Mid-Morning Art Thread

Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer

Posted by: CBD at 09:32 AM

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1 A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 18, 2024 09:32 AM (ENQN6)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2024 09:32 AM (T4tVD)

3 I like this!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

4 Did she just poop out that huge ball?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2024 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Chest clutching?

Posted by: Here we go at April 18, 2024 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

6 What did I miss?

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #11 at April 18, 2024 09:33 AM (qfLjt)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Mornin', CBD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (9yWhg)

9 Eye left tit over there.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (z+89e)

10 There's a dude in the background of the painting of Christ's crucifixion that looks bored at the whole ordeal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

11 Very fine detail in the globe.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

12 Apparently, the "Catholic Faith" is a jumbled mess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (IUd0M)

13 Crushed serpent.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (MvF+J)

14 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:34 AM (9yWhg)

Afternoon! I'm having a pint...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (5Jo4L)

15 Apparently, the "Catholic Faith" is a jumbled mess.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (IUd0M)
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And that's when the Holy War started, Your Honor...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

16 Afternoon! I'm having a pint...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:35 AM (5Jo4L)

Checks watch....

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

17 Is that woman having the big one? Is she comin' to join Eleazar?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

18 She's wearing flip flops. That has to mean something.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (IGKzA)

19 Is the glass globe hanging from the ceiling symbolic of something or is it just a glass globe hanging from the ceiling for decor?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

20 Looks like she's giving birth to a globe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (DQYe1)

21 Izzat a light fixture hanging from a rod?

Posted by: When wuz this? at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (dg+HA)

22 Afternoon! I'm having a pint...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Sorry about yesterday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)

23 Step on snek.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (vtyCZ)

24 Girl should skip lunch a few days a week .

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (tpjlM)

25 Don't know what pendant glass globe means.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (MvF+J)

26 I like this painting EXCEPT for the woman's face.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (JeYYB)

27 It's the big one! I'm comin' Elizabeth!

Posted by: Ribbed at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (Ectld)

28 What is the thing hanging from the blue ribbon? Just a glass ball?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (IUd0M)

29 18 She's wearing flip flops. That has to mean something...

Crocs. The early years.

Posted by: Fashion police at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

30 No sniper in this one, but Martin Luther's hiding right behind that tapestry.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

31 But she's got the biggest balls of them all!

Posted by: Bonn Scott at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

32 She's wearing flip flops. That has to mean something.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (IGKzA)

It means Sponge is turned on...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:39 AM (5Jo4L)

33 What is the thing hanging from the blue ribbon? Just a glass ball?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:38 AM (IUd0M)

When you spend that many guilders on it, it's a "bauble".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2024 09:39 AM (GkFGh)

34 Is the glass globe hanging from the ceiling symbolic of something or is it just a glass globe hanging from the ceiling for decor?
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He was bored with painting round mirrors.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 09:40 AM (vtyCZ)

35 Sorry about yesterday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)

No reason to be.

When I'm serious...you'll know it. I am not subtle.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:40 AM (5Jo4L)

36 I need this Vermeer explained to me.

As if I'm a dummy, so not big stretch.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:40 AM (JeYYB)

37 If I had boobs, I'd be grabbing them with that look on my face, too.

Posted by: That Guy at April 18, 2024 09:40 AM (JCZqz)

38 What is that in the foreground??

Posted by: dantesed at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (88xKn)

39 Morning, art folken,

"An Allegory for the Christian Faith"? Is it because she has one foot atop a globe, implying that Christianity covers and dominates the world?

And the dead (or dying) bleeding serpent on the floor -- that represents the devil, destroyed at last?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

40 Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer

Lesse here...so the Catholic faith is a p[lump girl sitting on a beach ball while alternately reading and looking at a crucifix while squeezing her left tit.

Oh! and an octopus is trying to eat a an Encyclopedia Brittanica on the floor.

...

...

I don't get it.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (eDfFs)

41 36 I rate this one 'very nice' precisely because it prompts so many questions.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (MvF+J)

42 A midget is standing on the globe and flicking her bean.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (R4t5M)

43 I see there's an apple on the floor. We have a theme for the week.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

44 If I had boobs, I'd be grabbing them with that look on my face, too.
Posted by: That Guy

As I guy I knew in the military used to say, "If I had my own pair I'd never leave the house?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)

45 This is how Hillary envisioned herself as President, with the globe underfoot.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

46 Not a jumbled mess, just symbolism. Faith depicted in many ways with symbols.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (2NHgQ)

47 This is after the Reformation?

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (AwYPR)

48 Marguerite was such a drama queen!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (cCVOS)

49 Geez girl. Take your foot off that globe. Thing cost a lot of money.

Posted by: Your grandmother at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

50 No Rosary?
Not Catholic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (V9Kth)

51 Kris, to the white courtesy phone!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

52 When you spend that many guilders on it, it's a "bauble".
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And you tell your curio cabinet friends it's from Venice even though you picked it up at the Amsterdam Pottery Barn.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (vtyCZ)

53 44 Don't know why I made that statement into a question.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)

54 Oh! and an octopus is trying to eat a an Encyclopedia Brittanica on the floor

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (eDfFs)

He's a polypmath.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (GkFGh)

55 This painting is why I'm not Catholic. An enigma, wrapped in a mystery, hidden by layers of confusion.

I'm the guy in the background painting (John, maybe?) looking bored/confused with his head in his hand, like a a kid in school the last week before summer vacation.

Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (0Id0S)

56 Nice Cornerstone crushing the Serpent.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (BHrzb)

57 Girl should skip lunch a few days a week .
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024

***
Order and use an Abdominizer. But don't go to Ye Planet Fitnesse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

58 Compare the exquisite detail on the globe to the roughly dappled detail of the upper left corner.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (MvF+J)

59 Explanation from wiki. Non woke explanation which is unusual for them.
https://tinyurl.com/3cnwtbrh

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (2NHgQ)

60 CBD, black and tan for me, please.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (RIvkX)

61 Paintings within a painting. That's a talent I can't even fathom.

Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (JunzL)

62 Flip flops have been around much longer than I thought.

Posted by: Emmie at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (Sf2cq)

63 32 She's wearing flip flops. That has to mean something.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 18, 2024 09:36 AM (IGKzA)

=======

The British call them thongs.

They also call rain boots wellies.

The British are a silly people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

64 58 Compare the exquisite detail on the globe to the roughly dappled detail of the upper left corner.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (MvF+J)

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There is a lot of detail to be had and then her face is very washed out.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (JeYYB)

65 Oh! and an octopus is trying to eat a an Encyclopedia Brittanica on the floor

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (eDfFs)

He's a polypmath.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2024 09:43 AM (GkFGh)

He's a sucker for that kind of thing.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (eDfFs)

66 Oh! and an octopus is trying to eat a an Encyclopedia Brittanica on the floor

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (eDfFs)

He's a polypmath.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I'm a real sucker for cephalopod puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (9yWhg)

67 No, honey, that's not how you play with a breast. Allow me......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

68 62 Flip flops have been around much longer than I thought.
Posted by: Emmie at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (Sf2cq)

======

Japanese peasants made them out of straw.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 09:45 AM (GBKbO)

69 Lesse here...so the Catholic faith is a p[lump girl sitting on a beach ball...

It's not a beach ball! It's an exercise ball chair! It strengthens my core and improves my posture while I sit. It's exercise!

Posted by: AWFL Lady of the Painting at April 18, 2024 09:45 AM (JCZqz)

70 I see there's an apple on the floor. We have a theme for the week.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

Someone's taken a bite of it.

