Countdown to Christmas Cafe

Budapest
by Krenn_imre

Nice pet goose.

Caption: "God will always send angels to aid you." A train absolutely destroys a tractor trailer, with facts and logic and also the terrifying momentum of a comet, but the truck driver walks away unscathed. (Instagram)

A collection of videos of the Icelandic eruption. (Instagram)

She knows her way around balls.

Neat -- juggling, but viewed from above. So you can be unimpressed from an entirely different angle!

It's a Christmas present that licks your face!

A bee, sleeping on the job.

Testing firecracker for their Kaboom Factor.

This is actually a really, really good surprise which we've never seen in an espionage movie -- yet. Now someone will steal it, of course.

I’m helping.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/1OxuoagfuG
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 21, 2023

Two baby monkeys rescued from flood. ❤️

The other one sucks his thumb while waiting for his turn to eat, just like babies do.pic.twitter.com/EujcWsgOnq
— Figen (@TheFigen_) December 21, 2023

An hour of retro Christmas commercials:

But commerce isn't what Christmas is all about.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:45 PM

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1 first!

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 21, 2023 07:44 PM (sMkAM)

2 2nd

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 21, 2023 07:45 PM (sMkAM)

3 3rd

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 21, 2023 07:45 PM (sMkAM)

4 hat trick and nood

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 21, 2023 07:45 PM (sMkAM)

5 Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig 6h
Released hostage, Yaffa Adar (85) said that during her captivity every morning she would whisper to herself the songs of Andrea Bocelli, which gave her hope.

The singer sent a letter, inviting her to his show: “I wish I could hug you, Yaffa, you gave new meaning to my music.”

The granddaughter of released hostage Yaffa Adar (85) is reading the letter Andrea Bocelli wrote her. Happy tears ❤️

http://tinyurl.com/26v63svj
3:57 minutes; translated from Hebrew.
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I think someone just became a Righteous Gentile. Keep some Kleenex handy.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 07:47 PM (2yu8s)

6 Rescued baby monkeys. Just warms my heart.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2023 07:49 PM (krQz2)

7 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at December 21, 2023 07:50 PM (Jes2n)

8 Today is my poodle Charlie's sixth birthday. He helped himself to a bag of treats this morning that I hadn't secured high enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 07:50 PM (FVME7)

9 Is that in Buda or in Pest??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 07:50 PM (2yu8s)

10 I handled a number of auto accidents where the people involved should all have died but walked away with barely a scratch . Unfortunately I’ve handled a number where there were the fatalities you’d think there would be.

Luck of the draw.

Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:50 PM (MNhXM)

11 Lemme hear it!
Buda!
Pest!
Budapest!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 21, 2023 07:51 PM (MeG8a)

12 I love A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Linus is spot on, you know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2023 07:51 PM (/z/cO)

13 I've been in that very spot in Budapest. It's one of my favorite cities, along with Prague (sans shooters), Vienna, and Strasbourg.

Damn, I'm well travelled.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at December 21, 2023 07:52 PM (CsUN+)

14 That looks like an ink rendering rather than a photograph.

Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:52 PM (MNhXM)

15 At the farmer's market in Budapest I saw sausages at the meat stall, shaped in the form of the male anatomy.
Didn't buy any.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 21, 2023 07:53 PM (MeG8a)

16 Looks gray in Budapest.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2023 07:53 PM (63Dwl)

17 Anyone care to feed me, and help clean up the biosphere at the same time?

Posted by: Leopard Seal at December 21, 2023 07:53 PM (a3Q+t)

18 Oh the bees!

I grow dahlias and this is a routine event. Just comical. I'll pick some. And accidentally bring a sleeping bumble bee into the house. They wake up mad. And crash into the windows.

Posted by: Derak at December 21, 2023 07:54 PM (3jkTt)

19 Dang.

Archimedes = Claudine Gay

Posted by: Archimedes at December 21, 2023 07:54 PM (CsUN+)

20 Budapest?

No, Holstenwall.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2023 07:54 PM (9yWhg)

21 Good evening everyone

Disconcerting news
My mom called and she had a mini stroke last night, she got to hospital and is fine, no observation for damage but is going to rehabilitation tomorrow and will miss Christmas at home. Would appreciate prayers for recovery.

I'm at work again all night

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2023 07:54 PM (wj6F+)

22 Plagiarized sock!

Posted by: Claudine Gay at December 21, 2023 07:52 PM (CsUN+)

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 07:55 PM (2yu8s)

23 Would appreciate prayers for recovery.

Will do, Skip.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2023 07:56 PM (V8he0)

24 Disconcerting news
My mom called and she had a mini stroke last night, she got to hospital and is fine, no observation for damage but is going to rehabilitation tomorrow and will miss Christmas at home. Would appreciate prayers for recovery.

I'm at work again all night
Posted by: Skip

You got it. My stepdad has been going through the same thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 07:56 PM (R4t5M)

25 Budapest is a cool city. Beautiful. But it's also a no-nonsense, sinister sort of place. I liked it a lot.

Only thing is, it feels too big for my liking. It's technically only a couple million people, but it feels NYC sized when you're in it.

I met the best bouncer I ever saw there. He was working the rope at a club I was going to, and told me "give me the knife in your pants. You can have it back when you leave."

I have no clue how he knew. It was well-concealed. Not at all obvious. He knew his shit, for sure.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 07:57 PM (0FoWg)

26 9 Is that in Buda or in Pest??

