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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Gustave Caillebotte
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 23, 2020 09:30 AM (muI26)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 09:30 AM (SMh/7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 09:30 AM (InV4Z)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (SMh/7)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (muI26)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (Ejm1K)
But I'll just say it's a pretty picture.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Someguy at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (IXXRh)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2020 09:33 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: huerfano at January 23, 2020 09:33 AM (9dnxb)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 09:33 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: henry at January 23, 2020 09:33 AM (J3Rfi)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:33 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (lwiT4)
I like painting. You get a sense of how the world is becoming industrial while still having the background of Victorian garb and neoclassical buildings.
Also puppeh. I don't want to hear squat about trees. If it has puppeh it's art.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (wzVKm)
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (/669Q)
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)
You should see "Le Pont de La Banlieue"...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Guzalot at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (prSvo)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (lwiT4)
Blame the neckbeards for killing fedoras as a fashion trend before they began.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (B06Zw)
Very clean...no litter or feces.
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)
Then it can't be Paris or Amsterdam.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (kw0bd)
You gotta be more specific. Is it men or gentlemen?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (C+We0)
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:36 AM (/669Q)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 23, 2020 09:36 AM (dNzKv)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:36 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I'm sure the smell was wonderful. Body odor and lots of perfume, it's so very European!
Posted by: Guzalot at January 23, 2020 09:36 AM (prSvo)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:37 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:37 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 09:37 AM (DCYln)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020
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I agree, Grammie. The weather here has been cooperating for a change, and I've been able to wear my vintage or vintage-style fedoras nearly every day to work.
The problem today is that there are no longer hat-check stations in restaurants and other places. The museum I went to this weekend had a hat-and-coat check station, but normally if I wear a hat into a restaurant, we have to sit in a booth so I can safely put my hat on the seat next to me, or on the next chair if we sit at a table.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:37 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:36 AM (lwiT4)
Prolly a hooker!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (G546f)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (lwiT4)
And wool coats in the middle of August.
Posted by: Allie at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)
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We could probably find a hat and tie that would complement your flip-flops. Anything is possible these days.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (/669Q)
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (WqPYg)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (lwiT4)
Blame the neckbeards for killing fedoras as a fashion trend before they began.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020
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Those cone-shaped, small-brimmed hipster fashion accessories are not real fedoras. Check out the kind of fedora Bogart wore in The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep if you want to see the real thing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)
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We could probably find a hat and tie that would complement your flip-flops. Anything is possible these days.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (/669Q)
I have nice leather flips for Sundays.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:40 AM (JFO2v)
I'm out.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)
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Hat. Tie. Flip flops.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 09:40 AM (InV4Z)
Posted by: Fritz at January 23, 2020 09:41 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 09:41 AM (NAs56)
L'on y dance l'on y dance
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
A new use for the "hurrycane" - folding cane that can stand on its own!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (G546f)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020
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It was chilly yesterday, and I wore my black wool/cashmere topcoat, dress shirt and trousers, a red muffler ("scarf" to some of you), and my cream-colored thin-ribbon fedora from the early Sixties (think Robert Ryan in Bad Day at Black Rock). The clerk at the pharmacy told me she liked my style.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (IttZ7)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (lwiT4)
You laugh but I have actually worn that combo.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (Ejm1K)
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So do I.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (/669Q)
Those who do are in danger of getting clocked by bike locks.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020
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MAGA caps are caps, like ball caps, not hats. Hats have brims all around. Not that the Antifa dudes would know this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (vN4+Q)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (ZLI7S)
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I have no trouble believing that.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (/669Q)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:39 AM (Ejm1K)
I mean, it doesn't really matter whether they're real fedoras or not. The stigma is there now.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (KUaJL)
Those who do are in danger of getting clocked by bike locks.
Posted by: t-bird
Hat/helmet hybrids seem prudent these days.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 09:44 AM (8erNz)
Including the dog adds to the relaxed sense of the image.
Posted by: JTB at January 23, 2020 09:44 AM (7EjX1)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:44 AM (G546f)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Ayup. Those hipster hats are trilbies. I frakkin' hate trilbies.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:42 AM (Ejm1K)
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So do I.
Posted by: bluebell at January 23, 2020
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Thank you, bluebell. Yet another reason for me to move to a climate with some fall and winter -- so I can dress like a grownup more often. (Even in hot weather, when I wear jeans and casual-ish dress shirt, I look like Fred Astaire in comparison to most of the denizens here. They all seem to think Bart Simpson is a style leader.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: vmom 2020
Historically this was known as a "spouse"...
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (Rvlwi)
They used to be just fine until...
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: Some Feller From Arkansas at January 23, 2020 09:46 AM (r3d2I)
Alan Jay Lerner once said that whoever wrote "Springtime in Paris" had obviously never been there.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 09:46 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 23, 2020 09:46 AM (ZMw8e)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 23, 2020 09:47 AM (Mki/r)
Posted by: vmom 2020
Historically this was known as a "spouse"...
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (Rvlwi)
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Mine must be broken.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 09:47 AM (InV4Z)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. How come in every picture, we always have to look at the rear end of the dog?
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2020 09:47 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:44 AM (G546f)
Can you imagine Bhussein trying to operate something that complicated?
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:47 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:45 AM (lwiT4)
That poor dog.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 23, 2020 09:46 AM (ZMw8e)
Always dull grey.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Posted by: Allie at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (sm6Pk)
https://tinyurl.com/ux42bkb
I do not know if this is dispositive. It's the Internet, after all.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (IttZ7)
Posted by: jsg at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (Z658e)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (Ejm1K)
The more I read about the pre-war years, the less I blame Gavrilo Princip and the more I damn Franz Joseph and the General Staffs of Austria and Germany; the former for wanting to give the Serbs an ass-kicking and the latter for wanting a good old-fashioned war, the Kaiser be damned.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 09:48 AM (Ki5SV)
Cubbies hats, I take it?
Apropos of the painting: makes me long for a time when Paris didn't need armed soldiers patrolling in front of Notre Dame and other landmarks to protect them against "yutes."
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 23, 2020 09:49 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (
Absolutely concur. I have an awesome fedora. I love wearing it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2020 09:50 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 09:50 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Gref at January 23, 2020 09:50 AM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 09:51 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 23, 2020 09:51 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
You start with one and next thing you know they're all over the place!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:51 AM (G546f)
Caillebotte is giving us a quick "impression" of modern life in one of the most modern cities on the planet. The lines are straight, the colors are clean, the lighting is bright. There is steel and concrete everywhere. Wide paved roads, skyscrapers, a train I think (the absolute symbol of advanced technology at the time), and construction continues on the right.
But there are also hints at some negative aspects too. There is an overwhelming tone of grey. Every person is alone. The two people at the focal point aren't actually together; she's a few steps behind the man. So the illusion of companionship is false. This may be part of a larger message that the modern world seems great but an examination of the details lead to a different conclusion.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 09:51 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 09:52 AM (+y/Ru)
Looks like a MASSIVE PONT-EXIT ta me. Woof Woofs and petit enfants premier.................Toss the TOFFS OFF...............
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (vd8XM)
https://tinyurl.com/ux42bkb
I do not know if this is dispositive. It's the Internet, after all.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at January 23, 2020
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That's pretty close. I'd quibble with the idea that a fedora's brim is slightly wider in front than in the back or sides, though. Most fedoras have 2-3" brims, true, usually 2.25 to 2.75, but the brims are usually the same all around. Some exceptions exist, such as the Indiana Jones models where the sides are shaved a little, but usually the brim is an even width all around.
Historically, men's hats were often sold open crown, just a tall dome (think Indian "reservation hat"!), and the seller or the buyer himself shaped the crown to his liking. I've done that with several of my hats, and it's always fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (G546f)
Posted by: jsg at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (Z658e)
I just assumed she was practicing the proper etiquette of walking two steps behind the man.
Those were better times when women knew their place.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 09:53 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
You start with one and next thing you know they're all over the place!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020
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"I want these things off the ship! I don't care if it takes every man we've got, I want them off the ship!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (Ejm1K)
That is, apparently, because she's a hooker, he's a pimp, and this was a very seedy part of town. Thanks, wiki, for sucking the life out of this scene!
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (NAs56)
She may be in mourning. As late as the 1920s, there were very precise rules for mourning attire, particularly if the deceased was a spouse or parent. Black for six months to a full year, then dark gray for another six months. Gentlemen wore black bands on their hats or jacket sleeves. The 1929 edition of Emily Post's Etiquette spells it all out.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Caliban at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (QE8X6)
Trying to be anonymous. Too many wanted posters around.
