Mid-Morning Art Thread

Allegory of Italy
Valentin de Boulogne

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:30 AM (xnytv)

3 The time stamp needs to go out two more decimal places to cover seconds!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (xnytv)

4 'Cuse Me

I arted downstairs

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Cheese it! The wife is back!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (wNl7U)

7 Why is SHE the only one allowed clothing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

8 A masterpiece with thought and details

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

9 Okaaaay...

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 "What? You're still not ready for school? The bus will be here any second!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)

11 Italy has thunder thighs.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (ufFY8)

12 Who puts grapes on a pizza?

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

13 I don’t get it…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (PCK5/)

14 The wife has spear and magic helmet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (wNl7U)

15 Hell of a party. Seems gay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (Hpgos)

16 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Allegory of Italy

Artist: Valentin de Boulogne (French, Coulommiers-en-Brie 1591–1632 Rome)

Date: 1628–29

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 10 ft. 9 15/16 in. × 96 7/16 in. (330 × 245 cm)

Classification: Paintings

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/
collection/search/663887

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

17 Who puts grapes on a pizza?
Posted by: BignJames

I draw the line at pineapple.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (xnytv)

18 Why is she standing on the food?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

19 The lion's head in the lower right looks a little too human for my taste. It's kind of off putting.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (ftFVW)

20 Doesn't have a dog but does look like a lion to me with a Paint Bomb

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (fwDg9)

21 When I read allegory, I reach for my gun…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (PCK5/)

22 Magic helmet?

Posted by: E. Fudd as the hunter guy at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (ufFY8)

23 7 Why is SHE the only one allowed clothing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March

Be as he’s tired of doing your laundry!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (TWm+r)

24 The poor lion has seen things...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (wNl7U)

25 What is that beast at lower right that's staring at me like I'm dinner?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (LxER7)

26 I don’t get it…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 09:32 AM (PCK5/)

One of our interpreters will be along shortly.

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (Yj6Os)

27 Every AWFL's self___.

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (i0F8b)

28 The wife has spear and magic helmet.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Looks more like a German opera.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (xnytv)

29 Oh ffs.

SHE’S TIRED OF DOING YOUR LAUNDRY

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (TWm+r)

30 The crew of the USN Harvey Milk
Would hang, in a museum.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (LVkqs)

31 Art that caters to our taste is, sadly, far too rare. Thank you, CBD!

Posted by: Quentin T. and Rex R. at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (a3Q+t)

32 Italy clearly doesn't skip forearm day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (kgE5c)

33 Nurse

#6

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (wNl7U)

34 From his name, the artist would appear to be French.

Is this a Frenchie poking fun at the Eye-talians?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

35 Front kid seems to be upset he is the only one who has to show his dangle.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (ftFVW)

36 The cabin boys are kinda small…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (PCK5/)

37 From the MET:
This allegory was painted for the papal nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini. As in a tableau vivant, recognizable people have taken emblematic roles: a young woman has dressed as Italy (wearing a castellated crown, holding a shield, and standing on a cornucopia); two hairy-chested men play the parts of river gods (the Arno, with a lion, and the Tiber, with the twins Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf that suckled them). In this work, Valentin pushed the practice of painting from a posed model to its extreme, creating a unique masterpiece as radical as anything by Caravaggio. Indeed, even Gustave Courbet, two centuries later, did not surpass the realism of the models-cum-river gods. The painting occupied a place of honor in the cardinal’s residence and must have provoked fascinating conversations.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

38 Is that a promo pic from a Lady Gaga concert?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (3GdZZ)

39 18 Why is she standing on the food?
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Italy's bountiful produce I guess.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (/tzYP)

40 ACK...

Every AWFL's self___.

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (i0F8b)

41 Has dog therefore art.

With that we can move on to discussing boobs or movies.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (mhceY)

42 Democratic conventions get sicker and sicker every year.

Posted by: Stateless...63% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (jvJvP)

43
Looks more like a German opera.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:34 AM (xnytv)

"Kew da wabbit....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

44 Valentin de Boulogne can't paint toes. She could perch on a branch with hers!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (xnytv)

45 Rammstein's music video for "Deutschland" is a much better national allegory.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

46 The wife has spear and magic helmet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM

Spear and magic helmet?

Posted by: Bugs at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM (kgE5c)

47 ??? the word 'image' comes out as an underscore?

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM (i0F8b)

48
Be as he’s tired of doing your laundry!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 09:33 AM (TWm+r)

I've been doing my own laundry since I was 12.

"If you can't put it in the hamper, you can do it yourself."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

49 The Arno is Florence's river BTW.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM (/tzYP)

50 Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average.

Posted by: huerfano at March 21, 2025 09:37 AM (n2swS)

51 "Kew da wabbit....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

One of the best, IMHO. Doing to Wagner what OUGHT to be done to Wagner.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 21, 2025 09:37 AM (LxER7)

52 Indeed, even Gustave Courbet, two centuries later, did not surpass the realism of the models-cum-river gods. The painting occupied a place of honor in the cardinal’s residence and must have provoked fascinating conversations.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

A cum-river?

Ewwwwwwwww......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

53 How is this an allegory for Italy? I don't see any pasta or chianti, and the people aren't talking with their hands.

Posted by: Paco at March 21, 2025 09:37 AM (mADJX)

54 the Arno, with a lion

March comes in like a Lion

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

55 It's a little pretentious to have Lady Italy standing with a mop. As if she's cleaning up Europe's messes instead of causing many of them.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

56 the word 'image' comes out as an underscore?
Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM (i0F8b)

Special Pixy frature.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (ufFY8)

57 Oh, baloney!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (Cki93)

58 Feature

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (ufFY8)

59 I've been doing my own laundry since I was 12.

"If you can't put it in the hamper, you can do it yourself."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:36 AM

So you couldn't put in the hamper first?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (a3Q+t)

60 45 Rammstein's music video for "Deutschland" is a much better national allegory.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

Judges would have accepted Springtime for Hitler.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

61
So you couldn't put in the hamper first?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2025 09:38 AM (a3Q+t)

Nope. Just carried it to the washer, loaded it, added soap and pushed "start."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

62 Big painting. Don't think I have wall big enough to hang it in my singlewide, even though I live in an Oakwood, the Cadillac of mobile homes.

Posted by: Zeke from down the Holler at March 21, 2025 09:39 AM (G5+As)

63 Fortunately, Italy has grown in certain regards in the centuries following.

Posted by: Sophia Loren at March 21, 2025 09:39 AM (a3Q+t)

64 I don't think anyone has ever done an AMV of Girls unt Panzer set to Springtime for Hitler.

Date I look?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:40 AM (wNl7U)

65 I like the colors on her dress and robe and also the little blue and green on whatever little clothing the river gods (?) are wearing. That's it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2025 09:40 AM (TgfuY)

66 Wasn't Dante Allegory the guy who wrote The Divine Comedy?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 21, 2025 09:40 AM (kTd/k)

67 Good morning
I like it. Don't know why exactly.
Need more coffee.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 21, 2025 09:40 AM (t/2Uw)

68 62 Big painting. Don't think I have wall big enough to hang it in my singlewide, even though I live in an Oakwood, the Cadillac of mobile homes.
Posted by: Zeke from down the Holler

Ha! Loser.

