Mid-Morning Art Thread

Repose
John White Alexander

Posted by: CBD at 09:21 AM

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1 /plants flag

Posted by: Brother Tim, no longer a Cylon at May 23, 2024 09:23 AM (OUMaO)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Why, it WOULD be better were she nude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Possible butterface.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

5 If I had to drag that dress around all day I'd be racked out too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Enough sail cloth there to traverse the Pacific…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

7 Poor girl tripped over her hem. Thank goodness there was a sofa right there.

Posted by: huerfano at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (VGOMa)

8 Sniper under there. Two maybe.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (MvF+J)

9 Possible butterface.
Posted by: Sponge

That's why there is a light switch near the door.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (Edo3/)

10 Looks decidedly uncomfortable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (d04cU)

11 I suppose it might look better in person. Every other color looks muddy except for her white dress, and the dress looks very heavy..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (XkYcA)

12 I can't imagine having to wear that much material.

Posted by: sidney at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (Uy/WF)

13 Jeesh, I'd need a nap, too, if I had to drag all that fabric around behind me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (v6JzV)

14 Repose.
-

Was the first pose better or worse?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 23, 2024 09:26 AM (Y/ecs)

15 Alternate title:

I...THINK..THE WIND...TUNNEL...IS...WORKING...OK

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (PiwSw)

16 Does she have Parkinson's?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

17 That dress would make a pile on the floor bigger than Trigglypuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (Edo3/)

18 Enough sail cloth there to traverse the Pacific…
Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:25 AM

She'd try to get up and do something productive, but that ship has sailed.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (fxCK2)

19 What if she needs to pee??

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (PCK5/)

20 Where could the sniper be?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (PiwSw)

21 Who needs bed sheets...or heat in the winter...when you have a dress like that.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

22 That's a whole lotta dress. And no doggeh. Meh. Would not hang.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (YRsIm)

23 She only comes out at night, I'm told.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (MkuC5)

24 She's no Elvira.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (Aoykm)

25 "Djinni, make me a dress~!"
"Ok, you're a dress."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (IG4Id)

26 She only comes out at night, I'm told.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (MkuC5)

She's covid?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

27 So, is this a gender-swapped version of Repose Man?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (v6JzV)

28 She would not be fun in the backseat…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (PCK5/)

29 tubal, we got a good start on a Dr. Seuss story....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2024 09:29 AM (PiwSw)

30 Repose Girl: Hey Baby I'm going commando

Her boyfriend panting: How many pounds does this dress weigh?!?!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 09:29 AM (ibTVg)

31 Just need some red paint with the words, "Tax The Rich" on it.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 23, 2024 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

32 She's got that " Come hither" look.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2024 09:29 AM (oaGWv)

33 John White Alexander seemed to like to paint fashions. There's one with a woman in a very vibrant blue dress and the position of her arm looks like the woman is about to fly away.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (XkYcA)

34 She got that long dress on!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (hOUT3)

35 She looks drunk.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

36 Dresses like this demonstrate women’s preference of style over comfort. Anyway, sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Tptec at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (kzHlT)

37 Reposing lady: "What're YOU looking at?!"

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (MvF+J)

38 Her boyfriend panting: How many pounds does this dress weigh?!?!
Posted by: 18-1

Trying to get to:

C:###

would be a chore.

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 23, 2024 09:30 AM (Edo3/)

39 What a flow of material . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

40 Apres roofies.

Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

41 Itsa good hiding-place from her husband

Posted by: Paolo at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (gKWVE)

42 That's not a pillow. That there is a futon.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (MvF+J)

43 Interesting fact: She's actually a life model, and Alexander painter her that way. After showing the work to a few of his better patrons, he then painted the dress for public consumption.

Notice how well it drapes.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (a3Q+t)

44 Her face is not unattractive. A "handsome" woman rather than a pretty or beautiful one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

45 Ringling Brothers had a close-out sale, looks like..

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (PCK5/)

46 Lovely painting.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2024 09:31 AM (cCVOS)

47 "Peel me a grape!"

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2024 09:32 AM (cCVOS)

48 She's no Elvira.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 23, 2024 09:28 AM (Aoykm)

So, she's not a dried up old lesbian?

Good for her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

49 That dress is voluminous. Well, all dresses were in the Victorian Era.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 23, 2024 09:32 AM (BHrzb)

50 28 She would not be fun in the backseat…
Posted by: tubal

Actually, I think it would be a hoot to have to sort through a that fabric to have a good time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (INu8E)

51 Her face is not unattractive. A "handsome" woman rather than a pretty or beautiful one.

Nothing I like better then a handsome woman - you can take your beautiful ones with an hourglass figure and large bosoms but for a manly man like me? Give me a handsome face and a plump set of lady balls

Posted by: David French at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (ibTVg)

52 Paining Looks like John Singer Sargent but with more dynamism.

Sargent's watercolors were better than his oils.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)

53 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 09:32 AM

Eye candy is eye candy. Just don't ask questions.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (Aoykm)

54 Bet the artist hid some Hogarth Curves in there. They often do that, the sneaky bastids.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

55 Not ready to go riding, or camping, or hiking or walking to the mailbox that’s for sure…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (PCK5/)

56 The jump is done. She's on the ground. Time to repack that D-10D.

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (89Sog)

57 OMG... she's wearing the drapes!

Posted by: Rhett Butler at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

58 Repose > Dead

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (RIvkX)

59 Meh.

The Morning Report art was more interesting to me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:35 AM (si1C0)

60 Oops. I spoke too soon on the last thread. Now my DDG is down.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2024 09:35 AM (oaGWv)

61 I like it better than the art on the MR. That was creepy.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (/y8xj)

62 Take her to dinner for spaghetti marinara…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (PCK5/)

63 Okay, so Alexander was an American contemporary with Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain, had his talent recognized early, married a wealthy woman (with the same maiden name as his own last name) (I suppose she might be the model for this?), and died at age 59.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

64 Possibly a mermaid?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (weuB7)

65 Where are the doves and trippy trees???

Posted by: Gertrude Abercrombie at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (cCVOS)

66 Voluminous I or II??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

67 DDG is dodgy, so I try Google, and now they've made AI the default mode. If you want a web search, (and who doesn't,) it needs another click. Ptui.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (MvF+J)

68 Before y'all get too caught up in lurid fantasies about her, consider the possibility that she might be a mermaid. Count slowly to 10.

OK. NOW you can get caught up in lurid fantasies.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (991eG)

69 She saw it in the window and she just had to have it.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:37 AM (ZdexC)

70 65 Where are the doves and trippy trees???
Posted by: Gertrude Abercrombie at May 23, 2024 09:36 AM (cCVOS)

Under the dress… along with Idaho…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:37 AM (PCK5/)

71 Take her to dinner for spaghetti marinara…
Posted by: tubal

She gets the chicken Alfredo.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 09:37 AM (nJUfO)

72 Must have been a good sale at Joann Fabrics, probably the clearance bin.

Posted by: Come Sail Away at May 23, 2024 09:38 AM (V5BDR)

73 Where are the doves and trippy trees???
Posted by: Gertrude Abercrombie

Try the micro dots.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 09:38 AM (nJUfO)

74 Do mermaids have human private parts or fish private parts?

Posted by: Asking the important questions at May 23, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

75 Bing search is back up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)

76 And I know that my song
Isn't sayin' anything new
Oh, but after the lovin' (after the lovin')
I'm still in love with you...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Engelbert Humperdink at May 23, 2024 09:38 AM (HopJA)

77 I actually know someone who could do a fair imitation of the woman in this painting if she ever wanted to do a live-action re-enactment...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:39 AM (si1C0)

78 OMG... she's wearing the drapes!
Posted by: Rhett Butler

Asshole!

Posted by: Carol Burnett at May 23, 2024 09:39 AM (nJUfO)

79 Long cool woman in a white dress . . .

Posted by: The Hollies at May 23, 2024 09:39 AM (6gW4D)

80 74 Watch "The Lighthouse" (2019). There's a closeup of a mermaid's hoo-hah.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 09:39 AM (MvF+J)

81 Oh, she was definitely a character.

Posing for a painting and she decides to take a nap.

"Oh, you're still here?" Rests head gently back on the davenport cushion. . .

Posted by: Gertrude Abercrombie at May 23, 2024 09:40 AM (cCVOS)

82 Do mermaids have human private parts or fish private parts?
Posted by: Asking the important questions

Gotta let that one pass. No safe way of answering.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 09:40 AM (nJUfO)

83 So, 80 comments in and no one's made a reference to the midget under her dress flicking her bean?

It's like I don't know you people anymore.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

84 Before y'all get too caught up in lurid fantasies about her, consider the possibility that she might be a mermaid. Count slowly to 10.

Or a Merman ?

IZZAT you Ethel ?

Posted by: JT at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (T4tVD)

85 Ann Blyth was a comely mermaid, IIRC.

The lady in the painting-I would love to cover her in furs and automobiles. The finest furs-mink, skunk, porcupine...

