Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Student
Francisco Oller

Posted by: CBD at 09:35 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

2 *looks for the dog*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2024 09:35 AM (qPw5n)

3 One of them is dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

4 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

5 OK...not first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

6 Wow, teach looks super bored.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (LZ0gJ)

7 Very sedate. Would hang. Then I'd take a nap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 22, 2024 09:36 AM (byGob)

8 Dog may not be visible, but it's poo is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Yea.... someone's bored stiff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

10 I could have been first but my cellphone has suddenly started displaying everything in Russian.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

11 Looks like he missed the school bus.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

12 Sure, here's a picture of students in the 18th century at their studies, showing gender diversity.

Please remember that this system is experimental and may return incorrect information or information that does not reflect historical conditions. Results may - as is the case with this image - not portray adequate ethnic diversity. We are trying to improve and your prompts help us get better!

Posted by: Google Gemini, not quite as racist as before! at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

13 Looks like the teacher is napping and not teaching.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

14 A little old to be "students"...

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (2ijlT)

15 Gender studies?

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 09:38 AM (AwYPR)

16 It always amazes me when a painting resembles what could be a photograph.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Very nice domestic scene. Love all the little details.

Posted by: Tuna at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (oaGWv)

18 What is that black thing in the bottom right? Looks like it's either a cat or a demon. Maybe both.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

19 Looks like he missed the school bus.
Posted by: fd

Probably because he didn't want to go out in that dress his mom made him wear.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (LZ0gJ)

20 According to wikipedia Paul Cezanne was one of Oller's students.

This probably a self referential painting and the teacher is exasperated at the fuzziness of the student's paintings.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:40 AM (xhfG9)

21 "When are they going to send me a student with some BOOBS!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Lots of stuff on the wall.

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)

23 Karl Marx studying out-of-date mining practices for his upcoming book

Posted by: Fake Captions at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

24 The wall paper(!), and those drapes!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (njz/M)

25 What are the student's preferred pronouns??

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (Sgq8y)

26 Looks like it's either a cat or a demon. Maybe both.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

They want to be called "interdimensional beings" now. "Demon" is very judgmental and bigoted.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (xhfG9)

27 The wall paper(!), and those drapes!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (njz/M)
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They may be rich, but their taste is not to my liking!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

28 100 comment rule. [CBD}

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

29 2x12 crown moulding?

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)

30 Domestic. Calm.
I'll take a pass on this one.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (4780s)

31 The wall paper(!), and those drapes!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (njz/M)

Perfect opportunity to sock Johnny from Airplane! missed........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

32 Sewing while teacher is asleep
Lots of details to look at

Posted by: Skip at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (X1dwT)

33 My Kingdom for a comfortable chair.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (Hpgos)

34 2x12 crown moulding?
Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)
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Heavy are the walls that hold the crown.

Or something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

35 Looks like it's either a cat or a demon. Maybe both.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

They want to be called "interdimensional beings" now. "Demon" is very judgmental and bigoted.
Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (xhfG9)
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What pronouns should I use to refer to these interdimensional beings?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (7fElN)

36 This looks like it takes place in Russia or Eastern Europe. Maybe it's the man's thick black beard.

Something tells me, too, that this room would be suffocating hot in the summer and chilly if not downright cold in winter. The light from the window seems bluish and cold, as if glittering off snow outside. And they are dressed quite warmly. Of course men and women dressed formally in public and even at home in summer as well.

He's the student -- medicine, law? -- and the woman is his wife or even his sister.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

37 20 According to wikipedia Paul Cezanne was one of Oller's students.
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How about Kukla and Fran??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (2yu8s)

38 Worst. Date.Ever

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (OaYan)

39 What pronouns should I use to refer to these interdimensional beings?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 09:42 AM (7fElN)
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"Ye"

As in, "back to hell with ye, demon!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

40 Could use some absinthe.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (hsN7Q)

41 Domestic. Calm.

Boring. Would not hang.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)

42 Many a pron scene started out like this......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Looks like it's either a cat or a demon. Maybe both.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024

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There's a cat? That black blotch in the lower right corner?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

44 Worst. Date.Ever
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (OaYan)
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No way.

He's diligently working, making an investment in their future.
She's diligently working, maintaining their present.
Neither is distracting or interfering with the other, because they both know they need to get the job done.

They should marry. Immediately.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

45 Wake me up when the phones are working again.

Posted by: The guy in the piture at February 22, 2024 09:45 AM (vFG9F)

46 I'm guessing Nordic or Germanic because coffee!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)

47 Many a pron scene started out like this......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Plumber is at the door....

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 09:46 AM (AwYPR)

48 If I just hold out long enough, I can get America's taxpayers to cover my schooling and lifestyle costs. Come on, Joe Biden!

Posted by: The Student at February 22, 2024 09:46 AM (CsUN+)

49 And thus was born the Seamsters Union!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:46 AM (2yu8s)

50 "There's a cat? That black blotch in the lower right corner?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"

Caught it in the middle of a shape shift.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024 09:46 AM (vFG9F)

51 That hideous wallpaper is seemingly accurately rendered.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 09:46 AM (h/xVB)

52 46 I'm guessing Nordic or Germanic because coffee!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)

Oller was Puerto Rican. I mean I guess he could be painting something that isn't Puerto Rican, but really no person can have empathy with anything outside their lived experience.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (xhfG9)

53 My first thought was "Katherine Hepburn"!

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (Ncap6)

54 Many a pron scene started out like this......

Incorrect. I see no pizza delivery guy or plumber.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (CsUN+)

55 I'm guessing Nordic or Germanic because coffee!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024

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Yes, there's that coffeepot (? That's not the right word for that double-decker item) right by the student's book. Eastern Europeans wouldn't have coffee? I know Russians opt for tea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

56 Looks like Trotsky’s falling asleep.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

57 The wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at February 22, 2024 09:48 AM (OaYan)

58 "There's a cat? That black blotch in the lower right corner?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"
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Caught it in the middle of a shape shift.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2024

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Cat seems to be a semi-longhair, or at least plume-tailed. Looks like my Stirling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

59 56 Looks like Trotsky’s falling asleep.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

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Alternate Title

Mexico City Idyll

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (OaYan)

60 The corner of the crown molding looks like it's incorrectly drawn; it's almost Escher-esque.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (CsUN+)

61 I'm confused. Wiki art is saying this style is Impressionism.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

62 The corner of the crown molding looks like it's incorrectly drawn; it's almost Escher-esque.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (CsUN+)

Vaulted ceiling.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Whoa, boy! Way, way off!

Francisco Oller
Puerto Rican painter (1833 - 1917)
Francisco Oller was a Puerto Rican painter. Oller is the only Latin American painter to have played a role in the development of Impressionism. One of the most distinguished transatlantic painters of his day, Oller helped transform painting in the Caribbean.

When Oller was eighteen, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he studied painting at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, under the tutelage of Don Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, director of the Prado Museum. In 1858, he moved to Paris, France where he studied under Thomas Couture. Later he enrolled to study art in the Louvre under the instruction of Gustave Courbet.[5] During his free time, Oller, who had a baritone type of singing voice, worked and participated in local Italian operas. He frequently visited cafés where he met with fellow artists. He also became a friend of fellow Puerto Ricans Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán and Salvador Carbonell del Toro, who were expatriates in France because of their political beliefs. In 1859, Oller exhibited some of his artistic works next to those of Bazille, Renoir, Monet, and Sisley.[5]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (2yu8s)

64 Nice painting!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (Ki//m)

65 I'm confused. Wiki art is saying this style is Impressionism.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)
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So you're saying that Wikipedia has left you with the wrong impression?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 09:50 AM (HnUIn)

66 61 I'm confused. Wiki art is saying this style is Impressionism.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

Well? Aren't you impressed?

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:50 AM (xhfG9)

67 Alternate Title

Mexico City Idyll

*ding-dong*

Trotsky: Who's there?

Visitor: Not a guy with an ice axe, that's for sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:50 AM (CsUN+)

68 No way I could get any studying done with all that sewing noise going on. Sheesh.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 22, 2024 09:50 AM (MvF+J)

69 She obviously follows the "Tape A Lot Of Random Shit To The Wall" school of interior decorating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (OaYan)

70 Well? Aren't you impressed?
Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 09:50 AM (xhfG9)

Not much

Posted by: Shania Twain at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (JunzL)

71 I swear I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as a kid.

Posted by: Kris at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

72 Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán
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That's just one guy??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (2yu8s)

73 My first thought was "Katherine Hepburn"!
Posted by: m at February 22, 2024

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Playing the mother in The Glass Menagerie. I saw the TV production with her, Sam Waterston, and Michael Moriarty way back in the '70s, and have never forgotten it. The "Gentleman Caller" is usually played as a bluff, confident salesman type. Moriarty played him as a timid fellow who spoke all the "YOu Can Do It!" self-improvement slogans; but you knew he was never going to amount to much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:52 AM (J2vNu)

74 "Screw this. Let's go do some blow."

