Mid-Morning Art Thread

Ludovico Capponi
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2024 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)

5 Babyface.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Girly hands

Posted by: BignJames at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

7 The MET

Title: Ludovico Capponi

Artist: Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Monticelli 1503–1572 Florence)

Date: ca. 1550–52

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: 45 7/8 × 33 3/4 in. (116.5 × 85.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

8 looks like the farce book guy!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

9 Is that your hilt, or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (jW2M4)

10 He's got a Tamagochi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

11 Beat you fair and square Sponge
Not too bad for a portrait

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

12 Ladyfingers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

13 Lo! I hath developed ye book of faces. (only in Italian)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (U7wke)

14 Gives me that Zuckerberg vibe.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (W3T6M)

15 Portrait of a VERY young Michael Caine

Posted by: Don Black at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (/7KEl)

16 We've been getting a lot of portraits lately.

A none of them have been of busty women.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

17 A lot of inbreeding there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (RIvkX)

18 I like good fabric renditions in paintings. Artist is showing off with that sleeve.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (jW2M4)

19 Is that a sword hilt or a codpiece peeking out from underneath his tunic?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (7fElN)

20 He cut you mang!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

21 Like the color. Detail is amazing.

Here's another in the same style.

https://tinyurl.com/8sp44z5x

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (y31cs)

22 Is that your hilt, or are you just happy to see me?
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:31 AM (jW2M4)

I believe that's his codpiece, not a hilt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (U7wke)

23 "Is that a sword peaking from your jacket or are you just happy to see me?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

24 I wonder if those collars itched like hell?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (y31cs)

25 Pretty delicate hands there, Zuckerberg.

Posted by: t-bird at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (AMyEQ)

26 Bronzino sounds like a metal polish.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

27 Metal boner?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

28 Tilda Swinton really gets around.

Posted by: Henry the VIII 1/2th at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (YFf9v)

29 What a punchable face. I bet that little punk got swirlied daily in Jr High. At least he should have been.

Remarkable how the artist was able to give him such a douchebag look.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (EitEl)

30 Goose neck

Posted by: BignJames at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

31 What am I seeing in the crotch area?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

32 26 Bronzino sounds like a metal polish.
-----------------
Or a fitness drink.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (W3T6M)

33 Boy doesn't look old enough to shave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

34 17 A lot of inbreeding there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (RIvkX)

You noticed the eyes? Marty Feldman's ancestor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (y31cs)

35
I believe that's his codpiece, not a hilt.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 17, 2024 09:33 AM (U7wke)

"Why does your codpiece have a handle on it?"

"Fo easy access, baby."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

36 28 Ha!

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (jW2M4)

37 He looks like a female professor of social theory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (HnUIn)

38

Umm... visual phrasing?

Posted by: Elderly Git at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (ZsUYV)

39 He has lady fingers.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

40 Former cabin boy on the Raging Queen?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)

41 Ok.

Off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

F*ck Cancer......AND Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

42 Is that a sword are are you happy to see me?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (2xB3Z)

43 The clothing is amazing. This guy gives a richness and reality to the fabrics that I am not sure I have seen in another artist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (y31cs)

44 I say, old chap, who exactly is working the corn cob up me ass???

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (pohLc)

45 Long day coming, won't be home until after ONT
Forward Dog 9 out on the long road

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (fwDg9)

46 Is that a sword hilt or a codpiece peeking out from underneath his tunic?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 09:32 AM (7fElN)

I'd go with 'codpiece' on this one.

And look how long his fingers are. You know what they say about men with long fingers. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 09:35 AM (Q0kLU)

47 Alternate title:

"Alex DeLarge After the Ludovico Technique"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (eDfFs)

48 Dammit @9 beat me to it! lol

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (2xB3Z)

49 Haughty. I like Bronzino's portraits.

Posted by: Tuna at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (oaGWv)

50 What am I seeing in the crotch area?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

Why are you looking at the crotch area?

Posted by: BignJames at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

51 Have fun Sponge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (y31cs)

52 45 Have a good day, Skip.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (v6JzV)

53 I would hang this simply to be able to tell guests I have a Bronzino!

Maybe I'll change my nic to Bronzino!

Posted by: Gref at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (aBgBM)

54 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang! Dude looks like one of the tourists she was bitching about in the ONT. Maybe rub his tummy?
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (W/lyH)

55 Drive safe skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (y31cs)

56 44 lolrofl

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:36 AM (jW2M4)

57 Mr Poppins!
Good morning, good sir!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:37 AM (EitEl)

58
"Why does your codpiece have a handle on it?"

"Fo easy access, baby."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 17, 2024

***
I remember a funny cartoon in Playboy in which a Renaissance gentleman is holding up a dead fish to the face of a stranger, saying, "Well, what *else* would you expect to find in a codpiece?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

59 Remarkable how the artist was able to give him such a douchebag look.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (EitEl)

I was searching for the perfect words but you found them instead.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 17, 2024 09:37 AM (89Sog)

60 ‘Boy, you put your daddy’d sword back wjhere you got it before he gets home!’

Posted by: Eromero at September 17, 2024 09:37 AM (LHPAg)

61 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (EitEl)

62 26 Bronzino sounds like a metal polish.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Bronzino and Brasso are made by the same company.

Posted by: Polishing My Knob at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (CV8a5)

63 "Bronzino" also sounds like a cream for applying a fake tan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

64 Ugh. I hate Bronzino and all Mannerist artists.

Mannerism: the crap art movement between the Renaissance and the Baroque.

Fun Fact: Bronzino painted the Stompy Foot seen in the opening credits of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (BHrzb)

65 He looks sleepy.

Posted by: dantesed at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

66 They call me The Big Knobber.

Posted by: Ludovico Capponi at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (Aqu9a)

67 It’s the dreaded Black Russian codpiece!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (S6gqv)

68 *looking through the artists stuff*

Ok, I did not need to see the top of Neptune's dick.*

*words I did not think I would type this morning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (y31cs)

69 "Remarkable how the artist was able to give him such a douchebag look.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:34 AM (EitEl)

I was searching for the perfect words but you found them instead."

Joffrey in Game of Thrones vibe.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (jW2M4)

70 What's he holding in his right hand? A disk of some sort.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (PEiKi)

71 All the "happy to see me" entries have been done. But I still have to just lodge my amusement at the unfortunately positioned sword hilt.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (fzDUI)

72 Is that a sword in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: Obligatory at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (oZhjI)

73 No relation.

Posted by: Charles Bronson at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

74 How did Ludovico get an iPhone back then? This painting is clear evidence of time travel!

Posted by: Gref at September 17, 2024 09:40 AM (aBgBM)

75 73 No relation.
Posted by: Charles Bronson at September 17, 2024 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

I bet Bronson came out of the womb looking more leathery and worn than this pompous git.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:41 AM (y31cs)

76 An effeminate appearing male, the hands suggest this.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 09:41 AM (hKoQL)

77 76 An effeminate appearing male, the hands suggest this.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 09:41 AM (hKoQL)

Most of this guy's male portraits look this way. I am wondering if it is subject or the painter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:42 AM (y31cs)

78 This is Mannerism. Mannerism was the style that came into vogue about the mid-1500s. It is the next generation of artists after the High Renaissance and experiments with the innovations and expectations the the older style. It's not as stuffy. A lot of mannerist art is overtly playful or purposefully "off".

Posted by: Kris at September 17, 2024 09:42 AM (EwaUh)

79 Chantilly lace had a pretty face
And a ponytail hangin' down
A wiggle in her walk and a giggle in her talk
Make the world go 'round . . .

