cold weapons and Orientalism

sfenoid13 · 29th August 2020, 02:27 AM

The painting and the pictures have no relationship whatsoever! I believe the painting is depicting an Ottoman hamam and not a bath in Persia. It is very realistic and possible to find hot redehads or blondes in the Turkish placae because the palace was full of them! they were all being brought from the Balkans and lower Russian republics like Abhazia Tataristan or Moldova or even Crimean. If you look at the mothers of almost 90% of all Ottoman Sultans' mothers you will see they are all Eastern European origin.. anyone interested I can send you a full list

Sultans preferred marrying these non-Turkish women to prevent struggles for the throne among the family members..and for the same reason often got their siblings, sons or uncles murdered. If their mom didnt have an extended family to uprise or protest, it was a lot easier to do..

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Originally Posted by ariel

Nothing better exemplifies the falsity of the "orientalist" presentation of the reality than the actual photographs. Here are couple of Orientalist pictures of the odalisques in a local harem and the photographs of the harem made personally by shah Nasser-el Din Qajjar.

gp · 27th October 2020, 10:09 PM

some more paintings by Italian Jiulio Rosati and French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme

kronckew · 27th October 2020, 10:51 PM

I like the tired Santa Claus (Father Xmas in UK) who has all the pistols, and a hubbly-bubbly (houkah pipe).

gp · 3rd November 2020, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kronckew

I like the tired Santa Claus (Father Xmas in UK) who has all the pistols, and a hubbly-bubbly (houkah pipe).

really..? hope he hasn't got a jealous wife as one of the pistols is pointing at a quite vulnerable spot...

kronckew · 4th November 2020, 06:05 AM

Unless he is rather well-endowed, the pistol looks like it will hit him in the thigh, probably puncturing his inferior vena cava, and he'd bleed out in less than a minute. Even if well-endowed, it's hit him there after passing thru his thingy. I live by a maxim that I will never point a gun at something I do not want to kill. Especially if it is me. Even unloaded.

27th October 2020, 10:09 PM	#2
gp Member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 668	some more paintings by Italian Jiulio Rosati and French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme Attached Images

27th October 2020, 10:51 PM	#3
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,152	I like the tired Santa Claus (Father Xmas in UK) who has all the pistols, and a hubbly-bubbly (houkah pipe).

4th November 2020, 06:05 AM	#5
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,152	Unless he is rather well-endowed, the pistol looks like it will hit him in the thigh, probably puncturing his inferior vena cava, and he'd bleed out in less than a minute. Even if well-endowed, it's hit him there after passing thru his thingy. I live by a maxim that I will never point a gun at something I do not want to kill. Especially if it is me. Even unloaded.