Mid-Morning Art Thread

Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces
Jacques-Louis David

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

2 Whoa! So it's that kind of party!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:31 AM (WXNFJ)

3 1?

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2024 09:31 AM (5fDan)

4 Still carrying his spear from what I can tell.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 07, 2024 09:31 AM (eYoxG)

5 here we go

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

6 Very pretty colors.

Posted by: The European Fecal Standards and Measurements Board at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

7 Boobs, boobs, boobs heh,heheh,heheh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (5S+sK)

8 Artist Jacques-Louis David
Year 1824
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 308 cm × 265 cm (121 in × 104 in)
Location Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (ENQN6)

9 A bird is covering his bird!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (WXNFJ)

10 Damn, where do I start?
-- Mars

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

11 Party at Mars' place!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (+myjY)

12 Looks like Mars doesn't mind being "disarmed," IFYKWIM.

Posted by: pookysgirl likes the colors in this one at May 07, 2024 09:32 AM (dtlDP)

13 Nope

on-topic - Whoa! Would hang. In any room of the house.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (5fDan)

14 I figured Mars would look more badass than that.

Posted by: The European Fecal Standards and Measurements Board at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

15 I like how Cupid winks at the camera while he takes Mars' shoes off.

Posted by: Kris at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (EwaUh)

16 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

17 To the victor goes the spoils.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Arms are overrated...

Posted by: Venus de Milo at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (7fElN)

19 Disarmed ? More like "disrobed", amirite ??

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (V13WU)

20 FUN FACT: Prior to the invention of the codpiece, a pigeon was often used to conceal the male junk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (+myjY)

21 Graces, were three or more goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, goodwill, and fertility.

What are graces not in common with our current VP?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (ENQN6)

22 I don't care what position in life I am. I don't want birds anywhere near my twignberries.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Dove #1 to Dove #2: You think YOUR job sucks?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (CsUN+)

24 Oh, fuck you!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (u73oe)

25 Dude's like; "no way you're putting that shit on MY head lady."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

26 Whoa, which of you degenerates invited the winged baby to the orgy?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (oXbsS)

27 I appreciate the artfully convenient towels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (75/Pp)

28 Notice, Euroladies. NO HAIR where there shouldn't be.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Meanwhile, Grace 3 is stealing his hat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (+myjY)

30 Mars to Cupid in W.C. Fields voice: "Get away from me, kid, you're bothering me!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (T+Iwg)

31 20 FUN FACT: Prior to the invention of the codpiece, a pigeon was often used to conceal the male junk.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:33 AM (+myjY)

Strictly, pigeons are doves. Makes me wonder about the white doves in artwork, since as I understand they were bred for that in recent centuries.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (eYoxG)

32 Venus has a big butt.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (QNSds)

33 For whatever reason, my thoughts went to Soviet art that was unabashedly hagiographic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (d9fT1)

34

I'm looking for a pack of Trojans!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (ORgMa)

35 I figured Mars would look more badass than that.

Right? If you're getting lacey ballet slippers put on your feet by little gay cherubim, you ain't Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (CsUN+)

36 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (ENQN6)

37 Is that a sword in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: Venus at May 07, 2024 09:36 AM (u73oe)

38 Naked women? Who wants to see that!!!

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 07, 2024 09:36 AM (ibTVg)

39 The carpet is going to need cleaning when this thing is over.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:36 AM (+myjY)

40 Those 4 would disarm me too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2024 09:37 AM (MIM0w)

41 Is that a kopis in your toga or are you just glad to see me??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 07, 2024 09:37 AM (ZdexC)

42 It is interesting the goddess and the graces are all lighter then Mars.

Presumably they are staying indoors while Mars goes out and smites people.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:37 AM (ibTVg)

43 Venus has a big butt.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Mars was an early fan of Sir Mix-a-Lot.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 07, 2024 09:37 AM (oXbsS)

44 That little cherub is going to tie his sandals together.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2024 09:37 AM (Wnv9h)

45 Venus has a big butt.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (QNSds)

Yeah?...So?

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 09:38 AM (AwYPR)

46 Morning.

It's pretty garish. Lots of bright red, blue and gold. Also booty. And boobs.

Would hang.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:38 AM (ie351)

47 Hey big boy what a large...spear...you have

Posted by: Aphrodite pick up lines at May 07, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

48 Polish your helmet, Mars?

Posted by: Venus at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (4I/2K)

49 Oh, I’ll just have a salad. Tee hee. Are you gonna finish those fries?

Posted by: Venus at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (u73oe)

50 33 For whatever reason, my thoughts went to Soviet art that was unabashedly hagiographic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (d9fT1)

Socialist artists are socialist artists, no matter the century.

Posted by: Kris at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (EwaUh)

51 Can't help it but the first thought I had was "There will be a hot time in the old town tonight". Classical mythology and a comment on the sexes be damned.

Maybe I need more coffee.

Posted by: JTB at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (zudum)

52 The Dove of Peace distracts the Warcock of Mars.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (CjgNg)

53 Venus has a big butt.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2024 09:35 AM (QNSds)

*Sir Mix-A-Lot has joined the chat*

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:39 AM (ie351)

54 From Wiki:

Art historians have sometimes seen the painting's treatment of Venus and Mars as a broader commentary on gender, showing femininity ultimately conquering masculinity. Venus, goddess of love, is here equated with femininity, emotionality, and pleasure. Mars, god of war, stands for the masculine ideals of strength and determination. The triumph of Venus, according to this interpretation, shows the capacity of emotions and pleasure to overcome strength and determination.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

55 Is that a Corinthian column or are you just glad to see me?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (+myjY)

56 Dude is about to get a happy ending

Posted by: sj at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (qBX2c)

57 In before the naked women on a couch jokes.

Then again; maybe not.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (2Fipv)

58 Someone's going to get the shaft.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (ZdexC)

59 Why is the little kid untying his sandal looking directly at the artist?

Weird.

Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

60 The strategic placement of objects to cover...parts...reminds me of the opening of Austin Powers where he walks around naked but at no point do you see anything because of things that are in front of him

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

61 Hey big boy what a large...spear...you have
Posted by: Aphrodite pick up lines at May 07, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

Makes up for his tiny dick.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (ie351)

62 Cupid is about to give Mars a pedicure.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

63 59 Why is the little kid untying his sandal looking directly at the artist?

Weird.
Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

4th wall joke as he's playing a prank.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (eYoxG)

64 54 From Wiki:

Art historians have sometimes seen the painting's treatment of Venus and Mars as a broader commentary on gender, showing femininity ultimately conquering masculinity. Venus, goddess of love, is here equated with femininity, emotionality, and pleasure. Mars, god of war, stands for the masculine ideals of strength and determination. The triumph of Venus, according to this interpretation, shows the capacity of emotions and pleasure to overcome strength and determination.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

=======

That's a lot of words to say, "Dudes like to bang hot chicks a lot."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (GBKbO)

65 Any dressing room in the 80s.

Posted by: Mick Mars at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (u73oe)

66 Polish your helmet, Mars?
Posted by: Venus

This comment made me LOL.

Tell me you're a Moron without telling me you're a Moron.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (WXNFJ)

67 Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't

Posted by: Taggart at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (og5mY)

68 Hey big boy what a large...spear...you have
Posted by: Aphrodite pick up lines at May 07, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

Makes up for his tiny dick.

His chariot is a Hummer.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (CsUN+)

69 Why is the little kid untying his sandal looking directly at the artist?

Weird.
Posted by: dantesed

That's Mel Brooks breaking the fourth wall.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (m6K/j)

70 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (+myjY)

71 Art historians have sometimes seen the painting's treatment of Venus and Mars as a broader commentary on gender, showing femininity ultimately conquering masculinity.

I suspect that no matter how much of a hard ass a greek warrior was if he had four women wanting to party with him instead of going to war he'd put the spear down...Well, the sharp hurty spear.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (ibTVg)

72 "Girls! Girls! Stop shoving!! There's enough for everybody!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (WXNFJ)

73 Why is the little kid untying his sandal looking directly at the artist?

Weird.
Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

It's a Bugs Bunny-ian "ain't I a stinker" look.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (ie351)

74 Makes up for his tiny dick.

Amusingly the greeks saw a big dick as a sign of barbarism.

