Mid-Morning Art Thread

Winter
David Teniers the Younger

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Brrrrrrr

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (tslp2)

2 It's the Monday after Thanksgiving-- I bet he's eating leftovers.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (0tmNc)

3 Nothing up my sleeve!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (Kt19C)

4 "NO, I told you! NO!!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 He looks discontented.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (0tmNc)

7 An okd man sending back soup?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2025 09:31 AM (Gesct)

8 Not what I was expecting on A Day Without Art Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

9 Prepping for the catch at dinner table football.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Old. Stupid fat fingers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (Gesct)

11 Looks like Winter is one foot behind him. ...and closing.

Posted by: t-bird at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (KAa/S)

12 "Don't steal my frozen gruel!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (dnZHb)

13 Nicely done.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)

14 Little early to be hitting the jug o' martinis.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (GTqXr)

15 I wish I could grow a beard like that. Well, maybe I could, if I stopped having it trimmed for a few years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

16 I like the colors. He looks like me when a telemarketer calls as we're sitting down to eat.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (31p00)

17 'Thanks- I just ate.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (bss/y)

18 Hands up, don't shoot

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (NwnyJ)

19 I don't get the background scene. Looks like it's painted on a wall. Doesn't integrate with the old guy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

20 Restaurants with outdoor dining in areas with heavy winter don't last long.
Would hang though, even though the guy looks like the Winter Warlock
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (bfwj/)

21 Why is he eating outside in December with snow on the ground?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

22 The textures of his beard, his robes, and the fur flaps on his headgear are all well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

23 Through the blizzard one can spy other figures in the background

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 01, 2025 09:33 AM (dnZHb)

24 It can't be THAT cold...he doesn't even have his furry ear-flaps down.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 01, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

25 Snow Miser, the twilight years.

Posted by: Rankin Bass Productions at December 01, 2025 09:34 AM (GTqXr)

26 Not many hiding spots for the sniper...

Posted by: tankdemon at December 01, 2025 09:34 AM (0tmNc)

27 He kinda reminds me of the old homeless guy that Bill Murray tries to take care of in Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

28 Winter was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (Gesct)

29 It's 47 degrees and feels like winter in Texas.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

30 Cold.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (p5Yig)

31 8 Not what I was expecting on A Day Without Art Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

Did Paul Simon invent this holiday?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (0tmNc)

32 14 Little early to be hitting the jug o' martinis.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

It's five o'clock, and summer, somewhere in the southern hemisphere.

Posted by: Drunk Zombie Jimmy Buffett at December 01, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

33 That's my winter eating hat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 09:36 AM (L/fGl)

34 It's 47 degrees and feels like winter in Texas.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

The Chitcago area had it's snowiest November day ever, thanks to global warming.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

35 ‘Aliens’

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 01, 2025 09:37 AM (vkC/e)

36 That's one hell of a setup on a rock in the middle of town.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

37 I like the dude practicing sword fighting in the background.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

38 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I thought sure on Cyber Monday we'd get Cyber Art. I am disappoint.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (y3bZw)

39 peterkostenseonline-
"Symbolism:
Age and Life Cycle: The old man represents the final stage of life, paralleling winter as the last season. This connection emphasizes themes of aging and the cyclical nature of life.

Warmth Amidst Cold: The act of warming himself at the brazier symbolizes the human desire for comfort and warmth during the coldest season, highlighting the contrast between the harshness of winter and the warmth of human connection.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

40 14 Little early to be hitting the jug o' martinis.

Looks like a bit late to me!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (FpP3s)

41 We had his painting of an old dude feeling up a young maid in the stable. I hope that wasn’t old man winter copping a feel because I bet his hands are really cold.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 09:39 AM (3uBP9)

42 I like the pictures by Teniers which feature one individual or a small group of people , rather than a larger group. This allows for more attention to detail.

Posted by: FenelonSoije at December 01, 2025 09:39 AM (ix8EF)

43 Meanwhile, here in Happy Valley, we woke up to a skiff of snow. First of the season.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

44 Warmth Amidst Cold: The act of warming himself at the brazier symbolizes the human desire for comfort and warmth during the coldest season, highlighting the contrast between the harshness of winter and the warmth of human connection.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

In other words, winter sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Guy in the background is about to fall flat on his backside.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 01, 2025 09:39 AM (rqEUB)

46 14 Little early to be hitting the jug o' martinis.

Given the explanation @39, I'd say go for it!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (y3bZw)

47 I'm cultivating the same look as this guy. Looking ancient and cranky makes people want to leave me alone. I'm happy about that.

Being able to employ the "Uncle Leo Defense" makes me unaccountable.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

48 In other words, winter sucks.
Posted by: Sponge

Winter is wonderful.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

49 Alternate title:

A Breakfast Without Orange Juice

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (jPh0I)

50 This looks like a picture of my interior dialog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (tyC0D)

51 I'm cultivating the same look as this guy. Looking ancient and cranky makes people want to leave me alone. I'm happy about that.

Being able to employ the "Uncle Leo Defense" makes me unaccountable.
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Uncle Joe Biden at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

52 More of a bar fight than a dialog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (tyC0D)

53 "Git, you devil children! This is MY charcoal!"

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (UnA8+)

54
Winter is wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

You misspelled 'shit.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

55 "No more M&Ms!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 01, 2025 09:42 AM (36PRH)

56 There are four total paintings spring, summer, autumn, and winter. With the seasons all portrayed as peasants doing stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 09:42 AM (3uBP9)

57 That's my winter eating hat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 09:36 AM (L/fGl)

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One of my worst early memories -- but giving me appreciation for our very tough ancestors -- was traipsing out as a 4 year old to use the outhouse in the morning on a brutally cold and snowy winter day in the Rocky Mountains on my great-grandmother's hog ranch in Butte, MT.

[She walked with her back stooped over at a 90° angle from several decades of slopping the hogs ...]

Indoor plumbing FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 01, 2025 09:43 AM (XWkVH)

58 Ummm... that surely must be Good Kind Wenceslas.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 01, 2025 09:44 AM (6qf1m)

59 Evidently, This work is part of a series representing the four seasons,

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

60 Winter
David Teniers the Younger

***********

There once was a graybeard named Unger
Facing frostbite and dying of hunger
He said "It's a dad blamed shame
That life's not an old man's game
I wish I was Teniers the Younger!"

Posted by: muldoon sez "Suck it Limerick-writing AI!" at December 01, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

61 It's 47 degrees and feels like winter in Texas.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025

***
53 here in SE La, cloudy and damp. Rain expected by dark.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

62 I thought sure on Cyber Monday we'd get Cyber Art. I am disappoint.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:38 AM (y3bZw)

I live to subvert the dominant paradigm!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (LbLim)

63 So...did Teniers the Younger have an older brother named Twentiers?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (y3bZw)

64 Posted by: muldoon sez "Suck it Limerick-writing AI!" at December 01, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

*sulks in corner*

*pulls knees to chest*

*rocks back and forth*

Posted by: DuckAI at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

65 I like the bits of light on the jug as well as the green cloth.

Posted by: FenelonSoije at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (rZCVI)

66 62 I live to subvert the dominant paradigm!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (LbLim)

That's exactly what a Replicant would say...

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (UnA8+)

67 Winter is wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

You misspelled 'shit.'
Posted by: Sponge

Well, maybe if you idiots down south would learn how to drive in the snow...

*ducks, runs*

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

68 I love dining on a balcony, but in this case I think I would have requested a table indoors.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 01, 2025 09:47 AM (FMtrg)

69 One of my worst early memories -- but giving me appreciation for our very tough ancestors -- was traipsing out as a 4 year old to use the outhouse in the morning on a brutally cold and snowy winter day in the Rocky Mountains on my great-grandmother's hog ranch in Butte, MT.
====

I'm trying to imagine 4 year old Franpsycho doing that. I cannot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 09:47 AM (tyC0D)

70 Well, maybe if you idiots down south would learn how to drive in the snow...

*ducks, runs*
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

There were over 400 accidents reported in the Chicago area over the weekend due to snow where it snows EVERY YEAR.