Posted by: Hunter, selling meth and art from his DOUBLE wide at March 21, 2025 09:40 AM (JCZqz)

69 That would be an interesting use of an 80in flat screen, cycle through all your images.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:41 AM (wNl7U)

70 Who are these two guys exactly? Why is that woman looking straight at me?

Posted by: dantesed at March 21, 2025 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

71 Yeah, I wouldn't mess with lil' miss thing up there. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2025 09:42 AM (Cki93)

72 Good morning
I like it. Don't know why exactly.
Need more coffee.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Watch out for Muldoon, our resident coffee-thief.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

73 My Boulogne has a first name .....

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

74 >>Why is that woman looking straight at me?

"You know what you did!"

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2025 09:42 AM (Cki93)

75 Dude on left has some serious toe jam.

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 09:43 AM (Yj6Os)

76 Armed with a jousting-style lance rather than, say, a spear or Britannia's trident.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:43 AM (/tzYP)

77 I like it.

She’s powerful, but her bare feet attest to her vulnerability. She still needs the men. But the men still honor her.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 09:43 AM (TWm+r)

78 I saw Serious Toe Jam open for Ram Jam at The Palace in '88.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

79 Looks like a chick I went to high school with. She dealt out one of the more brutal beatings I've ever witnessed to another girl in our junior year. Italian chicks, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

80 An allegory of Italy?!

I'm not seeing it.

Posted by: Ray Charles at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (mBN+i)

81 I would guess that Boulogne did about 3/4 of the painting and apprentices did the rest .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (VofaG)

82 I thought the chick was standing on Christmas ornaments, not food.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

83 Fruit's pretty good, once you pick the pubes out

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 09:45 AM (sJHOI)

84 Love the photobombing dog (?) bottom right

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2025 09:45 AM (VoAdT)

85 Looks like a chick I went to high school with. She dealt out one of the more brutal beatings I've ever witnessed to another girl in our junior year. Italian chicks, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

scratching? hair pulling?

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 09:45 AM (Yj6Os)

86 A remarkable painting. The way Boulogne uses bright colors in clothing and skin tones against a dark background makes the figures and objects pop on the canvas. Given the circa 1600 time period, I was surprised at the realism of the people and flow of clothing. I don't know about the symbolism in the painting but it seems sure it is there. For my taste, his use of dramatic lighting makes the image even more effective.

Looking at the other paintings on his Wiki page, he uses similar techniques to create a sense of drama and just as effectively. The viewer feels like they are seeing something in person, not just a painting in a frame.

I wonder if he was an influence on the the later Dutch masters like Rembrandt.

Posted by: JTB at March 21, 2025 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

87 Why is Italy's face green ??

Posted by: runner at March 21, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

88 84 Love the photobombing dog (?) bottom right
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Romulus' and Remus' wolf-mama apparently. See #37.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:46 AM (/tzYP)

89 I thought the chick was standing on Christmas ornaments, not food.
Posted by: Bulg

Took me a few looks to realize that was grain under her left foot rather than a wooly animal.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 21, 2025 09:47 AM (ftFVW)

90 I thought allegory was symbolism or something. What this painting says about Italy, I've no idea.

Posted by: dantesed at March 21, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

91 Looks like a chick I went to high school with. She dealt out one of the more brutal beatings I've ever witnessed to another girl in our junior year. Italian chicks, man.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

scratching? hair pulling?
Posted by: BignJames
-------
Woof! Woof!

Posted by: Jay Peterman at March 21, 2025 09:47 AM (/tzYP)

92 Why is Italy's face green ??
Posted by: runner

She ate the chicken salad from 7-11.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

93 scratching? hair pulling?
Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 09:45 AM (Yj6Os)

Leg pulling. After she dropped the broad she dragged her (face down) across concrete. The intent was to follow through by slamming her head in a car door, but her boyfriend mercifully put a stop to her rampage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (BI5O2)

94 Took me a few looks to realize that was grain under her left foot rather than a wooly animal.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Oy, her *right* foot.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (ftFVW)

95 Not exactly the kind of Italian spread I was thinking of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (Q4IgG)

96 Alternate title:

"Italy is a Homely Warrior Woman Smashing Fruit With Her Feet While Fat Hairy Guys Lay About Waiting For the Smashed Fruit Wine to be Served and Children Run Around Naked"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

97 I see Valentin de Boulogne left out the more swarthy Sicilian bruthas! No surprise the Italians joined up with Hitler in WW2!

Posted by: Benjamin Crump, Race Hustler,.esq at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

98 Barberini..very prominent family. Extremely wealthy. Villa Barberini in Rome is a must see ! "The villa, built during the Renaissance on the site of Emperor Domitian's Roman villa, is renowned for its beautiful blend of botanical and archaeological treasures.

Visitors can stroll through gardens such as Il Giardino del Moro and Giardino del Belvedere, relax in the shade of Giardino Della Madonnina, and explore the Cryptoportico of King Domitian’s palace, where people sought refuge during WWII.

Additionally, the Apostolic Palace, now a museum, allows you to explore the personal quarters of past Popes."

yourwelcome

Posted by: runner at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (g47mK)

99 96 Alternate title:

"Italy is a Homely Warrior Woman Smashing Fruit With Her Feet While Fat Hairy Guys Lay About Waiting For the Smashed Fruit Wine to be Served and Children Run Around Naked"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

Italian Trailer Park

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:49 AM (gbOdA)

100 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:49 AM (gbOdA)

101 There's a lot going on in this painting and I don't understand much of it at all.

Would not hang, unless I was the Pope.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 21, 2025 09:49 AM (vOJ4/)

102 Not exactly the kind of Italian spread I was thinking of.
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Nutella??

Mmm. Chocolate.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:49 AM (/tzYP)

103 That's not an allegory it's a drive shaft.

Posted by: DaveA at March 21, 2025 09:50 AM (FhXTo)

104 85 Looks like a chick I went to high school with. She dealt out one of the more brutal beatings I've ever witnessed to another girl in our junior year. Italian chicks, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 09:44 AM (BI5O2)

scratching? hair pulling?
Posted by: BignJames

I seem to recall a comedian ranking girl fights by how many titties popped out. I approve of this metric, and hope to see many highly rated fights.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

105 Leg pulling. After she dropped the broad she dragged her (face down) across concrete. The intent was to follow through by slamming her head in a car door, but her boyfriend mercifully put a stop to her rampage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Good grief. What set her off?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

106 Good grief. What set her off?
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:51 AM (

Whaddya think? She was hitting on the boyfriend.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 09:52 AM (BI5O2)

107 Is that a wolf on the right to symbolize founding of Rome ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

108 Morning again, Art Folken,

I like the faint sheen of the shield and on her red satin and the blue satin around the guy on the left. Aside from that, it is sorta dark.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

109 Is dept of Ed really shutting down?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (dC3VZ)

110 Whaddya think? She was hitting on the boyfriend.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Kinda thought that might've been the case.

She probably lit into the boyfriend later on.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

111 "Italy: In a land of lounging, naked men and boys, the little girl with a shield shall be King."