Posted by: Trotsky at February 22, 2024 09:53 AM (OaYan)

75 Caught it in the middle of a shape shift.
Posted by: fd
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It certainly looks familiar.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:53 AM (2yu8s)

76 Lovely, detailed paintings, many looking like photos. I'd probably pass hanging it but I would enjoy seeing his art at Brooklyn Museum. (Masks optional.)

Thanks.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 22, 2024 09:53 AM (GshMh)

77 36 This looks like it takes place in Russia or Eastern Europe. Maybe it's the man's thick black beard.

Something tells me, too, that this room would be suffocating hot in the summer and chilly if not downright cold in winter. The light from the window seems bluish and cold, as if glittering off snow outside. And they are dressed quite warmly. Of course men and women dressed formally in public and even at home in summer as well.

He's the student -- medicine, law? -- and the woman is his wife or even his sister.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

Oh, I had been assuming that the title "The Student" indicated that one of these people was a student and the other was the teacher--but I couldn't make that fit what's depicted. I think you're right! It's a student, at left, and a family member (or close friend) on the right.

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 09:53 AM (Ncap6)

78 The artist's 'still life' paintings are quite good, along with scenes of Puerto Rico plantations.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 09:53 AM (njz/M)

79 His fans always gave a shoutout to Oller.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

80 Oller? I just met her!

Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't help it at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (NBVIP)

81 Coffee cup on a chair?

*********

Dad's Morning Coffee - a limerick

"Every time I have coffee, Doc Brown
My ass hurts!" I said with a frown
The doctor, was nice
He gave this advice:
"Remove the spoon before you sit down!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (991eG)

82 This is one of Oller’s rare interior scenes from his first years in Paris. It evokes the domestic intimacy of a couple sewing and reading. Details such as the objects on the desk and chair, the diminutive pictures on the wall, and the small shelf for glass objects are described with subtle precision. The poses of the man and woman are probably derived from famous works of art by Johannes Vermeer and Gustave Courbet that Oller had seen in Paris. The skull that the young man holds in his right hand is probably a reference to the swift passage of time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (ENQN6)

83 Looks like the cover of a Saturday Evening Post.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (OaYan)

84 One of my art professors painted a very large painting of a room with light from the window, similar to this. It was an apartment that I had sublet, so I knew it well.
There was no drape to soften the light. The shadow made by the sun is sharper and larger than the shadow made by the sky. The tiny shadow border has bluish aura that is incredibly subtle.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (cf/0E)

85 He's studying hard so he can afford to be in a more interesting painting.

Posted by: Very good but kinda boring at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (pjs7m)

86 Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (ENQN6)

87

There is a very small midget strapped to his inner thigh, flicking both his beans...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (NDX5q)

88 >"Every time I have coffee, Doc Brown
My ass hurts!" I said with a frown
The doctor, was nice
He gave this advice:
"Remove the spoon before you sit down!"

Where we're going, you don't need spoons.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (cf/0E)

89 This painting is dated 1874. Contemporary with Dostoyevsky, then. Had Oller any contact with Russian expatriates, or did he ever visit there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

90 I swear I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as a kid.
Posted by: Kris

I had a Roy Roger's bedspread and wallpaper with rockets and missiles printed on it.

So blessed.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 09:56 AM (h/xVB)

91 I like this painting. It is intimate and reminds me, and probably others, of being young and making do with small space and inexpensive decoration. The poses are natural, the detail of the small glass items on the wall and the furnishings, even the woman's cup on a spare chair, have a very real feel. The light overall color of the piece, making use of the bright sunlight, takes away any downside about being poor. It is a positive scene as they pair work to improve their lives.

I make this comparison often but this makes me think of a scene that Norman Rockwell could paint.

Posted by: JTB at February 22, 2024 09:57 AM (zudum)

92 You know who else put up wallpaper…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

93 89 This painting is dated 1874. Contemporary with Dostoyevsky, then. Had Oller any contact with Russian expatriates, or did he ever visit there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

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Russian Collusion then?

*fills out FISA warrant application*

Posted by: James Comey at February 22, 2024 09:57 AM (OaYan)

94 One of my art professors painted a very large painting of a room with light from the window, similar to this. It was an apartment that I had sublet, so I knew it well.
There was no drape to soften the light.

Ah, so you were a wealthy person trying to rub the poor's noses in your affluence?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:57 AM (CsUN+)

95 In his textbook:

"Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the pouring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

96 Looks like the cover of a Saturday Evening Post.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024

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Not a Norman Rockwell, though. But yes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

97 Learning to code. The early years.

Posted by: Ask Key Text at February 22, 2024 09:59 AM (NBVIP)

98 I had a Roy Roger's bedspread and wallpaper with rockets and missiles printed on it.
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That's very Triggering, Tonypete.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:59 AM (2yu8s)

99 98 I had a Roy Roger's bedspread and wallpaper with rockets and missiles printed on it.
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That's very Triggering, Tonypete.
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I had a Roy Roger's Combo meal yesterday. Trigger was happy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 22, 2024 10:00 AM (Hpgos)

100 I had a Roy Roger's bedspread and wallpaper with rockets and missiles printed on it.
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That's very Triggering, Tonypete.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024

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Have some Buttermilk?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:01 AM (J2vNu)

101 85 He's studying hard so he can afford to be in a more interesting painting.
Posted by: Very good but kinda boring at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (pjs7m)

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Thought Bubble:

"I could have been in the South Seas in one of Gauguin's topless native pics but NOOOO, I have to end up here."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:01 AM (OaYan)

102
I swear I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as a kid.

Posted by: Kris at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM

It does look vaguely familiar, some sort of vegetable theme to it. I think my grandparents might have had something similar as they grew a lot of crops.

Posted by: Your Betters at February 22, 2024 10:01 AM (nIvob)

103 Waiting for the Bug and rodent guys to come inspect the house and for my "Uncle Matts" Orange Juice delivery

Then I gotta get a haircut. My hair has not been this long in 17 years

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2024 10:01 AM (PQ4m2)

104 Learning to code. The early years.
Posted by: Ask Key Text

"You put in an endless loop you idjit!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:01 AM (h/xVB)

105 I had a Roy Roger's bedspread and wallpaper with rockets and missiles printed on it.

So blessed.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 09:56 AM (h/xVB)

My brothers got trucks wallpaper. I was jealous.

Posted by: Kris at February 22, 2024 10:02 AM (OyyDO)

106 I don't understand.

This one is called "Barcos del Sena" but I don't see any dogs in it.
http://tinyurl.com/39tjymfk

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:03 AM (2yu8s)

107 I don't understand.

This one is called "Barcos del Sena" but I don't see any dogs in it.
http://tinyurl.com/39tjymfk
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024

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There's no root beer either!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

108 106 I don't understand.

This one is called "Barcos del Sena" but I don't see any dogs in it.
http://tinyurl.com/39tjymfk
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:03 AM (2yu8s)

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Barco is espanol for boat. Duh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:04 AM (OaYan)

109 Kind of reminds me ever so slightly of Vermeer.

Posted by: Tuna at February 22, 2024 10:04 AM (oaGWv)

110 You had wallpaper? Luxury!
We had paint chips laced with lead and were thankful for the nutrition they provided.

Posted by: Low falutin at February 22, 2024 10:05 AM (NBVIP)

111 "I could have been in the South Seas in one of Gauguin's topless native pics but NOOOO, I have to end up here."

Pluses: Boobies

Minuses: Cannibalism

Posted by: Some Model in the South Pacific at February 22, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)

112 109 Kind of reminds me ever so slightly of Vermeer.
Posted by: Tuna at February 22, 2024 10:04 AM (oaGWv)

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His tree chippers were ahead of their time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:05 AM (OaYan)

113 Any Michiganders that can chime in on this weirdness?

Dueling MIGOP conventions set for March 2 in Detroit and Grand Rapids. There are now two Michigan Republican Party conventions to go along with the two people who say they are the rightful chair of the party.

As some of us have noted, The only civil war is among ReTHUGs See them fighting for power.

Time to activate the undercover Dem Mich GOP operatives to stage a Third Way GOP Problem Solvers Convention in Kalamazoo, Financed by a shadowy George Soros-connected untraceable slush fund!

MIGOP is nearly broke, but they rent two expensive venues. Clearly, they are the party of fiscal responsibility.

