Mid-Morning Art Thread

Symphony in White, No. 3
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Howdy CBD

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:29 AM (BBMJX)

2 11th day without modernism? Hooray!

Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (s0JqF)

3 too white

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 Cloud Dancer, a "billowy, balanced white" that symbolizes serenity and a fresh start.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 This is Number 3? Does this guy have a whole White Album?

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (BBMJX)

6 Lovely

Posted by: Tuna at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

7 Gal on the left's pose looks uncomfortable.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

8 MAGA!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

9 Artist James McNeill Whistler
Year 1865–67
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 51.4 cm × 76.9 cm (20.2 in × 30.3 in)
Location Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

U still in Englandstan?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

10 Looks like they're waiting for the drugs to kick in
Would hang though, nice colors.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (bfwj/)

11
Symphony in White, No. 3

Pffft! Where's the "Cloud Dancer"?

I call fake news.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

12 So tired.

Posted by: Lily von Shtupp at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (98kQX)

13 At least the chick on the right gets to nap.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

14 Girl on right overcome by flatulence of girl on left.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (Kt19C)

15 5 This is Number 3? Does this guy have a whole White Album?
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (BBMJX)

He was known as the 5th Beatle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

16 "Then he said, 'Those sammiches aren't going to make themselves!'"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (vFXRK)

17 Nowadays, this is considered white supremacy by the left.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

18 Girl on left: attractive

Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

19 both women, "we're bored, can we stop this?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (2GVsD)

20 Whistler had talent but was a weak betasoy pussy. He was completely dominated by women in his life, all toxic bitches. He probably was a closet poofter.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (yhEB+)

21 Alternate title:

"Whistler's Throuple: Two-Thirds Version"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

22 Poor posture all around. Would not hang.

Posted by: Cairo Practick Institute at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)

23 Racist!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (vFXRK)

24 It's a 714 kind of day.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (vFG9F)

25 Fifty Shades of Grey. Wow, Just wow.

Posted by: What the ladies are thinking at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

26 too white

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
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Nothing that Windex can't solve.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (MXrgX)

27 "Pfft. They're nowhere near as hot as me."
-- Whistler's mother

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

28
Lazy girls

Get into that kitchen, and rattle them pots and pans

Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (ZxPkt)

29 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl? It looks like a brightly colored version of a booster you'd keep in your car to jump your battery.

Though if it's on its side, it could be a top or a toy version of a carousel. The spike sticking out would be to spin it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

30 "We're bored! Entertain us!"

Posted by: Two sisters, dressed all in Cloud Dancer white at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

31 This is one way to get around the fact that you can't paint feet.

Posted by: Agony of De Feet at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)

32 Whistler...ok. The lady on the left is about to fall of the couch !

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (g47mK)

33 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl?

Looks like a fan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

34 The redhead will steal your soul.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (MUvIp)

35 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl? It looks like a brightly colored version of a booster you'd keep in your car to jump your battery.

Though if it's on its side, it could be a top or a toy version of a carousel. The spike sticking out would be to spin it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)
——

It’s a fan. This is the period where painters would stick fans into their paintings for some reason or another, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (yhEB+)

36 U still in Englandstan?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

Nope. Got back a couple of days ago. And this piece is at the Courtauld Gallery, not the Barber!

Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)

37 Right-Hand Girl has a ring on the second finger of her left hand. Is there any significance to its presence on that finger?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

38 Wiki-
Symphony in White, No. 3 is a painting by James McNeill Whistler, created between 1865 and 1867. It features two women: one seated on a white sofa, dressed in white, and the other on the floor in a yellowish dress. The seated figure is Joanna Heffernan, Whistler's mistress and frequent model.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

39 Original title: White Supremacy with Dustpan.

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

40 Birthin' hips on the left

Posted by: one hour sober at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (Y1sOo)

41 Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I've never encountered the term "hawkface" before. The girl on the right reminds me of Margaret Hamilton, however.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

42 They definitely need a sammich or three.

Posted by: Peter Paul Rubens at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

43 Wolfus was #4 on the Wall of Shame last week. Good work!

And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

44 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

45 Way too overdressed for art.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

46 Are those Klan symbols on the rug?

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (Ve/HL)

47 The incredible whiteness of being.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (0nHVk)

48 Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (9bIJg)

49 Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
I've never encountered the term "hawkface" before. The girl on the right reminds me of Margaret Hamilton, however.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

***
I may have just now coined the term. Miss Hamilton, esp. as the Witch, is the icon for the term.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

50 Looks yellowish. Lots of sweat stains on that white.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (vf0Uk)

51 Wiki-
Symphony in White, No. 3 is a painting by James McNeill Whistler, created between 1865 and 1867. It features two women: one seated on a white sofa, dressed in white, and the other on the floor in a yellowish dress. The seated figure is Joanna Heffernan, Whistler's mistress and frequent model.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

We're a good looking clan.

Posted by: Doug Heffernan, King of Queens at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

52 Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)
============
I agree. It's a great place (as is much in England), politics aside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (vFXRK)

53 Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025

***
Except for Left-Hand Girl's blouse, all the "white" has a distinct yellowish cast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

54 I'd like to see this one in person.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (4/BuS)

55
*sings*

You say you want a Symph'ny in White
We-ell, you kno-ow
White's a color not a song
You tell me "What about the Blues?''
I tell you, buddy, that you're wrong
...

Posted by: Rejected song from The Beatles White Album at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

56 Right-Hand Girl has a ring on the second finger of her left hand. Is there any significance to its presence on that finger?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

No longer a virgin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:43 AM (vf0Uk)

57 Y'know . . . Left-Hand Girl has a distinct resemblance to Gillian Anderson of X-Files and Bleak House fame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

58 Dear Horde,

Please excuse James from the Art Thread this morning.

Signed,
Whistler's Mother

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:44 AM (bFu5X)

59 I do not think he knows what symphony means.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:45 AM (9ipOP)

60 The object still does not resemble a fan to me. A fan is close to 2D, while this object appears to be 3D, like a little cage with a handle sticking out of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

61 So, if you're out on your bike tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike-wear white.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)

62 Y'know . . . Left-Hand Girl has a distinct resemblance to Gillian Anderson of X-Files and Bleak House fame.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You're right.

Gillian Anderson and Margaret Hamilton. Weird casting choices, but it works.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

63 There are no musical instruments in that painting.

Fraud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (NwnyJ)

64 And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby

Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

65 Nope. Got back a couple of days ago. And this piece is at the Courtauld Gallery, not the Barber!

Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)

wiki wrong l i b

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

66 All the art depicting women never shows the sammiches. How do they do that?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:47 AM (9ipOP)

67
Rhapsody in Blue >>>> Symphony in White

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)

68 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt >> James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Posted by: one hour sober at December 08, 2025 09:48 AM (Y1sOo)

69 Classy art. Would hang this one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 08, 2025 09:49 AM (O7YUW)

70 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have always been unable to whistle. Just can't do it. Dunno why.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

71 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

Awww, how can anyone hate this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDtVe04Z5I

To hate it is to hate life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

72 Nice.

I see a reference to the Pantone color of the year has already been made, so. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (GbwPZ)

73 Nog dogs, no boobs.

Gonna be this kind of art week eh?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (SQJLY)

74 48 >>>Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.

