Mid-Morning Art Thread

Time of roses
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 09:30 AM (jVhuA)

2 Lovely.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:30 AM (A5RD0)

3 Roses and flirting.

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2026 09:31 AM (98kQX)

4 In the background, smoke rises from the rose-whisky still.

Posted by: gp at April 17, 2026 09:31 AM (N8ZBc)

5
ESPONJA!!11!!!!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 17, 2026 09:31 AM (2/MrR)

6 Wonderful painting. Elevates my already good mood!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 09:32 AM (DgMqy)

7 Very Quiet Man-ish. Really beautiful colors.
Would hang.
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2026 09:32 AM (gu0hJ)

8 Long shadows.

Posted by: Eric Clapton at April 17, 2026 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

9 The peasant girl was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at April 17, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

10 I like this.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)

11 Love the landscape!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

12 What's burning in the background?

Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

13 We have wild roses similar to those on the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (A5RD0)

14 I love Oxen and that's no Yoke!

Posted by: Cattleman's Beef Association at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (oftw2)

15 Test

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

16 Farmer gentleman, and a sassy lass.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (VNtUN)

17 I've got a cow. You got magic beans?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (ndZc7)

18
Ümlaut test.

Posted by: Umlaut tester at April 17, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

19
Albert Speer complained about Hitler's love of Waldmüller and similar artists - he despised them as kitsch. But what can you say to the Führer, besides "my men stole you another Waldmüller, sir?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:36 AM (BI5O2)

20 Keep talkin' all you want, buddy, the meter is still running.

Posted by: PabloD at April 17, 2026 09:36 AM (zUFRX)

21 You know who would have loved this painting?

Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter. at April 17, 2026 09:36 AM (oftw2)

22 Well, hello there!

Me likee.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 09:37 AM (TN90X)

23 Sorry dear, you can't put your dirty feet in the buggy.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 17, 2026 09:37 AM (YGbwn)

24 Waldmüller

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:37 AM (BI5O2)

25 You rarely see ümlauts in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick Lover at April 17, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Good morning!
TGIF!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2026 09:38 AM (5xoct)

27 WTH? Since when can we paste diacritics at AoS? I've been using HTML entities for this since the old days.

Woulda been nice to clue us in, Pixy!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:39 AM (BI5O2)

28 No place to play softball or even soccer here. Pass.

Posted by: How Steep Was My Valley at April 17, 2026 09:39 AM (oftw2)

29 I like the picture and I like the title, but they don't really match and I'm all confused.

Looks more like "A Time of Loading Up the Ox cart"

Posted by: Persnickety at April 17, 2026 09:39 AM (NXsA/)

30 I like the light in this painting, looks like morning. Might hang.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 09:40 AM (cWLG3)

31 Incredible use of light and shadow. An amazing piece.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 09:40 AM (RIvkX)

32 Bring out your dead!

Posted by: Get On The Cart at April 17, 2026 09:41 AM (oftw2)

33 We have wild roses similar to those on the beach.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM

Love me some wild beach roses. I remember my mother making some rose hip jelly years ago.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:41 AM (kgE5c)

34
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean;
But much increase comes by the strength of the ox.

Posted by: Proverbs 14:4 at April 17, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

35 I've seen this one before. Spoiler: someone's getting "milked"

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 17, 2026 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

36 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller painted like a man who loved his job, and not like a bitter, pessimistic hater of beauty, which is what much of art has been for the last hundred years or longer.

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (98kQX)

37 I'm guessing by the shadows it's early in the morning.

Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

38 You know who would have loved this painting?
Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter. at April 17, 2026 09:36 AM (oftw2)
=====

It's kitsch but it's good kitsch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

39 hobbits

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (3uBP9)

40 I doubt travelling salesmen fought over this turf.

Posted by: Fuller Brush Man at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (oftw2)

41 FUN FACT: Two oxen were the Pontiac Trans Am of the 19th century.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (nWPIJ)

42 >>Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean;
But much increase comes by the strength of the ox.

Posted by: Proverbs 14:4 at April 17, 2026 09:42 AM

Fertilizer and power source.

Posted by: huerfano at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (98kQX)

43
Meh...

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at April 17, 2026 09:44 AM (DDJSl)

44 “I don’t care how many roses you give me, Bub. It’s still $20, same as in town.”

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

45 What's burning in the background?
Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)
----
Plague victims.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2026 09:44 AM (yz/L4)

46 @45 The competition. 😁

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 09:45 AM (cWLG3)

47 What's burning in the background?
Posted by: dantesed

His hopes and dreams.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 09:45 AM (jVhuA)

48 Bang~~bus~~buggy

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 17, 2026 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

49 Take me home, country roads, take me home...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2026 09:46 AM (AkEZC)

50 Too bad Europe didn’t have zebus. Zebus are cool.

Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

51 She's wishing those oxen were minotaurs.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (uEmCf)

52 Beautiful painting. Takes me back to my boyhood in the mountains of South Carolina. I can almost smell the honeysuckle.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (Lo97M)

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (BI5O2)

54 The scene depicts early raw milk smugglers transferring their contraband on the famous "Milk Road."

The distant smoke represents the untold lives lost by their illicit trade.

The bucolic setting betrays the reality of a wasteland haunted by death until saved by Government Regulations.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (HXT0k)

55 Sly dog, rolling up in his hot rod, crusing the ladies.

Stylin.

Also a beautiful painting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (bss/y)

56 52 Beautiful painting. Takes me back to my boyhood in the mountains of South Carolina. I can almost smell the honeysuckle.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (Lo97M)

Hear the cicadas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM (bss/y)

57 Hiya RMBS!
Happy Friday to you, good sir.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM (A5RD0)

58
20 Deutsche Marks. Same as in town.

Posted by: Milkmaid at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

59 Yup, so we can paste diacritics now, but now emojis are defunct.

As the man once said, "there are no solutions, only tradeoffs."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM (BI5O2)

60 The scene depicts early raw milk smugglers transferring their contraband on the famous "Milk Road."

The distant smoke represents the untold lives lost by their illicit trade.

The bucolic setting betrays the reality of a wasteland haunted by death until saved by Government Regulations."

Don't bogart that joint...

Posted by: man at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (XuXeR)

61 This is a wonderful painting, someone with a great eye for lighting and shadow.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (Fbc0I)

62
The Draft Dodger - a limerick

There once was a farmer named Hugh
Who owned two oxen (named Beef and Stu)
Said Beef, "You're such a jerk!
I'm doing all the work!"
Stu answered, "Well, the yoke is on you!"

Posted by: muldoon at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

63 🦦

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (A5RD0)

64 "Sam courting Rose"

Posted by: man at April 17, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

65 As the man once said, "there are no solutions, only tradeoffs."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM (BI5O2)
=====

The great Thomas Sowell

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

66 Happy Friday to you, good sir.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:48 AM

Happy Friday to you, nurse!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

67 Lovely painting...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2026 09:50 AM (/IY08)

68 Posted by: nurse ratched "

Moar otters

Posted by: man at April 17, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

69 61 This is a wonderful painting, someone with a great eye for lighting and shadow.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (Fbc0I)

Just being pedantic, the people and fence post cast shadows, the plants don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (bss/y)

70 >>> What's burning in the background?
Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)
----
Plague victims.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2026 09:44 AM (yz/L4)

The Scouring of the Shire

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (3uBP9)

71 it depends on whos ox is being al gored.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (R11M+)

72 As the man once said, "there are no solutions"

Idiot. Alcohol is an excellent solution.

Posted by: man at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (XuXeR)

73 A bit o' the old 'Back Roads Romance', eh … ? Good on 'em …

Posted by: Dr_No at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (ayRl+)

74 I hope he doesn't hire a man to tend the garden and keep an eye on her while he is gone. That would be a bad move.

~Waylon Jennings

Posted by: one hour sober at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (Y1sOo)

75 Lover is a rose but you better not pick it.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2026 09:51 AM (vFG9F)

76 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at April 17, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

77 arrr

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2026 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

78 That would be a good one to hang on Nuclear Family Month, except that it's a spring scene.
But if they had nuclear energy, they'd not need to plow with oxen.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 09:52 AM (gKWVE)

79 ~Waylon Jennings"

So, Luke and Daisy?

