Sharoma

Sharoma reflects long-term hobbies of history, the trading and cataloguing of rare music, post-punk & other genres, Hi-Fi equipment, motor racing and real-time strategy simulation. ...Oh, and don't forget the snacks.

[some-velvet-morning]

[sharoma]

Hi my name is kayleigh and i love you and i think that you are very attractive!

Thanks Kayleigh!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

"Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous."

It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriages or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches. What the company is trying to do is to prevent the passengers who can pay the second class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich. And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class passengers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.

-Jules Dupuis

(h/t Andrew Odlyzko)

[sharoma]

Hey Netflix and The Crown. Well done for recreating the vending machine selections but if this scene was set in 1995 (when Prince William was 13) then Cadbury's Astros (1997) shouldn't be there. Nor should Cadbury's Fuse (1996). Yet they are both relaunching so I get it. Also see: https://sharoma.tumblr.com/post/119807396741/a-selection-of-late-60s-candy-from-mad-men-milky

[undr]

Bert Hardy. A member of the Scottish river police patrols the River Clyde on his launch, on a foggy day. 1954

[contac]

[brutgroup]

HOSTEL “ZARECHE” / ХОСТЕЛ “ЗАРЕЧЬЕ” near the TEZ- 22 Power Plant, Moscow, Russia #brutgroup photo via #utilitarianarchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CFtd0-qF8Z1/?igshid=1o3xdoa76mjwy

[maedior]

The first female gardeners employed at Kew Gardens, 1896. (SOURCE)

[afeelgoodblog]

[chineseposterart]

科学有险阻   苦战能过关

Science has dangers and difficulties, bitter struggle can overcome them

[futuredreams56]

[augustomhenri]

[dyingforbadmusic]

[artdecco80]

rules of being an adult by John Perry Barlow, 1977

[mabellonghetti]

Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads on-stage looks from the 80′s

[sharoma]

I endeavour to comprehend the present extraordinary state of railway matters when everyone around seems mad, stark staring wildly mad. The only sane course for a sane man is to get out and keep quiet.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[sharoma]

Mark E. Smith of The Fall

Smith had a very complex character, was often reactionary, didn't suffer fools and was defiantly Northern English; according to Brix, he "had a chip on both shoulders. I remember him talking about fucking southern bastards a lot and not wanting to come to London. He hated London intensely. He’s quite contrarian as a person and as a writer, which is what gives him his edge." Smith had a working class and anti-intellectual outlook, but a strong interest in literature. As writer Andrew Harrison observed, although he wished that a majority of his audience were miners and postmen, a great many were students or Guardian readers.