I’m not sure, but seldom have I known a ruder pest.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2023 07:57 PM (9yWhg)

27 The video showing the relative explosive energy of various firecrackers was interesting. Can you still get firecrackers like those in the U.S.? My recollection is that, when I was a whole lot younger, we had to cross the border into South Carolina to get the "good" firecrackers. I don't know if you can even buy them there anymore.

Posted by: Paco at December 21, 2023 07:58 PM (njExo)

28 will do, Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 07:58 PM (kc18b)

29 Yes, Skip.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 07:58 PM (2yu8s)

30 Wasn’t Budapest the spy capital of the world for a time?

Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:59 PM (MNhXM)

31 The Budapest picture makes me a little sad.

We used to know how, and were willing, to build beautiful things.

Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2023 08:00 PM (ii9P8)

32 Leopard seals are the Palestinians of the aquatic animal world.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 21, 2023 08:00 PM (V5BDR)

33 The video showing the relative explosive energy of various firecrackers was interesting.

Very flawed methodology. Sometimes the firecracker is lying on its side, sometimes it's vertical.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 21, 2023 08:02 PM (CsUN+)

34 Testing firecrackers that can launch a pot that high using a fuses as short as obama's dick is going to be an eventual darwin award.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2023 08:02 PM (VwHCD)

35 Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2023 07:54 PM (wj6F+)

Sending prayers, Skip.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 21, 2023 08:02 PM (T/Lqj)

36 Wasn’t Budapest the spy capital of the world for a time?
Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:59 PM (MNhXM)

I know Vienna was, but I'm sure Budapest was crawling with spooks, too. Nice and cosmopolitan, the way they like it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:03 PM (0FoWg)

37 I never thought about bees sleeping, but it makes sense. I mean, all that buzzing around must be pretty exhausting.

I'm thinking back to an incident that happened to me years ago, and am now wondering if it involved a sleeping bee. I had gone out to lunch, and when I returned from lunch, I went into my supervisor's office to talk to him about something. I removed my hat, and a bee flew out of my hair. The bee obviously made himself at home when I was outside and removed my hat momentarily. Perhaps he fell asleep and that's why he didn't sting me.

Posted by: Paco at December 21, 2023 08:03 PM (njExo)

38 >>>14 That looks like an ink rendering rather than a photograph.

yeah there is a lot of effects going on there. I usually don't post those but I wanted something a little christmasy and this was the best I had.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2023 08:04 PM (KRtlO)

39 Lisa Douglas used to talk about Budapest.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2023 08:05 PM (63Dwl)

40 The top pic is the "Fisherman's Bastion" on Castle Hill in Budapest. The building to the left is the Hilton Hotel, in business since the 80s.

The Fisherman's Bastion was home to a disco/club under one of the round topped structures visible. It was called "Jeannie's Bottle" by Americans, because it was round inside and looked like...Jeannie's bottle abode.

Interesting girls tended to be regulars there.

Posted by: Days of Miklosian Youth at December 21, 2023 08:06 PM (wAZ5s)

41 I wanted something a little christmasy and this was the best I had.

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LOL, maybe if Santa was a Magyar warlord ensconced in a citadel full of vicious little elven Hussars.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:07 PM (0FoWg)

42 Lisa Douglas used to talk about Budapest.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

She was actually from a small village.

Posted by: Miklos from Kishooterfalu at December 21, 2023 08:08 PM (wAZ5s)

43 Yudhishthira's Dice

Have you married into the noble ruler family of Liechtenstein yet?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:09 PM (u82oZ)

44 36 Wasn’t Budapest the spy capital of the world for a time?
Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:59 PM (MNhXM)

I know Vienna was, but I'm sure Budapest was crawling with spooks, too. Nice and cosmopolitan, the way they like it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:03 PM (0FoWg)

Prague.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 08:09 PM (5xURv)

45 Is that in Buda or in Pest??
Posted by: andycanuck

Buda, brudda

Posted by: Miklos, a Pester himself at December 21, 2023 08:10 PM (wAZ5s)

46 Early 2nd

4-2 ⚔️

And on the PP

Posted by: browndog wants a good game tonight at December 21, 2023 08:12 PM (TTAGa)

47 Wasn’t Budapest the spy capital of the world for a time?
Posted by: Drive by at December 21, 2023 07:59 PM (MNhXM)

I know Vienna was, but I'm sure Budapest was crawling with spooks, too. Nice and cosmopolitan, the way they like it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I met CIA defector Edward Lee Howard in the bar of the Atrium Hyatt in Budapest. He was drunk and clearly miserable.

Posted by: Miklos, who only keeps the occasional secret at December 21, 2023 08:12 PM (wAZ5s)

48 Have you married into the noble ruler family of Liechtenstein yet?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:09 PM (u82oZ)

The ruling family of Liechtenstein, particularly the Hereditary Prince Alois, are creatures of the Bavarians.

I plan to usurp him. Not to sire another Wittelsbach viper.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:13 PM (0FoWg)

49 Lisa Douglas

Imagine being married to her.

Hots Cakes. Oh my.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:14 PM (u82oZ)

50 Lisa Douglas

Imagine being married to her.

Hots Cakes. Oh my.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

She could call me "Olly-ver" and it would be Fine.

