Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Birdmen Of Burnley
Leonora Carrington

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 St

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM (BI5O2)

3 wth

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM (BJnkV)

5 I think I'm turning Japanese.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Alcatraz hardest hit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (BJnkV)

7 Don't take the brown acid.

Posted by: gp at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (N8ZBc)

8 Funnels

That is all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (jtM2q)

9 Charlie Chan and Co.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Gallery Wendi Norris

The Bird Men of Burnley, 1970
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 26 inches (44.5 x 66 cm)

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

11 Don't take the brown acid.

Posted by: gp at January 28, 2026 09:31 AM (N8ZBc)

My sentiments exactly.

This is what happens when you do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

12 Birdhands! He's lecturing the white bird about his privilege and telling him to pass the mic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (BI5O2)

13 Okaaaaaay...

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

14 ?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

15 shArt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Peculiar

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

17 I think I'm turning Japanese.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:30 AM

You really think so?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (bFu5X)

18 We have three witches, so where's MacBeth?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (uwNDP)

19 The birds were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 28, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

20 Well. I like it better than yesterday's painting. That is not to say that I like it, would hang it in my home, or will seek out other paintings by this painter.

Posted by: huerfano at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (98kQX)

21 The birdman on the left is wearing a monocle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

22 Judging by their hats, their feeding those birds in order to make chicken tagine, later.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (bFu5X)

23 What am looking at ?

Posted by: Tucker at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (VE6XX)

24 I mean it's weird, and it's real art, but WNH.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (BI5O2)

25 LOL

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

26 Are you a cyclone ranger?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (uwNDP)

27 No comment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (Ycfbw)

28 What is this from? Some Wednesday Addams storybook?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (ufSfZ)

29 Brown acid...it's the only explanation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.it'siii at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (XeU6L)

30 What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

31 What am looking at ?

Posted by: Tucker at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (VE6XX)
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Are we playing Twenty Questions?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (BJnkV)

32 What am looking at ?
Posted by: Tucker at January 28, 2026 09:33 AM (VE6XX)

Just Asking Questions, I see.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (BI5O2)

33 Yikes!

That extra shot of tequila last night was a mistake.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (ZdhjE)

34 "The Birdmen Of Burnley" sounds like it should be in the opening line of a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick lover at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

35 No, I said "Birdland"!

Posted by: man at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (XuXeR)

36 Such dainty ankles for the birdmen, perhaps they are trans.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

37 Spy v Spy from Mad Magazine. Weird but I like . Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (IDEQi)

38 "What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it."

Japanese toilet.

Posted by: gp at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (N8ZBc)

39 We have three witches, so where's MacBeth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026

***
Their spell transformed Macbeth and his wife into those greenish-blue and white birds in the transparent tent. Long live King Duncan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

40 I’m a little teapot, short and stout
Here is is my handle, here is my…
Whatever, I don’t know what kind of warped Thorazine driven hallucination is going on here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (Sxl5b)

41 "The Birdmen Of Burnley" sounds like it should be in the opening line of a limerick."

Doesn't rhyme with "nantucket"

Posted by: man at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (XuXeR)

42 At least Leonora did not include us in this travesty.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at January 28, 2026 09:35 AM (oftw2)

43 Pfft. Pikers.
-- Zombie Robert Stroud

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

44 >> What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM

Looks like a sphincter to me.

Posted by: huerfano at January 28, 2026 09:36 AM (98kQX)

45 Apparently, the artist was also a short story writer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 28, 2026 09:36 AM (ufSfZ)

46 "The Birdmen Of Burnley" sounds like it should be in the opening line of a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover at January 28, 2026

***
". . . tended to speak sternly"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

47
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2026 09:37 AM (tgvbd)

48 Gatchaman > Birdmen of Burnley

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 09:37 AM (uEmCf)

49 Alternate title:

"It Took a While Before Colonel Sanders Worked Out the Secret Recipe For Kentucky Fried Chicken"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

50 Their facial hair grooming habits are... unique.

Posted by: Casually observing at January 28, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

51 That's Ninja Science Team Gatchaman nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:38 AM (uwNDP)

52 Alternate title:

"It Took a While Before Colonel Sanders Worked Out the Secret Recipe For Kentucky Fried Chicken"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026

***
"Here, chicky, chicky, chicky . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

53 We're over halfway through 100 comments. The sooner we get there, the better.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

54 Is CBD still stuck in London? Is this his cry for help?

Posted by: dantesed at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

55 The birdmen must be collectors, the birds are encased in Lucite as Carbonite hadn't been invented yet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (uwNDP)

56 The one on the left has no arms. The one in the middle has an unnaturally long arm.

Posted by: Casually observing at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

57 No sex
No drugs
No wine
No women
No fun
No sin
No you
No wonder it's dark

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Not all the floor writing is legible

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (JRP2U)

59 Carrington was a big-time devotee of Surrealism, which may explain part of this painting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

60 too "birdy"

Posted by: Otto Pen at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (sJHOI)

61 Thanks for the chuckle CBD.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)

62 The one in the middle has an unnaturally long arm.
Posted by: Casually observing

With a bird's head at the end instead of a hand.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

63 Up in the air, Junior Birdmen......

Posted by: US Bureau of Air Commerce at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (oftw2)

64 What is the one on the right supposed to be holding?

Posted by: Not a fan of this art at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

65 The one on the left has no arms. The one in the middle has an unnaturally long arm.
Posted by: Casually observing at January 28, 2026

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And the third one seems to be holding a large but strapless bra.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

66
Looks like a sphincter to me.

Posted by: huerfano at January 28, 2026 09:36 AM (98kQX)

We shall soon see a comment from Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

67 51 That's Ninja Science Team Gatchaman nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:38 AM (uwNDP)

Don't make me call it G-Force.

I'll do it.

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (uEmCf)

68 Has an Oriental vibe?

Posted by: pookysgirl is confused at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (Wt5PA)

69 THE BIRDMEN OF BURNLEY WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

Posted by: Taylor at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (vt7xw)

70 Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

71 too "birdy"
Posted by: Otto Pen

Where's Ann Margaret?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

72 No dog. Not art.

Look for her self-portrait.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (ufSfZ)

73 I read up a little just now on Carrington. Her father tried to have her committed to an insane asylum as a young lady. He was right. Perhaps not about having her committed, she wasn't dangerous. But, she was a certifiable lunatic, no doubt about it.

And she had a fascination with human-animal chimera that foreshadows Morning Glory Milking Farm.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (BI5O2)

74 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Auspex at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (Y8DZL)

75 The one in the middle has an unnaturally long arm.
Posted by: Casually observing
*
With a bird's head at the end instead of a hand.
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026

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The "bird hands" phenomenon is not new. I saw a character on a ST:TNG episode this week doing the same gesture.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

76 Alternate title:

"For Sadie Hawkin's Day in Minneapolis, You Pretty Much Take What You Can Get"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

77 Has to be fake. Birds aren't real.

Tiny flying dinosaurs. Riiiight.

Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 09:43 AM (gtcuf)

78 I'm half-expecting an eldritch abomination to manifest above that symbol on the floor, summoned by the cultists who have altered themselves in their mad devotion.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 28, 2026 09:43 AM (ESVrU)

79 The one in the middle has an unnaturally long arm.

You BASTARD!!

**sobs**

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 28, 2026 09:43 AM (ufSfZ)

80 There's about eight hours of Gatchaman on YouTube to watch. Subtitled..

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:44 AM (uwNDP)

81 "And the third one seems to be holding a large but strapless bra."

Does he know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 28, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

82 What is the one on the right supposed to be holding?
Posted by: Not a fan of this art

Looks like a butterfly to me. A really BIG butterfly.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

83 "And the third one seems to be holding a large but strapless bra."

It looks like it has nipples

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (VE6XX)

84 I can't say this grabs me. It's neither surreal enough to spark interesting observations, nor realistic enough to say, 'Hey, that guy looks like [actor's name]" or "Love the grain of the wooden floor!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

85 This is delightfully creepy.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

86 Not particularly crazy about his painting, but she has some other more colorful and imaginative works.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (NV5p1)

87 THE BIRDMEN OF BURNLEY WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.
Posted by: Taylor at January 28, 2026 09:42 AM (vt7xw)

Nice. I laughed.

And I'd pay to see that movie!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

88 Certainly a lot to digest in that piece. Compelling, but would not hang, - I'd sell it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (oT7pT)

89 85 This is delightfully creepy.
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

I agree with the creepy part...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 09:46 AM (VE6XX)

90 I like this, weird and ethereal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

91 Oh well, back to crap.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 28, 2026 09:46 AM (AlhUl)

92 "It looks like it has nipples
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 09:45 AM"

Boob thread!

Posted by: It's inevitable at January 28, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

93 So you saying the third one wishes to be a butterfly girl?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:48 AM (uwNDP)

94 "The Birdmen Of Burnley" sounds like it should be in the opening line of a limerick."

