Mid-Morning Art Thread

Courtyard of a house in Delft
Pieter de Hooch

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

2 It's no Vermeer.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 01, 2024 09:31 AM (lmt79)

3 Hooch...now known as Booze.

Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

4 Otters status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

5 He had a very delft hand.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

6 I like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (di6C2)

7 He had a very delft hand.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

My over/under for that pun was 5.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (d9fT1)

8 This is lovely.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

9 This is Everything.

Posted by: Hooch at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

10 No Mentats, would not hang.

Posted by: Piter de Vries at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (PiwSw)

11 At least it's vlean. No chickens shitting everywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 09:33 AM (hF4JZ)

12
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (MoZTd)

13 It could use Tim Conway as Dorf.

/Nicely done -- I prefer realism (and moreso romantic realism).

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (BENy5)

14 I like this rather a lot. Idyllic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

15 Quick Honey, hid this stuff in your clutch. Don't say anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)

16 Ok, Muldoon. What rhymes with delft?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

17 I've always liked the "building encircling a central courtyard" kind of design.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

18 Kid seems to have a large head.

Posted by: BignJames at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)

19 Reminds me of Vermeer's "Little Street" painting.

Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (oaGWv)

20 this architecture influenced house building in the New World, particularly NYC and around Philly where the Dutch settled

Posted by: kallisto at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (aAA8P)

21 Didn't we have this painting before?

No matter. I like it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (Q0kLU)

22 Quick Honey, hid this stuff in your clutch. Don't say anything.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)
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Huh. We must have met when I was a kid, because you've clearly overheard my parents' instructions to me at buffets. Well, pockets rather than "clutch," but same concept.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (HnUIn)

23 My over/under for that pun was 5.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Eh. You gotta play the hand you're delft.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (9yWhg)

24

Why did you put daddy's head down the outhouse, mommy?

Posted by: Little Girl at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (c5/hU)

25 What's a Delft you ask?

Twenty dollars, same as in town.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (esflq)

26 Looks like the 2 on the right are gathering eggs.
Beautiful brick lines and brick work, logical as the title says the home is in Delft.
I would have expected more blue in the fired bricks though.

Thanks CBD.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2024 09:36 AM (y+D+j)

27 17 I've always liked the "building encircling a central courtyard" kind of design.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

Roman. Or at least Mediterranean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:36 AM (di6C2)

28 WRT the picture, overall it's pleasant but some of the perspective is wonky and it simultaneously rendered realistically and something less than realistic.

I can't decide whether I would hang this.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 09:36 AM (XV/Pl)

29 And what's up with the long-winded inscription over the door?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (dg+HA)

30 Excellent brick pattern in the courtyard.

Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

31 Kida looks like war came to town. Nice painting though. Would hang.

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (89Sog)

32 In through the out door

Posted by: Led Zep at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

33 Didn't we have this painting before?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 01, 2024 09:35 AM (Q0kLU)

Nope, but I like the artist and he uses similar structures in a lot of his paintings.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (d9fT1)

34 The window above the entryway looks like a toilet seat. Would hang though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (JfVRc)

35 Roman. Or at least Mediterranean.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:36 AM (di6C2)
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And Asian. It's fairly defensible design and provides security in the immediate outdoor space (if you have the money to build it, anyway). I'd be surprised to find that the concept is uncommon in any relatively advanced civilization.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

36 @17 - check out the Menander house, excavated about 100 years ago in Pompei. A great ancient example of that layout

Posted by: kallisto at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (aAA8P)

37 I sang the blues in Delft.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (vtyCZ)

38 Why did you put daddy's head down the outhouse, mommy?
Posted by: Little Girl

Kid: Mommy, mommy, why is Daddy running back and forth?
Mom: Shut up and keep shooting.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

39 P&G wanted to namebrand their detergent "Delft," but the Cheeseheads complained, so they had to settle for "Dreft," which is obviously nowhere near as catchy.

Posted by: gp Shakes Your Milkdrink at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

40 Discount Vermeer

Posted by: Don Black at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl)

41 Wiki-
The scene is divided into two pieces. To the left, an archway of brick and stone leads from a paved courtyard a passageway though a house, where a woman dressed in black and red stands looking away to the street beyond. A stone tablet above the doorway was originally over the entrance of the Hieronymusdale Cloister [nl] in Delft. It reads, in Dutch: "Dit is in sint hieronimus daelle / wildt v tot pacientie en lydtsaemheijt begeeven / vvand wij muetten eerst daellen / willen wy worden verheeven 1614" (in English: "This is in Saint Jerome's dale / please be patient and meek / for we must first descend / if we wish to be raised."). When the cloister was suppressed this tablet was removed but can still be seen set into the wall of a garden behind the canal.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

42 Delft?

Where's the Ghost of Vermeer?

Posted by: XTC at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (UnA8+)

43 is that a midget?

Posted by: Don Black at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl)

44 WRT the picture, overall it's pleasant but some of the perspective is wonky and it simultaneously rendered realistically and something less than realistic.

I can't decide whether I would hang this.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Can you imagine the blue streak of curses the carpenter uttered while trying to fit that door into the parallelogram frame?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (WXNFJ)

45 Didn't we just see this?

Or maybe my wife sent me the image from her museum visit.

Seems recently familiar.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (PbMBZ)

46 There's an interesting contrast of images here. The scene on the left appears to be upper class. It's clean, the woman in the hallway is dressed differently than the woman on the right. It's more colorful. The right hand side looks rougher. The woman is dressed as a servant. The broom and bucket indicate house work and labor. There's more wood here than brick. Any brickwork that appears needs washing. The contrast is highlighted by the brick wall that runs down almost the entire height of the canvas.

Posted by: Kris at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (EwaUh)

47 And Asian. It's fairly defensible design and provides security in the immediate outdoor space (if you have the money to build it, anyway). I'd be surprised to find that the concept is uncommon in any relatively advanced civilization.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

Defensible is the word. So, it has to be advanced, but not too successful to where privacy and defense are not as much of consideration. Where the inward turn changes to the outward.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (di6C2)

48 @17 - check out the Menander house, excavated about 100 years ago in Pompei. A great ancient example of that layout
Posted by: kallisto at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (aAA8P)
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I hadn't heard of it, thank you.

Yeah, that's bad-ass.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

49 I'll paint any courtyard for 99.95!

Posted by: Pieter de Scheib at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

50 And what's up with the long-winded inscription over the door?
Posted by: I gotta ask

"Here we sit, broken hearted. . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:40 AM (WXNFJ)

51 Is her other broom in the shop??

WITCH!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 01, 2024 09:40 AM (vtyCZ)

52 That door on the right is weird looking. Either it's too small or it's too high above the ground.

Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

53
And what's up with the long-winded inscription over the door?
Posted by: I gotta ask

__________

"Mets lose 9-7, fall into last place"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2024 09:40 AM (MoZTd)

54 Defensible is the word. So, it has to be advanced, but not too successful to where privacy and defense are not as much of consideration. Where the inward turn changes to the outward.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (di6C2)
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Yup. It is advanced architecture, but not high-trust architecture.