Posted by: The Allegory at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (D7mYu)

112 Is dept of Ed really shutting down?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (dC3VZ)

Congress must close it, but it's being gutted to bare minimum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

113 109 Is dept of Ed really shutting down?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM (dC3VZ)

======

It is being reduced to statutory minimums, which will shut down many functions and departments within it.

It was spun off from HHS in 1979 through an Act of Congress. It'll take an Act of Congress to shut it down completely. And Johnson has said that will happen.

So...we'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

114 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:55 AM (wNl7U)

115 What is that beast at lower right that's staring at me like I'm dinner?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 21, 2025

***
I think it's a dog. Or a wolf, or fox.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

116 107 Is that a wolf on the right to symbolize founding of Rome ?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

and those are the naked twins

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

117 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:55 AM (wNl7U)

Learnus Codus.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

118 va bene!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (RIvkX)

119 Don't like girl fights. It seems un-girly and a turn off. I like tough girls though so it's a contradiction .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

120 i too thought xday ornaments. my mom has all of those. she puts the leaded tinsel on strand by strand, then drapes it back onto the original cardboard placard from the 30s.

Posted by: cmeat at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (6+aIJ)

121 Allegory of Italy

It seems the artist thinks very little of Italian manhood.

Posted by: t-bird at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (hnMW+)

122 Another allegorical figure -- Columbia:

http://tiny.cc/2w5e001

Warning: May trigger isolationists; but perhaps not MAGA gunboat-diplomacy enthusiasts.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (/tzYP)

123 *Wakes up, scratches, etc.*

*Sets out hot cup of coffee for Diogenes to find...*

*tiptoes out*

Posted by: muldoon at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

124 Animal in bottom right corner could be a bear

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (fwDg9)

125 I think it's a dog. Or a wolf, or fox.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And a floor wax?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

126 *tiptoes out*
Posted by: muldoon at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

Do you have any of those small thin crispy biscuits?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:58 AM (gbOdA)

127 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?

A good start!

Posted by: t-bird at March 21, 2025 09:59 AM (LbnIB)

128 The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick are allegories.
A symbolic representation.
"The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice."

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)

129 Is dept of Ed really shutting down?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at March 21, 2025 09:59 AM (a3Q+t)

130 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?

Just the tip.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 10:00 AM (mT+6a)

131 129 Is dept of Ed really shutting down?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 21, 2025 09:53 AM

No

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at March 21, 2025 10:00 AM (VE6XX)

132 that a wolf on the right to symbolize founding of Rome ?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

and those are the naked twins
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

The one giving the evil eye must be Romulus.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:00 AM (VofaG)

133 (snap) "Wash day tomorrow! Nothing clean, right?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2025 10:01 AM (WPL6O)

134 Don't like girl fights.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

The janitor at my HS had no problem breaking up fights between guys, but he admitted that he was a little leery about getting in the middle of a girl fight. More dangerous.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

135 Oh, what a wonderful painting!

Italy, Queen of Christendom.

I noticed the info above didn't mention the Papal coat of arms on the shield

By a French painter, too.

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 10:02 AM (rj6Yv)

136 Don't like girl fights. It seems un-girly and a turn off. I like tough girls though so it's a contradiction .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

Just don't fight a competative cheerleader.

https://is.gd/n4ZxAF

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Pretty pic.

The best allegory of modern Italy is from a Japanese anime, Hetalia. All the major WW2 countries are anthropomorphized to be people.

Italy is two characters: a glorious ancient Roman soldier chad, and a weak beta soy boy male that is modern Italy post Roman Empire. The Roman Chad Italy is constantly frustrated at seeing the beta he evolved into.

Sadly, the allegory works for a LOT of countries nowadays, not just Italy. (Looking at you, Greeks and Scandis.)

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:02 AM (gWBY1)

138 Is that a wolf on the right to symbolize founding of Rome ? Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Ding! Ding! Plus the naked youths are Romulus and Remus.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 21, 2025 10:03 AM (mhceY)

139 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 21, 2025 09:55 AM

Circumcision.

Posted by: Mike Rowepeen at March 21, 2025 10:04 AM (a3Q+t)

140 Good morning good people.

Italian girls fighting was mentioned up thread. Easy way to avoid that - simply tell them to calm down.

Go ahead. Try it.

Dibs on your stuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 10:04 AM (cYBz/)

141 Animal in bottom right corner could be a bear
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 09:57 AM (fwDg9)

The dudes on the bottom are river gods: The Tiber and the Arno. Tiber's allegories are the twins, Romulus and Remus, and the wolf that suckled them.

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 10:04 AM (rj6Yv)

142 Dirty Hippies Doing Dirty Hippie Things...

Posted by: Die Hippie! Die! at March 21, 2025 10:04 AM (u5iGG)

143 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

That solves my contradiction. Didn't fight until she had to and then brought it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:05 AM (VofaG)

144 Good morning! Painting: very nice!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (5ACBR)

145 https://is.gd/n4ZxAF
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Sha'niqua FO'd and then FO.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)

146 #137 Yes, the keys of the Kingdom.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (/tzYP)

147 Just don't fight a competative cheerleader.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 21, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

They may be small and cute but they're athletes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

148 After the Roman Empire what has Italy accomplished that matters beside Sophia Loren and spaghetti?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (mhceY)

149 Crap. #135 not #137

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (/tzYP)

150 Leg pulling. After she dropped the broad she dragged her (face down) across concrete. The intent was to follow through by slamming her head in a car door, but her boyfriend mercifully put a stop to her rampage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sounds like she grew up with brothers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (xnytv)

151 Colorful... So the little Dick-tator in Ukraine wants all the land back from Russia back to 2014 ? Bye, bye Ukraine...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (VE6XX)

152 Good morning good people.

Italian girls fighting was mentioned up thread. Easy way to avoid that - simply tell them to calm down.

Go ahead. Try it.

Dibs on your stuff.
Posted by: Tonypete

*snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:07 AM (xnytv)

153 Just don't fight a competative cheerleader.

https://is.gd/n4ZxAF
Posted by: Sponge

Hey Cheerleader, how you do'ing?

Sure, it's going to end badly but what the hell . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 10:07 AM (cYBz/)

154
"Senator" Slotkin now posing as the moderate voice of Democrats, criticizing AOC and Bernie for doing nothing.

Seems like Rock Hudson making fun of fags.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 10:08 AM (j4U/Z)

155 28 The wife has spear and magic helmet.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Looks more like a German opera.
Posted by: rickb223

She's got a structured settlement but she needs cash now!

Posted by: J G Wentworth at March 21, 2025 10:08 AM (Kvp91)

156 After the Roman Empire what has Italy accomplished that matters beside Sophia Loren and spaghetti?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Umm...wasn't there a little thing called the Renaissance?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

157 Well a wolf is in the canine family so this has to be a complete painting

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 10:09 AM (fwDg9)

158 Italy is two characters: a glorious ancient Roman soldier chad, and a weak beta soy boy male that is modern Italy post Roman Empire. The Roman Chad Italy is constantly frustrated at seeing the beta he evolved into.