Posted by: Ludovico Capponi, The Big Knobber at September 17, 2024 09:42 AM (Aqu9a)

80 I have a small reproduction of Bronzino's portrait of Bia de'Medici.

Posted by: Tuna at September 17, 2024 09:43 AM (oaGWv)

81 Obligatory:

"I didn't know she had a Capponi. How was I to know she had a Capponi? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a Capponi? Do you know what the odds are on that?"

Posted by: Muldoon at September 17, 2024 09:43 AM (991eG)

82 An effeminate appearing male, the hands suggest this.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 09:41 AM (hKoQL)
===

HE'S SENSITIVE!
-his mother

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 09:44 AM (RIvkX)

83 Kinda wanna slap that kid.

But the fabrics look amazing in this portrait.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:44 AM (fzDUI)

84 Morning.

I'm guessing young Capponi's parents often wondered why he lacked any serious interest in girls.

It's fine as far as paintings go but he's just some random effete snob. Would not hang.

Posted by: Robert at September 17, 2024 09:44 AM (+gCs6)

85 78 How about Womannerism? If there wasn't such a style before, might be a good opportunity for an artist looking to stand out.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:44 AM (jW2M4)

86 Doubt that outfit is machine washable. Was One-Hour Martinizing a thing then?

Posted by: Your Neighborhood Dry Cleaner at September 17, 2024 09:45 AM (CV8a5)

87 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:37 AM (EitEl)

Good morning, dear lady!

**hand kiss**

Hope you have a lovely day and wonderful time at the Texas meet-up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 09:45 AM (Q0kLU)

88 What a codpiece!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 09:45 AM (CEzQx)

89 How about Womannerism? If there wasn't such a style before, might be a good opportunity for an artist looking to stand out.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea

Boobs! They stand out.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

90 I'm amazed at Bronzino's ability to capture the details of cloth, clothing, and accoutrements. They are almost photo-realistic. The expressions and postures of the models are not wooden but seem natural and expressive. The skin tones of his subjects are perhaps too perfect but the colors are realistic and pleasing. (Got to keep the customers happy.) I really like his work.

The one problem is the hands. In this painting and others I saw on Wiki the fingers always seem disproportionately long. It's a minor quirk but I find it distracting.

Posted by: JTB at September 17, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

91 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 17, 2024 09:46 AM (g8Ew8)

92 86 Early Martinizing tech was quite slow. 48-hour Martinizing was the best they could accomplish until about 1850.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:46 AM (jW2M4)

93 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

Doesn't look Haitian...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (v6JzV)

94 Zuckerberg ponders strategies to get coeds phone numbers.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (e6SIt)

95 Next week!

Next week is SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!!!

https://tinyurl.com/mwhzmu6w

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (mT+6a)

96 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 09:38 AM (EitEl)
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My coworkers look at me funny when I ask them rub mine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (7fElN)

97 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

He looks like Zuckerberg.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (fKRr8)

98 You talkin' to me?

Well I'm the only one here.

Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 09:48 AM (CEzQx)

99 The one problem is the hands. In this painting and others I saw on Wiki the fingers always seem disproportionately long. It's a minor quirk but I find it distracting.
Posted by: JTB

Hands & horse's necks.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 09:48 AM (fKRr8)

100 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

With his pinky up.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (fzDUI)

101 "Doesn't look Haitian..."

Looks maybe like one of the guys who died horribly in the Haitian Revolt, but not Haitian-Haitian.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (jW2M4)

102
The yard sign reports are usually indicative of what neighborhood you're in, but locally I see Harris Walz signs along with 4 other down ticket candidates.

You don't see that with Trump signs.

Dems are organized here, the Repukes are not.

Posted by: Auspex at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (j4U/Z)

103 He's got Betty Davis eyes.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (JCLJi)

104 But the fabrics look amazing in this portrait.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:44 AM (fzDUI)

They do!

That's what attracted me to the work...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (d9fT1)

105 97 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

He looks like Zuckerberg.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (fKRr

Why did you say that twice?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (y31cs)

106 They call me The Big Knobber.
Posted by: Ludovico Capponi at September 17, 2024

***
'Hel-looo, baby! Yes, this is the Big Knobber speakin' . . . Pick you up at eight and don't be late? You gotta be jokin', woman. I thought you might pick *me* up at eight and don't be late!"

Posted by: Jerry Lee Capponi at September 17, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

107 They do!

That's what attracted me to the work...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (d9fT1)

*stifles gay joke*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:51 AM (y31cs)

108 Arrogant looking kid. Would hang the picture though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 17, 2024 09:51 AM (O8bOp)

109 To me, the woolen Army blanket hanging in the background sets off this portrait well.

Posted by: Ewetoober at September 17, 2024 09:51 AM (CV8a5)

110 This is perfect for bisexual awareness week.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2024 09:51 AM (Q4IgG)

111 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

He looks like Zuckerberg.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 09:47 AM (fKRr

My description is good then.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 17, 2024 09:52 AM (g8Ew8)

112 Pic: He looks like a person who kills and eats cats.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 17, 2024 09:46 AM (g8Ew

Ahhhh....

One of those often talked about but never seen albino hatians.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 17, 2024 09:52 AM (89Sog)

113 That's what attracted me to the work...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Cool. Thought it might have been LudovicoCapponi'sDildo that did it.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (fzDUI)

114 To me, the woolen Army blanket hanging in the background sets off this portrait well
.
Posted by: Ewetoober at September 17, 2024 09:51 AM (CV8a5)

talk about scratchy

Posted by: BignJames at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (AwYPR)

115 By the sheen of Mark Zuckerberg's cod piece!

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (iFMeW)

116 Bronzino was the greatest painter of his generation, with illustrious antecedents. Pontormo was his teacher. del Sarto was Pontormo's teacher. And del Sarto derives from di Cosimo, Raphael and Da Vinci.
Here, as in all his works, Bronzino captures the spiritual nihilism of his era with unnerving honesty. Brilliant technique.

Posted by: Robert E. Smith at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (8jaYm)

117 113 That's what attracted me to the work...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Cool. Thought it might have been LudovicoCapponi'sDildo that did it.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (fzDUI)

Wait, are you saying that's not the hilt of a 'sword' but a dildo? *mind blown*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (y31cs)

118 If Hitler were to dress that way, he could have invaded more countries before they all petered out and dieded

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 17, 2024 09:55 AM (rS2+r)

119 Where'd everybody go?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

120 The yard sign reports are usually indicative of what neighborhood you're in, but locally I see Harris Walz signs along with 4 other down ticket candidates.

You don't see that with Trump signs.

Dems are organized here, the Repukes are not.
Posted by: Auspex at September 17, 2024 09:49 AM (j4U/Z)

It's not organization. If you favor Harris, you can count on Democrats at every level of the aristocracy ladder holding to those same policies. If you favor Trump, down-ballot is kind of a gamble.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 17, 2024 09:57 AM (U7wke)

121 He like totally looks like the Facebook guy.

Posted by: Amy Shumer at September 17, 2024 09:58 AM (O5ZVM)

122 Kinda looks like a young Rob Halford.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 09:58 AM (KAi1n)

123 Where'd everybody go?
-------
It's as if I had heard a thousand Morons cry out and then... nothing.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 09:59 AM (CEzQx)

124 Over 100?

I don't know why YouTube keeps on suggesting videos by young, cute and mentally ill Japanese girls.

Like I'm just watching this one and she's like, "Hi! I'm 22. I'm a university student. I like to play guitar. I'm bipolar and sometimes want to kill myself. I really like fried chicken."

YouTube is trying to play matchmaker and thinks crazy is just my type.

Posted by: Robert at September 17, 2024 09:59 AM (CPz+Y)

125
No Thanks, I'm Stuffed - a limerick

There once was a lad named Capponi
A poseur and a bit of a phony
His girllfriend said, "My God!
Is that codpiece fulll of cod?"
He smirked and replied, "Abalone!"