Posted by: Moe Howard at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (V5BDR)

86 The George Costanza portrait pose. Looks better on her, actually.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (6gW4D)

87 Nothing I like better then a handsome woman - you can take your beautiful ones with an hourglass figure and large bosoms but for a manly man like me? Give me a handsome face and a plump set of lady balls
Posted by: David French at May 23, 2024 09:33 AM (ibTVg)
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May I introduce you to.... Honoria Glossip:

https://youtu.be/KpCuJ0OHBRg&t=260

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 23, 2024 09:42 AM (Y/ecs)

88 More blatant racism.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at May 23, 2024 09:42 AM (ytSiK)

89 Or a Merman ?

IZZAT you Ethel ?
Posted by: JT

*shudder*
-- Zombie Earnest Borgnine

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

90 Looking at some of the artist's other works. Hr really liked painting women in beautiful voluminous dresses.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2024 09:42 AM (oaGWv)

91 OMG... she's wearing the drapes!
Posted by: Rhett Butler at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)
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Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/utuchVE_56M

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 23, 2024 09:43 AM (Y/ecs)

92 Image search on Bing is still down, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

93 77 I actually know someone who could do a fair imitation of the woman in this painting if she ever wanted to do a live-action re-enactment...
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Tableaux vivants!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)

94 Imagine the tub big enough to wash that dress, and then imagine the line sturdy enough to hang it to dry.

"Industrial" comes to mind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 09:44 AM (Q4IgG)

95 I like this, seems put of my usual likings

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2024 09:45 AM (xtpRo)

96 92 Image search on Bing is still down, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

Tells me how tenuous the internet is… talk about a Jenga World!!

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:45 AM (PCK5/)

97 Isn't there supposed to be a midget strapped to her thigh or something?

Posted by: Obligatory at May 23, 2024 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

98 White is a difficult color to paint.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 23, 2024 09:46 AM (cf/0E)

99 Before y'all get too caught up in lurid fantasies about her, consider the possibility that she might be a mermaid. Count slowly to 10.

Or a Merman ?

IZZAT you Ethel ?
Posted by: JT at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (T4tVD)
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Look at that, look at that!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 23, 2024 09:46 AM (Y/ecs)

100 Pretty sure I'd much rather be where she is than here in my cubicle.

Approximately 14.25 hours to go! We can DO this.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (JCLJi)

101 77 I actually know someone who could do a fair imitation of the woman in this painting if she ever wanted to do a live-action re-enactment...
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Tableaux vivants!
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)
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I had no idea there was a term for this. I just remember the Bluth family from Arrested Development participating in a Christmas pageant where they do this (One of Michaelangelo's paintings).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (si1C0)

102 OMG... she's wearing the drapes!
Posted by: Rhett Butler

***********

Done With The Wind - a limerick

It might be near the end, (I can't be certain)
When Scarlett was emotionally hurtin'
That dress of hourglass shape?
Well she made it from the drapes
But frankly my dear, she ought to call it curtains

Posted by: Muldoon at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (991eG)

103 100 Pretty sure I'd much rather be where she is than here in my cubicle.

Approximately 14.25 hours to go! We can DO this.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (JCLJi)

Service desk at Walmart??

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (PCK5/)

104 Every other color looks muddy except for her white dress, and the dress looks very heavy..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Lol....

It's about subtext. How about, instead of "Splooge-Drenched Blowjob Queen", we call it "The Woman In White".

https://tinyurl.com/2366j7vb (skip to 2:22 for the setup and exact reference)

Posted by: Andrew Lloyd Webber at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

105 Does this pose make me look fat? .... It's a trap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (SaBu/)

106 Willowed from last thread.

I don't get it (really). What's the connection between Parkinson's and sex?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

The shakes.
Posted by: Sponge

Doesn't require batteries.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (nJUfO)

107 Isn't there supposed to be a midget strapped to her thigh or something?
Posted by: Obligatory

How do you know there isn't?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (3vwcU)

108 Very nice. Flows. Almost a surreal effect.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (BpNU6)

109 I hope that dress material is no-iron.

Posted by: Her valet attendant at May 23, 2024 09:49 AM (dg+HA)

110 Service desk at Walmart??
Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:47 AM (PCK5/)

[Shudders.] Thanks for the reminder that I don't have it THAT bad. Can you imagine a worse job?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 23, 2024 09:49 AM (JCLJi)

111 108 Very nice. Flows. Almost a surreal effect.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (BpNU6)

“ So we danced
like the waves on the ocean
romanced
we were liars in love…”

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (PCK5/)

112 I hope that dress material is no-iron.
Posted by: Her valet attendant at May 23, 2024 09:49 AM (dg+HA)
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No iron. Is cotton.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (Y/ecs)

113 88 More blatant racism.
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at May 23, 2024 09:42 AM (ytSiK)

Well, she was twerking, and that's where she landed.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (MkuC5)

114 WaPo: Arts & Entertainment Perspective
A tour de force of eroticism
John White Alexander painted “Repose” in Paris under the influence of Whistler, By Sebastian Smee, March 10, 2021

In part, "Full of sinuous curves, rich and mellow coloring, and tautly stretched fabric, “Repose” is one of the sexiest art works I know. Painted by John White Alexander in Paris in 1895, it is drenched in a mood of dusky indolence.

In truth, the painting, which hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is almost too seductive. Missing any grace note of gaucheness to save it from its own shameless resplendence, it is a picture that clearly has designs on you. But give into them, I say. Why not?"

I don't find the painting erotic as the writer did, but Alexander's life & the influences on his painting are fascinating. I would likely pass hanging this painting but appreciate its background.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

115 Sniper under there. Two maybe.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium

You could hide a crew-served weapon with defensive emplacement under all that...

Posted by: Brother Tim, no longer a Cylon at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (OUMaO)

116 I knew a man who made a good living as a "cutter" in the Garment District. He had a natural eye for how to cut high-end fabrics to maximize profit. He was also Eighth Air Force vet, shot down by flak in a B-17 over France, made his way with Underground help back to England.

Posted by: Everyday Heroes, Now Gone at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (V5BDR)

117 This is such a feminine painting. It is all gentle curves in the arrangement of the pillows (what is it with chicks and so many pillows?) which is echoed in her posture. The model's pose is also one that only women could find comfortable and a bit provocative. The soft colors emphasize the overall sense of relaxation, a sensual languor. Very effective.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (zudum)

118 Before y'all get too caught up in lurid fantasies about her, consider the possibility that she might be a mermaid. Count slowly to 10.

Or a Merman ?

IZZAT you Ethel ?
Posted by: JT at May 23, 2024 09:41 AM (T4tVD)
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Could be worse. Considering how that dress flows, she could have the tentacles of a squid or jellyfish under there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (si1C0)

119 I just remember the Bluth family from Arrested Development participating in a Christmas pageant where they do this (One of Michelangelo's paintings).
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Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)

120 I don't get it (really). What's the connection between Parkinson's and sex?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Lots of sex prevents Parkinsons. I heard that.

Science.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 09:52 AM (BpNU6)

121 Or a Merman ?

Oh what a big...uh...whatever that is...you have!

Posted by: The female lead from the Shape of Water at May 23, 2024 09:52 AM (ibTVg)

122 It seems that Kris has abandoned us… deservedly, I suppose, us being hardened Philistines and all…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:52 AM (PCK5/)

123 I knew a man who made a good living as a "cutter" in the Garment District. He had a natural eye for how to cut high-end fabrics to maximize profit. He was also Eighth Air Force vet, shot down by flak in a B-17 over France, made his way with Underground help back to England.
Posted by: Everyday Heroes, Now Gone at May 23, 2024 09:50 AM (V5BDR)
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"Cheap fabric and dim lighting. That's how you move merchandise!"

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at May 23, 2024 09:52 AM (si1C0)

124 Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl.

Posted by: Barry M. at May 23, 2024 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

125 So much for colleges abandoning DEI..

“Want to be a molecular biologist at Yale? Well, make sure you have a ten-step plan for dismantling systemic racism. When making hires at Yale’s department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, faculty are told to place “DEI at the center of every decision,” according to a document tucked away on its website.”

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 09:53 AM (tpjlM)

126 Could be worse. Considering how that dress flows, she could have the tentacles of a squid or jellyfish under there...

BUNK!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at May 23, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

127 OT: The central A/C in my place (ca. 550 sq. ft.) was running continuously last evening and overnight, trying to get interior temp down to 72. It may merely be low on refrigerant, and I'll call the apartment office. Knowing those clowns, however, I expect nothing to happen soon, esp. w/ a holiday weekend coming up..

Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? I know the exhaust hose has to go out of the window, and the units come with a panel you can set there or cut to fit. And youy need to drain it. Still, it might be a good choice for me. Has it worked for you? Drawbacks, plusses?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

128 I just remember the Bluth family from Arrested Development participating in a Christmas pageant where they do this (One of Michelangelo's paintings).
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Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)
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"Never Nudes" need not apply...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:53 AM (si1C0)

129 I guess Nvidia reported good results yesterday ... stock's up another 9% this morning.

Posted by: spindrift at May 23, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

130 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? I know the exhaust hose has to go out of the window, and the units come with a panel you can set there or cut to fit. And youy need to drain it. Still, it might be a good choice for me. Has it worked for you? Drawbacks, plusses?

Can you use a standard window unit?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 09:54 AM (ibTVg)

131 106 Willowed from last thread.