**********

Muldoon, Art Critic Extraordinaire - a limerick

The Birdmen of Burnley? What schlock!
A cartoonish piece we all mock
It shows birds of a feather
All gathered together
And I say, "What? The actual flock?"

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)

95 "Hi, I'm Aviary, this is my brother Ornithol and my other brother, Ornithol."

Posted by: one hour sober at January 28, 2026 09:48 AM (Y1sOo)

96 Ah, art of the blague era

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (ciYHQ)

97 Blech

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (PSEDc)

98
Boob thread!
Posted by: It's inevitable at January 28, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

https://is.gd/XyKckK

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

99 Pfffffftttt!

Posted by: The Darwins of Duxbury at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (0yjaw)

100 Oh well, back to crap.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 28, 2026 09:46 AM (AlhUl)

Hope it comes out ok.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

101 Too weird to hang

Posted by: Halfhand at January 28, 2026 09:49 AM (GKyrs)

102 What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:34 AM

It really ties the room together.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (jc0TO)

103 Is this the jacket art for the Dunwitch Horror?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (uwNDP)

104 black plague era lol (smashes gremlin)

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (ciYHQ)

105 Yuck.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (DgMqy)

106 Welp, I can see now what sort of day it's going to be.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (6tnon)

107 WTF??

Posted by: lin-duh at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (VCgbV)

108
Did the artist get paid for this?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 28, 2026 09:50 AM (Az0rf)

109 What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Where's the rice?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

110 They
Are
Witches

Posted by: The Darwins of Duxbury at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (0yjaw)

111 You guys are winging with the comments.

Posted by: dantesed at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

112 [ ] tree
[ ] dog
[ ] boobs

[X] brown acid

Profit!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (ULPxl)

113 And just because it can be painted doesn't mean it should be painted.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (6tnon)

114 Ah, art of the blague era
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026

***
adj.: humbug, claptrap, raillery

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

115 Why is the tallest one's hand the head of a swan?

Posted by: The Darwins of Duxbury at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (0yjaw)

116 The painting puts me in mind of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (ftFVW)

117 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Limerick lover at January 28, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Are they a'sposta be Chinese or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 09:52 AM (06Hmj)

119 Off to work. Braving the frozen streets of North Texas.

Wish me luck.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 28, 2026 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

120 Is this painting supposed to be a parroty of something?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

121 What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026
*
It really ties the room together.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 28, 2026

***
"Hey. man, nice marmot."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

122 Wish me luck.........
Posted by: Sponge

Good luck, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

123 How do you know they're witches?

Posted by: Monty Python at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

124 She would tell people she was created when her mother banged a mechanical animal inseminator full of jizz from a bunch of different creatures.

Coocoo bananas. Complicated art school chicks, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (BI5O2)

125 >>> 115 Why is the tallest one's hand the head of a swan?
Posted by: The Darwins of Duxbury at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (0yjaw)

Super-ultra bird hands!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (ULPxl)

126 Are they a'sposta be Chinese or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026

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It does make you think of the usual artwork depicting Dr. Fu Manchu.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

127 Look on the bright side, it's not a Hunter Biden watercolor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (uwNDP)

128 Astronomers use AI to discover hundreds of weird galaxies in Hubble archive

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Wait. They're calling some other galaxies weird?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

129 I think I need to go lay down with a damp washcloth on my forehead.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (6tnon)

130 Amazing axed 16k jobs.
Learn to code…oh right.
lol

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (4uLDQ)

131 Leonara was nuts and like many who call themselves "artist" she never worked a day in her crazy bitch life, lived off of my accumulated wealth and caused nothing but trouble while promoting marxism and other crazy loser ideas.

You know, like the Monster Children of today.

Posted by: Zombie Harold Carrington, Leonara's Daddy at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (R/m4+)

132

Got a definite "farts & craps" vibe to it.

Posted by: imp at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (g6TN6)

133 to blave

the black plague

the blague

I'm not a witch I'm you're wife!

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (ciYHQ)

134 And just because it can be painted doesn't mean it should be painted.
Posted by: Weasel

It's not that it shouldn't have been painted; it shouldn't have been posted.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (KAi1n)

135 Is this painting supposed to be a parroty of something?
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026

***
Soon someone will Tweety this to X.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

136 Coocoo bananas. Complicated art school chicks, man.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (BI5O2)

You never give them your real number, dude.

If you really wanna do something fun, you give them the number for the local free clinic instead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (06Hmj)

137
In addition to painting demoralizing hallucinations, did the artist also promote mass third world immigration into Britain?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Az0rf)

138 And just because it can be painted doesn't mean it should be painted.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:51 AM (6tnon)

That sounds suspiciously like a challenge!

A surrealism retrospective in honor of Weasel!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Zv8bq)

139 115 Why is the tallest one's hand the head of a swan?
Posted by: The Darwins of Duxbury

+++
No doubt signaling a black swan event.

Posted by: Alex Jones wannabe at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

140 Daleks!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 09:55 AM (8zz6B)

141 The artist certainly had a varied career-painter, sculptor, novelist, short story writer.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 09:55 AM (lJ0H4)

142 A Carrington signaling a Black Swan event?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (uwNDP)

143
That sound suspiciously like a challenge!

A surrealism retrospective in honor of Weasel!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Zv8bq)
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You're right! The horde must suffer!!

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (6tnon)

144 The one in back is a silly old trout.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (Sxl5b)

145 Don't look like they got a chicken in there.

Ce'ci n'est pas un peep.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (06Hmj)

146 "Free Clinic"

LOL. Haven't heard that phrase since "Chico ans The Man"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (RIvkX)

147 A feather?
In the Money Pit area?
Dating to the mid-16th century?
Is it possible the Birdmen of Burnley visited Oak Island in 1582 and buried something of great value?

Posted by: Breathless voiceover guy at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (qgHp7)

148 Didn't Poe write about Leonora?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (uwNDP)

149 You're right! The horde must suffer!!
Posted by: Weasel

Retirement isn't agreeing with you, is it?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

150 124 She would tell people she was created when her mother banged a mechanical animal inseminator full of jizz from a bunch of different creatures.

Coocoo bananas. Complicated art school chicks, man.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 09:53 AM (BI5O2)

But how did the father punish himself for his genes having failed to create a non-insane person?

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (uEmCf)

151
AfghanistanMOME

https://tinyurl.com/mpr2upe9

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

152 Get ready to hear "bomb cyclone" on the weather news again.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (Y1sOo)

153 The hats, the stringy hair and beards are the clues. Anyone familiar with medieval art can figure this crap out in a hurry.

Posted by: mrp at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (rj6Yv)

154 Didn't Poe write about Leonora?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Lenore. Nevermore.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

155 >>>And just because it can be painted doesn't mean it should be painted.
Posted by: Weasel

It's not that it shouldn't have been painted; it shouldn't have been posted.

Posted by: Dark Litigator

>Come, come now, this painting is his-stork.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (oT7pT)

156 I think I need to go lay down with a damp washcloth on my forehead.
Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (6tnon)

Is that still legal in Virginia?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

157 Who wants Presdent PeesHisPants back?

Posted by: ConcealedKerryOrSubMitt at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (bonmg)

158 A surrealism retrospective in honor of Weasel!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 09:54 AM (Zv8bq)
====

At first glance this looked like Jean Michel Folon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

159 Who's to blame for the Minnesota violence (and it's not Trump)?

CBS News Pins Blame on Nick Shirley for Minneapolis Unrest

-
Sumbitch thought he could tell the truth and get away with it but CBS News put an end to that!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

160 New Bud commercial for Super Bowl. Lesson learned?

https://tinyurl.com/3srz3tnt

My absolute favorite is still "The Bow":

https://tinyurl.com/3yefy3bn

Posted by: IrishEi at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (3ImbR)

161 >Come, come now, this painting is his-stork.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (oT7pT)

I wouldn't crane my neck to get a look at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (06Hmj)

162 Get ready to hear "bomb cyclone" on the weather news again.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ooh, and a "polar vortex," too!

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

163 I wonder if this painting would tern into a thread about Star Trek.

Posted by: dantesed at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (Oy/m2)

164 Is that still legal in Virginia?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 28, 2026 09:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Probably not, but I don't give a shit.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (6tnon)

165
Alcatraz hardest hit.

_____________

Robert Stroud was a psychopath. He deserved every nanosecond of his imprisonment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (tgvbd)

166 Since I'm slow, I missed if another one of you shared this already (my emphasis added):

https://is.gd/dUJz4I
@MJTruthUltra
Pondering on this, this is how you know this was fake AF

A man sprayed an "unknown" liquid on a member of Congress - no immediate evacuation, no hazmat, no emergency decontamination

In an age where biological risks are increasing… the only reason you don't do that is if you set it up.

That bitch set this up lol

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (ULPxl)

167 Who's to blame for the Minnesota violence (and it's not Trump)?

——

The Jews obviously.
- Cucker Tarlson

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (4uLDQ)

168 A surrealism retrospective
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Look at den fancy words. You trying to flirt with me sweetie?