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 09:45 AM (AwYPR)

71 Crucifix to the left of me, crucifix to the right...

Posted by: Here I am at April 18, 2024 09:45 AM (dg+HA)

72 It means Sponge is turned on...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:39 AM (5Jo4L)

SO rude........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

73 59 Explanation from wiki. Non woke explanation which is unusual for them.
https://tinyurl.com/3cnwtbrh
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (2NHgQ)

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Huh, thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (JeYYB)

74 Benny Hill shows had lots of attractive, young, women, like Hills Angels, but always had one kind of homely, overweight woman on staff to act as a foil. Sometimes playing his wife in a sketch. This lady would fit right in.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (V5BDR)

75 So is she feeling herself up, or flashing a gang sign?

Posted by: red speck at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (0Id0S)

76 72 It means Sponge is turned on...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:39 AM (5Jo4L)

SO rude........
Posted by: Sponge

That's not a denial lol...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

77 I'm guessing she has a thyroid condition as well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (V9Kth)

78 Looks nicely detailed but what is the ball doing there?

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (I4wQC)

79 Wish I could make out what's reflected in the glass globe more clearly.

Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (oaGWv)

80 Background, so more than him having an R.C. client/patron...

This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic, draws on the complex language of allegory to depict the triumph of the Catholic Church. A woman, representing the church itself, places one foot atop a globe, while, in the foreground, the cornerstone of the church crushes the serpent of evil. Vermeer converted to Catholicism before his marriage, and this painting, which includes a table laden with chalice, missal, and crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" within private homes. The Crucifixion scene in the background is based on a painting in Vermeer’s collection by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens.

https://tinyurl.com/3bd5mees
More [but not Thomas More] under the Catalogue Entry tab/link.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (vtyCZ)

81
That's not a denial lol...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

I've always said women can wear flipflops because in most cases, their feet aren't hideous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

82 Suddenly the heavens roared
Suddenly the rain came down
Suddenly was washed away
The Mary that I knew
So when you find somebody you keep
Think of me and celebrate
I made such a big mistake
When I was Mary's prayer
So if I say, "Save me, save me"
Be the light in my eyes
And if I say ten Hail Mary's
Leave a light on in Heaven for me...

Posted by: Danny Wilson at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (cDEsv)

83
Ha ha!

Bulgaroctonus came in 2nd to me on the sucker" pun.

Victory!

Vindication!

...

...

I got nuthin'....

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (eDfFs)

84 Benny Hill shows had lots of attractive, young, women, like Hills Angels, but always had one kind of homely, overweight woman on staff to act as a foil. Sometimes playing his wife in a sketch. This lady would fit right in.
Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at April 18, 2024 09:46 AM (V5BDR)

*searches for the skit where the waitress pulls condiments out of her bra*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

85 I've always said women can wear flipflops because in most cases, their feet aren't hideous.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, but they still make that hideous racket.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

86 There's a giant pumpkin on the tapestry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (R4t5M)

87 From the Wikipedia entry, one fusty old critic sniffs "The iconographic demands of this subject strained the credibility of his realistic approach."

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (MvF+J)

88 I need this Vermeer explained to me.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:40 AM (JeYYB)

Me too!

Although I think the suspended glass ball is just Vermeer showing off.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (5DeIy)

89 317 Wish I could make out what's reflected in the glass globe more clearly.
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (oaGWv)
******
Siamese fighting fish.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

90 The British call them thongs.

They also call rain boots wellies.

The British are a silly people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

Boots and bonnets and boots and bonnets and boots and bonnets.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Yeah, but they still make that hideous racket.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)

You'll get no argument from me.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

92 kthhhok kthhhok kthhhok....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (GkFGh)

93 This one is chock full of symbolism. There's a dead snake on the floor, crushed by a stone. An apple with a bite out of it lies near it. Both represent original sin and the dead snake recalls the prophecy in Genesis of his crushed head. The scene of the Crucifixion in the background then becomes the redemption of Sin. The woman might represent the Church, maybe? Her foot is on a globe of the cosmos and she leans on an altar in a state of relief/ecstasy/worship. The glass ball is interesting. A symbol of reflection? Reflect on your life?

Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

94 The British are no longer British. You’ll come to miss the silliness soon.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (tpjlM)

95 Flip-flops make good shower shoes. That's it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (R4t5M)

96 Lovely.
One of the ships sent to create the pier in Gaza lost an engine.
Had to come back.

What's Going On With Shipping Sal told me on utube.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (ufFY8)

97 Portrayal of globes in Vermeer's paintings
Scholars have argued that the globes depicted in celebrated 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer's 1668 The Astronomer and 1669 The Geographer were based on a pair of globes by Hondius.[11] Close inspection of these two globes reveals striking similarities to a pair of globes made in 1618 by Hondius. The globes were made as pendants, one depicting the earth while the other depicted the constellations. In Vermeer's The Astronomer the scholar consults a version of Hondius' celestial globe and in The Geographer Hondius' terrestrial globe can be seen placed atop the back cabinet. A version of Hondius' celestial globe can be found in the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam and the terrestrial globe can be found in The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York City.
https://tinyurl.com/mt8dh98s

The world:
https://3.api.artsmia.org/800/76030.jpg

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (vtyCZ)

98 Ha ha!

Bulgaroctonus came in 2nd to me on the sucker" pun.

Victory!

Vindication!

...

...

I got nuthin'....
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, had I come in first, I would naut be at ilus for words, as you apparently are.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

99 I've always said women can wear flipflops because in most cases, their feet aren't hideous.
Posted by: Sponge

Yeah, but they still make that hideous racket.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (9yWhg)
******
Pedicure with painted toenails is a must.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (NpAcC)

100 Vermeer was Reformed, and had to convert to please his mother-in-law. Allegory that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (zdLoL)

101 It looks like a "jumbled mess" because you don't have your Catholic Symbol Decoder Ring.

B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R

Er, anyway, it's still more coherent than anything "Popo Francis" says.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (BHrzb)

102

*searches for the skit where the waitress pulls condiments out of her bra.

Don't order tea with milk!

Posted by: Arts and Farces at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (V5BDR)

103 I've always said women can wear flipflops because in most cases, their feet aren't hideous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Which is amazing considering the idiotic shit they stuff their feet into.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (IUd0M)

104 87 From the Wikipedia entry, one fusty old critic sniffs "The iconographic demands of this subject strained the credibility of his realistic approach."
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading

Unlike the bold simplicity of "Piss Christ" or "The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili, which took a brave, controversial but clear message full of unambiguous, but stunning, allegory.

Posted by: Fusty Art Critics Review, continued at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

105 This one is chock full of symbolism. There's a dead snake on the floor, crushed by a stone. An apple with a bite out of it lies near it. Both represent original sin and the dead snake recalls the prophecy in Genesis of his crushed head. The scene of the Crucifixion in the background then becomes the redemption of Sin. The woman might represent the Church, maybe? Her foot is on a globe of the cosmos and she leans on an altar in a state of relief/ecstasy/worship. The glass ball is interesting. A symbol of reflection? Reflect on your life?
Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

What about the giant pumpkin on the tapestry?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (R4t5M)

106 Who's the guy in the robe giving our Lord a testicular exam?

Posted by: Art critic at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (vfoWm)

107 ******
Siamese fighting fish.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

My brother had one of those in a small tank on his desk. A friend had one and brought it over for him to take care of while they were out of town.

The guest committed suicide attempting to attack the other and was found on the floor in the direction of the other tank.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

108 No Rosary?
Not Catholic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 09:42 AM (V9Kth)

Hello nurse. You've reminded me of one of my many burning questions. Not very long ago, my husband took possession of a number of odd and ends that no one had claimed when his mother was moved into assisted living.

Among these things were 2 or 3 Rosarys(ies?) that belonged to his grandmother.

I think they're beautiful. But I'm not Catholic (and it seems that the religion lost a lot of influence in his family after his mother divorced in the 80s). Although one of my sisters-in-law is Catholic, she didn't keep them although I'm sure she had the opportunity.

Do you have any suggestions as to what I should do with these? Would someone buy them? Should I give them to a church?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (JCLJi)

109 This is surprising. Google fired 28 employees who took part in the pro-Hamas protests.

FAFO

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (tpjlM)

110 I guess things have changed a lot since this was painted.
Today Vermeer makes an extensive line of machinery.
For example that big chipper shredder you see when tree removal work is being done.

Posted by: But I don't know much about art at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (dg+HA)

111
heh.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 09:54 AM (eDfFs)

112 A symbol of reflection? Reflect on your life?
Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

Although I think the suspended glass ball is just Vermeer showing off.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 09:49 AM (5DeIy)

That too. These guys really liked showing off. But is it really bragging if you can back it up?

Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:54 AM (OyyDO)

113 The British are no longer British. You’ll come to miss the silliness soon.
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (tpjlM)

The British created "Palestine." So let them reap the benefits of their action.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

114 The apple on the floor has a bite taken out of it. To the right of the crushed serpent. Alluding to Eve?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 18, 2024 09:54 AM (Y6IkP)

115 Juror #2 on the Trump trial told judge that after sleeping on it she didn't think she could be fair, so he has dismissed her.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2024 09:55 AM (NpAcC)

116 The British call them thongs.

They also call rain boots wellies.

The British are a silly people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024
*
Boots and bonnets and boots and bonnets and boots and bonnets.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024

***
And the "hood" on a car is what we call a convertible top. "Wellies" is short for "Wellingtons." I think that's also a term, maybe in Australia, for what we call roper boots: fairly-low-heeled cowboy-type boots with a portion above the ankle lower than the classic cowboy item.

