Mid-Morning Art Thread

When One Lives on Memories
József Rippl-Rónai

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 09:30 AM (E+OH8)

2 A
R
T

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:30 AM (L9gr5)

4 No art, no dog.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 09:31 AM (E+OH8)

5 When One Lives on Memories
1904
Oil on cardboard, 70 x 104 cm
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

6 I feel this painting deep in my soul.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:32 AM (L9gr5)

7 Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 25, 2025 09:32 AM (bss/y)

8 I, for one, will not deride this painting for it's primitive technique.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

9 Thanks for the memories!

Posted by: Bob Hope at August 25, 2025 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

10 Kinda depressing. Would not hang.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

11 We all live on memories. Happy and sad.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

12
Memories,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

13 Beautiful Thanks CBD

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

14 Memories
Light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

15 Tips for falling asleep in a chair:
1) Be old.
2) Sit in a chair.

Posted by: Follow me for more advice at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

16 She's listening to the radio. Dean Martin is singing "Memories Are Made of This.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

17 This kinda gives me the sadz.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (u4Nk5)

18 Not sure why, but this one hits particularly hard today.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (ySpAZ)

19 Tips for falling asleep in a chair:
1) Be old.
2) Sit in a chair.

Posted by: Follow me for more advice at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

I love this.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (SfhV1)

20 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

21 I cannot remember my Dad's voice but in dreams I hear it so clearly.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

22 She's pining for the F150s.

Posted by: FoMoCo at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (XQo4F)

23 Kinda sad. Yet memories can be helpful too.

Posted by: Case at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (iwlvf)

24 My mom used to sit in the same chair she used when my dad was alive. She didn't ever sit in his.

Sad.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

25 If I were going to live on memories, I'd ditch the mirror.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (aURVT)

26 It does elicit some emotion and internal story telling but not something I would hang or dwell on if I was viewing it in a museum.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:35 AM (EYmYM)

27 She's a time traveler. That's how she's listening to the radio in 1904.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

28 Outside, the VII Armor Korps is rumbling down the street.

Tanks for the memories!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

29 20 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

It is in the Budapest Museum. So maybe Hungarian.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

30 The kids don't call or visit anymore.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

31 12
Memories,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

Beat me to it.
Isn't it:
Light the corners of my mind
?

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (aURVT)

32 Dementia.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)

33 Hugh Hefner lived on mammaries.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

34
A dog would cheer her up. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (kkTda)

35 Beat me to it.
Isn't it:
Light the corners of my mind
?
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM (aURVT)

I c and peed it from a lyrics site.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

36 >>A dog would cheer her up

Indeed!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (GbwPZ)

37 Looks like a lot of family photos in the house.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (EYmYM)

38 She's watching wrestling.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (c711F)

39 That's my song!

Memories...

Posted by: Barbara Streisand at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (sKqQm)

40 20 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

A hyphenated last name.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM (aURVT)

41 20 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?

+++

It's our latest flavor. Come in and give it a try!

Posted by: Baskin Robbins at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM (XQo4F)

42 Good with all of it except the woman's face. Just an outline. Needs to be more realistic.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM (6qf1m)

43
Ripple >> Rippl

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM (kkTda)

44 Poignant.

That will be me in the next few years.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM (bOS38)

45 Remember the TV show were the old lady is bricking in the old man and telling him this is best for both of us...

And then the doorbell rings and he gets up to go answer the door.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

46 Ripple >> Rippl
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:39 AM

You're damned right!

Posted by: Fred Sanford at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (ySpAZ)

47 The place looks neat and she doesn't appear to be a hoarder-that's a plus!

Posted by: Home Shopping Network Addict at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

48 33 Hugh Hefner lived on mammaries.
Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 09:37 AM

Boob thread alert!!

Posted by: The person who likes boob threads at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (XQo4F)

49 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?

Heir to the Ripple wine wine fortune.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (EYmYM)

50 20 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?

Rippl-Rónai
The Budapestian Treat

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

51 The title helps. Bright and cheerful in the foreground; depressed and closed-in in the room with elderly woman. A sad, poignant reality.

Posted by: red speck at August 25, 2025 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

52 GrandMother has a blue screen.

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 09:41 AM (LHPAg)

53 She needs some grandchildren to visit, stat!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 09:41 AM (GbwPZ)

54 Poignant.

That will be me in the next few years.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm already there.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 09:41 AM (L9gr5)

55
A Light Flickering in the Window - a limerick

An elderly woman named Kate
Said living on mem'ries can be great
But life is fading fast
So why live in the past
When you've got Wheel of Fortune at eight

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

56 She's watching wrestling.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (c711F)

Big fan of Gorilla Monsoon. She joined his fan club.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 25, 2025 09:42 AM (wVcYX)

57 *Rippl-Rónai
The Budapestian Treat*

Golfclap.

Posted by: The person who gets that reference at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)

58 Her feet are placed on some kinda weird wooden plank.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM (aURVT)

59 Always be moving. Once you stop for any length of time you’ll start to rust like the tin man.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM (EYmYM)

60 A place we all come to eventually.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM (n4GiU)

61 Oil on cardboard seems appropriate.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 09:44 AM (n4GiU)

62 Good morning

I liked this til I read the title. Then it made me sad.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (t/2Uw)

63 The lettering amid the table legs doesn't look like József Rippl-Rónai.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (aURVT)

64 Her feet are placed on some kinda weird wooden plank.
Posted by: m
_______

It's a commode chair. Early squatty potty.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (XvL8K)

65 The damage from pickleball injuries kept mounting until Myrtle was confined to sitting in her favorite chair in the back room, staring at the wall.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (G5+As)

66 58 Her feet are placed on some kinda weird wooden plank.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM

---
It was the style at the time.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (XQo4F)

67 When you've got Wheel of Fortune at eight
Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

Wopner Judge Wopner

Posted by: Rain Man at August 25, 2025 09:45 AM (gbOdA)

68 She’s got fresh cut flowers. Maybe she’s just resting from working in the garden.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:46 AM (EYmYM)

69
Looks like a lot of family photos in the house.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:38 AM (EYmYM)

"The portraits were of dead people no longer loved, the photographs of friends who had hurt her in their lifetime, the only reason they were not forgotten in death; the watercolors showed houses and places most of which had been sold, or rather stupidly bartered by spendthrift nephews."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:46 AM (kkTda)

70 Doesn't look like she has any reading material. Maybe her eyesight is failing.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:46 AM (aURVT)

71 68 She’s got fresh cut flowers. Maybe she’s just resting from working in the garden.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:46 AM (EYmYM)

They could be fake.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:47 AM (aURVT)

72 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Spendthrift Nephews at August 25, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

73 The portraits were of dead people no longer loved, the photographs of friends who had hurt her in their lifetime, the only reason they were not forgotten in death; the watercolors showed houses and places most of which had been sold, or rather stupidly bartered by spendthrift nephews."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:46 AM (kkTda)

What’s that from?