Posted by: Miklos, who saw Zsa Zsa Gabor removed from a flight once at December 21, 2023 08:16 PM (wAZ5s)

51 Miklos, who saw Zsa Zsa Gabor removed from a flight once

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Lol, what did she do? I hope she had a barking mad fit or something fun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:18 PM (0FoWg)

52 The ruling family of Liechtenstein, particularly the Hereditary Prince Alois, are creatures of the Bavarians.

I plan to usurp him. Not to sire another Wittelsbach viper.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I am pledge Complete Support and offer company of Loyal Gegs for such usurpationings.

Posted by: Miklos I, Rightful King of all the Albanias at December 21, 2023 08:18 PM (wAZ5s)

53 I'd like a puppy for Christmas...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 21, 2023 08:19 PM (Rbu5d)

54 Has this been commented?

Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured, ten of them seriously, in a shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in Prague on Thursday afternoon.

The incident happened at around three o’clock at the faculty’s main building on Jan Palach Square in the city centre. The gunman, who began shooting on the fourth floor of the building, later committed suicide.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:19 PM (RIvkX)

55 I worked a couple of professional firework shows. The last one was a hand fire using a road flare, had mortars from 2.5" to 5", probably 400 shot, damn Chinese fireworks came with black match fuses, almost instantaneous ignition. It was 22 minutes of hell fire on earth. You couldn't touch the fuse and turn away fast enough so they launched practically in your face. You learn from the sound the ones with defective lift charges. You prepare by putting your back to the impending burst. Fortunately, duds were rare.

Posted by: TC at December 21, 2023 08:20 PM (cHOHf)

56 Lol, what did she do? I hope she had a barking mad fit or something fun.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

She was drunk, but the immediate problem was the little dog (not in a carrier) that was running around and peed in the aisle.

Oh, and it was Delta. Apparently they had rules then.

Posted by: First Class Miklos (if on Business) at December 21, 2023 08:21 PM (wAZ5s)

57 Midway into the 2nd

5-3 ⚔️

🍁s pulled their goalie

#sieve

Posted by: browndog wants a good game tonight at December 21, 2023 08:22 PM (TTAGa)

58 A prayer for Skip's mom complete and immediate healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:22 PM (RIvkX)

59 31...We used to know how, and were willing, to build beautiful things.
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2023 08:00 PM (ii9P

Yes, indeed.
Now we get abominations like this:
http://tinyurl.com/mrj6cwfr

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 21, 2023 08:24 PM (Rbu5d)

60 I met CIA defector Edward Lee Howard in the bar of the Atrium Hyatt in Budapest. He was drunk and clearly miserable.
Posted by: Miklos, who only keeps the occasional secret at December 21, 2023 08:12 PM (wAZ5s)
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And you failed to apprehend him??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:25 PM (RIvkX)

61 When I was working at UPS I got paid to clean up the aftermath of a long flatbed semi carrying huge steel plates slamming into a UPS double trailer at highway speeds. It was sliced and diced. The trailer was bound for West Texas and mostly contained: lots of rifle scopes, various serial magazines about "how to kill a man" in various ways, generic smut magazines, and swinger smut magazines. This was the mid 90s.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2023 08:25 PM (0NYgd)

62 Would appreciate prayers for recovery.

Is done, Mr. Skip.

Posted by: Miklos at December 21, 2023 08:25 PM (wAZ5s)

63 Last two threads my comments got willowed.

I want to speak with the manager!

Posted by: mindful webworker - what ever happened to Willow? at December 21, 2023 08:25 PM (ZRAB1)

64 She was drunk, but the immediate problem was the little dog (not in a carrier) that was running around and peed in the aisle.

Oh, and it was Delta. Apparently they had rules then.
Posted by: First Class Miklos (if on Business) at December 21, 2023 08:21

She should have just gotten an MS-13 forehead tattoo and a sticker that says "I Voted." Those folks are Medallion Status SkyMiles Members.

Posted by: Delta: Keep Criming at December 21, 2023 08:26 PM (0FoWg)

65 31 The Budapest picture makes me a little sad.

We used to know how, and were willing, to build beautiful things.
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2023 08:00 PM (ii9P

Yeah. In my little town, the old bank, which is quite nice to look at from the street, is building a new bank where the parking lot was.

The new building is looking like a three story McDonald's. Sigh. If they tear down the old one, I will cry. Sandstone columns, marble entryway...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2023 08:26 PM (OX9vb)

66 And you failed to apprehend him??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

He was buying the drinks.

Posted by: Miklos, a gentleman of a sort at December 21, 2023 08:26 PM (wAZ5s)

67 >>Leopard seals are the Palestinians of the aquatic animal world.

That is one animal I'm glad lives nowhere near me. Like an aquatic grizzly only bigger and faster.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:27 PM (ZLI7S)

68 52 The ruling family of Liechtenstein, particularly the Hereditary Prince Alois, are creatures of the Bavarians.