I don't get it (really). What's the connection between Parkinson's and sex?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

The shakes.
Posted by: Sponge

Doesn't require batteries.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM (nJUfO)

I have elucidated this issue in my Ph.D. thesis entitled "The Erotic Uses of Parkinson-induced Tremor and its effect on Combating Systemic Racism and Climate Change"

Posted by: Dr. Frizzelda Q. Screetchan at May 23, 2024 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

132 > I knew a man who made a good living as a "cutter" in the Garment District.
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There's a guy and his father around here who do upholstery work. Really top notch. He replaced the leather on my truck's seat where it had torn. A+ work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 09:55 AM (Q4IgG)

133 Wow, 53% profit margin. I wonder if Pedophile Paul will be calling for a windfall tax.

Posted by: spindrift at May 23, 2024 09:56 AM (OguvZ)

134 Could be worse. Considering how that dress flows, she could have the tentacles of a squid or jellyfish under there...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (si1C0)

Ummpphh. Mrs. Pickman in John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness"...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 23, 2024 09:56 AM (/HDaX)

135 1856 - 1915 painter lived

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2024 09:57 AM (xtpRo)

136 132 > I knew a man who made a good living as a "cutter" in the Garment District.
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There's a guy and his father around here who do upholstery work. Really top notch. He replaced the leather on my truck's seat where it had torn. A+ work.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 09:55 AM (Q4IgG)

So - no duct tape over the tear??

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)

137 Could be worse. Considering how that dress flows, she could have the tentacles of a squid or jellyfish under there...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:51 AM (si1C0)

Ummpphh. Mrs. Pickman in John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness"...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 23, 2024 09:56 AM (/HDaX)
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Also a woman in the movie "Dagon." Pretty hot from the waist up. Below that...YIKES!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:57 AM (si1C0)

138 His fadder was a cutter.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 09:59 AM (tpjlM)

139 Willowed

The ultimate COVID vaccine backflip & coming to the light compilation!

https://bit.ly/3yygJob

As soon as the truth came out that the Clot Shot didn't in fact "stop the spread" all pressure to get it should have ended. Remember the argument was that they could force you to take it so that the disease would stop spreading.

And the fact that the pressure to take it went UP after it came out the argument was based on a lie (not a mistake, the data was faked) told you everything you needed to know about how nefarious this whole drive was

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 09:59 AM (ibTVg)

140 I guess Nvidia reported good results yesterday ... stock's up another 9% this morning.
Posted by: spindrift at May 23, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

Didn't they just announce a 10/1 split?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 09:59 AM (IUd0M)

141 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? . . .
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Can you use a standard window unit?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024

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I guess so. A lot of my neighbors, esp. on upper floors of the dump, have them sticking out of at least one window. My place faces west, though, and gets vicious sunlight from two until seven p.m., so I'd need a unit in each room. Or I could put a window unit in the living room, and a small-ish portable in the bedroom.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

142 Also a woman in the movie "Dagon." Pretty hot from the waist up. Below that...YIKES!

Oh yeah, saw that one too. Macarena Gómez as Uxía Cambarro. Errggghhh.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 23, 2024 10:00 AM (/HDaX)

143 1916-present painter dead

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:00 AM (ZdexC)

144 The Snark thread.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (0CsDL)

145 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? I know the exhaust hose has to go out of the window, and the units come with a panel you can set there or cut to fit. And youy need to drain it. Still, it might be a good choice for me. Has it worked for you? Drawbacks, plusses?
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I bought one once, to use in a rental beach house when a pregnant daughter was visiting. Was a great addition. After she left we used it in a living room. The drawback is I should have Ebayed it and, instead, it sits in my garage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (BpNU6)

146 They are going to turn up the violence this summer BEFORE the election, just like they did in 2020. We are going to be locked down by Biden under Martial Law - since they'll blame US for THEIR violence. COUNT ON IT.

The Antifa crowd wearing Hamas towels now will put on Red Hats and burn cities like in 2020. This will be the theater to allow Biden to declare us violent insurrectionists, and lock everyone down under martial law. Absolutely predictable.

And please don't quote the Insurrection act, since when do Democrats care about laws or the Constitution? Which are you going to do write a letter of Reprimand for Joe Biden's permanent record, or put him on double secret probation?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (CecP5)

147 Also a woman in the movie "Dagon." Pretty hot from the waist up. Below that...YIKES!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 09:57 AM (si1C0)

Oh yes!!!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (PiwSw)

148 just remember the Bluth family from Arrested Development participating in a Christmas pageant where they do this (One of Michelangelo's paintings).

—

I’ve been the watching the series on Netflix. Still hilarious 20 years later.

And damn Lindsay was hot.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (tpjlM)

149 @127 -- If you can, make sure the drain isn't plugged (pour some water into it). If it flows freely then its a refrigerant or compressor issue.

Portables work, they do need to be drained and they can be expensive to operate.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 10:02 AM (MkuC5)

150 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? I know the exhaust hose has to go out of the window, and the units come with a panel you can set there or cut to fit. And youy need to drain it. Still, it might be a good choice for me. Has it worked for you? Drawbacks, plusses?

Can you use a standard window unit?

Posted by: 18-1

I've used two different types.
First one was 10k btu, and needed a 16" recycled air pipe to catch the large volume of conditioned air. Very good system, was able to take the ambient temp of a tent in full sunlight down to about 80 degrees in July at the fort worth texas naval air station.

Seond one, was what you described, need to run the exhaust theough a tube to the outside. A basic standard window, with a 4"dryer hose sized piece of plywood foe the exhaust hose will be adequate.

Pay attention to the condensate drip system, or you'll have a big wet mess indoors.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 23, 2024 10:02 AM (MsrgL)

151 Service desk at Walmart??

A nice no-show job. A promotion from the floor jobs where you have to hide from customers who appear to have a question.

Posted by: t-bird at May 23, 2024 10:02 AM (Fr3vV)

152 I guess Nvidia reported good results yesterday ... stock's up another 9% this morning.
Posted by: spindrift at May 23, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

Didn't they just announce a 10/1 split?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 09:59 AM (IUd0M)

Yeah, looks like they announced that yesterday during the earnings call too.

Posted by: spindrift at May 23, 2024 10:02 AM (OguvZ)

153 Snarknado!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:02 AM (ZdexC)

154 And the fact that the pressure to take it went UP after it came out the argument was based on a lie (not a mistake, the data was faked) told you everything you needed to know about how nefarious this whole drive was
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 09:59 AM (ibTVg)

The fact that there was pressure, at all, to get a shot they said would prevent a -- maybe -- bad case of the flu, when they were banning any/all therapeutics for it. The fact that they were, in places, making it illegal to refuse... that people were losing their jobs over it... told you everything you needed to know.

Trial run for the Mark of the Beast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:04 AM (IUd0M)

155 Per the discussion of Southern manners vs Northern brusqueness in the last thread...

I was raised in rural CO. It's not the South, but it was similar in that regard, and I was raised by a Southern man, and a very well-polished Northern Jewess who taught politeness and respect as core values.

I watched all that go by the boards as we were replaced by West Coast people in CO. They brought their shitty attitude and manners and corroded the culture to the point where it was unrecognizable, at least in the Front Range Corridor. Demolished.

When I got out and went to a real place, it was such a breath of fresh air. Just the other day a short lady at the store walked up and said "excuse me, sir, could you please reach that shelf for me," so I did, and she said "thank you, have a blessed day," so I said "likewise, ma'am!" In Denver, you don't approach people anymore. You don't offer help. You keep to yourself, because social interactions are rare and usually unpleasant when they happen.

Turns out, you *can* go home again. Just not to your old home.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (0FoWg)

156 Damn, that's a lot of clothes.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (4780s)

157 Electronics is the only place in Walmart where the employees will acknowledge your existence… maybe some places in the front of the store…

Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (PCK5/)

158 Ohio Elections Official Says He Will Soon Exclude Biden From the Ballot. a legislative fix that would ban foreign donations to state ballot initiatives stalled, and "is the price that Democrats must pay to ensure that Mr. Biden is on the ballot, and that he would otherwise enforce the law as written."

There's always a higher court. Such a foolish decision will be appealed. No way one of our two major party candidates won't be on the Ohio ballot without a court battle.

These kind of deadlines have been approved by the courts before. I wouldn't be so sure.

It's a given Biden won't win OH. This mostly affects down ticket races. If dems can't vote for president, a lot won't bother to vote. But who knows, maybe republicans will be the ones who won't bother to vote if Trump runs un-opposed.

it probably won't mean much if Biden runs a serious write in campaign. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he wins Ohio as a write-in.

Why don't Democrats just organize a big Zoom call to nominate Biden and get this fucking thing over with? Answer one technicality being played against us with another?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

159 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? . . .
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I bought one once, to use in a rental beach house when a pregnant daughter was visiting. Was a great addition. After she left we used it in a living room. The drawback is I should have Ebayed it and, instead, it sits in my garage.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024

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I could take it, or both, with me when I move. They apparently are not lightweight, running at 75 lbs. or so for the mid-powered models (?). But they roll on wheels, so moving them may not be too bad.