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:48 AM (EYmYM)

74 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:48 AM (omVj0)

75 I like those kind of accordion-arm wall-lamps. No idea what they're called.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:49 AM (aURVT)

76 68 She’s got fresh cut flowers. Maybe she’s just resting from working in the garden.
Posted by: polynikes

Those are plastic. She robbed them off a grave.

Posted by: She Stole the Doilies, Too at August 25, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

77 I'm already there.
Posted by: rickb223

Peace be with you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 09:50 AM (ZLd/E)

78
What’s that from?
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:48 AM (EYmYM)

The Leopard, by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:50 AM (kkTda)

79 A colorful painting, though. Was Budapest a poor place in 1904? She seems to have a pretty nice house or apartment with at least one big window.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

80 I was wrong! The woman in the painting is Miss Emily Grierson.

"I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris will tell you. Tobe, show these gentlemen to the door."

P.S. Don't ask me how a woman who never left her small town in Mississippi wound up in a Hungarian painting.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025 09:51 AM (BHrzb)

81 74 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

And urine.

Posted by: Maybe Cats at August 25, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)

82 Boat is late. And here I was, thinking I’d get in to work early.

Oh well. Happy Monday.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 09:51 AM (ZLd/E)

83 I anticipate this to be what my retirement looks like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 25, 2025 09:52 AM (+OnsA)

84 A friend of mine who is in his mid eighties remarked a few days ago that he feels irrelevant in the lives of his great-grandchildren, what with two intervening generations. As he put it, "those kids have dreams, and all I have is memories."

I suggested that his memories might plant the seeds for their dreams. That cheered him some.

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)

85 Reflections on life's blessings. Looking back doesn't need to bring sadness with it

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 09:52 AM (dxWFK)

86 This one hit hard.

Good art, in other words.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2025 09:52 AM (u82oZ)

87 Not a bad study. Nice use of color and shadow.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 25, 2025 09:53 AM (6eOSv)

88 *Violets and Aspercreme*

It's our newest scent!

Posted by: The Yankee Candle Company at August 25, 2025 09:53 AM (XQo4F)

89 Maybe she was a dancer in her younger days. There's that fringed shawl draped over a chair back.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:53 AM (aURVT)

90 The x CBD. Like this one especially the color scheme , would hang.
Just finished an 8 AM meeting. Now on hole #5 . Two pars , a bogey and a double bogey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 09:54 AM (ncxww)

91 Old widowed Italian ladies back in the neighborhood wore only shapeless, black clothing from the time their husbands died until they did themselves.

They refused to draw any happiness out of their lives after that.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

92 89 Maybe she was a dancer in her younger days. There's that fringed shawl draped over a chair back.

___

Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

93 Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you.
-Paul Simon

https://youtu.be/sovVYInjHjw

Posted by: mindful webworker - long ago it must be at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (i1iCx)

94 Myrtle was Prom Queen in 1855.

Posted by: Most Likely To.... at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (G5+As)

95 When you've got Wheel of Fortune at eight
Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025

***
"The folks at home playing Beat the Clock"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

96 Whistler's mother's neighbor?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (snZF9)

97 58 Her feet are placed on some kinda weird wooden plank.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:43 AM (aURVT)

Leggxercizer, 1st prototype.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (f6nrJ)

98
Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you.
-Paul Simon

My memories are all so embarrassing or so shameful that a good portion of my energies are spent on forgetting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (kkTda)

99 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
*
And urine.
Posted by: Maybe Cats at August 25, 2025

***
I was being charitable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (omVj0)

100 Maybe she was a dancer in her younger days.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:53 AM (aURVT)י
-

Her name was Lola?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (E+OH8)

101 100

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (aURVT)

102 "The folks at home playing Beat the Clock"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
________

Despite Ace's scorn, I like that tune.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 09:57 AM (XvL8K)

103 I remember Ripple Ronnie -- a free-spirited connoisseur of value-priced domestic wine who maintained his nest in a wooded area behind the liquor store.

Always willing to buy beer for teenagers, provided you added enough vig on top that he could purchase himself a flagon of the bum wine du jour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 09:57 AM (qpyNK)

104 It is hard for me to grasp that my great-grandmas are my grandchildren's great, great, great grandmas.

How did this happen so quickly?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 09:57 AM (cYBz/)

105 Hugh Hefner lived on mammaries.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

Thanks for that.

Posted by: zombie Bob Hope at August 25, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

106 I anticipate this to be what my retirement looks like.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 25, 2025

***
I never have thought of retirement like this. Of course, for many years I was sure I'd be working until I dropped in the traces and they hauled me off to the glue factory.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)

107 My memories are all so embarrassing or so shameful that a good portion of my energies are spent on forgetting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

There's always the Foreign Legion, but I think they make you wear short pants.

Posted by: Joined...To Forget at August 25, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

108 Her feet are placed on some kinda weird wooden plank.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025

***
"And it's so quiet, none of my co-workers even know I'm using it!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

109 Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (snZF9)

110 Just read about our dear Grammie. Prayers up for our prayer warrior!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (kpS4V)

111 The Leopard, by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 09:50 AM (kkTda)

That part must have stuck with you to have remembered it refer back to.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (EYmYM)

112 100 Her name was Lola?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 09:56 AM (E+OH

She was a sho'guh'.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (aURVT)

113 Hey, Sharon! How's the new knee doing?

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

114 I anticipate this to be what my retirement looks like.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Only if you want it to. I'm as busy as I want to be - I have something going on every day.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 10:00 AM (cYBz/)

115 74 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
----------------
You left out talcum powder and Bourbon.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:00 AM (c711F)

116 I was wrong! The woman in the painting is Miss Emily Grierson.

"I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris will tell you. Tobe, show these gentlemen to the door."

P.S. Don't ask me how a woman who never left her small town in Mississippi wound up in a Hungarian painting.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025

***
The name rang a faint bell, so I looked it up. Ol' Bill would be proud of you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

117 There's always the Foreign Legion, but I think they make you wear short pants.
Posted by: Joined...To Forget
_______

The Zouaves get those cool pantaloons. And a festive hat.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 10:01 AM (XvL8K)

118 I never have thought of retirement like this. Of course, for many years I was sure I'd be working until I dropped in the traces and they hauled me off to the glue factory.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

She's sitting alone in the back room because her children took the keys to her Buick last week. Could happen to you.

Posted by: Pulled Her License Too! at August 25, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

119 I think that’s why having one of my paintings hanging in a museum is one of my fantasies. Would be nice to be around long after I’m gone.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

120 Memories are fine if there are no big regrets. It's when one dwells exclusively on regrets is when memories become debilitating.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)

121 I anticipate this to be what my retirement looks like.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
*
Only if you want it to. I'm as busy as I want to be - I have something going on every day.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025

***
Same here, and I haven't even started on the relocation program yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

122 The furniture to the right in the front room is, I believe, an escritoire.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:02 AM (aURVT)

123 There's always the Foreign Legion, but I think they make you wear short pants.
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And carry an axe for some reason.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:02 AM (c711F)

124 > She was a sho'guh'.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (aURVT)

One of those Japanese warlords?

