Mid-Morning Art Thread

La Banche
Gustave Loiseau

Posted by: CBD at 09:35 AM

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1 Too crude.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (6qf1m)

2
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (kkTda)

3 Seems moist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

4 That's pretty.

I'd consider hanging that.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (jvJvP)

5 Very pretty. I like the viewpoint.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (6eOSv)

6 I'm not gonna lie to ya, fellas. The sea was not very angry that day.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (XQo4F)

7 The sea was, uh, pretty mellow that day, actually. You're welcome.

Posted by: Strong marijuana at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (ycI94)

8 I like this.
Would hang.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

9 Beautiful subject, but don’t care for the style.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

10 Gustave Bird?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (WvZaB)

11 Acceptable for the beach house.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

12
Very pretty. I like the viewpoint.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (6eOSv)

_________

Painting this while flying in a plane would be a trifle difficult.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (kkTda)

13 Off to war they go.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)

14 It needs a lighthouse.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (fV+MH)

15
Nice dental office painting.

Purdy colors. Nice composition. Nothing controversial.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

16 Schooner? I hardly knew her!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (JkO4W)

17 The greens and blues are nice to look at, but that rocky peninsula-looking thing is kind of a mess

hang this, I would not

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

18 Crude French Sea Stack. Not good.

Posted by: Franco-Phony at August 20, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

19 This doesn't make me want to dive right in.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 20, 2025 09:38 AM (0nHVk)

20
Needs some Mannix babes sunbathing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:38 AM (kkTda)

21 Sniper and dog are on the sailboat in the background.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

22 Difficult to tell the set of the vessel's sails, and whether it is in danger if running on to a lee shore.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM (WvZaB)

23 Maybe We are the lighthouse?

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM (fV+MH)

24 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM (JkO4W)

25
Reefer Madness - a limerick

There once was a sailor named Noll
Who had shallow-water sailing as his goal
He later was found
With his ship run aground
Singing, "I love you, body and shoal!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (/iMjX)

26 redridinghood likes this, but doesn't like Trumps bold, gold, decorating. Please come see us. Something amiss!

Posted by: Warby-Parker at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

27 Huh.

Does not really do much for me.

The cliffs look like they need to be shaved and get some vitamin C.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (bss/y)

28 I zoomed in but I still can't find the man in the boat

Posted by: In cell at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (HcoTw)

29 24 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.
Posted by: Cicero

--

Not so much fun for Xerxes

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (RqEcJ)

30 That little thing won't run aground.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:41 AM (fV+MH)

31 "See! I can do Monet too!"

Posted by: Gustave Loiseau at August 20, 2025 09:41 AM (esuh3)

32 Not so much fun for Xerxes
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (RqEcJ)
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Not so much fun for his sailors, either.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:41 AM (WvZaB)

33 Don't jump.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (W3T6M)

34 "The bank"?

Old, old-time Da Swamp dwellers used to call sidewalks "banquettes" (pronounced "bankets"), "little banks," because after a hard rain they were like the banks of a river. I guess "banquette" is the diminutive of "banche"?

Pretty painting, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

35 What is banche?

Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

36 I can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)

37 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.
Posted by: Cicero

That's next to the Pepperonis.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 20, 2025 09:43 AM (AlxNo)

38 5 What is banche?
Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)
****
The bank.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

39
Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.

________

Genoese Salamis?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:43 AM (kkTda)

40 Um…Xerxes was on the other end of the continent.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

41 Countywide high school art contest entry. Honorable mention.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 20, 2025 09:44 AM (QArof)

42 The sea was deceptively calm that morning, lulling the vacationers on the sailboat into a state of placid torpor.

Beneath, a murky doom waited patiently.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 20, 2025 09:44 AM (RqEcJ)

43 Is this about us?

Posted by: The Outer Banks at August 20, 2025 09:44 AM (XQo4F)

44 28 I zoomed in but I still can't find the man in the boat
Posted by: In cell at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (HcoTw)

Isn't that always the way?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 09:45 AM (bss/y)

45 Mmmm... Genoa salami...

Posted by: Now I'm hungry at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (XQo4F)

46 Release the kraken

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (AOsQT)

47 Love this painting. Another one with a great composition and color pa;ette.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (EYmYM)

48 Huh. Google Translate claims that La Banche is The Bench, while insisting that the phrase is Italian.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (WvZaB)

49 I like it. Peaceful, New England seacoast kind of look to it. Would hang in the beach cottage. If, you know, I had a beach cottage.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (dPfyF)

50 Banchette in French is a bench, like a you have in a booth eating in a French restaurant. Where you eat snails.

Posted by: Slug-a-Bug at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

51 48 Huh. Google Translate claims that La Banche is The Bench, while insisting that the phrase is Italian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (WvZaB)

Wasn't that also a Leonardo DiCaprio movie?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 09:47 AM (bss/y)

52 The sniper can't find himself. Now that is camouflage!

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 20, 2025 09:47 AM (89Sog)

53 What is banche?
Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:42 AM (Oy/m2)

--

Ace's next fun slang when "schnizz" is retired.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 20, 2025 09:48 AM (QArof)

54 43 Is this about us?
Posted by: The Outer Banks

You won't find a rock of any kind on the Outer Banks that wasn't trucked, railed, or barged in.

Posted by: Sands of Time at August 20, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

55 It's no Monet.

I'm not saying it's better or worse. I just thought it was a Monet until I read the caption.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 20, 2025 09:49 AM (Xmzqg)

56 How come there are no Inner Banks?

Posted by: Makes you go hmmmm... at August 20, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

57 Very soothing.

Posted by: Tuna at August 20, 2025 09:50 AM (lJ0H4)

58 Gus The Bird would be a good Mob name.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:51 AM (WvZaB)

59 Still on topic but also off topic, CBD's lighthouse a few days ago led me to this page with a lot of cool paintings of lighthouses:

https://tinyurl.com/34djt92t

It has the one CBD showed to us, but also I love almost every painting on the page (first 2 especially, but the 4th one down is cool as it is almost a kind of Tolkien lighthouse.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 09:51 AM (bss/y)

60 56 How come there are no Inner Banks?
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There are. They are called Sounds. See Currituck Sound as an example.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:51 AM (W3T6M)

61 This painting is not to my taste, but I hope the artist made Banche selling it at the Motel 6 Starving Artist's Sale.

Posted by: $29.95 With Frame at August 20, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)

62 There are. They are called Sounds. See Currituck Sound as an example.
Posted by: pudinhead

Looking out my window at the Currituck Sound as we speak.

Posted by: Overcast Today at August 20, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

63 Schooner? I hardly knew her!
Posted by: Cicero Schooner? I hardly knew her!
Posted by: Cicero

***********

The Albatross - a limerick

There once was a sailor named Slater
Who was hardly the best navigator
Like the Mariner's Ancient Rime
He could never be on time
Saying, "I'll be there schooner or later

Posted by: muldoon at August 20, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)

64 The art..

I have no idea whether the title checks out or not. I don't speak or read whatever language that is.