I can live with people not knowing how to handle something that happens once every 7 to 10 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

71 61 It's 47 degrees and feels like winter in Texas.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025

***
53 here in SE La, cloudy and damp. Rain expected by dark.
—

Out: Smart military blog
In: Weather Blog

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:48 AM (pW7uA)

72 67 Well, maybe if you idiots down south would learn how to drive in the snow...

*ducks, runs*
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

Yee-Haw, The South Shall Rise Again!

Unless there's an inch and a half of snow.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 09:48 AM (UnA8+)

73 @54 which is it
Shit is wonderful
Or
Winter is shit?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (bfwj/)

74 Winter
David Teniers the Younger

Is the subject by chance a David Teniers, the Older?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (Dv3i1)

75 It's December 1, and the old man revels in the thought that he doesn't have to bathe until May or so.

If you ever visit a nursing home and someone is yelling and swearing somewhere to beat the band, it's just a resident being given their weekly bath.

Posted by: Allergic To Soap and Water at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

76 Well, maybe if you idiots down south would learn how to drive in the snow...

*ducks, runs*
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025

***
You just need to SLOW DOWN, leave extra following distance, and don't make sudden changes in direction.

And possibly wait until the snow stops before going out. But mostly the former.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

77 39, DARK and raining on Elliot Bay.

Lucy the Fink is camped on her heating pad under the tree. Wish I could join her and stay home. Alas. Tis not to be.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (sNKWb)

78 Thought bubble:

"Brazier? I specifically requested a smoking hot brassiere!"

Posted by: muldoon sez at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

79 Native Coloradan here.

NOTHING prepared me for the mid-south's BLACK ICE.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 01, 2025 09:50 AM (FMtrg)

80
"Brazier? I specifically requested a smoking hot brassiere!"
Posted by: muldoon sez at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

Is this what Elton John was referring to when he sung "She's got electric boobs."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Timely. It's supposed to snow here tonight. And official winter is still three weeks away. *grumble*

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 01, 2025 09:51 AM (r+pQK)

82 There were over 400 accidents reported in the Chicago area over the weekend due to snow where it snows EVERY YEAR.
Posted by: Sponge

Wonder how many are illegals.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

83 It's 37 in NTX currently, on the way to 44.

28 tonight, but back up to 50 tomorrow. 60's by Wednesday, but dropping again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

84 "Brazier? I specifically requested a smoking hot brassiere!"
Posted by: muldoon

Yeah, I used to get those words mixed up when I was a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

85 If you ever visit a nursing home and someone is yelling and swearing somewhere to beat the band, it's just a resident being given their weekly bath.
Posted by: Allergic To Soap and Water at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)
====

Once I had a lady we called the "Shower Whisperer" because She could get anyone to bathe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (tyC0D)

86
Wonder how many are illegals.
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

I'm told that humans aren't illegal, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

87 To be fair to the peeps in the south, nobody has winter tires and few have AWD. I can’t laugh at them too much when a little snow falls.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (pW7uA)

88 There were over 400 accidents reported in the Chicago area over the weekend due to snow where it snows EVERY YEAR.
Posted by: Sponge

Heh!
Four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (y3bZw)

89 So it's a shit winter wonderland.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (EyfuW)

90 That does look like the classic martini glass. But you would not expect to have martinis served in a jug.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

91 I can live with people not knowing how to handle something that happens once every 7 to 10 years.
Posted by: Sponge

*********

Erections have consequences.

Posted by: muldoon sez at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

92 Winter was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

93 This artists seems to have liked to do series of things such as the seasons' or in this one of "the senses" and smell:

https://tinyurl.com/49ns7fby

Posted by: FenelonSoije at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (rZCVI)

94
Heh!
Four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (y3bZw)

pushing the brake pedal harder usually has a negative effect on ice.

My favorite is the whole anti-lock brake system on ice. You might as well put it in neutral and coast.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Heh!
Four wheel drive does not mean four wheel stop.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:53

AWD is to go. Winter tires is to stop.
I have both and winter driving is a breeze.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (pW7uA)

96 To be fair to the peeps in the south, nobody has winter tires and few have AWD. I can’t laugh at them too much when a little snow falls.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025

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I just expect them to modify their driving behavior a little bit. Apparently that's too much to ask.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

97 Thought bubble:

"Brazier? I specifically requested a smoking hot brassiere!"
Posted by: muldoon sez at December 01, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

I could appreciate a See-Thru Barbie Q.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 09:56 AM (y3bZw)

98
Erections have consequences.
Posted by: muldoon sez at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

The sanctity of marriage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

99 pushing the brake pedal harder usually has a negative effect on ice.

My favorite is the whole anti-lock brake system on ice. You might as well put it in neutral and coast.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah on ice you have to pump the brakes. It’s a skill that has to be learned. I doubt any of our “diversity” arrivals are ever told that. Or give a fuck about pesky things like proper tires in winter.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:57 AM (pW7uA)

100 Three weeks and the days start getting longer.

Of course, it will continue getting colder. And wetter. And the tourists are minimal.

Which is always a plus.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2025 09:57 AM (sNKWb)

101 Yeah on ice you have to pump the brakes. It’s a skill that has to be learned. I doubt any of our “diversity” arrivals are ever told that. Or give a fuck about pesky things like proper tires in winter.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:57 AM (pW7uA)

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Or knowing that STOP means ALTO!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 09:57 AM (tyC0D)

102 Children's Books With Pete Hegseth!

https://is.gd/RQcb7f

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

103 He doesn't need the fur earflaps down yet. He has enough head hair and beard hair to keep his ears warm until maybe -20 F.

Now I see the winter frolickers frolicking in the lower left of the painting. Those look like 17th century clothes . . . which makes sense as Teniers the Younger lived during the 1600s.

Wasn't the Little Ice Age still winding down then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

104 90 That does look like the classic martini glass. But you would not expect to have martinis served in a jug.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Why not?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2025 09:59 AM (sNKWb)

105 I live to subvert the dominant paradigm!

*************

What's a paradigm?

Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

106 Twenty cents, same as in town!

Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

107 Children's Books With Pete Hegseth!

https://is.gd/RQcb7f
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Better be careful he doesn't get sued for copyright infringement. I doubt the author gave him permission to use Franklin's image.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

108 87 To be fair to the peeps in the south, nobody has winter tires and few have AWD. I can’t laugh at them too much when a little snow falls.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 09:53 AM (pW7uA)

Reminder :

You can ALWAYS point and laugh at people.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:00 AM (UnA8+)

109 What's a paradigm?
Posted by: muldoon

20 cents, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

110 I live to subvert the dominant paradigm!

*************

What's a paradigm?
Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

***

20cents.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:01 AM (y3bZw)

111 hildren's Books With Pete Hegseth!

https://is.gd/RQcb7f

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 09:58 AM (L/fGl)
-

The animated version:

https://tinyurl.com/y63dxahf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 10:01 AM (jPh0I)

112 There were over 400 accidents reported in the Chicago area over the weekend due to snow where it snows EVERY YEAR.
Posted by: Sponge

=====

My personal experience with large city drivers is limited to Detroit and Chicago.

Chicago seems way more aggressive. A sign saying 'lane ends in X miles" is treated as a dare to jump in said lane and ride it to the bitter end. Not surprised it turns into a festival of bent metal.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 01, 2025 10:01 AM (8AONa)

113 ***
I just expect them to modify their driving behavior a little bit. Apparently that's too much to ask.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

In the 90's, I had a friend that was getting released from the prison in Huntsville, TX. There was an ice storm the night before, so my brother and I got up early and headed south in my 88 Fox Body 5.0 5-spd. I averaged 30 or so MPH because the highway was terrible. Took 8 hours to get there. There were countless yuppie tards in their 4WD SUV's going by at 60 that we'd come up on a few miles later after they careened off a guardrail or two and wound up in the ditch, stuck and damaged.