I plan to usurp him. Not to sire another Wittelsbach viper.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Focus on Cuba, it's closer.
There are those, who could put it together
others who could supply, logistics.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 08:27 PM (yc+Nx)

69 He was buying the drinks.
Posted by: Miklos, a gentleman of a sort at December 21, 2023 08:26 PM (wAZ5s)
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Let me guess. Gin. Neat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:27 PM (RIvkX)

70 Let me guess. Gin. Neat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Victory Gin, comrade.

Posted by: Miklos, no it was whisky at December 21, 2023 08:29 PM (wAZ5s)

71 The trailer was bound for West Texas and mostly contained: lots of rifle scopes, various serial magazines about "how to kill a man" in various ways, generic smut magazines, and swinger smut magazines. This was the mid 90s.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2023 08:25 PM (

I was a loader at the Commerce City Sort in another time. One of my bays was the trucks to WY. Lots of Wrangler jeans and cryo cans full of bull semen. Glad none of those ever broke on me. Worst part was the drop shipments of tractor parts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:30 PM (0FoWg)

72 At least the vodka was good when I was in USSR. Stoli was abundant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:31 PM (RIvkX)

73 54:
A couple of people commented on the Prague university spree killer in the last thread. I also ran into some pinhead on Twitter who insisted that his name, Kovach, was obviously Jewish, and refused to take it back when several Slavs told him 'Kovach' means 'Cossack' in half a dozen different Slavic languages. They didn't bother to spell out for the moron that Cossacks are far better known for killing Jews than for being Jews. No one could stop him from blaming Israel and tying it all to Gaza somehow. There were other reports that he had a Russian-language social-media accounts (I forget which kind) and others that it was obviously fake since it was still being posted on after he was dead. Then again, maybe he had an accomplice who's still at large.
In short, we don't really know anything yet except the guy's name.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 21, 2023 08:31 PM (uL3GK)

74 65 31 The Budapest picture makes me a little sad.

We used to know how, and were willing, to build beautiful things.
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2023 08:00 PM (ii9P

Yeah. In my little town, the old bank, which is quite nice to look at from the street, is building a new bank where the parking lot was.

The new building is looking like a three story McDonald's. Sigh. If they tear down the old one, I will cry. Sandstone columns, marble entryway...
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

It's odd, but I grew up in an area with lots of bridges. Old, steel framed, elegant, looking bridges. Well, they were slowly replaced because of age. They were replaced with East German Chic concrete bridges. I miss the old elegant steel bridges. Didn't realize I would until they were gone.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2023 08:32 PM (qKYfj)

75 Is that bee asleep or dead?
I didn't know bees slept.

Posted by: Ciampino - Bzzz Bzzz, I'm here .... at December 21, 2023 08:32 PM (qfLjt)

76 65 31 The Budapest picture makes me a little sad.

We used to know how, and were willing, to build beautiful things.
Posted by: PabloD at December 21,
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Someone said we quit building beautiful things after WWII.
Something about cold steel, glass and loss of culture.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 08:33 PM (yc+Nx)

77 Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 21, 2023 08:31 PM (uL3GK)

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Thanks for that synopsis and taking one for the team.

There was also a mass murder in a hospital in Ostrava today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:33 PM (RIvkX)

78 Kovach (or Kovacs in Hungarian) means "Smith".

No Cossacks involved.

Posted by: Miklos, the most common name in Hungary is not Smith, But Taylor (Szabo) at December 21, 2023 08:34 PM (wAZ5s)

79 at first glance the pic up top (beautiful, thx ace!) made me think of Escher

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 08:35 PM (kc18b)

80 Someone said we quit building beautiful things after WWII.
Something about cold steel, glass and loss of culture.
Posted by: Braenyard

I was not a Nazi!

Well, maybe a little.

Posted by: Mies van der Rohe at December 21, 2023 08:36 PM (wAZ5s)

81 Have you ever been bit by a dead bee?

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 08:38 PM (yc+Nx)

82 At least the vodka was good when I was in USSR. Stoli was abundant.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Gorbi strictly limited alcohol sales for a while.

And the USSR was no more.

Posted by: Miklos saw what kept the whole thing going at December 21, 2023 08:38 PM (wAZ5s)

83
There was also a mass murder in a hospital in Ostrava today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Again?

Czech shooting: Gunman kills six at hospital in Ostrava
10th December 2019, 11:44 EST

http://tinyurl.com/292km6km

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2023 08:38 PM (63Dwl)

84 Yudhishthira's Dice

I looked up Liechtenstein and their noble family in Wiki. Seems very interesting.

This is a country that is not woke, and has it together. It helps to be small, in the Alps, with 6% muslim population.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:38 PM (u82oZ)

85 "Someone said we quit building beautiful things after WWII.
Something about cold steel, glass and loss of culture.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 08:33 PM (yc+Nx) "

left wing takeover of architecture.

Thomas Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House" goes into great detail about the huge shift, mostly in early 20th century but no doubt still ongoing.
Also see that congressional record thing about "communist goals"; uglification of art and architecture was in there.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 08:40 PM (kc18b)

86 I think an individual person or entity can build any damned monstrosity their heart desires. I also think public buildings, built with the public's money, should be long lasting, classical, and beautiful.
Maybe even uplifting.

Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2023 08:40 PM (cPGH3)

87
Is that The Grand Budapest Hotel?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 08:40 PM (xG4kz)

88 MkY

You crazy dreamer, you.

Modena public building are fortresses to protect the government workers from the people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

89 Ennnnnnd of the 2nd

6-3 Sabres

Fuq the Laffs...

