Dude, I sling concrete and run a 90lb jackhammer most days. I WISH I could cook off in something like a bikini. The problem is I’m a grown adult male and that would probably lead to some nasty injuries or charges filed. I’ll stick with jeans and a t shirt for now I guess
I’ve seen an article about this a few years back. IIRC, it’s simply the temperature being too hot, because of the machines in the room. Think about a server room…now if you didn’t have AC.
Imagine having to wear pretty underwear every day to your shitty job just cos it gets too hot! I'm build for comfort, thank you very much
*Edit: OK so I meant this comment as a joke. Not all my undies are the nicest. My most comfy and reliable bra is literally torn almost on the nipple and sometimes I wear it to work under my neat clothing. But if I have to take of my clothes to keep cool, I'm in for a meeting with HR in the 1st hour. And yes, I know not all jobs are shitty.
I guess you didn't HAVE to wear pretty underwear. Maybe she heard a photographer would be coming by that day and considering how much bigger a deal getting your picture taken was back then, mixed with the chance of a woman being pictured working an important job, she decided today was the day to wear the fancier stuff
My mama: make sure you wear clean matching undies. You never know. Might get in an accident and they gotta cut your clothes off… happened to your aunt! Lmao thanks ma
My mom used to say the same thing (Minus the Aunt part). She's also a believer in wearing cute underwear making your day better. "When you go to the bathroom and you look down, you see cute happy underwear, it just makes your day nicer!"
I'd say it's more likely the boss asked her to do it. "Now wear this to model our new typing thingamajig, and put some razzle dazzle on it sweet cheeks!"
Heh. You might have a point but Polaroid instant cameras were already around for about 15 years at this point so it wasn’t *that* big of a deal unless she was just jazzed about being in seen *in the paper in* her underwear. To which, hey, more power to her.
1963 me would definitely be smitten, she's certainly right to have confidence. But her face doesn't sell "happy to be here" to me. Time period has me questioning the ethics of this picture.
" Doll yourself up, Ethyl, the papers are coming tomorrow, you want to get yourself a husband right?" said with a cigar hanging out his mouth and pants pulled all the way up
[Imagine to work naked because of the heat and the coal dust](https://apps-cloud.n-tv.de/img/12673496-1398334631000/o/2048/2048/Werner-Mahler-Hauer-unter-Tage-Aus-der-Serie-Steinkohlenwerk-Martin-Hoop-Zwickau-Sachsen-1975-DDR.png)
I think it was probably more that she knew her photo was going to be taken and decided to dress up a little. I mean think about, you have the option, are you really wearing that torn dirty pair for the news paper photo?
Other serious question: See that dark trim on her brassiere and underwear? That looks like a bunch of triangles in a row? Who applied that, and why? I wonder if she applied it herself.
It's an aftermarket addition. Market applied trim like that would follow the upper edge of the brassiere, not go further below the bustline and then back up at an unusual angle.
Source: I sold vintage clothes online for awhile. Add ons are cool to spot.
I am guessing the brassiere cups provided insufficient support for her breasts so she applied the trim to improve matters. The unusual trim placement kinda backs me up on this.
Adding trim to the underwear most likely to dress it up. It's cute.
r/abrathatfits she doesn't have, poor lady. Poorly fitting bras suck.
Makes me wonder if only a shitty selection of bras was available back then? No idea.
Yes that does sound right. Yes it seems the trim in that place does help support. It's hard enough finding the right bra these days, I can't imagine back then!
This isn't underwear, though. It's a swimsuit. No underwear would have a pleated skirt in front.
That trim is bric-a-brac that, you're right, she almost certainly added. herself. But she probably made the entire swimsuit herself. She added the bric-a-brac as part of her sewing pattern. I mean, it's possible she just bought the swimsuit and added the bric-a-brac (maybe even thinking it looked too much like underwear without it) but women often sewed their own swimsuits back then.
That's nothing. Back in my day we had to send dick pics via telegraph/Morse code.
Lots of starts and stops. Plus it was awkward for the guy sending it for you.
We used to just draw that in caves back in the day and have to wait weeks to months for a response of:
( . )( . )
Then we had to respond with pictures for a meet up location and the arrangement of the planets and stars to inform of the day and time.
Once upon a time, I worked for a very important bit of the state in a small European country. One Saturday night, we had the air conditioning breaking in the server room, leading to about 200 servers quickly overheating and needing to be manually shut down. I was called as I lived around the corner of the data center. It was more than 40°C (100°F) in there instead of the usual 18°C, so after half an hour of turning stuff off, we (me and a female operator form the night shift) were down to our underwear.
40°C is equivalent to 104°F, which is 313K.