Posted by: Muldoon at September 17, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

126 Here, I swear to gawd I'm not exaggerating.

https://youtu.be/_Ukw5oygQtI

Posted by: Robert at September 17, 2024 09:59 AM (CPz+Y)

127 Last thread someone said candace owens was cock, not sleep, deprived. I think she had a kid recently.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 10:00 AM (KAi1n)

128 Alternative ending:

He smirked and replied, "A baloney!"

Posted by: Muldoon at September 17, 2024 10:00 AM (991eG)

129 Hillary: 'Why is it so hard for the press to have a consistent narrative ... ?'

https://tinyurl.com/bd9z6zyc

That is SO fucked up, in SO many ways, that I just can't even.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:00 AM (jW2M4)

130 Where'd everybody go?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

Well. I'm off to the golf course.
Can't speak for the others.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

131 Last thread someone said candace owens was cock, not sleep, deprived. I think she had a kid recently.
Posted by: SFGoth

I think she's got a couple.

Very pretty lady, but she's gone completely off the rails.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

132 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
CBS IN NEVADA: “In every single restaurant, the people willing to talk to us, we could only find ONE Harris supporter in every restaurant.”
Where the hell are all the supposed Kamala supporters?!
It’s almost like they don’t exist

-
Maybe they crawled back under a rock.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

133 he yard sign reports are usually indicative of what neighborhood you're in, but locally I see Harris Walz signs along with 4 other down ticket candidates.

You don't see that with Trump signs.

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I see that all the time, even in off year elections and even for local elections which are (wink) non partisan. The left is organized. The right, not so much.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (O5ZVM)

134 Alternate title:

"Young CBD Sporting Charlie Brown's Dildo Along With Some Fabulous Fabric Choices"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (WnR/z)

135 Well. I'm off to the golf course.
Can't speak for the others.
Posted by: Diogenes

May the geezer-fleecing go well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

136 Last thread someone said candace owens was cock, not sleep, deprived. I think she had a kid recently.
Posted by: SFGoth

I think she's got a couple.

Very pretty lady, but she's gone completely off the rails.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

She was never on the rails.

She needs a nice, fat Jewish hog to cure her of her ills.

Posted by: Robert at September 17, 2024 10:03 AM (fdnpk)

137 Well. I'm off to the golf course.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

Keep an eye out for CIA operatives with SKS rifles.

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:03 AM (OguvZ)

138 It's not organization. If you favor Harris, you can count on Democrats at every level of the aristocracy ladder holding to those same policies. If you favor Trump, down-ballot is kind of a gamble.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 17, 2024 09:57 AM (U7wke)

It’s also organization. Someone comes to the door and says want a Harris sign? You say yes. And they’ll ask hey can I give your info to these other candidates running, they’d love to have a sign in your front yard as well. Or some other kind of data sharing.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:04 AM (O5ZVM)

139 Well. I'm off to the golf course.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

Look at Happy Gilmore here, puttering around the back nine.

Posted by: Robert at September 17, 2024 10:05 AM (fdnpk)

140 The left is pod people. Dr. Miles Bennell tried to warn us back in 1956.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 17, 2024 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)

141 he yard sign reports are usually indicative of what neighborhood you're in, but locally I see Harris Walz signs along with 4 other down ticket candidates.

You don't see that with Trump signs.

______________________________________

As soon as Darrin lahood stands for something i'll vote for him. Until then, i could not care what letter he wears after his name.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 17, 2024 10:05 AM (89Sog)

142 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting "misinformation"
"There needs to be deterrence"

-
Let's start with you and BJ.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

143 Well. I'm off to the golf course.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (W/lyH)
++++
Take your bodyguards with you!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:06 AM (HnUIn)

144 We're getting there...

Western Lensman @WesternLensman 23m
JUST IN: DeSantis on Trump assass*nation attempt and FL state investigation:

"In my judgment, it's not in the best interest of our state or our nation that the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump are leading this investigation."

This is the way.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7zpepk
27 seconds

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 12h
LISTEN 🔥
Gov. DeSantis ROASTS the FBI explaining why Florida is taking over the investigation:

"I don't think it's in the best interests of this country to say agencies like the FBI & DOJ.. That they're the best people to turn around."

https://tinyurl.com/2u267tnn
3:31 minutes; 'doing our own investigation'.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:06 AM (CEzQx)

145 She needs a nice, fat Jewish hog to cure her of her ills.
Posted by: Robert

Israel makes Harleys?

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 10:07 AM (KAi1n)

146 Well. I'm off to the golf course.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 17, 2024 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

Look at Happy Gilmore here, puttering around the back nine.
Posted by: Robert

He does have an unusually high drive to excel.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:07 AM (fKRr8)

147
Where are all the Kamala Supporters?

Crouching in their basements plotting assassinations cuz Trump said Haitians eat pussies.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:07 AM (WnR/z)

148 Democrats vote for Democrats. Period.
Most Tepublicans also vote for Republican no matter what. But there is a sizable portion of Republicans who need a candidate to be lure in every way. Otherwise they stomp their feet and don’t vote. Or vote Libertarian or something.

Call Dems pod people, but it’s effective in electoral politics to have pod people on your side.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:08 AM (O5ZVM)

149 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
CBS IN NEVADA: “In every single restaurant, the people willing to talk to us, we could only find ONE Harris supporter in every restaurant.”
Where the hell are all the supposed Kamala supporters?!
It’s almost like they don’t exist
..

We moved to Henderson, NV 10 weeks ago from WA.

I haven't seen a single Harris bumper sticker or yard sign.

Haven't seen a Trump yard sign but I have seen a few bumper stickers.

FWIW

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at September 17, 2024 10:08 AM (tK0ya)

150
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 17, 2024 10:08 AM (BkEzK)

151 > Hillary: 'Why is it so hard for the press to have a consistent narrative ... ?'
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I think that if Trump survives through the election and is able to reclaim the presidency he's going medieval on these people's asses.

They're afraid. But not defeated.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (Q4IgG)

152 Kinda looks like a young Rob Halford.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 09:58 AM (KAi1n)

So you're saying he's a Grinder? Looking for meat!

Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (RhGG0)

153 "What do YOU have in your wallet?"

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (w6EFb)

154
Weird, I still have a NYC area code on my phone and yet I'm getting robocalls from local Wisconsin Democrat candidates/volunteers.

And a candidate actually came to my door and tried chatting me up. Wifey was within earshot so I didn't have the chance to grill the fool about why she is in the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (x0n13)

155 BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting "misinformation"

Woman who was notorious for breaking actual law and not being prosecuted suggests new laws to prosecute her enemies.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (iFMeW)

156
Where the hell are all the supposed Kamala supporters?!
It’s almost like they don’t exist

_________

In their basements, filling out hundreds of mail-in ballots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (BkEzK)

157 "Where'd everybody go?"

Reading a post over at Insty about the Teamsters withholding endorsement after meeting with Kamala.

Posted by: Tuna at September 17, 2024 10:10 AM (oaGWv)

158 145 A brief search suggests that there is not, and never has been, a motorcycle manufacturer in Israel. This surprises me.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:10 AM (jW2M4)

159 Sitting on a crutch must give an awful wedgie.

Posted by: look whats not at September 17, 2024 10:10 AM (nakGR)

160 115 By the sheen of Mark Zuckerberg's cod piece!
Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 09:53 AM (iFMeW)

I'm not saying that; I don't care how much money you offer me.