Well the greek men did...not sure about their women.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg)

75 I'll be right over.

Posted by: Zeus at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (4I/2K)

76 "Mars needs women."

-- - - - MARRS

https://youtu.be/w9gOQgfPW4Y

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Hey look...targets!

Posted by: Kratos at May 07, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)

78 Girls! Girls! Stop shoving!! There's enough for everybody!!"
Posted by: Tonypete

Um,
Posted by: Naught Wicked Zoot

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 09:44 AM (m6K/j)

79 Greeks? I hate these guys

Posted by: Xerxes at May 07, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)

80 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (+myjY)

Maybe cherubs were a bit like chickens?

Would you rotisserie a cherub?

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:44 AM (ie351)

81 70 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

If I can do it, he can do it.

Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:45 AM (og5mY)

82 Maybe cherubs were a bit like chickens?

Would you rotisserie a cherub?
Posted by: Robert

No, but I'd shove a beer can up his ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 09:46 AM (m6K/j)

83 "So, Venus, who do ya think Trump will pick as his running mate?"
-- Mars

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:46 AM (9yWhg)

84 No, but I'd shove a beer can up his ass.

Call me

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at May 07, 2024 09:46 AM (ibTVg)

85 ah, here it is : "Most of David's models for the painting were figures involved in the Théâtre de la Monnaie: Venus was modeled by the actress Marie Lesueur, Cupid by Lucien Petipa, Mars by a subscriber or 'abonné', and one of the Graces by the Prince of Orange's mistress."

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2024 09:46 AM (V13WU)

86 Caption:

"Now, what's all this bullshit about ADP sorority holding the best parties?"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2024 09:47 AM (eDfFs)

87 Usually when I get to the Art Thread late, I just scroll through the comments looking for the limericks. Today, I read them.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2024 09:47 AM (/y8xj)

88 Greek mythology was a great cover for painting pr0n in the Renaissance, and there were always ready buyers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:47 AM (+myjY)

89 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. Art today looks like what happens when you win at Geezer Golf! Well, except the Graces look more like Grannies.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2024 09:47 AM (W/lyH)

90 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (+myjY)

Not necessarily.

Posted by: A Bumblebee at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (4I/2K)

91 Not Greek, Roman. They'd be Ares and Aphrodite otherwise. Is this some kind of sideways suck up by David to Napoleon (the new Caesar)?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (T+Iwg)

92 "Mars needs women."

-- - - - MARRS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Mars Blackmon does.

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

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (AwYPR)

93 More Wiki-

At over 3 m (10 ft) high, it is an imposing work. Set before a temple floating in the clouds, Venus, the goddess of love, and her followers, the three Graces and Cupid, are shown taking away the weapons, helmet, shield, and armor of Mars, the god of war. Mars allows himself to be disarmed and gives in to Venus's charms.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (NpAcC)

94 No, but I'd shove a beer can up his ass.

Call me
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice

I think Atomic Dog Boy has already called dibs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (50n2b)

95 The model used for Aphrodite lived to be 90...pretty good run for the 1800s...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

96 Greek mythology was a great cover for painting pr0n in the Renaissance, and there were always ready buyers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:47 AM (+myjY)

Can you imagine that rule? "No tits except Greek tits."

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 09:49 AM (ie351)

97 90 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2024 09:42 AM (+myjY)

Not necessarily.
Posted by: A Bumblebee at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (4I/2K)

Dude....

81 70 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

If I can do it, he can do it.
Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:45 AM (og5mY)

Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:49 AM (og5mY)

98 95 The model used for Aphrodite lived to be 90...pretty good run for the 1800s...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

======

It's my understanding that past the stone age, if you survived childhood, you had a very good chance of living a very long time.

Childhood deaths was what dropped the average life expectancy so much for so long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 09:50 AM (GBKbO)

99 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

If I can do it, he can do it!

Posted by: amy schumer at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)

100 “From the river to the sea Mars shall be free !”

Maggie Magilacuty, 3rd year freshman diversitay major at bankruptmyparents university - an Ivy League school near the Hudson

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (66bex)

101 Assuming the lass in the middle is pouring a cocktail made with Val-U-Rite, I'd say this is a glimpse of Moron Heaven.

Posted by: PabloD at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (f7a6n)

102 Not necessarily.
Posted by: A Bumblebee at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (4I/2K)

Dude....

81 70 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

If I can do it, he can do it.
Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:45 AM (og5mY)
Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:49 AM (og5mY)

NOT...the BEEEEEEES!!!!!

Posted by: Nick Cage at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (T+Iwg)

103 60 The strategic placement of objects to cover...parts...reminds me of the opening of Austin Powers where he walks around naked but at no point do you see anything because of things that are in front of him
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

======

Austin Powers 4 is getting made, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

104 Hordemind. Learn it. Know it. Live it.

Posted by: A Bumblebee at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (4I/2K)

105 34

I just sold the last one!

Henny Youngman, in History of the World, Part I

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 07, 2024 09:52 AM (BHrzb)

106 99 Aerodynamically speaking, that kid's never going to get off the ground with those tiny wings.

If I can do it, he can do it!
Posted by: amy schumer at May 07, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)

Maybe with JATO fatass

Posted by: Bumble bee at May 07, 2024 09:52 AM (og5mY)

107 97 Horde mind is a thing, you know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

108 Can you imagine that rule? "No tits except Greek tits."
Posted by: Robert

Bunch of Greek kids where I went to school. The women's names included; Leda, Zoe, Aikaterini, Anastasia, and Georgia. And of course - Olympia.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:52 AM (WXNFJ)

109 The Larry Grace with the vase and miniature birdbath has got one hell of a goofy look on her face, like the Moe Grace just clobbered her with a frying pan.

Posted by: The Curly Grace at May 07, 2024 09:52 AM (5f/Kz)

110 It's my understanding that past the stone age, if you survived childhood, you had a very good chance of living a very long time.

Well...not 90 though. The painter lived to...77 I believe.

It does bring up an interesting point though...since sanitation and reductions in infant mortality modern medicine has done a lot less then people think in keeping us alive.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

111 It's my understanding that past the stone age, if you survived childhood, you had a very good chance of living a very long time.

Childhood deaths was what dropped the average life expectancy so much for so long.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Look at the founding fathers.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (m6K/j)

112 Childhood deaths was what dropped the average life expectancy so much for so long.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Also, women dying in childbirth, along with their babies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

113 Bunch of Greek kids where I went to school. The women's names included; Leda, Zoe, Aikaterini, Anastasia, and Georgia. And of course - Olympia.

Beats Brandi, Krystal, and Lasquisha.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (CsUN+)

114 colorful

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 07, 2024 09:54 AM (2NHgQ)

115 Is this some kind of sideways suck up by David to Napoleon (the new Caesar)?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 09:48 AM (T+Iwg)

Painted in 1824, so well after Boney's demise from licking the wallpaper on his St. Helena shack.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

116 110 Well...not 90 though. The painter lived to...77 I believe.

It does bring up an interesting point though...since sanitation and reductions in infant mortality modern medicine has done a lot less then people think in keeping us alive.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

======

"No. It was our pills. Buy our pills or you will die."
-Big Pharma

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 09:54 AM (GBKbO)

117 Even an 'Ette can appreciate this work of art.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 07, 2024 09:55 AM (t/2Uw)

118 I don't usually associate Jacques-Louis David with a sense of humor but there is a playfulness in this painting that underlies the brilliant use of mythology, color and detail. Given the brightness and size of the painting it must have been startling to the viewers.

In a strange way I don't care for the painting. David's technique is so smooth in this one, with no hint of brush strokes, it removes some of the artist's hand work. This could almost be a photo of a scene rather than a painting. That takes away some of its appeal for me.

Posted by: JTB at May 07, 2024 09:55 AM (zudum)

119 The Cleveland Art Museum has a David that is huge. "Cupid and Psyche". Must be 8 feet across.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2024 09:55 AM (HibCC)

120 Amusingly the greeks saw a big dick as a sign of barbarism.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg

Why did I assume this was a post from whig

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2024 09:55 AM (cG4MZ)

121 Amusingly the greeks saw a big dick as a sign of barbarism.

Posted by: 18-1

Oddly enough, or not, Biggus Dickus was Roman.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2024 09:56 AM (WXNFJ)

122 https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1962.37

"Cupid and Psyche"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2024 09:56 AM (HibCC)

123 can't believe no one's mentioned a sammich

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 09:57 AM (AwYPR)

124 Bunch of Greek kids where I went to school. The women's names included; Leda, Zoe, Aikaterini, Anastasia, and Georgia.