Though I recall, back in the '70s, thong sandals were known here as "flip-flops" too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

117 106 Who's the guy in the robe giving our Lord a testicular exam?

This place.

Posted by: Snort at April 18, 2024 09:56 AM (dg+HA)

118 86 There's a giant pumpkin on the tapestry.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 09:48 AM (R4t5M)

Go on

Posted by: Linus Van Pelt at April 18, 2024 09:56 AM (z+89e)

119
Which is amazing considering the idiotic shit they stuff their feet into.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 09:52 AM (IUd0M)

Unless they're ballet dancers. Those broads feet are messed up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

120 The guest committed suicide attempting to attack the other and was found on the floor in the direction of the other tank.
Posted by: Sponge

We had one, too, for exactly a year. Bought it on Christmas Eve as a present for our son. Exactly a year later, on the next Christmas Eve, we noticed the fish tank had no fish in it. He was on the floor, apparently the result of his trying to fight his own reflection.

Stupid fish.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)

121 Is that maybe an apple on the floor?

Posted by: m at April 18, 2024 09:56 AM (o3SCB)

122 She gave birth to a beautiful Nerf ball.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 09:57 AM (Ag7IE)

123 58 Compare the exquisite detail on the globe to the roughly dappled detail of the upper left corner.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at April 18, 2024 09:44 AM (MvF+J)

d'appled

Posted by: m at April 18, 2024 09:57 AM (o3SCB)

124 I've always said women can wear flipflops because in most cases, their feet aren't hideous.
Posted by: Sponge

I knew this lady, Mrs. Musgrove, who always went barefoot and wore bright MooMoos whenever she was out and about. A large woman, about 5 feet 8 inches and 300 pounds.

Her feet looked like an Elephant's feet, all crusty and grey and ashy with yellow potato chip toenails about an inch long.

She fit this line from "Poke Salad Annie".

"A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin woman
Lord have Mercy, pick a mess of it..."

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2024 09:57 AM (cDEsv)

125 I remember I got angry they took Benny Hill off the air because he was too...I don't recall the bullshit they cited. Something about women being offended.

He was silly and fun.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 09:57 AM (JeYYB)

126 She's manspreading.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

127 Do you have any suggestions as to what I should do with these? Would someone buy them? Should I give them to a church?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

Perhaps go to your local parish and ask the priest if he would like to have them for donation to the school kids for their First Communion. It's traditional that kids get a Rosary on that day.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 09:58 AM (/4+vQ)

128 114 The apple on the floor has a bite taken out of it. To the right of the crushed serpent. Alluding to Eve?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 18, 2024 09:54 AM (Y6IkP)

Yes. They connect to the Crucifixion scene in back. Sin and redemption.

Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:58 AM (OyyDO)

129 The chair really pulls the whole room together.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 18, 2024 09:58 AM (Y6IkP)

130 CBD. Speculation is that the glass globe represents heaven.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 09:58 AM (2NHgQ)

131 The usual Vermeer evocative painting with wonderful detail and use of color. I wasn't sure if it was a celebration of Catholicism or a condemnation. Had to look it up to learn Vermeer converted to the Catholic church when he married and this painting exemplified the Mass celebrated in private homes.

I wish I could see a Vermeer in person and close to see how he applied paint so effectively.

Posted by: JTB at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (zudum)

132 Democrats keep control of the Michigan house after key special elections. Two seats. One was strong Dem, and it went 95-4. Yes, a 91 point win. The other is a swing district and the Dem won 60-38. This was a district that Trump won in 2016.

Dems won by 91 points!!! Holy Cannoli!!! If this keeps up, we may have a really great November!

As a Michigander I'm relieved and very happy. Getting ready for Big Gretch to make a run in '28...no matter the outcome of this election I think she's the Dem front runner 4 years from now. She's formidable.

I love Gavin, but will California be cleaned up by then? Kamala would make a kick-ass president; Gretch may be the one!

The post-Trump Republican party is not going to be pretty folks. More likely that the party will go away forever.

These were low voter turnout elections, but darned if they weren’t huge Dem wins. It’s special election after special election of Dems outperforming the polls and previous elections. If the roles were reversed it would be media doom and gloom for Biden and Dems 24/7. There’s a Blue Wave coming, and no one is talking about it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

133 Shouldn't have had that second calzone.

Posted by: Zek at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (5FPX4)

134 He was silly and fun.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I loved it when he'd pat the little bald guy on the head.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

135 130 CBD. Speculation is that the glass globe represents heaven.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 09:58 AM (2NHgQ)

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CBD is right though, painting it is an incredible talent.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (JeYYB)

136 CBD, how much Islamification do you see in London?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

137 special election after special election of Dems outperforming the polls and previous elections.

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This is true for ones the media covers. Republicans have won plenty of special elections as well but you never hear about it.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (tpjlM)

138 The way the light sparkles of certain objects in the painting is lovely.

Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 10:01 AM (OyyDO)

139 If you search for clear glass globe and Catholicism, ta da, you get this painting. So, not a common theme of heaven, speculation at it's best.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 18, 2024 10:01 AM (2NHgQ)

140 132 I love Gavin, but will California be cleaned up by then? Kamala would make a kick-ass president; Gretch may be the one!

These were low voter turnout elections, but darned if they weren’t huge Dem wins. It’s special election after special election of Dems outperforming the polls and previous elections. If the roles were reversed it would be media doom and gloom for Biden and Dems 24/7. There’s a Blue Wave coming, and no one is talking about it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

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1. CA needs cleaning up? This person gonna get banned.
2. Special elections are not predictive. Never have been. This isn't the moment they suddenly are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

141 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

Sad thing is, you'll really miss the country after you've destroyed it and get what you want.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

142 Provenance:

Herman Stoffelsz van Swoll, Amsterdam (until d. 1698; his estate sale, Amsterdam, April 22, 1699, no. 25, for fl. 400 ); sale, Amsterdam, July 13, 1718, no. 8, for fl. 500; sale, Amsterdam, April 19, 1735, no. 11, for fl. 53; [David Ietswart, until 1749; sale, Amsterdam, April 22, 1749, no. 152, for fl. 70 to Ravensberg]; private collection, Austria (in 1824); Dmitri Shchukin, Moscow (1899); [Wächtler, Berlin, 1899; sold for 700 marks to Bredius]; Abraham Bredius, The Hague (1899–1928, on loan to Mauritshuis, The Haugue, 1899–1923, and to Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1923–28; sold to Kleinberger); [Kleinberger, Paris, 1928; sold to Friedsam]; Michael Friedsam, New York (1928–d. 1931)
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From 500 florins in 1718 to 70 florins in 1749 but back to 'valuable' status in 1899 it looks like.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:01 AM (vtyCZ)

143 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

Big Gretch?...Big Retch

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

144 Ow! My left bewb.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (MsrgL)

145
Big Gretch?...Big Retch
Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

The Gretch Who Stole Everything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

146 There truly is an insurmountable divide in this country. I will not accept utterances from a dunce saying Kamala or Gretchen would be good Presidents.

FFS.

And I'm sure they think I'm nuts thinking Trump should not be subject to lawfare.

We're screwed.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (JeYYB)

147 143 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 18, 2024 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

Big Gretch?...Big Retch
Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

Nice!

Posted by: m at April 18, 2024 10:03 AM (o3SCB)

148 144 Ow! My left bewb.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (MsrgL)

Or heartburn?

Posted by: m at April 18, 2024 10:03 AM (o3SCB)

149 The British created "Palestine." So let them reap the benefits of their action.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:03 AM (vtyCZ)

150 Thank you nurse. I'll do that.

Hope your day is good.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 18, 2024 10:03 AM (JCLJi)

151 While noisier stories abound I think the most important one this week was Maine quietly knocking another stone out of the foundation by adopting the "popular vote contract." Because "Democracy, duh."

We are ruled by morons (and not the good kind).

Posted by: Zek at April 18, 2024 10:04 AM (5FPX4)

152 Painting is known alternately as "Allegory of Faith," "Allegory of Christian Faith," and "Allegory of The Catholic Faith."

You can sure tell who's in power over there, over the years.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 10:04 AM (zdLoL)

153 Catholicism was outlawed in Massachusetts for over 1p0 years. Priests risked the death penalty. The first Catholic church was not allowed until 1788 in Boston

Make America Great Again

Posted by: Paul banned at April 18, 2024 10:04 AM (eoWeL)

154 Kathy Staff was Benny's large, homely, cast member for several years. She is more famous for playing Nora Batty on Last of the Summer Wine for many years. She was the object of Compo's affection for decades. LOTSW is the longest running sitcom in the world and Kathy Staff was on it from 1973-2008.