Some of them have timer units. I could set the thing to shut down half an hour or so after I leave for work, and to come on an hour or so before I'd be home. The place would get pretty hot in between times for the cats, though.

The combo of 1 window and 1 portable might run me a good $700. Paying an A/C tech myself to come out, inspect, and recharge the central unit would be about the same (or less? Dunno). If it needs more heavy-duty work, then I wouldn't do that out of my own pocket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

160
Why don't Democrats just organize a big Zoom call to nominate Biden and get this fucking thing over with? Answer one technicality being played against us with another?

They've had four years to get this planned and done so...sure?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:07 AM (ibTVg)

161 158 it probably won't mean much if Biden runs a serious write in campaign. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he wins Ohio as a write-in.

Why don't Democrats just organize a big Zoom call to nominate Biden and get this fucking thing over with? Answer one technicality being played against us with another?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

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1. I think some of our hopium is delusional. This is akin to thinking Trump could easily win Vermont.

2. Yeah, why not?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:07 AM (cD1dp)

162 160
Why don't Democrats just organize a big Zoom call to nominate Biden and get this fucking thing over with? Answer one technicality being played against us with another?

They've had four years to get this planned and done so...sure?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:07 AM (ibTVg)

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Let's play, "What if the parties were reversed?!"

"Trump is such a fucking idiot for not getting all the things in order. Ohio should exclude him because he's so stupid."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (cD1dp)

163 Shorter DU: laws? We don’t follow no stinkin’ laws.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (tpjlM)

164 If they do run Biden as a write in I can't wait to hear that everything from "Bidet" to "the Dem Guy" to "Not Trump" are valid votes for biden

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

165 No way one of our two major party candidates won't be on the Ohio ballot without a court battle.
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I wonder what the DUmmy thought about attempts to keep 'felon' Trump off the various states' ballots??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (ZdexC)

166 it probably won't mean much if Biden runs a serious write in campaign. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he wins Ohio as a write-in.

Whoa, dude... they grow the weed, like... strong in DU-land *koff*

Posted by: that's some good shit at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (gKWVE)

167 If you hate Philip Glass, now you can hate him more. Metamorphosis for Vibraphone (28 mins, feels like 5

:
youtube.com/watch?v=TqjxqnayAEI

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (MvF+J)

168 Pay attention to the condensate drip system, or you'll have a big wet mess indoors.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 23, 2024

***
Yeah, I have carpet in both rooms (and am determined my future house will have none of that). I guess I'd have to do a drain every week or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

169 This is a nice piece of art.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (SRRAx)

170 165 No way one of our two major party candidates won't be on the Ohio ballot without a court battle.
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I wonder what the DUmmy thought about attempts to keep 'felon' Trump off the various states' ballots??
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (ZdexC)

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"Completely justified and obviously the right law. Probably gonna get an 8-1 decision (except Thomas who's owned by billionaires and is a racist) at SCOTUS."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (cD1dp)

171 Dems vs Reps in a nutshell. Dem states did all they could to exclude Trump from the ballot. Imbeciles like DeWine are doing all they can to put Biden on the ballot.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (tpjlM)

172 Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 23, 2024 10:01 AM (CecP5)

Paranoia much?

Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 10:10 AM (AwYPR)

173 Please enjoy Ted Cruz demolishing CNN’s Kaitlan Collins (overtalking Ted continuously, the bitch) to her face on Live TV on Voter Fraud.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/
status/1793621401439785434

[Stop blowing the fucking margins. CBD]

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 23, 2024 10:11 AM (RKVpM)

174 Growing up in Louisiana we only had an attic fan for a short time. Then we upgraded to a large window unit . Had that for a number of years and then installed HVAC . I thought we had reached the big time .

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:11 AM (0CsDL)

175 164 If they do run Biden as a write in I can't wait to hear that everything from "Bidet" to "the Dem Guy" to "Not Trump" are valid votes for biden
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

Also Trump write-in will mean Biden.
- Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:11 AM (tpjlM)

176 171 Dems vs Reps in a nutshell. Dem states did all they could to exclude Trump from the ballot. Imbeciles like DeWine are doing all they can to put Biden on the ballot.
Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (tpjlM)

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And the left thinks they go high when the right goes low. They honestly think that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:11 AM (cD1dp)

177 Come hither.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

178 Electronics is the only place in Walmart where the employees will acknowledge your existence… maybe some places in the front of the store…
Posted by: tubal at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (PCK5/)
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Electronics is a ghost town when I usually go there (6 a.m. on Saturdays).

But the checkout clerks and greeters at the front of the store are very friendly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 10:12 AM (si1C0)

179 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

I'm honored that you socked "Doof's Dog" yesterday.

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2024 10:12 AM (I5AAM)

180 Screaming Joe strikes again...

Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld_
“We cannot win this re-election, excuse me, we can only elect Trump” -- Joe Biden

https://tinyurl.com/353efpuy
14 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:12 AM (ZdexC)

181 If you hate Philip Glass, now you can hate him more. Metamorphosis for Vibraphone (28 mins, feels like 5:
youtube.com/watch?v=TqjxqnayAEI

I like the piano version. The vibraphone one can DIAF.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 23, 2024 10:12 AM (/HDaX)

182 Yeah, I have carpet in both rooms (and am determined my future house will have none of that). I guess I'd have to do a drain every week or so.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:09 AM (J2vNu)
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Considering the humidity where you live, you may have to drain it every 10 minutes...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 10:13 AM (si1C0)

183 When Cocaine Bear ran as a write-in they basically counted anything remotely like her name right? From Moocowski to Corrupt Souless Bitch right?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:13 AM (ibTVg)

184 183 When Cocaine Bear ran as a write-in they basically counted anything remotely like her name right? From Moocowski to Corrupt Souless Bitch right?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2024 10:13 AM (ibTVg)

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"Count?"
-Alaska election officials

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:14 AM (cD1dp)

185 Ruth Ginsburg was the lead attorney for abortion groups. She didn’t recuse herself from abortion cases. Kagan wrote Obamacare but didn’t refuse herself from Obamacare cases.

Sam Alito flew a flag and now he must recuse himself from any J6 cases

Leftist rules are cool.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:14 AM (tpjlM)

186 MSNBC says Alvin Bragg needs a perfect speech in his closing argument in the trial of Trump. I don't know about that, but I am going to pray that in that respect Bragg has nothing to brag about and it's a hung jury.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:14 AM (XkYcA)

187 > Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit?
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I used one extensively years ago. Two things;
1. You probably have to drain the thing (condensation)
2. Exhaust vent, if needed, will pump hot air out so you'll need a window or door cracked open for it

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 10:14 AM (Q4IgG)

188 4 Growing up in Louisiana we only had an attic fan for a short time. Then we upgraded to a large window unit . Had that for a number of years and then installed HVAC . I thought we had reached the big time .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024

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Attic fan? Luxury! We had a couple of those big box fans, and if I slept under the moving air from one, I often woke up with a headache. No air movement from outside, either, as our apartment was enclosed by higher buildings on three sides, and the back wall had no windows.

When I was twelve Mom bought a window unit. I immediately changed from "sitting outside during summer vacations under an awning and drinking ice water" to "INDOORS, baby!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:14 AM (J2vNu)

189 There's always a higher court.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Always? There's no tippy tippy top court?

Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)

190 127 OT: The central A/C in my place (ca. 550 sq. ft.) was running continuously last evening and overnight, trying to get interior temp down to 72. It may merely be low on refrigerant, and I'll call the apartment office. Knowing those clowns, however, I expect nothing to happen soon, esp. w/ a holiday weekend coming up..
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Had the same thing twice over many years. In both cases it was broken and/or unsecured wiring for the blower and took about one minute for the right mechanic to find and fix.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 23, 2024 10:15 AM (NFX2v)

191 I called the maintenance office about my A/C and they promised to put in a work order. We'll see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

192 When Cocaine Bear ran as a write-in they basically counted anything remotely like her name right? From Moocowski to Corrupt Souless Bitch right?
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And our own Mabe Galore defended that "anything close should count" court verdict.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:16 AM (ZdexC)

193 ***
Yeah, I have carpet in both rooms (and am determined my future house will have none of that). I guess I'd have to do a drain every week or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Your humidity, will be every five to six hours, on a system with a five gallon condensate drip system. Some of them have a float switch that turns everything off when it gets full, some don't.

Check out rental houses and try out several different types before you buy. Maybe renting is your solution as well? Also need to consider whether or not you are comfortable leaving a window unsecure for the exhaust in N.O. could the exhaust be routed to your dryer? Maybe into the nearest bathrom exhaust fan?

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 23, 2024 10:16 AM (MsrgL)

194 SCOTUS upholds GOP-drawn voting map in South Carolina for now.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 23, 2024 10:17 AM (NpAcC)

195 There's always a higher court.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Always? There's no tippy tippy top court?
Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 10:15 AM (AwYPR)
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One court to rule them all, one court to find them.
One court to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
In the land of D.C. where the Shadows lie...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2024 10:17 AM (si1C0)

196 Zelensky's Prolonged Presidency Proves Americans Were Sold A Lie On Ukraine

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Now do Build It Back Better.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:17 AM (L/fGl)

197 "Repose"? The first pose didn't work, and she had to try another? Nice painting, actually.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2024 10:18 AM (ZO20Q)

198 Attic fans are pretty cool though. Open the windows and turn it on. Creates a nice wind storm as it sucks in the outside air .