Georgia? GEORGIA? Screw you Byzantines!!!

Posted by: David IV of Georgia at May 07, 2024 09:57 AM (ibTVg)

125 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Whoohoo! Fuzzy furry bellies await all the zerberts!!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 09:57 AM (GiPYS)

126 I bet they threw his sword in the lake.

Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (dtj4g)

127 Beautifully painted. Mars giving up his sword way too willingly. Doves are strategically placed.

Posted by: Tuna at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (oaGWv)

128 In my recent hour after hour after hour on airplanes, I watched a movie with Nick Cage in it that I'd never even heard of. Don't remember the name, but he was an overly obsessive buffalo hunter in early America.

It was bad........not recommended.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

129 I don't much care for pompous overdone fantasy art. This is a classical version of velvet Elvis.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (pohLc)

130 "Cupid and Psyche"
Posted by: Huck Follywood

He's got that goofy "Hey, I just got me some" smile on his face.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)

131 Amusingly the greeks saw a big dick as a sign of barbarism.

Posted by: 18-

When it's being shoved up your ass, yeah.
Now ask the Greek wimmins.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (m6K/j)

132 Yeah the idea that people died at 42 or whatever is one of those myths that lives on in popular culture. The average life expectancy may have been 42 but if you made it to 30 you probably would make it to 60 or 70.

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (tpjlM)

133 The strategic placement of objects to cover...parts...reminds me of the opening of Austin Powers where he walks around naked but at no point do you see anything because of things that are in front of him
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (OguvZ)

134
I see two arms on Mars.

Disarmed, my ass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

135 Venus, when did you quit taking Ozempic?

Posted by: Mars at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (u73oe)

136 "Cupid and Psyche"

I imagine Cupid's model is smiling because he just got paid to lay next to an attractive naked woman. Not often it works that way...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

137 Too ornate. Would not hang.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:00 AM (R4t5M)

138
Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.

TBH I preferred Heather Graham in that series...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

139 Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.
Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (OguvZ)

Too bad she's probably banging her own son. She ages like a fine wine.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (B1GZS)

140 You banging Venus and the Three Graces? How much jam you got, man?

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (4a+k3)

141 Venus, when did you quit taking Ozempic?
Posted by: Mars at May 07, 2024 09:59 AM (u73oe)

When the skin on my perineum developed an infection that nearly killed me!!!

Posted by: Venus at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

142 It’s the same today. Life expectancy is 75 or something. But that includes all the gang bangers killed at 19, people dying in car crashes, workplace accidents. Take all that out and the real life expectancy is more like 85.

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (tpjlM)

143 Too bad she's probably banging her own son. She ages like a fine wine.
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (B1GZS)

Yeesh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (R4t5M)

144 120 Amusingly the greeks saw a big dick as a sign of barbarism.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg

Why did I assume this was a post from whig
Posted by: ...
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My interest in Greeks is primarily for political theory. Their society, not so much due in part to their love of man boy pedophilia and slavery.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (peJ7P)

145 Who takes their shoes off LAST?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

146 Lots of strategic hoo-hah hiding.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (fv27Y)

147 Yeah the idea that people died at 42 or whatever is one of those myths that lives on in popular culture. The average life expectancy may have been 42 but if you made it to 30 you probably would make it to 60 or 70.
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024

***
Unless, even at 30, you were in a dangerous occupation like soldier, or heir to a throne with ambitious siblings all sharpening their knives for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

148 145 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

Imelda Marcos has entered the chat....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (T+Iwg)

149 It’s the same today. Life expectancy is 75 or something. But that includes all the gang bangers killed at 19, people dying in car crashes, workplace accidents. Take all that out and the real life expectancy is more like 85.
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:01 AM (tpjlM)

Dude, there aren't *that* many gang bangers take them and all the rest out and life expectancy increases to like 75 3/4.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (B1GZS)

150 147 Unless, even at 30, you were in a dangerous occupation like soldier, or heir to a throne with ambitious siblings all sharpening their knives for you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

======

Now I suddenly want to watch Stardust again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

151 Beats Brandi, Krystal, and Lasquisha.
Posted by: Archimedes a

—

I know, right!!
- every Jennifer born in 1975

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (tpjlM)

152 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Any guy who is expecting her husband to come home at any minute?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (m6K/j)

153 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

You never know when the pimp boyfriend will bust in and demand compensation above and beyond...gotta be ready to hoof it out of there.

Posted by: Mars at May 07, 2024 10:04 AM (4a+k3)

154
Should have been "Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces and a Dog".

Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2024 10:04 AM (MoZTd)

155 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Any guy who is expecting her husband to come home at any minute?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:03 AM (m6K/j)

Feets don't fail me now!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 07, 2024 10:05 AM (4I/2K)

156
Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

High heels should not be taken off at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2024 10:05 AM (MoZTd)

157 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

Easy to achieve when you're not wearing any pants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

158 Austin Powers 4 is getting made, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Myers must be broke I guess as he has disappeared as an actor with only three minor roles since 2008's Love Guru. Maybe they rebooting the whole franchise.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (peJ7P)

159 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Any guy who is expecting her husband to come home at any minute?
Posted by: rickb223

Feets don't fail me now!
Posted by: Count de Monet

And Lord, don't let me slip!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (m6K/j)

160 Mars is losing badly at strip poker. It may be intentional.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (4I/2K)

161 High heels should not be taken off at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Or boots.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (9yWhg)

162 I just sold the last one!

Henny Youngman, in History of the World, Part I
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 07, 2024

***
Unemployment office lady (Bea Arthur) to a gladiator: "Did you kill this week? Well, did you *try* to kill this week?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

163 145 ... "Who takes their shoes off LAST?"

I suspect Mars had forgotten he was wearing shoes. We men can be easily distracted, you know.

Posted by: JTB at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (zudum)

164 No more Austin Powers. Just no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (R4t5M)

165 164 No more Austin Powers. Just no.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (R4t5M)

Oh, behave

Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

166 119 The Cleveland Art Museum has a David that is huge. "Cupid and Psyche". Must be 8 feet across.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2024 09:55 AM (HibCC)

David wasn't into small, from life to art. He even fought in a duel that scarred him for life.

Posted by: Kris at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (EwaUh)

167 Most of David's models for the painting were figures involved in the Théâtre de la Monnaie

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2024 09:46 AM (V13WU)

The Money Theater? That's a little on the nose.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (OguvZ)

168 158 Austin Powers 4 is getting made, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Myers must be broke I guess as he has disappeared as an actor with only three minor roles since 2008's Love Guru. Maybe they rebooting the whole franchise.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:06 AM (peJ7P)

========

I think he's rich enough to just do whatever weird shit he wants to do. He did The Gong Show reboot for a very short time in full make up just cause.

I'm sure money is part of the incentive (whatever studio is probably throwing seven figures at him), but I doubt he's on the verge of poverty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

169 Looks like Stormy the whore Daniels will be testilying today... Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before

Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2024 10:09 AM (Akjoo)

170 Venus was later disarmed herself.

Posted by: scottst at May 07, 2024 10:10 AM (qcvs8)

171 Looks like Stormy the whore Daniels will be testilying today... Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2024 10:09 AM (Akjoo)

They're doing everything they can to rig this political witch hunt. What an embarrassing time for this country.

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

172 Myers is loaded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:10 AM (R4t5M)

173 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

Errol Flynn always kept his socks on whenever he was having sex.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:10 AM (Q0kLU)

174 Austin Powers finds himself in a Craig-era Bond-like universe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

175 Dis arm is getting dangerously close to deez nuts.

Posted by: Mr Mars at May 07, 2024 10:12 AM (CM7e9)

176 Myers must be broke I guess as he has disappeared as an actor with only three minor roles since 2008's Love Guru. Maybe they rebooting the whole franchise.