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (ciYHQ)

169 Didn't Poe write about Leonora?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (uwNDP)

"Lenore."

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (ufSfZ)

170 I wouldn't crane my neck to get a look at it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't be bittern about it. From heron out, try to think positive thoughts.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

171 Well, at least it's not boring....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (VE6XX)

172 >>What is that object on the floor? It looks like a small rug with a banana embroidered into it.

We could tell you, but then we'd have to turn you into a newt!!

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (0yjaw)

173 This painting is hard to swallow.

Posted by: reason at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (Y2NHL)

174 Get ready to hear "bomb cyclone" on the weather news again.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ooh, and a "polar vortex," too!
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

Didn’t everyone die last weekend from the snow storm? Who cares.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (4uLDQ)

175 Probably should get organized. Pipes to washer still frozen, probably won't thaw until next week. So laundromat it will be today.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (uwNDP)

176 3 on 1 handicap match, tonight only, The Birdmen of Burnley vs The Eggman

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (h/O4U)

177 "In 1935, Carrington's first essay, 'Jezzamathatics or Introduction to the Wonderful Process of Painting', was published before her story "'The Seventh Horse'. Carrington often used codes of words to dictate interpretation in her artwork. "Candlestick" is a code that she commonly used to represent her family, and the word "lord" for her father."

"Jezzamathatics"? Sounds like the kind of neologisms schizophrenics create.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

178 I've told you people ptarm and ptarmigan to lay off the bird puns!!

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (qgHp7)

179 what the hale, rickey bobby?!

Posted by: cmeat at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)

180 170 I wouldn't crane my neck to get a look at it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't be bittern about it. From heron out, try to think positive thoughts.
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

At least it's not unsettling enough to drive me to kill, dear.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (06Hmj)

181 169 Didn't Poe write about Leonora?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 09:56 AM (uwNDP)

"Lenore."

----
Where's the raven?

Posted by: I was told there would be a raven at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

182 >>I wonder if this painting would tern into a thread about Star Trek.

Owl let you know if it does!

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (0yjaw)

183 I think the artist may have been a couple of tweets short of a full twitter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:02 AM (oT7pT)

184 Naming names.

CNN Writer Claims Only Violence in Minnesota Is from ICE and CBP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

185 Let osprey that there are no more bird puns.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

186 >>I've told you people ptarm and ptarmigan to lay off the bird puns!!

But you're not bittern about it?

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (0yjaw)

187 Probably not, but I don't give a shit.
Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (6tnon)
=====
*points to Weasel's driveway*

Yeah, we're gonna need a traffic circle right there.

Posted by: Fraulein Governor Spannberger at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

188 Where's the raven?
Posted by: I was told there would be a raven at January 28, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

Gathering reinforcements.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (06Hmj)

189 "bomb cyclone"
Posted by: one hour sober

"polar vortex"
Posted by: Bulg

I got a $100 for anyone who can get them to say
"abominable snowstorm"

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (ciYHQ)

190 Doubt she could Ern any money from this painting....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (VE6XX)

191 When the birds attack, there is nothing to do but duck and plover.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

192 Wait, someone is getting a bit aukward over the bird puns?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:04 AM (uwNDP)

193 Holy shit, someone overlayed the Aussie "break dancer" with the flashbang grenade girl rolling around on the ground.
Caption: Protest into a dance off.
Background music: Ice, ice baby

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (HXT0k)

194 174 Didn’t everyone die last weekend from the snow storm? Who cares.
Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:00 AM (4uLDQ)

No. Everyone already died from Net Neutrality a few years ago.

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (uEmCf)

195 So how much does a Grecian Ern?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (uwNDP)

196 >>> 159 Who's to blame for the Minnesota violence (and it's not Trump)?

CBS News Pins Blame on Nick Shirley for Minneapolis Unrest

-
Sumbitch thought he could tell the truth and get away with it but CBS News put an end to that!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

Remember when XiNN was telling everyone they were Down With The BLM Struggle and then their Hotlanta office tower was surrounded (but sadly, never set on fire)?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (ULPxl)

197 >>Let osprey that there are no more bird puns.

Do not quail at the sight of our flocked up punnery!

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (0yjaw)

198 I saw Schizophrenic Neologisms open for Talking Heads at Scotia Bank Arena in 'o2.

Their rendition oof Psycho Killer was to die for!

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (qgHp7)

199 When coming up with bird puns, don't go off half cocked.

Posted by: Groan... at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

200 The media’s number 1 job is to keep people (and especially women) scared.

Everything around you will kill you. Polar vortex. Global warming. Microplastics. Killer Bees from Mexico. Covid. White suptemacists.

It’s never ending.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (4uLDQ)

201 I'm not any good at bird puns.

So I'm just going to grouse about it.

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (uEmCf)

202 "Jezzamathatics"? Sounds like the kind of neologisms schizophrenics create.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Or an MS-NOW economic theory; i.e., "making it up as we go along."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

203
Ooh, and a "polar vortex," too!
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

____________

*runs to store*
*buys up all the bread, milk and eggs*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (tgvbd)

204 Ibis Elba is starring in the new Birdman of Alcatraz movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (PSEDc)

205 Holy shit, someone overlayed the Aussie "break dancer" with the flashbang grenade girl rolling around on the ground.
Caption: Protest into a dance off.
Background music: Ice, ice baby
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:05 AM (HXT0k)

No link?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:07 AM (8zz6B)

206 Let osprey that there are no more bird puns.

Do not quail at the sight of our flocked up punnery!
Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem

These bird puns are hard to swallow.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:07 AM (lJ0H4)

207 Has a kind of Edward gorey feel to it

Posted by: BChasm Phone at January 28, 2026 10:07 AM (l4NSk)

208 >> This painting is hard to swallow.

CBD posted it on a lark.

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:07 AM (0yjaw)

209 Well, at least it's not boring....
Posted by: It's me donna

Let's try "When You Bring Her Over To Meet Your Parents" for 400, Alex

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:07 AM (ciYHQ)

210 Breaking News; cold weather expected for January. Everyone panic.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (4uLDQ)

211 There once were three Birdmen of Burnley
Who lectured their mynahs etern'lly
Said one fowl, with a retch,
"If we must hear you kvetch
Could you please do it more taciturnly?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (OvMCw)

212 CBD should have posted it on a larch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (uwNDP)

213 I guess I stand aloon in my hatred of bird puns.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

214 All of this clucking about bird puns ruffles my feathers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (oT7pT)

215 We shall beat these bird puns to death.

Leave no tern unstoned!

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (qgHp7)

216 Everyone out here making bird puns. Meanwhile, the Somalis are robin us blind.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (h/O4U)

217 Corrupt birdmen. Looking to wet their beaks.

Posted by: Make it stop... at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

218 Leonora was born nuts, then she took a tern for the worse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (8zz6B)

219 Not bird related but it looks like the "truce" with Walz and Frey is over... I hope Trump doubles ICE there....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (VE6XX)

220 Titties and Kildeers

Posted by: Rodney Carrington at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (oEMAv)

221 CBD should have posted it on a larch.
Posted by: Anna Puma

What are yew talking about?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

222 We used to be a thing.

Posted by: Fish puns at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

223 >>I'm not any good at bird puns.

So I'm just going to grouse about it.

Eider you can, or you can't -- and you surely can.

Posted by: The Sorcerers of Salem at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (0yjaw)

224 Could you please do it more taciturnly?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM (OvMCw)

Hah!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:10 AM (8zz6B)

225 >>We used to be a thing.
Posted by: Fish puns

Camembert that time, TBH

Posted by: Cheese puns at January 28, 2026 10:10 AM (0yjaw)

226 >>> 203
Ooh, and a "polar vortex," too!
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

____________

*runs to store*
*buys up all the bread, milk and eggs*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2026 10:06 AM (tgvbd)

Yay, French toast! You *do* have maple syrup already, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 10:11 AM (ULPxl)

227 Perpetual Victimhood Is Strongly Linked to Vulnerable Narcissism, Study Finds

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"Vulnerable Narcissism"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

228 >> This painting is hard to swallow.

CBD posted it on a lark.

---

Finch set us up!

Posted by: reason at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (Ek9UU)

229 >>We shall beat these bird puns to death.

Leave no tern unstoned!

Heh!
Just have to wren and bear it.

Posted by: Cheese puns at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (0yjaw)

230 Where's Tippi Hedren to stop these bird puns?

Posted by: dantesed at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (Oy/m2)

231 It's only a matter of a pinion.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

232 I'm not any good at bird puns.

So I'm just going to grouse about "

Let me know wren I can hep you

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (lJ0H4)

233 Ugly.

Posted by: Margarita at January 28, 2026 10:12 AM (E3izH)

234 >>*runs to store*
*buys up all the bread, milk and eggs*

Excellent -- more cheetos and batteries for ME!!

Posted by: Cheese puns at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (0yjaw)

235 Tippi? That bird?

She flew the coup.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (uwNDP)

236 I'm seeing a nativity.

The three asian dudes are the 3 wise men offering gifts. Only they are not drawn as kings, but as pawns -- shaped like the chess pieces. They are offering gifts to the birds, which represent Jesus, drawn as birds which are symbols of peace and hope.