Posted by: browndog getting really tired of all this shit at December 21, 2023 08:42 PM (TTAGa)

90 Modern. I typed Modern. Sigh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:42 PM (u82oZ)

91 That pic up top - looks like the castle of Winter's Queen.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 21, 2023 08:42 PM (IX0pp)

92 I think an individual person or entity can build any damned monstrosity their heart desires. I also think public buildings, built with the public's money, should be long lasting, classical, and beautiful.
Maybe even uplifting.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2023 08:40 PM (cPGH3)

Designed by Playtex 18 Hour?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2023 08:43 PM (4I/2K)

93 Skip, prayers for your mom, and hugs to both of you.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 21, 2023 08:44 PM (IX0pp)

94 classical, and beautiful.
Maybe even uplifting.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2023 08:40 PM (cPGH3)

Designed by Playtex 18 Hour?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Booby Prize AWARDED

Posted by: Miklos never could get those damn things off at December 21, 2023 08:45 PM (wAZ5s)

95 Built the Chrysler building in 1930 the hello commie FDR.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 08:46 PM (yc+Nx)

96 >>> I was a loader at the Commerce City Sort in another time. One of my bays was the trucks to WY. Lots of Wrangler jeans and cryo cans full of bull semen. Glad none of those ever broke on me. Worst part was the drop shipments of tractor parts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:30 PM (0FoWg)

We got a lot of the cow baby gravy too. They were shipped in large maroon hard shell insulated containers that were roughly diamond shaped. Impossible to stack in an orderly fashion.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2023 08:47 PM (0NYgd)

97 Hey guys.

So there's a rare commenter I'm in close contact with who's mom is dying. She's in her 90s and had a good run. Please pray for peace and calm for her passing. She's at home and on hospice.

Pray for D's mom if you get a minute.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2023 08:48 PM (/PkxG)

98
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" was epic and quietly appropriate in every way. Ignored now, mostly, it is.

Instead, we are infected with smarmly little do-nothings and know-nothings getting filmed having their roto routered in government offices. Our offices, paid for with our tax dollars. The smarmsters and those who drop them into our affairs are due their just desserts. Time to pay up, scum.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 08:49 PM (xG4kz)

99 97 Hey guys.

So there's a rare commenter I'm in close contact with who's mom is dying. She's in her 90s and had a good run. Please pray for peace and calm for her passing. She's at home and on hospice.

Pray for D's mom if you get a minute.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2023 08:48 PM (/PkxG

Of course

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 08:49 PM (5xURv)

100 God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.

Posted by: Otto von Bismarck at December 21, 2023 08:51 PM (jfKqs)

101 God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
Posted by: Otto von Bismarck at December 21, 2023 08:51 PM (jfKqs)

Morons win on all three counts!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 21, 2023 08:52 PM (aD39U)

102 Read Saint Luke’s, (a real doctor) of Jesus’ birth.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2023 08:53 PM (NxC5+)

103 Skip & nurse ratched, prayers ascending.

The mother in law of my old boss went into hospice today. I pray for her also. She was so good natured when I'd tease her about her friends Rokko and Thor from the biker bar, back in the day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:54 PM (u82oZ)

104 George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Anti-Trans Swimmer Slammed After Causing Trans Teen To Lose Volleyball Scholarship

-
You mean a real girl will get the scholarship? OMG!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 08:54 PM (FVME7)

105 because of the season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODA_K5hxyc

Jerry Granelli Trio, "Linus & Lucy"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 08:55 PM (kc18b)

106 It's odd, but I grew up in an area with lots of bridges. Old, steel framed, elegant, looking bridges. Well, they were slowly replaced because of age. They were replaced with East German Chic concrete bridges. I miss the old elegant steel bridges. Didn't realize I would until they were gone.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2023 08:32 PM (qKYfj)

And now the bridges are on fourth lifespan. Some in Allegheny County I don't want to sneeze while driving on.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 08:55 PM (P6aOE)

107 Pray for D's mom if you get a minute.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Prayers up

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 21, 2023 08:56 PM (IX0pp)

108 on the way, nurse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 08:56 PM (kc18b)

109 George Takei

You had maybe 5 good episodes of Star Trek and one good minute in a ST movie.

You can STFU anytime you like, and I will respect you more for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:57 PM (u82oZ)

110 Pray for D's mom if you get a minute.

Mom and family, done.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2023 08:58 PM (dZVON)

111
Wittelsbach vipers sing this song,
"Doo-dah, doo-dah" ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 08:58 PM (xG4kz)

112 102 Read Saint Luke’s, (a real doctor) of Jesus’ birth.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2023 08:53 PM (NxC5+)

I enjoy all three synoptic gospels but Luke's is my favorite.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 08:59 PM (5xURv)

113 AlaBAMA

Mary and Joseph were tough. No midwife. First delivery. Not a sterile space.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 09:00 PM (u82oZ)

114 Czech shooting: Gunman kills six at hospital in Ostrava
10th December 2019, 11:44 EST

http://tinyurl.com/292km6km
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2023 08:38 PM (63Dwl)
===
Yes, 2019, thanks for correction.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 09:01 PM (RIvkX)

115
Thomas Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House" goes into great detail about the huge shift, mostly in early 20th century but no doubt still ongoing.
------

Every house being built around my neighborhood is a boxy, glassy, architecural embarrassment. I'm told that they are 'elegant' in their simplicity, but not one of them is an example of what I would call 'character'. They look like AI designs, boxy, and cold, impersonal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2023 09:02 PM (XeU6L)

116 113 AlaBAMA

Mary and Joseph were tough. No midwife. First delivery. Not a sterile space.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 09:00 PM (u82oZ

Mary was probably hoping it was gonna be a miraculous delivery to go with the conception.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 09:02 PM (5xURv)

117 We were talking about Robespierre earlier today which prompted me to read more about him.

Did you know he opposed capital punishment? Gave all sorts of speeches about it. Until he acquired power. Then suddenly not only was it ok...but it was morally necessary because his enemies were so evil.