Posted by: whig
-----------------------

He was supposed to play the part of Keith Moon in a biopic at one point. That project still hasn't gotten off the ground though.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 07, 2024 10:12 AM (fv27Y)

177 Austin Powers finds himself in a Craig-era Bond-like universe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

So he's going to be gay?

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:12 AM (B1GZS)

178 Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.

TBH I preferred Heather Graham in that series...
Posted by: 18-1

Graham's boobs were bigger, but Hurley had that gorgeous face. Tough choice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

179 177 Austin Powers finds himself in a Craig-era Bond-like universe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

So he's going to be gay?
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:12 AM (B1GZS)

=====

"I can't see anything, mate! Why are you shaking your head in every direction?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

180 How woke will Austin Powers be? My bet is a very.

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (tpjlM)

181 Austin Powers finds himself in a Craig-era Bond-like universe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

So he's going to be gay?
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:12 AM (B1GZS)
---
And a woman? How lame...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (7fElN)

182 According to Duff Cooper's biography of Talleyrand, Talleyrand purportedly was David's father. Which would explain how David was able to stay in with whatever regime was in power.

Posted by: Nemo at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (S6ArX)

183 Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.

TBH I preferred Heather Graham in that series...
Posted by: 18-1

There's a shocking amount of debate on this. Not Mary-Anne/Ginger levels, but much more than expected. There's a good side by side comparison of the two both looking pretty fine:

https://tinyurl.com/4pt6cxxh

I think the nod has to go to Hurley, though. They're both hot, but she's a LITTLE cuter, and I think the dark hair fits the 60s British female spy look a bit better. Emma Peel and Cate Archer vibes.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

184 Venus was later disarmed herself.
Posted by: scottst

Good. Bitch needed to feel what it's like.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (9yWhg)

185 Hurley vs Graham there is no wrong choice.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (R4t5M)

186 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna

How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

187 Feets don't fail me now!
Posted by: Count de Monet

That reminds me of a story. . .

I believe it was concerning Clara Bow, but it might not have been. Let's presume it was. It seems that her boyfriend of the moment came over to her place a little early and heard the unmistakable sounds of lovemaking coming from the bedroom.

Slamming the front door behind him, the boyfriend charged into the room to see a frightened Clara in the altogether, trying to cover herself with the bedsheets. Looking around for the bedroom miscreant, the boyfriend pounded on the closet door - "Come out of there, you cocksucker! I'm going to kick your ass ten ways from Sunday!"

The closet door opened and who should come out, face red and dressed only in his BVDs?

Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (Q0kLU)

188 Date Heather Graham marry Liz Hurley.

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

189 Hurley vs Graham there is no wrong choice.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (R4t5M)

Even if you lose you win.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (OguvZ)

190 145 Who takes their shoes off LAST?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (GiPYS)

He's not actually in a state of undress, he just walks around wearing a cape, loincloth, and sandals.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (eYoxG)

191 https://tinyurl.com/4pt6cxxh
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (B1GZS)

192 Learn to code...

Spanish ad agency that got tired of human models with inflated egos had an AI model created that now earns the agency 1,000 Euro for each ad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (b99Kq)

193 185 Hurley vs Graham there is no wrong choice.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (R4t5M)

Please! Let's all embrace the power of "and" here, people!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (T+Iwg)

194 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Gack. I didn't read the nic...

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (9yWhg)

195 186 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna

How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

=======

I imagine they have a complete list of witnesses, but the order is kept hidden.

Now, if that is grounds for dismissal, I don't know, but it seems less outrageous than the defense not knowing at all who's coming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

196 Has TJM started to experiment with AI tools to make a movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:17 AM (b99Kq)

197 You've been Ackbar'd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:17 AM (R4t5M)

198 How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

ORANGEMAN rule.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 07, 2024 10:17 AM (T7iTv)

199 Beats Brandi, Krystal, and Lasquisha.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM

One of them was a fine girl.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2024 10:17 AM (a3Q+t)

200 https://tinyurl.com/4pt6cxxh
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

Fitting she has MEGA on her shirt sleeve.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 07, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna

How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?

Because the judge and the entire judicial system are corrupt?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 10:18 AM (CsUN+)

202 I think he's rich enough to just do whatever weird shit he wants to do. He did The Gong Show reboot for a very short time in full make up just cause.

I'm sure money is part of the incentive (whatever studio is probably throwing seven figures at him), but I doubt he's on the verge of poverty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Some people can live off their residuals for the rest of their life but some have a high cash burn rate on homes, cars, travel, divorce settlements, etc.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:18 AM (peJ7P)

203 186 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna

How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

You have to disclose who you're going to call as a witness but, at least in my area of practice, you don't have to say when they're going to be called ahead of time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 10:18 AM (T+Iwg)

204 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2024 10:09 AM (Akjoo)

Ah, the Hollywood legal system made real.

"I will now reveal my surprise witness!"

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:18 AM (OguvZ)

205

You have to disclose who you're going to call as a witness but, at least in my area of practice, you don't have to say when they're going to be called ahead of time.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 07, 2024 10:18 AM (T+Iwg)

That’s an advantage to the prediction though and seems like shouldn’t be allowed.

Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:19 AM (tpjlM)

206 Alvin Bragg, "I call the witness behind Door Number Three! Come on down!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:19 AM (b99Kq)

207 Off, sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)

208 The government sent money to the Chinese facility despite concerns that the WIV was being by the Chinese government to manufacture bioweapons, according to Dr Daszak’s testimony.

Further, the researcher said the WIV is astonishingly still in possession of 15,000 samples of other coronaviruses that may belong to the US government through past taxpayer-funded research.

Dr Daszak told the subcommittee: ‘To the last of my knowledge, [samples] were in the freezers in Wuhan – over 15,000 of them.’

Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2024 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

209 >>> 110
==
It does bring up an interesting point though...since sanitation and reductions in infant mortality modern medicine has done a lot less then people think in keeping us alive.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

You don't say.

The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality Decline Since 1900 - According to Published Science
https://tinyurl.com/mrydbefd

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2024 10:20 AM (llON8)

210 185 Hurley vs Graham there is no wrong choice.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer

Wow. Those are 2 different body types! I wasn’t a fan of Ashley Graham’s dress or makeup last night, but I find her stunning. I met her once at a fitness thing for my franchise. She was the sweetest human, truly a lovely, positive person.

Posted by: Piper at May 07, 2024 10:21 AM (71y1j)

211 He was supposed to play the part of Keith Moon in a biopic at one point. That project still hasn't gotten off the ground though.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
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People would find such a character unbelievable nowadays. Moon the Loon puts some other dead celebrities noted for eccentricity like Andy Kaufman in the shade for sheer lunacy.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:22 AM (peJ7P)

212 > Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
_____________

If by some miracle Trump gets elected (and is able to assume the office) he'd better go scorched earth on these shit weasels. All of them. Including the ones in Congress.

Make so the feds have to expand Gitmo... bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2024 10:22 AM (Q4IgG)

213 The Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) has successfully completed initial full-scale tests in an ocean environment, according to an update that appeared at the website of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).

... looks like the "Flying Sub" from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" TV show.

Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2024 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

214 he played a general in inglorious bastards,

ot I was watching the liquidators, a sort of bond parody, by john gardner, who would later write 11 bond novels, with Rod Taylor,

Posted by: no 6 at May 07, 2024 10:23 AM (PXvVL)

215 I was tempted to click on the Ackbar link because, hey, maybe it really is a saucy Liz pic.

But then I remembered an enticing trap is still just a trap.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (OguvZ)

216 Trump's legal team are not told who the witnesses will be till the night before
Posted by: It's me donna

How is this not immediate grounds for dismissal?
Posted by: Montec at May 07, 2024 10:15 AM (tpjlM)

=======

I imagine they have a complete list of witnesses, but the order is kept hidden.

