Mid-Morning Art Thread

Watering Horses
Anton Mauve

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 09:30 AM (9bIJg)

2 Boob Week ended early.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (JkO4W)

3
Horse, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:31 AM (tgvbd)

4 You can lead a dem to water, but you can't make them drink.

But you can hold their heads under until the bubbles stop.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (9bIJg)

5 Sniper is very clearly on the far right just at the ridge. He'll fail this evolution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

6 The equines were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (XQo4F)

7 Very nice. Calm, simple storytelling.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

8 You can lead a horse to water.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

9 Interesting way to end the week, looking at a horse's ass.
Would hang though
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (bfwj/)

10 I said whore, not horse.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (EyfuW)

11 Always drink upstream from the herd.

Posted by: Cattlemen and Cattlewomen Everywhere. at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)

12 Could I see something in a mauve?

Posted by: Just the punchline at December 05, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

13 Mulva?

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (PSEDc)

14 Privileged white horse has no rider while oppressed black horse does all the work. All this painting needs now is a land acknowledgement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

15 I recon there’s a lot of mosquitos there.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (3uBP9)

16 Fake! That trailing horse would be pulling the lad out of his saddle grazing in that space.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (N+GUx)

17 Delores!!

Posted by: Jerry at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (XQo4F)

18 Horse, therefore art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I thought of you yesterday. The art was Samson and Delilah, and, IIRC, Delilah was the name of your late champion showdog.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

19
The horse, the saddle, the man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (tgvbd)

20 Nice painting but it's a little dark. Needs more sunlight.

Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

21 Horses standing still Doesn't move me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (6/Q3k)

22 "You guys get good and hydrated, and then it's off to see Empress Catherine."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

23
IIRC, Delilah was the name of your late champion showdog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

You recall correctly. We see so much of her in her daughter Diana.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:36 AM (tgvbd)

24 Looking closely at this pedestrian Starving Artist's Special, makes me incensed that CBD has never featured A Peter Max, nor an R. Crumb. It's bias against us!

Posted by: Psychedelic Americans at December 05, 2025 09:36 AM (oftw2)

25 You can't do that! These are protected wetlands!

Posted by: EPA Functionary at December 05, 2025 09:36 AM (wVcYX)

26 Artist was married to Van Gogh's cousin and had a close relationship with the other artist.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 09:36 AM (lJ0H4)

27 Is that a desert? Do the horses have names? And why do you have two of them?

Posted by: The music group America at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (XQo4F)

28 Can't paint a running horse. All the paint will be blown and running to the right.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (EyfuW)

29 Love love love it. Would go great in The Man Cave and several other rooms as well!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (6qf1m)

30 I was expecting boobs and Cupid.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

31
Trees, check.

Sniper, check.

If only it had a kitteh or puppeh, it'd be a masterpiece.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2025 09:38 AM (y9nCu)

32

If you're able to hold a horse's head underwater, you certainly can make them drink

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:38 AM (g6TN6)

33 I think you got some Vaseline on your lens. I like it. Mind if I borrow it?

Posted by: Bob Guccione at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (Riz8t)

34 Amish cruising wasn't very exciting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (JkO4W)

35 I was expecting boobs and Cupid.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

Boobs and Cupid would be a good name for a chick band.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

36 R Crumb had, or has, real artistic talent. A quote of his, “ when I’m not drawing, I’m nothing” is quite a summary of a man’s life. I wonder how many artists would agree with his statement??

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (pDt9x)

37

>>>Boob Week ended early.
Posted by: Cicero

The one without a saddle is a mare (and maybe preggo? Idk), so technically a naked female

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (g6TN6)

38 Hmmm...doesn't look mauve.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (kgE5c)

39 Boobs and Cupid would be a good name for a chick band.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

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If Pelosi was in it you could call it Boobs and Asphalt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

40 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at December 05, 2025 09:40 AM (XQo4F)

41 Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 09:41 AM (i+bC1)

42

P. Diddy remix: Saddles for my men, cocaine for my horses

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (g6TN6)

43 This would be an excellent selection for the space above the waffle bar at the Days Inn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (JkO4W)

44 We see so much of her in her daughter Diana.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's nice.

Do people in the dog-breeding biz use the terms "son" and "daughter," or do they have special technical terms for canine offspring?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

45 Little guy on the horse has no helmet!

Posted by: Is He Retarded? at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

46 Saddle? That's bareback.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (sDNVV)

47 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

48 Cocaine's for horses, not for men.
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.

Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)

49 47 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.

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A lot of good it did her.

Posted by: V.I. Lenin at December 05, 2025 09:44 AM (JkO4W)

50 This may be one of the most restful paintings I've seen and beautifully rendered. It isn't a complicated scene but the realism of the horses, their appearance and postures, against the gentle landscape sets the mood. The subdued light makes me think of approaching dusk, a day winding down. It is simply effective.

CBD, thanks. This is a lovely scene to end the week with. I'm watching a gentle snowfall at the moment which goes with this mood.

Posted by: JTB at December 05, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

51 100 comment rule [TJM]

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:45 AM (36PRH)

52 “Mauve is the color of my True Love’s Hair”. Old folk tune lyrics, updated.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 09:45 AM (pDt9x)

53 48 Cocaine's for horses, not for men.
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.
Posted by: Jackson Browne at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)
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Don't ride the white horse.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (36PRH)

54 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.

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A lot of good it did her.

Posted by: V.I. Lenin

At least I wasn't turned into a cheesy replica made of Bondo and spit.

Posted by: Russian Empress Alexandra at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (Riz8t)

55
Do people in the dog-breeding biz use the terms "son" and "daughter," or do they have special technical terms for canine offspring?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

The parents have sons and daughters, the offspring have sires and dams.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)

56 Morning.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it...oh, nevermind.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 09:47 AM (ioiMK)

57 Seems Mauve painted horses a lot. All three figures in today's art were sent to the glue factory in 1875.

Posted by: Well-rendered Art at December 05, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)

58 I’ve found with horses that unless they’ve been already worked really hard or they are already dehydrated then yeah they won’t drink. But for feed or treats? They are ready 100% of the time to chow down. Like dogs with a treat bag. Highly food motivated. And the trouble is a lot of what’s growing on the ground is also food. Very easy distracted. Hence the grazing muzzles.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 09:48 AM (jQ9Yk)

59 Traditionally, one fills one's Stetson with water and offers that to one's horse to drink from.

That he's not doing so indicates he lives in a culture where the quality of picante sauce isn't taken seriously.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

60 G'day, art fans. 🌞

Sometimes with these muddier pictures, I like to copy them to my paint program and adjust the brightness and contrast. With today's, I had to boost the b & c by 60 & 40, considerably more than yesterday's, before I got something close to normal-looking. Could see the details much better, like the boy's face or the hair of the horses' manes. Don't know how alike or different it is from the original, but it was altogether cheerier.

Posted by: mindful webworker - horsies! must be art at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (pv4q5)

61 You can almost hear the morning birds singing quietly, the low, bellowing snorting of the horses as they drink, the quiet splashing of the water as the horses readjust their footing.

Great piece for a hectic week. Thanks!

Posted by: red speck at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (Ve/HL)

62 You can lead a person to college, but you can't make them think.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (W7XSX)

63 The parents have sons and daughters, the offspring have sires and dams.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Interesting, thanks. "Sire" and "dam" are also used of horses (though not "son" or "daughter").

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

64 49 47 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.
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But did she have great jeans?