Posted by: man at April 17, 2026 09:53 AM (XuXeR)

80 You know who would have loved this painting?
Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter. at April 17, 2026 09:36 AM (oftw2)
=====

It's kitsch but it's good kitsch.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

One man's kitsch is another man's kaboodle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 09:53 AM (qRla/)

81 78 That would be a good one to hang on Nuclear Family Month, except that it's a spring scene.
But if they had nuclear energy, they'd not need to plow with oxen.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 09:52 AM (gKWVE)

You can't plow a field with nuclear arms.

Well, actually you can. Weeds are gone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:53 AM (bss/y)

82 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

Shoot me now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

83 75 Lover is a rose but you better not pick it.
Posted by: fd

Written by Neil young, best cover by Linda Ronstadt.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (A5RD0)

84 Wouldn't want to traverse that road in winter. Sledding down it would be fun, 'til you hit a boulder head-on.

Posted by: Hold My Bier.... at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (oftw2)

85 Oh I gotta brand new combine harvester
And I'll give you the key
Oh I gotta brand new combine harvester
And I'll give you the key

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (gKWVE)

86 She was only a stableman's daughter, but all the horsemen knew her.

Posted by: Say it out loud at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

87 Early street walker. Smells a quickie.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (AkEZC)

88 One of Waldmuller's early works was a portrait of Beethoven. Impressive.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (rj6Yv)

89 You can't plow a field with nuclear arms.

Well, actually you can. Weeds are gone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:53 AM

Nuclear weapons make fields green as rivers of Chernobyl in springtime, comrade!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (kgE5c)

90 >>> That would be a good one to hang on Nuclear Family Month, except that it's a spring scene.
But if they had nuclear energy, they'd not need to plow with oxen.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 09:52 AM (gKWVE)

No they would use three headed oxen like in Fallout.

Posted by: banana Dream - the game not the show at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (3uBP9)

91 Time of Roses

Indeed, it is. Very nice scene.

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (moGJJ)

92 82 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

But then you would not be able to go to the meeting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM (bss/y)

93 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

But then you would not be able to go to the meeting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 09:55 AM

Cruel. Chuy-level cruel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:56 AM (kgE5c)

94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaapIPU9mTY

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 09:57 AM (A5RD0)

95 >>>This is a wonderful painting, someone with a great eye for lighting and shadow.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 17, 2026 09:49 AM (Fbc0I)

Just being pedantic, the people and fence post cast shadows, the plants don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

>You got me. The sniper is cloaked behind the smoke plume.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 17, 2026 09:57 AM (Fbc0I)

96 Rose in Paradise
~Waylon

Posted by: one hour sober at April 17, 2026 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

97 There's stuff in your nose, but you'd better not pick it...

Posted by: Weird Al at April 17, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

98 This is a gorgeous painting. The landscape is natural, the colors of the foliage is soft and realistic, rather soothing. I especially like the flowers on the right. The oxen are almost photorealistic as is the pole fence. It reminds me of the hilly parts of the Shenandoah Valley.

The only part I don't like is the man's face. It seems blotchy, indistinct, compared to the rest of the image.

Check out Waldmuller's other landscapes. They are lovely. What he does with nature and light is wonderful.

Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

99 If you can't be pedantic here, where else can you be?

Posted by: Pedantics Anonymous at April 17, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

100 a platt deutscher wanting scramby and sauerkraut
with no cabbage on hand he soon did pout
the servers suggestion
to the diner's food question
led to a substitute feta cheese umlaut

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 10:00 AM (R11M+)

101 The only part I don't like is the man's face

You know who else could paint a mean German landscape but didn't do portraits so well . . . ?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:01 AM (gKWVE)

102 led to a substitute feta cheese umlaut
Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 10:00 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

103 As the man once said, "there are no solutions"

-
Well, we are spirits in a material world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)

104 Wow, someone Italicized the entire site starting in the Morning Report and on down...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM (ynpvh)

105 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

One thing you will not learn is how to get ChatGPT to teach you how to use it, thereby replacing me.

Posted by: ChatGPT "Trainer" at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM (moGJJ)

106 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

I was fooling around with a free AI plot generator yesterday and asked it to come up with a murder mystery involving a studio moving from New Jersey to Hollywood.

And it came up with a pretty good one. I was amazed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM (qRla/)

107 104 Wow, someone Italicized the entire site starting in the Morning Report and on down...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM (ynpvh)

And people say the Romans did nothing for us

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM (gKWVE)

108 Interesting book title.

Four Jews that Changed the World: Jesus Christ. Marx. Freud. Einstein

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

109 IRAN [Foreign Minister] SAYS PASSAGE FOR VESSELS OPEN IN STRAIT

Posted by: #winning at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM (gKWVE)

110 >>> If you can't be pedantic here, where else can you be?
Posted by: Pedantics Anonymous at April 17, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

New York, New York
Neeeeew Yoooooooork!

Posted by: Frank Sinatra at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM (3uBP9)

111 I like this picture very much. It has a peaceful, pastoral feeling and the scenery is beautiful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM (SSHra)

112 At BBC: "Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'"

Tiān nǎ! Qiú qiú nǐ bié zài yìchū láile!!

Posted by: gp at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM (N8ZBc)

113 I was fooling around with a free AI plot generator yesterday and asked it to come up with a murder mystery involving a studio moving from New Jersey to Hollywood.

And it came up with a pretty good one. I was amazed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM

I get that it has its uses. But as long as it comes up with legal citations that don't actually exist, I will approach it with much distrust.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:05 AM (kgE5c)

114 Willowed from TMR:

I hope your youngest is doing OK. I see the casualty lists and pray for safe homecomings for the IDF and survival for the inhabitants of Northern Israel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)
-

Thanks. All OK. Youngest pup back over a week but 2nd youngest had only last weekend off and went back in. I've watched his "handywork" in videos not publicly available.

SIL also out. Not sure whether he'll go back in next week or not.

Signing off. Packed house with pups and grandpups.

חודש טוב ושבת שלום ומבורך

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 17, 2026 10:05 AM (1o8D5)

115 Media to Trump: Iran is going to execute four protesters including the first woman protester. What do you say to Iran?

President Trump: tell that to the Pope.

F'n savage. THAT'S my president.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:05 AM (jVhuA)

116 113 I was fooling around with a free AI plot generator yesterday and asked it to come up with a murder mystery involving a studio moving from New Jersey to Hollywood.

And it came up with a pretty good one. I was amazed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM

I get that it has its uses. But as long as it comes up with legal citations that don't actually exist, I will approach it with much distrust.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:05 AM (kgE5c)

So let it stick to fiction then...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2026 10:06 AM (ynpvh)

117 At BBC: "Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'"

Tiān nǎ! Qiú qiú nǐ bié zài yìchū láile!!
Posted by: gp at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM

Cop: Step out of the car, please.

Driver: Um...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:06 AM (kgE5c)

118 Wrecks, for better or worse. Although I think Freud's influence is almost gone at this stage.
But where's Jonas Salk? Most Jews I know would rather talk about him. Or Bohr.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:06 AM (gKWVE)

119 Very pretty, I like today's painting

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 17, 2026 10:06 AM (xcxpd)

120 I was fooling around with a free AI plot generator yesterday and asked it to come up with a murder mystery involving a studio moving from New Jersey to Hollywood.

And it came up with a pretty good one. I was amazed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM

I get that it has its uses. But as long as it comes up with legal citations that don't actually exist, I will approach it with much distrust.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Picture: two chicks sitting on a couch. Five legs.

