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Photos of a happy couple, London, UK, 1890s? (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

I love how genuine their expressions are in the photos where they're smiling. Such a cool feeling of connection to people from 130 years ago.

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Cute!

[–] aemilrex@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Please sit still and don't smile for 30 seconds.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This always makes me think of the scene from A Million Ways to Die in the West.

I looked for a clip, but I couldn’t find one!

Edit: Found it.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

do we have a source for this? because this is unfortunately precisely the kind of thing people would generate these days..