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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Spitzweg Stroll.jpg

Sunday Stroll
Carl Spitzweg

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 kool

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

2 FIRST!!!!!

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

3 Yo!

Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 09:31 AM (KW6fN)

4 That's a large belly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Couldn't be painted today. Shade on guy's face looks like minstrel-style blackface.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

6 I want to be there now!


But not in such formal attire. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (Cki93)

7 Sunday Stroll
Carl Spitzweg
Date: 1841; Germany
Style: Biedermeier
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Austria
Dimensions: 28 x 34 cm

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

8 Why hold your hat like that? Tricking the snipers?

Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (KW6fN)

9 Alternate title:

W.C. Fields Out For a Stroll

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

10 This one is rather nice. Wouldn't match my decor, but I might hang if I had a farmhouse.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (fqoL0)

11 Charming

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

12 If the guy in front would dispense with his toxic masculinity and just carry a parasol, he'd be much happier.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

13 Is that some kind of ghetto umbrella? Better off with that hat on your head, pal

Posted by: Halfhand at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (UfZXD)

14
That fat guy in front, used to do the Spinning Plates

thing on the old Ed Sullivan Show, right?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

15 The artist is Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), and he's known today as a German romanticist painter of the Biedermeier era. What I find fascinating is that he was entirely self-taught. Trained as a pharmacist, he took up painting while recovering from an illness, learning through studying and copying Old Master paintings. In his late twenties, he received a sizable inheritance, and the pharmacist became a full-time artist. He liked to tell stories within his paintings, and often combined a caricaturist's gift for satire with a finely finished artistic realism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

16 The guy looks like someone who would say "this tonic will cure everything that ails you".
Like it , though the people are odd
Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 31, 2025 09:34 AM (2ZThz)

17 So hat in air is to get sniper to fire.
Countersnipe is just out of frame.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

18 Is that some kind of ghetto umbrella? Better off with that hat on your head, pal
Posted by: Halfhand at March 31, 2025 09:33 AM (UfZXD)


Still doesn't work......


https://is.gd/G8DWqI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Well, it's pleasant. Can't help thinking it's a panel from an early 2oth century comic strip.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (WPL6O)

20 The guy looks like someone who would say "this tonic will cure everything that ails you".
Like it , though the people are odd
Would hang, thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 31, 2025 09:34 AM (2ZThz)

Would you buy a monorail from him?

Posted by: Doof at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (KW6fN)

21 28x34 cm is rather small. Perfect for an open spot between shelves.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (fqoL0)

22 I read this as British. Surprised to see its German.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (Hpgos)

23 We can see who's enjoying the groceries the most.

Posted by: Put The Fork Down! at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

24 Elders of the Corn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (L/fGl)

25 Falstaff and family?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

26 Ticks gotta eat,
same as chiggers and fleas.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Aqu9a)

27 I can't tell if this is supposed to be serious or not. The children and scene look sweet but the adults, especially the man in front (dad?) looks exaggerated and comical. His expression is cartoonish, and although you can't see the face of the woman behind him, she looks like she has a large nose.

Posted by: Kris at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (EwaUh)

28 That's a large belly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
******
The focal point of this painting distracts from everything else .

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

29 25 Falstaff and family?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

======

Not nearly corpulent enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

30 23 We can see who's enjoying the groceries the most.
Posted by: Put The Fork Down! at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

He has had a few schnitzengruben

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

31 17 So hat in air is to get sniper to fire.
Countersnipe is just out of frame.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

It's so he can hold it up and allow the those in the group lagging behind to see where he is through the long grass.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 31, 2025 09:37 AM (fqoL0)

32 27 I can't tell if this is supposed to be serious or not. The children and scene look sweet but the adults, especially the man in front (dad?) looks exaggerated and comical. His expression is cartoonish, and although you can't see the face of the woman behind him, she looks like she has a large nose.
Posted by: Kris at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (EwaUh)

=======

"Comical like what? You think I'm some sort of clown here to amuse you?"
-The guy up front

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

33 The sun was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

34 He liked to tell stories within his paintings, and often combined a caricaturist's gift for satire with a finely finished artistic realism.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

This answers my question at 27. Thanks.

Posted by: Kris at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (EwaUh)

35 29 25 Falstaff and family?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

======

Not nearly corpulent enough.
-------------
Corpulent is a really good word.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (Hpgos)

36 That's a large belly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

All-season protective shed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (Aqu9a)

37 seems silly
the grasses are nicely rendered

no hang

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

38 This reminds me of the “forced marches” i compelled my boys to take with me through Discovery Park on Sundays. 5 mile loop down to the beach and back up through the trees and the old military housing back up to the bluffs and tall grasses.

It was lovely.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (mT+6a)

39 Ticks, chiggers, sand gnats, black flies, mosquitoes, a lovely walk in the country. Not to mention the snakes.

Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

40 Morning, Art Folken,

The guy in the front reminds me of W.C. Fields.

Well, it's pleasant. Can't help thinking it's a panel from an early 2oth century comic strip.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2025

Maggie and Jiggs, perhaps!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

41 >36 That's a large belly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

All-season protective shed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (Aqu9a)

My dude could stand to hit the gym and maybe eat a salad once in a while.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (GTqXr)

42 Alternate title:

"No Privilege Hat, Some Privilege Bumbershoot, High Privilege Snazzy Ninety Degree Bending Parasol, Peasant"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (iJfKG)

43 Petite bourgeoisie is just strolling in the fields, living a carefree, and politics free life, and are completely unaware that French Court Sentences Marine Le Pen to Jail, Bars Right-Wing Presidential Hopeful from Running in 2027...

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

44 29 25 Falstaff and family?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)

======

Not nearly corpulent enough.
-------------
Corpulent is a really good word.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:38 AM (Hpgos)

It's cromulent, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

45 That patriarch appears to be in need of much more daily strolling.

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2025 09:39 AM (VARTN)

46 Heading out to a picnic with Dad, Mom, Grandma and all the kids.

I'm not sure why the girl at they back is waving a white flag, though, unless they are French. Or maybe it's a butterfly net.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2025 09:40 AM (n2swS)

47 38 This reminds me of the “forced marches” i compelled my boys to take with me through Discovery Park on Sundays. 5 mile loop down to the beach and back up through the trees and the old military housing back up to the bluffs and tall grasses.

It was lovely.
---------------------
Did you wear a bonnet?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:40 AM (Hpgos)

48 Nice grass

But where's the dog?

Posted by: H at March 31, 2025 09:40 AM (2gjbv)

49 He's got 'dickie do' syndrome.

His belly hit the wall before his dickie do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

50 Spitzweg. This could directly translate as "tapered path" or "pointed away" depending on context, because German is weird like that. But the compound word probably means something different, but conceptually similar to one of those things. I wonder where the name comes from.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2025 09:41 AM (BI5O2)

51 Going to the beach?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 31, 2025 09:41 AM (jc0TO)

52 49 He's got 'dickie do' syndrome.

His belly hit the wall before his dickie do.
-------------------
He reminds me of General Miley

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:42 AM (Hpgos)

53 Alternate Title:

"For Five Decades Bertram Had Held in His Flatulence, However Today Was the Day!"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

54 37 seems silly
the grasses are nicely rendered

no hang
Posted by: Don Black

The Dad should be nicely rendered.

