This Group celebtrates Boring, ordinary, dull, commercial Postcards that feature aspects of our everyday life – such as streets, roads, houses -- and are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so uninteresting. Join in and share your Postcards of our Boring world.
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From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue
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Thanks Scribe. Hope you are well (and that your postal service returns to normal one day soon). Val
Thanks Mim, Thanks Mr Celery Stick,
I agree with both of you that the Hungarian Postcard is (as I said) moving. I posted it because I found the image Boring, but certainly not what it represented. Hence I think that, in the context of this Group, a distinction has to be made between the boringness of the image(s) on the picture side of the postacrd, and what it/they may be of on the reverse side.
Val
28.06.20.....Memorial at Duna-Parton.....Mim is right. ("Very moving. Not a boring card at all") ....& still yet, another insane tragedy to add to the long, long list.
I´ve boring stuff for this collection but the Brazilian Post Office Service navigates the new unchartered times poorly. There is no information available when the old normal service is going to be in place again.
TWO FROM THE FATHER OF DAVID VALENTINE HERMAN
1. Memorial at Duna-Parton, Hungary
I thought that this was a Boring Postcard, until I researched it and found out that it was a memorial on the east bank of the River dDnube, Budapest Hungary, to the Jews who were shot by the fascist militia in WW2. The Jews were ordered to take off their shoes, and then shot -- their bodies fell into the river.
It might be Boring as Postcards go, but I find it moving.
2. Harald Husse is square, man
In the early 60's, when American jive culture was arriving in the UK, terms like 'square', 'cool' and 'man' abounded. To use them was considered 'hip'. Here is a Boring Postcard by the German artist Harald Huss, who may or may not be square, man. But it's cool. etc
AND NOW..... 2 MORE FROM KATERINA
Thanks yet again!
1. dAdA & FLUxUS
It's in German. No, it doesn't mean dAdA is a sausage -- it means dAdA is a word.
The Postcard was printed in York (England), a town I used to visit often, and in which i never heard a word of German spoken (Ich habe nie ein wort Deutsch gehört). Culinary-wise, and back to the non-sausage, Yorkshire (the county, of which York is the capital) is famous for it's Yorkshire Puddings
2. Christmas Pantomime Dame
This is a postcard-size reproduction of one of the British Post Office's set of Christmas stamps for 1985.
(The17p stamp in the British Films series of the same year featured Peter Sellers -- who is my 4th cousin once removed.)
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