Now, if that is grounds for dismissal, I don't know, but it seems less outrageous than the defense not knowing at all who's coming.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)
******
Judge is allowing this because he supposedly doesn't want Trump to tweet about witnesses on Truth Social.
The Democrat prosecutors and judge just want a conviction to damage Trump before the election, because it will be a year before it's overturned.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (NpAcC)

217 Tits and ass >> killing and fighting

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (ufFY8)

218 Didn't Stevie Nix sing about some white-winged dove? It was hard to tell as it sounded more the bleatings of a goat.

Posted by: Fleetwood Muck at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (V5BDR)

219 I was tempted to click on the Ackbar link because, hey, maybe it really is a saucy Liz pic.

But then I remembered an enticing trap is still just a trap.
Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (OguvZ)
----
You made the right choice. Wish I could say the same...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2024 10:25 AM (7fElN)

220 I see 4 Graces. Math. Bleh.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 07, 2024 10:25 AM (Ag7IE)

221 Weekend at Hunters.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 07, 2024 10:26 AM (Ag7IE)

222 >>> 218 Didn't Stevie Nix sing about some white-winged dove? It was hard to tell as it sounded more the bleatings of a goat.
Posted by: Fleetwood Muck at May 07, 2024 10:24 AM (V5BDR)

Jerk.

Posted by: goats at May 07, 2024 10:27 AM (llON8)

223 Alternate title - A Dionysian Bacchanal

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:27 AM (b99Kq)

224 Nekkid!

Posted by: Oh yeah at May 07, 2024 10:27 AM (aox4+)

225 Evidently, Grace Jones is not one of the three.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (8zz6B)

226 Make so the feds have to expand Gitmo... bigly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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All prisons like Gitmo did was to allow the terrorists to network. Release them and they go back to it just like a dog and its vomit.

That is one of the problems with the left--locking them up a few years won't cure them no more than locking criminals up. When let out, they will simply resume what they did that put them there in prison in the first place.

There is a reason that a lot of rulers in the past seem to be monsters by killing a lot of potential challengers. In part, society let them do it at the time as preferable to interminable civil war which inevitably hurt civilians to the power struggle worse.

Crude estimates have roughly a 30-40 percent dead ratio or greater for losing combatants in order for a lasting peace to be obtained by the winner.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (peJ7P)

227 210 I wasn’t a fan of Ashley Graham’s dress

Piper, do you mean Heather Graham? Cause it was Heather who was in the Austin Powers movie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

228 Any deaths by dismemberment and burning at the Met Gala last evening?

Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (JWYBQ)

229 DEIsney taking a dump after their earnings call before the open

I made a little profit on a straddle. Yay.
Would have been a straight put if I was certain, but the market is retarded at times.

I just figured it would move a lot this morning.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (ufFY8)

230 Moon and Bonham were insane.

Drummers are a different breed of animal.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (R4t5M)

231 230 Moon and Bonham were insane.

Drummers are a different breed of animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (R4t5M)

The Dickens you say!

Posted by: Ginger Baker at May 07, 2024 10:30 AM (V5BDR)

232 ~~Weekend~~ Every day at Hunters.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Fixed for honesty.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:31 AM (m6K/j)

233 Oh, was the Met Gala last night?

Did Sandy Cortez wear another $45,000 Eat The Rich gown?

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:31 AM (OguvZ)

234 I just figured it would move a lot this morning.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Well, we are talking about Liz Hurley and Heather Graham...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

235 Grace? She died years ago.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 07, 2024 10:31 AM (P9xGM)

236 229 DEIsney taking a dump after their earnings call before the open

I made a little profit on a straddle. Yay.
Would have been a straight put if I was certain, but the market is retarded at times.

I just figured it would move a lot this morning.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (ufFY

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Streaming apparently showed a profit for the first time, but overall profit is down.

It really seems like they did accounting tricks to make streaming look good.

Hell, the "analysis" attributes the sudden profitability to cost cutting and price hikes. These are not long term profitability means.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

237 230 Moon and Bonham were insane.

Drummers are a different breed of animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Substance abuse did both Moon and Bonham in. Don't see as the "hoping to die before they got old" ethos among rock musicians anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (peJ7P)

238 "Didn't Stevie Nix sing about some white-winged dove? "

It was :

"Like a one winged dove
Flopping around
in big 'ol circle"

Posted by: Mr Mars at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (CM7e9)

239
We've secretly replaced Mars's dick with a dove of peace. Let's see if anyone notices!

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (/7KEl)

240 Didn't Stevie Nix sing about some white-winged dove? It was hard to tell as it sounded more the bleatings of a goat.
Posted by: Fleetwood Muck

Ferlin Huskey did.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (m6K/j)

241 > Make so the feds have to expand Gitmo... bigly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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All prisons like Gitmo did was to allow the terrorists to network. Release them and they go back to it just like a dog and its vomit.
____________

Who said they'd be released?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (Q4IgG)

242 Moon and Bonham were insane.

Drummers are a different breed of animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (R4t5M)

The Dickens you say!
Posted by: Ginger Baker

Damn straight.

Posted by: Phill Rudd, prostitute hostage taker at May 07, 2024 10:33 AM (R4t5M)

243 178 Liz Hurley - now there's a work of art.

TBH I preferred Heather Graham in that series...
Posted by: 18-1

Graham's boobs were bigger, but Hurley had that gorgeous face. Tough choice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

Embrace the power of "AND"??

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 07, 2024 10:34 AM (N39Ws)

244 Drummers are a different breed of animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I dunno. Ringo seems the most normal of the Beatles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:34 AM (9yWhg)

245 Just one Super Max prison on Johnson Atoll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:35 AM (b99Kq)

246 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

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It was not more than three or four months ago that Biden was running.(shufflng?) on the miracle of Bidenomics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

247 We've secretly replaced Mars's dick with a dove of peace. Let's see if anyone notices!
Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (/7KEl)

Reminds me of the scene in Austin Powers, where he's walking around nekkid, but there's always something in front of his...eh, front.

This one is basically the same thing, with all the chix, as well as Mike Mars.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 07, 2024 10:35 AM (8k+5u)

248 I believe this is called a reverse g@ngb@ng. Or so I've heard...

Posted by: AnchorPoint at May 07, 2024 10:36 AM (qgPFD)

249 246 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

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It was not more than three or four months ago that Biden was running.(shufflng?) on the miracle of Bidenomics.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

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"Bidenomics led to the best economy on record. Just look at the government numbers! The only reason it's not catching on is because the right-wing apparaticks at The New York Times won't let Biden get his message out. They spend too much time letting Trump defend himself. I hardly read them anymore. They're dead to me."
-DU, 94.05% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

250 Posted by: Phill Rudd, prostitute hostage taker at May 07, 2024 10:33 AM (R4t5M)

If you're going to take hostages, might as well get someone with skillz.

Posted by: Practical Pat at May 07, 2024 10:36 AM (V5BDR)

251 He's got that goofy "Hey, I just got me some" smile on his face.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 09:58 AM (9yWhg)
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Exactly what I love about that painting!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2024 10:37 AM (Dg1pE)

252 Biden’s Chair of Economic Advisors Can’t Explain How the US Monetary System Works

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Well, it was a trick question. The US monetary system doesn't work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

253 Who said they'd be released?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Society tires of the cost to keep people locked up an inevitably lets them. US prison policy has been the same way---times when crime is bad--lock em up. When crime is less of a problem---let em out. Rinse and repeat. England had a massive problem of crime running about a century spurred in part by massive urbanization and the enclosing of the Commons. It took the Bloody Codes that put criminals to death for many crimes about a century to resolve that multi generational crime wave in the home isles.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:37 AM (peJ7P)

254 234
Well, we are talking about Liz Hurley and Heather Graham...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024

Okay just laugh at me. It’s fine. I am such an idiot. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 07, 2024 10:38 AM (LaC4U)

255 Brave English Woman: https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1787757961038778369

Posted by: scottst at May 07, 2024 10:39 AM (qcvs8)

256 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

The DU zombies were still warbling about the success of Bidenomics last week. Guess they'll need some reprogramming.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:39 AM (OguvZ)

257 "Weekend at Hunters.
Posted by: Minnfidel"

Where is the cocaine?

Posted by: Ripley at May 07, 2024 10:40 AM (JojsZ)

258 I can't hear Stevie Nicks without thinking of a pair of drunk NJ hausfraus smoking menthols, singing along and reminiscing about their "good" old days. Depressing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2024 10:40 AM (ZnqNd)

259 Society tires of the cost to keep people locked up an inevitably lets them. US prison policy has been the same way---times when crime is bad--lock em up. When crime is less of a problem---let em out. Rinse and repeat. England had a massive problem of crime running about a century spurred in part by massive urbanization and the enclosing of the Commons. It took the Bloody Codes that put criminals to death for many crimes about a century to resolve that multi generational crime wave in the home isles.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:37 AM

We was born on probation.

