Mid-Morning Art Thread

Idler
Harry Hering

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 He's taking a dump in his friends boat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

2 Art first

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 09:30 AM (pxUkb)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

4 Don't worry, the sea levels will come back in a century or two.

Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2025 09:31 AM (T7fic)

5 I love copy and pastel

Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2025 09:31 AM (ZGxq/)

6 Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1929

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 33 × 38in. (83.8 × 96.5 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

7 He picked a shitty spot to launch his boat.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:32 AM (ufFY8)

8 He's about to become the Devil's plaything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2025 09:32 AM (7fElN)

9 Looks like he is lamenting the low waterline.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 09:32 AM (pxUkb)

10 Harry Herring.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:33 AM (ufFY8)

11
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:33 AM (kkTda)

12 This is not a good painting.

I blame Blondi!!!

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 21, 2025 09:33 AM (89Sog)

13
Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1929

________

"My stocks are doing great. Maybe I'll get a yacht."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:34 AM (kkTda)

14 Finally, a picture of the sniper himself.

He's got no one left to shoot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

15 This is not a good painting.

I blame Blondi!!!
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 21, 2025 09:33 AM (89Sog)

She needs to redeem herself by having a lingerie pillow fight with Karoline Leavitt.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (ufFY8)

16 Harry Herring as Ricky Raccoon.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (QArof)

17 "Idle hands are the devil's workshop"

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

18 He has got the boatyard blues.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (0nHVk)

19 Temu yacht rock.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (ufFY8)

20 Figures- a Hering will find a way to keep the fisherman off the water.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2025 09:35 AM (ZGxq/)

21 Is that Barnacle Bill?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (cYBz/)

22
Which of those buildings is the tavern?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (kkTda)

23 Not a huge fan of the pastels, but it is ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (bss/y)

24

Nobody around, so he'll be rubbing one out shortly...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (9j8tT)

25 Has rather a book-illustration vibe, a kids' book about fishermen on 1929 New England.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)

26 The little pink house is the tavern, but it is take out only.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (ufFY8)

27
Harry Hering >>> Hairy Herring

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (kkTda)

28 Lovely shapes and colors. I didn't know if that artist. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (2GCMq)

29 He's thinking that later on, he might go stick his finger in a dike.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (dDmld)

30 The houses are crooked -- disorienting for the viewer. (Probably not very reassuring for the inhabitants, either.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

31 "Harry Herring" can't be a real name! Probably it's Gauguin's little brother socking the name to fool customers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2025 09:38 AM (DB02x)

32 Which of those buildings is the tavern?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (kkTda)

Second building on the left.
Obviously built by drunks.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 09:38 AM (pxUkb)

33 "Of" that artist , not "if "

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 09:38 AM (2GCMq)

34 The little pink house is the tavern, but it is take out only.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (ufFY

And the jukebox only plays John Cougar Mellencamp.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

35 Wouldn't wanna be there.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

36 Dude was better with objects than with people. Coulda left the idler out and explained he was still in bed. Better picture.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (QArof)

37 Is Harry hard of hearing?

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

38 The HOA is going to have something to say about parking a boat in the front yard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (dDmld)

39
Has rather a book-illustration vibe, a kids' book about fishermen on 1929 New England.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)

__________

"They drank, fought and wenched every night and later drowned in a storm. The End."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (kkTda)

40 And the jukebox only plays John Cougar Mellencamp.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

No wonder that dude looks suicidal.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:39 AM (ufFY8)

41 Resting his dinghy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (wVcYX)

42 32 Which of those buildings is the tavern?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:36 AM (kkTda)

Second building on the left.
Obviously built by drunks.
Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 09:38 AM (pxUkb)

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Ask for Brandy. She's a fine girl.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (dDmld)

43 Has rather a book-illustration vibe, a kids' book about fishermen on 1929 New England.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025

__________
"They drank, fought and wenched every night and later drowned in a storm. The End."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025

***
Ah! Modern Young Adult fiction!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

44 Rustic fishing village charm spliced with individual loneliness.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (ctrM5)

45 Boring.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (2cQUE)

46 Hell, I could paint better than this!

Posted by: Adolf Hitler at August 21, 2025 09:40 AM (QArof)

47 Idler? I just met her!

Posted by: Let's get this one out of the way at August 21, 2025 09:41 AM (XQo4F)

48 Are the clothes hanging on the line really clean?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

49
In the Ottoman Empire one day
The potentate got sick, so they say
He waited in seated position
To see the royal physician
He was sittin' by the doc of the Bey.

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

50 Ah! Modern Young Adult fiction!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Nope, gotta make it gay and lame plus put a chick in it for that.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:41 AM (ctrM5)

51 This boring painting is killing the thread, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:42 AM (ufFY8)

52 Too bad he forgot and left his phone at home.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

53 He's thinking that if he sells the dory he could maybe get a jet ski.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:43 AM (dDmld)

54 The peach colored house is about to fall over.
I hope there are no hurricanes coming.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

55 Why is there a boat with its sails up for no apparent reason?

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2025 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

56 The more I look at it, the more boring-er it gets.

There’s nothing interesting about this piece.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 09:44 AM (mT+6a)

57 Only 92 more payments and this boat will be all mine!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 09:44 AM (wVcYX)

58 Whenever the Idler took a bow his wife gave him a stern talking to.

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)

59 A theme may be emerging for this week's Art.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

60
There’s nothing interesting about this piece.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 09:44 AM (mT+6a)

________

Just outside the frame: the invasion armada

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (kkTda)

61 The boat at full sail is desperately trying to leave the painting.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (ufFY8)

62 52 Too bad he forgot and left his phone at home.
Posted by: Bulg

He's pining for the F150s.

Posted by: FoMoCo at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (XQo4F)

63 Idler's thought bubble:

"Sure hope the creeks don't rise. Sure hope the creeks don't rise..."

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

64 Dude realized the old proverb is right; a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.

He's behind in his payments.

Sad.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

65 Idler is waiting for the levee to break.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:46 AM (ufFY8)

66 No one expects the Spanish Armada.

Posted by: Look out at August 21, 2025 09:46 AM (XQo4F)

67 Mrs. Paul's ne'er-do-well youngest son.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

68 He was considering taking the boat to the village for his annual haircut, but after giving it some more thought, he rode his 10-speed instead.

It was the day he finally had to admit, that his barque was worse than his bike.

*rimshot*

I'll be here all week.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:47 AM (dDmld)

69 ronco pocket fisherman.

Posted by: cmeat at August 21, 2025 09:47 AM (LgQ89)

70 Despite the colors it does look like a pretty dreary place to live. Could almost be a fishing town in Lousy-ana --except The Idler seems to be dressed in heavier work clothing, as if the weather is not viciously hot.

Or maybe it is hot, and he's taking a break to avoid heat stroke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)

71 No one expects the Spanish Armada.
Posted by: Look out at August 21, 2025 09:46 AM (XQo4F)

And Admiral Nelson shows up in the Seaview and flying sub.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:47 AM (ufFY8)

72 Slacker.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

73 Captain not so Courageous.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (ctrM5)

74 Why is there a boat with its sails up for no apparent reason?
Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2025 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

It's a euphemism.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)

75
Idler = Polite wokespeak for Welfare Recipient

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

76 This painting makes no sense. Why is that large sailboat aground there with no hull support? How did it get there? More importantly, how will it get back, with no launching equipment visible? Even more importantly, why are its sails deployed, just fapping in the breeze?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

77 So Hering caught the fisherman before the fisherman caught hering.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

78 58 Whenever the Idler took a bow his wife gave him a stern talking to.
Posted by: muldoon

Any sport in the dorm.

Posted by: Oh, no. Nautical punz at August 21, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)

79 68 He was considering taking the boat to the village for his annual haircut, but after giving it some more thought, he rode his 10-speed instead.

