Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
Yeah, his name is JakeSo, Man has three legs!?
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Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
Yes that is the Coat of Arms of the Isle of Man. Since they are not part of the United Kingdom, motorcycle racing is allowed there and if you have a million pounds to hide you can invest them there very tax-efficiently.So, Man has three legs!?
The flag and coat of arms of Man.Motto: Quocunque Jeceris, Stabit
(Latin for "Wherever you throw it, it will stand")
In addition, Manx is still an official language alongside English.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
It used to be that the UK issued "country definitive" stamps for use on the Isle of Mann, but now apparently like Jersey and Guernsey they roll their own. It brings in revenue from philatelists, like the Vatican and San Marino and places like that where if you need to write to someone you can just walk over and slip it under the door (well maybe to get the Pope's attention you have to nail it to the door).
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/definitives/2022-country-definitives-stamp-set
https://www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/
On this side of the pond Europe is considered too "socialist", but they certainly know a business opportunity when they see it.
https://www.sepacstamps.eu/
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/definitives/2022-country-definitives-stamp-set
https://www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/
On this side of the pond Europe is considered too "socialist", but they certainly know a business opportunity when they see it.
https://www.sepacstamps.eu/
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Puritan
Magistrate
As someone that requires a significant level of realism and plausibility in his crux scenarios, I’ve just realised how good a setting the Isle of Man would be for a dystopian regime enforced by crux!
Imagine the mainland wasted by war or disease, the Isle of Man standing alone, but with its limited supplies vulnerable to the influx& burden of ‘outsiders’
For those captured attempting to land on the island there is only one fate
No exceptions
Mmm…. I shall think on this!
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montycrusto
Guest
You reminded me of This story
Puritan
Magistrate
Oh wow! That’s even better!
Horny guy tries to reach his horny islander GF
They’re caught in the act and go to the cross their lust unsatisfied
He as an intruder
Her as an accomplice
Admired and desired as she is
It’s Mandatory
No exceptions!
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montycrusto
Guest
Perhaps the Isle of Man practices the tradition of substitutionary atonement, whereby the girl can offer herself to be crucified in his place.
Puritan
Magistrate
Yeah that’s always a good themePerhaps the Isle of Man practices the tradition of substitutionary atonement, whereby the girl can offer herself to be crucified in his place.
Poor guy. Has to watch his super fit lovely girl destroyed on a cross, then spend the rest of his days as a sex slave to an old wealthy woman
He’s forever tormented by the fact that it’s the memory of his GF being nailed to that cross that gets him hard enough to service his mistress
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Good idea, but I would prefer an island with better crucifixion weather!
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
WALES 0. ENGLAND 3 And USA 1. IRAN 0
YIPPEEEE !!!!
YIPPEEEE !!!!
Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
The Wales v Iran game was highly questionable. OK so the goalkeeper committed a foul and was sent off, but the original punishment was a yellow card. You can't be having a situation where someone gets punished for breaking the rules and then have the referee decide afterwards that the punishment should be increased. That's blatantly unfair I think.
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
This looks like Trudy and Samantha from St Melanias.Why are you looking so pleased?
"Because we should be doing trigonometry but we can watch the World Cup as a treat."
"And we can wear different colors to support our favorites."
"Provided we spend the afternoon topless..but we don't mind."
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montycrusto
Guest
If you are posting pictures here from the internet, especially if they’re drawings or paintings or artworks of any kind..
Please please please remember that whoever created it deserves a name mention at least, you know, even artists are human (I’m not talking about AI, let’s not even go there..)
If you don’t know who the artist is, then maybe you are gathering your images from the wrong websites. If you just use Google search or whatever, you’ll get images with all the context stripped away, and if you show those images here, you’re compounding the problem. Get pictures from sites which give the artist’s name. Please.
So look. If you don’t know the artist’s name, that’s one thing. Just put “I don’t know who this genius is” and maybe other members can help. But if you not only don’t know, but also don’t care.. what are you even doing? What, you like their work enough to share it here, but don’t give a shit about the idiot who made it? How do you think that makes them feel?
