Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bullfighting amateur
Pyotr Konchalovsky

As usual with CBD's selections, the painting is dull and monotonous, hardly worth commenting on.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2025 10:18 AM (TGPs7)

There is a vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com You should give it a shot!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 09:30 AM (kgE5c)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

3 Why is there a hand coming out of his fly?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

4 hmm. no comments yet?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (uWKK8)

5 Oh gads, no.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

6 Amateur paints amateur. It's a mediocrity singularity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (Frm63)

7 Well, it certainly is colorful.

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

8 Gunt!

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (2sMLA)

9 What? There was a sale on yellow paint. I overbought!

Posted by: Pyotr at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (bh6S9)

10 All the Hot Air art thread ever has is that painting of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

11 the recumbent cow looks like boobs to me, so Would Hang

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (SBi1w)

12
garish colors
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (AOsQT)

13 Bullfighting is kind of sadistic for me.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

14 Paint by numbers.

That number is: 2.

Suitable for a Motel 6 wall.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (2sMLA)

15 I'm just...not liking this. This kind of crude style just doesn't appeal to me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (kgE5c)

16 El Jefe needs to put down the Slim Jims and do some cardio

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

17 Who dressed this man?
Obviously, he's single.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

18 He's flipping you the bird

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (t0Out)

19 His zipper is ready to burst. Is this "Paolo, the Later Years?"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (0bjKf)

20 *looks at painting*

Hey! What did I do?

Bullfighting. Clowns. Splitting crotch of pants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (bss/y)

21 Bullfighting is kind of sadistic for me.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM

For you?!

Posted by: The Bull at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c)

22 "Primitive" is so much kinder than calling a painting Total Shit.

Posted by: red speck at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (0Id0S)

23 Suitable for a Motel 6 wall.
Posted by: Joe Mama

Yeah, if you never wanted to go to sleep. Yikes!

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

24 What's with the multi-colored hands??

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

25 Prickly cbd best cbd.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (n4GiU)

26 From the coloration on his hands, I presume he was tie-dying tee shirts the day before he posed for this portrait.

Posted by: red speck at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

27 There is a vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com You should give it a shot!
Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments
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Where? I can't find it.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (od0dV)

28 I like this! I bet he’s a hoot after a few bottles of red wine. No one who dresses like that can take anything too seriously.

Yes it seems amateurish, but it’s actually well thought out and purposeful. Good start to a cool, cloudy somewhat wet Thursday morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (mT+6a)

29 Paint by numbers.

That number is: 2.

Suitable for a Motel 6 wall.
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (2sMLA)
*******
Even Motel 6 wouldn't allow this.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

30 What would happen if someone threw a green dildo into a bullring during a bullfight?

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

31 Better see a dermatologist for that skin discoloration.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (2sMLA)

32 Looks like the amateur did all right

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (sJHOI)

33 Bobbing for meatballs in marinara again, I see.

Posted by: red speck at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (0Id0S)

34 3 Why is there a hand coming out of his fly?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Twenty bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: Rimshot at August 07, 2025 09:38 AM (bh6S9)

35 With his figure he should know better then to dress in bright vertical stripes and yellow.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:38 AM (zzkTi)

36
What would happen if someone threw a green dildo into a bullring during a bullfight?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

Like waving a green dildo in front of a bull.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2025 09:38 AM (kkTda)

37 Did he buy that shirt at K-Mart?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

38 Wait... Oh I get it. Like the 'conservative' 'influencers' last night, CBD decides to just shank a bitch right out of the gate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:39 AM (bss/y)

39 Why is there a hand coming out of his fly?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM

*waggles fingers*

*taps repeatedly*

Posted by: Thing at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

40 "Toreador, en garde,
Toreador, toreador..."

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

41 Boy, his face is a mess.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (0nHVk)

42
I was pissed that when we went to Spain last year that I couldn't see a bullfight.

They were on hiatus to the day after we left, and the hiatus had started two days before we arrived.

It was a conspiracy of evil!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

43 Col. Mustard — no, Ketchup???

Posted by: Former VICE Writer at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (Wzyjq)

44 Did he buy that shirt at K-Mart?
Posted by: dantesed

More like Big Tops -R- Us

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (zzkTi)

45 Is that a cigar? He's holding it weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (bss/y)

46 If everything painted in the 20th C were lost, just how bad would it be? Yes, there are few good things, but net?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (od0dV)

47 Keto, my man.

Gotta get off the carbs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (bss/y)

48 Is that a cigar? He's holding it weird.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Looks OK to me.

Posted by: Slick Willy at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (2sMLA)

49 I was pissed that when we went to Spain last year that I couldn't see a bullfight.

They were on hiatus to the day after we left, and the hiatus had started two days before we arrived.

It was a conspiracy of evil!!!

Posted by: naturalfake

I saw a bullfight in Acapulco back in the 80s. It was kinda dull, actually.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

50 Boy, his face is a mess.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 07, 2025 09:40 AM (0nHVk)
*********
Too much bronzer.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

51 Whoa!

This one just jumps out and grabs ya!
So much going on in this painting, not the least of which is Big Yellow Male Cameltoe

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2025 09:41 AM (bxez/)

52 Alternate title:

"The Aftermath of Man Hit in Face With a Cherry Pie During a Bullfight"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

53 I find his eyes intriguing .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (HFcKg)

54 He looks like a circus tent.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

55 I have picked up a couple nice Hawaiian pattern shirts at walmart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (bss/y)

56 It’s not a cigar, the artist is flipping you the bird.

Posted by: Corona_Exile at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (7rzgu)

57 Is his name "Gord"??

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (2yoRf)

58 Alternate title:

"You Stands to Close to the Bullfight, You Gets the ~~Horns~~ the Voluminous Blood Splatter"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

59 If everything painted in the 20th C were lost, just how bad would it be? Yes, there are few good things, but net?
Posted by: Eeyore

Keep Sargent, Hopper, Rockwell, and the Wyeths. Ditch everything else.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

60 Bullfighting amateur

There's a fascinating story from 1907 (I think) about some American rancher who loved American Bison/Buffalo and had a hairbrained money-making scheme to take some to Mexico to fight bulls. He did it, and the fights were apparently a mix of extreme passivity mixed with moments of incredible brutality. One of the buffalo may have even made its way to Spain due to its success in Mexico!