At smaller (poorer) scales, it the use of stone and having bars on the windows, with most of the openings in the house facing the rear rather than the use of stone and having no bars on the windows and having large openings all around.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

55 I'll paint any courtyard for 99.95!
Posted by: Pieter de Scheib

I can do it one afternoon! Two coats!
-- Schickelgruber

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

56 43 is that a midget?
Posted by: Don Black at May 01, 2024 09:38 AM (/7KEl)

No, that is a young human girl. They're called children.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (di6C2)

57 49 I'll paint any courtyard for 99.95!
Posted by: Pieter de Scheib at May 01, 2024 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

The Earl of Scheib!

Posted by: Rex B at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (5h/8D)

58 Very pretty. Much like. Would brighten up any room.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (pohLc)

59 *rather than the use of wood, I mean.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

60 "The scene is divided into two pieces."

A Delft Diptych.

Posted by: gp Shakes Your Milkdrink at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (MvF+J)

61 "...where a woman dressed in black and red stands looking away to the street beyond..."

She's pining for the F150s.

Posted by: Like millions before her at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

62 No, that is a young human girl. They're called children.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Really? No one I know has any.

Posted by: AWFLs at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (WXNFJ)

63 @44

>>Can you imagine the blue streak of curses the carpenter uttered while trying to fit that door into the parallelogram frame?

Also Omni Lighting apparently exists in this world as shadows don't look to be a thing in this world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (XV/Pl)

64 Very nicely done
Would hang

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (LfDj0)

65 That door on the right is weird looking. Either it's too small or it's too high above the ground.
Posted by: dantesed

Looks like it's got steps leading to it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)

66
Good birthing hips on the one in the red skirt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2024 09:43 AM (MoZTd)

67 At smaller (poorer) scales, it the use of stone and having bars on the windows, with most of the openings in the house facing the rear rather than the use of stone and having no bars on the windows and having large openings all around.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

One could also argue that it also changes with street light tech. Rome after dark was a very, very bad place to be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:43 AM (di6C2)

68 I love the art for this time and place in general and the details in de Hooch's work is wonderful. The clothing, wood, and brickwork is outstanding. You can feel the textures of the materials. And they provide an insight to the society and what they had to build with.

My real problem with de Hooch is with his faces. The faces are rather wooden and lack animation. Not as bad as Quint describing a shark's eyes but in that vein.

Posted by: JTB at May 01, 2024 09:44 AM (zudum)

69 Thanks for the memories, CBD.

Posted by: Bob Hope at May 01, 2024 09:44 AM (cTCuP)

70 66
Good birthing hips on the one in the red skirt.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2024 09:43 AM (MoZTd)

It's a troon.

Posted by: XTC at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (UnA8+)

71 Very nice. Rings all my bells as far as COLOR, perspective, and competence. Intimate and warm.

Enjoyable and would hang.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (MIKMs)

72 What's a delft ?

Posted by: JT at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (T4tVD)

73 Shouldn't there be mice or something scurrying around? Seems way to sterile.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (Q4IgG)

74 I'd hate to sweep any floor with that broom.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

75 This is a very nice painting. There is so much going on to engage the viewer and the detail of the brick work and the vine on the roof is amazing. I especially like the archway that directs your attention to the back courtyard. Would definitely hang in my house, thank you.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 01, 2024 09:46 AM (Z8Xq7)

76 I'd hate to sweep any floor with that broom.
Posted by: redridinghood

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:46 AM (WXNFJ)

77 Oops!

Luxury!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 09:46 AM (WXNFJ)

78 74 I'd hate to sweep any floor with that broom.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2024 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

I think it is a mop (because, bucket.) So, yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (di6C2)

79 Pieter de Hooch

Is that his real name ?

Posted by: JT at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (T4tVD)

80 One could also argue that it also changes with street light tech. Rome after dark was a very, very bad place to be.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:43 AM (di6C2)
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Everywhere was. Bad things happen at night, which is why sensible people have trepidation about the dark. Paralyzing fear is irrational, but circumspection regarding the shadows is not.

Of all the "public safety" innovations, street lighting is the best bang for the buck that has ever been invented. When I read stories about municipalities failing to maintain street lights - or even turning them off the reduce the utility bill - my immediate thought is, "these people are too stupid and reckless to govern, and everyone with a spare brain cell who lives there will flee."

People who understand nothing are the ones who allow street lights to decay into rusty skeletons. Better to have potholes or overgrown parks than to allow the street lights to fail.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

81 Yeah, that's the problem, the artist hasn't really utilized shadow in this paining, looking at his other work, he uses shadow in odd ways.

I mean, clearly he's an exceptional artist, but the brother just did not have a grasp on shadow.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (XV/Pl)

82 76 That's a ridin' broom.

Posted by: gp Shakes Your Milkdrink at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (MvF+J)

83 From wikipedia:

famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

That is some kind of specialty.

Posted by: spindrift at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (OguvZ)

84 Is niiiice.

Posted by: Borat at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (tpjlM)

85 What's that white stuff on the far right? Smoke?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

86 "The scene is divided into two pieces."
A Delft Diptych.
=====

Hah. Made me laugh.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (MIKMs)

87 I like the artist and he uses similar structures in a lot of his paintings.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 09:37 AM (d9fT1)

If you're ever up in my neck of the woods, the Worcester Art Museum has an excellent collection of Dutch landscapes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (Q0kLU)

88 Ooh, I like this. So interesting.

Now back to the news of the day.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (t/2Uw)

89 Yeah, that's the problem, the artist hasn't really utilized shadow in this paining, looking at his other work, he uses shadow in odd ways.

I mean, clearly he's an exceptional artist, but the brother just did not have a grasp on shadow.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 09:47 AM (XV/Pl)
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Or he's taking advantage of his medium to render a scene where the lighting would be impossible in reality but it lets him show what he wants regardless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (HnUIn)

90 Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin.

Posted by: Woman On Left at May 01, 2024 09:49 AM (SYTee)

91 85 What's that white stuff on the far right? Smoke?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

Remains of whitewash, maybe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (di6C2)

92
A courtyard in the city of Delft
Is owned by a nice lady elft
If you don't like this rhyme
That i made in quick time
Buddy, go fuck yourselft!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (eDfFs)

93 Pieter de Hooch

Is that his real name ?
Posted by: JT

He changed his surname from "Samogon" when he left Russia.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

94 A courtyard in the city of Delft
Is owned by a nice lady elft
If you don't like this rhyme
That i made in quick time
Buddy, go fuck yourselft!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (eDfFs)
++++
That escalated quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (HnUIn)

95 92 Ha!

Posted by: gp Shakes Your Milkdrink at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (MvF+J)

96 Everybody likes a little hooch...

Posted by: Town drunk at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

97 Like this painting and might hang. Kris' insightful comments made all the difference.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 01, 2024 09:51 AM (NFX2v)

98 96 Everybody likes a little hooch...
Posted by: Town drunk at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (dg+HA)

Hooch was a good dog.

Posted by: Turner at May 01, 2024 09:51 AM (di6C2)

99 my tech news.

About a month or so ago, I bought a refurbished tower from Goodwill for a $100.. i5 processor, a terabyte drive.

Put Linux Mint on it and set up Plex for a home media server and slowing moving the digital copies of my DVD collection over.

It's been great.