I didn't know that women could hold that office.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 10:02 AM (qpyNK)

125 The furniture to the right in the front room is, I believe, an escritoire.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025

***
Perfect for paying bills. And writing poison pen letters like the neighborhood lady in the Shirley Jackson story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

126 /sock

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

127 One of those Japanese warlords?

I didn't know that women could hold that office.

Heh.
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You haven't read Shegun, have you!

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (c711F)

128 > There's always the Foreign Legion, but I think they make you wear short pants.
Posted by: Joined...To Forget at August 25, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

That's so the actual native-born French soldiers don't look quite so effeminate by comparison.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (qpyNK)

129 She's just waiting for gerbaued to come out of the oven

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (dxWFK)

130 28 Outside, the VII Armor Korps is rumbling down the street.

Tanks for the memories!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 25, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

Or T-54s

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (f6nrJ)

131 I don't see anything distinctly religious, which is maybe unexpected.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:04 AM (aURVT)

132 Only if you want it to. I'm as busy as I want to be - I have something going on every day.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 10:00 AM (cYBz/)

Hmmm. I guess cooking oatmeal could be exciting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)

133 Old widowed Italian ladies back in the neighborhood wore only shapeless, black clothing from the time their husbands died until they did themselves.

They refused to draw any happiness out of their lives after that.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

No shit man. Thankfully I haven't seen that in my family among the older generation, but I saw it in friends of theirs. More so in the ones that weren't born here.

After Mrs B learned to cook some of my grandmother's dishes she was convinced that they wore black because it doesn't show stains from the volcanic pots boiling away on the stove. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 10:05 AM (snZF9)

134 One of those Japanese warlords?

I didn't know that women could hold that office.

Heh.
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You haven't read Shegun, have you!

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:03 AM (c711F)
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Or watched Mulan. Such illiteracy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 10:05 AM (E+OH8)

135 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 25, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

136 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
----------------
You left out talcum powder and Bourbon.
Posted by: pudinhead

And regrets.
Smells like regrets.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L9gr5)

137 I have a lot of friends but I have no children or relatives I know so once I’m gone I’m gone for good.

That was the sad part of the Green Mile. Outliving all his friends and family.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (EYmYM)

138 Madmani is ending crime in NYC!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges in New York City, should he be elected mayor. Many of these, he calls, "non-serious crimes," and should NO LONGER be enforced.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

139 I was wrong! The woman in the painting is Miss Emily Grierson.

"I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris will tell you. Tobe, show these gentlemen to the door."

P.S. Don't ask me how a woman who never left her small town in Mississippi wound up in a Hungarian painting.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025 09:51 AM

That gal was not right in the head.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (ySpAZ)

140 I'm suddenly reminded to send a hello text to my mom

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:07 AM (wkXwO)

141 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

142 131 I don't see anything distinctly religious, which is maybe unexpected.
Posted by: m

Her other room, that we can't see, is a multipurpose chapel/bowling alley.

Posted by: Columbia 300 at August 25, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

143 And regrets.
Smells like regrets.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L9gr5)

No Regerts

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:08 AM (EYmYM)

144 138 Madmani is ending crime in NYC!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges in New York City, should he be elected mayor. Many of these, he calls, "non-serious crimes," and should NO LONGER be enforced.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

======

On the one hand, I hope his antics with the barbell in public this weekend ends his campaign. Silly little soyboy that not even dried up AWFLs can find attractive anymore. His Dukakis in the tank moment.

On the other, I know it's not going to end his campaign. NYC wants its Democrat mayor no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

145 143 No Regerts
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:08 AM (EYmYM)

This is such a howler!

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:09 AM (aURVT)

146 For those of you who think it is important, it has been Seven Years

Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch)
@TFL1728
1h
"I regret I only have one life to give for my country..."
-- John McCain's Brain Tumor

Aug 25, 2025 · 12:42 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 10:09 AM (rbvCR)

147 When One Lives on Memories
József Rippl-Rónai

There's a somber, artsy photo on a similar subject- Living while losing memories:
https://tinyurl.com/bdx8fz

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

148 Egrets? I've had few.

Posted by: Old lady in the chair looking at her bird feeder at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)

149 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

Maybe he’s like Bernie Sanders and never had any intention of being elected and now trying to sabotage his own campaign.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (EYmYM)

150 138 Madmani is ending crime in NYC!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges in New York City, should he be elected mayor. Many of these, he calls, "non-serious crimes," and should NO LONGER be enforced.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

And all the felonies become misdemeanors!

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (aURVT)

151 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
----------------
You left out talcum powder and Bourbon.
Posted by: pudinhead

And regrets.
Smells like regrets.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L9gr5)

And a trashcan full of discarded Depends.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)

152 Only if you want it to. I'm as busy as I want to be - I have something going on every day.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 10:00 AM

Yup. The dad kept busy after retirement, and I'm only joking a little when I say my retired mother has a more active social life than I do.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (ySpAZ)

153 "Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrat Party abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics—trading broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction.
What Made the Democrat Party Go Crazy?"

They didn't abandon them as a concern, because they were never concerned with them. They just abandoned them as a vehicle for votes. This is what VDH still doesn't get; these people didn't change. This is who they always were. They simply moved on to a new phase of the revolution.

If FDR could have outright pulled a Stalin, he would have. If HRC could have gone Pol Pot in the 90's, she would have. Your fat uncle Bob in Michigan who used to wear camo with all his buddies and pretend to be a major and handed out conspiracy fliers at gun shows was basically right.

When they say Socialism hasn't been done correctly before, what they really mean is they're applying lessons from the last 100 years or so. Purge the colonels. Disarm the peasants. They know the drill by now.

Posted by: heya at August 25, 2025 10:11 AM (o18eU)

154 149 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

Maybe he’s like Bernie Sanders and never had any intention of being elected and now trying to sabotage his own campaign.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (EYmYM)

=====

Doubt that.

This is a kid who couldn't get into Columbia with his diversity points or having a father as a full professor there.

He dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

155 Yup. The dad kept busy after retirement, and I'm only joking a little when I say my retired mother has a more active social life than I do.
----------------
She plays Bridge, doesn't she?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:11 AM (c711F)

156 150 138 Madmani is ending crime in NYC!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges in New York City, should he be elected mayor. Many of these, he calls, "non-serious crimes," and should NO LONGER be enforced.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

And all the felonies become misdemeanors!
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (aURVT)

======

And since misdemeanors are not pursued, that means that felonies are also not pursued by police.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

157 That was the sad part of the Green Mile. Outliving all his friends and family.
Posted by: polynikes

There was an old man in my hometown that my Dad and I used to go visit every Sunday after church. He would always tell me not to live as long as he had because he'd outlived all his friends. He never married or had children. His only relative that we knew of was a niece.

He made it to 100, and died a few months later. It was like his only goal was to reach that milestone, despite his advice to me not to live so long.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

158 How dare those bastards hit us back!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

-
I think Jesus said something like that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

159 Would hang as it's the best crayon drawing I've ever seen!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:13 AM (36PRH)

160 158 How dare those bastards hit us back!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

-
I think Jesus said something like that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

======

Underlying this is the assumption that Democrats get free reign to break laws whenever they want because Republicans hitting back is trying to make a right with two wrongs.