Long (30 minute) video on the subject. A good listen while working on another project. https://tinyurl.com/msmbu7dy

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 07, 2025 09:44 AM (JCZqz)

61 That's not an amateur bullfighter.

This is an amateur bullfighter.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3ezyr3

[Yes, it is a woman.]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:44 AM (2yoRf)

62 Yeah, at least it's not in black and white.

CBD once invited me to check out the vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com personally. I consider that to be one of the highlights of my mundane existence.

Posted by: Oooh, What A Lucky Man I Is! at August 07, 2025 09:45 AM (G5+As)

63 NEVER piss off a buffalo.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2025 09:45 AM (HFcKg)

64 Mi nombre es Gord. Mucho Gord.

https://tinyurl.com/nhpa6ajj

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (2yoRf)

65 There is a vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com

I just checked, and could not find an Art Thread there.

It the Art Thread there as vibrant as the one here? Does zombie Bob Ross lend his perspective? It's hard to see anyone else being able to contribute the incisive observations that Kris does. Do they have standards, such as no dog = not art? Is there learned discussion about optimal siting of snipers?

If not, I'll stay here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)

66 So much going on in this painting, not the least of which is Big Yellow Male Cameltoe

Posted by: kallisto

Man gunt, a thing of wonder?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (zzkTi)

67 Not for nothing Tone, but the yellow suit ain't working

Posted by: Chris to fer at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (25uUe)

68 This painting is amazing, there really is a method to his madness.

It worries me that I know this.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (bxez/)

69 There is a vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com You should give it a shot!
Posted by: CBD
==
We're rubber, you're glue, ...

Posted by: Just saying at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM (YrUlT)

70 The vertical stripes are slimming! Gunt is barely noticeable.

Posted by: Beau Brummell at August 07, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

71 I have picked up a couple nice Hawaiian pattern shirts at walmart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The biggest little hobbit got a bunch of them. Wears them EVERY.DAY.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (zzkTi)

72 70 The vertical stripes are slimming! Gunt is barely noticeable.
Posted by: Beau Brummell at August 07, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

Yeah, that sunburned face really distracts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (bss/y)

73
Guy need to lay off the sangria.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (kkTda)

74 Plus the midget trying to escape from his fupa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (bss/y)

75 Everyone's an art critic.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (ctrM5)

76 NO YELLOW!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (MGB5H)

77 Is that a cigar? He's holding it weird.
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The bull's penis. To the victor go the spoils.

Posted by: el Gordo at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (2yoRf)

78 Keep Sargent, Hopper, Rockwell, and the Wyeths. Ditch everything else.
Posted by: Bulg

You left out Sloan!

Posted by: Ashcan School Rules! at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

79 I like to see artwork with CBD's comments on it.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (pKne7)

80 Buffalo v. grizzly would be a cool thing to watch, from a great distance.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

81 The biggest little hobbit got a bunch of them. Wears them EVERY.DAY.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (zzkTi)

They are really light and comfy- especially during a bitch of a summer.

Hate the game, not the player.

Plus, like $14. Come on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:49 AM (bss/y)

82 Alternate title:

"Laurel and Hardy's Worst Movie"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

83 Weirdo fat dude holding a dildo with a zipper for a dick? Pass on this one, bro.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 09:50 AM (iFTx/)

84 65 There is a vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com

I just checked, and could not find an Art Thread there.

It the Art Thread there as vibrant as the one here? Does zombie Bob Ross lend his perspective? It's hard to see anyone else being able to contribute the incisive observations that Kris does. Do they have standards, such as no dog = not art? Is there learned discussion about optimal siting of snipers?

If not, I'll stay here.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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It is important that we have insight into artists like the one above that appeared to use crayons as the means to deliver art to the grateful masses.

The work above literally brings color into our humble and gray lives.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (ctrM5)

85 I always wear loud tropical shirts during the spring and summer.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

86 As usual with CBD's selections, the painting is dull and monotonous, hardly worth commenting on.
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Here's how to improve the art thread
1. Moar boobs
2. Moar 'splosions
3. Moar zombies

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (JvZF+)

87 Man gunt, a thing of wonder?
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 07, 2025 09:46 AM

It's been a long time, but yes, it's coming to the forefront of public admiration finally, and none-too-soon.

Posted by: J.B. Pritzker and G. Nadler (D-NY) at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)

88 All the Hot Air art thread ever has is that painting of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ

I don't think the Salem executives give that tubby cuck furniture.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (Frm63)

89 Where do you shop for yellow/gold suits these days? I guess there is some kind of shop where black preachers get theirs, but haven't located it.

Posted by: Savile Row at August 07, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

90 don't think the Salem executives give that tubby cuck furniture.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (Frm63)

Not even a chair?! Damn.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:52 AM (MGB5H)

91 Pendejo needs to give the cajones room to breathe

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 07, 2025 09:52 AM (sJHOI)

92 Dude, sunscreen on the dome.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 07, 2025 09:53 AM (K6YpF)

93 62 Yeah, at least it's not in black and white.

CBD once invited me to check out the vibrant and exciting Art Thread over at hotair.com personally. I consider that to be one of the highlights of my mundane existence.
Posted by: Oooh, What A Lucky Man I Is!
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You got off lightly. He could have punished the rest of us collectively with the naked fat guy on the ottoman.

