Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Last Grenadier of Waterloo
Horace Vernet

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)

3 Not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)

4 I'll cull the otters.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

5 Thanks CBD

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (LY4Ug)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (sJHOI)

8 Is that his own blood on his pants and uniform jacket, or someone else's?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

9 "What have we done?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

10 "This is the last time I'm wearing white on the battlefield!"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (WXNFJ)

11 Last man standing then?

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (xhfG9)

12 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

13 8 Is that his own blood on his pants and uniform jacket, or someone else's?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

Yes.

Posted by: Kris at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (EwaUh)

14 I thought brown pants were standard.

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

15 Oh. Last man sitting.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (xhfG9)

16 Wasn't Vernet the painter that Sherlock Holmes claimed to be related to?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

17 Not sure ever saw this one,probably not in sny history books I have

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (LY4Ug)

18 "What have we done?!?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:31 AM

You know what you did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)

19 Dark. Moody. So why is the dude posed like he's in a cologne ad?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (xJpub)

20 The leftovers of the vainglorious.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (2fIO4)

21 Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
Nice!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

22
You know what you did.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (Wnv9h)

But that was LAST summer!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. That dudelooks like half the geezers I golf with by the 12th hole.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (W/lyH)

24 Dark. Moody. So why is the dude posed like he's in a cologne ad?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM

Look at your army...now look at mine...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (Wnv9h)

25 He looks pretty bummed out. Can't blame him.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

26 Oh, sure. Paint him. Nobody ever thinks about me. Sniff

Posted by: The first Grenadier of Waterloo at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

27 That's the thing about PTSD, you're stuck with your memories. You couldn't escape them if you wanted to.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

28 Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough grenades.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (xhfG9)

29 Dark. Moody. So why is the dude posed like he's in a cologne ad?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (xJpub)

*deep whispery voice*

Mirage.......

by Versace.

*fade to black*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

30 Look at your army...now look at mine...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

ISWYDT

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)

31 I like it. It makes me feel like I should give him a box of grenades. Gratis. It'll cheer him up.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

32 The guy's thinking, If I find the bastard who took my boot, I'm gonna kill 'em!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (W/lyH)

33 Dang. That dudelooks like half the geezers I golf with by the 12th hole.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 09:33 AM (W/lyH)

I look like that by then as well. You're only as old as you feel, they tell me......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

34 Dude's bummed out... no more grenades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

35 26 Ha!

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (MvF+J)

36 Got shoes?

Posted by: I could use a pair at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (dg+HA)

37 31 I like it. It makes me feel like I should give him a box of grenades. Gratis. It'll cheer him up.
Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

Life is like a box of grenades. You just don't know what you're gonna get.

Posted by: blaster at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (xhfG9)

38 Every puppy has his day,
Everybody has to pay,
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo.

Posted by: Stonewall Jackson at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (V5BDR)

39 I'm guessing this guy was on the losing side?

Kinda grim, would not hang

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

40 Napoleonic War - The last stand of the Old Guard at Waterloo

https://tinyurl.com/4r8jwp93
3:40 minutes; From the Waterloo movie.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

41 What do you do when there's no one left to kill?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

42 The Last Grenadier of Waterloo

I don't see an Grenadine or Grenades. Press X to doubt...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (ibTVg)

43 He looks tired and defeated. It's over, the glorious France he loved and served is over. He knows his country will never recover the power and prestige it once had. His emperor lost, not just the throne, but the whole country. It's over.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (4XwPj)

44 Got shoes?
Posted by: I could use a pair at June 18, 2024 09:35 AM (dg+HA)

This battle was NOT sponsored by Nike.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

45 I remember, for about a year in high school, everyone had a Vuarnet t-shirt. It was weird.

*squints*

Oh, Vernet. Never mind.

Posted by: spindrift at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (OguvZ)

46 Why is there a cross in the background? Interesting.

Posted by: dantesed at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

47 Waterloo? Does this mean he's the dancing queen?

Posted by: ABBA at June 18, 2024 09:37 AM (ibTVg)

48 He's going to need some hydrogen peroxide to get the blood stains out of his pants.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

49 Well, there's always next time...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2024 09:37 AM (XRpj3)

50 He isn't dressed for a waterpark, except for his shoes.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 18, 2024 09:37 AM (ZbweD)

51 Actually, instead of grenades, I should give him a backhoe. Gets right to the nub of the matter.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

52
Needs a dog to cheer him up. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (MoZTd)

53 I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself

Posted by: Abba at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

54 Oh, the red on the jacket shoulder is an epaulet. However, he was wouonded in the foot, see the bandage -- so I'd guess the splotch on his pants might be his own blood too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

55 Waterloo? Does this mean he's the dancing queen?
Posted by: ABBA

He IS the first in line, ya know, if you change your mind.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (xJpub)

56 He's going to need some hydrogen peroxide to get the blood stains out of his pants.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

Bleach. Then in 3 more washes, he'll have pants that every kid will want.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

57 He's waiting for Amazon Prime to deliver his first aid kit.

Posted by: dantesed at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

58 PSTD is a serious problem. Watched my Uncle struggle with it for 30 years. I work with a Marine sniper who came within a whim of sucking the muzzle. Saved by a phone call.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (pohLc)

59 Coffee black…cigarette….

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (+2IAU)

60 https://youtu.be/Sj_9CiNkkn4?si=ya37NNVFz15EbraS

obligatory

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2024 09:40 AM (/7KEl)

61 Victor Hugo, if I'm not mistaken:
La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas!
THE GUARD DIES, IT DOESNT SURRENDER

Actual reply:
Merde!
Golly! in American English.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (ZdexC)

62 Coffee black…cigarette….

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (+2IAU)

some broken hearts never mend

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (AwYPR)

63 the glorious France he loved and served is over.

No! Soon, it will be part of the Caliphate, and more glorious and powerful than ever!!!

Posted by: Millions of military-aged Muslim radicals settling in France at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (JCZqz)

64 At least he's got a real shovel and not one of those short folding pack shovels. Silver lining.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (MvF+J)

65 I like the mood of this. Vernet, a Frenchman, seems to be painting something personal. The hopes and promises of the resurrected Empire dashed. The pose of the soldier recalls the Durer work "Melancholia": https://shorturl.at/y2ELO. His weapons are scattered around and his uniform are torn and bloodied. To me, this represents the destruction of France's strength.

I don't think the cross has any religious significance. It think it is a grave marker. I also think that's a sunset in the background. These fit with the overall mood. The power of France died at Waterloo.

Posted by: Kris at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (EwaUh)

66 If you, or someone you know, was a grenadier at Waterloo, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (CwhoI)

67 PSTD is a serious problem. Watched my Uncle struggle with it for 30 years. I work with a Marine sniper who came within a whim of sucking the muzzle. Saved by a phone call.

As someone who has read a lot of military history I wonder how PTSD in the modern era where death is less direct compares with say the era where war meant trying to stab someone a couple of feet away with a sword or spear

Posted by: ABBA at June 18, 2024 09:42 AM (ibTVg)

68 He's menstruating

Posted by: dr kill at June 18, 2024 09:42 AM (SLmlm)

69 He's pining for the F150s.

Posted by: Ford Motor Company at June 18, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

70 PSTD is a serious problem. Watched my Uncle struggle with it for 30 years. I work with a Marine sniper who came within a whim of sucking the muzzle. Saved by a phone call.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 09:39 AM (pohLc)

Got a bud that's 24 year retired from the Corps. He's been out for almost a decade and is just now coming to grips with everything he's locked away over the years. Found out the hard way he's got cannabis induced psychosis or some such. He was using weed for pain management then would have horrific flashbacks. Once he learned all that, therapy worked wonders for him. He's a LOT better now. And no more weed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

71 Merde! So much for Napoleon's genius.

Posted by: huerfano at June 18, 2024 09:43 AM (VGOMa)

72 That's the face of a man who has experienced Hell and never, ever wants to go through that again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 09:43 AM (7fElN)

73
Should have had his The Dog of the Regiment Wounded instead.

https://tinyurl.com/43jev6fw

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 09:44 AM (MoZTd)

74 He looks like Sean Connery.

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 09:44 AM (oaGWv)

75 Needs a dog to cheer him up. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 09:38 AM (MoZTd)
*******
Yes, he does.
So sorry to hear about the death of one of your pups.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

76 short folding pack shovel

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:41 AM (MvF+J)

trenching tool

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

77 The guy's thinking, If I find the bastard who took my boot, I'm gonna kill 'em!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 09:34 AM (W/lyH)
---
The good news is there lots of empty boots around him...plenty of choices for replacements.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (7fElN)

78 "Sir- Napoleon was a pussy."