Had an art class once where we had to do a still life as an assignment. I came home from class, went to work, ate dinner at 11:00pm, and thought, "Oh shit... that stupid drawing." Figured I'd do something simple and get to bed asap because I was exhausted.

So I put two white eggs on a white plate. Felt a it like cheating. So I cracked an egg on the plate as well. Still thought, "Meh. Some grays, a little yellow... I'll be snoozing by midnight." Went to bed at 4am after agonizing over the Prestone-green that came from the egg white reflecting the yolk. And the little amniotic sac on the inside of the cracked egg was the most frustrating shade of periwinkle.

I was exhausted at class the next day but learned a good lesson in really seeing your subject for what's there. And something something procrastination.

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (Ve/HL)

75 Rhapsody in Blue >>>> Symphony in White
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where does "Daydream in Blue" by I Monster fit in?
https://shorturl.at/FjT6f

Posted by: Musical Moron at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

76 >> Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (GbwPZ)

77 No dogs, no boobs.

Gonna be this kind of art week eh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Well, technically, there are boobs present. Just not on display.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

78 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

Yikes!

Posted by: Bobby McFerrin at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (PiwSw)

79
A Lean. And Hungry Look - a limerick

Whistler's sister has a case of the flu
Which gives her a distinctly slanted view
Her angle is off
With a sneeze and a cough
"Ah. Ah. A-skew!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

80 Neither of them stuck out their gyatt for the rizzler.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 09:52 AM (UnA8+)

81 Herb Alpert's "Acapulco 1922" features a *little* whistling:

https://tinyurl.com/y7stmek2

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

82 A+

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 08, 2025 09:53 AM (6qf1m)

83 >> Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM

I'm like that with the triangle.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)

84 For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy

Whew! Lets us off the hook.
-- Accordians

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

85 Is there an etiquette or rule around artists signing their works?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bNf8H)

86 I'm like that with the triangle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The damn zither at the beginning of The Third Man.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

87 Pantone approves of this artwork!

very Cloud Dancer

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (emBoF)

88 For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM

I'm like that with the triangle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)

That is disappointing, I must say.

Posted by: Ed Grimley at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (PiwSw)

89 85 Is there an etiquette or rule around artists signing their works?

the etiquette is you should always sign. you can sign on the back if you're shy.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (emBoF)

90 Where are the pillows so they can fight?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

91 Where are the pillows so they can fight?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

It's no fun if they aren't topless.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (9G/0O)

92 The object still does not resemble a fan to me. A fan is close to 2D, while this object appears to be 3D, like a little cage with a handle sticking out of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

It's a fan with a rattan frame covered at the top with silk or paper.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (mlg/3)

93 all the "white" has a distinct yellowish cast.

Probably hung over the fireplace in the Night Watch's smoking room for a hundred years. Be surprised what a conservator could do. They might disappear!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (zdLoL)

94
The name "Cloud Dancer" for a color makes me want to punch someone in the head.

Either that or change the name of pancakes to-

Turtle's Worzel Bits.

Either or.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

95 It's not often two people simultaneously have their hearts wounded with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 09:59 AM (Riz8t)

96 Two AWFL's lamenting Pantone's Color of the Year being "Cloud Dancer?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (qBdHI)

97 64 And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby

Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

I've never killed anybody, so I may be well behind the curve amongst the Horde...

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

98 It's not often two people simultaneously have their hearts wounded with a monotonous languor.
Posted by: Archimedes

In India, the langurs have languor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.

Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (bwkZy)

100 That was quite a party.

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (04KGT)

101 In the days before A/C, didn't funeral homes provide fans as a marketing tool?

Posted by: Ill wind the Bodes Nobody Good. at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (oftw2)

102 Sounds bad

@disclosetv 2m
JUST IN - Tsunami of up to 10 feet (3 meters) expected to hit Japan's Pacific coast, after 7.6-magnitude quake hits.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (mlg/3)

103 Gah! That's what I get for reading from the bottom up. The Cloud Dancer idiocy has already been addressed! My wit missed it by ---><--- that much.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (qBdHI)

104 I've seen this painting before. It's done with Whistler's usual talent and style, especially the way he can subtly blend similar colors. I thought there was a message behind the image. The girls are in white and on a white sofa, things that are easily soiled. No room for fun or activity, just quiet and boring lounging. The younger girl on the right has dropped her viewer and is falling asleep. The older girl, more mature in her posture and with the shape of her legs showing through the material, looks like she wants some action, some romance. Her gaze is distant. She wants to be elsewhere, doing what young women desire.

I might be reading too much into the image but it's fun coming up with the scenario.

Posted by: JTB at December 08, 2025 10:03 AM (yTvNw)

105 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate

-
Maybe it makes sense in some parallel universe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

106 99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.
Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good

Les Beans is the coffee place down the street run by a lesbian couple.

Posted by: Confused Moron at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

107 Too white, need to add a Somali for color balance.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (uNwvV)

108 99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.
Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (bwkZy)

Shouldn't they be eating Baba Ghannouj?

...oh. I thought you said "Lebanese".

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (UnA8+)

109 Needs more bamboo.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (GD2xa)

110 ON another version of Alpert's "Acapulco 1922" on YooToob, the description has it that the song "was written by Eldon Allan, who was actually Herb's older brother Dave Alpert, who also wrote the 1967 Tijuana Brass song 'Wade In The Water.' "

I understood WitW was a traditional spiritual; on a visit to Linda's Catholic church, I happened to spot the title in the songbook (forgive me if I don't have the correct name for the volume). Isn't it? Herb and/or Dave may have adapted it or arranged it, but they didn't write it, did they?

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

111 You’re bothered by his whistling? Just ask his mother!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (075ei)

112 Hope they don’t have a spaghetti dinner.

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

113 I might be reading too much into the image but it's fun coming up with the scenario.
Posted by: JTB

It's late afternoon during a hot summer's day. They're just tucker'd out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (mlg/3)

114 The older girl, more mature in her posture and with the shape of her legs showing through the material, looks like she wants some action, some romance.