Posted by: Rolls and Rolls of Fat at March 31, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)

55 Nonthreatening. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 31, 2025 09:42 AM (jc0TO)

56 Is that wheat, barley or something else?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

57
The Dad should be nicely rendered.
Posted by: Rolls and Rolls of Fat at March 31, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)


His tanning oil is Crisco.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

58 This painting is from 1841. It will giv eyou a good idea (a) of how people dressed back then even during recreation, and (b) how far we have fallen in our standards.

No, I don't suppose wearing full dress on a hike or a beach stroll is necessary. But so many people nowadays dress like Bart Simpson *all the time*. Just imagine how eye-searingly horrifying Jiggs in front there would be in a T-shirt and shorts. If nothing else, more formal clothes helped to conceal our shortcomings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

59 I think that dad needs to take strolls more often than once per week.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 31, 2025 09:43 AM (PzXaK)

60 59 I think that dad needs to take strolls more often than once per week.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 31, 2025 09:43 AM (PzXaK)

======

Dad will live to 95 getting fatter everyday, drinking three bottles of wine a day, and smoking like a chimney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

61 Hitler was a fan of the artist. He claimed to have the finest Spitzweg collection.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:44 AM (lJ0H4)

62 It was lovely.
---------------------
Did you wear a bonnet?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025

***
Well, you know, everything's better with Bluebonnet on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

63 The girl in back has a butterfly net, looks like.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

64 The girl in back has a butterfly net, looks like.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)


She's jellyfishing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

65 >>That's a large belly.


You just know he'll be quahogging all the sammiches at the picnic on the beach!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (Cki93)

66 This reminds me of George Cruikshank's illustrations of novels by Charles Dickens, but German and in living color.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (BHrzb)

67 Falstaff and family?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:36 AM (Hpgos)


Looks more like a Hamm's guy to me.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (NMT5x)

68 47 38 This reminds me of the “forced marches” i compelled my boys to take with me through Discovery Park on Sundays. 5 mile loop down to the beach and back up through the trees and the old military housing back up to the bluffs and tall grasses.

The boys still refer to these times as the "Trail of Tears".

Posted by: Or the Bataan Stroll at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

69 @40 - yeah, that's the one I was picturing. Couldn't think of the title.

as others have noted, WC Fields frequently did that with his hat and cane, though it was a comedic bit.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (WPL6O)

70 Going to the beach?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
__________

No cooler or boombox.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 31, 2025 09:46 AM (Dm8we)

71 I think bonnets look really good on women. Wish they'd make a comeback.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

72 70 Going to the beach?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
__________

No cooler or boombox.
--------------
How can you enjoy a day at the beach without Rap Music blaring?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 09:47 AM (Hpgos)

73 Spitzweg painted the famous "The Bookworm"

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

74 Looking through Mr. Spitzweg's works, he seems to have a thing about umbrellas. I count them in four paintings off hand. Not sure what that means.

Posted by: javems at March 31, 2025 09:48 AM (8I4hW)

75 Oldest daughter in the back is asserting her independence and is indulging in her new-found interest in the sciences.

Posted by: mrp at March 31, 2025 09:48 AM (rj6Yv)

76 >>Dad will live to 95 getting fatter everyday, drinking three bottles of wine a day, and smoking like a chimney.


Proving nautilus must fast and exercise to live a long life!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:48 AM (Cki93)

77 Jiggs in front there


Wow, that's a callback. But he does look like Jiggs.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

78 He should have brought a parasol himself. Instead he looks ridiculous.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 09:49 AM (Y0ek+)

79 I like the artist's capture of landscapes and backgrounds. The subjects are usually domestic which is pleasant. There is often a subtle humor in them (his Bookworm painting comes to mind) but it isn't mean or derogatory, just understated and affectionate. The exaggerated first two figures are in that vein. It's quite appealing. Carl Spitzweg's works, including this one, remind me of Larrson's family oriented scenes that would come along a generation or so later.

This is a nice scene to start the week.

Posted by: JTB at March 31, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

80 Whoa, I only just noticed the tiny little girl holding rotund papa's hand. She's likely to get lost in the grass wearing that straw bonnet.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (TqTLR)

81 >>Just imagine how eye-searingly horrifying Jiggs in front there would be in a T-shirt and shorts. If nothing else, more formal clothes helped to conceal our shortcomings.


"I know, right?"
-- Tubby Canadian in a speedo

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (Cki93)

82 Alternative Title:

"RFK Jr Decides That Whole MAHA Thing Is a Bunch of Hooey"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

83 It's hard to say from the terrain, but I'd bet my bottom dollar this is Bavaria. These people are dressed too colorfully and seem far too carefree to be dour Germans from some other Land.

If it was Prussia, Herr Tubbolard would be waving a baton and the ladies would be goose-stepping.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (BI5O2)

84
Jass Family Excursion - a limerick

A family from Slumgullion Pass
Took a Sunday morning stroll in the grass
But the littlest one
Said, "I ain't seen the sun
'Cause it's blocked by my daddy, Hugh Jass!"

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

85 Didn't notice th little girl holding her father's hand until I embiggened the picture.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:50 AM (lJ0H4)

86 For an ugly, fat dude, he sure seems to have done his fair share of procreatin'.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

87 Wypipa art.

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 09:51 AM (p4vtc)

88 If Herr Tubbolard was Prussian, he would be asking French ladies if they would like to see his pickelhaube.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 09:52 AM (Y0ek+)

89 >>...'Cause it's blocked by my daddy, Hugh Jass!"


Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:52 AM (Cki93)

90 75 Oldest daughter in the back is asserting her independence and is indulging in her new-found interest in the sciences.
+++
And she's wearing blue jeans!

Posted by: Hubba hubba at March 31, 2025 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

91 Hurry Up Dad! Hurry Up!

Posted by: Fat Guy Needs To Take A Dump at March 31, 2025 09:52 AM (R/m4+)

92 I hear whistling.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2025 09:53 AM (FhXTo)

93 Nice Umbrella, Dude. It looks like you could almost wear it as a hat.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2025 09:53 AM (klJTj)

94 >>For an ugly, fat dude, he sure seems to have done his fair share of procreatin'.


Obviously, a sperm whale. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Cki93)

95 I hear whistling.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2025 09:53 AM (FhXTo)
-

Really?

I hear oompapa'ing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (JdYf9)

96 The paunch and the top hat of the patriarch is a symbol of the bourgeois decadence that characterized the era. Also noteworthy is the submissive, even slavish, posture of the women, a meek wife perhaps, behind him, even as the little girl contemplates a bleak future before her, the empty butterfly net symbolizing the bleakness.

Behind her, Sally Field is carrying a pail of something, perhaps hopes and dreams, while waiting for a decent tailwind so she can become airborne.

The woman in the far back symbolizes rebellion by her physical distance from the family tyrant at the front. She possibly is plotting a daring rescue, perhaps waiting for Sally Field to spot a hiding place where they can flee patriarchal oppression and pursue their collective dreams, unencumbered by men with paunches everywhere.