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (/7KEl)

79 On the left, a vulture twice the size of a man.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (MvF+J)

80 So today is that anniversary of the Battle of Warterllo, is it? I'm going to have to find a restaurant that serves beef Wellington.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (ZbweD)

81 Merde! So much for Napoleon's genius.

Picking a fight with the whole rest of Europe was not a good idea, but...that's not really Nappy's fault as he didn't choose to execute the old King.

But he did choose to invade Russia...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)

82 Love the sky.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

83 and why would you wear white pants to a Napoleonic war? You're gonna get dirty..

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2024 09:46 AM (/7KEl)

84 Which side?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 09:46 AM (8sMut)

85 We were hanging with Napoleon.
But then he got blown-apart.

Posted by: All the other grenadiers at June 18, 2024 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

86 He looks like Sean Connery.
Posted by: Tuna

I was thinking that too. Although maybe a bit Jason Momoa.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

87 Napoleon never should've left Corsicana.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

88 Why is he wearing Birkenstocks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (FVIA4)

89 Napoleon never should've left Corsicana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

I really like Corsicana. Of course, that may be due to the friends I've made down there at the MoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

90 He's French... bet he smells like shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (Q4IgG)

91
St. Crispin's Day Speech, Redux - a limerick

"We shall fight them in the hedgerows and the beaches"
(King Henry was known for troop-inspiring speeches)
On a pile of rubble he rose
Struck an mighty warlike pose
and panted, "Once more men, into your breeches!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (uCfKO)

92 72 That's the face of a man who has experienced Hell and never, ever wants to go through that again.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

We all know that face, vow never to make it again, and yet.....

Posted by: Guy sitting on the toilet at 2am after drunk eating WAY to much Taco Bell at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

93 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (FVIA4)

94 Should have had his The Dog of the Regiment Wounded instead.
--------
Very good.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (ZdexC)

95 Xipe Totec, I didn't mean to dismiss the reality of PTSD just to make a stupid ABBA reference. My mother was just a girl when one of her brothers came back from World War II. He seemed to go back to normal once he got married, but my aunt told us after he died that he still had nightmares every night.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (BHrzb)

96 Grenadier Teva was despondent until he looked at his feet and had an idea that would make him a mille-franc-onnaire.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (w9Wax)

97 "There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay"

Sorry. Not gay enough.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (fV+MH)

98 That's the face of a man who has experienced Hell and never, ever wants to go through that again.

But they did join right back up when Napoleon returned from Elba...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (ibTVg)

99 >>> The Last Grenadier of Waterloo

You'd think he would look happier.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (TDz4H)

100 His foot is going to have to be amputated.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

101 He's French... bet he smells like shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (Q4IgG)

b.o......and garlic

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (AwYPR)

102 90 Napoleon never should've left Corsicana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

I really like Corsicana. Of course, that may be due to the friends I've made down there at the MoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1
The foods better and they don’t cut off your whatever and pickle it.

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (+2IAU)

103 For the second day in a row, Director Blue has linked to Ace. When you access a post from ace.mu.nu/archive, the "Comments" link goes to minx.cc (i.e. dead) instead of to acecomments.mu.nu. Would be nice if Pixy could fix that.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (/y8xj)

104 I'm not trying to be an art critic but that guy's legs don't look like they go with his torso.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (fV+MH)

105 I always feel sad to watch old films of French troops cheering on the train headed for the trenches. No effin idea what awaits them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (pohLc)

106 That's the face of a man who has experienced Hell and never, ever wants to go through that again.

But they did join right back up when Napoleon returned from Elba...
Posted by: 18-1

Waterloo was after the return from Elba.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (v6JzV)

107 Able was I ere I saw Mable.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (fV+MH)

108 He's French... bet he smells like shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (Q4IgG)

Eau de Butthole.

At Macy's. Your fragrance destination.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

109 De agony of de feet.

Posted by: fd at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

110 "There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.

Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay"

Sorry. Not gay enough.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM

Needs more cowbell and glitter. But mostly glitter.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

111 And they came in the same old way

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 09:53 AM (8480Y)

112 So much for the 'glory' of battle. A dejected, wounded, hobbling survivor surrounded by a no-man's landscape. His now useless discarded armor in the mud along with the dead in the background. A stormy sky putting everything in shadow except the light of a new day. The dark earth tones are reflected in the dark sky. The realism of the soldier and the ground around him focuses the viewers attention on the subject. Then the background details start to come through completing the feel of the painting. It is a powerful image.

Posted by: JTB at June 18, 2024 09:53 AM (zudum)

113 Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (uCfKO)

*slow, awe-struck clap*

Posted by: Kris at June 18, 2024 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

114 His bio says Horace Vernet was an orientalist, but the fellow in this painting looks lost.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (wzAuc)

115 For decades after, dentures were called 'Waterloo teeth'

https://www.bbc.com/
news/magazine-33085031

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (ZdexC)

116 105 I'm not trying to be an art critic but that guy's legs don't look like they go with his torso.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:51 AM (fV+MH)

That's going to be an issue for the regimental.surgeon.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (ZbweD)

117 I'm on the course right now . The guy in the painting looks like me after my crappy chip on six

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (KhB32)

118 Needs more cowbell and glitter. But mostly glitter.

Rainbow flag with glitter and LED lights?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (8480Y)

119 114 It's diabolical, how he does that.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:54 AM (MvF+J)

120 This painting makes me think of Falstaff in Henry IV.

"What is
honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what
is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?
he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Doth he hear it? no. ‘Tis insensible, then. Yea,
to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
no. Why? detraction will not suffer it."

Posted by: JTB at June 18, 2024 09:55 AM (zudum)

121 Did you know Napoleon and his wife are buried next to each other?

They're only a Bonaparte

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2024 09:55 AM (NpAcC)

122 I can't hold it in any longer. I have to get this off my chest: That ABBA music video is so laaaaaame!

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 09:56 AM (MvF+J)

123 Waterloo was after the return from Elba.

Right, but the French had faced massive losses in return from Russia and then at Leipzig already and then they joined right back up for the Waterloo campaign...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 09:57 AM (ibTVg)

124 > Needs more cowbell and glitter. But mostly glitter.

Rainbow flag with glitter and LED lights?
----------
Chiffon and ruffles. Maybe some blush on the cheeks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2024 09:58 AM (Q4IgG)

125 I really like Corsicana. Of course, that may be due to the friends I've made down there at the MoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)
---
I really like the town as well. It's about the same size as the town I live in and has most of the same resources, so I feel very comfortable there.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 09:58 AM (7fElN)

126 trenching tool
Posted by: BignJames

*********

I always thought it should be called a 'trenchant' tool since it was used for cutting and penetrating.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 09:58 AM (uCfKO)

127 No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:58 AM (fV+MH)

128 Isn't every loo a waterloo?

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:59 AM (fV+MH)

129 Is this AI?

Posted by: GrenadierX at June 18, 2024 10:00 AM (M3pDV)

130 No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.

Shiny Pants, Shiny Pants, its THOT time in the city...

Posted by: Obligatory at June 18, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

131 Reading about wars from the era and how soldiers marched in formation against massed artillery just seemed insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

132 MSM forecasts extreme heat for N IL. They have blotchy red maps to prove it. Get this: 92degF. We're all gonna die. The quality of govt and media gaslighting has gotten even lamer than that ABBA video.

Posted by: gp's Sack O' Woe at June 18, 2024 10:02 AM (MvF+J)

133 When you access a post from ace.mu.nu/archive, the "Comments" link goes to minx.cc (i.e. dead) instead of to acecomments.mu.nu. Would be nice if Pixy could fix that.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 09:51
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I thought that was by design so trolls couldn't post on them.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 18, 2024 10:02 AM (ViCCR)

134 "There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay.
Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay"

Sorry. Not gay enough.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM

Needs more cowbell and glitter. But mostly glitter.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

Frankly, anyone who makes a proclamation about the wonders of homosexuality while not being actively sodomized is a poser.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (U7wke)

135 But they did join right back up when Napoleon returned from Elba...
Posted by: 18-1

*********

You asked for it:

NAPOLEONIC PALINDROME

My melancholy surely is showing
Off to exile alas I am rowing
Able was I ere I saw Elba, dear.
Now I don't know if I'm coming or going!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (uCfKO)

136
No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.

Did you mean, no video of those two girls in shiny pants is lamé?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (MoZTd)

137 132 Reading about wars from the era and how soldiers marched in formation against massed artillery just seemed insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

And still later, marching in mass against hundreds of water cooled machine guns even more insane.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (pohLc)

138 I've never seen any of Vernet's works, a search for his works shows he really knows how to paint people and horses.

Thank you CBD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2024 10:04 AM (pUmP9)

139 From the comments on that video..
Waterloo: French lost, British won, Swedes became famous.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:04 AM (4XwPj)

140 The Last Grenadier of Waterloo
Horace Vernet

The same soldier, same landscape, but a different position and in different tones are featured in:

Norton Simon (Museum) Org
A Soldier on the Field of Battle, 1818
Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)

A wounded grenadier of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard has just buried his fallen comrades in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo (1815). Beneath him, the hands and head of a slain soldier protrude from the bloodied soil. In the tradition of Romanticist painting, the solitary figure sits in a ruined landscape, absorbed by his melancholic thoughts. His inner grief is amplified by the turbulent sky, as the setting sun casts its last rays of light over the carnage.

