MagsJ appreciation thread

…the penguins putting on a show. =D> The seals put on an exquisite show, but I was too busy watching them, to film them. I’ll look/ask around for footage filmed.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrpdbAs3E5M[/youtube]
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MagsJ · October 29, 2022, 7:14pm

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Getting away, from the dead-beat/boring, fray!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC4HjYUjOQ[/youtube]

MagsJ · November 6, 2022, 5:15pm

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This lady is not for turning gauging.

My wrongfully-thought namesake: youtube.com/watch?v=odb8ux3g9_8

My real namesake: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mar … f_Scotland

Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057.
Wikipedia

Born: c. 1045, Mecseknádasd, Kingdom of Hungary
Died: 16 November 1093 (aged 47-48), Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Kingdom of Scotland
Burial: Dunfermline Abbey
Children: Matilda of Scotland, David I of Scotland, MORE
Grandchildren: Empress Matilda, Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne, MORE
Spouse: Malcolm III, King of Scotland (m. 1070–1093)
Full name: Margaret of Scotland
Parents: Edward the Exile, Agatha
House: Wessex
Religion: Catholicism

Well this is all very enlightening

• My mother’s Paternal ancestors have Scot-land connections, but they aren’t Scottish… which her surname denotes and separates, and designates them geographically, accordingly.
• Her mother named her Agatha, so me being the Margaret, to her Agatha.
• And there begat the inherited European Catholic-inheritance… alongside the non-denominational Sindhu-inheritance.
…and lol at ‘Edward the Exile’.

All that ^^^ made this come to mind: youtube.com/watch?v=FlfHyb397VY not sure how though, but only the why…

MagsJ · November 6, 2022, 5:22pm

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On, niceties…

Niceties, are nice things… as opposed to non-niceties, which are not… for those who see them as a weakness, more fool them… for manners maketh the (hu)man, but it doesn’t define them.

…for underneath it all, should any tolerate the intolerable?

MagsJ · November 6, 2022, 9:12pm

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On, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My favourite Artist(s)? dem crazy Impressionists… especially Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) - Physically unable to participate in many activities enjoyed by males his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in art. He became an important Post-Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and, through his works, recorded many details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris.

Toulouse-Lautrec is best known for his once “scandalous” paintings of prostitutes, dancers, and nudes, his radical portrayal of sexuality, and his posters for the Moulin-Rouge. But you probably don’t know that Toulouse-Lautrec led a strange, short, gritty life, full of oddities and idiosyncrasies. He faced adversity, but he was by no means an angel. Here are 5 things you’d never guess about the life of this complex artist.

He was a dwarf.
He was an aristocrat.
He was friends with Oscar Wilde.
He invented a cocktail.
He died at 36 of alcoholism and syphilis.

And now in-keeping with the OP: He was particularly fond of prostitutes, and the feeling was mutual. They adored him and allowed him to stay with them. He felt most at home in brothels, and even lived in one for some time. Prostitutes were his favorite models.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kb1atN-w5Q[/youtube]

From Wikipedia,

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), commonly known as just Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (UK: ON-ree də too-LOOZ loh-TREK, US: on-REE -⁠, French: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.

Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
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MagsJ · November 6, 2022, 9:23pm

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More on Toulouse-Lautrec…

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it”

“Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired”

“Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert”

― Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

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Desire/want + Love/attachment = Sex… or so it seems that Lautrec is saying, but those factors are not necessarily exclusively mutual, though that combination is probably the ideal for your standard normal human-being, but for those who think it ok to ask a complete stranger for sex, then say one should if one think them attractive, and so literally bargain for sex with a person… I don’t know what they are thinking.

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“The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.” — Toulouse Lautrec

MagsJ · November 10, 2022, 1:49pm

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What we expect, is not reality or reflective of it -the world doesn’t work that way- so what is being asked of another, is to make things easier for the asker.

Even in nepotism, there is a cost!