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

97 And she's wearing blue jeans!
Posted by: Hubba hubba


Wow, it does look that way.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

98 The boys still refer to these times as the "Trail of Tears".
Posted by: Or the Bataan Stroll

Heh. No. But they appreciate the time together and my efforts to get them away from computers and phones and tv. It was a good few hours together including rock throwing time at the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Yiy01)

99 I hear oompapa'ing

Funny, he doesn't look dark orange.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Y0ek+)

100 Obviously, a sperm whale. . .
Posted by: Lizzy


*golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

101 >>Whoa, I only just noticed the tiny little girl holding rotund papa's hand.

Is that what it is? I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (LkLld)

102 Hey, there was a sale on bonnets.

Posted by: Spitzweg at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

103 101 >>Whoa, I only just noticed the tiny little girl holding rotund papa's hand.

Is that what it is? I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (LkLld)

======

It's actually Vivi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)

104 Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher

LOL. Spot on.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (lJ0H4)

105 Girl in the blue dress looks a little young to pregnant, so... just paunchy like papa?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 31, 2025 09:56 AM (TqTLR)

106 RIP Richard Chamberlain. But it's a shame that the ghey dude got to do it with the incandescently hot Rachel Ward in The Thorn Birds.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

107 Hitler was a fan of the artist. He claimed to have the finest Spitzweg collection.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2025 09:

Indeed he was, and did. People around him, like Goering and Speer in particular, disapproved of his choices in art, because it was so overtly sentimental and "kitschy." Speer was always trying to steer him toward more "serious" artists for State buildings.

It's odd. It's like if a morose, violent American dictator surrounded himself with Rockwells and Kinkades.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (BI5O2)

108 Pudinhead, Falstaff wasn't a family man. His main squeeze was a prostitute, Doll Tearsheet.

(Nice to know that Ian Fleming was simply carrying on a great English literary tradition when he gave his Bond Girls names.)

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (BHrzb)

109 Caption:

"Okay, Everyone all together now! Sing!

Val-deri, Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-der....

....What? Nothing?

Well, you little bastards are no Von Trapp Family, that's for sure!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

110 I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.
Posted by: JackStraw

No more breakfast bongs dood.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (FhXTo)

111 Does this bonnet make my head look small?

Posted by: Woman wearing maroon at March 31, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)

112 >>Girl in the blue dress looks a little young to pregnant, so... just paunchy like papa?

Or maybe an empire waisted dress.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:00 AM (Cki93)

113 I think bonnets look really good on women. Wish they'd make a comeback.

"Fascist!" cried Margaret Atwood.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 31, 2025 10:00 AM (BHrzb)

114 110 I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.
Posted by: JackStraw

No more breakfast bongs dood.
Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM (FhXTo)

You're no fun.

Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at March 31, 2025 10:00 AM (PiwSw)

115 It's odd. It's like if a morose, violent American dictator surrounded himself with Rockwells and Kinkades.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It's also odd given the absence of people in Hitler's own paintings, and his preference for buildings.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

116 Handmaid's Tale. The early years.

Posted by: Of course she's pregnant at March 31, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)

117
It's song time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPkouJmjVs

Everybody dance and sing!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

118 So, everyone was Vitamin D deficient? That's no way to fight Covid.

Posted by: Beyond The Pale at March 31, 2025 10:02 AM (G5+As)

119 Obviously, a sperm whale. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

******

Snort!

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX)

120 It was a good few hours together including rock throwing time at the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Yiy01)

I don't think I have ever been on a beach when I didn't look for a rock to throw.

And I am including as an adult.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (L5An7)

121 >>I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.



Heh!

Posted by: Spoonbill at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (Cki93)

122 https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/
1906532530834329732

12 minutes of how the SS system is being gamed for illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

123 He's got 'dickie do' syndrome.
His belly hit the wall before his dickie do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 09:40 AM

A good workman always builds a shed over his tools.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (a3Q+t)

124 It better not be "The Safety Dance"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (Y0ek+)

125 I am kind of intrigued by the bendable parasols.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (jc0TO)

126 Hey, if "Your Kid's Woke ___" is here, does that mean that non-cop Joe Mannix walks among us? Because that used to be his shtick.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

127 Poor Fat Guy could never stop working. Had to pay for four weddings, at least.

Posted by: Eddie Cantor at March 31, 2025 10:04 AM (G5+As)

128 I thought it was a pelican with a toupee.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 09:55 AM (LkLld)

It's a penguin wearing a bonnet.

Part of the first invasion to hit Europe in the 1840s.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:04 AM (L5An7)

129 And she's wearing blue jeans!
Posted by: Hubba hubba
*
Wow, it does look that way.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025

***
A time-traveling hippie chick from 1969.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

130 >>And she's wearing blue jeans!


Or, it's a he.

Posted by: Spoonbill at March 31, 2025 10:05 AM (Cki93)

131 FEMA receives 270,000 applications from Palisades homeowners —
Only 13,000 homes were burned.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)

132 A good workman always builds a shed over his tools.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

A better workman finds a good box to put them in.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2025 10:06 AM (KAi1n)

133 It's also odd given the absence of people in Hitler's own paintings, and his preference for buildings.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ

I always balk when people compare *anyone* to Hitler, but especially Trump.

When you look at any given historical leader, there are usually a dozen others with similar personalities - that game attracts a certain type of person. Not so with Hitler... he was a strange and unique person.

So is Trump. I can't think of a single prominent person in history who is remotely similar to either man, and the two of them may as well be from different planets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2025 10:06 AM (BI5O2)

134 It was a good few hours together including rock throwing time at the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Yiy01)

I don't think I have ever been on a beach when I didn't look for a rock to throw.

And I am including as an adult.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (L5An7)

When the kiddos were wee tads, they loved to throw Horse Apples (Osage Oranges, you perverts!) into a nearby creek.

A great time was always had by all.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 10:06 AM (iJfKG)

135 I see that painting and imagine grasshoppers and ticks.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 31, 2025 10:07 AM (kTd/k)

136 Good morning

Just looking at that picture made me sweat.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 31, 2025 10:07 AM (t/2Uw)

137 I like it. The shade of green used on the umbrellas is quite lovely -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 31, 2025 10:07 AM (SRRAx)

138 Pudinhead, Falstaff wasn't a family man. His main squeeze was a prostitute, Doll Tearsheet.

(Nice to know that Ian Fleming was simply carrying on a great English literary tradition when he gave his Bond Girls names.)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 31, 2025

***
Vesper, Solitaire, Gala, Tiffany, Tatiana Romanova, Honeychile, Domino, and the infamous Miss Galore. Not to mention Kissy Suzuki and Mary Goodnight.

"Loelia Ponsonby" and "Miss Moneypenny" were in there too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

139 https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/
1906532530834329732

12 minutes of how the SS system is being gamed for illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

You cannot convince leftists and rinos of such. Their TVs told them otherwise.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (Z9G9I)

140 "Okay, Everyone all together now! Sing!

Val-deri, Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-der....

....What? Nothing?