Posted by: Sydney at December 05, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)

65 @61 I can hear the RAIN outside right now.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (36PRH)

66 "WHY THE WHITE HORSE NO CARRY ANY BURDEN? REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (My0zW)

67 I can feel the calmness out there. This is very well done.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 09:50 AM (XFXIk)

68 Serene.
I like it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (GbwPZ)

69 Seems Mauve painted horses a lot. All three figures in today's art were sent to the glue factory in 1875.
Posted by: Well-rendered Art

Um, there are only two horses in this painting.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

70 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Get a load of the tail on the white one.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (2WIwB)

71 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM

One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (0sNs1)

72 Mauve was very popular with the Muslims.

He did a lot of paintings of sheep.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)

73 Chiswick! Fresh horses!

Posted by: King Richard IV at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM (Wnv9h)

74 Pretty darn good painting today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (0OIwA)

75 Have we had paintings by this artist before? I was thinking that the first time I heard of him was earlier this week on Twitter, but now I'm not sure.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lFFaq)

76 Very calming painting....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (VE6XX)

77
"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

Posted by: The ghost of Dorothy Parker at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (XQo4F)

78 Have we had paintings by this artist before? I was thinking that the first time I heard of him was earlier this week on Twitter, but now I'm not sure.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lFFaq)

Yes , others were of cattle and sheep iirc.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (KDPiq)

79 >>Cocaine's for horses, not for men.
Doctor says it'll kill ya, but he don't say when.

Beer for our horses!

Posted by: Willie & Tobie at December 05, 2025 09:53 AM (GbwPZ)

80

I could not for the life of me tell whether the darker horse had a saddle of if the kid was just exceptionally dumpy below the waist. Need new glasses (and brighter phone), lol

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (g6TN6)

81 One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I'm partial to Gulfstream Aqua, a nice Ford color from 1968-69.

Posted by: Mustang, Mustang, '68! at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (oftw2)

82 One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

"Seafoam?" WTH?

I think there's some uber chick in some underground lair somewhere (Piper?) who thinks up these bogus color names, and sends out the directive to world chickery to use them. Just to eff with us guys.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

83 The sniper is just inside the treeline.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (0sNs1)

84 He cut off his relationship with Van Gogh because Vincent was living with a pregnant prostitute.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (KDPiq)

85 Sometimes with these muddier pictures, I like to copy them to my paint program and adjust the brightness and contrast. With today's, I had to boost the b & c by 60 & 40, considerably more than yesterday's, before I got something close to normal-looking. Could see the details much better, like the boy's face or the hair of the horses' manes. Don't know how alike or different it is from the original, but it was altogether cheerier.

I simply CANNOT work like this! Did YOU go to art school? Did YOU starve in a Parisian garret learning the craft? No, no you did not!

Posted by: Anton Mauve at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)

86 Alternate title:

"Chetwick Reminds His Horses, Blackie and Sugarfoot, That They Cannot Own The Water But Only Rent It For a While And In Due Course Must Return It to Mother Gaia"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

87 Just two more horses and they could hold an apocalypse.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (JkO4W)

88
That' a very canter-esting picture up there, CBD.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (QVmho)

89 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lFFaq)

Yes...two others.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (Zv8bq)

90 I’m learning a lot about horses lately. They are characters. Some are aholes, some are very sweet, they are all sneaky as can be.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (jQ9Yk)

91
At least the art snobs aren't making such a big stirrup about it

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:56 AM (QVmho)

92
"Seafoam?" WTH?

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Have some Swiss Coffee. It's white.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (JkO4W)

93 That' a very canter-esting picture up there, CBD.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

94 I think there's some uber chick in some underground lair somewhere (Piper?) who thinks up these bogus color names, and sends out the directive to world chickery to use them. Just to eff with us guys.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:54 AM

Next time you're in a department store with cosmetics counters, peruse the lipstick color names. There has to be more than one über chick at work.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (0sNs1)

95 71 Mauve was the favorite color of the Russian Empress Alexandra.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:43 AM

One of the 'ettes' favorite hues, along with ecru, fawn, taupe, and seafoam.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 09:51 AM

###

"Harvest Wheat"

https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4

Posted by: Obligatory Kelsey Grammar clip at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

96
I’m learning a lot about horses lately. They are characters. Some are aholes, some are very sweet, they are all sneaky as can be.
Posted by: banana Dream

When you're riding, remember to rein in your enthusiasm

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (QVmho)

97 >>"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
Her knots disordered, and her wholesome fruits
Swarming with caterpillars...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (GbwPZ)

98
Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.

Posted by: Bulg

I'm really trying to dressage up my vocabulary

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (QVmho)

99 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)

100 Alternate title:

"Chetwick Reminds His Horses, Blackie and Sugarfoot, That They Cannot Own The Water But Only Rent It For a While And In Due Course Must Return It to Mother Gaia"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

That's after he gives proper recognition that they're on stolen indigenous land.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (g8Ew8)

101 >>At least the art snobs aren't making such a big stirrup about it

Not one bit!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (GbwPZ)

102 I'm sure somebody has already mentioned the Mauve Decade, but that was the 1890s, and this guy died in 1888. Missed it by . . .!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

103 They eat horse in Japan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

104 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.
Posted by: Cicero

What?!?!?
-- the Japanese

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

105
I'm saddle-y disappointed in the horde's lack of puns today.

At least they're not fish puns

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (QVmho)

106 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)

Took a long time after they started riding before they came up with stirrups too.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (KDPiq)

107 105
I'm saddle-y disappointed in the horde's lack of puns today.

At least they're not fish puns
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (QVmho)

You are baiting us, are you not?

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (pDt9x)

108 >>Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.

>>I'm really trying to dressage up my vocabulary

If we don't behave ourselves, CBD will pommel us!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (GbwPZ)

109 That' a very canter-esting picture up there, CBD.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Ah, trotting out the horse-gait puns, I see. That takes a lot of gallop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

In the mane, they are simple puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (2WIwB)

110 You can lead a dem to water, but you can't make them drink.

But you can hold their heads under until the bubbles stop.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025

***
I'd never heard that before! Even better than:

"Use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence."
"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (wzUl9)

111 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

We still eat them, but only in small amounts. Surely you've heard of horse d'oeurves.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)

112 At least they're not fish puns
Posted by: BifBewalski

I'm too busy looking at the art. See -- horses!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

113 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)

That's remarkably precise, and almost certainly nonsense.

800 years from what point to what point

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (Zv8bq)

114 Took a long time after they started riding before they came up with stirrups too.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:00 AM

The stirrup is arguably the biggest advance in weaponry humans have ever made.

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

115 I'm saddle-y disappointed in the horde's lack of puns today.

At least they're not fish puns

Y'all are probably taking the high road—it's the vaulting thing to do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (QVmho)

116 Yay, it's up to 13° out. Don't think I'm moving much today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (bfwj/)

117 Fake! That trailing horse would be pulling the lad out of his saddle grazing in that space.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025

***
Does the boy even have a saddle?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

118 We still eat them, but only in small amounts. Surely you've heard of horse d'oeurves.
Posted by: Archimedes

*golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

119 There was a funny scene in Cheers where Diane is explaining to Sam her method of picking winners in sports brackets, and she uses color-based match-ups as a whimsical way to decide outcomes.

Diane: "Red beats blue, blue beats yellow, yellow beats mauve."

Sam [looking clueless]: "Mauve?"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (My0zW)

120 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.
Posted by: Cicero

What?!?!?
-- the Japanese
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

Us too.

But, we pair it with a really nice Beaujolais!

Posted by: The French at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

121 Thank you, CBD. Been there and done that many times.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (sDNVV)

122 If you like horsey stuff, I recommend Dick Francis mystery novels. The stories are always connected to horseracing world. The man could've been a fabulous criminal if writing hadn't worked out.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)

123 I read that horsemeat is pretty bland, and low fat.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (pDt9x)

124
"I tell you, this steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it."

