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Sun, 2004-01-11 19:35
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Antiques Roadshow has just this minute finished
Sorry folks, you missed it! I was gonna let you know but i was too engrossed. Came in from a jaunt out with my mate and i said to him "oooh, i just feel like watching Antiques Roadshow. Haven't seen it for years." And, sure enough, it was on the telly. Amazing! Anyway, it was brilliant. It's always sunny whether they're in Woburn Abbey or Milton Keynes and everyone's so nice and polite. Actually, that kind of thing eventually makes you want to pull someone's hair out and say "get real" after a while, but, luckily, i was only watching for ten minutes.
Two questions (before Coronation Street)
...does anyone pay for a tv licence? I know i don't. After a few years they seem to get bored threatening you.
...why don't Royalty, n those old crackly pictures, have eyebrows or lashes (or pubes, in some cases) 'Lady' Diana's got very bushy eyebrows hasn't she? Pehaps those old style artists didn't know how to paint them or is there another more sinister reason?
tan63
On some documentary or other recently they said that Napoleon used to wax and pluck his entire body! Yuck. What a horrible, vain man he must have been. And when did he find the time i'd like to know.
mississippi
Well he was a short-**** Tanya, so it probably didn't take that long.
mississippi
When I want to say short-a,rse I insist on it being displayed as such. That poxy filter really winds me up.
Karl Wiggins
Did you know that Napolean had an inch-long todger? It was actually auctioned at Christies and described as looking like a dried up sea horse.
ely whitley
Did you now Nappolians spell checquer was also orktioned at kristyz? I ownly no bekoz I was the moreon that bort it.
Liana
Regarding pubic hair, I was once told that John Ruskin became impotent after discovering on his wedding night that his wife had pubic hair... had never seen it before because all his knowledge of female bods came from classical sculpture and paintings, where pubic hair was seen as scandalously erotic and thus avoided.
Regarding Antiques Roadshow which somehow appears to be showing on my parents television set 24 hours a day (or some similar programme) - I always see somebody stroll past in the background with something that looks much more interesting than the 1/2" porcelain basket of flowers being ahhhed at on the velvet cloth covered table by some guy with dandruff and large square specs...
Channel No 7
You missed out the best part of this week's episode of Antiques Roadshow, where the art expert (I assume that's what he was) was drooling over the portrait of an alleged 16th century beauty and saying things like "She's saying come and get me" and "you could lose yourself in her eyes" and "I've never seen a ruff tied so sexily". Sad thing is she was as plain as a Boeing. I can only assume the art expert was gay. I like the Antiques Roadshow - it's a great place to view loads of stolen property.
Karl Wiggins
I mentioned this pubic hair business once in a publication, and have just spent the last 15 minutes trying to find it, without success. I don't remember if it was John Ruskin or not, though. If I recall correctly, the sight of his wife's pubes put him off sex for two years. I'll have another look to see if I can find it in a few days.
I know there have been various recorded incidents of women with both extremely long and extremely prolific pubic hair.
tan63
HaaaHaaaHaaa!
This was supposed to be a very dull thread and now it's been turned into something funny and informative. b.ugger.
Very interesting that pubic hair was (and still is by some grown-ups) considered more erotic than babyfied pudendum. I was once quite close to a statue which included the representation of pubic hair. Guess it takes much more of an effort on the part of the artist to go to the trouble of chipping and smoothing the stone in such a way.
Very hairy bullocks are extremely offensive aren't they? A light covering of hair is okay 'tho in my opinion.
Tony Cook
No hair is best!
(see my pic to understand why!)
Jeff Prince
Weren't there some complaints from dried up sea horses at the time, if I remember correctly?
ely whitley
In the East it is still considered bad to show any body hair and even on the "Stripping ladies do stuff" gameshows thay have to put large, skin coloured, plasters over their pubes when on camera. Even some of their porn sees the hursuit as more offensive than graphic genitalia.
In art the need to remove facial hair comes from the Greeks. They believed hair to be offensive and a sign of mortality so the less you had the more 'god-like' you were. They also saw it as unsexy, probably because they were all rogering pre-pubescant boys.
Karl Wiggins
Liana,
I've found it. This is what I wrote in 1997:
"The writer, John Ruskin, wa shocked into sexual abstinence for the remainder of his life by the sight of his wife's pubic hair. He became an obsessive masturbator - "a suicide committed daily," he called it. Sexual repression drove him mad. He died a virgin, keeping a diary of his sex dreams."
In the same article, which contained six paragraphs on the Napoleon incident, I wrote about the sexual habits of a bunch of other people including Samuel Pepys and Havelock Ellis, although best of all was George Bernard Shaw:
"George Bernard Shaw was a virgin until the age of 29 when he was seduced by an ageing widow. The experience shocked him into 15 years of total abstinence."
mississippi
Do you have her phone number Karl?
Tony Cook
I love that spelling of hirsute!
It's almost 'her-suit' - just fab!
mississippi
It was only in recent years that somebody pointed out to me that in fact facial hair is also pubic. The thought of having a full Brazilian wax on my face brings tears to my eyes.