Posted by: Sir Alexander Dane at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (PiwSw)

161 159 Sitting on a crutch must give an awful wedgie.
Posted by: look whats not at September 17, 2024 10:10 AM (nakGR)

Ralph Malph hardest hit . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (x0n13)

162 Wifey was within earshot so I didn't have the chance to grill the fool about why she is in the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Wife is still in the dark about your politics?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

163 "What do YOU have in your wallet?"
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 17, 2024 10:09 AM (w6EFb)
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Not as much as I used to. Or would like to have...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (7fElN)

164 "Call Dems pod people, but it’s effective in electoral politics to have pod people on your side."

It's also effective at pushing your policies and ignoring your constituents. Which is how we got MAGA and Trump.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:12 AM (iFMeW)

165 162 Wife is still in the dark about your politics?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

166 Weird, I still have a NYC area code on my phone and yet I'm getting robocalls from local Wisconsin Democrat candidates/volunteers.

—

Not weird at all. Thanks to data mining and places like Facebook selling your data, a marketing company knows everything about you. The fact you have an out of state number doesn’t mean anything. They know where you live.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (O5ZVM)

167 159 The pain is the pleasure.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (jW2M4)

168
Not as much as I used to. Or would like to have...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM

You're not alone:

CBS IN NEVADA: “In every single restaurant, the people willing to talk to us, we could only find one Harris supporter in every restaurant and we left no stone unturned”

https://is.gd/8Ug2qE

Nothing got built, nothing is back, and nothing got better.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (RKVpM)

169 One thing I'd like DeSantis to do is release the names of every single MSM figure, every politician, and every public person in contact by phone, text , or email with Routh.

ESP those who are cheerleading for Trump's assassination

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (APzPC)

170 "Where'd everybody go?"

Reading a post over at Insty about the Teamsters withholding endorsement after meeting with Kamala.
Posted by: Tuna

"If we knew what the future holds, we would know what we have to do. So we'll do what we have to do when the future arrives."
Posted by: K Harris

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (fKRr8)

171 Chris Bray has a nice piece up on Substack: "Welcome to the Occupation", talking about the quasi-colonial administrators running the country.

https://tinyurl.com/yazx6cvw

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 17, 2024 10:14 AM (w6EFb)

172 Freudian slips.

Breaking911
@Breaking911
REP. PLASKETT: "[Trump] needs to be shot, stopped."

-
You need to ~~die in a fire~~ be cremated after you die.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

173 I have Dem and other left wing groups show up at my door all the time during election season. I’ve yet to see someone at my door from the other side in the 5 years I’ve lived in this house.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:16 AM (O5ZVM)

174 Wife is still in the dark about your politics?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

Quite impressive that unbeknownst to her you generate a lengthy MR filled with copious amounts of links each day - AND you published a book. You must be some kind of ninja / Jedi combo!!

Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2024 10:16 AM (RhGG0)

175 162 Wife is still in the dark about your politics?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

You still have to change in a phone booth? Where do you find one nowadays?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 17, 2024 10:16 AM (Aqu9a)

176 170 Gotta hand it to her. She really knows the significance of the passage of time. She's got that subject down cold.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:16 AM (jW2M4)

177 Wholly Kau!

From WSJ-

Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.

Brilliant Psyop!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:17 AM (7suCK)

178
Just to clarify, if I believe anything outside Hillary Clinton's world view I have been misinformed, if I speak it I am spreading disinformation and should face criminal penalties.

Is this what she's saying?

Posted by: Auspex at September 17, 2024 10:18 AM (j4U/Z)

179 Looks like Zuckerberg fantasizing about becoming Lord Zuckerberg.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 17, 2024 10:18 AM (RRHcC)

180 "Follow the brands you just bought from on Social Media!"

Why? Why should I follow a clothing manufacturer on social media? Even if I used social media, I don't see why I would follow a brand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:18 AM (HnUIn)

181 This painting is beautiful, simply stunning. Would love to see this IRL
The green backdrop is not customary, yet the painter chose the hue that just works wrt the overall composition.

Bravo!

Posted by: kallisto at September 17, 2024 10:18 AM (t1EZK)

182 Quite impressive that unbeknownst to her you generate a lengthy MR filled with copious amounts of links each day - AND you published a book. You must be some kind of ninja / Jedi combo!!
Posted by: Doof

Yeah, that boggles my mind, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

183 Where are all the Kamala Supporters?

-
Where have all the loco weed gone? Long time passing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

184 Wholly Kau!

From WSJ-

Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.

Brilliant Psyop!
Posted by: naturalfake

Israeli C-4 or Chinese lithium batteries. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:19 AM (fKRr8)

185 Re: no Harris voters in restaurants

If some asshole with a camera randomly shows up in a restaurant asking to talk to you about politics, how many would raise their hand? I wouldn’t. I’m there for a meal not to get interrogated by the news. Imagine you are caught off guard and says something stupid, your face is plastered all over the local news. Thanks but no.

If anything this shows how nobody, even on the left, trusts the msm.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:19 AM (O5ZVM)

186 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
CBS IN NEVADA: “In every single restaurant, the people willing to talk to us, we could only find ONE Harris supporter in every restaurant.”
Where the hell are all the supposed Kamala supporters?!
It’s almost like they don’t exist

Well Harris is bussing in all the attendees for any of her public events. When she came to NH, all her attendees were bused in on Yankee Bus line.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 17, 2024 10:20 AM (N39Ws)

187 LOL.

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC 54m
I wish people would stop calling what we have here “communism.”

It’s not communism. The federal government is simply taking your money and handing it to immigrants for food and shelter while you struggle to afford eggs.

Does that sound like communism?

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:20 AM (CEzQx)

188 So you're saying he's a Grinder? Looking for meat!
Posted by: Doof

LOL

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 10:21 AM (KAi1n)

189 "Dozens of members of Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.

A Reuters journalist saw hundreds of Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.

According to reports, the phones were called before the explosion for some period of seconds to increase the chance that whoever received the call would pick it up and be maximally wounded. Shortly before the explosions, there were reports of a special meeting between Mossad Director David Barnea and Netanyahu.

The news comes only hours after the Shin Bet revealed that Hezbollah recently attempted to assassinate a top former Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv."

Posted by: runner at September 17, 2024 10:21 AM (V13WU)

190 Israeli C-4 or Chinese lithium batteries. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:19 AM (fKRr

++++
In my mind, I envision a remotely exploitable firmware bug that causes the device to overdrive the cheap Chinese batteries and make them torch off. Super elegant and elaborate high-tech strike.

It probably isn't that. It probably a supply chain interdiction to replace the devices. But man, the "firmware bug" thing would make for a great subplot in a spy thriller.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:21 AM (HnUIn)

191 > Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.
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Pagers?! WTF

Primitive savages.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2024 10:21 AM (Q4IgG)

192 Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.

Sadly, no deaths reported.

Also, pagers? Is this 1998?

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:22 AM (OguvZ)

193 No one immigrates to a communist country. Well, a few do and regret it.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 10:22 AM (KAi1n)

194 Yeah we don’t have communism. We have crony capitalism with a quasi dictatorial ruling class. Kelly is right reflexively callling everyone a communist makes the word meaningless. Like racist.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:23 AM (O5ZVM)

195 All this talk of pagers reminds me that I am due for a re-watch of The Wire

Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2024 10:23 AM (RhGG0)

196 "Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

They didn't have to seize the entire earth's assets and wealth to do it, either.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:23 AM (iFMeW)

197 Rachael Larimore @RachaelBL Sep 16
Must-read Kevin Williamson: “You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich ... but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll.”

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando 1h
This country was built by gap-toothed hicks named Cletus, and it’s being torn down by morbidly obese writers named Kevin.
===
Leftist, university douche doesn't know how to spell "Cletus" either. BTW, her link was to The Dis-putsch.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:24 AM (CEzQx)

198 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NOT SHARING YOUR CODPIECE FULL OF ABALONE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND WOULD BE JUST PRETTY SHELLFISH.