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

125 I'm saddle-y disappointed in the horde's lack of puns today.

At least they're not fish puns

Y'all are probably taking the high road—it's the vaulting thing to do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (QVmho)

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Neigh!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (My0zW)

126 And then there was the guy who had the vision to look at a horse and say, "you know, I'll bet that if we rendered that sucker into goo, we could use it to stick things together."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (JkO4W)

127 Raw Hide - a limerick

A lisping young cowboy named Billy
Took a ride on his favorite filly
"It theems I'm thore!" he cried
To which the horse replied,
"It's 'cause you forgot your thaddle, thilly!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

128 Traditionally, one fills one's Stetson with water and offers that to one's horse to drink from.

That he's not doing so indicates he lives in a culture where the quality of picante sauce isn't taken seriously.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025

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NOO YAWK CITY!!??

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

129 So, about Karoline Leavitt's and Sydney Sweeney's racks...

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

130

Cicero, huh?

Man (homo sapien) has been hunting horses for 30k years, and only domesticated them 1,500 years or so before Christ.

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (g6TN6)

131 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)

And apparently ancient native Americans ate them at a rate that precluded learning to ride. South American's excuse for never using the wheel is that the largest animal was a jaguar and the jungle grew too fast to maintain roads.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (lFFaq)

132
I ate what amounted to horse sashimi in Japan.

Very tasty. Surprisingly, well-marbled.

Maybe the Kobe Beef of horse flesh!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM (iJfKG)

133 >>I'm too busy looking at the art. See -- horses!

Yep, but not clearly, with the skies so graze.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ)

134 only domesticated them 1,500 years or so before Christ.
Posted by: imp

Christ domesticated horses???

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

135 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 09:58 AM (JkO4W)

That's remarkably precise, and almost certainly nonsense.

800 years from what point to what point
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (Zv8bq)

Trust the science H8er!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (kz78D)

136 Nay on the horse puns.

Posted by: Groan at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

137 The stirrup is arguably the biggest advance in weaponry humans have ever made.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)

And the whippletree arguably the biggest advance in agriculture .

Horses go hand and hand with civilization advancement leaps.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:05 AM (KDPiq)

138

And hominids probably have eaten horses since heidelbergensis, if they could find a lame one or a fresh predator kill

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (g6TN6)

139 NOO YAWK CITY!!??
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:04 AM

Get a rope.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (Dfw6Y)

140 Horses were originally domesticated for the meat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (JkO4W)

141 Swedes are just like Somalis!

My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

142 >>Nay on the horse puns.

Too late - well into unbridled punning!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GbwPZ)

143 141 Swedes are just like Somalis!

My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

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They also built lumber mills. There's that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

144 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025

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I can just imagine the scene with the local village fool/crazy man accepting a dare to climb onto the back of one of the horses in the corral . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (wzUl9)

145 Netflix agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in a $72 billion deal, the streaming service announced on Friday. Under the deal, Netflix will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and television studios and streaming platform, HBO Max. Franchises, shows and movies such as "The Big Bang Theory," "The Sopranos," "Game of Thrones," "The Wizard of Oz" and the DC Universe will join Netflix’s extensive portfolio. The cash-and-stock deal is valued at $27.75 per Warner Bros. Discovery share and has an enterprise value, is the total value of a company, including debt, of $82.7 billion.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)

146 Yay, it's up to 13° out. Don't think I'm moving much today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM (bfwj/)

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You're lucky; it's always -300° in F. Joe Mugabe's cryogenic freezer chamber.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (My0zW)

147 Horses were originally domesticated for the meat.
Posted by: Cicero

Makes sense. You aren't gonna just jump on a wild horse and yell, "Giddyap!"

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

148 "Swedes are just like Somalis!"

Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Norwegian bachelor farmers at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (XQo4F)

149

Bulg, I refuse to say "BCE"

Jesus rode donkeys

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (g6TN6)

150 My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

—

Did they scam billions from the govt too?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (kz78D)

151 And hominids probably have eaten horses since heidelbergensis, if they could find a lame one or a fresh predator kill
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025

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Dawn horse on the hoof

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

152 141 Swedes are just like Somalis!

My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

No. They quickly organized bikini volleyball teams, and all was overlooked.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (pDt9x)

153 I should have said that from the time horses were domesticated it took about 800 years for someone to figure out they made good transportation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)

154 from what point to what point
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 10:01 AM

Always a conundrum, to be sure.

Posted by: Pointillists at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (0sNs1)

155 If you like horsey stuff, I recommend Dick Francis mystery novels. The stories are always connected to horseracing world. The man could've been a fabulous criminal if writing hadn't worked out.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025

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His early (1960s) novel Flying Finish is especially good -- flying airplanes is a central part of the story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

156 Wonder how many tons of horse shit was dumped on the cobblestone streets of NYC or Paris in the late 1800s.

Adam Purple was an NYC fixture for decades. Grew a Guerrilla Garden in Manhattan on the site where the city tore down some old tenements. He rode a tricycle with a wagon on back to Central Park to collect horseshit on the Bridle Path. For about 15 years he was accompanied by his girl, who was Eve Purple, naturally.

Posted by: Spreading The Wealth at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)

157 Bulg, I refuse to say "BCE"

Jesus rode donkeys
Posted by: imp

It was just a lame joke.

But, for all you "BCE" haters out there, you could always just say that it stands for "Before the Christian Era."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

158 Today is the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death in 1791. He was only 35 years old.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)

159

I guess it was 3,500 BC for chariots, not BP (before present). Misread that. Why can't we just stick to BC/AD

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (g6TN6)

160 Domesticed for meat?
I thought I was your friend.

Posted by: Flicka at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (XQo4F)

161 Monty Roberts tells a story about one of his students that forgot to water his horse. Monty made the student fill the water bucket by carrying the water in a teaspoon.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (sDNVV)

162 Which is actually more accurate, anyway.

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

163 Swedes are just like Somalis!

My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

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Imma gonna go out on a limb and guess those great-grandparents weren't Anti-Western Islamists and more-than-likely Western Civilization Christians.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (My0zW)

164 158 Today is the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death in 1791. He was only 35 years old.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)

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And his murderer was allowed to roam free for decades in Vienna!

Until he turned himself in to the Catholic Church and became the Patron Saint of Mediocrities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

165

Mine to, we're apparently just humor ships passing in the night

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (g6TN6)

166 >>They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

Americans generally freak out when your community regularly engages in violent crime - rape, beating, throwing their kid off the balcony at the local mall, that kind of stuff. Did your Swedish family engage in any of that?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (GbwPZ)

167 Tough nut to Crack.

CNN: Is there any truth to the idea that the pipe bomb case was ignored?

McCabe: “It''s really hard for me to believe that that it was ignored over the last many years."

“These are tough cases and sometimes take a long time."

Ok, Andy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

168 163 Imma gonna go out on a limb and guess those great-grandparents weren't Anti-Western Islamists and more-than-likely Western Civilization Christians.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (My0zW)

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Who build lumber mills.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

169 AD/BC, failed Rock band name.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (pDt9x)

170 160 Domesticed for meat?
I thought I was your friend.
Posted by: Flicka

Keep your mouth shut and don't say anything.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

171 A former ballerina has surpassed Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift to become the world's youngest self-made billionaire at just 29 years old. Brazilian-born Luana Lopes Lara has been confirmed by Forbes as the youngest woman on the planet to verifiably make a billion dollars entirely on her own - snatching the title from Scale AI's Lucy Guo, who herself dethroned Swift in April.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)

172 Today is the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death in 1791. He was only 35 years old.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM

Ask not for whom the calendar rolls over. It no longer rolls over for thee.

