Mid-Morning Art Thread

Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Luis Meléndez

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2025 09:30 AM (kgE5c)

2 would hang...if donuts were on the table, too

Posted by: Gref at December 02, 2025 09:31 AM (5rh/l)

3
ESPONJA!!1!!1!!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 02, 2025 09:31 AM (tljrc)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

5 What's in the cask?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (2GVsD)

6 Looks more like pumpkins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

7 The nuts were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (XQo4F)

8 coffee and bagels

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

9 Hmm...fruit, nuts...could use some good cheese.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)

10 nothing rhymes with orange

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

11 Dark kitchen. Someone hit the lights.

Posted by: huerfano at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (98kQX)

12 7 a montiado

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

13 The 2x4's confuse me. Inviting the Beavers over for a bite?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Food thread!

Posted by: Eromero at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (LHPAg)

15 I like it. Nice painted textures.

Posted by: Tuna at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

16 Thanks CBD. This one has a nice color palette and I like the grouping. Very seasonal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (/AvDT)

17 Creative title

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (NwnyJ)

18

Tasty. Needs a comely serving girl to join the table...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (qXWSb)

19 9 daughter has professor bofa this semester

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (R11M+)

20 I have seen this:

The National Gallery, London
Full title
Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Artist
Luis Meléndez
Artist dates
1716 - 1780
Date made
1772
Medium and support
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 × 81.3 cm
Inscription summary
Signed; Dated

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

21
Take care of your nuts
And your nuts will take care of you.

Posted by: The squirrels at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

22 Seems appropriate, now where are those cloves?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)

23 Like it. My art critique is done.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:33 AM (PCK5/)

24 Where oh where is Kris??

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (PCK5/)

25 Various foods and containers compete for space on a bare wooden shelf or table. A plate is piled high with walnuts, with chestnuts and oranges scattered nearby and a colossal melon behind. There are earthenware jugs, probably containing oil or wine, and a small barrel. The round boxes were normally used for storing cheese, the rectangular ones for sweets such as dulce de membrillo, a thick quince jelly eaten in slices.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

26 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts?
Isn't that a pumpkin in the background or is that the biggest walnut in the world?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

27 Cartons of cigarettes!

Posted by: Mandarin Chinamen at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (Kt19C)

28 Where oh where is Kris??
Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (PCK5/)

Damn good question.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

29 a montiado

If you are lucky, right Edgar?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 02, 2025 09:35 AM (2GVsD)

30 "Nice jugs!"

Posted by: The guy who always says, "Nice jugs!" at December 02, 2025 09:35 AM (/iMjX)

31 >>nothing rhymes with orange

How boring!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2025 09:36 AM (GbwPZ)

32 At least very detailed, and didn't throw some blobs of paint on a canvas

Posted by: Skip at December 02, 2025 09:37 AM (5M/w3)

33 "Nice jugs!"
Posted by: The guy who always says, "Nice jugs!" at December 02, 2025 09:35 AM (/iMjX)

Reminds one of the Benny Hill skit where the waitress keeps going into her bra for coffee fixin's and when she gets to "milk?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

34 I'm getting drowsy just looking at it
very high meh factor

Posted by: Don Black at December 02, 2025 09:37 AM (YLJA8)

35 First cover art of an early Harry & David catalog??

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

36 First cover art of an early Harry & David catalog??

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

Eddie Bauer farts is they're general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

37 Walnuts can be kind of rough on the Beaver.

Posted by: June at December 02, 2025 09:38 AM (XQo4F)

38 Pecans>>>walnuts

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:38 AM (mT+6a)

39 >>First cover art of an early Harry & David catalog??

"Can you just - you know - p'shop a pear in there somewhere?!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 02, 2025 09:38 AM (GbwPZ)

40 Democrat still life. Fruits and nuts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

41 34 family portrait of the cleaver fam showing mathers with a shorn head.
and billingsley saying, "ward- that's not what i meant."

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)

42 I'm allergic to walnuts. Even looking at the picture makes me queasy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 09:39 AM (ufSfZ)

43 What are the blocks of wood there for? To crack the walnuts?

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

44 Their.....damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Hate still lifes. Would never hang. What color is a green orange, anyway?

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 02, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2)

46 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. I wonder if there is whiskey in the cask?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 09:41 AM (y3bZw)

47 What is a green? Why is it orange?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

48 27. How did you know I was bursting with curiosity about what would be in those round and square boxes?

Posted by: PaleRider at December 02, 2025 09:42 AM (hhkIi)

49 Tasty. Needs a comely serving girl to join the table...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer

Then it ceases to be a "still life."

Of it becomes really creepy.

Posted by: mikeski at December 02, 2025 09:42 AM (C58we)

50 It is a relatively confusing mess of a table, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

51 Of=Or. my eyes need an adjustment.

Posted by: mikeski at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (C58we)

52 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday and Lucy the Fink is all over it! She plopped down and purred and offered the belly…

It was a trap. Duh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (mT+6a)

53 Orange walnuts bad.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (ZTT+3)

54 Comments disappeared on me. I should have pasted Posted by: r hennigantx at December 02, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA). in my comment about what would be in the boxes.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (hhkIi)

55 We never see most walnuts these days. Chinese shipping container dropped off at California almond orchard, filled up and sealed. Not opened until it gets to Shanghai.

Posted by: Nuts To You! at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

56 It is a cask, a cask of Amontillado.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (PCK5/)

57 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday and Lucy the Fink is all over it! She plopped down and purred and offered the belly…

It was a trap. Duh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (mT+6a)

Foos knock on my door, want me to pity them.

I say NO!

Posted by: Mr. T at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Needs carrots.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 09:44 AM (pG0Ez)

59 Kind of plain. Needs rodents.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 02, 2025 09:44 AM (bfwj/)

60 Mom always put nuts and oranges in the stockings when we were small.

Was there a specific reason? I've always wondered.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 09:44 AM (JCLJi)

61 What color is a green orange?

That was an odd time to be commenting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

62 36 same as benny offering condiments on the park bench and arrives at vinegar.

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)

63 Hate still lifes. Would never hang. What color is a green orange, anyway?
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at December 02, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2)

Hate is a pretty strong word. You HATE this painting. Wanna punch it in the face?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

64 Orange you glad the goring of boring touring is a gorge full of gourds?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (WQDw6)

65 There are rodents, lurking, in the shadows.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (PCK5/)

66 That was an odd time to be commenting.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

But TJM sure took advantage of the ability to insert gifs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

67 Do the oranges and walnuts make this something other than a still life? If not, why mention them specifically?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (ExV1e)

68 No Geezer Golf today. I'm still in Texas but have lowered my handicap by three strokes. Those old blue hairs will be as green as that gourd thingie with envy when they see my game next.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (y3bZw)

69 Oranges and walnuts - good flavors for cocktail bitters.

Is it too early for an old fashioned?

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (Ltmlv)

70 67 Do the oranges and walnuts make this something other than a still life? If not, why mention them specifically?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (ExV1e)

No, Jim, they’re dead.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (PCK5/)

71 It is a cask, a cask of Amontillado.
Posted by: tubal

Fantastic! I'll go get my trowel.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (TjjWK)

72 I'm allergic to walnuts. Even looking at the picture makes me queasy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 09:39 AM (ufSfZ)

Yeah, I'm allergic to many tree nuts.

Pecans are fine. Most of them are deadly to me. But walnuts just make me sick, so I eat them anyway. I'm like that with eggplant, too.

Some things taste good enough to eat them even if they set your mouth on fire and tear your guts up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (BI5O2)

73 You know a painting is boring when you can't think of a fish pun.

Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

74 63 bachpfeiffengesicht!

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (R11M+)

75 Test

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (Ikz78)

76 The old fashioned's time has been.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (L/fGl)

77 69 Oranges and walnuts - good flavors for cocktail bitters.

Is it too early for an old fashioned?
Posted by: Doof

Absolutely not!

*slides over*
*winks at Doof*

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (mT+6a)

78
Is it too early for an old fashioned?
Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (Ltmlv)

If you have to ask, it's not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

79 that cask is shaped just like tube steak.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 02, 2025 09:48 AM (EyfuW)

80 You know a painting is boring when you can't think of a fish pun.
Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

It is kind of crappie.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (y3bZw)

81 69 Oranges and walnuts - good flavors for cocktail bitters.