It was the day he finally had to admit, that his barque was worse than his bike.

*rimshot*

I'll be here all week.
Posted by: Cicero
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I had a visceral reaction to that pun right in the gut.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:49 AM (ctrM5)

80 why are its sails deployed, just fapping in the breeze?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

You just answered your question.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 21, 2025 09:49 AM (ufFY8)

81 and the jukebox only plays johnny cougar menstrualcramp.

Posted by: cmeat at August 21, 2025 09:50 AM (LgQ89)

82 Is this displayed between his other works: Idle, and Idlest?

Posted by: red speck at August 21, 2025 09:50 AM (0Id0S)

83 59 A theme may be emerging for this week's Art.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

Naval disasters?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 09:50 AM (bss/y)

84 76 This painting makes no sense. Why is that large sailboat aground there with no hull support? How did it get there? More importantly, how will it get back, with no launching equipment visible? Even more importantly, why are its sails deployed, just fapping in the breeze?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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They were hanging the sails out to dry with the rest of the laundry.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:50 AM (ctrM5)

85 It's the last day of the month. Tomorrow his EBT card refills.

Posted by: Then he can buy Skittles and Mountain Dew at August 21, 2025 09:51 AM (XQo4F)

86 As for the sailor, have you people no empathy?

He's lamenting, deeply, leaving Brandy, whom he'll now never see again.

Their meeting, while brief, was a love story for the ages.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)

87 USS New Orleans is burning just offshore.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:51 AM (ufFY8)

88 85 It's the last day of the month. Tomorrow his EBT card refills.
Posted by: Then he can buy Skittles and Mountain Dew at August 21, 2025 09:51 AM (XQo4F)

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He didn't do his 15 hours of community service, so he's getting nothing. He's, instead, planning the perfect tweet to take down the entire edifice of the American welfare system that demands he do something for money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

89 59 A theme may be emerging for this week's Art.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

Naval disasters?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 09:50 AM (bss/y)

Tara Reid?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

90 Does nobody in that village own a square or level?

Posted by: red speck at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (0Id0S)

91 Alternate title:

"Morris Ponders Why His Attempt to Sail On Land From Tulsa to Flagstaff, Arizona Failed"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

92 Not sure if the houses look like they are about to fall over as a result of decent artistic rendering of shoddy construction or shoddy artistic rendering of decent construction.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (ZGxq/)

93 His brother's name is Tension.

Their last name's Pulley.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

94 Does nobody in that village own a square or level?
Posted by: red speck at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (0Id0S)

That bastard on the boat gave it to some whore named Brandy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (ExV1e)

95 This is probably a French town.

I can almost smell it.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (ufFY8)

96 Alternate title:

"Morris Ponders Why His Attempt to Sail On Land From Tulsa to Flagstaff, Arizona Failed"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

Alternate title:

Waiting for 100 comments.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (i24o9)

97 As for the sailor, have you people no empathy?

He's lamenting, deeply, leaving Brandy, whom he'll now never see again.

Their meeting, while brief, was a love story for the ages.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:51 AM

Well, she was a fine girl...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

98 Waiting for 100 comments.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (i24o9)

Comments aren't going too slow this morning.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM (ExV1e)

99 This painter certainly liked boats and the ocean and does a nice job with them. I haven't read up enough on him to know if these are scenes from America or Europe

Here's one of a church spire in a landscape. It's fuzzy but I like it, probably because I I like church steeples:

https://tinyurl.com/mrx6vxx7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM (2GCMq)

100
A frontier physician named Bach
Had a bay horse of excellent stock
Doc loaned it one day
To a fellow named Grey
Who's now sitting on the bay of the doc

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

101 Someone needs to push that dude into the water.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

102 91 Alternate title:

"Morris Ponders Why His Attempt to Sail On Land From Tulsa to Flagstaff, Arizona Failed"

Posted by: naturalfake

Subtitle
"By now he expected to be standing on a corner in Winslow."

Posted by: Girl in a flatbed Ford at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

103 86 As for the sailor, have you people no empathy?

He's lamenting, deeply, leaving Brandy, whom he'll now never see again.

Their meeting, while brief, was a love story for the ages.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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He just found out from other sailors that Brandy was not such a fine girl and would not be such a good wife. Plus the public health department just notified him that he was exposed to a sexually transmitted disease from her.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (ctrM5)

104 Would hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (/U5Yz)

105 This statement is false

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (6YGnp)

106 Fox bidness had the Cracker Barrel logo change story.

Ha.

Stupid.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 09:56 AM (ufFY8)

107 Would hang.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (/U5Yz)

Convict first, then hang. What did he do?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:56 AM (ExV1e)

108
Waiting for 100 comments.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (i24o9)

________

Look, I'm doing my best. When are the rest of you sluggards and - dare I say it? - idlers going to lend a hand?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:56 AM (kkTda)

109 "Morris Ponders Why His Attempt to Sail On Land From Tulsa to Flagstaff, Arizona Failed"

**********

Prevailing westerly winds. Duh.

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

110 The sail on the sailboat is spread out to dry.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (WvZaB)

111 Well, she was a fine girl...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

Yes she was.

Posted by: The Men of the town whose love, life and lady were NOT the sea at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (bss/y)

112 Waiting for 100 comments.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 09:53 AM (i24o9)

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Look, I'm doing my best. When are the rest of you sluggards and - dare I say it? - idlers going to lend a hand?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:56 AM (kkTda)

Amusing that this response came in at 108.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

113 Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

It's the Bay of Fundy, with 30 foot tides. That sailboat will be floating in a few hours.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (L5An7)

114
Needs some topless Mannix babes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (kkTda)

115 106 Fox bidness had the Cracker Barrel logo change story.

Ha.

Stupid.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
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I suspect the franchisees are not amused. Woke AWFL girl boss decides to fire her customers and acquire new better ones is not a recipe for franchisee success.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (ctrM5)

116 Does nobody in that village own a square or level?
Posted by: red speck at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM (0Id0S)

It's square it to the land, level it on the boat. Right?

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (pxUkb)

117 106 Fox bidness had the Cracker Barrel logo change story.

the young'uns understand (kinda, they mostly rip off) design

but they don't understand brand

because they don't think

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

118 "Morris Ponders Why His Attempt to Sail On Land From Tulsa to Flagstaff, Arizona Failed"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM

Morris: "HordeSourceGPT, why did my attempt fail?"

HordeSourceGPT: "Because you and your boat were dumped by the side of the road when the girl driving the flat-bed Ford got tired of your flatulence, and decided to go to Winslow instead of Flagstaff."