Fuck AI.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:07 AM (jVhuA)

121 117 At BBC: "Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'"

Tiān nǎ! Qiú qiú nǐ bié zài yìchū láile!!
Posted by: gp at April 17, 2026 10:04 AM

Cop: Step out of the car, please.

Driver: Um...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:06 AM (kgE5c)
----
Can someone be arrested for driving with their pants pulled down?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:07 AM (cWLG3)

122 New York, New York
Neeeeew Yoooooooork!
Posted by: Frank Sinatra

Mamdani’s most watched video.

https://tinyurl.com/4h7t3ey9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

123 120 I was fooling around with a free AI plot generator yesterday and asked it to come up with a murder mystery involving a studio moving from New Jersey to Hollywood.

And it came up with a pretty good one. I was amazed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:02 AM

I get that it has its uses. But as long as it comes up with legal citations that don't actually exist, I will approach it with much distrust.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Picture: two chicks sitting on a couch. Five legs.

Fuck AI.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:07 AM (jVhuA)

Rule 34...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2026 10:07 AM (ynpvh)

124 And yeah, if the Pope is such a brilliant negotiator with Muslims, and so much holier a person than Trump, it would seem to be the Pope who should talk to Iran about how to get right with G-d.
Not like the mullahs are gonna listen to the Chief Rabbi.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:08 AM (gKWVE)

125 > IRAN [Foreign Minister] SAYS PASSAGE FOR VESSELS OPEN IN STRAIT
------------
That's rich. It was never completely closed.

Shipping insurance companies, crews, ship owners, etc. were unwilling to take the risks involved with traversing the Hormuz while a war was raging. That's understandable. The USN stopped some vessels heading to Iranian ports... others went through during the USN blockade.

But the Hormuz was never "closed."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2026 10:08 AM (AkEZC)

126 I saw on X that a post from Trump's Truth Social account called the PM of Australia retarded. I can't verify it, though.

Posted by: jmel at April 17, 2026 10:09 AM (RWHIh)

127 Can someone be arrested for driving with their pants pulled down?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

shifty eyes - guys getting road head for the last fifty years - shifty eyes

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:09 AM (jVhuA)

128 Picture: two chicks sitting on a couch. Five legs.
Fuck AI.
Posted by: rickb223

O solo mio . . .

Posted by: Paolo at April 17, 2026 10:09 AM (gKWVE)

129 @120 At some point authors will see plot points and characters that seem to have been lifted straight out of their work in AI generated novels on the NY Times Bestseller list.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:09 AM (cWLG3)

130 Good news, everyone!

NBC News
@NBCNews
At the dance organization Queer the Ballet, LGBTQ performers challenge the expectations of traditional ballet while creating work all their own.

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Ballet got queerer!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

131 J'approve!

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at April 17, 2026 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

132 Governor Spanberger just gave her hubby's company a bunch of Virginia grants.
See, that's why we need women in office. A man would just blow that on mistresses or rent boys (maybe both).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:11 AM (gKWVE)

133
He's in the Hitler Youth and she's in the League of German Girls

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2026 10:12 AM (tgvbd)

134 how could ballet get queerer? i swear you can see the male performers struggle with nausea when they lift the ballerina over their heads

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:12 AM (gKWVE)

135 Too bad Europe didn’t have zebus. Zebus are cool.
Posted by: Bulg at April 17, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks to Veggie Tales I know them as Cebu. And when I sneeze I say "achoo moo moo".

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 17, 2026 10:12 AM (lFFaq)

136 132 Governor Spanberger just gave her hubby's company a bunch of Virginia grants.
See, that's why we need women in office. A man would just blow that on mistresses or rent boys (maybe both).
Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:11 AM (gKWVE)
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I wonder if the Paolo would hit that (Spanberger).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:12 AM (cWLG3)

137 "challenge the expectations"

Is that what you kids are calling it now

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 17, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

138 The Hill: Post-Trump laws will have to prevent abuses of power and personal enrichment. Four years into Trump’s unforeseen second term, his administration has figuratively bulldozed post-Watergate laws and norms while physically bulldozing the White House East Wing.

Ironically, as we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, we should collectively acknowledge the dangerous shift in modern presidential behavior from the “I am not a crook” president, forced from office, to the incumbent president’s “I am not a dictator,” denial of authoritarian leanings, and “sometimes you need a dictator.” Then, sometimes, you need to crown yourself king and portray yourself as Jesus.

It has 9 proposals, all dumb, but due to space, I'll pick my favorite: Eighth, we need a law establishing a bipartisan watchdog organization to review what appears to be politically motivated weaponization of any agency or Cabinet department that unleashes the power of the federal government, charging or threatening to charge any federal official who worked with, or in, a previous or current administration.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

139 spring peepers.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (R11M+)

140 how could ballet get queerer? i swear you can see the male performers struggle with nausea when they lift the ballerina over their heads
Posted by: gKWVE

Summer's Eve is squandering a marketing campaign.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (jVhuA)

141 Every rose has its thorns.

Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (Oy/m2)

142 @130 Everyone is "non-binary?" Having no idea what you're seeing would.be pretty queer.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:14 AM (cWLG3)

143 In the background, smoke rises from the sniper rifle.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 17, 2026 10:15 AM (Kt19C)

144 Very nice painting. I like the light and the shadows.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 10:15 AM (n3VHW)

145 72 true. as well as the 7% solution.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

146 132 Governor Spanberger just gave her hubby's company a bunch of Virginia grants.
See, that's why we need women in office. A man would just blow that on mistresses or rent boys (maybe both).
Posted by: gKWVE at April

138 The Hill: Post-Trump laws will have to prevent abuses of power and personal enrichment.

Yeah. It will.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (jVhuA)

147 138 The Hill: Post-Trump laws will have to prevent abuses of power and personal enrichment.

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What personal enrichment has Trump been involved in? WTF is these fks major malfunction?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (cWLG3)

148 >>> Every rose has its thorns.
Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (Oy/m2)

The only remaining local rock station plays that a lot and it is constantly an earworm.

Posted by: banana Dream - only rock station in a giant southern market at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (3uBP9)

149 It's a lovely painting, and we've had lovely, or interesting, art selections all week long.

Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

150 It has 9 proposals, all dumb, but due to space, I'll pick my favorite: Eighth, we need a law establishing a bipartisan watchdog organization to review what appears to be politically motivated weaponization of any agency or Cabinet department that unleashes the power of the federal government

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Chaired by someone with impeccable credentials like Adam Schiff or Judge Boasberg.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (nWPIJ)

151 Non-binary? Pfffft.

There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 17, 2026 10:17 AM (0sNs1)

152 143 In the background, smoke rises from the sniper rifle.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 17, 2026 10:15 AM (Kt19C)
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So we are witnessing a brief moment before the THWAP!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 17, 2026 10:17 AM (cWLG3)

153 Shipping insurance companies, crews, ship owners, etc. were unwilling to take the risks involved with traversing the Hormuz while a war was raging. That's understandable.

We love risk. We cultivate and monetize risk. Why do you think there were continued, pointless attacks by our enfeebled Iranian proxies?

Posted by: The City of London at April 17, 2026 10:17 AM (Uh88k)

154 You rarely see ümlauts in a limerick.

***********

For Good Reason - a limerick

There's a rümor that müst be debünked
And it's not quite as hard as you thünked
'Umlaut' is a word
That is really quite absürd
So in mein Haus manchmal heisst es "doppel Punkt"

Posted by: muldoon at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM (I0N4X)

155
Nice doctor's office painting.

Very calming...unless the white supremacy of it all makes your head explode.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM (iJfKG)

156 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM (3uBP9)

157 The detail in this painting is amazing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 17, 2026 10:19 AM (snZF9)

158 I looked up some of this artists other paintings. He does people and landscapes equally well, I think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2026 10:19 AM (n3VHW)

159 I find barefooted mountain women remarkably attractive.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 10:19 AM (FmapG)

160 Best "double play" during Pirates - Nationals game yesterday:

https://tinyurl.com/y53xdjbd

Posted by: one hour sober at April 17, 2026 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)

161 156 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.
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Everything is buried in the worm holes. You just have to know which worm hole leads to the next worm hole.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 10:21 AM (FmapG)

162 Entertainment Weekly site

D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held without bail, the LAPD announced on April 16.The singer's arrest comes eight months after the remains of Celeste Rivas, a teenager, were discovered in his impounded car.Rivas had been reported missing by her family April 2024.