Posted by: Beethoven at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)

173 Next time you're in a department store with cosmetics counters, peruse the lipstick color names. There has to be more than one über chick at work.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025

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Miss Linda dragged me into Ulta so she could pick some lipstick for her birthday. Russian Red, Captive Audience, You Wouldn't Understand It (?!), and Siberian Nights were just some of the names.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

174 I should have said that from the time horses were domesticated it took about 800 years for someone to figure out they made good transportation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)

Was that when they were used for chariots? I've heard that the original strains of horse were too weak-backed for riders and that's why chariots were used for a long time.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (lFFaq)

175 I should have said that from the time horses were domesticated it took about 800 years for someone to figure out they made good transportation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:08 AM (JkO4W)

And about 1800 years after that before it became wide spread from just the small area in the Stepps.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (KDPiq)

176 171 A former ballerina has surpassed Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift to become the world's youngest self-made billionaire at just 29 years old. Brazilian-born Luana Lopes Lara has been confirmed by Forbes as the youngest woman on the planet to verifiably make a billion dollars entirely on her own - snatching the title from Scale AI's Lucy Guo, who herself dethroned Swift in April.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)

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"That bitch earned nothing. Did she build the roads? Or the Internet? No, good for you, but no. You didn't build anything. I built it all by being part of government."
-Elizabeth Warren

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

177 Here's a fun etymological fact. The Indo-European root for "horse," which was something like "ekwo-," was apparently derived from that for "dog," "kwo-" because both animals shared long snouts.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

178

>>>AD/BC, failed Rock band name.
Posted by: tubal

That's because they played everything backwards

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (g6TN6)

179 Today is the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death in 1791. He was only 35 years old.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 10:09 AM (lJ0H4)

He was a great composer, then-

in an ironic move Mozart decomposed over the next century or so.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)

180 Next time you're in a department store with cosmetics counters, peruse the lipstick color names. There has to be more than one über chick at work.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025

They’re amateurs compared to the paint color people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (kz78D)

181 They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
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Americans generally freak out when your community regularly engages in violent crime - rape, beating, throwing their kid off the balcony at the local mall, that kind of stuff. Did your Swedish family engage in any of that?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025

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I suspect the worst was serial lutefisk-making.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

182 And about 1800 years after that before it became wide spread from just the small area in the Stepps.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:12 AM (KDPiq)

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Along with proto-Indo-European based languages. Odd coincidence, isn't it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (JkO4W)

183 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (W7XSX)

184 Twenty-eight-year-old Juan Melgar-Ayala, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, reportedly opened fire on Omaha, Nebraska, police officers in a gas station on Wednesday.

WOWT reported that Melgar-Ayala was involved in a shooting earlier in the day, and Omaha police were able to track him to the gas station.

Once officers were positioned inside the business, Melgar-Ayala exited the restroom and allegedly began shooting at officers. At least three officers were injured in the shooting, and Melgar-Ayala was returned to room temperature by the return fire.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

185 I generally prefer Haydn and Beethoven to Mozart.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

186 >>Here's a fun etymological fact. The Indo-European root for "horse," which was something like "ekwo-," was apparently derived from that for "dog," "kwo-" because both animals shared long snouts.

How dare you compare me to a dog!

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (GbwPZ)

187 Domesticed for meat?
I thought I was your friend.
Posted by: Flicka
*
Keep your mouth shut and don't say anything.
Posted by: Mr. Ed at December 05, 2025

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My name lives on.

Posted by: Trigger at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

188 But, for all you "BCE" haters out there, you could always just say that it stands for "Before the Christian Era."

Sorry, but no. It stands for "Before the COMMON Era". Some claim "Before the Christian Era", but as has been pointed out, that is the same thing as BC.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)

189 24 "what's dat stickin' in ma ho?"

Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)

190 Black in Back was a total failure, mate.

Posted by: Jian Brohnson at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (IvCzq)

191 Once officers were positioned inside the business, Melgar-Ayala exited the restroom and allegedly began shooting at officers. At least three officers were injured in the shooting, and Melgar-Ayala was returned to room temperature by the return fire.
Posted by: SMOD

Damn it. Now we won’t have the cure for cancer. He was soooo close.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (kz78D)

192 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025

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I understood there had been, long before -- until the peaceful Native Americans (aka Injuns) slaughtered them all.

Posted by: Trigger at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

193 They’re amateurs compared to the paint color people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:13 AM (kz78D)

No truer statement has been made.

Posted by: Goose Turd Green at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (JWsMn)

194 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one

Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

195
Mozart is Mo' Bettah!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

196 You think we didn't notice the copywriter used the word "snatching" in the story about the ballerina?

Oh, yes. We did.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (XQo4F)

197 >>Damn it. Now we won’t have the cure for cancer. He was soooo close.

That aspiring young rapper had Grammy potential written all over him, too. . .

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (GbwPZ)

198

>>>Along with proto-Indo-European based languages. Odd coincidence, isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

And the R1b haplotype

Yamnaya solidarity!

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (g6TN6)

199 We need Terror Birds.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (pDt9x)

200 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one

Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.

It's remarkable that the Comanches were widely viewed as the best horsemen in the world, yet had no horses until after the Spanish arrived.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:17 AM (Riz8t)

201 Monty Roberts tells a story about one of his students that forgot to water his horse. Monty made the student fill the water bucket by carrying the water in a teaspoon.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:10 AM (sDNVV)

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Heh.

You're more than likely familiar with this anecdote that I learned from reading the great biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow:

Grant -- known for his exceptional equestrian skills and deep affection for horses -- reacted with intense anger when he witnessed a teamster brutally beating a horse. He then ordered an officer to take the man in charge and have him tied to a tree for six hours as punishment for his brutality. (My memory is that he had him whipped as well, but that's not confirmed when searching for the details of this incident.)

[BTW, I find it most fascinating that both Washington and Grant were considered the greatest horsemen of their generations. Anybody seen Trump on a horse?]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (My0zW)

202 "In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested...
On Wednesday, Nature retracted it."

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Problem is easily solved. Just change the name from Nature to Bullshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

203 Instead of A.D. (anno domini) I prefer ARSH, Anno Reparatae Salutis Humanae. In the year of the Reparation of Human Salvation.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (W7XSX)

204 Sorry, but no. It stands for "Before the COMMON Era". Some claim "Before the Christian Era", but as has been pointed out, that is the same thing as BC.
Posted by: Archimedes

Just add the "E" for "Era."

Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

205 We need Terror Birds.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025

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In Africa, not in suburban Los Angeles.

On second thought . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

206 To put it succinctly, the photo Indo-Europeans figured out Horse Cavalry a couple thousand years before any one else did, and the went from being an inconsequential tribe near the shores of the Black Sea to being the ancestors of about a third of the world’s languages today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (P4eqW)

207

>>>I understood there had been, long before -- until the peaceful Native Americans (aka Injuns) slaughtered them all.
Posted by: Trigger

Along with smilodons, short faced bears, and American lions

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)

208 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:14 AM (W7XSX)

There were. They just didn't survive the paeliolithic ( lol, autocucumber never did figure out what I was trying to type) era.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (lFFaq)

209 36 "skwish!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

210 Instead of A.D. (anno domini) I prefer ARSH, Anno Reparatae Salutis Humanae. In the year of the Reparation of Human Salvation.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025

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ARSH, but fair.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:19 AM (wzUl9)

211 The climate hoax is disintegrating quickly.

About fucking time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (kz78D)

212 Proto not photo damned autocorrect.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (P4eqW)

213 Swedes are just like Somalis!

My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Did they have sex with 9 yr olds?
Because that's a pretty bright demarcation line.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (9bIJg)

214 Christ domesticated horses???

Sure. Still no help with curve ball, tho

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (XuXeR)

215 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

216 I see everyone is chomping at the bit.

Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Oy/m2)

217 27 Is that a desert? Do the horses have names? And why do you have two of them?