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (ZMw8e)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:55 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: Cato
since I'm in an inventing mood,how about Pithy Helmets? They have your fave witticism of the day on it
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:55 AM (G546f)
I just assumed she was practicing the proper etiquette of walking two steps behind the man.
Those were better times when women knew their place.
Posted by: JackStraw
She's carrying sammiches in her black bag.
Ya never know when the master will be hungry
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 09:55 AM (vd8XM)
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:55 AM (Rvlwi)
I still haven't received your resume.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (NWiLs)
Going to snow here off and on all day.
Gray sky.
Cold.
[goes to get more coffee]
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Pith Helmets?
Once upon a time, we had that, uh, covered.
Posted by: Oddjob at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (8erNz)
Would be nice to do an old NASTRAN model of it...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Kris
She's a pickpocket and they are on the seedier side of the tracks. The dog is a trained distraction run by the guy at the bridge railing. The mark is looking back at the broad, realizing too late that he just became a target.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (SMh/7)
Those were better times when women knew their place.
Posted by: JackStraw
As if a sane man would expose his flank to modern wymmyn?
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (Rvlwi)
And definitely not his back.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (NWiLs)
That is, apparently, because she's a hooker, he's a pimp, and this was a very seedy part of town. Thanks, wiki, for sucking the life out of this scene!
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (NAs56)
Seedy is apparently overdressed in the modern era.
Posted by: Someguy at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (IXXRh)
That is a fairly high death rate these days. Not smallpox levels to be sure but still a cause to be concerned.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 09:57 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020
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Here in Da Swamp, it's just too steamy hot for even panama hats from April to December. When the weather actually dries out a bit, or cools off, I slide several of my fedoras out of their boxes, dust 'em off, shape 'em, and wear 'em (One at a time, of course.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 09:57 AM (Ejm1K)
Ya never know when the master will be hungry
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 09:55 AM (vd8XM)
That would also explain why the dog is making a beeline to her.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (IttZ7)
Posted by: klaftern at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (arJlL)
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Since I've worn glasses for 29 years, I'm used to it. I wear photoactive progressive reading glasses because ever since I turned 29, I have trouble reading fine print. You know, anything smaller than a half inch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (+y/Ru)
That is a fairly high death rate these days. Not smallpox levels to be sure but still a cause to be concerned.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated
Are those official numbers? Because if so, I guarantee the actual numbers are...substantially higher.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (G546f)
Posted by: Oddjob at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 09:59 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Fedoras (Indiana Jones) or Trilbys ( Frank Sinatra, Tom Landry)?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 09:59 AM (SMh/7)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 09:59 AM (arJlL)
That is a fairly high death rate these days. Not smallpox levels to be sure but still a cause to be concerned.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 09:57 AM (B06Zw)
The worst part is that 24 hours after death, the corpses arise from their graves and wander the countryside, searching for brainzzz...
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 09:59 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Oddjob
Are they happy rivets?
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 09:59 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (G546f)
Uncontrollable urges to drink shitty beer.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 09:34 AM (lwiT4)
Blame the neckbeards for killing fedoras as a fashion trend before they began.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 09:35 AM (KUaJL)
Wasn't it during JFK's time that wearing hats declined?
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (y7DUB)
San Francisco has redefined 'seedy'.
It generally involves feces.
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: klaftern at January 23, 2020
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A couple of years ago at a mall I spotted a black gentleman wearing a collared shirt, jeans, and a cream-colored Homburg . . . with a snakeskin-patterned band or ribbon on it. It startled me, but then I realized it looked pretty sharp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (Ejm1K)
From what I understand it is like flu at first but seems to lead to pneumonia and that is what is killing people.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:01 AM (B06Zw)
The woman is Tulsi's great grandmother.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 23, 2020 10:01 AM (88+cf)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:01 AM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: Kris
She's a pickpocket and they are on the seedier side of the tracks. The dog is a trained distraction run by the guy at the bridge railing. The mark is looking back at the broad, realizing too late that he just became a target.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 09:56 AM (SMh/7)
I think you both are wrong - she's just assuming the proper deference that all women should show towards the men whom they follow.
Posted by: Bernie S. at January 23, 2020 10:01 AM (Kpl3J)
That is, apparently, because she's a hooker, he's a pimp, and this was a very seedy part of town. Thanks, wiki, for sucking the life out of this scene!
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 09:54 AM (NAs56)
If he's a pimp then where is his cane and big white feather coming out of his hat huh?
Posted by: Buzzion at January 23, 2020 10:02 AM (G2zl5)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:01 AM (d6Ksn)
I haven't been to church in some time, but it would never occur to me to wear a ball cap to a service.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:02 AM (NWiLs)
A simple street scene, reflecting the advanced construction technology, leisure class economy, and general hope/smugness of Europe at the time.
Clean, refreshing, yet with a bittersweet tinge because we know what's coming.
Later, the lady's ebony buttplug falls out and the dog eats it.
Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 23, 2020 10:02 AM (7s3UU)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (y7DUB)
A time of narrow lapels and even more narrow ties.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2020 10:02 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: JimCT at January 23, 2020 10:02 AM (y7UJ1)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020
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That's the common idea. But statistically, hat-wearing had been declining since 1945. When GIs came home from the war, they doffed their helmets and caps, and were reluctantly to put anything else on their heads. They wore hats, yes, but they no longer felt underdressed if they went out without a hat.
Cars had gotten lower, too, with lower rooflines, and so climbing into your Chevy could knock your hat off. And it was hard to drive wearing a hat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (5IHGB)
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In her chess game with the royal family, Sparkle forgot that the Queen can move however she wants.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (9Om/r)
I didn't see it. Too far.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:04 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (OyyDO)
Good eyes, I had not noticed the train. And what you note was my first reaction as well - the design of the bridge might seem rather old fashioned to us today, but in 1876 this was the hot new wave of construction. 13 years later, this new skill would produce the Eiffel Tower.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:04 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: saf at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (y7DUB)
Yep. I believe he was the first president to not wear a top hat at his inauguration because he wanted to show off his fab hair.
BTW, am I the only woman on the planet who thinks JFK wasn't that good-looking? This isn't about politics. I grew up in a Dem family and even as a teen, I never understood what all the gushing about how handsome he was was about. On a scale of 1 to 10, I gave him a 5.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020 10:00 AM (y7DUB)
Yep. I believe he was the first president to not wear a top hat at his inauguration because he wanted to show off his fab hair.
BTW, am I the only woman on the planet who thinks JFK wasn't that good-looking? This isn't about politics. I grew up in a Dem family and even as a teen, I never understood what all the gushing about how handsome he was was about. On a scale of 1 to 10, I gave him a 5.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (d6Ksn)
#metoo
5 is generous.
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:06 AM (Rbu5d)
Even if they where not unless there is a hat check would you leave a nice hat near the door?
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:06 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: Archer at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (gmo/4)
Stay away from Chinese steel. And Teslas.
Posted by: Fritz at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: rickb223
Per my earlier, all men should have true fedoras, and all trilbies should be burned.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (Rvlwi)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (7rVsF)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: joncelli: No Greenland, no peace at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (UUkQp)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Is that part of the new 'Clue' game?
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (vd8XM)
More like CLULULULULULU!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (hmgiv)
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Why? Are you feeling a bit peckish this am?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (MfzEx)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: klaftern at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Commissar Vanya, Starfleet at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (U7voe)
And welcome to Friday eve. Let's hope everybody's day is an uneventful one, unless you actually like that sort of thing.
Posted by: joncelli: No Greenland, no peace at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (+y/Ru)
Sinatra and Tom Landry wore fedoras. Shorter-brimmed than the IJ style, but definitely fedoras and not hipster wannabes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (Ejm1K)
5 is generous.
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:06 AM (Rbu5d)
It's like people pretending that Moochelle is "stylish".
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Oddjob at January 23, 2020 09:58 AM (8erNz)
If there was just some way to describe how the painter's attention was held by those fasteners on the bridge . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (6rS3m)
wheres the muzzie with a machete?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
In the back of the carriage. Muzzie driver is getting ready to run down the pedestrians on the bridge.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (k/TB6)
wheres the muzzie with a machete?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Is that part of the new 'Clue' game?
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (vd8XM)
that would be great Bruce. "Clue for Millennials."
"the muzzie on the bridge with the machete"
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (hmgiv)
As for hats I have a good quality Panama and a bowler. Ought to get a good fedora sometime. Like when I get a job.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (7rVsF)
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:05 AM (d6Ksn)
Me too. I never got it. I thought he was rather homely. Bobby was worse. Ted, when he was young, was the most decent-looking, relatively.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (OyyDO)
"the muzzie on the bridge with the machete"
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (hmgiv)
Epstein in the cell with not killing himself.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)
Well, if you go back to the 19th century, there's a reason why Franklin Pierce was known as "Handsome Frank."