Currently exploring adding on more storage to the tower via a PCIe sata card

Posted by: Blanco at May 01, 2024 09:51 AM (sW/8y)

100 What's that white stuff on the far right? Smoke?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Efflorescence, cheaper bricks used on the servants quarters.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2024 09:52 AM (y+D+j)

101 You know, one thing you can say for the Europeans.

Since, at least, time time of the Roman Empire,

they have this whole bricklaying thing down tight.

That looks better than what you'd see on a modern home in your local neighborhood.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 09:52 AM (eDfFs)

102 'Go the other way to the fishmonger, Gerda. I think Mrs. Veldevoordt is waiting for you in the alley. You know how she talks and talks.'
-Gerda's Mom

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 09:52 AM (NxC5+)

103 Efflorescence, cheaper bricks used on the servants quarters.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2024 09:52 AM (y+D+j)
++++
Nicely done.

The Horde is bringing the word power today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:52 AM (HnUIn)

104 Is that supposed to be a water trough or what on the right against the wall?

Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

105 Linux Mint FTW.

Posted by: gp Shakes Your Milkdrink at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (MvF+J)

106 Hooch was a good dog.
Posted by: Turner

That flick was filmed in my old stomping ground of Pacific Grove, California.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

107 Mom teaching daughter to steal while the homeowner isn't looking.

Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (0Id0S)

108 The right hand side looks rougher. The woman is dressed as a servant. The broom and bucket indicate house work and labor. There's more wood here than brick. Any brickwork that appears needs washing. The contrast is highlighted by the brick wall that runs down almost the entire height of the canvas.
===
They made a fortune on delftware but lost it all in the wreck of the Batavia so faience obeisance got them. They were well and truly VOCked.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (vtyCZ)

109 Willowed:

Rush PBUH said it was '63 when JFK got whacked. I can see that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2024 09:30 AM (x0n13)

Yeah, me too.

After reading the history of that time, Jackie was a huge part, believe it or not, in pushing the whole Camelot dealio and the "Climate of right wing hate" that caused JFK's killing.

Right there is where the split of regarding fellow Americans as eeeeeeevil for their politics more or less started.

Apparently, she couldn't believe one crappie little commie, probably a Russian flunky, could've killed Jack the Wonder Prez. So, with her cohort of Our Betters made up this whole silly, fake story that helped send our country on the path we see today.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 09:54 AM (eDfFs)

110 Is that supposed to be a water trough or what on the right against the wall?
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)
++++
Coal chute or bin?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 09:54 AM (HnUIn)

111 He changed his surname from "Samogon" when he left Russia.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

Before he left, was he Sam I Am ?

Posted by: JT at May 01, 2024 09:54 AM (T4tVD)

112 104 Is that supposed to be a water trough or what on the right against the wall?
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

Coal bin maybe? Wood?

Posted by: Turner at May 01, 2024 09:54 AM (di6C2)

113 Lovely brushstrokes - painter had a delft touch, really. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2024 09:54 AM (cCVOS)

114 Wonder what the placard above the archway says. Im sure some here can surmise...

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 01, 2024 09:55 AM (pohLc)

115 I wonder what the plaque over the archway says. I always liked how there were inspirational quotes over buildings in DC, despite the fact that no one seems to abide by them in that town.

Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2024 09:55 AM (0Id0S)

116 Mom teaching daughter to steal while the homeowner isn't looking.
Posted by: red speck

Well what else is she supposed to do with that apron?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 01, 2024 09:55 AM (1d7QC)

117 /off Hanks sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 09:55 AM (di6C2)

118 Jinx

Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2024 09:55 AM (0Id0S)

119 Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children!

Posted by: Sadiq Khan, Mooselim Mayor Of London at May 01, 2024 09:56 AM (4a+k3)

120 The Horde is bringing the word power today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific!
In vain do I ponder thy nature specific--
Precariously poised in the ether capacious,
Closely resembling a gem carbonaceous;
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
In vain do I ponder thy nature specific!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)

121 What rhymes with Delft?

Nothing rhymes with Delft

*********

The Eyeful Tower - a limerick

Lady Godiva, a young girl from Flanders
Didn't care about gossip or slander
She drank and slept around
Then ran naked through the town
Saying "Give a goose, or just take a gander!"

Posted by: Buffalo Presley at May 01, 2024 09:57 AM (l4B/J)

122 Before he left, was he Sam I Am ?

Son of Sam I Am.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 01, 2024 09:57 AM (Q0kLU)

123 Paintings like this are playing with space and dimension. Painting is a flat medium. Perspective was invented reverse that reality and create the illusion of depth. De Hooch is combining flatness and depth. This work is very foreground-focused. We are in a small inner courtyard, surrounded by a high wall. We cannot see what is on the other side. Our world is as deep as the yard itself. De Hooch adds this narrow alleyway that leads into the street. Suddenly our world is opened up. There's suddenly a middleground and background, but it's a small sliver. Just enough though to interrupt the flatness of about 75% of the painting.

Posted by: Kris at May 01, 2024 09:58 AM (EwaUh)

124 120 The Horde is bringing the word power today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific!
In vain do I ponder thy nature specific--
Precariously poised in the ether capacious,
Closely resembling a gem carbonaceous;
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
In vain do I ponder thy nature specific!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)
Dang. Boy howdy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 09:59 AM (NxC5+)

125 Right there is where the split of regarding fellow Americans as eeeeeeevil for their politics more or less started.
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I'll see your Jackie and raise you an Eleanor.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 09:59 AM (MIKMs)

126 Titillate, titillate, oh what a blissful state...

Posted by: He started it at May 01, 2024 10:00 AM (dg+HA)

127 Son of Sam I Am.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Would you, could you, with a gun?
Would you, could you, on the run?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

128 Tatanka. Tatanka verra much!

Posted by: Buffalo Presley at May 01, 2024 10:00 AM (l4B/J)

129 /ssock

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:01 AM (l4B/J)

130 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)
Dang. Boy howdy.
Posted by: Eromero

Just to be clear, that is not mine. Something I ran across in high school.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:01 AM (9yWhg)

131 125 Right there is where the split of regarding fellow Americans as eeeeeeevil for their politics more or less started.
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I'll see your Jackie and raise you an Eleanor.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 09:59 AM (MIKMs)

Howdy.

Posted by: Hillary at May 01, 2024 10:01 AM (tpjlM)

132 He changed his surname from "Samogon" when he left Russia.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Probably helped him live down his disastrous fight with Godzilla.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at May 01, 2024 10:01 AM (OUMaO)

133 Will the Hamas supporters do anything special for May Day?

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:02 AM (tpjlM)

134 Right there is where the split of regarding fellow Americans as eeeeeeevil for their politics more or less started.

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I'm sure vic remembers the campaign of 1800 when Jefferson and Adams supporters were pretty much at each other's throats.