She needs to get on a dating website, or perhaps post something in the town square.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

115 That yellowed dress can be whitened without bleach. Spray 'n' Wash- just pour, rub, and launder as usual.

Posted by: Betty White For Spray 'n' Wash at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (oftw2)

116 105 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate
-
Maybe it makes sense in some parallel universe.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

117 Story at Faux Bizness about some Christmas decorations that are in short supply at Home Depot. And people are doing this…

“Yahoo reported that some of the most in-demand items are being resold online for prices exceeding $1,000. Customers who can’t afford those prices are also crowdsourcing their efforts to find the limited available stock. Yahoo reported on one 44-year-old collector who found an 8-foot Santa that was five hours from his home. He put down a $300 deposit to hold the item before driving to get it. ”

$1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone fucking mad?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM (SQJLY)

118 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art. This must be just before the pillow fight.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM (2WIwB)

119 “Yahoo reported that some of the most in-demand items are being resold online for prices exceeding $1,000. Customers who can’t afford those prices are also crowdsourcing their efforts to find the limited available stock. Yahoo reported on one 44-year-old collector who found an 8-foot Santa that was five hours from his home. He put down a $300 deposit to hold the item before driving to get it. ”

$1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone f***ing mad?

Tell me you're an obsessive loser without telling me you're an obsessive loser.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

120 That’s not a viewer. It’s probably a mirror, or possibly a fan.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 08, 2025 10:07 AM (075ei)

121 Left: Somalis are just like all of your ancestors H8ers

Also left: how dare you ask they assimilate the way your ancestors did?

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

122
Panacea - not a limerick

Tuberculosis, scoliosis, halitosis, and the flu
Proptosis, Brucellosis, and neurosis.
"Whatever shall I do?"

Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, croup
Meningitis, hepatitis, phlebitis and rhinitis?
'I think I'll make some chicken soup!"

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

123 White lights around the porch columns, white lights in the boxwood hedge, wreath above the front porch. Outdoor decorations are done.

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

124 116
I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

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I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

125 OOooooo...

Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

126 BREAKING:

Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

2 Thai soldiers were wounded today after a Cambodian attack in the Kantharalak district followed by a second Cambodian attack around 100 km further north near the Preah Vihear… pic.twitter.com/3sPr2bBcqA

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 7, 2025
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Someone should tell the president his deal is coming apart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (9ipOP)

127 I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Move to Somalia, open a church, and play the bells throughout the day.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

128 Dem Rep Seth Moulton says since Trump is taking out narco-terrorists, he might m*rder Americans next.
Moulton is running to unseat Senator Markey in Massachusetts.
The more insane the rhetoric, the more he beefs up the lunatic base bona fides.

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Maybe he'll drone E. Jean Carroll's panties.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

129
I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

That makes you The Quirky Gringo and a major celebrity in most Mexican towns.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

130 > $1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone fucking mad?
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I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

131 I'm not even Somali and I accept that I deserve to be deported for what the Somalis did.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (UnA8+)

132 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

That's my name too!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (9bIJg)

133 I saw a clip of. Somali woman who claimed to have been here since 1994 when she was 5 years old. Had the thickest accent. Which shows how they absolutely do NOT assimilate.

I know people who immigrated here when they’re were kids and you’d never know it since they have no accents. Because back in the olden days pre 1990ish) immigrant kids learned English and lived in English. Now it’s a distant second language for them their entire lives.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (SQJLY)

134 Whistler is a master, no doubt about that

first he painted all the white, then he painted all the black

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (dCxaZ)

135 125 OOooooo...

Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

AEW fans flying into a rage as we speak.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (UnA8+)

136 130 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

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I hate the blow ups. We have a couple for Halloween, but Dolley just didn't put them up this year. I'm not sure why because I haven't voiced my displeasure over them.

Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

137
Woman on left: "The Paolo. He's everything they said he'd be, and more."

Woman on right: * moans softly, in agreement *

Posted by: Moron Art Critic at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

138 Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!

I find it really hard to imagine how any entertainment company in this day and age is worth that kind of money.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (Riz8t)

139 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

140 The old artist's trick: one model, two different poses!

I believe the woman who posed for this one moved out of Whistler's home just before Whistler's widowed mother moved in. Mother was a sweet Church Lady, but a Church Lady nonetheless.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (BHrzb)

141 Move to Somalia, open a church, and play the bells throughout the day.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)
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Just try doing that in Vermont!

https://tinyurl.com/yu2kcd52

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (MXrgX)

142 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

These same people: Trump is making everything unaffordable!!!

And yeah I’m seeing a lot of those yards as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (SQJLY)

143 I'm not even Somali and I accept that I deserve to be deported for what the Somalis did.

Posted by: XTC

I'm going to need to see your work on that.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)

144 A good day to all the Rons and Ettes and all the art-lovers at sea. Wreaths on the door and tree ready to be decorated. It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas.

What an odd composition. The ladies look to be in uncomfortable positions, and not interacting in any way. And the symphony in whites has a lot of off-white, yellowish-white, eggshell, beige, and ecru, but not a lot of white, or even any "cloud dancer."

What was Whistler thinking??

Posted by: mindful webworker - probably about his mother at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (yqA/D)

145 Stay in your lane, Jimmy.

Sincerely,

Ludwig

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (NYInA)

146 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate
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"Because I'm muslim enough, I'm fraudulent enough, and gosh darn it, people dislike me."

/Stuart Somali

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (/iMjX)

147 Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.

Agreed. Also, if there is a pause in the Christmas decoration arms race due to lack of supply, I'm okay with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

148 130 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

And then there are the people who just stick a santa hat on the 20-foot skeleton they put up for Halloween.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (UnA8+)

149 Woman on left: "The Paolo. He's everything they said he'd be, and more."

Woman on right: * moans softly, in agreement *
Posted by: Moron Art Critic

That's why neither can stand.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (9bIJg)

150 And the symphony in whites has a lot of off-white, yellowish-white, eggshell, beige, and ecru, but not a lot of white, or even any "cloud dancer."

What was Whistler thinking??

Resale value?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

151 We saw "Rental Family" this weekend based on moviegique's strong recommendation.

Excellent movie. Very sweet. The kind of family oriented movie "they" used to make.

Brendan Fraser was great., along with the other actors. Strong script. Crisp direction.

Highly recommend you see it before it leaves the theaters (which will more than likely be this week if you wish to:
1)See a good movie
2) Support this kind of good movie.

It a dramedy basically in case you're wondering, Nothing blows up.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

152 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (SQJLY)

that's painting the immigrant experience with a really broad brush

Loss or retention of native language accent is usually a function of what age the immigrant arrived here.
If it was pre- 15 or 16 years old, there is a good chance the accent will disappear.
There are other factors, such as their engagement in the larger society.
My grandparents kept their strong accents until their death, as did my mother. And mom got here at age 19.
Presence or absence of a foreign accent doesn't really correlate with whether or not a person has fully assimilated.

My dad's accent left fairly quickly, he arrived at age 18. I think because he was drafted and then when discharged from Army went into business for himself, he was more exposed to hearing how Americans talk and his ear acclimated to it more than other members of my fam.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

153 I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Go post in all caps. When they yell at you, ask, "why? is that some custom here? why should I care about the customs here?"