Is it too early for an old fashioned?
Posted by: Doof

Bourbon talk in the Morning Report, old fashioned now. Your mind is on one track-to perdition!

Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs. at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

82
Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Real Life with Boobies and Butts
Sea Life with fishes
Dream Life with wishes
And Your Life's filled up with whats?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

83 Some things taste good enough to eat them even if they set your mouth on fire and tear your guts up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (BI5O2)

I'm allergic to cats and dogs. But I love on 'em anyway. Just keep them away from my face and wash my hands before touching my face. Some things are worth the risk.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (JCLJi)

84 You know a painting is boring when you can't think of a fish pun.
Posted by: dantesed at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

You can't connect a fish with orange? That's roughy.

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 09:50 AM (Ltmlv)

85 I suppose it's ok if you like oranges and walnuts.

Posted by: Weasel at December 02, 2025 09:50 AM (TMF5Z)

86 Muldoon could fix things.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:50 AM (PCK5/)

87 yeah, good art. Great technique, doesn't move me but I don't hate it at all.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 02, 2025 09:50 AM (xcxpd)

88 I suppose it's ok if you like oranges and walnuts.
Posted by: Weasel at December 02, 2025 09:50 AM (TMF5Z)

*sobs*

Posted by: Cashews at December 02, 2025 09:51 AM (y3bZw)

89 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Real Life with Boobies and Butts
Sea Life with fishes
Dream Life with wishes
And Your Life's filled up with whats?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

Endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 02, 2025 09:51 AM (xcxpd)

90 It is a cask, a cask of Amontillado.
Posted by: tubal

Fantastic! I'll go get my trowel.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 02, 2025 09:47 AM (TjjWK)
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For the !ove of God, Montresor!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 09:51 AM (0cOaq)

91 I'm not a big fan of still life paintings in general but I like this one. Probably would not hang it on my wall because the colors are quite muted, but thats probably cuz its 250 years old.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 02, 2025 09:51 AM (hhkIi)

92 Mr. CBD

Could you send me an email, please?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

93 I used to date a girl, her dad liked me to watch when he took two walnuts in his hand and cracked the shells.

"11 o'clock? Yes, sir!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (A0sqA)

94 Bourbon talk in the Morning Report, old fashioned now. Your mind is on one track-to perdition!
Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs. at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (Ltmlv)

95 Mom always put nuts and oranges in the stockings when we were small.

Was there a specific reason? I've always wondered.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter

My Mom grew up during the Great Depression. Every Christmas Eve, when they'd go to church, the kids would get an orange as a gift. She used to talk about how much she looked forward to that orange every year.

Maybe there's some specific connection of oranges with Christmas? Or maybe it's just a tasty way to contrast the warmth and sunshine of Florida with the cold, snowy Christmas season in the North?

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

96 The art....

It's a nice still life but it's dark. Why is it so dark? Is it the drab colors? Is it deliberately dark? Is the painting just dirty?
Is the artist trying to show the world before electric lights?

Not sure about this one. It really does seem dirty and dingy.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (2J/Lj)

97 91 I'm not a big fan of still life paintings in general but I like this one. Probably would not hang it on my wall because the colors are quite muted, but thats probably cuz its 250 years old.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 02, 2025 09:51 AM (hhkIi)

Yeah the Day- Glo Orange has not held up.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (PCK5/)

98 Copies would be hanging in 90% of 60’s homes.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 09:54 AM (KDPiq)

99 Gotta be past 100 by the time I post this.

Donuts are “bad” for us, I get that. Sugar, fat, carbs, etc. Here’s the thing, if I’m going to “sin” I want to do it right. Corn syrup and industrial lubricants ain’t it. Plus, they taste like $&it.

A proper donut or two (or seven) is a beautiful thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 09:55 AM (zTpLb)

100 Spanish oranges are blood-red on the inside, and really delicious.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 02, 2025 09:55 AM (w9Wax)

101 Still Life should have a special wing at museums, so they can be roped off, then imploded.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at December 02, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)

102
99 Gotta be past 100 by the time I post this.

Donuts are “bad” for us, I get that. Sugar, fat, carbs, etc. Here’s the thing, if I’m going to “sin” I want to do it right. Corn syrup and industrial lubricants ain’t it. Plus, they taste like $&it.

A proper donut or two (or seven) is a beautiful thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 09:55 AM (zTpLb)

CLOSE!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

103 We have striven/Strove??? to stay on topic for 100 comments. Huzzah! I say, Huzzah!!

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 09:56 AM (PCK5/)

104 I think you're probably right on both counts, Bulg.

Oranges were a likely a big treat.

But the nuts. They're everywhere! I moved thousands of walnuts a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 09:56 AM (JCLJi)

105 Isn't every painting, picture or image a still life?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Bourbon talk in the Morning Report, old fashioned now. Your mind is on one track-to perdition!
Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs. at December 02, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

Ahhh....Perdition. A fine beer from the Russian River Beer Co.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 09:56 AM (y3bZw)

107 Foos knock on my door, want me to pity them.

I say NO!
Posted by: Mr. T at December 02, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, the Foo Fighters kind of suck these days. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 09:57 AM (ufSfZ)

108 Isn't every painting, picture or image a still life?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

If that gourd had eyes they would follow you as you cross the room.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (y3bZw)

109
Yeah, the Foo Fighters kind of suck these days. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 09:57 AM (ufSfZ)

I think they've had a total of 2 songs I can listen to more than once.

Can only name one of them, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Maybe there's some specific connection of oranges with Christmas?

-
Loaves and fishes and oranges.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

111 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts

And cartons of Camel non-filters.

Posted by: GI care package at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (TbWk/)

112 “Harry and David”

(Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)

ProTip: Any retail product with an “&” ampersand in the name is probably way overpriced.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (zTpLb)

113 Some things taste good enough to eat them even if they set your mouth on fire and tear your guts up.

But enough about my love life. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (ufSfZ)

114 Oranges became very important to prevent scurvy on sailing ships.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (KDPiq)

115
ProTip: Any retail product with an “&” ampersand in the name is probably way overpriced.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (zTpLb)

What?

Posted by: Abercrombie & Fitch at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

116 My parents grew up in Norway, and the orange at Christmas was a big treat. I don't know what they had under German occupation 1940-45. I doubt the Krauts put a high priority on citrus imports.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (oftw2)

117 Ahhhhh.

Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

118 Mul doon, Mul doon,
That withering wit of a man.
The nuts will be, a certain glee,
We roast them up in a pan.
With beer on top. and pumpkin snot,
They burned their nuts, MacaDam!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (WQDw6)

119 I didn't even know they had 2"x4"s back in 1772.

Posted by: Interesting at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (VEzeD)

120 Some things taste good enough to eat them even if they set your mouth on fire and tear your guts up.

But enough about my love life. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Heh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

121 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Everlong is one of my all time favorite songs.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (KDPiq)

122 Some things taste good enough to eat them even if they set your mouth on fire and tear your guts up.

If it burns going in....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (Ikz78)

123 117 Ahhhhh.

Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

St. Petersburg in December.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (PCK5/)

124 Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

I come back tomorrow. Just checked the weather.
Ugh.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (y3bZw)

125 Still Life With Oranges and Walnuts

*********

Navel Oranges - a limerick

There once was a young man named Wentz
Who was hanging around with some friends
One asked, "Do you have an outie?"
He replied (all bold and doughty)
"Don't be silly, it's a Mercedes Benz!"

(This one works best if you read it aloud silently to yourself)

Posted by: The guy who always says, at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

126 Black walnut trees kinda suck. They're gorgeous, but you can't really put them in most yards, because they have a biological strategy where every part of them secretes a chemical that inhibits the growth of everything around them, so they can suck up all the nutrients and sunlight for themselves.