Is Karamo still at it lol? She was ousted once just didn’t like it so they ousted her AGAIN. I have a feeling it’s going to be her and maybe five other people at the Detroit “convention” lol

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 22, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

114 Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2024 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

Maybe some f*cking respect for a not-very-difficult rule on one post/day?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:06 AM (gSZYf)

115 A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel. So it makes sense for the Spanish to be "barco."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

116 This painting is dated 1874. Contemporary with Dostoyevsky, then. Had Oller any contact with Russian expatriates, or did he ever visit there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

Maybe? He was in Paris and it seems like the expatriates of the entire world eventually ended up in Paris.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 22, 2024 10:06 AM (nC+QA)

117 Talented artist.
Some other paintings by Francisco Oller-

http://tinyurl.com/drkx989j

http://tinyurl.com/tkz949b3

http://tinyurl.com/rbmapbw4

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 10:06 AM (NpAcC)

118 You had wallpaper? Luxury!
We had paint chips laced with lead and were thankful for the nutrition they provided.

Oh, boo hoo, your majesty. My parents glued lead bricks to the ceiling over our beds. We never knew when the glue would fail.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM (CsUN+)

119 Latin Conjugations.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM (aD39U)

120 Wiki art is saying this style is Impressionism.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

WikiArt is often full of sh*t about that sort of stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM (gSZYf)

121 We had paint chips laced with lead and were thankful for the nutrition they provided.
Posted by: Low falutin at February 22, 2024

***
Got to get those all-important metallic elements into your diet!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

122 Oh, boo hoo, your majesty. My parents glued lead bricks to the ceiling over our beds. We never knew when the glue would fail.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM

Bricks?!

Posted by: Damocles at February 22, 2024 10:08 AM (Wnv9h)

123 Google AI thinks both of these people are Indian.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

124 Latin Conjugations.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 22, 2024

***
When I was a young man, we used to conjugate around the pool hall. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

125 122 Oh, boo hoo, your majesty. My parents glued lead bricks to the ceiling over our beds. We never knew when the glue would fail.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:07 AM

-----------

I'd worry more about the lead bricks falling.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:09 AM (OaYan)

126 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. So. Tomorrow. Do we get The Teacher?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2024 10:09 AM (W/lyH)

127 I'd worry more about the lead bricks falling.

That was kind of the joke. Or the intent, anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (CsUN+)

128 63 Whoa, boy! Way, way off!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (2yu8s)

Who you callin' "boy"!

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (Ncap6)

129 Maybe? He was in Paris and it seems like the expatriates of the entire world eventually ended up in Paris.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 22, 2024

***
I guess this could be an apartment or rented room in Paris as well as in St. Petersburg.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

130 Google AI thinks both of these people are Indian.
Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)
++++
*snort*

Don't worry about it. They're fixing it immediately:
Gemini Experiences Senior Director of Product Management Jack Krawczyk addressed the responses from the AI that had led social media users to voice concern.

"We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," Krawczyk said. "Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it's missing the mark here."

It can only get better in the future, especially since Google inked a deal yesterday to vastly increase the content base from which Gemini can learn. per Reuters:
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.

Once AI is feeding on Reddit data, things can only improve...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)

131
The teacup is the student?

I'm confused.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (xG4kz)

132 Many Latinas can conjugate better than they can decline.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:11 AM (9yWhg)

133 "We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately," Krawczyk said. "Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it's missing the mark here."

No, it's hitting exactly the mark you intended.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:11 AM (CsUN+)

134 The teacup is the student?

I'm confused.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024

***
It's their teacup Chihuahua. He's out of the frame at the moment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

135
Pernicious decay - a limerick

The King of the Realm, William Golding
A tarnished bronze scepter for holding
An orb made of brass
A frayed throne for his ass
And we hated to see his crown molding.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (991eG)

136
Once AI is feeding on Reddit data, things can only improve...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (HnUIn)

So every Google AI image will now be insane as well. Sweet!

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (bWsRe)

137 127 I'd worry more about the lead bricks falling.

That was kind of the joke. Or the intent, anyway.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM (CsUN+)

----------

Sorry. My reading comprehension is permanently impaired by alcohol.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (OaYan)

138 When learning to code and you're using a language known as the "goto-less language," do NOT use a goto statement in your program.

The professor will violently assault you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Here is what I found on the MI debacle

On January 6, 2024, the party voted to oust her as chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party after criticism for the lack of fundraising and other financial problems. Karamo has refused to recognize her ouster, claiming the meeting where she was voted out was "illegal".The Republican National Committee contradicted Karamo's claims and stated their initial review of the removal indicated that she was "properly removed".Karamo was officially replaced on February 14, 2024 by Pete Hoekstra.

The left HATES Karamo, but Hoekstra was endorsed by Trump so...I don't really know what to make of it

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (ibTVg)

140
Sorry. My reading comprehension is permanently impaired by alcohol.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (OaYan)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

141
Francisco Oller
Lives down in the holler
Paints for a dollar

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (xG4kz)

142 When the student is ready the tea cup will appear.

Posted by: Old Buddhist saying at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (NBVIP)

143 When I stop my shopping cart, I look behind me to see that people can get by. But the people in front of me manage to block off the entire aisle and look at the shelves as still as a statue. Usually they have an accomplice by chance.

I started bumping these barricades with my cart, very gently. Then I say "oops" with an icy look.
Tywin Lannister never said "oops" but if he did, then I hope to give that much ice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2024 10:13 AM (cf/0E)

144 71 I swear I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as a kid.
Posted by: Kris at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

Are they bouquets of flowers? Or are they birds?

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:13 AM (Ncap6)

145 Francisco Oller
Lives down in the holler
Paints for a dollar
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:12 AM (xG4kz)

"Get to the choppah!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

146 And a great one for a smart military blog -- The Battle of Trevino; FRANCISCO OLLER, 1879

http://tinyurl.com/ywkp3bvh
Great scalable link.

The Third Carlist War (Spanish: Tercera Guerra Carlista ), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier "Second" War (1847-1849) was smaller in scale and relatively trivial in political consequence.

Post-Franco-Prussian War -- lancers in pickelhaube-style helmets versus Zouaves; infantry fighting the Zouaves have interesting uniforms too like a cross between French and Austrian.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:13 AM (2yu8s)

147 When the student is ready the tea cup will appear.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Anthony Hopkins at February 22, 2024 10:13 AM (OaYan)

148 No, it's hitting exactly the mark you intended.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:11 AM (CsUN+)
++++
Nah, it's a clean miss. The goal is to be subtle in denigrating enemy groups so as to leave a feeling of unease and reduce opposition even though the opponent isn't quite sure how or why it happened.

Gemini has been behaving far too obviously. The leapt right over The Creepy Line like it wasn't even there. You're supposed to *approach* The Creepy Line, then step back, then push again in a cycle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (HnUIn)

149
Once AI is feeding on Reddit data, things can only improve...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:10 AM

Militarized autists should take it somewhere else altogether.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (nIvob)

150 I swear I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as a kid.
Posted by: Kris at February 22, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

Showing your age there, a bit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

151 Barco is espanol for boat. Duh.
---------
I should'a Sena that one coming.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (2yu8s)

152 But the people in front of me manage to block off the entire aisle and look at the shelves as still as a statue. Usually they have an accomplice by chance.

A lot of people are oblivious to those around them - If you are going to stare at the cans of soup for 10 minutes before deciding which you want you should move your cart to the side...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

153 What is it that the man has in his hand, on his right knee? It looks like a child's skull, or an animal's, minus the jawbone. If it's a cat skull, perhaps this means he is studying veterinary medicine?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

154 If Gemini really wants "balance" for it's language model, it should ingest 4Chan as well as Reddit...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

155 Tim Pool tried about 7 or 8 times to find white people using Google AI. He finally got it asking for two people from Finland.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (bWsRe)

156 Then I gotta get a haircut. My hair has not been this long in 17 years
Posted by: Nevergiveup

You darn hippie! Get a job!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (q/qec)

157 The corner of the crown molding looks like it's incorrectly drawn; it's almost Escher-esque.
Posted by: Archimedes

**********

I think the window casing extends into the room a few inches, and the crown molding in front of the window goes out of sight in the small recess between the window and the far wall.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (991eG)

158 Nah, it's a clean miss. The goal is to be subtle in denigrating enemy groups so as to leave a feeling of unease and reduce opposition even though the opponent isn't quite sure how or why it happened.

Gemini has been behaving far too obviously. The leapt right over The Creepy Line like it wasn't even there. You're supposed to *approach* The Creepy Line, then step back, then push again in a cycle.

Fair.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (CsUN+)

159 Tim Pool tried about 7 or 8 times to find white people using Google AI. He finally got it asking for two people from Finland.
Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (bWsRe)

Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

160 85 He's studying hard so he can afford to be in a more interesting painting.
Posted by: Very good but kinda boring at February 22, 2024 09:55 AM (pjs7m)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:15 AM (Ncap6)

161 Then I gotta get a haircut. My hair has not been this long in 17 years
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Enjoying retirement, are ya?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

162 The left HATES Karamo, but Hoekstra was endorsed by Trump so...I don't really know what to make of it
Posted by: 18-1

Sadly, as much as I love Trump, having his endorsement as a GOP chair doesn't mean as much as I'd like.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

163 ...the small recess between the window and the far wall.

*******

Note the shadowing and the picture half hidden by the drape.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (991eG)

164 We dreamed about having lead-chip paint to eat! We had moldy, green arsenic-wallpaper for "salad" everyday because "it was good for us"!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (2yu8s)

165 Reddit is like a worse version of wiki.

For something completely a-political it is mostly ok.

