Mid-Morning Art Thread

Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror
Henri Matisse

Posted by: CBD at 09:22 AM

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1 Top 100?

Posted by: Weasel at June 18, 2025 09:23 AM (qtd4D)

2 Nice skirt

Posted by: H at June 18, 2025 09:24 AM (2gjbv)

3 Well, boobs. So, yay. I guess...

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

4 Dude can't paint.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 09:25 AM (jxGzv)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Oh boy. Here we go.

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2025 09:25 AM (lJ0H4)

7 Early art?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Would neither hang nor hit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (xTinh)

9 Muffin top.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Did he steal that mirror from a fun house?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (jxGzv)

11 Fun with water colors and tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

12 The feet peeps will be complaining about this one.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (0sNs1)

13 I think the Turks had better-looking odalisques. Like the Circassian babes.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (77rzZ)

14 And so it begins...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 18, 2025 09:26 AM (bss/y)

15 Does this make me look fat ? Well?
Some Matisse I like some I don't. Don't like this one, wouldn't hang.
Thx for the daily thread CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (7a6IM)

16 Them's child bearing hips.

Get her knocked up, stat.

She's already bearfoot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Matisse, imagine that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (bss/y)

18 *barefoot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

19 No question she's an innie.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (0sNs1)

20 A little early this morning, CBD.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

21 She has man face. And her reflection has it even worse.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

22 She's kind of pear shaped.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (bss/y)

23 Alternate title:

"When Your Right Boob Decides To Abandon Ship"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (A3/2W)

24 I don’t know what Odalisque is but her posture is weird.

Good birthin’ hips, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (6ydKt)

25
World's Ugliest Odalisque

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Q+BiN)

26 A smile would have been nice.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

27 That's an odd belly button.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

28 19 No question she's an innie.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (0sNs1)

Aren't all women, by definition, innies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM (bss/y)

29 yay boobs

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM (gbOdA)

30 But can she sammitch

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

31 She's already bearfoot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM

To be fair, those aren't quite grizzly claws.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)

32 His depth is WAY off. Looks like she's standing on a 75 degree slope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

33 World's Ugliest Odalisque
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

So you're saying she's a dog? So, art?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

34
To be fair, those aren't quite grizzly claws.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)

My kingdom for an edit button.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

35
Naked odalisque on an ottoman >>>> Naked fat guy on an ottoman

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (Q+BiN)

36 Some Matisse I like some I don't. Don't like this one, wouldn't hang.
Thx for the daily thread CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Same here. I love Harmony in Red(The Red Room).

Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (lJ0H4)

37 Morning.

Oh, boobah!

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 09:30 AM (4jjip)

38 The Met has the cartoon study
Title: Reflection in the Mirror

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date: early 1923

Medium: Charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 20 5/16 in. × 16 in. (51.6 × 40.6 cm)
Framed: 31 × 25 in. (78.7 × 63.5 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

The painting is in private collection.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

39 I like Matisse as a general rule.

This one I'm ambivalent about...

And it involves tits!!!!!

Quite an accomplishment.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2025 09:30 AM (A3/2W)

40 Aren't all women, by definition, innies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 18, 2025 09:28 AM

* watches the comment sail over the middle of the plate for a called strike *

Sadly, I haven't had enough coffee yet to sock a trannie screeching in faux outrage. I'll try to #BeBetter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (0sNs1)

41
The painting is in private collection.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

_______

In the basement. Behind the furnace.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (Q+BiN)

42 How about "No."

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (AOsQT)

43 ~~BOOBS!!~~

boobs

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

44 Reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not sure if that's a compliment or not.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (xTinh)

45 Some Matisse I like some I don't. Don't like this one, wouldn't hang.

Thx for the daily thread CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2025 09:27 AM (7a6IM)

An open mind? Are you new here?

[You are very welcome!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (L5An7)

46 It's paintings like this that make you realize that CBD hates all of us. All of us.

Posted by: KwaK! at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM (89Sog)

47 Odalisque was an enslaved chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio.

No wonder perv artists painted so many.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

48 Do these pants make my tits look small?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM (+dWc2)

49 Reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not sure if that's a compliment or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

No, it is not. Shelley was a most unfortunate-looking creature.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

50 Alternate title:

"The Curse of the Werefoot"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2025 09:33 AM (A3/2W)

51 Some Matisse I like some I don't. Don't like this one, wouldn't hang.
Thx for the daily thread CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Same here. I love Harmony in Red(The Red Room).
Posted by: Tuna at June 18, 2025 09:29 AM (lJ0H4)
******
Same. Not a fan of this one.
I have a large print of Matisse's goldfish hanging in my mud room, which I love

Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

52 44 Reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not sure if that's a compliment or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Me. I've seen worse. (In the mirror)

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas at June 18, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

53 Naw. Pure crap.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 09:34 AM (pohLc)

54 You're not wearing THAT are you?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

55

Trantifa...

Posted by: Elderly Git at June 18, 2025 09:34 AM (1Dv0K)

56 Do these pants make my tits look small?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM

This question is Husband-Approved (tm), and should be asked *much* more frequently.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:35 AM (0sNs1)

57 47 Odalisque was an enslaved chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio.

No wonder perv artists painted so many.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Is exotic, sensual and exciting! Who are we to judge their cultural norms!?!?!?

Posted by: Leftist Cultural Apologists at June 18, 2025 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

58 With foppish hair the look of the day
And a necklace that looks rather gay
With hips posed in a gravid way
We needs Muldoon to work "umbilicus"
Into one of his limericks

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 18, 2025 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

59 Eh. I've never really gotten the "genius" of Matisse. I like some of his work, but a lot of it just doesn't do anything for me.

I guess I like him more than Gauguin, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 18, 2025 09:36 AM (WPL6O)

60 Wow. That was a quick troll-zapping. CBD's espresso must have kicked in already.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

61 This is challenging to look at. I like the colors.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:36 AM (H621s)

62 Look like add-ons.

Posted by: javems at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (8I4hW)

63 It's paintings like this that make you realize that CBD hates all of us. All of us.
Posted by: KwaK! at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM

No, we're here to provide him amusement.

And, possibly, despair for Kris.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (0sNs1)

64 @57

Cultural Norm!!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake guest stars on "Cheers" at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (A3/2W)

65 Reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not sure if that's a compliment or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:31 AM (xTinh)

This lady has some curves. She's not a phone pole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

66 You could produce better art by pumping a chicken full of ex-lax and aiming it's ass at a canvas while giving a good squeeze.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (pohLc)

67 The Met has the cartoon study
Title: Reflection in the Mirror

Seriously? This wasn't his first try? What was he studying? How to produce a piece of crap?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (s8j++)

68 49 Reminds me of Shelley Duvall.

Not sure if that's a compliment or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

That reminds me, Miss Oyl is on holiday this week, my funds are low, waiting for my back pension. I would be so thankful for some help and would be pleased to pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

69 >>Is exotic, sensual and exciting! Who are we to judge their cultural norms!?!?!?
Posted by: Leftist Cultural Apologists

Uh, is that mansplaining?!

Posted by: AWFL at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (72zuV)

70 "Hon, put on a shirt. You're scaring the dog."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (JkO4W)

71 Hey, Taylor. Welcome back, again.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

72 Archimedes

The Met charcoal sketch had no pants and no top.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (u82oZ)

73 Eh. I've never really gotten the "genius" of Matisse. I like some of his work, but a lot of it just doesn't do anything for me.