Posted by: HordeSource (tm) at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)

119 It's the Bay of Fundy, with 30 foot tides. That sailboat will be floating in a few hours.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Didn't know that the houses surrounding the boat are actually house boats too.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (ctrM5)

120 The art...
Title checks out!
He looks sad and lonely.
The colors are nice but a bit.... lackluster.

I like it but wouldn't hang it in my house.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (2J/Lj)

121 I haven't read up enough on him to know if these are scenes from America or Europe

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The hat says Dutch

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)

122 Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 09:54 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

123 I suspect the franchisees are not amused. Woke AWFL girl boss decides to fire her customers and acquire new better ones is not a recipe for franchisee success.

they've already started implementing a new menu and new decor (very Millie-Minimal) at the restaurants so the franchises should know where things were headed already.

the logo is kind of the least of the brand-destruction tbh

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

124 Does nobody in that village own a square or level?
Posted by: red speck at August 21, 2025 09:52 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Plumb line at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)

125 What celestial virtues did Brandy hold that lent herself to satisfactory matrimonial qualification in the first place? I sense a recursive, tautological or circular argument here, not evidence based.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (6YGnp)

126 Long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while

Posted by: Don McLean Hering at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (9WsSh)

127 Didn't know that the houses surrounding the boat are actually house boats too.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (ctrM5)

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The local mold remediation service can barely keep up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (dDmld)

128 > I suspect the franchisees are not amused. Woke AWFL girl boss decides to fire her customers and acquire new better ones is not a recipe for franchisee success.
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This, too, is the story of Bud Light.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (Q4IgG)

129
I suspect the franchisees are not amused.

________

That's right, they're franchises. Oooweee, if'n I was one I would be pissed. You are not going to attract flies with the new theme.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:00 AM (kkTda)

130 I suspect the franchisees are not amused. Woke AWFL girl boss decides to fire her customers and acquire new better ones is not a recipe for franchisee success.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 09:57 AM (ctrM5)

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Another girlboss executive in the Kathleen Kennedy mold.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:01 AM (dDmld)

131 The hat says Dutch
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)
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Sheriff Bart's grandmother was involved?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:01 AM (WvZaB)

132 131 The hat says Dutch
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)
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Sheriff Bart's grandmother was involved?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:01 AM (WvZaB)

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Wait...the sheriff is a near?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

133 What celestial virtues did Brandy hold that lent herself to satisfactory matrimonial qualification in the first place? I sense a recursive, tautological or circular argument here, not evidence based.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (6YGnp)

She provided a private demonstration involving a small, white, dimpled spheroid being moved through a length of flexible irrigation tubing via application of vacuum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:02 AM (ExV1e)

134 So the artist's last name is "Hering," and the only fish pun so far is my lame attempt at 77?

This is going to be reflected in somebody's annual review.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

135 Woke AWFL girl boss decides to fire her customers

Almost makes you want to vote against all women when sending in your stock proxy votes.

My policy has always been to vote against the executive compensation, and any douchebag with an initial as a first name (e.g. D. Ian Galt). Also, I vote against any Chinese, and anyone who has multiple board positions.

I may include women as a general rule. Unfair, but stupid shit needs to stop.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 10:02 AM (ufFY8)

136 Re: cracker barrel

Finally looked up the new logo. It's not bad. They are trying to do a rural purge is my guess- because that makes no sense to the CEO, man.

It could have been worse. It could be two gay dudes resting by the barrel with one bent over it. THAT would have been worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (bss/y)

137 Posted by: Don McLean Hering at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM

*hurls empty vodka bottle at Don*

Posted by: Pickled Hering at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (kgE5c)

138 136 Re: cracker barrel

Finally looked up the new logo. It's not bad. They are trying to do a rural purge is my guess- because that makes no sense to the CEO, man.

It could have been worse. It could be two gay dudes resting by the barrel with one bent over it. THAT would have been worse.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (bss/y)

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The new logo looks like contemporary corporate groupthink. Designed to be inoffensive and unmemorable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

139 What celestial virtues did Brandy hold that lent herself to satisfactory matrimonial qualification in the first place? I sense a recursive, tautological or circular argument here, not evidence based.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (6YGnp)

She provided a private demonstration involving a small, white, dimpled spheroid being moved through a length of flexible irrigation tubing via application of vacuum.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:02 AM (ExV1e)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE...WELL, IF YOU DON'T GET IT THEN I CAN'T HELP YOU.

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (PzXaK)

140 117 106 Fox bidness had the Cracker Barrel logo change story.

the young'uns understand (kinda, they mostly rip off) design

but they don't understand brand

because they don't think
Posted by: Black Orchid
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Stronk Slay Qween Cracker Barrel CEO is in her forties. She understands only how to destroy a existing brand while putting pablum in its place.

They also are pulling all Christian music, etc. from the stores and trying to get liquor licenses to sell beer etc.

My guess is that institutional investors are driving this idiocy via the board of directors. Can't allow the yokels to have their places. Same reason that an Obama judge refuses to let the Trump administration excuse a religious order of nuns from paying for contraceptive coverage for its nuns and employees. (Little Sister of the Poor).

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (ctrM5)

141 139 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE...WELL, IF YOU DON'T GET IT THEN I CAN'T HELP YOU.
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (PzXaK)

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Hey...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

142 Brandy was the one with the biggest rack.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (ufFY8)

143 IF YOU DON'T GET IT THEN I CAN'T HELP YOU.
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at August 21, 2025 10:04 AM (PzXaK)

I'm married.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:05 AM (ExV1e)

144 105 This statement is false
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 09:55 AM (6YGnp)

So I've noticed.

Posted by: Polygraph at August 21, 2025 10:05 AM (ZGxq/)

145 OT- Prayer request. One of the people
who comes to the church I serve and whose first initial is V is having a Zoom interview starting now. As with quite a few people here and elsewhere she has been out of work for over a year. It's hard for people over 40 and particularly over 50. A number of posters on this site have been looking for work. Please keep them all in prayer if you're a praying person. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:05 AM (2GCMq)

146
This is a jumble of disparate elements
I don't understand the blue parts at lower right
I see no method at all
no hang

Posted by: Don Black. at August 21, 2025 10:05 AM (AOsQT)

147 The original Cracker Barrel logo had the image of the founder.... old white dude. That, the girlboss cannot abide.

The chain will be nearly bankrupt by the end of the year and fold in 2026.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (Q4IgG)

148
My old company name a girlboss as CEO. She had a "strategic review" and purged as many older employees, including me, as they could find. The stock, which had been at 131, is now at 44.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (kkTda)

149 I think we whites should start denouncing the name "Cracker Barrell" as rayciss.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

150 It's amusing that for all we bitch about the 100 comment rule, we're almost 50 past and haven't gone off topic yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

151 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This is one of three paintings. The other two are Egoler and Super Egoler.
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (2WIwB)

152 Bucolic breezes and watercolor wishes.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (bMlVe)

153 145 OT- Prayer request. One of the people
who comes to the church I serve and whose first initial is V is having a Zoom interview starting now. As with quite a few people here and elsewhere she has been out of work for over a year. It's hard for people over 40 and particularly over 50. A number of posters on this site have been looking for work. Please keep them all in prayer if you're a praying person. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Done. May she find a job that suits her and her needs.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (ctrM5)

154 Over 70,000 Cambodian monks have broken their vows of silence to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The move by the monks comes after President Trump brokered a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand.

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)

155 150 It's amusing that for all we bitch about the 100 comment rule, we're almost 50 past and haven't gone off topic yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

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There's no Cracker Barrel in that painting, is there?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (dDmld)

156 My old company name a girlboss as CEO. She had a "strategic review" and purged as many older employees, including me, as they could find. The stock, which had been at 131, is now at 44.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:06 AM (kkTda)

Ageism is definitely a thing now. My company is doing the same thing and watching productivity drop as a result.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (PzXaK)

157 The new logo looks like contemporary corporate groupthink. Designed to be inoffensive and unmemorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah. Better to be completely forgettable than be offensive to the wrong people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (bss/y)

158 145 Thank you, Fen.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

159 So the artist's last name is "Hering," and the only fish pun so far is my lame attempt at 77?

This is going to be reflected in somebody's annual review.
Posted by: Bulg

*********

Style Guide calls for fish puns only on cheese or forest threads.