Now you know how ancient wolves feel when the see a Yorkie.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:09 AM (xnytv)

159 So the little Dick-tator in Ukraine wants all the land back from Russia back to 2014 ? Bye, bye Ukraine...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 10:06 AM (VE6XX)

He really can't read the room.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 21, 2025 10:10 AM (L5An7)

160 37 From the MET:
The painting ... must have provoked fascinating conversations.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

And continues to do so, on ... the Mid-Morning Art Thread.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2025 10:10 AM (CQE5S)

161 Italy is the top pro tennis playing country currently .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:10 AM (VofaG)

162 Meloni's blond.

Posted by: GrenadierX at March 21, 2025 10:10 AM (M3pDV)

163 After the Roman Empire what has Italy accomplished that matters beside Sophia Loren and spaghetti?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Umm...wasn't there a little thing called the Renaissance?
Posted by: Bulg

Way overrated.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 21, 2025 10:10 AM (mhceY)

164 Ding! Ding! Plus the naked youths are Romulus and Remus.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 21, 2025 10:03 AM (mhceY)

Are there Remiums

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:11 AM (gbOdA)

165 Italy is the top pro tennis playing country currently .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Mmmmm...Jennifer Capriati...mmmmmm...

(Yes, I know she's American.)

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

166 Italy was angry that day my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at March 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Kvp91)

167 Get off the buffet, lady. People eat that stuff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 21, 2025 10:13 AM (hY4dx)

168 Meloni's blond.

Hello Lombard Lady...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:13 AM (t0Rmr)

169 Sure were a lot of nekked people in the olden days.

Posted by: Weasel at March 21, 2025 10:13 AM (c8xsU)

170 Twenty Lira. Same as in Venice.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at March 21, 2025 10:14 AM (Kvp91)

171 Hello Lombard Lady...
Posted by: 18-1

Stay away from her.
-- Clark Gable

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

172 Sure were a lot of nekked people in the olden days.

And, uh, today

Posted by: The internet says hello at March 21, 2025 10:14 AM (t0Rmr)

173 It ain't a real party without putti!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 21, 2025 10:15 AM (hY4dx)

174 >>> Now you know how ancient wolves feel when the see a Yorkie.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:09 AM (xnytv)

Ha, yes, that! Or a teacup poodle or a chihuahua.

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:16 AM (gWBY1)

175 Slotkin is going to be on the 2028 ticket.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2025 10:16 AM (j6NlC)

176 It ain't a real party without putti!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

So, when a bunch of putti get together and start crying, is it a pitti party?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

177 Posted by: The internet says hello at March 21, 2025 10:14 AM (t0Rmr)
----
You can get nekked people on the internet? What channel!?

Posted by: Weasel at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (c8xsU)

178 Slotkin is going to be on the 2028 ticket.

Depends on whether Trump and co let the CIA still run ops in the US

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (t0Rmr)

179 This allegory was painted for the papal nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini. As in a tableau vivant, recognizable people have taken emblematic roles: a young woman has dressed as Italy (wearing a castellated crown, holding a shield, and standing on a cornucopia); two hairy-chested men play the parts of river gods (the Arno, with a lion, and the Tiber, with the twins Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf that suckled them). . . .
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025

***
That explains the wolf . . . but where is the lion?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

180 This is unusual. Classical-looking art depicting body hair.

Posted by: Emmie at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (Sf2cq)

181 You can get nekked people on the internet? What channel!?

Hey Adm Akbar looks like you've got a customer

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (t0Rmr)

182 This is unusual. Classical-looking art depicting body hair.

Valentin had apparently seen a topless Italian man unlike most painters of the day

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:18 AM (t0Rmr)

183 Anarchist protest toolkits “created and used” by “Beautiful Trouble” and cohorts including Lisa Fithian, “a lifelong advocate for violent protests, abolishing the police, dismantling the state [and who] guided Columbia University students to break into its building” were shared on USIP’s website as models for “change” and “peace.”

Fithian was going to firebomb the RNC in Austin.
Bush AG Alberto Gonzales let her off.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:18 AM (gbOdA)

184 I was so happy to see the news that the doxxing of DataRepublican, the deaf woman on DOGE, was an utter failure. She reported on X her husband's distillery got completely cleared out of its inventory. People stepped up and supported them big time! (Take that, Salt lake Trib.)

As has been said, conservatives protest with their wallets, democrats with firebombs. We are not the same.

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (gWBY1)

185 Which part of Italy does the boner represent? Sicily?

Oh wait, that's his six pack.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (fY84s)

186 So in 1628 Italy was still about 200 years away...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (t0Rmr)

187 After the Roman Empire what has Italy accomplished that matters beside Sophia Loren and spaghetti?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

***
Alfa Romeos
Lancias
Great shaving products
Italian leather products
Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

188 This is unusual. Classical-looking art depicting body hair.
Posted by: Emmie at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (Sf2cq)

Boulogne wasn't gay for young boys like Michelangelo and DaVinci.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:20 AM (VofaG)

189 That explains the wolf . . . but where is the lion?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

Lower right hand corner
no mane

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:20 AM (gbOdA)

190 Which part of Italy does the boner represent? Sicily?

Pretty sure Calabria is Italy's shlong. Wonder if they have "Calabria Man"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (t0Rmr)

191 That looks like it smells really bad

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (iFTx/)

192 Slotkin is going to be on the 2028 ticket.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2025 10:16 AM (j6NlC)

Slotkin 2028, cuz the CIA is tired of having to manipulate Presidents to start wars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)

193 Alfa Romeos
Lancias
Great shaving products
Italian leather products
Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Marisa Allasio

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

194 Bush AG Alberto Gonzales let her off.

It really is a mystery wrapped in an enigma how the GOP lost national influence during the W years.

Posted by: Taking Notes at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (Y1D0N)

195 Also, Claudia Cardinale was French.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

196 What is Latin for a 90% reduction?
*
Just the tip.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025

***
Decimation times nine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

197 After the Roman Empire what has Italy accomplished that matters beside Sophia Loren and spaghetti?
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

What, no, how you say, love for the Paolo?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

198 The Bush family has been doing scumbag shit since the 30's (that I'm aware of).

All of them are trash.

Even Barbara, who I may have disliked the most.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 21, 2025 10:23 AM (PMtkd)

199 Doordash will let you take out ‘loan to pay for lunch’

I will gladly pay you on Tuesday

Owe gie to me a shillin for some fags
And I’ll pay yer back on Thursday.
But if you can wait till Saturday
I’m expecting a divvy from the
Harpenden Building Society.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

200 Also, Claudia Cardinale was French.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025

***
I did not know that. Her father was Italian, though, and she's most associated with Italian cinema.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

201 Is Italy the drunken slouch or the standing figure?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 21, 2025 10:24 AM (jc0TO)

202 The Bush family has been doing scumbag shit since the 30's (that I'm aware of).

All of them are trash.

Even Barbara, who I may have disliked the most.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I know Reagan really didn't have a choice, but the worst thing he did was pick Poppy for his running mate.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

203 Alfa Romeos
Lancias
Great shaving products
Italian leather products
Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

I like the Alfalfa Romeo tractors.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:25 AM (gbOdA)

204 That explains the wolf . . . but where is the lion?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025
*
Lower right hand corner
no mane
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025

***
I thought that was the wolf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:25 AM (J2vNu)

205 Also, Claudia Cardinale was French.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

C'est si bon!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:25 AM (sJHOI)

206 What, no, how you say, love for the Paolo?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

What?...he's a wop?