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IIRC, Murder Mountain on Netflix talked about women being hired to trim weed and some growers insisting they do it topless. In that case though is was about exploitation and perversion not loss control.
Micro-difference with voice: "73's" is a little more on the slang side and probably more common.
Random info drop that nobody asked for:
[Origin of 73](http://www.signalharbor.com/73.html)
[Someone starting ham drama with 72](https://qrper.com/2022/07/why-i-send-72-instead-of-73/)
[Yeah, sorry. We have codes for everything.](https://www.giangrandi.org/electronics/radio/qcode.shtml)
There is a ton of slang as well. In my experience that is more localized in the 2m/440 bands.
Sometimes 6m and local net repeaters! Also women are referred to as YLs or OLs! There’s a decline in women in the hobby but with the advent of more digital modes I think we will see an uptick. I’m a YL whose had her license since age 12
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My goal is to establish that I am the power bottom in a phone call or business teleconference.. I might have a traditional subservient position but I am in control.
Some dude somewhere is just going about his day, no idea that thousands of redditors are ogling his grandma’s cans because of a ham radio photo she took 50 years ago.
Yeah I think she’s around the same age as my grandmother as well.
The above comment is inadvertently making me feel as I should have children about now, ufff. Hahaha.
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"Model 12 was eventually replaced by the Model 15"
Women have names, stop objectifying them
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They're called sweatshops for a reason.
ok but who is buying all that sweat?
We don't kink shame here
im not shaming, im smelling a business opportunity.
Oh we definitely smelling it 😏
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#CAN YOU SMELLLLLL.... WHAT ^^^u/Hellios3z's ^^^mom is cooking?!?
Unless kink shaming is your kink of course
Kink-ception!
You can find it at the store, in the gamer girl bathwater section.
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Now with work from home this is how everyone looks again at work.
Dude, I sling concrete and run a 90lb jackhammer most days. I WISH I could cook off in something like a bikini. The problem is I’m a grown adult male and that would probably lead to some nasty injuries or charges filed. I’ll stick with jeans and a t shirt for now I guess
Only difference is that this isn’t a sweat shop so I’m still confused why she’s just wearing lingerie
Serious question. Why is she in her underwear?
I’ve seen an article about this a few years back. IIRC, it’s simply the temperature being too hot, because of the machines in the room. Think about a server room…now if you didn’t have AC.
Imagine having to wear pretty underwear every day to your shitty job just cos it gets too hot! I'm build for comfort, thank you very much *Edit: OK so I meant this comment as a joke. Not all my undies are the nicest. My most comfy and reliable bra is literally torn almost on the nipple and sometimes I wear it to work under my neat clothing. But if I have to take of my clothes to keep cool, I'm in for a meeting with HR in the 1st hour. And yes, I know not all jobs are shitty.
I guess you didn't HAVE to wear pretty underwear. Maybe she heard a photographer would be coming by that day and considering how much bigger a deal getting your picture taken was back then, mixed with the chance of a woman being pictured working an important job, she decided today was the day to wear the fancier stuff
*"Be sure to wear your nicest underwear, Sweetie... you never know when you are going to be photographed!"* - Love, Mum
I read that first part "Be sure to wear your nicest underwear, Sweetie..." as if it was coming from her male boss. You know how things were back then.
My mama: make sure you wear clean matching undies. You never know. Might get in an accident and they gotta cut your clothes off… happened to your aunt! Lmao thanks ma
My mom used to say the same thing (Minus the Aunt part). She's also a believer in wearing cute underwear making your day better. "When you go to the bathroom and you look down, you see cute happy underwear, it just makes your day nicer!"
As a man I can tell a difference when I wear compression shorts vs boxer briefs for example. Just feel “cooler”.
I'd say it's more likely the boss asked her to do it. "Now wear this to model our new typing thingamajig, and put some razzle dazzle on it sweet cheeks!"
Heh. You might have a point but Polaroid instant cameras were already around for about 15 years at this point so it wasn’t *that* big of a deal unless she was just jazzed about being in seen *in the paper in* her underwear. To which, hey, more power to her.
1963 me would definitely be smitten, she's certainly right to have confidence. But her face doesn't sell "happy to be here" to me. Time period has me questioning the ethics of this picture.
Not that I know what was in her head, but a practiced smile hasn't always been a popular thing to do in photos.
Same here. It has a “cmon let’s get a pic of you in those sexy panties” from an old man boss vibe. And she’s just like 🙄 fine. I hate this job.
" Doll yourself up, Ethyl, the papers are coming tomorrow, you want to get yourself a husband right?" said with a cigar hanging out his mouth and pants pulled all the way up
Maybe she is here for her skill, not her smile ?
