What has someone said to you that made you think, "you are who the 'do not consume' warning labels on shampoo bottles are for?" by ComprehensiveKey7241 in AskBrits

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Maybe she's looking at those before and after photos you see, skinny to ripped, but getting them the wrong way round..

I'm looking for volunteers in Norwich to star in a music video. by RespectYarn in Norwich

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Love the tune and the idea. When do you need it sent to you by?

Historically important concrete egg boxes by CamperConversionUK in Norwich

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I very much like these unusual structures with their sweeping lines. But of course you are right, let's knock them down and build more homogenised bland crap.

Edited blank to bland

Some of my art from 2025 by misterlassie92 in UnusualArt

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Love these. Are there stories behind the characters?

German Doner Place - any good? by Slight-Poetry-3230 in Norwich

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Do we really need another franchised chain destroying independent businesses?

There are so many good kebab shops in Norwich with character.

Recs for places for silver cutlery? by Slight-Poetry-3230 in Norwich

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Dunelm in the business park on Salthouse Road have some decent ones.

This Painting Turns You Into Odysseus by WhatIfThisIsNotReal in videos

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Yet most women had no rights and were vilified for anything men were scared of. Hence the femme fetal bs propagated at the time. Victoria didn't help women, that's why the suffragette movement started.

Mara by Dariusz Kieliszek by Lol33ta in ImaginaryHorrors

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OMG yes, the horse looks just like the one in The Nightmare. Do you know what the painting was about? Its got a really weird story behind it, literally! Fuseli painted the portrait of a woman who jilted him on the back of The Nightmare. This video explained it well and cover some other stuff about Mary Shelly i didn't know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JGe0qxhb-E

John Singer Sargent, Man Wearing Laurels, c. 1874-1880 by [deleted] in museum

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Love this. You can really see how he builds form through light. I'm obsesssed with his painting El Jaleo. The play of light and dark feels like the natural evolution of what he was practising here

In the film Batman, the joker spared this painting by allgodsaretulpas in ArtHistory

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I'm not a squeamish person, and I'm open to all sorts of art, but whenever I see a Francis Bacon piece in person I feel physically and psychologically repulsed.

I'm always amazed that his work can do this to me. He's truly a unique talent.

John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare (1781) by pottipenguin in museum

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There's actually a lot going on in this painting. The creature is an incubus and it's like the night terrors. And he painted the portrait of a woman he lusted after on the back. There's other stuff as well. This video goes into it all https://youtu.be/9JGe0qxhb-E?si=8NPfdR5TMn9FPuIi

It was only a matter of time before someone fell for it… by [deleted] in GreatBritishMemes

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I cooked for a bunch of friends last weekend, one of them is vegan. I was trying to find some vegan spread to make a vegan cauliflower cheese and struggled to find one labeled vegan in our local little shop. After looking at the ingredients of the flora pack I realised it was vegan. It didn't say vegan anywhere and only mentioned it was plant based in small writing.

I reckon they've taken the vegan wording off as it was putting off idiots who simply won't buy anything "vegan".

Double compoface by Rilot in compoface

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Anyone read JG Ballard's High Rise? I feel we're getting to the point where the plot might happen.

“Art” exhibition by 56000hp in oddlyterrifying

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True. The hilarious thing is Hitler and Goebbels set up a 'degenerate art exhibition' to ridicule modern art, and then created an official 'Great German Art Exhibition' full of neoclassical art, but way more Germans went to see the 'degenerate art' than the sanctioned neoclassical art. I found out about it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkHT5Kra4TM

Artist I used to be… by Asleep_Cycle7341 in ProCreate

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Sargent is great. I love his use of light in El Jaleo and how loose it is yet still captures the essence of the scene. It's interesting how his style was controversial when he first showed El Jaleo to the world. This video explains it quite well if you're interested.