They're bastard trees.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (BI5O2)

127 I didn't even know they had 2"x4"s back in 1772.
Posted by: Interesting

They were actually 2x4.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (Ikz78)

128 I like the art. Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)

129 A snow plow just went by!! We have a couple of inches of snow on the ground today. I clumb out of bed and mosied out to the kitchen and discovered that it had snowed over night. It looks very pretty. I would love it if it was like this on Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

Someone mentioned oranges and walnuts in Christmas stocking. Yep! Mom and Dad did that for us too! I've never really understood the connection.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (2J/Lj)

130 Oranges and lemons:

https://tinyurl.com/y4ed42w6

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (ufSfZ)

131 Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)
-

A 3 hour tour.

A 3 hour tour.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (ZTT+3)

132 So, whoever was prattling on in the previous thread on Four Roses, please...don't. I don't want one of my favorites to suffer the pretentiousness of Buffalo Trace...

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)

133 What's in the boxes? 200 rounds 5.56 each?

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (KiBMU)

134 Harry & David personally select every fruit that is sent to their members.

Today is kumquat day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2025 10:02 AM (dyewR)

135 /sock fail

Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX)

136 Is it too early for an old fashioned?
Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 09:46 AM (Ltmlv)

I'll make one the old fashioned way! The way dear old Dad used to!

Posted by: Tyler Fitzgerald at December 02, 2025 10:02 AM (ufSfZ)

137 Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

Proof as to why winter sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

138 A day without still life is like a day without sunshine.

Posted by: Anita Bryant at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

139 “I got an Orange for Christmas one year. I shared it with my sister. Another year I got a scarf.”
Standard lecture to us kids surrounded by mounds of toys and wrappings. “Candy bars only cost a nickel. But we didn’t have a nickel.”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (zTpLb)

140 What's in the boxes? 200 rounds 5.56 each?"

Well, it's NATO, so...sure

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (XuXeR)

141 119 I didn't even know they had 2"x4"s back in 1772.
----

Look at them like they are boxes with lids. One of them has writing on the end facing out.

Posted by: clarence at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (E19xE)

142 Just about time to head to the boat. It’s dark and raining and 39.

Sunset at 4:19.

Posted by: nurse ratched

And I thought ours was bad around 5:20.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (Ikz78)

143 I don't want to shock you but Schmukie Tumor is lying again.

https://is.gd/woelRl

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

144 One of them has writing on the end facing out."

Name/ date

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)

145 New Franklin the Turtle book just published:

https://tinyurl.com/myaxpzyx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:04 AM (ZTT+3)

146 Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (zTpLb)

147 “I got an Orange for Christmas one year. I shared it with my sister. Another year I got a scarf.”
Standard lecture to us kids surrounded by mounds of toys and wrappings. “Candy bars only cost a nickel. But we didn’t have a nickel.”
Posted by: Common Tater

One orange + one box of dried cloves = a first or second grader's Christmas tree ornament.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (Ikz78)

148 Sunset at 4:19.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

Proof as to why winter sucks.
Posted by: Sponge

In Treasure Island, the beginning part set in Scotland, Jim Hawkins mentions that it's dark at something like 3:00.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

149 Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM"

Sounds...Garfunkelish

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (XuXeR)

150 It’s 39 degrees and I have a tee time in 45 minutes.
Will be 45 degrees at best when I tee off. Play or not to play is the question.

These are the type of retirement quandaries I like.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:06 AM (KDPiq)

151 Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM
Posted by: Common Tater

Hello darkness my old friend
I stood up too quickly once again

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:06 AM (Ikz78)

152 Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM

Don't close your eyes, or it will be even earlier.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 02, 2025 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

153 Nobody GAF, but now everyone asking why that MFer has three offices, however. Talk about an own goal. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:06 AM (zTpLb)

154 Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of St. Clement's
You owe me five farthings
Say the bells of St. Martin's
When will you pay me
Say the bells of Stepney
When I get rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be
Say the bells of Old Bailey
I do not know
Say the great bells.of Bow
Here comes a copper to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (0cOaq)

155 It's brown. Very brown. Perhaps it needs cleaning. Did I mention how brown it is?

Posted by: creeper at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (80oeU)

156 Dim lighting but you can see everything, and the textures of the jugs and their coverings, the walnuts, the pumpkins, and the wooden boxes are all well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (wzUl9)

157 In Treasure Island, the beginning part set in Scotland, Jim Hawkins mentions that it's dark at something like 3:00.
Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

2 of the 3 times they sent me to Denmark, it was December and February.

The sun never gets above the trees, it's light at 8:30 and dark at 4:30.

I would HATE to live like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

158 Black walnut trees kinda suck. They're gorgeous, but you can't really put them in most yards, because they have a biological strategy where every part of them secretes a chemical that inhibits the growth of everything around them, so they can suck up all the nutrients and sunlight for themselves.
=====

Also staining sidewalks and streets.

Lovely Thanksgiving art. I just wish it was lighter. I would hang, btw.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (lL6v/)

159 One of them has writing on the end facing out."

Name/ date
Posted by: man

The one just behind that... You can see the construction. They're boxes.

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

160 114 then why they call limeys?

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)

161 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Luis Meléndez

Painted 1772. Wonderful detail and highlighting; so fine it looks like a photo. Would hang this painting.

Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 02, 2025 10:07 AM (NFX2v)

162 151 Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM
Posted by: Common Tater

Hello darkness my old friend
I stood up too quickly once again
----

When the moon hits your eyes
At 445
That's November

Posted by: clarence at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (E19xE)

163 Wooden cracker boxes, with a slide off lid and dovetailed, I think.

Posted by: old chick at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (F3Dlr)

164 Yeah could be worse, darkness wise. Could be Calgary, or Edmonton.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (PCK5/)

165 It's brown. Very brown. Perhaps it needs cleaning. Did I mention how brown it is?
Posted by: creeper

Black and brown paintings of color!

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

166 Look at them like they are boxes with lids. One of them has writing on the end facing out.
Posted by: clarence at December 02, 2025

***
They look like extra-long cigar boxes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

167 ProTip: Any retail product with an “&” ampersand in the name is probably way overpriced.
Posted by: Common Tater

Ye Olde Shoppe & Goe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

168
Hello darkness my old friend
It now gets dark at 4 PM

Neighbors glance at me askance
I went out walking without my pants

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (iJfKG)

169 Reminds me I haven’t watched one of my favorite vampire movies in awhile.

30 Days of Night

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (KDPiq)

170 122 come on, ice cream!

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (R11M+)

171 WRT oranges at Christmas - it comes from the legend of St Nicholas, who, to save three girls from having to prostitute themselves, came by at night and filled their stockings with gold.

This legend led to people putting out shoes or stockings on December 6, waiting for the saint to leave them a gift. Oranges are meant to represent the bags of gold, because of their color.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (ufSfZ)

172
It’s 39 degrees and I have a tee time in 45 minutes.
Will be 45 degrees at best when I tee off. Play or not to play is the question.
Posted by: the way I see it

Same decisions I make when riding the motorcycle. Pretty much as long as it isn't icy, or wet, i'll be on it. I think the coldest I've riden was maybe 7° for a 50 mile round trip to/from work because the car (vw turbo diesel bug) was inop and at the dealer.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (QVmho)

173 Soak this dark, dirty painting in acetone overnight and see what a difference it makes!

Posted by: Hints From Heloise. at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)

174 Denmark today:

Sunrise
8:16 am
↑ 130° Southeast

Sunset
3:41 pm
↑ 230° Southwest

Suck.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

175 The 2x4's confuse me. Inviting the Beavers over for a bite?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025

***
"How did that Cleaver kid get his nickname, anyway? Did he come home one day with a branch in his mouth?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

176 2 of the 3 times they sent me to Denmark, it was December and February.

The sun never gets above the trees, it's light at 8:30 and dark at 4:30.

I would HATE to live like that.
Posted by: Sponge

That explains a lot about the Scandis -- Munch, Ibsen. And the Russians, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

177 So, whoever was prattling on in the previous thread on Four Roses, please...don't. I don't want one of my favorites to suffer the pretentiousness of Buffalo Trace...
Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)

That was prattling in your opinion? Noted.

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (Ltmlv)

178 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts"

Looks like a bunch of Hickok45 targets...

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (XuXeR)

179 It’s 39 degrees and I have a tee time in 45 minutes.
Will be 45 degrees at best when I tee off. Play or not to play is the question.
Posted by: the way I see it

If there's still frost on the greens, they won't let you tee off. But, if it's 45 by tee time, as long as the sun shines and the wind DOESN'T blow, you'll be fine.