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:18 AM (0CsDL)

199 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)
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Let me investigate the shipping cost, and see if it still works. If it does work and you can cover the shipping expense, it's yours!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:19 AM (8LPpl)

200 Have any of you purchased and used a portable A/C unit? I know the exhaust hose has to go out of the window, and the units come with a panel you can set there or cut to fit. And youy need to drain it. Still, it might be a good choice for me. Has it worked for you? Drawbacks, plusses?

Saved our asses for a year. Was able to vent it outside. It literally saved us for the year while we were living in the wife's grandparents house during Covid while ours was being built. Her grandparent's house sat vacant on the land after her grandmother passed away. Her grandfather built it before central air was a thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:19 AM (nJUfO)

201 And the left thinks they go high when the right goes low. They honestly think that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:11 AM (cD1dp)

In their minds, left == good - no matter how perverse, while right == evil.

It is impossible for them to go low for they are a shining beacon of wonder, uplifting all the lesser peoples mired in the sewer of their own existence to just, ever so slightly lower than the leftist to make it easier for them to express their eternal gratitude.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:20 AM (IUd0M)

202 And our own Mabe Galore defended that "anything close should count" court verdict.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:16 AM (ZdexC)

"The one who isn't Murkowski"

See? Right there. Murkowski.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:20 AM (+yhUM)

203 Gerrymandering is 100x worse in blue states. Yet weirdly enough nobody ever goes to court to fight it. Court cases are always in red states.

Massachusetts is a 65-35 state. Yet 100% of its CDs are Dem. How’s that work? Oh yeah it’s because they’re drawn so no Republican can ever win. But nobody on the right has ever thought of suing? Why not?

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:21 AM (tpjlM)

204 Attic fans are pretty cool though. Open the windows and turn it on. Creates a nice wind storm as it sucks in the outside air .
Posted by: polynikes

Blows chunks in hot humid environments.

Hell, our overnight low is higher than many place's daily high.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:21 AM (nJUfO)

205 ever so slightly lower than the leftist to make it easier for them to express their eternal gratitude.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:20 AM (IUd0M)

It's Crazy Ex Girlfriend logic all the way down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:21 AM (+yhUM)

206 Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld_
“We cannot win this re-election, excuse me, we can only elect Trump” -- Joe Biden

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I've heard that sometimes in Alzheimers patients, a brief period of lucidity returns just before death.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

207
198 Attic fans are pretty cool though. Open the windows and turn it on. Creates a nice wind storm as it sucks in the outside air .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:18 AM (0CsDL)

Yeah it’s great for summer nights where the temp outside is cool. Turn it on for 15 mins and the house temp drops 5 degrees. But only really works in dry climates otherwise you’re just bringing in all the humidity from outside.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:23 AM (tpjlM)

208 @CWBChicago "Illinois legislators have passed a bill that will change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual" in state laws."

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 10:23 AM (MvF+J)

209 ~~Zelensky's Prolonged Presidency~~ Everything That Ever Happens Proves Americans Were Sold A Lie On ~~Ukraine~~ Everything They've Ever Heard From Anyone Important.

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Fixed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (0FoWg)

210 There's always a higher court.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Always? There's no tippy tippy top court?
Posted by: BignJames

Tippy tip top court is a mix of Element 29 & Element 82. It's decisions are final.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (nJUfO)

211 @CWBChicago "Illinois legislators have passed a bill that will change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual" in state laws."
Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 10:23 AM (MvF+J)

That will help, what, exactly?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

212 Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:21 AM (nJUfO

No higher than South Louisiana. We take a lot for granted these days. Besides living with just the attic fan our schools had no a/c either. Just ceiling fans.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (0CsDL)

213 That will help, what, exactly?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

This circle ain't gonna jerk itself, buddy.

Posted by: Chicago at May 23, 2024 10:25 AM (+yhUM)

214 It has a drain tube that has to either go from the unit to the outside or to a bathroom drain, and the drip is constant. If that is an issue, check out the ductless units from Mitsubishi or Fujitsu. We used to use those in Miami, where our walls were thick block, and they are much better for permanent home use than the portable unit. Cheap to buy and install, too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:25 AM (p0I4D)

215 Why don't Democrats just organize a big Zoom call to nominate Biden and get this fucking thing over with?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

This is one of the funniest ones I've seen. A zoom call to nominate the incumbent. I should be depressed as to how stupid that is, but.. ¯\_(ツ

_/¯

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2024 10:25 AM (IG4Id)

216 Hell, our overnight low is higher than many place's daily high.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:21 AM (nJUfO)

Heh. Our dew point is higher than many places daily high.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 10:26 AM (MkuC5)

217 Your humidity, will be every five to six hours, on a system with a five gallon condensate drip system. Some of them have a float switch that turns everything off when it gets full, some don't.

Get a unit that allows you to hook a garden hose to it and run it to a drain or the outside. That's a lifesaver.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:26 AM (nJUfO)

218 Tippy tip top court is a mix of Element 29 & Element 82. It's decisions are final.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:24 AM (nJUfO)

On the tip-tippy-toppy of the highest high of low

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:26 AM (IUd0M)

219
Heh. Our dew point is higher than many places daily high.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 10:26 AM (MkuC5)

But it’s a dry heat. No wait that doesn’t sound right. 😅

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:27 AM (tpjlM)

220 Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2024 10:25 AM (IG4Id)

Zoom? That way the CCP could vote too

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2024 10:27 AM (0CsDL)

221 Your humidity, will be every five to six hours, on a system with a five gallon condensate drip system. Some of them have a float switch that turns everything off when it gets full, some don't.

Check out rental houses and try out several different types before you buy. Maybe renting is your solution as well? Also need to consider whether or not you are comfortable leaving a window unsecure for the exhaust in N.O. could the exhaust be routed to your dryer? Maybe into the nearest bathrom exhaust fan?
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 23, 2024

***
I'm gone during the day for ten hours. If the unit is off from six until three, not much will collect, I guess. But then it would need to run from three pm to six a.m., nine hours. Urk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

222 Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich 14h
NEWS: FBI SEARCHES AT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S HOMES ALSO INCLUDED DEADLY FORCE POLICY (which is standard)

A person familiar with the Hur investigation confirms that the standard Department of Justice policy statement regarding the use of deadly force was also included in the operations order for the searches at President Biden’s residences in Delaware.

CONTEXT: yesterday, former President Trump suggested that the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. A fundraising email read, "Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out".

The FBI said standard protocol was followed, no additional steps were taken and there was no departure from the norm.
This news about the deadly force policy also being in place for the FBI searches at Biden's homes underscores that point.

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 13h
Then post it
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No search warrant cited in Hur Report. No references to armed agents.

Search was voluntary and partially delayed because Biden did not want to relinquish diary entries.

Let’s see the order...

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:28 AM (ZdexC)

223 "That will help, what, exactly?"

Offenders won't have sadz anymore.

Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium at May 23, 2024 10:28 AM (MvF+J)

224 If you want cool in the summertime just move to Montana.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

225 I run a dehumidifier in my basement that's got a hose to a floor drain. Harder to do that on an A/C unit on an upper floor, but if it's above a drainage point in a yard it should be pretty easy to do something similar... I use a 1/4" hose on the dehumidifier.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (0FoWg)

226 Living in a dry-ish climate it’s a shock to the system if the dew point gets into the mid 50s. Then I remember I gee up in a place where 70 was an average day. And then 55 doesn’t seem so bad.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (tpjlM)

227 Fun fact: the original model for this was a blonde.

Trouble was, he told her the name of the painting and she wouldn't sit still.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (KbCG3)

228 Home Depot has ductless mini-split AC ranging in price from $500-1500. Installation would he extra but it isn't complicated.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:30 AM (p0I4D)

229 Moral Cretins at the ICC

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Germany says it will arrest Netanyahu...

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Ahh, the good old days! Juden raus!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

230 I'm gone during the day for ten hours. If the unit is off from six until three, not much will collect, I guess. But then it would need to run from three pm to six a.m., nine hours. Urk.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

When considering options remember you're dealing with a temporary situation. Plus, kittehs.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 23, 2024 10:30 AM (MkuC5)

231 Actually, I think it would be a hoot to have to sort through a that fabric to have a good time.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm right here, baby!
https://tinyurl.com/j25zj56y

Posted by: Lena Dunham at May 23, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

232 "Never Again."

...

