1 Good preparation for the afterlife.

2 There you go

3 I haz nooded.

4 And the Iranians retaliated with Taco Bell.

Innovative strategy.

5 We should send our lettuce to the IRGC.

6 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there, she knows if the stores are all closed
With a word, she can get what she came for
Ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven

There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts, I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking ...

AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!

7 I wonder if heaven has A.C. ?

8 When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

9 6 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
...
AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.

10 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.

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"WAR CRIMINAL!" charges coming in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ... AKA another day ending in "day."

11 The Iranians are bombing Taco Bell? Oh Noes!

12 The Saif Alderai video made me laugh. It sounds like a bunch of kids are watching the explosion and then saying "Wow!".

I don't know if Persian has a word for "awesome", but if they did, they'd be saying it.

13
Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?

14 Finally!! Bridge and power plant days… what I’ve been waiting for. Don’t stop

15 "Iran is imploding, the regime is broke, and their war machine is running on empty. Workers aren't getting paid, soldiers are deserting, and military camps are literally facing food shortages. Their entire proxy network is crumbling."

I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.

16 As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

See? With Trump's influence, they're becoming more westernized already!

17 Sad!

18 Thank you, good night, and Lettuce Roll

19 > There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

You just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine. The phrase, "All that glitters is not gold." I hate it so much. Gold glitters. It's false. More formally, if you take the set of all things that glitter, nothing within that set is gold. Obviously that's not true.

What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

20 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.
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LOL! Classic ace.

21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?

22 I wonder if heaven has A.C. ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (t7WpP)

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They should be more worried about hell not having A.C.

23 There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
...
AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)
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Takes too much time to do the cut and paste and formatting, alas

24 Afternoon.

25 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand. Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??

26 21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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For hosting US forces. USAF in Qatar, Navy and others in Bahrain, and I think US Army in Kuwait. UAE has some US forces there as well.

27 It's about time. Put a few MOABs onto Karg Island.

28 In heaven, there is no beer.

29 21 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Bw1/o)


Supposedly they are going for American bases in these Countries

30 What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

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Kommie-la has a Venn Diagram for that.

31 Love listening to the Iranian people watching the explosions and hoping the mullahs are about to fall

32 How you like them TACOs?

33 Zorro was Bandar Abbas best movie.

34 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks. I'm sure that will get their neighbors on the side of Iran./s

35 The Saif Alderai video sounds amazingly like the Ewoks in the Star Wars movie when they met C3PO the first time.

36 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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And like the song you cite, not quite ready for greatness.

37 I've heard this 100x over the last few months. I hope this time it's based on real facts and not wishcasters pulling optimism out of their assholes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe civilizations take longer to crumble than an episode of Matlock.

38 You just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine. The phrase, "All that glitters is not gold." I hate it so much. Gold glitters. It's false. More formally, if you take the set of all things that glitter, nothing within that set is gold. Obviously that's not true.

What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

You just gave a non-mathematical description of what mathematicians refer to as naive set theory

39 Good.

More.

Gooder and harderer...

40 NO STAIRWAY

41 What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.

Posted by: bonhomme

Don Lemon glitters.

42 I mean what in the world is a coliappi??

Caliope (or Calliope) most famously refers to the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, known for her beautiful voice. The name is also used for a loud, steam-powered keyboard instrument often heard at carnivals, a European retail fashion brand, and several technical, environmental, or media-related projects.

Glad I could help.

43 FIRST!!!!!

44 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.



Sick. Burn.

45 How you like them TACOs?
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (uzmqU)

Exploding bridges >> explosive diarrhea.

46 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (yz/8
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It's for the backwards masking...
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Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope

47 Thanks for the earworm.
Now where is that ice pick?

48 Perhaps the sand people will rise up and topple the ragheads governing them.

49 Glad I could help.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

Archimedes, you just ruined my enjoyment of Blinded by the Light (whiny voice)

50 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (Bw1/o)

Sunni vs. Shia is enough of an excuse.

51 34 Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

Thanks. I'm sure that will get their neighbors on the side of Iran./s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I think the Gulf emirates, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, and Saudi Arabia have decided themselves that the mullahs and IRGC must go. But the trick is that they want us to do it for them. But the Arab street is not supporting the Persians for ethnic and religious reasons (Shi'a v Sunni).

And Iran's proxies which are Shi'a but Arabs are being neutered one by one.

52 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM

to be a rock, and not to roll...

53
FAFO

54 >>> What you mean to say is, "Not all that glitters is gold." Meaning, of the set of all things that glitter, not everything in that set is gold. That is correct.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

If there is not a bustle in your hedge row, there are no spring cleans for the may queen.

.no.

If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

...no that's not it either.

You cannot have a spring clean unless...

For every bustle there must be..

Ah to hell with it! GUITAR SOLO!!!

55 Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Y8DZL)

I got $5.

56 Thanks for the earworm.
Now where is that ice pick?

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (YHaz5)
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I still like early Springsteen. Born in the USA and following is what I don't care that much about. Or perhaps Nebraska on.

57 Various sites are reporting that Trump is "surging" refueling planes to Israel (in addition to the ones already parked there). This weekend is going to be interesting.

58 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)

It helps with douches in the night.