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)

160 154 Over 70,000 Cambodian monks have broken their vows of silence to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The move by the monks comes after President Trump brokered a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand.
Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)

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"Because Trump did this for the accolades instead of an innate desire for peace, the ICC should actually arrest Trump for crimes against humanity. A conservative point of view."
-National Review's next cover story

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

161 Hmmm, what would be a kick ass cracker barrel logo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (bss/y)

162 Dude in pic is sad his dick don't work

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (iFTx/)

163 Ageism is definitely a thing now. My company is doing the same thing and watching productivity drop as a result.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (PzXaK)

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By the time they realize it was the old boring white guys who kept everything humming, it's too late.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (dDmld)

164 Trump can even force monks to break their vows.
Wow.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (ufFY8)

165 The next move for Cracker Barrel will be renaming it to "Dverse People of Color and Gender Who Denounce Those Stupid Crackers Barrel."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (PzXaK)

166 You should see my logo!

Posted by: Karl's Kountry Kitchen at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)

167 161 Hmmm, what would be a kick ass cracker barrel logo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (bss/y)

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Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

168 We all know that there is only one Barrel that matters, anyway.

Hi, Mr. Barrel! Hope you are well today!

(Hoping the Barrel eats me last.)

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

169 Lamenting the lack of gafilte fish sticks.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (pxUkb)

170 Trump Calls on Fed Governor to Resign over Alleged Mortgage Fraud

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Back in olden days, my father was a barber. One of his clients, a preacher, paid him with a rubber check. My father confronted him about it and said a man of God should not do that. He said when you go to the garage to get your car fixed, you don’t judge him by his morals but by how well he fixes your car. Same rule applies to preachers. And, I guess, to fed governors.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

171 woke end zone.
boy cheerleaders.

Posted by: cmeat at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (LgQ89)

172 Idler
Harry Hering

Like it; it's very Americana ART. (No, not the S. Sweeney movie of 2023!)

Would consider hanging in the rotational art room (den).
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Art Rooms Gallery:
Harry Hering was a self-taught artist who lived and worked along the east coast. Throughout his life he exhibited at Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, International, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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I was not familiar with this artist but I see his paintings don't necessarily sell for a fortune. From same site as noted above:

HARRY HERING: (NYC 1887-1967) “Summertime Central Park” Oil On Masonite Gold Framed Signed, Dimensions: 24.75" x 29.75"; 33.5" x 38.5" Framed some nicks.
Signed: Lower right
Medium : Oil on masonite
CONDITION: Very Good. Minor nicks on the frame
$1,500.

Thanks, CBD,

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (NFX2v)

173 Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)
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In the manner of Goya?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (WvZaB)

174 >Over 70,000 Cambodian monks have broken their vows of silence to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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maybe they did it in writing

Posted by: Don Black. Message: have some toast at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (AOsQT)

175 170 Trump Calls on Fed Governor to Resign over Alleged Mortgage Fraud

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Back in olden days, my father was a barber. One of his clients, a preacher, paid him with a rubber check. My father confronted him about it and said a man of God should not do that. He said when you go to the garage to get your car fixed, you don’t judge him by his morals but by how well he fixes your car. Same rule applies to preachers. And, I guess, to fed governors.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

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The great irony of this is a fed governor cheating the system to get a better interest rate when mortgage interest rates are intimately tied to 10 year fed interest rates.

She could have gotten the better interest rates along with everyone else by voting to cut rates in her official position.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

176 173 Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)
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In the manner of Goya?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (WvZaB)

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A Hispanic minority?! Of course!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

177 I really like this work!
Love the subject matter, the style, the execution.

Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (QVbQw)

178 Same rule applies to preachers

No, the preacher needed a punch in the face.
Smarmy bastard.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (ufFY8)

179 By the time they realize it was the old boring white guys who kept everything humming, it's too late.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (dDmld)

Fuck. No one mentioned this. -- Stockton Rush

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (ExV1e)

180 Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ

No need for thanks. You're a dear fellow and my wish and prayer for everyone one here is to have a job ( if they're not happily retired) they enjoy and meets their needs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (2GCMq)

181 So what's the plan? Turn the Cracker Barrel into a Honky tonk?

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

182 148
My old company name a girlboss as CEO. She had a "strategic review" and purged as many older employees, including me, as they could find. The stock, which had been at 131, is now at 44.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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While the stock market as a whole has been soaring. Promotion from within for CEOs had its problems but far less than the modern investor model promoted by business schools of 'unlocking' stock value.

The new model is strip mine your customers for any bit of spare change while iteratively diminishing what the customer gets in return and as a consequence fire all the experienced employees due to expense (and that they might actually resist putting the company's products quality in the toilet). Then go bankrupt or try to be acquired by a healthy firm in order to infect them.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)

183 Looks peaceful, but he should be sitting on a dock or something a little more elevated.

Posted by: Otis Redding at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

184 The new logo looks like contemporary corporate groupthink. Designed to be inoffensive and unmemorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah. Better to be completely forgettable than be offensive to the wrong people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (bss/y)
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Company is in a lot of trouble. Revising a logo and refreshing stores won't help. It's got a major customer problem: its core customers are mostly older fuddy-duddies who don't mind the old-fashioned decor and the lack of booze. But that's a declining market. The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

IIRC, they also pissed off their older base by sucking gay pride tranny girldick.

So fuck em'. Bankruptcy inside of 5 years.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (iFTx/)

185 So what's the plan? Turn the Cracker Barrel into a Honky tonk?
Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

Gay bar.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (PzXaK)

186 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 10:10 AM (NFX2v)

Thanks for the info, L.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (2GCMq)

187 the logo is kind of the least of the brand-destruction tbh
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 09:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

Hubbymayhem was reading a critique of the new decor which said, "it looks like cracker barrel had a bastard child with Chip and Joanna Gaines.".

Its being referred to as vintage farmhouse style. Hubbymayhem and I had lunch at the one in Bloomington last week. The new decor is bland and boring. I liked all of the stuff on the walls that made it look like an old country store. But at the same time... I had a habit of muttering, " glad I don't have to clean the dust off of all this junk". I do miss the giant sport though. It was a square shovel looking implement that had the "spork" style teeth. I always wondered what it was used for. Even Pappymayhem, the farmer, didn't know. He speculated it might have some use in cranberry production.
Just wait... The big boss Karen will order the removal of anything vaguely Christian in the little shop, too. I've got money on that.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 21, 2025 10:14 AM (2J/Lj)

188 Schooner Idler

https://tinyurl.com/yc3t399n

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 10:14 AM (viF8m)

189 Top Eric Adams adviser caught handing reporter a bag of chips stuffed with cash

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Cheatos?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:14 AM (L/fGl)

190 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (2GCMq)

Fen, you are a dear lady. Thank you so much for your prayers.

Right now, my focus is on addressing my health issues more than finding a job, since I don't want those issues getting in the way if/when I do find work again. So I am addressing those.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

191 Over 70,000 Cambodian monks have broken their vows of silence to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Remember when we had President Biden and we were respected throughout the world? -- DU commenters

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:15 AM (ExV1e)

192 Two vulgar boatmen would be more balanced and maybe give this guy something to do.

Posted by: What A Lazy Bum! at August 21, 2025 10:15 AM (G5+As)

193 184 Company is in a lot of trouble. Revising a logo and refreshing stores won't help. It's got a major customer problem: its core customers are mostly older fuddy-duddies who don't mind the old-fashioned decor and the lack of booze. But that's a declining market. The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

IIRC, they also pissed off their older base by sucking gay pride tranny girldick.

So fuck em'. Bankruptcy inside of 5 years.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, I suspected it wasn't in good shape beforehand. It's one of those, "go broke, go woke," things like Victoria's Secret.

So, they bring in an outsider with new ideas. Sure, the new ideas suck, but they're new. That's all that matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

194 Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (PzXaK)

The longer you stay at a company, the more you earn and the higher the cost to employer in benefits. They focus on that one financial piece without considering the big picture.

Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (QVbQw)

195 Ageism is definitely a thing now. My company is doing the same thing and watching productivity drop as a result.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:07 AM (PzXaK)

I recently experienced the opposite. Despite being nearly 60, I was hired by my current company, and they are keeping me busy and giving me opportunities to learn a lot of new software platforms for land surveying. It's very gratifying, but unusual, given the tendency to lay off the old folks.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (PSEDc)

196 By the time they realize it was the old boring white guys who kept everything humming, it's too late.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:08 AM (dDmld)

Fuck. No one mentioned this. -- Stockton Rush
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:11 AM (ExV1e)
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If you watch the NF documentary on the sub disaster, they blame it all on this clown, and insinuate that he fired everyone who raised warning flags about the project. It's possible that was true. But I suspect it was a group effort. They all wanted the money and the glory and were willing to look the other way on red flags.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (iFTx/)

197 Looks peaceful, but he should be sitting on a dock or something a little more elevated.
Posted by: Otis Redding

I've got an ottoman he can use when I'm done with it. He might wanna wipe down with some Clorox first, though.
-- You know who

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

198
The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

_________

Eventually the younger generation becomes the old fuddy-duddies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:17 AM (kkTda)

199 As long as they have gingham tablecloths they shoulld do okay.

Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 10:18 AM (/iMjX)

200 If you watch the NF documentary on the sub disaster, they blame it all on this clown, and insinuate that he fired everyone who raised warning flags about the project. It's possible that was true. But I suspect it was a group effort. They all wanted the money and the glory and were willing to look the other way on red flags.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (iFTx/)

Nonsexual Rule 1: Any disaster is the dead guy's fault.

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

201 Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

I am glad you are addressing that and a number of us here have been praying.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:18 AM (2GCMq)

202 according to insty, MO is now joining the redistricting fun (to add to the R side)

heh

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (Pv3Rg)

203 What Is the Democrat Alternative to Trump?

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Satan. Sumbitch knows how to party!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

204 Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (PSEDc)

That's cool, good for you. I sometimes wish now that I had at least looked into becoming a surveyor. Since I'm such a geography nut, I think it's one of the few STEM fields I might have been any good at.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

205 This is an worse likeness of Michelle Obama than her official portrait.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (ztQOq)

206 Company is in a lot of trouble. Revising a logo and refreshing stores won't help. It's got a major customer problem: its core customers are mostly older fuddy-duddies who don't mind the old-fashioned decor and the lack of booze. But that's a declining market. The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

IIRC, they also pissed off their older base by sucking gay pride tranny girldick.

So fuck em'. Bankruptcy inside of 5 years.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (iFTx/)
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Should of done a cross promotion to get a younger demographic and renamed it Uncle Kracker.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 10:20 AM (G0vdT)

207 Miss us yet?

Posted by: Fifty year old white guys at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

208 If anyone is familiar with the Beef Baron in Bethlehem PA.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (VoAdT)

209
Nonsexual Rule 1: Any disaster is the dead guy's fault.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:18 AM (ExV1e)

__________

Sexual Rule 1: Any disaster is the live guy's fault.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (kkTda)

210 202 according to insty, MO is now joining the redistricting fun (to add to the R side)

heh
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Officially, they've started the process, but word has been percolating for a few weeks that they would do it.

OH has to do it before the next election because their existing map is temporary. FL should join in in January. IN may join in as well.

There are eleven other red states who could join in as well.

CA and NY would have to completely eliminate all Republican seats just to keep up, and that's quite literally impossible.

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

211 This is an worse likeness of Michelle Obama than her official portrait.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:19 AM (ztQOq)

I've heard of Any Port In A Storm, but there are limits, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (VoAdT)

212 For the guy who wants more and better fish puns, I can't really help with the latter request , but please stop carping on the small stuff. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (2GCMq)

213 If you watch the NF documentary on the sub disaster, they blame it all on this clown, and insinuate that he fired everyone who raised warning flags about the project. It's possible that was true. But I suspect it was a group effort. They all wanted the money and the glory and were willing to look the other way on red flags.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (iFTx/)

Nonsexual Rule 1: Any disaster is the dead guy's fault.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 10:18 AM (ExV1e)
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Oh, that's true, but in this case I think they woulda blamed him even if he was still alive. He's a cartoon villain and megalomaniac.

Ironically, he really did believe in the project. So much so that he went down in his sloppy bag of shit sub.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (iFTx/)

214
Miss us yet?
Posted by: Fifty year old white guys at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

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Nope. Once you're out that door, it's like you never existed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (kkTda)

215 OH has to do it before the next election because their existing map is temporary. FL should join in in January. IN may join in as well.

yeah Gov DeSantis announced that this morning (for FLA)

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (Pv3Rg)

216 If anyone is familiar with the Beef Baron in Bethlehem PA.....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (VoAdT)
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Haven't been to Bethlehem. Been to Ephrata, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:23 AM (WvZaB)

217 My dad once told me pastors or preachers were some of the worst, when it came to business and getting payment.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 10:23 AM (6YGnp)

218 215 OH has to do it before the next election because their existing map is temporary. FL should join in in January. IN may join in as well.

yeah Gov DeSantis announced that this morning (for FLA)
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Newsom's legacy is going to be Republicans deciding to join in a fight that would have gotten no national attention without him.

His legacy is going to be Republicans keeping the House in 2026.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

219 My dad once told me pastors or preachers were some of the worst, when it came to business and getting payment.
Posted by: Common Tater

The Methodist minister in my hometown used to cheat at golf, according to my brother.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

220 About the only thing I've had at a Cracker Barrel was breakfast. It was better than most joints that do breakfast like Shoney's, Denny's and even Bob Evans when they didn't suck.

I stopped in a Bob Evans last year for breakfast. I swear to God the entire meal (eggs, sausage, hashbrowns) except for the toast was out of a box, frozen, and microwaved before being served.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 10:24 AM (Q4IgG)

221 So what's the plan? Turn the Cracker Barrel into a Honky tonk?
Posted by: muldoon at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

Gay bar.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (PzXaK)

The Blue Barrel?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (wVcYX)

222 Company is in a lot of trouble. Revising a logo and refreshing stores won't help. It's got a major customer problem: its core customers are mostly older fuddy-duddies who don't mind the old-fashioned decor and the lack of booze. But that's a declining market. The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

IIRC, they also pissed off their older base by sucking gay pride tranny girldick.

So fuck em'. Bankruptcy inside of 5 years.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:13 AM (iFTx/)
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Should of done a cross promotion to get a younger demographic and renamed it Uncle Kracker.
Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 10:20 AM (G0vdT)
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Very hard to get all the demos interested in the same thing. I worked at a CB-ish chain restaurant as my first job. They had a good thing going: during the day, it was mostly older people; at night during the week, mostly younger families; on weekend nights, mostly younger couples out on dates. The restaurant appealed to all demos, but not at the same time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (iFTx/)

223 McDonald's still has the best breakfasts.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

224 CA and NY would have to completely eliminate all Republican seats just to keep up, and that's quite literally impossible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
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Try it, and see a big revival of the State of Jefferson movement.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (WvZaB)

225 Venezuela Prepares for Imaginary U.S. Invasion with Karaoke

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Let the Bodies Hit the Floor?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

226 Maybe Cracker Barrel should have renamed to just "Cracker." Think of the logo and branding!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:26 AM (iFTx/)

227 McDonald's still has the best breakfasts.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

Agree. Great road trip sammiches, and the coffee is pretty decent.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 21, 2025 10:27 AM (PSEDc)

228 224 Try it, and see a big revival of the State of Jefferson movement.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (WvZaB)

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The proposed map in the CA legislature is surprisingly soft. It might get them 5 more seats. Might.