Posted by: whig at August 07, 2025 09:53 AM (ctrM5)

94 Amateur Bullfighter

**********

A New Wrinkle - a limerick

A young matador named O'Day
Whose talents were merely okay
Came up with a trick
That was really quite slick
He slipped the bull some Oil of Olé

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2025 09:53 AM (poXs5)

95 Alternate title:

"Ramon Shows the Senoritas the Goods"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

96 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Are you sure this isn't a John Wayne Gacy painting?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

98 CBD don't play

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 07, 2025 09:55 AM (sJHOI)

99 Why is part of his face and hands blue?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 07, 2025 09:55 AM (XCUp7)

100 It's been a long time, but yes, it's coming to the forefront of public admiration finally, and none-too-soon.
Posted by: J.B. Pritzker and G. Nadler (D-NY)

I'm still one of the all-time greats!

Posted by: Chris Christie at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

101 The green Dildo of the Art Thread rarely arrives lubed.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (2yoRf)

102 Now, com'on. Mr, Ghost. 😉CBD has many excellent choices and sometimes the ones that are questionable are interesting. Of course not everybody is going to agree on all art, although I think we al l agreed that "toilet with the pink stuff" ( which was not its official name) was awful but I think he was yanking our chain.

I don't like this painting, but maybe the artist had some others that I might enjoy more, I'll have to look.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (2GCMq)

103 It would be better if he was sitting on one of those 70's wicker thrones.

https://tinyurl.com/42vfn6ja

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (bss/y)

104 LOL get fucked

https://instapundit.com/736773/

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (YwEeS)

105 Barney Frank at a bullfight. "I thought they meant men bulls"

Don't think I'd hang this one . Thx CBD for the continuing art education

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (r/xMY)

106 97 Are you sure this isn't a John Wayne Gacy painting?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, that's a valid cop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 09:57 AM (bss/y)

107 Here's how to improve the art thread
1. Moar boobs
2. Moar 'splosions
3. Moar zombies
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 09:51 AM (JvZF+)

Best I can do. No explosions.

https://tinyurl.com/49b9epse+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

108 Regarding Ciampino:

I emailed JJ on 28. July but he did not respond nor did he put Ciampino on the Absent Friends list. Not sure what is going on.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 07, 2025 09:57 AM (3AwA+)

109 Why is part of his face and hands blue?
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He gives blue jobs at the indigo factory.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:58 AM (2yoRf)

110 LOL get fucked

https://instapundit.com/736773/
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (YwEeS)

Illegal immigration is illegal.

Hiring illegals to work is illegal.

Basing a majority of your economy on the hiring of illegal aliens is stupid and illegal.

ESAD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

111 42
I was pissed that when we went to Spain last year that I couldn't see a bullfight.

They were on hiatus to the day after we left, and the hiatus had started two days before we arrived.

It was a conspiracy of evil!!!

Posted by: naturalfake

I had the privilege of attending in Lisbon in 2006. It was a cultural thing. I didn’t particularly care for the brutality, but watching the pagentry and the people and hearing the music and the chanting of the crowd….. smelling the foods and the flowers… getting the vibe of the rhythm of a particular moment…..

It was culturally enriching. And I don’t mean that on the progressive bullshit way. I mean it gave me a glimpse into something very foreign, and somewhat horrifying.

I would go again if I went with someone who could translate not just the verbal language but the body language, the dancing, the costumes….. all of it to me. I’d like to understand the significance of the details.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

112 I emailed JJ on 28. July but he did not respond nor did he put Ciampino on the Absent Friends list. Not sure what is going on.

Posted by: Brunnhilde

At this point I'm just assuming the Blogpowers That Be haven't had a moment to put it in place. No telling what folks on the other end of the Intarwebs have going on.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 07, 2025 09:59 AM (OUMaO)

113 Would hang.
In a Mexican food restaurant.
Where it can be ignored.
Exiting steaming fajitas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:59 AM (gBFby)

114 Where do you shop for yellow/gold suits these days? I guess there is some kind of shop where black preachers get theirs, but haven't located it.
Posted by: Savile Row at August 07, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

https://tinyurl.com/4njmrjpr+
https://tinyurl.com/587p3tr4+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:59 AM (ExV1e)

115 ESAD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Exactly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 07, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)

116 LOL get fucked

https://instapundit.com/736773/
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2025 09:56 AM (YwEeS)

That David Doyen freak is an idiot.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 07, 2025 10:00 AM (K6YpF)

117 I'm 70 and still have a full head of hair, but this guy looks so good I may have to try this style.

Posted by: Little Shaver at August 07, 2025 10:00 AM (G5+As)

118 Little Pyotyr used all the crayons!

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (rp/xy)

119 Ottoman man in Spain!

As much as I am a fan of garish colors, seeing some rotund has been / never was trying to recreate some imaginary sports triumph is just cringeworthy.

CBD is unsettlingly good at punishment.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (WvpwN)

120 Nasdaq close to record territory again. Remember way back last week when we had the 2% “crash”?

It’s crazy how this cycle repeats every few months. Market slowly inches up 5-10%. Then has a 2-3% pullback. Everyone freaks out that it’s all crashing down, forgetting about the 5-10% increase and freaking out over the 2% decrease.

The a week later all that loss is made up and starts the cycle again.

I’m fascinated by how people have no ability to observe patterns and simply react to events independent of historical context.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (AiNp4)

121 And remember: Sometimes, the bull wins...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (OUMaO)

122 Actually, this artist has some lovely works- flowers. a forest and various landscapes. Maybe, as many artists did he evolved Or veered into a different style and hence we get "bullfighting clown".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (2GCMq)

123 I actually like the black outline he uses, and how he gradates it from thick to thin

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (bxez/)

124
Why do blacks like saying the word "indiv-id-u-al" so often?

Is it because they're accustomed to police report jargon?

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 07, 2025 10:02 AM (dCW+p)

125 The art...

At first glance, I thought it was a Picasso. Yes, the ugly, crude, amateurish style is very Picasso like.
Do not like that style of painting. Do not like Picasso works.
Still there is a bull fighter so...

