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.
Location: Sigean, France
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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
Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 17, 2022.
DULL OR BORING?I am a member of the British-based Dull Men's Club (DMC) – which also includes women, and, indeed, claims to…Continue
Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Nov 27, 2021.
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"I LOVE HOLLAND" ....but not hot dogs.... FROM HELEEN
"OK. After thorough research I concluded this postcard is boring. If only the stroopwafels [the biscuits, bottom left] would have been real stroopwafels, this card would have been less boring (I love stroopwafels), but in this case this card wouldn't have reached you because it would have been eaten."
Message from Val to Heleen:
"Thanks. It's a strange card. In fact it's 4 Boring mini-Pöstcards. And then it's not obvious that each of the four bits have anything, or much, to do with Holland. Are the sweets traditionally Dutch? Not in my experience. Are these yellow discs cheeses? They could be curling pucks. Are the black things supposed to be clogs/klompen? They look more like Crocs: clogs should be wooden and unpainted. And the stroopwafels? No comment...I don't like them, they stick in my teeth."
And then, about the postage stamp there is more....
Heleen writes:
"ugly boring stamp, too. (I don't like meat/hotdogs...and don't like that artist either)"
Val writes:
I,wonder why i) the Dutch Post Office decided to put this image on one of it's postage stamps,and ii) why it couldn't find a Dutch artist/stamp designer instead of an American one? iii) It looks to me mofre like a stripey rocket emerging from a rugby ball or American football. (Or even a stripey condom emerging from....)
Thanks Heleen!
Thanks Heleen,
I suggest you read my very first introductry comment to Boring Postcards on page 84 of this Group.
When I find a box of postcards at a flea market, I flick through them quickly to see if there are any boring ones. It's a quick and basically non-intellectual process -- 'Is this postcard boring or not?'
Later, when I get to look at these postcards more critically I think 'Well there might be something of interest here'. And sometimes there is. But most often there isn't.
Last comment: there is a danger of over-intellectualising this and making it to arty-farty. Keep It Simple Folks. Andd Keep It Boring, too
My 'problem' with boring cards is the fact that postcards, which at first sight I think boring, come to live when I put off my -2 glasses and see the nice details...
While my reptile brain thinks 'boring', my human brain concluders that 'The' boring card hardly exists...
But I'll have a try to find cards which keep on being boring at second sight and of course I then must send them to you, Val.
A few more boring cards are on their way to you today.
Thanks for the reminder.
Mim
SIX BORING POSTCARDS FOUND AT A SUNDAY FLEA MARKET IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TODAY
1. Splendid Hotel (sic), Therems, France
2. Gentiane flowers, Auvergne mountains, France
3.Le Puy de Come and the Puy de Dome volcanos, Auvergne, France
4. Le Puy de Dome volcano (again), Auvergne, France
5. Glacier (4,208m) Chamonix Mont-Blance, Haute-Savoie, France
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