Turns out asking a +40 House member to go to +15 is a hard conversation to have.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

229 Frankly, Major, there are certain sections of Karaoke that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

230 I recently experienced the opposite. Despite being nearly 60, I was hired by my current company, and they are keeping me busy and giving me opportunities to learn a lot of new software platforms for land surveying. It's very gratifying, but unusual, given the tendency to lay off the old folks.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 21, 2025 10:16 AM (PSEDc)

I think a lot of companies have realized their mistakes in firing their older talent. I've had three promotions since I started in February. Went from temp hire to swing shift maintnence supervisor which pretty much made me the #1 guy at night as my ...*giggles.. longevity has me over the floor supervisor and each new one of those, 4 since I started the position, come to me for everything.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 10:28 AM (pxUkb)

231 Cracker Barrel was the only place I could find Chow Chow in NOVA. Now, Food Lion carries it so Imma okay. Once they stopped serving country ham I had no reason to visit. Same deal with Waffle House.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:28 AM (W3T6M)

232 Again, if I could have painted it, it's not good art.
Crude, very few straight lines. Some nice colors. But not even at the Bob Ross level.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:29 AM (xcxpd)

233
The problem with restaurant chains is that someone with vision and hard work builds it up, at which point it's bought by some Yum! Brands conglomerate, which brings in the MBAs and ruins it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:29 AM (kkTda)

234 Cracker Barrel was the only place I could find Chow Chow in NOVA. Now, Food Lion carries it so Imma okay. Once they stopped serving country ham I had no reason to visit. Same deal with Waffle House.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:28 AM (W3T6M)

But with Waffle House you often get a free floor show.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:29 AM (wVcYX)

235 Try it, and see a big revival of the State of Jefferson movement.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:25 AM (WvZaB)

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The proposed map in the CA legislature is surprisingly soft. It might get them 5 more seats. Might.

Turns out asking a +40 House member to go to +15 is a hard conversation to have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)
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Assuming the proposed CA map actually gets implemented -- doubtful -- it won't do dick. How do I know? Very simple: if CA could have gerrymandered more Democrap seats, it already would have. The idea that these loathsome cocksuckers were being nicey-nice by allowing some GOP seats to remain GOP is insane.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

236 But with Waffle House you often get a free floor show.
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Yeah, I can avoid that shit too.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (W3T6M)

237 Haven't been to Bethlehem. Been to Ephrata, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 10:23 AM (WvZaB)

Nothing to do with "woke", but it was an old school joint with wood everywhere, crappy stools, cheap beer, and amazing food. Iconic place. Then one day they gutted it, made it look like any other plain old restaurant, removed everything that have it any kind of identity, and (horror of horrors) remodeled the kitchen with all new equipment and actually installed normal lighting. Food became bland. Atmosphere was gone. Everyone stopped going. Their effort to "attract a new audience" completely failed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (VoAdT)

238 The problem with restaurant chains is that someone with vision and hard work builds it up, at which point it's bought by some Yum! Brands conglomerate, which brings in the MBAs and ruins it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:29 AM (kkTda)

Nothing personal, it's just business.

Posted by: Ray Kroc at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (wVcYX)

239 I've never thought of Cracker Barrel as anything other than "Eh, I guess that'll do" if I'm hauling ass down the interstate on a road trip and find myself hungry and actually wanting to sit in a restaurant to eat rather than hit a drive-thru and keep on trucking.

It's not a place you should make a habit of going to if you have one close to home.

Posted by: ballistic at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (5aZAZ)

240 Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

Wtf? lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

241 235 Assuming the proposed CA map actually gets implemented -- doubtful -- it won't do dick. How do I know? Very simple: if CA could have gerrymandered more Democrap seats, it already would have. The idea that these loathsome cocksuckers were being nicey-nice by allowing some GOP seats to remain GOP is insane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

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But independent commission! Independent commission!!!!

But yeah, they already had to steal 3 seats to get where they are. Any thinner, and things get interesting.

Especially with Harmeet Dhillon interested in voter rolls and election procedures.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

242 Damn white people always screwing everything up!

Formerly known as Rhodesia, Zimbabwe heavily persecuted its white minority under former leader Robert Mugabe, although his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has made some steps towards compensating white farmers after their dispossession and mass exodus caused an agricultural and economic collapse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

243 Cracker Barrel was the only place I could find Chow Chow in NOVA. Now, Food Lion carries it so Imma okay. Once they stopped serving country ham I had no reason to visit. Same deal with Waffle House.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:28 AM (W3T6M)

But with Waffle House you often get a free floor show.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:29 AM (wVcYX)
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[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- Carnival Cruise

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (iFTx/)

244 240 Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

Wtf? lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

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This is a safe space for ideas. We're not saying anyone's got a bad idea right now, but TJM...fuck you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

245 democrats...wasting time and money.

Posted by: The Idler at August 21, 2025 10:32 AM (BhGsO)

246 Low Tide of High Heeled Bouys

Maybe we should work on that song title.

Posted by: Traffic at August 21, 2025 10:32 AM (VLLSK)

247 239 I've never thought of Cracker Barrel as anything other than "Eh, I guess that'll do" if I'm hauling ass down the interstate on a road trip and find myself hungry and actually wanting to sit in a restaurant to eat rather than hit a drive-thru and keep on trucking.

It's not a place you should make a habit of going to if you have one close to home.
Posted by: ballistic at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (5aZAZ)

Which I feel the same way about that, Logans and Texas Roadhouse. Kind of all the same place to my mind.

Although, iirc the country fried steak at logans was not bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:32 AM (bss/y)

248 219 My dad once told me pastors or preachers were some of the worst, when it came to business and getting payment.
Posted by: Common Tater

The Methodist minister in my hometown used to cheat at golf, according to my brother.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

yeah, they're just people. My Lutheran Minster uncle cheated on my aunt and abandoned her. I should have seen it coming, he voted Democrat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:32 AM (xcxpd)

249 Bunch of white dudes in a barrel, struggling to get out, while a giant black man munches on one with blood running down his cheek?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

Wtf? lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)
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"Copycat"

-- Francisco Goya

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:33 AM (iFTx/)

250 The idea that these loathsome cocksuckers were being nicey-nice by allowing some GOP seats to remain GOP is insane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

This.
It's already gerrymandered to the max and the dems still have to cheat to win.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (pxUkb)

251 When we would drive back and forth on I-95 to my inlaws' in Virginia Beach, I always considered the very tall Cracker-Barrel sign outside of Fredericksburg as marking the border of Northern Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

252 yeah, they're just people. My Lutheran Minster uncle cheated on my aunt and abandoned her. I should have seen it coming, he voted Democrat.
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Those Lutherans will surprise you.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (W3T6M)

253 Re: Cracker Barrel

Used to be my parents favorite place to eat. They're both country folk and farmers and they liked the near-home cooking and the country vibe. It was pro-Christian too at one point.

The food quality got worse though, nowadays, I'd rather go to Waffle House.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (xcxpd)

254 252 yeah, they're just people. My Lutheran Minster uncle cheated on my aunt and abandoned her. I should have seen it coming, he voted Democrat.
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Those Lutherans will surprise you.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (W3T6M)

No doubt. Especially the ones from Minnesota.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (xcxpd)

255 Cracker Barrel should just be called The Barrel, aimed at people who can't cut and paste text or use HTML tags properly.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (PzXaK)

256 Cracker Barrel is getting destroyed in the market, so even Wall Street isn't impressed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (L5An7)

257 250 The idea that these loathsome cocksuckers were being nicey-nice by allowing some GOP seats to remain GOP is insane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

This.
It's already gerrymandered to the max and the dems still have to cheat to win.
Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (pxUkb)

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"That's just wrong. The map was drawn by an independent commission who is free from political concerns. The CA map is just the most independent and just congressional map in America except for Massachusetts and Illinois. Democrats just don't fight for political power, and Newsom is finally showing us that we can fight!"
-DU, 99.9999% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

258
Our favorite places to eat are the ones with a limited number of locations. They're big enough not to be prey to one chef or owner but not standardized into mediocrity or worse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (kkTda)