This idea that politics only recently became about messaging around good vs. evil always confuses me. I mean...civil wars have been around for quite a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

135 The publisher rejected Dr. Seuss' original manuscript, about novice safecrackers fleeing the law:

Green Yeggs on Lam.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:03 AM (9yWhg)

136 Jackie, Eleanor and Hillary: hush.
None of you actually got elected.

Posted by: Lurleen B. Wallace at May 01, 2024 10:03 AM (dg+HA)

137 Jackie, Eleanor and Hillary: hush.
None of you actually got elected.
Posted by: Lurleen B. Wallace

Didn't stop me!
-- Edith Wilson

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:04 AM (9yWhg)

138 123 Paintings like this are playing with space and dimension. Painting is a flat medium. Perspective was invented reverse that reality and create the illusion of depth. De Hooch is combining flatness and depth. This work is very foreground-focused. We are in a small inner courtyard, surrounded by a high wall. We cannot see what is on the other side. Our world is as deep as the yard itself. De Hooch adds this narrow alleyway that leads into the street. Suddenly our world is opened up. There's suddenly a middleground and background, but it's a small sliver. Just enough though to interrupt the flatness of about 75% of the painting.
Posted by: Kris at May 01, 2024 09:58 AM (EwaUh
Believe it or not I get this. One of my first memories was ponder the pattern of tractor tracks in soft dirt, those herringbone tracks that led off to...where? I could play with those things for hours. And fact is those tracks just went to the other end of the field and came back to me. Big world back then.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:04 AM (NxC5+)

139 Howdy.
Posted by: Hillary at May 01, 2024 10:01 AM (tpjlM)
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Nasty old bat couldn't come close to either for evil. Evil must be attractive in some way. Howdy Hillary is always a wannabe.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:05 AM (MIKMs)

140 Trof but never troth, as hite but never hyth... unless your greatest desire is to sound like a mushmouthed mongoloid.

Posted by: Irascible English Professor at May 01, 2024 10:05 AM (zOkaw)

141 At least Jackie was good looking.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:06 AM (9yWhg)

142 That's not Delft blue that skirt...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2024 10:06 AM (RhjSY)

143 Did the other Kennedy brothers fuck Jackie? I would think so given how fucked up that family is.

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:07 AM (tpjlM)

144 At least Jackie was good looking.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Pfffft!
-- Zombie Marilyn Monroe

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2024 10:07 AM (WXNFJ)

145 141 At least Jackie was good looking.

Great taste in hats.

Posted by: And the long white gloves at May 01, 2024 10:07 AM (dg+HA)

146 You wanted Joe

You settled for John

You ended up with Ted for another 50 years.

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:08 AM (tpjlM)

147 145 141 At least Jackie was good looking.

She had class... Contrast her to Dr. Jill

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2024 10:08 AM (Akjoo)

148 Onassis could've made another mint selling a breakfast cereal called Jackie-O's.

Posted by: spindrift at May 01, 2024 10:09 AM (OguvZ)

149 de Hooch planned a wedding, and sang
Of the pictures he'd paint and then hang
But the gunpowder store
Through the town of Delft tore
And his marriage did start with a bang!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at May 01, 2024 10:09 AM (OUMaO)

150 Onassis might have her brother in law killed

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (PXvVL)

151 Did the other Kennedy brothers fuck Jackie? I would think so given how fucked up that family is.
Posted by: Montec

House of Yes has entered the chat.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (1d7QC)

152 Jill is the trailer park trash you get for a $100.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (RhjSY)

153 At least Jackie was good looking.

That breathy, baby-doll voice irritated me no end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (Q0kLU)

154 Right there is where the split of regarding fellow Americans as eeeeeeevil for their politics more or less started.

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I'm sure vic remembers the campaign of 1800 when Jefferson and Adams supporters were pretty much at each other's throats.

This idea that politics only recently became about messaging around good vs. evil always confuses me. I mean...civil wars have been around for quite a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, but this was the modern split.

At that time, we were all basking still in the victory of WWII and Pax Americana and we were all supposed to be fellow Americans.

I mean, hell, that's basically the reason for the whole Civil Rights dealio.

Sure, that split has occurred before but I'd say the current split began then with the whole Dallas, "City of Hate" crap the Left pushed for years on end.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (eDfFs)

155
*You ended up with Ted for another 50 years.*

Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Glub glub at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (dg+HA)

156 That was oeter evans theory

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2024 10:11 AM (PXvVL)

157 I would say the modern day 'sportyness' of politics began with Newt's impeachment of Clinton, compounded by Florida 2000.

Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2024 10:11 AM (SYTee)

158 154 At that time, we were all basking still in the victory of WWII and Pax Americana and we were all supposed to be fellow Americans.

I mean, hell, that's basically the reason for the whole Civil Rights dealio.

Sure, that split has occurred before but I'd say the current split began then with the whole Dallas, "City of Hate" crap the Left pushed for years on end.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (eDfFs)

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The Frankfurt School has entered the chat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

159 'When I'm the First Lady, I'll be damned if I go out in public looking like that Eleanor woman did.'
-Jackie O

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:11 AM (NxC5+)

160 Jackie sounded like a mentally retarded child to me the way she spoke.

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:12 AM (tpjlM)

161 Well lah di dah toss on a stupidly expensive stupid hat that was given to you and moll around with a bunch of drunken mick whoremongers that your bastard plutocrat family pimped you out to.

What a dame.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:12 AM (+yhUM)

162 That breathy, baby-doll voice irritated me no end.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I don't believe I ever heard her speak. But I was born after the assassination, so she was pretty much before my time. I only learned about her when she was married to Ari.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:12 AM (9yWhg)

163 If you're wondering about my limerick...Delft was mostly leveled when a gunpowder store in the town blew up in 1654 (yes, the year de Hooch married). The painting dates from four years after; I wouldn't be shocked if some of the differences in construction shown are a result of reconstruction of the building after the event.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at May 01, 2024 10:12 AM (OUMaO)

164 "Will the Hamas supporters do anything special for May Day?
Posted by: Montec at May"

They could celebrate by following Muslim tradition and throwing a few LGBTQ off of high buildings.

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2024 10:12 AM (JojsZ)

165 Reuters: Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability.

They just opened one near me less than two weeks ago. It looked like a one-stop shop for medical, dental, and behavioral health needs...seemed like a good idea.

I'm shocked delivering health care to humans doesn't lend it self to big box store retail sales tactics. The John McCain, a jerk, said Walmart was the future of health care delivery in the U.S. The love affair some in this country have their phantom "free market" is astonishing. Many who would rather pay more and receive less services than move to a single payer system, i.e. Medicare.

Sorry to hear they weren't profitable I guess, but Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

I would think providing affordable health care for your loyal patrons is just the right thing to do. It's sad they cannot think beyond their bottom line.

Another rich corporation trying to profit from people's illnesses. Assuming Biden wins and Democrats maintain control of Congress, I hope plans for a transition to universal healthcare get started.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 01, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

166 Why are we living in a shack on the side of a house? Well, your idiot father blew our life savings on a tulip bulb one day before the whole scheme crashed. Now, est your tulip and shut up.

Posted by: PabloD at May 01, 2024 10:14 AM (lk8z6)

167

NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)
15,598.75 -59.08 (-0.38%)
As of 09:31AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at May 01, 2024 10:14 AM (aD39U)

168 Yes black jack bouvier kin to gore vidal was your typical robber baron

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2024 10:15 AM (PXvVL)

169 165 Sorry to hear they weren't profitable I guess, but Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

I would think providing affordable health care for your loyal patrons is just the right thing to do. It's sad they cannot think beyond their bottom line.

Another rich corporation trying to profit from people's illnesses. Assuming Biden wins and Democrats maintain control of Congress, I hope plans for a transition to universal healthcare get started.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 01, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

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The underlying belief that it's possible to legally run a free-market healthcare business in America confuses me.

