The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜

I have a (lunatic) fringe and like animals, humour, tea, knitting, the Golden Age of Hollywood and Art Deco. Interested in politics and women’s rights ♀️

[Russell Findlay @RussellFindlay1]

Swinney and Sturgeon want to make the Murrell scandal disappear (like the money he stole).

We have 5 key questions (and more)👇

[The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜 @knit28]

@TheGreenParty @rachelmillward

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

A policeman stops the traffic for a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe to cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair at Olympia, in February 1935.

[Martin's Music @XMartinsMusicX]

Happy Birthday Saffron (58 today) 🎂

Republica - Ready To Go
(1997) ▶️

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

For over twenty five years, a Japanese diver named Hiroyuki Arakawa has been visiting an underwater shrine. Whenever he dives down, he strikes a metal bell with a hammer to announce his arrival.

Within moments, a giant Asian sheepshead wrasse named Yoriko swims right up to him. Years ago, Hiroyuki found the fish starving and exhausted. He hand fed her for months until she fully recovered.

Since then, they have shared an incredible bond. Every time they meet at the shrine, Hiroyuki removes his breathing regulator and gives his underwater best friend a kiss directly on the forehead.

[ｶｲｶﾞｲﾉﾜﾀﾞｲ @x_gou]

夫が盗み食いしないようにカメラを設置した妻、夫の対応が天才的すぎる。😂

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

BBC Teases Nicola Sturgeon Interview… Then Plays Wee Jimmy Krankie 🤣

“Where going to be joined by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.”

They then run a video Wee Jimmy Krankie. 😭

They then quickly apologise:

“I’m sorry we’ve very clearly run the wrong pictures.”

Brilliant 😂

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

First, the good. @mimsdavies was on blistering form as she slated the Government for sitting on the draft since last September, claiming they were “reluctant to face their own Back Benchers and protect vulnerable women and girls.” She also mocked “peak Lib Lib Dem-ery, with the party leader claiming to accept the Supreme Court’s judgment while opposing the guidance that flows from it.” Both these comments were to prove prescient.

[The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜 @knit28]

@NadiaWhittomeMP Turkeys voting for Christmas.

[The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜 @knit28]

@LeftieStats Turkeys voting for Christmas.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

The precious bit of film shows of Stan Laurel visiting his father, Arthur Jefferson, during the 1932 visit to England by Laurel and Hardy. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

[The Lunatic Fringe 🧶💚🤍💜 @knit28]

@KANDYFLOSSXXX @MisterMarilyn I remember my colleague saying how excited the contestants were to meet her and how disappointed they were when they didn’t get any interaction with her. She said it was so strange how bubbly and friendly she was when the cameras were rolling when they’d never spoken before.

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

Born 100 years ago today: the great Marilyn Monroe. Here she is in beautiful 1950s Technicolor, from Howard Hawks' brilliant GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953). Jack Cole staged this number.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Howard Hawks on working with Marilyn Monroe:

"Marilyn Monroe was the most frightened little girl who had no confidence in her ability. She was afraid to come on the screen. Very strange girl. And yet she had this strange effect when she was photographed. Nobody dated her, nobody took her out, nobody paid any attention to her. She’d sit on the set with practically nothing on, and a pretty extra girl would walk by and everybody’d whistle. But she got out in front of the camera, and the camera liked her, and all of a sudden she was a great sex symbol.

Fortunately, I had her in a couple of the first pictures that she did 'Monkey Business' (1952) and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953), when she wasn’t worried. And also I had Jane Russell’s help in making 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'. We had a lot of fun doing the picture, but there were a lot of times when I was ready to give up the ghost. Jane Russell would say, “Look at me—all he wants you to do is such-and-such a thing.” And Marilyn would say to her, “Why didn’t you tell me?” But I had an easy time compared to some of the directors who worked with her afterward. Because after she got very important she became more and more frightened, and she just didn’t want to come out and do a scene. She didn’t think she was good enough to do the things that she did.

She was always better in fantastic material, wasn’t she? Like in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'?

There wasn’t a real thing about her. Everything was completely unreal. They tried to make her play real parts in a couple of pictures, and the pictures were disasters. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' was the first one where she really went good, and then they had no sense to stick with that."

("Hawks on Hawks", Joseph McBride, 1982)

P.S: Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her 100th birthday!

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

Happy 100th, #MarilynMonroe!

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Nicola Sturgeon has updated her pronouns to him/not me.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Best one yet!!! 😂

[Peter Irvine @ibhinnPeadar]

“No another coffee maker”