Posted by: The music group America at December 05, 2025 09:37 AM (XQo4F)

Been through the swamp with two horses with no names, perhaps. The other rider fell off?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (ynpvh)

218

>>>Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
Posted by: Bulg

You don't understand why people get upset at the dismantling of Western Civilization?

"Common" to what, exactly? The entire world uses our calendar for business, because Western Europeans, i.e., Christians, conquered the entire fucking globe

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (g6TN6)

219 "Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this."

Because the Left wants us to forget our heritage.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (W7XSX)

220 It had to be a terrifying time to be alive say 20,000 years ago. The megafauna were impressive.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (pDt9x)

221 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

Riding bears just wasn't working out.

Posted by: Indians at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (XFXIk)

222 215 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)

223 222 So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)

======

Common.

Common to what? I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

224 Personally, I think we should just go back to something like an annus mundi system. Go back to, like, 4,000 BC and make that Year Zero.

Everything before that would just be "before present" or "x years ago."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

225 221 Paleontogists say it took about 800 years for people to stop eating horses and start riding them.

Riding bears just wasn't working out.

Posted by: Indians at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (XFXIk)

Buffalo ain't too friendly to ride either...that ridge on their back gets into your butt crack...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)

226 Damn white grandmothers!

Joy Reid: Republican grandmas are gleeful as Trump conducts “ethnic cleansing.”

She says she knows this is true, because she once attended the RNC and the vibe she got from senior citizens there was that they want a 1930’s Germany in America.

-
Neo Nazism and milk and cookies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

227 122 If you like horsey stuff, I recommend Dick Francis mystery novels. The stories are always connected to horseracing world. The man could've been a fabulous criminal if writing hadn't worked out.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)

My grandmother (on my father's side) used to be fixated on those.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (UnA8+)

228

Paleolithic

Auotcucumber's ability to fix spelling is limited to things that are reasonably close, lol (just kidding ya)

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (g6TN6)

229 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one
*
Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.

It's remarkable that the Comanches were widely viewed as the best horsemen in the world, yet had no horses until after the Spanish arrived.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025

***
I believe the "Comanch" (as Ethan Edwards would have it) were nomadic hunters. When they encountered horses brought by the Spanish, they revamped their culture and became the swift horseback raiders the Texans feared.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

230 223 222 So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ynpvh)

======

Common.

Common to what? I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

Yes, what IS the common denominator here?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)

231 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?

See my #188. It isn't really Christian Era, it's really Common Era.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)

232 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

—

I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

—

I’m not religious but I loathe BCE. Because while on its own it’s not a big deal, it’s a part of the wider anti-Western Civilization jihad the left is fighting. Death by 1000 cuts and all that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (kz78D)

233 226 Damn white grandmothers!

Joy Reid: Republican grandmas are gleeful as Trump conducts “ethnic cleansing.”

She says she knows this is true, because she once attended the RNC and the vibe she got from senior citizens there was that they want a 1930’s Germany in America.

-
Neo Nazism and milk and cookies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

======

Is it a commonly accepted definition of "ethnic cleansing" to mean "deportation of illegal immigrants of all ethnicities"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

234 230 Yes, what IS the common denominator here?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ynpvh)

======

John Carter.

or

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

235
It's champing!
Champing at the bit!!

Posted by: Pedantic Person at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)

236 Still did Swedish customs. "

You mean like work, run businesses, educate children, worship regularly, build self supporting communities?

Yeah, just like Somalia...

And you never heard of "dumb Swede"?

*head, meet desk*

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XuXeR)

237 Dick Francis was great. He just would not use the work "fuck." He using the word "effing" a lot.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (W7XSX)

238 It had to be a terrifying time to be alive say 20,000 years ago. The megafauna were impressive.
Posted by: tubal

And no 5G!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

239 Lawrence Welk was born and grew up in North Dakota. Attended German language schools, church, stores, lodges, etc. Never spoke a word of English until his 20s.

Posted by: Turn Off the Bubble Machine! at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (oftw2)

240 Caption: The Washington Post Prepares Another Scoop

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (gKWVE)

241 A former ballerina has surpassed Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift to become the world's youngest self-made billionaire at just 29 years old. Brazilian-born Luana Lopes Lara has been confirmed by Forbes as the youngest woman on the planet to verifiably make a billion dollars entirely on her own - snatching the title from Scale AI's Lucy Guo, who herself dethroned Swift in April.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:11 AM (RHGPo)

-----------

What's she selling (and yes, she's a "1")?

Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.

https://is.gd/CxRBRB

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (My0zW)

242 I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

—

I’m not religious but I loathe BCE. Because while on its own it’s not a big deal, it’s a part of the wider anti-Western Civilization jihad the left is fighting. Death by 1000 cuts and all that.

You said it better than I did.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (Riz8t)

243 231 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

I think it's because nobody asked if people felt the need to change from BC to BCE. My guess is that a bunch of anti-Christian academics did it to be annoying and snotty because that's what they do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

So, Before Christ to Before Christian Era?

See my #188. It isn't really Christian Era, it's really Common Era.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Riz8t)

Yes, I know. Just making fun of it, since, what is the common fact that makes it the so-called "Common Era"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

244

If Joy Reid herself constitutes a singular ethnicity, I'm ok with "cleansing" our society of her (peacefully, mind you, like to Liberia)

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (g6TN6)

245 Humans have been around for, what, 100,000 years, not to mention Neanderthals and Denisovans? The advances made seem to have increased exponentially when animals were domesticated, and put to work.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (pDt9x)

246 BTW, the Byzantines, some of the most devout Christians who ever lived, never used "BC" or "AD." They thought it was a Frankish pretension. They used an annus mundi system, based on the beginning of the world as they calculated it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

247 Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.

—

You a answered the question. It’s a prediction market. Like Polymarket. You can bet on just about anything there from politics to sports to who will win Oscars.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (kz78D)

248 Neo Nazism and milk and cookies?"

Nah. It's the werther's. Dead giveaway...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

249 Dick Francis was great. He just would not use the work "fuck." He using the word "effing" a lot.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025

***
He published his first novel in 1962. That word was frowned on in literary novels then, let alone genre fiction.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

250 Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.

https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS

The lack of understanding grammar is amazing.

You can't do something entirely "on your own" if you cofounded something.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (9bIJg)

251 There were no horses in the Americas until the Spanish brought them.
Posted by: no one

Well, they evolved here, but then hightailed it to Asia across the land bridge. The ones that stayed here died out, until Pablo and Jose showed up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

Half assed Bing search gets this.

https://tinyurl.com/3vnhj3xx

Interesting. Very interesting.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 10:26 AM (ioiMK)

252 238 It had to be a terrifying time to be alive say 20,000 years ago. The megafauna were impressive.
Posted by: tubal

And no 5G!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

Englishmen were digging a site and found copper wiring 1m down; they estimated the English had wired communications 100 years ago.
The Scots, not to be undone, dug down 2m and found copper wiring, so estimated they had wired communications 200 years ago.
Finally, a farmer in Minnesota dug down 3m and found nothing; he figured they had wireless 300 years ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ynpvh)

253 The advances made seem to have increased exponentially when animals were domesticated, and put to work.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:25 AM (pDt9x)
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Cats have never forgiven us for that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ESVrU)

254 Ironic that Jesus was born On October 1, 7 BC.

Posted by: House of Bread at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (oftw2)

255 241 What's she selling (and yes, she's a "1")?

Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.

https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:24 AM (My0zW)

Another site to bet on shit.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (UnA8+)

256 Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is.

https://is.gd/CxRBRB
Posted by: ShainS

The lack of understanding grammar is amazing.