We made it back late that evening, unscathed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

114 Wiki: "The [Little Ice Age] has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850."

In other words, Shakespeare lived and wrote during it. No wonder he spoke so heartily about summer; it was probably like our spring.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:02 AM (wzUl9)

115 Alternate title:

"Merlin Attempts to Reconstitute His Cat, Alphose Gastonwick Sparkles, After Deciding That Cat and Carrot Chili Is Not a Thing After All"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

116 In the 90's, I had a friend that was getting released from the prison in Huntsville, TX. There was an ice storm the night before, so my brother and I got up early and headed south in my 88 Fox Body 5.0 5-spd. I averaged 30 or so MPH because the highway was terrible. Took 8 hours to get there. There were countless yuppie tards in their 4WD SUV's going by at 60 that we'd come up on a few miles later after they careened off a guardrail or two and wound up in the ditch, stuck and damaged.

We made it back late that evening, unscathed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025

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I saw drivers, and damaged SUVs, like that nearly every snow day in Denver.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:03 AM (wzUl9)

117 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

118 He's looking at his daughter-in-law thinking "Lars could have done a lot better."

Posted by: no one at December 01, 2025 10:03 AM (d6BF2)

119 Somehow, I've gotten these videos on my Toks that are about frontier buildings; mostly how the traditional log cabin you're used to seeing caused a lot of people to freeze to death.

Sure, it worked in the mild winters of the East and Europe.

But out on the Plains and the West? Where temps hit 30 below?
Whole families froze to death in their 16X16* log cabin.
8-inch logs ain't thick enough; chinking failed; exterior end-wall fireplace; small hearth; etc. saw them burn through the whole winter's wood in a month.

*I think that was the minimum size required to stake your homestead. Put that in your file of gov rules getting people killed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (HXT0k)

120 "Merlin Attempts to Reconstitute His Cat, Alphose Gastonwick Sparkles, After Deciding That Cat and Carrot Chili Is Not a Thing After All"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2025

***
"Gastonwick" is not a bad name for a cat. If you hate him, that is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

121 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
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Family says fighting for his life.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (jPh0I)

122 Alternate title:

"Merlin Attempts to Reconstitute His Cat, Alphose Gastonwick Sparkles, After Deciding That Cat and Carrot Chili Is Not a Thing After All"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

***

*Lucy the Fink stares with contempt*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (y3bZw)

123 Yeah, supposedly the days start getting longer starting in three weeks, but I don't notice anything different until about Groundhog Day. Darkness falls like a blanket around here.

Posted by: Gloom, Despair, And Agony at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (oftw2)

124 He's looking at his daughter-in-law thinking "Lars could have done a lot better."
Posted by: no one at December 01, 2025 10:03 AM (d6BF2)

I didn't marry her for her ability in the kitchen, pops.

Posted by: Lars at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

125 LOL muldoon.
AI hears footsteps.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 01, 2025 10:04 AM (XQo4F)

126 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 01, 2025 09:41 AM (jPh0I)

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[O/T:]

I'm finally retiring from work next year and one of my top bucket-list items is a trip to and tour of The Holy Land.

Do you -- or anyone else here -- have any personal recommendations? I know in the past that Dennis Prager has taken groups and used Genesis Tours.

One of the spiritual advisors to the television series "The Chosen" -- the Jewish biblical scholar and rabbi who now believes that Christ was The Messiah, Jason Sobel -- also does group tours called "Rock Road Rabbi Tours" via his organization named Fusion Global.

[Wifey was raised as and traumatized from the Jehovah's Witness denomination and is agnostic; I was briefly raised Catholic, have become a believer in God because I believe now in Satan, am greatly influenced by Prager's "Rational Bible" Torah books, find myself crying at some point during each episode of The Chosen.]

Thanks in advance, Dog (and/or others)!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 01, 2025 10:05 AM (I5hkD)

127 Actor Guy Pearce Apologizes for Falsely Claiming Israel Has “Utter Disdain for Palestinian Life”

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My Disdain-o-meter is running pretty hot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

128 Women seem to complain about cold more than men do.

It can be helpful to remind them of the words from the good book:

"Many are cold, but few are frozen."

Posted by: HordeSource (tm) at December 01, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

129 Wiki: "The [Little Ice Age] has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850."

In other words, Shakespeare lived and wrote during it. No wonder he spoke so heartily about summer; it was probably like our spring.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Don't forget the "year without a summer," 1816. Due to the eruption of Mt. Tambora in the Dutch East Indies.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

130 That does look like the classic martini glass. But you would not expect to have martinis served in a jug.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Why not?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2025

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To me, anyway, a jug suggests white lightnin' or other moonshine. Martinis ought to be prepared and served in a pitcher.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

131 In a just world Mark “Penis Head” Kelly would have been tried for treason and accessory to murder and executed over the weekend.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:06 AM (pW7uA)

132 127 Actor Guy Pearce Apologizes for Falsely Claiming Israel Has “Utter Disdain for Palestinian Life”

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My Disdain-o-meter is running pretty hot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

Guy Pearce, who played a Drag Queen in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"...

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:07 AM (UnA8+)

133 9 Native Coloradan here.
NOTHING prepared me for the mid-south's BLACK ICE.
Posted by: Emmie

It's especially startling at 105mph, 0230 in the morning, halfway between Alpine, TX and Sweetwater, TX. Really wakes a person right up to feel the rear of the car begin to drift.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 01, 2025 10:07 AM (PnEh/)

134 Actor Guy Pearce Apologizes for Falsely Claiming Israel Has “Utter Disdain for Palestinian Life”

What's a palestinian?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

135 130 To me, anyway, a jug suggests white lightnin' or other moonshine. Martinis ought to be prepared and served in a pitcher.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

No "XXX" on the jug, though.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:07 AM (UnA8+)

136 The [Little Ice Age] has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850."

And then the SUv was invented in 1851 causing global warming.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:08 AM (pW7uA)

137 At least he has a bottle of corn likkur on the table. Painting is too bleak to hang anywhere except the coat closet.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 01, 2025 10:08 AM (F+CKH)

138 Wiki: "The [Little Ice Age] has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850."

In other words, Shakespeare lived and wrote during it. No wonder he spoke so heartily about summer; it was probably like our spring.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
__________

The Thames froze over several times in the period, the last in 1683.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 01, 2025 10:08 AM (XvL8K)

139 133 It's especially startling at 105mph, 0230 in the morning, halfway between Alpine, TX and Sweetwater, TX. Really wakes a person right up to feel the rear of the car begin to drift.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 01, 2025 10:07 AM (PnEh/)

Nothing Keiichi Tsuchiya couldn't handle.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:08 AM (UnA8+)

140 I would never name a cat "Sparkles" or "Mister/Miss" anything. I nickname my cats all sorts of mildly insulting things, like when I call Dagny La Siberienne "the fluffy little fireplug," but her actual name is dignified.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

141 This is what Ace looks like, rite? There are no shelves. Just gruel in a bowel.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:09 AM (Wg6v7)

142 Getting 5-8 inches if snow tomorrow in the Mid Hudson.
In my administrative law years I drove the NYS Thruway and back roads just about everyday. Great to watch SUVs fly by you and then see them off the road a mile later. Nice and steady folks no matter what you're driving

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 01, 2025 10:10 AM (bfwj/)

143 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

Posted by: Bulg

Didja see that CNN dug out Sarah Backstrom’s “former boyfriend” to bad mouth Trump?

https://is.gd/r175Yp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

144 I saw Gruel in a Bowel open for Butthole Surfers at Trinity Beach Club in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

145 I.m a little surprised the Dems have (inadvertently) admitted that the drug boat the US blasted out of the water really was smuggling narcotics, not just out for a leisurely cruise.

I am also surprised to learn the drug smugglers are given with the same protections as enemy soldiers in a formal war. I had no idea.