Well, you little bastards are no Von Trapp Family, that's for sure!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 09:57 AM

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

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (a3Q+t)

141 Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

You forgot to mention the wife’s Handmaid’s Tale outfit, thus symbolizing the artist’s outrage at the overturning of Roe and the fear of orangemanbad.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (l3YAf)

142 The paunch and the top hat of the patriarch is a symbol of the bourgeois decadence that characterized the era.

The father is marked out as a man of girth and substance.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (jc0TO)

143 >>Part of the first invasion to hit Europe in the 1840s.

Looks like interesting times are coming again to your adopted home. Keep your head on a swivel.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (LkLld)

144 It better not be "The Safety Dance"
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025

***
You can always act real rude and totally removed.

Your friend over there can act like an imbecile.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

145 @131

>>FEMA receives 270,000 applications from Palisades homeowners — Only 13,000 homes were burned.

As the DOGE boys revealed, there are about a dozen magic money computers distributed in the FEDGOV, who's sole purpose is to conjure money from the either and send out payments.

Hopefully they've fixed that glitch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2025 10:09 AM (XV/Pl)

146 120 It was a good few hours together including rock throwing time at the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (Yiy01)

I don't think I have ever been on a beach when I didn't look for a rock to throw.

And I am including as an adult.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (L5An7)
‘The range is live! Live range!’

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2025 10:09 AM (p4vtc)

147 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 31, 2025 10:07 AM (SRRAx)


How are you doing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

148 Interesting image Tensor generated

https://tinyurl.com/33z2rnej

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:10 AM (Y0ek+)

149 86 For an ugly, fat dude, he sure seems to have done his fair share of procreatin'.
Posted by: Bulg

I wasn't always an old, ugly fat dude. In fact, I scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for Polk High School in the 1966 city championship game. A record that's never been beat, I might add.

Posted by: Old, ugly fat dudes everywhere, at every point in history at March 31, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

150 Not so with Hitler... he was a strange and unique person.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Yes, he was unique in his weirdness. If you haven't yet, you should read Ron Rosenberg's "Explaining Hitler." It goes into a lot of detail about his strangeness.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

151 >>FEMA receives 270,000 applications from Palisades homeowners — Only 13,000 homes were burned.

Thousands of unhoused persons had their homes destroyed!

Posted by: California Leftist at March 31, 2025 10:11 AM (JCZqz)

152 I wasn't always an old, ugly fat dude. In fact, I scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for Polk High School in the 1966 city championship game. A record that's never been beat, I might add.
Posted by: Old, ugly fat dudes everywhere, at every point in history at March 31, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

Preach it!

Posted by: Uncle Rico at March 31, 2025 10:11 AM (PiwSw)

153 Outdoors Hates You - a lymerick

The family of Gunther P. Nix
Enjoyed taking hikes in the 'sticks'
But the worst part of the trip?
When they all had to strip
And examine each other for ticks

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 10:12 AM (/iMjX)

154 It better not be "The Safety Dance"
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM

You prefer the "No-No Square" choreography?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2025 10:12 AM (a3Q+t)

155 >>When the kiddos were wee tads, they loved to throw Horse Apples (Osage Oranges, you perverts!) into a nearby creek.

A great time was always had by all.



My son also had a long phase where he would find a good stick and proceed to tap everything along the trail with it. Throwing rocks, tapping things with sticks. Yeah, there's absolutely no difference between boys and girls, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:12 AM (Cki93)

156 >>The family of Gunther P. Nix
Enjoyed taking hikes in the 'sticks'
But the worst part of the trip?
When they all had to strip
And examine each other for ticks



You've described every family hike ever!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:13 AM (Cki93)

157 For an ugly, fat dude, he sure seems to have done his fair share of procreatin'.
Posted by: Bulg

I wasn't always an old, ugly fat dude. In fact, I scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for Polk High School in the 1966 city championship game. A record that's never been beat, I might add.
Posted by: Old, ugly fat dudes everywhere, at every point in history at March 31, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

Living in a house with five women, the poor man is stress eating more than Lena Dunham on election night 2024.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:13 AM (l3YAf)

158 Gemma Atherton as Strawberry Fields was a complete waste of a Bond girl.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:14 AM (Y0ek+)

159 It's a penguin wearing a bonnet.
Part of the first invasion to hit Europe in the 1840s.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:04 AM

And while the penguins are not there anymore, their mephitic influence found resonance in French personal hygiene.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2025 10:15 AM (a3Q+t)

160 All seriousness aside, this is a handsome painting, with a detailed landscape and well-realized human figures of a recognizable type even to us, 180 years later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

161 >>with a detailed landscape and well-realized human figures

Other than the pelican.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:16 AM (LkLld)

162 So, my wife and I went to Manassas Battlefield yesterday. We were heartened to see a lot of people there. Now, it was a beautiful Sunday, but still. Folks had at least a passing interest in what went on there. And many fine doggies, too.

And they haven't torn down the awesome Stonewall statue yet.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

163 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 31, 2025

***
I saw you and White Cat napping on the Pet Thread this weekend, Teresa. You looked quite relaxed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

164 >>You forgot to mention the wife’s Handmaid’s Tale outfit, thus symbolizing the artist’s outrage at the overturning of Roe and the fear of orangemanbad.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SPITZWEG WAS ONE OF HITLER'S FAVORITE ARTISTS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 31, 2025 10:18 AM (Cki93)

165 Daddy ate the pic-a-nic basket!

Posted by: TalkyTalk at March 31, 2025 10:18 AM (9INg6)

166 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Looks like it's a bit early for a roll in the hay.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2025 10:18 AM (W/lyH)

167 Yeah, there's absolutely no difference between boys and girls, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:12 AM (Cki93)

For whatever reason, the French like to march their young kids (how old are they when they are about three and a half feet tall?) from school to playground (or wherever). There was along line of kids between me and my front doors, so I just watched them as they walked along the sidewalk.

The difference was so obvious it was laughable that anyone could suggest that it was a social construct. Girls were quietly walking, and the boys were pulling doors, sticking their hands into mail slots, jumping around, shoving each other, kicking detritus, etc.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:18 AM (L5An7)

168 With the get ups the women have on you don't need sunscreen

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:18 AM (t0Rmr)

169 https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/
1906532530834329732

12 minutes of how the SS system is being gamed for illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2025 10:03 AM (gbOdA)

You cannot convince leftists and rinos of such. Their TVs told them otherwise.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 31, 2025 10:08 AM (Z9G9I)
-

Look at this:

https://tinyurl.com/ycx6uetd

Texans elected this jackass. Also note the comments which easily refute the claims and correct the blatant lies.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 10:19 AM (JdYf9)

170 I don't think I have ever been on a beach when I didn't look for a rock to throw.

And I am including as an adult.

************

Hmmm. Pondering which would be the better way to show restraint at the shore:

1. Skip rocks
2. Don't skip rocks

(This might keep CBD occupied all day)

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 10:19 AM (/iMjX)

171 My town recently had leftards dressed up as handmaids protesting ICE.

At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

172 171 My town recently had leftards dressed up as handmaids protesting ICE.

