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BORING POSTCARDS

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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INTERESTING POSTCARDS!! 41 Replies

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 AND/OR BORING? 15 Replies

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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Comment by Raphael Nadolny on June 20, 2022 at 9:01am

Kalisz, postcard with view - "Osiedle 25- lecia PRL" (Estate of the 25th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland) (such name was in use in Poland during the communist Russian regime). Postcard from late 70s of XX century.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 11, 2022 at 10:42am

POLITICS AS THEATER...OR THEATER AS POLITICS?

Two Boring Postcards of the Bundeshaustadt Bonn, Germany. The first shows the Federal Parliament building (before the Parliament moved to the Reichstag building in Berlin). The second Postcard is of a theater on the same street.

I would have thought that one theater would have been enough, and the best show (drama, comedy, tragedy) what-have- you would have been in the Parliament.

 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 9, 2022 at 4:57am

TWO SOMEWHAT BIZARRE BORING POSTCARDS

1. Rock with hole and LOTS of seagulls (the white flecks), Cote d'Amour, France

2. A French pine forest Boring Postcard

Apart from the beaten-up bit of tree dominating the foreground, there ain't much pine forest here, just a lot of scrubland and some sea

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 6, 2022 at 3:21pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA: THANKS MIKEL!

1. Mexican Wolf

This looks like the Alsation dog that lives nearbye that is neither Mexican nor a wolf -- just bad-tempered

2. Lanzarote

It's supposed to be a Postcard of Lanzarote, but all I can see is a boat in the foreground, a rising or setting sun in the background...but where is the island of Lanzarote? In it's absence, this could be a Postcard of almost anywhere

3. Langeats, France.'Le Chateau' - Salle des Gardes'

Hèlas, there are no Gardes as they have all gone looking for Lanzarote

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 6, 2022 at 3:11pm

Thanks Raphael. Every Sunday I go to a flea market hoping to find some East European Boring Postcards like your ones from Koszalin and Lublin, but I  haven't found any so far. I'm going to Holland next month and know of a postcard collector/dealer there who may have some. Regards, Val

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on June 6, 2022 at 2:09pm

Koszalin - one of the biggest cities in the northern part of Poland, situated near the Baltic Sea coast. Photo shows the building of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, postcard from 1964.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 5, 2022 at 3:34pm

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! PLATINUM ANNIVERSARY BORING POSTCARDS FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND LONDON

1. The Handing Over the Keys Ceremony at the Tower of london

A strange British custom -- raising your top hat when you hand over some keys

2. The Tower Guard at the Tower of London

These are Coldstream Guards, one of the 5 Regiments guarding the Tower. (You can tell that they are Coldstream Guards because the buttons on their tunics are grouped in twos; Every True Brit knows this sort of military trivia)

3. Changing of the Guard at the Tower of London

These are Scots Guards, another of the 5 Regiments guarding the Tower. (You can tell that they are Scots Guards because it says so on the back of the Postcard.)

4. The Queen's Guard Parade (outside Buckingham Palace)

How can you tell when the Queen is in Buck Pal? Because the Royal Flag flies on top of it; (When she is not there a McDonalds' Golden Arch replaces it)

5. Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London

These Wardens are more commonly known as' Beefeaters'. I don't think there are equivalent groups of vegaetarian or vegan Warders.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Comment by Bradford on May 24, 2022 at 4:41am

1.  Four aliens in orange suits practicing Color Theory have correctly begun attaching themselves to a blue drum.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 24, 2022 at 4:37am

BORING POSTCARDS WITH PEOPLE DOING BORING THINGS?

1. Four aliens with.... a bomb?

2. Young Novices, Thailand

3. Lots of people on stilts in France looking at lots of sheep

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 20, 2022 at 3:24pm

A MIXED BAG OF BORING FRENCH POSTCARDS

1.  An old fountain in the South of France

2. Forge and/or shed

3. Crusades era church,Auvergne

In that location, I bet they didn't get many worshippers.

4. Communal washing trough

5. Mont Blanc, & some wild flowers

 

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