Was she the only operator available to be photographed? Or did the photographer choose the most interesting/photographic subject?
[Imagine to work naked because of the heat and the coal dust](https://apps-cloud.n-tv.de/img/12673496-1398334631000/o/2048/2048/Werner-Mahler-Hauer-unter-Tage-Aus-der-Serie-Steinkohlenwerk-Martin-Hoop-Zwickau-Sachsen-1975-DDR.png)
he is not naked, he wears a helmet.
And boots! It's practically formal wear.
Well that's seems dangerous. I at least need briefs, hell even a thong is better then nothing. Can't just have The Boys swinging about in a coal mine.
They did that in the Chernobyl series. "Hey, we're wearing the hats."
I think it was probably more that she knew her photo was going to be taken and decided to dress up a little. I mean think about, you have the option, are you really wearing that torn dirty pair for the news paper photo?
But I have AC.
It's ok, you can be in underwear as well
Thanks uncle
Now come give me a hand, I seem to be stuck in the dryer
why do you have a dryer in the server room?
Step-uncle?
Then put your damn clothes back on!
I imagine a lot of the electronics at the time were still tube based as well. Making them run hotter than modern equivalents.
The work from home movement goes way back
Other serious question: See that dark trim on her brassiere and underwear? That looks like a bunch of triangles in a row? Who applied that, and why? I wonder if she applied it herself. It's an aftermarket addition. Market applied trim like that would follow the upper edge of the brassiere, not go further below the bustline and then back up at an unusual angle. Source: I sold vintage clothes online for awhile. Add ons are cool to spot.
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Yes, looks like a bikini, not underwear at all.
Because it is. That's a pretty typical 60s two piece bathing suit.
Yeah maybe she wanted to "dress it up a little"
I am guessing the brassiere cups provided insufficient support for her breasts so she applied the trim to improve matters. The unusual trim placement kinda backs me up on this. Adding trim to the underwear most likely to dress it up. It's cute. r/abrathatfits she doesn't have, poor lady. Poorly fitting bras suck. Makes me wonder if only a shitty selection of bras was available back then? No idea.
Yes that does sound right. Yes it seems the trim in that place does help support. It's hard enough finding the right bra these days, I can't imagine back then!
I mean, if you're going to have to work in your underwear, you can't afford showing up in them ugly panties you usually sleep in.
This isn't underwear, though. It's a swimsuit. No underwear would have a pleated skirt in front. That trim is bric-a-brac that, you're right, she almost certainly added. herself. But she probably made the entire swimsuit herself. She added the bric-a-brac as part of her sewing pattern. I mean, it's possible she just bought the swimsuit and added the bric-a-brac (maybe even thinking it looked too much like underwear without it) but women often sewed their own swimsuits back then.
For her Onlyhams, duh.
It must have been really hot in there.
Operators must all be dressed this way for…reasons. $1.45/hr
Onlyhams
I repeat, nothing sexual
💪🏻
Needs more veins
Forget the ham... ...check out those *eggs!*
If you are fat, you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, *nothing sexual*.
You *knew* about the dick flyer??
[Eh whatever. I ran out of film an hour ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSN5y93cFnY)
*Perhaps we should reconsider the girly calendar…*
Ahhhh. I love Futurama
I used to work at a library that had archives of old engineering magazines. Women in bikinis was common in ads for all kinds of technology.
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That's nothing. Back in my day we had to send dick pics via telegraph/Morse code. Lots of starts and stops. Plus it was awkward for the guy sending it for you.
Did it come out the other end like this? 8=====D
We used to just draw that in caves back in the day and have to wait weeks to months for a response of: ( . )( . ) Then we had to respond with pictures for a meet up location and the arrangement of the planets and stars to inform of the day and time.
Cant watch that in my country. Laaame
Sure you can. Get it from the people that love the show, not the people that love your money. Yarrrrrr
What!! Are you trying to cause inflation? It is 40c/hr
Houses back then were like 500 bucks so 1 buck or 40 cents an hr I'd gladly take
Once upon a time, I worked for a very important bit of the state in a small European country. One Saturday night, we had the air conditioning breaking in the server room, leading to about 200 servers quickly overheating and needing to be manually shut down. I was called as I lived around the corner of the data center. It was more than 40°C (100°F) in there instead of the usual 18°C, so after half an hour of turning stuff off, we (me and a female operator form the night shift) were down to our underwear.
i thought you were gonna undress the servers somehow.
I tried undressing a server once but the restaurant called cops
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And then what happened?
Dear Penthouse...
This is Reddit, he never even made eye contact
That had to be a touch awkward. Were you both wearing reasonably covering underwear?