Also, the government shouldn't punish any criminals because punishing criminals is a wrong, and two wrongs don't make a right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

161 Ran across a meme where someone was watching an old Diners, Drive-ins and Dives from 2008 and some restaurant had a relatively expensive burger, for the time, that was under $5.

In 2025 the same restaurant sells the same burger for $17.

But remember there was no hyperinflation under the Biden junta

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:14 AM (sKqQm)

162 158 How dare those bastards hit us back!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

Hey, Chuckles. Revenge? In response to ... what? Elaborate on that.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:15 AM (aURVT)

163 161 Ran across a meme where someone was watching an old Diners, Drive-ins and Dives from 2008 and some restaurant had a relatively expensive burger, for the time, that was under $5.

In 2025 the same restaurant sells the same burger for $17.

But remember there was no hyperinflation under the Biden junta
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:14 AM (sKqQm)

======

"All inflation started under Trump 7 months ago."
-DU, 97.32% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

164 Yup. The dad kept busy after retirement, and I'm only joking a little when I say my retired mother has a more active social life than I do.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:10 AM (ySpAZ)

I live in an active 55+ community and there are organized activities going on everyday. The only one I participate in though is golf.

A couple of people I golf with visit the villages every year and they tell me it’s rocking and rolling even more. They have like four pavilions where live bands perform every weekend.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:15 AM (EYmYM)

165 And since misdemeanors are not pursued, that means that felonies are also not pursued by police.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The only crimes that will be pursued in NYC will be Koran-burnings and praying outside abortion clinics.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

166 She plays Bridge, doesn't she?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:11 AM

Nope. Teaches Sunday school, volunteers at the local children's museum, gets out and walks with her friends, visits some of the parish shut-ins. Comes to MoMes. She stays moving.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (ySpAZ)

167 @158 "after you have turned both cheeks, you may hit back as a righteous man."

probably

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (36PRH)

168 The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

Hmm, does he mean the left stopping Trump from doing normal presidential stuff that in many cases they used to claim to believe in or...oh wait its Chuck Todd.

F*ck that guy with a spare WNBA dildo

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (sKqQm)

169 165 And since misdemeanors are not pursued, that means that felonies are also not pursued by police.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The only crimes that will be pursued in NYC will be Koran-burnings and praying outside abortion clinics.
Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

======

Don't forget inventing white collar crimes for registered Republicans of certain statures.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

170 It has been revealed that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges in New York City, should he be elected mayor.

It'll be like "Escape from New York" except all the criminals will be there willingly.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (vRl2p)

171 I'm heading out to the post office, and to have a coffee and a croissant while I read my last Jack Reacher novel. See? I lead an active life!!!

(Looking forward to the Gilmore Girls rerun at 4 pm doesn't count.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (omVj0)

172 167 @158 "after you have turned both cheeks, you may hit back as a righteous man."

probably
----------------
After two slaps its Curb Stomping Viking Times. Those are the rules.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:17 AM (c711F)

173 > Madmani is ending crime in NYC!
-----------
It's not a novel idea. It's basically what the capitol city police department had been doing for decades; re-classifying certain crimes as... not crimes or something not nearly as serious. Thus, the reporting stats are awesome.

That the public and the Feds fell for it over a period of decades, is, in fact, the real crime.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

174 What have you guys been saying behind my back?

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
LMAO! Democrat Congressman Maxwell Frost is now proclaiming that MAGA Republicans are coming to his town halls en masse and telling him they “REGRET” voting for President Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

175 One more case of lefty cognitive dissonance is the uproar over the Trump administration wanting a 10 % stake in Intel in return for the money Congress appropriated under the Chips Act. Notice it isn't an uproar over free Uncle Sam sugar; instead, the lefties are upset the government wants something in return! I guess Democrats were thinking of more Solyndra type deals, free money to their friends.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (b5mTq)

176 112 She was a sho'guh'.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:59 AM (aURVT)

But not the Shogun.

That was Yoshiaki Ashikaga.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

177 158 "after you have turned both cheeks, you may hit back as a righteous man."

I thought it was seven times.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (EYmYM)

178 I remember going to the most expensive restaurant in the expensive town near mine in 2016 or so.

They had an $18 kobe beef burger.

Thought it was a rip off at the time.

Now the fast casual restaurant in my town sells its burger for...$18.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (sKqQm)

179 “When One Lives on Memories”

It’s not so bad

Posted by: Javems at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (tGVva)

180 She was a sho'guh'.
Posted by: m at August 25, 2025
*
But not the Shogun.

That was Yoshiaki Ashikaga.
Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025

***
"I must let the Shogun yawn!"
( -- Three Dog Knight)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (omVj0)

181 Nice painting. I particularly like the black and red wrap on the chair and the contrast between the yellow walls against the various blue elements.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (/XYIx)

182 This painting is a little too close to home for me, as my mother is not far from the poor woman pictured in the painting. Would not hang, since I live it already.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (b5mTq)

183 140 I'm suddenly reminded to send a hello text to my mom
Posted by: Doof

Thank you for doing that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 10:19 AM (KDbie)

184 @169 So no more illegal parking either (if it's not enforced)? People will finally be able to live in their RV in NYC (just like SF).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:20 AM (36PRH)

185 I can't believe NYC is really going to elect that clown.

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

186 Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
LMAO! Democrat Congressman Maxwell Frost is now proclaiming that MAGA Republicans are coming to his town halls en masse and telling him they “REGRET” voting for President Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)
=================
"Lifelong Republicans"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (b5mTq)

187 I remember going to the most expensive restaurant in the expensive town near mine in 2016 or so.

They had an $18 kobe beef burger.

Thought it was a rip off at the time.

Now the fast casual restaurant in my town sells its burger for...$18.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025

***
$14 now for a ham and cheese omelette at a local diner here. You get hashbrowns or grits and some toast with it, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (omVj0)

188 It'll be like "Escape from New York" except all the criminals will be there willingly.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 25, 2025 10:16 AM (vRl2p)

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

District 9 Ii: Escape From New York Boogaloo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Fighting Fire With Gasoline! at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (4i+3a)

189 Projection is the most aggravating mental illness trait of the Left because their lack of self awareness makes pointing it out to them useless.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (EYmYM)

190 Alternate title:

"Myrtle Wonders Who She'll Talk With Now That She Accidentally Ran Over That Nice Mister Jenkins at the Piggly Wiggly"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (iJfKG)

191 189 Projection is the most aggravating mental illness trait of the Left because their lack of self awareness makes pointing it out to them useless.
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Best to just kick them in nutz.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 10:22 AM (c711F)

192 You just know the whole place smells of violets and Aspercreme.
----------------
You left out talcum powder and Bourbon.
Posted by: pudinhead

And regrets.
Smells like regrets.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:06 AM (L9gr5)

And a trashcan full of discarded Depends.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Pro tip for those over sixty:

Do not eat a Slim Jim after 9 pm. The acid reflux at 3:30 am isn't worth it.

And I don't suffer from acid reflux.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:22 AM (L9gr5)

193 remember going to the most expensive restaurant in the expensive town near mine in 2016 or so.