Painted three years after the infamous battle that it depicts, this work garnered great sympathy and praise at the Paris Salon of 1819. Its success spurred Horace Vernet to produce three versions of the painting, one of which was purchased by the duc d’Orléans, the future king of France.

Also, Nov. '23, Apollo International Art Magazine wrote, "The Palace of Versailles houses the world’s largest collection of paintings by the artist Horace Vernet ..."

Thanks

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 18, 2024 10:05 AM (NFX2v)

141 Nobody remembers the Battle of Waterwhist.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

142 Napoleon says 'goodbye' to the soldiers of the Old Guard:
https://tinyurl.com/35hxsfy9
3:05 minutes; leaving for Elba

Waterloo (1970) ~Napoleon's Return to Power
https://tinyurl.com/mr4den42
9:06 minutes; the return from Elba

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:06 AM (ZdexC)

143 Reading about wars from the era and how soldiers marched in formation against massed artillery just seemed insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

And still later, marching in mass against hundreds of water cooled machine guns even more insane.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (pohLc)

In the first case I believe it was because artillery wasn't especially accurate and you were as safe in formation as out of it.

In the second case it was because generals grew up before machine guns and weren't actually leading the battles.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:06 AM (U7wke)

144 No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.
Posted by: eleven

https://tinyurl.com/5cnn3etx

If you're talking the highlights of the ABBA girls dancing, you can thank me later.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

145 Beneath him, the hands and head of a slain soldier protrude from the bloodied soil.

I don't see those.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:07 AM (v6JzV)

146 Waterloo: French lost, British won, Swedes became famous.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:04 AM (4XwPj)

The Bikini Team distracted the French and that was all she wrote.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:07 AM (U7wke)

147 Napoleon should have stayed in San Dimas.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 18, 2024 10:07 AM (T+Iwg)

148 ---
I really like the town as well. It's about the same size as the town I live in and has most of the same resources, so I feel very comfortable there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 09:58 AM (7fElN)

I absolutely LOVE Rancher Bob's place.

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

149 16 Wasn't Vernet the painter that Sherlock Holmes claimed to be related to?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)
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Yes, it was.

Also, it looks remarkably like what it says it's portraying, rather than spilt paint, or at best, a cartoon.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2024 10:10 AM (1bNHn)

150 Nobody remembers the Battle of Waterwhist.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:06 AM (v6JzV)

Or the battle of Waterworld.
*sniffs haughtily *

Posted by: Admiral Jacques at June 18, 2024 10:11 AM (W/lyH)

151 40 Napoleonic War - The last stand of the Old Guard at Waterloo

https://tinyurl.com/4r8jwp93
3:40 minutes; From the Waterloo movie.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

Not all die at once. Would be cleaner that way. Many linger.

Posted by: javems at June 18, 2024 10:11 AM (8I4hW)

152 It's only a flesh wound!

Posted by: scottst at June 18, 2024 10:11 AM (qcvs8)

153 Waterloo Waterloo
Where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day
Everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo...

Posted by: Zombie Stonewall Jackson at June 18, 2024 10:11 AM (XRpj3)

154 The Last Grenadier of Waterloo

"The Guard dies, but never surrenders."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:11 AM (Q0kLU)

155 *slow, awe-struck clap*
Posted by: Kris

**********

*kicks dirt*

Awwww thanks, Kris

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (uCfKO)

156 Ackbar, you magnificent bastard! What you do is hilarious. I have to click your links just to see what new goofiness you come up with.
You're awesome!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (4XwPj)

157
I absolutely LOVE Rancher Bob's place.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:10 AM

it truly is the happiest place on earth

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (bEb2S)

158 Off to Geezer Golf and playing with my putter. Later gang.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (W/lyH)

159 Sorry. Not gay enough.
Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 09:50 AM

Needs more cowbell and glitter. But mostly glitter.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

How about me? I'm FABULOUS as Doctor Who Cares?

Posted by: En-cutie Gatwa at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (8sMut)

160 I absolutely LOVE Rancher Bob's place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)
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Same here! Last year I found a nice corner for my chair and just parked myself there for much of the time. It was awesome.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (7fElN)

161 Last man ~~standing~~ sitting shell-shocked on the field of battle

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (d04cU)

162 Off to Geezer Golf and playing with my putter. Later gang.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2024 10:12 AM (W/lyH)

I've somehow broken my putter shaft inside the grip and can't find the right replacement, so I'll have to fix it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

163 The Prussians arrive! And the attack on the Old Guard.

https://tinyurl.com/tbf69enz
5:04 minutes; not the original soundtrack

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (ZdexC)

164 Frankly, anyone who makes a proclamation about the wonders of homosexuality while not being actively sodomized is a poser.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Samwell, in the 145 video link, comes as close to proving this as YouTube will allow lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

165 Beef Wellington > Neapolitan ice cream

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

166 " Waterloo: French lost, British won, Swedes became famous.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)"

It took me waaaay too long to get that joke.

I'm slippin man.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 10:13 AM (fV+MH)

167 Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

168 Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 09:49 AM (uCfKO)

What can I say? I'm trained to recognize and appreciate art.

Posted by: Kris at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (EwaUh)

169 137
No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.

Did you mean, no video of those two girls in shiny pants is lamé?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (MoZTd)

Let's not forget our good friend, the pencil skirt...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (8sMut)

170 I really like this artist's work. He didn't care for socialism as evidenced by this painting:

https://tinyurl.com/5d9rxds5

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (oaGWv)

171 Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

There are a few in your area that attend, so maybe hitching a ride might be in order.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

172 I thought that was by design so trolls couldn't post on them.

If that was the point, you could just not have the link at all.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 10:15 AM (/y8xj)

173 Frankly, anyone who makes a proclamation about the wonders of homosexuality while not being actively sodomized is a poser.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM (U7wke)
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You say this, but you don't mean it.

I seem to remember being FIRED for having the bravery to engage in the expression of my love while in a government building. Even coupling behind closed doors will result in the end of your career, and you want brave gays, queers, questioners, fluids and others to do so on TV in order to gain "legitimacy?"

How much trauma do you want us to accumulate to satisfy your sick obsession with our sex lives?

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski at June 18, 2024 10:16 AM (d04cU)

174 137
No video with those two girls in shiny pants is lame.
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Let's not forget our good friend, the pencil skirt...
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Behold my sensual paradox: revealing nothing, and everything, simultaneously.

Posted by: Tight Sweaters at June 18, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

175 Posted by: There Is Nothing More Important Than Being Gay at June 18, 2024 09:45 AM (8sMut)

That's enough.

The joke is getting old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (d9fT1)

176 Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (oaGWv)

Dayum!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (4XwPj)

177 The joke is getting old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (d9fT1)

This is about me, isn't it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

178 I've never seen this before now. I like it and would proudly hang it. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: creeper at June 18, 2024 10:18 AM (M6moH)

179 That's enough.

The joke is getting old.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Exactly! After 10 or 11, the thrill is gone...time to look for someone younger...

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:18 AM (JCZqz)

180 Behold my sensual paradox: revealing nothing, and everything, simultaneously.
Posted by: Tight Sweaters at June 18, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)
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Yup. The best women's apparel does exactly this. Modest but sexy. It's hard to pull off, but if you can do it, it's like having a superpower.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:18 AM (d04cU)

181 Did you mean, no video of those two girls in shiny pants is lamé?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2024 10:03 AM

Walk away to do work, and Hadrian beats me to it.