59 Sunni vs. Shia is enough of an excuse.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 17, 2026 01:27 PM (tWxgu)

"Sunni vs. Shia" should be the name of a film about a contest between an aging pron star and a nutcase actor.

60 Iran retaliating against gulf neighbors is equivalent to the little runt who gets beat up by captain of the football team so he goes and pulls the ponytails of 6th grade girls…

61 Zorro was Bandar Abbas best movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:24 PM (ndZc7)
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Antonio Banderas, not Bandar Abbas!

62 "Bombing them back to modern day Europe"
Mamdani - "You left me out of this conversation because you're racist?"

63 Why is Iran hitting other gulf states in retaliation? It doesn't seem like the best plan for them to hit their Muslim neighbors?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

When all you have is Islam, every problem looks like an infidel.

64 AT THE BLADE STEALING ANOTHER FIRST!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

All that effort, for sixth.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 01:19 PM

to be a rock, and not to roll...

That's what you do when your shadow is taller than your soul.

65 >>I still like early Springsteen.


Mr State Trooper is one of the worst songs ever recorded.

66 NO STAIRWAY
Posted by: toby928(c) points at the sign at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)

Denied!

I always wondered why it never sounded like Wayne was playing Stairway. Today AI tells me:

While the original theatrical release included the recognizable opening notes, copyright restrictions forced the studio to replace the riff with generic, unrecognizable guitar strumming for all subsequent home video, television, and foreign releases.

67 I got $5.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (/HDaX)

And a first! To donate.

68 If there is not a bustle in your hedge row,
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I don't know, haven't checked by hedge row in a while.

69 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calliope
Posted by: Axeman

Bruce Springstain's mumbling lyrics period where he tried to emulate Bob Dylan with less clever lyrics. His original take on Blinded by the Light is much inferior to Manfred Mann's later hit version.

Same with Fire and the Pointer Sisters or Because the Night with Patti Smyth. All of these were better singers than him and all of those songs did better with those groups covering them than his original version.

70 It helps with douches in the night.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew

I don’t even wanna know how one revs up a douche….

71 Can we all pitch in to get Elric and Sponge a motel room somewhere?
Posted by: Auspex at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Y8DZL)



WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.

72 Iran bombed Qatar and Saudi...and then they showed up to funeral of Dear Charcoal to pay respects.

73 Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

I hate to nitpick a good nitpick but I feel it's pretty clear the not is about all, not any.

74 It helps with douches in the night.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew

Damn.. Now I have that song in my brain

75 Don Lemon glitters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:26 PM (ndZc7)

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I've heard that his fingers often glitter with some substance.

76 We also took out another maritime control tower. I think this one was at the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port, on the Gulf of Oman.

It was being used to target commercial vessels.

And a lot (more) IRGC infrastructure is now smoking ruins.

77 >>I still like early Springsteen.


Mr State Trooper is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (uzmqU)
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Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.

78 "... and their war machine is running on empty..."

Why is it running at all?

79 Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.
Posted by: Axeman
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Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.

80 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...

If we tried that, we would make a whole bunch of new enemies... but if THEY do it? If THEY fix their own regional problem? It may just hold.

81 I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.

But the artsy people were impressed.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:31 PM (Fi81e)

Artsy people are never impressed by Nebraska. No 3am Thai food and hardly any gay bathouses.

82 Despite the Dems screeching, no one in the world is really paying attention to Iran anymore.

How can you tell?
Oil futures are at $81; peak in April was $108

83 "Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.

84 Racked up like a douche, another boner in the night.

85 WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)

My schtick is stealing schticks 😁

86 Wrapped up like a douche in your hedgerow
Because you don't know

Oh yeah. Ice pick, where is that thing?

87 We need new tropes.

88 Zorro the Gay Blade : slashes the door. Says to farmer "do you know what that is ?
Farmer : si, senor , it's a 2
Zorro: no it's a Z
Farmer : no , senor, that's a 2
Zorro, shakes head "peasant" , rides away

89 >>"Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.


Mark David Chapman Saved Us, All.

90 Oh yeah. Ice pick, where is that thing?
Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM

Lie back and think of Hendrix.

91 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...

Nope. That would do nothing but provide an center of resistance for the IRGC. SA and the US do not need boots on the ground. Just keep doing what we're doing.

92 He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (2YhKe)
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Why should you have to change your schtick when he's the one who sucks!

93 They have enough wealth and firepower to put troops on the ground inside Iran to help an insurrection...

Has an Arab army fought anyone in the past 1000 years or so other than getting their asses kicked by Israel?

94
The DNC's secrecy concerns might be in regard to their dark horse '28 Presidential Contender being the 12th Imam.

95 Stairway to Heaven… great song but I always thought Robert Plant was intentionally enunciating in strange ways on the song to make the lyrics hard to understand. Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM (yz/8
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Geoff Tate has entered the chat ....

Plant probably recorded the song high as fuck.

96 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.

97 Sure seems that at some point (soon?) the IRGC will run out of the ability to send ballistic missiles and suicide drones to attack their neighbors. Iran is a big place, and they spent years (decades?) preparing caves and tunnels full of missiles and boats (I guess), but we must be watching each time they come out of their holes with another launch, and we can bomb at least the entrances, if not the cave itself?