The walrus rug is a mystery.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (HErWb)

237 Wow, you guys... I'm so out of my league here, guess I'll just have to keep winging it

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (ciYHQ)

238 Excellent -- more cheetos and batteries for ME!!
Posted by: Cheese puns at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (0yjaw)
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Since when are Cheetos battery operated?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:14 AM (OvMCw)

239 Tippi? That bird?

The Birds was filmed not too far from Me.. One of my friends was one of the kids running away in one of the scenes...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:14 AM (VE6XX)

240
Welp, you've got to hop around youtube to find anything, but-

there does appear to be Big Trouble in Beijing along with a blockade, shutdown and curfew. The Chinese military has flooded into the city.

Assuming this is all correct and true.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

241 "Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?"

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 28, 2026 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)

242 The walrus rug is a mystery.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (HErWb)
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You walrus hurt the one you love.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:15 AM (OvMCw)

243 Battery operated Cheetos?

So that's what Daleks eat to give them energy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2026 10:15 AM (uwNDP)

244 Love this! I could spend several minutes enjoying and speculating.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 28, 2026 10:15 AM (W2Pud)

245 More things to scare you. Headlines this morning screaming how the dollar is at a 4 year low.

Oh my god. We’re all gonna die (again)!!!

Today’s price is what it was in 2018. You remember those awful days of 2018 right? 3% gdp growth with 3.5% unemployment and a booming stock market. God forbid we get that again.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (4uLDQ)

246 I'm surprised nobody has turned this into a booby thread.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (oT7pT)

247 Welp, you've got to hop around youtube to find anything, but-

there does appear to be Big Trouble in Beijing along with a blockade, shutdown and curfew. The Chinese military has flooded into the city.

Assuming this is all correct and true.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

Definitely could be some ting wong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (8zz6B)

248 The walrus rug is a mystery.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (HErWb)
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You walrus hurt the one you love.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

You should seal it with a kiss instead.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)

249 The Birds was filmed not too far from Me.
Posted by: It's me donna

Santa Cruz?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

250 >>Wow, you guys... I'm so out of my league here, guess I'll just have to keep winging it

Nah, we're just a bit cuckoo, Fen.

Posted by: Cheese puns at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (0yjaw)

251 249 The Birds was filmed not too far from Me.
Posted by: It's me donna

Santa Cruz?
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Sonoma County

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (VE6XX)

252 Cheetos? I need me some more damned Cheetos! Where my EBT card?

Posted by: LaQuisha at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

253 "Let me understand: you got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?"
Posted by: Frank Costanza

Good. Goose. Gander

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:17 AM (ciYHQ)

254 Muldoon has a starling reputation for bird puns.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

255 That Trump sumbitch trying to scare illegals out of voting but the legislature is not having it!

Virginia Democrats Push Bill to Prohibit ICE at Polling Places

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

256 I'm impressed that CBD can enforce the draconian 100 comment rule from way over on the Dark Continent.

Posted by: Wrong Arm Of The Law at January 28, 2026 10:18 AM (oftw2)

257 You should seal it with a kiss instead.
Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)
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I remember one Honeymooners ep where Norton is about to mail a letter and writes SWAK on the envelope.

Ralph: Sealed with a kiss??

Ed: No. Sewer workers are kings!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:18 AM (OvMCw)

258 The walrus rug is a mystery.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:13 AM (HErWb)
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You walrus hurt the one you love.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

You should seal it with a kiss instead.
Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)

Yes, you otter be nice to your lover.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2026 10:18 AM (iJfKG)

259 Hideous

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 28, 2026 10:19 AM (uHEbo)

260 These bird puns are nothing to crow about.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 28, 2026 10:19 AM (GGatE)

261 Sonoma County
Posted by: It's me donna

Are you near Fort Ross?

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

262 I was informed by very smart people that Democrats in Virginia are super centrist.

Was I lied to?

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (4uLDQ)

263 *260 These bird puns are nothing to crow about.*

They're murder.

Posted by: Killer app at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (2Ez/1)

264 261 Sonoma County
Posted by: It's me donna

Are you near Fort Ross?
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ

About 40 minutes... The Birds was filmed in Bodega and Bodega Bay

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (VE6XX)

265
To Stay Warm, Set Your Hair On Fire - a limerick

OMG! It's another polar vortex
The panic echoes in my cerebral cortex
If you must know the reason
It's polar vortex season
Sponsored by our good friends here at Gore-Tex™

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (qgHp7)

266 These bird puns are nothing to crow about.
Posted by: Beartooth

Don't go robin all my fun.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (lJ0H4)

267 You walrus hurt the one you love.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

You should seal it with a kiss instead.
Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:16 AM (lJ0H4)

Yes, you otter be nice to your lover.
Posted by: naturalfake

Do gong.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

268 Are you near Fort Ross?
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
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A more desolate coastline I have rarely seen. It would take Russians to try to colonize that place.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:21 AM (OvMCw)

269 Vivarium

(shiver)

baits you with a cool title then creeps you out

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:21 AM (ciYHQ)

270 Wait. We were promised free fries with our Spamburger. Where's our free fries?

Posted by: Virginia voters at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)

271 The tits were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (oT7pT)

272 That is one ugly painting. I blame Bondi for that.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (ZdhjE)

273 Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get away from this piece of crappy art.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (KDPiq)

274 270 Wait. We were promised free fries with our Spamburger. Where's our free fries?
Posted by: Virginia voters at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/

She has turned out exactly as we all knew she would...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (VE6XX)

275 I left comments a few days ago explaining the symbolism in that painting. Like with this one I was surprised that no one got it -- it was the one with the old woman in the back and the creepy guy smoozing the young girl. Lots of symbolism -- the olive branch, the Rembrandt, the girl embroidering a wedding dress...

I only repeat it here because I posted when the thread was dead and I think no one would have seen.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (HErWb)

276 Yishh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (+HNx/)

277 I guess banning ice from enforcing voter laws solves the “affordability crisis” yiu campaigned on.
Good job VA Democrats. You kept your promises.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (4uLDQ)

278 Sure, the right denigrates Joe Stalin and Mao but . . .

Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

279 A more desolate coastline I have rarely seen. It would take Russians to try to colonize that place.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:21 AM (OvMCw)

There is a real dearth of good harbors between San Francisco and Portland.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)

280 278 Sure, the right denigrates Joe Stalin and Mao but . . .

Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

====

"But Vance is even worse."
-soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

281 The. Art?
Good lord. What. The. Actual. Fuck.

No don't tell me. Let us allow this piece to remain a mystery.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (U25z9)

282 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”

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Well, Natalie Portman.

Okay then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (+HNx/)

283 vid I mentioned is on the Toks.

User name nuya.damn..business

no link 'cause tok leaks too much info when you link.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (HXT0k)

284 There is a real dearth of good harbors between San Francisco and Portland.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)
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And you have to cope with the Columbia Bar up here.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (OvMCw)

285 The creepy, monstrous looking weirdos are just immigrants trying to make a better life for themselves. The birds must let them into their enclosure to enrich the lives of all involved!! It's in the poem!

Posted by: Modern Leftists at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

286
No don't tell me. Let us allow this piece to remain a mystery.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (U25z9)

Let's just say the Father of the "artist" tried to have her committed....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (VE6XX)

287 282 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”

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Well, Natalie Portman.

Okay then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (+HNx/)

===

Harvard graduate. Gotta listen to her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

288 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Well bless her little commie heart.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:25 AM (lJ0H4)

289 Does that crazy TikTok nurse who wants to kill people still have her license?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:25 AM (+HNx/)

290 You know, if you take away the three figures in black and the tent with the birds and the little throw rug on the floor, it's an almost-interesting juxtaposition of shapes and muted colors.

Posted by: mindful webworker - background disinformation at January 28, 2026 10:25 AM (pVyx/)

291 288 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Did ICE pick up her Gardner or something ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:26 AM (VE6XX)

292 no link 'cause tok leaks too much info when you link.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (HXT0k)

Ah, too bad. I don't understand the toktiks of getting in there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:26 AM (8zz6B)

293 Reddit has 2 themes right now.

1. Leave those poor immigrants alone they’re just here to work. Fuck you Trump.

2. Why are there no jobs out there? Fuck you Trump.

It’s surreal.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:26 AM (4uLDQ)

294 Some happy little bushes can't save this one. Sad!

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at January 28, 2026 10:26 AM (0sNs1)

295 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This art! CBDs been into the funny mushrooms again.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (2WIwB)

296 When you've lost zombie Bob Ross...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (OvMCw)

297 Could you please do it more taciturnly?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:08 AM

********

Well played!

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (qgHp7)

298 274 270 Wait. We were promised free fries with our Spamburger. Where's our free fries?
Posted by: Virginia voters at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/

She has turned out exactly as we all knew she would...
Posted by: It's me donna
=========
I think Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in NJ are the next generation of Democrats being groomed for presidency. The major question is whether Kamala runs in 2028.

