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Indian20 December 2018, 19:48To those of you who are young & have grown up in the USA or Europe, & cut your teeth on political correctness - I ask you realise that there are people who are older than you who have had to learn about political correctness. There are also people from other cultures who as I write this have had little or no exposure to political correctness as you know it.​​
This is not their fault & as a result they cannot be accused of being disrespectful towards the subjects of the images that they produce or in their choice of title that they give to their image.​​
Rant over!!!
Indian20 December 2018, 19:48This site is Russian - as are many of the contributors & I suspect Kimi.​
Now put yourself in Kimi's shoes for a minute - living in Russia - never having heard the term Native American - and really ask yourself if was Kimi's intention to be at all disrespectful when naming this truly excellent image?​​
Now onto skin tone!​​
Black & white nonograms are by definition monochrome. In a coloured nonogram Kimi could have matched the image's skin tone fairly closely to that of the Native American. Kimi has chosen to represent it in the image as black. I am expecting comments citing "disrespect" regarding this!​​
Had Kimi chosen white squares for the skin tones - some of you would have called that disrespectful as well.​​
I feel that the artist cannot win. ​​
Indian20 December 2018, 19:46Now before some of you go off the deep end and make your usual comments about the image & its title - please read this carefully.
I live in England - and when I was a boy - 60 years ago (long before political correctness had reached our shores) - I used to play "Cowboys & Indians."
We watched TV & film westerns - where the men wearing hats were called Cowboys & those wearing feathers were called Indians.
We read picture books that portrayed Cowboys & Indians.
No one had ever heard of the terms Native American, American Indians or Indigenous Americans.
We were not being disrespectful in the slightest using the name Indian - it was all we knew.
Now I an older & am educated in the minefield that is political correctness - I would never refer to peoples from that ethnicity as Indians.
Swimmer20 December 2018, 17:16Absolutely BRILLIANT!
Ram20 December 2018, 14:56Very intricate - well done!
Snowflake19 December 2018, 20:58Excellent image!

[spoiler]Now - I'm not going to be the to say "Snowflakes don't have 8 points - they have 6"

(Ooops - I just did!)

But my reason for saying that is not to criticise - but to throw down a challenge!

Can anyone design a nonogram of a snowflake that is symmetrical & has the magical 6 points???[/spoiler]
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 20:13Well done Olga* - a really crisp image!

I'm bored now - so I'm going.

Thanks you all for reading!
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 20:08Serious memory alert! When I was a young boy
[spoiler]My mother would join the 2 mittens with a length of wool. one mitten would be threaded up inside one sleeve of my winter coat & down the other sleeve, so the when I put the coat on & the mittens on my hands - it was impossible to do what most children do - lose one mitten[/spoiler]
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:58His mother's name is Olga*!!!
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:57Or - saying "No" to his mother (who knits a lot) - "No more monochrome accessories - I WANT SOME COLOUR".
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:54Or - offering two high 5s at once?
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:52Or - he could be framing a subject (badly) - before taking a photo?
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:51He's surrendering - but to who???
Hat and mittens19 December 2018, 19:49I got it straight away (no spoiler required here) - it's the

INVISIBLE MAN!!!
Piggy19 December 2018, 19:23Love the tail
Water Polo19 December 2018, 15:11Very good - but more difficult than indicated by the stars
Shrimp19 December 2018, 14:25Brilliant
Bird19 December 2018, 14:08Very well done
Parrot19 December 2018, 13:32Excellent
In the bottle17 December 2018, 15:13Just so brilliant!!!
Funambulist16 December 2018, 12:38Also - there is a lot of empty space in the image - but of course there would be - given where the subject is & what they are doing!!!
Funambulist16 December 2018, 12:35What a wonderful puzzle - really difficult at first - & then it just falls in place. I just hope the subject doesn't!

I also learnt a new word today [spoiler]Funambulist![/spoiler]
Ant15 December 2018, 14:17Very good [spoiler]but - is it trying to make the oversized headphones fit its head - or doing a bit of weightlifting??? [/spoiler]
Cat14 December 2018, 17:23Very good - but is it touching a live wire?
Sailboat14 December 2018, 15:10Excellent - the very best image of the thing in the top left that I've seen on here!
Friends14 December 2018, 14:12Excellent!!!
Elephant14 December 2018, 13:39Love it!!!
The plane13 December 2018, 21:40Excellent - especially [spoiler]the propeller - you can see it whizzing round![/spoiler]
King11 December 2018, 17:36Excellent!!!
Clew10 December 2018, 19:27I love it!!!
Doggie9 December 2018, 16:55Excellent
Dog9 December 2018, 14:17Excellent
Rider9 December 2018, 12:55Excellent
Kids, let's all get along8 December 2018, 17:24Great image - not sure how it relates to the title?
Tank8 December 2018, 16:38Sorry - I just don't like the image - it has a good basic structure - but it loses that at the edges.
Santa Claus8 December 2018, 15:34I saw a pair of roller skates at first!
Fish and meat8 December 2018, 14:41Surf & turf
Bridge8 December 2018, 13:58WOW!!!
Table setting8 December 2018, 13:37I didn't see the things at each side - I saw a [spoiler]camera lens - ha ha[/spoiler]
Dump truck8 December 2018, 13:15Love it!
Dump truck7 December 2018, 17:29I like it!
Squirrel7 December 2018, 15:16Excellent
Raccoon7 December 2018, 14:11Tricky - but well worth the effort!
A bowl of soup7 December 2018, 12:55Chicken?
Motorcycle7 December 2018, 12:37Excellent
Flower7 December 2018, 2:09Kimi - I love all your work - great images - but I HATED this one. It is very worthy of 4*s for difficulty!!!

I struggled - BIG style!!!

I just wanted to [spoiler]blow on the finished image - it just looked like a dandelion clock?[/spoiler]
Kangaroo7 December 2018, 1:32Good - but it didn't jump out at me!!!
The boxer4 December 2018, 17:23[spoiler]I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest[/spoiler]
Cow3 December 2018, 14:27Pantomime cow?
Teapot1 December 2018, 17:51Very delicate[spoiler]I'm guessing porcelain?[/spoiler]
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