At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

=====

"Listen, I have one protest outfit in my closet. It's stupid, but I'm going to wear it!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

173 Living in a house with five women, the poor man is stress eating more than Lena Dunham on election night 2024.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

My muse! (Photo from 2024 event) https://tinyurl.com/2prhrawa

And another from 2017 https://tinyurl.com/2njb7pwv

Looks like she went through several 2024 election eating binges in 7 years.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 31, 2025 10:20 AM (JCZqz)

174 At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...

Some gorgeous woman needs to cosplay as Lum in her tiger-stripe bikini then. Just for counterpoint.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:21 AM (Y0ek+)

175
You cannot convince leftists and rinos of such. Their TVs told them otherwise.

Leftists: Illegals don't get SS end of story!

Also leftists: You take SS away from undocumented immigrants they will starve!

Also, also leftists: How dare you fat shame our new spherical Guatemlan undocumented immigrants...its their culture!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:22 AM (t0Rmr)

176 >>The difference was so obvious it was laughable that anyone could suggest that it was a social construct. Girls were quietly walking, and the boys were pulling doors, sticking their hands into mail slots, jumping around, shoving each other, kicking detritus, etc.


Heh!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:22 AM (Cki93)

177 175 Leftists: Illegals don't get SS end of story!

Also leftists: You take SS away from undocumented immigrants they will starve!

Also, also leftists: How dare you fat shame our new spherical Guatemlan undocumented immigrants...its their culture!
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:22 AM (t0Rmr)

======

The new line is that they pay in but don't take out, so we're attacking Social Security by demanding it to be clean.

Two points on that:

1. The idea that there's no SS outgoing fraud amuses me.

2. It's pretty much an admission of illegals being a slave caste.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

178 Some gorgeous woman needs to cosplay as Lum in her tiger-stripe bikini then. Just for counterpoint.

The internets inform me there are no shortages of attractive women dressing up as any anime/video game/movie character you could ever want to see.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:23 AM (t0Rmr)

179 My town recently had leftards dressed up as handmaids protesting ICE.

I'm pretty pissed off about it, too. I didn't know about the Handmaid's Tale or Project 2025 a few years ago, but after hearing the Left tell me what it was all about, I was all on board. I'm still waiting for my Handmaid's! Damnit Trump! Promise NOT kept! I'm a disgruntled former Trumper!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 31, 2025 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

180 My town recently had leftards dressed up as handmaids protesting ICE.

At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

Two of the most popular books for liberal women are Handmaid’s Tale and 50 Shades of Gray.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:24 AM (l3YAf)

181 2. It's pretty much an admission of illegals being a slave caste.

The way they seamless go from:

A) Any illegal you deport could have solved cancer you h8ter!

to

B) If you deport all the illegals who will clean your toilets h8ter!

is almost funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:24 AM (t0Rmr)

182 >>At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...


The ridiculous popularity of the "Handmaid's Tale" and "50 Shades of Grey" books kinda gives it away, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:24 AM (Cki93)

183 I saw Kicking Detritus open for Smashing Pumpkins at Oktoberfest '99 in Rotterdam.

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)

184 Ahhh.

To skip rocks
See who can throw farthest
Sink the ship
Hit rocks with stick

Throw rock high in the air and listen to the “ploop”
Throw rock, try to hit rock in mid air with another rock

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2025 10:26 AM (FOVlA)

185 Never let it be said that Ebenezer Baptist Church does not take care of its pastors...

https://is.gd/wCQYB2

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2025 10:26 AM (PiwSw)

186 The Tudor women had the coolest hats.

Posted by: eleven at March 31, 2025 10:26 AM (0HaGk)

187 Lizzy

They want to rub everyone else's noses into their kinks. Because they got massive Daddy issues.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (Y0ek+)

188 Two of the most popular books for liberal women are Handmaid’s Tale and 50 Shades of Gray.

Living a life denying your basic desire to be a feminine woman and married to a masculine man comes out in really weird ways when they hit the crazy cat lady stage.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (t0Rmr)

189 185 Never let it be said that Ebenezer Baptist Church does not take care of its pastors...

https://is.gd/wCQYB2
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2025 10:26 AM (PiwSw)

======

"Those are rookie numbers. Gotta up those numbers for the Lord."
-Jesse Gemstone

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

190 At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...

A lot of them are getting pretty pissed that no 20-something, 6 foot, handsome, billionaire has ravaged them yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

191 If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

192 The difference was so obvious it was laughable that anyone could suggest that it was a social construct. Girls were quietly walking, and the boys were pulling doors, sticking their hands into mail slots, jumping around, shoving each other, kicking detritus, etc.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Biologists have noted similar behavioral differences even in primates. Young male monkeys like to throw stuff and mess with each other much more than the female ones.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

193 You know what would be funny?

Make a movie about the Handmaid's Tale...but set it in modern Iran, as the book was written about.

So all the religious characters become Muslim and the geography is Iran but everything else stays the same.

Overnight the book would go from progressive to racyciss h8 speech.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:28 AM (t0Rmr)

194 190 At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...

A lot of them are getting pretty pissed that no 20-something, 6 foot, handsome, billionaire has ravaged them yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

=======

The secret of that book is that the writer saw herself as the billionaire, not the mousy little woman who gets taken up by him.

He's a controlling, manipulative freak who gets women to sign contracts of sexual submission, which is, apparently, the exact sort of thing the writer woman actually is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

195 >>They want to rub everyone else's noses into their kinks. Because they got massive Daddy issues.


So true, Anna Puma!
Like when "Mattress Girl" started dating a conservative chad and was loving it. They hate "toxic masculinity" yet not-so-secretly crave it.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (Cki93)

196 Biologists have noted similar behavioral differences even in primates. Young male monkeys like to throw stuff and mess with each other much more than the female ones.
Posted by: Bulg

Toxic primateriocracy.

Posted by: Woke Biologist at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (JCZqz)

197 191 If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

======

Start with anyone who's collected over a certain amount in welfare payments while being under 50 years of age?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

198 The Tudor motorists had the coolest coupes

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (/iMjX)

199 If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (RHGPo)

Steiner isn't coming. They left saving their country and people too late. They'll draft the last of the Germanic men to stop the Slavs, who aren't coming, and fall from within to the Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

200 If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.

I wonder how Germany's population of twinks, sitzpinklers and trannies will react to being drafted.

Hell, when Ukraine started drafting M-F trannies Europe got mad...will every man in Germany claim to be a woman to get out of Merz's Wehrmacht?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (t0Rmr)

201 So the WEF has won in France with the court banning LePen. Another instance of democracy being ruined and yanked away from people under the pretense of "democracy"

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (2NXcZ)

202 >>Leftists: Illegals don't get SS end of story!

Anyone happen to catch Musk and one of his DOGE boys speaking in Wisconsin last evening?

They now have documented proof that the Biden administration was paying SS benefits to illegals. Oh and some of them voted. No biggie.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (LkLld)

203 My umbrella ella ella ella.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (4p0Xq)

204 188 Two of the most popular books for liberal women are Handmaid’s Tale and 50 Shades of Gray.

Living a life denying your basic desire to be a feminine woman and married to a masculine man comes out in really weird ways when they hit the crazy cat lady stage.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:27 AM (t0Rmr)

My wife started watching that on TV one night. I read the book in college so I knew the deal. I said I was tired and went to bed.

The next morning my wife was all wtf was that crazy show?