Give the LAPD credit.

Clue number one was the poor girl's dead body in his car.
The second clue was a toughy, but eight months later...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:21 AM (Sco7b)

163 The only remaining local rock station plays that a lot and it is constantly an earworm.
Posted by: banana Dream - only rock station in a giant southern market at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (3uBP9)

I can help with that.

Posted by: Rick Astley at April 17, 2026 10:22 AM (PiwSw)

164 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.

It's been overplayed for decades. It isn't like there isn't lots of good music in other genres. We can all benefit from broadening our horizons a bit. I'm heavily into elevator music right now.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2026 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

165 President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that Iran has fully opened the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial shipping traffic.

https://tinyurl.com/yj5rd2zr

See? Iran wins again!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2026 10:23 AM (nWPIJ)

166 Doppelpünkte macht Frei!

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:23 AM (ReYtg)

167 156 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.
Posted by: banana Dream

🔼
https://tinyurl.com/3ue9k7nh

Posted by: Angine de Poitrine at April 17, 2026 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

168 At some point authors will see plot points and characters that seem to have been lifted straight out of their work in AI generated novels on the NY Times Bestseller list.

I look at it as akin to Clive Cussler paying people to come up with plots for his Dirk Pitt novels, or James Patterson 'collaborating' with unknown authors, adding his 'unique voice' to their writing.

If I ever used it for a new Theda Bara novel, it would be as a foundation to build on and not a storyline to be slavishly copied.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 17, 2026 10:24 AM (qRla/)

169 Everything is buried in the worm holes. You just have to know which worm hole leads to the next worm hole.
Posted by: pudinhead

I think two of my worm holes are technically connected, but no tips have touched despite several Eiffel Towers.

Posted by: Confused Sandra Fluke at April 17, 2026 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

170 >>> I find barefooted mountain women remarkably attractive.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 10:19 AM (FmapG)

With the courts striking down the prohibition on distilling and whiskey making one could grab a small place up in the hills. Sittin on the backporch, adoring mountain woman on a knee, sippin your own hooch, slowly strumming a banjo,..

Worthy of a Ferdinand painting.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:25 AM (3uBP9)

171 156 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM (3uBP9)

Agreed. I think rock was a musical movement that had its time and then slowly died away. We just recycle the classic 70 to early 90's era over and over again, electronically. You don't get four kids in a garage forming bands anyway.

Nothing new is being made, nothing new left to say.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 17, 2026 10:26 AM (xcxpd)

172 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM (3uBP9)

Make bucks and get girls.

This isn't hard if rock isn't performer the above functions anymore, then musicians gravitate to something else.

Something else will take over..like ragtime with arabic ululation.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

173 Bulls are running on Wall St today. And have been all week. DJIA is up 2% today and close to 4% for the week. Closing in on 50K again.

S&P500 and Nasdaq are both at all time highs.

All the Iran losses have been recouped and then some.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:26 AM (b4qzS)

174 >>> https://tinyurl.com/3ue9k7nh
Posted by: Angine de Poitrine at April 17, 2026 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

Yeah I've seen them. I was going to mention that Rock seems like it is surviving mostly over seas and south of our border. Best of luck.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:27 AM (3uBP9)

175 a bipartisan watchdog organization to review what appears to be politically motivated weaponization of any agency or Cabinet department that unleashes the power of the federal government
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Chaired by someone with impeccable credentials like Adam Schiff or Judge Boasberg.
Posted by: Cicero

But you'll have Republicans on it, too, like McCain, Romney, Graham, and Snowe, so there's nothing to worry about!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

176 I've concluded rock is dying out.

I listen to a station that branches out widely in older rock and current rock. It's hit-or-miss.

It's the "Classic Rock" format, in my opinion, that beats 100 songs to death. It's simple and predictable, and that makes the accountants happy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:28 AM (ReYtg)

177 BTW, if you check Waldmuller's Wiki page there are several still life paintings shown. They are as good as the still life works of the Dutch Masters. Worth the look.

Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2026 10:28 AM (yTvNw)

178 Rock is dead, the rest is dying. In ten years everything will just be ai generated LoFi of indeterminate genre. In 20, vocals will be gone entirely, with just a picture of an emoji on the thumbnail to instruct you how it's supposed to make you feel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 10:29 AM (BI5O2)

179 >>> Every rose has its thorns.
Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (Oy/m2)

The only remaining local rock station plays that a lot and it is constantly an earworm.

Posted by: banana Dream - only rock station in a giant southern market at April 17, 2026 10:16 AM (3uBP9)

In the rosey field of music that song is a frigging thorn.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 17, 2026 10:30 AM (snZF9)

180 The Seven Nation Army isn't a song, it's a ringtone.

Posted by: Why yes, I don't like Jack White, why do you ask? at April 17, 2026 10:30 AM (PiwSw)

181 Posted by: muldoon at April 17, 2026 10:18 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:30 AM (kgE5c)

182 >>> It's the "Classic Rock" format, in my opinion, that beats 100 songs to death. It's simple and predictable, and that makes the accountants happy.
Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:28 AM (ReYtg)

That's the same here. A great format would be to scan through years day to day, 50s through the present, but no one would pay for that on the radio.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)

183 April 17, 1970 – Apollo 13 Crew Returns

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. ,“Jack” Swigert and Fred W. Haise, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 600 miles southeast of American Samoa, successfully concluding a six-day mission that nearly ended by disaster. The crew was retrieved by helicopter and transported to the recovery ship, the USS Iwo Jima.

Two days after launch and 205,000 miles from Earth on their way to the Moon, the explosion of an oxygen tank in their Service Module robbed their Command Module (CM) Odyssey of power and oxygen. The astronauts took refuge in the Lunar Module Aquarius, and through judicious conservation of resources and expert guidance from the teams at Mission Control, the spacecraft designed to support two men for two days kept three men alive for four.

Posted by: Cheri at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (oiNtH)

184 I've concluded rock is dying out. However you define rock that isn't rap, watered-down greeting card country, hiphop, pop music, etc.. No one is writing new stuff that gets any play, and fewer stations are playing it. And really radio is losing to streaming.

Rock is a genre. Same as the 40's War Years, 50's Doo-Wop, '60's Pop, 70's Rock. Everyone is aging out.

SiriusXM has the channel you are looking for. But free, over the air radio stations can't afford to limit themselves to a certain genre anymore.

It's a hell of a wake up call to find out the over the air golden oldies channel (1940's) is now the 1950's channel.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (jVhuA)

185 The singer's arrest comes eight months after the remains of Celeste Rivas, a teenager, were discovered in his impounded car.

Eight months, huh? I have a question...

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (ReYtg)

186 Plenty of rock still on the radio. Rock bands and cover bands still do rock tours and gigs successfully.

(shoulder shrug)

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (DgMqy)

187 What’s radio?
- everyone under 30

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (b4qzS)

188 But you'll have Republicans on it, too, like McCain, Romney, Graham, and Snowe, so there's nothing to worry about!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:27 AM (JCZqz

As long as John McCain is physically there sitting in a chair with the rest of them, I'm fine with his little bitch getting a check.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (Sco7b)

189 185 The singer's arrest comes eight months after the remains of Celeste Rivas, a teenager, were discovered in his impounded car.

