#the flamingo kid

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How many potatoes do you think you'll eat before you die?

The Flamingo Kid (1984) — dir. Garry Marshall

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Some movies, considered chronologically:

THE FLAMINGO KID (1984): Nostalgia-burdened period piece, set in 1963, about working-class kid Jeffrey (Matt Dillon), who gets a summer job parking cars at an exclusive beach club called El Flamingo, starts dating a rich girl (Carole R. Davis), and becomes fascinated by her father (Richard Crenna), a self-made sports car dealer and local card sharp who thinks college is sucker's game. This alienates Jeffrey's own father (Hector Elizondo), a stalwart plumber who doesn't want to see Jeffrey squander his chances of bettering himself. The story is thus a sort of YA prototype of Oliver Stone's later WALL STREET — a Reagan-era morality play about a young man caught between two father figures, one representing the Lure of Easy Money and the other a paragon of Honest Hard Work — badly undermined by its absurdly idealized longing for the alleged innocence of the Kennedy era (underlined by an obnoxious oldies soundtrack). It offers a meaty role for Crenna, but as a drama, it has less substance than FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. Davis's character is such a nonentity that you keep forgetting she's there, and the way she ends up functioning as a proxy for Jeffrey's obsession with her dad is awkward. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nope. VERDICT: A simple-minded story blinded by its rose-colored glasses.

THE JOY LUCK CLUB (1993): Sudsy but affecting episodic adaptation of Amy Tan's novel about four middle-aged Chinese women and their strained relationships with their Chinese-American daughters, starring Ming-Na Wen and nearly every other Chinese actress working in the U.S. at the time. The way the script segues between the characters' respective stories is clunky, and it often teeters on the brink of schmaltz, but there are moments of real dramatic power amongst the more superficial tearjerker moments, and you'd have to have a stonier heart than I to not sob at the bittersweet ending. Strong acting helps, with Tsai Chin particularly good as Auntie Lindo. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It seems like it should, but alas. VERDICT: Heavy-handed at times, but undeniably moving.

COLD COMFORT FARM (1996): Before she became an action star, Kate Beckinsale starred in this hilarious adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 satiric novel about glib orphan Flora Poste, who makes it her project to fix all the problems of the titular farm and its eccentric denizens — distant cousins who feel obligated to Flora (whom they will only address as "Robert Poste's child") because of some unspecified wrong they once did her late father. Among the inmates of Cold Comfort are Cousin Judith (Eileen Atkins), a hysterically morose creature straight out of a gothic novel; Cousin Amos (Ian McKellen), a fire-and-brimstone preacher who warns his brethren, "There'll be no butter in Hell!"; Amos and Judith's oversexed son Seth (Rufus Sewell), a local stud who dreams of being in the talkies; and of course Aunt Ada Doom (Sheila Burrell), who rules the family with an iron fist and won't let anyone forget that she once saw something nasty in the woodshed. A delightfully silly spoof of a particular category of once-popular English literature, as the farm's assorted grim melodramas prove no match for the implacable (if somewhat snobbish) modern sensibilities of its plucky heroine. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nope. VERDICT: Great fun throughout, although Stephen Fry irritates as a boorish "Laurentian person" who keeps hitting on Flora despite her obvious disinterest.

BREAKDOWN (1997): Competent but underwhelming Jonathan Mostow thriller starring Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan as Jeff and Amy Taylor, a couple of Yuppies whose fancy Jeep breaks down on the highway on a trip from Massachusetts to California. A passing trucker (J.T. Walsh) gives Amy a ride into the nearest town to find them a tow truck, but when Jeff gets their Jeep running again and follows her into town, he finds that Amy has disappeared, and no one, including the trucker, will admit to having seen her. It has a great premise, and Russell is credible enough in the lead, but it's pretty ordinary, and, once you know what's going on (which is revealed a little over a half-hour in), pretty superficial — there's no psychological depth, and I kept waiting for some other story twist that never came. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It barely contains women (Amy is absent for 80 percent of the running time). VERDICT: Not bad, but nothing special, and you'll forget it 10 minutes after it ends.

MY TWO HUSBANDS (2024): Okay Lifetime thriller about a young woman named Eliza (Isabelle Almoyan), still reeling from the recent murder of her mother (Joanie Geiger), who becomes deeply suspicious of her father's young new wife, a flight attendant named Brooke (Kabby Borders) who's no older than Eliza — and, as the title alludes, is secretly married to another man (Britton Webb, who looks like a lesser Baldwin brother) and up to no good. Despite the cheesy title (which is really also a spoiler) and awkward marketing (which misleadingly suggests a comedy-drama with Brooke rather than Eliza as the main character), it has a surprisingly decent, reasonably credible script, hamstrung by very weak performances. The story is still interesting enough to make it a not-bad little thriller, although it would have been better with a stronger cast and less somnabulistic direction. CONTAINS LESBIANS: It sometimes seems like Eliza's friend Star (Kristen Grace Gonzalez) might be her girlfriend, but the script is noncommittal on this point. VERDICT: A B+ script burdened with D+ acting and C- direction.

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This is Round One!

Make sure to vote on every other poll. The final 8 of the Round One polls will be released next week

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Seonghwa with flamingos at the Kölner Zoo (Cologne, Germany)

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Round 3 - Reptilia - Phoenicopteriformes

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Our next order of birds are the Phoenicopteriformes, commonly called “flamingos”. They are comprised of one family, Phoenicopteridae, and 3 genera.