Says more about the women who dig that stuff than it does about the patriarchy. Basically fever dream stuff.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2025 10:30 AM (OA79/)

205 How did the English learn Welsh?

Simple. They hired Tudors.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

206 So is Trump. I can't think of a single prominent person in history who is remotely similar to either man, and the two of them may as well be from different planets.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2025 10:06 AM (BI5O2)

Agree.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:31 AM (2NXcZ)

207 WEF came half an inch from ending us, and with us the rest of the civilized world.

He was a sitting duck. God gave us another miracle. Not quite certain why yet.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:32 AM (SwPrr)

208 163 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 31, 2025

***
I saw you and White Cat napping on the Pet Thread this weekend, Teresa. You looked quite relaxed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

Well, I WAS asleep.... 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 31, 2025 10:32 AM (SRRAx)

209 Like the many paintings by Carl Spitzweg because they seem to have captured sweet (simple, kind, romantic, peaceful) times - even if not entirely the reality of the masses.

>Britannica, Art: 'Biedermeier style'

Would hang some of his paintings but not necessarily this painting. Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 31, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

210 Start with anyone who's collected over a certain amount in welfare payments while being under 50 years of age?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

No start with the children and grandchildren of our "leaders" and bureaucrats. Let them have blood in the game.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:33 AM (2NXcZ)

211 So the WEF has won in France with the court banning LePen. Another instance of democracy being ruined and yanked away from people under the pretense of "democracy"

This might bite them in the ass if LePen can cleanly hand the baton to someone else in her party that doesn't have as big of a target on her back.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:33 AM (t0Rmr)

212 My town recently had leftards dressed up as handmaids protesting ICE.

At this point I think they just get a sexual thrill out of wearing the outfits and will put them on any chance they get...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025

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Had those been around in 1982, the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 would have enjoyed wearing the Handmaid outfit . . . and then, at the proper moment, in public or otherwise, stripping it off to reveal a tiger-stripe bikini. She'd have gotten a good laugh out of the women's glares.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

213 No start with the children and grandchildren of our "leaders" and bureaucrats. Let them have blood in the game.
Posted by: Night lifted

Trouble is, a lot of them don't have kids.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

214 193 You know what would be funny?

Make a movie about the Handmaid's Tale...but set it in modern Iran, as the book was written about.

So all the religious characters become Muslim and the geography is Iran but everything else stays the same.

Overnight the book would go from progressive to racyciss h8 speech.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:28 AM (t0Rmr


When I took class in college and read the book, it was commonly accepted that this was about Islam, but Atwood switched the religion to Christian so as to keep her head.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (OA79/)

215 In 1996, Democrats along with the GOPe opened SS and SSDI to “qualified” illegal aliens. Go look at the charts and see what happened after that. I’ll be here all day. But ponder this in the meantime. What happens to the fiscal viability of a system when you allow large groups of non citizens including the illegal alien parents of green card holders to suddenly draw money from what has now become a welfare system?

By the way, the problem here is Congress. The same Congress currently sitting in its ass and doing nothing except watch Trump move at light speed.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (6M5My)

216 "Is it pronounced spitz-weg or spitz-veg?"
"Spitz-veg."
"Thanks."
"You're velcome!"

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (/tzYP)

217 This might bite them in the ass if LePen can cleanly hand the baton to someone else in her party that doesn't have as big of a target on her back.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2025 10:33 AM (t0Rmr)

I hope so, but I assume that the judicial coup will find a way to destroy the party, too.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:35 AM (2NXcZ)

218 Listening to Wagner, admiring Carl Spitzweg....

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2025 10:35 AM (g47mK)

219 Spitzweg?
Dead!

Biedermeier?
Dead!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:36 AM (/tzYP)

220 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2025 10:37 AM (g47mK)

221 The lead guy reminds me of that English actor. Was in Last Samurai and Harry Potter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:37 AM (/x6eu)

222 Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at March 31, 2025 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

I love this.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:37 AM (CQE5S)

223 Listening to Wagner, admiring Carl Spitzweg....
Posted by: runner

And banging Eva!

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

224 220 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.
Posted by: runner

We have to save Democracy!

Posted by: Fascist Euroweeny Leaders at March 31, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

225 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2025 10:37 AM (g47mK)

And soon jailing will not be enough. Sooner than many would care to admit.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:38 AM (SwPrr)

226 "I once saw a badminton tournament in France...
Many people were killed".

Posted by: look whats not at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (nakGR)

227 >>Two points on that:

>>1. The idea that there's no SS outgoing fraud amuses me.

Listen to what Antonio Gracias and Musk said last night in Wisconsin. There is no more lying about illegals not getting SS payments. There are and they have the proof. And they vote.

https://tinyurl.com/4756ch6z

This is why guys like Soros and Obama are organizing all of these protests. They know that if DOGE is allowed to continue their world ends.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (LkLld)

228 219 Spitzweg?
Dead!

Biedermeier?
Dead!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:36 AM (/tzYP)

Aren't you cheerful today!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (CQE5S)

229 The US Congressional Budget Office is warning that the federal deficit has hit a point of no return. It is far too late to cut wasteful government spending. Politicians have kicked the can down the road for far too long and left us with a financial system held up through perpetual borrowing that cannot be reversed. The CBO’s long-term forecast shows the federal deficit rising to 7.3% of GDP by 2055, but the figure is currently at 6.2% as of 2025 and this is an optimistic report.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (RHGPo)

230 In France and elsewhere, the assumption is either that people do not have the will or the means to oppose them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (/x6eu)

231 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.
Posted by: runner

Worldwide politics.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

232 France has done this before. The monarchy jailed every critic they could find until the people got fed up enough to storm the Bastille and let them all out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (uWKK8)

233 When I took class in college and read the book, it was commonly accepted that this was about Islam, but Atwood switched the religion to Christian so as to keep her head.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (OA79/)

She was inspired by the Islamist takeover of Iran, but was mostly writing against the Reagan Adminstration.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (l3YAf)

234 226 "I once saw a badminton tournament in France...
Many people were killed".
Posted by: look whats not at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (nakGR)

What was bad about it?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:40 AM (CQE5S)

235 The US Congressional Budget Office is warning that the federal deficit has hit a point of no return. It is far too late to cut wasteful government spending. Politicians have kicked the can down the road for far too long and left us with a financial system held up through perpetual borrowing that cannot be reversed. The CBO’s long-term forecast shows the federal deficit rising to 7.3% of GDP by 2055, but the figure is currently at 6.2% as of 2025 and this is an optimistic report.
Posted by: SMOD
the CBO has been spouting crap for years. Static accounting...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (GwvTo)

236 France has done this before. The monarchy jailed every critic they could find until the people got fed up enough to storm the Bastille and let them all out.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I've read that there actually weren't very many prisoners in the Bastile. The government had started incarcerating folks in a different prison. But the Bastille was more symbolic of the ancien regime.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

237 >>The next morning my wife was all wtf was that crazy show?