You can't do something entirely "on your own" if you cofounded something.

And that coming from the supposedly "educated" mefia.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (9bIJg)

257 I wonder what the horse's name is?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

258 My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

Were? You mean, are. And yes, that seems a bit freakish.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (g8Ew8)

259 Along with smilodons, short faced bears, and American lions
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)

There’s a great dispute about that - why almost total extinction in North America, but so little in Africa and Southern Asia, where there were even more humans? Why was the upper northern hemisphere the one mostly affected?

The evidence for a massive comet (mostly ice) strike on the Laurentide ice sheet gets stronger and stronger with each new discovery. Big enough to have caused an obliteration of most of what is now the northern half of the United States.

No crater because it landed on a mile thick glacier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (P4eqW)

260 We need Terror Birds.
Posted by: tubal

We haven't got enough AWFLs?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

261

Whereas the Franks and their descendants went on to rule the world, and the Byzantines went on to become fishing boat captains, commies, or Muslims

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (g6TN6)

262 Ironic that Jesus was born On October 1, 7 BC.
Posted by: House of Bread

That's my beef with "BC/AD." It's unhistorical. Dionysius Exiguus miscalculated.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

263 Finally, a farmer in Minnesota dug down 3m and found nothing; he figured they had wireless 300 years ago...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ynpvh)

Wouldn’t that work better as a Polish farmer?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (kz78D)

264 246 BTW, the Byzantines, some of the most devout Christians who ever lived, never used "BC" or "AD." They thought it was a Frankish pretension. They used an annus mundi system, based on the beginning of the world as they calculated it.
Posted by: Bulg

Thank George Syncellus for that. Theophanes Confessor used his scheme and finished his chronicle.
The Syrians stayed with the Seleucid system. When they heard of these other "Biblical" systems (the AM and the AD) they thought those systems insisted on themselves.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (gKWVE)

265 Apparently, cofounded prediction market platform Kalshi, whatever that is."

Bookie. Makes coin on the vig. Taps your accounts instead of sending Rocky and Moose to find your wallet...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (XuXeR)

266
Modern day woman reading a book by electric light: Everything was so much better in the past.

Victorian era woman reading a book by candlelight: Everything was so much better in the past.

Cave woman wearing an animal skin sitting in front of a fire: This is awful.

Posted by: Fantasy fallacy at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)

267 259 Along with smilodons, short faced bears, and American lions
Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:18 AM (g6TN6)

There’s a great dispute about that - why almost total extinction in North America, but so little in Africa and Southern Asia, where there were even more humans? Why was the upper northern hemisphere the one mostly affected?

The evidence for a massive comet (mostly ice) strike on the Laurentide ice sheet gets stronger and stronger with each new discovery. Big enough to have caused an obliteration of most of what is now the northern half of the United States.

No crater because it landed on a mile thick glacier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (P4eqW)

Yeah, modern paleontologists want to blame man for the extinctions, but why would man hunt skunks and various trees to extinction?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (ynpvh)

268 Whereas the Franks and their descendants went on to rule the world, and the Byzantines went on to become fishing boat captains, commies, or Muslims
Posted by: imp

And I'm sure it was all to do with how they numbered their years. Sheesh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

269 260 We need Terror Birds.
Posted by: tubal

We haven't got enough AWFLs?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

Talk to the bird hands...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:30 AM (ynpvh)

270 On your own means made your own money, as opposed to inheriting it or getting it through divorce.

Confounding a company counts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (kz78D)

271 Well, 5,000 years ago the Egyptians worshiped cats.

They never forgot that.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (W7XSX)

272

Why do you hate America, Bulg? Lol

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:31 AM (g6TN6)

273 267 There were also megafaunal extinctions in Australia, almost certainly due to human hunting. Maybe because it was a smaller landmass, humans had a greater impact there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

274 We could have had pet cheetahs if Augustus hadn't ruined everything.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (gKWVE)

275 I believe the "Comanch" (as Ethan Edwards would have it) were nomadic hunters. When they encountered horses brought by the Spanish, they revamped their culture and became the swift horseback raiders the Texans feared.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

Before the horse, they were the prey of all the tribes around them. Once they mastered mounted raiding, they became the terror of the plains.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (xcxpd)

276 Why do you hate America, Bulg? Lol
Posted by: imp

?????

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

277 can't do something entirely "on your own" if you cofounded something"

You're mistaken. "She" must always be celebrated as "the one", dotchaknow..

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:32 AM (XuXeR)

278 The painting is a nice introduction to an artist with whom I was unfamiliar. Many thanks.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (mADJX)

279 Yeah, because what mother forgets the birthday of her son?

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (W7XSX)

280 The Bedouins got tired if having to ride on the hump so they thought they might give horses a try

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:33 AM (sDNVV)

281 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

Merry Commonness.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 10:34 AM (XFXIk)

282 The Bedouins got tired if having to ride on the hump so they thought they might give horses a try
Posted by: Ben Had

I thought that's why they invented the dromedary.
Ride in between the humps.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (9bIJg)

283 Finally, a farmer in Minnesota"

See, Swedish joke.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (XuXeR)

284 Really, I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

Merry Commonness.
Posted by: t-bird

It's not a religious issue. Stop trying to make it one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

285 I’m not religious but I loathe BCE. Because while on its own it’s not a big deal, it’s a part of the wider anti-Western Civilization jihad the left is fighting. Death by 1000 cuts and all that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (kz78D)

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Ditto.

I was extremely disappointed that Dennis Prager caved to this convention in writing his "Rational Bible" Torah series -- justifying as some neo-standard accepted by academics (whom he claims to loathe in general).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (My0zW)

286 I thought that's why they invented the dromedary.
Ride in between the humps.
Posted by: rickb223

You're thinking of Bactrian camels.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

287 If the Comanche had figured out how to ride saber-tooth tigers...and discovered the land bridge to Asia...

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 10:36 AM (XFXIk)

288 Someone seems to be getting riled up about it. LOL

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 10:37 AM (W7XSX)

289 IIRC the dromedary descends from an Omani population which was almost dying out. It had got hunted to extinction in the Sahara (the ones they got now are reimports).
Compared to dogs, or even horses, camels are grouchy assholes and not much more worth domesticating than a bison.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (gKWVE)

290 You're thinking of Bactrian camels.
Posted by: Bulg

I knew as soon as I typed it I was going to be wrong.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (9bIJg)

291 Stardate 90210.

BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!

The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+

Will YOU be watching?

-
See the poster here.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

292 I am okay with dating everything based on the greatest event in human history. Seems appropriate.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (pDt9x)

293 Ben Had's place? I think I see 1,000yd steel in the background.

Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ocFtC)

294 As long as we don't switch to "AH (Anno Hegirae)," I'm cool with BCE/CE.

I don't use it myself, because it's not what I grew up with.

And, really, as long as you're not spelling out the words, so that the words "Christ" and "Christian" never appear, who cares?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

295 I wonder what the horse's name is?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

Doesn't have one. Years later, someone would write a song about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

296 If the Comanche had figured out how to ride saber-tooth tigers...and discovered the land bridge to Asia"

They'd be models for Frank Frazetta?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:39 AM (XuXeR)

297 I thought that's why they invented the dromedary.
Ride in between the humps.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:35 AM (9bIJg)

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There's an Asian Frankenstein novel in there somewhere:

Bactrianstein?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:40 AM (My0zW)

298 BCE is commie speak for "God Is Dead".

Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot, school teacher and mass murderer at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (m8zKa)

299 IIRC the dromedary descends from an Omani population which was almost dying out. It had got hunted to extinction in the Sahara (the ones they got now are reimports).
Compared to dogs, or even horses, camels are grouchy assholes and not much more worth domesticating than a bison.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (gKWVE)

Without camels there'd be no cameltoes.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

300 Doesn't have one. Years later, someone would write a song about it."

Were there plants and birds and rocks and things?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)

301 The great stock market crash of November is ancient history. S&P500 is within 20 points of the all time high this morning.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (kz78D)

302 I remember reading a history book in college, where there was a typo that turned "Bactria" into "Bacteria." LOL.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

303
"...and not much more worth domesticating than a bison."