Posted by: Ripley at December 01, 2025 10:12 AM (GUOwU)

146 This is what Ace looks like, rite? There are no shelves.

Just gruel in a bowel.
Posted by: Pudinhead

That's where gruel usually ends up. 😂
Morning all. At the mechanic's getting new brakes for the truck.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2025 10:12 AM (iXBFl)

147 What's a palestinian?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 01, 2025 10:12 AM (Kt19C)

148 The Little Ice Age was not global. It mostly affected Europeans.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 01, 2025 10:12 AM (FQukp)

149 143 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

He seems to be recovering. Very good news!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 01, 2025 10:13 AM (emBoF)

150 Is that a small brazier in front of him??

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (PCK5/)

151
The Little Ice Age was not global. It mostly affected Europeans.

*points*

Ha ha, Europe! Your Ice Age was a midget!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

152 In the 90's, I had a friend that was getting released from the prison in Huntsville, TX. There was an ice storm the night before, so my brother and I got up early and headed south in my 88 Fox Body 5.0 5-spd.
Posted by: Sponge
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Truth is that no one, including Northerners drives well on glaze ice from a severe ice storm. Studded tires give a bit more traction but are not perfect and chains are about the best but still can have their problems if you get going too fast. That is because under the weight of the vehicle, the ice melts into a thin sheet of water briefly so you get water on top of ice.

And personally, I would avoid pumping brakes on modern ABS systems on severe glaze type ice. The ABS computer is far smarter than a person is and can react quicker.

I avoid using the brakes almost entirely and rely on friction slowing you down very gradually and use your accelerator pedal very carefully. And on going up hills, you never stop forward progress or you are cooked because sliding back down the hill can rapidly become uncontrolled.

When I was a yute, I drove delivery trucks in ice with fragile products. Not fun and a simple right turn can result in a 180 quick.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (WDjG6)

153 Is Old Man Winter warming his hands over a bowl of coals they brought to his outdoor (?!) rink-side table? That would date the painting to pre-OSHA, for sure.

Posted by: t-bird at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (KAa/S)

154 149 143 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

He seems to be recovering. Very good news!
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He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (Wg6v7)

155 I remember as a kid always hearing about the cold temps and snowfall amounts at International Falls, MN.

Nobody seems to talk about International Falls anymore.

I wonder how Somalied up it is.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

156 145 I.m a little surprised the Dems have (inadvertently) admitted that the drug boat the US blasted out of the water really was smuggling narcotics, not just out for a leisurely cruise.

I am also surprised to learn the drug smugglers are given with the same protections as enemy soldiers in a formal war. I had no idea.
Posted by: Ripley
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Democrats lie and are a criminal organization masking as a political party.

Same with Islam masking as a religion to get power for the imams.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)

157 I suppose "Winter is coming" would be an inappropriate comment.

Posted by: blaster at December 01, 2025 10:16 AM (RoO7G)

158 154 149 143 Does anyone know what the condition of the other National Guardsman who was shot is?

He seems to be recovering. Very good news!
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He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM (Wg6v7)

Now now. I know for a fact because it is on NCIS that people are frequently murdered by .22s, just a couple of shots to the chest.

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

159 Where's Hans Brinker and his silver skates?

Posted by: As Long As We're Going Dutch at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)

160 Gruel In A Bowel was meant to be a light hearted summer stock comedy when it opened off Broadway in 2008. However the economic difficulties of time and morose musical score turned off audiences and critics were nothing but harsh in their caustic reviews. It closed in less than three weeks.

Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (XQo4F)

161 157 I suppose "Winter is coming" would be an inappropriate comment.
Posted by: blaster

Depends on the amount of rape you add to it.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (+4yJ5)

162 I suppose "Winter is coming" would be an inappropriate comment.
Posted by: blaster at December 01, 2025 10:16 AM (RoO7G)

Global warming tells me winter is gone and will never happen again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

163
Jug Martini is the best martini.

It'll tickle your innards!

Posted by: natural "Hillbilly Jack" fake at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

164 I'm in Austin visiting Daughter of Diogenes #1 and it is 41 degrees. She is playing in a local golfing Pro-Am today. She's the Am.
I'll watch from the clubhouse bar.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (y3bZw)

165 @154

>>He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm

Unfortunately the female guardsman got a direct head shot.

The animal needs to meet the business end of an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (nhIwJ)

166
I'm thankful for indoor plumbing and furnaces.

12 degrees now.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (3ek7K)

167 He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Think so. The reports have the murderer killing the girl with his 357 Magnum revolver but running out of ammo. He then picked up the fallen woman's gun and using that to attack the other Guardsman.

And the killer was nekkid as apparently he thought he would get his houris immediately I guess.

Roll his ass in bacon fat and set his ass on fire would be appropriate justice.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:18 AM (WDjG6)

168 "No, no, no! Steer INTO the skid. INYO the skid!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 10:18 AM (/iMjX)

169 Now now. I know for a fact because it is on NCIS that people are frequently murdered by .22s, just a couple of shots to the chest.
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Zip guns were made from car antenna and were used to pop heads. .22's will rattle around a brain instead of popping out. Needless to say, they were used at very close quarters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:18 AM (Wg6v7)

170 I'm in Austin visiting Daughter of Diogenes #1 and it is 41 degrees. She is playing in a local golfing Pro-Am today. She's the Am.
I'll watch from the clubhouse bar.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:17 AM (y3bZw)

Drove around Austin yesterday. Traffic northbound was bad, but southbound out of Waco..... Holy CRAP that was a long backup.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

171 stencil pencil good king wencil

Posted by: cmeat at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

172 Bar In Idaho Offers Free Beer To Anyone Who Helps ICE Deport An Illegal Immigrant

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Allow me to repeat that: FREE BEER!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

173 Lewis & Clark expedition spent one winter at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. Lewis wrote the Mandan Indians played a game, that we might call LaCrosse or similar, outside in the snow. Naked. The temperature he recorded that day on the official thermometer was -25°F below zero.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (hlNSv)

174
He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM

the MFM made sure to point out that it was a revolver

9mm is possible, but not probable

haven't seen anything on the caliber used; could have been .22LR for all we know

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2025 10:20 AM (tljrc)

175 Honestly the cold weather is a relief to me, from the weather we get the majority of the time. It kills off or at least pushes back the bug scourge too.

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:20 AM (PCK5/)

176 Bar In Idaho Offers Free Beer To Anyone Who Helps ICE Deport An Illegal Immigrant

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Allow me to repeat that: FREE BEER!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

One dude has already cashed in and is getting free beer through December 29th.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Is that a brazier of coals on the table, and is he warming his hands by it?

In other hot news from 1942:

https://tinyurl.com/y63dxahf

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 01, 2025 10:21 AM (ZVgZ4)

178 All we are is gruel in a bowel.

No, that doesn't work. How about dust? Maybe dust in the breeze...

Posted by: Kansas at December 01, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

179 I am also surprised to learn the drug smugglers are given with the same protections as enemy soldiers in a formal war. I had no idea.
Posted by: Ripley

As Kurt Schlichter pointed out in his column today, the Geneva Convention does not apply, because the drug smugglers are neither a nation state, nor are they signatories to the GC. Fire away!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2025 10:21 AM (Riz8t)

180 Now now. I know for a fact because it is on NCIS that people are frequently murdered by .22s, just a couple of shots to the chest.
Posted by: tubal

22 LR kills far above its puny rating. For a time, the humble 22 LR killed more Americans than any other cartridge. The only problem with 22 LR is that it takes time to kill people unless you manage the rare CNS (Central Nervous System) shot. And that leaves time for the target to do you in before bleeding to death. Multiple shots can also be a factor as even a lowly 22 Saturday Night special revolver often held 8-9 bullets in its cylinder.