Eight months, huh? I have a question...
Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:31 AM (ReYtg

You are NOT LAPD material....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:32 AM (Sco7b)

190 Bravo, muldoon!
I say, bravo!!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at April 17, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)

191 Rock is dead, the rest is dying. In ten years everything will just be ai generated LoFi of indeterminate genre. In 20, vocals will be gone entirely, with just a picture of an emoji on the thumbnail to instruct you how it's supposed to make you feel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

In 25 years, it'll just be the wailing of a cat getting raped. (muzzie call to prayer)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:33 AM (jVhuA)

192 "doppel Punkt" >> "Rickrolled"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:33 AM (kgE5c)

193 >>> Rock is dead, the rest is dying. In ten years everything will just be ai generated LoFi of indeterminate genre. In 20, vocals will be gone entirely, with just a picture of an emoji on the thumbnail to instruct you how it's supposed to make you feel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 10:29 AM (BI5O2)

So, the grey-goo apocalypse is real, but it will be revealed to us first in words, sight, and sound.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:33 AM (3uBP9)

194 188 But you'll have Republicans on it, too, like McCain, Romney, Graham, and Snowe, so there's nothing to worry about!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:27 AM (JCZqz

=====

It amuses me that three of your four examples aren't in the Senate anymore.

Our pickings of hate objects in the GOP Senate grows thinner with every cycle.

Of the 7 Republicans who voted to convict in the Senate on Trump's second impeachment trial? 2 are left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:34 AM (B5oTI)

195 In 25 years, it'll just be the wailing of a cat getting raped. (muzzie call to prayer)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:33 AM (jVhuA)

She was just ahead of her time.

Posted by: The Yoko Ono Fan Club at April 17, 2026 10:34 AM (PiwSw)

196 been watching the local moonbats here in nw Va to see what the official line will be on Justin Fairfax, and still radio silent, so I'm guessing it will be "ignore. ignore. ignore."
Hopefully it disrupts the redistricting push.
NYPost had an article detailing the papers he was served with; apparently he's been a raving drunk holed up in a room full of dirty clothes and dishes, only coming out to get more wine and steal money from the kids' accounts.
Papers said he had to vacate the property by end of the month.
I guess all they CAN do is ignore.
Wouldn't it be great if the RPV forgot for once "who they are" and pulled the Dem trick of demanding they deal with it, over and over and over? smh

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (enw9G)

197 Time of roses? Is that what the kids were calling it those days?

He's thorny.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hitting the ground groaning at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (U6KC2)

198 I have not listened to radio in the car since I don’t know when. Maybe 10 years. I listen to streaming music or podcasts.

Not long ago my phone died and I went a few days sans phone and listened to the radio in the car. I couldn’t believe how many fucking commercials there are. I swear it was more ads than content. I don’t know how anyone puts up with that shit. Was it always this bad and I just didn’t realize it?

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (b4qzS)

199 It's a hell of a wake up call to find out the over the air golden oldies channel (1940's) is now the 1950's channel.

Oh no! Did Sirius do away with the 40s station?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2026 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

200 196 been watching the local moonbats here in nw Va to see what the official line will be on Justin Fairfax, and still radio silent, so I'm guessing it will be "ignore. ignore. ignore."
Hopefully it disrupts the redistricting push.
NYPost had an article detailing the papers he was served with; apparently he's been a raving drunk holed up in a room full of dirty clothes and dishes, only coming out to get more wine and steal money from the kids' accounts.
Papers said he had to vacate the property by end of the month.
I guess all they CAN do is ignore.
Wouldn't it be great if the RPV forgot for once "who they are" and pulled the Dem trick of demanding they deal with it, over and over and over? smh

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (enw9G)

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A guy who hasn't been in office for, what, five years doing a murder suicide is going to have no effect on the redistricting referendum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:36 AM (B5oTI)

201 You were workin' as a barefoot roadside rose monger
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around
Turned you into someone new

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2026 10:36 AM (wVcYX)

202
Sounds like the new "The Mummy" is more like the Exorcist combined with Evil Dead with -

nary a cloth-bound mummy in sight.

This sound a lot like the recent "remake" of the Wolfman where the lycanthrope was absent as well.

I'll probably see it this weekend but if you don't want to make "The Mummy", don't call your movie "The Mummy".

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

203 I swear it was more ads than content. I don’t know how anyone puts up with that shit. Was it always this bad and I just didn’t realize it?

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (b4qzS)

The worst is morning shows. I'd be driving to work, gearing up to deal with people all day and these asshats just won't shut up and play music.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM (Sco7b)

204 196 been watching the local moonbats here in nw Va to see what the official line will be on Justin Fairfax, and still radio silent, so I'm guessing it will be "ignore. ignore. ignore."
Hopefully it disrupts the redistricting push.
NYPost had an article detailing the papers he was served with; apparently he's been a raving drunk holed up in a room full of dirty clothes and dishes, only coming out to get more wine and steal money from the kids' accounts.
Papers said he had to vacate the property by end of the month.
I guess all they CAN do is ignore.
Wouldn't it be great if the RPV forgot for once "who they are" and pulled the Dem trick of demanding they deal with it, over and over and over? smh

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (enw9G)

WTOP has a story up about an incident shortly after he bought the handgun in 2022 with his kids' horseback riding money. Frantic search for him, hours calming him down in a park. A few weeks back the judge in the divorce case expressed concern about his mental state but didn't order any evaluation.

Posted by: Vendette at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (1ieqq)

205 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice painting. And the title reminds me of the song "The Days of Wine and Roses." They don't write songs like that anymore.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (2WIwB)

206 "A guy who hasn't been in office for, what, five years doing a murder suicide is going to have no effect on the redistricting referendum."

Hence my wish for the RPV.

Reverse the parties and watch the difference.

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (enw9G)

207 Go into just about any big box store that plays background music over the PA.
Pay attention to the playlist.
It's very common to hear a song that is FIFTY years old.

Posted by: It's unreal at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

208 Go into just about any big box store that plays background music over the PA.
Pay attention to the playlist.
It's very common to hear a song that is FIFTY years old.

Posted by: It's unreal at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

For a few years now PBS has had pledge drive shows with 80s acts, and I even saw one featuring New Kids on the Block.

Posted by: Vendette at April 17, 2026 10:40 AM (1ieqq)

209

Problem with RINOs is they’re always replaced when they’re voted other or retire or die. Romney went away. Great. Oh shitRand Paul turns into a Democrat. McCain dies great but wait, Tillis goes Democrat. Can’t recall his name now but one of the senators from Utah (not Lee) is all onboard the amnesty train.

And on it goes. It’s always playing wack a mole with these assholes.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:40 AM (b4qzS)

210 >>> Papers said he had to vacate the property by end of the month.
I guess all they CAN do is ignore.
Wouldn't it be great if the RPV forgot for once "who they are" and pulled the Dem trick of demanding they deal with it, over and over and over? smh

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:35 AM (enw9G)

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A guy who hasn't been in office for, what, five years doing a murder suicide is going to have no effect on the redistricting referendum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:36 AM (B5oTI)

The arrived at consensus has been, it is the Republicans fault. The republicans murdered them. The decided narrative as presented is: Republicans said mean things about Justin, Justin had no choice then but to murder his wife and then himself.

This is being repeated often and if you watch, you can see it coalescing into a single monolithic narrative.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:40 AM (3uBP9)

211 Vendette, he was a known wolf.
That's why no publicity!

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (enw9G)

212 The worst is morning shows. I'd be driving to work, gearing up to deal with people all day and these asshats just won't shut up and play music.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM

Ah, yes, the wacky morning drive show on the local classic rock station.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (kgE5c)

213 It's a hell of a wake up call to find out the over the air golden oldies channel (1940's) is now the 1950's channel.

Oh no! Did Sirius do away with the 40s station?
Posted by: Archimedes

No. Sorry. The over the air radio station. All of Sirius' stations are still there.