They had an $18 kobe beef burger.

Thought it was a rip off at the time.

Now the fast casual restaurant in my town sells its burger for...$18.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025

Vegas wonders why their tourism /visitor numbers are down. Because ( pun intended) they have doubled down on raising prices.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (EYmYM)

194 Some asshole went and appointed a Catholic as a priest!

David @DMStThomas
Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art and the laity spaz out and are concerned about their "psychological safety." Can't make this up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

195 I looked up the expensive restaurant's prices too..

The $18 kobe beef burger is now a $27 grass-fed beef burger.

But you do get fries with that!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

196 189 Projection is the most aggravating mental illness trait of the Left because their lack of self awareness makes pointing it out to them useless.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:21 AM (EYmYM)

It all stems from Alinsky Rule #4 : "Make the Right live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this."

Only people on the Right have to have principles and standards.

The Left can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, no matter how much it contradicts what they just said or did 5 minutes ago, because they don't have to have principles. Only the Right does.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (UnA8+)

197 194 Some asshole went and appointed a Catholic as a priest!

David @DMStThomas
Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art and the laity spaz out and are concerned about their "psychological safety." Can't make this up.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

======

Unitarian Church is thata way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

198 The Left can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, no matter how much it contradicts what they just said or did 5 minutes ago, because they don't have to have principles. Only the Right does.

Yep...Clarence Thomas flirting with a subordinate (supposedly) - burn the witch. Bill Clinton raping women - ZZZZZ

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 10:25 AM (sKqQm)

199 @197 Uproar by Cafeteria Catholics because the menu has been updated.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:25 AM (36PRH)

200 Canada is looking for a few good men[?]

https://is.gd/CXQ3cH

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

201 ah, this speaks to me.
The art quality isn't really great but I get it.

I find as I get older, I spend more time thinking about the past, not the future.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 25, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

202 Some asshole went and appointed a Catholic as a priest!

David @DMStThomas
Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art and the laity spaz out and are concerned about their "psychological safety." Can't make this up.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Half the country needs to be locked up in the nut house.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:28 AM (L9gr5)

203 >>Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

Enforcing the law against Democrats is now a "wrong".

The Democrat Party is in a death spiral.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 10:29 AM (viF8m)

204 Good with all of it except the woman's face. Just an outline. Needs to be more realistic.

I actually like that it’s not too detailed. We can all see who we want to in it then.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:29 AM (3cXfB)

205 I can't change the past but I can work for the future. Change what you can not what you can't

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 10:30 AM (dxWFK)

206 Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art and the laity spaz out and are concerned about their "psychological safety." Can't make this up.

Gonna bet we all know what the people complaining look like.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:30 AM (3cXfB)

207 I find as I get older, I spend more time thinking about the past, not the future.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Lifetime warranties hit different when you're 60 and no longer 30.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:31 AM (L9gr5)

208 Vegas wonders why their tourism /visitor numbers are down. Because ( pun intended) they have doubled down on raising prices.
------

The last time I was there I remember telling a friend it was probably the last time I would EVER be there. Vegas is a dirty town in most places and the charm of being able to gamble there is gone--many states now have some version of casino gaming. The final straw is that Vegas seems to have removed "token" gambling from the menu--it used to be I could come to Vegas and spend a couple of hours at slot machines losing 25 and 50 cents a spin. The last time I was there I struggled to find any machine at lower than $2 a spin. There's just no reason for someone like me to go there again.

Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 10:31 AM (TN0g+)

209 Looks like she's got quite a bit of her hair left. No big bald spots on view.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:31 AM (aURVT)

210 Looking forward to the Gilmore Girls rerun at 4 pm doesn't count.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at

Man card officially revoked.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:32 AM (n4GiU)

211 The art.....

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
Go to work in the mornin'
And come home in the evenin'
And have nothin' to say

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 25, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

212 Really great Substack on all those illegals in the trucking industry

https://tinyurl.com/y2mc57x5

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 25, 2025 10:32 AM (kUxzU)

213 Chicken or the egg question.

Study: Abortion Doubles Women’s Risk Of Psychiatric Hospitalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:33 AM (L/fGl)

214 I’ve heard that Vegas has a bit of a Carnival Cruise problem with “youths” as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:33 AM (3cXfB)

215 203 >>Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

Enforcing the law against Democrats is now a "wrong".

The Democrat Party is in a death spiral.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 10:29 AM (viF8m)

======

John Bolton isn't a Democrat.

He's a warmongering charlatan who abused his privilege to access classified information and was probably an unregistered foreign agent of some foreign government like Qatar. He's also a Republican.

This is the new Democratic cause celebre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

216 206 Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art and the laity spaz out and are concerned about their "psychological safety." Can't make this up.

Gonna bet we all know what the people complaining look like.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:30 AM (3cXfB)

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Lot's of people wearing what "Cecil Says" calls "problem glasses", I bet.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:33 AM (36PRH)

217 Madamemayhem, I had me a cowboy.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 10:34 AM (dxWFK)

218 I'm having an attack of vertigo.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kTd/k)

219 3 lefts make a right

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 10:34 AM (AOsQT)

220 Chicken or the egg question.

The study filters preexisting mental illness so the causation direction seems pretty clear. Would very much explain so many Democrat women.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (3cXfB)

221 @215 Bolton is a neocon in the most derogatory sense.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (36PRH)

222 Re: the art

It is rectangular, and features an assortment of colors. That's all I have.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)

223 The last time I was there I remember telling a friend it was probably the last time I would EVER be there. Vegas is a dirty town in most places and the charm of being able to gamble there is gone--many states now have some version of casino gaming. The final straw is that Vegas seems to have removed "token" gambling from the menu--it used to be I could come to Vegas and spend a couple of hours at slot machines losing 25 and 50 cents a spin. The last time I was there I struggled to find any machine at lower than $2 a spin. There's just no reason for someone like me to go there again.
Posted by: Crusader

Went once on my honeymoon because my wife had lived there previously. Meh. I'm 30 minutes from one casino & an hour from two others.

Vegas has no draw for me.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (L9gr5)

224 Lot's of people wearing what "Cecil Says" calls "problem glasses", I bet.

They’re actually sold as “empowerment glasses”, if I’m remembering right.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:36 AM (3cXfB)

225 NASA warning: Earth is running out of oxygen

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Doesn't surprise me. I mean Gavin Newsom is an oxygen thief.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

226 221 @215 Bolton is a neocon in the most derogatory sense.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (36PRH)

======

I really thought Democrats might have learned their lesson when they decided that Kamala embracing Liz Cheney in the final month of the campaign hurt them.

But, nope.

Anyone anti-Trump, no matter what has been said about them from the left for decades, is to be embraced.

It's where narrative and partisanship above all else gets you. You make stupid decisions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

227 218 I'm having an attack of vertigo.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kTd/k)
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Hope you didn't fall. I head-butted a wall as I tried to break my fall during the only attack I've had.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (36PRH)

228 In Vegas you used to be able to eat and drink for reasonable prices and frequently below what one would expect. Now they charge you $18 for a bottled water in your hotel room.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (EYmYM)

229 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

Hungarian. Land of my grandparents.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 25, 2025 10:38 AM (5xuJ/)

230 Myrtle looks pretty good for her age. Mother Agapia is a much younger woman and she's a mess.

Posted by: I'd Hit It! at August 25, 2025 10:38 AM (G5+As)

231 >>John Bolton isn't a Democrat.