The Democrat party has an issue where at least half of their party are minorities and that makes running people of pallor more difficult in presidential primaries. AWFLs are probably a plurality in the party but not a majority anymore and that is one of the problems with Gavin. Democrats will still vote for a person of pallor on the national ticket as the lesser of evils in a general but primaries are becoming a mess for Democrats based on identity politics.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (E4rtv)

299 And you have to cope with the Columbia Bar up here.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (OvMCw)

You would have to dredge that up, Cap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:28 AM (8zz6B)

300 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
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who?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2026 10:28 AM (jtM2q)

301 from way over on the Dark Continent.
Posted by: Wrong Arm Of The Law

Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

302 Here's my new saying:

They're only weapons of war if you try to come and take them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (HXT0k)

303 Natalie Portman? The one who can't act for shit? Ruined a perfectly good character in the Star Wars movies? Fucked up the Thor movies by her existing in them? That useless stain in those annoying commercials that plague my YouTube viewing? That Natalie Portman?

Never heard of her.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (U25z9)

304 Let's frigate bird puns, and concentrate on fish puns.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

305 It is 12:00 AM and I am very sleepy, so I was not clear on a couple points. The birds are hope and love and beauty, that is why they symbolize Jesus and all that. The wise men are traditionally out of the East, or the Orient, so that is why the artist used the fu manchu faces.

The walrus rug remains a mystery.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (HErWb)

306 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Spoken by a person who has never experienced the 'worst' of anything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.it'siii at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (XeU6L)

307 Democrats will still vote for a person of pallor on the national ticket as the lesser of evils in a general but primaries are becoming a mess for Democrats based on identity politics.
Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (E4rtv)
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*buys shares in popcorn stocks*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (OvMCw)

308 Natalie Portman is Israeli. She is a dyed in the wool member of a party that supports Hamas. And she hates the guy who is arguably one of the most pro-Israel president ever.

Conclusion: she’s an imbecile

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (4uLDQ)

309 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
=====
Aging actress sends the SOS virtue signal that she is still alive and needing work. Same with Kimmel and soon to be cancelled Colbert this week. Aging male unfunny clowns trying desperately to stay relevant and employed as their audiences shrink.

Leftist Hive Mind has declared ICE to be the plague of humanity for the next couple of months before it becomes a new target of hate so all the lame celebutards have to be quick to post their hate online or risk being left behind.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)

310 Natalie who?

Posted by: Most people at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

311 300 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
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who?

--------

She played Cousin It in Addams Family Values, I think.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (+HNx/)

312 I wish Hollywood and all the Lefty actors would announce they are all moving to Ireland and do it.

You would not be missed.

I don’t mind liberal actors . I mind liberal actors and directors who hate America and everything it stands for. They don’t deserve to be Americans.

I have my list of actors and directors that I won’t watch. James Cameron should do more dives at the Titanic until he gets it right. Maybe in an experimental submersible.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (KDPiq)

313 307 Democrats will still vote for a person of pallor on the national ticket as the lesser of evils in a general but primaries are becoming a mess for Democrats based on identity politics.
Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:27 AM (E4rtv)

======

If Democrats somehow get Newsom to be the nominee, expect black turnout to be at John Kerry levels.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

314 1. Leave those poor immigrants alone they’re just here to work. Fuck you Trump.

2. Why are there no jobs out there? Fuck you Trump.

It’s surreal.
Posted by: Really??

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

Haven't you heard, Rand Paul has the solution.
"Amnesty"!!!!!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (HErWb)

315 Within 10 years AI will have replaced Natalie and every other Hollywood idiot.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (4uLDQ)

316 312 I have my list of actors and directors that I won’t watch. James Cameron should do more dives at the Titanic until he gets it right. Maybe in an experimental submersible.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (KDPiq)

=====

You should try Park Chan-wook.

Even if he says something political, you have to know Korean to understand it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

317 Not bird related but it looks like the "truce" with Walz and Frey is over... I hope Trump doubles ICE there....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:09 AM (VE6XX)

You know what's hilarious? Walz and Frey think they're in control of all this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (g8Ew8)

318 In other catastrophic news . . .

Over 80K Coffee Pods Recalled By Keurig Due to “Adverse Health Consequences”
. . . .
Keurig Dr Pepper has recalled more than 80,000 McDonald’s brand coffee pods because they may contain caffeine, despite being labeled “decaf,” according to the Food & Drug Administration.

-
Not caffeine, the silent killer?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

319
Rejected Kaboom box art.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (y9nCu)

320 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
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And no navigable rivers.

The Congo needs like a 1000 mile "s" or double s cut into it to make the grade change close to the Mississippi.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (HXT0k)

321 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (8zz6B)

322 Hopefully there are no more showings of these paintings. We don't want another Carrington event.

Posted by: Coronal ejection with lime at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (TbWk/)

323 The Professional used to be a favorite but now the pedo theme slaps me across the face and can no longer enjoy it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (KDPiq)

324 So fake coffee may be real coffee? Lol
Oh the humanity!!!

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (4uLDQ)

325 315 Within 10 years AI will have replaced Natalie and every other Hollywood idiot.

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In 10 years she will have aged out of Hollywood and she'll be doing infomercials for pre-lubed catheters.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (+HNx/)

326
Haven't you heard, Rand Paul has the solution.
"Amnesty"!!!!!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (HErWb)

Yeah.. I'm not big on polls these days but even CNN had a poll yesterday that said the majority polled want ALL illegal aliens OUT....ALL

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (VE6XX)

327 "because their coastlines have no natural ports ..."

Well that's creepy, when I posted that I wasn't aware of the exchange upthread about harbors

hmmm get it while it's hot I guess
14 33 35 50 61 66

enjoy gents!

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (ciYHQ)

328 Not bird related but it looks like the "truce" with Walz and Frey is over...

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Not so much a cockfight as a dick fight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

329 Natilie is 44. Middle aged woman. No longer an ingenue, just a grasping for attention Leftist.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (pDt9x)

330 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
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We made a pretty good one, but then...

Posted by: Carthaginians at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (OvMCw)

331 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

Did anyone tell South Africa that?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (KDPiq)

332 166 Since I'm slow, I missed if another one of you shared this already (my emphasis added):

https://is.gd/dUJz4I
@MJTruthUltra
Pondering on this, this is how you know this was fake AF

A man sprayed an "unknown" liquid on a member of Congress - no immediate evacuation, no hazmat, no emergency decontamination

In an age where biological risks are increasing… the only reason you don't do that is if you set it up.

That bitch set this up lol
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (ULPxl)

I only saw the video once, briefly, but I thought it looked like she turned and moved toward him, expectantly. If he was unexpected, wouldn't her natural reaction be to turn away?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (QGaXH)

333 320 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ..

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Not to mention no paved roads.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (+HNx/)

334 326
Haven't you heard, Rand Paul has the solution.
"Amnesty"!!!!!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:31 AM (HErWb)

====

He calls it new.

It's real dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

335 321 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (8zz6B)

Stonework is haaaard!

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (pDt9x)

336 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes
---------

Already brewed up.
[pours Diogenes a cup]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

337 >>>Natalie who?

Posted by: Most people

>Her career peaked at Leon: The Professional

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (oT7pT)

338 For all the hate Minnesota deservedly gets, Kentucky has given us Rand Paul, The Tuttle and Massie.

Just sayin’.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (4uLDQ)

339 170 I wouldn't crane my neck to get a look at it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't be bittern about it. From heron out, try to think positive thoughts.
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

I zoomed out to try to get a birds-eye view...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (QGaXH)

340 I have my list of actors and directors that I won’t watch.
---
I'm not bothered by giving up Elf, it wasn't that good.

But not watching Step Brothers and Talladega Nights kinda sucks.

Why you gotta be a libtard fuckball?

You too, Ben Stiller.
I liked Secret Life of Walter Mitty. And Nutcrackers was nice.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (HXT0k)

341 A man sprayed an "unknown" liquid on a member of Congress - no immediate evacuation, no hazmat, no emergency decontamination

In an age where biological risks are increasing… the only reason you don't do that is if you set it up.

That bitch set this up lol
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 09:59 AM (ULPxl)

"Aren't you that faggot n***er from Empire? Oh wait, wrong line..."

Posted by: This is MAGA country! at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (TbWk/)

342 Black buttplug inquisition?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (Hpgos)

343 337 >>>Natalie who?

Posted by: Most people

>Her career peaked at Leon: The Professional
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (oT7pT)

Just like Jodie Foster with Taxi Driver.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (pDt9x)

344 3. Why can’t I afford a home or apartment?
4. I don’t feel safe in my own neighborhood! Can’t leave my car on the street, or even walk around downtown in daylight without getting mugged!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (Ojetd)

345 This is sort of epic trolling by nerds...

https://tinyurl.com/22yx9h9n

*It's a flight track, spoofed as "Vance-1" and it "drew" the Vance face meme.... over Mar-a-Lago yesterday.