You gotta be quick around here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2024 10:18 AM (Wnv9h)

182 Chicago mayor blames city's problems on "systemic racism," appoints reparations task force

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Damn that systematic racism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

183 Now that we're past 100 comments:

Some Latina writer (parents both Socialists, according to Wikipedia) just wrote an article in the Atlantic that wanting to live in a quiet neighborhood is Racist. The good news is that she's getting torn apart on Twitter. The coup de grace came when someone quoted her saying that when she was writing her novel in 2020, she was in Brooklyn, but she couldn't handle the sirens twenty-four hours a day, so she had to move upstate!

Remember, this was during the first lockdown. I guarantee that the noise level was significantly reduced, yet the little hypocrite still couldn't handle it.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 18, 2024 10:20 AM (BHrzb)

184 Even coupling behind closed doors will result in the end of your career, and you want brave gays, queers, questioners, fluids and others to do so on TV in order to gain "legitimacy?"

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski at June 18, 2024 10:16 AM (d04cU)

Actually, I want them, and their "allies", to shut the fuck up. I didn't even know that guy's name. Good sock.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:20 AM (U7wke)

185 Damn that systematic racism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

It causes criminal blacks to kill other criminal blacks all while scooping up innocent black deaths in collateral damage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

186 I really like this painting, I had to go look at it on a bigger screen. It has so much going on from the dispare of the Grenadier to the ruin and desolation of the background. The sky adds much as it seems to me to be either showing an impending disaster or, given the sunlight, maybe hope/salvation. Anyway, thanks for posting this.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 18, 2024 10:21 AM (/B4Ic)

187 ...or in the form of a Tom Swifty:

"Once more into your breeches," King Henry panted.

"Not before I fold my underwear again," Tom replied briefly.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:22 AM (uCfKO)

188 Chicago mayor blames city's problems on "systemic racism," appoints reparations task force

Damn that systematic racism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Well, he's not wrong. Voters who only judge the candidate by the skin rather than the competence have succeeded in turning that city into a hell hole.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:22 AM (4XwPj)

189 "dispare"

whasis?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:23 AM (AwYPR)

190 This guy and the Last Mohican need to join forces.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Aoykm)

191 Behold my sensual paradox: revealing nothing, and everything, simultaneously.
Posted by: Tight Sweaters at June 18, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)
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Hence, the sundress.

Posted by: ballistic at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (oqH4h)

192 182 Chicago mayor blames city's problems on "systemic racism," appoints reparations task force

Pure genius. Nobel prize material.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (pohLc)

193 Vernet painted some nice portraits. There's one of a very lovely woman in black velvet dress with sleeves so puffy they could hold a couple of basketballs that is quite beautiful.

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (oaGWv)

194 Rabbis Press Dem Leader Schemer To Pass Bills To Combat Anti-Semitism

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Schumer is so Jewish he BBQs cheeseburgers. Poorly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

195 177 The joke is getting old.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (d9fT1)

This is about me, isn't it......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

THIS IS ABOUT ME, RIGHT?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (OiAR7)

196 ... Some Latina writer (parents both Socialists, according to Wikipedia) just wrote an article in the Atlantic that wanting to live in a quiet neighborhood is Racist. The good news is that she's getting torn apart on Twitter. The coup de grace came when someone quoted her saying that when she was writing her novel in 2020, she was in Brooklyn, but she couldn't handle the sirens twenty-four hours a day, so she had to move upstate! ...
Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 18, 2024 10:20 AM (BHrzb)
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Okay. So I'm a racist. I live in a nice, quiet neighborhood. You know who else lives there? Civilized people. You know what it isn't? A white christofascist ethnohood. I, believe it or not, have Asian, black and Latino neighbors. Shocking, I know. You may not believe me, but I promise it's true. The richer neighborhood around the corner is, amazingly, demographically identical. Staggering, innit? The poorer neighborhood in the other direction is - sit down for this, because it might bowl you over - the same! All three neighborhoods are quiet, peaceful and extremely low-crime.

The defining characteristic, however, is that we're all civilized.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (d04cU)

197 As someone who has read a lot of military history I wonder how PTSD in the modern era where death is less direct compares with say the era where war meant trying to stab someone a couple of feet away with a sword or spear
Posted by: ABBA at June 18, 2024 09:42 AM (ibTVg)

That's why they had religious cleansing rituals after ancient battles. It was a tool trying to prevent PTSD.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 10:25 AM (SHMXB)

198 My neighborhood is quiet. Good people. Lots of guns.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:26 AM (pohLc)

199 Well, he's not wrong. Voters who only judge the candidate by the skin rather than the competence have succeeded in turning that city into a hell hole.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:22 AM (4XwPj)

In fairness, they started with "slavish" devotion to a party which increasingly values incompetence. Following that with racist voting only decided the color of the idiot who would destroy their city.

Boston, for example, has an Asian incompetent running things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:26 AM (U7wke)

200 Boeing CEO to Face Senate Grilling

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Schumer is BBQing again?!!,

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

201 Chicago mayor blames city's problems on "systemic racism," appoints reparations task force

Pure genius. Nobel prize material.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:24 AM (pohLc

I wonder how a city could elect a series of black mayors when it's hampered by systemic racism.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 10:27 AM (SHMXB)

202 I fail to see how death is less direct when you are peering at his face through a 25 power scope while squeezing the trigger. Seems pretty direct. Not all combat is via smart bombs.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:28 AM (pohLc)

203 The defining characteristic, however, is that we're all civilized.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Excuse me detective, but.... How dare you. Civilization is racist! Please report to NSA Bob to schedule (pronounced in the British way) your reprogramming.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:28 AM (4XwPj)

204 Some Latina writer (parents both Socialists, according to Wikipedia) just wrote an article in the Atlantic that wanting to live in a quiet neighborhood is Racist. The good news is that she's getting torn apart on Twitter. The coup de grace came when someone quoted her saying that when she was writing her novel in 2020, she was in Brooklyn, but she couldn't handle the sirens twenty-four hours a day, so she had to move upstate!
Posted by: Pete in Texas
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pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism Jun 16
you can always tell who was actually poor and who's just an Ivy League shitlib LARPing because the latter romanticizes aspects of poverty that real poor people desperately want to escape.

when they think "noisy neighborhood," their mind conjures up some abuela playing tropipop out her breezy open window while she makes empanadas as a table of Chinese men laugh and play Mahjong on the street -- literal Hollywood movie shit.

in reality, the noise of poverty is the woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (ZdexC)

205 Boeing CEO to Face Senate Grilling

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Schumer is BBQing again?!!,
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

At least we know he'll be safe from heat......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

206 The chat lines are open!!

Posted by: Bob from NSA at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (Aoykm)

207 >>>189 "dispare"

whasis?
Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:23 AM (AwYPR)
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Well. Maybe it’s a word I made up. I sorta of knew it was wrong. Should be ‘despair”. I blame public school education.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (/B4Ic)

208 Lots of U.S. vets probably feeling like that Guardsman these days.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 18, 2024 10:30 AM (W+kMI)

209
Chicago mayor blames city's problems on "systemic racism," appoints reparations task force

That joke is getting old, too.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 10:30 AM (63Dwl)

210 Any reparations task force

If they stall a few years, the large majority of people who would be in line for such reparations would be the more recent immigrants, some legal but the majority not.

After all, Colonialism.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 18, 2024 10:30 AM (NFX2v)

211 One: Schumer looks stupid standing in front of a grill with raw meat and what looks like pre-cooked hot dogs, with a cheese slice on a raw burger.

Two: The fact that someone snapped and shared the photo not realizing how f*cking stupid they looked makes it even worse.

But they're in touch with the pulse of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

212 OK, everybody! Mask up and shut up!

Here We Go Again? Ex-CDC Chief Warns Of Potential Bird Flu Pandemic Caused By Gain Of Function Research

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

213 Yup. The best women's apparel does exactly this. Modest but sexy. It's hard to pull off, but if you can do it, it's like having a superpower.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June

I've tried telling my 23 yo twin nieces that leaving something to the imagination is sexier than dressing like tramps. But. It's what young women do now. Even in a "professional " atmosphere. It's gross.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (CyLsy)

214 167 Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:14 AM (
Ship yourself. Don’t forget air holes and water!

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (+2IAU)

215 Waterloo?

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: 320 Million dollar Gaza Pier Boondoggle at June 18, 2024 10:32 AM (w9Wax)

216 Dispute is the one you try to pick up. 7-10 is the hardest.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 18, 2024 10:32 AM (4780s)

217 Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (/B4Ic)

at least you know someone is reading your posts.