98 Yeah WTF does it mean to have a bustle in your hedgerow??? Whatever it’s just a sprinkling for the bake queen…

99 In before the guy that overshares.

100 @70 whig, The Band's version of Atlantic City blows away Springsteen's

101 We need new tropes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (4NO2D)

At one time I was responsible for easily half a dozen memes here but many have fallen by the wayside. Also I haven't done any new ones in some time which means I have gotten less funny or this place has gotten more funny. Or we have all gotten less funny.

102 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!

103 "No 3am Thai food and hardly any gay bathouses."
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But more sheep than people.

104 >>Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.


Commie Fag, yes.

But, 'Mermaid Ave' - Wilco w/Billy Bragg is a helluva album.

105 Iceberg leaves in flight, afternoon delight

106 "Blinded by the light" is easily in my top 20 of most hated songs, though nothing could ever unseat John Lennon's "Imagine" as No. 1.

Posted by: PabloD at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (QDulm)
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Imagine is kinda tied with Watching the Wheels with me.

I mean imagine is more intrusively awful and sucks as a concept. But Watching the Wheels is pretty bad too.

107 Whatever it’s just a sprinkling for the bake queen…

Yeah, that's what I though the lyric was until just a few years ago.

108 Yeah. I said I wasn't crazy about Nebraska.
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Great...now you've done it. Bob Seger playing in my head.

'On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine moanin' out his one note song...'

109 >>>military camps are literally facing food shortages

yikes

110 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I thought Chairman Mao.

111 The US also fired on a ship which was trying to breach the blockade.

Its telling that shippers are more afraid of Iranian drones and speedboats than they are of the US Military.

Iran threatens to shut down the Strait? Terror on the High Seas!

US determines to blockade ships serving Iran? We can run it!

112 I don’t even wanna know how one revs up a douche….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:30 PM (yz/8

Shaken, not stirred.

113 I don't know if Persian has a word for "awesome", but if they did, they'd be saying it.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:20 PM (Riz8t)


SHABASH = well done, bravo or good job.

114
My schtick is stealing schticks 😁
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM


You will forever be an Amy Schumer sock.

115 @106 definitely. Saw Jeff Tweedy play a show with just a drummer. Played a lot off Mermaid Ave. Great show

116 WTF did I do to deserve that?

He stole my schtick. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sponge

My bad. I was just wondering who'd come first.

117 Is making life difficult for civilians really the best idea if the goal is regime change?

The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

118 Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.

119 There should be ships pulling up full of small arms and loaded magazines. Taught by Green Berets on site.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:28 PM (AoR1V)

that didn't work well for us long term in Afghanistan.

Initially it worked... we armed a bunch of disparate groups, but we could not control them once armed... because the Operators on the ground were constantly overruled by folks sitting behind desks in DC.

120 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")

121 Sorry, you'll have to put your memes somewhere else. I'm full up.

122 But Watching the Wheels is pretty bad too.
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:36 PM (Fi81e)

In the sky? turning?
Shit.

My kingdom for an ice pick!

123 Why should you have to change your schtick when he's the one who sucks!
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (Fi81e)


I haven't. I will continue beating that dead horse until it comes back to life, dies and the beatings continue.

124 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.

Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (AoR1V)

I promise not to make any comments about honeycrisps or red delicious. That up you have teed is pure torture.

125 >> Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.


Everything.

He even ruined 'Thriller'.

126 The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

And if they have no gas?

127 Pretty much anything done by Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup sucks bigly.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
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After Beatles, for me:

George > Paul > John

128 Some Moron posted this Japgirl band link a while back and it is beyond an earworm for me. It's a brain worm, even though I understand not a word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2z4Uf9Tgc

129 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:34 PM (AoR1V)

Artists don't control the interpretation once it leaves they yap. They might wish they did, but they don't.

If your parents liked it because it made them feel patriotic, well, then it is a patriotic song.

130 The bathroom's on the right.

131 This back and forth will continue UNLESS the League of Arab States declares war on Iran.

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Is this really necessary to solve the Blade/Sponge spat?

132 There's a movie coming up about Wat Tyler. Schola Gladiatoria worries there won't be enough LONG BOWS
youtu.be/wNha4eMd-Sw

133 > If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

But which cup has the pellet with the poison?

134 I'm looking for info on that mural they just painted...is the building it's on still standing? Gosh I hope not.

135 Is this really necessary to solve the Blade/Sponge spat?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (ndZc7)
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Wait. Spats? With or without pants?

136 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?

137 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

Only for sufficiently minor breakdowns.

138 The IRGC brass is going to have backup generators.

And if they have no gas?
Posted by: Archimedes

==

I just don't see any scenario where the people in charge don't have access to what they want.

It was the same in the Soviet Union or Cuba. The Politurbo lved luxurious lives despite all the sanctions.

I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.

139 Born In the USA was one of those moments I realized my Mom and Dad were pretty fucking dumb.

Because they'd get all tuned in ... but listen to the song. The Boss is singing about how much it sucks here.
Posted by: Blues Junior
_________

New Jersey considered making Born to Run the official state song. "It's a death trap, a suicide rap."

140 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (6wpGE)

The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

141 If there is not a spring clean for the may queen you can be assured there was not a bustle in your hedge row.

But which cup has the pellet with the poison?

You crossed the streams! Never cross the streams.

142 Pardon me...

143 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.