Title checks out.👍

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2025 10:02 AM (2J/Lj)

126 The artist was a commie, but I think he simply played the game so he could continue to paint.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 07, 2025 10:02 AM (L5An7)

127 I'd like to see some more recent art, like fantasy works from Frazetta and Vallejo. They don't get the credit they deserve as serious painters, because of their subject matter.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:02 AM (iFTx/)

128 The green Dildo of the Art Thread rarely arrives lubed.
Posted by: andycanuck
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True. I'm still coming in hot and hard though

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 07, 2025 10:03 AM (5hfjS)

129 The worst thing about the Hot Air art thread is that CBD's not there to piss off. No fun at all.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

130
Exactly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 07, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

131 I emailed JJ on 28. July but he did not respond nor did he put Ciampino on the Absent Friends list. Not sure what is going on.
Posted by: Brunnhilde

At this point I'm just assuming the Blogpowers That Be haven't had a moment to put it in place.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Perhaps, but Jay Guevara was posted PDQ.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 07, 2025 10:04 AM (3AwA+)

132 And remember: Sometimes, the bull wins...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (OUMaO)

However, they usually save their glory for The Running of the Bulls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

133 He's giving me the finger. 🖕

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 10:06 AM (Q4IgG)

134 https://tinyurl.com/49b9epse+

Oh, my.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 10:06 AM (JvZF+)

135 123 I actually like the black outline he uses, and how he gradates it from thick to thin
Posted by: kallisto

Your sunny optimism is charming. Like finding the most attractive turd in the septic tank.

Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at August 07, 2025 10:06 AM (G5+As)

136 Elric - it's OK to just say you want paintings of scantily-clad barbarian princesses in chainmail bikinis. Nobody is judging you for that, especially here.

Posted by: PabloD at August 07, 2025 10:06 AM (134SI)

137 Frank Frazetta was a Brooklyn boy too

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:07 AM (iFTx/)

138 137 Frank Frazetta was a Brooklyn boy too
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade

So is Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: The Little Prick at August 07, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)

139 Elric - it's OK to just say you want paintings of scantily-clad barbarian princesses in chainmail bikinis. Nobody is judging you for that, especially here.
Posted by: PabloD at August 07, 2025 10:06 AM (134SI)
_________

[Scribbles notes for next ad campaign]

-- American Eagle

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:09 AM (iFTx/)

140 It is colorful....

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

141 Frank Frazetta was a Brooklyn boy too
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade

So is Anthony Fauci.
Posted by: The Little Prick at August 07, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)
________

Frank Frazetta >>> Anthony Fauci

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:10 AM (iFTx/)

142 Gaaaak!

Posted by: Weasel at August 07, 2025 10:12 AM (9flxN)

143 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: The most attractive turd in the septic tank. at August 07, 2025 10:12 AM (mKOAe)

144 So I’ve only been quickly glancing headlines for the past few days. I think Sydney Sweeny and Ghislaine Maxwell did an ad for the wnba with dildos.

Crazy times.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:12 AM (AiNp4)

145 NEVER piss off a buffalo.
Posted by: Ben Had

********

And perhaps more importantly, never piss ON a buffalo.

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2025 10:12 AM (poXs5)

146 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at August 07, 2025 10:14 AM (mKOAe)

147 you all, this Census thing is way, way bigger than just the potential reallocation of up to 20 seats from blue to red.

it also means ALL states with a change have to redistrict.

NY, CA, IL et al. will have to also redistrict.
Against a Republican Party ready, willing and able to fight back.
It's going to be hilarious watching them find they just don't have enough "blue" areas to keep all the safe seats they want.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 10:14 AM (gBFby)

148 Gaaaak!
Posted by: Weasel
==
Mmm. Gaaaak.

Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at August 07, 2025 10:15 AM (2yoRf)

149 I was pissed that when we went to Spain last year that I couldn't see a bullfight...

Posted by: naturalfake

I had the privilege of attending in Lisbon in 2006. It was a cultural thing. I didn’t particularly care for the brutality, but watching the pagentry and the people and hearing the music and the chanting of the crowd….. smelling the foods and the flowers… getting the vibe of the rhythm of a particular moment…..

It was culturally enriching. And I don’t mean that on the progressive bullshit way. I mean it gave me a glimpse into something very foreign, and somewhat horrifying.

I would go again if I went with someone who could translate not just the verbal language but the body language, the dancing, the costumes….. all of it to me. I’d like to understand the significance of the details.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

Yes! You get it, Nurse!

There is something deep and enriching in these ancient public spectacles/rituals.

I think it's good to attend them every once in a while. We are the same humans as those ancients...just with cellphones and a 24 hr news cycle.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 10:15 AM (iJfKG)

150 This comment is dull and monotonous, hardly worth trying to provoke with dumb art.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 07, 2025 10:15 AM (MX0bI)

151 Don't piss on a buffalo herd!

Posted by: zombie Roger Miller at August 07, 2025 10:16 AM (2yoRf)

152 Gaaack - Bill the Cat hacking up a hairball

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2025 10:16 AM (r/xMY)

153 You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 10:16 AM (agvh/)

154 It is colorful....

That radiation blast that he stopped with his face looks painful.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2025 10:18 AM (GsIhi)

155
From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee - a limerick

I'll tell you the rest oof the story
Since artwork is often allegory
For as sure as you're born
When the fat guy gets the horn
The end result is surely all gore-y

Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2025 10:18 AM (poXs5)

156 It's going to be hilarious watching them find they just don't have enough "blue" areas to keep all the safe seats they want.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 10:14 AM (gBFby)

So.. maybe those allegedly safe seats are only safe because of cheating, in this case gerrymandering style. If SCOTUS strikes that racial bullshit, and Trump calls for a new census... Whoa Nelly!
The demoncrats are gonna lose their shit. Bigly!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2025 10:20 AM (2J/Lj)

157 The a week later all that loss is made up and starts the cycle again.

I’m fascinated by how people have no ability to observe patterns and simply react to events independent of historical context.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:01 AM (AiNp4)

I think most people are vaguely aware that, in a general sense, the stock market is some sort of scam.