Soooo...you're saying he's hit or Matisse?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (s8j++)

74 You could produce better art by pumping a chicken full of ex-lax and aiming it's ass at a canvas while giving a good squeeze.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

*takes notes*
-- Hunter Biden

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

75 The Met charcoal sketch had no pants and no top.

Chaps?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (s8j++)

76 The Met charcoal sketch had no pants and no top.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM

And what about ... you know ...

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

77 Odalisque?

I'm not going to the urban dictionary with that.

Posted by: dantesed at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

78 Hey, Taylor. Welcome back, again.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

Thank you Bulg. How are you today?

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:40 AM (H621s)

79 Mirror Universe Odalisque has a goatee.

Posted by: fd at June 18, 2025 09:40 AM (EDV0z)

80 That chick's fat.

Freakin' muffintop, man...

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 09:40 AM (4jjip)

81 I've never really gotten the "genius" of Matisse.

I lack, apparently, that part of the brain which appreciates "art". I don't give a damn that someone invented a new means of smearing paint with a sardine or used 40 pounds of paint for a 2 inch by 3 inch piece. I don't "feel" anything when confronted with a canvas which just has a bunch of random shit on it.

I do enjoy paintings which look like something and were done well, even if they're not 'realistic'.

That having been said, naked - or semi-naked - women are always a good thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 09:41 AM (ExV1e)

82 Thank you Bulg. How are you today?
Posted by: Taylor

OK, thanks. Gearing up for my trip to Michigan.

You still on the OBX, distracting the golfers with your tanning?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

83 Those feet.... yikes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 09:41 AM (Q4IgG)

84 zombie Bob Ross

The bush looks Meh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 18, 2025 09:41 AM (u82oZ)

85
Odalisque was an enslaved chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio.

______

Wait, I was told only the US had slavery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 09:42 AM (QnmlO)

86 She's got only one headlight on? Should be able to buff that out.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 18, 2025 09:42 AM (144I4)

87 Those feet.... yikes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Has Wolfus weighed in on them yet?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

88 Do these pants make my tits look small?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM (+dWc2)

Small aint a problem. The fact that they seem to be actively trying to separate from each other is odd. They each seem to want to take shelter under their respective adjacent armpits.

Posted by: Doof at June 18, 2025 09:43 AM (B5+rm)

89 I like the pants.

Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 09:43 AM (s8j++)

90 OK, thanks. Gearing up for my trip to Michigan.

You still on the OBX, distracting the golfers with your tanning?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

Oh yes, to reconnect. I really hope that goes well!

Yesterday we found out that on average, golfers don't appreciate hearing the Sad Trombone after a bad shot, no matter how pretty you are.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:44 AM (H621s)

91 You sure got a ~~purty~~ small mouth.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 18, 2025 09:44 AM (144I4)

92 I have a large print of Matisse's goldfish hanging in my mud room, which I love
Posted by: redridinghood

My goodness! Art in a "mud room". Can any comment be more illustrative of a tiered American society with a privileged class, while the hoi polloi wallow in squalor, whilst waiting for the Food Bank to open?

Posted by: Poor Boy From A Poor Family at June 18, 2025 09:45 AM (G5+As)

93 On a backdrop of Muslim rape gangs, Mexican cartel child trafficking, and Lolita Express to Pedo Island I cannot find it in myself to make light of a painting of a harem sex slave.

Posted by: muldoon at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (poXs5)

94 I like the pants.
Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 09:43 AM (s8j++)

LOL!! Book Thread approved?

Posted by: Doof at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (B5+rm)

95 I like the vids of folks who sneak stuff into art museums and make it a display.

But, you'll never convince the art world nor their artists that a lot of what they produce, 99%+, is not better than random.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (GBH10)

96 Reminds me of my first attempt to draw bewbs at age 8.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (36PRH)

97
Paintings like this give nudity a bad name.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (d4X7t)

98 94 I like the pants.
Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 09:43 AM (s8j++)

LOL!! Book Thread approved?
Posted by: Doof at June 18, 2025 09:46 AM (B5+rm)
----
Looks like something from "Breakin".

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 18, 2025 09:47 AM (36PRH)

99 Yesterday we found out that on average, golfers don't appreciate hearing the Sad Trombone after a bad shot, no matter how pretty you are.
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:44 AM (H621s)

You're here! So you're a regular now, or is this going to be Bardo all over again?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:47 AM (xTinh)

100 >>Soooo...you're saying he's hit or Matisse?

It's not his Fauve-rite.
And to be honest, his Pissarro perspective is giving me vertigo!

Posted by: AWFL at June 18, 2025 09:48 AM (72zuV)

101 That is one tempting belly button.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 09:48 AM (FmapG)

102 My hubs and I went on our honeymoon in St. Martin, there were a lot of women that looked like this there.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 18, 2025 09:49 AM (0nHVk)

103 Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

.. this is like: Top Reason People Don't Jump Off of Tall Buildings Is Thanatophobia (Fear of Death)

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

104 80 That chick's fat.

Freakin' muffintop, man...
Posted by: Robert

Actually, I believe this body type is known as "skinny-fat".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 18, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

105 I have a large print of Matisse's goldfish hanging in my mud room, which I love
Posted by: redridinghood at June 18, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

--------

Never get too attached to a mud room.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 09:49 AM (JkO4W)

106 Not even at closing time.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at June 18, 2025 09:49 AM (TaWok)

107 Paintings like this give nudity a bad name.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Discarded Bon Jovi lyric...

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2025 09:51 AM (+dWc2)

108
Henri Matisse: "I subvert your drab bourgeois expectations of beauty and artistic competence!"

"please buy my paintings."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 09:51 AM (d4X7t)

109 >>Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

Amazing how it's never their fault.
No wonder this is on the rise -- it's a universal 'get out of jail free' card, you can blame others for every dang problem in your life!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2025 09:51 AM (72zuV)

110 106 Not even at closing time.
---------------
Bet she shakes like jelly when the Rogering gets going.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 09:51 AM (FmapG)

111 Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

.. this is like: Top Reason People Don't Jump Off of Tall Buildings Is Thanatophobia (Fear of Death)
Posted by: SMOD

You're not going to do something that you feel to your core because I'm going to laugh at you?

Bwahahahahahahaha.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 09:51 AM (jxGzv)

112 Nice colors. Otherwise not terribly impressive . I e her really cared much for most of Matisse's works.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (CS+dt)

113 My hubs and I went on our honeymoon in St. Martin, there were a lot of women that looked like this there.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

French side or Dutch side?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

114 Would consider hanging.

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

115 This painting bothers me. Women are not cartoon characters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

116 She's no Seven Times Stronger Than Viagra lady.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (JkO4W)

117 You're here! So you're a regular now, or is this going to be Bardo all over again?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:47 AM (xTinh)

Shut up. I kind of like this place. People here are nice since clearly they've been putting up with you for a long time.

And Bardo were a bunch of jerks anyway.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (H621s)

118 Actually, I believe this body type is known as "skinny-fat".
___

She's all about the bass

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (Dv3i1)

119 “Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a court’s clear and unambiguous order,” U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote.