144 You know about the cup sizes?

145 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!

146 Like Manfred Mann’s Earth Band on Blinded by the Light…. I mean what in the world is a coliappi??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2026 01:23 PM

A coliappi gets wrapped up in a douche.

147 One views the videos and the landscape is simply brown dust. What an awful place to live. No wonder they're crazy.

148 This has absolutely nothing to do with Iran but "they" are sure trying to push that Odyssey movie...

149 I just don't see any scenario where the people in charge don't have access to what they want.


At the end, the Emperor couldn't even scrape up a car that ran on gas. Patience, grasshopper, patience.

150 It was the same in the Soviet Union or Cuba. The Politurbo lved luxurious lives despite all the sanctions.

I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (FUjuU)

Sanctions by nature don't hit the elite directly.

And killing the leadership is what we have been doing all along. Even blowing up factories has been secondary.

151 Hold me closer, Tony Danza!

152 A coliappi gets wrapped up in a douche.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 17, 2026 01:43 PM


the ruler in the night

153 We're not too sophisticated here. We play shtick ball.

154 They can shop, drink and fornicate. Right?

155 Generator have heat signatures. "Achmed, cut the power!"

156 140 We are off the headliner topic of
Posted by: m

Attention Deficit Disorder is how the hoarde rolls.

157 Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on

Get it?

158 How can you tell?
Oil futures are at $81; peak in April was $108
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2026 01:33 PM (3cUTc)
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Another key tell is that this thread has quickly morphed into a music thread....

159 I am proud the people of Iran are conserving electricity to slow the process of "GLOBAL WARMING" ...

160 144 We are off the headliner topic of

As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat

and onto misheard song lyrics as early as comment #50?
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (6wpGE)

The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.

161 My son is in IT Cloud services and really hates dot Indians.

He sent me this link

https://x.com/DryMouthGroyper/status/2077645182304965040

162 The fireworks I have waited for.

Thankful that Tousi and wife are moving to Florida!

I don't want anyone to mention the MOU again.

MOO aka the Massive Obliteration Oopsie is preferred after the FAFO.

163 I'd honestly rather the US just go in there with Special Forces and start taking out their leadership.
Posted by: Sharpie at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (FUjuU)

You and about 12 other people.

164 About time for the Egyptians and the Kurds to redirect the IRGC, a tad or so.

165 141 Damn it! It's supposed to be Heaven! I demand a escalator!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:35 PM (ndZc7)
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There are probably escalators in Heaven. Because an escalator can never be temporarily broken, it can only be temporarily stairs. ("Pardon the convenience")
Posted by: Axeman at July 17, 2026 01:38 PM (Fi81e)

Only for sufficiently minor breakdowns.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)

Nah, the escalator? be careful...

there is one there with a sign that points up, 'To Heaven'... but once you get on you realize it runs backwards, and never stops...

It's called purgatory.

166 The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

==

What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.

167
I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

Yeah we're good at that.. Something comes in ones head and out it comes...

168 a colappi, a ruler, and a douche.

The Earth Band had some good shit back in the day.

169 They took the last train for the coast.

170 Hey, IRGC. Charles Manson wants his foreign policy back.

171 If your parents liked it because it made them feel patriotic, well, then it is a patriotic song.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:39 PM (uhVAy)

And here we go ...

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:40 PM (AoR1V)

Good thing he mumbles, right?

Besides its something in every generation to bitch about the older one, and the younger one. You can read it in Babylonian clay tablets.

172 We are off the headliner topic
---
This is Getting Hit on the Head lessons!

173 I wasn't raising rules. Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

What big news?

174 End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
Posted by: Blues Junior

Life's been almost as hard on Bruce as on Mooch.

175 Parents should condition their children to fear and respect the escalator.

176 Just surprised we moved away so quickly from The Big News.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

Are you suggesting that you have the naive belief that people read the actual post?

177 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....

178 BUT BUT BUT....I was assured America was running out of missiles and munitions by very smart people!

179 Ask your periodontist if Coliappi is right for you.

180 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.

181 And that's the last two verses. Yes, my parents were Idiots for getting excited about this. Its a protest song.

I'm sure many here also got excited about it. Never listened to a single fucking word.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (AoR1V)

What's he protesting?

182 FAFO
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

FAFO MOFOS

183 A reminder that, when the war started, the Democrats have been flopping back and forth between "Illegal War! Warmonger! Impeach!" and "TACO! Trump Always Chickens Out!".

Few dems in power ever mention the threat of nuclear material. Of which the Iranians themselves stupidly claimed to have as part of their strong-horse dick-waving. Nor of the long-range missiles they proved to have in the early days of the war; the ones they weren't supposed to have or develop.

But they sure as hell were going to grandstand against the war. And they would whip their caucas to deny continuing authorization of the war, under that whole War Powers act.

So, Trump pushes for the MOU and a peace agreement. Open the straight. No more attacking ships. We stop bombing Iran. And with that, the 60-day window of the act gets thrown out.

Yeah, Iran's leaders are a bunch of filthy liars; taqiyya and all that.

But on the other hand, our army could taqiyya too. Restock our own bombs and missiles. Track what the hell they're doing, where all the heat signatures suddenly begin to congregate during the "peace" time. And when Iran could no longer help itself, we now have another 60 days to pound them.