More wounds, lower chance for survival and more damage to the body.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:21 AM (WDjG6)

181 I know abs is supposed to not require pumping. But I dunno it still seems to work better. Maybe it’s in my head I dunno. Old habits die hard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (pW7uA)

182 A lot of Dems on X saying it is Trump's fault for deploying the NG in the first place. TDS causes whatever logic centers that might still be alive in a leftists brain to mis-fire.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (Dv3i1)

183 Didja see that CNN dug out Sarah Backstrom’s “former boyfriend” to bad mouth Trump?

https://is.gd/r175Yp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)
***

One cannot hate the media enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (y3bZw)

184 Dems don’t give a fuck about rights or Geneva convention. They’re pissed that the cost of their drugs is increasing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (pW7uA)

185 Lewis & Clark expedition spent one winter at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. Lewis wrote the Mandan Indians played a game, that we might call LaCrosse or similar, outside in the snow. Naked.

These games; where exactly were they played, and are they still going on. Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Pete B. at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

186 As Kurt Schlichter pointed out in his column today, the Geneva Convention does not apply, because the drug smugglers are neither a nation state, nor are they signatories to the GC. Fire away!
Posted by: Archimedes
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None of what the Dems do or say is based on 'law'. It is all about expediency to them nowadays for their pursuit of power and money. And their pursuit of kids for sexual gratification.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:23 AM (WDjG6)

187 See??? NCIS was right!! All anyone needs is a .22!

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:23 AM (PCK5/)

188 108 see utoob trend, "hey, you can't park there!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 01, 2025 10:23 AM (R11M+)

189 None of what the Dems do or say is based on 'law'. It is all about expediency to them nowadays for their pursuit of power and money. And their pursuit of kids for sexual gratification.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)

190 Good to hear about the other Guardsman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

191 Lewis & Clark expedition spent one winter at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. Lewis wrote the Mandan Indians played a game, that we might call LaCrosse or similar, outside in the snow. Naked. The temperature he recorded that day on the official thermometer was -25°F below zero.
Posted by: Common Tater
__________

I recall shirtless dudes at the '82 Freezer Bowl in Cincy. 60 below wind chill. And they were standing still.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 01, 2025 10:24 AM (XvL8K)

192 Brazier? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at December 01, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)

193 182 A lot of Dems on X saying it is Trump's fault for deploying the NG in the first place. TDS causes whatever logic centers that might still be alive in a leftists brain to mis-fire.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Op for the feeble minded so called elites. Just figure everything in the media, including Conservative Media TM is an op and thus fake and gay.

Ignore the news and be uninformed, read or watch the news and you will purposefully be misinformed.

Finding a few reliable sources using primary sources on X is about the best most of us can do nowadays.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

194 I recall shirtless dudes at the '82 Freezer Bowl in Cincy. 60 below wind chill. And they were standing still.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

They were frozen solid?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 10:25 AM (Dv3i1)

195 117 i just heard he's struggling.

Posted by: cmeat at December 01, 2025 10:26 AM (R11M+)

196 Finding a few reliable sources using primary sources on X is about the best most of us can do nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

Media assures me you must say X (formerly known as Twitter).......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

197 I recall shirtless dudes at the '82 Freezer Bowl in Cincy. 60 below wind chill. And they were standing still.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Must've been some first-rate booze they were pumped full of.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

198 Lewis & Clark expedition spent one winter at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. Lewis wrote the Mandan Indians played a game, that we might call LaCrosse or similar, outside in the snow. Naked. The temperature he recorded that day on the official thermometer was -25°F below zero.
Posted by: Common Tater
The Mandan Ice Bowl.

Posted by: Eromero at December 01, 2025 10:26 AM (CeUot)

199 They aren’t even barking up the right tree.

Pirates don’t have any rights at all under international agreements going back centuries. Has nothing to do with Geneva nor the Hague.

There is even a little “tourism” to be had in the middle east or Tunisia or wherever those miscreants are sailing out of in recent years. People will pay money to take them out, as a kind of entertainment.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:26 AM (hlNSv)

200 Dems don’t give a fuck about rights or Geneva convention. They’re pissed that the cost of their drugs is increasing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (pW7uA)

Cartels have invested a lot of $ into Congress, they want results!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2025 10:27 AM (y3bZw)

201 Grade Inflation at Prestigious Colleges is Worst at the Most Useless Subjects

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I guess they figure if you're stupid enough to hire someone with a degree in transsexual lesbian African Elizabethan poetry you deserve what you get.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

202 You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Being judgmental on moral grounds is not an insult.

It implies objective standards by which someone or something is to be judged.

Cowards and Democrats use relativism or hypocrisy instead.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:28 AM (WDjG6)

203 There’s a YouTuber I follow who does ski videos. He’s a Canuck who’s an amazing skier and also pretty funny. He had one about opening day at Whistler. Not a very good day not much snow. Still not bad conditions for anyone used to east coast skiing.

All the comments were “see global warming is killing skiing man”. Never mind that the last 4 or 5 seasons, Opening day was multi foot deep powder.

They’re just on auto pilot. Any time there’s a quirk in the weather, be it less Snow that average or a bit warmer than average it’s straight to global warming will kill us all. It’s like do you dummies not understand how AVERAGES work?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:28 AM (pW7uA)

204 I thought the little corner scene would make more sense on my big monitor. It does not. A guy walking across a frozen pond and slipping. A geisha kneeling in a small paddle boat. Two people talking with the geisha as ducks fly over in formation.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 10:28 AM (3uBP9)

205 In an effort to prove Global Warming was a thing, both NY and Buffalo NFL teams built open air stadiums, guaranteeing they'll not host many super bowls due to the snow and cold weather in February.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

206
"Then run it, and let's get the Hell out of here."

Posted by: Lombardi to Bart Starr before the Ice Bowl quarterback sneak at December 01, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)

207 I saw a chart recently that showed what % of Americans use each social media. Reddit and Twitter were both around 20%.and I suspect it’s the same 20% at both.

It’s really a small minority yet what’s on Reddit or Twitter is treated as “this is what America is thinking” by the msm.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:30 AM (pW7uA)

208 I'm sure someone said already but that looks like a table top fire pit.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:31 AM (KDPiq)

209 Cue “December”, Collective Soul

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 01, 2025 10:31 AM (6KcYW)

210 Cartels have invested a lot of $ into Congress, they want results!
Posted by: Diogenes
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Cartels were making 10k to 20k per head for bringing people to the US. Now that is blocked, Trump is stomping on their other main revenue source which is drugs.

And a lot of state governors, legislators, judges, prosecutors, mayors, sheriffs, and local government officials are getting money on the side from cartels to look the other way.

US gov just rolled up some cartel paid sheriffs in rural Mississippi jurisdictions that allowed cartels to operate. If that is happening in rural MS, it is damn sure happening in every major city and suburbs.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

211 Bah

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (6KcYW)

212 Wait what? That gajillion dollar new stadium in Buffalo isn’t domed? Lol

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pW7uA)

213 >>> He was shot four or five times at close quarters. It is a miracle he is still alive. Must have been a 9mm.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 10:14 AM

the MFM made sure to point out that it was a revolver

9mm is possible, but not probable

haven't seen anything on the caliber used; could have been .22LR for all we know
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2025 10:20 AM (tljrc)

Earliest reports said a .357

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (3uBP9)

214 A lot of Dems on X saying it is Trump's fault for deploying the NG in the first place.
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Well, you have to understand their worldview as revolutionaries. Divided up into oppressor versus oppressed. Criminals are only criminals because they “have no choice”. The police are the criminals, you see.

Once borders are erased, and there is no property, a Socialist Utopia will be achieved, and everything will be groovy. No crime, everything will be free! Simple, really.