Posted by: Doug & Dinsdal Piranha at May 07, 2024 10:40 AM (QNSds)

260 the guests at gitmo were trained at least one terror camp, they were a very select group, but it was reprieve and the levick group, that sought to paint the coalition as evil funded by gulf states and laundered through blue chip lawyers,

Posted by: no 6 at May 07, 2024 10:40 AM (PXvVL)

261 Hi! I am Grace. This is my sister, Grace, and my other sister Grace.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 07, 2024 10:40 AM (P9xGM)

262
Piper, do you mean Heather Graham? Cause it was Heather who was in the Austin Powers movie.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May

So, in another episode of I don’t watch movies so should maybe keep my trap shut…

Posted by: Piper at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM (LaC4U)

263 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

The DU zombies were still warbling about the success of Bidenomics last week. Guess they'll need some reprogramming.
Posted by: spindrift

Freshly charged cattle prods work wonders.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM (m6K/j)

264 I dunno. Ringo seems the most normal of the Beatles.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Massive drinker at one time. You would have to be in order to have Moon as a mate which they were.

Ringo's kid Zac Starkey was influenced by Keef to go on to become a rock drummer. I think Ringo wanted him to play something else. Zac later became a drummer for the Who so circle of life there.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM (peJ7P)

265 256 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

The DU zombies were still warbling about the success of Bidenomics last week. Guess they'll need some reprogramming.
Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:39 AM (OguvZ)

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"Eggs aren't as bad as they were. Biden fixed inflation. Also inflation is a myth. Also, inflation is just a result of greedy corporations taking profits. Also, Biden is helpless to stop inflation. Also, wage growth is outpacing inflation. Also, it's good that inflation is happening so that people consume less for Gaia."
-DU, 100% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

266 Malig-Nancy Pelosi Backs Mike Johnson for Speaker

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The unkindest cut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM (L/fGl)

267 Didn't Stevie Nix sing about some white-winged dove?
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Ferlin Huskey did.

And me!

Posted by: Slim Whitman at May 07, 2024 10:42 AM (/y8xj)

268 Figures from the US Labor Department show fast-food prices are 33 percent more expensive than they were in 2019.

Another 4 years of this and a Big Mac will be $30.

Posted by: Bidenomics at May 07, 2024 10:42 AM (CM7e9)

269 Okay just laugh at me. It’s fine. I am such an idiot. 😂
Posted by: Piper at May 07, 2024 10:38 AM (LaC4U)

No way-we genuinely like you. You're my favorite little person! (Who could probably kick my ass).

Posted by: Tall Paul at May 07, 2024 10:42 AM (V5BDR)

270 So, in another episode of I don’t watch movies so should maybe keep my trap shut…
Posted by: Piper

It's OK, Piper. Lots of people hear spout off on stuff they know nothing about. It's the way of the Horde. It's even mandated in the bylaws.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

271 TJM

Watched last night Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll from 1919. It was amusing. Hilarius the doll maker's apprentice is so much a Bud Bundy. It was interesting to see blue tint in some scenes.

Friend, "if you need some advice."
Lancelot, "I have an instruction manual."

Since this movie is pretty much riffing off Tales of Hoffman pulled up on YouTube Patricia singing the "Doll Song"

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

And I was saddened to learn Patricia had passed away last October at the age of 25 due to breast cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM (b99Kq)

272 Malig-Nancy Pelosi Backs Mike Johnson for Speaker

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The unkindest cut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:41 AM

Pretty sure there are a few people lining up to take him on in the next primary.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM (QNSds)

273 https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/ 1787757961038778369
Posted by: scottst at May 07, 2024 10:39 AM (qcvs

That's pretty funny. How could he not get that stupid bike over the fence? I half suspect it's fake.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM (CGD9m)

274 Another 4 years of this and a Big Mac will be $30.
Posted by: Bidenomics
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And its patty will be made out of bugs.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:44 AM (peJ7P)

275 It's even mandated in the bylaws.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM

We have bylaws?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2024 10:44 AM (QNSds)

276 > Malig-Nancy Pelosi Backs Mike Johnson for Speaker
___________

She backed McCarthy too. Which should tell you exactly what Mike Johnson is all about.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2024 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

277 271 TJM

Watched last night Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll from 1919. It was amusing. Hilarius the doll maker's apprentice is so much a Bud Bundy. It was interesting to see blue tint in some scenes.

Friend, "if you need some advice."
Lancelot, "I have an instruction manual."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:43 AM (b99Kq)

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A delight! And one of MPPPP's favorites!

Tinting was pretty common in silent films. It was a relatively cheap way to introduce color.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

278 65 164 No more Austin Powers. Just no.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:07 AM (R4t5M)

Oh, behave
Posted by: It's me donna at

Best line ever..."Who does number 2 work for!?"

"That's right show number 2 who's the boss!"

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (OiAR7)

279 Former Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Supports Joe Biden: "Voting for a Decent Person"

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Is this like an elephant joke? Funny just because it's so ridiculous?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

280 Another 4 years of this and a Big Mac will be $30.
Posted by: Bidenomics at May 07, 2024 10:42 AM (CM7e9)

Pro Tip: Right now if your all bound up, 2 double cheese burgers from McDonald's is still cheaper than a bottle of Dulcolax.

Posted by: Proctologist's Association Of America at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (4a+k3)

281 Stormy Daniels Expected To Testify Today In Trump Hush Money Trial

Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

282 Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a decade, a new report warned Monday...project that Social Security will be insolvent by 2035, and Medicare by 2036, which would force benefit cuts.

I heard that some cutbacks might be needed by 2035, but not insolvency. How about letting the Feds pay back what they've stolen from their convenient piggybank?

They been saying this shit for 50 years.

Social Security is an easy fix. Just raise the limit of income that can be taxed. 500K would get the job done for the foreseeable future. Medicare's a bit more complicated, but future funding can be assured if the Democrats gain control of both Houses of Congress plus the White House. Cuts in these vital programs should never happen.

Reagan created a wealth gap. There isn't a law that states we cannot undo it. Tax corporate capital gains, siphon from inheritances, and tighten corporate tax avoidance schemes.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

283 Hell, the "analysis" attributes the sudden profitability to cost cutting and price hikes. These are not long term profitability means.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, they did trickery to show a profit.
Valliant Renegade and company talked about it
Just shifted timing of inter-company transactions.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (ufFY8)

284 Jacques Louis-David was a great painter; Unfortunately, he was also a friend of Robespierre and spent time in prison. What I like about this work is the red and orange of the cape contrasted against the skin tones of Mars, Venus and the graces.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (XkYcA)

285 We have bylaws?
Posted by: Mister Scott

Muldoon drafted them, so they're written entirely in limericks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (9yWhg)

286 My interest in Greeks is primarily for political theory. Their society, not so much due in part to their love of man boy pedophilia and slavery.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:02 AM (peJ7P)

I'm not sure you would start a sentence with "amusingly" anyway.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (cG4MZ)

287 Watched last night Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll from 1919. It was amusing. Hilarius the doll maker's apprentice is so much a Bud Bundy. It was interesting to see blue tint in some scenes.

I love that movie. I recommended it to TJM when he began going through the works of Lubitsch.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

288 Malig-Nancy Pelosi Backs Mike Johnson for Speaker
___________

She backed McCarthy too. Which should tell you exactly what Mike Johnson is all about.

Or, stick with me here, she enjoys causing dissent and disorder in our ranks.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (CsUN+)

289 Mudpants is a decent person? What fucking planet do these assholes live on?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (R4t5M)

290 >>Biden’s Chair of Economic Advisors Can’t Explain How the US Monetary System Works

"Clearly the chair is empty."
-- Clint Eastwood

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (cCVOS)

291 Tits and ass and weapons.
Would hang.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (xcxpd)

292 283 Yeah, they did trickery to show a profit.
Valliant Renegade and company talked about it
Just shifted timing of inter-company transactions.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (ufFY

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Iger NEEDED Disney+ to finally show a profit.

It's lost $11 billion since it was launched. The $57 million it showed a profit for this quarter is nothing.

The stock drop, I assume, is because the gains were already baked into the price and the overall loss in revenue.

