occasion, but most let it all hang out. You'd see long formal dresses, but there were also mini skirts, hot pants, and bellbottoms. For the guys, it was mainly rental tuxes, so the hair was what made you stand out. Unless you were already a star, like this popular athlete at the University of California Santa Barbara in 1970.
Ah, what a lovely fantasy, to ride a tulip-covered rabbit on an adventure to a verdant land featuring nothing but the best nature can offer. It's magical! The description of this video says,
This lovely video very badly wants to be a Studio Ghibli film, but it's a tourism ad for Travel Oregon. Now we know why Alex moved there. I still have a sneaking suspicion that they left a few things out. The animation is from Sun Creature Studio in Denmark and Psyop in Los Angeles, with music by the Oregon Symphony. -via Boing Boing
PS: Matt 252 found the real-life landscapes that are illustrated in the video. See them side-by-side here.
During World War II, consumer goods were restricted so that materials could be used for the military. This included food staples like sugar and butter, and most metals. It also applied to shoes. From February 1943 to October 1945, Americans could only buy three pairs of shoes per year.
Shoes were rationed because leather and rubber were in short supply. (Rubber especially, as Japan controlled Southeast Asia, where the bulk of the world’s rubber was produced.) Hoping to avoid serious shortages, the OPA set a cap on shoe purchases, and issued new rules about the kinds of shoes that manufacturers could make. Only four colors were permitted — “black, white, town brown, and army russet” — and two-toned shoes were prohibited. Further disappointing the nation’s snazzy dressers, the OPA banned boots taller than 10 inches, heels taller than two-and-five-eighths-inches, and “fancy tongues, non-functional trimmings, extra stitching, leather bows, etc.” The resort set felt the pinch, too: men’s sandals and golf spikes were deemed inessential, and discontinued.
There were some exceptions. If you lost your shoes in a flood or fire, or if they were stolen, you could, mercifully, apply for a special certificate to buy a new pair. Mail carriers, police officers, and others whose work was hard on their feet were also exempt. Allowances were made for orthopedic and maternity shoes and a few other cases. Otherwise, the three-pair limit stood firm, but the OPA figured it was better than the alternative: compelling manufacturers “to produce shoes that would be so unattractive that people would not buy them unless absolutely needed.”
It's hard to believe that any adult would ever need more than three new pairs of shoes per year, but maybe they didn't last very long in the 1940s. You can read more about the shoe rationing program and see lots of pictures from that era at Smithsonian.
Band shirts are standard gear for music lovers, and having shirts from the same artists who created the cover art for your favorite album is a cool way to show love for both the band and the artist at the same time. But sometimes you want a shirt that declares your love of an entire genre of music and not just the specific bands you love, and it would help if that shirt also captured your unique sense of humor. Agreed?
Then you need this Death Metal t-shirt by Yeldar, it's METAL AF as well as WTF weird, plus kitty and rainbow and retro lettering. 'Nuff said!
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Tommy Wiseau, the auteur responsible for The Room, is doing his best to stretch his 15 minutes of fame with a whirlwind publicity push for the Blue-Bay release of The Disaster Artist. He's done funny videos for Screen Junkies, Vanity Fair, and Nerdist. Nerdist had him audition for the role of The Joker, and that seems to fall into his wheel well better than the other ridiculous scenarios he's been put into.
As others have pointed out, when he stops trying to act and is just himself, it makes a better Joker. The true derangement is quite genuine. -via reddit
A discussion at Ask Metafilter encouraged Mefites to contribute examples of songs that everyone recognizes when they hear them, but can't name. Some of them are opera songs covered in a classic Neatorama article from years ago. Others became popular by being used for advertising, movie soundtracks, and cartoons.
Many of these connections were established in the years of Spike Jones and Looney Tunes, when entertainers could make a joke out of setting up expectations with a clichéd bit of classical music, then subverting them with silly characters. Others were one-hit wonders that landed in commercials or became famous hip-hop samples. Now it’s hard to hear certain tunes without thinking of Bugs Bunny singing along, or some Ford truck rolling through hills, or the summer of ’93. So load up the playlist and get ready to remember every piece of pop culture ever.
Sometimes a cup of hot tea seems to warm both your heart and soul, as the relaxing wave of warmth soothes your spirit and calms you from within.
Those who find comfort in a cup of tea tend to stick with their favorite varieties and flavors as they're a reliable source of comfort and a familiar taste.
But if they would just step out of their comfort zone a bit they would find a world of amazing hot teas out there to try- like Royal Milk Tea, which is made with Ceylon, Assam and Darjeeling, milk and sugar.
You may have heard the name Yerba Mate and wondered what the buzz is all about. Well, according to one site it has the “strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea, and the euphoria of chocolate" all in one beverage.
This South American staple has been taking the tea drinking world by storm, and even though the process of drinking Yerba Mate is a bit odd don't worry! It's a wonderful experience for tea drinkers, as long as you can handle a caffeine kick:
This slightly bitter drink is made by pouring hot water over dried leaves and twigs from the yerba mate plant. The tea is typically brewed in a gourd or gourd-shaped container and drunk through a metal straw called a bombilla. If you’re invited to drink yerba mate in Argentina or Uruguay, it’s polite to drink it as is, but if you’re brewing your own at home, it’s fine to add a little honey or sugar.
A homeless man was stabbed and taken to Santa Casa de Novo Horizonte hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His dog chased the ambulance to the hospital, and waited outside the entrance. The man soon died of his injuries, but the dog remained for more than four months, waiting for his man to come out the door. Local lawyer Cristine Sardella asked about the dog's story and posted it to Facebook. The Dodo contacted her.