Now the problem of course, is that’s all bullshit. But they can’t ever admit they are wrong, this is too horrible to contemplate.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (hlNSv)

215 I recall shirtless dudes at the '82 Freezer Bowl in Cincy. 60 below wind chill. And they were standing still.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Must've been some first-rate booze they were pumped full of.
Posted by: Bulg
_________

One of the guys was interviewed recently. He says his beer froze solid so he wasn't drunk.

https://tinyurl.com/5futes6r

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (XvL8K)

216 Jesuits put head in the sand -

MUNICH (LifeSiteNews) — The Jesuit university in Munich, Germany, has canceled the talk of a Catholic philosopher after leftist students expressed their outrage.”
...
(Dr. Sebastian) Ostritsch is a philosopher, author, and editor for the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, who teaches as a private lecturer at Heidelberg University. He was supposed to give a talk on the five proofs of the existence of God by St. Thomas Aquinas, titled “Is God’s existence a matter of rational knowledge? Thomas Aquinas vs. Immanuel Kant.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (Dv3i1)

217 I have chosen to not be on X or any other social media, and not “ join” youtube. Just more time sucks is the issue for me.

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:33 AM (PCK5/)

218 Winter
David Teniers the Younger

I like it a great deal. (When I 1st today's art selection, I thought of the Hall of the Mountain King. ) It's one of a series of paintings entitled, The Four Seasons. Today's selection is, obviously, Winter.

The National Gallery, in part -

Overview: Wrapped in velvet and fur, he hunches over to warm his hands at a brazier. His face is lined and wrinkled, his beard long and frosted with white. But his cap with its fur wings gives an impression of speed and strength, like a winter wind.

About the Series: This series of four small paintings is an allegory of the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter have been given human forms that embody the essence of each. Spring is a gardener carrying a tree to plant in a formal garden; Summer is a peasant tying up a sheaf of corn; Autumn is a drinker who raises a glass of wine; and Winter is an old man wearing a fur cap and mantle, warming himself near a brazier.

Strongly influenced early in his career by the Dutch artist Adriaen Brouwer, Teniers became the most famous painter of peasant life of his day, rivalling Brouwer’s rowdy, raunchy tavern scenes full of larger-than-life characters.

👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 01, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

219 The guy was rich enough to have a quaint summertime scene painted on his wall but all he can afford to eat is gruel?

Clarify please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2025 10:33 AM (dyewR)

220 207 I saw a chart recently that showed what % of Americans use each social media. Reddit and Twitter were both around 20%.and I suspect it’s the same 20% at both.

It’s really a small minority yet what’s on Reddit or Twitter is treated as “this is what America is thinking” by the msm.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:30 AM (pW7uA)

I always say "The Internet is not real life." But no one ever believes me. Probably because I'm saying it on the Internet.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (YtQZg)

221 When I lived in central NY no one seemed to care who hit whom in winter, it was "what goes around, comes around."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (I8Tp0)

222 22 LR kills far above its puny rating. For a time, the humble 22 LR killed more Americans than any other cartridge.

The last time I checked for all pistol calibers, that the .22lr results in more one shot kills than any other caliber. Many of these are delayed kills; since emergency room surgeons have more trouble sealing the tiny wound track of the 22lr than any other pistol round.

Why do hit men use .22lr? Because you can't do ballistics on a .22lr bullet.

Note that Eskimos actually hunt Polar Bears with .22lr. Of course to be fair, Eskimos had to invent the dog sled to keep their enormous balls from dragging in the snow.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (Da7Vv)

223 I had a buddy who took his mom's 4 wheel suv with his girlfriend after a big snowstorm and went joyriding on the basically empty streets.

When he got home he realized he never had it in 4 wheel drive.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (KDPiq)

224 Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Accused of Rape by Mistress

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Turns out that "diamond" was cubic zirconia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

225 "leftist students expressed their outrage"

Agits will agit

Goes without sayin.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 01, 2025 10:35 AM (6qf1m)

226
Diversification, A Gruel Strategy

There once was an old man named George
A proponent of winter food storage
At the pantry he went in
And imagine his chagrin
He found nothing but wall-to-wall porridge!

Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

227 Hmmm. Last thing I can remember seeing Guy Pierce in was... Count of Monte Cristo?

Fernand?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:35 AM (bss/y)

228 Bear hunting with a .22. Hmm, you first.

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:36 AM (PCK5/)

229 I always say "The Internet is not real life." But no one ever believes me. Probably because I'm saying it on the Internet.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (YtQZg)

Everything on the internet is true. That doesn't necessarily mean 'real life' because we choose truth over facts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

230 He sees the goat cheese 'surprise dessert' coming …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 01, 2025 10:36 AM (ayRl+)

231 29 It's 47 degrees and feels like winter in Texas.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

In the low 20s where I’m at.

Back in 2023 I was in the midst of a phone interview, hav8 g called Houston. In Houston it was a bright, sunny comfortable day for January. Where I was - still in TX - weather was rapidly deteriorating in the face of a massive snowstorm.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

232 Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (Da7Vv)

The character in the movie Into the Wild killed a moose with a .22lr. Unfortunately he had no clue what to do with it and starved to death.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)

233 Drove around Austin yesterday. Traffic northbound was bad, but southbound out of Waco..... Holy CRAP that was a long backup.
Drove through that crap yesterday. I35 through Waco is a complete mess...they've only been working on it for 45 years, ever since I moved to TX.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 01, 2025 10:37 AM (XMwZJ)

234 'Massive snowstorm' in Texas is relative.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

235 201 Grade Inflation at Prestigious Colleges is Worst at the Most Useless Subjects

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I guess they figure if you're stupid enough to hire someone with a degree in transsexual lesbian African Elizabethan poetry you deserve what you get.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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College today has become shitty resorts for a lot of yutes that have no intention of learning. But it means employment and money for administrators and staff, jobs for their ideological cronies, and money spritzed around the campuses paid for by debt.

Since about 2010, most college personnel costs are not the professors (even there, often these are poorly paid adjuncts) but staff and administrators. They don't use temp staff or temp administrators.

Imagine a factory where the majority of the payroll is staff and managers, not the people that actually make the goods. And that is in part why you get shitty education because the administrators want kids to 'pass', the professors don't want the tedious task of fixing yute's previously bad education, and the dollars keep rolling in.

Sham Wow was more honest in its claims and business practices.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (WDjG6)

236 212 Wait what? That gajillion dollar new stadium in Buffalo isn’t domed? Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pW7uA)

Hypocrite.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (6KcYW)

237 The guy was rich enough to have a quaint summertime scene painted on his wall but all he can afford to eat is gruel?

Clarify please.

It’s a brazier of hot coals: he’s warming his hands by it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (ZVgZ4)

238 Has anybody seen Hadrian commenting ?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (sDNVV)

239 My wife picked up a Federal .22 "Black Pack" of 1100 rounds to give me at Christmas.

Suppressed .22 is extremely versatile.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (NwnyJ)

240 Doesn't it get really cold in North Texas during the winter due to all the icy winds coming down from Canada, with nothing in their way?

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

241 234 'Massive snowstorm' in Texas is relative.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

10 years ago this Christmas I got the hell out of dodge before a blizzard hit. In TX.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 01, 2025 10:39 AM (6KcYW)

242 Why, I never!

Study Links Activist Group Participation to Rising Narcissism and Psychopathy Over Time

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

243 239 My wife picked up a Federal .22 "Black Pack" of 1100 rounds to give me at Christmas.

Suppressed .22 is extremely versatile.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (NwnyJ)

Do you do a lot of contract work??

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:39 AM (PCK5/)

244 Lewis & Clark expedition spent one winter at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. Lewis wrote the Mandan Indians played a game, that we might call LaCrosse or similar, outside in the snow. Naked. The temperature he recorded that day on the official thermometer was -25°F below zero.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:19 AM (hlNSv)

How windy was it that day? Because if there was no wind, it probably wasn't that bad outside.