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (9Om/r)
A few months ago, on a whim, I tried to find an honest to God old school style goalie mask-- the Jason Vorhees style, except actually rated to protect your face. Wasn't able to, but maybe I just don't know where to look.
Posted by: Commissar Vanya, Starfleet at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 23, 2020
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That's the common idea. But statistically, hat-wearing had been declining since 1945. When GIs came home from the war, they doffed their helmets and caps, and were reluctantly to put anything else on their heads. They wore hats, yes, but they no longer felt underdressed if they went out without a hat.
Cars had gotten lower, too, with lower rooflines, and so climbing into your Chevy could knock your hat off. And it was hard to drive wearing a hat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:03 AM (Ejm1K)
My dad loved wearing hats and looked good in them. When I asked him why he stopped wearing fedoras and went to caps, he said it was because cars used to have plenty of headroom, but when it changed and men had to take off their hats and put them on the car seat next to them, caps were more popular.
Posted by: Chillin the most at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (lonOK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Those are Trilbys.
Fedoras are broader brimmed hats. Indiana Jones.
Learned that here last time hats came up. Because I'd never heard or Trilbys before.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (SMh/7)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (MfzEx)
more like puckish.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:08 AM (9Om/r)
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Well, there's always the Charlie Daniels method.
https://tinyurl.com/a2p7dh9
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (MfzEx)
Back when it was a thing, they would proudly hand out "one size fits all" baseball hats at work.
Wow, thanks a lot.
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (vd8XM)
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If hair is deciding factor, Sundown is screwed against Trump. Trump's hair is wild and wind blown while Sundown has no more hair than conscience.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (+y/Ru)
Very nice.
Posted by: Archer at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (gmo/4)
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I know that I cried my eyes out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (+y/Ru)
I placed this comment on the American Thinker site, host of that article:
"I understand the reason for your concern, but I see the outcome very optimistically. This case went to the most liberal, most friendly Appeals Court, the 9th Circuit, in the entire nation, and even THEY couldn't find in favor. All that verbiage is just them saying how much they wished they could have done so - well of course, it's the 9th Circuit. But even they had to admit that it wouldn't work - it would have required the Courts to set themselves up as Emperors, with powers of command and control over every single person in this country. Of course that's what the left wants, but they're not going to get away with it.
You mention other cases coming - but this is Precedent for all of the others coming down the pike. (there are some other precedents as well in the last couple of years - the San Francisco case, for example) Bottom line - now we know that no matter how many future cases they file, their lawfare offensive has failed."
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)
yes, but "with the sheet".
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 23, 2020 10:07 AM (lwiT4)
And after. Almost any man would look good standing next to LBJ.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:09 AM (B06Zw)
Then came Reagan with his pompadour. My dad had the same 'do for a while until he went grey. Still has a full head of hair at 77 tho.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:14 AM (OyyDO)
Even if they where not unless there is a hat check would you leave a nice hat near the door?
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020
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Good point. And I do leave my fedora of the day in the trunk if I'm not sure there'll be a place to put it in the restaurant or shop.
As well as fedoras, I have a couple of the Open Road style hats, the kind LBJ was known for (he was a Resistol man), but I wear mine with the front brim snapped down. In all my time in Da Swamp, I have *never* seen another man wearing that style. Western hats, and now and then a real fedora, but never an OR. Dunno why.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:14 AM (Ejm1K)
more like puckish.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (hmgiv)
Maybe "park-ish": He wants to be a lawn!
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2020 10:14 AM (6rS3m)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:14 AM (QLPEO)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (d6Ksn)
...Hey! You take that back!
Posted by: FDR at January 23, 2020 10:14 AM (U7voe)
Back when it was a thing, they would proudly hand out "one size fits all" baseball hats at work.
Wow, thanks a lot.
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (vd8XM)
7 and 3/4 here. Large, rarish hat size. One size fits all hats are a joke.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (J+mig)
I like hats, but I've got a melon size head and they do not fit.
Back when it was a thing, they would proudly hand out "one size fits all" baseball hats at work.
Wow, thanks a lot.
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (vd8XM)
You must have a thick neck with that melon size head.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (hmgiv)
A few months ago, on a whim, I tried to find an
honest to God old school style goalie mask-- the Jason Vorhees style,
except actually rated to protect your face. Wasn't able to, but maybe I
just don't know where to look.
Posted by: Commissar Vanya, Starfleet at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (U7voe)
In that case I would go for the Jun horde mask. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (UUkQp)
Almost any man would look good standing next to LBJ.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V.
LBJ said he got more tail by accident than JFK did on purpose.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (7rVsF)
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (hr5kG)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (ZMw8e)
My head is so large I wore my helmet with no liner in the Army. Left a scar on my forehead .
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:15 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
At 6'9", I got a thick everything...well, almost
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (QLPEO)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:11 AM (OyyDO)
Me three. JFK Jr was pretty cute though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:13 AM (hmgiv)
Ralph Northam, in the yearbook, with the shoe polish.
*opens envelope*
Woohoo! I win!
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (U7voe)
I was trying to find detail on how those trusses were supposed to unload their stresses, ha ha, so to speak, know what I mean, also I suspect they are iron straps not steel, and we had to have that flopped onto the bar in front of me.
Should have known, I know. All Art is Queer. Just ask 'em.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (oRpiG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Those are Trilbys.
Fedoras are broader brimmed hats. Indiana Jones.
Learned that here last time hats came up. Because I'd never heard or Trilbys before.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020
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This discussion goes on, because there are those who say the "fedora" is called a "trilby" in England. But just because a hat has a narrow brim does not make it a trilby.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020
I have two gray fedoras, but they don't fit quite properly. Once, when I was in London, I bought a deerstalker, but you simply can't wear it without someone cracking wise about Sherlock Holmes.
Usually I wear either a tweed flat cap, a Brooks Brothers cap or my old Fred Thompson for President cap. Since I work at home, I don't really need to go out anymore. And I don't have any particular reason to dress up anymore.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ki5SV)
honest to God old school style goalie mask-- the Jason Vorhees style,
except actually rated to protect your face. Wasn't able to, but maybe I
just don't know where to look.
Posted by: Commissar Vanya
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They're in the same aisle as the old style gas cans.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (hr5kG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (+y/Ru)
She says "big head for a big tractor'. She is real smart actually.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:12 AM (vd8XM)
Village Hat Shop.....they got hats that'll fit my big 'ol gourd.
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (vd8XM)
Hafthor Bjornsson? Is that you?
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (6rS3m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (VYwSh)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2020
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Amazing, that items fashioned 60-70 years ago, and which sold for $5-10, are still serviceable today. I have a vintage Borsalino which is purported to be from 1938. It does not fit me firmly, so I don't wear it often, but it is a great style and is in fine shape.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (Ejm1K)
He's French, and therefore a TriSexual.
Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (7s3UU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (Kpl3J)
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Schiff looks like he should be wearing one of those little hats with a propeller on it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (MfzEx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ejm1K)
Isn't there an English sci-fi movie called "Day of the Trilby's" ???
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (VYwSh)
Aaaaannnnddd I stopped listening.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (Kpl3J)
If its like a skull crusher, then yes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (7s3UU)
So he'll Tri anything?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (hmgiv)
I was trying to find detail on how those trusses were supposed to unload their stresses, ha ha, so to speak, know what I mean, also I suspect they are iron straps not steel, and we had to have that flopped onto the bar in front of me.
Should have known, I know. All Art is Queer. Just ask 'em.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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It's interesting that modern bridge designers have actually rediscovered the efficiency of the overlapping x-braces. The so-called Butterfly bridge in Austin is a modern example.
Can't probably do a proper explanation here, but they are an elegant solution that we just ignored for decades.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (hr5kG)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (vd8XM)
Well if you had to look him up you're not Brian Shaw either. Dammit.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (MfzEx)
His neck won't support it, plus biden isn't going to relinquish his.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
At 6'9", I got a thick everything...well, almost
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (vd8XM)
I'm nowhere near 6'9" but have a rather sizable noggin.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:18 AM (VYwSh)
*Sigh* Feels like I'm back in school in Methods in Art class. Everything's gay, racist, sexist, or any combination of those. All three got bonus points.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 23, 2020
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I think so. It's basically a fedora, except the pinches run along the sides, high up, and the brim (usually about 2.75") is worn snapped up. Almost always in the cream color.
It's been described thusly: "Cowboy hats are worn by the guys who work on the ranch. An Open Road is worn by the guy who *owns* the ranch."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:21 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (NWiLs)
You can start with art but ya never know what it will devolve into.
hat-head thread.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:22 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:22 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (oRpiG)
Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (7s3UU)
Posted by: Bruce at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Angela Abu Merkel at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (Ndje9)
Family doesn't count. Beagles neither.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (OyyDO)
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The funny thing is, I've been googling the art photo of the day lately and it always comes down to that when interpreted today.