ALSO BECAUSE BOLOGNA IS A TYPE OF SAUSAGE AND...OH NEVER MIND. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHY THAT'S FUNNY I CANT HELP YOU!

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBURGER at September 17, 2024 10:24 AM (991eG)

199 Her name is Nona, she's a rocker with a nose ring,
She wears a two way, but I'm not quite sure what that means.

Posted by: It's a pager! at September 17, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

200 The Lebanese Health Ministry responded: "We demand that the hospitals be on the highest level of alert, and increase their preparedness for admitting the victims. We call on citizens to throw out their communications devices immediately, as much as possible."

A security source told Al Araby that hundreds of Hezbollah operatives were injured as a result of a cyber attack and the simultaneous explosions.
-channel 7

====

Teh Mossad is awesome!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (RIvkX)

201 John Bolton
@AmbJohnBolton
If Joe Biden decides to authorize Ukraine using only European long-range weapons, and not American ones, in their war against Russia it would be yet another failed leadership moment for the United States. Putin has been bluffing about escalating the conflict, and we've fallen for it every step of the way.

-
Let's fight the Big One again!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

202 "If some asshole with a camera randomly shows up in a restaurant asking to talk to you about politics, how many would raise their hand? I wouldn’t."

Stay gray. That's my motto.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (jW2M4)

203 The exploding pagers story is interesting. I'd like to know how they did it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (2cS/G)

204 Sadly, no deaths reported.

Also, pagers? Is this 1998?
Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:22 AM (OguvZ)
=-=

Many deaths are reported.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (RIvkX)

205 There was actually a Pope named Cletus (or Anacletus) (r. 80-c.92).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (v6JzV)

206 It probably isn't that. It probably a supply chain interdiction to replace the devices. But man, the "firmware bug" thing would make for a great subplot in a spy thriller.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

This. Except 10 years ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (IG4Id)

207
Burnt Weenie Sandwich is on the menu for Hezbollah today.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (7suCK)

208 "Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Are they hiring? That might be a fun job.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (jW2M4)

209 Crony capitalism is fascism. It's a way to deflect from the obvious morphing of liberal politics into fascism as a natural evolution.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (iFMeW)

210 Many deaths are reported.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (RIvkX)

OK. Not in the report I read.

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:27 AM (OguvZ)

211 A security source told Al Araby that hundreds of Hezbollah operatives were injured as a result of a cyber attack and the simultaneous explosions.
-channel 7

====

Teh Mossad is awesome!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (RIvkX)

LOL... Epic

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:27 AM (IyPmt)

212 I like mossad thinking outside the box. That’s pretty fucking awesome.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:27 AM (O5ZVM)

213 The exploding pagers story is interesting. I'd like to know how they did it.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (2cS/G)
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I know nothing! I see nothing!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 17, 2024 10:27 AM (LgsNJ)

214 There was actually a Pope named Cletus (or Anacletus) (r. 80-c.92).
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (v6JzV)

He was once the bishop of Hazard County.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 17, 2024 10:27 AM (o9C/i)

215
Teh Mossad is awesome!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM

Trump should consider hiring some of them for his security.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (RKVpM)

216 No one immigrates to a communist country. Well, a few do and regret it.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024

***
Tell me about it! They did not appreciate me!

Posted by: Zombie Lee Harvey Oswaldi at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

217 Or, they could just be jank-ass batteries from a certain subcontinent.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (IG4Id)

218 The Lebanese Health Ministry responded: "We demand that the hospitals be on the highest level of alert, and increase their preparedness for admitting the victims. We call on citizens to throw out their communications devices immediately, as much as possible." ...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (RIvkX)
++++
That is a major coup, and might have been the point.

A probably fairly complicated but also fairly cheap, limited and - crucially - largely ineffective attack (looks like injuries but no death among the targets) is getting them to throw out their own comms. That will be fixed soon and the equipment will be replaced, but it is going to be hugely disruptive for several days and seriously harm cell-to-cell (terror cell, not phone network cell) coordination. It will cause that moment of hesitation every time the phone rings.

So, an intelligence and psy op, rather than primarily a military op. That's my guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (HnUIn)

219 "Also, pagers? Is this 1998?"

There is still a ton of pager traffic in the healthcare industry. And a shit-ton of telemetry from a wide range of industries. Paging is still alive.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (jW2M4)

220 Stay gray. That's my motto.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:25 AM (jW2M4)

GFY is an acceptable response to any asshat cramming a mic in your face while you're trying to have dinner out. Media is almost universally reviled, and it is a safe, grey position to take.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (i24o9)

221 Ludovico? Yeah, not really a fan. Your Humble Narrator was turned off film forever by him and his work.

Posted by: Alex DeLarge at September 17, 2024 10:29 AM (aXxgO)

222
I think Hillary's on to something here. When my mother in law says "You don't know that" I will know tell her she's spreading Russian disinformation and she should be careful that Mueller doesn't find out.

Posted by: Auspex at September 17, 2024 10:29 AM (j4U/Z)

223 Heh. Exploding chips.

Now implant those chips in the brain of every illegal deported from the US. If they come within 10 miles of the US border, it explodes without warning.

We have the technology!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 10:29 AM (v4srF)

224 "The exploding pagers story is interesting. I'd like to know how they did it."

Israel has used that tactic before with cell phones also.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:29 AM (jW2M4)

225 Teh Mossad is awesome!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

50 minute video about a strike on a Syrian nuclear facility.

https://youtu.be/Qwtp3d-Q_jk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

226 I saw Exploding Pagers open for Bang Tango at The Gasworks in 1983

Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2024 10:30 AM (RhGG0)

227 Governor Ron DeSantis: “In my judgment, it’s not in the best interest of our state or our nation that the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump are leading this investigation.”

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:30 AM (iFMeW)

228 Heh. Exploding chips.

Now implant those chips in the brain of every illegal deported from the US. If they come within 10 miles of the US border, it explodes without warning.

We have the technology!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 10:29 AM (v4srF)

Escape from New York Remake.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 17, 2024 10:31 AM (i24o9)

229 In my mind, I envision a remotely exploitable firmware bug that causes the device to overdrive the cheap Chinese batteries and make them torch off. Super elegant and elaborate high-tech strike.

It probably isn't that. It probably a supply chain interdiction to replace the devices. But man, the "firmware bug" thing would make for a great subplot in a spy thriller.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I am holding in my hand a flat pice of hardware that resembles a green circuit board. It is really C-4. It can be inserted in a phone or pager and operate as normal. Until a certain number is entered. Please do not be within 15 meters of it when you dial the number.
Posted by: Q

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:31 AM (fKRr8)

230 So, an intelligence and psy op, rather than primarily a military op. That's my guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:28 AM (HnUIn)

Good analysis. The psychological impact will be far greater than the physical impact of the operation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:31 AM (wyMQY)

231 I’m surprised.
No “Bronzino - it’s got electrolytes!”

Posted by: RI Red at September 17, 2024 10:31 AM (nFQxq)

232 They control the weather and blow up pagers. Joos are all powerful.

Posted by: News Update at September 17, 2024 10:31 AM (O5ZVM)

233 The pain is the pleasure.

Words to live by.

Posted by: Algernon Swinburne at September 17, 2024 10:32 AM (Q0kLU)

234 Teh Mossad is awesome!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Damn joos get all the fun toys.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:32 AM (fKRr8)

235 "They control the weather and blow up pagers. Joos are all powerful."

They're not really helping their case against the anti-semite conspiracists.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:32 AM (iFMeW)

236 208 "Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Are they hiring? That might be a fun job.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (jW2M4)

I feel sick every time I think about that great pile of garbage out in the ocean. But enough about England.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:33 AM (wyMQY)

237 Once again I have to ask..."why is everyone so helpless?" (Not you guys)

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 17, 2024 10:34 AM (BW+Gb)

238 236 208 "Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Are they hiring? That might be a fun job.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (jW2M4)

I feel sick every time I think about that great pile of garbage out in the ocean. But enough about England.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:33 AM (wyMQY)

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch" = Kamala's crotch

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:35 AM (x0n13)

239 Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Next line in the story - all they need is 7.5 billion dollars.

