Post by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comOn Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:39:59 -0000 (UTC), UltraV
Post by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comWhen discussing time travellers, the term "clock jockeys" is considered
offensive and should not be used.
Thats a pity. It sounds adventurous with a spirit of derring-do. I remember
mainframe specialists being proud to put in their .sigs that they "ride the
big iron".
If you were a time traveller, Im guessing you wouldnt announce the fact.
For a number of reasons.
Good point. Maybe just wear your Ray-Bans occasionally as a signal to any
other clo^H^H^Htime travellers.
Just make a couple of wrong predictions. Everybody will call you "John
Titor", and then youll be forgotten as "just another fake".
Well, thank you for that rabbit hole! :D
Just call me Warren.
Peace out. :)
Post by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVYeah, inserts a useful layer of misdirection.
IRTA "midsection".
As anyone might have done!
Post by n***@nowhere.comThought a midriff bearing top might be a bit obviously time travellery
even to 1940ians.
"bearing". FFS.
Post by UltraVDepends where you go. ISTR that Betty MacDonalds daughters on Vashon Island
during WWII were trying up the bottoms of their shirts to bare the midriff.
The modern bikini swimsuit was introduced in 1946 by Louis Réard.
See also Rita Hayworth (eg in Gilda,1946, or just 'rita Hayworth midriff' or
Lana Turner, Betty Grable, etc.
Yeah, but context is important. You see loads of bikinis on the beach,
but almost nobody shops for groceries in their lingerie. Even in Esix.
So floozies and flappers baring their mids riff is not necessarily
notable. But ordinary people? *Primary school kids*? That might raise
a few eyebrows.
And then again it might not. After all, there was plenty debauch in the
roaring twenties[1]. Praps the prudish obsession with "decency" was a
mid 20th century thing and its now dead and buried.
Post by UltraVIll grant you the midriff might not have been exposed so often in grainy,
black-and-white, pea-souper Britain. Not sure.
Dont want your navel filling up with pea soup! It would be gross! :(
[1] Cant imagine the present twenties *roaring*. Snivelling, more
like. :|||\\
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