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (pIfcn)

154 143 I'm going to need to see your work on that.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)

Well, I'm not taking a DNA test since those all instantly go to the Feds.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (UnA8+)

155 We've got a few houses in the area who left their giant skeletal Halloween decorations up and slapped Santa hats, wreaths, etc. on them.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (vV6n9)

156 Thinking about stepping out for a coffee and croissant, or muffin. When I drive someplace I like to combine errands, but I can't think of anything I *need* that I could add to this jaunt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

157 152 My dad's accent left fairly quickly, he arrived at age 18. I think because he was drafted and then when discharged from Army went into business for himself, he was more exposed to hearing how Americans talk and his ear acclimated to it more than other members of my fam.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

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Movie factoid:

Billy Wilder emigrated in his late 20s from Germany. He could never lose his accent, and he was extremely self-conscious of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

158 ‘Daddy says we can’t go to New York with Luigi.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (x4MxA)

159 How's the whole soldiers should refuse Hesgeth's war crime orders thing going? Let's check the Dickhead-o-Meter . . .

Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

160 Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

No! Garish colored lights are the way to go. And not the one lit candle in each window like some stuffed shirts. People that live in some faux "colonial" house with their faux Drunken Fife furniture. Piss me off to no end!

Posted by: Hostile Xmas Takeover at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)

161 Kalliato,

Yeah for sure depends on age. Pre-teen years is when kids absorb languages easily. Put a 5 year old who’s never spoken English into an English school and within a few month kid is damn near fluent and with no accent quickly.

The Somali in question claimed she came here when she was 5. She still have a very thick accents which means she was not exposed to much English as a young child.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (SQJLY)

162 Has the world gone fucking mad?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (bFu5X)

163 Don't worry, be happy. *whistles*

Posted by: Bobby McFerrin at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

164 139 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

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One of my neighbors has wandering laser dots of varying colors. At night I'm seeing persistent fireflies up in my evergreens. We're not that far from the approach at a major airport. I wish ATC would tell him to knock it off.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (NYInA)

165 159 How's the whole soldiers should refuse Hesgeth's war crime orders thing going? Let's check the Dickhead-o-Meter . . .

Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

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I've seen a theory that he's trying the "lawfare target to massive electoral support" strategy. You know, how Trump was targeted for bullshit that everyone except the most partisan of Democrats (like, writers at NRO) saw as bullshit.

And it seems somewhat convincing to explain his path.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

166 My accent is S.C. Redneck/Ebonic.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (x4MxA)

167 Movie factoid:

Billy Wilder emigrated in his late 20s from Germany. He could never lose his accent, and he was extremely self-conscious of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025

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Bela Lugosi never lost his, and it was important to his work, as he appeared in *front* of the camera instead of toiling behind it like Wilder. His accent worked well for roles like Dracula and Ygor, and the Soviet commissar he played in Ninotchka. But it hampered him in the Hollywood of those days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

168 Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

Someone should tell them never get involved in a ground war in Asia.
Oh.
Wait...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

169 Hope they don’t have a spaghetti dinner.
Posted by: tubal

********

Ha!

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (/iMjX)

170 Posted by: naturalfake

Rental Family is on my To See list.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (9bIJg)

171 168 Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

Someone should tell them never get involved in a ground war in Asia.
Oh.
Wait...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

Europe wants WW3...

...they're gonna get WW3.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (UnA8+)

172 I've known hundreds of Norwegian immigrants over the years. The cutoff for no accent is 14. Later than that will always have some accent. This assumes you go to school and speak English from then on.

Lawrence Welk was born and grew up in North Dakota, went to German speaking schools, church, lodge, stores, etc. Look how his speaking turned out.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (oftw2)

173 Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Backtrack? Motorized goalposts.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (9bIJg)

174 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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I'd love to see one with a blow-up Santa, and a bunch of mannequin strippers cavorting around a pole with Santa putting $5 bills in their G-Strings!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

175
"I'm just mad about Saffron ...
Saffron's mad about me"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (BZKvP)

176 Bela Lugosi never lost his, and it was important to his work, as he appeared in *front* of the camera instead of toiling behind it like Wilder. His accent worked well for roles like Dracula and Ygor, and the Soviet commissar he played in Ninotchka. But it hampered him in the Hollywood of those days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I met a guy from Romania once. He was the spitting image of Bob Newhart, except his voice was that of Bela Lugosi. I was kind of jarring.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

177 Mel Gibson in his early career was full on Oz accent. Then as he became a big start it went away. Even in interviews I’ve seen with him he sounds ‘Murican. And that infamous tape. He fully embraced Americanizing his accent.

he is American since was born in NYC. He could run for prezzy. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:26 AM (SQJLY)

178 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

179 178 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

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They'll make it up on BlueSky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

180 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

They really, really don't understand that he's far smarter than they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

181 he is American since was born in NYC. He could run for prezzy. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:26 AM (SQJLY)

And subject to the jurisdiction

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:28 AM (gbOdA)

182 Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

What are they fighting over?

"We have the worst mosquitoes!"
"No, we do. Annnnd, the worst malaria. Your's is like an ice cream headache!"
"Why you bastards! This means war!!!!"

I'm pretty sure it went like this.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

183 "Phillip's first job is to act as the fiancé of a woman named Yoshie, a lesbian who is already married and wants to perform a traditional wedding for her parents before she and her wife leave for Canada."

Yes, let's spend money for tickets, popcorn and drinks to watch more woke bullshit from Hollywood.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 08, 2025 10:28 AM (Y1sOo)

184 I met a guy from Romania once. He was the spitting image of Bob Newhart, except his voice was that of Bela Lugosi. I was kind of jarring.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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I was startled to find that Edward G. Robinson was born in Romania in 1893 and lived there until he was ten. So I wrote a story where he travels there in 1937, scouting locations for a film, and aids a family whose son has been abducted by a vampire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

185 They'll make it up on BlueSky.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

Bluesky is that special classroom they had in elementary school that you never saw the kids at lunch or playground.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:29 AM (gbOdA)

186 Thailand and Cambodia are fighting over who has the best trannies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:29 AM (bfwj/)

187 Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

188 More news from the alternate universe . . .

Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

189 131 I'm not even Somali and I accept that I deserve to be deported for what the Somalis did.
Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (UnA8+)

lol

On the bright side, the Mogadishu Mome ought to be something else.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (4/BuS)

190 Edward G Robinson…of the Bucharest Robinsons?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (SQJLY)

191 188 More news from the alternate universe . . .

Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

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Miller et al are going to spend the next 3 years deporting Somalis out of Minnesota while Dhillon cleans up voter rolls.

MN politics could change in response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

192 188 More news from the alternate universe . . .

Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

I see the new number is $8 BILLION

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (gbOdA)

193 We do the soft white lights and wreaths outside. Inside tree is white lights and all "crystal" ornaments.

Although.... this year my wife has the 4 White House ornaments from Trump's first term, and the first one from this term on a small, garish tree in the den.