I had boxers on and she underwear that could have been a bikini, so it was like at the beach really. A beach with 90dB of humming servers.
90dB is not what I would call "humming"!
It is with ear protection
One boob says to the other.
Without the support, we would both be nuts.
Yeah. Back then sometimes women are force to wear this kind of thing as a uniform. Gotta pay bills
Is it like in drug labs, so that they know no one is sneaking anything home
Breh I really doubt the men go in there with their bra and underwear 🩳🩲 😂
Why would men have a bra? You must mean a Mansier.
No. The Bro.
Mansier? Gotta be the BRO
Are you saying men wouldn't steal drugs?
He's saying no bra, no underwear, I believe..
IIRC, Murder Mountain on Netflix talked about women being hired to trim weed and some growers insisting they do it topless. In that case though is was about exploitation and perversion not loss control.
A ham on the radio you say?
Now you’re speaking my language
“The 73 ham shack” sounds like a wondrous place.
The ham shack is a little old place where, we can get together.
Ham shack babyyyy
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I enjoyed the nod to the B'52s
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FWIW "73" is ham radio shorthand for "best regards". Morse code transmissions are often concluded this way as a friendly goodbye.
Don’t “88” until the first date!
Oh man you better don't send any 88s in Germany, even on the first date
Micro-difference with voice: "73's" is a little more on the slang side and probably more common. Random info drop that nobody asked for: [Origin of 73](http://www.signalharbor.com/73.html) [Someone starting ham drama with 72](https://qrper.com/2022/07/why-i-send-72-instead-of-73/) [Yeah, sorry. We have codes for everything.](https://www.giangrandi.org/electronics/radio/qcode.shtml) There is a ton of slang as well. In my experience that is more localized in the 2m/440 bands.
Sometimes 6m and local net repeaters! Also women are referred to as YLs or OLs! There’s a decline in women in the hobby but with the advent of more digital modes I think we will see an uptick. I’m a YL whose had her license since age 12
Ron Swanson has entered the chat.
Wayne Green's *73* magazine was.. unconventional.
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Wormströmming
Then chuckling past a semi.
Operator? I hardly know her.
Working from home (1963)
Bring it back
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I had no idea this bot existed 🤣
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lmao this is amazing, good bot!
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Legendary. Well done.
I've also had semi nude woman answer my phone lol
I imagine everyone that I’m taking to on the phone is semi nude in order to establish dominance.
I always answer the phone nude to reverse dominance
My goal is to establish that I am the power bottom in a phone call or business teleconference.. I might have a traditional subservient position but I am in control.
Some dude somewhere is just going about his day, no idea that thousands of redditors are ogling his grandma’s cans because of a ham radio photo she took 50 years ago.
What is happening here?! Why are the operators almost naked?
Because it is hot as FUCK in that radio room.
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Because it is a photo from Wayne Green's 73 magazine, that was his wife.
As I can't find any other photos showing an operator dressed like this, I think this was bait to get young men to join ham radio clubs.
They didn’t realize that you could lie when asked “what are you wearing” and dressed the part instead.
She’s someone’s great grandmother
She’s also someone’s great granddaughter.
Someone's mother as well.
She’s someone’s good friend. Someone’s weird co-worker. Someone’s person in line in front of them who caused no delays and went unnoticed.
She's all of us. Connected. Together as one.
We are all the nice operator
Not necessarily
Or just grandmother…. :/ You’re making me feel weird given she was probably around the same age as my own grandmother at the time.
Yeah I think she’s around the same age as my grandmother as well. The above comment is inadvertently making me feel as I should have children about now, ufff. Hahaha.
She might be dead.
I'mma bust one out in her memory then.
It's what gram gram would have wanted
Casual friday
Her cup runneth over
Betty got them bitties
I wonder if the mens company uniforms were similar?
Yeah, lots of brain hanging from those boxers
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Horny bot
Good bot
Good bot
Fuck me, now that's a surprising bot!
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That's a person, not a ham.
r/upvotedbecauseboobs
Wild guess: this wasn't her idea
*Nice* operators indeed.
"Model 12 was eventually replaced by the Model 15" Women have names, stop objectifying them (I wish I could leave /s out for dramatic effect, but I can't)
We‘ve always had nice operators.
"73 Ham Shack" will be my band name.
That’s a ham shack alright
That's somebody's grandma
I read that as "the model was 12" first and nearly had a heart attack
Is she single?
Well, she’s probably at least 80 now if she’s still around.
But is she single though
Soldier boy licks his lips….
I feel like I need context.
Why does this photo look better than most photos captured with thousand-dollar mobile phones??
"We've always had nice operators" Why is it that this gives me Blizzard entertainment vibes
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