FOLIO OLIO: TUESDAY #3435

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

NEWSY BITS

Like calling suicide bombers cowards. They may be a lot of things, but they are not cowards.

Trump may be a lot of things, but an idiot isn't one of them. He did, after all, win the election.

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Newly released clip of Prince Harry at Eton.

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o my Canadians viewers who just said Goodbye to their last attempt at bringing home the Stanley Cup in 2018, I offer my condolences.

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I want everyone to know his name; not the shooter.

THE HUMAN FEMALE

Subtle Symbolism

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In microblading, a practitioner uses tiny needles to make shallow cuts in and around the eyebrow, which are filled in with ink. It's similar to a tattoo, but it's only semi-permanent. That means it will fade over time, sometimes lasting up to three years, although the results can vary. The dye placement is meant to mimic individual hairs so it can make over-plucked eyebrows look full and defined. It only takes a quick Google search to find a salon or spa offering the service. But microblading is largely unregulated and carries risks, as many women are finding out the hard way.

Jesus Fucking Christ, Y'all.

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Reminds me of the Kentucky Derby.

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An old favorite.

I'll bet the first ever drive thru window resulted in an incredible amount of debris.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

A wall in that configuration is much stronger than a straight one.

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Hundreds of 16th Century coin clippings have been discovered in a Gloucestershire field. The 500 silver clippings, dubbed the Toenail Hoard, were unearthed by Gavin Warren using a metal detector in the Forest of Dean. Shaved from the edges of coins dating back to 1560, the precious metal would have been melted down and sold. Mr. Adams, from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, said the find, currently being cataloged at the British Museum, was not only "one of the biggest" but a "fantastic bit of social history"... The earliest clippings date from the reign of Elizabeth I, so 1560s to 1570s, and the latest from 1645," he said.

This is of course why coins made of precious metal are milled on the edges. (These appear to have embossed edges, which apparently didn't deter a determined thief).

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The longest straight line on the surface of the earth that traverses water without touching land (approximately 20,000 miles).

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Less is more, Happy Birthday Mies van der Rohe's Seagram's Building

"Form follows function."

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I watched an excellent documentary on Megastructures of World War II. This illustrates how Hitler simply went around France's defenses.

The red X is where I spent years.

Out of 20,000 German fighter pilots in WWII, only 2000 made it out alive. This German fighter pilot with 275 confirmed kills was one of them.

And he fought from the first battle to the last. Incredible.

There was a raid that so surprised the Germans that that guy was captured with shaving cream still on his face.

The German people were so brainwashed that civilians didn't want to live without Hitler.

People who ask you to take your shoes off before you come inside just want to use your socks to clean their floors as you walk. Don’t fall for their trap. Don’t be somebody else's mop.

PROVOCATIVE LANGUAGE

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That looks just like something someone who drove a bright orange truck would say.

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In an April 10 financial report titled “The Genome Revolution,” company analysts allegedly posed the question “is curing patients a sustainable business model?” The report broke down the pros and cons of new gene therapy treatments being worked on by biotech companies. Turning the search for medical remedies into a numbers game, analyst Salveen Richter called a potential “one-shot cures” a bad business decision that will hurt a company’s bottom line. Goldman Sachs researchers pointed to pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which developed a treatment for hepatitis C, as an example of the financial impact treating diseases can have on profits. “In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients,” the memo argued.

RH: That's the question I asked a drug abuse counselor. He said they are never "cured" but when stable move from $100 an hour one on one sessions to "group" for $50 an hour. But there are twelve people per groups which equal $600 per hour.

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That's the national pastime.

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1997, Heaven’s Gate sure did it.

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How delightful.

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This morning over breakfast S. asked me why I looked so glum. “Because,” I said, “everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.” “Jesus,” S. said. “Aren’t you ever off the clock?”

- Le blog de Jean-Paul Sartre

Then there's this opposite view...