I like the painting though.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 09:53 AM (2J/Lj)

65 The local populace awaited the start of grunion season with great anticipation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 09:54 AM (JkO4W)

66 Looking out my window at the Currituck Sound as we speak.
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You must be in NC. Is it hot and humid?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:54 AM (W3T6M)

67 If, you know, I had a beach cottage.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM

If you get one, don't ever make a big deal about it.

Posted by: Barbra S. at August 20, 2025 09:54 AM (0sNs1)

68 Is that the Blue Lagoon?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 20, 2025 09:54 AM (wVcYX)

69 We've usually been mentioned at least once by now...

Posted by: The cabin boys at August 20, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

70 We've usually been mentioned at least once by now...
Posted by: The cabin boys at August 20, 2025 09:55 AM

The sea isn't angry today.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (dPfyF)

71 I think I see Jack Aubrey on the deck of that ship.
Very serene. Would hang. Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (so5nu)

72 Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.

________

Genoese Salamis?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:43 AM (kkTda)

Mmm Hormel DiLusso Genoa. Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (snZF9)

73 Since the Captain on the ship declared today was Naturist Day, I'm using my telescope to see if there are any raging glories.

Posted by: Brandy at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (0sNs1)

74 The greens and blues are nice to look at, but that rocky peninsula-looking thing is kind of a mess

hang this, I would not
Posted by: Don Black
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I got yer' greens and rocky peninsula-looking thing right here!

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (EFZgU)

75 You must be in NC. Is it hot and humid?
Posted by: pudinhead

Warm and muggy. Not hot. Under Tropical Storm Warning.

Posted by: 77 Degrees At Present at August 20, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

76 Not a big fan of post-impressionism as it can get too abstract, too concerned with technique and less on the subject. But this painting, with its use of bright, discrete colors and perspective manages to create an emotional scene with the technique. It is calm, somewhat removed by perspective from details, but capturing a peaceful quietude. Anyone who has enjoyed a quiet, still water scene would appreciate this.

Yes, I would hang this.

Posted by: JTB at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

77 51 48 Huh. Google Translate claims that La Banche is The Bench, while insisting that the phrase is Italian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:46 AM (WvZaB)

Wasn't that also a Leonardo DiCaprio movie?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

She can sit on my face, but only if she's 18-24.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (ycI94)

78 Where are the cliff divers? You would think there would be cliff divers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (snZF9)

79 Warm and muggy. Not hot. Under Tropical Storm Warning.
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Here in NOVA it seems we are in England, too. Lightly wet and very cool.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (W3T6M)

80 I like a lot of post impressionist artists mainly because I like bold and bright colors in a painting.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (EYmYM)

81 Here in NOVA it seems we are in England, too. Lightly wet and very cool.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM

Same here in Boston. Cool, light rain. For August, I'll take it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:58 AM (dPfyF)

82 70 We've usually been mentioned at least once by now...
Posted by: The cabin boys at August 20, 2025 09:55 AM

The sea isn't angry today.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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$20. Same as on the poop deck.

Posted by: Rum, sodomy, and the lash at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (XQo4F)

83 Looking out my window at the Currituck Sound as we speak.
Posted by: Overcast Today at August 20, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

Is it pouring rain? Do you feel uninspired?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (2J/Lj)

84 The sailor'd never been this way before
And marveled at this undiscovered shore
Distracted on his junk
He sped right on 'til --- THUNK!
Now he and his junk are sunk forever more

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (PXq2s)

85 Where are the cliff divers? You would think there would be cliff divers.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM

I can't tell you how many times I've asked that very question.

Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)

86 Yeah, it’s nice here in NoVa.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

87 She can sit on my face, but only if she's 18-24.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (ycI94)

And asian. No fatties.

-Barry Kripke

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (jvJvP)

88 I like it....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (VE6XX)

89 Would hang. I'm a sucker for the Impressionist style and anything adjacent to it. Maybe because that's what the world looks like with my glasses off?

Posted by: pookysgirl is almost legally blind at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (Wt5PA)

90 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.

And that's why it's known as the "Cape of Charcuterie" .

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 10:00 AM (iJfKG)

91 And asian. No fatties.

-Barry Kripke
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM

No yellow.

- H. Biden

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:00 AM (dPfyF)

92 Still on topic but also off topic, CBD's lighthouse a few days ago led me to this page with a lot of cool paintings of lighthouses:
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*********

Fry It Up in a Pan - a limerick

An old lighthouse keeper named Deacon
For ships at sea always was seekin'
He sure earned his pay
for at the end of the day
He managed to bring home the beacon!

Posted by: muldoon at August 20, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

93
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip
that started from this tropic port
aboard this tiny ship

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:01 AM (AOsQT)

94 This giant elephant is trying to retrieve his cellphone which fell into the ocean.

Posted by: Mutual of Omaha Banche at August 20, 2025 10:02 AM (w9Wax)

95 Painting depicts my fave spot on the coast. Used to park there with high school girlfriends to watch the submarine races.

Posted by: Drove A Nash-Reclining Seats! at August 20, 2025 10:02 AM (G5+As)

96 La Banche means "The Bench."

So does banquette.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 20, 2025 10:03 AM (L5An7)

97 Look closely, there's Mary Ann, sunbathing

European style

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)

98 Ginger sure brought a lot of fancy outfits for a three hour tour.

Posted by: Didja ever notice at August 20, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

99 Does “charcooterie” have something to do with those candles that Gwyneth Paltrow sells?”

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

100 I like a lot of post impressionist artists mainly because I like bold and bright colors in a painting.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 09:57 AM (EYmYM)

Are you familiar with my catalog? I've got several paintings you may enjoy.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keeffe at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (wVcYX)

101 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.
Posted by: Cicero

--

Not so much fun for Xerxes
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 20, 2025 09:40 AM (RqEcJ)

Less fun for his sailors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

102 Variety@Variety
As Fascism Takes Hold in the U.S., How Will — and Should — the TV Landscape Depict Our Real-Life Horrors?

-
Peace. Prosperity. How could it be any worse?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

103 Oh how I hope, when the media asks someone in the Trump Administration, about painting the border wall black, that they respond, "well, it was a red door, so ...."