It's a "Trump Tree."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (NwnyJ)

194 On the bright side, the Mogadishu Mome ought to be something else.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

We could rename the city MAGAdishu.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

195 Mel Gibson in his early career was full on Oz accent. Then as he became a big start it went away. Even in interviews I’ve seen with him he sounds ‘Murican. And that infamous tape. He fully embraced Americanizing his accent.
*
he is American since was born in NYC. He could run for prezzy. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025

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Nicole Kidman speaks in Aussie dialect when she's being interviewed, but she can "do" Standard American easily, and often does in films. I expect Margot Robbie and Nicole's friend Naomi Watts (though British) are the same.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (wzUl9)

196 192 I see the new number is $8 BILLION

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (gbOdA)

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That buys a lot of hatchets to kill people who build gold mines in Somalia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

197 More news from the alternate universe . . .

Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

The ol' Alley Oop gambit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

198 Miller et al are going to spend the next 3 years deporting Somalis out of Minnesota while Dhillon cleans up voter rolls.

MN politics could change in response.

Not. Gonna. Happen. They might deport a few of the worst criminals, but the vast bulk of them are here to stay. I wish it was otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

199 Painting: That Symphony is about as white as my teeth are. Title Fail.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GHIyr)

200 Edward G Robinson…of the Bucharest Robinsons?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025

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That's the one -- born Emanuel Goldenberg.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (wzUl9)

201 Nicole Kidman speaks in Aussie dialect when she's being interviewed, but she can "do" Standard American easily, and often does in films. I expect Margot Robbie and Nicole's friend Naomi Watts (though British) are the same.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

As I noted above, Nicole was born in Hawaii.

Hugh Laurie in House did a great American accent.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

202 198 Not. Gonna. Happen. They might deport a few of the worst criminals, but the vast bulk of them are here to stay. I wish it was otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

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Self-deportation is usually 3-1 to 5-1 in response to forced deportations.

MN isn't cooperating with ICE, so ICE is picking up everyone they encounter.

Temporary visas and protections from deportations are ending completely.

Plus, the criminals are probably the ones doing most of the ballot harvesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

203 What are they fighting over?

"We have the worst mosquitoes!"
"No, we do. Annnnd, the worst malaria. Your's is like an ice cream headache!"
"Why you bastards! This means war!!!!"

I'm pretty sure it went like this.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:28 AM

You call that curry?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 10:33 AM (bFu5X)

204 Mark Kelly is where mouth and ego meet.
Clearly trying to set himself up as the alternative to Newsome.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:34 AM (2WIwB)

205 7 Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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Yes; according to Wiki, her parents were graduate students there on student visas. They went back to AU when she was three.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

206 Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is of mostly Irish descent.

The family moved to Australia in the late 60's.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:35 AM (9bIJg)

207 Mel had to go Australia to make Road Warrior?

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 08, 2025 10:36 AM (EyfuW)

208 "Columcille" Now I know why the guy drinks.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:36 AM (GHIyr)

209 We could rename the city MAGAdishu.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

Excellent!
Well played!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:36 AM (2WIwB)

210 Temporary visas and protections from deportations are ending completely.

-

Unfortunately that only applies to a few hundred Somalis. The vast majority of Somalis are here legally and have either citizenship or a green card. They’ve been importing them for 30 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:36 AM (SQJLY)

211
Hugh Laurie in House did a great American accent.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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It's startling when you see HL play Bertie in the "Jeeves" TV series, or his turn as the exasperated airline passenger who has to listen to Rachel natter on about her relationship with Ross on Friends.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:37 AM (wzUl9)

212 Nicole Kidman is an anchor baby? Lol. I had no idea.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:37 AM (SQJLY)

213 Nicole Kidman speaks in Aussie dialect when she's being interviewed, but she can "do" Standard American easily, and often does in films. I expect Margot Robbie and Nicole's friend Naomi Watts (though British) are the same.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Beth Dutton, (Kelly Reilly), speaks standard American in movie but Australian accent in interviews.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:37 AM (9bIJg)

214
Elon should buy WB.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:38 AM (MVEnt)

215 Okay, how about Rod Taylor and Sam Neill? Are they native to Australia?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

216 Colin Farrell can do any American regional accent. Very talented.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:38 AM (GHIyr)

217 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.
Posted by: Bulg

A giant illuminated and inflated Santa Grinch in our neighborhood. Must be fifteen feet tall.

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 10:38 AM (04KGT)

218 @206 good thing Gibson's father moved them out of Peekskil. I used to go there for court and it was a hole. Not as bad as Newburgh but not a garden spot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:38 AM (bfwj/)

219 A giant illuminated and inflated Santa Grinch in our neighborhood. Must be fifteen feet tall.
Posted by: t-bird

You'd think HOAs or local zoning ordinances would do something to address those things.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

220 A giant illuminated and inflated Santa Grinch in our neighborhood. Must be fifteen feet tall.
Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025

***
The Grinch was a man ahead of his time -- a visionary! A prophet without honor in his own country!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:39 AM (wzUl9)

221 Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities at Canterbury and Victoria. The 6-foot tall star has a BA in English Literature. Following his graduation, he worked with the New Zealand Players and other theater groups. He also was a film director, editor and scriptwriter for the New Zealand National Film Unit for 6 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:40 AM (9bIJg)

222 AOP is sending us his Clippers. Nasty business, we should retaliate.

Posted by: Shivering In the South at December 08, 2025 10:40 AM (oftw2)

223 I'm not sure I could tell a Kiwi accent from an Aussie one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

224 Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota

We were told we'd get much more money!

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at December 08, 2025 10:41 AM (04KGT)

225 Elegant blonde Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Anthony (a biochemist and clinical psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing instructor) Kidman. The family moved almost immediately to Washington, D.C., where Nicole's father pursued his research on breast cancer, then, three years later, made the pilgrimage to her parents' native Sydney.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:42 AM (9bIJg)

226 More news from the alternate universe . . .

Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

I see the new number is $8 BILLION
------

We'll find out later that's its closer to $12 BILLION.

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

227 226
We'll find out later that's its closer to $12 BILLION.

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

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It's a good thing government spending returns $5 back to the economy for each dollar spent.

Right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

228 Anthony (a biochemist and clinical psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing instructor) Kidman.

I've heard her father was a pedo, but she seems to have turned out all right.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

229 Mel Gibson in his early career was full on Oz accent. Then as he became a big start it went away. Even in interviews I’ve seen with him he sounds ‘Murican. And that infamous tape. He fully embraced Americanizing his accent.

he is American since was born in NYC. He could run for prezzy. 😀
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08,

The first movie I saw Gibson in was Gallipoli, which was an Australian production.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (8CIFn)

230 They add personality to the mosaic of diversity.

NYU Students Upset Homeless Junkies Were Cleared from Park Despite Crime

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

231 "Elegant blonde Nicole Kidman" Thank goodness she ditched the 1980's-style perm early in her career.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (GHIyr)

232 Elegant blonde Nicole Kidman

I think she's actually a ginger.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

233 229 The first movie I saw Gibson in was Gallipoli, which was an Australian production.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (8CIFn)

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Peter Weir for the win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

234 What are they fighting over?
Posted by: naturalfake

Doesn't matter. China is behind it. They're probably playing both sides against the other so they can swoop in and be the savior. China took a huge PR hit in Thailand after the collapse of a Thai gov building that collapsed after the earthquake this year. Cambodia, IIRC, is shot through with CCP 'development' programs

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:45 AM (mlg/3)

235 It's a good thing government spending returns $5 back to the economy for each dollar spent.

Right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Perpetual Money Motion Machine!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

236
Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.