You'll have the jacket off by hole 5.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

180 169 Reminds me I haven’t watched one of my favorite vampire movies in awhile.

30 Days of Night
Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (KDPiq)

That is a very disturbing movie. Good, but disturbing. Dark and nihilistic, it is.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

181 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Interesting. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

182 I think the boxes are lemons preserved in sugar as a sort of "cheese", the original form of marmalade or Turkish delight.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2025 10:11 AM (rbvCR)

183 Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (QVmho)

I forgot my gloves on a crisp day riding my motorcycle to work and decided not to walk back to my apartment thinking I could do 25 minutes.

Worse decision evah.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:11 AM (KDPiq)

184 They're bastard trees.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2025 10:00 AM (BI5O2)

Hear hear!

Friggin' walnuts...

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 10:12 AM (JCLJi)

185 ProTip: Any retail product with an “&” ampersand in the name is probably way overpriced.
Posted by: Common Tater

***
When a restaurant posts its menu outside the door . . . and especially if the items on it are simply "$9" (for a flippin' appetizer!) or "$35" without any cents, or if certain items say "Market Price" . . .

. . . way overpriced. Avoid.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

186 The movie "Casablanca" takes place during the period of December 2-4, 1941.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:12 AM (0cOaq)

187 That was prattling in your opinion? Noted."

Chatting? Blather? Jabber?

Posted by: man at December 02, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

188 Reminds me I haven’t watched one of my favorite vampire movies in awhile.

30 Days of Night
Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (KDPiq)

That is a very disturbing movie. Good, but disturbing. Dark and nihilistic, it is.
Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

I take it as an allegory for when Californians started showing up[ in Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 10:12 AM (iJfKG)

189 132 esp cask strength single barrel.
i used to think it was indian (pull start) since i was first served it at a wedding in nepal. we were just walking past...

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 10:13 AM (R11M+)

190 Kumquat may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

MacBeth Act 1 Scene 3

Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:13 AM (/iMjX)

191 /sock fail
Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX)

Knew that had to be you. Exellence today, Sir.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 10:13 AM (JCLJi)

192 Hello darkness my old friend
Stubbed my toe in the hall again.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (ZTT+3)

193 After months and months of sticky, hot yellow sunlight, some early darkness sounds good to me. I *may* change my mind once I move farther North . . . but then summer won't last from March until November, either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

194 I used to date a girl, her dad liked me to watch when he took two walnuts in his hand and cracked the shells.

"11 o'clock? Yes, sir!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 02, 2025 09:53 AM (A0sqA)

Crushing two in your fist against each other is easy with English walnuts, the hard one is breaking a single walnut in your fingers. When I was doing a lot of manual work I could do it, I am not sure I could manage now. It is a matter both of grip strength, rolling the pressure across where the shells meet, and knowing to choose thin walled English walnuts

Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (rbvCR)

195 During our misspent youth somebody got the bright idea, a bunch of us decided to go winter camping. Probably me, I dunno. We took a Wards 2 man tent with fly, and a case of beer.

It wasn’t like camping in the summer! We built a fire out of fast burning easily gathered “squaw wood”. Soon the fire was out, the beer was gone, and so was the Sun. Froze our behinds off.

I had my summer Scout sleeping bag, which I had outgrown. Had depictions of Boy Scouts shooting arrows and cooking over a fire and stuff like that on the liner. Went up to my armpits, and I spent the night curled into a ball trying to conserve warmth.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (zTpLb)

196 One orange + one box of dried cloves = a first or second grader's Christmas tree ornament.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:05 AM (Ikz7

I suppose you could use an orange but grab a lemon a some cloves and you've got yourself an interesting party game.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 10:15 AM (ExV1e)

197 but then summer won't last from March until November, either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

It's what I love about Texas. Long summer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

198 170 122 come on, ice cream!
Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (R11M+)

A very brief sentence demonstrating the critical importance of punctuation.

Posted by: Let's eat grandma at December 02, 2025 10:15 AM (TbWk/)

199 Wolfus Aurelius, happy lights help, as does getting out and actually seeing the sunrise, whenever it happens

Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2025 10:16 AM (rbvCR)

200 My nuts are bigger than his.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 02, 2025 10:16 AM (Wg6v7)

201 Slept late dammit!

I enjoy still life paintings and this one is wonderful. It lacks the brilliant colors and exuberance of the Dutch still life but is just as effective. Luis Meléndez's are more intimate, smaller settings, with earthier tones. But they are as realistic as the Dutch masters and show equal talent. If I were an art student I would use these as lessons in composition and color.

CBD, thanks for bringing this artist to my attention.

Posted by: JTB at December 02, 2025 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

202 Here is a pretty cool link that overlays US cities with European cities on the same lat & longitudes.

https://tinyurl.com/ybma3rzd

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:16 AM (Ikz78)

203 My nuts are bigger than his.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 02, 2025 10:16 AM (Wg6v7)

I'm listening.....

Posted by: Big Mike Obama at December 02, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Speaking of punctuation, scripture was written without it, in part, I think. Just one big old run on, with no cues about where anything began or ended.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

205 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Interesting. Thanks!
Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

Seconded.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 10:17 AM (JCLJi)

206 The movie "Casablanca" takes place during the period of December 2-4, 1941.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025

***
Casablanca lies at 33 degrees north latitude, only a little above Cairo or Nawluns; so its days wouldn't be anywhere near as short as in Oslo or Copenhagen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

207 It’s 39 degrees and I have a tee time in 45 minutes.
Will be 45 degrees at best when I tee off. Play or not to play is the question.

These are the type of retirement quandaries I like.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:06 AM (

Use cold weather gloves for both hands.
Hit a "soft" ball...I use Pinnacles. Calloways are good too.
Make sure the flask is full.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (y3bZw)

208 Reminds me I haven’t watched one of my favorite vampire movies in awhile.

30 Days of Night
Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (KDPiq)

That is a very disturbing movie. Good, but disturbing. Dark and nihilistic, it is.
Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

Good flick. You should also watch Near Dark if you haven't already. A grossly underrated vampire movie with a number of character actors you'll immediately recognize if you're at all familiar with James Cameron's oeuvre.

Posted by: Bloodsuckers at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (TbWk/)

209
180 169 Reminds me I haven’t watched one of my favorite vampire movies in awhile.

30 Days of Night
Posted by: the way I see it at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (KDPiq)

That is a very disturbing movie. Good, but disturbing. Dark and nihilistic, it is.
Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

Try Midnight Mass on Netflix. A different twist on the vampire story. Plus it's a good lesson on worshipping false gods.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (g8Ew8)

210 Scary ass story with scary ass picture.

https://is.gd/6laFGc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

211 When a restaurant posts its menu outside the door . . .
——

I think that is requirement in some states? It is for sure in some European countries. Not a bad idea really in some ways. Saves embarrassment at least.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (zTpLb)

212 I do so like commas, but semicolons make me nervous, as do colons. I have eschewed the use of the ellipsis, although I DO like the occasional dash.

Posted by: tubal at December 02, 2025 10:19 AM (PCK5/)

213 Here is a pretty cool link that overlays US cities with European cities on the same lat & longitudes.

https://tinyurl.com/ybma3rzd
Posted by: rickb223

It's really amazing how far north many Old-World cities are, yet how mild their climate is compared with North-American cities at the same latitude.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

214 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Real Life with Boobies and Butts
Sea Life with fishes
Dream Life with wishes
And Your Life's filled up with whats?

Posted by: naturalfake

**********

Enigmatic limerick with a philosophical bent! Asking the hard questions. I'd hang it if someone put it on a cross-stitch sampler.

Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)

215 Try Midnight Mass on Netflix. A different twist on the vampire story. Plus it's a good lesson on worshipping false gods.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (g8Ew

It's a good one, despite the dash or two of wokeness that Netflix has to slop into every series.

Posted by: More bloodsuckers at December 02, 2025 10:20 AM (TbWk/)

216 Scary ass story with scary ass picture.

https://is.gd/6laFGc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

God, SMOD or God caused SMOD.