And watch the left sputter and stroke out in anger!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (zHKd4)

104 It's no Monet.
I'm not saying it's better or worse. I just thought it was a Monet until I read the caption.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 20, 2025 09:49 AM (Xmzqg)
~~~~~

I was thinking that too, but the theme/subject didn't seem right. So, I looked it up and this guy is a POST- impressionist.

Both Monet and Loiseau lived around the same time and died within 10 years of each other, so what gives? Just these artsy-fartsy folks trying to confuse us. Maybe we need Kris to 'splain us.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (3ImbR)

105 Where are the cliff divers? You would think there would be cliff divers.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divisio

********

That's what I like about AOSHQ. All the divers opinions.

Posted by: muldoon at August 20, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

106 Look closely, there's Mary Ann, sunbathing

European style
Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)

Sunny side up!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 20, 2025 10:05 AM (wVcYX)

107 Variety@Variety
As Fascism Takes Hold in the U.S., How Will — and Should — the TV Landscape Depict Our Real-Life Horrors?

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Peace. Prosperity. How could it be any worse?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM

Seriously...what color is the sky on their planet?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:05 AM (dPfyF)

108 Posted by: Georgia O'Keeffe at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (wVcYX)

You ain’t post Impressionism but I do like a lot of your non vagina landscape paintings.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:05 AM (EYmYM)

109 I'm sure some people have seen this already:

https://x.com/ElectionWiz/status/
1958159805857632355

The NYT did a dive on partisan voter registration over the last four years, and the picture is terrible for Democrats while largely positive for Republicans.

Democrats are hemorrhaging voter registrations. Republicans are mostly growing, and where they're not, they're mostly just not losing as much as Democrats are.

I just wonder why 2026 is supposed to follow "political gravity" or "normal trends" at this point other than, "it's an easy pattern to point to".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

110 As Fascism Takes Hold in the U.S., How Will — and Should — the TV Landscape Depict Our Real-Life Horrors?
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Oh the drama

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (rME7O)

111 They sure are having a cow over Trump "updating" the Smithsonian....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (VE6XX)

112 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

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Nah. We're good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

113 Unfamiliar with this artist. He painted some really lovely landscapes.

Posted by: Tuna at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (lJ0H4)

114 107 Seriously...what color is the sky on their planet?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:05 AM (dPfyF)

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Deporting illegal immigrants who hate our country and wave the flag of another foreign power is fascism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

115 Whoa! We did make it to 100. Had my doubts on this blurry mess.

Posted by: Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (G5+As)

116 Posted by: IrishEi at August 20, 2025 10:04 AM (3ImbR)

Monet lived long enough to span at least three art periods.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (EYmYM)

117 112 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

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Nah. We're good.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

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Which arrondissements burned last night?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

118 I thought of polynikes when I saw today's painting. Bright but natural colors that are distinct but blend enough to flow into shapes and able to give an emotional feel to the scene. I was reminded of his more subtle landscapes.

Posted by: JTB at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (yTvNw)

119 Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis.

Posted by: m at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (aURVT)

120 ABC Wide World Of Sports would show the cliff diving sometimes

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:08 AM (AOsQT)

121 What big name that we would all recognize was indicted yesterday?
Nobody?
Uh huh.
Thought so.

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 20, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

122 OT. Well, there is no T yet.
At my daughters house. Failing at operating the washing machine. Modern appliances suck.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 20, 2025 10:09 AM (/MW9e)

123 Post-Impressionism is like Post Turtle. Someone put them up to it.

Posted by: Tommy Turtle at August 20, 2025 10:10 AM (G5+As)

124 110 As Fascism Takes Hold in the U.S., How Will — and Should — the TV Landscape Depict Our Real-Life Horrors?
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Fascism ? I don't think that word means what they think it means....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:10 AM (VE6XX)

125 119 Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis.
Posted by: m

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I can help with that.

Posted by: Penicillin at August 20, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)

126 They should do a story where they make Republicans into Racist Secret Homo Hitlers. Has Hollywood ever thought of that one?

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM (rME7O)

127 FUN FACT: Xerxes sat on that very promontory, watching his fleet get destroyed at Salamis.
Posted by: Cicero

That's next to the Pepperonis.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Salami, salami, baloney!

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM (ipIsk)

128 Posted by: I gotta ask at August 20, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

You must have some type of retarded point you’re trying to make.

Spit it out.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM (EYmYM)

129 126 They should do a story where they make Republicans into Racist Secret Homo Hitlers. Has Hollywood ever thought of that one?
Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM (rME7O)

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American Beauty is that way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

130 I'd rather look at a polynikes painting any day than this.

Posted by: Arbiter of Good Taste at August 20, 2025 10:12 AM (G5+As)

131 Posted by: I gotta ask at August 20, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

So sorry that your time table hasn't been met!

Have you considered a letter writing campaign? Make them sternly worded letters. I hear those are popular with the "in" crowd these days.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 20, 2025 10:12 AM (89Sog)

132 Part of the point of spending preposterous monies on even more preposterous weapons systems is not having to give a crap what some baguette muncher thinks about us.

Oh, we like weird sports? Yeah, and we can also yeet twenty cruise missiles in a shipping crate out the ass end of a cargo plane and erase an entire nation off the map by pressing one button.

Enjoy your dick shaped bread, froggie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 10:12 AM (PXq2s)

133 American Beauty is that way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM

But it has that really artistic floating plastic bag. That's how you know it's serious art.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (fAGm7)

134 OT, but this is really cool.

I remember a while back Dad and I were talking about how we needed more power plants. I actually think this was during 2008 election. I think I mentioned to him I liked McCain's idea of building 100 new nuclear power plants. We got to talking about power and infrastructure (Yes, Dad and I are a hit at parties) and I asked how you store power and he mentioned using essentially a giant water battery with a high reservoir and a low one. I had just never seen one until this video.

https://tinyurl.com/5xerkh4x

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (bss/y)

135 Look closely, there's Mary Ann, sunbathing

If only that was true.....

Posted by: Case at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (iwlvf)

136 Oh how I hope, when the media asks someone in the Trump Administration, about painting the border wall black, that they respond, "well, it was a red door, so ...."

-
https://is.gd/ut0gmq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

137 133 American Beauty is that way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM

But it has that really artistic floating plastic bag. That's how you know it's serious art.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (fAGm7)

I really hate that movie. The republican gay thing is less offensive to me than the pedo yay parts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (bss/y)

138 Posted by: JTB at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (yTvNw)