But the people playing the markets are acutely aware that it's all a big shell game. So every time it pulls back, they're all on edge. "IS THIS IT? Is the jig finally up? Fuel up my jet while I stuff these diamonds up my ass, and by all that's holy don't let anybody with torches and pitchforks through that gate!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:20 AM (Frm63)

158 Wrong federal subsidized loans your used hir few concerned ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 07, 2025 10:20 AM (IuCTs)

159 NY, CA, IL et al. will have to also redistrict.
Against a Republican Party ready, willing and able to fight back.

We'll either get to gerrymander, or gerrymandering will be struck down. Either way, We The People win.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2025 10:21 AM (GsIhi)

160 Re: AI from last thread

Saw a graph someone put together of openAI usage over time. The graph falls off a cliff in mid June. Once summer break hit and kids were no longer in school.

Usage is down about 60%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:22 AM (AiNp4)

161 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Not the art I can appreciate this early in the day.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2025 10:23 AM (W/lyH)

162 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 07, 2025 10:20 AM (IuCTs)

Aww, ain't he cute!

The smooth brain is trying to participate, but can't get his synapses to fire on anything but politics.

Give him a cookie!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)

163 Pyotr,

Stop eating the brown acid

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2025 10:24 AM (pfggt)

164 The brighter yellows are the colour of my computer room. I like that.

The subject matter and the painting itself I don't care for. That's how I felt after yesterday's steak poutine....which was excellent. So filling.

I have been looking at stuff from Amazon simply because I have so much wall space now. The house should be mostly thoroughly cleaned by 18th and I can get back to the rest of my stuff.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.6% at August 07, 2025 10:24 AM (jvJvP)

165 Scam or not the pattern has been consistent for a looooooong time. Short term there’s volatility. Long term you really have to try and lose money. Panic selling is about the only way. And yet people still panic sell all the time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:25 AM (AiNp4)

166 The crabtastic art continues...

Posted by: Mark in South Jordan at August 07, 2025 10:25 AM (KO2g/)

167 Serov > Konchalovsky

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 10:25 AM (g47mK)

168 Is Alisa smith Corky from that show?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:26 AM (AiNp4)

169 Surikov > Konchalovsky

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

170 Stateless!

Good to see you recovering and reclaiming your life. I hope the best for you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 10:27 AM (Eety5)

171 Unsatisfactory.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at August 07, 2025 10:27 AM (6qf1m)

172 The dude's left hand must have some bad circulation.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 07, 2025 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

173 We'll either get to gerrymander, or gerrymandering will be struck down. Either way, We The People win.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2025 10:21 AM (GsIhi)

Gerrymandering will not be struck down. At most, racial gerrymandering will be struck but they'll permit it for political reasons. Which will have the Democrats maintain the same districts but call it political rather than racial.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

174 The bullfighting amateur was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at August 07, 2025 10:28 AM (mKOAe)

175 Wait a minit ... ! Is Pyotr secretly using the cigar as a stand-in for the Universally-Recognised 'Middle Finger' signage ... ? Much too clever by half - but the boy knows how to insult the client base.

Posted by: Dr_No at August 07, 2025 10:28 AM (ayRl+)

176 Usage is down about 60%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:22 AM

In this area, school starts next week. Could be a new spike in usage. Wonder if it's more college students using AI to write papers.
Girl spawn said at the end of last semester, some yoyo did that and the paper was completely awful. Incoherent, used crap not related to the topic, just absolute garbage. The idiot yoyo was shocked that he got a fail grade on it. He did admit that it was AI and that he didn't read it before handing it in.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2025 10:28 AM (2J/Lj)

177 That reminds me, need to get the LLM to generate an image celebrating 6,500 likes on Tensor.

Maybe Hogmaiden at the Cow Palace opening for Twisted Teat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2025 10:29 AM (pfggt)

178 But the people playing the markets are acutely aware that it's all a big shell game. So every time it pulls back, they're all on edge. "IS THIS IT? Is the jig finally up? Fuel up my jet while I stuff these diamonds up my ass, and by all that's holy don't let anybody with torches and pitchforks through that gate!"

I have quite a bit of money in the market, and I can assure you I have never contemplated stuffing diamonds up my backside. Emeralds, sapphires, and rubies, sure, but not diamonds. That's just gauche.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2025 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

179 I've always been afraid of clowns. I think this goes back to when my father took me to the circus and a clown killed my Dad.

Posted by: Jack Handey at August 07, 2025 10:29 AM (jc0TO)

180
You People don't see the big picture with this Redistricting.

When this goes to Court, it will END racist redistricting once and for all, and that's what the Democrats are afraid of.

There is a case in court right now for racial gerrymandering and that case is likely to end badly for the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 07, 2025 10:30 AM (M5tuE)

181 Should federal funds be used to subsidize art.... hmmm.

I am of the belief that patronage can be a good thing but government subsidy is bullshit. The artist wants to please a patron, so they try to make something the patron will like (whatever that is.) A subsidized artist is looking to collect a paycheck. Now they may create something beautiful, but they don't have to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

182
Even if Texas gets sued, it exposes this racist game the Democrats have been playing. The Trump Admin knows exactly what they're doing.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 07, 2025 10:32 AM (M5tuE)

183 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 07, 2025 10:20 AM (IuCTs)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 07, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

184 168 Is Alisa smith Corky from that show?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Why yes, we can verify that!

Posted by: 24 and Me at August 07, 2025 10:33 AM (G5+As)

185
here we go again...got yet another indian recruiter hitting me up on linkedin

I hope this one speaks at least barely understandable english

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2025 10:33 AM (tljrc)

186 The artist clearly believes in the awesome and vibratory power of color.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:33 AM (WvZaB)

187 NEVER piss off a buffalo.
Posted by: Ben Had

********

And perhaps more importantly, never piss ON a buffalo.
-----

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.

Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2025 10:34 AM (TN0g+)

188 Rothko > Pyotr

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2025 10:34 AM (pfggt)

189 Susie Moore says Big Balls is the grandson of a famous CIA agent, a Russian executed by Moscow in 1987, and with his brave defense of a woman in DC his legend grows. The movie "Big balls" will be an epic!

https://tinyurl.com/3wfanvca

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (spa8z)

190 I am of the belief that patronage can be a good thing but government subsidy is bullshit. The artist wants to please a patron, so they try to make something the patron will like (whatever that is.) A subsidized artist is looking to collect a paycheck. Now they may create something beautiful, but they don't have to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)
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There was a French school of art (whose name I forget) that was subsidize by the government at the same time the Impressionists were starving in attics. Guess who's remembered today.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (WvZaB)

191 He looks like the guy that young Vito Corleone gutted in Italy as revenge for the killing of his father.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (bNf8H)

192 The Trump Admin knows exactly what they're doing.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 07, 2025 10:32 AM (M5tuE)

It's like watching a really, really good magician. You know there's a trick to it all. You may even know the how the trick works. But the magician is so damned smooth and subtle with the trick but so over the top on showmanship that you still watch in wide eyed wonder at it all.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2025 10:36 AM (2J/Lj)

193 He looks like the guy that young Vito Corleone gutted in Italy as revenge for the killing of his father.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (bNf8H)
~~~~~

After he was gutted.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 07, 2025 10:37 AM (3ImbR)

194 There was a French school of art (whose name I forget) that was subsidize by the government at the same time the Impressionists were starving in attics. Guess who's remembered today.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (WvZaB)

All of Michelangelo, Caravaggio or Raphael is all down to patronage.

'Here's some money for materials, create something beautiful. Surprise me. (for some of them at least.)'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

195 184 168 Is Alisa smith Corky from that show?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Why yes, we can verify that!

Posted by: 24 and Me at August 07, 2025 10:33 AM (G5+As)

Hah I got that reference. Hilarious.

Posted by: Farquad at August 07, 2025 10:38 AM (znbnV)

196 I liked the original kindergarten version of the “painting.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 07, 2025 10:38 AM (17s+e)

197 There was a French school of art (whose name I forget) that was subsidize by the government at the same time the Impressionists were starving in attics. Guess who's remembered today.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:35 AM (WvZaB)

I got a girlfriend.

She went to art school.

I got an art school girlfriend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

198 Hmmm...seems like anytime I leave a comment, out comes the naked pics, i.e. historic pron disquised as fine art, since cameras weren't always around to debauch feminine humanity.

How about post the train picture that Polynikes painted? I can't find his/her website to see it anymore.

Trains are daring, irreverent and norms breaking rebels sometimes. Be Bold! Let's see some, yes?

Posted by: ju at August 07, 2025 10:40 AM (vgX6l)

199 I got a girlfriend.

She went to art school.

I got an art school girlfriend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:39 AM

Worst haiku evah.

Posted by: toby928 at August 07, 2025 10:40 AM (jc0TO)

200 All of Michelangelo, Caravaggio or Raphael is all down to patronage.
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So is a lot of Tchaikovsky.

It's interesting to hear the difference between the Overture to 1812 (commissioned by the government) and Souvenir of a Dear Place, when his heart was really in it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:40 AM (WvZaB)

201 So this is what Nadler's dad looked like?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 10:40 AM (W3T6M)

202 The Trump Admin knows exactly what they're doing.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 07, 2025 10:32 AM (M5tuE)

No, Trump is a stupid poopiehead that doesn't know anything and learns nothing and is old and feeble like Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Looks like that dirty greaseball Sicilian Vito gut like a fish in Godfather 2.

Posted by: Fredo at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (3Jnof)

204 24 and Me

🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (AiNp4)

205 Government subsidized art has the same problem as corporate media. People with no discernible or talent beyond climbing a bureaucratic ladder deciding what is good.

So you end up with the Hemhorroid Stallion outside the Denver International Airport, or shows like Two and a Half Men.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (Frm63)

206 203 Looks like that dirty greaseball Sicilian Vito gut like a fish in Godfather 2.
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He is attending a Bull Fight. I don't think the Meatballs were too much into Bull Fights.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 10:42 AM (W3T6M)

207
Worst haiku evah.
Posted by: toby928 at August 07, 2025 10:40 AM (jc0TO)

I know. Some people just shouldn't write poetry.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 07, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

208 No, Trump is a stupid poopiehead that doesn't know anything and learns nothing and is old and feeble like Biden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)
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It's just luck, I tells ya!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:42 AM (WvZaB)

209 Sun-burned know-it-all doesn't know his left hand from his right.

Posted by: mrp at August 07, 2025 10:42 AM (rj6Yv)

210 De’Quinn Le’Charn Hall fired into a packed bar in Herndon.

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De'damn!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 07, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

211 Those who don't like this art ignore that it was made as a early public service effort, "This is your brain on drugs"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 10:44 AM (OX2CO)

212 Guy in back wearing Mickey Mouse ears.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2025 10:44 AM (MHoFz)

213 I know it's not a shock, but in watching the latest Liberal Hivemind video, Joe Scarborough has absolutely lost his ever lovin' mind.

WOW the TDS in that guy is off the charts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

214 Sun-burned know-it-all doesn't know his left hand from his right.
Posted by: mrp at August 07, 2025 10:42 AM (rj6Yv)
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There's a story that J.S. Bach was asked his opinion of a new organist, and replied along the lines of, "He is a true Christian, for his left hand knows not what his right hand is doing."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:44 AM (WvZaB)

215 SCOTUS struck down affirmative action for colleges. What did colleges do? Ignore the decision and just keep doing what they’re doing but called it something different. We’re not accepting JaQuan with a 2.5 GPA and 1050 SAT because he’s black while rejecting Steve Smith with a 3.7 and 1300.

Race has nothing g to do with it. It’s because JaQuan has an interesting life story and we love interesting life stories.Steve grew up in a stable middle class home, boring.

Same thing will happen with redistricting. Blue states wil keep them Democrat and black and just find an excuse to justify it other than race.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:45 AM (AiNp4)

216
When you punish him, you punish us.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2025 10:45 AM (ES1Rb)

217 It's over, you guys.

Robert "Turd" Reich says that Trump is committing treason by firing Biden appointments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

218 Orange Man - the early years?

Posted by: 40 Miles North at August 07, 2025 10:46 AM (EaLNz)