"OK, just this one more time."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:31 AM (+yhUM)

233 Thank goodness, I couldn't get the page to load for a few minutes and thought the hampsters had given up on life!

Posted by: pookysgirl, totally not getting the shakes at May 23, 2024 10:31 AM (dtlDP)

234 If you want cool in the summertime just move to Montana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)
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and be a dental floss tycoon!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:31 AM (p0I4D)

235 234 If you want cool in the summertime just move to Montana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

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and be a dental floss tycoon!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:31 AM (p0I4D)

I wonder what the pygmy pony's name was.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (KbCG3)

236 From what I’ve read, you use more energy by turning the a/c off during the day and blasting it when you get home vs keeping the house cool throughout the day.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (tpjlM)

237 Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice 16h
Anger Management
Today in Florida, the calmer of the two special counsel team members in Jack Smith's espionage and obstruction case against President Trump lost his composure in court. That prompted Judge Aileen Cannon to ask that man to calm down. "They never thought the American people would see the details about the Mar-a-Lago raid from August 2022," @julie_kelly2 tells Steve Bannon. "They never thought that the operations order that I posted yesterday would see the light of day. They are so ticked off at Judge Cannon for making this stuff available because she wants us to see how dirty, sloppy, and corrupt this investigation and case has been since the very beginning."

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 14h
Question: If lethal force guidance for MAL raid is so standard and NBFD—why are we just learning of it now?

Why did it take a federal judge to pry it out of DOJ?

Why wasn’t it released alongside MAL search warrant?

Why didn’t FBI own this form from the start?

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (ZdexC)

238 If you want cool in the summertime just move to Montana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

But I'm not a dental floss millionaire.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (IG4Id)

239 235 234 If you want cool in the summertime just move to Montana.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:29 AM (v6JzV)

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and be a dental floss tycoon!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024 10:31 AM (p0I4D)

I wonder what the pygmy pony's name was.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (KbCG3)

Wait! I remember that they actually tell us. Mighty Little.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (KbCG3)

240 Let me investigate the shipping cost, and see if it still works. If it does work and you can cover the shipping expense, it's yours!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2024

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Huck, that would be great!

This portable A/C thing begins to sound, however, like this will be a major hassle to drain in my current place. And I live on the ground floor -- so anybody could push up my unlocked window and climb in. A window unit might work better. Or just calling one of the local A/C repair places to check the system myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

241 I’ve been to Montana in the summer. It can and does get hot. 90s easily. But that window is pretty short like a month or so.

Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:33 AM (tpjlM)

242 Why didn’t FBI own this form from the start?
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (ZdexC)

If it's SOP (which it probably is), why was it in a form at all?

Just a little "reminder"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:33 AM (+yhUM)

243 @CWBChicago "Illinois legislators have passed a bill that will change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual" in state laws."
Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium

Well, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

244 What's the dental floss tycoon thing from?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (v6JzV)

245 Germany says it will arrest Netanyahu...

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Ahh, the good old days! Juden raus!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:30 AM (L/fGl)
***

Heh. I don't think the Jews will be so willing this time.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (bvWAj)

246 244 What's the dental floss tycoon thing from?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (v6JzV)

A Celine Dion song.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (+yhUM)

247 @CWBChicago "Illinois legislators have passed a bill that will change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual" in state laws."
Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium

So, is there some printers union in Illinois who charges by the letter that pushed for such a stupid piece of legislation?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

248 247 @CWBChicago "Illinois legislators have passed a bill that will change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual" in state laws."
Posted by: The Jute/Sisal/Kapok Consortium

So, is there some printers union in Illinois who charges by the letter that pushed for such a stupid piece of legislation?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Notice how it shifts the victimhood status.

You go from creating victims to being the victim.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:35 AM (KbCG3)

249 I’ve been to Montana in the summer. It can and does get hot. 90s easily. But that window is pretty short like a month or so.
Posted by: Montec

The only time I've experience snowfall in September was when I was driving through Glacier National Park. That was really weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)

250 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 15h
Spent most of the day at Ft. Pierce federal courthouse to cover two hearings in classified docs case.

Special Counsel team's frustration with Judge Aileen Cannon is really evident.

And it's glorious.

David Harbach, one of Smith's lead prosecutors and usually a cool customer in court, had a series of mini temper tantrums this morning. At times pounding his fist on the podium and clapping his hands in anger to emphasize a point, Harbach was totally unprofessional, demeaning, and petulant.

Cannon asked Harbach to "calm down" during one diatribe about accusations DOJ threatened one of the defense attorneys to get his client to flip on Donald Trump.

He kept trying to argue with her--Cannon also remains measured most of the time and is no fan of antics--and when she asked him a question about an issue, he shot back "that's not the right question."

A few reporters in the media room even gasped.

Harbach is flailing bc his case is imploding.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (ZdexC)

251 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 15h
DOJ never thought their dirty, sloppy, corrupt tricks would see the light of day. Biden regime never thought information such as the FBI's operations order related to MAL raid that included lethal force guidance would ever be made public.

But Cannon is systematically dismantling this case by holding hearings (like today) and ordering the unsealing of key motions and evidence. She is a one-woman wrecking crew and Smith's team knows there is very little they can do about it.

And she is nowhere near finished. Just this week, in addition to the unsealed motions posted yesterday that revealed details about the MAL raid, Cannon ordered the unsealing of several motions filed earlier in the case.

I'm working on a Substack post for the weekend on the nature of the motions today and the proceedings--but suffice to say Jack Smith's team already appears deflated and defeated.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (ZdexC)

252 210 There's always a higher court.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 23, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Always? There's no tippy tippy top court?
Posted by: BignJames

Well, the US SHOULD answer to the International Court of Justice, but stupid RETHUGLICANS keep stopping us from joining the enlightened members of the world community!!!

Posted by: DU Leftist Moron at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

253 I live in a humid climate. The currently unoccupied house next door has a swamp cooler mounted in the window. How does that even work?

Posted by: Emmie at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (Sf2cq)

254 A Celine Dion song.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Folks here actually listen to Celine Dion?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

255 244 What's the dental floss tycoon thing from?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:34 AM (v6JzV)

A Celine Dion song.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Penned by Norman Sailor.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (IG4Id)

256 Living in a dry-ish climate it’s a shock to the system if the dew point gets into the mid 50s. Then I remember I gee up in a place where 70 was an average day. And then 55 doesn’t seem so bad.
Posted by: Montec

Current temp: 73
Current dew point: 72

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:37 AM (nJUfO)

257 The FBI said standard protocol was followed, no additional steps were taken and there was no departure from the norm.

Getting real tired of assholes justifying the asshole acts of assholes by stating "thats the procedure".

The SS guards at Dachau were just following procedure. Doing bad shit is bad. I don't give a damn if its policy or procedure. Its wrong. Full stop.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 23, 2024 10:37 AM (pTv5j)

258 185. Sam Alito flew a flag and now he must recuse himself from any J6 cases

Leftist rules are cool.
Posted by: Montec

No, the Mrs. flew the flag. But now they creeps think THEY can pick on more than the Thomas' too.

"For the good of our country and the Court, Justice Alito must recuse himself immediately from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection. And the Chief Justice must see how this is damaging the Court and immediately enact an enforceable code of conduct."

The above is from lil Dick Durbin's Press Release yesterday in addition to: Durbin has continuously called for the passage of the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, legislation that the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced last July.

And who came up with that gem? July 20, 2023
(Senator Shelton) WHITEHOUSE (D- RI) CALLS FOR PASSAGE OF SUPREME COURT ETHICS, RECUSAL, AND TRANSPARENCY ACT IN SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

The nerve of the US Senate!

BTW, not all agree to their 'legal' arguments: Congress dot gov: newsweek.com The Baseless 'Recusal' Attack on Clarence Thomas | Opinion Mark Paoletta

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (NFX2v)

259 Folks here actually listen to Celine Dion?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

(It's Zappa. I was just being a goof.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (+yhUM)

260 Miami Faces Surge in Dengue Fever That's Roiling Latin America...

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Lucky for me, I don't have a Miami face.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

261 Love this painting. Not that everything is sexual, but this is the essence of allure. The whole painting is an exercise in economy. The barely-there detail on the couch and the reflection on the floor, to the suggested female form flowing beneath the dress. Quite nice.

Posted by: red speck at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (t20Fg)

262 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

Do you have ductwork? Have you checked the filter?

Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 10:39 AM (AwYPR)

263 Living in a dry-ish climate it’s a shock to the system if the dew point gets into the mid 50s. Then I remember I gee up in a place where 70 was an average day. And then 55 doesn’t seem so bad.
Posted by: Montec

Current temp: 73
Current dew point: 72
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:37 AM (nJUfO)

Temp 83 and Dew 76 here, just northwest of Houston.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 23, 2024 10:39 AM (6gW4D)

264 259 Folks here actually listen to Celine Dion?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

(It's Zappa. I was just being a goof.)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (+yhUM)

However, Tina Turner does sing on that track.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 23, 2024 10:40 AM (KbCG3)

265 I’ve been to Montana in the summer. It can and does get hot. 90s easily. But that window is pretty short like a month or so.
Posted by: Montec at May 23, 2024 10:33

Sure. But it's dry, and high-altitude, and there's breeze most of the time. That makes that kind of heat less horrible.

When it's low-altitude, and humid, and still, it feels worse.

The tradeoff of course is that high-altitude sun, with no atmosphere to blunt the UV, roasts white people like Christmas hams. As nasty as the humid heat can be, you're way less likely to get awful sunburns, melanomas, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2024 10:40 AM (0FoWg)

266 Temp 83 and Dew 76 here, just northwest of Houston.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 23, 2024 10:39 AM (6gW4D)

Houston.

