tommytraddles

tommytraddles t1_j7c5hfq wrote

Reply to comment by benjesty2002 in Red sky at night, sailors delight. by linuxknight

Both are said in the UK. Might be a regional thing, based on where the wool trade was primary versus where going to sea was more common?

It goes back a long way, though.

You are all fishermen. When it is evening, you say, "It will be fair weather, for the sky is red." And in the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening."

All of you know how to interpret the signs of the earth and sky. How is it you cannot interpret the signs of the times?

~ Matthew 16:23.

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tommytraddles t1_j2dkeyr wrote

Reply to comment by MathPower in Aphrodite beats her son Eros with a slipper. 360 BC from Taranto by swell_swell_swell

Yes, it's a real Athenian hydria and can be seen at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (Arch. Inst., E114. BAPD 2724).

It is attributed to the manner of the Meidias painter, and dates to ca. 420–410 BCE.

The image of Aphrodite threatening her child with a sandal became common in later art, including Roman.

There's a good article on the subject of corporal punishment with sandals in ancient Athens available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00558-z

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tommytraddles t1_j1w86jm wrote

Reply to comment by foozballisdevil in You are required to already have clothes if you want to go clothes shopping. by Kul3yy

I was returning some pants. I took a short cut in a subway tunnel and fell in some mud, ruining my pants. The very pants I was returning.

I don't understand - you were wearing the pants you were returning?

Well...yeah, I guess I was.

But what were you going to wear home?

Elaine, are you listening? I never even got there!

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