No, but Chuck is.

Bolton is a former No. 2 at USAID under Reagan. He' bragged before about running regime change operations around the world. He's as uniparty deep state as anyone on the planet and he got rich doing it.

The old way of looking at party ID as the most determination of how someone in DC will act is long gone. John McCain was technically a Republican as well but his true allegiance was to the uniparty deep state as well. All Democrats and many Republicans are really uniparty deep state.

Chuck knows what's coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

232 NASA warning: Earth is running out of oxygen

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Doesn't surprise me. I mean Gavin Newsom is an oxygen thief.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Time for another world war. Time to offload a bunch of oxygen thieves.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:39 AM (L9gr5)

233 Hungarian. Land of my grandparents.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

Where's Miklos these days?

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

234 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Living on memories, and a good wine. But mostly a good wine.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 10:39 AM (2WIwB)

235 Bolton is neither a Republican nor a Democrap. He's a Bolton. He's a pure narcissistic, self-enriching, self-aggrandizing scheming cocksucker. I hope he spends his final days fending off Big Leroy in the prison shower.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (iFTx/)

236 228 In Vegas you used to be able to eat and drink for reasonable prices and frequently below what one would expect. Now they charge you $18 for a bottled water in your hotel room.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (EYmYM)

Not just that, the table the waters lay in is pressure sensitive, so if you even _touch_ the table (don't accidentally drop your keys on it), you get charged.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (UnA8+)

237 Democrat Congressman Maxwell Frost is now proclaiming that MAGA Republicans are coming to his town halls en masse and telling him they “REGRET” voting for President Trump.

They've asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution. -- Congressman Maxwell Frost*

*I may have made that up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (ExV1e)

238
They’re actually sold as “empowerment glasses”, if I’m remembering right.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:36 AM (3cXfB)

That's funny.

Even funnier if it's true.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

239 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

It's interesting that this revelation only occurred to you once you lost power.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Riz8t)

240 "after you have turned both cheeks, you may hit back as a righteous man."

I thought it was seven times.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (EYmYM)

You can hit back seven times?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

241 Not just that, the table the waters lay in is pressure sensitive, so if you even _touch_ the table (don't accidentally drop your keys on it), you get charged.
Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (UnA8+)

I’m picturing Indiana Jones doing the Skull /Bag of sand exchange.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (EYmYM)

242 "NASA warning: Earth is running out of oxygen"

Sounds like NASA still has a lot of Obama holdovers that need to find new work. Has the muslim outreach program been shutdown yet?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:42 AM (36PRH)

243 Fully 63% of people who claim Hungarian Ancestry on line are actually Gypsies. You can tell which ones, BECAUSE THEY STEAL!

Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at August 25, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

244 In Vegas you used to be able to eat and drink for reasonable prices and frequently below what one would expect. Now they charge you $18 for a bottled water in your hotel room.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:37 AM (EYmYM)

Not just that, the table the waters lay in is pressure sensitive, so if you even _touch_ the table (don't accidentally drop your keys on it), you get charged.
Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:40 AM (UnA8+)
______

And hotels wonder why they're getting killed by Air BNB ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 10:42 AM (iFTx/)

245 239 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

It's interesting that this revelation only occurred to you once you lost power.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Riz8t)

=======

It also assumes that Bolton is innocent of anything and everything, that he never even jaywalked once in his life.

Which is weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

246 Vegas has become the Democrat Party of gambling cities.

Vegas: You, our potential customers, suck, and we're going to fleece you for every penny we can.

Gee, why don't people like us anymore?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

247 240 "after you have turned both cheeks, you may hit back as a righteous man."

I thought it was seven times.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:18 AM (EYmYM)

You can hit back seven times?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

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Are we having a pseudo theological discussion here?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (36PRH)

248 They had an $18 kobe beef burger.

I question the allure of Kobe ground beef. The whole point of Kobe beef is the fat content and marbling. Making ground beef out of it just makes it a fatty burger... which is fine and all... but hardly worth a premium.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)

249 You can hit back seven times?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

I guess if you forgive them each time you hit them. 😀

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (EYmYM)

250 Lifetime warranties hit different when you're 60 and no longer 30.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:31 AM

Heh. The RMBS Mom had some repairs done to the water heater last week. Her plumber said the work had a lifetime warranty. She laughed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:44 AM (ySpAZ)

251 In Vegas you used to be able to eat and drink for reasonable prices and frequently below what one would expect. Now they charge you $18 for a bottled water in your hotel room.
Posted by: polynikes

Hampton Inn gives you a bottle of water for free when you check in.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

252 I'm having an attack of vertigo.
Posted by: Northernlurker
_____

I had an episode of blurred vision lasting several minutes a few months and the neurologist went nuts. Ordered a brain MRI, carotid ultrasound, stress test and 30 day cardiac event monitor. All totally normal.

So I'm thinking about taking up smoking again.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 10:44 AM (XvL8K)

253 6) I feel this painting deep in my soul.
rickb223 at August 25,

If I knew how to add emojis I would put three hearts and praying hands here. May you know God's comfort and may your good memories fill your heart with love.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM (mZ/55)

254 He's like Perry Mason.

Lawyer For Illegal Alien Who Doesn't Speak English Says It's "Preposterous" To Deport Him To Country Where He Doesn't Speak Language

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

255 Southern New England, and I'm ten minutes from one casino, and within an hour of four.
None of which I regularly step foot in. Maybe a show twice a decade.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM (n4GiU)

256 @248 I rhought that was Wagyu.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:46 AM (36PRH)

257 "NASA warning: Earth is running out of oxygen"

Sounds like NASA still has a lot of Obama holdovers that need to find new work. Has the muslim outreach program been shutdown yet?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:42 AM

Tomorrow's headline:

NASA warning: The Sun is running out of fuel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:46 AM (ySpAZ)

258 If dreams were lightning, thunder was desire, this old house would've burned down a long time ago.

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 10:46 AM (/iMjX)

259 256 @248 I rhought that was Wagyu.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:46 AM (36PRH)

Kobe is a specific type of Wagyu, IIRC.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:46 AM (UnA8+)

260 They had an $18 kobe beef burger.

I question the allure of Kobe ground beef. The whole point of Kobe beef is the fat content and marbling. Making ground beef out of it just makes it a fatty burger... which is fine and all... but hardly worth a premium.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)
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Veblen good. Take a look at the prices of Snake River Farms meats. Sure, let me spend $1,400 on a prime rib.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (iFTx/)

261 Gambling has become a commodity in the US. Nevada is no longer unique. Vegas is due for a correction.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (rJ48h)

262 Blue on blue.

Ottawa Pride Parade Canceled After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Block Route

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

263 Check out the lapel pin:

https://is.gd/RARn0G

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (PiwSw)

264 He's like Perry Mason.

Lawyer For Illegal Alien Who Doesn't Speak English Says It's "Preposterous" To Deport Him To Country Where He Doesn't Speak Language
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

That’s a Bee headline and a NY Post headline .