I want a hippopotamus for Commonmas.

Posted by: Gayla Peevey at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (XQo4F)

304

Bulg, Western Civilization is based on a shared Greco-Roman-Christian heritage. Our systems of calendaring, although the sources of dispute over the centuries, are symbols of that unified culture. America is the apotheosis of Western Civilization, arising both in a new land and bringing together an amalgam of nationalities (primarily Western European, certainly at first). Our Hebraic brothers have foundational beliefs, but little impact on the concrete workings of our society (i.e., Sunday was the recognized day off, the Sabbath, for 2,000 years). So when nerd wankers decide THEY are going to change our systems, without election, conquest, or plebiscite, they can FUCK RIGHT OFF. I'm not changing my society because someone doesn't want to think the word Christ. Chiist is King, baby!

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (g6TN6)

305 I’ve been told the Indian way of life was pure and 100 time better than the white man conquerors. We ruined them By giving them modern things like horses and farming.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:43 AM (kz78D)

306 Speaking of naming things-

Paint manufacturer Pantone has named "Cloud Dancer" the color of the year

it's basically white
the NYTimes has already sounded the 'racism' alarm

https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/
1996927477889843398

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (yhwo5)

307 "We ruined them By giving them modern things like horses and farming"

And blankets.

Posted by: Young wives tale at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (XQo4F)

308 Stardate 90210.

BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!

The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+

Will YOU be watching?

-
See the poster here.

https://is.gd/kPrVh9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

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Best retort [with juxtapositioned images]:

The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"

https://x.com/mynerdyhome/
status/1996791061818298449

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:44 AM (My0zW)

309 One of the worst takes you will ever see.

2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.

According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.

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I guess Mehdi was right. Fake Jake says he's white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

310 The two humpers became known as the "sedan of the desert"

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 10:45 AM (sDNVV)

311 John Ondrasik commented "Minnesota is London." Minnesota might be London if it weren't for the efforts of United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen and his team, including Melinda Williams. Ms. Williams is now prosecuting Mohamed's case in federal court for kidnapping and gang-raping the 15-year-old girl and raping other women.

A year ago, President Autopen would not have done this. So Minnesota not being London is predicated on the Democrats eternally nominating a ticket as obviously club-footed and repellent as Vice President Cackles and Governor Jazz Hands.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (RHGPo)

312 Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
·
Follow
In January, @realDonaldTrump looked me in the eye on the tarmac, promising Angelenos that he'd help rebuild after the firestorms.

11 months later, he still hasn't delivered.

That's why I'm headed to D.C. to push for a long-overdue federal aid package for survivors.
Governor Newsom meets President Trump on the LAX tarmac during Trump's January 2025 visit to survey the damage left by the Los Angeles area firestorms.

11 months later, Trump has yet to actually transmit the formal request to Congress for critical disaster funding to help Southern California communities recover from the Palisades and Eaton fires — despite California's urgent pressure and bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
8:29 AM · Dec 4, 2025
===

The "Who Me?" governor

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (9ipOP)

313 Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:42 AM (g6TN6)

Whatever. I think it's a trivial complaint, but it's your right to get spun up about it if you want to.

Like I said above, I still use "BC" and "AD," too. But it's purely out of habit. For me, there are no deep cultural implications (or any theological ones) to it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

314 Our Hebraic brothers have foundational beliefs, but little impact on the concrete workings of our society

The seven day sabbath seems to be Babylonian. There are hints from the Elephantine Jewish settlement that the sabbath of 1-4 Reigns (Samuel-Kings) was monthly.
Where da Jooz really helped was in giving us Deuteronomy. Separation of judiciary from the King. There's a line from that to Montesquieu and our courts.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:46 AM (gKWVE)

315 Vincent van Gogh's cousin, I believe.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (p9rFX)

316 Paint manufacturer Pantone has named "Cloud Dancer" the color of the year

it's basically white

the NYTimes has already sounded the 'racism' alarm

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"What, Black Cloud Dancer wasn't available? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (My0zW)

317 I Want a Hippocampus for Christmas

I'm stretching, I know.

But its Friday.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (6qf1m)

318 While the msm/Dems scream about a recession coming, they ignore weekly unemployment claim data which is at a 3 year low.

Everything is an op and a lie. Every fucking thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (kz78D)

319

Sunday being the day, not the seven day system

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (g6TN6)

320 Best retort [with juxtapositioned images]:

The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"

https://x.com/mynerdyhome/
status/1996791061818298449

Can you believe it was only 20-30 years ago when there was an actual, all-white, ensemble cast? Chances of that happening now are zero point zero.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:47 AM (Riz8t)

321 So the pipe bomber "supposedly" told authorities he thought the 2020 election was stolen so.... MAGA

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 10:48 AM (VE6XX)

322 Wow. Netflix bought Warner Bros. And HBO? From Breitbart:

“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO,” Netflix said. “The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.”

Earlier in the week, Paramount called the sales process unfair and bias toward Netflix, claiming that the “sales process has been tainted by management conflicts, including certain members of management’s potential personal interests in post-transaction roles and compensation as a result of the economic incentives embedded in recent amendments to employment arrangements.”

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (Eng1Z)

323 Okay I'ma read this b/c my data could be out of date
brill.com/view/journals/jaj/16/1/article-p29_2.xml

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (gKWVE)

324 Without camels there'd be no cameltoes.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

We'd be left with nothing but moose knuckles.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (9bIJg)

325 >The pitch: "FRIENDS...but in space"
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do I see the token Klingon?

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (yhwo5)

326 Whatever. I think it's a trivial complaint, but it's your right to get spun up about it if you want to.

—

Everything is trivial on its own. It’s when you get 1000 trivial things together that a society ceases to exist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (kz78D)

327 London is predicated on the Democrats eternally nominating a ticket as obviously club-footed and repellent as Vice President Cackles and Governor Jazz Hands.

I liked this impression of him.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RIxDRumPGHA

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

328 neigh, the horse withers. "i was in the pool!"

Posted by: cmeat at December 05, 2025 10:50 AM (R11M+)

329 John Carter.

or

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

Alright ya filthy animal - you showed up on my ONT last night so I held up my end of the bargain. I'm your most recent subscriber and I liked your latest video.

But you're still my sworn enemy.

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (3CwIS)

330 So the pipe bomber "supposedly" told authorities he thought the 2020 election was stolen so.... MAGA
Posted by: It's me donna

Except, that storyline is a nightmare for Democrats. For years, the Biden team presided over a Justice Department that had endless resources to track down grandmas in MAGA hats using cell phone data, yet somehow could not close in on the one figure whose actions were used to paint January 6 as an organized terror plot. It’s almost as if they figured out who it was and deliberately chose not to pursue him.

Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)

331 BCE is commie speak for "God Is Dead".

Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot, school teacher and mass murderer at December 05, 2025 10:41 AM (m8zKa)

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This guy gets it.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (My0zW)

332 Jerry is just trying to protect victims of domestic violence.

Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

333

>>>Everything is trivial on its own. It’s when you get 1000 trivial things together that a society ceases to exist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Forget the rest of the series/movies/universe of Star Trek, the Picard speech on the borg, "this far and no farther!", was top notch. That is how a civilization atomizes, bit by bit.