But if there are any political concerns it is mostly lies and bullshit.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

166 White people don't use Google AI?

Posted by: Huh? at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (NBVIP)

167 A lot of people are oblivious to those around them - If you are going to stare at the cans of soup for 10 minutes before deciding which you want you should move your cart to the side...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

Don't you sass me. It's Gay, black, Trans Pride History Month. -- a soup aficionado

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (1Z8zZ)

168 A lot of people are oblivious to those around them - If you are going to stare at the cans of soup for 10 minutes before deciding which you want you should move your cart to the side...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024

***
Grocery stores used to do the bulk of their shelf restocking *before* the store opened. Now, half the time or more, at any time of day, I have to step around restockers and their giant carts. Or move the cart myself if it's blocking my access to the item I want.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

169 82 The skull that the young man holds in his right hand
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2024 09:54 AM (ENQN6)

I had missed this entirely.

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (Ncap6)

170 Sadly, as much as I love Trump, having his endorsement as a GOP chair doesn't mean as much as I'd like.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

There's a guy in Texas running for US senate that's bragging about a Trump endorsement.

He's a Wall St. cat from NY that only recently moved to Texas.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

171 I guess this could be an apartment or rented room in Paris as well as in St. Petersburg.
---------
So bourgeois!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (2yu8s)

172 White people don't use Google AI?
Posted by: Huh? at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (NBVIP)

They're not allowed as it's considered cultural appropriation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

173 We dreamed about having lead-chip paint to eat! We had moldy, green arsenic-wallpaper for "salad" everyday because "it was good for us"!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024

***
Look at it this way. If you survived, you were immune to the arsenic!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

174 ...the small recess between the window and the far wall.

*******

Note the shadowing and the picture half hidden by the drape.

I just can't see it, but then, I never could see the Statue of Liberty in those pictures that were all the rage 20 years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (CsUN+)

175 Grocery stores used to do the bulk of their shelf restocking *before* the store opened. Now, half the time or more, at any time of day, I have to step around restockers and their giant carts. Or move the cart myself if it's blocking my access to the item I want.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Some of those giant carts are for the employee shoppers for Curbside Pickup.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (IB/6k)

176
Get a load of this whackjob, fellas:

http://tinyurl.com/4neysvp6

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (0FoWg)

177 A lot of people are oblivious to those around them - If you are going to stare at the cans of soup for 10 minutes before deciding which you want you should move your cart to the side...
Posted by: 18-1

Most people lack any sense of awareness when it comes to being in someone else's way. Drives me nuts.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)

178 I can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (NBVIP)

179
For something completely a-political it is mostly ok.

But if there are any political concerns it is mostly lies and bullshit.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

But everything is political there. If the topic is cute puppies it will quickly turn into “man those Republicans sure are racist aren’t they”.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (bWsRe)

180 They're not allowed as it's considered cultural appropriation.

/Looks at google developers

Uh...they are all white, east asian, and south asian....

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

181 Some of those giant carts are for the employee shoppers for Curbside Pickup.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (IB/6k)
+++
Most of them, from what I can tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (HnUIn)

182
Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge

That would be Brave.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (njz/M)

183 White people don't use Google AI?
Posted by: Huh? at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (NBVIP)

They're not allowed as it's considered cultural appropriation.
Posted by: Sponge

Same as Beyonce and country music.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (IB/6k)

184 Painting has same composition as most Vermeer paintings.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (MNhXM)

185 Get a load of this whackjob, fellas:

http://tinyurl.com/4neysvp6
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (0FoWg)

Make Padded Cells a Thing Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

186 Sad news in the sidebar.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Interesting Horatio Alger /American dream story.

My Wife and I Made an Indie Game and It Made Millions!

http://tinyurl.com/yhmujxxr

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (FVME7)

188 Most people lack any sense of awareness when it comes to being in someone else's way. Drives me nuts.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)
++++
It's almost pathological for me, in the other direction. I am always trying to avoid being in the way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

189
Same as Beyonce and country music.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:19 AM (IB/6k)

She's black, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

190 But everything is political there. If the topic is cute puppies it will quickly turn into “man those Republicans sure are racist aren’t they”.

I'm actually going to have to disagree - I've used reddit threads for information on a number of non-political things and it has been fine...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (ibTVg)

191 There's a guy in Texas running for US senate that's bragging about a Trump endorsement.

He's a Wall St. cat from NY that only recently moved to Texas.

Yeah, no.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)
******
So, he moved from NY to Texas and is running against Cruz. Probably a Democrat plant.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (NpAcC)

192 Sponge, how is your dad doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)

193 Sad news in the sidebar.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024

***
Yes; GnuBreed's family posted the announcement at the end of yesterday's Art Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

194 I live in Barco, NC, and it is true that there are a goodly number of boats here.

Posted by: Currituck Soundling at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (V5BDR)

195
I was at Peppino's in Grand Rapids election night 2016 for the Republican "party".

Hoekstra's people were anything but pleased about Trump. In fact it was a very subdued affair. Except for our table. We weren't office holders and got loud and uproariously drunk.

Michigan is lost. Might as well pay taxes direct to democrats 'cause that's where it all goes anyway.

Posted by: Auspex at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (j4U/Z)

196 Sponge, how is your dad doing?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (9yWhg)

Not too bad, all things considered.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

197 But the people in front of me manage to block off the entire aisle and look at the shelves as still as a statue. Usually they have an accomplice by chance.

A lot of people are oblivious to those around them - If you are going to stare at the cans of soup for 10 minutes before deciding which you want you should move your cart to the side...
Posted by: 18-1

What in the wide world of shopping Lady!? You'd been buying the same brands and flavors for 70 years.

JUST PUT IT IN YOUR ******* CART!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (h/xVB)

198 BourbonChicken
===
I just say excuse me and plow on through. I've had it with inconsideration everywhere, and I now address it directly.
One of these days I'm really going to get my ass kicked, and I'm really good with that. Been kind of itchin' for an altercation for a while.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (4780s)

199 ******
So, he moved from NY to Texas and is running against Cruz. Probably a Democrat plant.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (NpAcC)

And he's certainly pushing this "TRUMP ENDORSED!!!!" in all his ads.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

200 I give not many fucks about either Beyoncé or country music. Is her song an actual country song or is it a protest song against whites disguised as a country song?

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (bWsRe)

201 Most people lack any sense of awareness when it comes to being in someone else's way. Drives me nuts.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)
++++
It's almost pathological for me, in the other direction. I am always trying to avoid being in the way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

So many people lack any kind of situational awareness.

Posted by: Chinese hackers at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (R4t5M)

202 It's almost pathological for me, in the other direction. I am always trying to avoid being in the way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Same here. Since it irritates me so much when others are in my way, I try to avoid doing it myself. But most people don't seem to give a damn whether they are in someone else's way or not.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

203 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

***
Bing! You hit it dead center!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

204 Get a load of this whackjob, fellas:

http://tinyurl.com/4neysvp6
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 22, 2024 10:18 AM (0FoWg)
++++
That's a special kind of obsessive crazy. I hope the daughter can go live with a relative and never speak to the bitch again.

This surprised me, though:
Kendra Licari of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, faces five charges, including stalking a minor and obstruction of justice, according to a criminal complaint filed against the mother.
...
Licari has since been released on a $5,000 bond. She and her attorneys declined an ABC News request for comment.

At least she wasn't "parading," I guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (HnUIn)

205 Painting has same composition as most Vermeer paintings.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson

Well it's no Han van Meegeren.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (njz/M)

206 #146 I guess not literally Zouaves as those are the floppy Spanish [mountaineers?] caps with tassels too and not the fez or skull-caps I thought they were.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (2yu8s)

207 Is this a chicken noodle week or a tomato week?

Posted by: Little old lady with a shopping cart at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (NBVIP)

208 196 Good to hear, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

209 ***
Yes; GnuBreed's family posted the announcement at the end of yesterday's Art Thread.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

I missed that.

Prayers to their loved ones for peace in this time of need.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

***
With the old paper phone book, you'd run your Yandex finger down the listings until you found what you wanted.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

211 Is this a chicken noodle week or a tomato week?
Posted by: Little old lady with a shopping cart at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (NBVIP)
++++
Splurge a bit and make 'em at the same time, in the same pot.

C'mon! Live a little!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

212 The main reason I’m voting for Trump is to stop the Left’s green agenda. It’s killing us.

Trump again has low hanging fruit to get the economy to roar. All he has to do is open up the fossil fuel energy sector again .

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (MNhXM)

213
Gemini Experiences Senior Director of Product Management Jack Krawczyk addressed the responses from the AI that had led social media users to voice concern.

I am not concerned. If a bunch of pierced, dandified pansies want to implemrnt content rules that will "cause no offense" plus deliver an insipid "we are the world" message, have at it. Your grandiose ejaculatory project will receive exactly the traffic it deserves.

In the meantime, do give some serious thought to how African-Americans and Native Americans will both collect and distribute reparations among themselves as you gave now accorded both groups their rightful recognition as this country's Founding Fathers.