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:32 AM (AwYPR)

218 Wear the damn masks!!

Posted by: Larry Hogan of Maryland at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (dg+HA)

219 Here We Go Again? Ex-CDC Chief Warns Of Potential Bird Flu Pandemic Caused By Gain Of Function Research
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

So, by all means, don't do ANYTHING about the gain of function research that's DESTROYING HUMANITY.

Assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

220 "Boeing CEO to Face Senate Grilling "

"Hey...aren't you the guy that killed that guy?"

Posted by: Senator Norm MacDonald at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (fV+MH)

221 OK, everybody! Mask up and shut up!

Here We Go Again? Ex-CDC Chief Warns Of Potential Bird Flu Pandemic Caused By Gain Of Function Research
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
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You know what's *really* gonna suck?

When eventually, there's a real, extremely dangerous, deadly and virulent outbreak, nobody is going to listen to them. The boy has cried "wolf" and now, even if the next one actually *is* what it's billed as, people will ignore the boy.

Great job, guys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (d04cU)

222 "Potential Bird Flu Pandemic Caused By Gain Of Function Research"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

They can just say "bioweapon" for short

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (EA5hs)

223 "When she started out discussing The Sopranos at length, I was puzzled where she was going. But, that's our Rachel: start off discussing the Peloponnesian War and tie it all to Spiro Agnew."
--'
The DU folks never cease to impress me with their willingness to expose their ignorance and credulity (as long as it's an approved voice).

I once tired Red River (with John Wayne and Montgomery Cliff) to the Aeneid through Dido and Tess. It ain't that hard to tie disparate items together.
But relevance is the key.
And "these people in history did bad things so that proves Trump/Republicans/conservatives are bad" isn't an insight.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (R7LBw)

224 Two: The fact that someone snapped and shared the photo not realizing how f*cking stupid they looked makes it even worse.

Probably even someone who works for Chuckles' "Social Media Outreach Team" or whatever whose whole job is to understand how to communicate to the rubes.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (/y8xj)

225 Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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It's very much worth any travel trouble/hassle to get there.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (iZbyp)

226 Whistleblowers: John Kerry Used Government Email Alias as Secretary of State

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Mr. Ed?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

227 When eventually, there's a real, extremely dangerous, deadly and virulent outbreak, nobody is going to listen to them. The boy has cried "wolf" and now, even if the next one actually *is* what it's billed as, people will ignore the boy.

Great job, guys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (d04cU)

I'm already there. I have so little faith in the medical community at this point, I worry about what they're going to do to my wife.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

228 F#kin' auto wharever. Dispare.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (4780s)

229 When eventually, there's a real, extremely dangerous, deadly and virulent outbreak, nobody is going to listen to them. The boy has cried "wolf" and now, even if the next one actually *is* what it's billed as, people will ignore the boy.

Great job, guys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Some have speculated that that's the intent of the TPTB. To decrease world population, doncha know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)

230 JD Vance is dangerous to everyone - including TFG. He is a mini-TFG. He will use anyone for his personal profit. He is telegenic, a quick talker and comes off as well-informed. He is a veteran, graduated Yale Law school, worked with republican politicians, worked with Peter Thiel as a venture capitalist. He is smart and dangerous.

He is using TFG and I don’t think TFG knows it. Vance is running for president, and unlike Pence, he has the brains to work around TFG to run the show.

Your points are spot on. As Trump continues to fall apart, beware the dark horse a desperate GOP could well end up running.

all VP candidates are using him. They’ve made the calculation he’ll likely suffer some mental or physical breakdown while in office and they will become president.

unlike the other sycophants, Vance will exert real power. TFG may be the face, but his cognitive decline opens a door that Vance will walk through and TFG might not even recognize it. TFG will read his pile of news clippings while Vance powers through the policy initiatives.

Kevin Roberts of the diabolical Heritage Foundation recommended Vance to Trump.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

231 I grew up in a village called Waterloo.

It's weird when you're a kid and you live in a place with a famous name that has zero connection to said fame.

Guess that's what it would be like to be Frank Sinatra Jr.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (KbCG3)

232 One: Schumer looks stupid standing in front of a grill with raw meat and what looks like pre-cooked hot dogs, with a cheese slice on a raw burger.

Two: The fact that someone snapped and shared the photo not realizing how f*cking stupid they looked makes it even worse.

But they're in touch with the pulse of the people.
----
Catturd ™ @catturd2 19h
More proof .. and always remember ...

Everything Democrats do is a lie.
Everything Democrats do is staged.
Everything Democrats do is a fraud.
Everything Democrats do is only for the cameras.
Every Democrat graph or model is fake.
Every Democrat poll is made-up.
Every Democrat bill is a bait-and switch scam.
Every Democrat statistic is fudged.
Every Democrat media outlet is propaganda.

https://tinyurl.com/3xwpwkyu
screencap of associated lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (ZdexC)

233 If it weren't for old jokes we'd have no jokes at all.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (uCfKO)

234 The guy in the painting is thinking ' I guess I'll just go and get some waffles now'

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 10:36 AM (SHMXB)

235 225 Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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It's very much worth any travel trouble/hassle to get there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (iZbyp)

Seconded.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (8sMut)

236 Just went through Corsicana on Sunday. A nice little town. Until the Horde runs amok.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (Aoykm)

237 Probably even someone who works for Chuckles' "Social Media Outreach Team" or whatever whose whole job is to understand how to communicate to the rubes.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (/y8xj)
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But you can be sure that person is himself also *not* a rube.

Rubes are foreigners. Savages from the interior who need direction and it's merely unfortunate circumstance that the betters have to pretend to try to appeal the rubes.

They *all* cosplay when it comes to rubeism. It's all they can do. It's the same reason why politicians wear the new flannel shirts and blue jeans when they go to the Iowa State Fair and why folks like Liz Warren pretend to be regular 'ole beer-drinkers despite not knowing how to drink from a longneck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (d04cU)

238 Remember John Effing Kerry eating a hot dog?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 18, 2024 10:38 AM (2OJI2)

239 Armie Hammer Speaks Out On "Bizarre" Cannibalism Claims, Compares Accusations To A "Neutron Bomb" Going Off In His Life

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Just don't ask Schumer to grill them for you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

240 Some have speculated that that's the intent of the TPTB. To decrease world population, doncha know.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)
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They're late to the party. That's happening anyway and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

As always with them, it won't go as planned. They envision an orderly subjugation and slaughter. They'll get piecemeal collapse that eventually drags them down, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:38 AM (d04cU)

241 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

Someone got a hard on for JD...huh?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

242 Imagine being Jesus Jr.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (fV+MH)

243 I'm already there. I have so little faith in the medical community at this point, I worry about what they're going to do to my wife.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Cancer treatment is VERY expensive. I want to say that my wife's was somewhere near $1M - or maybe that was what insurance pre-authorized, it's been a few years. They want people to have a good outcome from stuff like that so potential customers don't stay away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (U7wke)

244 exdem13

I know of one Army Guard company that is supposed to have 138 bodies, they have less than 40.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (8480Y)

245 Just don't ask Schumer to grill them for you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
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Yeah, if there's one meat you probably *really* want to be cooked thoroughly/well-done, it's the most dangerous game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (d04cU)

246 in reality, the noise of poverty is the woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:29 AM (ZdexC)

Traffic. Constant traffic.

And the noises that nobody addresses. You hear shouting on the street and it sounds like a fight. You expect to hear sirens but nope, nobody cares or is bothered by it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (KbCG3)

247 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

Joe Biden said the same thing when he found out his uncle was eaten by cannibals.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (Aoykm)

248 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM

These lunatics can't come up with anything on their own. It's political appropriation and projection 24/7.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (SHMXB)

249 That girl doesn't want people trying to move to quiet neighborhoods because she doesn't want them in hers.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (EA5hs)

250 WTF is 'chili'? And what are those orange things in it??

Posted by: theresa heinz-kerry at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (ZdexC)

251 "Remember John Effing Kerry eating a hot dog?

Posted by: nurse ratched"

I do remember him catching a football. Yikes.

Posted by: eleven at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (fV+MH)

252 .. he woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.