Remember, Illhan is islhamic. They are taught to lie to get what they want from the beginning. Lie to the non-believer for the cause. NYC is about to find this out, hard. They all lie to get their way.

Nothing that comes out of that bish's mouth should be believed. They come here and spread like a disease, destroying everything in their path.

We're not waking up to this fast enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (vf0Uk)

237 Today we call it crop dusting.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (wGerL)

238 I like Thai food. Not sure I’ve ever had Cambodian food.

So I’m on team Thailand.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (SQJLY)

239 Rod Taylor - Suave and handsome Australian actor arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, and built himself up from a supporting actor into taking the lead in several well-remembered movies.

B 1930

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (9bIJg)

240 Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities at Canterbury and Victoria. The 6-foot tall star has a BA in English Literature. Following his graduation, he worked with the New Zealand Players and other theater groups. He also was a film director, editor and scriptwriter for the New Zealand National Film Unit for 6 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025

***
I did not know about the Irish part.

I also don't think he's quite 6'. Maybe he just looked short next to Nicole (who *is* almost that tall) in Dead Calm all those years ago, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (wzUl9)

241 Thank goodness she ditched the 1980's-style perm early in her career.
Posted by: gp

Yeah, I didn't think much of her when she was sporting that.

Taylor Swift looks better with the straight hair, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

242 I had a pretty bad north Queens/Lawn Guyland accent that is mostly gone after 40 years. But people who are from there can tell I'm from there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (m6HS6)

243 How do you know when Ilhan Omar is lying? When her mouth is moving!

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

244 More jarring to me than accents, Actors can … act … like decent, normal people in character roles. Then come to find out they are complete and total dickheads in real life. How does that work, they must he familiar with the concept of being a decent human being, since they fake it so convincingly, yet they reject it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (HmHHo)

245 The last scene of Gallipoli always makes me cry.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

246 Robert Taylor, who played Walt Longmire in Longmire dropped his Aussie accent. Saw him in an Australian film and his Aussie accent was on full display.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (9bIJg)

247 238 I like Thai food. Not sure I’ve ever had Cambodian food.

So I’m on team Thailand.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:46 AM (SQJLY)

From what I've tried, it's a bit hot for me. But I certainly love Indian food. (although vindaloo is a bit much)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)

248 242 I had a pretty bad north Queens/Lawn Guyland accent that is mostly gone after 40 years. But people who are from there can tell I'm from there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (m6HS6)

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I was raised in central Florida, and people usually think I'm sort of from the Midwest.

I have a very generic American accent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

249 More jarring to me than accents, Actors can … act … like decent, normal people in character roles. Then come to find out they are complete and total dickheads in real life. How does that work, they must he familiar with the concept of being a decent human being, since they fake it so convincingly, yet they reject it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 08, 2025 10:47 AM (HmHHo)

BANG BANG you're dead! Teehee!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 08, 2025 10:48 AM (vf0Uk)

250 234 What are they fighting over?
Posted by: naturalfake

Doesn't matter. China is behind it. They're probably playing both sides against the other so they can swoop in and be the savior. China took a huge PR hit in Thailand after the collapse of a Thai gov building that collapsed after the earthquake this year. Cambodia, IIRC, is shot through with CCP 'development' programs
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:45 AM (mlg/3)

I think they are locked in a bitter dispute over 5 particular banana trees.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

251 I did not know about the Irish part.

I also don't think he's quite 6'. Maybe he just looked short next to Nicole (who *is* almost that tall) in Dead Calm all those years ago, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

All of the ones I just posted came from their IMDb mini-biographies. Couldn't tell you how accurate they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:49 AM (9bIJg)

252 Rod Taylor - Suave and handsome Australian actor arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, and built himself up from a supporting actor into taking the lead in several well-remembered movies.

B 1930
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025

***
He was featured in an early episode of Cheyenne in 1955, playing basically the Tim Holt character in a TV-rewrite of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Cheynne Bodie was the sensible prospector (like Walter Huston's). And character actor Edward Andres -- who usually played blowhard businessmen -- did a great job as the gold hunter driven mad by greed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:49 AM (wzUl9)

253 241 Thank goodness she ditched the 1980's-style perm early in her career.
Posted by: gp

Yeah, I didn't think much of her when she was sporting that.

Taylor Swift looks better with the straight hair, too.
Posted by: Bulg

They both sport normal figures, unlike "you know who".

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (oftw2)

254 Most generic accent is the Pacific Northwest. Well in old America anyway. Seattle is not American anymore.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (SQJLY)

255 $8 billion in Somali fraud in MN.

MN state budget probably has a $10 billion shortfall this year.

Fuck MN.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (NwnyJ)

256 Laura Fraser, a Scot, also good at American accents. Jessie Buckley, Irish, ditto.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (GHIyr)

257 It's a good thing government spending returns $5 back to the economy for each dollar spent.

Right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
Most research now puts the money multiplier for welfare spending at below 1.0. The question is how much lower than 1.0 among researchers.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (WDjG6)

258 Ilhan Omar Claims Somalis Are Victims of Massive Fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

The ol' Alley Oop gambit.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Well, I knew it wasn't a Hail Mary.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

259 Movie factoid:

Billy Wilder emigrated in his late 20s from Germany. He could never lose his accent, and he was extremely self-conscious of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life

I have been viewing your YT vids. You are a good filmmaker in your own right.

ok, maybe not filmmaker, per se, but video editor. Also, it looks like you are going to have to add rooms to your house to store your movie collection

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (dCxaZ)

260 I was raised in central Florida, and people usually think I'm sort of from the Midwest.

I have a very generic American accent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't much associate Florida with southern accents, what with all the Yankee transplants down there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

261 $8 billion in Somali fraud in MN.

MN state budget probably has a $10 billion shortfall this year.

Fuck MN.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (NwnyJ)

Not bad for a retard, eh?

Posted by: Tim Walz at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (vf0Uk)

262 Will Minnesota vote out the corrupt Walz and his cronies as people find out about the fraud?

8 Ball says: lol no

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (SQJLY)

263 They both sport normal figures, unlike "you know who".

Voldemort?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (Riz8t)

264 Symphony in White, No. 3
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Symphony in White, No. 1, 1862, also known as The White Girl, is a painting by James McNeill Whistler displayed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Symphony in White, No. 2, 1864, also known as The Little White Girl is a painting by James McNeill Whistler & is part of the Tate (UK) collection, but not on permanent display.

