Stakes

[Jollyrei]

Peril in Jollyreiland. Travel advisory unheeded.

IT WAS QUITE CLEAR IN THE BROCHURE - "EXCITING AND UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECREATION".

 

[Wolfie1389]

Time for a bump here

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I'm not sure why but I've always found this image to be one of the most powerful still sketches that I've seen. I think it's because it leaves the viewer full interpretation as to what may have transpired to have the women tied to the post. And you know that what ever the female had been thinking about her situation, the rain can't be helping the situation.

 

[Barbaria1]

IT WAS QUITE CLEAR IN THE BROCHURE - "EXCITING AND UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECREATION".

Yes, but the fine print was too fine to read

 

[Loxuru]

I'm not sure why but I've always found this image to be one of the most powerful still sketches that I've seen. I think it's because it leaves the viewer full interpretation as to what may have transpired to have the women tied to the post. And you know that what ever the female had been thinking about her situation, the rain can't be helping the situation.

I figure, it is in a tropical setting. So, the rain might be refreshing!

 

[voyeurjerome]

You know what?
I'm going to start a new thread, as I wasn't entirely sure where to put these.
I don't know if the theme has legs, let's see. Feel free to join in.

Stakes are a little like crux in its simplest form
Are these girls enduring punishment, or execution?
You decide.

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Punishment of course. By fire

 

[Eulalia]

I'm not sure why but I've always found this image to be one of the most powerful still sketches that I've seen. I think it's because it leaves the viewer full interpretation as to what may have transpired to have the women tied to the post. And you know that what ever the female had been thinking about her situation, the rain can't be helping the situation.

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I agree. I see it as a Japanese WW II prison camp -
maybe a captured nurse who failed to provide "services" for the guards -
tying up prisoners naked exposed to the elements and jungle insects
was a standard form of punishment -
her utter despair is vividly captured in a few strokes.

 

[phlebas]

stake out

 

[quanter]

A very old series! Like Indiana Jones in Part 2! Get into the delicious lava! Part-1

 

[quanter]

A very old series! Like Indiana Jones in Part 2! Get into the delicious lava! Part-2

 

[connoisseurs]

 

[quanter]

A couple of engravings depicting medieval witch burns and auto de fe.

 

[Loxuru]

stake out

Failed spying mission in a Middle East country.

 

[Barbaria1]

Failed spying mission in a Middle East country.

Idiot. If he’d have let me do the talking we wouldn’t be in this fix

 

[Madiosi]

Idiot. If he’d have let me do the talking we wouldn’t be in this fix

I fear, the other wouldn't be not better.

 

[Barbaria1]

I fear, the other wouldn't be not better.

What? Complaining wouldn’t work?

 

[Madiosi]

What? Complaining wouldn’t work?

My opinion and experience: Rare success with (your) complainings.

 

[Migoz2]

What? Complaining wouldn’t work?

Show me the last time complaining improved things for you, Barb!

 

[Loxuru]

Idiot. If he’d have let me do the talking we wouldn’t be in this fix

"It is not about complaining, Barb! It is about fine print! I have been warned, off the record, that someone in Washington wanted this mission to fail! To draw away attention from another one! I did not believe it, but...Just accept that we were expendable!",

 

[Migoz2]

we were expendable!",

Poor Barb does seem to get........expended a lot!

 

[trickydicky4u]

Poor Barb does seem to get........expended a lot!

It is a life skill