184 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

Asmongold was doing that

185 “Qeshm extends out into the Strait and is, presumably, a key staging area for attacks on shipping. US forces appear to be attempting to bomb all roads and bridges to the island, to cut it off completely.”

Interesting. I’ve been writing that we needed to focus a lot of attention on Qeshm for 2 or 3 months now. It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.

186 For sale 72-hour deodorant on E-Bay.

I will only charge $100 USD per stick and free shipping to your nearest destroyed Post Office ........

187 FAFO MOFOS
Posted by: Miklos revises and extends at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (bziMQ)
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FAFO AF.

188 >>I'm sure many here also got excited about it. Never listened to a single fucking word.


It's a good thing we have people like you to tell us what words mean.

189 175 They took the last train for the coast.
Posted by: F, S & HG at July 17, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1)

It's CLARKESVILLE!

190 What's he protesting?

Whattya got?

191 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.

192 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM

Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman, 'til he gets you to the other side

193 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense

194 Boy928 sends further

Indians are quite horrifying

If you've never played Pindia, you should. Go on Google Maps, grab the little streetview man and drop him randomly anywhere in India. Look around for piles of trash. Count how many times it takes before you land and there's signs of civilization and no piles of trash. Golf-style scoring where lower scores are higher.
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (4NO2D)

Asmongold was doing that
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (uhVAy)

PS this is a bit unfair because long before present I noticed that train travel takes you through the crummiest and back side of everything where messes are shoveled.

195 185 BUT BUT BUT....I was assured America was running out of missiles and munitions by very smart people!
Posted by: Max Power

We'll beg them from the Ukraine soon enough.

196 I will not interrupt this thread for a pound.

197 Iran is learning about consequences. Good. Whe will China learn?

198 I’ve been writing that we needed to focus a lot of attention on Qeshm for 2 or 3 months now. It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.

Not sure I agree, but regardless, embrace the healing power of "and".

199 The bombing may be prep for invasion of Qeshm (is that some sort of dirty word?).

I certainly do not want a reply of Iwo Jima, but I know the Marines are the best trained and equipped forces in the world. They will accomplish their mission.

200 We need to hit one of their dams with dam buster bouncing barrels and flood a strategic area reliant upon power generation supplying military facilities. Take out their power, take out their water, flood the valley and set them back 10 years.

Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (v3afF)

That's quite a shot from the Persian Gulf.

201 Eliminating bridges will cut supplies to extended IRGC units.
This may help some brave citizens take advantage of
under supplied personnel.

202 >>> The 100 rule is only for non ACE posts. This is known.

==

What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (GD0B3)


It's really just a suggestion. Think of CBD as a friendly Bison that eagerly wants you to walk up and give him scritches and belly rubs in the form of a non-art comment at around #20.

203 the north coast looks like the lake Geneva shoreline, it's so thick with smoke.

204 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM

Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix a price
Don't pay the ferryman, 'til he gets you to the other side
Posted by: toby928(c) at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D)
______

That was my text "song-lyric first," ya bastad!

205 Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.

Genius.

206 112 Springstain was emulating Woody Guthrie who was a Commie pig that the music press adored.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)
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I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I thought Chairman Mao.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
========
Orbison could sing, Bruce cannot. Mao could dance but not sing.

207 How many "Gay Raghead Children" have died today because of 666 Hitler Trump !!!!!!!

208 The bombing may be prep for invasion of Qeshm (is that some sort of dirty word?).

But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.

209 Yeah, you can always pound later.

210 200 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (OXYE0)

But... but...

Bird, is the word!

211 Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

212 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM
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But it is quasi-Biblical.

213 How many "Gay Raghead Children" have died today because of 666 Hitler Trump !!!!!!!
Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (xl8DV)

Zero. There are no homosexuals in Iran. -- Iranian government

214 What's he protesting?

Whattya got?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (Riz8t)
________

Hooray for our side

215 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Jacob just dreamed about a ladder. Heaven got some new tech.

216 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?

217 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)
From his Wiki:
At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.

218 This may help some brave citizens take advantage of
under supplied personnel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (xHEjv)

They should take their guns. Not just "take advantage" of them.

219 Back in my day, you could disqualify yourself from the draft by putting an envelope at the bottom of an illegally dumped pile of trash.

220 >PS this is a bit unfair because long before present I noticed that train travel takes you through the crummiest and back side of everything where messes are shoveled.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (uhVAy)

Amtrak trains through North Philly have entered the chat.

221 Given how Chinese dams are collapsing in the last few weeks I don't think anybody has to hit the Three Gorges Dam with anything

222 Pick one. For starters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone


Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (v3afF)

That's quite a shot from the Persian Gulf.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy)

Not if you are flying out of Diego Garcia anyway...

223 I thought he was attempting to imitate Roy Orbison.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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I thought that Chris Isaak.

224 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Jacob just dreamed about a ladder. Heaven got some new tech.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)

Maybe Jacob was a sailor. We called stairs ladders.

225 It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (wLnmp)

My cat used to Kharg. Always on the carpet; never on a surface that was easy to clean.

226 We'll beg them from the Ukraine soon enough.

Posted by: L - No nic,
---

Good, we have no business in Ukraine. If Europe wants to fight Russia let them have a go at it. Merkel and her buddies will be more comfortable with Putin anyway.