... the slums got so much soul

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (TDz4H)

253 241 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

Someone got a hard on for JD...huh?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

At least they're being quick about their whole, "Trump is bad but THIS GUY is wayyyyyy worse!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:40 AM (KbCG3)

254 Just went through Corsicana on Sunday. A nice little town. Until the Horde runs amok.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (Aoykm)
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That makes the town better!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 10:41 AM (7fElN)

255 Boeing CEO to Face Senate Grilling
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Schumer is BBQing again?!!,
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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LOL

Posted by: scampydog at June 18, 2024 10:41 AM (2bFN5)

256 Think it was more than 20 years ago ran across a study showing the population decline was already happening.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (8480Y)

257 My next book to get will probably bel Waterloo Casualties by Paul Dawson

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (LY4Ug)

258 PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS IN RACINE, WISCONSIN – 6/18/24 4PM ET

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (bQ/08)

259 Someone got a hard on for JD...huh?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

At least they're being quick about their whole, "Trump is bad but THIS GUY is wayyyyyy worse!"

They somehow neglected to call him a Nazi. Do better, Dems.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (xCA6C)

260 despite not knowing how to drink from a longneck.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (d04cU)

Piker

Posted by: Kamala at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (EA5hs)

261 Jean Francois Cary in a baby blue bunny suit has entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (8480Y)

262 blaster - thanks for posting the revealing quote of Dr. Ferris from Atlas Shrugged. It's been 40 years since I read it

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (qSaAg)

263
Just went through Corsicana on Sunday. A nice little town. Until the Horde runs amok.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM

congregating in the HEB parking lot....

buying up all the glass bottle Dr.Pepper at Walmart...

hooligans, the lot of'em

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (bEb2S)

264 - hmmm, someone rubbed a certain nerve till it got raw or someone else hasn't had an opportunity to throw their weight around for a while?

Posted by: TeeJ at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (aDAOz)

265 Piker
Posted by: Kamala at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (EA5hs)
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I said "drink from" - as in, the traditional sense. Not being able to shove the neck beyond your tonsils and letting it pour directly into your stomach.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (d04cU)

266 Just went through Corsicana on Sunday. A nice little town. Until the Horde runs amok.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:37 AM (Aoykm)

Pshaw. The Annual Amok Run is held in nearby Angus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (U7wke)

267 Obama's various attempts at sportsball should have been disqualifying all by themselves. Let's just say his throws were a good celebration of Pride Month.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (EA5hs)

268 In addition to learning how to look like a normal human being Chuckles Schumer needs a manzier.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (JLq/1)

269 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2024 10:41 AM (7fElN)

The ammo shops certainly feel that way in Corsicana.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Aoykm)

270 https://tinyurl.com/3xwpwkyu
screencap of associated lie.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (ZdexC)
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If there's a living embodiment of Satan it's this guy. Every time I see him it looks like he's ready to eat someone's soul.

Posted by: ballistic at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (oqH4h)

271 They somehow neglected to call him a Nazi. Do better, Dems.

"Can't call him a Nazi because that would make him sound better than he is!"
-- DU

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (/y8xj)

272
The woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.

... the slums got so much soul

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Is that what they call "keepin' it real?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (63Dwl)

273 Tom Brady Showered In Boos As He Makes His Broadcast Debut

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They booed Tom Brady?!!! Madness! Madness!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

274 They somehow neglected to call him a Nazi. Do better, Dems.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (xCA6C)

Owing to their newfound hatred of Jews, added to their desire for war on the Russian Front and government control of industry, they've become uncomfortable hurling that around in fears that many Dem voters will switch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:45 AM (U7wke)

275 Tom Brady Showered In Boos As He Makes His Broadcast Debut ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:45 AM (L/fGl)
++++
Expected: showered in booze
Received: showered in boos

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:45 AM (d04cU)

276 in reality, the noise of poverty is the woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC)
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Lived in places like that as a student. Never again if I can help it.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (/0X3E)

277 265 Piker
Posted by: Kamala at June 18, 2024 10:42 AM (EA5hs)
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I said "drink from" - as in, the traditional sense. Not being able to shove the neck beyond your tonsils and letting it pour directly into your stomach.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:43 AM (d04cU)

One can just imagine what she'd do with a bottle of wine.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (N39Ws)

278 ...Speaking of Corsicana, I looked it up last night. I'm tempted to go to the Texas meet-up, but I don't want to fly and it's much too far to drive. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Berserker drives in every year, all the way from New Jersey. Got a couple of New York Horde in the mix, too.

You got a longer drive than this?

Hell, a year or so back, I drove from here to Indianapolis for the NRA Annual Meetings. About 1,100 miles. And that's (roughly) about HALF the distance to New Jersey from here.

Make the drive. You can do it. And, you can bring your guns, your gear, and not have to obey the accursed TSA.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (e6UQI)

279 I recall a "professor" just spitting out the word "Meritocracy". She was enthused about recycled sweaters as a way to reduce plastic pollution. This was a long, long time ago. I pointed out that plastic is made with a catalytic or chemicals and don't necessarily lend themselves to being melted down and re-used. It isn't that simple.

Further discussions revealed that they were priced about $400 a piece, which I allowed was probably not going to work. The point here - "Meritocracy" - or evaluating people or employees based on proficiency and competence, what people can do, by the inversion of what people are.

People aren't interchangeable meat sticks to be plugged in, it doesn't work like that. It's a twisted philosophy and should be rejected but it is too loathsome to contemplate for most, so it is ignored. But ignoring it is no longer possible.

Carving out untouchables based on certain characteristics. Jerry in a Dress, well ya can't fire him no matter how much carnage he brings. Just transfer him somewhere else until they can't stand him any longer. It's a big shit sandwich, everybodys gotta take a bite.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (d2aM4)

280 Fauci also throws like a girl. Coincidence?

Trump had a decent first pitch...an actual athelete.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (Z8Yh2)

281 A flea and a fly in a flue - a limerick

The CDC yells out "Bird Flew!"
and causes a hullaballoo
But I have to ask why
Get upset that they fly
When it's kinda what birds aways do

(*except Big Penguin)

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (uCfKO)

282 I had to go in the high school in the fall to bring something to the girl spawn. it was lunch time. Out in the commons were a bunch of kids chilling out and chatting. I noticed the guys were on one side and the girls sitting across from them. Girls yapping and shifting around. Guys just chatting quietly and glancing over at the girls.
Two of the girls stood up to leave and I realized what was going on. Those skirts were short enough to be obscene!
My girl spawn arrived, dressed neatly in a pencil skirt with a tucked in blouse and a vest with black heels. While I was talking to her I saw several of the guys just outright turn their heads to check the girl spawn bottom line as she stood there.
Our girl is only 4'10" but she has a proportional hourglass figure that the tall thin girls do not have. She also left some to the imagination. The guys kept watching as she walked away then settled back to glancing occasionally at the short skirts.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (4XwPj)

283 I couldn't deal with Atlas Shrugged. I don't think allegory is supposed to be spelled out like a dictionary.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (EA5hs)

284 Why'd they boo Brady? Normal sports rivalry stuff, or is he on someone's shit list for some reason?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (d04cU)

285 Why do Democrats have such trouble acting like they're human?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (JLq/1)

286 >>> So, by all means, don't do ANYTHING about the gain of function research that's DESTROYING HUMANITY.

Assholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F

It's not the the manipulated virii.ppulated virii into the wild.

It is the gene altering shots they force the masses to take because they released mani

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (TDz4H)

287 Related to 210, above.

Undocublack Network @ undocublack dot org

And also DACA.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

288 276 in reality, the noise of poverty is the woman next door screaming while she's getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC)
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Lived in places like that as a student. Never again if I can help it.
Posted by: whig at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (/0X3E)

I had a neighbor who would get blind-assed drunk and shout every profanity known to man kind. Had several neighbors in the same building who were quite amorous and not ashamed who heard it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

289 MP4, you could probably find a travel companion for at least part of the way.

Last year, a couple of NoVa Morons picked me up in SC and we shared driving & gas costs from there.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 18, 2024 10:48 AM (iZbyp)

290 ... the slums got so much soul

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Nope. Individuals in the slums, just like everyone else, have a soul and humans in general can get used to some pretty awful things.

Doesn't make a slum good or beautiful though. People can be that pretty much everywhere.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2024 10:48 AM (/0X3E)

291 Why do Democrats have such trouble acting like they're human?

Assuming facts not in evidence.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (8480Y)

292 Russian Joke

Joe Stalin is traveling in a train. The train becomes stuck.
Stalin says "get rid of the engineers and replace them with the proletariat."
The train starts moving again.
Nikita Khrushchev is traveling in a train. The train becomes stuck.
Khrushchev says "bring back the engineers, they knew what they were doing."
The train starts moving again.
Leonid Brezhnev is traveling in a train. The train becomes stuck.
Brezhnev says "pull down the shades and pretend the train is still moving."