😀

I’ve been switching up my subject matter lately. I hope you won’t change your opinion too much.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (EYmYM)

139 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

Do you have any idea that Americans consider you to be a bunch of cocksucking, cheese eating, surrender monkeys who will gladly offer their asses and mouths to Islamist savages? Would you like me to draw you a picture?

Kindly fuck all the way off, dick munch.
Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (2J/Lj)

140 Dreamy painting.

can't tell where the sea starts and the horizon ends, but that does occur IRL from time to time.

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (dCxaZ)

141 133 American Beauty is that way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:11 AM

But it has that really artistic floating plastic bag. That's how you know it's serious art.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 20, 2025 10:13 AM (fAGm7)

=======

https://youtu.be/OX1-G69WLzo

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

142 Do you have any idea that Americans consider you to be a bunch of cocksucking, cheese eating, surrender monkeys who will gladly offer their asses and mouths to Islamist savages? Would you like me to draw you a picture?

Kindly fuck all the way off, dick munch.
Regards
Mayhem
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (2J/L

And smelly... Don't forget smelly

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

143 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?
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Saw some leftie doing some variation of that in Germany.
Seems the Krauts have some sort of "park" that is supposed to show other countries.
And every other country has replicas of classic architecture and beautiful landscaping.
Because the designer called in experts from those countries and let them design it.

Except the US.
The designer bitch, on her own, threw up a chain-link fence, some astroturf and a few palm trees.

That's ok Europe.
You can't win wars without our help and our poor make more than your middle class.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (zHKd4)

144 >>American Beauty is that way.

One of the Dead's best studio albums.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (viF8m)

145 Fuzzy vibes

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (ipIsk)

146 126 They should do a story where they make Republicans into Racist Secret Homo Hitlers. Has Hollywood ever thought of that one?

let's see, it's been at least... ten days?

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

147 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

Nobody gives a fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 20, 2025 10:17 AM (AlxNo)

148 This painting reminds me that I haven't mentioned lately that I sailed to Tahiti with an all-girl crew.

Posted by: Gardner McKay, Adventures In Paradise at August 20, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

149 That's a wonderful painting except for the aesthetics.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 20, 2025 10:18 AM (2ap+5)

150 "Feel bad about our low opinion of you. We're cultured."
-the French

"Your culture is staid and hasn't developed in centuries. You've spent the last hundred years celebrating literal, out and proud pedophiles whose central philosophical focus has been the justification of pedophelia. Your greatest claim to fame in the 20th century was bowing to Nazis in order to protect the art you can't make anymore. Say what you want. Your opinion is unimportant, just like your country."
-me, not caring enough to actually use invective

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

151 147 TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

Nobody gives a fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 20, 2025 10:17 AM (AlxNo)

Still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:18 AM (bss/y)

152 Do you have any idea that Americans consider you to be a bunch of cocksucking, cheese eating, surrender monkeys who will gladly offer their asses and mouths to Islamist savages? Would you like me to draw you a picture?

Kindly fuck all the way off, dick munch.
Regards
Mayhem
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:14 AM (2J/L

And smelly... Don't forget smelly
Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

Fist bumps all the way around!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 20, 2025 10:18 AM (ipIsk)

153 > TheFrenchie@ML3democrats
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?
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It's the left's image of the United States they're seeing. That's been the projected image for decades. And still is.

You can thank our media betters for that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

154
Do you have any idea of the image we have of the United States in France? Would you like me to tell you?

_________

Actually, we don't care what you think. Go fix your own broken-down wreck of a country first.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:20 AM (kkTda)

155 France still pissed about the Louisiana Purchase.

Dumb asses. Enjoy your conversion.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:20 AM (EYmYM)

156 It's the left's image of the United States they're seeing. That's been the projected image for decades. And still is.

You can thank our media betters for that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

Yyes.. And if Europe thinks we are so bad they should stay on their side of the ocean...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:20 AM (VE6XX)

157 155 France still pissed about the Louisiana Purchase.

Dumb asses. Enjoy your conversion.
Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:20 AM (EYmYM)

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I think they're mostly pissed because we toppled Vichy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

158 What a gash!

Posted by: guy who thinks everything looks like gash at August 20, 2025 10:21 AM (vFG9F)

159
10 years ago the GDP of the EU was 90% of the US. Now it's 65%.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:22 AM (kkTda)

160 Lovely article on the Dems losing the ground war

https://archive.ph/E1jGZ

Posted by: Oglebay at August 20, 2025 10:22 AM (2ap+5)

161 159
10 years ago the GDP of the EU was 90% of the US. Now it's 65%.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:22 AM (kkTda)

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But they have buildings they've let deteriorate for centuries!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

162 Aren’t the French the ones who are afraid of air conditioning?

Pussies.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

163 The American Left hate the US but won’t fucking leave.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:23 AM (EYmYM)

164 Re: Harjinder Singh

I knew I recognized that name. Not easy to type.

Is the name equivalent to "John Smith", or has this creep been on the road for years and years?

...108 results going back to 1997

https://tiny.cc/#

And that's just one name, in one state.

Careful out there, folks. They're EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at August 20, 2025 10:24 AM (JCLJi)

165 Dear France,
Your media is full of content from America.
Your news is dominated by what is going on in America.

In America, no one even thinks about France.
You are unimportant.

K, Thx, bye.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 10:24 AM (zHKd4)

166 When have the French ever had a good opinion of Americans? Or anyone else for that matter?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (XvL8K)

167
There's nothing that Europeans can say about the US that we haven't heard for the last 250 years. But it sounds pretty hollow now that they're a dying ruin of a continent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (kkTda)

168 You must have some type of retarded point you’re trying to make.

They're saying that their specific bugaboo hasn't been addressed yet and even though people point out, repeatedly, that it'll take time if it even happens at all, they've decided to throw themselves on the floor and kick their feet until they get what they want.

It's childish but they're not trying to sway opinions, just troll.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (ExV1e)

169 Would you like me to tell you?"

Not really. Could care less. Bless your heart...

Posted by: man at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (JF8rL)

170 Sorry. Blew it. Back to lurking.

rb.gy/h0saft

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at August 20, 2025 10:26 AM (JCLJi)

171 "Aren’t the French the ones who are afraid of air conditioning?

Also afraid of the Italians. IIRC the fwanch have lost two small wars to Italians.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 20, 2025 10:26 AM (89Sog)

172 166 When have the French ever had a good opinion of Americans? Or anyone else for that matter?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (XvL8K)

Hmmm. They saw us as a useful tool during our revolution. Then all those people got eaten by their own peasants. That's pretty much when they turned evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:27 AM (bss/y)

173 I never thought I'd agree with Alec but here we are

Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl
Alec Baldwin says that since now President Trump has federalized the DC police, he might next do it to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

174 Have you considered a letter writing campaign? Make them sternly worded letters. I hear those are popular with the "in" crowd these days.
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 20, 2025 10:12 AM (89Sog)

Sternly worded letters are so 2023. Now we're all about massive, and totally organic, protests featuring either illegals or the five retired people we paid to be there. -- The in crowd.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:29 AM (ExV1e)

175 So the Democrats' Banzai Cliff on Epstein Island?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 20, 2025 10:29 AM (3630A)

176 When have the French ever had a good opinion of Americans? Or anyone else for that matter?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 10:25 AM (XvL8K)

the Marquis de Lafayette came over and helped old General George and the French seem to have taken a fancy to Lousiana in the 19c. And there are French people in the Northwestern provinces who still appreciate what U.S. troops did for them in 1944-45.

and then of course, the love for Jerry Lewis.

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:29 AM (dCxaZ)

177 >>It's childish but they're not trying to sway opinions, just troll.

Maybe their time would be better spent reading the letter Ed Martin sent Letitia James.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:29 AM (viF8m)

178 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:29 AM (jc0TO)

179 10 years ago the GDP of the EU was 90% of the US. Now it's 65%.
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One of my favorite stats:
The average slave in the antebellum United States consumed more daily calories than a third of those living in Europe.

Which also explains why so many of them were so desperate to get to the US, even if it was the quasi-slavery of indentured servitude.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 10:30 AM (zHKd4)

180 I do feel bad for the French who really do respect the Exceptional America I know. But they are so few that they will be lumped in with the rest.

Unfortunately our American hating Left hates us as much as France does.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:30 AM (EYmYM)

181 Don Black has a good opinion of the French because the girls in France don't wear any underpants.

Posted by: Linking The Threads at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (G5+As)

182 10 years ago the GDP of the EU was 90% of the US. Now it's 65%.

That is fascinating. Huh. Did ours increase that much or did theirs decrease? Combination?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

183 Hey, we're not in jail. Tee hee.

Posted by: Comey, Brennan, Clapper and Strzok at August 20, 2025 10:32 AM (XQo4F)

184 Don Black has a good opinion of the French because the girls in France don't wear any underpants.
Posted by: Linking The Threads at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (G5+As)

Yeah but they don't have cheerleaders. They have Glumleaders.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 10:32 AM (PXq2s)

185
I do feel bad for the French who really do respect the Exceptional America I know.

__________

I'm sure there are more than quite a few with whom you can have a drinkie and a nice chat. But all you hear are the hydrophobic America haters.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:32 AM (kkTda)

186 Bad boys bad boys, whachya gonna do, whachya gonna do when they come for you?

https://is.gd/54B3XQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

187 181 How about the French cheerleaders?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

188 So Alec 'Itchy trigger finger' Baldwin wants Trump to go full Lincoln?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (3630A)

189 182 10 years ago the GDP of the EU was 90% of the US. Now it's 65%.

That is fascinating. Huh. Did ours increase that much or did theirs decrease? Combination?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

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Ours grew faster than theirs. A lot of things go into it, probably the largest over the past ten years being the Syrian influx into Europe which didn't lead to an explosion of economic activity, for some reason.

But...GDP is borderline nonsense and doesn't actually tell you much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

190
Did ours increase that much or did theirs decrease? Combination?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

_______

Ours increased, theirs, at best, stagnated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (kkTda)

191 And there are French people in the Northwestern provinces who still appreciate what U.S. troops did for them in 1944-45.

Posted by: kallisto

________

True, but they're just some lowly provincials. The Parisians probably hate them almost as much as us.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (XvL8K)

192 French couldn't squash the Algerians and have been importing them ever since.

Posted by: Al Jeers at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (G5+As)

193 190 Ours increased, theirs, at best, stagnated.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (kkTda)

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We're the best of a bad bunch. There's a lot more ruin to be had in bringing down America to European levels.

Thankfully, it seems like that pattern has broken for the moment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

194 And smelly... Don't forget smelly
Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)

My brother, Thing Two, was stationed in Germany. My aunt R and I went over to visit for a month. We took a day trip tour to Paris. Lovely place. Went to the Eiffel Tower. In an elevator that takes one up to the second level, I stood, crammed in with at least two dozen stinky frenchies, with my face buried against my aunt's neck. She was wearing a wonderful perfume, thank God! It was the only way I could get thru that elevator ride without barfing. Those people are gross!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (2J/Lj)

195 181 Don Black has a good opinion of the French because the girls in France don't wear any underpants.
Posted by: Linking The Threads at August 20, 2025 10:31 AM (G5+As)

https://tinyurl.com/3y3bbjrf

Sidebar: this one has the caption of French Girl, but then why is she wearing a T-shirt in english?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (bss/y)

196 If the French currently hate the USA, there's only one person to blame.

*looking at you, CBD*

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

197 *How about the French cheerleaders?*

We're being heavily recruited by the NFL.

Posted by: Along with Dylan Mulvaney at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (XQo4F)

198 France. Home to the world’s greatest painters, chefs.. and anti-Semites.

The French. Cowardly, yet opinionated. Arrogant, yet foul-smelling. Anti-Israel, Anti-American, and, of course, as always, Jew-hating.

Paris. The city of whores. Dog feces on every corner. And effite men yelling anti-Semantic remarks at children. The real creme de la creme of world culture.

With all that’s going on in the world, isn’t it about time we got back to hating the French?

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (jc0TO)

199 France brags about its infant mortality rate compared to the US but what they don’t tell you is they don’t count premature births that die before x number of weeks. ( I forget the exact number) .

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (EYmYM)

200 What's the name of that poofter from Variety who does the red carpet interviews? You know, " is this the gayest Star Wars evah??"

He ask that same faggy question about every film. What a tool.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (JkO4W)

201 I wonder what effect CBD’s presence in France has had on French opinions of Americans?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

202 I like French stuff

fries
bread
toast

but it's my understanding French women don't shave their armpits, so, blech

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)

203 I remember a while back Dad and I were talking about how we needed more power plants. I actually think this was during 2008 election. I think I mentioned to him I liked McCain's idea of building 100 new nuclear power plants. We got to talking about power and infrastructure (Yes, Dad and I are a hit at parties) and I asked how you store power and he mentioned using essentially a giant water battery with a high reservoir and a low one. I had just never seen one until this video.

https://tinyurl.com/5xerkh4x
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Georgia Power has one of these for decades now at Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric plant. Finished in 1995.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (ctrM5)

204 True, but they're just some lowly provincials. The Parisians probably hate them almost as much as us.

omg the Parisians hate each other, you can't use them as a benchmark!

but in general it is true, I suspect the urbanites hate the populations of Normandy and Bretagne due to their extreme Catholicism as well

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:36 AM (dCxaZ)

205 One of the Dead's best studio albums.
Posted by: JackStraw