227 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:50 PM (OXYE0)

But... but...

Bird, is the word!
Posted by: Romeo13

I'm the eggman, I am the walrus... koo koo ka choo

228 >>Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

I heard that too. Been wondering which troops he had in mind. Lot of people in that neighborhood who have a serious problem with Iran and now realize who is the big dog.

229 Orbison could sing, Bruce cannot. Mao could dance but not sing.
Posted by: whig

Mao could swim the Yellow River.

There are pictures

230 The Underwear Gnomes are back!

Detroit Free Press
@freep
Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels

231 @226 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical

232 Zero. There are no homosexuals in Iran. -- Iranian government
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Not now. No. There were a hundred thousand yesterday before flying lessons.

233 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?
Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)
----
Only on Tummy Rub Tuesdays.

234 Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: rickb223

Built on gypsum. Not worth the price of the ammo.

Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.

235 >>I thought that Chris Isaak.


There was a lot of Eddie Rabbit in Chris Isaak's quiver. And more than a little Roy.

236 Did Springsteen eschew patriotic marketing or did he lean into it?

237 Easy again. He's pissed that he's here, instead of that perfect place to go in his mind.

And also pissed he got drafted, then can't get a job. That's kind of a thing.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:52 PM (AoR1V)

He didn't get drafted, he 'got into a jam' = broke the law and got busted and went into the army to escape prison.

238 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OXYE0)

Who did he jerk off? Were they excused also?

239 At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Dain bamage

240 231 The Boss is probably also pissed just because he lived in New Jersey. I was in New Jersey last week. Not by choice.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (AoR1V)

Eddie Wilson:
Baby, there's nowhere else in the world like the Garden State! You got miles of swamps, and mountains of dumps... different colored rivers... automobiles graveyards... breweries, factories, ballparks, all mixed up together. It's the best place to live.

241 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)
From his Wiki:
At age 19, Springsteen was called for his draft physical, but failed it because of a concussion he had suffered in a motorcycle accident two years earlier; the concussion, combined with his behavior at induction, reportedly made him unacceptable for military service. In failing his examination, Springsteen likely avoided service in the Vietnam War

Fucking poser.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)
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He told the story on stage. He also said that his father was relieved that his son wasn't going in to the military.

How abusive was his father and how bad could his childhood have been if his father hugs him because he's not going to be drafted?

242 I'd much rather see Peking get a shot than some damn dam.

243 Last night proves Trump stole the election from Kumalot Harris and now he is losing his mind and killing innocent people in Iran.

We call on Joe Biden to bring back Strategic Thought and Sanity !!!!!!!!!!!!

244 Rupert Lowe speaks of Depoetation NATO.

245 241 @226 so Springsteen jerked off during his induction physical
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM


Was that wrong?

246 >Fucking poser.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (jehhT)

I've said it before, Mr. 'man o' the people' owns a stable of horses for dressage. Not exactly a sport Joe Sixpack can afford.

247 Living in America by James Brown

Much better stuff.

248 The Underwear Gnomes are back!

Detroit Free Press
@freep
Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (ndZc7)

Lol. Canada has a punitive carbon tax. Apparently the forests didn't get the memo.

249 200 Doowa, diddy , diddy ,dum, diddy do
Now those lyrics make some sense
Posted by: Smell the Glove

For the secret meaning, watch LA Story with Steve Martin. One of his better but less known films. And to watch it is to sigh as it was peak LA before the Democrats ran it into the ground.

250 It is in a much more strategic position than Kharg.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2026 01:49 PM (wLnmp)

My cat used to Kharg. Always on the carpet; never on a surface that was easy to clean.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (OlzlW)

They like to grip something with the front toes when barfing.

251 Family values.

Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.

252 Maybe civilizations take longer to crumble than an episode of Matlock.

I love Elric, but his entire schtick is that everything conservatives think is wrong.

253 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.

254 Someone asked Trump if he would use ground troops last week and he said he wouldn't rule it out but he said it wouldn't be our troops... I thought that was interesting...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2026 01:53 PM (FtULh)

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

Maybe Israelis?

Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

255 Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 17, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)

It's in partnership with a pedo halfway house.

256 But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.
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What gives Iran "control" over Hormuz? Would it be drones 'n missiles? If so, where are they stored and launched? If it's from Q island, invasion makes perfect sense and may be needed to secure strait.

257 >>Lol. Canada has a punitive carbon tax. Apparently the forests didn't get the memo.

Solar panels and EVs aren't going to clean the forests of dead wood. Governor greaseball found that out the hard way.

258 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?

Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)

Good luck with that!

259 Guthrie and all those true believers had a rough time of it. First this Stalin guy came along, had Trotsky whacked after becoming persona non grata. The NEP prior, well, never mind. Mass famine and starvation among millions is a little awkward, particularly when the Ukraine is among the very very best farmland in the world, and it isn’t even close.

Then, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Nazis are our Friends! It’s True! It’s always been true, Comrade …

260 Family values.

Democrats Deliver
@DemzDeliver
Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Q: How many children will be sexually abused during that night out?

A: All of them.