Link goes to X

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (jtM2q)

346 Yeah.. I'm not big on polls these days but even CNN had a poll yesterday that said the majority polled want ALL illegal aliens OUT....ALL
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (VE6XX)

Heh. Up in Canada, some Dipper (NDP=Commie) pol put up a poll:"who would you prefer be Canada's leader, Carney or Trump?"

It went badly for him, 73% said Trump

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (8zz6B)

347 Eureka and Fort Bragg. I can't think of any others!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (Zv8bq)

348 They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
---
The Ghost and the Darkness remains one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (HXT0k)

349 There are some people that REALLY can't have caffeine.

Posted by: ... at January 28, 2026 10:38 AM (QQN0v)

350 Spoken by a person who has never experienced the 'worst' of anything.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.it'siii at January 28, 2026 10:

Not true, she was the worst actress in any movie she's been in.

Posted by: Dandalo at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (7lJ0Y)

351 347 Eureka and Fort Bragg. I can't think of any others!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (Zv8bq)

My favorite names for military installations are Polk and Hood. Generalship maybe not taken into account in naming.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (pDt9x)

352 The Ghost and the Darkness remains one of my favorite movies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

That's the one about the man-eating lion, right? Cool flick.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

353 Ask Natalie how she feels about securing Israel’s borders.

I know, but seriously…

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (Ojetd)

354 Speaking of Canuckistani politics is the Alberta separation thing legit?

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (4uLDQ)

355 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:36 AM (HXT0k)

I know I’m not missing much but I gave up on The Rock movies when he joined the NFL kneelers.

I’m basically left with Marky Mark , Keanu Reeves and Chris Pratt.

I exaggerate because as I said I don’t mind liberal actors just not the ones who hate me and America.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (KDPiq)

356 348 They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
---
The Ghost and the Darkness remains one of my favorite movies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (HXT0k)

Excellent rather unknown movie.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (pDt9x)

357 "80 thousand K-cups."
Is that a lot?

Posted by: It used to be a lot at January 28, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)

358 Not true, she was the worst actress in any movie she's been in.
Posted by: Dandalo

Last I saw she was reduced to doing a movie for Amazon Prime. Has been.

Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:40 AM (lJ0H4)

359 I’m basically left with Marky Mark , Keanu Reeves and Chris Pratt.

I exaggerate because as I said I don’t mind liberal actors just not the ones who hate me and America.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM

Chris Pine wept.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 28, 2026 10:40 AM (jc0TO)

360 3. Why can’t I afford a home or apartment?

—

Oh that one’s easy. Boomers are keeping you down man. It’s all the boomers’ fault.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:40 AM (4uLDQ)

361 >>> 323 The Professional used to be a favorite but now the pedo theme slaps me across the face and can no longer enjoy it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (KDPiq)

I suspect that would be one of Tampon Timmy's favorites if the kid had been a young boy.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (ULPxl)

362 My list of "people I won't watch because they're an idiot" is pretty small if not nonexistent. I mean hell I still watch my copies of Midnight Run and Goodfellas and DeNiro is a Grade A Retard Fag.

That said, am I gonna go out and give them more money, no.

Posted by: ... at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (QQN0v)

363 358 Not true, she was the worst actress in any movie she's been in.
Posted by: Dandalo

Last I saw she was reduced to doing a movie for Amazon Prime. Has been.
Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2026 10:40 AM (lJ0H4)

Well, 44 and not all that talented, so

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (pDt9x)

364 Amnesty is perfectly okay with me.

Just end all government welfare and assistance. All of it. At all levels. Then enact amnesty.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (Zv8bq)

365 321 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

366 Not true, she was the worst actress in any movie she's been in.
Posted by: Dandalo at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (7lJ0Y)

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Not true. Her portrayal of a piece of plywood in Attack of the Clones is still discussed with awe in coffeehouses across Europe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (+HNx/)

367 Love this! I could spend several minutes enjoying and speculating.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 28, 2026 10:15 AM (W2Pud)

Spoken like someone who's brain has been damaged by the PNW.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

368 Some directors (such as Ridley Scott, specifically) produce a masterwork of such magnificence, such grandeur, that you will watch anything else of their's, in hope of experiencing that 'lightning-in-a-bottle' sensation once again.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (0sNs1)

369 364 Amnesty is perfectly okay with me.

Just end all government welfare and assistance. All of it. At all levels. Then enact amnesty.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (Zv8bq)

====

"Best we can do is increasing welfare and lowering standards."
-DC

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

370 "80 thousand K-cups."
Is that a lot?
Posted by: It used to be a lot

Obviously, you don't know about the cup sizes.
-- Frank Costanza

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

371 365 321 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

Tropical langour, perhaps.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (pDt9x)

372 You know, like the protagonist in The Old Man and the Sea.

Family of People Killed in Venezuelan Boat Airstrike Sues Trump Administration

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

373 Haven't you heard, Rand Paul has the solution.
"Amnesty"!!!!!
Posted by: bob
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I think Rand is a politician that has consistently shrank in office over time. Trump's actions in his second term have exposed the core globaloney of Rand's political philosophy along with his donors where amnesty, attacking ICE enforcement to remove criminals, and attacking tariffs and Trump's trade deals for onshoring American jobs, etc.

Even politically, this is a tone deaf stupid virtue signal that has a snowball's chance in hell of being enacted and pisses off at least half or more of his constituency in KY. Same with mASSIE's actions. So, their political act of pissing in the wind has to be pleasing someone for them to do it---donors?, grifting?, etc.

It sure as hell is not political advancement nor even working effectively as a legislator.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (E4rtv)

374 364 Amnesty is perfectly okay with me.

Just end all government welfare and assistance. All of it. At all levels. Then enact amnesty.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (Zv8bq)

That was basically the late 19th and early 20th century immigration policy. Sure come on over. But you’re on your own. Sink or swim. Many swam many didn’t and ended up going back.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (4uLDQ)

375 272 That is one ugly painting. I blame Bondi for that.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 28, 2026 10:22 AM (ZdhjE)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2026 10:43 AM (rZCVI)

376 Tropical langour, perhaps.
Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (pDt9x)

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The languors are all in Madagascar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:43 AM (+HNx/)

377 >>> 332
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I only saw the video once, briefly, but I thought it looked like she turned and moved toward him, expectantly. If he was unexpected, wouldn't her natural reaction be to turn away?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:34 AM (QGaXH)

Maybe, although tbf you might look up at someone if you were expecting a *question*, too.

But she isn't normal.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 10:43 AM (ULPxl)

378 Just sayin’. Your welcome sarc

Posted by: doug at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (Hy+R4)

379 Would not hang

Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (5rh/l)

380 Just end all government welfare and assistance. All of it. At all levels. Then enact amnesty.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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Impossible to end welfare and assistance. Much comes through their anchor babies. And medical care comes through the ER. And states have no incentives since it is federal money and (b) they think it is Keynesian wealth generation.

And even still, amnesty means more migrants in future. It means in 30 years we will be as bad as Europe.

Hell no, we need to reverse course.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (HErWb)

381 The languors are all in Madagascar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:43 AM

I miss the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: Toto, dropping in for a jam at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (0sNs1)

382 Just end all government welfare and assistance. All of it. At all levels. Then enact amnesty.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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No. Friedman is dead and we do not need masses of unskilled labor anymore. Tight labor markets lead to general prosperity and much less dysfunction in society.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (E4rtv)

383 Ask Natalie how she feels about mass Russian immigration into Ukraine.
Ask Natalie how she feels about South African farmer refugees.

Like fish in a barrel, these over emotional actors…

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (Ojetd)

384 Speaking of Canuckistani politics is the Alberta separation thing legit?
Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:39 AM (4uLDQ)

It's gaining momentum rapidly. Heard a story from a friend. In the little town of Eckville, they held a separatist meeting in the local hall. Some dillweed shot out the transformer that delivers electricity to the hall. Townspeople gathered a mess of candles and Coleman lamps, and the meeting went ahead anayway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (8zz6B)

385 The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

Something to think about though. Dr. Sowell brings it up in Conquests and Cultures.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 28, 2026 10:44 AM (kojSG)

386
I have my list of actors and directors that I won’t watch. James Cameron should do more dives at the Titanic until he gets it right. Maybe in an experimental submersible.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:30 AM (KDPiq)

Cameron needs someone who can tell him "no, that's a fucking stupid idea". Rather like George Lucas, except that Cameron seems to be the sort who gets belligerent and threatening.

At least Gale Anne Hurd could tell him that he's sleeping on the couch until he dumps the idea. He hasn't had a decent film since he started cheating on her with Linda Hamilton.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (y9nCu)

387 >>>Ask Natalie how she feels about securing Israel’s borders.