Posted by: BignJames at March 21, 2025 10:25 AM (Yj6Os)

207 Can you imagine how much the deep state (including Bushes, Romneys, Clintons... etc.) hates Trump?

Trump is exposing their generational grift.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 21, 2025 10:26 AM (PMtkd)

208 Allegory of Italy (oil on canvas, 333 x 245 cm) represents the pinnacle of Valentin’s work. It is a representative example from the golden age of Roman Baroque painting. Researchers consider the large-scale painting to be the artist’s main work, along with an altarpiece in the Vatican’s collections.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

209 I did not know that. Her father was Italian, though, and she's most associated with Italian cinema.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She was born in French-controlled Tunisia, but Wiki says she had Italian citizenship through her father. So I stand corrected.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

210 195 Also, Claudia Cardinale was French.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

The Claudine Longet Downhill Memorial Ski Tournament never went off.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

211 333 x 245 cm

Almost 1 to 1 for the Country of Italy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

212 199 Doordash will let you take out ‘loan to pay for lunch’

I will gladly pay you on Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx

Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

I’d rather have peanut butter and jelly I made from stale bread.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 10:28 AM (3O3BM)

213 I know Reagan really didn't have a choice, but the worst thing he did was pick Poppy for his running mate.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

-----

It is a classic example of the deep state positioning one of their own.

Trump being forced to use Pence is another example.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 21, 2025 10:28 AM (PMtkd)

214 >Alfa Romeos
Lancias
Great shaving products
Italian leather products
Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

I'm a slut for overpriced Italian wine, esp. Barolo.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 21, 2025 10:28 AM (GTqXr)

215
Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

Yeah I did doordash for KFC once and was disappointed at the price and the food

In my area most of the subshops/pizza joints have stopped delivering since COVID so you either cook yourself, drive to get food, or pay doordash $$$

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

216 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

If it was not for the Artic Ice melting from GloBull Warmering there would be nothing that would stop 10 or 12 platoons of Marines marching to the North Pole.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)

217 215
Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

Yeah I did doordash for KFC once and was disappointed at the price and the food

In my area most of the subshops/pizza joints have stopped delivering since COVID so you either cook yourself, drive to get food, or pay doordash $$$
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

=======

I do it when I have a per diem from work.

But sometimes, people are just lazy. My younger brother does Doordash a lot (or, he did before he moved to NYC), and that's essentially what it amounted to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

218 Alfa Romeos
Lancias
Great shaving products
Italian leather products
Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025
*
I'm a slut for overpriced Italian wine, esp. Barolo.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 21, 2025

***
Olive oil products!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

219 Allegory of Italy. Well, it was painted with oil...olive oil!

Ask your doctor if Allegory is right for you. Do not take Allegory if you are allergic to Allegory.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (NMT5x)

220 Colorful... So the little Dick-tator in Ukraine wants all the land back from Russia back to 2014 ? Bye, bye Ukraine...

Given Ukraine was bombing their own citizens in the ethnically Russian regions even before Zelensky was installed that's not surprising. Stupid, but not surprising.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (2ocoG)

221 Bush AG Alberto Gonzales let her off.

It really is a mystery wrapped in an enigma how the GOP lost national influence during the W years.
Posted by: Taking Notes at March 21, 2025 10:21 AM (Y1D0N)

The FBIs informant sucked.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)

222 87 Why is Italy's face green ??
Posted by: runner at March 21, 2025 09:46 AM (g47mK)

"It's not easy being green."

Posted by: m at March 21, 2025 10:31 AM (CQE5S)

223 220 Colorful... So the little Dick-tator in Ukraine wants all the land back from Russia back to 2014 ? Bye, bye Ukraine...

Given Ukraine was bombing their own citizens in the ethnically Russian regions even before Zelensky was installed that's not surprising. Stupid, but not surprising.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2025 10:30 AM (2ocoG)

=======

Let's be generous to Zelensky here and say he's talking past the sale.

He has no leverage because his entire war machine is funded by the people trying to end the war, but still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

224 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

I'm pretty sure an average MoMe could defeat the Canadian military.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2025 10:31 AM (2ocoG)

225 Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

***
That's horrifying. I don't like paying nearly $20 for two chicken sandiwches and some fries to eat in at Chik-Fil-A.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

226 216 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

lol just Ohio on its own could go to war and beat Canada

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 21, 2025 10:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

227 The Bush boogeyman is getting really old.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)

228 Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

I’d rather have peanut butter and jelly I made from stale bread.
Posted by: nurse ratched

For $30, I'll cook a ribeye or filet. With sides.
And still have money left over.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:32 AM (xnytv)

229 I will never understand doordash/ubereats

my kids waste a shit ton of money this way

freaking walk!!!

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 21, 2025 10:33 AM (Pv3Rg)

230 Is she pointing towards the big rig where the cousins have the hot TVs and tech. equipment for sale?

**Guido sent me** 🤫

(I loved them like mad when I got a window AC and a Jansen bathsuit many years ago.)

Will pass on hanging the above painting. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 21, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

231 Yeah I did doordash for KFC once and was disappointed at the price and the food

In my area most of the subshops/pizza joints have stopped delivering since COVID so you either cook yourself, drive to get food, or pay doordash $$$
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

Something like 3/4ths of drivers have admitted to messing with food, eating food, etc. It’s sick and gross, and it really goes to show how unethical many people are.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 10:34 AM (iwhil)

232 freaking walk!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid

But it's too hard to walk and read your iPhone at the same time!!
-- Kids today

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

233 Have the grocery store delivery food you can cook. Lot cheaper.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:35 AM (VofaG)

234 my kids waste a shit ton of money this way

freaking walk!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid

Or learn to cook! I taught my boys how and they both still order DoorDash or grub hub. It makes me crazy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 10:35 AM (3O3BM)

235 >>> Will someone please explain to me why people pay so much money to have McDonald’s delivered to them? I really don’t get it. $30 for a 1/4 pounder fries and a coke?

My stepson does this for Taco Bell. But he's young, and has a part time job, so he can choose how to poorly blow his money.

Now, my husband door dashing candy from the grocery store... THAT I find annoying. It's a 5 minute drive away! Stop being lazy! It's not a common everyday thing, but drives me up the wall.

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:35 AM (gWBY1)

236 admitted that he was a little leery about getting in the middle of a girl fight. More dangerous.
Posted by: Bulg

I remember Little Leery. Had a plate-spinning act. Was on Sullivan numerous times.

Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

237 Hell, I just made two BoBs instead of going to Whataburger for them. (Breakfast on a Bun)

Two buns, two sausage patties, two fried eggs & four slices of cheese. Way cheaper and I know no one spit in it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (xnytv)

238 I hate cooking, in general. Don't have the patience for me.

But I did make some tasty scrambled eggs this morning.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

239 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

I'm pretty sure an average MoMe could defeat the Canadian military.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 21, 2025 10:31 AM

By that standard the TXMoMe would practically be a war crime.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (kgE5c)

240 Candy lasts a while why wouldn't you just buy it when you do your regular trips to the grocery store?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (t0Rmr)

241 Or learn to cook! I taught my boys how and they both still order DoorDash or grub hub. It makes me crazy.

they're all still in dorms but yeah next year! cook!

they all three went to schools in walkable downtowns so they can very easily walk to food places

they certainly know how to walk to the "right bars"

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 21, 2025 10:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

242 *patience for it*

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

243 Or learn to cook! I taught my boys how and they both still order DoorDash or grub hub. It makes me crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 10:35 AM

Seriously. This is what I tell young people. Buy groceries. Cook. You will save money and eat better.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 10:37 AM (Wnv9h)

244 Dropped my daughter off at Ohio St Campus last night to visit a friend of hers. There's robot food delivery droids everywhere.

They look like a cross between a white igloo cooler on wheels and the small 4-wheel robots that roamed the halls of the Death Star in the original Star Wars movie.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:37 AM (sJHOI)

245 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. Impressive art but troubling. Would not hang over the bar.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2025 10:37 AM (W/lyH)

246 Open can of soup
Pour into saucepan
Heat on stove until almost boiling
Pour into bowl
Enjoy

Posted by: Learning to cook at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM (Y1sOo)

247 btw I used to cook in a very raggedly Penn dorm but nowadays even the new fancy dorms with great new electricity won't allow a simple hot plate

it sort of sucks. and they always tout having dorm lounges with little kitchens but that never seems to pan out either

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

248 We just need to send Tim Walz to Canada to beat 'em all up.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

249 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

Then: We need to invade Russia because the occasional war is good for us and those Russians are pussies!

Now: Trump is a warmonger that will invade Canada and lose!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM (t0Rmr)

250 I hate cooking, in general. Don't have the patience for me.

But I did make some tasty scrambled eggs this morning.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025

***
For years I was afraid I'd buy something to cook, screw it uyp, and be without the money and the food. It's better now . . . but I have certain set menu items I know how to deal with.

My usual breakfast is a scrambled and seasoned egg atop a microwaved beef & bean burrito, often with cheese.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:39 AM (J2vNu)

251 Claudia Cardinale, Virna Lisi, and Luciana Paluzzi

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Heh - Mona Lisa Vito.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 10:39 AM (cYBz/)

252 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

Muldoon put some out for you earlier.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

253 We just need to send Tim Walz to Canada to beat 'em all up. /i]

I got the Canadian boys. Someone else is gonna have to take care of the icky girls though

Posted by: Tim Walz at March 21, 2025 10:39 AM (t0Rmr)

254 Then: We need to invade Russia because the occasional war is good for us and those Russians are pussies!

Now: Trump is a warmonger that will invade Canada and lose!
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM (t0Rmr)

Mental illness untreated will only get worse.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)

255 Dudley Do-Right all hepped up on maple syrup and back bacon, riding a giant moose.

We have no chance

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (sJHOI)

256 btw Portal Philadelphia update - homeless guys stole the wiring, and last night it got shot up

so proud!

argh

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (Pv3Rg)

257 Hochul on Trump DOE Order: He Should “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (RHGPo)

258 257 Hochul on Trump DOE Order: He Should “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (RHGPo)

========

"He should leave them alone by leaving in a bureaucracy that tells them what to do."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

259 I hate cooking, in general. Don't have the patience for me. /i]

A lot of things are pretty simply TBH.

Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

260 Joy Reid predicts that America will go to war with Canada and lose

-

Wait until she begins to understand why Canada only pays $3.34 each year for defense.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (qSMcm)

261 I used to eat a lot of can soup but the amount of salt in it is ridiculous.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)

262 259 A lot of things are pretty simply TBH.

Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

======

Even less prep:

Frozen chicken breast. Cover it in a spice/dry rub type stuff. Oven for 50 minutes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

263 $41 Billion in Climate Funds Missing? World Bank Under Fire

.. I can see an organization that does trillions losing 41 billion, but that is not the World Bank

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (RHGPo)

264 my kids waste a shit ton of money this way

freaking walk!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid

Or learn to cook! I taught my boys how and they both still order DoorDash or grub hub. It makes me crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2025 10:35 AM (3O3BM)
_______

I refuse to use these services because the vig is like 40%, at least in NYC. The menu prices you order from on the app are already increased 15-20%. Then they charge you a "delivery fee" and a "service fee." Then they suggest a 20% tip!

Go. Fuck. Yourself. With. A. Flaming. Broom. Handle.

The only time I use these price-gouging scams is when I have girls over, and who knows what they want, and it's just easier. Otherwise, I'll either cook myself (most of the time) or pick the shit up myself.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (iFTx/)

265 I hate cooking, in general. Don't have the patience for me.

But I did make some tasty scrambled eggs this morning.
Posted by: Bulg

I love to cook. I like trying to duplicate restaurant food. One that I am having trouble with, is the broth in a wonton soup that a local restaurant sells.

I was paid a compliment last time I made filet mignon for my in-laws. My f-i-l said he'd rather have mine than Texas Roadhouse.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (xnytv)

266 > Hochul on Trump DOE Order: He Should “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.”
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Ummmm.... who want's to tell her?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (Q4IgG)

267 Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.
Posted by: 18-1

I am too much of a germaphobe to handle raw meat. Especially raw chicken. That's another reason why I don't cook much.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

268 Traitor Joe “Killed 8 Million Chickens” week of Jan 13th.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (gbOdA)

269 OK, so sometimes delivered fast food can work.

There's a Chick-fil-a by work where I usually lunch since the cafeteria here is garbage. I rack up the reward points as a result (current balance is 33,253 points).

There's an oddity in their online ordering where if you want it delivered then, yes, the prices are higher. But if I use points for a free sammie or whatever the prices don't matter at all. In essence, I get the delivery for the cost of the tip.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (PzXaK)

270 18-1, he does buy candy at the store, the big bags that last a while. He only door dashes candy when it's run out and he didn't realize it and had a sugar craving. Still!

Fast food DoorDash is so expensive now, you might just as well buy a burger from a chain a step up, like Chili's. Better quality for the same price.

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (gWBY1)

271
"He should leave them alone by leaving in a bureaucracy that tells them what to do."

The left uses this argument a lot once you go looking for it.

There is an assumption leftist leaders/bureaucrats have a right to boss people around and stopping them is taking THEIR rights away.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (t0Rmr)

272 Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

Or buy a whole cooked chicken at HEB for 6.99.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)

273 The only time I use these price-gouging scams is when I have girls over, and who knows what they want, and it's just easier. Otherwise, I'll either cook myself (most of the time) or pick the shit up myself.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 10:42 AM (iFTx/)

My reverse seer semi smoke top round is Fn GREAT

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:43 AM (gbOdA)

274 Open can of soup labeled “low sodium”
Proceed as previously directed

Posted by: Learning to cook at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (Y1sOo)

275 262 259 A lot of things are pretty simply TBH.

Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

======

Even less prep:

Frozen chicken breast. Cover it in a spice/dry rub type stuff. Oven for 50 minutes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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Even less prep:

Boil it with some potatoes, pour a Smithwicks, and sing Danny Boy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (PzXaK)

276 275 Even less prep:

Boil it with some potatoes, pour a Smithwicks, and sing Danny Boy.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (PzXaK)

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Boil?