That explains it. What an uncomfortable armpit that place can be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at May 23, 2024 10:37 AM (pTv5j)

Thanks for weighing in, Scogg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:41 AM (XkYcA)

268 I'm honored that you socked "Doof's Dog" yesterday.
Posted by: Doof

You said Kristi Noem was hot! I had nightmares last night that she moved in, and while distracting you with her feminine wiles, she kept looking at me with those eyes. Black, like a doll's eyes.

Then, after she wore you out in the bedroom, she took me behind the old woodshed. But she didn't cry, like in that masterpiece of cinema, Old Yeller. No, she smiled......

Posted by: Doof's Dog at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (JCZqz)

269 How does that even work?
Posted by: Emmie at May 23, 2024 10

Must be a real marginal area. Swampers are useless in really humid areas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (0FoWg)

270 Well, there's attic fans and attic fans. Many systems do have fluttering ducts that draw from the living space, but another way is to draw air through the eaves and out through the end of the house, keeping the air-conditioned area sealed off. This does away with ceiling heat, and the "heat-shock" radiance of the insulation just under the roof that gets soaked through with sun heat.

I have a flat roof over half the second story, and put in foam trays between the rafters above the insulation, evacuated by a common duct and a single roof fan. It extended the no-air-conditioning season by a month on each end of the cooling season, and cut down the A/C load by a noticeable amount.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (zdLoL)

271 She doesn't skip squats day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (VXJx/)

272 Houston.

That explains it. What an uncomfortable armpit that place can be.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

The climate is very conducive to self sous-vide basting.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (6gW4D)

273 Andy Puzder @AndyPuzder 3h
Biden's tax deception: Rather than a $2T loss, the Trump tax cuts will bring in $3T more than CBO’s 2018 estimate & $1.3T more than higher rates would have generated. The Laffer Curve in action. Lower tax rates = increased economic growth & tax revenue.

foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-t…

Biden's tax deception: One more thing our president gets wrong
Rather than costing the federal government $1.7 trillion in tax revenue, the Trump tax cuts are projected to add $1.3 trillion over what the CBO estimated.

foxnews.com

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:43 AM (ZdexC)

274 Humidity 79%
Temp 82 here in Austin.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2024 10:43 AM (bvWAj)

275 273 Andy Puzder @AndyPuzder 3h
Biden's tax deception: Rather than a $2T loss, the Trump tax cuts will bring in $3T more than CBO’s 2018 estimate & $1.3T more than higher rates would have generated. The Laffer Curve in action. Lower tax rates = increased economic growth & tax revenue.

foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-t…

Biden's tax deception: One more thing our president gets wrong
Rather than costing the federal government $1.7 trillion in tax revenue, the Trump tax cuts are projected to add $1.3 trillion over what the CBO estimated.

foxnews.com
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:43 AM (ZdexC)

========

The Laffer Curve was debunked, though. MMT is accepted truth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:44 AM (cD1dp)

276 Humidity. 72%
Temp 51

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 10:44 AM (gdEDO)

277 Well, there's attic fans and attic fans. Many systems do have fluttering ducts that draw from the living space, but another way is to draw air through the eaves and out through the end of the house, keeping the air-conditioned area sealed off. This does away with ceiling heat, and the "heat-shock" radiance of the insulation just under the roof that gets soaked through with sun heat. ...
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (zdLoL)
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My house is *just* old enough that it wasn't built with central A/C (it was unusual where I live for a house to be built without it, but not rare). The house was built for it, but it was never installed. I have a whole-house fan that was blocked up when the A/C was installed, but it's still hooked up and if you hit the switch, it *will* come on. I need to finish removing it. Running a whole house fan on a system that's been converted and blocked is bad. I want to remove the possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:45 AM (d04cU)

278 This is the picture of the woman in blue by John White Alexander that looks like if she wasn't reading a book she might take off in flight:

https://tinyurl.com/5f95k6se

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:45 AM (XkYcA)

279 This is the picture of the woman in blue by John White Alexander that looks like if she wasn't reading a book she might take off in flight:

https://tinyurl.com/5f95k6se
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:45 AM (XkYcA)
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"Woman reading in a hurricane."

I'd actually really like that if it had better detail.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:46 AM (d04cU)

280 Running a whole house fan on a system that's been converted and blocked is bad. I want to remove the possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:45 AM (d04cU)

disconnect the switch

Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024 10:47 AM (AwYPR)

281 Crazy chick judge.

Where's Judge Kelli Johnson? High-profile justice hasn't sat on the bench for weeks
. . . .
ABC13 spoke to people who work in the courthouse. One described Johnson's manic behavior and said, "She's a danger to herself and to the community."

https://shorturl.at/8WNij

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

282 I'm honored that you socked "Doof's Dog" yesterday.
Posted by: Doof

You said Kristi Noem was hot! I had nightmares last night that she moved in, and while distracting you with her feminine wiles, she kept looking at me with those eyes. Black, like a doll's eyes.

Then, after she wore you out in the bedroom, she took me behind the old woodshed. But she didn't cry, like in that masterpiece of cinema, Old Yeller. No, she smiled......
Posted by: Doof's Dog at May 23, 2024 10:42 AM (JCZqz)

Actually -- I said one of the Mannix girls resembled Kristi Noem but was more voluptuous.

Having said that -- if you don't know how to protect me from whomever I bring home, then maybe I need a better dog!!

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (I5AAM)

283 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:46 AM (d04cU)

LOL. Yes; I does look like that too. The color and the energetic flow of the dress is wonderful. Face could use a little more detail.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (XkYcA)

284 ... ABC13 spoke to people who work in the courthouse. One described Johnson's manic behavior and said, "She's a danger to herself and to the community." ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
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If you lob one right over the plate like that, you should expect someone to smash a homer. It won't be me. Not today. But it's just hanging there waiting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (d04cU)

285 This is the picture of the woman in blue by John White Alexander that looks like if she wasn't reading a book she might take off in flight:

https://tinyurl.com/5f95k6se
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That lady's left hand is enormous.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

286 That lady's left hand is enormous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)
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You know what they say about chicks with big hands...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:49 AM (d04cU)

287 I have a flat roof over half the second story, and put in foam trays between the rafters above the insulation, evacuated by a common duct and a single roof fan. It extended the no-air-conditioning season by a month on each end of the cooling season, and cut down the A/C load by a noticeable amount.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

The house we just had built? Expanded spray foam as insulation in the outer walls and entire attic. May 15th first day ac was on. Prior was just ceiling fans. Last month's electric bill was $115.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:49 AM (nJUfO)

288 Damn that climate crisis!

UPDATE: NOAA warns this could be among worst hurricane seasons in decades...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

289 I had a 3-story house in WV with an attic fan on the uppermost floor. Huge thing. Had hinged louvers that opened when it was running. Very powerful, but noisy as hell. The fan AND the rattling of the louvers.

Used it 2 - 3 times but just couldn't stand the noise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

290 Actually -- I said one of the Mannix girls resembled Kristi Noem but was more voluptuous.
Posted by: Doof

Wow. Sorry I missed that one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

291 288 Damn that climate crisis!

UPDATE: NOAA warns this could be among worst hurricane seasons in decades...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

=======

And when it's below average, it will be further proof that climate change is getting worse anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (cD1dp)

292 That lady's left hand is enormous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)
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You know what they say about chicks with big hands...
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That's a man, baby!
Posted by: Austin Powers

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (nJUfO)

293
UPDATE: NOAA warns this could be among worst hurricane seasons in decades...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

They've said that every year for the last decade.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

294 Morning.

Ya know, she's naked under that dress.

Would hang.

Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (rqzRE)

295 This is the picture of the woman in blue by John White Alexander that looks like if she wasn't reading a book she might take off in flight:
https://tinyurl.com/5f95k6se
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2024 10:45 AM (XkYcA)

Looked at that and immediately thought: "peacock". Maybe the color?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (JCLJi)

296 Ya know, she's naked under that dress.

Would hang.
Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (rqzRE)

Most women are under all their clothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

297 The house we just had built? Expanded spray foam as insulation in the outer walls and entire attic. May 15th first day ac was on. Prior was just ceiling fans. Last month's electric bill was $115.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:49 AM (nJUfO)
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I never really understood until I moved just how important - and effective - insulation can be. I had to go up to the attic for something during summertime and gave up. As I climbed the ladder from my 70 degree house, I got hit with a wall of oppressive heat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (d04cU)

298 This hurricane season will be normal. Hurricanes are weird. We really don't have a clue - but its a cush job with great bennies.

Posted by: Shit NOAA Has Ever Said at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (pTv5j)

299 UPDATE: NOAA warns this could be among worst hurricane seasons in decades...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Better be "in ever".

In decades means it was bad multiple tens of years ago when there wasn't a "climate emergency".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (nJUfO)

300 Most women are under all their clothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)
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Only if they're total squares.

Posted by: Chick With a Full-Body Tattoo at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (d04cU)

301 They've said that every year for the last decade.
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Since Katrina!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (ZdexC)

302 This hurricane season will be normal. Hurricanes are weird. We really don't have a clue - but its a cush job with great bennies.
Posted by: Shit NOAA Has Ever Said at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (pTv5j)
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LOL

You broke the code!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:52 AM (d04cU)

303 @275

>>MMT is accepted truth.