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (RHGPo)

120 Those are some sad, sad tittays.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (u1Ef4)

121 This painting bothers me. Women are not cartoon characters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

*fistbump*
-- Jessica Rabbit

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

122
Is "mud room" fancy talk for bathroom?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (A3/2W)

123 French side or Dutch side?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

---------

Furry legs or wooden shoes?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (JkO4W)

124 No reflection on Matisse in general, but I think I'd rather look at the ad with VitalPumpXL girl than this particular painting.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (q3u5l)

125 Back away from the buffet.

Posted by: Eromero at June 18, 2025 09:54 AM (jgmnb)

126 I get color drunk looking at Matisse paintings. The man's command of color and form is awe-inspiring. Pictures on the Internet don't do his work justice. They need to be seen in the real at viewing distance.

Posted by: troyriser at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (DPeYO)

127 None of the abstract expressionists could draw worth a damn. Every time there's a showing of their "early work" including sketches, I always marvel at how horrible they are.

Posted by: tankascribe at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (NtoJk)

128 'Fighting 1,500 km from home isn’t a walk in the park,' says IAF pilot Maj. N’ of the first strike in Iran; 'We saw Iranian jets take off—then flee and vanish, and we stayed two hours and could’ve gone back—again and again'
“This is my correction for October 7—this time we were the initiators,” says Maj N. (31), an F-15 pilot from Squadron 133, one of the first to take part in the unprecedented Israeli airstrikes over Iran at the start of Operation Rising Lion.

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

129 Put your clothes back on honey...

Posted by: Heterosexual And Loving It! at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (k98/w)

130 119 “Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a court’s clear and unambiguous order,” U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams wrote.
Posted by: SMOD

Depends, is the court's order based on the plain meaning of the words in the underlying law, or is it made up nonsense?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 09:56 AM (Dv3i1)

131 Shut up. I kind of like this place. People here are nice since clearly they've been putting up with you for a long time.

And Bardo were a bunch of jerks anyway.
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (H621s)

Yeah they were. AoS is much better. These are my friends here.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:56 AM (xTinh)

132 I'd rather look at the ad with VitalPumpXL girl than this particular painting.
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Yes.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (FmapG)

133 Nobody's talking about the Israelis' apparent taking out of Mahmoud I'madinnerjacket.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

134 No comments on the interior decorator? Talk about hideous.

Posted by: dantesed at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (Oy/m2)

135 127 None of the abstract expressionists could draw worth a damn. Every time there's a showing of their "early work" including sketches, I always marvel at how horrible they are.
______

But they looked great on the fridge!

Posted by: Matisse's Mom at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (Dv3i1)

136 What is/was Bardo?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

137 Imagine the model standing for that painting for several hours, seeing the final product and realizing the only reason she had to be there was so this creep could ogle her tits.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 18, 2025 09:58 AM (wzAuc)

138 Dutch side, Bulg, it was the French side that was more revealing.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 18, 2025 09:58 AM (0nHVk)

139 Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror
Henri Matisse

That's nice, Hank. So, are you mowing lawns to save up for art school someday?

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 09:58 AM (nYrjk)

140 No comments on the interior decorator? Talk about hideous.
Posted by: dantesed

Not enough to go on. Can't even tell if the carpet matches the drapes.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 18, 2025 09:59 AM (+dWc2)

141 Women are not cartoon characters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

Dayo?

https://tinyurl.com/4kbr4bcj

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 09:59 AM (4jjip)

142 Yeah they were. AoS is much better. These are my friends here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 09:56 AM (xTinh)

How many of them have made YOU an espresso then put Sade on the stereo?

And now you sound like Princess Leia in the Ewok village.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:59 AM (H621s)

143 What is/was Bardo?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (Classical Tibetan: བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chū'u) is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:00 AM (ExV1e)

144 And Bardo were a bunch of jerks anyway.
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:52 AM (H621s)

I know who Bardot is, but who is Bardo?

Posted by: Don't Get Out Much at June 18, 2025 10:00 AM (G5+As)

145 She Hobbit just won the internet at 140.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM (DLqye)

146 And now you sound like Princess Leia in the Ewok village.
Posted by: Taylor

Well, Ace IS an Ewok...

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

147 Rasmussen: Trump is at 56% approval.

https://instapundit.com/726969/

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM (4jjip)

148 133 Nobody's talking about the Israelis' apparent taking out of Mahmoud I'madinnerjacket.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

I thought he's been dead for a while...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM (VE6XX)

149 Weird feet, even though most of you scalawags probably didn't even notice them. You remember those paintings that high school students did in art class that lined the art classroom? That's what this reminds me of...minus the chesticles.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:02 AM (qBdHI)

150 Odalisque?
Seraglio?

Them sound like limerick words!

Posted by: Hint, hint at June 18, 2025 10:02 AM (lIgBp)

151 Hey, Ben Had!

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

152 Rasmussen: Trump is at 56% approval.

https://instapundit.com/726969/
Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM (4jjip)

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Looks like the No More Kings demonstrations really captured the American imagination.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2025 10:03 AM (JkO4W)

153 Bulg, Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:03 AM (DLqye)

154 137 Imagine the model standing for that painting for several hours, seeing the final product and realizing the only reason she had to be there was so this creep could ogle her tits.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

These kinds of paintings are my entire ouvre.

Posted by: Ben Oglennertitz at June 18, 2025 10:03 AM (Dv3i1)

155 So Bardo is the Cat Licks' Purgatory?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 10:04 AM (FmapG)

156 Rasmussen: Trump is at 56% approval.

https://instapundit.com/726969/

--

Whoop, aliassmithsmith can be seen climbing atop the nearest chair with a rope suspended from the basement ceiling. Either that, or it's combing through Mother Jones looking for a savior poll showing Trump cratering...cratering, I say!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:05 AM (qBdHI)

157 137 Imagine the model standing for that painting for several hours, seeing the final product and realizing the only reason she had to be there was so this creep could ogle her tits.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

=======

I don't think Matisse took hours to paint.

He probably got through this painting in like 30 minutes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

158 *fistbump*
-- Jessica Rabbit
Posted by: Bulg

Jessica Rabbit cosplay: https://tinyurl.com/yjjmu2xc

>>>>>>>>> x 1,000,000

Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

159 156 Whoop, aliassmithsmith can be seen climbing atop the nearest chair with a rope suspended from the basement ceiling. Either that, or it's combing through Mother Jones looking for a savior poll showing Trump cratering...cratering, I say!
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:05 AM (qBdHI)

======

He just wants to eat shit pebbles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

160 63 It's paintings like this that make you realize that CBD hates all of us. All of us.
Posted by: KwaK! at June 18, 2025 09:32 AM

No, we're here to provide him amusement.

And, possibly, despair for Kris.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 09:37 AM (0sNs1)

C'mon, this beats Ottoman man by a mile. At least this is Art.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:06 AM (uWKK8)

161 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

I ALMOST fell for it again, then read the nic.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

162 Pictures on the Internet don't do his work justice. They need to be seen in the real at viewing distance.
Posted by: troyriser at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (DPeYO)

Yeah, about 100 miles would be ideal.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (pohLc)

163 Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025

Happy birthday.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (jxGzv)

164 Make Parachute Pants Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (aVsyW)

165 What is/was Bardo?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

Bardo was a pub where my brother used to hang outvwith friends back when he moved out there. There was a core group and people just kind of went in and out around the fringes. I would join the group when I was in town to visit and it was pretty clear to me there was something just off about them.

So because I'm the smart one, I did a little digging and found one of the ringleaders was not a very decent person. In retrospect I should have caught on early when he grabbed my ass. So I let my brother know and that was that.

"Bardo" is shorthand for "is my sister going to check out my friends?"