219 I can't even come up with something witty to say about this painting..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

220 Of course they'll never stop racial gerrymandering. They'll just use some other criteria. "We need to make sure weave store owners get a representative, " or something.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:47 AM (Frm63)

221 Wassup, fellow art experts?!?

Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2025 10:47 AM (wkXwO)

222 since festive little hats weren't always around to debauch feminine humanity.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2025 10:47 AM (EphcB)

223 Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2025 10:47 AM

S'up, Doof?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 10:48 AM (kgE5c)

224 Wassup, fellow art experts?!?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2025 10:47 AM (wkXwO)

And you would think this is a true statement judging by all the shit flung at CBD when he posts something that isn't photographic with tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

225 FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

226 My local sheriff (Escambia, FL) and the sheriff of the adjoining county (Santa Rosa) are pretty pissed off at DHS's direct recruitment of their deputies to become ICE agents.

Those deputies who underwent federal training to become certified to perform ICE-like duties in apprehending illegals were required to provide their email addresses to DHS.

Now, those email addresses are being used by DHS for direct recruitment purposes including the enticement of the $50,000 sign-on bonus.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2025 10:49 AM (Y1sOo)

227 Now, those email addresses are being used by DHS for direct recruitment purposes including the enticement of the $50,000 sign-on bonus.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2025 10:49 AM (Y1sOo)

Things like this happen every day in the private sector. Get over it.

It's called 'fair market competition.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Polynikes runs a train??

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (2yoRf)

229 Ice is offering fiddy thousand bonuses? Damn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (AiNp4)

230 Polynikes runs a train??
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (2yoRf)
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Only in the shade.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (WvZaB)

231 Race has nothing g to do with it. It’s because JaQuan has an interesting life story and we love interesting life stories.Steve grew up in a stable middle class home, boring.

Same thing will happen with redistricting. Blue states wil keep them Democrat and black and just find an excuse to justify it other than race.

That's a lot of words to say "nothing will happen".

Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

232 Looks like Pablo is jonesing for some more cocaine.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM (XRkFm)

233 Ice is offering fiddy thousand bonuses? Damn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:50 AM (AiNp4)

I'm trying to get my rap career back on track.

Posted by: Vanilla Ice at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

234 I think CBD is a bit upset his namesake is being tossed around at WNBA events.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM (tT6L1)

235 I think CBD is a bit upset his namesake is being tossed around at WNBA events.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM (tT6L1)
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Any publicity is good publicity.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2025 10:52 AM (WvZaB)

236 I think CBD is a bit upset his namesake is being tossed around at WNBA events.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM (tT6L1)

One would think he'd be proud of a family member gaining such fame.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

237 I think CBD is a bit upset his namesake is being tossed around at WNBA events.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 10:51 AM

Somehow, I doubt he's green with envy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2025 10:52 AM (0sNs1)

238 So many ask, "why is dildo?" but so few - "how is dildo"

Posted by: gKWVE at August 07, 2025 10:53 AM (sDWtc)

239 I can't even come up with something witty to say about this painting..

Posted by: It's me donna

Puddles Pity Party has entered the chat.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 07, 2025 10:53 AM (QcUc+)

240 Timpon remembers.

Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
A year ago today, @KamalaHarris gave me the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to travel the country and meet America. I’m deeply grateful for those wild 91 days.
While the road ahead is challenging, we cannot lose hope. There’s work to do and I need you to stay in the fight.

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And the rest is history.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 07, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

241 There's no way to prevent whatever legerdemain they use for their racial gerrymander. This one is pissing in the wind. A for effort, tho.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM (Frm63)

242 Anthony Cumia has a lot of “black interaction with police” video clips. It’s always the same. Some minor altercation like a traffic stop turns into WW3. The cops show more patience than is humanly possible. I don’t know how they do it.

And yet the narrative is poor blacks are randomly shot by bloodthirsty cops for no reason.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM (AiNp4)

243 So you end up with the Hemhorroid Stallion outside the Denver International Airport, or shows like Two and a Half Men.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:41 AM (Frm63)

Two and Half Men was funny. I liked it. It was solid comedy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

244 Timpon remembers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 07, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

Pepperidge Farm > Timpon

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

245 The heroes arrested for throwing neon dildos at WNBA games are all young black guys. Wtf are they doing at an WNBA game in the first place?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

246 I was discussing President Trump with my neighbor across the street and we were both laughing because President Trump is one man, yet, he seems to be able to surround his enemies.

First, TX gerrymandering...then, President Trump proposes a census for purposes of apportionment, which would eliminate congressional seats.

Democrats are constantly outraged but President Trump continues to move the target of their outrage. It's hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 10:57 AM (tT6L1)

247 245 The heroes arrested for throwing neon dildos at WNBA games are all young black guys. Wtf are they doing at an WNBA game in the first place?
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To see which Lesbo will pick up the dildo.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 10:57 AM (W3T6M)

248 There's no way to prevent whatever legerdemain they use for their racial gerrymander. This one is pissing in the wind. A for effort, tho.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM (Frm63)

Yet, no one mentioned the number of times the Dems have submitted gerrymander requests that have been rejected by the courts because they're sofa king obnoxious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

249 There's a story that J.S. Bach was asked his opinion of a new organist, and replied along the lines of, "He is a true Christian, for his left hand knows not what his right hand is doing."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Colbert never had J.S. on, I guess because J.S. was actually funny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

250 Too yellow.
Too much like crayon.
Looks like a seven year old painted it.
Hang? No.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (XIXQF)

251 245 The heroes arrested for throwing neon dildos at WNBA games are all young black guys. Wtf are they doing at an WNBA game in the first place?
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

Their GF is some you go grrrrllll type and they were dragged there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (AiNp4)

252 170 Stateless!