And then I was watching Peterson interview Michael Malice. And they mention Emma Goldman talking with Lenin, and Lenin told them that all those freedoms he talked about before he acquired power were important but...his enemies were do dangerous they had to be destroyed first.

And then of course I was considering CO which decided that do to the dangers of Trump we have to suppress popular sovereignty in the name of democracy...

And...this pattern just repeats endlessly doesn't it? Whatever the left says before once they acquire power they only use it to destroy.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 09:03 PM (XqcwY)

118 I had an unexpected sad day today. I went in for my pain doc for my monthly refill checkup and my doc assistant who has taken care of me for 12 years since my accident, Mike, told me it was our last visit. He's retiring. He's got Parkinson's and it is apparently advancing quickly and he's decided to do his bucket list.

Ex Navy Corpsman and a fantastic guy. I got all teared up when he told me.

Fuck.

Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2023 09:03 PM (QB+5g)

119
Anti-Trans Swimmer Slammed After Causing Trans Teen To Lose Volleyball Scholarship

Are you saying that an unjust theft was prevented?

Law and order, baby! Law and order!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:04 PM (xG4kz)

120 And now the bridges are on fourth lifespan. Some in Allegheny County I don't want to sneeze while driving on.

I was up in Lawrence County a few weeks ago. There is still an old covered bridge, still being used to cross a creek. It's been there for a century or so. They've had to strengthen it for cars and there is a weight limit. Still, it was a delight to see it still standing. It's way off the beaten path in very rural West PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2023 09:04 PM (qKYfj)

121 I was a loader at the Commerce City Sort in another time. One of my bays was the trucks to WY. Lots of Wrangler jeans and cryo cans full of bull semen. Glad none of those ever broke on me. Worst part was the drop shipments of tractor parts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:30 PM (0FoWg)

We got a lot of the cow baby gravy too. They were shipped in large maroon hard shell insulated containers that were roughly diamond shaped. Impossible to stack in an orderly fashion.
Posted by: banana Dream

In a former life, I was an elementary school teacher at two rural schools on the eastern plains of Colorado. The kids would bring insemination syringes (or whatever they're called) and use them for squirt guns. This was before SuperSoakers and other contemporary squirt guns so I was impressed with the sheer volume of water they put out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:04 PM (FVME7)

122 Angola announced Thursday that it's leaving the OPEC oil producers cartel...
=============

They don't agree with lowering production quotas.

Angola “does not gain anything by remaining in the organization,”
Oil Minister, Diamantino de Azevedo.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2023 09:05 PM (yc+Nx)

123 Another great post. Ace is amazing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:07 PM (p+WXI)

124 D is such a good person. Every single decision has been made with love and caring. It's hard to see your mom decline.

Mine was 46 when she died. It's never easy. Especially at Christmas when everyone else is celebrating. There is a quiet place in our hearts for those who are no longer with us.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2023 09:08 PM (/z/cO)

125 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:04 PM (FVME7)

Which towns? If it won't cause an opsec problem. My grandma lived in Haxtun for quite a while.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 21, 2023 09:09 PM (nC+QA)

126 Almost time for the annual Christmas Wrapping music video isn't it?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at December 21, 2023 09:09 PM (F5SKq)

127 And then of course I was considering CO which decided that do to the dangers of Trump we have to suppress popular sovereignty in the name of democracy...

-
Liberals engage in whataboutism.

Covie
@covie_93
The same people who are saying it's undemocratic to remove trump from the ballot are out here removing voters from the rolls.

http://tinyurl.com/5x2cfbzj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:09 PM (FVME7)

128 "LOL, maybe if Santa was a Magyar warlord ensconced in a citadel full of vicious little elven Hussars.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice "

I'd watch that movie.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2023 09:11 PM (MGGp5)

129
Every house being built around my neighborhood is a boxy, glassy, architecural embarrassment. I'm told that they are 'elegant' in their simplicity, but not one of them is an example of what I would call 'character'. They look like AI designs, boxy, and cold, impersonal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

Around these parts, it is not glassy monstrosities, but timber framed "traditional" construction withe hip roofs, valleys, gables and all sorts if fancified roof arrangements that will be one holy pain in the ass to maintain when they near the replacement dare for the roofing materials.

And they are EVERYWHERE and there are almost no other designs in the mix. Not a smidgen of groupthink, nosiree!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:11 PM (xG4kz)

130 The same people who are saying it's undemocratic to remove trump from the ballot are out here removing voters from the rolls.

Dead Lives Matter!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 09:11 PM (XqcwY)

131 Almost time for the annual Christmas Wrapping music video isn't it?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at December 21, 2023 09:09 PM (F5SKq)

I don't know if it plays on secular stations, but there is a very cute song called Toy Packaging that plays on the contemporary Christian stations at Christmas time.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 21, 2023 09:11 PM (nC+QA)

132 123 Another great post. Ace is amazing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:07 PM (p+WXI

Yo. Keep it down. If he hears that he will get a big head. We want Ace to worry we will leave him.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 09:11 PM (5xURv)

133 126 Almost time for the annual Christmas Wrapping music video isn't it?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at December 21, 2023 09:09 PM (F5SKq)

What's this about Christmas Fapping???

oh...wrapping...