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:35 AM (OguvZ)

240 "A Reuters journalist saw hundreds of Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh."

A Reuters "journalist"

Yeah.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 17, 2024 10:35 AM (PiwSw)

241 "Next line in the story - all they need is 7.5 billion dollars."

If people want to pay that, I'm for it. If the government wants to use my tax dollars to pay for it, I object.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (iFMeW)

242 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch" = Kamala's crotch
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:35 AM (x0n13)
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Anyone remember those classic "Garbage Pail Kids" collectible cards?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (7fElN)

243 165 162 Wife is still in the dark about your politics?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
Oh they're giving you an number
and takin way your name!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (y31cs)

244 239 Cleanup Group Says It’s On Track To Eliminate The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Next line in the story - all they need is 7.5 billion dollars.
Posted by: spindrift

Send the bill to China. It's mostly their plastic crap
Anyway.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (y5yZ4)

245 236 Uh-oh. If the job is in England, that's a show-stopper for me. I wanted to be located in the Fiji area.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (jW2M4)

246 I feel sick every time I think about that great pile of garbage out in the ocean. But enough about England.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:33 AM (wyMQY)
++++
Everything has its purpose. Sometimes it takes a long time to figure out that purpose.

Like Nevada. Why does Nevada exist? Nobody knew. For centuries, it was a puzzle. It was there, but nobody could figure out *why* the Almighty would create such a place. We conquered it, of course - it's the way of man - but the conquest was empty. All we got was Nevada, and Nevada had no reason to exist.

Or so it appeared. Countless centuries after the first man staked a claim in Nevada, we finally found its purpose. We would eventually need a place to test atomic weapons and hide vast airbases and the like in places inhospitable and undesirable.

We found Nevada's purpose. Eventually, we find the purpose in everything.

Posted by: I pretend to be a philosopher, but really I just hate the desert at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (HnUIn)

247 I feel sick every time I think about that great pile of garbage out in the ocean. But enough about England.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:33 AM (wyMQY)

Man, I could say "you misspelled [insert name of island natiion]," but trying to narrow it down to just one other would be impossible.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (eAmXZ)

248 238 ROFL!

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (jW2M4)

249 207
Burnt Weenie Sandwich is on the menu for Hezbollah today.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:26 AM (7suCK)

Roasting nuts by an open fire?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (N39Ws)

250 This lady finds it funny that the new Trump shooter was photographed with a celebrity chef who is really close to Hillary Clinton, but here's the real story about how Hillary is involved

https://is.gd/ZgIBmU

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Funny is not the exact word I was thinking of.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

251 Next line in the story - all they need is 7.5 billion dollars.
Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:35 AM (OguvZ)
++++
Preposterous. Absolutely unacceptable.

It must cost at least five times that much, and mustn't actually work.

Posted by: Environmental Policy Lobbyist at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (HnUIn)

252 She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
Oh they're giving you an number
and takin way your name!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 10:36 AM (y31cs)
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JJ's real name is "Number Six"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (7fElN)

253 I'm on track to going on a date with Alice Eve. All I need is 7.5 billion dollars.

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (OguvZ)

254 "It must cost at least five times that much, and mustn't actually work."

NGOs have operating costs, you know. We're not just doing this out of good will.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (iFMeW)

255 She knows how I feel. She does not know my secret identity as JJS.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 17, 2024 10:13 AM (x0n13)

Does she know about your daily birthdays?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (v6JzV)

256 JJ's real name is "Number Six"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (7fElN)

Better than Number 2

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (IyPmt)

257 Governor Ron DeSantis: "In my judgment, it's not in the best interest of our state or our nation that the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump are leading this investigation."

I look forward to the DeSantis Presidency. He knows the moment and understands the tools.

Let 1) Trump return to collect scalps, exact vengeance, and slash Deep State, 2) Vance to implement the vastly castrated State to a perfunctory, Constitutional Republic, and 3) DeSantis to reinforce the new ramparts while hearing the lamentations of the "women". That would make a nice, round, twenty years of reform.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (aXxgO)

258 Does she know about your daily birthdays?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (v6JzV)
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He doesn't mention it. "My husband is older than Moses" doesn't play well in the sewing circle, and he doesn't want to put her on the spot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (HnUIn)

259 JJ's real name is "Number Six"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Ahhhhh. The elusive Number Six dance.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:40 AM (fKRr8)

260 227 Governor Ron DeSantis: “In my judgment, it’s not in the best interest of our state or our nation that the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump are leading this investigation.”
Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:30 AM (iFMeW)

I like that guy.

Posted by: Emmie at September 17, 2024 10:40 AM (Sf2cq)

261 "The U.S. Air Force finally met its recruitment goals. Here’s how they did it."

Haitians...

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:40 AM (iFMeW)

262 "The U.S. Air Force finally met its recruitment goals. Here’s how they did it."

Haitians...

Correction: Fat chicks.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:41 AM (iFMeW)

263 So what would they do with the plastic after they fish it out of the ocean? That would make a pretty big landfill.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:41 AM (jW2M4)

264 Burnt Weenie Sandwich is on the menu for Hezbollah today.

Posted by: naturalfake

=====

The greatest band that ever came out of Northville, MI

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 17, 2024 10:41 AM (2bP6G)

265 hmmm

"Report: Over 1,000 Hezbollah operatives wounded after pagers exploded across Lebanon
Hospitals in Lebanon calling for blood donations amid influx of casualties; Lebanese broadcaster claims Israel remotely detonated Hezbollah’s communication devices; Iran's ambassador to Lebanon injured in pager blast"

Posted by: runner at September 17, 2024 10:41 AM (V13WU)

266 "Report: Over 1,000 Hezbollah operatives wounded after pagers exploded across Lebanon
Hospitals in Lebanon calling for blood donations amid influx of casualties; Lebanese broadcaster claims Israel remotely detonated Hezbollah’s communication devices; Iran's ambassador to Lebanon injured in pager blast"
Posted by: runner a

No one needs a pager except a doctor and a dug dealer.
-My mom, circa 1996

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 17, 2024 10:43 AM (CIS44)

267 Iran's ambassador to Lebanon injured in pager blast"
Posted by: runner at September 17, 2024 10:41 AM (V13WU)

Very interesting

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:44 AM (IyPmt)

268 No one needs a pager except a doctor and a dug dealer.
-My mom, circa 1996
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What about terrorists, mom? Did you ever think about that in your eurocentric, white supremacist privilege?

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:45 AM (iFMeW)

269 Better than Number 2

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (IyPmt)

With his superpowered brown note generator.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 17, 2024 10:45 AM (i24o9)

270 sounds like they "overheated" the pagers

Posted by: runner at September 17, 2024 10:45 AM (V13WU)

271 John Bolton: "... Putin has been bluffing about escalating the conflict, and we've fallen for it every step of the way."

He's bluffing until he isn't. Then what?

You and your big brain can't fathom a change in tactics/strategy in a war?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 17, 2024 10:46 AM (aXxgO)

272 if those fkrs were not paranoid enough...

Posted by: runner at September 17, 2024 10:46 AM (V13WU)

273 "He's bluffing until he isn't. Then what?"

Bolton's only love is war. So misreading Putin and it leading to war is a win in his book.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:47 AM (iFMeW)

274 Also, pagers? Is this 1998?

Posted by: spindrift

I imagine it is harder to track a pager.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 17, 2024 10:47 AM (lTGtQ)

275 John Bolton: "... Putin has been bluffing about escalating the conflict, and we've fallen for it every step of the way."