Yesterday or the day before there was something about Norman Rockwell, I forget if a painting or one of the links.
Yup, latent homosexual. And I am not looking for that, it's just what comes up.
Personally I like anything by Titian that's critiqued by E. Buzz Miller.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (VYwSh)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:19 AM (VzbI
A good tool to begin understanding an art work is to change something in your mind's-eye or eliminate something. How does it look different? What does the change do to the piece? You begin to understand why artists do the things they do.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (OyyDO)
5 is generous.
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:06 AM (Rbu5d)
It's like people pretending that Moochelle is "stylish".
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:10 AM (Kpl3J)
Boob belts.
[face palm]
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (QLPEO)
Deadly Coronavirus Virus Was First Reported In Chinese City With Research Lab For "World's Most Dangerous" Pathogens
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
I read that as Carnivorousvirus. Go figurel,
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (9Om/r)
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heh.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (MfzEx)
He does it with his hands in the air !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (arJlL)
And waves 'em like he just don't care!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (NWiLs)
Pissing rain in Seattle this morning. I guess there was a shooting yesterday afternoon a couple of blocks from my bus stop. I don't think they got the perp yet.
Happy happy, joy joy.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
Posted by: Archer at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
It's almost like having a hideously corrupt government and acquiring all of your technological knowledge via theft has downsides.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020
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Fifty or sixty years ago it would have been. A vintage 7 3/8 hat is hard to find; there are lots of 6 7/8 and 7 hats to be found, but not so much the larger sizes. Nowadays 7 3/8 or 7 1/2 is pretty average.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (Ejm1K)
Morning y'all.
Pissing rain in Seattle this morning. I guess there was a shooting
yesterday afternoon a couple of blocks from my bus stop. I don't think
they got the perp yet.
Happy happy, joy joy.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
was it sunny yesterday? Good day for a shooting?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (MfzEx)
?! I'm not sure where you're getting that.
Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (Y9zp1)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (OyyDO)
I told an Art History course in college that I really enjoyed. Yeah, it was a fluff course but very interesting. And it was back in the day so nothing was gay or racist or sexist. Rather, the prof was excited about these great products of Western Civ.
And I actually also took Western Civ. Yeah, I'm old.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 10:26 AM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: BIDEN inc. a .gov subsidiary at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (qjzL4)
Happy happy, joy joy.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
Impossible! Seattle has all those gun safety laws!
Posted by: Emmie at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (87gB3)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
Lovely. It sounds like the beginning of a zombie novel, like Apocalypse Z or World War Z.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020
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And probably wanted to destabilize the mental balance of the rest of us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: klaftern at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (RuIsu)
Pissing rain in Seattle this morning. I guess there was a shooting yesterday afternoon a couple of blocks from my bus stop. I don't think they got the perp yet.
Happy happy, joy joy.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
Hi Nurse! I was wondering how close that was to where you work.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (QLPEO)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:20 AM (OyyDO)
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The funny thing is, I've been googling the art photo of the day lately and it always comes down to that when interpreted today.
Yesterday or the day before there was something about Norman Rockwell, I forget if a painting or one of the links.
Yup, latent homosexual. And I am not looking for that, it's just what comes up.
Personally I like anything by Titian that's critiqued by E. Buzz Miller.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (VYwSh)
Have you read "Rape of the Masters" by Roger Kimball? From Amazon: "In "The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art," Kimball, a noted art critic himself, shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics--feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, the whole armory of academic antihumanism." It's very good, and kinda funny.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (OyyDO)
Nurse ratched
Hiya beautiful !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (arJlL)
Hi, back off.
Hi sweetie!*to nurse*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
Deadly pathogen research and Chinese quality control. What am I missing here?
Posted by: joncelli: No Greenland, no peace at January 23, 2020 10:29 AM (RD7QR)
Schiff's neck: We control the Vertical!
Nadler's waistline: We control the horizontal!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 10:29 AM (m45I2)
After I noticed the Parisian buildings in the background, I've wanted to remove the truss work. The damned bridge is hiding a lot of good stuff.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:29 AM (DCYln)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020 10:30 AM (iBBEC)
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Well, I'll give Beau the benefit of the doubt that he had all the conscience in the family.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:30 AM (+y/Ru)
I wonder how many people will stop drinking Corona beer because of this?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (Ez6QX)
I loved World War Z. My favorite scene is the veteran describing the Battle of Harlem. Probably the scariest scene in the book.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (U7voe)
Nadler's waistline: We control the horizontal!
Mind. Blown.
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (QLPEO)
Chunnel was definitely the way to go.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (Ct55T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ejm1K)
And all of this comes from Trilby the novel by George DuMaurier, about the Bohemian girl named Trilby who is hypnotized by the evil Svengali into becoming a great singer.
The novel later became a play and one of the characters wore a hat that was dubbed a "Trilby."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (HaL55)
We should totally start that rumor, that it's spread via contaminated beer bottle
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (U7voe)
http://pre13.deviantart.net/e314/th/pre/i/ 2010/073/2/0/beany_and_cecil_by_zombiegoon.jpg
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (QLPEO)
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Symptoms include sneezing, headaches, and coughing up lime wedges.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (G0vdT)
That's the interpreters, not necessarily the art, in my opinion. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (C78No)
I did not come here to fight with you, but you know, the choice of metals (presuming there was a choice), the amount of maintenance budgeted for gas tar and pillow blocks, the location and fixture of those swing pins, how the straps of the truss fasten to the plate underneath -- speak a very great deal to the "elegance." Son of a bitch looks pretty damn bendy to me.
Engineers do not study engineering history. It's beneath them.GET IT??
After they're out of school and have their "Engineer In Training" card, then they start to learn.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (oRpiG)
Interesting. I wear mostly adjustable ball caps so my measurement was when I was a teen fitted for a cowboy hat . I have to look at my fitted ball caps to see what size they are. I usually just grab and see if it fits when I buy them without looking at the size. Does your head get bigger as you age? I know my hair is not as thick.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
Deadly pathogen research and Chinese quality control. What am I missing here?
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It's The Stand. [Don't Fear the Reaper plays in the background].
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
This is a song about a whale...NO!
This is a song about being happy!
It's the happy happy joy joy song!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (OyyDO)
Is that the one with 'fast zombies'? Because dear Kris, there are no fast zombies. Its fake. Real zombies are slow.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: josephistan at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (Izzlo)
Hey grammie,
I booked our family flights to italy! Into Florence out of Rome
hotels is next, then rail
7 nights of sleep- 3 Florence 4 Rome, or 4Florence 3Rome?
/TRAVEL ADVISE SECTION
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (G546f)
All the shit would start leaking out.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:28 AM (QLPEO)
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Symptoms include sneezing, headaches, and coughing up lime wedges.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (G0vdT)
And obnoxious dudebro behavior in public places.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (NWiLs)
Can you imagine Easter Island if it had been done Schiff-style? Tiny little pedestals.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (C78No)
Is that the one with 'fast zombies'? Because dear Kris, there are no fast zombies. Its fake. Real zombies are slow.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (hmgiv)
The book had slow zombies. The movie fucked everything up and made them fast.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (U7voe)
Can you imagine Easter Island if it had been done Schiff-style? Tiny little pedestals.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (C78No)
Structural failure imminent.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (NWiLs)
289 Joe Biden Wipes Away Tears: 'Beau Should Be The One Running For President, Not Me'
Perhaps. However, he's passed on, as has your campaign. Hasta la bye-bye, Sundown!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (hmgiv)
The movie and the book were pretty much unrelated.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (Ez6QX)
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Falling in love with Mexican girls.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (C78No)
Those neolithic 'fat woman' sculptures are actually from a shaman looking into the future and seeing Jerry Nadler.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (U7voe)
Who touched Jen Rubin and where was she touched?
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 09:43 AM (Rvlwi)
There was an outfit that made hard hats (legally-approved) in the style of Stetsons, as worn by cowboys/ I knew a few tool pushes and drilling supes who wore them. Not really practical for the guys working on the rig floor, though,
But if they could make safety Stetsons, they could make safety Fedoras. Maybe a nice gray Fedora with "Trump 2020" in charcoal?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (LxWV7)
I wonder how many people will stop drinking Corona beer because of this?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (HaL55)
We should totally start that rumor, that it's spread via contaminated beer bottle
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (U7voe)
well you could but the virus really started from the suns corona which every scientist knows (its settled) is more powerful in china.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (hmgiv)
And obnoxious dudebro behavior in public places.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (NWiLs)
Like calling out, loudly, "More guac!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (pNxlR)
289 Joe Biden Wipes Away Tears: 'Beau Should Be The One Running For President, Not Me'
Perhaps. However, he's passed on, as has your campaign. Hasta la bye-bye, Sundown!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:34 AM (pNxlR)
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Gonna be honest, if this whole impeachment thing sidelines the senators for long enough to make an impact and Buttigieg ends up winning the caucuses, I'm gonna laugh like a hyena.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
This is a song about a whale...NO!