It's a pity that you dumb asses have no sense of shame -- you'd have killed yourselves already for having outed the shallowness and rootlessness of your core beliefs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

214 Reddit is like a worse version of wiki.

For something completely a-political it is mostly ok.

But if there are any political concerns it is mostly lies and bullshit.

Every subreddit has leftist politics. I've yet to see any exceptions.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (2ocoG)

215

Same here. Since it irritates me so much when others are in my way, I try to avoid doing it myself. But most people don't seem to give a damn whether they are in someone else's way or not.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

You mean, stopping in the middle of a busy walkway to check your phone or have a conversation is RUDE!!??

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

216 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

***
Whaddaya Qwant for nuthin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

217 Pulling out all the stops! Split pea.

Posted by: Little old lady with a shopping cart at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (NBVIP)

218 And another thing - why in the world do grocery stores but the item that they know 80 year old, tiny old ladies need on the top shelf?

I can't tell you how many times I have to help these folks out.

"Wings or no wings? Small, medium, large or bale of hay?"

Modesty has left the store. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (h/xVB)

219 I cannot believe that nobody has linked to this!

https://is.gd/PFUWQj

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

220 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

Well, I think we should get a mosaic of opinions on this you know? A real opera like production that takes it to the edge for internet exploring.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:26 AM (ibTVg)

221 I cannot believe that nobody has linked to this!

https://is.gd/PFUWQj

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

We're not homo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Gemini has been behaving far too obviously. The leapt right over The Creepy Line like it wasn't even there. You're supposed to *approach* The Creepy Line, then step back, then push again in a cycle.

At what point is is openly discussed as the run-up to ethnic cleansing? Which is what this is blatantly smelling like...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at February 22, 2024 10:26 AM (OUMaO)

223 The DDT-impregnated wallpaper my parents generously bestowed on the walls of our bedroom kept both my brother and I from succumbing to malaria, not to mention yellow fever.

Posted by: Hale and Hardy at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (V5BDR)

224 With the old paper phone book, you'd run your Yandex finger down the listings until you found what you wanted.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Sooner or later you'd hit Vivaldi.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (njz/M)

225 Damn, now I want soup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (9yWhg)

226 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024
*
Well, I think we should get a mosaic of opinions on this you know? A real opera like production that takes it to the edge for internet exploring.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024

***
Or, as the old cook told the apprentice about preparing the goose for the banquet:

"Pluck. Pluck, slow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

227
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo 🏳️‍🌈 at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (nIvob)

228 Damn, now I want soup.

No soup for you!

Posted by: The soup NAZI at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (ibTVg)

229 Nobody needs 25 kinds of soup.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at February 22, 2024 10:27 AM (OaYan)

230 I cannot believe that nobody has linked to this!

https://is.gd/PFUWQj
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

I just finished a bowl of Asian spicy noodles made with beef broth and roast beef slices thrown in for protein.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Sad news in the sidebar.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024

***
Yes; GnuBreed's family posted the announcement at the end of yesterday's Art Thread.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

RIP GnuBreed.
Get with Rickl and watch the SpaceX launches from front row seats.
You will be missed.

Dear God,
We need the good ones more than you do.
Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (IB/6k)

232 Every subreddit has leftist politics. I've yet to see any exceptions.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 22, 2024 10:24 AM (2ocoG)

I used to frequent the ski subreddit. It was fun to read about resorts, and equipment and stuff like that. But now it’s a ton of “global warming is destroying our beloved sport”.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (bWsRe)

233 But most people don't seem to give a damn whether they are in someone else's way or not.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

Preach it!

I will not deviate from my path to avoid someone walking toward me with his nose buried in his phone.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (gSZYf)

234 Charming:

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Two East Bay private Catholic schools are closing at the end of the school year, the Oakland Diocese confirmed to the I-Team. One of the closures is due to a rise in crime, including human trafficking operations near the campus.

"Human trafficking operations." Such a useless euphemism. It could mean prostitution, slavery, kidnapping or more. My guess is that it's probably "prostitution" (forced or otherwise) in this case, but I have no idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (HnUIn)

235 Oh, no! Black and white children getting along together and under some Uncle Tom teacher! Where is Randi Weingarten to fix this?! And the religious crap has to go. We'll keep the whip for the privileged white kids though.

Maestro Cordero’s School
FRANCISCO OLLER, 1890
http://tinyurl.com/bdcscvf9

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (2yu8s)

236 Come back, one year!

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM (NBVIP)

237 60 The corner of the crown molding looks like it's incorrectly drawn; it's almost Escher-esque.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (CsUN+)

Vaulted ceiling.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:29 AM (Ncap6)

238
You mean, stopping in the middle of a busy walkway to check your phone or have a conversation is RUDE!!??
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Every shopping aisle blocked by a dumb ass on their phone communicating product availability and prices to another dumb ass at home has entered the chat

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

239 219 I cannot believe that nobody has linked to this!

https://is.gd/PFUWQj
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at

Because we aren't retards?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (BGiA3)

240 I used to make fake IDs in High School to sell using the phone book. The Louisiana DL had the same font and size as the phone book.

You could lift the numbers with scotch tape and place them on the DL.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (MNhXM)

241 But now it’s a ton of “global warming is destroying our beloved sport”.

I meet plenty of lefties like this. And you can have a lot of fun asking them if they are taking the bus instead of their fancy new luxury SUVs to the resort.

"No I mean OTHER people need to stop flying/driving not me!"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (ibTVg)

242
Every shopping aisle blocked by a dumb ass on their phone communicating product availability and prices to another dumb ass at home has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

This style of humaning is why I am forever grateful I don't air travel for work anymore. People just downright suck nowadays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

243 Google sucks. Everyone should abandon it immediately.
Posted by: Sponge
*
That would be Brave.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

***
Whaddaya Qwant for nuthin'?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore

Posted by: Jeeves at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

244 Every shopping aisle blocked by a dumb ass on their phone communicating product availability and prices to another dumb ass at home has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

----------

Maybe the dumbass who got another dumbass to schlep to the store for him or her isn't such a dumbass after all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (OaYan)

245 Is this a chicken noodle week or a tomato week?
Posted by: Little old lady with a shopping cart at February 22, 2024 10:23 AM (NBVIP)

Joe Biden is still President, ma'am, it's a "whatever they have in stock" week.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (1Z8zZ)

246 sra blaster is of course fluent in the Spanish lingo.

one of our girl children was doing homework at the table for Spanish. Should be easy but of course I am a gringo and I keep repeating the line from Deadpool: In Mexico, it's "el cancer."

Girl child would ask "what is the word for X" and I would answer "el X-o."

sra blaster would be angry at the number of times this was correct.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (xhfG9)

247 What especially gets me is when two drivers stop in the middle of the road to chat with their windows rolled down. If it's that damn important for you two idiots to talk, pull off to the side or into a parking lot to do it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

248 Space: Above and Beyond > Farscape

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

249 Every shopping aisle blocked by a dumb ass on their phone communicating product availability and prices to another dumb ass at home has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024

***
I pull my cart over to the "shoulder," usually in the produce section where there aren't as many shoppers, to add up my purchases on my phone's calculator app. (Then, when they're revived me after I faint at the sight of the total, I run it again to make sure.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

250 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves

I know, what a shame.
~Netscape

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:32 AM (njz/M)

251 There's a guy in Texas running for US senate that's bragging about a Trump endorsement.

He's a Wall St. cat from NY that only recently moved to Texas.

Yeah, no.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I see sheriff Lamb in AZ is running for senate...sent him a little $$.

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 10:32 AM (AwYPR)

252 Because we aren't retards?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (BGiA3)
----
Well let's not be hasty!

Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (JwHpX)

253 This style of humaning is why I am forever grateful I don't air travel for work anymore. People just downright suck nowadays.
Posted by: Sponge

Don't move to the country then. Because after a year there, you will lose your shit when you get behind two cars on the road.

I never did have patience. Now? Totally nonexistent.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (IB/6k)

254 252 Well let's not be hasty!
Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (JwHpX)

======

Weasel confirmed for Treebeard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

255 Because we aren't retards?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (BGiA3)
++++
I am tired (if you'll pardon the pun) of people looking down us.

Tires are a wear item, and it's not unusual to have treads wear down while the carcass of the tire is still in reasonably good condition. When this happens, using a retread helps elongate tire lifecycle and contributes to a reduction in waste, extending our precious resources while allowing us to serve more customers in the non-new market.

This constant disdain for retreads is an extremely negative and unpleasant ...

Oh, wait. You didn't say "retread" at all.

Boy is my face red.

Posted by: Alliance of Associated Tire Remanufacturers at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (HnUIn)

256 Whaddaya Qwant for nuthin'?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024
*
Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves at February 22, 2024

***
And there was that search engine that specialized in makeup products. Ulta Vista!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (J2vNu)

257
Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

The documentary on you is actually quite entertaining.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

258 Just a little bit of Spanish lingo. For those in Rio Linda.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

259 What especially gets me is when two drivers stop in the middle of the road to chat with their windows rolled down. If it's that damn important for you two idiots to talk, pull off to the side or into a parking lot to do it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That is routine around here but I am deep, deep, deep into the sticks. It's damn near considered rude if you don't.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (h/xVB)

260 I've seen suggestions that grocery stores should have elderly friendly check out aisles for people that want to pay by check and only fill it out after they are wrung up and chat with the clerk anyway.