I know, but seriously…

Posted by: Lizzy

>She a raven dodo. Like a woodpecker with a script.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (oT7pT)

388 I know Natalie Portman is an actress, but without looking her up I don't know what she was in, and I've probably never seen it. So, she's the latest to do a grand exit performance?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (rZCVI)

389
I only saw the video once, briefly, but I thought it looked like she turned and moved toward him, expectantly. If he was unexpected, wouldn't her natural reaction be to turn away?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)

Watch the camera man behind her. His right eye swivels towards the squirter approaching, he knows what is going to happen next, because he doesn't point the camera at squirter dude, and instead ensures he has BroFo-fucker centered in his camera field of view.

Total fucking scam. Expect nothing less from Minnesomalia and that racist piece of shit comgress critter.

Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (QVmho)

390 Rand Paul was dead right on COVID. I'll always appreciate him for that, at least.

Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (gtcuf)

391 Eureka and Fort Bragg. I can't think of any others!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:37 AM (Zv8bq)

My favorite names for military installations are Polk and Hood. Generalship maybe not taken into account in naming.
Posted by: tubal
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Fort Benjamin Harrison. Only one that comes to mind that is assigned the full name. President and General, of course.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (XeU6L)

392 No amnesty. If I get to deal with CBP when reentering my own damn country, so can everyone else. Nor do I want America to have its own Quebec.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 28, 2026 10:46 AM (kojSG)

393 Natalie Hershlag just didn't have the right ring apparently.

Posted by: ... at January 28, 2026 10:46 AM (QQN0v)

394 Fort Courage was best fort.

Posted by: F Troop at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (0sNs1)

395 320 The Congo needs like a 1000 mile "s" or double s cut into it to make the grade change close to the Mississippi.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (HXT0k)

The Scongos?

Posted by: XTC at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (iXqHn)

396 Fort Benjamin Harrison. Only one that comes to mind that is assigned the full name. President and General, of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:45 AM (XeU6L

Fort Sam Houston

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (kojSG)

397 Black Swan is a good movie. Mika Kunis nekkid bonus.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (4uLDQ)

398 Yeah the fishermen just happened to travel all the way to Venezuela to fish because gas is so cheap for these poor fishermen. And they thought hell while we're in Venezuela waters will stop in for a quick beer before heading out.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (KDPiq)

399 The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Ugh. I've seen him on Twitter. His analysis in my realm sucks, so as per Gellman-Murry, this theory is prob junk too.

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (ciYHQ)

400 284 There is a real dearth of good harbors between San Francisco and Portland.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)
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And you have to cope with the Columbia Bar up here.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:24 AM (OvMCw)

I hear that's a real obstacle to good lawyerin'.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:47 AM (QGaXH)

401 Fen, she was in the Star Wars movies in the late 90’s and early 2000s.

She won an Oscar in a movie about a crazy ballerina.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (Ojetd)

402 385 The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

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Jared Diamond made a similar point in Guns, Germs and Steel, except he said they were missing draft animals, a suitable grain and a long swath of arable geography within the same climate zone.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (+HNx/)

403 Alberta has a population of 5 million. Minnesota has a population of 5.5 milion.

A straight-up trade. We gain two GOP senators and Canuckistan gains millions of Commies.

Everybody wins. Except the Dems, which is why it won't happen.

Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (gtcuf)

404 Even if he says something political, you have to know Korean to understand it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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My solution is not watching movies at all. Prefer a few TV shows, almost all British, Aussie, or NZ, for light relaxation but my interest is in development of law and Biblical issues nowadays.

That means reading as I don't think anyone is going to turn Pope Benedict's three tomes on Jesus and theology into a movie anytime soon.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)

405 Nobody came up with a penguin pun. They are formidable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (oT7pT)

406 401 Fen, she was in the Star Wars movies in the late 90’s and early 2000s.

She won an Oscar in a movie about a crazy ballerina.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (Ojetd)

Did not enjoy that movie, but I watched it to be a good sport.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (pDt9x)

407 404 My solution is not watching movies at all. Prefer a few TV shows, almost all British, Aussie, or NZ, for light relaxation but my interest is in development of law and Biblical issues nowadays.

That means reading as I don't think anyone is going to turn Pope Benedict's three tomes on Jesus and theology into a movie anytime soon.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rtv)

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You know who directed a British TV show?

Park Chan-wook!

An adaptation of John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

408 397 Mika Kunis nekkid bonus.

I may be misremembering, but didn't they use a body double?

Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (gtcuf)

409 The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

Something to think about though. Dr. Sowell brings it up in Conquests and Cultures.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Perhaps no one wanted to go there:

Beware and take care of the Bight of Benin.
There's one comes out for forty goes in

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (XeU6L)

410
Help!!! Help me!!! I'm aging!

I'm AAAAAAAAGIIIING!!!1111!!!!

Posted by: Natale Portman at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (iJfKG)

411 291 288 Natalie Portman Describes Trump Administration as “Worst of the Worst of Humanity”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Did ICE pick up her Gardner or something ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:26 AM (VE6XX)

Our guy used to have a helper - now he works alone. We haven't asked him - we don't want to know - one less box of See's Candy to buy at Christmas......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (QGaXH)

412 Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (Ojetd)

Thanks. I think I only saw the original Star Wars and nothing about a crazy ballerina. So where is she doing a dramatic exit to?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (rZCVI)

413 408 397 Mika Kunis nekkid bonus.

I may be misremembering, but didn't they use a body double?
Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (gtcuf)

AI. She had 12 fingers, and offset eyes.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (pDt9x)

414 I may be misremembering, but didn't they use a body double?
Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:49 AM (gtcuf)

They did? Noooooooooo!!!! lol
Damn it it’s like I learned Santa Claus isn’t real.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (4uLDQ)

415 >>> 403 Alberta has a population of 5 million. Minnesota has a population of 5.5 milion.

A straight-up trade. We gain two GOP senators and Canuckistan gains millions of Commies.

Everybody wins. Except the Dems, which is why it won't happen.
Posted by: Delurker at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (gtcuf)

No, we should not give up any of our territory. Kick out the Twin Cities mini-timwalz residents and MN overall will be much better.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (ULPxl)

416 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (+HNx/)

Again,South African Boers were able to make a go of it.

What about the Scandis? They had all the issues Diamond raised.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (KDPiq)

417 405 Nobody came up with a penguin pun. They are formidable.

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No sense huffin and puffin about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (+HNx/)

418 he said they were missing draft animals
Posted by: Cicero

They had cows, horses, and donkeys.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

419 418 he said they were missing draft animals
Posted by: Cicero

They had cows, horses, and donkeys.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

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If I were in charge, Lasers, Day 1!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 28, 2026 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

420 Cause and effect, making logical comparisons, these are not leftist skill sets. They pretend not to notice, at best. At worst they wish for what never was and never will be.

That’s how they can simultaneously “advocate” for open or no borders with unlimited migration and a $25 minimum wage.

Good intentions matter. Nothing else. Reality is something else, too - it’s you dirty Kulaks that wreck everything

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2026 10:51 AM (eOudo)

421 40 years since Challenger

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 28, 2026 10:51 AM (GYhKE)

422 Associated Press reports on a fourth shooting by immigration officers. Could this be the new poster child for the Left?

https://is.gd/44rorM

"The shooting comes in a month that has seen three shootings — two fatal — by immigration officers involved in the massive Homeland Security enforcement operation in Minnesota.

Inconveniently for the Narrative, the man wounded by Border Patrol off\ficers was 1) in Arizona, 2) engaged in smuggling illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, 3) evading arrest and 4) shooting at BP officers and a helicopter and 4) a repeat offender.

Oops. Oopsie! Backed the wrong horse. Again.

Posted by: muldoon at January 28, 2026 10:52 AM (qgHp7)

423 That means reading as I don't think anyone is going to turn Pope Benedict's three tomes on Jesus and theology into a movie anytime soon.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (E4rt

Have you met me?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at January 28, 2026 10:52 AM (KDPiq)

424 303 Natalie Portman? The one who can't act for shit? Ruined a perfectly good character in the Star Wars movies? Fucked up the Thor movies by her existing in them? That useless stain in those annoying commercials that plague my YouTube viewing? That Natalie Portman?

Never heard of her.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (U25z9)

Wasn't she in that movie where she was living in a Walmart and had a baby there? I didn't realize she was as dumb in real life as the character she portrayed....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 28, 2026 10:53 AM (QGaXH)

425 The coastline thing is a Thomas Sowell theory. I think it is nuts.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:41 AM (HErWb)

Tropical langour, perhaps.
Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:42 AM (pDt9x)
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Very difficult to get from "Africa" to the sea.

It's hard to get from "Africa" to "Africa" without getting to the sea.

Hence, small, isolated tribes sustained into the colonial period, and beyond.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2026 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

426 No, we should not give up any of our territory. Kick out the Twin Cities mini-timwalz residents and MN overall will be much better.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Urban areas should be turned into reservations across the US. That way, they would not pollute state politics nor be able to dominate them from urban fraud shitholes. They could only plague each other. And that actually fits better with political maps of the US anyway--vast seas of red with isolated blue urban counties that somehow fraud themselves into power in many states.