261 Good, we have no business in Ukraine. If Europe wants to fight Russia let them have a go at it. Merkel and her buddies will be more comfortable with Putin anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 17, 2026 01:55 PM (xHEjv)

The Saber rattling amongst the Defense Industry class in Europe amuses me... why do we need to spend more in the EU, to protect the EU, from a country that can't even win a war against Ukraine?

262 >263 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (uzmqU)

Bring the children to me...

263 Mao could swim the Yellow River.

There are pictures
Posted by: Miklos
=======
He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.

264 r/TheBulwark

We're targeting civilian infrastructure. The US Military is following orders to commit war crimes in an unconstitutional war. Laws are fake if they aren't enforced. A lot of people need to go to prison for this.

This is why Marco Rubio wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court. He’s committing war crimes right and left and doesn’t want to be prosecuted for them.

Gas prices go higher, GOP approval goes lower! 😃

if there is anything that’s going to get us to the point where Republicans propaganda starts to break down, it’s going to be a failing economy. I want Trump voters to feel actual physical pain, listening to Fox News.

I think the only way out of this (to a point of stability) is a Great Depression tier collapse. Something like energy crisis + AI bubble burst + housing crash (replace any of these with: drawn out super El Niño, invasion of Taiwan, corporate bond failure, student loan bubble) followed by a new era of reconstruction. You’re absolutely correct… it will suck balls. It’s honestly more likely that Trump just pseudo-coups the USA and the country backslides further.

265 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.

I can't see that going wrong at all.

Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (uzmqU)

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

BREAKING: Mamdani Hires 100,000 Child Molesters for New Free Babysitting Program. Film at 11:00 ...

266 Mamdani's babysitting service will quickly be overrun by tranny babysitters

267 Good luck with that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)

What if the belly rubber were a cute female with cartoonishly large breasts?

268 Please, NJ voted for "Mikey" Sherrile, sticking up their butts
with taxpayer funded helicopter ride.

Attended an official black-tie alumni reception commemorating 50 years of women at the institution.

And, she has kids attending the U.S. Military Academy, too. Remember??

269 263 >>Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.


I can't see that going wrong at all.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM

Call me.

270 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
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This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.

271 @259, whig, an excellent movie. Martin being droll

272
What is know is that "the 100 rule" applies only to one thread. The art thread.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2026 01:45 PM (GD0B3)


Several of the weekend threads have the same rule.

Book Thread, Gardening Thread.......

273 Maybe Israelis?

Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...
Posted by: ShainS -- He of The Unnecessary Vowels! at July 17, 2026 01:59 PM (KBK+H)

No. There aren't a lot of them and they would provoke a unifying reaction among the bitter enders.

Once it gets to the stage of slicing up areas, these dudes are gonna be a police force more than being in combat. They can hold an area while defecting Iranians train up and get equipped. Any blowback can be managed by airstrikes and the like.

274 >>Can't think of any other country that wants to help us ...

I think they all want to after Iran has been tossing missiles at them recently. Seems like the real question is who besides Israel has the capabiility to help.

275 "...a cute female with cartoonishly large breasts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM"

You know about the cup sizes?

276 He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.
Posted by: whig

Not "declining"

Reclining

277 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.
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This is what I've been referring to as "candy coated communism". Get ready for a lot more. A LOT more.
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2026 02:01 PM (/bHKT)

I always liked "Mickey Marxism"

278 Something like energy crisis + AI bubble burst + housing crash (replace any of these with: drawn out super El Niño, invasion of Taiwan, corporate bond failure, student loan bubble) followed by a new era of reconstruction.
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AKA The Democrat Platform

279 > Also unworthy targets, the massive fleet they're building, reminiscent of the massive ghost cities that threw up and abandoned 20 years ago.
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Several months ago there was video of a Taiwanese boat (fishing or Coast Guard, I forget which) being chased by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel and a PLAN (Chinese Navy) warship. The Chinese Guard and warships collided with significant damage to both. Like torn up, with holes punched in the hull.

Naval experts were all over this. Concluding the Chinese warships are literally paper tigers... thin hulls not able to withstand much damage.

280 But why? Qeshm and Kharg are only important because of what moves through them. We don't need BOTG to stop that.
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What gives Iran "control" over Hormuz? Would it be drones 'n missiles? If so, where are they stored and launched? If it's from Q island, invasion makes perfect sense and may be needed to secure strait.

What gives them the missiles? It's money from selling oil. No oil, no missiles. No Kharg or Qeshm, no oil.

281 “Opinion: Sick of wildfire smoke? Bring back tax credits for EVs, solar panels“

Wha? My Uncle had a chainsaw.

282 The fact that there is a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 17, 2026 01:48 PM

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. — Matthew 7:13-14

Who knew one could find so much theology in rock ‘n roll?!

283 We're s'posed to give CBD belly rubs?
Posted by: Gotta think about that... at July 17, 2026 01:54 PM (2Ez/1)

Good luck with that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2026 02:00 PM (l4RKn)

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I've heard it's the only way to make you purr ...

284 269 Guthrie and all those true believers had a rough time of it. First this Stalin guy came along, had Trotsky whacked after becoming persona non grata. The NEP prior, well, never mind. Mass famine and starvation among millions is a little awkward, particularly when the Ukraine is among the very very best farmland in the world, and it isn’t even close.