End it, soon. We've ruined your gracious gift.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Here is a pretty cool link that overlays US cities with European cities on the same lat & longitudes.

https://tinyurl.com/ybma3rzd
Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025

***
Indianapolis is at about the same level as northern Greece/Macedonia? But it has Cairo = New Orleans, so I guess it's properly aligned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

218 It's really amazing how far north many Old-World cities are, yet how mild their climate is compared with North-American cities at the same latitude.
Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
--------
Gulf stream.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (0cOaq)

219 My nuts are bigger than his.

The Paolo, he - how you say? - has no need to brag.

Posted by: Paolo at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (ufSfZ)

220 The [reasons] for brackets still escapes me

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (zTpLb)

221 210 Scary ass story with scary ass picture.

https://is.gd/6laFGc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

Huh. Never in a million years would I have guessed.

Posted by: They really do have a certain look about them at December 02, 2025 10:21 AM (TbWk/)

222 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

It's getting dark here by 5:30p at this time of year. Looking out my living room window right now...... It's 20 degrees, got about 2 inches of snow on the ground, and a light breeze from the north that's just barely moving the flag and making the wind chimes sing. Not horrible if I don't have to go outside.
We usually have wind on this hill. Today it's a light breeze. A few night ago it was a howling 20 miles an hour with gusts up to 40 mph.
I can live with the breeze.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:22 AM (2J/Lj)

223 Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts
Real Life with Boobies and Butts
Sea Life with fishes
Dream Life with wishes
And Your Life's filled up with whats?

Posted by: naturalfake

**********

Enigmatic limerick with a philosophical bent! Asking the hard questions. I'd hang it if someone put it on a cross-stitch sampler.
Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)

Praise from the Master. Nice!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)

224 202 Here is a pretty cool link that overlays US cities with European cities on the same lat & longitudes.
Posted by: rickb223

Thanks.

Maybe it's also the latitudes & longitudes affecting Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Minneapolis.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

225 Here is a pretty cool link that overlays US cities with European cities on the same lat & longitudes.

https://tinyurl.com/ybma3rzd
Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025

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The presence of water around various parts of Europe moderates those latitudes in many cases. And altitude. Denver on this map is right near Corsica or Sardinia, but those have a Mediterranean climate, whereas Denver gets much colder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (wzUl9)

226 It's really amazing how far north many Old-World cities are, yet how mild their climate is compared with North-American cities at the same latitude.
Posted by: Bulg

I would have never guessed Dallas would be aligned with Tripoli.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (Ikz78)

227 I do so like commas, but semicolons make me nervous, as do colons. I have eschewed the use of the ellipsis, although I DO like the occasional dash.
Posted by: tubal

Hyphens are way underused, if you ask me. Anytime you use a multiword phrase adjectivally, clarity demands the use of a comma between every word of the phrase, e.g., "real-estate developer," "Red-Army Chorus," "Third-World shithole," etc.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

228 It's getting dark here by 5:30p at this time of year. Looking out my living room window right now...... It's 20 degrees, got about 2 inches of snow on the ground, and a light breeze from the north that's just barely moving the flag and making the wind chimes sing. Not horrible if I don't have to go outside.
We usually have wind on this hill. Today it's a light breeze. A few night ago it was a howling 20 miles an hour with gusts up to 40 mph.
I can live with the breeze.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025

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Sounds good to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

229 And altitude. Denver on this map is right near Corsica or Sardinia, but those have a Mediterranean climate, whereas Denver gets much colder.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (wzUl9)
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Blame Canada.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (0cOaq)

230 Use cold weather gloves for both hands.
Hit a "soft" ball...I use Pinnacles. Calloways are good too.
Make sure the flask is full.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 10:18 AM (y3bZw)

This past Saturday morning - 36 degrees at tee time.

All 3 of your suggestions were in effect for me!
Callaway Supersoft balls have become my go-to.
Flask was full of 1792 Bottled-In-Bond. It did not stay full very long!

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (Ltmlv)

231 2 of the 3 times they sent me to Denmark, it was December and February.

The sun never gets above the trees, it's light at 8:30 and dark at 4:30.

I would HATE to live like that.
Posted by: Sponge

That explains a lot about the Scandis -- Munch, Ibsen. And the Russians, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

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Grew up in mostly sunny Las Vegas -- an occasional rain or monsoon, and an inch or two of snow every decade.

Freshman year of college in SoCal east of L.A., it rained for two weeks straight -- and I went into a deep depression.

That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

[Also, as an aside: a couple decades ago, took an online Medical Transcription course -- which has now been obsoleted by voice translation software. My "practice doctor" was based in Seattle -- and every single report of a patient's medical history began with the diagnosis of "Hypovitaminosis D" (Vitamin D Deficiency).]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (pG0Ez)

232 I also would have never guessed Paris is further north than Seattle.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (Ikz78)

233 WRT oranges at Christmas - it comes from the legend of St Nicholas, who, to save three girls from having to prostitute themselves, came by at night and filled their stockings with gold.

This legend led to people putting out shoes or stockings on December 6, waiting for the saint to leave them a gift. Oranges are meant to represent the bags of gold, because of their color.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:09 AM

My family has always included a tangerine/clementine in the toe of our Christmas stockings. Oranges are too big.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

234 The [reasons] for brackets still escapes me
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025

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You use them to hold up shelves!

And to enclose information that is already inside parentheses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

235 It’s fascinating how Dems are fighting for the “rights” of illegal aliens and drug smugglers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (kz78D)

236 this painting is eerily precognitive...it presages the Photorealism trend of the late 1900s

Posted by: kallisto at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

237 My family has always included a tangerine/clementine in the toe of our Christmas stockings. Oranges are too big.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (kgE5c)

So you're saying that you have small feet. Dating must have been tough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

238 Brrrr! 48°! Southern California cold.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (Kt19C)

239 That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

Posted by: ShainS

You can see it here in Dallas after five or six days without sun. People start getting snippy over nothing. And it happens that quickly. I've felt it before.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (Ikz78)

240 The [reasons] for brackets still escapes me

Many times they are used when a quote is being referenced and certain information in the quote needs clarification, e.g. -

"The part of the Sorcerer was written with Fred Sullivan [the composer's brother] in mind, but his early death caused Gilbert & Sullivan to re-cast the part."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM (ufSfZ)

241 Costco's 12 miles away via big busy metro boulevards, maybe 15 traffic lights, looking at both sides road, pass 15 or so gas stations.

I really didn't look at the posted prices much, but I recall seeing a $3.14 sigh on one.

Paid $2.99 to fill an almost empty tank and was feeling good, but then on ride home, checking all the posted prices, found that the $3.14 was an anomaly. All others were between $2.84 and $3.04, many at the same $2.99 I had just paid at Costco.

So, Costco sucks.

And here is a question about Costco. How come of all the Reddit groups you can join and post on, the r/Costco requires a thousand or more "karma" points?

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 02, 2025 10:28 AM (KiBMU)

242 When a restaurant posts its menu outside the door . . .
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I think that is requirement in some states? It is for sure in some European countries. Not a bad idea really in some ways. Saves embarrassment at least.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025

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True. You know to find someplace else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

243 It's Dec. 2nd, and I've had enough snow to last me all year. Think we got a foot ore more this past weekend. I'm already sore from shoveling and sick of plowing.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

244 Belgian police have arrested a big fraud fish. Remember her?

https://tinyurl.com/4bpntu57

I'm sure someone in Brussels will make sure that she's gently put back in the water.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:29 AM (ZTT+3)

245 The [reasons] for brackets still escapes me
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025

Remember when it was such a big deal to see my brackets in March??

Posted by: B. Obama at December 02, 2025 10:29 AM (Ltmlv)

246 When I was in Amsterdam first time in summer I was like whoa sun sets late here. It was like 10pm and still light outside. Europe is way up there in latitude. Fo ‘sho.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:29 AM (kz78D)

247 That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

Posted by: ShainS

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I have that in reverse. Unbreathable humid heat and vicious hot sunlight that lasts for ten months of the year is very depressing to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:30 AM (wzUl9)

248 And to enclose information that is already inside parentheses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And to enclose clarifying information added to a direct quotation via the insertion of words not present in the original source.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

249 That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

Same here. Constant rain, gloom and snow depresses me even more than usual.