Healthcare is the singly most regulated industry in America. Even if you're just dealing with customers, you still have the entire backend around supplies and medications that are regulated to the hilt.

But sure, just because a major corporation tries it, that means that it's free-market.

Gosh, these people are simpletons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

170 Her next husband was a dirty diamond broker tied with mobutu

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2024 10:16 AM (PXvVL)

171 Gorekin...heh.

That shouldn't be funny but it is whatever shut up

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:16 AM (+yhUM)

172 Will the Hamas supporters do anything special for May Day?
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Skip around the Maypole and feature their Morris Dancers.

(Just saw an old Dr Who episode.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (MIKMs)

173 Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.
—

This shit irritates me to no end.

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (tpjlM)

174 Sorry to hear they weren't profitable I guess, but Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

There's a big difference between Florence Nightingale and today's nurses. Today's nurses expect to be paid for what they do.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (NxC5+)

175 Now, eat your tulip and shut up.

Posted by: PabloD at May 01, 2024 10:14 AM (lk8z6)

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"Let them eat their Digital Wallets and Teslas."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (bcHTR)

176 Looks like things got sporty at UCLA's "peaceful" protest

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (Akjoo)

177 I know he budded

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2024 10:18 AM (PXvVL)

178 173 Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.
—

This shit irritates me to no end.
Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:17 AM (tpjlM)

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"Doc, cure my illness for free."
-progressive
"I am not your slave."
-doc
"But it's my right to use your labor without recompense."
-progressive
"Shut up, you are his slave."
-The AMA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

179 Looks like things got sporty at UCLA's "peaceful" protest
Posted by: It's me donna

Apparently, somebody threw a bag of lab rats into the encampment. God knows what they had been injected with.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)

180 Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 01, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

I love the cluelessness of the squishy-brained liberal.

How can the labor of another human being be a right?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (d9fT1)

181 Leftist: health care should be free for all

Me: So I take it you work for free and your employer doesn’t ever pay you for your labor?

Leftist: uhm but uhm no that’s like totally different.

Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (tpjlM)

182 Apparently, somebody threw a bag of lab rats into the encampment. God knows what they had been injected with.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)

Yikes

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (Akjoo)

183 180 I love the cluelessness of the squishy-brained liberal.

How can the labor of another human being be a right?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (d9fT1)

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"The same way that my right to a house doesn't actually involve the labor of others."
-Squishy brained liberal

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

184 How can the labor of another human being be a right?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (d9fT1)

Shut up and plant those taters, kulak. Motherland ain't gonna feed itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:20 AM (+yhUM)

185 181 Leftist: health care should be free for all

Me: So I take it you work for free and your employer doesn’t ever pay you for your labor?

Leftist: uhm but uhm no that’s like totally different.
Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (tpjlM)

========

"Well, you see, it'll work because the government will pay the doctors."
"How will the government get money."
"From the people."
"So, the people are slaves?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

186 "Sorry to hear they weren't profitable I guess, but Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

I would think providing affordable health care for your loyal patrons is just the right thing to do. It's sad they cannot think beyond their bottom line.

Another rich corporation trying to profit from people's illnesses. Assuming Biden wins and Democrats maintain control of Congress, I hope plans for a transition to universal healthcare get started.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions "

Because people are born and learn and study and dedicate endless hours so they can take care of you for free. And not just doctors. Everybody in the whole healthcare system including suppliers and all the support staff should do this.

Because Healthcare Is My Right! This is what 50 years of dumbed down logic and propaganda has wrought.

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2024 10:21 AM (JojsZ)

187 So, the people are slaves?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

"Yes, but only white people are really people. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:22 AM (+yhUM)

188 You're really rockin' and rollin' it, Hooch!

Posted by: Rick Derringer at May 01, 2024 10:22 AM (w9Wax)

189 188 You're really rockin' and rollin' it, Hooch!
Posted by: Rick Derringer at May 01, 2024 10:22 AM (w9Wax)

Love that song

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2024 10:23 AM (Akjoo)

190 "Well, you see, it'll work because the government will pay the doctors."
"How will the government get money."
~~"From the people."~~ "They'll print it."
"So, the people are slaves?"

Edited for Modern Monetary Theory. The rest is correct as-is.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (sNc8Y)

191 143 Did the other Kennedy brothers fuck Jackie? I would think so given how fucked up that family is.
Posted by: Montec at May 01, 2024 10:07 AM (tpjlM)

In my experience, yes

Posted by: Any Biden at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (53oGX)

192 If I had to live back in those days, and had any choice in the matter, Holland might have been a good place to wind up. Everything always looks so clean and orderly.

Posted by: Paco at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (njExo)

193 Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

You know who's primarily responsible for your healthcare, liberal idiot? You yourself. So before you go whining about lack of universal healthcare, you should maybe give up on the pot and other drugs, lose some fricking weight, clean up your diet, and maybe stop with those possible sources of infection, tats and piercings. Oh, and maybe stop getting knocked up and then having abortions, too.

Once you do all those things, maybe we can talk about your precious "healthcare." Myabe.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (9yWhg)

194 190 "Well, you see, it'll work because the government will pay the doctors."
"How will the government get money."
"From the people." "They'll print it."
"So, the people are slaves?"

Edited for Modern Monetary Theory. The rest is correct as-is.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (sNc8Y)

========

Taxation is punishment now. Well, it's always been some kind of punishment for legal behavior, but that's pretty much all it is now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

195 It's a perverse form of logic.

Follow the argument until you reach a contradiction or absurdity... and then embrace the contradiction or absurdity as if the harvests will fail and the sun will be blotted out if you don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:25 AM (+yhUM)

196 193 You know who's primarily responsible for your healthcare, liberal idiot? You yourself. So before you go whining about lack of universal healthcare, you should maybe give up on the pot and other drugs, lose some fricking weight, clean up your diet, and maybe stop with those possible sources of infection, tats and piercings. Oh, and maybe stop getting knocked up and then having abortions, too.

Once you do all those things, maybe we can talk about your precious "healthcare." Myabe.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (9yWhg)

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Self-care is fascism, I've been told by the media.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

197 If I had to live back in those days, and had any choice in the matter, Holland might have been a good place to wind up. Everything always looks so clean and orderly.
Posted by: Paco

I think there were women whose sole job was to keep the streets clean.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

198 I love the cluelessness of the squishy-brained liberal.

How can the labor of another human being be a right?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (d9fT1)

That is the basis of Communism. YOU need to labor in a mine for coal so they can relax in their salon, idly painting.

THAT is how they envision it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2024 10:27 AM (di6C2)

199 Was healthcare a right before it existed in only the most rudimentary form? Before modern medicines and anesthetics and procedures? Was getting your leg lopped off to stop gangrene with hacksaw and a few gulps of whiskey a right?

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2024 10:27 AM (JojsZ)

200 Lotta work laying those bricks.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 01, 2024 10:27 AM (fv27Y)

201 Mother and child share a moment of quiet humor remembering drunk dad falling up and then down the stairs when he came home around 5 AM.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 01, 2024 10:27 AM (MkuC5)

202 If I had to live back in those days, and had any choice in the matter, Holland might have been a good place to wind up. Everything always looks so clean and orderly.
=====

Is this my Homeowners' Association entering the chat?