259 Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

Despite my sins and shortcomings I have never cheated at golf , mostly because the only golf I play is -and very, very rarely -miniature golf and it was fun but so long ago I wouldn't even know to cheat if I were t play it now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (2GCMq)

260 251 When we would drive back and forth on I-95 to my inlaws' in Virginia Beach, I always considered the very tall Cracker-Barrel sign outside of Fredericksburg as marking the border of Northern Virginia.
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Fredericksburg is full of Refugees. I wanted to move there when I worked at Quantico. Nice downtown and your kid can wander around and have fun.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (W3T6M)

261 Cracker Barrel should just be called The Barrel, aimed at people who can't cut and paste text or use HTML tags properly.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (PzXaK)

and leave their blinker on

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (wVcYX)

262 I feel like any church leader type position is a lot like being a cop. It's going to attract either the biggest scumbag or the greatest hero. Not a lot of in between. The nature of the position is going to filter out most of the middle on day one, and then drive you one way or the other over time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 10:37 AM (VoAdT)

263 Despite my sins and shortcomings I have never cheated at golf , mostly because the only golf I play is -and very, very rarely -miniature golf and it was fun but so long ago I wouldn't even know to cheat if I were t play it now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (2GCMq)

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Haven't played in years, but I was always great at the windmill.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:37 AM (dDmld)

264 The way I cheat at golf is to just not keep score.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (PzXaK)

265 But with Waffle House you often get a free floor show.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Extremely Extreme No Holds Barred Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

266 Those Lutherans will surprise you.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (W3T6M)

No doubt. Especially the ones from Minnesota.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM

Shredded carrots in jello salad are just a small step away from carrots in chili.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (0sNs1)

267 Is that a crutch? Is he a cripple?

Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (dmH0a)

268 Cracker Barrel should just be called The Barrel, aimed at people who can't cut and paste text or use HTML tags properly.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (PzXaK)

Head Cook: Lamont the Big Dummy

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

269 I hate that stupid refresh hijacker.

Okay, Viagra slut, ENOUGH

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (dDmld)

270 264 The way I cheat at golf is to just not keep score.
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You should apply to be a DC Cop.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (W3T6M)

271 I think it's a great family game and have fond memories of playing it when son was little , but I wasn't very good at miniature golf.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 10:39 AM (2GCMq)

272 If you put a ship in the barn how will you lose a car in it?

Posted by: DaveA at August 21, 2025 10:40 AM (FhXTo)

273 If the number of balls I find where my Tee shots normally land is any indication, lots of people cheat at golf.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 10:40 AM (pxUkb)

274 Remember when Dairy Queen served dairy products?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:40 AM (W3T6M)

275 Remember when Dairy Queen served dairy products?
Posted by: pudinhead

We have a Milwaukee Frozen Custard near us. Great place to go, back when I could still eat ice cream.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

276 Fredericksburg is full of Refugees. I wanted to move there when I worked at Quantico. Nice downtown and your kid can wander around and have fun.
Posted by: pudinhead

And you've got a battleground right in the city!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

277 No business at the border anymore.

Posted by: Retirmentcountdownclockat40days at August 21, 2025 10:45 AM (Hvc12)

278
I was playing golf one fine afternoon. One of our foursome had had a bad few holes and cane up to the next tee fuming. He tees up and gets set when I quietly say, "You're in front of the markers."

He looks, sees I'm right and in a fury resets his ball and takes his shot. Bam! Right in the lake. I felt like I'd been on vacation for three weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:45 AM (kkTda)

279 Although, iirc the country fried steak at logans was not bad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It gave me the runs.

Posted by: Sandman Logan 5 at August 21, 2025 10:46 AM (JCZqz)

280 And you've got a battleground right in the city!
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Yep. My 6th Birthday was spent there.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:46 AM (W3T6M)

281 would hang

every time i walk past i can lie to myself i am not that lazy

Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2025 10:46 AM (aBgBM)

282 Those Lutherans will surprise you.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:34 AM (W3T6M)

No doubt. Especially the ones from Minnesota.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM

Shredded carrots in jello salad are just a small step away from carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2025 10:38 AM (0sNs1)

It's a slippery slope.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:47 AM (wVcYX)

283 NY Appeals court just threw out the Trump fraud penalty!

Several links on bing page using the above phrase.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 21, 2025 10:47 AM (89Sog)

284 Yep. My 6th Birthday was spent there.
Posted by: pudinhead

Burnside got the sucker punch of all sucker punches.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

285 284 Yep. My 6th Birthday was spent there.
Posted by: pudinhead

Burnside got the sucker punch of all sucker punches.
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There is an episode where Lee's advisors were suggesting setting pickets to protect their left flank. Lee said, 'its Burnside, he will come down the middle.' And guess what? He came down the middle.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:49 AM (W3T6M)

286 Oh,another pretty one -- love the colors!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2025 10:51 AM (GbwPZ)

287 239 I've never thought of Cracker Barrel as anything other than "Eh, I guess that'll do" if I'm hauling ass down the interstate on a road trip and find myself hungry and actually wanting to sit in a restaurant to eat rather than hit a drive-thru and keep on trucking.

It's not a place you should make a habit of going to if you have one close to home.

Posted by: ballistic at August 21, 2025 10:30 AM (5aZAZ)

Yep. While traveling I feel safer in a Cracker Barrel than a in towns I roll thru on the Interstate. Or how many vehicles per hour are carjacked in the parking lot at the town's Denny's.

Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2025 10:51 AM (aBgBM)

288 There is an episode where Lee's advisors were suggesting setting pickets to protect their left flank. Lee said, 'its Burnside, he will come down the middle.' And guess what? He came down the middle.
Posted by: pudinhead

It's fascinating how so many Civil-War generals were intimately acquainted with each other from the old army, and could accurately predict their opponents' behavior.

Only seemed to really work in the South's favor, though.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

289 Company is in a lot of trouble. Revising a logo and refreshing stores won't help. It's got a major customer problem: its core customers are mostly older fuddy-duddies who don't mind the old-fashioned decor and the lack of booze. But that's a declining market. The younger generations just ain't feeling the vibe.

IIRC, they also pissed off their older base by sucking gay pride tranny girldick.

So fuck em'. Bankruptcy inside of 5 years.
Posted by: Elric
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Yeah, I suspected it wasn't in good shape beforehand. It's one of those, "go broke, go woke," things like Victoria's Secret.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Went over financials. Nope, they are not in Victoria Secret shape (which in part is from a big decrease in mall traffic and aging population). EPS is 2.58 P/E is about 19 or so. Still paying dividends.

But, their CEO (2023) is from YUM (Taco Bell), other miscreant executives are from Dead Lobster, and various other external places. Turns out that they have now eliminated all franchises with all stores now owned by corporate.

Major issue is increased costs (inflation) and a decline in stock price from 2015-2021 heyday around 150-160 to the current 40-50 range.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 10:52 AM (ctrM5)

290 Reminds me of Chuck Berry's 'Hey, Pedro!' ... "'Ey, Pedro / The bucket / got a hole in it, no ... " — yeah, good times ... almost the equal of his 'Havana Moon' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at August 21, 2025 10:52 AM (ayRl+)

291 "Bonne soiree! Welcome to Le Barrel, sir!"
"Uh, this is the Cracker Barrel, right?
"Oh, very droll, sir. Very droll. Cracker Barrel. Quite so. Yes, sir. Right this way, if you please. Have a seat. Very droll."
"Thank you. Now-"
"Could I tempt you with our special hors d'oeuvre of the day? Sautéed dried Cambodian fairy shrimp with a Gherkin Reduction and Rhubarb Foam served over Buckwheat Couscous? It is delightful!"
"What?...no...thanks. Two of your Chicken Fried Steak Platters, please. With two Sweet Teas. My wife and I are big fans of the CFS, here."
"Yes...sir. Here at Le Barrel, we present a rainbow of diverse flavors certain to please both you and your life partner, sir.
We, of course, sir, serve the traditional Southern Chicken Fried Steak Deconstructed consisting of the finest A5 Japanese Wagyu pounded wafer-thin and flash-seared over binchōtan charcoal served with a peri-peri chili sauce and showered with lilac blossoms."
"Ah...well...I, uh...dang it! I left my wallet in the car. C'mon, honey, let's go it..."
...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

292 Only seemed to really work in the South's favor, though.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:54 AM (W3T6M)

293 The food quality got worse though, nowadays, I'd rather go to Waffle House.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Plus Waffle House has the late night fights as entertainment.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

294
Ambrose Burnside, the Pride of Rhode Island.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:54 AM (kkTda)

295 294
Ambrose Burnside, the Pride of Rhode Island.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:54 AM (kkTda)

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So, it's a theoretical pride.