Then, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Nazis are our Friends! It’s True! It’s always been true, Comrade …
Posted by: Common Tater
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Ole Woody didn't give a shit about all that, he made bank from the idiot Commies in the US and he sure as hell was not going to redistribute that to the masses. Same with ole Pete Seeger. Neither died poor. Springstain came from a long line of horseshit peddlers and to his credit, Bob Dylan, to the dismay of Joni Mitchell, didn't follow that tradition.

You would never see Springstain release gospel albums nor Neighborhood Bully like Dylan did.

285 Several of the weekend threads have the same rule.

Book Thread, Gardening Thread.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)



WHAT??!! THIS IS SOCIALISM !!

286 He didn't get drafted, he 'got into a jam' = broke the law and got busted and went into the army to escape prison.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2026 01:57 PM (uhVAy)

You really are a "Super-Republican". That's the kind of shit the British used. Enlist or Go to Jail.

I'm sure you're sitting around, right now, wondering why boys and girls ain't enlisting by droves.

And why we ain't doing Post High School Conscription.
Posted by: Blues Junior at July 17, 2026 02:02 PM (AoR1V)

Everyone uses that - even Antifa does. You need guys to live the military life, guys who aren't fitting in to civilian life are the main source.

287 San Francisco Days by Chris Isaak is an excellent CD

288 He spent his declining years at poolside attended by a bunch of young women while the Gang of Four ran the country into the ground. So yeah, he could swim.
Posted by: whig

Not "declining"

Reclining

Mao spent a lot of time at Trader Zhou's.

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THE MORNING RANT: Brown University Professor Sets Trap for Students to Reveal they Cheated Using AI

When a professor at Brown University decided that mid-term and final exams would be take-home tests following the campus shooting last December, he inadvertently set a trap that revealed the seriousness of AI cheating on exams.

Professor Roberto Serrano wrote a first-hand account of the AI cheating story at The Free Press (“I’m a Brown University Professor; Half My Students Are Cheating” ) but it’s behind a paywall.

For an account of the situation without a paywall, Inside Higher Ed gave the story wide exposure last week in a piece titled “Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat”

Here is a brief overview of the highlights (written by me, not by AI.)

• Roberto Serrano is an Economics professor at Brown, who teaches a course titled “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory.”

• This was the first time that Serrano was going to have the mid-term and final exam be in “take-home, closed-book” format rather than in-class as they had always been.

• The mid-term exam was accessible through an online portal, and students had an 11-hour window to complete it.

• Of the 86 students who took the mid-term, 40 had perfect scores. The average score was 96. By contrast, in prior semesters with in-class exams, the average scores ranged from 65 to 80.

• By running the test through ChatGPT, Serrano found that its AI answers closely mirrored what his students had written.

With this information, Professor Serrano announced to the class that he suspected many students had cheated using AI. He then sprung the trap by announcing:

1) The final exam was now going to be in-person.

2) The mid-term results would be considered void unless the final exam had a similar distribution of extraordinary grades.

In the words of Mr. Serrano “I am not declaring [the midterm] void for now. I am going to give the class a chance to prove me wrong. That is, if the distribution of the final exam is roughly similar to the distribution of the midterm, I will count the midterm. Otherwise, which is of course what I expect to happen, I will declare the midterm void and reweigh the final accordingly.”

Following that announcement, 27 of the 86 students either dropped the class entirely, or didn’t show up for the final exam. That is a whopping 31% who pretty much admitted to cheating on the mid-term.

But it gets even funnier for those who stayed in class:

• The remaining 59 students had an average score on the final exam of just 49%, a huge dropoff from the 96% average on the mid-term.

• Serrano therefore announced that the mid-term would not be counted in their grade. A score of 40 on the final was now required to pass. (This was lower than the 50 that was his previous pass threshold.)

• 19 of the remaining 59 students failed the class.

Below the fold is a chart showing the distribution of the 59 students’ final exam grades on the left, and their extraordinary, AI-assisted mid-term grades on the right.

A few students stand out. Especially noteworthy are the two students who clearly didn’t cheat:

• Student #1 scored a 95 on both exams.

• Student #22 scored a 55 on the midterm and then improved to a 59 on the final. S/he is the only student whose grade improved on the final.

• Two students scored a 100 on the mid-term and a 0 on the final.

Historically for employers, the importance of a college degree was that it served as an aptitude test, and it also documented that graduating students had endured a rigorous, four-year (or more) credentialing program. This scholastic tenacity was assumed to translate into a solid work ethic.

At this point, a mail-order diploma is as much a signifier of aptitude as a degree earned by ChatGPT, and the brazen use of AI to take an exam is no different than hiring a scholastic ringer to take the final for you. People in my day got expelled for doing that.

An actual education has almost nothing to do with why young adults are still going to college. There is still some residual prestige to having a degree from a name-brand university, and the power of networking is still strong. Plus, there is the pull of “the college experience.” But if the majority of students have no interest in actually getting an education, then the university model has run its course.

I almost feel sorry for the kids graduating college now, because there is an assumption that their degree is fraudulent due to AI. Even sadder, those who don’t cheat are almost certainly paying the price with a below-average GPA.

With all that said, if I were hiring right now, I’d try to find out who student number 22 is and hire him. He is smart enough to be a middle-of-the-pack student, and he’s ethical enough not to cheat, even when it’s an accepted practice by virtually all of his peers.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]