How aboriginal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

277
Fast food DoorDash is so expensive now, you might just as well buy a burger from a chain a step up, like Chili's. Better quality for the same price.

-

Yep. It's hilarious that fast food places like Taco Bell have managed to price themselves competitively (and above) against local owned, run, and cooked by Mexican joints.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (qSMcm)

278
I am too much of a germaphobe to handle raw meat. Especially raw chicken. That's another reason why I don't cook much.

Honestly I rarely touch the meat with my hands before it is cooked - I use a fork to take it out of the container it comes in and but it in my dish. If you use a pre-made marinade the whole thing takes like 5m of your actual time the night before, and 5m the day of.

You can also throw on a bag of rice to have with it, which is also easy. I do cut up some peppers or broccoli though and that does take longer.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

279 Hochul on Trump DOE Order: He Should “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2025 10:40 AM (RHGPo)

Now do trannies

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (sJHOI)

280 According to The Grayzone, USAID paid a Ukrainian website called Molfar to demonize Vice President JD Vance as a pro-Russia propagandist. They claim to be an intelligence outfit.

In 2022, a representative from Molfar said Donald Trump was “absolutely pro-Kremlin.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (gbOdA)

281 Open can of soup labeled “low sodium”
Proceed as previously directed
Posted by: Learning to cook at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (Y1sOo)

It's only lower sodium, not low sodium.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

282 A lot of things are pretty simply TBH.

Throw the chicken in a dish with some marinade the night before, then throw it in the oven for 30m. And...done.
Posted by: 18-1

Carmalized onions. Chicken thighs. Packet of fajita seasoning. Sour cream. Cheese. Tortillas.

Congratulations. You just made chicken fajitas.

Substitute beef skirt steak for chicken. You just made beef fajitas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:46 AM (xnytv)

283 This is awesome, btw.

Come for the art, stay for the Home Ec tips.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:46 AM (PzXaK)

284 >>> Hochul on Trump DOE Order: He Should “Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone, leave the kids alone.”

You first. Dems refused to leave the kids alone, so daddy Trump had to knock some heads.

Posted by: LizLem at March 21, 2025 10:46 AM (gWBY1)

285 Even less prep:

Boil it with some potatoes, pour a Smithwicks, and sing Danny Boy.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:44 AM (PzXaK)

Even lesser prep
Drink a 6 pack of Smithwicks with 4 bars of Xanax

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:47 AM (gbOdA)

286 I cook all my meals for my family. I keep a box of latex gloves handy - not cheap, maybe $10 for a box of 50. They are great for handling raw poultry and hot peppers.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:47 AM (sJHOI)

287 You first. Dems refused to leave the kids alone, so daddy Trump had to knock some heads.

The story of 2024 was the left had gotten too greedy under Biden and made Trump almost inevitable no matter how much cheating they did.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:47 AM (t0Rmr)

288 Get creative with your rice btw. Buillion cubes, onion powder, garlic powder, BBQ rubs, and anything else you think "Hey, I like the way that tastes."

Throw it in, stir, boil.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:47 AM (qSMcm)

289 It's only lower sodium, not low sodium.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

I once had a blackening rubs that had more sodium the NACL

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (gbOdA)

290 I will never understand doordash/ubereats

The only time I've used them is when I've been drinking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

291 Hairy Italian men!

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (11JP3)

292 Soup is the #1 thing where canned is so much worse than homemade.

See also: marinades and salad dressings

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (sJHOI)

293 So if a man cooks food to feed himself, is he Strong and Empowered?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (qSMcm)

294 Open can of soup
Pour into saucepan
Heat on stove until almost boiling
Pour into bowl
Enjoy
Posted by: Learning to cook at March 21, 2025 10:38 AM

This sounds Weasel Approved.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (kgE5c)

295 Another easy cooking method - just buy steaks and throw them on the grill.

Your women-folk will look on you with awe, and the steaks you cook will likely be better then anything you can get in a restaurant unless you go to the real high end places

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (t0Rmr)

296 My wife's a great cook, so I seldom need to cook, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

297 This is awesome, btw.

Come for the art, stay for the Home Ec tips.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:46 AM (PzXaK

***

My contribution...
Do NOT put a popover in the microwave for 10 minutes. Teenage boys can be so dumb. It worked though to make the Home Ec teacher cry.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 21, 2025 10:49 AM (1FWWQ)

298 Holy crap, just read the post from Trump on Paul Weiss.

It's hard to explain but, that's as close as you'll ever get lawyers to admit they really, really, really f'd up and are really, really, really sorry.

They basically crawled on their belly to the throne of Trump and scrapped the floor with their noses bowing on the way out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 10:49 AM (apAvM)

299 293 So if a man cooks food to feed himself, is he Strong and Empowered?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (qSMcm)

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No.

Incel.

Strong men eat out at high class joints every night and pay for their dates to eat the lobster with champagne without ever expecting sex.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

300 247 it sort of sucks. and they always tout having dorm lounges with little kitchens but that never seems to pan out either

i see what you did there

Posted by: anachronda at March 21, 2025 10:49 AM (oY6Yp)

301 So if a man cooks food to feed himself, is he Strong and Empowered?

Hahahaha no.

Men are supposed to work, cook, AND clean for their wife.

Posted by: American feminists at March 21, 2025 10:50 AM (t0Rmr)

302 You won’t believe what can be done with a couple eggs and boiling water.

Posted by: Learning to cook at March 21, 2025 10:50 AM (Y1sOo)

303 Look up The Ramen Bae - Classic Seafood and Vegetables MIx on Amazon. Buy your ramen soup blocks, throw away the nasty seasoning packets, add the Ramen Bae. Add boiling water. Voila!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 10:50 AM (xnytv)

304 I made green spaghetti sauce in Home Ec class in middle school.

Too much oregano.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

305 Good morning
I like it. Don't know why exactly.
Need more coffee.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Watch out for Muldoon, our resident coffee-thief.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
***

Ain't that the truth!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2025 10:50 AM (W/lyH)

306 Carmalized onions. Chicken thighs. Packet of fajita seasoning. Sour cream. Cheese. Tortillas.

Congratulations. You just made chicken fajitas.

Substitute beef skirt steak for chicken. You just made beef fajitas.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025

***
I sizzle up ground meat in a pan with some olive oil and dispense it with cheese onto either the crisp taco shells or the soft flour tortillas. Sometimes add some chili with beans and even more meat. Good combo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 10:51 AM (J2vNu)

307 My contribution...
Do NOT put a popover in the microwave for 10 minutes. Teenage boys can be so dumb. It worked though to make the Home Ec teacher cry.
Posted by: Life of Wryly

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HAHAHA

Reminds me of the time my girlfriend put ramen in the microwave but forgot to put the water in.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 10:51 AM (PzXaK)

308 Alternate title:

"Italy is a Homely Warrior Woman Smashing Fruit With Her Feet While Fat Hairy Guys Lay About Waiting For the Smashed Fruit Wine to be Served and Children Run Around Naked"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

Italian Trailer Park
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 09:49 AM (gbOdA)

Okay, I laughed.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2025 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

309 According to The Grayzone, USAID paid a Ukrainian website called Molfar to demonize Vice President JD Vance as a pro-Russia propagandist. They claim to be an intelligence outfit.