Posted by: North Dakotans at December 01, 2025 10:39 AM (DNP8c)

245
Ben Had,

Also Stateless. Haven't seen either of them for a few days.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (3ek7K)

246 Doesn't it get really cold in North Texas during the winter due to all the icy winds coming down from Canada, with nothing in their way?
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

On occasion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

247 Hmmm. Last thing I can remember seeing Guy Pierce in was... Count of Monte Cristo?

Fernand?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:35 AM (bss/y)

The Rover.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (KDPiq)

248 In other words, winter sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Winter is one very long Monday.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (2J/Lj)

249 Ben Had,

Also Stateless. Haven't seen either of them for a few days.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (3ek7K)

Haven't seen Kris in an Art Thread in quite a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

250 238 Has anybody seen Hadrian commenting ?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (sDNVV)

Hmmm. Might have been a couple days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)

251 fourseasons, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:40 AM (sDNVV)

252 In 1900 there was a big game hunter in Africa who proved you can kill a bull elephant with a single round from a .22lr. Its all about shot placement.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (Da7Vv)

253 Wait what? That gajillion dollar new stadium in Buffalo isn’t domed? Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pW7uA)

Three words: lake effect snow.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (ZVgZ4)

254 follow up-
Ostritsch told LifeSiteNews that he will travel to the United States soon, where he will give his lecture on “Thomas Aquinas vs. Immanuel Kant” in English at the University of Notre Dame on December 5.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (Dv3i1)

255 Haven't seen Kris in an Art Thread in quite a while.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, I hope she's OK.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

256
It's worrisome when regulars disappear.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (3ek7K)

257 >> Conservative Charlie Kirk’s viewpoints mean he brought violence upon himself to an extent, according to 42 percent of young liberal voters polled in a newly released survey.

Young America’s Foundation released the results of its fall survey on Tuesday, which questioned 1,021 registered voters aged 18 to 29 nationwide.

I hope they realize this goes both ways. Because at this point they’ve only seen one side use murder as a means of argumentation. That’s includes the president, and a bunch of other people with whom their arguments failed intellectually and factual scrutiny.

If there alternative to their failing arguments is murder, then we are headed for FAFOland.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 01, 2025 10:42 AM (E24OL)

258 Imagine a factory where the majority of the payroll is staff and managers, not the people that actually make the goods.
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Oh, we make the goods. Just this semester we made five thousand new transgenders and forty thousand new left-wing activists. So, yeah, we're important.

Posted by: College Staff and Administrators at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (qUkBO)

259 184 Dems don’t give a fuck about rights or Geneva convention. They’re pissed that the cost of their drugs is increasing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:22 AM (pW7uA)

Nothing is what I feel.
Waiting for the drugs to make it real.

Posted by: Porcupine Tree at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (6KcYW)

260 Last years storm in Houston brought more snow than all my previous 30 years in the city.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (KDPiq)

261 Conservative Charlie Kirk’s viewpoints mean he brought violence upon himself to an extent, according to 42 percent of young liberal voters polled in a newly released survey.

I'm betting 40 of that 42% never saw one full speech given or one full debate Kirk was a part of.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

262 My luckiest shot ever was a 200lb hog with a .22. Straight to the heart.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (sDNVV)

263 223 I had a buddy who took his mom's 4 wheel suv with his girlfriend after a big snowstorm and went joyriding on the basically empty streets.

When he got home he realized he never had it in 4 wheel drive.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:34 AM (KDPiq)

If it’s flat and you have good tires you can get away without 4WD. It’s if you need to go uphill that the issues start.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (pW7uA)

264 Wasn't there a big national dog show this weekend?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (9ipOP)

265 Wait what? That gajillion dollar new stadium in Buffalo isn’t domed? Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pW7uA)

I think their horrible experience playing at NRG in Houston caused that.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (Da7Vv)

266 "They’re just on auto pilot. Any time there’s a quirk in the weather, be it less Snow that average or a bit warmer than average it’s straight to global warming will kill us all. It’s like do you dummies not understand how AVERAGES work?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

I clearly remember reading decades ago skiing was dying sport because of global warming and by 2020 it would only exist in a few remote, high altitude resorts. The rest gone, just like the polar ice caps.

Posted by: Ripley at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (GUOwU)

267 n 1900 there was a big game hunter in Africa who proved you can kill a bull elephant with a single round from a .22lr. Its all about shot placement.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 10:41 AM (Da7Vv)

The magnum round was invented for big game hunting and named after the large bottle size of champagne.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 01, 2025 10:45 AM (KDPiq)

268 If there alternative to their failing arguments is murder, then we are headed for FAFOland.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 01, 2025 10:42 AM (E24OL)

We've seen how they respond to even moderate pushback: J6.

Reichstag Fire.

I do not think our side really realizes that that is how this is going to go the minute they get back into power. They are about to move from the show trials to the full executions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

269 My luckiest shot ever was a 200lb hog with a .22. Straight to the heart.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (sDNVV)

I hit a 170 lb or so hog on the run from 120 yards with a .30-30. Severed its spine and had to finish it off with a follow up shot, so it did require 2.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

270 In these early, kinder days, older men were often brought inside to warm their cold hands on steamy brassieres.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 10:46 AM (3uBP9)

271 Again, we’re witnessing the hard core radicalism of the 60s “Weathermen” become mainstreamed.

Their ideological heirs are now Governors, Mayors, and AGs, they are like ticks, embedded into the body politic. Mayor Bass is a good example, and there are many, many more. Murder is perfectly acceptable, because they don’t intend to “debate” anybody. You must be removed, that is their intent.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:46 AM (hlNSv)

272 n 1900 there was a big game hunter in Africa who proved you can kill a bull elephant with a single round from a .22lr.
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Was he wearing pajamas?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 01, 2025 10:46 AM (Dv3i1)

273 I was in Dallas once right around. This time, early December. It was cold as fuuuuuuck. Howling winds, temps in the 30s.

That’s not typical form what I gathered but there are cold spells like that often.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:47 AM (pW7uA)

274 Having a nice little snow here right now. Nice stuff when I’m not in it.

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:47 AM (PCK5/)

275 VIRAL: Let's talk about the University of Oklahoma student who says her trans teacher failed her for defending biblical sexuality

https://is.gd/jcyaa5
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I guess Biblical sexuality is watching chicks bathing on the roof.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

276 Murder is perfectly acceptable, because they don’t intend to “debate” anybody. You must be removed, that is their intent.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 01, 2025 10:46 AM (hlNSv)

Sadly, this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2025 10:48 AM (bss/y)

277 Doesn't it get really cold in North Texas during the winter due to all the icy winds coming down from Canada, with nothing in their way?
Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025

***
"Blow, you old blue norther . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

278 Sponge, I was maybe 50 yards away and the hog was just strolling along. It was just pure luck.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:48 AM (sDNVV)

279 >> I'm betting 40 of that 42% never saw one full speech given or one full debate Kirk was a part of.

A lot of that demo has simply taken on the views of their parents or “teachers”. Most couldn’t factually argue their way out of a paper bag, as reality would expose the feeble, mendacious and destructive ways of their worldview. This is also the same group who states things aren’t “affordable” mostly because they don’t want to work hard for anything. They have been protected by their parents both financially and intellectually, so they are largely unrealistic in their wants and desires. This group is also emptying their parents nest eggs at a record rate, so there is nowhere for them to go except into other people’s resources. At some point there will be a reckoning and those on the right side are going to realize they have to fight to maintain our country and there own property.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 01, 2025 10:48 AM (E24OL)

280 264 Wasn't there a big national dog show this weekend?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (9ipOP)

Belgian Sheepdog won.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:49 AM (UnA8+)

281 264 Wasn't there a big national dog show this weekend?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (9ipOP)

It’s broadcast on Thanksgiving Day every year.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:49 AM (pW7uA)

282 > 243 239 My wife picked up a Federal .22 "Black Pack" of 1100 rounds to give me at Christmas.

Suppressed .22 is extremely versatile.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 10:38 AM (NwnyJ)

Do you do a lot of contract work??
Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2025 10:39 AM (PCK5/)
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Not yet.