Nevermind

Posted by: zombie Emily Litella at December 21, 2023 09:12 PM (TTAGa)

134 Which towns? If it won't cause an opsec problem. My grandma lived in Haxtun for quite a while.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Keenesburg and Prospect Valley.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:12 PM (FVME7)

135 "Not a smidgen of groupthink, nosiree!"

Eh, architecture has fads and fashions just like any other art.

That's why everybody was decorating their houses in Egyptian style when King Tut's tomb was found.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2023 09:14 PM (MGGp5)

136 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:12 PM (FVME7)

It's been a while, but I think Prospect Valley was on the back road route from I-25 to I-70.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 21, 2023 09:14 PM (nC+QA)

137 Maine forced to delay vote on EV mandate amid widespread power outages...
---------

Duh

Posted by: Braenyard - eliminate Yemen at December 21, 2023 09:15 PM (yc+Nx)

138 137 Maine forced to delay vote on EV mandate amid widespread power outages...
---------

Duh
Posted by: Braenyard - eliminate Yemen at December 21, 2023 09:15 PM (yc+Nx)

I wouldn't mind liberal idiots voting for themselves to be miserable if they didn't take everyone else down with them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 09:16 PM (5xURv)

139 137, LOL!

almost as if ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 09:17 PM (kc18b)

140 It's been a while, but I think Prospect Valley was on the back road route from I-25 to I-70.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

I haven't been there in.decades but I remember it was in the middle of nowhere.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:17 PM (FVME7)

141 Little less than half a period left in this tilt

7-3 Sabres

....

Now make that 8-3

The bipolar Sabres are taking the Leafs to the woodshed

Posted by: zombie Emily Litella at December 21, 2023 09:18 PM (TTAGa)

142 /off Gilda sock

Posted by: browndog getting really tired of all this shit at December 21, 2023 09:19 PM (TTAGa)

143
Maine forced to delay vote on EV mandate amid widespread power outages...

KARMA ... MUNCHING ON ASSES FOR A LOOOOONG TIME NOW.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:19 PM (xG4kz)

144 George Takei

You had maybe 5 good episodes of Star Trek and one good minute in a ST movie.

You can STFU anytime you like, and I will respect you more for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 08:57 PM (u82oZ)

Not sure about that. I think he had 2 minutes. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2023 09:19 PM (VwHCD)

145 The above-mentioned "From Bauhaus to Our House" is a good, fairly short read. Reccomend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2023 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

146 9-3

Light 'em up boys

SABRES!!!

Posted by: browndog getting really tired of all this shit at December 21, 2023 09:21 PM (TTAGa)

147 This is so 2023:

Struggling OnlyFans thot who is a student at ASU decided she needed to boost her visibility on OF because she just wasn't making the dough she wanted.

So she forges an expulsion letter from ASU saying they expelled her for having an OF account.

Problem is, it's bullshit. They didn't expel her for it and have no code of conduct regarding flashing your beagle to the world for duckets.

But they do have a policy against forging official letterhead from the University and that is an expellable offense.

So she gets her wish to be expelled and become a whore.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 09:23 PM (5xURv)

148
I wouldn't mind liberal idiots voting for themselves to be miserable if they didn't take everyone else down with them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
----

If we were standing on another planet, we could point and laugh, but we aren't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2023 09:23 PM (XeU6L)

149 >>> Thomas Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House" goes into great detail about the huge shift, mostly in early 20th century but no doubt still ongoing.

Bauhaus is easy to master Architecturally. Straight lines and a randum arc or circle for an accent here and there.

Bauhaus the goth band is ironically named.
If their fans really new bauhaus was they'd be dressed in metallic zoot suit and dance like robots. Which would be really goofy to that music.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2023 09:25 PM (cOq4q)

150 Maury Povich announces!

http://tinyurl.com/4jzh7yc8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:25 PM (FVME7)

151 @147, geez, no kidding, LOL city without end!

like Greek tragedy's central lesson: be careful what you ask for, the gods may hear you and grant your wish ...

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 09:28 PM (kc18b)

152
But they do have a policy against forging official letterhead from the University and that is an expellable offense.

So she gets her wish to be expelled and become a whore.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

"But no one told MEEEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:29 PM (xG4kz)

153 & g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 21, 2023 09:33 PM (kc18b)

154 147...So she gets her wish to be expelled and become a whore.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 21, 2023 09:23 PM (5xURv)

I can't even with the world today. LOL.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2023 09:33 PM (OX9vb)

155 Pelton ad has some black chick singing about the exercise machine's virtue and punctuating each virtue with "gotta love that" but what with her accent I hear "lard ass." I'm not sure that's what Peleton was going for.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 21, 2023 09:34 PM (FVME7)

156 Eh, architecture has fads and fashions just like any other art.

That's why everybody was decorating their houses in Egyptian style when King Tut's tomb was found.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

See also Polyneasian Restaurant buildings during the 60's-70's.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2023 09:35 PM (x7plP)

157 >> That's why everybody was decorating their houses in Egyptian style when King Tut's tomb was found.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

The Flagler* mansion/museum in south Florida is an exercise in kitsch tacky. Various rooms overdone in various styles. Its like he asked every room to be done in different styles and "money was no object" in getting it done.