But...I've also seen the people that want to pay with 10 different cards of which 5 will not work which slows things down just as much.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (ibTVg)

261 You just know that little old lady blocking the soup aisle will be ahead of you in the checkout line. And she won't even start looking fr her checkbook until both of her items have been rung up. And she thought she had a coupon here somewhere, hang on a second. And she will have to enter the check amount and subtract the $2.98 from the balance in her register. And show the clerk pictures of her grand niece.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (991eG)

262 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves
*
I know, what a shame.
~Netscape
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024

***
I really Lycos all of these responses!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

263 I meet plenty of lefties like this. And you can have a lot of fun asking them if they are taking the bus instead of their fancy new luxury SUVs to the resort.

"No I mean OTHER people need to stop flying/driving not me!"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (ibTVg)

Heh.
Not to mention flying to Denver or Salt Lake for the annual vacay.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (bWsRe)

264 252 Because we aren't retards?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (BGiA3)
----
Well let's not be hasty!
Posted by: Weasel

Weasel-san! How are you, fine sir?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (BGiA3)

265 #235 It's even worse than I thought!

That privileged white bastard has an egg and the poor Black child has only bread. White bread.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (2yu8s)

266 I saw Hasty Retards open for Crash Test Dummies at The Spectrum in 1993

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (JunzL)

267 Report: Joe Biden Seeks to Redirect Attention from "Poor Memory" to Donald Trump’s "Crazy Shit"

-
Something about a mote in your brother's eye . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (FVME7)

268 You just know that little old lady blocking the soup aisle will be ahead of you in the checkout line. And she won't even start looking fr her checkbook until both of her items have been rung up. And she thought she had a coupon here somewhere, hang on a second. And she will have to enter the check amount and subtract the $2.98 from the balance in her register. And show the clerk pictures of her grand niece.
Posted by: Muldoon

Ah yes. My wife has termed that 'she's on Tennessee time'.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (h/xVB)

269 I cannot believe that nobody has linked to this!

https://is.gd/PFUWQj
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:25 AM (gSZYf)

I just finished a bowl of Asian spicy noodles made with beef broth and roast beef slices thrown in for protein.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:28 AM

So I'm guessing no tea was involved, then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (Wnv9h)

270 Kroger's in our area has undergone a remodeling of their stores. Stuff's been rearranged. It makes zero sense where stuff is now. Peanut butter is in the bread section, I get it. Why is the lunchmeat and other sandwich condiments spread out?

Why are the canned fruits in the same aisle as beans, but the other canned vegetables elsewhere?

Crackers are next to the mixers, but the chips and junk food over by the soft drinks. The nuts are in the baking aisle.

Mexican stuff and Asian stuff are together, unless it's Raman. Salsa is next to the ketchup.

Tis fucked-up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (Q4IgG)

271 250 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves

I know, what a shame.
~Netscape

Come see me sometime.

Posted by: MySpace at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (NBVIP)

272
Because we aren't retards?
Posted by: nurse ratched[/i_2

Jeebus. No kidding.
That thing is a deadly soporific.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

273 Phones should be confiscated upon entering a store and retrieved after checkout.

Guns should be handed out to all passengers after check-in and retrieved after landing.

Posted by: Them's the Rules at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (V5BDR)

274 Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM (BGiA3)
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Pretty OK, thanks for asking ma'am!

Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (JwHpX)

275 Space: Above and Beyond > Farscape
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

Farscape > Firefly > Space :Above and Beyond

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (MNhXM)

276 Have we gotten t the point as a society where we are willing to "drop the gloves:" with an elderly woman in the soup aisle?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (991eG)

277
Weasel-san! How are you, fine sir?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sneaky way to get Mr. Weasel to give an update on his sword restoration?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (njz/M)

278 I can't stand it when somebody is chatting with the checkout clerk. You're not in the store on a social call, you're there to get your damn groceries and get the hell out as soon as possible.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (9yWhg)

279
So I'm guessing no tea was involved, then.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 10:35 AM (Wnv9h)

Tea is for quitters.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

280 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves at February 22, 2024 10:31 AM (JunzL)

The documentary on you is actually quite entertaining.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

Where should I search for it??

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (JunzL)

281 Tea is for quitters.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Ummm ....

Posted by: The British Empire, who conquered half the world for tea at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

282 Double mirror reflection .... sneaky

Posted by: Qmark at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (gasr6)

283 I grew up in a big bad city where I learned to drive and traffic was just a thing. It’s never bothered me. Now I live in a small-ish city and I kinda chuckle when people talk about “traffic”. It’s like bro, you want traffic? I’ll give you traffic. Taking an hour to go 5 miles, that’s traffic. Driving 35 instead of 50 at 5pm on a weekday, that ain’t no traffic, that’s a slowdown,

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (bWsRe)

284 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves

I know, what a shame.
~Netscape
--------
bark! bark!
~dogpile

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (2yu8s)

285 ++++
Ummm ....

Posted by: The British Empire, who conquered half the world for tea at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

And where are you NOW!??!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

286 ~dogpile
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (2yu8s)

I had totally forgotten that search engine!

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (xhfG9)

287 I grew up in a big bad city where I learned to drive and traffic was just a thing. It’s never bothered me. Now I live in a small-ish city and I kinda chuckle when people talk about “traffic”. It’s like bro, you want traffic? I’ll give you traffic. Taking an hour to go 5 miles, that’s traffic. Driving 35 instead of 50 at 5pm on a weekday, that ain’t no traffic, that’s a slowdown,
Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (bWsRe)
++++
I sometimes complain about traffic where I live.

Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (HnUIn)

288 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (njz/M)
----
I was thinking about that the other day. I need to follow-up with that guy. I'm a-feared I have to go back the wnd of the waiting list line.

Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (JwHpX)

289 Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM

Weasel san! RI Red and I will be conducting scope mounting and zeroing exercises Saturday. The high in the far north of New Hamster appears to be 17 that day. Yay, us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (Wnv9h)

290 Why are the canned fruits in the same aisle as beans,

Because beans are the magical fruit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (IB/6k)

291 Tea is for quitters.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024

***
"I hate tea. It's mud. Furthermore it's the main reason for the downfall of the British Empire."

(-- James Bond, on being offered tea by a waitress; but for the life of me I can't recall which book this line is in)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

292 And where are you NOW!??!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/tsGb2WBWz-Y

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (JunzL)

293 Supermarket taxonomy is a dark art that rarely makes sense to outsiders.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (HnUIn)

294
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Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (nIvob)

295 Tea is for quitters.
Posted by: Sponge

Ummm ....
Posted by: The British Empire, who conquered half the world for tea

And then quit.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (IB/6k)

296 CBD or Ace or other COB-
Any chance you could update the right sidebar to include GNUBreed under the Departed Friends? Please and thank you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (N39Ws)

297
Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:34 AM

I'll see your little old lady and raise you an autistic dude paying for a single pack of cigarettes (around $5 or so), with his spare change - mostly pennies - secreted around his person in multiple pockets and plastic baggies.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (xG4kz)

298 The supermarket should be organized alphabetically.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (9yWhg)

299 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 10:39 AM (Wnv9h)
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Let me know how it goes!

Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (JwHpX)

300 In a supermarket, stick to the perimeter, that’s where the healthy food is.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (bWsRe)

301 295 Tea is for quitters.
Posted by: Sponge

Ummm ....
Posted by: The British Empire, who conquered half the world for tea

And then quit.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:40 AM (IB/6k)

Never even conquered Japan smh.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (eYoxG)

302 In a supermarket, stick to the perimeter, that’s where the healthy food is.
Posted by: Montec

Including the beer and wine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

303 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024

***
It was getting bad in the late '90s when I was there. I avoided the worst of it by flex-time, going to work early and leaving early. At least the roads, even the Interstate, were all great surfaces to drive on. Locals used to say, "We know we have bad roads," and I'm like, "Dude, you have *dream* roads compared to Da Swamp!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

304 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Pfffffft. You call that traffic? THIS is traffic.

Posted by: DC Beltway and I-395 at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (CsUN+)

305 In a supermarket, stick to the perimeter, that’s where the healthy food is.
Posted by: Montec

Well that's no fun.

You have to die of something!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (h/xVB)

306 Tea is for quitters.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

Tea + lemonade = Arnold Palmer. Tea + Lemonade + Vodka = John Daly....stuff I learn on Jeopardy.

Posted by: BignJames at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (AwYPR)

307 I had totally forgotten that search engine!
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That's ruff, blaster!