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (H621s)

166
Boobies

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (FoIOl)

167 So Iran says if we get involved it will lead to all out war.... Me thinks they're already in one

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

168 Pictures on the Internet don't do his work justice. They need to be seen in the real at viewing distance.
Posted by: troyriser at June 18, 2025 09:55 AM (DPeYO)

Yeah, about 100 miles would be ideal.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (jxGzv)

169 How many of them have made YOU an espresso then put Sade on the stereo?

And now you sound like Princess Leia in the Ewok village.
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 09:59 AM (H621s)

Oh, you had to mention "Ewoks...."

How's the Golf House?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (xTinh)

170 It's Ben Had's birthday?

Happy Birthday, Ben Had!

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

171 167 So Iran says if we get involved it will lead to all out war.... Me thinks they're already in one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

=====

Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

172 rickb223, thank you. Drinks are on me in the Cafe tonight.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (DLqye)

173 137 Imagine the model standing for that painting for several hours, seeing the final product and realizing the only reason she had to be there was so this creep could ogle her tits.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

Did you see Titanic? Chicks love when artists want to draw them naked. And this girl is probably stoked for any male attention towards her titties lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

174 170 It's Ben Had's birthday?

Happy Birthday, Ben Had!
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (77

Like JJ's or for reals ? If real Happy Birthday !

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:09 AM (VE6XX)

175 Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (DLqye)

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Happy birthday!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

176 So Iran says if we get involved it will lead to all out war.... Me thinks they're already in one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

The Thing Of All Time ™️.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (4jjip)

177 Make Parachute Pants Great Again!

--

It's Hammer time again. This woman is 'too legit to quit!'

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (qBdHI)

178 So Iran says if we get involved it will lead to all out war.... Me thinks they're already in one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

Maybe they forgot that they've been at war with us for 46 years now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (ExV1e)

179 No More Kings demonstrations

We can ditch Martin Luther King day now?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (madDJ)

180 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap

Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

181 Happy birfday, Ben Had!

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (4jjip)

182 I ALMOST fell for it again, then read the nic.
Posted by: Bulg

Maybe you fell for the infamous Sebian-Jew double bluff, and you missed an actual hottie?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:11 AM (JCZqz)

183 176 The Thing Of All Time ™️.
Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (4jjip)

======

It was the Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

184 Happy Birthday, Ben Had! 29 comes around awfully fast.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:11 AM (qBdHI)

185 Wait! Ben Had was already old enough to drink legally?😉

Happy birthday , dear! God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (ZuWgz)

186 Happy birthday, Ben Had!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (ExV1e)

187 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

The Ayatollah and his goat harem?

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (4jjip)

188 167 So Iran says if we get involved it will lead to all out war.... Me thinks they're already in one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:07 AM (VE6XX)

after a brief surge of missiles last night (I think all were intercepted or fell short) Iran's attacks have dropped off dramatically. Meanwhile the IAF is freely operating in daylight all across Iran, taking out anything they want (including the HQ of the Security Police this morning) Iran's defense grid appears to have been completely destroyed, and they can do nothing to stop any further attacks.

Tucker Carlson and Dave Smith hardest hit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (uWKK8)

189 Maybe you fell for the infamous Sebian-Jew double bluff, and you missed an actual hottie?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

I'll wait for the others to confirm that.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

190 188
Tucker Carlson and Dave Smith hardest hit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (uWKK

======

But Iran may descend into civil war. To avoid that, Israel should just absorb attacks forever.

Europe may continue to try and commit more suicide by letting in millions more Middle Eastern refugees!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

191 Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

It was epic bro. Epic!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:13 AM (/CkK4)

192 I'll wait for the others to confirm that.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

I checked. It's a nice photo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

193 Oh, you had to mention "Ewoks...."

How's the Golf House?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (xTinh)

What, is there some kind of bias against Ewoks here?

Yesterday Susan put out an ice bucket with a bottle of Patron in it right by the men's tee. It seemed to be appreciated. The weather was much nicer yesterday so I think the people who just wanted to have a good time were the ones out playing. One group were two guys and their sons. It was great.

Internet sucks here though. My team wanted to use Iran as a possible test site for some ideas on satellite backhaul infrastructure, but we can see how well THAT idea is working out. We may shift to OBX. Better beer here anyway and I wouldn't have to wear a pup tent. However that guy at the range really needs to stop calling me "Darlin'."

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:13 AM (H621s)

194 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

The Ayatollah and his goat harem?
Posted by: Robert

The 12th Imam. Even he's getting the eff out of there.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

195 187 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

Shoot it down

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:14 AM (VE6XX)

196 Soon the Little Satan will become tired of punching us in the face, and then victory will be ours!

Posted by: The Mullahs at June 18, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)

197 *sigh*

Just found out they totaled the First Daughter's car. Not sure we'll get the balance for it, but it should be close. Now we have to get another car, and I will have to shuffle things around a bit and not do what we wanted to do to get that done.

When it rains, it pours and it's been pouring for over a year now.

I'm tired........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Where did Dave Smith come me from? I’d never heard of the guy until just before the election. And now he’s everywhere.

(Insert joke about him being a car dealer here)

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:15 AM (/CkK4)

199 196 Soon the Little Satan will become tired of punching us in the face, and then victory will be ours!
Posted by: The Mullahs at June 18, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)

You aren't being punched in the face, you are taking a high hard one up the poop chute.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:16 AM (pohLc)

200 I checked. It's a nice photo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yes, it is. For once, thank you Ackbar.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

201 I've seen better boobs drawn on a desk in study hall.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 10:16 AM (AE0cR)

202 Just found out they totaled the First Daughter's car. Not sure we'll get the balance for it,

—

Gap insurance. Know it, love it.
If you drive a car that has a loan on it, it’s a must. Pretty cheap too like $20ish per 6-month policy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:16 AM (/CkK4)

203 Yesterday Susan put out an ice bucket with a bottle of Patron in it right by the men's tee. It seemed to be appreciated. The weather was much nicer yesterday so I think the people who just wanted to have a good time were the ones out playing. One group were two guys and their sons. It was great.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:13 AM (H621s)

Still winning friends I see.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:17 AM (xTinh)

204 When it rains, it pours and it's been pouring for over a year now.

I'm tired........
Posted by: Sponge

Man, I'm sorry, Dude. Hang in there.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

205 Happy Birthday Ben Had!!!

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

206 Man, I figured one of you freaks would've already posted "I'll be in my bunk".

I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 10:18 AM (AE0cR)

207 >>JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

--

People will be talking about this for centuries.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 18, 2025 10:18 AM (wzAuc)

208
Man, I'm sorry, Dude. Hang in there.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

I will get there, at some point. I'm being tested, mightily, but am not sure why.

It is what it is. I'll deal with it, continually, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

209 *sigh*

Just found out they totaled the First Daughter's car. Not sure we'll get the balance for it, but it should be close. Now we have to get another car, and I will have to shuffle things around a bit and not do what we wanted to do to get that done.

When it rains, it pours and it's been pouring for over a year now.

I'm tired........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

I hate to hear that. Is she OK though?

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (H621s)

210 He just wants to eat shit pebbles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Gwyneth Paltrow has a plan to manufacture those as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (aVsyW)

211 Actually I've seen better boobs on a sow hog, and more of them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (pohLc)

212
Gap insurance. Know it, love it.
If you drive a car that has a loan on it, it’s a must. Pretty cheap too like $20ish per 6-month policy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:16 AM (/CkK4)

I will need to look this up for the next one. Thanks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Man, I figured one of you freaks would've already posted "I'll be in my bunk".