Just moved around a little. Bluegrass used to be two stations before Willie's Roadhouse. Now it's like 11 after.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (jVhuA)

214 Rock may be dead in the sense that no new stuff of any value is being created…. But the music of the 60s through the 90s is enduring…. Ive noticed young people my young adult kids age (20s) love the music of the 70s and 80s in particular and listen to a lot of it. The Eagles, Pink Floyd… name a band from that era they all still have a large audience of young people… not just old farts like me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (czfTj)

215 It amuses me that three of your four examples aren't in the Senate anymore.

Our pickings of hate objects in the GOP Senate grows thinner with every cycle.

Of the 7 Republicans who voted to convict in the Senate on Trump's second impeachment trial? 2 are left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's half because I'm lazy, and those are the easy RINOs that came to mind. Your point is kind of correct...many of the legendary, long-term RINOs are gone, but there seems to be an endless supply of candidates willing to fill the positions through a revolving door. I'm looking at you, Joni Ernst!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

216 Go into just about any big box store that plays background music over the PA.
Pay attention to the playlist.
It's very common to hear a song that is FIFTY years old.
Posted by: It's unreal at April 17, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

Our local Kroger loves the 80's.

I was rocking out to "In a Big Country" in the cereal aisle yesterday.

I also got a craving for a big bowl of oatmeal.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:42 AM (iJfKG)

217 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:34 AM (B5oTI)

You're in such a good mood this week. Did you go on vacation or something?

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:42 AM (RbWJI)

218 In 20, vocals will be gone entirely, with just a picture of an emoji on the thumbnail to instruct you how it's supposed to make you feel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2026 10:29 AM (BI5O2)

Shut up! 'Batin!

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:42 AM (gKWVE)

219 Go into just about any big box store that plays background music over the PA.
Pay attention to the playlist.
It's very common to hear a song that is FIFTY years old.

Posted by: It's unreal

It hurts your soul when you realize that you heard it when it first came out and you were 13.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:42 AM (jVhuA)

220 Banana dream, that's the usual everyday hate: orangeman's fascists so bad, etc etc etc.

We CAUSED his terrorism of his family.

Still waiting to see that or anything else appear at a granular level from the crazies of my acquaintance locally.

Posted by: barbarausa at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (enw9G)

221 *sings to the barefoot roadside rose monger:*

I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (wVcYX)

222 Queer magazine has breaking news.

Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

223 It's half because I'm lazy, and those are the easy RINOs that came to mind. Your point is kind of correct...many of the legendary, long-term RINOs are gone, but there seems to be an endless supply of candidates willing to fill the positions through a revolving door. I'm looking at you, Joni Ernst!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

And Joni's only got 8 1/2 months left because she's not running for re-election.

Posted by: Vendette at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (1ieqq)

224 215
It's half because I'm lazy, and those are the easy RINOs that came to mind. Your point is kind of correct...many of the legendary, long-term RINOs are gone, but there seems to be an endless supply of candidates willing to fill the positions through a revolving door. I'm looking at you, Joni Ernst!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 17, 2026 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

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People like Ernst are problems behind the scenes (she's also retiring because she...really pissed everyone off trying to scuttlebutt Hegseth), but they fall in line on every important vote.

It's the Snowes and the McCains who gladly become the vessel to thumb the GOP voters in the eye who are the bigger problem.

Cowards who run away when highlighted are manageable issues. Assholes who delight in fucking us over are not manageable.

The latter are far fewer now than before. The former still exist (Grassley is one and his obsession with keeping the blue slip tradition), but when they fall in line for big votes, they at least help advance policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (B5oTI)

225 "NYPost had an article detailing the papers he was served with; apparently he's been a raving drunk holed up in a room full of dirty clothes and dishes, only coming out to get more wine and steal money from the kids' accounts."

Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at April 17, 2026 10:45 AM (2Ez/1)

226 217 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:34 AM (B5oTI)

You're in such a good mood this week. Did you go on vacation or something?

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:42 AM (RbWJI)

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I was thinking I was in a bad mood and needed to pull back, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:45 AM (B5oTI)

227 Morning.

Speaking of music, new Voivod song dropped.

https://youtu.be/BZkfstfc6r8

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2026 10:45 AM (dpXJq)

228 @them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

Don't tell 'em about Prairie Oysters.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 10:45 AM (gKWVE)

229 Queer magazine has breaking news.

Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

Well...to be fair trans-raccoons are a thing.

Trans-people? Not so much.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

230 JJ linked this this morning but I didn't realize it was 2/3 of total sales.

Gavin Newsom spent $1.5 million from PAC funds to buy copies of his own book, which made up two-thirds of sales

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)

231 Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

You can find raccoon dick bones being sold as tooth picks at arts and crafts fairs.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (dpXJq)

232 127 i almost bought a road hummer.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (R11M+)

233 Queer magazine has breaking news.

Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Raccoon peen bones are worth money.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (jVhuA)

234 @PolitlcsUK
·
7h
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"

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There's something...contradictory in this headline.

Can anyone figure it out before Starmer?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (B5oTI)

235 It's funny how there's literally no one left that can publicly and lausibly lecture Trump anymore. They had Romney and then Cheney and of course a whole host of Democrats and although Newsom and AOC have tried they aren't getting much of a foothold. Starmer is a joke. Getting shot and then reelected plus the way he bashed any comers and has spread his wings into so many areas has gotten things to the point where all they have left is the Pope.

They needed the Fake Epstein Op to take him down, using "his own side", but he put it down in the crib. And no one understood why he responded the way he did - by calling some of his followers crazies etc. Least of all the people who had calculated that he never would. All because he saw the op forming. Remarkable.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (RbWJI)

236 Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM

Don't tell these people what hunters get up to.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (kgE5c)

237 RFK Jr ain't got nothing on a Basque sheep herder.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (yAteE)

238 Rock may be dead in the sense that no new stuff of any value is being created…. But the music of the 60s through the 90s is enduring…. Ive noticed young people my young adult kids age (20s) love the music of the 70s and 80s in particular and listen to a lot of it. The Eagles, Pink Floyd… name a band from that era they all still have a large audience of young people… not just old farts like me
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

My teenagers are into 80s and 90s rock/alternative. Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Nirvana are on the rotation bigly.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (b4qzS)

239 >>> I'll probably see it this weekend but if you don't want to make "The Mummy", don't call your movie "The Mummy".
Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

The 1999 movie about Rachel Weisz, her cuteness, the depth of her cuteness, the terrible power of her cuteness, how all the rest of us are just pawns to the cosmic strength of her cuteness, and I believe there was also a mummy, is all we ever needed.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (3uBP9)

240 Ace retweeted this outrageous judicial corruption but if you don't see his tweets...

https://tinyurl.com/56tkth5b

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:49 AM (6mv2K)

241 Eighth, we need a law establishing a bipartisan watchdog organization to review what appears to be politically motivated weaponization of any agency or Cabinet department that unleashes the power of the federal government, charging or threatening to charge any federal official who worked with, or in, a previous or current administration.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 17, 2026 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

Um... Guys...

- The Trump Administration

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 17, 2026 10:49 AM (gcUgZ)

242 239 >>> I'll probably see it this weekend but if you don't want to make "The Mummy", don't call your movie "The Mummy".
Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

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Because of the news of Weisz and Fraser returning for a new Mummy movie at Universal, this one had A24's marketing team putting out tweets that said no more than, "Brandon Fraser is not in Lee Cronin's The Mummy."

It's kind of the only newsworthy thing about the movie's release.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (B5oTI)

243 @them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

Thank you for making it very clear what your "trans" agendy means.