Schrodingers Snark.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (EYmYM)

265
"NASA warning: Earth is running out of oxygen"

SPACEBALLS

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2025 10:48 AM (63Dwl)

266 Blue on blue.

Ottawa Pride Parade Canceled After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Block Route
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM

Wow, what a shame.

Anyway....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:48 AM (ySpAZ)

267 264 He's like Perry Mason.

Lawyer For Illegal Alien Who Doesn't Speak English Says It's "Preposterous" To Deport Him To Country Where He Doesn't Speak Language
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

That’s a Bee headline and a NY Post headline .

Schrodingers Snark.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (EYmYM)

=======

Dude said no to Costa Rica.

Probably at the insistence of his lawyer.

Garcia really needs to sue the ACLU for malpractice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

268 Lifetime warranties hit different when you're 60 and no longer 30.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:31 AM (L9gr5)

Oh, we meant the life of the device. As you can see, it's dead. -- Company

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

269 Alternate title:

"Myrtle Thinks of the Good Old Days When Men Still Turned Their Heads to Look at Her, and She Got Rich as a Black Widow Poisoning Her Five Rich Husbands"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 10:48 AM (iJfKG)

270 Tomorrow's headline:

NASA warning: The Sun is running out of fuel.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Only a tax increase can save us!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

271 Gambling has become a commodity in the US. Nevada is no longer unique. Vegas is due for a correction.

Right? If I want a bleak, soul-crushing environment coupled with a sensory assault that leaves me catatonic, I have many choices.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (Riz8t)

272 255 Southern New England, and I'm ten minutes from one casino, and within an hour of four.
None of which I regularly step foot in. Maybe a show twice a decade.
Posted by: From about That Time

Had the Indians planned ahead and had casinos operating when the white man showed up, they'd have turned a hefty profit and generated goodwill, overall.

Posted by: Regerts, I've Had a Few at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (G5+As)

273 Lawyer For Illegal Alien Who Doesn't Speak English Says It's "Preposterous" To Deport Him To Country Where He Doesn't Speak Language
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:45 AM

"Moroni Deported to Sweden: Claims He's Not From There."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (ySpAZ)

274 Have you noticed you used to say you haven't done something for months or years, and now it's often decades?

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (n4GiU)

275 Had the Indians planned ahead and had casinos operating when the white man showed up, they'd have turned a hefty profit and generated goodwill, overall.

They considered it, but had reservations.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

276 Only people on the Right have to have principles and standards.

The Left can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, no matter how much it contradicts what they just said or did 5 minutes ago, because they don't have to have principles. Only the Right does.
Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:23 AM (UnA8+)

Who's winning right now? I think it's more of a strong horse question. More and more people will start following the strong horse.

The side that has solid values, some moral beliefs, patriotism, and a sound sense of freedom is the strong horse now. We just need to keep feeding it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew8)

277 Right? If I want a bleak, soul-crushing environment coupled with a sensory assault that leaves me catatonic, I have many choices.

nj

Posted by: n at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (CB54X)

278 If you care to do some research, you'll find that Kobe, Wagyu, and the rest are 99% marketing bullshit. "Kobe" means almost nothing; it could be any kind of cow. It's like using "Detroit" as shorthand for cars.

What matters is the quality of the cow that produced the steaks. For high-quality cuts (strip, ribeye, etc) destined for high-end certifications (Prime, etc) the producers select the highest quality cows. For the lower-end stuff (ground meat), the producers select any old crap cow stumbling around on the farm.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 10:51 AM (iFTx/)

279 Have you noticed you used to say you haven't done something for months or years, and now it's often decades?
Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM

Hell, I said that about not riding the MBTA just last week. Twenty-four years and counting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:51 AM (ySpAZ)

280 love this painting

the subject, the execution, the feeling it evokes

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 10:51 AM (dCxaZ)

281 239 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles.

How come the first wrong always comes from the Demoncrats?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 25, 2025 10:51 AM (kTd/k)

282 @275 Nice buildup to a dad joke. 😂

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:51 AM (36PRH)

283 Are Socialists stupid, or evil? Or both?

Vigilante actions are the default in human history. That’s the whole point of duly sworn organized law enforcement and a legal system. Society agrees to stand down, and “outsource” the whole shebang.

Every crime turns into a capital offense eventually under anarchy. It does keep the crime rate down. Much cheaper.

Do taxes go down under Mr. Mamdani’s Utopia?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (wzsAY)

284 Had the Indians planned ahead and had casinos operating when the white man showed up, they'd have turned a hefty profit and generated goodwill, overall.

They considered it, but had reservations.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

They just weren't brave enough.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

285 Gambling has become a commodity in the US. Nevada is no longer unique. Vegas is due for a correction. …………

And Vegas used to be unique because it did offer cheap buffets and penny slots. They decided to do away with that and people no longer saw any reason to take a plane to gamble when they could drive 30 minutes to a local casino.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (EYmYM)

286 What kind of last name is Rippl-Rónai?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

Right before Schlemiel-Schlimazel in the phone book.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (f6nrJ)

287 The study filters preexisting mental illness so the causation direction seems pretty clear. Would very much explain so many Democrat women.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 10:35 AM (3cXfB)

You could, maybe, understand it - once... in a young woman. Unmarried, scared, doesn't know what to do, takes the easy (for her) way out.

If, however, you don't learn pretty fucking fast from that mistake then I question your basic humanity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

288 285 Gambling has become a commodity in the US. Nevada is no longer unique. Vegas is due for a correction. …………

And Vegas used to be unique because it did offer cheap buffets and penny slots. They decided to do away with that and people no longer saw any reason to take a plane to gamble when they could drive 30 minutes to a local casino.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (EYmYM)

======

Bring back the mob!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

289 Time for another world war. Time to offload a bunch of oxygen thieves.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 10:39 AM (L9gr5)

They're not the ones sacrificed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)

290 Had the Indians planned ahead and had casinos operating when the white man showed up, they'd have turned a hefty profit and generated goodwill, overall.