Still worth visiting if in the area.

*Railroad tycoon. Kept my eye out for a certain item and was not disappointed. A number of "regulator" clocks were their. Regulators predated the Constitution and were the gold standard for clock precision and were the standard for which others to be set. That's my own personal take on what the 2nd means by well-regulated - The fricken BEST!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2023 09:35 PM (cOq4q)

158 130 The same people who are saying it's undemocratic to remove trump from the ballot are out here removing voters from the rolls.

Dead Lives Matter!
Posted by: 18-1

Shameful! They are called the Living Impaired! Be better!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2023 09:36 PM (qKYfj)

159 See also Polyneasian Restaurant buildings during the 60's-70's.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2023 09:35 PM (x7plP)

Ah, yes...the Kahiki Supper Club!

http://tinyurl.com/zuazfrp5

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2023 09:38 PM (OX9vb)

160
You're hearing, "Gotta lard ass"?

LOL

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:38 PM (xG4kz)

161 133 126 Almost time for the annual Christmas Wrapping music video isn't it?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO,
-------------------------

It's almost Zappa time!

Posted by: Braenyard - eliminate Yemen at December 21, 2023 09:38 PM (yc+Nx)

162 Heh heh heh...

Back up the QEW with you Leafs fans

It's a long ride back, losing 9-3

Posted by: browndog getting really tired of all this shit at December 21, 2023 09:38 PM (TTAGa)

163 24 Disconcerting news
My mom called and she had a mini stroke last night, she got to hospital and is fine, no observation for damage but is going to rehabilitation tomorrow and will miss Christmas at home. Would appreciate prayers for recovery.

I'm at work again all night
Posted by: Skip

You got it. My stepdad has been going through the same thing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 07:56 PM (R4t5M)

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

My Mom's in a similar boat. Went to the ER last week with an elevated heart rate. Went from "let's keep you a day for observation" to "you're going to need open heart surgery" in the space of a week. She's just been moved to rehab today.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2023 09:38 PM (F4bAW)

164 I knew you would know that place Dash!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2023 09:39 PM (IaTa3)

165 Firecracker vid was good. Did similar when a kid, but used a hubcap. We didn't have as many cool brands of firecrackers then and there and had to improvise. Last one sent the hubcap arcing over the tree line... we didn't even bother trying to find it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2023 09:39 PM (cOq4q)

166 So she gets her wish to be expelled and become a whore.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I can't even with the world today. LOL.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Hahaha, I'm too slow. Was gonna say she can't even!

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 21, 2023 09:39 PM (ftFVW)

167 Prayers up for all of our parental units that have health issues.

I was very fortunate - I had both sets of my grands until I was in my 40's and my parents both lived into their 80's.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2023 09:41 PM (IaTa3)

168 Everyone have a wonderful night.

May your blessings arrive early, with togetherness, warmth, and no metal protruding from the face or body parts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 09:43 PM (u82oZ)

169
The Flagler* mansion/museum in south Florida is an exercise in kitsch tacky. Various rooms overdone in various styles. Its like he asked every room to be done in different styles and "money was no object" in getting it done.

When Marion DuPont Scott, wife of the actor Randolph Scott, owned James Madison's Virginia home, "Montpelier", she had one room done up all in horsey culture. A "tack" room, as it were. To say that it was truly tacky would be to understate matters.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2023 09:44 PM (xG4kz)

170 I was very fortunate - I had both sets of my grands until I was in my 40's and my parents both lived into their 80's.
Posted by: Tonypete

Just hit 40 and been worried about my folks. They were older for the time when I was born. Dad is nearing 80 and he seems to be showing some wear where he used to be invincible to me.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 21, 2023 09:44 PM (ftFVW)

171 164 I knew you would know that place Dash!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2023 09:39 PM (IaTa3)

I never went there. I'm sad that I didn't.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2023 09:49 PM (OX9vb)

172 That ad picture with the things coming out of the foot is disconcerting.

Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2023 09:51 PM (SYTee)

173
You're hearing, "Gotta lard ass"?

LOL
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

That's what I hear on that ad too.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2023 09:52 PM (63Dwl)

174 The South Florida Bulls are humiliating David French!

Ok, it's Syracuse. 31-0, almost halftime.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2023 09:56 PM (qKYfj)

175 Funny trending post on Reddit. Dude got a raise and is shocked at how much tax he’s paying. Keep voting Democrat asshole.

Posted by: Montec at December 21, 2023 09:56 PM (BW97Y)

176 Prayers for Skip's Mom and D's Mom.
Nice thread.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2023 09:56 PM (rrtZS)

177 God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
Posted by: Otto von Bismarck at December 21, 2023 08:51 PM (jfKqs)
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This is a comfort

Posted by: Drunken American fool at December 21, 2023 09:58 PM (56aLd)

178 NOOD

ONT is here

(I swear, I posted this, and ... it disappeared?)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2023 10:02 PM (qPw5n)

179 Nope. I posted it in Quick Hits first, because... I don't even have any idea why.

Just been that kinda day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2023 10:03 PM (qPw5n)

180 no worries, grumpy. Stuff happens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2023 10:09 PM (u82oZ)

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