The best. Although I would accept Workingman's Dead.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 20, 2025 10:36 AM (/MW9e)

206 Lovely painting!
Would hang, probably in the bedroom so it's one of the first things seen each morning.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:36 AM (GbwPZ)

207 isn’t it about time we got back to hating the French?

Did we stop?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

208 Labeau on Hogan's Heroes was the last good Frenchman.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (zHKd4)

209
Don Black has a good opinion of the French because the girls in France don't wear any underpants.
Posted by: Linking The Threads

________

The Hoochie-Coochie Song that led to those later lyrics was written for the 1893 Chicago Exhibition by Sol Bloom, later a congressman from New York and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (kkTda)

210 On this date - Aug 20, 1619…

Johan de Witt, former Grand Pensionary (Prime Minister) of Holland and his brother are lynched by an angry mob who ate their body parts, including their roasted livers. As Prime Minister of Holland, he had neglected the Dutch army causing the Dutch Republic to be easily invaded by an alliance of countries that included England and France. He and his brother were blamed for the defeats and were lynched in The Hague, where their bodies were cannibalized by the mob.

The lesson: protect your nation’s borders, or else.

Posted by: weew at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (geWO5)

211 196 If the French currently hate the USA, there's only one person to blame.

*looking at you, CBD*
Posted by: kallisto
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He came to France to liberate; not as a tyrant.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)

212 148 ... My dad and I loved the show Adventures in Paradise. I've got a copy of Michener's Tales of the South Pacific which was the basis for the tv show. I should read it some time.

Posted by: JTB at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (yTvNw)

213 204 omg the Parisians hate each other, you can't use them as a benchmark!

but in general it is true, I suspect the urbanites hate the populations of Normandy and Bretagne due to their extreme Catholicism as well
Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:36 AM (dCxaZ)

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It should be remembered that the first attempted modern genocide happened between Frenchmen.

The French Revolutionary government, led by Robesspierre, tried to wipe out the people living in the Vendee in Western France.

The people of the Vendee still hold a grudge over this, for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

214 This triggers me.

Posted by: The Lemming at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (lz3Kg)

215 Which arrondissements burned last night?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

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Don't know, but I just love saying arrondissement.

*adjusts tiny beret*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (JkO4W)

216 If the French currently hate the USA, there's only one person to blame.

*looking at you, CBD*
Posted by: kallisto
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He came to France to liberate; not as a tyrant.
Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)

I see you've never met CBD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

217 193 190 Ours increased, theirs, at best, stagnated.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:33 AM (kkTda)

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Massive increases in government spending really juice those GDP numbers.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (2ap+5)

218 215 Don't know, but I just love saying arrondissement.

*adjusts tiny beret*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (JkO4W)

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Italian > French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

219 Lebeau? Come on, Juliet Binoche is still alive.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

220 I think my old French whore is dead.

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (jc0TO)

221 I just painted the Eiffel Tower. It was the one in Vegas but still……

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (EYmYM)

222 Interesting colors but I can't say I love it. Too Impressionistic for me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (xcxpd)

223 People don't just want dinner; they want an adventure!

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
Trump claims his militarized takeover of DC has made people feel safer to go out to restaurants, but in fact restaurants in DC have seen the number of diners plummet more than 25% since he sent feds into the street.

-
It's not really dinner unless you're taking your life in your hands.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

224 Is Catalan easy to learn? Thinking about a move to Andorra.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 20, 2025 10:40 AM (2ap+5)

225 223 People don't just want dinner; they want an adventure!

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
Trump claims his militarized takeover of DC has made people feel safer to go out to restaurants, but in fact restaurants in DC have seen the number of diners plummet more than 25% since he sent feds into the street.

-
It's not really dinner unless you're taking your life in your hands.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

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This comparison is apparently just nonsense.

It's the difference in the calendar between restaurant week in DC last year and this year. They're on different weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

226 Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
Trump claims his militarized takeover of DC has made people feel safer to go out to restaurants, but in fact restaurants in DC have seen the number of diners plummet more than 25% since he sent feds into the street.

Why don't I believe that...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 10:40 AM (VE6XX)

227 Peter Baker@peterbakernyt

You pulled that number out of your ass Peter.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:40 AM (EYmYM)

228 >>With his ship run aground
Singing, "I love you, body and shoal!"

Not sensible, not atoll!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:40 AM (GbwPZ)

229 224 Move to Andorra? Not worth it.
— Maurice

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

230 Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
Trump claims his militarized takeover of DC has made people feel safer to go out to restaurants, but in fact restaurants in DC have seen the number of diners plummet more than 25% since he sent feds into the street.

I haven't been able to steal a car in a week. Who has money for restaurants? -- DC yoot

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

231 Labeau on Hogan's Heroes was the last good Frenchman.
------

He was a man of many skills as well. Chef, chemist, power lifter...

Posted by: Crusader at August 20, 2025 10:41 AM (TN0g+)

232 All of the French Underground girls on Hogan's Heroes were hot.

Posted by: Tight Skirt, Striped Sweater, Festive Hat at August 20, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

233 >Why don't I believe that...

Posted by: It's me donna
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it's the 'nyt' at the end of his twitter nic

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 10:42 AM (AOsQT)

234 Peter Baker has been getting pummeled on X for weeks over his hot takes on how safe and clean DC was prior to Trump sending in the troops.

He's the equivalent of one of our idiotic trolls. Point at him and laugh.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:42 AM (viF8m)

235 Most of the French Resistance in WW2 were commies.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:42 AM (EYmYM)

236 >>Trump claims his militarized takeover of DC has made people feel safer to go out to restaurants, but in fact restaurants in DC have seen the number of diners plummet more than 25% since he sent feds into the street.

People who promote forever wars and forever government aid programs is upset Trump didn't fix things in DC in under 2 weeks.

OK, dumdum!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:42 AM (GbwPZ)

237 232 So were the German underground girls.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

238 216 If the French currently hate the USA, there's only one person to blame.

*looking at you, CBD*
Posted by: kallisto
========
He came to France to liberate; not as a tyrant.
Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)

I see you've never met CBD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

snort

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 20, 2025 10:43 AM (xcxpd)

239 221 I just painted the Eiffel Tower. It was the one in Vegas but still……
Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:39 AM (EYmYM)

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I hope you got permits.

Posted by: Christo at August 20, 2025 10:43 AM (JkO4W)

240 Honestly, France could use a benevolent dictator about now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:43 AM (bss/y)

241 Macron's wife takes Geritol.

Posted by: RODNEY at August 20, 2025 10:44 AM (eY0nO)