I'm disappointed.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 10:18 AM (AE0cR)

There were some disparaging comments about the model as if any of us, when younger and singler, would have turned her down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (ExV1e)

214 Thank you so very much for the birthday wishes. I have to go back to my hot date with the bush hog

Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (DLqye)

215 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck

Splash the bogey!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (jxGzv)

216 Oh my gosh, Happy Birthday, Ben Had, and many more.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (0nHVk)

217 207 >>JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)
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I hope they can track it to its destination.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (G0vdT)

218 213 There were some disparaging comments about the model as if any of us, when younger and singler, would have turned her down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (ExV1e)

========

Let's be honest.

It's hard to tell what she actually looks like.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

219 There were some disparaging comments about the model as if any of us, when younger and singler, would have turned her down.
--------------
Her belly button looks tempting.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (FmapG)

220 From the "Babylon Bee":

In solidarity with protestors ,Burger King changes its name to "Burger Democratically Elected Leader". "We are sorry that our company's name had been used to promote pro- monarchist feelings ."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (4R+90)

221 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Benhad! Another trip around the sun!
Woohoo!!!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (W/lyH)

222 198 Where did Dave Smith come me from? I’d never heard of the guy until just before the election. And now he’s everywhere.

Never heard of him either but now he's a media darling because he said he backed Trump and now he wants Trump to be impeached...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (VE6XX)

223 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck

Splash the bogey!

Posted by: rickb223

Tempting though it is, better a failure in exile than a martyr to the cause.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (OUMaO)

224 > JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran
----------
On day 1 of this war an Iranian 747 cargo plane was observed leaving Tehran. It "went dark" (turned off its transponder) shortly after taking off.

Speculation on what it was carrying is.... all over the board. From gold to Uranium.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (Q4IgG)

225 When it rains, it pours and it's been pouring for over a year now.

I'm tired........
Posted by: Sponge

Hang in there man.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (jxGzv)

226 It's hard to tell what she actually looks like.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

Would 18yo you have cared?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)

227 I have to wait for fall to do my bush hogging. Or I will absolutely hit a fawn, then I will have to get it medical attention. Not worth it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:22 AM (pohLc)

228 Man, I figured one of you freaks would've already posted "I'll be in my bunk".

I'm disappointed.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 10:18 AM (AE0cR)

--

Sometimes too much can be left to the imagination.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 18, 2025 10:22 AM (wzAuc)

229
I hate to hear that. Is she OK though?
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:19 AM (H621s)

Oh, she's fine. It was a minor thing that turned into something worse, unfortunately. She will be emotionally upset because she loved that car and it's partially her fault it turned out this way. She'll be hard on herself about it.

Wife wants to move to the country, but each card that we're being dealt will delay that and it's starting to wear on me because I can't give her what she wants.

It's just a rough go these last several months.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

230 Still winning friends I see.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:17 AM (xTinh)

Hey, no apologies. This isn't the PGA Tour out here. Rule One, bro.

I should go soon. We're going on a head boat later today and I have to get some stuff together.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:23 AM (H621s)

231 Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror
Henri Matisse

Nice necklace.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 18, 2025 10:23 AM (NXz8h)

232 We're going on a head boat later today and I have to get some stuff together.
Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:23 AM (H621s)

Um....is phrasing not a thing anymore? Because I think this is something......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

233 Tempting though it is, better a failure in exile than a martyr to the cause.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (OUMaO)

That's what they said about Ruhollah Khomeini.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (ExV1e)

234 I logged on to my back account t and it says US markets will be closed tomorrow in observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day.

Say what? Is that what Juneteenth is official known as, Independence Day????

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (/CkK4)

235 Hey, no apologies. This isn't the PGA Tour out here. Rule One, bro.

Don't stick your dick in crazy?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

236
Hang in there man.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:21 AM (jxGzv)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Still winning friends I see.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:17 AM (xTinh)

Hey, no apologies. This isn't the PGA Tour here. Rule One, bro.

I should go soon. I'm going on a head boat later and should get some things ready.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (H621s)

238 231 Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror
Henri Matisse

Nice necklace.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 18, 2025 10:23 AM (NXz8h)

Odalisque is a slave or member of a Harum...I suppose you already knew that...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:25 AM (VE6XX)

239 Juneteenth applies to Texas only. Not a national holiday. That shit is stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:25 AM (pohLc)

240 215 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck

Splash the bogey!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (jxGzv)

Speculation, it's headed to either Oman or Yemen. It'll have some important official(s) on it, and let it go - runaways are no threat. As an attacker, you want to encourage runaways in the hope that more will follow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:25 AM (uWKK8)

241 So are duplicating comments a thing, or is this another reason why I should hate the internet in the OBX...?

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:26 AM (H621s)

242 Juneteenth applies to Texas only. Not a national holiday. That shit is stupid.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:25 AM (pohLc)/i]

Thanks to Joe Biden's endless pandering, it's a NATIONAL thing now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

243 Don't stick your dick in crazy?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

Like you're going to trap me into tellling you.

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (H621s)

244 I SEE HER SNIPERS!!!

Posted by: Life of Wryly at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (ycs3a)

245 Odalisque is a slave or member of a Harum...I suppose you already knew that...
Posted by: It's me donna

Yodalisques, very well-endowed they are.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

246 Odalisque is a slave or member of a Harum...I suppose you already knew that...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:25 AM (VE6XX)

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Judging by the mustard stains on her britches, she's been making lots of sandwiches.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (wzAuc)

247 Matisse understood the interplay of colors, implicitly.

I need to get to the Barnes Foundation to see his work

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

248 When it rains, it pours and it's been pouring for over a year now.

I'm tired........
Posted by: Sponge

Hang in there man.

Posted by: rickb223

Seems like it's been rough all around lately. I'm with ya, brother.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (OUMaO)

249 So are duplicating comments a thing, or is this another reason why I should hate the internet in the OBX...?
Posted by: Taylor

Amy Schumer is sometimes known to be on this site.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

250 Rule One is 'Be serious...but not overly serious."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:28 AM (xTinh)

251 In his separate concurring opinion, Thomas writes that the case "carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct."

Thomas hates Science!

(the TN underaged transgender surgery ban case, just announced 6-3 in the good guys' favor)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

252 She Hobbit just won the internet at 140.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 18, 2025 10:01 AM

Exactly what I was thinking.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 10:28 AM (0sNs1)

253 247 Matisse understood the interplay of colors, implicitly.

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2025 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

Yeah, but he got totally lost in perspective class.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 18, 2025 10:29 AM (6ydKt)

254 Don't stick your dick in crazy?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

Like you're going to trap me into tellling you.

Posted by: Taylor

ISWYTD. *Golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

255 >>JUST IN - An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

Posted by: andycanuck at June 18, 2025 10:10 AM (2yoRf)

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People will be talking about this for centuries.

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LOL

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:30 AM (qBdHI)

256 Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?

They did it wrong. To get clicks, you need TEN things that people will remember for centuries, and "#7 will amaze you!"

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 10:30 AM (QHX6R)

257 Judging by the mustard stains on her britches, she's been making lots of sandwiches.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

I imagine the Sultan has other odalisques for sexy time, if a quick Google search for "odalisque paintings" is anything to judge by...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

258 Rule One, bro.

Don't stick your dick in crazy?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM

Sadly, many 'rons seem to treat that more as a guideline (if even that), than a rule.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 10:31 AM (0sNs1)

259 Hey Sponge, we had one of our cars totaled a few years back (frame damage). It was low miles and well-maintained, so we pushed back on the first payout by providing comps and negotiated what was a more realistic value for the vehicle.

