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PBS posted this free on Youtube if you missed it on TV. "Exposing the Myth of Southern Charm".

Addendum 5/23/26:

The producer of this doc told folks on Threads that the actual title of this is "Natchez". This was a doc I was waiting to see last year, but PBS changed the name for their broadcasting.

shamebats

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

unamusedsloth

Nude Portraits series by photographer Trevor Christensen

julianlovesdogs

This is my new favorite thing

whetstonefires

‘portraits of people reacting to nudity’ fresh, inspired, art sfkas;lk

headspace-hotel

according to the notes, yes, the subjects do know ahead of time that he will be nude, so yes, this is very funny and cool

jack-the-fool

Rocky: Grace say Hail Mary archives have all Human media yet Rocky still cannot find classic film Goncharov for movie night statment.

Grace: ....What?

Rocky: Grace not know own earth greatest mafia movie ever made question?

Grace: .......

Grace: What?

softlyfiercely

i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.

10/10 no notes. kids are amazing

ghostinthebathroom

I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.

somewhere-south-of-neutral

I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner

astronicht

Listening to the Ramayana and I’m to the bit where Ram has to be banished to the forest to put Bharat on the throne, and I’ve got a buddy named Bharat so I’m just imagining his face this entire time without meaning to. My man Bharat you’re in such a situation.

tiktoks-i-enjoyed

brownian-notions

slothful-rabbit

I laughed so fucking hard at this

paint-lady

sukimas

being on an airplane is a lot like being in kindergarten

mastermatoyas

I wanna hear where you're going with this

sukimas

-there's snacktime

-there's always some kid screaming

-the authority figures are mostly there to keep you safe rather than get you to do anything in particular

-all else equal they would really rather you take a nap, though

bacchicly

- someone tells you a story / tries to teach you something using pictures, props, and exaggerated hand gestures

marlynnofmany

You can look out the windows, but there is strictly NO going outside except at designated times.

quasi-normalcy

redstonedust

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

cuprohastes

"You can't wear skirts, it's unnatural"

Oh when did that happen and has anyone told the Scottish or anyone else who wears robes. Bet the Pope needs to know.

Must be fairly recent because skirts of one sort or another have been very popular throughout history for all people.

herainsorcia

fox-bright

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

erratic-dragon-fruit

out of the tags with you

sawfish-by-any-other-name

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biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

ask me about the difference between leopard/cheetah/jaguar print, it’s my field of expertise

woundedtoaster

What is the difference? Please learn me a thing

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

cheetahs got dots! little dot dots i want to bop

leopards got filling. it’s cheetah 2.0. Cheetah on meth. look at that leopard shit.

then there’s jaguar. Jaguar is madness. it took leopard print & decided wait. what if–MAW DOTS. it’s just leopard print with dots in the middle, it’s chaos