My first one. A friend told me about this wonderful thing on the internet of things called "Dogpile" that would let you search for interesting web pages.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (2yu8s)

308 can't stand it when somebody is chatting with the checkout clerk. You're not in the store on a social call, you're there to get your damn groceries and get the hell out as soon as possible.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (9yWhg)

It used to be annoying to me but I realized it’s the way we used to be , not in such a rush , not in a social cocoon . Also that it literally might make my wait a minute longer. Sounded ridiculous to me to complain when you say it out loud.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (MNhXM)

309 The supermarket should be organized alphabetically.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024

***
A lot of our fellow "citizens" would be totally baffled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

310 Yo, Weasel! Good to see you here in the art museum

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (JunzL)

311 304 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Pfffffft. You call that traffic? THIS is traffic.
Posted by: DC Beltway and I-395 at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (CsUN+)

======

It's not many urban areas that have entire roads that become one way depending on the time of day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

312 My peeps life’s too short to be angry over silly things like old ladies in a supermarket. Just go with the flow.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:43 AM (bWsRe)

313 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Pfffffft. You call that traffic? THIS is traffic.
Posted by: DC Beltway and I-395

Pffffftttt.
Posted by: Katy Freeway

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (IB/6k)

314 Let me know how it goes!
Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM

Will do. But given the temps, imma guess relatively quickly unless the range has space heaters.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (Wnv9h)

315 Have we gotten t the point as a society where we are willing to "drop the gloves:" with an elderly woman in the soup aisle?
Posted by: Muldoon
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With the elderly AWFLs around here, absolutely.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (4780s)

316 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Pfffffft. You call that traffic? THIS is traffic.
Posted by: DC Beltway and I-395

Pffffftttt.
Posted by: Katy Freeway
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM

*giggles*

Posted by: Boston at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (Wnv9h)

317 It was getting bad in the late '90s when I was there. I avoided the worst of it by flex-time, going to work early and leaving early. At least the roads, even the Interstate, were all great surfaces to drive on. Locals used to say, "We know we have bad roads," and I'm like, "Dude, you have *dream* roads compared to Da Swamp!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)
++++
Oh, not anymore. The state has better things to spend money on now. The roads aren't California-bad (or weren't as of a year or two ago), but they ain't what they once were. They're nowhere near as good at snow clearance anymore, either.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (HnUIn)

318 "Look lady! If you can't mentally calculate whether 3 for a dollar is a better deal than 33 cents apiece in under 10 seconds I'm going to start throwing haymakers!!"

Whooa, whoa! Stop! Slowly count to 10. Take a coouple of deep breaths. Crack your knuckles.

NOW let the fisticuffs flly!!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:45 AM (991eG)

319 Because we aren't retards?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 22, 2024 10:30 AM (BGiA3)

Speak for yourself!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:45 AM (gSZYf)

320 My peeps life’s too short to be angry over silly things like old ladies in a supermarket. Just go with the flow.
Posted by: Montec

It's precisely because life's too short that I don't want to waste it waiting for slow, distracted, indecisive people to get out of my way.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)

321
I can't stand it when somebody is chatting with the checkout clerk. You're not in the store on a social call, you're there to get your damn groceries and get the hell out as soon as possible.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

If only store management would drop one of them and leave their corpse off to one side of the checkout passageway, it would encourage others to maintain their focus and proceed through checkout expeditiously.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 22, 2024 10:46 AM (xG4kz)

322 can't stand it when somebody is chatting with the checkout clerk. You're not in the store on a social call, you're there to get your damn groceries and get the hell out as soon as possible.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 22, 2024 10:37 AM (9yWhg)

It used to be annoying to me but I realized it’s the way we used to be , not in such a rush , not in a social cocoon . Also that it literally might make my wait a minute longer. Sounded ridiculous to me to complain when you say it out loud.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson

Why I prefer self checkout.
That checker that's one hour in to an eight hour shift is in no hurry.

I am.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:46 AM (IB/6k)

323 283 I grew up in a big bad city where I learned to drive and traffic was just a thing. It’s never bothered me. Now I live in a small-ish city and I kinda chuckle when people talk about “traffic”. It’s like bro, you want traffic? I’ll give you traffic. Taking an hour to go 5 miles, that’s traffic. Driving 35 instead of 50 at 5pm on a weekday, that ain’t no traffic, that’s a slowdown,

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (bWsRe)

Used to work outside of Boston. Took me an hour to go 19 miles. Stop and go almost the whole time.

Moved to a small town in South Carolina. The natives warned us there was traffic around 5 PM. Yes, it's called a stop light.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 22, 2024 10:46 AM (KbCG3)

324 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (N39Ws)

???

One of the open bloggers put a note on the right sidebar already.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:46 AM (gSZYf)

325 Hey - some rocket surgeons are trying to land a thing on the moon today sometime after 5pm eastern

Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (JwHpX)

326 *giggles*
Posted by: Boston at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (Wnv9h)

For what it's worth, I was in Phoenix yesterday, they don't F around there. Everyone drives 80 on the freeways, but then I'm not there in rush hour.

For all I know it's just like the rest of our shithole cities at those times.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (dGCAG)

327 Sure Denver has issues. As does DC, LA of course, Atlanta too.

But you haven’t experienced driving madness until you’ve driven in foreign lands. It makes the worst American city seem like a quaint country town by comparison.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (bWsRe)

328 324 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 22, 2024 10:41 AM (N39Ws)

???

One of the open bloggers put a note on the right sidebar already.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:46 AM (gSZYf)

=======

He's talking about the Absent Friends section in the left sidebar.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

329 You just know that little old lady blocking the soup aisle will be ahead of you in the checkout line. And she won't even start looking fr her checkbook until both of her items have been rung up. And she thought she had a coupon here somewhere, hang on a second. And she will have to enter the check amount and subtract the $2.98 from the balance in her register. And show the clerk pictures of her grand niece.
Posted by: Muldoon

***
Or the person at the head of the line has to use a card (probably an EBT, the way things are in America), and she pokes at the device as if she's afraid it will bite her. And the card is declined. And she digs out another one and goes through it all again. And . ..

Me, in my mind: "JUST USE CASH AND GET IT EFFIN' OVER WITH!!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (J2vNu)

330 327 Sure Denver has issues. As does DC, LA of course, Atlanta too.

But you haven’t experienced driving madness until you’ve driven in foreign lands. It makes the worst American city seem like a quaint country town by comparison.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (bWsRe)

=======

Taxi ride in New Dehli.

2 lanes magically become 4.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

331 We dreamed about having lead-chip paint to eat! We had moldy, green arsenic-wallpaper for "salad" everyday because "it was good for us"!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 10:16 AM (2yu8s)

Sheesh!
You 1%ers. We had cardboard for walls and for dinner, mom would let us kids fight over the raisins on the sticky yellow paper hanging down from the ceiling.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

332 Hey - some rocket surgeons are trying to land a thing on the moon today sometime after 5pm eastern
Posted by: Weasel at February 22, 2024 10:47 AM (JwHpX)

That's nice. First time any human tech was ever placed on that piece of rock.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

333 Whooa, whoa! Stop! Slowly count to 10. Take a coouple of deep breaths. Crack your knuckles.

NOW let the fisticuffs flly!!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:45 AM (991eG)
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Now I'm picturing a wrestling match where the checkout clerk tags in the bagger...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (7fElN)

334 Then I remember the unalloyed hell of Denver-area traffic.

Pfffffft. You call that traffic? THIS is traffic.
Posted by: DC Beltway and I-395

Pffffftttt.
Posted by: Katy Freeway
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM

*giggles*
Posted by: Boston

Katy Freeway Interstate 10 - 26 lanes of traffic. Widest road in the US.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2024 10:49 AM (IB/6k)

335
It used to be annoying to me but I realized it’s the way we used to be , not in such a rush , not in a social cocoon . Also that it literally might make my wait a minute longer. Sounded ridiculous to me to complain when you say it out loud.

Part of it is a clash of cultures - if you have people used to conversations and a slow pace they get annoyed at those curt "just do your job" people and vice versa. In the old days people didn't move as much so there was less of this sort of clash. Your area was one way or the other or some level in between.

Of course another part of this is that we've moved to two work outside of the home couples.

So in the old days the wife didn't have to rush home from the grocery store because the husband is getting home late from the office and then she has a zoom meeting at 7 and someone's got to make dinner for the kids and the government wants 82 documents for the census by tomorrow and your taxes and on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:49 AM (ibTVg)

336 The roads aren't California-bad (or weren't as of a year or two ago), but they ain't what they once were.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2024 10:44 AM (HnUIn)

CA has dream roads compared to PA, but NJ and NY are rapidly approaching that level of awfulness.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 22, 2024 10:49 AM (gSZYf)

337
For what it's worth, I was in Phoenix yesterday, they don't F around there. Everyone drives 80 on the freeways, but then I'm not there in rush hour.