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:27 AM (MIKMs)

203 Healthcare should be a human right and not a for-profit business.

*********

For a minute there I thought I had woken up in 2008.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (l4B/J)

204 Looks like things got sporty at UCLA's "peaceful" protest
Posted by: It's me donna

Apparently, somebody threw a bag of lab rats into the encampment. God knows what they had been injected with.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hopefully the poor lab rats had been vaccinated.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (hF4JZ)

205 The underlying belief that it's possible to legally run a free-market healthcare business in America confuses me.

Healthcare is the singly most regulated industry in America. Even if you're just dealing with customers, you still have the entire backend around supplies and medications that are regulated to the hilt.

But sure, just because a major corporation tries it, that means that it's free-market.

Gosh, these people are simpletons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

I was under the impression that healthcare was solved over ten years ago.. that's what MSNBC told me...

Posted by: Inogame at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (53oGX)

206 203 For a minute there I thought I had woken up in 2008.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (l4B/J)

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Hey, you, doc.

Labor for others. Now. To not labor for others is to impede on their rights.

Labor for others or go to jail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

207 I love the cluelessness of the squishy-brained liberal.

How can the labor of another human being be a right?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That is the basis of Communism. YOU need to labor in a mine for coal so they can relax in their salon, idly painting.

THAT is how they envision it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*Element 82 has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 10:29 AM (hF4JZ)

208 I love the cluelessness of the squishy-brained liberal.

How can the labor of another human being be a right?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:19 AM (d9fT1)
++++
Easy. They don't like the answer, but there *is* an answer. That answer is "slavery."

If you have slaves, they have no rights and you can force them to labor on behalf of the people who do have rights.

Any system where the produce of another man's labor belongs to another by right is a system of slaves and slavers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 10:29 AM (HnUIn)

209 205 I was under the impression that healthcare was solved over ten years ago.. that's what MSNBC told me...
Posted by: Inogame at May 01, 2024 10:28 AM (53oGX)

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"Obama was actually a centrist because he pushed through insurance reform instead of single payer healthcare. With 60 votes in the Senate, he could have gotten Single Payer, but he was just too centristy to get it done, so we got a half-baked reform that was actually a huge payout to the insurance industry and didn't help enough. Also, we can't overturn the ACA because people will die."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

210 Cuban doctors have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

211 208 Easy. They don't like the answer, but there *is* an answer. That answer is "slavery."

If you have slaves, they have no rights and you can force them to labor on behalf of the people who do have rights.

Any system where the produce of another man's labor belongs to another by right is a system of slaves and slavers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2024 10:29 AM (HnUIn)

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"No, it's not slavery. The government will pay. Healthcare will be great. Like in Cuba."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

212 "Take this anti inflammatory and stay off your feet for a week. "
"You're not the boss of me!"

....

"Your child is fine, it's just a cold. Plenty of fluids and rest. "
"That's not medicine. I want medicine. Give me medicine. "

....

"How much have you had to drink this evening?"
"Connecticut. *hurl*"

...

This is what we pay for.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:32 AM (+yhUM)

213 "Obama was actually a centrist because he pushed through insurance reform instead of single payer healthcare. With 60 votes in the Senate, he could have gotten Single Payer, but he was just too centristy to get it done, so we got a half-baked reform that was actually a huge payout to the insurance industry and didn't help enough. Also, we can't overturn the ACA because people will die."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

LMAO.. yeah that one is great.
Can't get anything past these people.

Posted by: Inogame at May 01, 2024 10:33 AM (53oGX)

214 Anyway, Happy Beltane to all!

Remember to tip your Morrismen so they can buy new bells.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:33 AM (MIKMs)

215 Do not take Beltane if you are allergic to Beltane.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:34 AM (9yWhg)

216 "Obama was actually a centrist because he pushed through insurance reform instead of single payer healthcare. With 60 votes in the Senate, he could have gotten Single Payer, but he was just too centristy to get it done, so we got a half-baked reform that was actually a huge payout to the insurance industry and didn't help enough. Also, we can't overturn the ACA because people will die."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

Let me see if I have this right... you're telling me an effort by government to solve a problem of the marketplace (if it is, indeed a problem), didn't work?

I can't believe it. I SHAN'T believe it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2024 10:35 AM (JpKqi)

217 "No, it's not slavery. The government will pay. Healthcare will be great. Like in Cuba."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

Doctor in Cuba: "So , we're removing Rodrigo's spleen today?"

Nurse: "Um, I thought it was his tonsils but sure his spleen too."

Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 10:36 AM (Oy/m2)

218 I'm just gonna say that I find it weird in retrospect that the far left of the Democrat Party didn't wake up to the corporate corruption of their party in 2009.

The insurance reform was a giant payoff to insurance corporations. It didn't actually make single payer, it just made it a law that everyone in the country must be a customer of the insurance industry.

And the party had 60 votes, so single payer was technically doable (setting aside any question of constitutionality). Throw in the fact that the whole thing was crafted at the highest levels of the party with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid all neck deep in the development and passage, and it's just got to be a wakeup call that the Democrat Party is actually fascist and not secretly socialist, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

219 Doctor in Cuba: "So , we're removing Rodrigo's spleen today?"

Nurse: "Um, I thought it was his tonsils but sure his spleen too."
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 10:36 AM (Oy/m2)

Patient: "Who's Rodrigo?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:37 AM (+yhUM)

220 Labor for others. Now. To not labor for others is to impede on their rights.

*******

Sure, The James Monroe. If you want a neurosurgeon who is willing to wrk for $20,000 a year, do you know what you'll get?

That's right. A neurosurgeon who is willing to wrk for $20,000 a year.

Neurosurgeon: Scalpel!
Nurse: Scalpel

Neurosurgeon: Retractor!
Nurse: Retractor

Neurosurgeon: Ice cream scoop!
Nurse: Say what?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:37 AM (l4B/J)

221 Democrat Party is actually fascist and not secretly socialist, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

And Bernie Sanders is a sadomasochist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:38 AM (+yhUM)

222 220 That's right. A neurosurgeon who is willing to wrk for $20,000 a year.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:37 AM (l4B/J)

========

It works in Canada which is why the public option is so great that no one even bothers to open private medical offices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

223 I expected dainty teacups.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc,, etc. at May 01, 2024 10:39 AM (XeU6L)

224 Throw in the fact that the whole thing was crafted at the highest levels of the party with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid all neck deep in the development and passage, and it's just got to be a wakeup call that the Democrat Party is actually fascist and not secretly socialist, right?
=====

A distinction without a difference.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:39 AM (MIKMs)

225 224 Throw in the fact that the whole thing was crafted at the highest levels of the party with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid all neck deep in the development and passage, and it's just got to be a wakeup call that the Democrat Party is actually fascist and not secretly socialist, right?
=====

A distinction without a difference.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2024 10:39 AM (MIKMs)

=======

Yeah, fascism and socialism are kissing cousins that have far more alike than differences.