Hospital staff have been providing food and water for the dog since then, but Sardella hoped more could be done to help him. Having taken in two dogs already, she's unable to provide a home for him herself, so she decided instead to spread the word on social media. The response was overwhelming.
Shortly after, a local rescuer picked up the dog and carried him to a kennel while arrangements were made to find him a forever home. But before that happened, he escaped.
"He fled across the city," Sardella said. "He walked over 3 kilometers and returned to the hospital."
Before adoption, the animal was taken to a veterinary clinic by Marco Antônio Rodrigues, who learned of the situation and decided to rescue him.
"He stood at the hospital door every day, but the important thing is that the hospital staff gave him support. Most of the time people drive the animal out. I hope he can now have a happy life with these new owners, "he says.
At the clinic, Champion went through treatment, showered and put the vaccines up. The man who paid the expenses was a woman who was also sensitized by his fidelity.
In an interview with G1 , the new owner, Leticia Fatima Nawas Botoluci, 30, who works at the hospital, said she chose the name because she considered him a winner.
The image at Mundo Pet shows Champion looking much better. -via reddit
Animators often practice animating action sequences by creating a hand-drawn version of a live action movie scene, the more dynamic motion in the scene the better.
So when Arifumi Imai, the talented animator who has worked on One Punch Man, Naruto: Shippuden and Attack On Titan, wanted some action animation practice he chose the Obi-Wan vs. Darth Maul lightsaber fight from The Phantom Menace as his inspiration.
America went on Daylight Saving Time over the weekend, and now on Monday, workers across the country are feeling tired and cranky. For people who have to wake up at a particular time to get to work or school, the effects of losing an hour in the spring (although it's still winter) can be tough, but that's not the only effect of DST. There have been plenty of studies that show DST affects traffic, prison sentences, spending, and more.
10. MORE CYBERLOAFING ON THE JOB
Another study looked at people’s Google search trends for the Mondays before the switch to DST, immediately after the switch, and a week after, with a specific focus on sites like Facebook, YouTube, and ESPN (i.e. entertainment sites that people probably aren’t Googling for their jobs). They found that on the Monday after the switch, people searched for 3.1 percent more entertainment websites than the Monday before DST, and 6.4 percent more than the subsequent Monday. While the researchers caution they can’t be sure this was all "cyberloafing," the fact that there was nothing else special about these Mondays meant it very likely was
Of course, here at Neatorama we welcome such loafing, whatever your reason. I actually got more sleep after the time change, because my clock told me to go to bed at midnight, even though I wasn't tired. Then I managed to sleep until six instead of my natural waking time of five. Read more study results on the effects of Daylight Saving Time at Mental Floss.
Most fisherfolks find the act of baiting a hook, casting it out and reeling it in to be very relaxing, and as long as they're able to chill out they consider every fishing trip a success, whether they catch anything or not.
But Fisherman Fred is the star of this Cyanide & Happiness short for a reason- because he can't stop catching stuff! Too bad none of it is fish...
It's been a year since the BBC interviewed Professor Robert Kelly of Pusan University on the impeachment of the South Korean president. His political reporting was totally overwhelmed by the grand entrance of his swaggering four-year-old daughter Marion followed by his baby son James in a walker. Then his freaked-out wife Jung-a Kim, who didn't have time to pull her pants up, made a perfectly-timed Cosmo Kramer slide into the room to to corral them both. The charming video went globally viral, and Kelly became the meme called BBC Dad. On the anniversary of the interview, Kelly gives us his thoughts on the fallout of his internet celebrity.
It is quite a curious sensation to be a quasi-celebrity, especially when you haven’t really done anything to earn it. People often ask me if it is fun or cool to be famous, and I suppose it might be more so if my fame was based on something meritorious.
As it is, we are famous simply because our children are cute and precocious, which is pretty much how everyone’s kids are. But whatever the reason, my wife now tells me I cannot go outside wearing grungy clothes because someone will recognise me. A loss for me but a gain for civilisation, I suppose.
The viral video has boosted Kelly's career somewhat, as more organizations reach out for his political perspective and more people follow his blog and Twitter account for news from Korea. -via Metafilter
When you're bald the lack of hair on your head is all some people seem to notice, thinking of you as "that bald guy" rather than bothering to get to know your name so you can be "that bald guy named Jim".
But at least the follicly challenged don't really lose any of their senses when they go bald, unlike the earless. They have to deal with people calling them "that earless guy" and not being able to hear them calling them "that earless guy"! (Comic via Verynormalnotweird)
Bentley the goldendoodle is a good boy. He always goes outside to pee. But I think he has some security issues about it. He always takes a toy with him. Or a towel, a blanket, or something that will give him a little comfort and courage. Maybe it's his "buddy system." Or maybe it's just a habit. Anyway, his human, Kelly Brown, made this compilation video of the various things Bentley takes on his trips outside. You can see more of Bentley at Instagram. -via Tastefully Offensive
Wade Wilson was never all that cool, a fact most of his nerdy friends enjoyed about him, but when he became the unkillable merc Deadpool he started acting like he was too cool for school- and that made him too annoying to be around. So his friends suggested Wade should explore his nerdy roots in order to rediscover the things that used to bring him joy, and to their surprise they found that posing for cheeky pin-up art was at the top of DP's list!
Master the art of seduction with a little help from Deadpool, wear this Pin-Up Pool t-shirt by Kalgado and people will marvel at and swoon over your geeky tee wherever you go!
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