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Guy,I think we need some "shock and awe" here in our all too comfortable world now and then. Opens one's eyes to reality, one's consciousness to the incredibly diverse world we share. I can understand and appreciate your desire to protect us, just don't over protect, please. This is why I deeply appreciate bside and other international travelers and dwellers that share these images with us. My mind is expanded by this exposure. (Sorry for the photo pun. )Jake
Hi Jake.All day, yesterday, I've been doing some kind of clean-up in my (Paper) pictures and (Digital) photo files and I've seen many interesting picturesthat could be interesting and informative about the Vietnamese daily life.I will carefully choose the pictures that are the most representative of what's going on hereand that shows the difference in culture.Don't forget that even if I've been living on planet Vietnam for almost 20 years, I am still a Canadian that spent more than half of his life in a civilized country called Canada.Well, I will try to be nicer to the Vietnamese by saying that I've been living the first half of my life in different type of culture.Guy 13I will not be negative about the Vietnamese culture, but only try to point out the differences.I hope AC members will see it that way.
Hey! Sound like you've just called Vietnam "uncivilized" there. Well, don't let your Vietnamese wife and friends read this than. Take care,Buddy
Hey Pete,My cousin in Pensacola was just telling me about that airshow. They go every year.I've been watching that Tamron lens too - looks like a great solution for wildlife/birding/long range shooting.Good work!
Swiftcurrent Lake, in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National ParkUsing a Zeiss 21mm Distagon
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Perfect response to my request for images from other countries and cultures. Guy, is this considered to be related to religion or is it more of a folklore/tradition thing? Now for my morbid curiousity, how much does the skin pull up into the suction cups? It has to leave nice bright red marks, no?Again, thanks for this post, so cool! You are a very lucky man because you wife does not see or read what you post. Wow!
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Perfect response to my request for images from other countries and cultures. Guy, is this considered to be related to religion or is it more of a folklore/tradition thing? Now for my morbid curiousity, how much does the skin pull up into the suction cups? It has to leave nice bright red marks, no?
Another way of looking at it is - accupressure or acupuncture treatments.
Hi JakeJ.I was 99.99999% sure that you would find this picture interesting and hopefully also other AC members that never been in Asianand know very little about all the different things going on here.It's more of a tradition/culture thing.The skin does not really go up much in the cup, maybe only 1/8"and yes, it leaves for several hours round bright red marks all over the back.It's like a blood thirsty Octopus tentacles had tried to suck up their blood.And, yes, I can confirm that the suction process only happen in the back, not in the front, for obvious reasons.
If you don't mind, will not comment on that, however, I would like to make jokes about it, but I am afraid that you might send it to the waste bin. Often I see women (More women than men, don't ask me why) wearing thin blouse or T-shirt and you can see the red spots thru their clothing and it always make me chuckle because I know what they went thru. Minds you, I never heard any Vietnamese complain about the blood sucking process,it must be painless.The day that I will stop posting on AC, it's because my wife will have read my posts about her and she will have poison me...Guy 13