Good to see you recovering and reclaiming your life. I hope the best for you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 07, 2025 10:2

Thank you Nurse!

I hope you are very happy and well.

Back to work. Getting there....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.6% at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (jvJvP)

253 Anthony Cumia has a lot of “black interaction with police” video clips. It’s always the same. Some minor altercation like a traffic stop turns into WW3. The cops show more patience than is humanly possible. I don’t know how they do it.

And yet the narrative is poor blacks are randomly shot by bloodthirsty cops for no reason.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM (AiNp4)
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Yea, it's bodycams. They were originally demanded by Democraps to implicate cops in brutal and illegal behavior. Instead, the bodycams show how insane and violent the perps are. Backfire!

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

254 Anthony Cumia has a lot of “black interaction with police” video clips. It’s always the same. Some minor altercation like a traffic stop turns into WW3. The cops show more patience than is humanly possible. I don’t know how they do it.

And yet the narrative is poor blacks are randomly shot by bloodthirsty cops for no reason.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM

You really want to have fun? Go to the YouTube channel "Kendall Reacts" for a conservative West Indian's thoughts on ratchet/cop interaction.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

255 I want this as a kitchen dish towel

Posted by: H at August 07, 2025 10:59 AM (2gjbv)

256 Anthony Cumia has a lot of “black interaction with police” video clips. It’s always the same. Some minor altercation like a traffic stop turns into WW3.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 10:54 AM

You try dealing with all the stress of turning your life around, working to become a rap megastar while attending nursing school, and volunteering at the local Headstart program, and while juggling all that, getting pulled over for some minor thing???

Posted by: JaQuisha at August 07, 2025 10:59 AM (0sNs1)

257
The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee

WNBA Warns If You Throw Anything On The Court, You Will Be Forced To Attend 10 More WNBA Games

Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2025 10:59 AM (krQz2)

258
You really want to have fun? Go to the YouTube channel "Kendall Reacts" for a conservative West Indian's thoughts on ratchet/cop interaction.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

I mean, how many interactions does nurse ratchet have with police?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

259 I see this painting, with the vibrant yellow color palette to be a subtle call back to Hunter and his "no yellow" oevre.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (tT6L1)

260 To see which Lesbo will pick up the dildo.
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And become Queen of the Subarus!

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (2yoRf)

261 It's been years since I last saw a bat in here, but I just netted a big handsome one. I let him go. I should have taken a photo, darn it.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (0I+GC)

262 You try dealing with all the stress of turning your life around, working to become a rap megastar while attending nursing school, and volunteering at the local Headstart program, and while juggling all that, getting pulled over for some minor thing???
Posted by: JaQuisha at August 07, 2025 10:59 AM

Yeah!

Posted by: Felontavius Jefferson at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (kgE5c)

263 CBD’s late to his rant. Must be the absinthe again.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

264 I guess black girls can't play Beach Volley Ball.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (W3T6M)

265 "How can you tell she's Queen of the Subarus??"

"She's not covered in jizz."

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (2yoRf)

266 It's been years since I last saw a bat in here, but I just netted a big handsome one. I let him go. I should have taken a photo, darn it.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM (0I+GC)

Send it to the wet market and spread Covid-25.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

267 This painting is completely horrible.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (V362x)

268 245 The heroes arrested for throwing neon dildos at WNBA games are all young black guys. Wtf are they doing at an WNBA game in the first place

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NBA games are off limits as a condition of their parole.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 07, 2025 11:01 AM (XIXQF)

269 265 "How can you tell she's Queen of the Subarus??"

"She's not covered in jizz."
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Cereal Question - Does Subaru sponsor a WNBA Team?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 11:02 AM (W3T6M)

270 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee

WNBA Warns If You Throw Anything On The Court, You Will Be Forced To Attend 10 More WNBA Games
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2025 10:59 AM (krQz2)

They truly are a gem on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

271 I mean, how many interactions does nurse ratchet have with police?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 11:00 AM

For every police bodycam video I see from Seattle, I keep waiting to see nurse wander by and say "May I suggest using your nightstick, officers?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 11:02 AM (kgE5c)

272 Blue states will keep them Democrat and black and just find an excuse to justify it other than race.
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Which is a fantastic outcome for us.
Go look at the distribution map of blacks in the US.
All the heavily black areas that are not cities, are in the South.

The northern blue states do not have enough blacks outside of their major cites to both 1) keep all their minority-majority districts and 2) keep safe white districts.

Because when they lose those 3-5 seats in the Census, they're going to protect the safe white seats 1st.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 11:02 AM (gBFby)

273 Munkey nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 11:03 AM (kgE5c)

274 One of the wnba ladies that got struck with a dildo is actually hawt. Some blonde. She did an ad campaign for Arby’s in short shorts previously.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 11:03 AM (AiNp4)

275 ------------------
Cereal Question - Does Subaru sponsor a WNBA Team?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 11:02 AM (W3T6M)

Quick search reveals they give no money to the league itself. Not sure about individual teams.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

276 Even though I believe wholeheartedly in the Constitution, giving Trump another term is an attractive idea. The man is fully capable, I'd bet.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 07, 2025 11:04 AM (hKoQL)

277 That's art?

Posted by: Ghost of the Tsar at August 07, 2025 11:04 AM (wh9bj)

278 Natalie Jean Beisner@NJBeisner
James Carville: “I have never seen a political party that has more talent than the current Democrat Party.”
Wild how they just continue to live in an alternate reality.

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Is that talent in the room with us now, Jim?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 07, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

279 Well it isn't dull or monotonous...would look at to determine subject matter while passing on to view the next painting.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 07, 2025 11:08 AM (PcTds)

280 Big fupa.

I don't care for it.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 07, 2025 11:11 AM (WF/xn)

281 One of the women's sports I do enjoy is Women's Fast Pitch Softball. The Rosetta Stone rules are that any softball chick wearing a ribbon in her hair is straight. Those not wearing a ribbon are not.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 07, 2025 11:18 AM (W3T6M)

282 I’ve seen better paintings by kindergarteners. Modern art truly is shit

Posted by: BM at August 07, 2025 12:15 PM (ghqUz)

283 looks like someone busted up his chiffarobes.

Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2025 12:52 PM (hmebG)

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