They considered it, but had reservations.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

They just weren't brave enough.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

They didn’t want to take the chance of being more in the Red.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:54 AM (EYmYM)

291 The first big crack in the left's decent in to insanity was the Gingrich Revolution.
100+ years of holding the House. R presidents come and go, the Senate may flip, but the House was always theirs.
And nobody could do anything without the Democrats agreeing.
Whole generations lived entire lives under the "Democrats are always in charge."
And they responded by telling the voters they were wrong.
Then another crack comes w/ the Clinton impeachment. Where decades of pretending to care about sex scandals--which they always used so effectively against Rs--was cast aside. "It's just sex, everybody lies about sex."
2000 was a huge blow: Gore was going to right the wrongs, prove Bill wasn't a fluke who skated in on split votes.
That loss was the point-of-no return; signaled by when they made the red-blue permanent.
We forget how they hated W.
Then Obama--finally after 14 years! They thought it permanent.
Then comes 2010. The fear. Response was fraud and .gov funding.
Each step? Farther and farther away from the will of the voters; the voters were the ones wrong.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 10:54 AM (HuNM+)

292 I find as I get older, I spend more time thinking about the past, not the future.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 25, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

Yep. Join the club. We have jackets. And cool hats.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 25, 2025 10:55 AM (5xuJ/)

293 For the lower-end stuff (ground meat), the producers select any old crap cow stumbling around on the farm.
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Yes, but large grocers cut up steaks and things like that to make burger if they don’t sell all of it and the “best by” date is approaching. I liked living in Iowa for that, the hamburger in much of the country isn’t too good.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:55 AM (wzsAY)

294 They considered it, but had reservations.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

They just weren't brave enough.
Posted by: naturalfake

It didn't siouxt them.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

295 Casinos--putting the wow in powwow.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 25, 2025 10:56 AM (kTd/k)

296 Hell, I said that about not riding the MBTA just last week. Twenty-four years and counting.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Rode it yesterday. Keep your streak going.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:56 AM (n4GiU)

297 "Moroni Deported to Sweden: Claims He's Not From There."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 10:49 AM (ySpAZ)

I have been told that Abrego-Garcia can't be deported to Uganda if he has a conviction
If he pleads guilty to the charges facing him, he will be deported to Costa Rica

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 10:56 AM (rbvCR)

298 When One Lives on Memories, 1904
József Rippl-Rónai

I like it because I think it's touching, personal.

As I'm blessed to age, I find myself remembering the past more than I've ever done before. (Certainly, there's more of it than future.) It's not always alone. Sometimes, it's a leisurely, mostly enjoyable pursuit with friends or family.

But, yes, with age and even gradual changes in mobility, finances, family, etc. memories become a larger part of living than the more frequent 'big' experiences of earlier life. (And for some elders, memories may be more pleasant than "living in the present," a lovely concept if one doesn't lack.)

Nice opening to the week. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

299 I have been told that Abrego-Garcia can't be deported to Uganda if he has a conviction
Posted by: Kindltot

That's a kampalling argument.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

300 300

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (aURVT)

301 question the allure of Kobe ground beef. The whole point of Kobe beef is the fat content and marbling. Making ground beef out of it just makes it a fatty burger... which is fine and all... but hardly worth a premium.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)
____

Veblen good. Take a look at the prices of Snake River Farms meats. Sure, let me spend $1,400 on a prime rib.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Fuck that. My cousin raises Angus beef cattle. I got a quarter of a cow, different cuts of all kinds, for a total price of $1400. That was for the beef, the processing, and wrapping. I carried ten reusable shopping totes full of beef and filled my freezer with it. I barely had room in there for a couple of packages of chicken and pork. I still have more ground beef than I need.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (2J/Lj)

302 @297 Then the Dominic Republic will drop him off at Haiti. Their half of the island didn't get to be the polar opposite of Haiti by importing criminals from overseas.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (36PRH)

303 Bring back the mob!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

Vegas was for money laundering.

Everyone uses NGOs and Ukraine now. Neither of which have decent buffets.

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (rbvCR)

304 Dominican

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 10:58 AM (36PRH)

305 After all, they are orphans.

Rosie O’Donnell Begs for the Menendez Brothers to Be Freed After They’re Denied Parole

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

306 Check out the lapel pin:

https://is.gd/RARn0G
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 25, 2025 10:47 AM (PiwSw)

This a shame. When I went to WSU, one of my best profs was a declared Anarchist-Marxist. He loved it when I wore my ROTC uniform to class.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

307 "Free Kilmar"

...with the purchase of a Kilmar of equal or lesser value.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 10:59 AM (UnA8+)

308 It's only true Kobe beef if it was slaughtered by being flown into the side of a mountain in a helicopter in a fog.

Anywhere else, that would be too soon.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (zdLoL)

309 Had the Indians planned ahead and had casinos operating when the white man showed up, they'd have turned a hefty profit and generated goodwill, overall.

They considered it, but had reservations.

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Shame on you !

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Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (g47mK)

310 Monkey drops a cracker (barrel).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (ExV1e)

311 277 Right? If I want a bleak, soul-crushing environment coupled with a sensory assault that leaves me catatonic, I have many choices.

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Posted by: n at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (CB54X)

Is that New Jersey?

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM (aURVT)

312 Gambling has become a commodity in the US. Nevada is no longer unique. Vegas is due for a correction. …………

And Vegas used to be unique because it did offer cheap buffets and penny slots. They decided to do away with that and people no longer saw any reason to take a plane to gamble when they could drive 30 minutes to a local casino.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 10:52 AM (EYmYM)

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Bring back the mob!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
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I think you can still have a cheap(ish) vacation in LV. It's just not on the strip. That's all very upscale and high-priced now. Like oceanside in SoBe.

But if you look at the smaller casinos downtown, or off-strip, or off-downtown, there are still bargains to be found.

And even the Vegas strip is probably better bargain than the high-end Atlantic City casino hotels. They charge Vegas prices for a decidedly less-Vegas experience.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM (iFTx/)

313 It's been real my nerfherders. Later!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM (36PRH)

314 They considered it, but had reservations.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

They just weren't brave enough.
Posted by: naturalfake

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They were afraid they might get Siouxed.

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM (/iMjX)

315 For all of US history, the party that moved to the center, to co-opt the popular will, was the party that survived.
After 1994, the Dems tried that.
Recall, Clintons' "triangulation?"
Oh, they pretend to love Bill now. But they hate, hate, hated that then.
Obama was their response: Move to the left, deliver for the base; ignore the center.
But McCain deliberately tanked his campaign. So did Romney. That hid the truth: Obama wasn't popular with the center.
That and the massive vote fraud and unlimited laundered government funds papered over just how weak the Dem Party really was. How they've been bleeding their base of power, the one that kept them in power for 150+ years.
They will never get that back.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:03 AM (HuNM+)

316 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

317 Moe Green had a vision. And there isn't even a statue to honor him.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 11:06 AM (AOsQT)

318 100 Maybe she was a dancer in her younger days.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2025 09:53 AM (aURVT)י
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Her name was Lola?
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Touchy ground there. Two outs, one to go.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

319 Without fresh interaction, memories are all she has.

At least it doesn't look like her children want to have her declared incompetent so they can get at her money.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 25, 2025 01:41 PM (w6EFb)

320 This painting was produced by an old soul. One cannot appreciate the powerful emotion it elicits until you have experienced significant loss

Posted by: Patti at August 25, 2025 02:36 PM (B7gYF)

321 I prefer living on sponge cake.

Posted by: Jimmy Buffet at August 25, 2025 04:37 PM (U3fVU)

322 She wants a Big Screen Plasma TV and watch scary movies at night

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 25, 2025 05:35 PM (wGqjj)

323 Footnote: "Hello In There." by John Prine

https://youtu.be/doUI6cWbz_U?si=cSSWnkcqEyZPhz8r

Posted by: Beverly at August 25, 2025 09:17 PM (Epeb0)

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