Posted by: Lost World at April 18, 2024 10:04 AM (V5BDR)

155
Success - a limerick

The young Catholic woman, Miss Sweet
At last her life's work was complete
Grabbed a handful of breast
And took a hard-earned rest
Seems she had the whole world at her feet

Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:05 AM (991eG)

156 146 There truly is an insurmountable divide in this country. I will not accept utterances from a dunce saying Kamala or Gretchen would be good Presidents.

FFS.

And I'm sure they think I'm nuts thinking Trump should not be subject to lawfare.

We're screwed.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (JeYYB)

=======

Insty highlighted an Ann Althouse post yesterday where she did her thing of highlighting well-received comments at The NYT about a topic. This was about the NPR fiasco.

The top comments at NYT were all about how NPR had become terrible because of the knee-jerk progressivism. DU, in contrast, was criticizing NPR for being "just center left of center right".

DU is EXTREMELY left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

157 Random Google special election result:

Acting Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman won a special election April 16 to keep the office following the sudden death of former Supervisor Tom Diana in January. The Republican, beat his opponent, Democrat Jann Mirchandanni, 4,198-3,498. Lachterman took about 55% of the votes, according to results from the Westchester County Board of Elections.

This is in New York. But yeah Dems are sweeping man!!

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:05 AM (tpjlM)

158
I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 18, 2024 10:05 AM (X4yCj)

159 Posted by: Paul banned at April 18, 2024 10:04 AM (eoWeL)

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The left is all about religious prosecution, unless you target Muslims, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

160 CBD & Kris
Thank you for the wonderful art as well as your write-up about the piece. Truly appreciate the insight you provide. I'm not one to be able to pick up on the subtle nuances of a masterpiece like you two do. Thank you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 18, 2024 10:06 AM (N39Ws)

161 Woman's thought bubble: "Woe! Alas!!"

A Moron's thought bubble: "Whoa! A lass!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:06 AM (991eG)

162 Her foot is on a globe of the cosmos and she leans on an altar in a state of relief/ecstasy/worship. The glass ball is interesting. A symbol of reflection? Reflect on your life?
Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 09:51 AM (OyyDO)

"I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8,1-3 RSV CE 2

Perfect crystal bowl. Would hang.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:07 AM (rj6Yv)

163 Religion, politics, and sex. Recipe for……..hurt…….feelings.

Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2024 10:07 AM (o2ZRX)

164 Woman's thought bubble: "Woe! Alas!!"

A Moron's thought bubble: "Whoa! A lass!!"
Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:06 AM (991eG)

"Turn around. Let's see datass!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

165 "The glass sphere, hanging from a ribbon, was a popular decorative curiosity; in this context, it may be viewed as a symbol of heaven or God."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:07 AM (vtyCZ)

166 Religion, politics, and sex. Recipe for……..hurt…….feelings.
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2024 10:07 AM (o2ZRX)

Washington DC, in a day ending in 'day.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

167 Interesting to note that as the Mass was outlawed at this time and place the painting represents the Catholic Church hidden behind a tapestry which went retracted shows all is not as it seemed to the gov of that time.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 18, 2024 10:09 AM (hmWcn)

168 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. A lot going on in this painting. And there...SNEKS!!!THERE'S SNEKS!!!
Goes looking for coffee. And a gun.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:09 AM (W/lyH)

169 A Beautiful painting, and the historical background makes it even more interesting

Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (VPuca)

170 Pauls up early. I guess he must have a client who likes to fuck in the morning.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (tpjlM)

171 She looks more like a Pentecostal to me.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (SfhV1)

172 Strangely, this is the first time I've seen an image of this Vermeer painting.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (rj6Yv)

173 Pauls up early. I guess he must have a client who likes to fuck in the morning.
Posted by: Montec at April

Maybe the meth from last night hasnt worn off yet

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (CIS44)

174 Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer

So what's the Allegory Kenneth ?

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2024 10:10 AM (T4tVD)

175 1p0 years. Is that common core math?

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:11 AM (tpjlM)

176 She looks more like a Pentecostal to me.
Posted by: grammie winger

Then she's wasting that perfectly good snake on the floor that she could be handling.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:12 AM (9yWhg)

177 171 She looks more like a Pentecostal to me.
Posted by: grammie winger

The snake wouldn't be dead. She be holding it, while marching around the room and speaking in tongues.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

178 I'm a sucker for good allegory -- picking apart complex imagery and symbols to get to a larger, deeper meaning.

Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (OyyDO)

179 "The room itself, with its high ceiling, marble floor, and a large altarpiece based on a work by Jacob Jordaens (possibly identical with one in Vermeer's estate), was meant to be recognized by contemporary viewers as a private chapel installed within a large house or some other secular building. Though apparently an illusionistic device, the tapestry at left would also have been understood as part of a very large hanging, drawn aside to reveal a normally secluded space (Liedtke 2007)."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (vtyCZ)

180 So what's the scene depicted on the tapestry?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (dg+HA)

181 CBD, how much Islamification do you see in London?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

A lot. Tons of wogs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 10:15 AM (tlvmM)

182 Pretty soon the woman in the painting is going to start dancing and singing about lowering her A1C.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:15 AM (W/lyH)

183 I'm a sucker for good allegory

I hear they cook up some great allegory gumbo in South Florida.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:15 AM (9yWhg)

184 178 I'm a sucker for good allegory -- picking apart complex imagery and symbols to get to a larger, deeper meaning.
Posted by: Kris at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (OyyDO)

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#MeToo

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 10:16 AM (JeYYB)

185 Hatsune Miku is 16.

Oh kami.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2024 10:16 AM (HUco/)

186 182 Pretty soon the woman in the painting is going to start dancing and singing about lowering her A1C.

Is she vaxxed? Boosted?

Posted by: Your neighborhood Karen at April 18, 2024 10:17 AM (dg+HA)

187 Allegory of the Catholic Faith

*********

Go ahead! Indulge yourself!

/M. Luther

Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:17 AM (991eG)

188 Singing?

She has a future with JG Wentworth

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (HUco/)

189 /M. Luther
Posted by: Muldoon

Didn't he have an assistant named Otis?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)

190 Ah, the old camera obscura trick guy. I like his stuff.

Posted by: javems at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (hlqqA)

191 156 146 There truly is an insurmountable divide in this country. I will not accept utterances from a dunce saying Kamala or Gretchen would be good Presidents.

We're screwed.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 18, 2024 10:02 AM (JeYYB)

=======

Insty highlighted an Ann Althouse post yesterday where she did her thing of highlighting well-received comments at The NYT about a topic. This was about the NPR fiasco.

The top comments at NYT were all about how NPR had become terrible because of the knee-jerk progressivism. DU, in contrast, was criticizing NPR for being "just center left of center right".

DU is EXTREMELY left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The political/media/gentry class in this country is united against the people of the United States and to that end they use race, religion, envy, hatred, and criminals to attack the normies.

If you look at underlying polling, on a substantial number of questions, you get something like 60-80 percent or so agree with sane public policy. But, the uniparty drones do not because quite simply to them dividing people is how to get power and money if you are a thoroughly mediocre and undeserving pos of a person.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (bFy6V)

192 So what's the scene depicted on the tapestry?
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I assume an ordinary hunting/general life scene as it's supposed to be secular to hide the hidden forbidden private R.C. chapel behind it.
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Related: Why The FBI’s Assault On Catholics Threatens All Christians
Betrayal. If I could sum it all up in one word, it would have to be “betrayal.”

“This is what being stabbed in the back feels like,” I thought to myself on that winter day when I first laid eyes on the FBI’s anti-Catholic “Richmond memo.”

My reaction was predictable. I am Catholic, and I thought it was appalling, plain and simple.

Of all the groups our top federal law enforcement agency would write an 11-page document targeting, they picked us. With all of the crime going on in the country, especially in the last few years, the FBI decided we Catholics were the problem.
https://tinyurl.com/ywhvz47z
The Federalist

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (vtyCZ)

193 Catholic churches were banned in all of the American colonies. Maryland was a bit more tolerant; the rich families, like the Carrolls, built private chapels on their estates and allowed fellow Catholics to worship there, too.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (rj6Yv)

194 191 If you look at underlying polling, on a substantial number of questions, you get something like 60-80 percent or so agree with sane public policy. But, the uniparty drones do not because quite simply to them dividing people is how to get power and money if you are a thoroughly mediocre and undeserving pos of a person.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (bFy6V)

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Which lends a lot of credence to the idea that DU is almost all older federal employees.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

195 180 So what's the scene depicted on the tapestry?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 18, 2024 10:13 AM (dg+HA)

“This is a castle, and we have many tapestries. But if you are Scottish Lord, I am Mickey Mouse!”