In 2022, a representative from Molfar said Donald Trump was “absolutely pro-Kremlin.”
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 10:45 AM (gbOdA)

And that is just of many! how many times did this smart military blog had to endure the onslaught of Uke propaganda and propagandists ? 3 years I had to read how the shield of democracy in Europe is Ukraine, and how it is laying waste to Russia, how the regime in Russia is about to collapse and putin is on his deathbed, and if Russians take[insert name of tongue twister village here] the Russians will take [insert name of E. European city here] and then [name of W. European city here] next!! I mean...foaming at the mouth commentary here.

Posted by: runner at March 21, 2025 10:54 AM (g47mK)

310 Reminds me of the time my girlfriend put ramen in the microwave but forgot to put the water in.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Hey, she just likes it REALLY al dente.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

311 299 293 So if a man cooks food to feed himself, is he Strong and Empowered?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (qSMcm)

======

No.

Incel.

Strong men eat out at high class joints every night and pay for their dates to eat the lobster with champagne without ever expecting sex.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I'll tell my wife that I am an incel. I am the cook of the family and if I can manage to whip up a meal within 10-30 minutes from the fridge and freezer even with fairly crippling arthritis, anyone can do it.

Have a main meat dish to cook, then add at least two different veggies as side dishes. Frozen veggie packs (or even canned) makes it a snap to do, fresh requires more prep but doable if you can use a knife. Arthritic changes in hands precludes doing things like deboning, but lots of easy ways to cook meat quickly via the skillet, indoor grill, etc.

Key to rapid cooking is the thickness of the meat. Thicker requires longer.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)

312 So if a man cooks food to feed himself, is he Strong and Empowered?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 10:48 AM (qSMcm)

======

No.

Incel.

Strong men eat out at high class joints every night and pay for their dates to eat the lobster with champagne without ever expecting sex.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)
______

"Fuck you! I always expect sex. First I'll try to bribe them with cash and drugs. If that doesn't work, I'll just force myself on them. Stupid bitches! No yellow tho."

-- Hunter Biden

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 10:57 AM (iFTx/)

313 When I was in kindergarten, I decided to cook a hotdog in the microwave.

It was on the first commercial break of back to back episodes of Inspector Gadget, so I calculated the correct time to cook as 55 minutes to line up with the end of my show.

It was just a black shoestring when i went back downstairs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 10:57 AM (BI5O2)

314 Door dash has its uses - It was a life saver when I had pneumonia and it was just my little one and me. She was too young to cook, and I was SICK. I had to feed her until I could drag myself to the kitchen. There was 24 hours of her watching whatever she wanted on TV because I couldn’t do anything, I probably should have been in the hospital but I had no one to help me with her.

I had pedialyte delivered when we both had the stomach virus and we were alone. I wasn’t going anywhere and I wasn’t going to ask anyone to go to the store for me for that.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2025 10:58 AM (11JP3)

315 How come every one of 'em has that 'W ... T ... F ... !?' look on their face ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at March 21, 2025 10:58 AM (ayRl+)

316 304 I made green spaghetti sauce in Home Ec class in middle school.

Too much oregano.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
Pesto is one of those sauces I prefer to buy rather than make (even if I could nowadays). Kirkland's Costco brand is both excellent and inexpensive plus a little goes a long way.

I used to cook from scratch a fair amount when I was a yute but nowadays, have to use the lazy man's way of doing so.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)

317 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2025 11:00 AM (xnytv)

318 I have an idea. Can't Trump simply hire DOGE people as workers in whatever dept. he's trying to clean out. For instance. Put a DOGE guy in charge of the IRS. Done. Now he's an employee and judge Kamay Amaya can go get horsefucked.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2025 11:00 AM (ewjUl)

319 It was just a black shoestring when i went back downstairs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

At 55 minutes, I'm surprised there was anything left.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

320 How come every one of 'em has that 'W ... T ... F ... !?' look on their face ... ?
Posted by: Dr_No at March 21, 2025

***
They just received the news that the Visigoths have sacked Rome.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

321 Nood

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=414130

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 21, 2025 11:01 AM (MsrgL)

322 302 You won’t believe what can be done with a couple eggs and boiling water.

had a college roommate who put eggs on to boil then went out on a date. by the time i got home from school, they had exploded all over the kitchen.

Posted by: anachronda at March 21, 2025 11:01 AM (oY6Yp)

323 306 Carmalized onions. Chicken thighs. Packet of fajita seasoning. Sour cream. Cheese. Tortillas.

Congratulations. You just made chicken fajitas.

Substitute beef skirt steak for chicken. You just made beef fajitas.
Posted by: rickb223
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Carmelizing onions without burning them requires a bit of knowledge--e.g. dry the damn things off and use a modicum of cooking oil/butter/etc.

I rarely use skirt steak for fajitas because it requires marinination to be tender rather than beef jerky.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrM5)

324 Fast food places prioritize the delivery drivers/orders now too, which pisses me off. I don't eat fast food a lot, but every time I go, they are there.

They park on the curb in front of the doors and go to the counter like they're royalty. Super entitled.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 21, 2025 11:02 AM (NMT5x)

325 Oh! And our Ramen place is in Mobile. Drive across the bridge? Ha! As if. We door dash that when we get it, which isn’t often, because if it was closer we would get it a lot. It’s really yummy.

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2025 11:02 AM (11JP3)

326 A "friend" of mine cooked last week filet mignon with mushroom sauce, scallops, broccolini, and smash potatoes. She brought everything to my place and cooked it all herself. It was three of us (me, her, and her BFF or at least her current BFF; these girls swap BFF's like they change their hair). She even brought the butter. So there are some Gen Z who can really cook. It's rare, though.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 11:03 AM (iFTx/)

327 The heightened realism of the work made me think this was a 19th century work. The unification of Italy was in 1861. Reading on in the comments, it was an early 17th century work which blows my mind. Still it’s like a painting of the allegory of Germany when there were still many “Germanys” - as in pre-1871, not the post WWII split.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 21, 2025 11:06 AM (4rvfO)

328 I was curious, so:

The painting features three central figures, each embodying a symbolic aspect of Italy:

The Young Woman as Italy: At the center stands a majestic female figure, adorned with a castellated crown, holding a shield, and standing atop a cornucopia. She personifies Italy itself, symbolizing its strength, sovereignty, and abundance. The crown evokes the fortified cities of the Italian peninsula, while the cornucopia signifies its natural wealth and fertility.

The Tiber River God: On the left foreground, a robust, bearded male figure represents the Tiber River, which flows through Rome. He is accompanied by the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, tying him to the city’s origin myth and its historical centrality in Italian identity.

The Arno River God: On the right foreground, another male figure symbolizes the Arno River, associated with Florence. He is depicted with a lion, a symbol of Florentine power and pride, highlighting the cultural and political significance of Tuscany.

Posted by: Candidus at March 21, 2025 11:36 AM (+wPkw)

329 Allegory of Italy
Valentin de Boulogne:

I dunno. Looks pretty modern to me.
Could be Pete and Chasten after a hard weekend with the "family"

When's the smiting begin?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 11:37 AM (FCbAQ)

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