WTF is "we"?

Posted by: BignJames at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (AwYPR)

276 Once-beloved Climate Crazy Greta Thunberg Gradually Falling From Grace

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And it's not like she can fall back on her looks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

277 "I imagine it is harder to track a pager."

Heh.

Posted by: Mossad at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (iFMeW)

278 Bolton's only love is war. So misreading Putin and it leading to war is a win in his book.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:47 AM (iFMeW)
++++
Bolton's first love is being a whore. He sells his filthy political pucker for the Beltway equivalent of a ham sandwich.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (HnUIn)

279 Breaking911 @Breaking911 44m
SCENE OUT OF SCIENCE FICTION: An Israeli-attributed operation blows up hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists when their electronic pagers used to coordinate terror attacks suddenly exploded.

MORE FROM LEBANON: The electronic pagers allegedly blown up in a massive Israeli operation, killing scores of Hezbollah terrorists.

SCENES OF CHAOS: Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists killed and severely wounded when their pagers suddenly exploded in an Israeli-attributed operation.

UPDATE: Lebanese hospitals overwhelmed as hundreds upon hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists arrived with critical injuries after Israel allegedly hacked their pagers and blew them up remotely in an incredible operation never seen before.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (CEzQx)

280 I guess it's back to two Dixie cups and a piece of string.

Posted by: Hezbollah Communications Directorate at September 17, 2024 10:48 AM (OguvZ)

281 Breaking911 @Breaking911 25m
WHAT WE KNOW ON MAJOR INCIDENT IN LEBANON :
- Electronic pagers belonging to Hezbollah terrorists simultaneously explode.
- As many as 1,200 Hezbollah terrorists critically wounded or dead.
- No specific location.
- All fingers point to incredible operation by Israel’s Mossad.

BREAKING UPDATE: The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon is reporteldy among the at least 1200 injured in the remote blasts when their "pagers" exploded. He apparently was carrying a Hezbollah pager.

MORE: The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon and two of his bodyguards are reportedly injured in the pager incident.

They were using the same pagers recently distributed to Hezbollah's members to replace the older versions they had.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (CEzQx)

282 Around 1970, I toured Chicago's giant sewage treatment plant*. In goes the sewage, out comes 'clean' water and sludge, they explained. "What do you do with the sludge?" "That gets dumped in Lake Michigan."

Now they say "sludge is converted to biosolids, which are a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers." Better than lake dumping, I guess. Who knows.

* I've been everywhere, man.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (jW2M4)

283 did you read the townhall report that Iranian's joining the Secret Service Failed the terrorist question on a lie detector and were allowed to join. Meygn Kelly was talking about it last knight.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (FCrpy)

284 You and your big brain can't fathom a change in tactics/strategy in a war?
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

New Theory: the Alphabets discovered a virus that makes people insane and compliant.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IG4Id)

285 "Lebanese hospitals overwhelmed as hundreds upon hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists arrived with critical injuries"

I cannot stop laughing.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (iFMeW)

286 I imagine it is harder to track a pager.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 17, 2024 10:47 AM (lTGtQ)

Been watching a serious on how murders were solved by going into peoples electronic devices.. All I can say is don't bring your cell phone to a crime.

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IyPmt)

287 dug dealer == breast implant salesman.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:50 AM (jW2M4)

288 So we identify gang members by tattoos and Israel identifies them by cauterized penis.

I like the Israelis' thinking.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 17, 2024 10:50 AM (aXxgO)

289 From WSJ-

Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.

I was about to call BS but it's reported here too:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396320

First, who still uses pagers? For that matter, who still makes them? Second, I know Mossad is good but how could they possibly arrange something like that?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 17, 2024 10:51 AM (/y8xj)

290 Did Israel sell them pagers with C4 in them? How did they blow up pagers?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 17, 2024 10:51 AM (aPY1X)

291 > Report: Over 1,000 Hezbollah operatives wounded....
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Why are are there "over 1000 Hezbollah operatives" still alive?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 17, 2024 10:51 AM (Q4IgG)

292 They were using the same pagers recently distributed to Hezbollah's members to replace the older versions they had.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (CEzQx)

MY,my,my.. I wonder who distributed the new ones ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:51 AM (IyPmt)

293 "MY,my,my.. I wonder who distributed the new ones ?"

Lol. I hope they packed up shop and left town without a forwarding address.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (iFMeW)

294 Israel allegedly hacked their pagers and blew them up

Avon calling!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (HHIe0)

295 Lebanese hospitals overwhelmed

They should send the patients to Gaza. Apparently every second building there is a hospital.

Posted by: spindrift at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (OguvZ)

296 Been watching a serious on how murders were solved by going into peoples electronic devices.. All I can say is don't bring your cell phone to a crime.
Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IyPmt)
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Yes, but then again, no.

Virtually all crimes, I suspect, have a cell phone present. A lot of them are freaking live-streamed on social media. In this country, most people use old-fashioned SMS text messages, which ain't exactly secure (interesting market reasons for that, as opposed to Europe and Asia where messaging apps are more common).

It doesn't seem to be an impediment. Either there's no desire to use the high-tech information to try to solve the crime, or there's so much high-tech information that separating signal from noise is too difficult unless it's something stupendously important.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (HnUIn)

297 It’s not communism. The federal government is simply taking your money and handing it to immigrants for food and shelter while you struggle to afford eggs.

Does that sound like communism?
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:20 AM (CEzQx)

Yes.

Posted by: ... at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (LCr8f)

298 Around 1970, I toured Chicago's giant sewage treatment plant*. In goes the sewage, out comes 'clean' water and sludge, they explained. "What do you do with the sludge?" "That gets dumped in Lake Michigan."

Now they say "sludge is converted to biosolids, which are a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers." Better than lake dumping, I guess. Who knows.

* I've been everywhere, man.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake

I recall that they reversed the flow of the Chicago river to push their sewage into the Mississippi, and St Louis took them to the supreme court. Seems like the place has always flowed sewage.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (lTGtQ)

299
Been watching a serious on how murders were solved by going into peoples electronic devices.. All I can say is don't bring your cell phone to a crime.
Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IyPmt)

While it is serious, I am watching a series

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (IyPmt)

300 Hospitals in Lebanon calling for blood donations amid influx of casualties;

Before: Hezbollah wants your blood.

After: Hezbollah needs your blood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

301 Upon reflection, this was not done as a one-off, just to temporarily discomfit Hezballah. This only makes sense if it is a prelude to invasion - and soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (kojSG)

302 Pager photos:
https://tinyurl.com/yc62ny5d

https://tinyurl.com/3ztn4mdv
18 seconds; video in action!

Another:
https://tinyurl.com/4vf85ayx
Guy's got a good ringtone.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (CEzQx)

303 Israel remains the world leader in sneaky spy shit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 17, 2024 10:53 AM (aPY1X)

304 Nobody is solving crimes.

Another media psy op is that police departments are full of heroes trying to solve crimes.

Posted by: ... at September 17, 2024 10:53 AM (LCr8f)

305 Now they say "sludge is converted to biosolids

Biosolids - college boy way of saing poo.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 10:54 AM (fKRr8)

306 2:20 minutes of bleeding assholes but no further action:
https://tinyurl.com/yytnbtvv

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:54 AM (CEzQx)

307 It doesn't seem to be an impediment. Either there's no desire to use the high-tech information to try to solve the crime, or there's so much high-tech information that separating signal from noise is too difficult unless it's something stupendously important.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (HnUIn)

The main thing is the tracking where you are.. Like the POS who tried to take out Trump on Sunday... They knew by tracking his phone that he was there for 12 hours.. Or at least his phone was

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:54 AM (IyPmt)

308 New Theory: the Alphabets discovered a virus that makes people insane and compliant.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IG4Id)

It's called a television.