It's an option.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 18, 2025 10:31 AM (4DY5T)

260 Just found out they totaled the First Daughter's car.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I had a nitwit total my 3 month old car 2 days before Christmas. The whole business is a process and it is something of a PITA. The downside to it all is no matter how good the settlement you are shopping for a car under duress. The upside is you get to practice your car buying negotiation skills. I so understand what you are dealing with.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 18, 2025 10:32 AM (NXz8h)

261
People will be talking about this for centuries.

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LOL
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 18, 2025 10:30 AM (qBdHI)

The Iranian leadership is likely abandoning the country and leaving the people to fend for themselves as what they've done destroys it.

Yeah, it will be remembered, alright.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

262 OK, I should go. Check you all later. Have a great day amid this day that will be remembered for centuries as the most disappointing payoff to a bluffed threat as delivered by pajama wearing camel blowing assmunches.

Bye!

Posted by: Taylor at June 18, 2025 10:33 AM (H621s)

263
Happy burpday, Ben Had! Cent' anni!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 10:33 AM (Q+BiN)

264 261 The Iranian leadership is likely abandoning the country and leaving the people to fend for themselves as what they've done destroys it.

Yeah, it will be remembered, alright.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

======

People will remember the warlord who takes over, bows to Israeli and US demands to dismantle the nuclear power centers and terror funding in favor of being able to rule with an iron fist his slice of heaven.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

265
Amy Schumer is sometimes known to be on this site.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

266 Don't stick your dick in crazy?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 18, 2025 10:24 AM

Sadly, many 'rons seem to treat that more as a guideline (if even that), than a rule.

#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax

But Sarge, I love her!

Posted by: Young PFC at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (JCZqz)

267 Bye, Taylor! Come back soon. You definitely belong here.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

268 267 Bye, Taylor! Come back soon. You definitely belong here.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ

Not sure that's a compliment

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

269 How do you know when you're an alcoholic?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

270 269 How do you know when you're an alcoholic?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

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"You have more than one drink a week!"
-the CDC

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

271 Yeah, but he got totally lost in perspective class.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 18, 2025 10:29 AM (6ydKt)

I feel his pain! Perspective class made my brain break

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (dCxaZ)

272 Amy Schumer is sometimes known to be on this site.
Posted by: Bulg

Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror > Amy Schumer

Posted by: Moron Math at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

273 People will be talking about this for centuries.

I have no idea to what you are referring.

Posted by: The 23rd Century at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (w9Wax)

274 Bye, Taylor! Come back soon. You definitely belong here.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

Dude, you're encouraging her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (xTinh)

275 Matisse couldn't draw an Odalisque with multiple dies.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (D7oie)

276 > The Iranian leadership is likely abandoning the country and leaving the people to fend for themselves as what they've done destroys it.
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That, and removing potential evidence... of a lot of unsavory stuff, not 'just' the nuclear program.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (Q4IgG)

277 Heh, Trump overseeing the flag pole raising this morning. Just wait until they start the ballroom.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (G0vdT)

278 These are not the boobs we were looking for.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (od0dV)

279 How many times has a despot been removed from an Arab country and replaced with someone better?

But this time in Iran it will be different. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (/CkK4)

280 276 That, and removing potential evidence... of a lot of unsavory stuff, not 'just' the nuclear program.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (Q4IgG)

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Videos of them having sex with adult human females?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

281 It's an option.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 18, 2025 10:31 AM (4DY5T)

I actually don't have much issue with the payment value. We slightly overpaid for it to start with, but the condition has it at the high end of Blue Book, so it's not bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

282 279 How many times has a despot been removed from an Arab country and replaced with someone better?

But this time in Iran it will be different. lol.
____

Iran is not an Arab country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (Dv3i1)

283 Not sure that's a compliment
Posted by: It's me donna

Definitely a compliment. "Pajama wearing camel blowing assmunches," is YD-worthy.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

284 269 How do you know when you're an alcoholic?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

During Covid I had to attend my AA meetings via Zoom. It worked out well because I could just show my empties and get the credit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (xTinh)

285 Tempting though it is, better a failure in exile than a martyr to the cause.
Posted by: Brother Tim

It's a crap shoot.

The Shah was a dick, but exiling and allowing Khomeini to live came back to bite him in the ass.

Over the next 26 years, Pahlavi consolidated authoritarian rule, suppressing dissent through the controversial SAVAK secret police, while aligning Iran firmly with the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
In 1963, he launched the White Revolution, a top-down modernization and land reform program that alienated many sectors of society, especially the clergy.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini emerged as a vocal critic and was exiled in 1964.

On 16 January 1979, Pahlavi went into exile as the last Iranian monarch, leaving his duties to Iran's Regency Council and Shapour Bakhtiar, the opposition-based prime minister.
On 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned, following an invitation by the government.

https://tinyurl.com/yrpbupu6

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (jxGzv)

286 283 Not sure that's a compliment
Posted by: It's me donna

Definitely a compliment. "Pajama wearing camel blowing assmunches," is YD-worthy.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

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Still not "nickel fucker".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

287 How many times has a despot been removed from an Arab country and replaced with someone better?

But this time in Iran it will be different. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (/CkK4)

Well, if Iran gets a despot who fucks over the Iranian people but leaves everyone else alone... that'll suck for the Iranian people but I ain't them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

288 Is...is it possible Matisse is actually a shitty painter?
It's worth exploring.

At least it's an attempt at tits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (xcxpd)

289 I'm out.....I'll try to get work to distract me for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

290 282 279 How many times has a despot been removed from an Arab country and replaced with someone better?

But this time in Iran it will be different. lol.
____

Iran is not an Arab country.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (Dv3i1)

Thanks Aaaahhkkxtchually Guy!
But OK, replace Arab with middle eastern.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (/CkK4)

291 How do you know when you're an alcoholic?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

During Covid I had to attend my AA meetings via Zoom. It worked out well because I could just show my empties and get the credit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Empties. ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (jxGzv)

292
Definitely a compliment. "Pajama wearing camel blowing assmunches," is YD-worthy.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

LOL.. I mean I'm not sure saying someone belongs with this group is a compliment

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (VE6XX)

293 How many times has a despot been removed from an Arab country and replaced with someone better?

But this time in Iran it will be different. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (/CkK4)

Egypt threw out the MoBros for Al-Sisi. That was an upgrade.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 18, 2025 10:39 AM (QeErd)

294 How do you know when you're an alcoholic?
Posted by: Bulg

Alcoholics go to meetings. Drunks go to the bar.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:39 AM (jxGzv)

295 278 These are not the boobs we were looking for.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (od0dV)

See?! It's not just me...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xcxpd)

296 During Covid I had to attend my AA meetings via Zoom. It worked out well because I could just show my empties and get the credit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (xTinh)

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Open-Container Test.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (tLngl)

297 295 278 These are not the boobs we were looking for.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (od0dV)

See?! It's not just me...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xcxpd)

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It's like a cave painting with access to more shades of color.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

298 Iran is not an Arab country.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Islamic goat fuckers.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (jxGzv)

299 I’m not a fan of Matisse . He’s embraced the ‘paint like a child ‘ philosophy and believed that’s how painters are freed up to express . To Matisse’s credit he wanted to express joy as opposed to Munch who wanted to express dark depression.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (VofaG)

300 I came across some preliminary sketches for today's painting. I always find it interesting to how a work matures into its final form.

https://is.gd/7aTnrD

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 18, 2025 10:41 AM (NXz8h)

301 Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

I'll never forget it.......whatever it was.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 18, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

302 I hope the plane that took off from Iran didn't contain the nuke that I think they might have

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2025 10:41 AM (VE6XX)

303 I’m not a fan of Matisse . He’s embraced the ‘paint like a child ‘ philosophy and believed that’s how painters are freed up to express . To Matisse’s credit he wanted to express joy as opposed to Munch who wanted to express dark depression.
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (VofaG)

Pollock, OTOH, painted like a teen boy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

304 301 Did everyone already forget the thing that happened last night that people would remember for centuries?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

I'll never forget it.......whatever it was.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 18, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew

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Oversold and underdelivered.