Symphony in White, No. 3, 1865–1867, painted by James McNeill Whistler, is displayed at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (UK).

His "muse" was Joanna Hiffernan and she often appeared in his paintings. The white dresses were a break from Victorian dress and mood.

Interesting art lesson; would pass on hanging unless the entire group were available. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

265 Nobody has ever asked me where I'm from, based on my voice.

Only based on my skin tone.

And no, I don't mean that in some whiny leftist "whitey is racist" way.

It's usually Indians, Hispanics, and Arabs who ask.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (UnA8+)

266 In Florida the further north you go the more southern the accents become.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (SQJLY)

267 I have a very generic American accent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:48 AM

Ditto. My family is from MA and RI. No one can tell where we're from.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (bFu5X)

268 Has TJM put in a bid for WB yet? I want all gangster movies, 24/7/365.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (GHIyr)

269 Craig Ferguson would say his Scottish friends would say he had gone all American when he went back for a visit.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:53 AM (8CIFn)

270 257 It's a good thing government spending returns $5 back to the economy for each dollar spent.

Right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
========
Most research now puts the money multiplier for welfare spending at below 1.0. The question is how much lower than 1.0 among researchers.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (WDjG6)

====

I became politically aware in 2009 or so.

When the argument about government spending was probably at its zenith.

I just remember it asserted, with complete and total assurance that it could only be true unless you were a cousing-fucking racist, that government spending created economic activity.

It's amazing what people can believe when it's just asserted by someone with initials after their name. Never mind any critical thought. "This PhD said it."

"Well, this PhD said the opposite."

"Your PhD is paid by Big Oil."

"what?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

271 He was featured in an early episode of Cheyenne in 1955, playing basically the Tim Holt character in a TV-rewrite of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Cheynne Bodie was the sensible prospector (like Walter Huston's). And character actor Edward Andres -- who usually played blowhard businessmen -- did a great job as the gold hunter driven mad by greed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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The original movie,Treasure of Sierra Madre, is one of the more disturbing movies out there about the human condition. Illustrates well that the love of money causes evil.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:53 AM (WDjG6)

272 I like Thai food. Not sure I’ve ever had Cambodian food.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

There's virtually no difference other than the quality/expense of the dishes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:53 AM (mlg/3)

273 259 I have been viewing your YT vids. You are a good filmmaker in your own right.

ok, maybe not filmmaker, per se, but video editor. Also, it looks like you are going to have to add rooms to your house to store your movie collection

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (dCxaZ)

=====

Well, thank you.

If I make this into an income and grow it enough...I hope to one day make some kind of short film for real. But that's years off, assuming even my best case scenarios play out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

274 The original movie,Treasure of Sierra Madre, is one of the more disturbing movies out there about the human condition. Illustrates well that the love of money causes evil.
Posted by: whig

Walter Huston makes that flick for me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

275 @233 TJM, Weir is the most underrated/overlooked of modern directors. Master and Commander says it all.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (bfwj/)

276 175
"I'm just mad about Saffron ...
Saffron's mad about me"
Posted by: ShainS

Saffron? The Intergalactic Space Whore? I was going to actually link to a sexy image of her, but all the ones I easily found on image search were pretty plain, and using her as a trap felt too disrespectful lol

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

277 268 Has TJM put in a bid for WB yet? I want all gangster movies, 24/7/365.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:52 AM (GHIyr)

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If I had $108 billion, I'm not sure I'd spend it on buying WB.

Paramount wants to do it, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

278 256 Laura Fraser, a Scot, also good at American accents. Jessie Buckley, Irish, ditto.
Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:50 AM (GHIyr)

Something I've noticed for both actors and regular folks - most anyone who's good at singing (the real thing, not nonsense like rap or whiny country) is also very good at accents. My guess is that it has to do with hearing and feedback loops. Same thing goes for imitations in general.

For example, Lucy Lawless is someone you may not realize who can do any English based accent easily.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 10:55 AM (uWKK8)

279 "Well, this PhD said the opposite."

"Your PhD is paid by Big Oil."

"what?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

One of the questions about the money multiplier effect is whether it is even positive in any cases or negative in all cases (>1.0). Basically possible positive cases get washed out by the sheer magnitude of harmful government spending. Hard to pick the needles out of the haystack statistics wise.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

280 274 The original movie,Treasure of Sierra Madre, is one of the more disturbing movies out there about the human condition. Illustrates well that the love of money causes evil.
Posted by: whig

Walter Huston makes that flick for me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

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Directed by his son, John, to Walter's Oscar win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

281 260 I was raised in central Florida, and people usually think I'm sort of from the Midwest.

I have a very generic American accent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't much associate Florida with southern accents, what with all the Yankee transplants down there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Florida - the southern most northern state in the union.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 08, 2025 10:55 AM (N39Ws)

282 If I make this into an income and grow it enough...I hope to one day make some kind of short film for real. But that's years off, assuming even my best case scenarios play out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

A MOME Musical!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (2WIwB)

283 More jarring to me than accents, Actors can … act … like decent, normal people in character roles. Then come to find out they are complete and total dickheads in real life. How does that work, they must he familiar with the concept of being a decent human being, since they fake it so convincingly, yet they reject it.
Posted by: Common Tater

I hate when they are good people in real life but play nasty characters in movies.

Neal McDonough is one.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (9bIJg)

284 If I had $108 billion, I'm not sure I'd spend it on buying WB.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From what you've told us about her, I bet Dolley would be firmly against it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

285 I have been viewing your YT vids. You are a good filmmaker in your own right.

Great. Now he's gonna start wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (ExV1e)

286 Most research now puts the money multiplier for welfare spending at below 1.0. The question is how much lower than 1.0 among researchers.

When the climate hysterics model the impact of CO2, and find that it doesn't come close to reality, they start using "forcing", which is basically "we just made it up to fit our model".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (Riz8t)

287 269 Craig Ferguson would say his Scottish friends would say he had gone all American when he went back for a visit.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:53 AM (8CIFn)

So noo a wee haggis is nae good for ya? Ya tosser. Buy us a pint, eh?

Posted by: To be read in a Groundskeeper Willie accent at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (PiwSw)

288 275 @233 TJM, Weir is the most underrated/overlooked of modern directors. Master and Commander says it all.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (bfwj/)

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Weir is an amazing talent.

He gave up on filmmaking about a decade ago. Reportedly some movie star he was working with to get a project off the ground just pushed him over the edge to quitting.