However, the distinction, while unimportant to us because it's all bullshit statism, is super important to the far left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

226 Everything the government has ever done is about control. Control of the population in fact. Healthcare is just the most powerful control tool, and it wasn't just now invented, HIPPA, Affordable Healthcare Act, etc.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:40 AM (NxC5+)

227 201 Mother and child share a moment of quiet humor remembering drunk dad falling up and then down the stairs when he came home around 5 AM.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida

My Dad and I regularly reminisce about similar events over a nice bourbon some evenings. The best part is, Biden has another 8ish months left in office to do it some more.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 01, 2024 10:40 AM (JCZqz)

228 Holland might have been a good place to wind up. Everything always looks so clean and orderly.

Posted by: Paco at May 01, 2024 10:24 AM (njExo)

But Dutch is a foul-sounding language.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:41 AM (d9fT1)

229 The pictures of the frat boys in Chapel Hill raising and defending the US flag from the blue and purple haired scum in one for the ages.

Posted by: jmel at May 01, 2024 10:42 AM (RWHIh)

230 But Dutch is a foul-sounding language.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I bet it's sexy-sounding enough when Eva Vlaardingerbroek speaks it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

231 I always imagine that English sounds to non English speakers the way Dutch sounds to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:42 AM (+yhUM)

232 Neurosurgeon: Ice cream scoop!
Nurse: Say what?

Neurosurgeon:How else do you expect me to remove that tumor?

Neurosurgeon:Cone!
Nurse: Waffle cone or Sugar cone?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:43 AM (l4B/J)

233 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Interesting painting. I've been to Delft. Nice place.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2024 10:43 AM (W/lyH)

234 Doctor in Cuba: "So , we're removing Rodrigo's spleen today?"

Nurse: "Um, I thought it was his tonsils but sure his spleen too."
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2024 10:36 AM (Oy/m2)
Doc in Cuber-'okay, I'll cut here. Oops look at all this blood. What's that squishy pink thing? Is that the tonsil?'
Nurse- 'No, I think it's a lung. Let's see what that is behind it.'

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (NxC5+)

235 Healthcare, like any other good, is going to be rationed--either by government or by private means such as corporations.

Leftists want government to ration it because they believe that they will get more goodies because they basically do not understand how revenue does not equal profit. Some have a more evil motive in believing that the left will get to decide who gets health care and be able to deny people that they don't like for whatever the reason is du jour. Envy, resentment, and lust for power are the touchstones of the left and inevitably healthcare run by them will result in innocents dying either through delayed/denied treatment or ultimately as a cost saving measure.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (peJ7P)

236 I expected dainty teacups.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc,, etc. at May 01, 2024 10:39 AM (XeU6L)

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And suddenly it's a boobs thread ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (G/hXt)

237 "This is what we pay for.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Doctor:You should put the chips down, get off your ass and get some exercise and lose weight or you are headed to having diabetes.

Obese couch potato: That is hard, fat shaming and making me feel bad. Give me some pills and liposuction. It is my right.

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (JojsZ)

238 But Dutch is a foul-sounding language.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:41 AM (d9fT1)
====

Why is everyone always clearing the throat?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

239 I always imagine that English sounds to non English speakers the way Dutch sounds to me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I think it's a lot less monotone than other languages. I once saw an English textbook for Russian speakers. It had all kinds of arrows indicating rising or falling intonation on certain phrases. Not tones on individual syllables like in Chinese, but on groups of words. So that led me to believe that, at least to Russian ears, English sounds kinda sing-songy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

240 English sounds kinda sing-songy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

Which is funny because a lot of languages sound flat to me. Russian and Finnish in particular.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:47 AM (+yhUM)

241 But Dutch is a foul-sounding language.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:41 AM (d9fT1)
====

Why is everyone always clearing the throat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Unpopular opinion, I know, but I've always thought French was an ugly-sounding language. Italian and Spanish are way more pleasant-sounding.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (9yWhg)

242 Envy, resentment, and lust for power are the touchstones of the left and inevitably healthcare run by them will result in innocents dying either through delayed/denied treatment or ultimately as a cost saving measure.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (peJ7P)

--------------

"By 2030, you will be euthanized for the Good of The Collective and The State, and you will be happy.

Your sacrifice is appreciated, comradeds!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (bDb6L)

243 Why is everyone always clearing the throat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

********

They're Flemish!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (l4B/J)

244 241 Unpopular opinion, I know, but I've always thought French was an ugly-sounding language. Italian and Spanish are way more pleasant-sounding.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (9yWhg)

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I don't think this opinion is unpopular in the least.

There's a reason operas have this tendency to be in Italian rather than French (though there are definitely examples of the latter).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

245 Is Delft where they make that varnish stuff?

Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (a8zb2)

246 English sounds kinda sing-songy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

Which is funny because a lot of languages sound flat to me. Russian and Finnish in particular.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

So it would make sense that Russians would find English to be less so.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

247 244 241 Unpopular opinion, I know, but I've always thought French was an ugly-sounding language. Italian and Spanish are way more pleasant-sounding.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (9yWhg)

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I don't think this opinion is unpopular in the least.

There's a reason operas have this tendency to be in Italian rather than French (though there are definitely examples of the latter).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
I want an opera made up entirely of little brown people like that little guy in The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:52 AM (NxC5+)

248 There's a reason operas have this tendency to be in Italian rather than French (though there are definitely examples of the latter).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, I have to confess that my favorite opera (Carmen) is in French. But that's solely due to the excellence of the music.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

249 They're Flemish!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:49 AM (l4B/J)

*rimshot*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:52 AM (RIvkX)

250 The more whiny and melodramatic the better your Russian. I have been told many times I have an awful American accent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

251 English sounds kinda sing-songy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

English in Indians from India.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (hF4JZ)

252 246 So it would make sense that Russians would find English to be less so.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

Which language most screams "Badass Conqueror"?

Posted by: XTC at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (UnA8+)

253 The more whiny and melodramatic the better your Russian. I have been told many times I have an awful American accent.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

How did you learn Russian?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

254 Envy, resentment, and lust for power are the touchstones of the left and inevitably healthcare run by them will result in innocents dying either through delayed/denied treatment or ultimately as a cost saving measure.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2024 10:45 AM (peJ7P)

--------------

"By 2030, you will be euthanized for the Good of The Collective and The State, and you will be happy.

Your sacrifice is appreciated, comradeds!"
Posted by: ShainS

Take two or three with you. Every. Time.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (hF4JZ)

255 "Unpopular opinion, I know, but I've always thought French was an ugly-sounding language. Italian and Spanish are way more pleasant-sounding.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

Portuguese has a pleasant sound. Sort of soft, breezy, calming.

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (JojsZ)

256 Thankyouverymuchcomeagain

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:55 AM (RIvkX)

257 >Which language most screams "Badass Conqueror"?

Original Klingon.

Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2024 10:55 AM (SYTee)

258
I May Not Have Understood The Doctor

Do you suffer from achondroplasia?
Arthritis? Malaria? Aphasia?
Tumor? Pectoral an-gina?
Relax, just move to China
The cure for it all? Youth in Asia!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 01, 2024 10:55 AM (l4B/J)

259 University-trained

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:56 AM (RIvkX)

260 @244

>>There's a reason operas have this tendency to be in Italian rather than French (though there are definitely examples of the latter).