Mullahs need a remedial marketing class.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

305 I'll never forget it.......whatever it was.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

That one time at band camp?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

306 303 Pollock, OTOH, painted like a teen boy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

307 These are not the boobs we were looking for.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 18, 2025 10:36 AM (od0dV)

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I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields ...

But I still haven't found
Boobs I'm looking for

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (tLngl)

308 Who was the other guy? Mossadegh? I know that's a name that has something to do with the dumbassery over there back then. Three letter stooge they injected between the Shah and Khomeini or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (BcT2b)

309 To be realistic, all the cave paintings I've ever seen were better than that smeary shit at the top of the thread.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (pohLc)

310 I came across some preliminary sketches for today's painting. I always find it interesting to how a work matures into its final form.

https://is.gd/7aTnrD
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 18, 2025 10:41 AM (NXz8h)

Wonder why he put pants on her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)

311 Thanks Aaaahhkkxtchually Guy!
But OK, replace Arab with middle eastern.
____

Arabs are very tribal in general, and have to beat down competing tribes. So the job of the new leader includes suppression. Who knows, maybe as Persians instead of Arabs, there is a chance for a better outcome.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Dv3i1)

312 Oversold and underdelivered.

Mullahs need a remedial marketing class.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Call Mel Brooks.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (jxGzv)

313 It's like a cave painting with access to more shades of color.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

My usual rule to painting applies here, if I could have painted it, it's not very good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (xcxpd)

314 Pollock, OTOH, painted like a teen boy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

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Hotel room under a black light looks like a Jackson Pollock painting

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)

315 Who was the other guy? Mossadegh? I know that's a name that has something to do with the dumbassery over there back then. Three letter stooge they injected between the Shah and Khomeini or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Wanted to nationalize the British oil company that had the concession to the Iranian oilfields. Allen Dulles and one of Teddy Roosevelt's sons made sure that he was taken out.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

316 311 Arabs are very tribal in general, and have to beat down competing tribes. So the job of the new leader includes suppression. Who knows, maybe as Persians instead of Arabs, there is a chance for a better outcome.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Dv3i1)

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Persians seem to have a stronger history of being under a unified government as opposed to Arabs who are traditionally more segmented and tribal.

I dunno.

I think Israel just wants Iran to stop funding Hamas and Hezbollah and doesn't give a shit about what happens to the country that allowed that situation to happen in the first place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

317 "Tonight will be remembered forever!!!"

"Uh.... why, Sir?"

"We launch our secret weapon, of course!"

"Jews blew it up two days ago."

"..... FUCK!"

"Yeah, sorry boss, thought we told you."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 18, 2025 10:45 AM (BcT2b)

318 Hotel room under a black light looks like a Jackson Pollock painting
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)
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Ya got issues, Quill.

Posted by: Rocket Raccoon at June 18, 2025 10:45 AM (6YdsJ)

319 @libsoftiktok
·
9m
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled to uphold Tennessee’s BAN on transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers for minors in a 6-3 decision.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2025 10:45 AM (mlg/3)

320
Mullahs need a remedial marketing class.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

_________

We have plenty of bimbos and fagz to send them. But that would be a war crime.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 10:45 AM (QnmlO)

321 Ahab was an Arab.
I wrote a song about him.

Posted by: Ray Stevens at June 18, 2025 10:46 AM (lIgBp)

322 Who was the other guy? Mossadegh? I know that's a name that has something to do with the dumbassery over there back then. Three letter stooge they injected between the Shah and Khomeini or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

He was who the CIA and MI6 squashed in favor of the Shah. 1953 coup.

Shapour Baktiar was the middle man between the Shah and the Ayatollah of Rock & Rolla.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:46 AM (jxGzv)

323 Tranny vibes from this painting. Pass.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 10:46 AM (iFTx/)

324 I actually don't have much issue with the payment value. We slightly overpaid for it to start with, but the condition has it at the high end of Blue Book, so it's not bad.

Posted by: Sponge

That's cool. We were financing that car, and replaced it with the current midel of the same car, two years older. It basically added an extra year of payments on top of the payout and new loan term.

There is some softness in the used car market now, so you may find the same thing or similar slightly used at a decent price. I actually enjoy car shopping, which may be a sickness, but know most people really don't.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 18, 2025 10:46 AM (4DY5T)

325 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled to uphold Tennessee’s BAN on transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers for minors in a 6-3 decision.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Woot woot!

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

326 An Iranian government plane is currently exiting Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ms3wytrm
flight radar thingee screencap
Posted by: andycanuck

Splash the bogey!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:20 AM (jxGzv)

Speculation, it's headed to either Oman or Yemen. It'll have some important official(s) on it, and let it go - runaways are no threat. As an attacker, you want to encourage runaways in the hope that more will follow.
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I want the Mullahs *dead*. Splash the plane.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 10:47 AM (TN0g+)

327 Iran is not an Arab country.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 10:37 AM (Dv3i1)

Thanks Aaaahhkkxtchually Guy!
But OK, replace Arab with middle eastern.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 10:38 AM (/CkK4)

The core problem with most of the middle eastern countries is that they had never actually been countries before 1918, so they had no legacy of self government to fall back on. Almost all of them were just remnants of the Ottoman Empire, and before that a succession of Empires going back at least 2500 years.

Eqypt had a long tradition as an independent country - that gave them the pride to self govern. On the other hand, Syria has *never* been a real country, and neither has Iraq, therefore they collapsed without a strong man. Saudi does pretty well with one of the only types of government that can thrive in the area.

Iran has a long history of independence and civilization, and I believe they at least have a good shot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:47 AM (uWKK8)

328 Is...is it possible Matisse is actually a shitty painter?
It's worth exploring.

I've been wondering the same about General Mattis...

At least it's an attempt at tits.

Sometimes, things are better left to the imagination.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 18, 2025 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

329 Oversold and underdelivered.

Mullahs need a remedial marketing class.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Call Mel Brooks.
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"Putting...on..Ritz..."

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

330 Saudi does pretty well with one of the only types of government that can thrive in the area.

It helps that the Saudis have always been ready to shorten anyone who caused them problems.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

331 I dunno.

I think Israel just wants Iran to stop funding Hamas and Hezbollah and doesn't give a shit about what happens to the country that allowed that situation happen in the first place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
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Any terms that include the UN is a non starter.

