Next time they do this they need to contact an expert. Gene has 40 plus years of experience wearing the proper size codpiece...
Posted on 05/01/2015 7:10:28 AM PDT by C19fan
It just goes to show you the liberal rewrite of history. It their best effort to tell about what they do not understand.
The first time she saw a man nude,
Said a diffident young lady named Wood:
.. “I’m glad I’m the sex
.. That’s concave, not convex
For I don’t fancy things that protrude.”
Wouldn’t that be a “sports cup?” worn inside the jock strap?
He’s ready to go noodling ,, but please remind him the hand goes in the mouth...
These cod pieces are much ado about nothing.
Next time they do this they need to contact an expert. Gene has 40 plus years of experience wearing the proper size codpiece...
But they do on Amazon.
I only watch the show, because there are no more ‘Foyle’s War’, ‘Inspector Gently’, ‘DCI Banks’ is a joke reminiscent of the affair side of ‘Hill Street Blues’, and on ‘Death in Paradise’ they killed off the more likeable stuck-in-the-boonies-city-denizen-cop.
PBS wants $30.00 for the DVD ... no thanks. Since PBS has such a wonderful standing with the Demo, er, Communist Party, i won’t be sending them any money soon.
Edmond Blackadder's "Black Russian"
Just a warning some of the episodes are really graphic. I didn't sleep for two nights after watching Thomas Cromwell torture a guy to death.
Being a big fan of that period of history, I tried watching some of The Tudors - tried being the operative word. It wasn’t the sex scenes or the violence that offended me; it was the gross historical inaccuracies and very poor casting choices. But the costumes and music were nice. : ) But basically it came off to me not as a historical drama but more like “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” in period costume.
IMO one of the best depictions of Henry VIII was the 1970 BBC series “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” with Keith Michell as Henry VIII.
Although I will say that I have enjoyed watching Wolf Hall and think Damian Lewis is very good in the role of Henry VIII.
I never picks up Damian Lewis accent when he played Dick Winters in Band of Brothers.
For one thing, in the article, they compared and contrasted a picture of Henry VIII from the series Wolf Hall compared to a Renaissance portrait, inferring that the latter would have been what Henry would have actually worn.
However the picture of the man with the rather prominent codpiece was not of Henry VIII but a portrait of an Italian man of unknown origins named Antonio Navagero – 1565.
http://european-art.findthedata.com/l/19963/Portrait-of-Antonio-Navagero
Of all the paintings of Henry VIII painted during his lifetime, I’ve not found one to portray him as wearing such a huge codpiece as this “historian” would suggest as being “accurate” for the time. One also has to consider that some portraits of the time tended to exaggerate certain desirable male features or even play down, especially in the portraits of women, their attractiveness in exchange for a more “pious” and serious appearance.
Also it should be understood that English and Italian and French fashions of the time, even among the Royals and the moneyed class who could afford to have portraits painted of themselves, were not all the same. IIRC, one of the many criticisms levied against Anne Boleyn during her brief reign as Queen was her fondness of French fashions and of all things “French”.
Second, they criticized the casting of the actress portraying Jane Seymour as being “too pretty” because she didn’t look exactly like the portrait painted by Hans Holbein. But I think looking at the pictures of the actress and the Holbein painting, I’d say the casting was pretty good. Is Kate Phillips “prettier” than Jane Seymour was? Perhaps, but given that Holbein was commissioned by Henry to paint a portrait of Anne of Cleves before agreeing to marry her, it has been alleged, perhaps falsely, that upon meeting her in person for the first time, that Henry was greatly disappointed because she was not nearly as attractive as her portrait.
However it was probably or at least just as much a matter of changes in the political landscape and second thoughts about aligning with the German Protestants, who were in actuality, much more radical in their religious reformations than what Henry was comfortable with; even with his break from Rome, he was not necessarily a great “reformer” in religious terms, but more interested in exercising his “rights” as sovereign King over matters he thought were not to be decided by the Pope.
There were also questions surrounding Anne of Cleves previous marriage commitment, whether in Henry’s eyes, that meant she was as good as being an already married woman. But whatever the reasons, her lack of beauty, politics or religion, evidently Henry was not able or willing to consummate his marriage to Anne of Cleves and in her own best interests, she agreed to a divorce and relegation to being the King’s “sister” and given some property and a stipend on which to live out her years, and in this she fared better than most of Henry’s 6 wives.
http://www.oocities.org/tudorhist/tudor.htm
As to the codpieces, here is another “view” as it were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqeraa_96BE
And costume design:
Having watched Band of Brothers, I never would have guessed that Damian Lewis was a “Brit” had I not heard him interviewed.
I’m not sure why it is, but it seems to me that more British actors can successfully pull off a convincing American dialect than American actors can successfully pull off a convincing British dialect.
dear mware,
I went to cable, when the FCC, under the Obama administration, decided that my beloved analog 20-inch tv/dvd player was no longer of any use.
I do NOT use any ‘subscription’ channels, such as ‘showtime’, because my cable/internet bill is over $140.00, and i am sure it will climb, in due time, again.
As to graphic ... I found my teenage sweetheart’s dad - after he pulled the trigger on his shotgun; I’m a Viet/Cold War vet; I’ve seen public executions in Thailand.
Torture is NOT about what someone is doing to the other, it is only a method; it is the power over that other person; the knowledge that you CAN do anything, over that other person, without any permission; and then, if there be any other motive, having that satiated, for the moment.
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