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

293 Absolutley would hang.
I need a print of this.
Morning all.

Better get off this thing and go find my next job.
Later.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (xcIvR)

294 I couldn't deal with Atlas Shrugged. I don't think allegory is supposed to be spelled out like a dictionary.
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (EA5hs)
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I am pretty sure Rand's thought process on that one was along the lines of, "since you people missed the point of the book that wasn't about an architect, I'm going to beat you over the head with the blunt end of the premise with a book that isn't about a railroad."

It isn't subtle. Its villains, however, are pretty accurately represented.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (d04cU)

295 If there's a living embodiment of Satan it's this guy. Every time I see him it looks like he's ready to eat someone's soul.
Posted by: ballistic at June 18, 2024 10:44 AM (oqH4h)

All I can imagine is that he's looking at a crowd chanting Kali Ma.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (EA5hs)

296 226 Whistleblowers: John Kerry Used Government Email Alias as Secretary of State

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Mr. Ed?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

Bet 5 bucks he used Richard Windsor

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 18, 2024 10:49 AM (OiAR7)

297 285 Why do Democrats have such trouble acting like they're human?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (JLq/1)

This has always cracked me up. The act of grilling confounds them.

They don't even know how to operate in the presence of a sneeze guard. Look at how many pics there are of them pointing over it.

These pod demons are hilarious.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

298 >>>Some have speculated that that's the intent of the TPTB. To decrease world population, doncha know.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Well let us see what the old Georgia Guides tones say about that...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2024 10:50 AM (TDz4H)

299 288-try tuba practice, yes tuba. Tweakers looking for something in the car at 3am also good.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:50 AM (Z8Yh2)

300 285 Why do Democrats have such trouble acting like they're human?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (JLq/1)

Democrats these days are led by psychopaths and sociopaths. Why would you expect normal civilized behavior?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (pohLc)

301 Taral Patel, 30, a candidate for county commissioner in Fort Bend, Texas, was charged for -allegedly- publishing a series of racist posts against himself using fake social media accounts.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (bQ/08)

302 The guys kept watching as she walked away then settled back to glancing occasionally at the short skirts.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2024 10:46 AM (4XwPj)

When everyone shows it off all the time it loses a lot of the allure. If you're one of the fellas they'll never consider it loses the rest.

These girls just don't understand that they make themselves worthless like this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (U7wke)

303 Hertz Keeps Charging Tesla Renters Hundreds Of Dollars For Not Filling Up Gas

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

304 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

Someone got a hard on for JD...huh?
Posted by: BignJames

If you mean me...I don't really know where the guy stands on anything. I know I've seen his name on VP shortlists. Was surprised to see DU bringing him up so specifically...and hoping it would spur discussion here to help form my understanding.

This analysis at DU made me chuckle: Haley & Vance are the 2 I hope Trump DOESNT pick. I really hope he picks according to his ego not wanting to be upstaged. Either of those 2 are going to get more attention than he would want

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

305 I had a neighbor who would get blind-assed drunk and shout every profanity known to man kind. Had several neighbors in the same building who were quite amorous and not ashamed who heard it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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When I lived in DC as a yute, I lived in cheap apartments behind the Supreme Court building and that version of DC was in the 'good' ole days of rampant street crime and deranged substance abusing street people that you had to fend off to go to work on Capitol Hill.

I've lived in similar digs when attending universities and none of them are particularly pleasant day to day.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (/0X3E)

306 At least the hot dogs in the Schumer pick look like they were cooked correctly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 18, 2024 10:52 AM (v6JzV)

307 Technically, from a purely anatomic standpoint, you have to get the bottle past your epiglottis in order to pour it directly into your stomach, not just past your tonsils.

Unless you're going for a lung full of beer.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:52 AM (uCfKO)

308 It's not the the manipulated virii.ppulated virii into the wild.

It is the gene altering shots they force the masses to take because they released mani
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (TDz4H)

Ain't nobody getting a royalty check because of the virus. -- Tony "Science" Fauci

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:53 AM (U7wke)

309 Why do Democrats have such trouble acting like they're human?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:47 AM (JLq/1)
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Because they're not. Neither are most Republicans. This isn't a party thing, it's a politician thing.

They're from a different country. They don't know how this one works, what its people do for leisure, or anything about its inhabitants. We have no common background. I stick out like a sore thumb when I visit a foreign country, too. It's really no different in essence.

The difference is that I don't pretend to be Irish when I go to Ireland. I just accept that I'm an outsider. But I also am not trying to rule them under the false cover of being one of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:53 AM (d04cU)

310 I just came across a clip of a scene some crappy movie called Taxi from 2004 where Gisele frisks another lady.

I highly recommend the men here watching this scene only. And if you don't wind it back and watch it again then I don't think I know you.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:53 AM (EA5hs)

311 These girls just don't understand that they make themselves worthless like this.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (U7wke)
Modern "feminism" and it's associated hook up culture are destroying millions of gullible women. Yes, it makes them worthless to men.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (pohLc)

312 Very powerful painting and the colors are very nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (XkYcA)

313 Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:52 AM (uCfKO)

Shut up Wesley

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (EA5hs)

314 Berserker drives in every year, all the way from New Jersey. Got a couple of New York Horde in the mix, too.

You got a longer drive than this?

Northeastern MA, just at the NH state line.

I'm supposed to be hitting the range with RMBS next Saturday, so perhaps he and I will talk strategery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)

315 I grew up in a village called Waterloo.

It's weird when you're a kid and you live in a place with a famous name that has zero connection to said fame.

Guess that's what it would be like to be Frank Sinatra Jr.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:35 AM (KbCG3)

There was a tractor called a "Waterloo Boy". I think they got bought out by John Deere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (TUjON)

316 Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (JLq/1)

317 Retail sales rise 0.1% in May from April as high inflation curbs spending

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (bQ/08)

318 You know what's *really* gonna suck?

When eventually, there's a real, extremely dangerous, deadly and virulent outbreak, nobody is going to listen to them. The boy has cried "wolf" and now, even if the next one actually *is* what it's billed as, people will ignore the boy.

Great job, guys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:33 AM (d04cU)

This is my concern as well. It's weird seeing the world set itself up for Revelation-style disease and famine body counts.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (XjtdB)

319 Cancer treatment is VERY expensive. I want to say that my wife's was somewhere near $1M - or maybe that was what insurance pre-authorized, it's been a few years. They want people to have a good outcome from stuff like that so potential customers don't stay away.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:39 AM (U7wke)

Yeah, but how shitty is that. They're causing cancers with medications they release so they can make more money attempting to cure the cancers they caused.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Tom replied briefly.

Ah, a sighting of the rare double-Swifty

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (uCfKO)

321 Nothing hotter than a pretty girl tugging on the too short skirt she is wearing...not.

Woman really have been led astray.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Z8Yh2)

322 Each time I see 'the griller' pic I read what he said and wonder why he's trying to poison his daughter and family after she finally was able to afford a house.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (pUmP9)

323 Actual reply:
Merde!
Golly! in American English.
Posted by: andycanuck

There is a street in New Orleans named after General Cambronne, who said that.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse connait at June 18, 2024 10:56 AM (BbopU)

324 This is my concern as well. It's weird seeing the world set itself up for Revelation-style disease and famine body counts.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (XjtdB)
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It's been my concern since they started going insane over the flu outbreaks in the early 2010s. Bird flu, swine flu, H1N1. Always the end of the world, never true.

Then they destroyed *all* credibility with COVID. They're 0-4 on the last four "end of the world" outbreaks. The world ended with COVID, but not due to the disease - *they* ended it by policy. It was a 1-2 punch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:56 AM (d04cU)

325 316 Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (JLq/1)

Exactly. Who the hell put cheese on the uncooked side of a burger? Was this a troll of the right. Double fake by Schumer and the dems to own the repukelicans?

Watch Schumer put Mayo on his hot dog.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 18, 2024 10:57 AM (OiAR7)

326 "Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?"

Turns out we are as stupid as they think.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:57 AM (Z8Yh2)

327 Tom replied briefly.

Ah, a sighting of the rare double-Swifty
Posted by: Muldoon

Spotted with owl-like vision

Posted by: Le Mikleuse est present at June 18, 2024 10:57 AM (BbopU)

328 If you mean me...I don't really know where the guy stands on anything.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

No, no, not you...was alluding to the author(s)

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

329 If people were going to stop listening to leftard pronouncements they would have done it by now.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (EA5hs)

330 A Boeing 737-800 jet was bound for Melbourne, with 67 passengers and six crew members on board, when the engine fire forced a diversion to Invercargill Airport
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DEI

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (bQ/08)

331 321 Nothing hotter than a pretty girl tugging on the too short skirt she is wearing...not.