(Also, as an aside: a couple decades ago, took an online Medical Transcription course -- which has now been obsoleted by voice translation software. My "practice doctor" was based in Seattle -- and every single report of a patient's medical history began with the diagnosis of "Hypovitaminosis D" (Vitamin D Deficiency).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (pG0Ez)

Not entirely replaced. I still do medical transcription, since voice software cannot, at the moment, handle certain accents combined with mnemonics.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:30 AM (ufSfZ)

250
Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts

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I wanna Waldorf salad!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (VWtfl)

251 Flask was full of 1792 Bottled-In-Bond. It did not stay full very long!
Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (Ltmlv)

Hopefully one day we can do a round.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (y3bZw)

252 I would have never guessed Dallas would be aligned with Tripoli.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 02, 2025 10:23 AM (Ikz7

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Many our surprised to learn that (and you can win a few bets with):

Reno, NV is actually West of Los Angeles (by about 86 miles of longitude).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (pG0Ez)

253 Yeah, but I thought that’s what parentheses were for. When I see brackets being used, it always looks arbitrary or random. All I ever think is “why the fuck did they do that” and try to divine some higher purpose. This has eluded me for years now. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (zTpLb)

254 One of the things the government should have done in relation to COVID is to suggest people in the northern parts of the country to take Vit D supplements.

Most people are deficient...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 02, 2025 10:32 AM (sKqQm)

255 Much of Northern Europe would be uninhabitable if not for us allowing them the use of our Gulf (of America) Stream. They should be thankful, not the weenie ingrates they are.

One tenth of Norwegian population lives above the Arctic Circle, not true in Canada.

Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man. at December 02, 2025 10:32 AM (oftw2)

256 Parts of Florida are as far west as Chicago

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (zTpLb)

257 >>That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

You should see Finland in the winter. I was there for a week one January. I never really saw the sun, just a faint glow through the snow that never stopped falling.

Lots of people had those lamps in their office spaces that are supposed to help offset the lack of sun. They do not. Very depressing. No wonder most Fins never smile and carry knives.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (viF8m)

258 Not entirely replaced. I still do medical transcription, since voice software cannot, at the moment, handle certain accents combined with mnemonics.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:30 AM (ufSfZ)

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Ah, I was wondering about that MP4 (as my voice translations often suck when using my phone commenting here). Thanks!

I know my chiropractor uses it -- but likely has to double-check and edit mistakes.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (pG0Ez)

259
Many our surprised to learn that (and you can win a few bets with):

Reno, NV is actually West of Los Angeles (by about 86 miles of longitude).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (

The Panama Canal is due south of Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (6KcYW)

260 The [reasons] for brackets still escapes me

Many times they are used when a quote is being referenced and certain information in the quote needs clarification, e.g. -

"The part of the Sorcerer was written with Fred Sullivan [the composer's brother] in mind, but his early death caused Gilbert & Sullivan to re-cast the part."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025

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MP4, you're right. That instead of parentheses prevents the reader from assuming that the info in the brackets is part of the original quote. Also, if you quote something from the middle of a sentence, but it starts a sentence of your own, your inserted capital would go into brackets. "[T]his is a rule."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

261 The EU would not allow those oranges to be sold.

Posted by: no one at December 02, 2025 10:34 AM (W7XSX)

262 Those oranges look good.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 02, 2025 10:34 AM (COL8B)

263 I'm good with about 50/50 sun/rain & snow days a year.

Too much of either one stinks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

264 Many our surprised to learn that (and you can win a few bets with):

Reno, NV is actually West of Los Angeles (by about 86 miles of longitude).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM
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The Panama Canal is due south of Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025

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And there is a tiny arm of Canadian land south of Detroit as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

265 This discussion of latitudes and punctuation is fascinating, but it's time I left on my errands. Later, all!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

266 I recently learned that AI transcription for phone calls is not quite ready for prime time.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (JCLJi)

267 246 When I was in Amsterdam first time in summer I was like whoa sun sets late here. It was like 10pm and still light outside. Europe is way up there in latitude. Fo ‘sho.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:29 AM (kz78D

The town that I grew up in Germany for awhile is the same latitude as the Canadian border.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (6KcYW)

268 Yeah, but I thought that’s what parentheses were for. When I see brackets being used, it always looks arbitrary or random. All I ever think is “why the fuck did they do that” and try to divine some higher purpose. This has eluded me for years now. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (zTpLb)

There are [us[ually [deep] se]eded] reasons for bracket placements. But not always.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

269 Some Churchill still life paintings would be interesting to see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

270 Happy lights, vitamin D supplements and walks on the beach in the rain help. Especially at dusk and the winter ducks are quacking and snerfing and diving for their dinner. The air is crisp and clean, but not dry. And it smells like seaweed and cedar and pine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 10:36 AM (R0XxO)

271 So you're saying that you have small feet. Dating must have been tough.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 10:27 AM

Only small Christmas stockings. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (kgE5c)

272 In the more northern latitudes the Sun is so low in the sky in the winter months, even if it is sunny there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever anyway.

Too much atmosphere for the beneficial rays to penetrate, so there is no natural Vitamin D production by the skin. Wasting your time, and looking silly to boot.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (zTpLb)

273 Casablanca is at the same latitude as San Diego.

Posted by: no one at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (W7XSX)

274 When I was stationed in Sinop, Turkey, I was delighted to learn that it was almost on the exact same parallel as the small town I grew up in in Michigan. Sinop was just above the 42d parallel, and my hometown was just below it. That was cool.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

275 Time to walk up
The hill! Have a great Tuesday!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (R0XxO)

276 One of the things the government should have done in relation to COVID is to suggest people in the northern parts of the country to take Vit D supplements.

Most people are deficient...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 02, 2025 10:32 AM (sKqQm)
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Everyone STILL should, whether north or south because "most people are deficient." And balance it with vitamin K2.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (ZTT+3)

277 You should see Finland in the winter. I was there for a week one January. I never really saw the sun, just a faint glow through the snow that never stopped falling.

Lots of people had those lamps in their office spaces that are supposed to help offset the lack of sun. They do not. Very depressing. No wonder most Fins never smile and carry knives.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (viF8m)

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The opposite of the 2002 Al Pacino film "Insomnia" set in an Alaskan fishing village within the Arctic Circle where the sun doesn't set for week.

Hey Jack, do you have a theory on why Trump and/or his team are not hammering on & using the bully pulpit to explain the now-unraveled conspiracy of Venezuela & Maduro -- SmartMatic & Dominion -- and Serbian server election fraud & theft that's been "electing" Commies throughout The West for decades?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (pG0Ez)

278 44°!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 02, 2025 10:38 AM (Kt19C)

279 235 It’s fascinating how Dems are fighting for the “rights” of illegal aliens and drug smugglers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Business interests?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 02, 2025 10:38 AM (NFX2v)

280 Alaska in summer is trippy. I’ve been twice and it’s weird being out at 11pm bright sunshine and yet everything is closed and the streets are deserted.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:39 AM (kz78D)

281
Freshman year of college in SoCal east of L.A., it rained for two weeks straight -- and I went into a deep depression.

That's when I first learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So there's no way I could live somewhere like Seattle.

Anchorage will do that especially if you go there from the lower 48 in wintertime.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025 10:39 AM (6KcYW)

282 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:37 AM (ZTT+3)

Speaking of weather, how is it in your part of the world today?

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

283 Sounds...Garfunkelish

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Well, it IS the Art Thread, duh!

Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:40 AM (/iMjX)

284 And it smells like seaweed and cedar and pine.
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Minnesota lake water, Evinrude gasoline, a bucket of nightcrawlers, and coffee at 5 am mix up to a wonderful odor. Sagebrush after a rain.