242 With all that’s going on in the world, isn’t it about time we got back to hating the French?
Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:35 AM (jc0TO)

Wait. We stopped hating the French?
I missed that memo.

Posted by: Reforger at August 20, 2025 10:44 AM (pxUkb)

243 208 Labeau on Hogan's Heroes was the last good Frenchman.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
========
Hogan's Heroes had an interesting cast with Holocaust survivors like LeBeau and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), those that fled Austria and Germany with their lives--John Banner, Werner Klemperer plus Howard Caine who was Jewish playing Major Hochstetter.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

244 Honey, wanna go out for diner?

Wife: hell no. Not while Trump is making the city safer. I only dine out if I’m in fear for my life walking to the restaurant.

This is that that Peter dude thinks DC is like right now, lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (4HxCT)

245 >>Honestly, France could use a benevolent dictator about now.

Or implementation of measures depicted in District B13!

Jk, I denounce myself!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (GbwPZ)

246 Wait. We stopped hating the French?
I missed that memo.
Posted by: Reforger at August 20, 2025 10:44 AM (pxUkb)
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Not so much "stopped hating" as "fell off the radar."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (WvZaB)

247 Dear France,

Fuck off.
Then keep fucking off.
Keep fucking off until you reach a gate with a sign that says "no fucking off beyond this point".
Then, dream the impossible dream, climb over that gate, and keep fucking off forever.

Kthx.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (dPfyF)

248 I see you've never met CBD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

snort
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Smiting is part of the liberation process.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (ctrM5)

249
He was a man of many skills as well. Chef, chemist, power lifter...
Posted by: Crusader at August 20, 2025 10:41 AM (TN0g+)

_______

Holocaust survivor. Lots of Hogan's Heroes characters, including most of the Nazis, were Jews.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (kkTda)

250 With all that’s going on in the world, isn’t it about time we got back to hating the French?
Posted by: toby928

Get back to?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 20, 2025 10:46 AM (4HxCT)

251 Werner Klemperer's uncle was married to a Gentile but he still experienced the full force of Nazi Jew hate. He was a composer who came to the U.S. and wrote a rather memoir of his experience.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (JkO4W)

252 That's pretty much when they turned evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:27 AM (bss/y)

They were dissolute before the revolution, which simply exposed the savage and insane side of French culture.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (L5An7)

253 See what I mean?

>>@PressSec

>>The New York Times “Chief White House Correspondent” Peter Baker is indistinguishable from a junior Democrat comms staffer — except he’s even worse at his job.

>>Peter was so excited to criticize President Trump that he didn’t even realize the article he shared was updated, because it dishonestly compared last year’s DC “restaurant week” data to non-restaurant week data this year.

>>The truth is restaurant reservations in DC were up 30% two days ago!

>>Democrats and their left-wing media friends hate that President Trump is finally cleaning up DC!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (viF8m)

254
Ah, I see whig beat me to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (kkTda)

255 252 That's pretty much when they turned evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2025 10:27 AM (bss/y)

They were dissolute before the revolution, which simply exposed the savage and insane side of French culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (L5An7)

======

Only held in check by the ennui.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

256 >>Honey, wanna go out for diner?

Wife: hell no. Not while Trump is making the city safer. I only dine out if I’m in fear for my life walking to the restaurant.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THIS WEEK, WITH ALL THE WORLD LEADERS IN TOWN, DC WAS SWARMED WITH EVEN MORE SECURITY, INCLUDING HELICOPTERS CIRCLING OVERHEAD (WHICH IS USUALLY NOT PERMITTED).

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (GbwPZ)

257 Too bad that the title character in Hogan’s Heroes was the most unlikable one.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

258 I just finished scraping all the drops of paint off my computer room floor.

Not art....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (jvJvP)

259 Alternate Headline: This Entire State of Rhode Island with JackStraw Sailing By.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (cRqlV)

260 Wait. We stopped hating the French?
I missed that memo.
Posted by: Reforger at August 20, 2025 10:44 AM

"It is wrong...to be French."

- Al Bundy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (dPfyF)

261 He's a park ranger and he's OK
He sleeps all night, he works all day

https://is.gd/zfFzSN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

262 So, what do you see in the place, CBD?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

263 >>Holocaust survivor. Lots of Hogan's Heroes characters, including most of the Nazis, were Jews.

Robert Cleary, who played Le Beau, spoke about surviving the Holocaust at my school. He said he was on a speaking tour because there were people who were trying to claim it never happened, which seemed ludicrous at the time.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:51 AM (GbwPZ)

264 235 Most of the French Resistance in WW2 were commies.
Posted by: polynikes

Bit of an overstatement--depended on the area but those of the Right held to DeGaulle etc. Allo Allo gets it right about the rivalry between Resistance fighters on the left and right. This comic series actually used dramatic scripts from BBC's "Secret Wars" as a launching pad for satirical comedy, like Airplane did (Zero Hour).

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

265 I generally like ole Gustave's works. Maybe it's my color sense but this one looks like a dead beaver at the water's edge with a toy boat in the distance

Posted by: javems at August 20, 2025 10:51 AM (8I4hW)

266 I say we go to where the beer flows like wine, and women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' 'bout Asssssspen!

I dunno. Lloyd, the French are assholes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 10:52 AM (WvZaB)

267 Maybe it's my color sense but this one looks like a dead beaver at the water's edge with a toy boat in the distance
Posted by: javems at August 20, 2025 10:51 AM

It's pining for the fjords.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 10:52 AM (dPfyF)

268 Too bad that the title character in Hogan’s Heroes was the most unlikable one.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

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At least it ended up giving us the topless Maria Bello scene in "Auto Focus."

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 10:52 AM (cRqlV)

269 Needs more Mecray.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:52 AM (viF8m)

270 Robert Cleary, who played Le Beau, spoke about surviving the Holocaust at my school. He said he was on a speaking tour because there were people who were trying to claim it never happened, which seemed ludicrous at the time.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Most of John Banner's family back in Austria died and Leon Askin got out of a French internment camp just in time to leave. I think he also lost family members. Werner Klemperer's father was a famous conductor and they left early in the Not See era--IIRC 1933.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:53 AM (ctrM5)

271 Target’s stock is down 7% on weak sales. They decided to abandon DEI and leftist mobs started boycotting. Which is kind of delicious given Target was one of the first corporations to full embrace woke with the tranny bathrooms and tranny baby clothes.

When you get political you will always piss off 1/2 your customers. Stay neutral and you’re good.

Maybe this lesson will start resonating for some CEOs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 20, 2025 10:53 AM (4HxCT)

272 Allo Allo is right up there with Bucket lady as some of the best BBC programing.

Posted by: Reforger at August 20, 2025 10:53 AM (pxUkb)

273 Fun fact: in every outdoor scene of Stalag 13 there is snow on the ground.
The producers of Hogan's Heroes never wanted to portray the POW camp as a pleasant place.

Posted by: The More You Know at August 20, 2025 10:54 AM (XQo4F)

274 257 Too bad that the title character in Hogan’s Heroes was the most unlikable one.
Posted by: Bulg
=========
The wages of sin are death. And in this case, the most likely murderer got away with it.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

275 >>Park Ranger FIRED after helping drag queen drape a gigantic transgender flag on Yosemite's El Capitan rock formation.

The park ranger, who identifies as trans and uses They/Them pronouns, said she is “devastated” at losing her job after organizing the trans flag protest. . .