Sorry for ranting, I may be a little pissed. (UK meaning, not USA)
p.s. I know a lot of you do this already, THANK YOU and keep up the good work.
Please please please remember that whoever created it deserves a name mention at least, you know, even artists are human (I’m not talking about AI, let’s not even go there..)
If you don’t know who the artist is, then maybe you are gathering your images from the wrong websites. If you just use Google search or whatever, you’ll get images with all the context stripped away, and if you show those images here, you’re compounding the problem. Get pictures from sites which give the artist’s name. Please.
So look. If you don’t know the artist’s name, that’s one thing. Just put “I don’t know who this genius is” and maybe other members can help. But if you not only don’t know, but also don’t care.. what are you even doing? What, you like their work enough to share it here, but don’t give a shit about the idiot who made it? How do you think that makes them feel?
Sorry for ranting, I may be a little pissed. (UK meaning, not USA)
p.s. I know a lot of you do this already, THANK YOU and keep up the good work.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
For years, I used to do Google searches, providing me lists of thumbnails, which could be enlarged. With a print screen and copying them to a file, it was possible to collect hundreds of pics, even without going to the websites (something I was reluctant to do). Numerous pics posted on Tumblr did the rest : a huge collection, not for the artwork, but just for the exciting pic. it is only when I became active here, I found many artists of the so far anonymous colection I had. But many stil lhave no name.If you are posting pictures here from the internet, especially if they’re drawings or paintings or artworks of any kind..
Please please please remember that whoever created it deserves a name mention at least, you know, even artists are human (I’m not talking about AI, let’s not even go there..)
If you don’t know who the artist is, then maybe you are gathering your images from the wrong websites. If you just use Google search or whatever, you’ll get images with all the context stripped away, and if you show those images here, you’re compounding the problem. Get pictures from sites which give the artist’s name. Please.
So look. If you don’t know the artist’s name, that’s one thing. Just put “I don’t know who this genius is” and maybe other members can help. But if you not only don’t know, but also don’t care.. what are you even doing? What, you like their work enough to share it here, but don’t give a shit about the idiot who made it? How do you think that makes them feel?
Sorry for ranting, I may be a little pissed. (UK meaning, not USA)
p.s. I know a lot of you do this already, THANK YOU and keep up the good work.
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
Does anyone know of a search engine on the web that provides information about drawings and manips and shows me the artists (I don't mean Google, it doesn't work there). Because that is one of the reasons why you will find relatively few drawings by different artists that I post here.
Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
As far as I know there is no such search engine out there. The fact is that, with all the good will in the world, it's more often than not impossible to determine who creates artwork on the internet - the vasy majority of us (myself included) will be finding most of our images on google images simply because that's the best and most efficient service to use, particularly if you're on a mobile device and not a real computer.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
In general I do put in some effort to credit the artists.
However there's one problem - due to the (understandable) limits on image posting I have recently been using imgur, which changes the filename of any image you upload there.
And so if the artist was in the filename that will be lost. A lot of image distribution services act similarly and even a place like Deviantart which normally produces filenames with the artist's name will sometimes serve downloads that are just letter/number jumbles (I don't understand the logic behind it but it may have something to do with image sizing settings...?)
If the artist doesn't put a clearly legible signature on it then at some point it becomes difficult. Especially with reverse image search having become effectively useless - this used to sometimes work.
I find the trick with DevArt is to view the image in a new tab to save it - if you save it from the original location, the title and artist's name do get replaced.
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The Fallen Angel
Guest
I was wondering why reverse image search was useless...
"Why did Google stop reverse image search?
The change comes as part of a settlement with Getty Images that aims to improve attribution for their contributors, Google said. The search engine also removed its “search by image” button, but users can still reverse image search by dragging images to the Google search bar.16 Feb 2018"