Posted by: imp at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (g6TN6)

334 Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)

Of course we know that.. It's just a media headline.. Maybe the perp is hoping for a pardon ....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (VE6XX)

335 The metric system pisses me off more than the "BCE/CE" thing does.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

336 I don't like hating people, but clearly I don't hate Gruesome Newsom enough. He and his wife formed an NGO that sucked up a chunk of the money for the CA wildfires. It never got to the fire victims. And now he's blaming TRUMP that the victims don't have money?

Forget the GOP beating him in 2028. If other Democrat candidates can't bloody his nose in the primaries just for his handling of the wildfires, they've all been bought off. He should be easy to punch down if they try.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:54 AM (Eng1Z)

337 But you're still my sworn enemy.
Posted by: Doof

So Sponge is friends with TJM, and you're friends with Sponge. How does that work?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

338 [BTW, I find it most fascinating that both Washington and Grant were considered the greatest horsemen of their generations. Anybody seen Trump on a horse?]

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[Wifey retorts:] "He just rides The Beast."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (My0zW)

339 @RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

I nominate him as the new biggest Democrat retard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (kz78D)

340 Jerry is just trying to protect victims of domestic violence.

Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

This from a guy whose party has done it's level best to nationalize health care and every other thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (Riz8t)

341 Moving paper around is how many got rich but I don’t respect that as much as someone who became wealthy building a tangible product or service.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:55 AM (KDPiq)

342 Of course we know that.. It's just a media headline.. Maybe the perp is hoping for a pardon ....
Posted by: It's me donna

You would be surprised how many don't. I've got my Fartbook feed lit up right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:56 AM (9bIJg)

343 I nominate him as the new biggest Democrat retard.

The problem is that soon we won't have Jerry Nadler to roll around any more.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:56 AM (Riz8t)

344 Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

How is it funded fat ass?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)

345 [Wifey retorts:] "He just rides The Beast."
Posted by: ShainS

Not only does he ride The Beast, he performs dzhigitovka on it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

346 [BTW, I find it most fascinating that both Washington and Grant were considered the greatest horsemen of their generations. Anybody seen Trump on a horse?]

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[Wifey retorts:] "He just rides The Beast."
Posted by: ShainS

The beast with the hunched back?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (9bIJg)

347 Jerry is just trying to protect victims of domestic violence.

Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

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Then you can do all that with State -- AND NO FEDERAL -- money, toots.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (My0zW)

348 The beast with the hunched back?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (9bIJg)

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Everything generally comes full circle here.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (My0zW)

349 Bedouin nomads loved their horses but they would have to keep a camel or two to milk daily to feed the horse so only the sheikhs had horses.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (vFG9F)

350 >>> My great-grandparents migrated to the US from Sweden. They went directly to Minnesota where the Swedish immigrant community was. They still spoke Swedish. Still did Swedish customs. Ate Swedish food. Were Americans freaked out they didn’t “Americanize”? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

My grandparents immigrated here with nothing and were hard core into their home customs, language, food. But they learned English, never took a dime of welfare, and were a positive force for good in the community. I learned to love the 4th of July because my grandpa was super into it. They loved this country.

I bet your relatives were the same way. It's NOT the same as the current crop of immigrants.

Also, our relatives never came here and raped people, or the system.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (Eng1Z)

351 If you want your precious little dead or never-existed povvos to have their privacy, then don't be such a lying bunch of fucking scumbags that anyone even thinks to bother with looking at your books.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (JwNbV)

352 Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run,

and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

But it keeps them in state run databases? LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:58 AM (9bIJg)

353 Pecan
@PecanC8
Ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta says Trump should be impeached for making “hateful comments” about the Somali community.
“In no normal world should the President of the United States EVER, EVER say something like that to the American people… That was an impeachable moment.”

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Thou shalt not criticize child raping money stealing Somalis!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

354 RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.
SNAP is state-run, and state confidentiality laws keep the home addresses of domestic-violence survivors and other vulnerable families out of federal databases for their safety.

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It's just Jerry shitting his drawers again.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew8)

355 @RepJerryNadler
There’s a reason no administration—Republican or Democrat—has ever tried to force states to hand over full SNAP rolls.

Because they were in on it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (XFXIk)

356 Oh, and I forgot to comment on the painting! Moody and pretty, I like it!

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (Eng1Z)

357 322 Wow. Netflix bought Warner Bros. And HBO? From Breitbart:

“Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO,” Netflix said. “The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.”

Earlier in the week, Paramount called the sales process unfair and bias toward Netflix, claiming that the “sales process has been tainted by management conflicts, including certain members of management’s potential personal interests in post-transaction roles and compensation as a result of the economic incentives embedded in recent amendments to employment arrangements.”
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 10:49 AM (Eng1Z)

Well, we all knew the streaming wars would end in consolidation. I just didn't think Netflix would end up on top.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:00 AM (xcxpd)

358 Not only does he ride The Beast, he performs dzhigitovka on it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

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Nice (and we come full-circle again back to the U.S. Grant performing this maneuver in the Mexican-American War)!

kittylevin.wixsite.com/dzhigitovka/history

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (My0zW)

359 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

360 Brian Cole is black and a leftist. . .Cole did not just happen to lean left. He worked for a bail bond operation run by his father that specialized in freeing illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and even sued Trump’s Department of Homeland Security over immigration policy. Weeks before he allegedly planted the pipe bombs, a court ruled against the family’s company in that lawsuit targeting the Trump administration.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 10:51 AM (9bIJg)

Interestingly, he also kept buying materials to make bombs AFTER the attempted bombing for a few weeks and then stopped. So, he obviously was pissed it wasn't getting noticed and wanted to try again...and then someone figured him out (dad? mom? feds?) and told him to stop...at least, how else do you describe someone committed to more who just...stops...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 11:01 AM (tOcjL)

361 Pecan
@PecanC8
Ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta says Trump should be impeached for making “hateful comments” about the Somali community.
“In no normal world should the President of the United States EVER, EVER say something like that to the American people… That was an impeachable moment.”

Yeah they’re not like the icky Conservative Christians clinging to their bibles and guns.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:02 AM (KDPiq)

362 Apple News ping: CDC has decided to end the recommendation that babies get Hep B shots within 24 hours of birth.

Normies: wait, babies were getting HEP B SHOTS?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (Eng1Z)

363 How dare that Nazi Facist Trump name call Somali fraudster immigrants.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (KDPiq)

364 188 But, for all you "BCE" haters out there, you could always just say that it stands for "Before the Christian Era."

Sorry, but no. It stands for "Before the COMMON Era". Some claim "Before the Christian Era", but as has been pointed out, that is the same thing as BC.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)

As much as I hate the ever increasing use of “provider”, as much as I hate other terms and words today, I despise “CE” and “BCE”. I never have used that fucking bullshit and never will.

BC and AD for me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:03 AM (6KcYW)

365 “In no normal world should the President of the United States EVER, EVER say something like that to the American people…"

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He wasn't saying it to the American people, but to the Somali Pirate (Technically not Illegal -- but Illegal -- Alien) and rest of the Turd-World's Illegal Alien Invaders.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 11:04 AM (My0zW)

366 A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, 43, copped Nov. 13 to a single charge of illegal use of the air rifle in connection with the Oct. 2 incident outside of Brookline’s Temple Beth Zion, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.

The scholar was arrested by ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Wednesday and agreed to return to Brazil voluntarily to avoid deportation, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

367 Bribe'em called half of the population garbage.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 11:10 AM (sDNVV)

368 Western Civilization is based on a shared Greco-Roman-Christian heritage. Our syst
You might want to through a Judeo in there Imp.

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