~ Castle Butler in Last Crusade

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 18, 2024 10:20 AM (YwyqV)

196 193 Catholic churches were banned in all of the American colonies. Maryland was a bit more tolerant; the rich families, like the Carrolls, built private chapels on their estates and allowed fellow Catholics to worship there, too.
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (rj6Yv)

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The only good Puritan was Solomon Kane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

197 Catholic churches were banned in all of the American colonies. Maryland was a bit more tolerant; the rich families, like the Carrolls, built private chapels on their estates and allowed fellow Catholics to worship there, too.
Posted by: mrp

Really? I thought Maryland was expressly founded as a Catholic colony.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:21 AM (9yWhg)

198 Solomon Grundy > Soloman Kane

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 10:21 AM (CIS44)

199 Pretty soon the woman in the painting is going to start dancing and singing about lowering her A1C.
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

Oh man! I love chubby smiling, lip-synching bouncy-dancing Jardiance woman!

(The original outdoors one, not the lame new one in the office.)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (991eG)

200 Which lends a lot of credence to the idea that DU is almost all older federal employees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

I was thinking GOP consultants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (IUd0M)

201 200 Which lends a lot of credence to the idea that DU is almost all older federal employees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

I was thinking GOP consultants.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (IUd0M)

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Distinction without a difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

202 Which lends a lot of credence to the idea that DU is almost all older federal employees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

I was thinking GOP consultants.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

this venn diagram is a circle

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (CIS44)

203 Really? I thought Maryland was expressly founded as a Catholic colony.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:21 AM (9yWhg)

It was, but that experiment didn't last long after Cromwell became Lord Protector.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:23 AM (rj6Yv)

204
this venn diagram is a circle

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (CIS44)

*creams*

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at April 18, 2024 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

205 CBD, how much Islamification do you see in London?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

A lot. Tons of wogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 10:15 AM

Well *we* sure as hell didn't want them!

Posted by: Calais at April 18, 2024 10:23 AM (Wnv9h)

206 I'm still thinking about CBD's current (or already consumed) ale.
Inquiring minds need to know what type today: another cake?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM (hmWcn)

207 Oh man! I love chubby smiling, lip-synching bouncy-dancing Jardiance woman!

(The original outdoors one, not the lame new one in the office.)
Posted by: Muldoon

The Crestor lady is my favorite.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM (9yWhg)

208 *Really? I thought Maryland was expressly founded as a Catholic colony.*

Still doesn't excuse the hideous state flag.

Posted by: Don't get me started at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM (dg+HA)

209 Oh man! I love chubby smiling, lip-synching bouncy-dancing Jardiance woman!

(The original outdoors one, not the lame new one in the office.)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 18, 2024 10:22 AM (991eG)

"I've got type 2 diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow...."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Still doesn't excuse the hideous state flag.
Posted by: Don't get me started

Maryland peeps sure do love that thing tho

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

211 The Crestor lady is my favorite.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM

Could be worse.

- Singing Cologuard Users

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (Wnv9h)

212 Could be worse.

- Singing Cologuard Users
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (Wnv9h)

"I'm gonna shit in a box and ship it somewhere!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

213 It was, but that experiment didn't last long after Cromwell became Lord Protector.
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:23 AM (rj6Yv)

OK. Did it go back to being openly Catholic when Cromwell was gone? Charles II liked Maryland because of its support for him during the Civil War. That's why he gave it the entire Potomac River. I gotta think that he would've indulged their religious preferences as well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

214 Oh man! I love chubby smiling, lip-synching bouncy-dancing Jardiance woman!

I prefer the chubby, black, feller in the Oak Street Health ad who shucks and jives for the entire commercial. I would never sign up for Oak Street Health because I'd be afraid they'd expect me to shuffle and dance for the entire visit.

Posted by: Two Left Feet at April 18, 2024 10:27 AM (V5BDR)

215 Related: Why The FBI’s Assault On Catholics Threatens All Christians
Betrayal. If I could sum it all up in one word, it would have to be “betrayal.”

“This is what being stabbed in the back feels like,” I thought to myself on that winter day when I first laid eyes on the FBI’s anti-Catholic “Richmond memo.”

My reaction was predictable. I am Catholic, and I thought it was appalling, plain and simple.

Of all the groups our top federal law enforcement agency would write an 11-page document targeting, they picked us. With all of the crime going on in the country, especially in the last few years, the FBI decided we Catholics were the problem.
https://tinyurl.com/ywhvz47z
The Federalist
Posted by: andycanuck

USMC Combat Arms Survey
The fact that 25% areed with firing on fellow citizens is appalling.

https://tinyurl.com/USMC-Survey

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:27 AM (aNhid)

216 Still doesn't excuse the hideous state flag.
Posted by: Don't get me started

Seriously. Talk about triggering seizures.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

217 I was last in London in 2014 and it was Londonistan. I can only imagine what another 10 years of open borders plus the Syrian “refugee crisis” have brought.
I was also I. London in 1997 and 1999 and it was still London. Fun town back then.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:29 AM (tpjlM)

218 *The Crestor lady is my favorite."

Stupid bears and the toilet paper.

Posted by: Make it stop at April 18, 2024 10:29 AM (dg+HA)

219 Stupid bears and the toilet paper.
Posted by: Make it stop

I loathe those ads.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

220
I loathe those ads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

221 Pickled eggs and Iron City beer are musts before Cologuard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (R4t5M)

222 Google Arrests / Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel

Axed workers targeted Google's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus

Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

223 Burger King ads. The offtone singing. BK blah blah blugh blah...

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (Ag7IE)

224 Could be worse.

- Singing Cologuard Users
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (Wnv9h)

"I'm gonna shit in a box and ship it somewhere!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

IRS HQ
Washington, DC

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (aNhid)

225 I need drugs for this uncontrollable muscle movement caused by drugs so people see me for me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

226 Pickled eggs and Iron City beer are musts before Cologuard.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Is a must before Opera.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:32 AM (aNhid)

227 Fucking bears.

Posted by: Mr. Whipple at April 18, 2024 10:32 AM (R4t5M)

228 Google Arrests / Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel

Axed workers targeted Google's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I am honestly shocked by this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

229 "I prefer the chubby, black, feller in the Oak Street Health ad who shucks and jives for the entire commercial."

https://youtu.be/v6rLKBcz0FU

Posted by: Colonel Potter at April 18, 2024 10:33 AM (dg+HA)

230 194 191 If you look at underlying polling, on a substantial number of questions, you get something like 60-80 percent or so agree with sane public policy. But, the uniparty drones do not because quite simply to them dividing people is how to get power and money if you are a thoroughly mediocre and undeserving pos of a person.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:18 AM (bFy6V)

=======

Which lends a lot of credence to the idea that DU is almost all older federal employees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Throw in university and ed establishment types, I would agree.

Essentially bureaucrats very easily become Stalinists because that type flourishes in hierarchical organizations where you cannot measure actual performance or merit.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:33 AM (bFy6V)

231 223 Burger King ads

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us.
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way.

That was written by Barry Manilow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

232 So, who's excited about Rebel Moon Part 2 releasing tomorrow?

Snyder has said he might do four more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

233 It’s cute some of you still think public opinion matters to politicians,

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:34 AM (tpjlM)

234 That was written by Barry Manilow.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:33 AM

Well, he writes the songs that make the whole world sing. Don't ask me how I know this. (Scampers out of room to secure man card)

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 10:34 AM (Ag7IE)

235 Wasn’t nimbus a 90s band?

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:35 AM (tpjlM)

236 > Google Arrests / Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel
_________

IIRC they spent a considerable amount of time in the office of the person responsible for this "Project Nimbus."

$1.2B isn't chump change, even for Google.

Someone must have given the old axiom "time is money" a second thought.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2024 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

237 It’s cute some of you still think public opinion matters to politicians,
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:34 AM

Or companies.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 10:35 AM (Ag7IE)

238 Burger King ads

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us.
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way.

That was written by Barry Manilow.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Circa - 1974

Burger King ads

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us.
All we ask is that you let us serve it OUR way.