This is a song about being happy!
It's the happy happy joy joy song!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (NWiLs)
That's pretty funny.
A fly marrying a bumblebee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (Ct55T)
https://tinyurl.com/wurrpcl
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 23, 2020 10:23 AM (oRpiG)
Yes, I was going to say Joe, Jr. you beat me to it!
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM
Symptoms include use of hair gel and wearing salmon polo shirts.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:16 AM (Ejm1K)
And all of this comes from Trilby the novel by George DuMaurier, about the Bohemian girl named Trilby who is hypnotized by the evil Svengali into becoming a great singer.
The novel later became a play and one of the characters wore a hat that was dubbed a "Trilby."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020
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Exactly -- and George was Daphne ("The Birds") DuMaurier's grandfather.
There was also a 19th-century play called Fedora by someone named Sardou, with a lead character named that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (Ejm1K)
probably their bioweapons researchers are overworked and have shitty safety equipment
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (G546f)
Who touched Jen Rubin and where was she touched?
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (Uu+Jp)
Jerry Nadler grabber her in the knish.
Honest mistake, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (Ct55T)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
This is a song about a whale...NO!
This is a song about being happy!
It's the happy happy joy joy song!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (NWiLs)
That's pretty funny.
A fly marrying a bumblebee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (Ct55T)
I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me!
WHY didn't you BELIEVE ME??!!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (m45I2)
well you could but the virus really started from the suns corona which every scientist knows (its settled) is more powerful in china.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (hmgiv)
Ergo, the near absence of sunspots is responsible for coronavirus outbreaks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (VzbI
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So are brain eating reanimated corpses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (9Om/r)
Hey grammie,
I booked our family flights to italy! Into Florence out of Rome
hotels is next, then rail
7 nights of sleep- 3 Florence 4 Rome, or 4Florence 3Rome?
/TRAVEL ADVISE SECTION
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:33 AM (G546f)
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I've done Italy. Florence is great but a quite town. However if you use Florence as a base camp and then go on day trips (make sure Venice is one of your day trips) I'd do 4 nights in Florence otherwise 4 in Rome.
My two cents.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:25 AM (1XmFF)
This is a song about a whale...NO!
This is a song about being happy!
It's the happy happy joy joy song!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (NWiLs)
That's pretty funny.
A fly marrying a bumblebee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:36 AM (Ct55T)
I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me!
WHY didn't you BELIEVE ME??!!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)
I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (Ct55T)
fast zombies... harrumph.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (hmgiv)
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I think the Dawn of the Dead remake did it well.
As soon as people died, they were fast zombies. As time went on, they became slow zombies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (+y/Ru)
More cowbell!
Posted by: Fox2! at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM
Marty Robins. Brings back memories. I used to walk to my Great grandfathers house. After I cut the grass with the rotary blade mower, He'd give me a grape soda and he'd drink a Leinenkugel's and we'd sit on the porch, he loved Marty Robins. Everytime I hear El Paso I think of him. he was a great guy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (H8QX8)
Beggin' all y'all's pardon, but Jen Rubin has been the definition of "ruin" from her get-go.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (pNxlR)
Schiff's neck: We control the Vertical!
Nadler's waistline: We control the horizontal!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 10:29 AM (m45I2)
Dude.
That's the Outer Limits.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (OyyDO)
I read the book but I also listened to the audiobook back when I had a long commute to and from work. It's pretty good, it has a full cast of voice actors.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (zZb
Within the sci-fi context of the movie you Prometheus lover.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020
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I've always wondered about that phrase. Was that something that grannies and granddads did back in the day? Were there, like, egg-sucking clubs? And what about that expression, "Lookin' like a egg-suck dog"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 09:32 AM (JFO2v)
"Excuse moi, mademoiselle! Let me see le tits now!"
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (wCmLp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:38 AM (zZb
Within the sci-fi context of the movie you Prometheus lover.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (VzbI
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I'm not hating on the concept, just poking fun at trying to determine the right level of realism for a movie about zombies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: WisRich
that would mean driving though, right? kinda scared to drive
but we could train to Venice I guess
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (G546f)
As soon as people died, they were fast zombies. As time went on, they became slow zombies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (zZbCU)
Huh, never heard that. Is it really true? Cause if so I've gotta change my plan for the apocalypse.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (hmgiv)
Hiya beautiful !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (arJlL)
Hi, back off.
Hi sweetie!*to nurse*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Don't be fooled, Nurse; he bites !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (arJlL)
Who touched Jen Rubin and where was she touched?
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 23, 2020 10:35 AM (Uu+Jp)
I think the actual problem is that NOBODY has touched Jen anywhere for a long, long time and she's really, really upset about it.
Posted by: joncelli: No Greenland, no peace at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (RD7QR)
Almost immediately after Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled in Wednesday's session of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, bored and weary senators started openly flouting some basic guidelines in a chamber that prizes decorum.
A Democrat in the back row leaned on his right arm, covered his eyes and stayed that way for nearly a half-hour. Some openly snickered when lead prosecutor Adam Schiff said he'd only speak for 10 minutes. And when one of the freshman House prosecutors stood to speak, many of the senator-jurors bolted for the cloak rooms, where their phones are stored.
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (VzbI8)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (H8QX
It's not the lying. It's not the corruption. It's not the barbaric lust for power.... none of that bothers me quite as much as his fucking laziness.
The dude is a straight up hack. I don't think he even has advisers. He is the living embodiment of "YOLO" in the form of an oleaginous lollipop.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (Ct55T)
As soon as people died, they were fast zombies. As time went on, they became slow zombies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (zZbCU)
Huh, never heard that. Is it really true? Cause if so I've gotta change my plan for the apocalypse.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (hmgiv)
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Zombies are slow because of rigor mortis.
It hasn't set in as soon as someone dies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020
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"El Paso," its sequel "El Paso City," "Big Iron," and the not-really-country "A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation"). He was good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (Uu+Jp)
politics? Maybe our history? A novelist like Allen Drury would be
hard-pressed to imagine somebody this vile.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 23, 2020 10:39 AM (H8QX
If civilization goes pear shaped smart money says he'll be the most hunted man alive.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (VzbI
I thought those were vampires?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: WisRich
that would mean driving though, right? kinda scared to drive
but we could train to Venice I guess
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (G546f)
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No driving! We did the train and it was very easy and convenient. Lots of trains going back and forth between Venice and Florence.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (G0vdT)
Instead, he took a personal swipe at the 17-year-old, saying she was in no position to give advice on climate change because she hasn't been to college yet.
At a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, Mnuchin dismissed Thunberg's suggestion that governments and companies need to cut back dramatically on their use of fossil fuels.
When asked how that would affect the U.S. economic model, Mnuchin was swift and condescending in his response.
"Is she the chief economist? Who is she? I'm confused," he said. Then following a brief pause, he said it was "a joke."
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (3aI0K)
It hasn't set in as soon as someone dies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (zZbCU)
ooohhhhh.....makes perfect medical sense. thanks.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (VzbI
I thought those were vampires?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)
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They were ugly CG.
And I kinda like the movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (zZbCU)
Compare and contrast -- Adam Schiff's head and the Gaffney (SC) Peachoid.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gaffney-peachoid
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (pNxlR)
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Falling in love with Mexican girls.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Still not going to El Paso.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (SMh/7)
That's the interpreters, not necessarily the art, in my opinion. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Posted by: t-bird at January 23, 2020 10:32 AM (C78No)
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I agree. The problem is, someone is going to take an art critics word as gospel long after the artist themselves are gone and there's no corroborating evidence other than the critics opinion. The artist can't defend, deny or agree.
Look up "Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln" In his 1926 biography of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg alluded to the early relationship of Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as having "a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets".
I can google with the best of them.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (VYwSh)
Fast zombies ruined I Am Legend for me as well as a number of other eye roll parts.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (VzbI
Oh man that was a great book for a kid.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (zZbCU
As I was with you. sci-fi should always follow the laws of physics . Fantasy gets a pass.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (VzbI8)
Instead, he took a personal swipe at the 17-year-old, saying she was in no position to give advice on climate change because she hasn't been to college yet.
At a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, Mnuchin dismissed Thunberg's suggestion that governments and companies need to cut back dramatically on their use of fossil fuels.