Flamingos are most well-known for having varying degrees of pink coloration derived from their diet. Young flamingos hatch with grayish plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-carotene obtained from their diet of blue-green algae (phylum Cyanobacteriota), diatoms, and/or small invertebrates such as Brine Shrimp (genus Artemia). Some species, such as the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) (image 1) tend to be more reddish-pink due to a greater availability of beta-carotene, while other species are a more pale pink due to ingesting a smaller amount of the pigment. Due to their filter-feeding diet, flamingos have unique bills which are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are used upside-down. Hairy structures called lamellae line the bill and tongue, filtering out food particles. Flamingos have long necks and legs. Their feet are webbed to aid with swimming and to stomp their feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom. They live in tropical areas in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia, typically in saltwater lagoons or high saline freshwater environments. Though flamingos prefer to drink freshwater, they are equipped with glands under their eyes that remove extra salt from their bodies. This organ allows them to drink saltwater as well, and many flamingo species are extremists: animals which live in extreme environments that many other organisms can not survive in.

Vocalizations play an important role in parent-chick recognition, ritualized displays, and keeping large flocks together, and flamingos are quite noisy. They are very social birds, and live in colonies whose population can number in the thousands. Before breeding, flamingo colonies split into breeding groups of about 15 to 50 birds. Both males and females in these groups perform synchronized ritual displays, which involve stretching their necks upwards, head-flagging, and flapping their wings (see gif below). The displays do not seem directed towards an individual, but occur randomly, and help pair up those birds that do not already have mates. Flamingos form strong pair bonds, though in larger flocks they may change mates due to having more options. A pair will establish and aggressively defend a nesting site, usually from other flamingo pairs trying to commandeer it. The nest is typically made of mud, into which the female will lay one large, chalky-white egg. Both the male and the female contribute to building the nest, and to protecting the nest and egg. For the first six days after the chick hatches, the parents and chick stay in the nesting sites. Both the male and the female feed their chick with a kind of crop milk, produced in glands lining the upper digestive tract. Crop milk contains both fat and protein, as with mammalian milk, but unlike mammalian milk, it contains no carbohydrates. At around 7–12 days old, flamingo chicks begin to move out of their nests and explore their surroundings. When they are 2 weeks old, the chicks congregate in groups, called "microcrèches", and their parents leave them alone. After a while, the microcrèches merge into "crèches" containing thousands of chicks, which are marshaled by a few adults. When young flamingos are around 3 to 3.5 months old, their flight feathers will finish growing in, allowing them to fly and join the main flock.

Phoenicopteriformes evolved in the Eocene, with modern flamingos, such as Elornis, appearing in the Oligocene, around 25 million years ago. They form a clade, Mirandornithes, with the grebes (order Podicipediformes), and the ancestor of both orders was likely highly aquatic.

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Flamingos often form same-sex pairs, and may adopt orphan eggs or even steal eggs from other flamingos to raise as their own.

Flamingos are known for standing on one leg with the other tucked against the body. Many birds do this behavior, though it is most noticeable in flamingos due to their long legs. Standing on one leg allows the bird to conserve more body heat, and reduces energy expenditure, as the one-legged pose can be held without any muscle activity.

The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) (image 3) is the tallest of the six species of flamingos, standing at 1.2 - 1.4 m (3.9 - 4.7 ft) tall with a weight up to 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs).

One of the oldest flamingos in the world was Greater, a Greater Flamingo who lived at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia. Greater was euthanized January 2014 (they were arthritic and their health was deteriorating rapidly) at the age of (at least) 83 years old. Greater Flamingos usually live to about 60 years in human care, and 30–40 years in the wild.

The near threatened James's Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) (image 2) was once thought to be extinct until a population was discovered in a remote area in 1956.

Many species of flamingos are threatened. The main threat is loss of habitat, as flamingos require specific habitats to live and feed in; habitats considered of little use to humans. The loss of one saltwater lagoon or soda lake can be a huge blow to a flamingo population. They are also threatened by commercial mining activities, poaching of eggs, and climate change raising the water levels, hindering their ability to access food.

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Morning rain 🦩

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more brother au stuff + just teddy and ghost teddy

more clear ghost teddy

you have yo listen to this song while looking at ghost teddy 90% of people explode when they dont

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flamingos of mt. huaguo

(w/ and w/o foreground bamboo cause yeah)

I mostly wanted to explore what other animals would reside on the Mt. besides just primates. Mount Huaguo is massive and in order to home a living, loud society - there has to be a good foundation and ecosystem for them to live on.

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Ty Beanie Babies Pinky the Flamingo Charm

late 1990s

Found on Ebay, seller rmorrisvintageandmore

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Does anyone on here wanna be friends? I'm kinda new to tumbler rahhhhh. Also does anyone know how to search for specific ppl on here?

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have you posted about gelato before :o ?

honestly, every mention ive made of Gelato in the past month or so has just been through the tags of some posts ive reblogged on here, it's only been until now that ive gotten around to showing him off!

this is Gelato, a Flamingo/Secretarybird mix that my friend @meetthehelper put together!

for a while, i've been wanting to figure out a bird fursona for myself, and i wanted one that had a similar silhouette to that of Scratch (i.e. Scratch & Grounder), and the bird that seemed to make the most sense to me was a flamingo. it was Helper's idea to mix him with another bird species, and i really like what she ended up with :)!

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冬のシンガポール／東京キッドブラザーズ Cover Design＝FLAMINA TERRENO GONZO、TIGER BED SHIN For FLAMINGO STUDIO 作・演出＝東由多加／出演＝柴田恭兵、三浦浩一、坪田直子 ほか