He's still alive. He gives interviews where he calls himself an extinct volcano.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

289 The original movie,Treasure of Sierra Madre, is one of the more disturbing movies out there about the human condition. Illustrates well that the love of money causes evil.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025

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The TV episode was as well. The show gave B. Traven, the author of the original novel, credit. It wasn't stealing, I guess, as Warners (which produced the film and Cheyenne too) owned the property, or had the rights to make films of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (wzUl9)

290 Some good news.

Nigeria Secures Release of 100 Schoolchildren Abducted From Catholic School Following Weeks in Captivity

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

291 "If I had $108 billion, I'm not sure I'd spend it on buying WB."

Maybe we could rent it for a couple days.

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (GHIyr)

292 I see it's been referenced, but nonetheless:

You read that white: Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is 'Cloud Dancer'
Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) to be more exact.
(NPR)

Posted by: m at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (RuTUS)

293 Walter Huston makes that flick for me.
Posted by: Bulg
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Very talented actor that would have been more celebrated had the prime of his career been about ten years later.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (WDjG6)

294 Checking in, reminding Brave, again, that I am here.
Good morning folks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (kf2Bq)

295 282 If I make this into an income and grow it enough...I hope to one day make some kind of short film for real. But that's years off, assuming even my best case scenarios play out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

A MOME Musical!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (2WIwB)

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I actually do have a musical idea that I've nursed for years.

I think it's a fun one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

296 Walter Huston makes that flick for me.
Posted by: Bulg

Ew! However, I watched it around age 13, and seeing Bogart was one of my first sexual awakening moments...

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (JCZqz)

297 I was born in Brooklyn and lived there until 12. Moved to Rockland County suburbs. Was fishing, met a grandpa there with his grandson. He had a very thick Brooklyn accent. Told him I just moved from there. He said, "Nah, you ain't from Brooklyn, you talk too nice".

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (oftw2)

298 285 I have been viewing your YT vids. You are a good filmmaker in your own right.

Great. Now he's gonna start wearing jodhpurs and a monocle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM (ExV1e)

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Ascots.

All the best filmmakers wear ascots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

299 I think people often don't understand the variety of regional accents in a particular country. Non Ozzie's for instance might think all Ozzies speak with a Bogan accent or that all Irish sound like a Keebler elf.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:58 AM (8CIFn)

300 Treasure of the Sierra Madre is another one that highlights Bogart's acting skills. Although he's the "bad guy" of the film (besides the bandito's, of course) you also feel pity for him, because he is clearly losing his mind.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 08, 2025 10:58 AM (uWKK8)

301 A MOME Musical!!!

Promethius

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 08, 2025 10:58 AM (Kt19C)

302 293 Walter Huston makes that flick for me.
Posted by: Bulg
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Very talented actor that would have been more celebrated had the prime of his career been about ten years later.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (WDjG6)

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Stars in one of Frank Capra's best, and most overlooked, movies.

American Madness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

303 The original movie,Treasure of Sierra Madre, is one of the more disturbing movies out there about the human condition. Illustrates well that the love of money causes evil.
Posted by: whig

Walter Huston makes that flick for me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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Clint Walker's Cheyenne Bodie is nothing like Huston's character; he provides a note of stability to Andrews's Dobbs-like fanatic. Rod Taylor is the young prospector like Tim Holt's, and he doesn't get infected with the gold fever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

304 "Well, this PhD said the opposite."

"Your PhD is paid by Big Oil."

"what?"

Every scientific conference I ever attended had a lot of arguing and disagreeing amongst the PhDs about what the data means. It's the heart of the scientific method.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:59 AM (Riz8t)

305 "American Madness" Added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (GHIyr)

306 A MOME Musical!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:56 AM

I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

307 4 Cloud Dancer, a "billowy, balanced white" that symbolizes serenity and a fresh start.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

Well done, rhennigantx!

Posted by: m at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (RuTUS)

308 New one: EVs

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (Riz8t)

309 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (wzUl9)

310 305 "American Madness" Added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at December 08, 2025 11:00 AM (GHIyr)

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Bank run, usually somewhat dismissed as a precursor to It's a Wonderful Life.

But, Capra was expert in chaos early in his career, and the finale is a fantastic example of his control of chaos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

311 Car-b-ques up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 11:01 AM (9bIJg)

312 I actually do have a musical idea that I've nursed for years.

I think it's a fun one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

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Opening scene:
Weasel driving the tractor on Weasel Acres followed by a bunch of gun-toting Horde singing "Hi Ho! It's off toshoot we go!"

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 11:02 AM (2WIwB)

313 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

314 Most research now puts the money multiplier for welfare spending at below 1.0.

Hmm, that's bad... but it means we should increase the spending!

Posted by: Gov't at December 08, 2025 11:03 AM (04KGT)

315 9 Artist James McNeill Whistler
Year 1865–67

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

In the signature line, the "5" in "1865" has been corrected to a "7."

Posted by: m at December 08, 2025 11:04 AM (RuTUS)

316 284 If I had $108 billion, I'm not sure I'd spend it on buying WB.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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My guess is that Netflix and Paramount will end up divvying it up aided by the FTC getting involved. I don't think Netflix will be able to get HBO Max. Number 1 plus Number 3 would leave Disney in the dust at no 2. Also, because a lot of the worth of HBO Max is tied up on its vast collection of content, there would have to be all kinds of licensing agreements to prevent Netflix from dominating streaming due to owning a predominate share of content.

Netflix on the other hand does not really have a movie studio while Paramount does already. I read that the movie theater owners are decisively against Netflix taking over the studio though as they fear being totally left out in the cold by direct to streaming Netflix model. Actors and directors may flinch at that as well.

I don't think either Netflix or Paramount particularly want the spun off TV and cable properties.

Ironically, none of this would have been necessary had the CEO and WB board realized that Netflix ain't gonna get the whole enchilada due to legal entanglements from antitrust.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 11:05 AM (WDjG6)

317 Stars in one of Frank Capra's best, and most overlooked, movies.

American Madness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Never seen it. Thanks, I will go and look it up.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2025 11:06 AM (WDjG6)

318 The first movie I saw Gibson in was Gallipoli, which was an Australian production.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (8CIFn)

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Peter Weir for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

I used to get Weir mixed up with Bruce Beresford.

Beresford made one of my favorite movies, "Black Robe", and a couple of other good ones, but-

Weir's the better filmmaker, IMHO, though he's dead now. so, no more movies from him.

Beresford still has a shot at coming out of his slump, but eh, who knows?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 11:07 AM (iJfKG)

319 318 Weir's the better filmmaker, IMHO, though he's dead now. so, no more movies from him.

Beresford still has a shot at coming out of his slump, but eh, who knows?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 11:07 AM (iJfKG)

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Weir's still alive. He just gave up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

320 59 I do not think he knows what symphony means.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:45 AM (9ipOP)

symphony
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• something regarded, typically favorably, as a composition of different elements: autumn is a symphony of texture and pattern.

Posted by: m at December 08, 2025 11:19 AM (RuTUS)

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