MMT is the Fulsom Street Fair's of GOATSE's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

304 They've said that every year for the last decade.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Bullwinkle. Rabbit. This time for sure!!

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (I5AAM)

305 NOAA warns this could be among worst hurricane seasons in decades...

It is, theoretically, possible that this year will have more weather than other years. Or not. -- NOAA

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (IUd0M)

306 Is Jimmy alive?

I can't help thinking about SNL & 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead'

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (NFX2v)

307 @299

>>In decades means it was bad multiple tens of years ago when there wasn't a "climate emergency".

I mean, did Climate even exist 20 years ago?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

308 MMT??
Mixed Martial Tarts??
Mixed Marital Tarts??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (ZdexC)

309 Does this pose make me look fat? .... It's a trap
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2024 09:48 AM

A dress that size. It's a TARP!

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (4p0Xq)

310 Most women are under all their clothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes but most women look better with their clothes still on.

Posted by: Robert - I'm looking at you, fatties at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (rqzRE)

311 I never really understood until I moved just how important - and effective - insulation can be. I had to go up to the attic for something during summertime and gave up. As I climbed the ladder from my 70 degree house, I got hit with a wall of oppressive heat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (d04cU)

I did radiant barrier in my attic one summer. June, in Texas, so it was incredibly hot. I still haven't completed the ENITRE attic, but the 2/3 I've done, the attic dropped 20 degrees in average temp.

Oh, and I weighed myself after spending a few hours up there and my clothing weighed 12 lbs from sweat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Running a whole house fan on a system that's been converted and blocked is bad.

Worth a shot: make sure none of the louvers from the living space are functional, clear some vent spaces at the eaves, and put the big fan on thermostatic control, set pretty high. Unless that fan draws a lot of amps, it would still do a lot of good.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 10:54 AM (zdLoL)

313 Oh, and I weighed myself after spending a few hours up there and my clothing weighed 12 lbs from sweat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)
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:: shudders ::

Yeah. Been there. Not from attics, but that doesn't matter. It's unalloyed misery.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:55 AM (d04cU)

314 NOAA = Charlie Brown

Hurricane Season = Lucy holding the football

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

315 Worth a shot: make sure none of the louvers from the living space are functional, clear some vent spaces at the eaves, and put the big fan on thermostatic control, set pretty high. Unless that fan draws a lot of amps, it would still do a lot of good.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 10:54 AM (zdLoL)
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I figured it would just demolish A/C efficiency. I'll do some more homework. The system is there, so I could remove or convert it at my leisure. I'll look into it, and thanks for the advice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 23, 2024 10:56 AM (d04cU)

316 296 Ya know, she's naked under that dress.

Would hang.
Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2024 10:51 AM (rqzRE)

Most women are under all their clothing.

hello, sailor!

Posted by: lizzo at May 23, 2024 10:56 AM (sGtp+)

317 Whole house fans work well if the humidity is low. We had one installed and ran it every evening, overnight until about April. During the day we just ran the ceiling fans. The A/C has been on since then, intermittently at first and now continuously.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 23, 2024 10:56 AM (YRsIm)

318 I never really understood until I moved just how important - and effective - insulation can be. I had to go up to the attic for something during summertime and gave up. As I climbed the ladder from my 70 degree house, I got hit with a wall of oppressive heat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

You have no idea how disgusted I am. I lived in a house for 31 years from when it was 5 yrs old.
My electric bill with TXU Monthly Averaging was between $275 & $300 a month for one bedroom and bathroom less. The month before last month's $115 dollar bill? $108.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:57 AM (nJUfO)

319 Inside the Penis-Filler Boom Some Girthmasters are made, not born.
It’s a warm Tuesday in early May, and I’m a block from the historic New York Public Library building in midtown staring at a penis. It’s semi-erect and bleeding slightly, but there’s gauze on hand to soak things up. Bobbing in and out from under the skin at the shaft is an inch-long needle (technically a cannula since it’s not sharp and is going into a small hole already created by a needle) attached to a syringe that contains hyaluronic acid. This same type of filler that’s been injected into countless lips is now being used to pursue a plumper, thicker look — except in this case, it’s one most people won’t see.

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The miracle of modern medicine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 23, 2024 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

320 I have one of those AC units. Works really well. I did not have a water problem with mine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 23, 2024 10:57 AM (yeEu9)

321 NOAA can't tell me if it'll rain today, tomorrow or the day after. They can't tell me what the high or low temp will be today or tomorrow, nor tell me how cloudy or clear it will be.

But, sure, they know it'll be an "above average" year for Hurricanes. Just like it was last year, the year before that and the year before and....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2024 10:57 AM (Q4IgG)

322 I have a DeLonghi from Amazon

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 23, 2024 10:58 AM (yeEu9)

323 You have no idea how disgusted I am. I lived in a house for 31 years from when it was 5 yrs old.
My electric bill with TXU Monthly Averaging was between $275 & $300 a month for one bedroom and bathroom less. The month before last month's $115 dollar bill? $108.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2024 10:57 AM (nJUfO)

Pretty amazing the government isn't pushing radiant barriers, isn't it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (IUd0M)

324 I hate everyone

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (gdEDO)

325 ♪She was She was a long cool woman in a WHITE dress
Just a 5'9" beautiful 'n' tall
Just one look I was a bad mess
'Cos that long cool woman had it all♫

Posted by: The Hollies at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (ynpvh)

326 if she wasn't reading a book she might take off in flight

The chest is so voluminous and creamy, a low sort might almost overlook that schnozz.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (zdLoL)

327 I have a DeLonghi from Amazon

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 23, 2024 10:58 AM (yeEu9)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Peter North at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

328 I hate everyone

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (gdEDO)

*pouts*

*sheds tear*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 23, 2024 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

329 I live in a humid climate. The currently unoccupied house next door has a swamp cooler mounted in the window. How does that even work?
Posted by: Emmie at May 23, 2024

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I can't see any way that it would. In CO some people had them in their houses -- a dry climate, true, but the air felt damp all the time. In humidity like this . . . no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

330 I thought the Mornin' Report pic was the Art Thread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 23, 2024 11:01 AM (ynpvh)

331 I hate everyone
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (gdEDO)

People suck. Fuck people.

Except the Horde. The Horde is better than people.

Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2024 11:01 AM (9NIQw)

332 Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2024 10:59 AM (gdEDO)

'Sup? What wrong?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 23, 2024 11:02 AM (YRsIm)

333 264 259 Folks here actually listen to Celine Dion?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 23, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

(It's Zappa. I was just being a goof.)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 23, 2024 10:38 AM (+yhUM)

However, Tina Turner does sing on that track.

can't be bothered to read the thread, so i'm'a just assume we're talking about thing-fish

Posted by: anachronda at May 23, 2024 11:02 AM (sGtp+)

334 Nood border agents

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 23, 2024 11:02 AM (nIRE6)

335 Had the same thing twice over many years. In both cases it was broken and/or unsecured wiring for the blower and took about one minute for the right mechanic to find and fix.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 23, 2024 10:15 AM

Had this happen at my apartment as well. First time the system was out of refrigerant. 2nd time there was a wire on the outside blower that had become disconnected. Probably accidentally when maintenance had been weed whipping around it. But it was nice that the second time it was a really quick fix to just reconnect the wire.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 23, 2024 11:05 AM (P5BPp)

336 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024
*
Do you have ductwork? Have you checked the filter?
Posted by: BignJames at May 23, 2024

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I just changed the filter a couple of weeks ago. As for ductwork, no clue. The air was cooling fine until yesterday -- and I would have noticed, as it's been hitting 80+ every day for a long while now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2024 11:05 AM (J2vNu)

337 I figured it would just demolish A/C efficiency.

And you'd be right, if the area being ventilated isn't sealed off from the A/C area. I might as well mention (since this stumped a buddy of ours all winter): if you have a woodstove or fireplace, you'll want to lock out all those ventilator fans during your heating season. His attic door didn't have a threshold seal, and the house developed enough draft through the eaves to back-draw his chimney. He thought he had a broken stove plate.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2024 11:05 AM (zdLoL)

338 Except the Horde. The Horde is better than people.
Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2024 11:01 AM (

Horde>Dogs>People

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 23, 2024 11:06 AM (4p0Xq)

339 #329
It's an evaporative cooler. It requires dry air to function.

Posted by: torabora at May 23, 2024 11:09 AM (LrE+o)

340 First, comes the pose, but the painting isn't done. Then comes the repose.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at May 23, 2024 11:52 AM (wGerL)

341 15 Alternate title:

I...THINK..THE WIND...TUNNEL...IS...WORKING...OK
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2024 09:27 AM (PiwSw)

; )

Posted by: m at May 23, 2024 02:48 PM (hyRRf)

342 57 OMG... she's wearing the drapes!
Posted by: Rhett Butler at May 23, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

Nice.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2024 02:56 PM (hyRRf)

343 Good night sleep tight, Don't let the bedbugs Bite, If they Bite, Squeeze them Tight, And they wont be back, Until Tomorrow Night

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 23, 2024 05:01 PM (wGqjj)

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