For all I know it's just like the rest of our shithole cities at those times.
Posted by: BurtTC

There are a number of spots that slow to a crawl... the rest? If you're not doing at least 75 you're holding up traffic.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:50 AM (njz/M)

338 Sheesh!
You 1%ers. We had cardboard for walls and for dinner, mom would let us kids fight over the raisins on the sticky yellow paper hanging down from the ceiling.
Posted by: Diogenes

HA! That triggered a memory of Grammi's kitchen with the fly paper directly over the stove. Especially effective when she was cooking cabbage.

We thought nothing of it at the time.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 22, 2024 10:50 AM (h/xVB)

339 Joe Mannix-

Can you reveal what county in CO you were referring to with the boss sheriff on the Morning Report? If not, that's okay.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:51 AM (991eG)

340 There are a number of spots that slow to a crawl... the rest? If you're not doing at least 75 you're holding up traffic.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:50 AM (njz/M)

As it should be. As it should be.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:51 AM (dGCAG)

341 That's nice. First time any human tech was ever placed on that piece of rock.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

What makes it kind of a big deal is that it is a commercial lander launched on commercial lift.

Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 10:51 AM (xhfG9)

342 282 Double mirror reflection .... sneaky
Posted by: Qmark at February 22, 2024 10:38 AM (gasr6)

Or triple!

Posted by: m at February 22, 2024 10:51 AM (Ncap6)

343 Alternate title:

"Professor Higginbottom's Migraine Returned When Jane Kept Asking Him, "So, Professor, I understand that Sam's name is Sam. And that Sam as a metaphysical certainty is. And that there are some who do not like Sam or perhaps, dislike the metaphysical certainty that Sam is. Almost an Existential Dislike of Sam, one might say. But, what I fail to understand, Professor, is how the philosophical query that follows in which Sam asks about the other fellow's fondness for Green Eggs and Ham derives from Sam's assertion of self! How does the clearly absurd construct of Pork Products and Hen Ova contaminated by Verdigris and one's like or dislike confirm the ontology of the being Sam?"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2024 10:52 AM (nFnyb)

344 My commute is 15 seconds to my home office.
Sometimes I do hit traffic though if there is a cat in the way.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:53 AM (bWsRe)

345 271 250 Sigh. Nobody asks me anything anymore
Posted by: Jeeves

I know, what a shame.
~Netscape

Come see me sometime.

Posted by: MySpace at February 22, 2024 10:36 AM (NBVIP)
----
No one remembers me! Sob.
-- Mosaic

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #92 at February 22, 2024 10:53 AM (qfLjt)

346 That's nice. First time any human tech was ever placed on that piece of rock.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

What makes it kind of a big deal is that it is a commercial lander launched on commercial lift.
Posted by: blaster at February 22, 2024 10:51 AM (xhfG9)

Still, kudos to Kubrick and the rest of the crew for faking the ones they did back in the olden times.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 22, 2024 10:53 AM (dGCAG)

347 Or the person at the head of the line has to use a card (probably an EBT, the way things are in America), and she pokes at the device as if she's afraid it will bite her. And the card is declined.

Had a guy in front of me going back and forth between two EBT cards. He had a little girl with him and his food was mostly real food not junk.

They had to bring over a manager to work out what was up with his cards but they figured it out. He turned and apologized and I told him it was fine...I know how hard it is to shop with little kids. But...multiple cards? One for him and one for the mother of the little girl maybe?

Of course there is a whole market in EBT cards...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:53 AM (ibTVg)

348 Houston traffic has gotten better since I moved here in 1994. But because of the recent population increase it’s starting to revert back to the bad old days.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:53 AM (MNhXM)

349 Sometimes I do hit traffic though if there is a cat in the way.
Posted by: Montec

So that is what they are calling it now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:54 AM (njz/M)

350 You impatient folks may as well go live in a metropolis like Pixley. In my store, I always have time to shoot the breeze with whomever comes in, be it Newt Kiley, the Douglases, Eb Dawson, Kate or the Bradley girls (Hubba, Hubba!), Mr. Haney, Alf or Ralph, County Agent Hank Kimball, Selma or Henrietta Plout, and of course, Floyd or Charlie.

OTOH, Homer Bedloe can go squeeze a breeze!

Posted by: Sam Drucker, Editor, Hooterville World Guardian at February 22, 2024 10:54 AM (V5BDR)

351 “ Also that it literally might make my wait a minute longer. Sounded ridiculous to me to complain when you say it out loud”

That’s my take as well. I learned long ago to not let stupid shit like that bother me. It’s like OK so instead of spending 18 minutes at Safeway it will now be 19.2 minutes. Oh well. Whatever.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:55 AM (bWsRe)

352
For what it's worth, I was in Phoenix yesterday, they don't F around there. Everyone drives 80 on the freeways, but then I'm not there in rush hour.

Honestly that is the way it should be.

If the highways were rated at 75 with 50s era cards 80 is perfectly safe on a flat straight highway in 2024.

One of the things that amazes me is how transportation has stagnated over the last few decades. I suspect if you told people in the 60s that it would generally take longer to get most places in 2024 then it did in 1964 they wouldn't believe you...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 10:56 AM (ibTVg)

353 Betterhalf was born and raised in SoCal, when we moved to Phoenix check out lines were amazing!
The checker and customer would actually chat, it still happens.
If it bothers you don't move here!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 22, 2024 10:57 AM (njz/M)

354 It only takes a few bad drivers out of thousands to cause traffic back ups.

Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (MNhXM)

355 The thing I can't figure out about Swamp traffic: The main bridge over the river is usually a breeze for me going home in the afternoon to my side of the river. But the span that goes to the East Bank is clogged terribly at 4:30-5:00. Do all those people *work* on my side, and then have to slog to their homes on the east side? Decades ago, the West Bank was the commuter suburb, and cars jammed the bridge at five going to that side. What changed?

(No, I'm not complaining. Just curious.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

356 The Associated Press
@AP
Iditarod's reigning rookie of the year disqualified from 2024 race for violating conduct standard

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Bitch set him up!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (FVME7)

357 351 “ Also that it literally might make my wait a minute longer. Sounded ridiculous to me to complain when you say it out loud”

That’s my take as well. I learned long ago to not let stupid shit like that bother me. It’s like OK so instead of spending 18 minutes at Safeway it will now be 19.2 minutes. Oh well. Whatever.
Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 10:55 AM (bWsRe)

I hear ya but for me it's not about that. It's about that other person deciding that my time isn't worth anything.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

358 Of course it takes longer to drive places these days. Once I get on one of those roundabouts it may take me 15 minutes to get off.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:59 AM (991eG)

359
You haven't lived until you've driven through the streets of Paris during Rush Hour.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2024 11:00 AM (nFnyb)

360 But the span that goes to the East Bank is clogged terribly at 4:30-5:00. Do all those people *work* on my side, and then have to slog to their homes on the east side?

Sometimes you can suddenly get crazy traffic if even a few people need to take a left off of a major road. There is enough traffic going the other way they can't turn and then no one behind them can get by...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2024 11:01 AM (ibTVg)

361 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

362 You haven't lived until you've driven through the streets of Paris during Rush Hour.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2024 11:00 AM (nFnyb)

Istsnbul.scoffs.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 22, 2024 11:01 AM (W/lyH)

363 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 22, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

364 Of course it takes longer to drive places these days. Once I get on one of those roundabouts it may take me 15 minutes to get off.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 22, 2024 10:59 AM (991eG)

Roundabouts. The dumbest thing ever to be taken from Europe and inserted into the US.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

365
I hear ya but for me it's not about that. It's about that other person deciding that my time isn't worth anything.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

Yeahningetbthst. But that person didn’t do it to you specifically. It’s like how if someone cuts you off driving, they’re not doing it specifically to you. Yiu just happen to be there. And in most cases the cutter offer doesn’t even realize what they did.

My take is most of the things people do to piss us off are things the person doesn’t even realize they’re doing. So me getting angry at it hs no effect either way.

I dunno, life’s just easier shrugging at these things than getting angry. For me anyway.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 11:02 AM (bWsRe)

366
Roundabouts. The dumbest thing ever to be taken from Europe and inserted into the US.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2024

***
We didn't think they're so terrible.

Posted by: Yes at February 22, 2024 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

367 357
I hear ya but for me it's not about that. It's about that other person deciding that my time isn't worth anything.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 22, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)
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You missed the reason. For those people no one else exists in their little bubble of the world. So they didn't judge you, you just wasn't there.

Posted by: Ciampino - Reality is relative? at February 22, 2024 11:03 AM (qfLjt)

368 You haven't lived until you've driven through the streets of Paris during Rush Hour.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2024 11:00 AM (nFnyb)

Been there done that. I’ll will see your Paris and raise you a Nimes, where the width of some streets is only 3 inches wider than the width of an average sedan.

Posted by: Montec at February 22, 2024 11:04 AM (bWsRe)

369 The Associated Press @AP
Iditarod's reigning rookie of the year disqualified from 2024 race for violating conduct standard
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He was on Puppy-Uppers ®

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 22, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)

370 Weasel san! RI Red and I will be conducting scope mounting and zeroing exercises Saturday. The high in the far north of New Hamster appears to be 17 that day. Yay, us.
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