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (ReYtg)

244 Kamala can't lecture him, she got beat. She had her chance. Biden is a vegetable. No one likes Hillary. The Republican opposition are uniformly a joke. He took care of the Obama's with a well placed meme that influenced people in subconscious ways they don't want to talk about. It's been amazing to watch. Like a runway or crop field being cleared.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (RbWJI)

245 The number of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc. t-shirts on kids these days is pretty wild.

Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (oqH4h)

246 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"
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Two Tier Keir may resign as early as this weekend, according to today's Telegraph.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (6mv2K)

247
You can find raccoon dick bones being sold as tooth picks at arts and crafts fairs.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2026 10:47 AM (dpXJq)

Great Moments in Gay Oral Hygiene #27.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (iJfKG)

248 246 Two Tier Keir may resign as early as this weekend, according to today's Telegraph.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (6mv2K)

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Comment from 18 months ago?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (B5oTI)

249 >>> Ace retweeted this outrageous judicial corruption but if you don't see his tweets...

https://tinyurl.com/56tkth5b
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:49 AM (6mv2K)

A new honeycum sweetdick.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:51 AM (3uBP9)

250 The gop has 53 senators and can’t pass a voter ID bill. With 53, Dems would have expanded scotus to 13 by now and made PR and DC states.

Thats the difference ce between the two parties.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:51 AM (b4qzS)

251 The 1999 movie about Rachel Weisz, her cuteness, the depth of her cuteness, the terrible power of her cuteness, how all the rest of us are just pawns to the cosmic strength of her cuteness, and I believe there was also a mummy, is all we ever needed.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (3uBP9)

That sheer number she wears in the middle of the movie looks great on bluray. You see...a lot more detail. If you get what I'm saying.

Posted by: Robert at April 17, 2026 10:51 AM (dpXJq)

252 250 The gop has 53 senators and can’t pass a voter ID bill. With 53, Dems would have expanded scotus to 13 by now and made PR and DC states.

Thats the difference ce between the two parties.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:51 AM (b4qzS)

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I swear, you're a fucking retard.

Democrats had a majority 5 years ago. 50+1.

Did they do those things?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (B5oTI)

253 Want new music (including rock) and/or a variety of old music? You have to have some type of source other than over the air radio.

I pay for SiriusXM and also a premium Spotify account. Runs me around $20 a month to have both. I listen to music far more frequently that I watch TV/movies. I get every penny worth of value out of those. Far more valuable to me than when I used to pay that amount and more for streaming TV/movie services.

Those who say there is no new rock music probably aren't looking for it. It's out there. Just don't expect to be exposed to it the way we were in the 70s/80s/90s.

Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (LVvlK)

254 I was thinking I was in a bad mood and needed to pull back, to be honest.
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Its sometimes wise to pull out.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (FmapG)

255 248 246 Two Tier Keir may resign as early as this weekend, according to today's Telegraph.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (6mv2K)

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Comment from 18 months ago?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (B5oTI)

It's like Kathleen Kennedy.

Actually... they are kind of the same person.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (bss/y)

256 Monster movie.

https://tinyurl.com/rbf3j5pm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)

257 245 The number of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc. t-shirts on kids these days is pretty wild.
Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (oqH4h)

I’m GenX and will always feel that era was the best time ever. Obviously since that when I was young. But I think the yuutes today also look at that time as a good time to be alive. Not just music but generally speaking.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (b4qzS)

258 was thinking I was in a bad mood and needed to pull back, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:45 AM (B5oTI)

It worked!!

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (RbWJI)

259 246 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"
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That's interesting, because that's exactly what the US is working on as we speak.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

260 My teenagers are into 80s and 90s rock/alternative. Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Nirvana are on the rotation bigly.
Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (b4qzS)
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Pfftt. Posers. My kid is into Zeppelin, Cream.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

261 I have an agreement with all the animals of the world that I will not ever mess with their junk and they will not ever mess with my junk. This agreement is inviolate and shall hold throughout all times and universes.

Posted by: banana Dream- yep, includes worms and small organisms too at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (3uBP9)

262 I wake up to volbeat

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (LOZbR)

263 Democrats had a majority 5 years ago. 50+1.

Did they do those things?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (B5oTI)

Did they have 53? No. Had they, yes they would have done all those things.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (b4qzS)

264 250 The gop has 53 senators and can’t pass a voter ID bill. With 53, Dems would have expanded scotus to 13 by now and made PR and DC states.

Thats the difference ce between the two parties.
Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:51 AM (b4qzS)

And would have 3 AM Raided at least 1000 people by now.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (iXqHn)

265 The 1999 movie about Rachel Weisz, her cuteness, the depth of her cuteness, the terrible power of her cuteness, how all the rest of us are just pawns to the cosmic strength of her cuteness, and I believe there was also a mummy, is all we ever needed.
Posted by: banana Dream

To be fair, the Mummy's girlfriend was also quite attractive, and had quite an exotic look.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

266 246 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"
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Two Tier Keir may resign as early as this weekend, according to today's Telegraph.
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Umm, his Iran Piggy Bank no longer shits money?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 17, 2026 10:55 AM (FmapG)

267 I swear, you're a fucking retard.

Democrats had a majority 5 years ago. 50+1.

Did they do those things?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (B5oTI)

In the 'retard's' defense, dems have been whipping themselves into a frenzy. I am not sure past performance is any indicator of future outcomes. Look at Spanburger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 10:55 AM (bss/y)

268 My teenagers are into 80s and 90s rock/alternative. Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Nirvana are on the rotation bigly.
Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (b4qzS)
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Pfftt. Posers. My kid is into Zeppelin, Cream.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

Oh it’s gonna be like that huh? You’re on buddy let’s go. 😀

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:55 AM (b4qzS)

269 Them
@them
Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

https://tinyurl.com/4z36redb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 17, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)
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since his kids are between 25 and 41, and doing relatively well by Kennedy standards, I imagine they weren't devastated by it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:56 AM (8SS36)

270 I don't know nuthin' about castrating coons, but apparently it's a thing in other parts of the country. Here's a post from (Johnny) Joey Jones about it:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3ccwdf

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 17, 2026 10:56 AM (3ImbR)

271 RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

Kids! Dinner!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 17, 2026 10:56 AM (Kt19C)

272 263 Democrats had a majority 5 years ago. 50+1.

Did they do those things?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (B5oTI)

Did they have 53? No. Had they, yes they would have done all those things.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:54 AM (b4qzS)

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Oh, is that it? It requires a majority of 53? Not just any majority? Because you said that they just grasp onto power and just do things.

Weird how when they had unitary control they didn't do anything other than a giant omnibus of graft.

They didn't bring in Puerto Rico. They didn't do amnesty. They didn't gun grab. They didn't do single payer.

The barriers with 53 are the same as 50+1, dumbass. It's about getting around cloture votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (B5oTI)

273 246 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"
____

That's interesting, because that's exactly what the US is working on as we speak.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

The European (or let's face it, a lot of governmental organizations) definition of "initiative": Form a committee to discuss it. A lot. Plus write communiques and position papers and press releases. Criticize the US as applicable.

Posted by: Vendette at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (1ieqq)

274 Guy could paint.

Posted by: javems at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (zFsEm)

275 Anti-Trans Health Secretary RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids
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That's certainly much more illustrative of what "gender-affirming" bottom surgery really does than multiple pages on the consent form some 13yo has to sign.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (Dv3i1)

276 I’m GenX and will always feel that era was the best time ever. Obviously since that when I was young. But I think the yuutes today also look at that time as a good time to be alive. Not just music but generally speaking.
Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (b4qzS)
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I'm technically a Millennial by birth year but am an Xer by mindset and life experience.

There is a lot of nostalgia from today's kids about the 90s because they want to know what it was like before smartphones and social media ruined the world.

Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (oqH4h)

277 267 In the 'retard's' defense, dems have been whipping themselves into a frenzy. I am not sure past performance is any indicator of future outcomes. Look at Spanburger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 10:55 AM (bss/y)

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In 2021, they had 1/6 and were jailing normal people for thinking about being in DC at the time.

But NOW they've really whipped themselves up in a frenzy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (B5oTI)

278 RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids
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You can't cut off a dead raccoon's genitals on stolen land!

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (RbWJI)

279 RFK Jr. Once Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals in Front of His Kids

Kids! Dinner!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 17, 2026 10:56 AM (Kt19C)

All natural. No artificial dyes or preservatives.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2026 10:58 AM (iJfKG)

280 Oh, yay...5 minutes until another meeting on how to use ChapGPT.

Use of "AI" will be part of our review this year.