The local woods I grew up in is unique. I bet we could all be transported blindfolded to our local AO where we grew up and ID it precisely be the smell.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 02, 2025 10:40 AM (zTpLb)

285 And there is a tiny arm of Canadian land south of Detroit as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

There was a question in the original Trivia Pursuit game..... What country lies due south of Detroit Michigan?
Most people say it's the US or even Mexico. I was the only one who knew it was Canada. My best friend was born in Detroit and her family immigrated to this part of Indiana to get away from all the crime and snow. Her dad was fond of telling people about this.
My late first husband and I were dating when I told him this little fact. He didn't believe me until I showed him on a map.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:40 AM (2J/Lj)

286 Flask was full of 1792 Bottled-In-Bond. It did not stay full very long!
Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 10:25 AM (Ltmlv)

Hopefully one day we can do a round.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2025 10:31 AM (y3bZw)

That'd be cool. Sounds like I'd be wise to make it a non-wagering situation against you, though!
What part of the country is home for you?

Posted by: Doof at December 02, 2025 10:41 AM (Ltmlv)

287 Some Churchill still life paintings would be interesting to see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 02, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

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Well, he was no Hitler (fortunately for Western Civilization).

/obligatory, and even moreso when it came to writing (I've never read Mein Kampf, but have been assured the writing was juvenile at best).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:42 AM (pG0Ez)

288 And there is a tiny arm of Canadian land south of Detroit as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 02, 2025 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

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Yep, drove south once from Detroit to Windsor.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:43 AM (pG0Ez)

289 Well, he was no Hitler (fortunately for Western Civilization).
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He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, two coats!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:43 AM (0cOaq)

290 Furthest southern point in Canada is further south than the northern most point in California.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:43 AM (kz78D)

291 /obligatory, and even moreso when it came to writing (I've never read Mein Kampf, but have been assured the writing was juvenile at best).
Posted by: ShainS

My brother tried to read it in high school, but couldn't get through it. In his opinion, it is unreadable.

Might've been an issue with the particular translation he read. But I've heard elsewhere that it is a real slog.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

292 A woman who steered her car into a crowd of people protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies in the Loop earlier this year has been sentenced to “second chance probation,” according to court records.

Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 10:44 AM (RHGPo)

293 >>Hey Jack, do you have a theory on why Trump and/or his team are not hammering on & using the bully pulpit to explain the now-unraveled conspiracy of Venezuela & Maduro -- SmartMatic & Dominion -- and Serbian server election fraud & theft that's been "electing" Commies throughout The West for decades?

My theory is that there is a lot more going on with the Venezuela situation than any one issue like vote rigging. That's a real problem but it's a symptom not the cause.

Venezuela is ground zero for foreign meddling from China, Iran and Russia not to mention Hezbollah. Maduro has opened the door to his communist benefactors and they are using Venezuela to create all sorts of problems for the US including drugs, human trafficking and cartels on top of vote interference.

Trump has set up and air and sea blockade of Venezuela. This seems too big to be about any single issue. More about his assertion of the Monroe Doctrine. All foreign intrigue out of the western hemisphere. He might want to keep that on the down low for the time being while stuff is going on behind the scene.

Just my theory.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:44 AM (viF8m)

294 Just spent an hour on the phone with Indian call service for Eero routers. They were telling me that a brief internet outage prevented the router from reconnecting, even after multiple reboots. I said brief internet outages happen all the time, and they've got a serious design problem if that prevents their routers from reconnecting. She claimed that this in fact never happens. Bullshit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (XvL8K)

295 Furthest southern point in Canada is further south than the northern most point in California.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yep. Point Pelee. At least, that's the southernmost land point. I think there's an island in Lake Erie that's even farther south.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

296 A Danish sperm bank has introduced a minimum IQ requirement of 85 for potential donors. This new rule has sparked debate about genetics, ethics, and parental expectations in assisted reproduction. Setting a Minimum Intelligence Standard The Danish sperm bank Donor Network now screens donors by intelligence, becoming the first in the world to require a minimum IQ of 85. It also bars anyone with a criminal record. So far, the company has turned away about 18 percent of applicants who failed to meet the IQ standard.

Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

297 I do so like commas, but semicolons make me nervous, as do colons. I have eschewed the use of the ellipsis, although I DO like the occasional dash.
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Think of punctuation as festive sprinkles. Works for me. Fun and enjoyment are underrated.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 02, 2025 10:46 AM (lL6v/)

298 Well, he was no Hitler (fortunately for Western Civilization).

/obligatory, and even moreso when it came to writing (I've never read Mein Kampf, but have been assured the writing was juvenile at best).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:42 AM (pG0Ez)
Sorta like the tranny school shooters and assassins of today.

Posted by: Eromero at December 02, 2025 10:47 AM (fcLFo)

299 You could put the entire world population in Texas, spread it out evenly and the density would be less than the current density of Manhattan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:47 AM (kz78D)

300 Training videos. There's a reason some people know things but can't say them properly. This guy sounds like Elmer Fudd trying to imitate Peter Lorre.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 02, 2025 10:47 AM (WPL6O)

301 Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

I would have thought that was standard practice. Both the intelligence and criminal history. It seems like good common sense thing to do.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:48 AM (2J/Lj)

302 Speaking of weather, how is it in your part of the world today?

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
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Temperature in Jerusalem finally dropped to below 60. Have the heat on right now. Nippy. Dry but we need more rain.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:48 AM (ZTT+3)

303 Forgot to include the Great Dane on punctuation --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPc0aijY2o4

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 02, 2025 10:48 AM (lL6v/)

304 Think of punctuation as festive sprinkles. Works for me. Fun and enjoyment are underrated.
Posted by: mustbequantum

A Russian-speaking attorney I worked for in the US was constantly flummoxed by the seemingly capricious nature of English punctuation.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

305 A Danish sperm bank has introduced a minimum IQ requirement of 85 for potential donors. This new rule has sparked debate about genetics, ethics, and parental expectations in assisted reproduction. Setting a Minimum Intelligence Standard The Danish sperm bank Donor Network now screens donors by intelligence, becoming the first in the world to require a minimum IQ of 85. It also bars anyone with a criminal record. So far, the company has turned away about 18 percent of applicants who failed to meet the IQ standard.
Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

Can't fault them for not wanting the retarded offspring of five monkeys having buttsex with a fish-squirrel.

Posted by: Evolution in a nutshell at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (TbWk/)

306 You should see Finland in the winter. I was there for a week one January. I never really saw the sun, just a faint glow through the snow that never stopped falling.

Lots of people had those lamps in their office spaces that are supposed to help offset the lack of sun. They do not. Very depressing. No wonder most Fins never smile and carry knives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:33 AM (viF8m)

Now, do Fairbanks, AK. Sun comes up in the south around 10:30-11:00am and sets in the south by around 1:30pm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8)

307 Does it snow in Israel?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)

308 [snip]

Just my theory.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:44 AM (viF8m)

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Thanks for the response -- always enjoy hearing your analyses.

Our "incurious" (willfully blind) MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia is extremely enraging!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (pG0Ez)

309 Heat at 60? Wimp!!
Real Men don’t run the heater until the temp starts with a 3!!

😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (kz78D)

310 Maduro was also entertaining allowing Chinese military forces, mostly their air force and navy to utilize bases there.

Or build their own.

Which the administration could not permit.

The drugs are a problem. Not "the" problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (NwnyJ)

311
A Russian-speaking attorney I worked for in the US was constantly flummoxed by the seemingly capricious nature of English punctuation.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
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They've got no definite or indefinite articles, so, pfffff.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (0cOaq)

312 A Danish sperm bank has introduced a minimum IQ requirement of 85 for potential donors. This new rule has sparked debate about genetics, ethics, and parental expectations in assisted reproduction. Setting a Minimum Intelligence Standard The Danish sperm bank Donor Network now screens donors by intelligence, becoming the first in the world to require a minimum IQ of 85. It also bars anyone with a criminal record. So far, the company has turned away about 18 percent of applicants who failed to meet the IQ standard.
Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

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Isn't 85...not good?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (DRSnL)

313 You know who else liked oranges and walnuts?

Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:51 AM (iXLmy)

314
Yep. Point Pelee. At least, that's the southernmost land point. I think there's an island in Lake Erie that's even farther south.

Posted by: Bulg

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Pelee Island!

Quick Cliff Claven moment - wife and I visited Pelee Island a few decades ago. On the eastern shores, the zebra mussels looked like snow drifts on the beach. Locals told us that, thanks to the musels' appetite, the water in that part of lake Erie was near drinking water purity. Whodathunkit.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 02, 2025 10:51 AM (D5Lx9)

315 Isn't 85...not good?
Posted by: Jordan61

Yeah my thoughts as well.