Circa 2024

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:36 AM (aNhid)

239 The Burger King is downright creepy.

Posted by: Kinda pedo at April 18, 2024 10:36 AM (dg+HA)

240 When will GenZ employees learn they don’t run the company that employs them?

Answer: never

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:37 AM (tpjlM)

241 OK. Did it go back to being openly Catholic when Cromwell was gone? Charles II liked Maryland because of its support for him during the Civil War. That's why he gave it the entire Potomac River. I gotta think that he would've indulged their religious preferences as well.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

Yes, Catholic tolerance was re-instituted, briefly. After Virginia re-instituted Anglicanism in the colony, the Puritans there left in a huff and moved to Maryland. They promptly rebelled against the MD colonial government and outlawed Catholic assemblies. The Royal Governor sent an army to rout the Puritans. The Catholics lost at the so-called "Battle of the Severn" and the Puritans cinched down control even further after William of Orange was victorious in the "Glorious Revolution". Catholic emancipation had to wait until the American Revolution.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:37 AM (rj6Yv)

242 Why the hell are you watching commercials?

They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 18, 2024 10:37 AM (Z8Yh2)

243 The Burger King is downright creepy.
Posted by: Kinda pedo

Especially in that one ad where he shows up in someone's bed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)

244 The glass ball seems to be reflecting a completely different room. All the subjects in the foreground are missing from its reflection. The curtain, the lady, all gone. Instead you have a room with light shining through window with a table at its center. Various items are placed on the table. Odd.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (Y6IkP)

245 I think BK pulled the plug on the Pedo King. Beyond fucking creepy.

Posted by: Mr. Whipple at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (R4t5M)

246 Via Insty and OT:
Ann Althouse: “I don’t like how the Board is conflating the prosecution and the court and the rule of law. The rule of law is an abstraction. Rights exist within the abstraction, but rights can be violated. The abstraction doesn’t guarantee the rights. People exercising power must ensure that those rights are protected, and they may deviously hide behind the abstraction… perhaps with the help of elite onlookers who make abstract pronouncements in print. Trump’s assertion that the prosecution is “unfair and politically motivated” is may be true even if the court carries out its duties perfectly. Trump may be “fortunate to live in a country” that has some dedication to the rule of law, but that doesn’t deprive him of the reason to complain that the prosecution seems politically motivated. Again, even if the court perfectly carries out its obligation to the rule of law, Trump is motivated to cry out about the onerous prosecutions, which are undercutting his ability to campaign for the presidency.”

Me: Wow Ann. You managed to write an entire paragraph and say virtually nothing. She did make sure everyone know she is not on Trump's side. Thanks Ann!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (di6C2)

247 Biden Falsely Claims That WWII Uncle Eaten By Cannibals, Twice

Joe is either dementia ridden or is the biggest liar in DC
I'll let him choose, but either way he is unfit for office.

Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

248 off tp sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (R4t5M)

249 Well, he writes the songs that make the whole world sing. Don't ask me how I know this. (Scampers out of room to secure man card)
Posted by: Minnfidel

It's earworm Thursday!
EVERYONE GETS AN EARWORM!

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
And I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony (Sing it all over)
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
La, la, la, la
To, do, do, do, do, do
La, la, la
I'd like to teach the world to sing

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (aNhid)

250 246 Me: Wow Ann. You managed to write an entire paragraph and say virtually nothing. She did make sure everyone know she is not on Trump's side. Thanks Ann!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (di6C2)

========

That law school education and career of teaching law really comes through clearly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

251 Burger King ads. The offtone singing. BK blah blah blugh blah...
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 10:31 AM (Ag7IE)

Yes! I always manage to hit the mute button right AFTER the "YOU RULE!".

Bleh. Horrible stuff.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (JCLJi)

252 Regarding the Vermeer, typical. Even I recognize the style.

Check the curtains. Pretty sure those were hand made.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (Z8Yh2)

253 247 Biden Falsely Claims That WWII Uncle Eaten By Cannibals, Twice

Joe is either dementia ridden or is the biggest liar in DC
I'll let him choose, but either way he is unfit for office.
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

It's both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (di6C2)

254 How come nobody has a kind word for 'Flo' from 'Progressive' ... ? Bueller ... ? Bueller ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (ayRl+)

255 Yes, Catholic tolerance was re-instituted, briefly. After Virginia re-instituted Anglicanism in the colony, the Puritans there left in a huff and moved to Maryland. They promptly rebelled against the MD colonial government and outlawed Catholic assemblies. The Royal Governor sent an army to rout the Puritans. The Catholics lost at the so-called "Battle of the Severn" and the Puritans cinched down control even further after William of Orange was victorious in the "Glorious Revolution". Catholic emancipation had to wait until the American Revolution.
Posted by: mrp

I've actually been to the site of the Battle of the Severn. (Well, more or less -- it's not marked.) The only battle of the English Civil War to have been fought over here.

Thanks for the additional background.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

256 To develop a theme, the bureaucratic mindset is more concerned with authority than it is with propriety. Thus the hivemind which is associated with the later stages of an organization. To them, the authority given to them is enough to justify whatever actions that they feel can be done aka positivism. Whether it should be done is beyond their capacity to comprehend just as they cannot understand consequences flowing from actions.

They believe themselves to be Platonian Guardians of 'Democracy' but instead they do not understand that they are the ones mistaking flickering shadows on the wall in the cave for reality. They are educated beyond their intelligence so to speak and that is why they react with rage at any attempt to reconcile reality with their deranged visions.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (bFy6V)

257 Kassy Akiva @KassyDillon Apr 17
BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss's office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.

Kassy Akiva @KassyDillon Apr 17
This is a Google employee accusing women who were raped by terrorists of lying to “punish men of color.”

She works on Google’s child safety team.

Dr. KS @katejsim 7 Dec 2023
do not be swayed by karens and their crocodile imperial feminism against rape. it plays right into long tradition of yt women weaponizing femininity/motherhood to discipline/punish men of color

Emmett Till, Vincent Chen, Rassenschande -- all in the name of white sexuality

Kassy Akiva @KassyDillon Apr 17
UPDATE: Google fired 28 of the protesting employees, according to a company wide memo by Google VP of global security Chris Rackow.

“If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (vtyCZ)

258 I think BK pulled the plug on the Pedo King. Beyond fucking creepy.
Posted by: Mr. Whipple at April 18, 2024 10:38 AM (R4t5M)

This is greatness.

https://youtu.be/8G9j4D43i_8?t=32

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

259 217 I was last in London in 2014 and it was Londonistan. I can only imagine what another 10 years of open borders plus the Syrian “refugee crisis” have brought.
I was also I. London in 1997 and 1999 and it was still London. Fun town back then.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 10:29 AM (tpjlM)

Lived in London in the early 1980's. Loved living there, wife did not. Happy wife......

Posted by: javems at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (hlqqA)

260 *You managed to write an entire paragraph and say virtually nothing.*

It's what I do.

Posted by: Ann at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (dg+HA)

261 Google Arrests / Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel
-----
I am honestly shocked by this.

Nah, I'm not. Typical leftists. All well and good to sh*t on someone else's floor but don't you bring that into *my* house.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (/y8xj)

262 Why the hell are you watching commercials?

They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.

Posted by: DOYLE

You know who doesn't advertise?
I'm 61 years old and I have NEVER seen an ad for a Chinese restaurant.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:41 AM (aNhid)

263 You know who doesn't advertise?
I'm 61 years old and I have NEVER seen an ad for a Chinese restaurant.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:41 AM (aNhid)

There's ads for Chinese Buffet's on local TV quite often.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

264 That law school education and career of teaching law really comes through clearly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

Sign of the Apocalypse

Ann Althouse: This is WRONG! I stand against this because it is wrong! (No qualifiers)

About anything besides abortion restrictions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 18, 2024 10:41 AM (di6C2)

265 Did the BK 'Pedo King' also like sniffing little girls' hair?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 18, 2024 10:42 AM (ayRl+)

266 CBD, how much Islamification do you see in London?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

A lot. Tons of wogs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2024 10:15 AM

Last year, I was shocked by how much London has changed since I last went in the 90's.

While there are still nice and historical places of course,

about half of the town seems to be more like a bordertown between a 1st and 3rd world country. Think El Paso and Juarez where El Paso is losing the battle.

I think England is done. Winston Churchill's remarks on islam from the River War are right on the nose.
Without science and morality Christianity will be subsumed by islam. And the west has thrown away science and Christianity for progtard ideology.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 10:42 AM (eDfFs)

267 Why the hell are you watching commercials?
They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.
Posted by: DOYLE

They come with free TV, just like they always did.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 18, 2024 10:42 AM (JCLJi)

268 "Seinfeld! Four!"