Is it feasible to say: You get to keep your life, even get to stay in power but you must allow the US to have full access to Furdow before we bunker bust it, and afterward to assess damage.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 10:49 AM (G0vdT)

332 The Green Stripe is the Matisse tranny painting.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

333 Is...is it possible Matisse is actually a shitty painter?
It's worth exploring.

I've been wondering the same about General Mattis...

I didn't know he painted.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (jxGzv)

334 331 Any terms that include the UN is a non starter.

Is it feasible to say: You get to keep your life, even get to stay in power but you must allow the US to have full access to Furdow before we bunker bust it, and afterward to assess damage.
Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 10:49 AM (G0vdT)

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Complete access to all military, nuclear, and scientific institutions with promises to allow outside resources from the US and Israel to mange decommission will probably be a baseline starting point of negotiation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

335 As today is the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, I thought CBD would have gone with Lady Butler's "Scotland Forever."

But, boobs, I guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (6YdsJ)

336
Well, that went pear-shaped right quick!

Back to extracting unwelcome march grass from our Sussex garden beds!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (Tv15w)

337 Nice navel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 10:50 AM (Quxeu)

338 325 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled to uphold Tennessee’s BAN on transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers for minors in a 6-3 decision.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Woot woot!
Posted by: Bulg

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of they/thems suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something wonderful has happened.

Posted by: Obi-Wan at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

339 Top of the muffin to you.

Posted by: Warpig Graham at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (hACIp)

340 338 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of they/thems suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something wonderful has happened.
Posted by: Obi-Wan at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

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Gorsuch joining and saying nothing feels like he thinks his opinion on Bostock was a mistake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

341 My uncle put a Matisse tranny in a '55 Chevy. Thing was sweet.

Posted by: Car guy at June 18, 2025 10:52 AM (lIgBp)

342 Sock off.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2025 10:52 AM (hACIp)

343 337 Nice navel.
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Alluring, even.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 10:52 AM (FmapG)

344 It helps that the Saudis have always been ready to shorten anyone who caused them problems.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

exactly - and they have a King (or Crown Prince) who understands that if he ever slacks off of that just a bit, things could get out of control pretty quickly.

Kashoggi wasn't a mistake, it was a message.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 10:52 AM (uWKK8)

345 Persia almost changed the world as we know it. Fortunately the Spartans fought the most important battle in Western Civilization.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

346 6-3. So Barrett was in the majority?

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

347 "Henri Matisse: "I subvert your drab bourgeois expectations of beauty and artistic competence!"

"please buy my paintings."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug"

It was not required of Hunter, whose paintings sold for a small fortune.

Posted by: Ripley at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (21TM2)

348 346 6-3. So Barrett was in the majority?
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
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Yeah.

Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson dissented.

Sotomayor wrote it. The snippets I've read are incoherent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

349 It appear one of the Iranian jets that left Tehran earlier is landing in Oman, at Muskat International Airport.

Wonder if we'll find out who was on it.

Plus a pair of KC-135 tankers are over Syria, heading in the general direction of Iran. If they're supporting other aircraft, like multi-role fighter jets I can't see them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (Q4IgG)

350 Complete access to all military, nuclear, and scientific institutions...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'm still available. Call me.

- but maybe hurry

Posted by: Hans Blix at June 18, 2025 10:54 AM (4DY5T)

351 Naval gazing.

Posted by: Sailors everywhere at June 18, 2025 10:54 AM (lIgBp)

352 Nice navel.
Posted by: Braenyard

Terri Garr, peeling an orange: "Why thank you, Doktor!"

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

353 350 I'm still available. Call me.

- but maybe hurry
Posted by: Hans Blix at June 18, 2025 10:54 AM (4DY5T)

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I thought he was in North Korea trying to help Kim Jong-Il in his feelings of ronriness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

354 BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled to uphold Tennessee’s BAN on transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers for minors in a 6-3 decision.
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Bigger news: Roberts wrote the opinion. And said, "we're not here to judge the wisdom, fairness or logic of the law, but only ensure that it does not violate the 14th."

That means, he's not likely the one writing the other major opinions yet to come.

Esp. the nationwide injunction/birthright citizenship one.

... not their job to judge the "wisdom, fairness or logic" so ... "we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process."

Meaning, let the people decide what to do with the millions who don't actually have citizenship?

Oh, if they cunt punt birthright citizenship back to Congress, all the LOLS.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 10:55 AM (GBH10)

355 346 6-3. So Barrett was in the majority?
Posted by: Bulg

My vote wasn't going to make a difference, so might as well side with the "conservatives" for a bit of cover when I back stab them later.

Posted by: ACB at June 18, 2025 10:55 AM (JCZqz)

356 Sotomayor wrote it. The snippets I've read are incoherent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

Fun fact... when Sotomayor is tasked with writing a dissent, her staff rigs up a device which sprinkles doughnut crumbs on her keyboard and they take whatever comes out. If she's tasked with writing the majority opinion, they write it for her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

357 345 Persia almost changed the world as we know it.
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They were forerunners of the Romans. Hell, they even built an ancient Suez Canal. Don't forget their highway system, either.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (FmapG)

358 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of they/thems suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something wonderful has happened.
Posted by: Obi-Wan at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

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Gorsuch joining and saying nothing feels like he thinks his opinion on Bostock was a mistake.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)
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It was a bad decision. But in all fairness, Title VII was written so terribly and vaguely -- and broadly -- I'm not sure the decision was legally wrong.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

359 I like this.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (jc0TO)

360 356 Fun fact... when Sotomayor is tasked with writing a dissent, her staff rigs up a device which sprinkles doughnut crumbs on her keyboard and they take whatever comes out. If she's tasked with writing the majority opinion, they write it for her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

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I believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

361 C**t punting never really caught on as an Olympic event.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

362 358 It was a bad decision. But in all fairness, Title VII was written so terribly and vaguely -- and broadly -- I'm not sure the decision was legally wrong.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

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It seems to fly in the face of his originalist creds, at least.

Weirdest opinion from him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

363 *361 C**t punting never really caught on as an Olympic event.*

It's been replaced by cunning linguists.

Posted by: SWIDT? at June 18, 2025 10:58 AM (lIgBp)

364 It’s like making a decision on whether assault of a minor should be made legal or not. I’m not impressed.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

365 Last?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 10:59 AM (ExV1e)

366 Could use a little exercise

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2025 11:00 AM (+qU29)

367 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

368 It’s like making a decision on whether assault of a minor should be made legal or not. I’m not impressed.
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Three "wise women in robes" seem to think it should be perfectly legal. And some GOP squishes voted for their confirmation.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (TN0g+)

369 Nood minkey

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (jxGzv)

370 Thomas' last paragraph in his concurring opinion on transgender case. I like the fact he closes with the Wise Latinas own words.

"The Court today reserves “to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process” the power to decide how best to address an area of medical uncertainty and extraordinary importance. That sovereign prerogative does not bow to “major medical organizations.” Post, at 5, n. 5 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.). “[E]xperts and elites have been wrong before—and they may prove to be wrong again.” Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., 600 U. S., at 268 (THOMAS, J., concurring). "

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 11:08 AM (G0vdT)

371 Ehhhh ... a bit on the 'flank'-ish side is she, yes ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at June 18, 2025 11:21 AM (ayRl+)

372 Like the Circassian babes.

kim?

Posted by: cmeat at June 18, 2025 01:30 PM (GAyiy)

373 Would NOT hang.

Posted by: GWB at June 18, 2025 08:33 PM (6CQHC)

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