He identifies as a woman with a bushy 70's 'stache? Srsly?!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 10:54 AM (GbwPZ)

276 Alternate Headline: This Entire State of Rhode Island with JackStraw Sailing By.
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (cRqlV)

This is false. Rhode Island is a myth.

But I can picture JackStraw hanging out on a yacht, crewed by hot babes. He's probably drinking martinis at breakfast.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (2J/Lj)

277 Maybe it is time for protest songs again.

www.youtube.com/embed/e9LJh81n_zA

Posted by: Kindltot at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (rbvCR)

278 "Feel bad about our low opinion of you. We're cultured."
-the French

"Your culture is staid and hasn't developed in centuries...."

Like the Chinese.

Yeah, yeah. You were pretty great in the past. You invented gunpowder and Kung Pao Beef, and...
...
...
...well, that's about it. Oh! Oh, yeah! Fortune cookies, those were kinda cool.

No fortune cookies though from the French...

Thanks for the Statue of Liberty...I guess.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

279 Maybe this lesson will start resonating for some CEOs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

"What did we learn?"
"DOUBLE DOWN AND GO MORE WOKE!"
CEO gets water in the face from a spray bottle. "NO! BAD MANAGER!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (+4yJ5)

280 Maybe this lesson will start resonating for some CEOs.
---------

I think once they start filling their bank accounts with CEO money they then turn to looking for the best dinner parties to attend...which leads to the bullshit they then foist on the shareholders of the companies they lead.

Posted by: Crusader at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (TN0g+)

281 *looking at you, CBD*

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

I love freaking them out by being friendly and comfortable, like Americans are!

They are polite but distant to strangers, and they simply don't know what to make of me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (L5An7)

282 Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

I don’t know if it’s an over statement if over 50% were commies. De Gaulle did save France from becoming communist after the war. It was not a certainty they wouldn’t.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (EYmYM)

283 With all that’s going on in the world, isn’t it about time we got back to hating the French?
Posted by: toby928

--

KTE likes to upvote or downvote streaming shows while she's browsing.
"This looks French" she sats.
I confirm it is.
She downvotes it.
"You hate France?"
"I do"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 20, 2025 10:56 AM (RqEcJ)

284 La Banche, Gustave Loiseau
Date: 1906
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: landscape

Would hang. While it clashes with the Wyeth knock offs and some other current art, but it's pretty. In fact, this and copies of some other paintings done by this artist might be a nice change for the little living room, etc.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

285 But I can picture JackStraw hanging out on a yacht, crewed by hot babes. He's probably drinking martinis at breakfast.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 10:55 AM (2J/Lj)

Nah. He's a rum and tonic(!) guy.

That's a lot like being a Dr Pepper and Scotch guy.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM (iJfKG)

286 Inexplicably, France has produced some of the bravest and best single handed sailors the world has ever known.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM (viF8m)

287 Honestly, I dislike Paris mostly. The less Parisian parts of France are okay, like Arkansas.

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (jc0TO)

288 272 Allo Allo is right up there with Bucket lady as some of the best BBC programing.
Posted by: Reforger
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Same writer/producers, Jeremy Lloyd and Dvaid Croft, that made "Are You Being Served" and "Dad's Army" among other BBC series.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

289 Inexplicably, France has produced some of the bravest and best single handed sailors the world has ever known.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM (viF8m)

Viking blood.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (EYmYM)

290 Cuba Libres all 'round!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (WvZaB)

291 That's a lot like being a Dr Pepper and Scotch guy.

Scotch and Dr Pepper is remarkably good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (ExV1e)

292 Inexplicably, France has produced some of the bravest and best single handed sailors the world has ever known.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM

[ Joshua Slocum has entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)

293 Vercingetorix!

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

294 Maybe this Peter Baker dumbass can compare Black Friday revenue to a random weekend in June and declare retail sales have plummeted and Trump's economy is failing for his next trick?

f'ing tard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 11:00 AM (zHKd4)

295 I just finished scraping all the drops of paint off my computer room floor.
Not art....
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 20, 2025 10:48 AM (jvJvP)

Philistine!

Posted by: Zombie Jackson Pollock at August 20, 2025 11:00 AM (rbvCR)

296 286 Inexplicably, France has produced some of the bravest and best single handed sailors the world has ever known.
Posted by: JackStraw

I installed a brass porthole in Jacques' office at the Cousteau Society in 1982.

Posted by: Local 257 UBCJA at August 20, 2025 11:00 AM (G5+As)

297 Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2025 10:57 AM (viF8m)

William Bligh is the best sailor in history IMO.

How did he do that?

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 11:00 AM (EYmYM)

298 >>Inexplicably, France has produced some of the bravest and best single handed sailors the world has ever known.

The Charlie Hebdo writers we more brave than any US journalists and comedians, such as South Park.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM (GbwPZ)

299 >>>Trump Calls on Biden-Appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Resign after Criminal Referral to DOJ for Mortgage Fraud

Are there any dems who have NOT committed mortgage fraud?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM (i24o9)

300 Scotch and Dr Pepper is remarkably good.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (ExV1e)

Can we get a wellness check here? Perhaps a straight jacket?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM (2J/Lj)

301 Never not funny.

Trump Opens Another Deportation Facility Callled The "Cornhusker Clink"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM (L/fGl)

302 NOOD monkey.

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 20, 2025 11:02 AM (CyFyf)

303 Never not funny.

Trump Opens Another Deportation Facility Callled The "Cornhusker Clink"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM (L/fGl)

I’m surprised the Left haven’t started referring to them as Stalags.

Posted by: polynikes at August 20, 2025 11:02 AM (EYmYM)

304 Cornhusker Clink >>>>> Cornhusker Kickback

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

305 Trump Opens Another Deportation Facility Callled The "Cornhusker Clink"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 11:01 AM

He Who Walks Behind the Rows is pleased.

Posted by: toby928 at August 20, 2025 11:03 AM (jc0TO)

306 I wanted to note, from our DU Dispatch this morning, how all these lefties fancy themselves as conductors on the New Underground Railroad when, in reality, they are listening posts for the New Fugitive Slave Act.

Agents who ensure the slaves are kept hidden in their low station of subsistence wages.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 20, 2025 11:04 AM (zHKd4)

307 220 I think my old French whore is dead.

are you saying there's a chance??

Posted by: kallisto at August 20, 2025 11:04 AM (dCxaZ)

308 I don’t know if it’s an over statement if over 50% were commies. De Gaulle did save France from becoming communist after the war. It was not a certainty they wouldn’t.
Posted by: polynikes
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One of the issues with any survey of such as that a lot of people claimed Resistance cred after the fact. Of course, any estimates of the actual composition of the Resistance are just estimates which the political divisions in France. From what I recall of the matters, urban cells had more Socialist/Communists in them. As you got further from Paris, it was more DeGaullist, etc. Places like Brittany and Normandy had relatively few Socialist Communists as did the northern border regions with Spain. Marseilles and the areas adjacent to Catalonia in Spain were more Socialist/Communist.

Even in France, there was a divide between the Socialists and the Communists before and during the war including Resistance cells.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

309 Cuba Libres all 'round!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 10:58 AM (WvZaB)

Every time you drink a Cuba Libre, Raul Castro gets a coppery taste in his mouth

Posted by: Kindltot at August 20, 2025 11:09 AM (rbvCR)

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