Posted by: Chinese restaurant guy at April 18, 2024 10:43 AM (dg+HA)

269 And here I thought it was beau who got eaten by cannibals.

Can't keep these Biden family adventures straight.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

270 Why the hell are you watching commercials?
They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.
Posted by: DOYLE

This is exactly why I don't fund a vast majority of the things I see on TV commercials.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

271 Me: Wow Ann. You managed to write an entire paragraph and say virtually nothing. She did make sure everyone know she is not on Trump's side. Thanks Ann!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
======
Insty cites or has as cobloggers a fair number of dunce law professors that simply demonstrate their academic hive mind. If you viewed our educational system as its own religion rather than some sort of meritocracy, people would do better in understanding how people like Ann think.

They cannot deny the central tenets of their faith which is why all of their statements on public issues--even when recognizing reality---must conform with their religious faith.

Sort of like Islam and jihad.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:44 AM (bFy6V)

272 y8xj)

262 Why the hell are you watching commercials?

They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.

Posted by: DOYLE

You know who doesn't advertise?
I'm 61 years old and I have NEVER seen an ad for a Chinese restaurant.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:41 AM (aNhid
You know what? Neither have I, except in the yellow pages

Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2024 10:44 AM (o2ZRX)

273 This is greatness.

https://youtu.be/8G9j4D43i_8?t=32

I loved the one with the king breaking into McDonald's vault to steal the Egg McMuffin recipe. Their pitch was basically "Yeah, we stole this but we sell it cheaper."

Posted by: Oddbob at April 18, 2024 10:44 AM (/y8xj)

274 254 How come nobody has a kind word for 'Flo' from 'Progressive' ... ? Bueller ... ? Bueller ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 18, 2024 10:39 AM (ayRl+)

They've improved. I love the lake-making kit one.

Best commercials right now are the Wendy's ones with the crew. Generally pretty funny.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

275 271 Insty cites or has as cobloggers a fair number of dunce law professors that simply demonstrate their academic hive mind. If you viewed our educational system as its own religion rather than some sort of meritocracy, people would do better in understanding how people like Ann think.

They cannot deny the central tenets of their faith which is why all of their statements on public issues--even when recognizing reality---must conform with their religious faith.

Sort of like Islam and jihad.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:44 AM (bFy6V)

========

It's why I read her for a little while. It was an interesting insight not into policy or anything more than a self-impressed mindset.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

276 Was in England in the early '90's. Every small village had a Paki and/or Chinese restaurant. Bigger cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, London- forget it, even then.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (R4t5M)

277 Why the hell are you watching commercials?
They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.
Posted by: DOYLE

You gotta admit, the original "Jake from State Farm" ad was pretty great.

If the commercials are entertaining, I'm fine with them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)

278 Best commercials right now are the Wendy's ones with the crew. Generally pretty funny.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

Bag boys bag boys.

What'cha gonna do?

What'cha gonna do when we bring your food.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

279 "I've got type 2 diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow...."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Shitty song, lousy beat, and you can't dance to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:46 AM (W/lyH)

280 I loved the one with the king breaking into McDonald's vault to steal the Egg McMuffin recipe. Their pitch was basically "Yeah, we stole this but we sell it cheaper."
Posted by: Oddbob
======
Burger King has long done this. For example, for a long time, (dunno about now), Burger King would skimp on doing actual market research for store placement and simply locate stores near where a McDonalds franchise existed. McDonalds did do the expensive market research for its franchisees so Burger King freeloaded off of McDonald's market research.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:47 AM (bFy6V)

281 Ok, pedant moment (also from Insty):

"So why is North Carolinian Leah McGhee’s high-school student son being penalized for using the term?"

Me: what is this fucking sentence? How about 'Why is Leah McGhee's son - a high school student- being penalized for using the term?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 18, 2024 10:48 AM (di6C2)

282 The Lady is Our Holy Mother. When she presented Jesus to the Temple, Simeon prophesized that great things would come from him but also she would be pierced through the heart (Luke 2:36-37) with Sorrow for her Holy Motherly Love from His Sacrifice and death.
She is Immaculate and had to be in order to bear God’s Son. Blessed Amongst Women. She would crush the Serpent with her heel.
Notre Dame de Paris is reopening after its cruel arson attack on December 8, the Feast Day of The Immaculate Conception. Ave Maria Plena gratia Ora nobis , Regina Caeli.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at April 18, 2024 10:48 AM (92liZ)

283 Biden Tells US Not to Retaliate for Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor. Just take the win and move on.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2024 10:48 AM (FVME7)

284 Me: what is this fucking sentence? How about 'Why is Leah McGhee's son - a high school student- being penalized for using the term?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'd go with commas instead of dashes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:48 AM (9yWhg)

285 So, who's excited about Rebel Moon Part 2 releasing tomorrow?

Snyder has said he might do four more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

Man, that's one guy who should only be a hired gun.

No writing, no producing. Just-

"Here's the script, Zack. Direct it then get the hell outta here!"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 10:49 AM (eDfFs)

286 The only battle of the English Civil War to have been fought over here.

Thanks for the additional background.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

The funny thing is, the ECWs (there were three of them) ended in 1651. The Battle of the Severn took place in March of 1655.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:49 AM (rj6Yv)

287 278 Best commercials right now are the Wendy's ones with the crew. Generally pretty funny.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

Bag boys bag boys.

What'cha gonna do?

What'cha gonna do when we bring your food.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

The guy at the register saying "Don't," while he sings the whole line is great.

Favorite is the one where they give everything nicknames and the one dude calls the two hot coffees, "Two hot coffees."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 18, 2024 10:49 AM (KbCG3)

288 It's why I read her for a little while. It was an interesting insight not into policy or anything more than a self-impressed mindset.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Women, in particular, are the foundation of any religion because of their control over raising their children and tendency to promote the well being of the group over that of whether something makes sense or not.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:50 AM (bFy6V)

289 Burger King has long done this. For example, for a long time, (dunno about now), Burger King would skimp on doing actual market research for store placement and simply locate stores near where a McDonalds franchise existed. McDonalds did do the expensive market research for its franchisees so Burger King freeloaded off of McDonald's market research.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:47 AM (bFy6V)

The Big Mac was "created" in Uniontown, PA in 1967. It is the same as Eat 'n Park's Superburger, created in 1955.

Just some Oh well info.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:50 AM (R4t5M)

290 The doctor told her to stand on the ball of her foot.

*origin story of chiropractic medicine

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (FjMSc)

291 285 Man, that's one guy who should only be a hired gun.

No writing, no producing. Just-

"Here's the script, Zack. Direct it then get the hell outta here!"
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 10:49 AM (eDfFs)

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Chris Terrio is the only writer who seemed to gel with him properly, finding a way to combine Snyder's "epic" style with an actual effort to recreate myth. Well, I guess I should include the writers of Legends of the Guardians. They did it pretty well, too.

But Snyder on his own? He's a frat boy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

292 277 Why the hell are you watching commercials?
They insult you while trying to sell you something you dont need.
Posted by: DOYLE

You gotta admit, the original "Jake from State Farm" ad was pretty great.

If the commercials are entertaining, I'm fine with them.

If I remember correctly Jake identified as white then.

Posted by: Taggart at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (og5mY)

293
*origin story of chiropractic medicine
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (FjMSc)

Why is it called 'medicine' when the chiropractor can't prescribe medicine?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

294 >>>nurse in Germany jabbed up to 8,600 elderly people with ~saline solution The nurse administered the fake vaccines and left people without protection
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The court didn't convict her. Hmmm, sounds like not too many of the 8,600 didn't perish from covid.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (KweMD)

295 I haven't seen any Captain Obvious ads in the past year or two either. [Or three -- brain no work good!]

The only ones I never skipped through.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (vtyCZ)

296 >>>Biden Tells US Not to Retaliate for Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor. Just take the win and move on.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2024 10:48 AM (FVME7)

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To be far, he may have waited until after the Doolittle raid. But yes.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (kA/GV)

297 292 You gotta admit, the original "Jake from State Farm" ad was pretty great.

If the commercials are entertaining, I'm fine with them.

If I remember correctly Jake identified as white then.
Posted by: Taggart at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (og5mY)

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I remember when Bud Lite commercials were the height of any Super Bowl experience.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

298 The funny thing is, the ECWs (there were three of them) ended in 1651. The Battle of the Severn took place in March of 1655.
Posted by: mrp

Eh, it took a little time for the related events over here to shake out, I guess. Still part of the same general conflict.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (9yWhg)

299 =======

I remember when Bud Lite commercials were the height of any Super Bowl experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 18, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

Miller Lite.