TBH I use a suppressed .22 handgun to deal with the raccoons and other varmints around the property. Usually at night. It's got a laser on it too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 10:49 AM (NwnyJ)

283 >>> I'm betting 40 of that 42% never saw one full speech given or one full debate Kirk was a part of.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

They don't even care. They just want to win. They are cheering their team. Which often involves hurling threats, slander, and insults at their designated enemies. And their team fully plans on winning.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 10:50 AM (3uBP9)

284 Good morning, Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at December 01, 2025 10:50 AM (Ltmlv)

285 283 They don't even care. They just want to win. They are cheering their team. Which often involves hurling threats, slander, and insults at their designated enemies. And their team fully plans on winning.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 10:50 AM (3uBP9)

Because they control the entire Law Enforcement Apparatus, they believe they have already won.

And they may have.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:50 AM (UnA8+)

286 I drink Starbucks every morning and order door dash every night. But can’t afford to buy a house.
Fuck you Trump.
- millennials and GenZ

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:51 AM (pW7uA)

287 FOOD!!

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

288 Mayor Bass is a good example,

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Didja see Big Mouf run away rather than answer questions about the fire?

https://is.gd/fLiURb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 01, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

289 *270 In these early, kinder days, older men were often brought inside to warm their cold hands on steamy brassieres.*

Hooters. The early years.

Posted by: The Big Book of Breastaurant History at December 01, 2025 10:52 AM (XQo4F)

290 Hey there, Glub

Posted by: Doof at December 01, 2025 10:52 AM (Ltmlv)

291 Not many can drive in rain, how can they drive in snow?

Also, watch the cars & trucks travelling through road work sites without lights, not heeding the speed limits, etc. It's always a disaster waiting to happen.

Sitting, observing in District Court again last week, it was impossible not to noticed how many of the teeming masses yearning to breathe free and now also "our own" who hadn't had vehicle registrations, licenses and/or insurance while on the roads, and then likely only obtained coverage for a short duration after being cited by police, that being immediately before and after their legal hearings.

It's a scarier world out here.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 01, 2025 10:53 AM (NFX2v)

292 This was ignored because TG and all that.

“ For the third week in a row, first-time claims for unemployment benefits have fallen. New data from the U.S. Labor Department shows filings dropped by 6,000 to about 216,000 — the lowest level since April.”

But remember kids, we are in a Great Depression because of the Orangeman and his Tarriffs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:53 AM (pW7uA)

293 lol. They won’t wine in the end and any victory will be temporary and pyrrhic. People on the right side of these issues always give a lot of rope for subversives to hang themselves with. But they’re starting to get down to the people who just want to live their lives and be left alone. That’s when the rubber meets the road because people such as these always overstep the boundaries. That’s when people will fight back and start nailing them to telephone poles.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 01, 2025 10:54 AM (E24OL)

294 I once got pulled over on the 2nd of the month because my registration expired the previous month. Cop was driving the opposite direction, pulled around and stopped me. Dude must have had the best vision in the shitty of the police department. He did let me go with. 48 hour warning.

On the other hand, illegals go 30 years without obtaining a license or insurance and no cop ever gives gives a shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:56 AM (pW7uA)

295 Belgian Sheepdog won.
Posted by: XTC

After a lot of waffling by the judges.

Posted by: Bulg at December 01, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

296 "They won't wine in the end."

Sure we will. We'll also wine in the beginning and the middle.

Posted by: Wine moms everywhere at December 01, 2025 10:57 AM (XQo4F)

297 Belgian Sheepdog won.
Posted by: XTC

After a lot of waffling by the judges.
Posted by: Bulg

Baaaad decision.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (pW7uA)

298 Wasn't there a big national dog show this weekend?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2025 10:44 AM (9ipOP)

Belgian Sheepdog won.
Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 10:49 AM (UnA8+)

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Beta "Furry" O'Rourke hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (BS7h0)

299 @275 I guess Biblical sexuality is watching chicks bathing on the roof. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Yeah, "drying the groats" is what we used to call it in Ai.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (zdLoL)

300 lol. I see the MSM, that would be the same people who for almost four years said Biden was totally cogent, want Trump to release his MRI.

Trump responded, he didn’t even know what they MRI’d but he would release it.

One can only hope it’s of his Willie. Then he can offer to autograph it for NBC, ABC and CNN.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (I8f7f)

301 "Blow, you old blue norther . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Some prefer Judy Collins, but Ian and Sylvia are my choice:
https://tinyurl.com/mrx38n7y

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (XeU6L)

302 We're expecting "winter weather" tonight into tomorrow morning. The number of wrecks will be off the hook.

People don't understand vehicle/weather dynamics at all.

Now, we just stay at home and watch the chaos unfold on TV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2025 10:58 AM (NwnyJ)

303 TBH I use a suppressed .22 handgun to deal with the raccoons and other varmints around the property. Usually at night. It's got a laser on it too.
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Sweet. You should try night varmint hunting down town.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 01, 2025 11:00 AM (Wg6v7)

304 U nas yest' NOOD.

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

305 Nooooooood!!!! Come and get it.

(Rings triangle.)

Posted by: tankdemon at December 01, 2025 11:01 AM (FVLcK)

306 Some prefer Judy Collins, but Ian and Sylvia are my choice:
https://tinyurl.com/mrx38n7y
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2025

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I know the more recent one by Suzy Bogguss.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 01, 2025 11:01 AM (wzUl9)

307 Growing up “winter weather” was just weather. In winter it snowed. Now it’s breaking news that it’s going to snow in December with wall to wall Action News Live On the Scene coverage.

It’s like fuck man can we stop making everything a 10/10 on the importance meter? It’s weather. That’s all. Snow happens every year. It’s not news.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 01, 2025 11:01 AM (pW7uA)

308 "Blow, you old blue norther . . ."

AOP will be sorry to miss an Ian Tyson callout.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 01, 2025 11:01 AM (zdLoL)

309 >>> I hate city driving in the south if it gets icy. Never go out the first 48 hours. There will be wrecks everywhere. They will all drive too slow and then start braking one inch before the intersection. They do not understand mass and inertia.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 01, 2025 11:02 AM (3uBP9)

310 But they’re starting to get down to the people who just want to live their lives and be left alone. That’s when the rubber meets the road because people such as these always overstep the boundaries. That’s when people will fight back and start nailing them to telephone poles.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 01, 2025 10:54 AM (E24OL)

This is when we get hardened. We just want to be left alone but they simply must have the war that they are certain they will win. The war that will bring them, not just victory, but enormous and permanent power. They want that end. They want that victory. They want that war. They will gleefully and heedlessly race to the violence that they believe will finally put us in our place. They cannot understand that when they force us to care about their childish demands, we won't be surrendering. We will be hard as steel and determined to end their tyranny tantrum.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 01, 2025 11:02 AM (2J/Lj)

311 My little shitbox of a car is generally pretty good in snow.

Since I never have to climb mountains with it, anyway.

Posted by: XTC at December 01, 2025 11:02 AM (UnA8+)

312
People don't understand vehicle/weather dynamics at all.

Criminals understand it: home invasions go way up in such circumstances - since the crooks know the police are all tied up doing traffic accidents.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 01, 2025 11:03 AM (Da7Vv)

313 My luckiest shot ever was a 200lb hog with a .22. Straight to the heart.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2025 10:43 AM (sDNVV)

I hit a 170 lb or so hog on the run from 120 yards with a .30-30. Severed its spine and had to finish it off with a follow up shot, so it did require 2.
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I'm confused about the stopping power needed for feral hogs. My friend bow hunts a lot and I've encouraged him to pack his 9mm when he goes in case he runs into a feral hog on the way to his blind. But I've had others suggest that a 9mm wouldn't be enough to bring down a hog?

Posted by: Crusader at December 01, 2025 11:03 AM (TN0g+)

314 We're expecting "winter weather" tonight into tomorrow morning. The number of wrecks will be off the hook.

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"Get off my lawn!"

"No. Really. Literally, get off my lawn!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 01, 2025 11:06 AM (/iMjX)

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