NitroX
|
| (.700 member) |
| 30/08/24 08:35 PM |
|
"Not tonight dear", 1903 British India
|
"Not tonight dear", 1903 British India.
Sher Khan was delighted to find yet another drunken British planter sleeping it off behind the Club.
Artist - Wal Paget.
A collection of unfortunate encounters in Imperial India.
Vintage Illustrations from various publications. Digitally restored Image. East India Company and Raj Research Group collection.
|
NitroX
|
| (.700 member) |
| 31/08/24 02:24 PM |
|
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
That's a very close call.
| lancaster |
| (.470 member) |
| 31/08/24 09:14 PM |
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
very interesting painting!
| DarylS |
| (.700 member) |
| 01/09/24 09:16 AM |
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
Sure is. Would a person survive that bite?
| Rule303 |
| (.450 member) |
| 01/09/24 04:26 PM |
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
It is interesting if that is a painting of an actual event. The Tiger biting at the shoulder. A Lion, I am told, will go for the back to the head in that situation and stick a canine through the brain stem. Apparently, what they have learned to do with Baboons and other monkeys as well as humans.
|
NitroX
|
| (.700 member) |
| 01/09/24 04:59 PM |
|
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
True. But nature can be random. Biting the guy through the neck and spine, "game over dear". ...
Daryl, I had a good look at the image when first posting. There's a fair chance those teeth would meet in that shoulder. Unless it was an old tiger with damaged old teeth. Like many a man-eater was. And why they became man eaters. A less than efficient bite. Or other injuries and infirmities.
Infection before antibiotics would be a likely killer of any such attack. The fetid breath of a carnivore from bits of flesh from previous meals, spread into account. Though flushing wounds with antiseptic, iodine pepple did survive. As for the bite itself, some people carried terrible injuries into later life if they survived the initial effects and aftermath infection.
It's an interesting suspenseful action image. I'd love a print on my wall.
|
NitroX
|
| (.700 member) |
| 01/09/24 05:24 PM |
|
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
Quote:
Don't sleep it off in the bamboos behind the Club.
And if so, carry a revolver.
Nowadays I would be surprised if some Karen shooter didn't criticise the guy for carrying a revolver when drunk.
The range mentality and police cotton wool rules, liability risk, often mean the good old days of a celebratory waidmannsheil schnapps is frowned upon, a beer or wine for lunch, are somewhat over.
I'm sure some readers, brainwashed, are shocked by even the thought!
Alcohol usually prohibited until all the guns are put away. Sometimes alcohol completely banned at anytime at a range or shoot by wowsers. Same as axoerson can't have a smoke anywhere, in the open air, at some ranges by the Karens.
One reason is the immature attitude alcohol needs to be drunk to excess ... Pun intended.
I'm happy one shoot I still attend begins with a morning shot of sloe gin. Pun intended again. Traditional.
I reckon, Rupert, in the painting on the first aid rendered, the whisky poured into the wounds to cleanse them, would say "Old Chap, what are you doing with the single malt?! Give it to me to drink! Hic.". Rightfully pukka. :}
PS I do understand the liability of a shoot organiser, if some accident happens, and alcohol is in the shooters system, both thecshootsr and organisers might be at risk. Myself as an organiser I'd ban alcohol these days until guns are packed away. But a welcoming liquid shot on a chilly morning is still pukka.
| DarylS |
| (.700 member) |
| 02/09/24 02:11 AM |
|
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
Tks John.
| degoins |
| (.333 member) |
| 07/09/24 05:49 AM |
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
Very cool painting.
| 3DogMike |
| (.400 member) |
| 05/10/24 11:55 AM |
|
|
Re: "Not tonight dear", 1903 British India, A close call.
|
"Not Tonight Dear"……well I have heard, tho not uttered, that one enough times in my life!
That said, unless it were a man eating large cat (only a "cougar"?) I probably would not have needed a revolver. Indeed I might have accepted the challenge
- Mike