Bud Light.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

300 How come nobody has a kind word for 'Flo' from 'Progressive' ... ? Bueller ... ? Bueller ... ?
Posted by: Dr_No at April 18, 2024

***
I miss Erin E-surance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

301 Why is it called 'medicine' when the chiropractor can't prescribe medicine?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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So he can charge more and go to the better parties and troll for hot clients.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:53 AM (KweMD)

302 You gotta admit, the original "Jake from State Farm" ad was pretty great.

If the commercials are entertaining, I'm fine with them.

If I remember correctly Jake identified as white then.
Posted by: Taggart at April 18, 2024 10:51 AM (og5mY)

"I taught my dog to say 'I Love You' ".

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:53 AM (R4t5M)

303 The Big Mac was "created" in Uniontown, PA in 1967. It is the same as Eat 'n Park's Superburger, created in 1955.

Just some Oh well info.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

McDonalds copies as well which is not what I said. Essentially though McDonalds has traditionally done expensive market research before product introductions as well as franchise location but Burger King, not so much. Oligarchic competition like Wendys, McDonalds, and Burger King often have a leader with market share (McDonalds), a follower (Burger King), and an innovator (Wendys).

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:54 AM (bFy6V)

304 I like Mayhem. But not enough to switch insurance companies.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 18, 2024 10:54 AM (JCLJi)

305 Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer Dutch
ca. 1670–72
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 614

Looking past much symbolism for a moment, the model seems to have had 'the Marty Feldman eyes.'

But Vermeer had a lot to cover in the beautiful, detailed painting but I attribute some of that to the fact "Vermeer converted to Catholicism before his marriage, and this painting, which includes a table laden with chalice, missal, and crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" within private homes." (Those who convert to a new or different religion, etc. may go a little hog wild, especially in the beginning.)

Vermeer was & remains a treasure but I'd pass hanging. Thank you.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

306 I miss Erin E-surance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yeah, she was cute.

Also, the Farmers ads with the Emil Skoda actor from L&O are pretty clever.

"We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (9yWhg)

307
I remember when Bud Lite commercials were the height of any Super Bowl experience.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You're older than I thought.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (hmWcn)

308 Has anybody ever noticed that so many battles took place on parkland ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (RHGPo)

309 282 “… Notre Dame de Paris is reopening after its cruel arson attack on”

Are you certain it was arson? Last I heard it was inconclusive.

Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (2+mmk)

310 "I'm gonna shit in a box and ship it somewhere!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

One of the posters on here once said they worked in a Vet's office and told a guy to bring in a stool sample from his dog.

The guy showed up at the Vet's office with like 40 pounds of dog shit he had saved up for a couple of weeks.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (cDEsv)

311
Also, the Farmers ads with the Emil Skoda actor from L&O are pretty clever.

"We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:55 AM (9yWhg)

My dog gets pissed off at their jingle and growls and barks every time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Type two and I’m fat as a cow.
Type two and I just don’t know how.
Type two and I’m all in a quiz.
I just need to huff a can of Cheese Whiz.
- tune of Cheap Thrills

Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (o2ZRX)

313 The Big Mac was "created" in Uniontown, PA in 1967. It is the same as Eat 'n Park's Superburger, created in 1955.

Just some Oh well info.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

BTW, you left out the Big Boy aka 1937 which was essentially the same burger for that chain whether Bobs, Shoneys, etc.

Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (bFy6V)

314 Mike Johnson Praises CNN’s Jake Tapper Off-Air: "You’re Always Fair"

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Jake Tapper is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (FVME7)

315 "Seinfeld! Four!"
Posted by: Chinese restaurant guy at April 18, 2024

***
That script would make a good 20-minute one-act play.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

316
The guy showed up at the Vet's office with like 40 pounds of dog shit he had saved up for a couple of weeks.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (cDEsv)

That's insane......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

317 Check out your Big Mac today. Open it up before you bite and look at the patty. It's about the size of their old $1 burger. Jack in the Box is a better buy.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:57 AM (KweMD)

318 Ok, pedant moment (also from Insty):

"So why is North Carolinian Leah McGhee’s high-school student son being penalized for using the term?"

Me: what is this fucking sentence? How about 'Why is Leah McGhee's son - a high school student- being penalized for using the term?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Me: what is this fucking sentence? How about 'Why is Leah McGhee's son - a high school student- being penalized for calling wetbacks illegal aliens?'

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 10:58 AM (aNhid)

319 >>>Mike Johnson Praises CNN’s Jake Tapper Off-Air: "You’re Always Fair"

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If this is true, it's all I need to know.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 18, 2024 10:58 AM (kA/GV)

320 I wish the channels I watch, Grit, Comet, MeTV, and H & I, would run some of these "clever" spots. All I get day in and day out is stuff for Rx meds, Oak St. Health, "exercise" wheels, HurryCanes, and Medicare Advantage plans. Gah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

321 Mike Johnson Praises CNN’s Jake Tapper Off-Air: "You’re Always Fair"

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If this is true, it's all I need to know.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 18, 2024 10:58 AM (kA/GV)

He's not on your side.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Report: January 6 Committee Democrats Say They Fear Trump Will Put Them in Jail

.. the Speech and Debate Clause will protect these scoundrels for their nonsense on Capitol Hill, but not their staffs.

Of course, if they ever did anything the appears to be illegal ...

Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (RHGPo)

323 Has anybody ever noticed that so many battles took place on parkland ?
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They had to -- the Visitor Stations were there already!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (vtyCZ)

324 BTW, you left out the Big Boy aka 1937 which was essentially the same burger for that chain whether Bobs, Shoneys, etc.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (bFy6V)

Yep. Some just thieve more than others. Very cut throat business.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (R4t5M)

325 BTW, you left out the Big Boy aka 1937 which was essentially the same burger for that chain whether Bobs, Shoneys, etc.
Posted by: whig at April 18, 2024 10:56 AM (bFy6V)

Similar but the Bob's Big Boy hamburger was much much better than any Big Mac I've ever had.

One reason is that you got all the fixins with the BBB lettuce tomato onion pickles all on the plate, so you could build it your way(!).

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (eDfFs)

326 A lot going on in this painting. Well done, of course, it's a Vermeer. Still, would not hang.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (tkR6S)

327 I recall some European commercials that were fun to watch back the day, especially the bath soap ones.

Posted by: javems at April 18, 2024 10:59 AM (hlqqA)

328 Miller Lite had the best jingles. Real Men OF Genius. Today we salute you, Mr. Boombox roller skater guy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (Ag7IE)

329 Noodus diogenus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

330 Check out your Big Mac today. Open it up before you bite and look at the patty. It's about the size of their old $1 burger. Jack in the Box is a better buy.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:57 AM (KweMD)

Rat in the Box.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (R4t5M)

331 317 Check out your Big Mac today. Open it up before you bite and look at the patty. It's about the size of their old $1 burger. Jack in the Box is a better buy.

Shrinkflation. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Posted by: Bidet at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (og5mY)

332 Miller Lite had the best jingles. Real Men OF Genius. Today we salute you, Mr. Boombox roller skater guy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (Ag7IE)

Bud Light.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

333 Good Morning

Six more days to retirement.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (wQL2S)

334 nood ranting

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (CIS44)

335 Has anybody ever noticed that so many battles took place on parkland ?
Posted by: SMOD

General Crook pursued Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce through Yellowstone AFTER it had already been established as a national park.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:00 AM (9yWhg)

336 nood jood

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 11:01 AM (vtyCZ)

337 Lady, 57 yo, knee problems (both), back problems, gall bladder problems, grossly over weight, makes no association that weight has anything to do with her other problem.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:01 AM (KweMD)

338 I miss Erin E-surance.

still funny that rule 34 ruined that one

Posted by: brak at April 18, 2024 11:01 AM (AR07F)

339 This is surprising. Google fired 28 employees who took part in the pro-Hamas protests.

FAFO

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2024 09:53 AM (tpjlM)

They said the quiet part out loud.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:08 AM (tkR6S)

340 test

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Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 18, 2024 11:15 AM (vtyCZ)

341 ....the Puritans there left in a huff and moved to Maryland.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2024 10:37 AM (rj6Yv)

They could have left in a minute and a huff!

Posted by: G Marx at April 18, 2024 11:17 AM (iODuv)

342 Check out your Big Mac today. Open it up before you bite and look at the patty. It's about the size of their old $1 burger. Jack in the Box is a better buy.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:57 AM (KweMD)

No Jack In The Box anymore around here. All gone. In fact, the only one I knew of was in Edison near Menlo Park Mall. It's long gone.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 18, 2024 11:31 AM (iODuv)

343 Living Under Liberalism/Socialism

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 18, 2024 05:17 PM (wGqjj)

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