When asked how that would affect the U.S. economic model, Mnuchin was swift and condescending in his response.
"Is she the chief economist? Who is she? I'm confused," he said. Then following a brief pause, he said it was "a joke."
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (3aI0K)
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Anyone who thinks the Mad Max universe is about climate change is an idiot and doesn't pay attention.
It's not even nuclear war, it's societal collapse and resource scarcity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Minnfidel
"Nightime would find me in Rosa's pantinas"
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (arJlL)
Compare and contrast -- Adam Schiff's head and the Gaffney (SC) Peachoid.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gaffney-peachoid
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (pNxlR)
The butt in the sky.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM
Yep, he loved White Sport Coat. He had a record player on the front porch in the summer. Still called it a Victrola. He would sit out there for hours smoking cigars and drinking Leinenkugel beer listening to music. He lived to the ripe old age of 93. And he was spry as hell till his last day. It took us days to find all the money he had stashed around the house. (Banks and all!) I am convinced we missed some.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (iBBEC)
Posted by: David Maurer at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (1HwME)
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (Uu+Jp)
Now that's funny!
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (Rbu5d)
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Diane Feinkenstein is in trouble with the lefg ironically because she left.
https://bit.ly/37lw09r
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (+y/Ru)
I thought those were vampires?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)
Thye were. He would drag them into the sun or spike them.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (hmgiv)
Posted by: WisRich
this seems like a great idea!
thanks!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (G546f)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (C1Lsn)
Hiya beautiful !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:27 AM (arJlL)
Hi, back off.
Hi sweetie!*to nurse*
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
Don't be fooled, Nurse; he bites !
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (arJlL)
Speaking of obnoxious dudebro behavior...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (3aI0K)
I'd like Mnuchin better if he, after a pause, had said, "That was an insult."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (Ct55T)
lust for power.... none of that bothers me quite as much as his fucking
laziness.
The dude is a straight up hack. I don't think he even has advisers.
He is the living embodiment of "YOLO" in the form of an oleaginous
lollipop.
He is the best example of people who need to be kept far away from the levers of power. He needs to be arrested for treason on national TV.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 23, 2020 10:45 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (zZbCU
As I was with you. sci-fi should always follow the laws of physics . Fantasy gets a pass.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (VzbI
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Most sci-fi isn't sci-fi, but techno fantasy.
Star Trek, as a whole (there are individual episodes that get close) is not science fiction. Transporters were created not because they were scientifically feasible, but because they needed a cheaper way to get the crew to the planet than building a shuttle. So they used a cheap optical effect.
Science has gone on to try and justify it, but it doesn't change the fact that in the early 60s, the idea of a transporter beam was pure fantasy with a techno twist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
It's not even nuclear war, it's societal collapse and resource scarcity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (zZbCU)
I thought it was about a guy on bungee cords playing a guitar.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (Kpl3J)
Link doesn't work
Posted by: Houston. We have a problem. at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (/LQkF)
Posted by: WisRich
that would mean driving though, right? kinda scared to drive
but we could train to Venice I guess
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (G546f)
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No driving! We did the train and it was very easy and convenient. Lots of trains going back and forth between Venice and Florence.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (G0vdT)
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I should add it's a 2 hour train ride.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (G0vdT)
It's not even nuclear war, it's societal collapse and resource scarcity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (zZbCU)
I thought it was about a guy on bungee cords playing a guitar.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (Kpl3J)
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Well, he is the actual protagonist and hero of the story when you look at it right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: JT at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (arJlL)
Zombies are slow because of rigor mortis.
ah. so zombies can only move when vigor mortis outweighs rigor mortis.
Posted by: Anachronda at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
Boomtissboomtissboomtissboomtiss
Boomtissboomtissboomtissboomtiss
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (SMh/7)
I was listening to a podcast the other day and they were talking about driving through El Paso. One was looking out the window and said, "wow, south El Paso is a shithole." The other guy said, "Jimmy, that's JUAREZ." Cracked me up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)
Science has gone on to try and justify it, but it doesn't change the fact that in the early 60s, the idea of a transporter beam was pure fantasy with a techno twist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM
Had a buddy who was a major Trekkie going up. I'd watch it when it was on at his house with him because hot green chicks with nice tits.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (iBBEC)
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (VYwSh)
Before everyone and everything was Super Gay All The Time By Government Mandate, a dude could actually have male friends, and feel actual affection, because if anybody had the gall to imply that they were buttfuckin', they'd wind up with a mouth full of chicklets.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Ct55T)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Vy7tf)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:31 AM (OyyDO)
I read the book but I also listened to the audiobook back when I had a long commute to and from work. It's pretty good, it has a full cast of voice actors.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (Ez6QX)
I read it on a trip to historical/archaeological sites in Yucatan a few years ago. Our group was full of snooty rich folks and academics. I was the lone non-Leftist, and only military. It was fun to pull that out during the down-time and watch head's explode at the low-brow, pop fiction novel someone dared bring on this expedition of intelligence and learning.
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:40 AM (zZbCU)
I though Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later was pretty scary...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (IttZ7)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (iBBEC)
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That's why Gene Roddenberry watched it, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (zZbCU)
"El Paso," its sequel "El Paso City," "Big Iron," and the not-really-country "A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation"). He was good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (Ejm1K)
"River of Darkness"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Houston. We have a problem. at January 23, 2020 10:47 AM (/LQkF)
Take out the space.
Posted by: Flyover at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 10:24 AM (3aI0K)
Lovely. It sounds like the beginning of a zombie novel, like Apocalypse Z or World War Z.
Posted by: Jordan61
The Stand. Definately The Stand.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (Rvlwi)
Then the mope wife calls him on a sat phone and more or less gets any one who was with him and not wearing plot armor killed.
I was routin for the Zeds by the end of the movie. Did love the book and wish they would make a movie true to the book.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (B06Zw)
birds to reptiles to humans
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (JFO2v)
It's not the lying. It's not the corruption. It's not the barbaric lust for power.... none of that bothers me quite as much as his fucking laziness.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:41 AM (Ct55T)
Yeah. I've thought something like this for a while, not just about Schiff, the whole establishment. It's not that they're dirty; I expect that. It's not that they scratch each others' backs and hook up each others' kids and scheme against the people they supposedly represent; I expect all of that. What really gets under my skin is that they suck so badly at it-- they can't even be crooked without fucking it up.
This is who runs the machine-- these are the people on the governing body of the most powerful country on the planet, basically immune from prosecution and they still trip over their own shoelaces.
Now of course I should be thanking my lucky stars. If these people were geniuses they'd have turned this country into North Korea. I guess that sort of goes to explain why they are the way they are-- they're all walking, talking personifications of Dunning-Kruger and they think they're super smart and totes covert. They're dishonest and lazy and they think they're a lot smarter than they are, which is why they go crooked in the first place.
Or maybe I'm just thinking in circles and I need more coffee.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
And in terms of Cinema, the first Transporter on film actually shows up in "The Fly".
And that's why McCoy hated transporters, he watched that movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: WisRich
the webbtells me 1.5 but I guess including terminal time thwt makes sense
is it comfy though?
is it worth springing for a higher priced seat rather than a regular one?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (G546f)
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 23, 2020
Somewhere in my record collection is an album of Renaissance music that I bought on the day Grandfather Poppins died. I had just turned to side 2 and dropped the needle when I heard a terrific crash upstairs and ran to see he had a massive heart attack and had died before he hit the floor.
I have never been able to listen to that album since and it has been over 30 years.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
And in terms of Cinema, the first Transporter on film actually shows up in "The Fly".
And that's why McCoy hated transporters, he watched that movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (Kpl3J)
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He knows that he dies every time he goes through it, and an exact replica of himself takes his place in his life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (QLPEO)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don' t mind, Insom. They're just being nice to me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (d7Ww2)
I thought Mogadishu and the subsequent career trajectory of SecDef Les Aspin would have disabused even fiction authors of any notion of US forces under UN command.
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (z8uqG)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (Rvlwi)
Captain Trips Toe Phan
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)
I was stationed at Bliss for 2.5 years. I had a Hispanic first sergeant who was from there who told me, "Sir, don't take this the wrong way, but you're white. There ain't no reason for you to go south of I-10. If you need to go there, you call me and I'll go with you." I can just picture us walking down the street, me looking at a map and him telling everyone, "It's cool, it's cool. He's with me."
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (wCmLp)
Posted by: Kris at January 23, 2020 10:49 AM (OyyDO)
I'd say bring some Larry Correa next time, but they probably wouldn't know who he is.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (U7voe)
392 Is that frog gonna jump or what?
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Vy7tf)
He is the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Le Pont de L'Europe, so, "yes"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (pNxlR)
I thought Mogadishu and the subsequent career trajectory of SecDef Les Aspin would have disabused even fiction authors of any notion of US forces under UN command.