The best part? The show is produced by and stars an actress who is a bigtime SCIENTOLOGIST.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (Cki93)

238 236 I've read that there actually weren't very many prisoners in the Bastile. The government had started incarcerating folks in a different prison. But the Bastille was more symbolic of the ancien regime.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

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I think it was about five.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

239 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.
Posted by: runner

Worldwide politics.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

We would never try to jail an opposition candidate in America, or ban him from the ballot!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (l3YAf)

240 In France and elsewhere, the assumption is either that people do not have the will or the means to oppose them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

History proves them incorrect.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (GwvTo)

241 Although I do think it is emblematic that the first eu launched rocket took off and then promptly fell down and exploded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (/x6eu)

242 Brazil is cutting a four-lane highway through the Amazon rain forest to Belem for the November climate change conference that may draw 50,000 people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (Y0ek+)

243 239 We would never try to jail an opposition candidate in America, or ban him from the ballot!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (l3YAf)

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"Well, except when he totally deserves it. Also, no Democrat will ever deserve it."
-National Review

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

244 In the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Christmas future shows him two fellow businessman talking about Scrooge's possible upcoming funeral. One man says something like, " "I can't imagine anyone attending and the other lman says "I'll go if there's a luncheon for I must be fed" and he pats his large
stomach. This must be this father in this picture when he's not at "the exchange."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2025 10:43 AM (H2P2+)

245 >>Brazil is cutting a four-lane highway through the Amazon rain forest to Belem for the November climate change conference that may draw 50,000 people.


You cannot satire these people.
They are worse than any caricature of them we could dream up.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:44 AM (Cki93)

246 the CBO has been spouting crap for years. Static accounting...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (GwvTo)

They’re probably right this time, though. That $40 trillion ain’t getting paid back.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:44 AM (l3YAf)

247 241 Although I do think it is emblematic that the first eu launched rocket took off and then promptly fell down and exploded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (/x6eu)

Lookit your hash!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:45 AM (CQE5S)

248 History proves them incorrect.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (GwvTo)

Depends. Germany and Cambodia fell due to outside pressure. Soviets collapsed on their own. China is still going strong and doing worse than this.

Not trying to blackpill anyone, just pointing out things for consideration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:45 AM (/x6eu)

249 In the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Christmas future shows him two fellow businessman talking about Scrooge's possible upcoming funeral. One man says something like, " "I can't imagine anyone attending and the other lman says "I'll go if there's a luncheon for I must be fed" and he pats his large stomach. This must be this father in this picture when he's not at "the exchange."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I was thinking the same thing. That actor was also the narrator of the film. And I think he also played the lawyer Mr. Jaggers in David Lean's Great Expectations.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

250 One more soap on a rope coming up!

https://tinyurl.com/3j89xx9w

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 10:46 AM (JdYf9)

251 Deep six EU?

Execute order 6 on EU?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:46 AM (/x6eu)

252
Depends. Germany and Cambodia fell due to outside pressure. Soviets collapsed on their own. China is still going strong and doing worse than this.


Posted by: Aetius451AD

slowly and then all at once...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:47 AM (GwvTo)

253 That $40 trillion ain’t getting paid back.

At least it was all well spent.

The public infrastructure in the US is without flaw and every citizen lives a life free of want. Energy is almost totally free and our institutions are well respected by all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

254 Not trying to blackpill anyone,
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:45 AM (/x6eu)

Too late!

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:47 AM (SwPrr)

255 slowly and then all at once...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2025 10:47 AM (GwvTo)

Let's just say I would rather have the guns than not. But look at Covid and J6. Neither was strong enough to trigger something. So what would?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:48 AM (/x6eu)

256 253 The public infrastructure in the US is without flaw and every citizen lives a life free of want. Energy is almost totally free and our institutions are well respected by all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

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And we'll be able to fight off any kind of kaiju that comes from the Pacific ocean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

257 191 If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.
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Speaking with my German Colonel friend, I pointed out that Germany is in the cat bird seat on what kind of Army they could build. This was inside our conversation of UAS Drones and their Swarms we are seeing in Ukraine. An army of drones would be a game changer in Europe.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 10:48 AM (Hpgos)

258 And soon jailing will not be enough. Sooner than many would care to admit.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:38 AM (SwPrr)

I'm afraid so. The failure of the assassination attempts will lead to executions by the "elite". I remember Rand Paul saying "they can't kill us all", and being ignored.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (2NXcZ)

259 But the Bastille was more symbolic of the ancien regime.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

And it had lots of weapons, or so they thought. The prisoners were an afterthought.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (/nX+B)

260 Is it me, or are this like scenes from a Michael Bay movie?

https://tinyurl.com/4a568ykw

Hope it's working. Self-deport now!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (Cki93)

261 >>Deep six EU?

>>Execute order 6 on EU?

Wave goodbye to the EU. They've chosen their fate and we have no time or money to save them again.

The future is being fought over right now with things like AI. The EU is not a serious player. It's either the US or China.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (LkLld)

262 174 Some gorgeous woman needs to cosplay as Lum in her tiger-stripe bikini then. Just for counterpoint.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:21 AM (Y0ek+)

You know damned well that only troons are gonna do that.

Posted by: XTC at March 31, 2025 10:50 AM (UnA8+)

263 When I took class in college and read the book, it was commonly accepted that this was about Islam, but Atwood switched the religion to Christian so as to keep her head.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 31, 2025 10:34 AM (OA79/)'

Yes, the entire pathetic premise of the book is "What if Christians acted like Moslems???" Well we've got 1400 years of history that says they don't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2025 10:50 AM (uWKK8)

264 259 And it had lots of weapons, or so they thought. The prisoners were an afterthought.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (/nX+B)

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I been there. I don't know what they were so excited about.

How many weapons and prisoners can you stuff into a spike in the middle of a traffic circle?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

265 Aren't you cheerful today!
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Animal House movie reference, m.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:50 AM (/tzYP)

266 And we'll be able to fight off any kind of kaiju that comes from the Pacific ocean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

Yes.

At least, the money spent on Gundams was of good value.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

267 An army of drones would be a game changer in Europe.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2025 10:48 AM (Hpgos)

Small flying explosives which can attack anyone, anywhere, without having noticeable troops moving through the streets. Game changer alright.

Pity that all the populist leaders will be taken out by "terrorist" drone strikes before the authorities work out the proper regulations to prevent that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2025 10:51 AM (ExV1e)

268 In the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Christmas future shows him two fellow businessman talking about Scrooge's possible upcoming funeral. One man says something like, " "I can't imagine anyone attending and the other lman says "I'll go if there's a luncheon for I must be fed" and he pats his large stomach. This must be this father in this picture when he's not at "the exchange."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I was thinking the same thing. That actor was also the narrator of the film. And I think he also played the lawyer Mr. Jaggers in David Lean's Great Expectations.
Posted by: Bulg

Peter Bull. And I stand corrected. He did not play Mr. Jaggers. But, in his next film appearance after A Christmas Carol, he played the captain of the Louisa in The African Queen.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

269 266 Yes.

At least, the money spent on Gundams was of good value.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

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They identify as jaegers, bigot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 31, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

270 Some gorgeous woman needs to cosplay as Lum in her tiger-stripe bikini then. Just for counterpoint.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2025 10:21 AM (Y0ek+)

I can't tinyurl on the phone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (/x6eu)

271 Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZL

Yes; I recognized the voice and that was another great English character actor even in a little part like that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (dKL5S)

272 >>Small flying explosives which can attack anyone, anywhere, without having noticeable troops moving through the streets. Game changer alright.