I would think 100 would be the min.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:51 AM (kz78D)

316
Speaking of vampire movies...

My favorite may be "Fright Night" (1985).

I can always watch that one when it comes on.

Great plot line that keeps upping the stakes.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

317 You know who else liked oranges and walnuts?
Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:51 AM (iXLmy)

Mayor Pete?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

318 [snip]

Just my theory.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2025 10:44 AM (viF8m)

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Also, was just explaining your response to The Wifey, and noted that it's likely Trump is "trying to root-out the root cause" of all the corruption emanating from Venezuela.

[As former software developers, we are most familiar with "root cause analysis" ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (pG0Ez)

319 264 pelee island?

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (R11M+)

320 Sorta like the tranny school shooters and assassins of today.

Posted by: Eromero at December 02, 2025 10:47 AM (fcLFo)

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Heh. Nailed it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:53 AM (pG0Ez)

321 Isn't 85...not good?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (DRSnL)

You're thinking of 65.

85 is just one standard deviation below the norm.

Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:53 AM (iXLmy)

322 They've got no definite or indefinite articles, so, pfffff.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Yeah, they have a hard time with articles sometimes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

323 As former software developers, we are most familiar with "root cause analysis" ...]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (pG0Ez)

Do you know who else knew what the root cause was?

Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:54 AM (iXLmy)

324 Why choose anyone below norm to begin with?

Posted by: NCKate at December 02, 2025 10:54 AM (uQzkA)

325 85 is just one standard deviation below the norm.
Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:53 AM (iXLmy)

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Why would you want sperm from someone with below normal intelligence?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (DRSnL)

326 Do you know who else knew what the root cause was?
Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:54 AM (iXLmy)
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Luther Burbank?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (0cOaq)

327
Speaking of muted colors and snow...

Saw del Toro's Director's Cut of "Nightmare Alley' streaming on Criterion.

It's 9 minutes longer and in B&W.

Surprisingly, both of those changes made the movie much better. A real improvement over the theatrical cut, which I was ambivalent about.

The B&W really emphasizes the Film Noir aspects of NG.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

328
Why would you want sperm from someone with below normal intelligence?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (DRSnL)

For the flavor?

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

329 Does it snow in Israel?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)
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Once every few years. I miss a good snow. It's been years since we had one here in Jerusalem.

The exception is Israel's highest mountain, Mt. Hermon, located at the northern edge of the Golan Heights. Currently, because of low precipitation so far, there some snow at the top but less than usual.

Mt. Hermon has Israel's only ski resort. The only problem with it is that if there's a seriously heavy snowfall, the resort is closed... on account of snow.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (ZTT+3)

330 Isn't 85...not good?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (DRSnL)

They have to have someone to clean the toilets.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

331 /obligatory, and even moreso when it came to writing (I've never read Mein Kampf, but have been assured the writing was juvenile at best).

I don't think anyone has ever read the entire Mein Kampf except for Hitler, the original typesetters and translators. In English, it's a dull, leaden slog; apparently in German, it's littered from start to finish with bad gramar and incoherent sentence structure.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM (ufSfZ)

332 That Europe overlay map doesn't quite line up correctly.

France needs a l'attitude adjustment.

Posted by: muldoon at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM (/iMjX)

333 Isn't 85...not good?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:50 AM (DRSnL)

It doesn't affect its flavor profile or mouthfeel.

Posted by: Sommelier to the Stars at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM (SPMLw)

334 Heat at 60? Wimp!!
Real Men don’t run the heater until the temp starts with a 3!!

😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (kz78D)
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I have a real woman in attendance.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 02, 2025 10:57 AM (ZTT+3)

335
They have to have someone to clean the toilets.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Posted by: Judge Smails at December 02, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

336 Our "incurious" (willfully blind) MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia is extremely enraging!

Posted by: ShainS

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Of course, left unsaid: they're primarily all just GloboHomo Deep State assets and useful idiots.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:57 AM (pG0Ez)

337 There a ski resort in Israel? Dayyyum. Learn new shit every day.

There’s also skiing in Morocco which made me raise an eyebrow when I found out about it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 02, 2025 10:57 AM (kz78D)

338 They have to have someone to clean the toilets.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 02, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew

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Epsilons.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 10:57 AM (0cOaq)

339 about to be willowed? but:

LB retweeted
Olivia George
@oliviacgeorge
22h
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe—shot last week in DC—remains in serious condition, @wvgovernor says.

A nurse asked for a thumbs up if Wolfe could hear, and he responded. He also wiggled his toes.

His mom asked the Governor: “Please get the word out that my son Andrew needs prayer.

Posted by: m at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (RuTUS)

340 A Danish sperm bank has introduced a minimum IQ requirement of 85 for potential donors. This new rule has sparked debate about genetics, ethics, and parental expectations in assisted reproduction. Setting a Minimum Intelligence Standard The Danish sperm bank Donor Network now screens donors by intelligence, becoming the first in the world to require a minimum IQ of 85. It also bars anyone with a criminal record. So far, the company has turned away about 18 percent of applicants who failed to meet the IQ standard.

They don't want the Somalis reproducing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

341
His mom asked the Governor: “Please get the word out that my son Andrew needs prayer.
Posted by: m at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (RuTUS)

Done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

342 Why would you want sperm from someone with below normal intelligence?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 02, 2025 10:55 AM (DRSnL)

Because intelligence is just a single measure, and also the law of unintended consequences. By using IQ only you don't know what other traits you are selecting in or out and it's irresponsible to limit the field.

I already have a theory that the world's most dangerous cohort are the 115 IQ's, all easily convinced they can be geniuses merely by repeating the correct dogma. Somehow it doesn't seem as easy to convince 85 IQ people of said same because they have no aspiration toward high intellect and are therefore potentially more difficult to manipulate.

Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 10:59 AM (iXLmy)

343
They don't want the Somalis reproducing.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

They'll be impregnating the population the old fashioned way........by raping them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

344 A woman who steered her car into a crowd of people protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies in the Loop earlier this year has been sentenced to “second chance probation,” according to court records.
Posted by: SMOD

Four wheel activist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 02, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

345 Island!

Quick Cliff Claven moment - wife and I visited Pelee Island a few decades ago. On the eastern shores, the zebra mussels looked like snow drifts on the beach. Locals told us that, thanks to the musels' appetite, the water in that part of lake Erie was near drinking water purity. Whodathunkit.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 02, 2025 10:51 AM (D5Lx9)
I recall years ago saw a picture (maybe NatGeo?) of a discarded or lost bikini top covered with zebra mussels. The article said zebra mussels would destroy the lakes.Always wondered if the bottom part of that bikini was affected.

Posted by: Eromero at December 02, 2025 11:00 AM (fcLFo)

346 They don't want the Somalis reproducing.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 02, 2025 10:58 AM (Riz8t)
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For a supposedly low IQ population, they seem to be pretty sophisticated at fraud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 02, 2025 11:01 AM (0cOaq)

347 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 02, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

348 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 02, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

349 326 Luther Burbank?

a bit west of otisberg

Posted by: anachronda at December 02, 2025 11:01 AM (v3pYe)

350 Also, was just explaining your response to The Wifey, and noted that it's likely Trump is "trying to root-out the root cause" of all the corruption emanating from Venezuela.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 02, 2025 10:52 AM (pG0Ez)

Tall order since it means doing something about Colombia too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2025 11:02 AM (rbvCR)

351 Does it snow in Israel?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 02, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)

It used to.

😏

Posted by: ... at December 02, 2025 11:03 AM (iXLmy)

352 some Maryland community is outraged by a ‘bigoted’ early morning rainbow crosswalk

Posted by: SMOD at December 02, 2025 11:07 AM (RHGPo)

353 330 "yeah'r, affer free yeers ah getta brush!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 02, 2025 11:09 AM (R11M+)

354 I like it. Kinda warm and 3-D.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 02, 2025 11:13 AM (MSlZp)

355 "Still Life With Oranges and Walnuts"

New recipe for charoses.

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 02, 2025 12:28 PM (kvDvI)

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