Woman really have been led astray.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Z8Yh2)

As I've said to my wife a thousand times, to no avail, there is nothing sexier than a sundress.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

332
I'm supposed to be hitting the range with RMBS next Saturday, so perhaps he and I will talk strategery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)

DO IT!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

333 311 These girls just don't understand that they make themselves worthless like this.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:51 AM (U7wke)
Modern "feminism" and it's associated hook up culture are destroying millions of gullible women. Yes, it makes them worthless to men.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (pohLc

We don't need no man!

Posted by: Howling BBC Feminist Manifesto Choir at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (OiAR7)

334 Retail sales rise 0.1% in May from April...

Yay! Recovery summer!

...as high inflation curbs spending

Oh.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (/y8xj)

335 Watch Schumer put Mayo on his hot dog.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

He never goes to Philly. Ever notice that?

Posted by: Miklos puts ketchup on kraut dogs (gauntlet daintily thrown) at June 18, 2024 10:59 AM (BbopU)

336 316 Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Guess not. Senator Harkin used to have a giant "steak fry" fundraiser in some dudes backyard.

Posted by: Iowa Moron at June 18, 2024 10:59 AM (JCZqz)

337 I just came across a clip of a scene some crappy movie called Taxi from 2004 where Gisele frisks another lady.

I highly recommend the men here watching this scene only. And if you don't wind it back and watch it again then I don't think I know you.
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 10:53 AM (EA5hs)

Poor cinematography. Not one upskirt in the whole scene.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2024 10:59 AM (U7wke)

338 Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (JLq/1)
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There certainly are.

The rulers don't know any of them. The rulers are not from this country, they just live on its periphery and rule from there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:59 AM (d04cU)

339 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 10:56 AM (d04cU)

Just keep thinking it's "they".......

Posted by: Jehovah at June 18, 2024 10:59 AM (Aoykm)

340 There is a "Waterloo Boy" tractor at some museum in Europe, was very surprising to me, as I am familiar with John Deere history.

A good tractor will travel far, I guess. They used updated versions to haul aircraft around at a lot of the bases, too. I thought that was smart. We had to get certified to drive a tractor in the .mil! I think a lot of things are made under license now. To think that an old tractor from the 1920s made it all the way to the modern age without getting scrapped is pretty interesting.

I bet there are a lot of Studebakers and things like that in Russia and old Soviet farming country.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 18, 2024 11:00 AM (d2aM4)

341 There is a street in New Orleans named after General Cambronne, who said that.
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There are also several American towns named after Napoleonic battles by [legal!] immigrant veterans of both sides.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 11:00 AM (ZdexC)

342 As I've said to my wife a thousand times, to no avail, there is nothing sexier than a sundress.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

you pay, buster

Posted by: Mrs. Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 11:00 AM (BbopU)

343 The most disturbing thing about the Schumer grilling picture is the moobs.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 11:01 AM (uCfKO)

344 298.
Obligatory. I saw the Georgia Guides play at......

Posted by: From about that Time at June 18, 2024 11:01 AM (4780s)

345 331 321 Nothing hotter than a pretty girl tugging on the too short skirt she is wearing...not.

Woman really have been led astray.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Z8Yh2)

As I've said to my wife a thousand times, to no avail, there is nothing sexier than a sundress.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 18, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

Pencil skirt, fitted dress blouse, and little tiny flat black slip on shoes that expose just the very top of where the toes begin.

Posted by: Howling BBC Feminist Manifesto Choir at June 18, 2024 11:01 AM (OiAR7)

346 nood is here

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 18, 2024 11:01 AM (ZdexC)

347 NOOD APE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 11:02 AM (d04cU)

348 The most disturbing thing about the Schumer grilling picture is the moobs.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2024 11:01 AM (uCfKO)

The grill actually looks used. Maybe 2 previous times. There's supposedly flames below the burgers, but it looks odd to me. Plus, no smoke whatsoever. And no flames near the 'cooked' hot dogs.

Everything they do is an op.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 18, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

349 The rulers don't know any of them. The rulers are not from this country, they just live on its periphery and rule from there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Adding three feet to the wall height over here boss.

Posted by: temp workers at the Hawaiian ZuckerState at June 18, 2024 11:02 AM (BbopU)

350 Blouse, pencil skirt, heels and some sort of leggings. I'm a simple man. But not really.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 11:02 AM (EA5hs)

351 Used to be you took you life into your hands by flying on planes in the Soviet Union airline, Aeroflot.

Another sign we are moving towards the Soviet Union structure of communist incompetence.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 11:02 AM (SHMXB)

352 *sees Schumer 'grilling' *

*face palm*

Posted by: Bobby Flay at June 18, 2024 11:03 AM (6gW4D)

353 I'm waiting for the Dems to introduce their 5 year plans.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 11:03 AM (SHMXB)

354 If you like tractors, check out the Lanz Bulldog. One cylinder, 500 cubic inches, 2 stroke semi diesel. Deere bought them out too. They are cool as hell.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 11:03 AM (pohLc)

355 I'm waiting for the Dems to introduce their 5 year plans.
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 11:03 AM (SHMXB)

I think we've been in one since 2009.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 11:04 AM (EA5hs)

356 Cooking shots are among the most choreographed photography there is. In the old days, all the lights would melt ice cream, so they used mashed potatoes if you want a picture of a bowl of ice cream.

Grilling pictures are best done when the food is ready to eat, or somewhere well along the way to edible. I think it is more appetizing. Why though, are we arguing about grilling procedures when they are trying (apparently) to start WW III.x ? I mean, priorities I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 18, 2024 11:04 AM (d2aM4)

357 Poly I really like your art. I have also been known to paint but I took my portfolio off of Instagram.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 11:05 AM (EA5hs)

358 Highs soaring toward the middle 90s will spread from the southern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley into the Northeast during the first half of this week.
_weather.com
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Bastardi says it's going to be hot all summer.

Weatherman here said it was going to rain yesterday - it didn't.
Said it was going to rain last night. It didn't
Said it was going to rain today. It's sunny.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 11:06 AM (bQ/08)

359 Are there no leftist grilling or barbecuing experts who could give instructions to Democrats?
Posted by: Northernlurker

We need a cabinet level Department of BBQ.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 18, 2024 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

360 Grilling pictures are best done when the food is ready to eat, or somewhere well along the way to edible. I think it is more appetizing. Why though, are we arguing about grilling procedures when they are trying (apparently) to start WW III.x ? I mean, priorities I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 18, 2024 11:04 AM (d2aM4)
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'Cause it's funny? I think it's funny.

The problem isn't the raw meat on the grill, it's that there's already cheese on it, pre-flip and no evidence for how the 'dogs were grilled. It's such an obvious incompetent fake that it's hilarious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 18, 2024 11:06 AM (d04cU)

361 Poly I really like your art. I have also been known to paint but I took my portfolio off of Instagram.
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 11:05 AM (EA5hs)

Thanks . You should send some of your work to MH to post on the hobby thread. I hear Instagram is going to allow stuff on their site to be used for AI.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2024 11:07 AM (SHMXB)

362 20,000 unsubstantiated ballots in GA’s 2020 original results from tabulators do not exist
_Revolver

Posted by: Braenyard at June 18, 2024 11:08 AM (bQ/08)

363 Lanz Bulldog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW621ikN5dw

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2024 11:09 AM (pohLc)

364 Yeah that's why I took it down. More the principle of it. I like AI but I don't like theft. I'll think about sending. 😁

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2024 11:09 AM (EA5hs)

365 ...Northeastern MA, just at the NH state line.

I'm supposed to be hitting the range with RMBS next Saturday, so perhaps he and I will talk strategery.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 18, 2024 10:54 AM (Q0kLU)

I've never driven to Boston, but I have ridden the Gold Wing up there thrice in the early and mid '90s. And once, as far as Kennebunk, Maine. So yeah, it's a haul, for sure.

First trip, was straight from San Antonio, to Boston. Second trip, a bit of a detour via Chicago, for a Industry Convention. Third trip? A wee detour to Orlando, to visit the (then, still living Dad & Step Mom) for a weekend.

A New Horizon is always there in your windshield.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 18, 2024 11:11 AM (e6UQI)

366 This guy and the Last Mohican need to join forces.

The Dying Gaul was already in the chat. Compare poses.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 18, 2024 11:13 AM (zdLoL)

367 Afternoon.

This would make a great album cover.

Would crank to 11.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2024 01:46 PM (j7Z4O)

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