Disney is a cruise line that supports a flailing film division.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

293 279 Former Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Supports Joe Biden: "Voting for a Decent Person"

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Is this like an elephant joke? Funny just because it's so ridiculous?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Another CoC supported POS RINO that is bitter about losing office because he hated Trump and claimed the 2020 election in Georgia was above board. No support for him running for a second term in 2022.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:48 AM (peJ7P)

294 287 Watched last night Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll from 1919. It was amusing. Hilarius the doll maker's apprentice is so much a Bud Bundy. It was interesting to see blue tint in some scenes.

I love that movie. I recommended it to TJM when he began going through the works of Lubitsch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

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There's one short of his (well, 50 minutes) that I never watched. I need to do that one day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

295 No way-we genuinely like you. You're my favorite little person! (Who could probably kick my ass).
Posted by: Tall Paul at May 07, 2024 10:42 AM (V5BDR)

Probably only need to worry about your knees and below. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 07, 2024 10:48 AM (u/mEj)

296 Social Security is an easy fix. Just raise the limit of income that can be taxed. 500K would get the job done for the foreseeable future. Medicare's a bit more complicated, but future funding can be assured if the Democrats gain control of both Houses of Congress plus the White House. Cuts in these vital programs should never happen.

You had all three during the jug eared fuck's reign of error. Why wasn't it fixed then???

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:48 AM (m6K/j)

297 So Mick Jagger had to open his big mouth and jump into tranny politics? Why can't celebs know when to keep their mouths shut about woke issues (the Stones usually have, better than most)? Another one of my favorites on the shit list.

And how many trans groupies has he bedded to show his commitment to tranny acceptance?

Posted by: Ripley at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (JojsZ)

298 Tax corporate capital gains, siphon from inheritances, and tighten corporate tax avoidance schemes.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

Shorter the DU: Steal shamelessly!

That'll do the trick.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (CGD9m)

299 Moon and Bonham were insane.

Drummers are a different breed of animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (R4t5M)

The Dickens you say!
Posted by: Ginger Baker

Damn straight.
Posted by: Phill Rudd

Controversial take here, but I always thought Michelle Fields had the makings of an elite drummer.

Posted by: Rick Allen at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (JCZqz)

300 It was interesting to see blue tint in some scenes.

Blue tinting was used occasionally to tell the audience that a scene was happening at night. It's hysterically used in the Chaplin short One A.M., where he is supposed to be getting out of a taxi at 1 in the morning, but people and cars are going by in the background, since it was shot during the day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (Q0kLU)

301 296 You had all three during the jug eared fuck's reign of error. Why wasn't it fixed then???
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:48 AM (m6K/j)

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They had a supermajority in the Senate. They passed a giant handout to Big Pharma.

Because Democrats are literal fascists who try to combine private and public sectors.

But the left still thinks that they're textbook socialists, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

302 So it seems Disney is going full ENRON?

Is that what I am hearing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:50 AM (b99Kq)

303 Former Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Supports Joe Biden: "Voting for a Decent Person"

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Is this like an elephant joke? Funny just because it's so ridiculous?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Another CoC supported POS RINO that is bitter about losing office because he hated Trump and claimed the 2020 election in Georgia was above board. No support for him running for a second term in 2022.

The key word being "former".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 10:50 AM (CsUN+)

304 298 Tax corporate capital gains, siphon from inheritances, and tighten corporate tax avoidance schemes.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 07, 2024 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

Shorter the DU: Steal shamelessly!

That'll do the trick.
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:49 AM (CGD9m)

========

I'll support ending all tax loopholes in exchange for ending the income tax and replacing it with a uniform consumption tax.

Also, the idea that inheritances aren't taxed enough is laughable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

305 Society tires of the cost to keep people locked up an inevitably lets them. US prison policy has been the same way---times when crime is bad--lock em up. When crime is less of a problem---let em out. Rinse and repeat. England had a massive problem of crime running about a century spurred in part by massive urbanization and the enclosing of the Commons. It took the Bloody Codes that put criminals to death for many crimes about a century to resolve that multi generational crime wave in the home isles.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:37 AM (peJ7P)

One-way helicopter rides are the answer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (8zz6B)

306 I'm not sure you would start a sentence with "amusingly" anyway.
Posted by: ...
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I might but I don't find much of the political and personal idiocy disclosed to us via the 'news' as much to laugh about. Too much like the allegorical ship of fools.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (peJ7P)

307 Blue tinting was used occasionally to tell the audience that a scene was happening at night. It's hysterically used in the Chaplin short One A.M., where he is supposed to be getting out of a taxi at 1 in the morning, but people and cars are going by in the background, since it was shot during the day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Love the easy tells. Shadows. From everything.
Parked cars, trres, buildings, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (m6K/j)

308 One-way helicopter rides are the answer.

They usually are.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (CsUN+)

309 Brave English Woman: https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1787757961038778369
Posted by: scottst

He's like Larry, Moe, and Curly all wrapped up in one.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

310 Disney is a cruise line that supports a flailing film division.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

When my future libertarian dictatorship is established and prostitution is legalized Disney can open their own bordello.

How much do you think they would charge a man eager to pork a woman dressed like Minnie Mouse?

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:52 AM (CGD9m)

311 307 Love the easy tells. Shadows. From everything.
Parked cars, trres, buildings, etc.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (m6K/j)

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Filming at night is hard. And expensive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

312 Looking through the pictures from last night's Met Gala after parties. There's obviously no attempt to be modest or elegant these days. Lots of money spent to look so cheap.

Posted by: Tuna at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (oaGWv)

313 Disney must be contracting Krugman to oversee the books.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (R4t5M)

314 >>Former Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Supports Joe Biden: "Voting for a Decent Person"

Sure, he likely rapes children, probably beats his dogs, has been taking millions from America's enemies for decades, has made a career out of selling off his political influence to the highest bidder, and been an all-around jerk on the Hill for the past 50 years, but he was nice to me once so, he's decent!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (cCVOS)

315 Art: Who enjoys this dreck? I do especially enjoy how the artist has tastefully ensured members of the Women's Temperance League never have to see a penis when oohing and aahing over pagan mythology.

Posted by: It's real sin is being gaudy though at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (OTznU)

316 307 Blue tinting was used occasionally to tell the audience that a scene was happening at night. It's hysterically used in the Chaplin short One A.M., where he is supposed to be getting out of a taxi at 1 in the morning, but people and cars are going by in the background, since it was shot during the day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

If I've learned anything from watching Red Letter Media, it's that cheap day for night blue filters are amazing, and every film benefits greatly from using them.

Posted by: Movie Moron at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (JCZqz)

317 Social Security is an easy fix. Just raise the limit of income that can be taxed.

.. if the cap were completely removed, the additional revenue would cover 20% of the shortfall.

Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2024 10:54 AM (RHGPo)

318 The stock drop, I assume, is because the gains were already baked into the price and the overall loss in revenue.

Disney is a cruise line that supports a flailing film division.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, they promised a profit in D+, so they created one. Analysts and market are finally questioning their ability to make money, and their studio failures.

It is a company that won't go bankrupt, but is not worth what their stock price is now. If they don't change, they will keep declining.

It is a big ship, and it has been taking a lot of hits. Thanks, Iger.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2024 10:54 AM (ufFY8)

319 Social Security is an easy fix. Just raise the limit of income that can be taxed

Please list your ideas that do NOT include more taxes.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2024 10:54 AM (CsUN+)

320 I do especially enjoy how the artist has tastefully ensured members of the Women's Temperance League never have to see a penis when oohing and aahing over pagan mythology.
Posted by: It's real sin is being gaudy

It's not just for the ladies.

Posted by: Straight men everywhere at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (JCZqz)

321
"Hey buddy- you in the show?"
"No, I'm English."

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (/7KEl)

322 >Blue tinting was used occasionally to tell the audience that a scene was happening at night. It's hysterically used in the Chaplin short One A.M., where he is supposed to be getting out of a taxi at 1 in the morning, but people and cars are going by in the background, since it was shot during the day.

This unconvincing technique has never gone away. It was used in Fury Road, a movie that had lots of practical effects.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (cf/0E)

323 I might but I don't find much of the political and personal idiocy disclosed to us via the 'news' as much to laugh about. Too much like the allegorical ship of fools.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (peJ7P)

Well as my mom used to say, "You have to laugh to keep from crying."

