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What does it say? There's no reject all and I can't be arsed unchecking then manually.
This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we've found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.
The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph's origins.
In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned "Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910," which translates roughly to "men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910."
The anecdote in question:
Last evening over an early dinner in New York a dear old friend visiting from Australia gave me this postcard which he found lately in a museum bookshop in Germany. The caption reads Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910. The first phrase is difficult to translate with equal concision, but surely means [men made more] beautiful by stripes, and presumably therefore drips with irony.
I fucking knew it
thank you
The heads seem photoshopped on to the bodies. Or did the skin tone of all their faces just differ that wildly from their bodies' back then?
I think they wore longer clothes with higher colors back then. They would have a sunt tan from being outside, but only on their head.
Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.
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They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.
#2 is packing.
has to, as he has no beard.
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I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it's just like that
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Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got...
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild.. unless you're on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you'd get ratio'd into oblivion
I know those words, but I don't think they're being used in a manner to which I'm accustomed.
Steroids or nobody likes you
You know what? I'm gonna not take steroids even harder.
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Why does the guy on the left look like he's wearing a collar made of skin?
It's his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
That'd be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
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The oldest dude there is 23 years old
Why the leftmost one looks like has a shirt collar even though he is topless?
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#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
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Oh nice new avatar
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#2 has an obvious boner
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Cover up those bellybuttons, boys
Sluts
Some of these fellows are packin' some serious heat!
Fat Tom Hanks is the only one without a moustache. He didn't stand a chance.
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#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
His apparent boner is making a statement of its own.
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Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury
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Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
What's wrong with them?
They don't look like a modern social media influencer
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My wife says the guy on the right end because "he has the sexiest diaper".
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