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (8erNz)
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Mostly written by leftists who still want an overarching global government to tell stupid hick Americans what to do on a daily basis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (VzbI8)
Or maybe I'm just thinking in circles and I need more coffee.
Posted by: Vanya
Nah, you're on target. The only reason we've been on the losing end is that we trusted one part of the gang to oppose the other, when in fact it was just one big huge scam being run on all of us.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Is Team Resurgo taking applications?
at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (Rvlwi)
Star Trek, as a whole (there are individual episodes that get close) is not science fiction. Transporters were created not because they were scientifically feasible, but because they needed a cheaper way to get the crew to the planet than building a shuttle. So they used a cheap optical effect.
Science has gone on to try and justify it, but it doesn't change the fact that in the early 60s, the idea of a transporter beam was pure fantasy with a techno twist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020
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Matter transmitters had appeared in SF before -- on analogy with "sound, converted into electrical impulses and sent to a destination, where they are converted back into sound" (the telephone). Georges Langelaan's The Fly used the idea, albeit for a horror effect.
It's possible to say that a lot of the tropes used in SF are fantasy, as far as we know now. Faster-than-light travel, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (Ejm1K)
Is Adam Schiff the most vile character in modern politics? Maybe our history? A novelist like Allen Drury would be hard-pressed to imagine somebody this vile.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice
Schiff = Fred Van Ackerman times 10.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (7rVsF)
Any bets on what it's all gonna turn out?
And then these dipshits have the audacity to complain that nobody trusts them anymore.
FFS.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (Ct55T)
the webbtells me 1.5 but I guess including terminal time thwt makes sense
is it comfy though?
is it worth springing for a higher priced seat rather than a regular one?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (G546f)
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Go with First Class and yes a comfy and relaxing ride.
Posted by: WisRich at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (C1Lsn)
And that's why McCoy hated transporters, he watched that movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (Kpl3J)
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He knows that he dies every time he goes through it, and an exact replica of himself takes his place in his life.
the most annoying part, of course, is that the replica is programmed not to notice. makes you wonder what else the replica is programmed to do.
Posted by: Anachronda at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (sGtp+)
Dude, do you hear BANJOS?
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
that is my EXACT problem with it, and any stories about immortality via brain download or whatnot
you die
what lives is a copy
last season of Hemlock Grove actually did a funny but good take on this
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (G546f)
It's possible to say that a lot of the tropes used in SF are fantasy, as far as we know now. Faster-than-light travel, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 10:53 AM (Ejm1K)
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My only buggaboo about it all is when people demand scientific accuracy in one aspect of a piece of fiction while ignoring all the others.
"This isn't scientifically accurate in this universe of travel faster than the speed of light with no effects on time."
That's different from being inconsistent, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Tea for Two at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (YqED9)
Star Trek was "sciency".
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:55 AM (QLPEO)
Only time I went to Tijuana was with three Hispanic guys from my platoon.
Posted by: Vanya at January 23, 2020 10:55 AM (U7voe)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice
There were a few who were more vile, a couple who were uglier, and some who were more stupid, but there hasn't been one who combined all of these
assets into one shit bag of a politician.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (CqE5x)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (zZbCU)
You remind of a gripe I had about a next gen episode, yet another one where they never even try to examine the implications of their story line, and then they forget about it forever. It's the one where they discover a Duplicate Riker living on a planet, one that was created by a transporter malfunction years earlier.
Well, if you can create duplicates with the transporter, then on any hazardous mission why don't you just send down duplicates, and if they they get killed, send down more duplicates? Why wouldn't the entire crew on a starship just be duplicates of originals who could safely stay at home?
Well they resolved the issue by never talking about it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Thread Killah!! at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (bWBdM)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2020 10:43 AM (SMh/7)
Stay away from Rosa's Cantina. They h8t on the gingos there.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (Vy7tf)
Posted by: Tea for Two at January 23, 2020 10:54 AM (YqED9)
*******
Or By Mike Tyson when going for a "Pith"
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (BqBId)
Posted by: 40 miles north at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (o2vOl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (zZbCU)
Depending on how they chose to portray the transporter, it might not. The way it looks, the transporter doesn't completely destroy the first part before starting to assemble the copy, and it doesn't just do it top to bottom or button to top either. You see the entire body sort of "phase" in or out at once. It might be the case that there's continuity of consciousness that for a time is divided in two discrete locations, in which case it doesn't seem like it'd be killing you and making a copy.
That being said, I don't think I'd be interested in taking that risk, since it would be impossible to know if there's actually a continuity of consciousness or just the illusion, because the person on the other end has the same menories of the transport event as you would have.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (KUaJL)
assets into one shit bag of a politician.
*waves*
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (aW5/6)
eh.
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (QLPEO)
The whole supernatural genre does nothing for me (even though I wrote a supernatural short story). I watched Romero's Dawn of the Dead a few months back and found it interesting, if in most spots cheesy enough for an MST3K takedown, but once I was finished found that I never needed to see it, or any other zombie-themed movie again.
YMMV.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile
omg this is like me and hubby first year in America before GPS
driving to Baltimore Aquarium and taking the wrong exit and suddenly hubby is "hey, don't look at the neighborhood and just keep that map below the window so no one realizes we're lost"
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (G546f)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don' t mind, Insom. They're just being nice to me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (d7Ww2)
And making sure Insom keeps treating you right!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'it's an eating disorder!' at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (hmgiv)
This is an appropriate (or default) solution for many more situations than we probably care to acknowledge.
Posted by: Zod at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (ZS9TG)
fact that in the early 60s, the idea of a transporter beam was pure
fantasy with a techno twist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM
I read a book on the physics of star trek, it would probably be a million years before ever seeing something like that. The memory required to store the pattern of a human body, which is every atom in the human body, the X, Y, and Z positions, and the state of the electrons of each atom IF stored on floppy disks would make a stack 10,000 light years tall. You would also have to heat a human body to a million times the temperature of the core of the sun, and expend more energy in a single machine than all of humanity presently uses.
yeah, not going to do it any time soon.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (9Om/r)
There were a few who were more vile, a couple who were uglier, and some who were more stupid, but there hasn't been one who combined all of these assets into one shit bag of a politician.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (CqE5x)
The ethics of Simon Cameron, the looks of Henry Waxman, the mind of Patty Murray and the likeability of John Rankin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 23, 2020 10:59 AM (7rVsF)
That being said, I don't think I'd be interested in taking that risk, since it would be impossible to know if there's actually a continuity of consciousness or just the illusion, because the person on the other end has the same menories of the transport event as you would have.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 10:57 AM (KUaJL)
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Theory:
Between TOS and TNG, Starfleet included programming in the transporters that made the new versions more docile and compliant to Starfleet rules, which is why everyone's so boring in the 24th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (zZbCU)
eating barbecued Iguana
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (Kpl3J)
And take you to your special island
Captain Trips will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you'll be smilin'
Posted by: Billy Joel at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (+y/Ru)
Between TOS and TNG, Starfleet included programming in the transporters that made the new versions more docile and compliant to Starfleet rules, which is why everyone's so boring in the 24th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (zZbCU)
So, Picard in the new series is the "Original" that managed to survive transporting somehow and is now out for revenge?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (aW5/6)
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Next you're going to tell me I don't get a jet pack. Why you gotta piss on my campfire, man?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (bWBdM)
Pure plot device.
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (QLPEO)
is not science fiction. Transporters were created not because they were
scientifically feasible, but because they needed a cheaper way to get
the crew to the planet than building a shuttle. So they used a cheap
optical effect.
Science has gone on to try and justify it, but it doesn't change the
fact that in the early 60s, the idea of a transporter beam was pure
fantasy with a techno twist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020
.. the ultimate blow to the transporter was that the amount of energy contained in the atoms of a human being, is probably enough energy to blow up the Earth.
That energy to matter .. matter to energy scheme is froth with incredible risk
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (3aI0K)
birds to reptiles to humans
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 10:50 AM (JFO2v)
Why is anybody handling bats and snakes in the first place, much less ingesting them?
Posted by: joncelli: No Greenland, no peace at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (sGotD)
Between TOS and TNG, Starfleet included programming in the transporters that made the new versions more docile and compliant to Starfleet rules, which is why everyone's so boring in the 24th century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (zZbCU)
So, Picard in the new series is the "Original" that managed to survive transporting somehow and is now out for revenge?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (KUaJL)
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Boom.
Retconned justification.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (zZbCU)
You can make copies. So who gets the royalties with two Heinleins?