I'm kidding she was too busy being manipulative and insane.

But maybe someone in my family said it. I wouldn't know, I've blocked most of it out.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (cG4MZ)

324 One-way helicopter rides are the answer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yes and Pinochet was hounded after he left office after leaving power by many of those remaining leftists and their aggrieved relatives.

Sulla and Cromwell were lucky to have a peaceful death after something like the Proscription and English Civil War but historically once you grab the reins of power and kill enough people--you have to remain in office or the remainder of your enemies will make it their quest to make you and yours suffer.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:56 AM (peJ7P)

325 322 This unconvincing technique has never gone away. It was used in Fury Road, a movie that had lots of practical effects.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (cf/0E)

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Fury Road is highly stylized from beginning to end.

The blue night stuff fits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

326 If I've learned anything from watching Red Letter Media, it's that cheap day for night blue filters are amazing, and every film benefits greatly from using them.
Posted by: Movie Moron at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (JCZqz)

Day for night just makes me laugh. Who do you think you're fooling?

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 10:56 AM (OguvZ)

327 You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

Have to admit when I first read that, I immediately went to Biden taking a dump. That stance he took yesterday "dementia posturing" aka "toddler stance when he shits his diaper" came to mind.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (N39Ws)

328 In the movie when Ossi starts dancing before the monks and them following suit I immediately thought of Fritz Lang's later seduction by the Machine-Man of all the men in Yoshiwara. Was Fritz inspired by this scene?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (b99Kq)

329 This unconvincing technique has never gone away. It was used in Fury Road, a movie that had lots of practical effects.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 07, 2024 10:55 AM (cf/0E)
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It was painfully obvious in Conan the Barbarian, which also featured *genuine* shots at night...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (7fElN)

330 When my future libertarian dictatorship is established and prostitution is legalized Disney can open their own bordello.

How much do you think they would charge a man eager to pork a woman dressed like Minnie Mouse?
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:52 AM (CGD9m)

I'd take Alice in Wonderland, myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (Q0kLU)

331 One-way helicopter rides are the answer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (8zz6B)

Tan, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Pinochet at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (53oGX)

332 How much do you think they would charge a man eager to pork a woman dressed like Minnie Mouse?
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:52 AM (CGD9m)

For an extra $1000, you can get Crazy Brittney in the costume.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM (R4t5M)

333 T&A Tuesday. It seems I don't like sandals on a naked man anymore than I like black socks in the same scenario.

I'd pass, but it does brighten the day. Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

334 329
It was painfully obvious in Conan the Barbarian, which also featured *genuine* shots at night...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2024 10:57 AM (7fElN)

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The Bridge on the River Kwai has some pretty convincing day for night.

It's pretty much just the shots of the commandos in the water because shadows become significantly less of an issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

335 Watched a cute l'il film on Nat Geo last night..."Billy and Molly"...guy rescues an abandoned otter....don't think they mentioned climate change once.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM (AwYPR)

336 Watched a cute l'il film on Nat Geo last night..."Billy and Molly"...guy rescues an abandoned otter....don't think they mentioned climate change once.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM

Are you sure you are talking about Nat Geo? That's impossible.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 07, 2024 10:59 AM (Ag7IE)

337 I'm fine with blue tint.

Unless there is some reason for using real darkness, I kinda like to be able to see the movie I'm supposed to be watching.

It's not like lighting is accurate in general. Torches, for example, are a pretty disappointing source of illumination.

Posted by: Blue Tint Works at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (OTznU)

338 Yes and Pinochet was hounded after he left office after leaving power by many of those remaining leftists and their aggrieved relatives.

Sulla and Cromwell were lucky to have a peaceful death after something like the Proscription and English Civil War but historically once you grab the reins of power and kill enough people--you have to remain in office or the remainder of your enemies will make it their quest to make you and yours suffer.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:56 AM (peJ7P)

Pinochet was too stingy with the chopper rides. He left too many Commies alive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (8zz6B)

339 >>For an extra $1000, you can get Crazy Brittney in the costume.

Sadly, that's probably what made Britney crazy in the first place - sexual abuse when she was a Disney child star.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (cCVOS)

340 Evidently, Grace Jones is not one of the three.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2024 10:28 AM (8zz6B)

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Beat me to it, AOP; nothing more sexy than a woman wearing a crew cut ...

I wonder what a young Admiral Grace Hopper looked like?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (3StC9)

341 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (/y8xj)

342 Posted by: It's real sin is being gaudy though at May 07, 2024 10:53 AM (OTznU)

I expect that the women in the Women's Temperance League have all gone to the non drinking section in the afterlife.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (XkYcA)

343 332 How much do you think they would charge a man eager to pork a woman dressed like Minnie Mouse?
Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2024 10:52 AM (CGD9m)

For an extra $1000, you can get Crazy Brittney in the costume.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 07, 2024 10:58 AM (R4t5M)

TAKE MY MONEY!

Posted by: Fry at May 07, 2024 11:00 AM (53oGX)

344 Nood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 07, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

345 >>You Heard It Here First: Biden Has Dumped "Bidenomics"

Oh, is that what landed in his adult diaper yesterday. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2024 11:02 AM (cCVOS)

346 They did that in Westerns a lot over the years

Put a neutral density filter over the lens to pretend it's night

Posted by: Don Black at May 07, 2024 11:02 AM (/7KEl)

347 LOL Lizzy

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2024 11:02 AM (cG4MZ)

348 319 Social Security is an easy fix. Just raise the limit of income that can be taxed

Please list your ideas that do NOT include more taxes.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Social Security can be fixed relatively easily by a combination of tax hikes and raised age for retirement. It is Medicare that is effectively out of control and fixing that will require much higher taxes or vast cuts in it.

Medicaid is under the general budget and is also exploding due to Obamacare and nursing home care. Took about 728 billion in total federal and state spending last year and that also hikes your state tax bill as states have to finance about 30 percent of it.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 11:02 AM (peJ7P)

349 About half the time the Hollywood retards use day for night, I first wonder if they just messed up the exposure. Only a bit later I realize, oh, you're pretending this is at night. Fuck you, hack.

Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2024 11:02 AM (OguvZ)

350 Medicare was over 800 billion last year.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 11:03 AM (peJ7P)

351 I think the nod has to go to Hurley, though. They're both hot, but she's a LITTLE cuter, and I think the dark hair fits the 60s British female spy look a bit better. Emma Peel and Cate Archer vibes.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 07, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

Hurley not only has the face and figure of a Venus, but she has a supremely acceptable vocal register.

Posted by: mrp at May 07, 2024 11:07 AM (rj6Yv)

352 I might but I don't find much of the political and personal idiocy disclosed to us via the 'news' as much to laugh about. Too much like the allegorical ship of fools.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2024 10:51 AM (peJ7P)

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Don't know about the rest of you 'rons, but the most difficult aspect for me witnessing the exponentially-increasing & intentional destruction of virtually every Western virtue, value, institution, and artifact over the past four years -- and being a male who's natural inclination is to ACT and to PROTECT and FIGHT BACK when the enemy has drawn first blood (not to mention a bit of a control freak) -- is not being able to ACT in any effective way on my own (aside from prepping and keeping my finger on the pulse of insanity).

This is why I wish Trump or another leader of our movement would "unite the clans" and engage tens of millions of patriots to ACT -- whether it's targeted or national strikes, or whether it's millions of acts of Irish Democracy.

As I frequently lament here: WHERE the hell is John Galt?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 07, 2024 11:11 AM (3StC9)

353 Wait 'til Vulcan gets home.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at May 07, 2024 11:35 AM (pVqA1)

354 The demented meat puppet is giving a speech on antisemitism. Polling must be horrible on this. I wonder if he will manage to get through without denouncing Islamophobia?

Posted by: Ripley at May 07, 2024 11:56 AM (JojsZ)

355 This is interesting because I think of David as a painter of the French Revolution and First Empire, all marble, togas, and heroic ideals, Napoleon's favorite painter.
This painting shows that he sang to a somewhat different tune before the revolution.

Posted by: PG at May 07, 2024 12:01 PM (gQbO4)

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