Ersatz Count Orsini-Rosenberg: Italian is the proper language for Opera, all educated people agree.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 10:56 AM (XV/Pl)

261 252 246 So it would make sense that Russians would find English to be less so.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

Which language most screams "Badass Conqueror"?
Posted by: XTC at May 01, 2024 10:54 AM (UnA8+)
The Hu.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 10:56 AM (NxC5+)

262 Although I learned from native speakers apparently whom were tortured listening to me although my grades were good

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:57 AM (RIvkX)

263 University-trained
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Cool. I started studying it in college, then joined the Navy after graduation and went to Monterey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:57 AM (9yWhg)

264 What is Holland?

https://youtu.be/fL4QfvIrUf4

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 01, 2024 10:57 AM (dg+HA)

265 Mongolian sounds pretty badass.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 10:57 AM (+yhUM)

266 Which language most screams "Badass Conqueror"?
------
The Hu.

I won't get fooled again.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2024 10:58 AM (sNc8Y)

267 No French

Opera is Italian or German

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:58 AM (RIvkX)

268 @264

>>What is Holland?

He's a slight, short British actor who's never going to play anything other than Spiderman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 10:58 AM (XV/Pl)

269 Opera is Italian or German
Posted by: San Franpsycho

German opera is hard to follow, since all the verbs are in the third act.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:59 AM (9yWhg)

270 на работу

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 11:00 AM (RIvkX)

271
*I May Not Have Understood The Doctor*

Is it lupus?

https://youtu.be/LNelnqsmnlM

Posted by: Another Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 01, 2024 11:00 AM (dg+HA)

272 "By 2030, you will be euthanized for the Good of The Collective and The State, and you will be happy.

Your sacrifice is appreciated, comradeds!"
Posted by: ShainS

Take two or three with you. Every. Time.
Posted by: rickb223
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Euroland and Canada are already at euthanizing time and Britain does it covertly through the NHS directives. Obammy had death panel guidance for Medicare created during his last term.

Nasty inhuman creatures that may seem pleasant to the unwise but are serving as Stan's minions on Earth.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2024 11:00 AM (peJ7P)

273 German opera is hard to follow, since all the verbs are in the third act.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 10:59 AM (9yWhg)
It takes a sturdy woman to wear the iron hat.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 11:01 AM (NxC5+)

274 Well, I have to confess that my favorite opera (Carmen) is in French. But that's solely due to the excellence of the music.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

My absolute favorite is The Rabbit of Seville.

"Youuuuuu neeeeed a shaaaaaave"

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 11:02 AM (hF4JZ)

275 To or not to that the question be be is

Posted by: German Hamlet at May 01, 2024 11:02 AM (+yhUM)

276 Opera is Italian or German
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You left out Loony Tunes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

277 Japanese seems to be object first.

It seems like a really weird language.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

278 Well, I have to confess that my favorite opera (Carmen) is in French. But that's solely due to the excellence of the music.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
-----
My absolute favorite is The Rabbit of Seville.
"Youuuuuu neeeeed a shaaaaaave"
Posted by: rickb223

*up twinkles*

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2024 11:03 AM (MsrgL)

279 It seems like a really weird language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 01, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

Japanese is all about learning the rules for when the rules about when the rules apply, apply.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 11:03 AM (+yhUM)

280 Japanese seems to be object first.

It seems like a really weird language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I understand that Godzilla speaks it with a heavy Ryukyuan accent.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 11:04 AM (9yWhg)

281 @277

>>It seems like a really weird language.

Between Russian, German or Japanese, I don't which language cuts the hardest, but I think Japanese has it by a Kimono.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2024 11:05 AM (XV/Pl)

282 Which language most screams "Badass Conqueror"?

Mongolian. Right around 1206 AD.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2024 11:05 AM (hF4JZ)

283 Monkey Nood.

Posted by: Pieter de Scheib at May 01, 2024 11:06 AM (PiwSw)

284 "Some of you aren't going to make it" is a fine pitch for a desperate charge into battle.

Not so much for a national healthcare policy framework.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2024 11:07 AM (+yhUM)

285 I confess I'm still learning English. I'm told it's one of the hardest languages to learn.

Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2024 11:07 AM (NxC5+)

286 Britain does it covertly through the NHS directives

I still can't believe they actually named one of their agencies NICE. Had the person in charge not read That Hideous Strength, or was the name choice a deliberate reference to flaunt their true motives?

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 01, 2024 11:07 AM (LLJRz)

287 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 01, 2024 11:07 AM (9yWhg)

288 But Dutch is a foul-sounding language.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2024 10:41 AM (d9fT1)
====

Why is everyone always clearing the throat?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2024 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

You're thinking of Phlegmish.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 01, 2024 11:10 AM (aD39U)

289 I mean, hell, that's basically the reason for the whole Civil Rights dealio.

Sure, that split has occurred before but I'd say the current split began then with the whole Dallas, "City of Hate" crap the Left pushed for years on end.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2024 10:10 AM (eDfFs)

It is almost like Woodrow Wilson never existed

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2024 11:15 AM (D7oie)

290 Delft is a beautiful city. It has an old Church (Oude Kirke) and a new Church (NeuwKirke) both of which are very oude. the older one has a leaning belltower. The new one is the burial place of the Kings and Queens of the Netherlands. You can climb up the belltower and look out at the flat farmlands and little cities. The Royal Porcelyne works, the last of the original Delft tile makers has a great museum and factory. For a small fee, you can paint your own tile. They will then fire it and it will be shipped to your home. There are canals that a quaint. The town square is borderd by the Neuwkirke and a guild-hall town hall building and stepped gabled townhomes and shops and bars. Nothing is better than sipping a Dutch beer in the Spring sun with lovely ladies walking about who don't need makeup. Very nice townsfolk.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 01, 2024 02:38 PM (LKMDZ)

291 Jackie Kennedy, whom I never heard speak until they had file films of her speaking after her death in 1994 shocked me as she did sound a little betarded......

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 01, 2024 02:43 PM (LKMDZ)

292 Delft tiles look great in kitchens as backsplashes over oven ranges or in bathrooms. Small murals inset into plaster walls or niches look good. Easy to clean. Indestructible.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 01, 2024 02:44 PM (LKMDZ)

293 One of the most Dutch buildings in America is the Harvard Lampoon Castle in Cambridge, MA on Mt. Auburn Street/ Bow Street about a block south of Massachusetts Ave. in Harvard Square. It was the only building built in the world as a joke. It is the only Flemish Renaissance castle in the shape of a Sphnix. It was built in 1909 by one of the 7 undergrad co-founders of the Lampoon in 1876, Edmund March Wheelwright. He later became the City Architect for Boston 1890-1895 and designed and constructed 65 municipal structures. He was the only person to hold that title. His works include the Longfellow Bridge, Larz Anderson Memorial Bridge, Washington Tower at Mt. Auburn Street Cemetary, Jordan Hall, the Fire Dept. Tower , Pathology lab building, entrances to the subways. The Lampoon was his last work before he died in 1912 in insane asylum. It houses the largest collection of antique 17th Cent. Delft tiles (7000+) outside of Netherlands. It houses a ton of archtectural jokes and optic illusions. It is also haunted. It was paid for in part by former Treasurer William R. Heast, (1886) who was expunged from the College for sending engraved chamber pots to all of his professors .

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 01, 2024 02:52 PM (LKMDZ)

294 Mom just called for a Big Pizza No Anchovies or Onions

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 01, 2024 05:53 PM (wGqjj)

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