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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoFootball•Sick of added time this WC. Amongst other things.
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    27 days ago

    Its a visual thing more than anything. If they were to pause the clock at every interval I’d prefer it.

    In fact there was a proposal by some people (by memory Wenger was involved) that we do so and have 2 30 min halved which is an idea I love.

    The practical playing time of teams is around that point naturally.

    So we pause the clock everytime the ball is out of play and continue it again once its in play, eluminates time wasting. (Momentum can still be broken, this doesnt fix that)

    But when you know there will be a +3 after 90 mins you have a sense of anticipation around the 85th min mark, it becomes exciting.

    With 10 mins added its just boredom. Ruined that exciting end.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMtoArt@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Salvador Dalí - Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
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    1 month ago

    During the 1950s, Dalí painted many of his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horns. Here, the young virgin’s buttocks consist of two converging horns and two horns float beneath; “as the horns simultaneously comprise and threaten to sodomise the callipygian figure, she is effectively (auto) sodomised by her own constitution.”

    Dalí’s inspiration for the image appears to have come from Vermeer, one of a handful of artists regarded by Dalí as masters. Specifically, Vermeer’s The Lacemaker seems to have been the galvanising element, with its convergent curves which focus on the subject’s fingers and so to the penetration point of her needle - which as Dalí has pointed out is merely implied and not actually painted.

    The painting recalls his depiction of his sister Ana María in “Young Woman at a Window” (1925), and has therefore been read by some critics as a nasty jab at his sister, punishing her for publishing a biography on Dalí that presented a quite negative point of view; it has also been interpreted as a painting of Gala Dalí, though in fact the figure is based on a photograph from a 1930s sex magazine.

    In 1958, Dalí wrote, “Paradoxically, this painting, which has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of all.” The painting was formerly in the collection of The Playboy Mansion. Playboy Enterprises sold the painting at a Sotheby’s auction in London in 2003 for £1.35 million, equivalent to £2,310,000 in 2024.

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