...Hemingway and Shark...

[Kurusu]

You're joking, aren't you?



Yes, I noticed there was no magazine in the gun, but the bolt being "probably open" isn't good enough for anyone who has any sense at all. I'd hope whoever made that photograph knocked Hemingway on his butt for that little stunt.

And a Thompson submachine gun doesn't equate with a brick.

Nope. Not joking. In days gone by people had a somewhat "cavalier attitude" towards firearms.

Just 2 exemples, there are plenty more if you look around.

Exemple1

Exemple 2

On your picture. If the hammer is down, I would be much more worried with the live round to the left of the barrel.

Edit. Fyi. When I was much younger and full of beans, I took away a a fully loaded semi auto from a guy that was pointing it at my general direction. And I wasnt even carrying that night.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Liked the Dog...

 

[Watchdog]

Nope. Not joking. In days gone by people had a somewhat "cavalier attitude" towards firearms.

Just 2 exemples, there are plenty more if you look around.

I don't need to look around for more. I've seen vintage garbage like that all my life. Stupid people doing stupid things with guns. They're stupid, I don't care who they are.

We see stuff like that today. Except now a lot of it's in the news, like "Father accidentally shoots son to death." Or "Boy kills his three-year-old sister. Shot her with a gun he didn't know was loaded." Or we read about the man kills his best friend: "We was just foolin' around."

My point is no responsible gun owner with any sense at all is going to be pointing a gun at friends or guests. Someone pulls that B.S. around the people I shoot with, it'll be the last time he's ever invited to join us.

And Hemingway? My final opinion on him is he was an ignorant macho jerk for shooting animals with a submachine gun. Maybe it made him feel like a real man, I don't know. And he was a complete fool to point that Thompson at someone like he's doing in that photo. Somebody should have whacked him with a fish billy for that stunt. The man was a moral coward.

 

[ladder13]

Way to go Ernie

 

[Rustyt1953]

I do believe that Papa is beyond caring what we think of him.

 

[woodsltc]

I do believe that Papa is beyond caring what we think of him.

If he were still here he would probably draw us picture ....

 

[Kurusu]

I don't need to look around for more. I've seen vintage garbage like that all my life. Stupid people doing stupid things with guns. They're stupid, I don't care who they are.

We see stuff like that today. Except now a lot of it's in the news, like "Father accidentally shoots son to death." Or "Boy kills his three-year-old sister. Shot her with a gun he didn't know was loaded." Or we read about the man kills his best friend: "We was just foolin' around."

My point is no responsible gun owner with any sense at all is going to be pointing a gun at friends or guests. Someone pulls that B.S. around the people I shoot with, it'll be the last time he's ever invited to join us.

And Hemingway? My final opinion on him is he was an ignorant macho jerk for shooting animals with a submachine gun. Maybe it made him feel like a real man, I don't know. And he was a complete fool to point that Thompson at someone like he's doing in that photo. Somebody should have whacked him with a fish billy for that stunt. The man was a moral coward.

You can't really look to the past through today's eyes. It's unfair.

It was a bunch of "stupid things" that made us in what we are now.

Climbing over a log to cross a body of water was "stupid" and many payed the price for that "stupidity".

Climbing into a flimsy contraption and try to fly like the birds was also "stupid". And many payed the price for that "stupidity" too.

I can't even describe how "stupid" it was to sit on top of a very large missile to be thrown up into the air away from this Planet to a deadly environment.

Maybe "stupidity" is the real engine of Mankind.

 

[JcMack]

Liked the Dog...

Dogs are cool.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I took these earlier this year. A couple shots of Hemingway's Havana home that was confiscated from him along with everything else he had there. His famous boat behind his dog's graves, he armed it during WW2 to "patrol" the Cuban coast, but his wife thought just to get free gov't fuel for him to fish and party. This house is full of 1,000s of books and manuscripts he had to leave there. And his typewriter. Guess he used this one sitting down.

 

[Smithboomer]

"No magazine and the bolt was probably open."

Doesn't the Thompson fire from an open bolt?

Open bolt = ready to fire.

 

[Kurusu]

"No magazine and the bolt was probably open."

Doesn't the Thompson fire from an open bolt?

Open bolt = ready to fire.

Not without a magazine.

Edit. Yes one could manually insert a bullet in the chamber. But that is really far fetched in the photos scenario.

 

[Kurusu]

I took these earlier this year. A couple shots of Hemingway's Havana home that was confiscated from him along with everything else he had there. His famous boat behind his dog's graves, he armed it during WW2 to "patrol" the Cuban coast, but his wife thought just to get free gov't fuel for him to fish and party. This house is full of 1,000s of books and manuscripts he had to leave there. And his typewriter. Guess he used this one sitting down.

It's kind of ironic that Castro's Cuba after taking possession of the man's belongings ended up making a sort of "shrine" to his memory.

Hipocrisy knows no bounds.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

It's kind of ironic that Castro's Cuba after taking possession of the man's belongings ended up make a sort of "shrine" to his memory.

Hipocrisy knows no bounds.

And very capitalistically making money from tourists paying $5 a person to see it. Supposedly Hemingway's wife wanted a home a distance from Downtown to curb his partying. Ironically there's now a great patio bar at The house! One of the best we went to. I should post a video.

 

[Cattledog]

Read Robert C. Ruark's African stuff. I think he was better than Hemingway.

"Horn of the Hunter" my favorite Ruark book.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...cameras don't need an operator behind them to operate...

...tripods...shutter release cables...and shutter timers work quite nicely...