And it makes doctors obsolete. Transport only the healthy person, leaving cancer, bad viruses, and tats behind.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile
omg this is like me and hubby first year in America before GPS
driving to Baltimore Aquarium and taking the wrong exit and suddenly hubby is "hey, don't look at the neighborhood and just keep that map below the window so no one realizes we're lost"
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 10:58 AM (G546f)
Heh. When we were stationed in Connecticut we took a trip down to Long Island to see my family. When we were headed back my NYPD cousins told my husband that no matter what, don't stop in The Bronx.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 11:02 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: JEM at January 23, 2020 11:02 AM (8erNz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2020 10:51 AM (d7Ww2)
Still...
*points at my eyes*
*points at JT and Cannibal Bob*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 23, 2020 11:02 AM (NWiLs)
Well they resolved the issue by never talking about it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (Kpl3J)
Not really. IIRC the Federation has a ban on cloning, and there are morality issues with the idea of either a) sending down sentient duplicates on suicide missions, or b) constantly creating copies of the same person who won't have access to that person's life once the mission is over.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:02 AM (wCmLp)
Star Trek was "sciency".
Posted by: eleven at January 23, 2020
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David Gerrold said that Trek was a science fiction-based format for telling morality plays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 23, 2020 11:02 AM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: klaftern at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (RuIsu)
Well, if you can create duplicates with the transporter, then on any hazardous mission why don't you just send down duplicates, and if they they get killed, send down more duplicates? Why wouldn't the entire crew on a starship just be duplicates of originals who could safely stay at home?
Well they resolved the issue by never talking about it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2020 10:56 AM (Kpl3J)
Which reminds me of the end of Wolf in the Fold - after Mr Hengist has been sedated, Kirk throws him into the transporter and sets it on wide dispersal to bring an end to "Redjack."
HOWEVER - as we saw through the episode, "Redjack" possesses people in order to kill, and did it with Scotty, the Enterprise computer and Hengist. So in trying to destroy the entity, Kirk was really murdering poor Mr Hengist, who had been possessed and wasn't really himself responsible for the murders on Argelius.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (m45I2)
While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes.
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (G546f)
You see the entire body sort
of "phase" in or out at once. It might be the case that there's
continuity of consciousness that for a time is divided in two discrete
locations, in which case it doesn't seem like it'd be killing you and
making a copy.
so, you're saying that the transporter can also copy the soultrons that compose a person's soul in addition to the normal matter that compose a person's body? next, you'll say that the "life form detection" stuff that goes on is a simple detection of soultrons. what color uniform do soultronic technicians wear?
Posted by: Anachronda at January 23, 2020 11:04 AM (sGtp+)
I was hoping J.J. would have written a little more comprehensive Morning Report, but I guess he was satisfied just hitting the highlights.
Posted by: jwest at January 23, 2020 11:04 AM (U6f/q)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 23, 2020 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)
I was stationed at Bliss for 2.5 years. I had a Hispanic first sergeant who was from there who told me, "Sir, don't take this the wrong way, but you're white. There ain't no reason for you to go south of I-10. If you need to go there, you call me and I'll go with you." I can just picture us walking down the street, me looking at a map and him telling everyone, "It's cool, it's cool. He's with me."
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 10:52 AM (wCmLp)
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Late 80s. North End of Hartford. Worked with a Jamaican guy out in the suburbs. Me and other white guy go with him to the "Jamician Bakery" for lunch. We get out of the car and he says "Thier with me".
The other key line from that situation was a very fine young lady walked by. A guy sitting on the ground says "Lordy, lordy, cut my legs off and call me shorty!!!"
Jamicians can't ski by the way. Neither can a lot of inept white guys.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 23, 2020 11:04 AM (VYwSh)
The fourth cookie stayed in the oven for two hours, and finally success.
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 11:04 AM (3aI0K)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (m45I2)
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Not enough limericks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:05 AM (zZbCU)
HOWEVER - as we saw through the episode, "Redjack" possesses people in order to kill, and did it with Scotty, the Enterprise
computer and Hengist. So in trying to destroy the entity, Kirk was
really murdering poor Mr Hengist, who had been possessed and wasn't
really himself responsible for the murders on Argelius.
breaking a few eggs in order to make an omelette does not violate the prime directive.
Posted by: Captain Kirk's Lawyer at January 23, 2020 11:06 AM (sGtp+)
Scary as all hell to a ten year old in the 70s.
I understand the folks who made it got black balled and the actors never really worked again. Romero got to work a but a decade later.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 23, 2020 11:06 AM (B06Zw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:00 AM (zZbCU)
My standard theory of Star Trek: It all goes back to ST6. Once word got out that Starfleet had conspired with the Klingons and Romulans to keep hostilities going, there was a public backlash. It would be as if the US military was conspiring with the Soviet Union to keep the Cold War going for their own benefit. The result was the election of a Bernie Sanders/Ralph Nader type administration in the Federation, who promptly spent the next 70 years trying to demilitarize Starfleet and purging all the old guard officers. Hence why in ST Generations, Kirk is shocked that the Enterprise B left Spacedock without torpedoes or shields: for officers of his generation it wouldn't have been considered that you would go out unarmed and unprepared. However, the new captain is younger, probably a political appointee, and the whole thing is supposed to be nothing more than a PR stunt. By the time of TNG, the Federation has expanded so much that SF can barely control its territory, and there are plenty of colonies which fall into chaos and violence, and are subsequently cut off rather than trying to fix them. Meanwhile, the Federation cannot even win a border war with the Cardassians, instead settling for a low-level conflict that drags on.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:07 AM (wCmLp)
That energy to matter .. matter to energy scheme is froth with incredible risk
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2020 11:01 AM (3aI0K)
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Yo!
*Raises hand*
Posted by: Uncertainly Heisenberg at January 23, 2020 11:09 AM (MfzEx)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:07 AM (wCmLp)
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I like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 11:09 AM (zZbCU)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM (G546f)
Altered Carbon was an interesting idea: FTL travel is impossible, but communication isn't, so people transfer consciousness between bodies.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:09 AM (wCmLp)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 23, 2020 11:10 AM (JFO2v)
Not really. IIRC the Federation has a ban on cloning, and there are
morality issues with the idea of either a) sending down sentient
duplicates on suicide missions, or b) constantly creating copies of the
same person who won't have access to that person's life once the mission
is over.
a) the ban on cloning was clearly promulgated by the unions. if you were allowed to clone people at will, there would only be one laborer; he would be instantiated as necessary to handle the task at hand, then disposed of when the task was complete (think mr. meesix from rick and morty or "can o'man" from the tick).
b) mission success could be ensured by waiting to dispose of the original until the mission was complete. until success, copies can be sent as required. after success, the original is disposed of so that the successful copy retains the memories needed for the after-action report.
Posted by: Anachronda at January 23, 2020 11:11 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:44 AM (zZbCU)
Which is the predictable end result of all the "solutions" being put forward for "climate change".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2020 11:12 AM (LxWV7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
That said, it's inspired a lot of interesting research into things like quantum teleportation, which although useless for transporting matter for the foreseeable future, may have practical applications in long-distance communication.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 23, 2020 11:22 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Anachronda at January 23, 2020 11:11 AM (sGtp+)
Redshirt Steve sitting up on the Enterprise watching his duplicate below, waiting to be told to step into the disintegrator? Yeah, I don't think that's going to go over well.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:22 AM (wCmLp)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 23, 2020 11:07 AM (wCmLp)
I don't care what anyone says, this is canon in my head now. This would explain so much of TNG.
The Feds can't even win a war against the wildly technologically inferior Cardassians who could not even maintain dominance over a backwater world like Bajor? How?!
This explanation is now canon in my head, and I thank you for your work in improving the lore of Trek.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal, engage lurking device at January 23, 2020 11:27 AM (6JL3d)
It makes very few assumptions, and the conclusions are plausible. The public reaction to the conspiracy in ST6 would have been enormous, and even if the sitting President won a sympathy vote for his near-assassination, the pacifists would probably sweep the next election with enough force to set the agenda no matter who was in the big chair.
The demilitarization of Starfleet might even have survived contact with the Borg, who'd be seen as a one-off aberration, after which to return to business as usual, but the Dominion War following so quickly after would swing the pendulum the other way.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at January 23, 2020 11:50 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill at January 23, 2020 10:46 AM (zZbCU)
Actually, it was a cost -cutting device. One of the cast members said that Roddenbury and Co. hit upon the idea because they had a shoe-string budget and had to figure out how to get the cast members off the Enterprise and onto planets quickly. The transporter room was more cost-effective, quicker and more novel than building little model space shuttles.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at January 23, 2020 01:03 PM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 23, 2020 04:38 PM (wGqjj)
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