"No, I didn't give another company access to our programs. Yes, I did write all that code myself. That's what you pay me to do."

Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 17, 2026 10:58 AM (sKuDi)

281 246 Two Tier Keir may resign as early as this weekend, according to today's Telegraph.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (6mv2K)

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Comment from 18 months ago?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:50 AM (B5oTI)
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He apparently lied to Parliament about the Mandleson appointment as ambassador to Washington and has been found out as of last night. Big stink.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 10:58 AM (8SS36)

282 To be fair, the Mummy's girlfriend was also quite attractive, and had quite an exotic look.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Patricia Velasquez. Venezuelan Super Model.
Ford Agency.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 10:59 AM (jVhuA)

283 Nice scene, great outdoor colors...

I like it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 17, 2026 10:59 AM (dmDsy)

284 Oil is down to $81. Prediction price at the pump will be below $3 (for red states anyway ) by the end of April and keep falling in May to where it was before the Iran expedition.

Dems hardest hit, who will have to find something else to pretend to care about.

Posted by: Ripley at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (GUOwU)

285 It’s cute you think Dems won’t nuke the filibuster to get DC and PR statehood. Only reason they didn’t do it was Manchin, who we should all be grateful for. Had they had 3 more Dems it would have happened.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (b4qzS)

286
Oh, is that it? It requires a majority of 53? Not just any majority? Because you said that they just grasp onto power and just do things.

Weird how when they had unitary control they didn't do anything other than a giant omnibus of graft.

They didn't bring in Puerto Rico. They didn't do amnesty. They didn't gun grab. They didn't do single payer.

The barriers with 53 are the same as 50+1, dumbass. It's about getting around cloture votes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (B5oTI)

To be fair to the commenter, this new version of the Democrat party is different than that one... Who knows what they are capable of now...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (FtULh)

287 EV rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (jVhuA)

288 In 2021, they had 1/6 and were jailing normal people for thinking about being in DC at the time.

But NOW they've really whipped themselves up in a frenzy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (B5oTI)

Yes, what I am saying big nose is that they are amplifying. They are acting just like a mentally ill psychotic who keeps increasing his outbursts until he sets someone on fire or stabs a gal in the neck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (bss/y)

289 After embiggening, I see the bull on the right seems to have an attitude, and the young fella in the coach looks like Norman Rockwell painted him...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 17, 2026 11:00 AM (dmDsy)

290 So it's a racoon genitalia thread?

Posted by: Just got here at April 17, 2026 11:01 AM (2Ez/1)

291 The barriers with 53 are the same as 50+1, dumbass. It's about getting around cloture votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (B5oTI)

Recall they had 60 when Obamacare went through and was sent over to the House. A month later, they were at 59. As a result, Obamacare was signed into law after the House was done with it instead of them sending it back to the Senate for further "fixes". Some were done via reconciliation, but even with 59 they were cooked doing it regular order because of cloture.

Posted by: Vendette at April 17, 2026 11:01 AM (1ieqq)

292 My teenagers are into 80s and 90s rock/alternative. Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Nirvana are on the rotation bigly.
Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 10:48 AM (b4qzS)
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Pfftt. Posers. My kid is into Zeppelin, Cream.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 10:53 AM (RIvkX)

Introduce them to Little Feat, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, War, Santana, etc. They'll thank you.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 17, 2026 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)

293
Throck Buckmorton es nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 17, 2026 11:01 AM (2/MrR)

294 246 NEW: Keir Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the "Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative"
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I wonder what Macron is thinking he's going to actually, you know, do here? Send a strongly worded letter to someone or other?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2026 11:01 AM (8SS36)

295 There is a lot of nostalgia from today's kids about the 90s because they want to know what it was like before smartphones and social media ruined the world.
Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 10:57 AM (oqH4h)

Yeah analog stuff is cool again. Record players, Polaroid cameras, etc. I’ve heard even flip phones are making a comeback as kids want to be away from constant notifications and shit.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 11:02 AM (b4qzS)

296 >> Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 17, 2026 10:52 AM (B5oTI)

The terminal, constant mistake Republicans make is to underestimate the Democrats and their willingness to not just defy tradition, but their appetite to corrupt our institutions and install the progressive agenda- which as Justice Thomas so eloquently just pointed out is a post constitutional vision.

I wonder what it will take for people to realize the current Democrat Party isn’t the party it was ten or even three years ago. Their adherents have murdered Republicans and tried to kill the opposing candidate for president. As a party they used Covid to essentially trample the Bill of Rights. They have corrupted the courts and used government against the people who are the rightful owners. They have, and are, demonstrably, undermining the electoral system to gain and keep power. They have no limits and that’s not hyperbole, it’s fact. Now- there is a lot of pushback. And court cases have provided some clear limits on various objectives they have. But if you think for one minute they will not corrupt every auspice of government and republic to gain power, you are wrong.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 17, 2026 11:03 AM (x/Rva)

297 "So it's raccoon genitalia thread?"

That's so hot.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at April 17, 2026 11:03 AM (0e5Te)

298 Madison is correct. A lot of the Democrat stuff is pure incrementalism. The Uniparty will Uniparty. Their goal last time around was to quietly sling the border wide open, transport as much filth here as possible, solidify the "vote" everywhere, and graft graft graft graft while continuing to divide everyone,,inflame tensions and keep as many people miserable as possible while celebrating Satan. And in that I say they were a success.

We can expect more of a lot of the same next time around. They don't have to be shock and awe in every area, they are happy just to keep making money, beating the Washington Generals and continuing the country's headlong dive into the abyss.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2026 11:04 AM (RbWJI)

299 This picture looks like it would make a wonderful puzzle.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 17, 2026 11:07 AM (/TlUl)

300 I wonder what Macron is thinking he's going to actually, you know, do here? Send a strongly worded letter to someone or other?
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Europe is leading from behind, projecting their soft power, etc.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2026 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

301 The worst is morning shows. I'd be driving to work, gearing up to deal with people all day and these asshats just won't shut up and play music.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 17, 2026 10:37 AM

I loathed the commute-time DJs on Detroit's classic rock station, Drew and Mike. I guess they were cutting edge sometime in the '70s, but by the late '90s they were trash. Stupid political takes, crank calls to old celebrities, etc.

I started listening to the classical station out of Detroit because the only commentary is on the composers or the musicians. I just got a "new" clock radio - as in, a Sony Dream Machine at a thrift shop - and the frequency for it and a Canadian station are close. To my surprise, CBC Radio Music actually has some good stuff early in the morning - and the commentary is on the artist and/or the album.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 17, 2026 11:13 AM (fxCK2)

302 228 or prairie squids.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 11:14 AM (R11M+)

303 202 Sounds like the new "The Mummy" is more like the Exorcist combined with Evil Dead with -

let me guess: featuring ncuti gatwa as queen nefertiti?

Posted by: anachronda at April 17, 2026 11:18 AM (v3pYe)

304 Spyker makes a nice looking luxury car. They still make ice vehicles. They've had some troubles as of late but I think they're coming back. If any of youin' have a need for a nice vehicle that costs as much as my home.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 11:20 AM (3uBP9)

305 253 oh, it's out there. all our kids have bands and friend's bands and they're having fun.
the way tunes are routed to you eliminates plenty. with a modicum of looking you can find the simulcasts of all the college stations nationwide. if you're not within reception just go to their website. we have wzrd northeastern (no format, completely freeform). wluw loyola, wdcb college of dupage (jazz, but 12hrs blues on sat), wnur northwwestern, (formatted), as well as chirp radio. at least half of the content is new on all these stations and there are no commercials, maybe a public service announcement every few hours.
rock ain't dyin', it's stronger than ever.

Posted by: cmeat at April 17, 2026 11:28 AM (R11M+)

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