Posted by: ... at September 17, 2024 10:55 AM (LCr8f)

309 Pager photos:
https://tinyurl.com/yc62ny5d ...
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (CEzQx)
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Ruh-roh.

Those are Motorola pagers. Mainstream. Industry standard. Taken for granted.

If this *does* turn out to be hack-based rather than some kind of physical interdiction and replacement or modification, it's going to be a nightmare scenario for Motorola and everyone who deploys their kit - which is virtually everyone still using pagers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 10:55 AM (HnUIn)

310 Nice plate carrier!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (Hyyh7)

311 JJ's real name is "Number Six"
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Better than Number 2

Big reveal! He's also Number 1!

Posted by: Oddbob at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (/y8xj)

312 303 I like the pinpoint assassination tactic a lot more than the shock and awe nuke-em tactic. Seems more effective with less cost and less collateral damage.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (jW2M4)

313 Around 1970, I toured Chicago's giant sewage treatment plant

You visited the Chicago legislature?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (Q0kLU)

314 "Big reveal! He's also Number 1!"

Oh, piss!

Posted by: Ribbed at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (iFMeW)

315 "Quasar...by Motorola"

I still remember those ads.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

316 306 2:20 minutes of bleeding assholes but no further action:
https://tinyurl.com/yytnbtvv
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:54 AM (CEzQx)

Should I be laughing ? Cause I am

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:57 AM (IyPmt)

317 "Biosolids - college boy way of saing poo."

Correction: sustainable poo.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:57 AM (jW2M4)

318 Sludge + evaporation = biosolid. Yay! Gross.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 10:58 AM (KAi1n)

319 313 Ha!

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:58 AM (jW2M4)

320 Before: Hezbollah wants your blood.

After: Hezbollah needs your blood.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
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Stage two: Mossad agents infiltrate the hospitals in Lebanon and ensure that the blood transfusions are from Israeli Jews.

Then inform the patient there was a mixup.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:58 AM (7fElN)

321 Never, ever set your pager to BOOM! I thought people knew that.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (aXxgO)

322 Biosolids - college boy way of saing poo.

Posted by: rickb223

It reminds me of Germany talking about biofuels taking over.

Biofuels is a way of saying cut down the forests and burn them for heat.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (lTGtQ)

323 I guess it depended on where you kept your pager... In your pocket was probably not a good thing...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (IyPmt)

324 Sludge + evaporation = biosolid. Yay! Gross.
Posted by: SFGoth

Sounds like something that would morph into one of Kolchak's monsters.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (v6JzV)

325 308 New Theory: the Alphabets discovered a virus that makes people insane and compliant.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (IG4Id)

It's called a television.

Posted by: ... at September 17, 2024 10:55 AM (LCr8f)

Smartphone.

BTW, 'Smart' phone is pretty clever subliminal naming.

Posted by: davidt at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (i0F8b)

326 311 JJ's real name is "Number Six"
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Better than Number 2

Big reveal! He's also Number 1!
Posted by: Oddbob at September 17, 2024 10:56 AM (/y8xj)

Who is Numbert 1?

You are, Number 6.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2024 10:59 AM (kojSG)

327 The subject of this portrait has expressive wrists. NTTAWWT, but I'm just sayin'.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 17, 2024 11:00 AM (yh31E)

328 Perfectly acceptable: joking about assassinating Trump.

Beyond the pale: joking about Mossad reaching out and touching Hezbollah.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

329 250 This lady finds it funny that the new Trump shooter was photographed with a celebrity chef who is really close to Hillary Clinton, but here's the real story about how Hillary is involved

https://is.gd/ZgIBmU

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Funny is not the exact word I was thinking of.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 17, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

The same chef who was giving rides to Hamas in his kitchen trucks? That chef?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 17, 2024 11:00 AM (NMT5x)

330 BTW, 'Smart' phone is pretty clever subliminal naming.

Posted by: davidt

Your phone is smart, so you don't have to be.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 17, 2024 11:01 AM (lTGtQ)

331 Breaking911 @Breaking911 12m
WSJ: The affected pagers were from a new shipment that Hezbollah received in recent days. A senior Hezbollah terrorist speculated that malware may have caused the devices to heat up and explode. There are close to 1,500 wounded or dead terrorists.

https://tinyurl.com/3jkm3xu2
5 seconds and 8 seconds; Allah ain't listening, buddy or sometimes he answers calls to payer with a 'No'.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 11:01 AM (CEzQx)

332 256 JJ's real name is "Number Six"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 17, 2024 10:38 AM (7fElN)

Better than Number 2
Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:39 AM (IyPmt)

WHO. DOES. NUMBER 2. WORK FOR?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 17, 2024 11:01 AM (y31cs)

333 Is he 'advertising'? What's that thing sticking up from between his legs ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 17, 2024 11:02 AM (ayRl+)

334 WHO. DOES. NUMBER 2. WORK FOR?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Big Colon!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 11:02 AM (fKRr8)

335 Sustainable Number 2.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 11:02 AM (jW2M4)

336 NOOD APE!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 17, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

337
Now they say "sludge is converted to biosolids, which are a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers." Better than lake dumping, I guess. Who knows.

* I've been everywhere, man.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM

Milorganite is a fertilizer made from Milwaukee crap. Really good stuff for some purposes, but I'd never use on a food crop. Anyway, I used it on a putting green on my property and the bent grass loved it. My wife would not get within 50 feet of the green because it smelled like shit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (RKVpM)

338
Oh thank God: the worst human being on Earth hates J.D. Vance. Good to know... makes me like him more, and being called names by that subhuman piece of genocidal filth is a badge of honor worth more than even the VP nod.

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (9VDxG)

339 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (v6JzV)

340 RE: exploding pagers

That's one of the best assassination schemes in history. Has to be. It's so cleverly devious and, apparently, effective.

That was brilliant.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (aXxgO)

341 Doh!

...calls to prayer...

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (CEzQx)

342 nood

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake on Tea at September 17, 2024 11:03 AM (jW2M4)

343 316 306 2:20 minutes of bleeding assholes but no further action:
https://tinyurl.com/yytnbtvv
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:54 AM (CEzQx)

Should I be laughing ? Cause I am
Posted by: It's me donna at September 17, 2024 10:57 AM (IyPmt)

Imma haff to call the doctor in 4 hours. This is awesome!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 17, 2024 11:08 AM (NMT5x)

344 From WSJ-

Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives pagers are exploding in an apparent attack by the Israelis.

Brilliant Psyop!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 17, 2024 10:17 AM (7suCK)

The Hezbos still use pagers? How very 80's of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2024 11:10 AM (0KrkO)

345 A page of the Medici court. Who looks exactly like Mark Zuckerberg.

Tis a fine painting but will not be take hangable wall space in this peasant class abode.

Thanks

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 17, 2024 11:10 AM (NFX2v)

346 I saw this once before in The Plot to Beep Hitler

Posted by: ... at September 17, 2024 11:10 AM (LCr8f)

347 They were using the same pagers recently distributed to Hezbollah's members to replace the older versions they had.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 10:49 AM (CEzQx)

The warranty claims are gonna be murder...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2024 11:20 AM (8opQS)

348 Well, when the biggest draw on Broadway is a musical created by two guys who's zenith was two puppets f**king on screen, you know Broadway has lost the plot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 17, 2024 11:23 AM (XV/Pl)

349 New reports say close to 3000 injured pager owners in Lebanon. Just think of the out-of-pocket costs!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 17, 2024 11:36 AM (LgsNJ)

350 When your fingers go numb just wiggle them

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 17, 2024 04:13 PM (wGqjj)

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