And they use that power, like in CO, to disenfranchise, and impoverish, and pester those outside the urban areas in order to rule from blue redoubts.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:53 AM (E4rtv)

427 I was too harsh on Sowell. It isn't nuts, just incomplete

The coastline in Africa probably contributed to their slow progress, but I think a better perspective is that it takes a very special geography to create the conditions for progress.

Greece had competitive cities that had easy trade, and easy defense. Rome achieved the same in the Med., but on a bigger scale as technology advanced. England, Spain,... did the same on the Atlantic with better tech still.

So the coastline is part of it, but in my view there are lots of good and bad coastlines and that is not enough to explain it. The important part is the ability to defend from outside attack and develop independently and competitively with trading partners. The coastline is important for that, but you also need mountains to prevent attack from land, and you need technology to take advantage of those ports for trade and exchange.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:53 AM (HErWb)

428 Experts say the Bronze Age should be coming to Africa any day now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:53 AM (+HNx/)

429 Have you met me?
Posted by: Mel Gibson
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We will see if Mel sticks the landing on Resurrection. I have mixed feelings regarding his Passion movie.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)

430 335 321 Read an odd article that claims Africa never had a chance to be a global power because their coastlines have no natural ports ...
Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 10:29 AM (ciYHQ)

They weren't much at building roads, or railroads, or airports, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:32 AM (8zz6B)

Stonework is haaaard!

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (pDt9x)

I submit all mammals are inherently lazy. Are there any areas in the world where foods are naturally abundant year-round, where humans independently developed agriculture, beyond- stone age tools, very large villages, and so on up the civilizational ladder? I can think of a few. Cambodia. India. Africa? What is now Indonesia on to the east through New Guinea? Not to my knowledge. Weird.

Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2026 10:54 AM (5rh/l)

431 What about the Gold Coast or the Ivory Coast?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at January 28, 2026 10:54 AM (KDPiq)

432
Jared Diamond made a similar point in Guns, Germs and Steel, except he said they were missing draft animals, a suitable grain and a long swath of arable geography within the same climate zone.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:48 AM (+HNx/)

Jared Diamond is a retard. VDH thinks so, and he wrote Carnage and Culture as a rebuttal. It's a book-length exercise in repeatedly kicking Diamond in the ballsack.

Ewok-level cruelty.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 28, 2026 10:54 AM (y9nCu)

433 At 425+ comments, I'm beginning to suspect there's no correlation between the quality of the art and the number of comments on the Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 28, 2026 10:55 AM (0sNs1)

434 To be fair that AP article linked says right up front and in the headline the guy who got shot, fired at border patrol first and was a human smuggler.

Posted by: Really?? at January 28, 2026 10:55 AM (4uLDQ)

435 My favorite names for military installations are Polk and Hood. Generalship maybe not taken into account in naming.
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1930s and 1940s, the Civil War wasn’t quite still in living memory, but it was close. The coming war meant that cooperation and coordination was necessary between the southern Dixie states and the north. Naming military bases after confederate generals was kind of a sop to that.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2026 10:55 AM (eOudo)

436 How come amnesty is never "we'll waive the ban on citizenship if you return home and apply there?"

Yes, illegal entry bars you from citizenship under current law.

It's always we must work out a way for them to stay.

But if they are so valuable and part of the community, then they should have no problem getting their citizenship app approved back home, right?

Like, none of them would fail the "burden on the treasury" via public assistance requirement, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 10:56 AM (HXT0k)

437 I would make an extended witty comment here but why bother when it's about to be willowed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:56 AM (+HNx/)

438 All threads are open threads. We are a stiff necked Horde.

Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:56 AM (pDt9x)

439 Everything old is new again.

CNN's Elie Honig had to fact check Tiffany Cross after she claimed Charlie Kirk was the victim of right wing violence
Honig: "Let's also not forget Kirk was murdered-"
Cross: "Not by a left-wing extremist! [Robinson] was a right-wing extremist"
Honig: "That's just not true"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 28, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

440 At 425+ comments, I'm beginning to suspect there's no correlation between the quality of the art and the number of comments on the Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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How about the nature of the art? I.e., as a quality.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:57 AM (XeU6L)

441 I would make an extended witty comment here but why bother when it's about to be willowed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2026 10:56 AM (+HNx/)
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[witty rejoinder followed by wry observation}

Posted by: Carthaginians at January 28, 2026 10:57 AM (OvMCw)

442 438 All threads are open threads. We are a stiff necked Horde.
Posted by: tubal at January 28, 2026 10:56 AM (pDt9x)

Well we covered a lot.. Art, bird puns, movies, Coasts and Minnesota

Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

443 Gah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (OvMCw)

444 So what is Sowell's excuse for Haiti. That it was too late? That it's in African's DNA?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (KDPiq)

445 You know who directed a British TV show?

Park Chan-wook!

An adaptation of John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I pretty much loathe le Carre and his idiotic statements about the late Soviet Union made me dislike him more. Smiley was a cuck and Le Carre's whole dreadful relationship between Anne and Smiley in his George Smiley trilogy is a soggy homage to a guy married to a floozy and saying stupid things to justify it. Meanwhile Smiley is cold and calculating on intel matters.

Mick Herron is a far more interesting writer if you must about the IC. Or, you know, actually history of the spy agencies that are out there.

Posted by: whig at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)

446 I'm beginning to suspect there's no correlation between the quality of the art and the number of comments on the Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 28, 2026 10:55 AM (0sNs1)

Inverse!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (Zv8bq)

447 i like how she painted bunting.

Posted by: cmeat at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (R11M+)

448 How come amnesty is never "we'll waive the ban on citizenship if you return home and apply there?"

How come they never say "Everyone, everywhere, gets to be an American citizen and receive US welfare benefits but only native born Americans have to pay for it"?

Cuz that's what periodic repeated amnesties mean. If you're going to say that we don't control the border then just say it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 28, 2026 10:59 AM (ExV1e)

449 i like how she painted bunting.
Posted by: cmeat at January 28, 2026 10:58 AM (R11M+)

Ack! Another bird pun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2026 10:59 AM (8zz6B)

450 “Amnesty”

They sure like to queer the meaning of words

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2026 10:59 AM (eOudo)

451 Urban areas should be turned into reservations across the US. That way, they would not pollute state politics nor be able to dominate them from urban fraud shitholes. They could only plague each other. And that actually fits better with political maps of the US anyway--vast seas of red with isolated blue urban counties that somehow fraud themselves into power in many states.

And they use that power, like in CO, to disenfranchise, and impoverish, and pester those outside the urban areas in order to rule from blue redoubts.
Posted by: whig

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Simple solution --- Take Reynolds v. Simms (64) that makes state districts equal population. print out 9 copies and fold each one up until it is nothing but sharp corners and shove it up the asses of the SCOTUS that does not overturn it and restore order.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 10:59 AM (HErWb)

452 Already brewed up.
[pours Diogenes a cup]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2026 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

Why thank you!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2026 11:00 AM (2WIwB)

453 I think the geography of Africa is part but not the cause.

It didn't stop the transatlantic or trans-Saharan or trans- Mediterranean slave trades.

It didn't prevent the rise of the Mali empire and several others.

But, the people and culture that failed was common to all.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 28, 2026 11:00 AM (HXT0k)

454 "My favorite names for military installations are Polk and Hood."

29 Palms

That's Marine for
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here”

Who would have thought we could be so pithy, eh? More? I know "get on your face!" in 5 languages.

Might even quote Mallory while Air comes on station. Damn straight. And they said an English Lit degree would be useless, SMH

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 11:00 AM (ciYHQ)

455 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2026 11:00 AM (RoI99)

456 Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2026 10:33 AM (VE6XX)

I know it's late in the thread but how is the pooch?

Posted by: ... at January 28, 2026 11:00 AM (QQN0v)

457 >>>Jared Diamond is a retard. VDH thinks so, and he wrote Carnage and Culture as a rebuttal. It's a book-length exercise in repeatedly kicking Diamond in the ballsack.

Ewok-level cruelty.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

>I read them both. Certainly amusing. History is whatever you want it to be. Facts are immutable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 28, 2026 11:01 AM (oT7pT)

458 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

459 NOOD

guglag

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2026 11:02 AM (ULPxl)

460 453 I think the geography of Africa is part but not the cause.

It didn't stop the transatlantic or trans-Saharan or trans- Mediterranean slave trades.

It didn't prevent the rise of the Mali empire and several others.

But, the people and culture that failed was common to all.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Exactly. It wasn't lack of access to sea, it was the stuff I describe briefly above.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 28, 2026 11:03 AM (HErWb)

461 I guess it's very late in the thread. Curse you AoS!!!! {shakes fist}

Posted by: ... at January 28, 2026 11:03 AM (QQN0v)

462 438 We are a stiff necked Horde.

can i interest you in a better pillow?

Posted by: mike lindell at January 28, 2026 11:04 AM (sGtp+)

463 There should be a term for those marooned by nood

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves to the Nood

Posted by: Fen at January 28, 2026 11:07 AM (ciYHQ)

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