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In I think the 1950's they realized a ton of struggling students simply had bad vision and struggled to read books and see the blackboard. This led to a nationwide push to install florescent lighting in schools and give all students eye tests. Not terribly interesting but a minor historical moment.
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I had lovely eyesight growing up (still have it!), but my family did not have much money so I didn't get glasses until I was 14. They were huge and ugly and I was embarrassed, so I rarely wore them despite being terribly near-sighted. I was such a loving idiot. Everybody thought I was a weirdo growing up anyway, so it's not like anyone would have really given a poo poo that I had big dumb glasses. I wasn't comfortable wearing glasses until I finally got a pair that didn't cover half my face when I was 20. Moral: Wear your drat glasses!
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Hell, even in the 70’s, they either didn’t do eye tests at my school or else hosed it all up - I didn’t get glasses until my dad made a pediatrician gave me an eye test at like 9 or ten and everybody realized I couldn’t see poo poo. Which kinda surprises me, because my dad has/had the same exact lovely vision I do, and vision issues are extremely hereditary. I put the glasses on and was like ‘holy poo poo, the world is so CLEAR. I took a buncha poo poo for being a four-eye, but I was a goofy little kid anyway - it wasn’t like glasses ruined my burgeoning social life
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I had lovely eyesight growing up (still have it!), but my family did not have much money so I didn't get glasses until I was 14. They were huge and ugly and I was embarrassed, so I rarely wore them despite being terribly near-sighted. I was such a loving idiot. Everybody thought I was a weirdo growing up anyway, so it's not like anyone would have really given a poo poo that I had big dumb glasses. Orange-brown plastic welfare frames. Man, they really knew how to stigmatize the poor back then.
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Picked up a couple 60s children books from a church sale yesterday:   This book is about an american family giving their new german friends an "all-american treat" by going to McD's  In the end they discuss how hamburgers aren't actually an American creation after all!   Weirdly McDonalds isn't actually said by name until the final page. But the golden arches imagery are all over it.
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I love those! Covid has kept me from garage saleing and thrift shopping, so I really appreciate other people's finds here. 
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I love those! I haven't been doing much thrifting but I've been hitting garage sales hard this year. I went ahead and resurrected the thrifting thread just now: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940556
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How have I not seen that thread?! Thanks!
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“Hey Boo Boo, let’s go get us a dip-a-lo-matic pouch.”
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Foreign Policy wrote a serious article about this.quote:It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Yogi’s tale captures the complexities of U.N. politics in ways that more straightforward children’s heroes cannot; his quest to subvert park ranger rules becomes an affirmation of the existing order of things.
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Wow, that's great!!
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Is didn't know he was that big :prepop
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A friend of mine is staying in an Airbnb, and sent me these photos of one of the books there.  
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in other words the airbnb owner is gonna astrally project through the wall and grope your friend in their sleep, got it
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Got this today
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I saw this at a flea market the other day:
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I saw this at a flea market the other day: 
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I wanna read this, and I don't even care about the Beatles at all!
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I forgot to get a pic of the front of this one, sorry, so I grabbed it off of Google Image Search to complete the set: 
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Normally I like books by cranks, but that one actually offend me when it came out. He took 9/11 and used it to sell more lovely books. Typing that out sounds like silly patriotism, but in 2003 that wound was still fresh.
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I need this. Searching for it.
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Mr.Chill posted:I need this. Searching for it. Let me know how The Kirkby's were handled.
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lifg posted:Normally I like books by cranks, but that one actually offend me when it came out. He took 9/11 and used it to sell more lovely books. Typing that out sounds like silly patriotism, but in 2003 that wound was still fresh. What's the ancient Hebrew word for 'airplane'? Is there also a word for 'bar-codes'?
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Buttchocks posted:What's the ancient Hebrew word for 'airplane'? Is there also a word for 'bar-codes'? I wonder how many people will find something suspicious about the 9/11 predictions only appearing in the 2003 edition, but being absent from the 1997 original.
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 I won't lie, I saw the words "pigs" and "deliverance" and came to the same assumption that you just did.  this new persona game sucks  
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I've just moved house and the move has uncovered a lot of books from my youth that I'd almost forgotten about, so here's a little post about one of the odder examples. Musrum, by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw.  Wikipedia tells me that Earnshaw was a self-educated working class man from Leeds, England, who ended up a teacher at several Yorkshire schools. Musrum is a very odd book - Wikipedia says "In 1968 Earnshaw collaborated with Thacker on an illustrated novel, Musrum, which was not commercially successful, but has become a cult classic. The book is a fantasy, peppered with aphorisms ("Sudden prayers make God jump"), and tells the story of the title character's kingdom and of his battle with the nefarious Weedking."   It's absurdist stuff, but the thing that caught my eye a couple of decades ago, the thing that made me buy the book, is the illustrations. Page after page of variations on themes - wolves, castles, dressing tables (!).    So many good tattoo designs!       There's a sequel, too, if anyone's interested?
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 This is extremely my poo poo. Kind of proto Codex Seraphinianus vibes.
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i'm interested in this martial art that requires you to carry around a partner
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JPrime posted:i'm interested in this martial art that requires you to carry around a partner TwoJitsu
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FreudianSlippers posted:TwoJitsu 
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For a free copy, send a letter with your name and address to Frank B. Ichabod, 935 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.
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That is awesome!!
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You are finding some amazing stuff!
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