Because Rhode Island does not exist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

296 186. Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You're welcome!

As usual, found this AM's sweet stories and political discussions on the Tech thread interesting. (Now I'm looking up the JB Society. I remember it being such a topic of debate many,many years ago but never really knew why.)

Thanks

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 10:56 AM (NFX2v)

297 Ambrose Burnside, the Pride of Rhode Island.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:54 AM (kkTda)

You know, something that is really overdue for a comeback are big ass fuck off sideburns.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:56 AM (PzXaK)

298 294
Ambrose Burnside, the Pride of Rhode Island.
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What's interesting about RI is they have produced two General Flynn's and they are both of Portuguese descent. What are the odds?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:56 AM (W3T6M)

299 You know, something that is really overdue for a comeback are big ass fuck off sideburns.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

The Emperor Franz Josef look.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

300
Lee also did it at Chancellorsville. He knew Hooker wouldn't attack, so he sent Jackson around to hit the Union flank.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (kkTda)

301 Cracker Barrel should just be called The Barrel, aimed at people who can't cut and paste text or use HTML tags properly.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 10:35 AM (PzXaK)

and leave their blinker on
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 10:36 AM (wVcYX)

So, the Special Hell

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (FoIOl)

302 You know, something that is really overdue for a comeback are big ass fuck off sideburns.
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Conway Twitty wants to have a word with you.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (W3T6M)

303 Breaking NY appellate division throws out verdict in civil fraud case against Trump
Calls it excessive. More to come

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (ugJf8)

304 Last meal at Dead Lobster was not very good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (ZGH9E)

305 Who you gonna believe?

Eric Swalwell@ericswalwell
It’s been 10 days since Trump militarized DC. Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it.

Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
MUST WATCH: "DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN CRIME" in D.C.
"For the first time in a long time, D.C. has gone 7 days without a homicide — and that's not all... Carjackings are down 83%. Robberies are down 46%. Car thefts, down 21% — and overall violent crime is down 22%"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

306 Actually, I hear that the food in our Barrell is actually pretty good. Vending machines, of course, but high-end ones.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

307 306 Actually, I hear that the food in our Barrell is actually pretty good. Vending machines, of course, but high-end ones.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

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"You're not supposed to eat the used panties."
-Japanese businessman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

308 306 Actually, I hear that the food in our Barrell is actually pretty good. Vending machines, of course, but high-end ones.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

Are those the machines that sell Bath by Sydney Sweeney?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 11:00 AM (PzXaK)

309 "You're not supposed to eat the used panties."
-Japanese businessman
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How about the Sydney Sweeny bathwater? Can I drink that?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

310 Who you gonna believe?

Eric Swalwell@ericswalwell
It’s been 10 days since Trump militarized DC. Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it.

Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
MUST WATCH: "DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN CRIME" in D.C.
"For the first time in a long time, D.C. has gone 7 days without a homicide — and that's not all... Carjackings are down 83%. Robberies are down 46%. Car thefts, down 21% — and overall violent crime is down 22%"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fir

Sure eric! More law enforcement presence always brings an increase in crime, doesn't it?? What a doofus. Do you think he's just that dumb or has he sold his soul and has no will left to not embarrass himself?

Posted by: LASue at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (lCppi)

311 You know, something that is really overdue for a comeback are big ass fuck off sideburns.
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Conway Twitty wants to have a word with you.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:57 AM (W3T6M)

C. Thomas Howell as Lt. Thomas Chamberlain, 20th Maine, brother of Col. Chamberlain. Ridiculous sideburns and all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

312 Your North Carolina beach house this morning

https://tinyurl.com/3dnjusbv

Posted by: Don Black. Message: have some toast at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (AOsQT)

313 "You're not supposed to eat the used panties."
-Japanese businessman
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How about the Sydney Sweeny bathwater? Can I drink that?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

If you eat the panties and drink the bathwater,

that's called a "Bottom's Up" at your classier truck stops.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (iJfKG)

314 U nas yest' NOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

315 How about the Sydney Sweeny bathwater? Can I drink that?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
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Napoleon's brother Jerome, when King of Westphalia, supposedly bathed in wine, then had it bottled and sold.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 11:03 AM (WvZaB)

316 @ 217 My dad once told me pastors or preachers were some of the worst, when it came to business and getting payment.
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Two of my worst customers were 'preachers' - a 'Rev' Proffitt (yeah, it's prolly a con, too). He drove a black Caddy with all-gold trimwork and red-rimmed Vogue tyres. Then there was the one with a last name that rhymes with 'Braggart' who loved him some bein' walked on by a stripper wearing 6-inch spike heels. But yeah - they're 'honest'. Both were dead-beats ...

Posted by: Dr_No at August 21, 2025 11:05 AM (ayRl+)

317 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 10:56 AM (NFX2v)

You're most welcome. I learned some things about the John Birch Society from the site I didn't know and of course if you look at practically anything else on the internet it's all left wing screeching about it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (2GCMq)

318 You know what else sounds like Idler

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (PTRhX)

319 Ms. Sweeney, since she's not a regular Commenter, and therefore not bound by the no-math rule, will calculate ((Commenter age / 2.0) + 7) * tan(45 degrees), and rule most of you disqualified.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 21, 2025 11:09 AM (0sNs1)

320 And here's the life of St John Vianney a preacher and priest who wasn't a crook:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6cpckm

I have no desire to have a prostitute walk on me with six inch heels or any other kind of heels. I don't like high heels myself.and don't want anyone to walk on me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (2GCMq)

321 But I expect like every other profession, there are crooks and not very nice in all fields and some that are not.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2025 11:18 AM (2GCMq)

322 Like Van Gogh, without the insanity or the talent.

Posted by: Riddle at August 21, 2025 11:20 AM (T0JXm)

323 And you've got a battleground right in the city!
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Yep. My 6th Birthday was spent there.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 10:46 AM

You are older than I thought.

Posted by: toby928 at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (jc0TO)

324
Oh, that's true, but in this case I think they woulda blamed him even if he was still alive. He's a cartoon villain and megalomaniac.

Ironically, he really did believe in the project. So much so that he went down in his sloppy bag of shit sub.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 10:22 AM (iFTx/)

Also he went out of his way to deliberately bypass regulations. Those "subs" wouldn't have been approved for use in US waters. He also bitched and moaned about regulations holding him back. Carbon fiber hull for an underwater pressure vessel, FFS. That sub should have been retired several dives before but no, he had to cut costs/corners to increase revenue.

I know conservatives love to bag on over regulation and that is a problem, but many regulations are necessary and many of those are written in blood. In many cases it's a Chesterton's fence situation when you encounter a regulation that you don't like and decide to bypass it. At your own (and sometimes others') peril.

Posted by: Farquad at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (NtFTC)

325 When the Shark comes they that certain music in the air

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 21, 2025 06:32 PM (wGqjj)

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