Been going on in Ukraine for quite some time. There are videos posted on X constantly.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (LkLld)

273 257 An army of drones would be a game changer in Europe.

wouldn't it be an air force of drones?

Posted by: anachronda at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (oY6Yp)

274 The future is being fought over right now with things like AI. The EU is not a serious player. It's either the US or China.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (LkLld)

The EU has chosen to rule their people with a divide and conquer strategy, which has, for now, failed here. I don't see the EU siding with us, so is the WEF a third choice?

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (2NXcZ)

275 231 They will jail the next candidate. This is not going to stop. Jailing the opposition is now the norm in EU politics.
Posted by: runner

Worldwide politics.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)
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They almost got Trump.

Posted by: WisRich at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (G0vdT)

276 The future is being fought over right now with things like AI. The EU is not a serious player. It's either the US or China.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (LkLld)

David P. Goldman, who's written under the name "Spengler" in the Asia Times, has written several excellent long pieces about this. Europe is in far worse shape than most realize, they have completely missed the computing revolution, and their energy policies dictate that they can never catch up. As their heavy industry dies, and their computing sector never gets going, they are destined to a future as nothing but glorified them parks with a lot of angry starving peasants hanging around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (uWKK8)

277 The US Congressional Budget Office is warning that the federal deficit has hit a point of no return. It is far too late to cut wasteful [...]
Posted by: SMOD
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Just like Global Warming!!!

Hit D.C., SMOD!!! End it all!!

[I'm glad SMOD commented that and not e.g. CBD or Muldoon!]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (/tzYP)

278 Been going on in Ukraine for quite some time. There are videos posted on X constantly.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (LkLld)

Is that how they blew up Putin's car, or was it old fashioned explosives?

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:54 AM (2NXcZ)

279 265 Aren't you cheerful today!
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Animal House movie reference, m.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:50 AM (/tzYP)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:54 AM (CQE5S)

280 Been going on in Ukraine for quite some time. There are videos posted on X constantly.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:52 AM (LkLld)

Hmmm. I just had a horrific thought.

Counter revolutionaries. Childless. Zealous to the cause. No going off base. Reveling in killing the 'normies' through a drone camera.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (/x6eu)

281 "I once saw a badminton tournament in France...
Many people were killed".

Speaking of WC Fields, his version was funnier.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (WPL6O)

282 David P. Goldman, who's written under the name "Spengler" in the Asia Times, has written several excellent long pieces about this. Europe is in far worse shape than most realize, they have completely missed the computing revolution, and their energy policies dictate that they can never catch up. As their heavy industry dies, and their computing sector never gets going, they are destined to a future as nothing but glorified them parks with a lot of angry starving peasants hanging around.
Posted by: Tom Servo

David Goldman does write some excellent stuff. He's almost always worth reading.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

283 "Well, except when he totally deserves it. Also, no Democrat will ever deserve it."
-National Review
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman
_________

Category of I'd like to see, but will never happen; Debate topic: Is Trump a Patriot, or the next Hitler. One side made up of NR editors and writers and the other side, one average AoS moron.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (Dv3i1)

284 I’m surprised a judge hasn’t rules tariffs illegal yet.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (lijkE)

285
Counter revolutionaries. Childless. Zealous to the cause. No going off base. Reveling in killing the 'normies' through a drone camera.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (/x6eu)

Am angry trannie army

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (2NXcZ)

286 Yankees change the bat.

Ball leaves yard, a lot.

Seems someone should look at it.

I don't need 20 runs in a baseball game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

287 Europe is in far worse shape than most realize, they have completely missed the computing revolution, and their energy policies dictate that they can never catch up. As their heavy industry dies, and their computing sector never gets going, they are destined to a future as nothing but glorified them parks with a lot of angry starving peasants hanging around.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (uWKK

What’s pathetic is that Europe used to be competitive in tech. Then came the EU and WEF and that was all undone.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (l3YAf)

288 Musk posted that the government is in the process of defunding NPR.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (JdYf9)

289 >>Is that how they blew up Putin's car, or was it old fashioned explosives?

Haven't seen any information on it. But there are a bunch of videos being posted of drones following and attacking vehicles and people with explosives.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (LkLld)

290 251 Deep six EU?
Execute order 6 on EU?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:46 AM (/x6eu)

247 241 Although I do think it is emblematic that the first eu launched rocket took off and then promptly fell down and exploded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:42 AM (/x6eu)

Lookit your hash!
Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:45 AM (CQE5S)

Just the "eu" in the hash while you're commenting on the EU; I hadn't worked out what to do with the /x6 yet.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (CQE5S)

291 Haven't heard anything today about the Signal chat mishap today. Is America worstest security disaster ever already over? Are Dems still trying to make fetch a thing or moved on?

Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2025 10:57 AM (GUOwU)

292 I think he also played the lawyer Mr. Jaggers in David Lean's Great Expectations.
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The guy who created Miss Havisham's army of robot flying monkeys??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:57 AM (/tzYP)

293 264 How many weapons and prisoners can you stuff into a spike in the middle of a traffic circle?

you'd be surprised

Posted by: vlad tepes at March 31, 2025 10:58 AM (oY6Yp)

294 Am angry trannie army
Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:55 AM (2NXcZ)

There would not have to be many, and they are getting schooled in just creating terror.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:58 AM (/x6eu)

295 I hadn't worked out what to do with the /x6 yet.
Posted by: m


x6 was in insurrection!!!! Arrest all the x6ers!!! REEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

296 Musk posted that the government is in the process of defunding NPR.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 10:56 AM (JdYf9)

Just do it - don't telegraph. Ixnay Elonay

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:58 AM (SwPrr)

297 Deep six EU?

Execute order 6 on EU?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025

***
Curses. Now we'll have to change the code!

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at March 31, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at March 31, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

299 Just do it - don't telegraph. Ixnay Elonay
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 10:58 AM (SwPrr)

If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
-Tuco

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 10:59 AM (/x6eu)

300 An army of drones would be a game changer in Europe.
----------
The guy who created Miss Havisham's army of robot flying monkeys??

Dickens was way ahead of his times!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:59 AM (/tzYP)

301 Just do it - don't telegraph. Ixnay Elonay
Posted by: ...

No. Be open about it and cause all the more pain to the lefties.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

302 The guy who created Miss Havisham's army of robot flying monkeys??

Dickens was way ahead of his times!
Posted by: andycanuck

Great Xpectations.

Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

303 Be open about it and cause all the more pain to the lefties.
Posted by: Bulg at March 31, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

The pain will come when they are not prepared to fight it.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 11:01 AM (SwPrr)

304 Not to go all Sun Tzu on you.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2025 11:01 AM (SwPrr)

305 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

306 Looks like my work here for today is done.

By kids. Have fun storming the castle Bastille!

Continue striving to endeavor to persevere!!

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2025 11:02 AM (/iMjX)

307 300 An army of drones would be a game changer in Europe.
----------
The guy who created Miss Havisham's army of robot flying monkeys??

Dickens was way ahead of his times!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 10:59 AM (/tzYP)

"Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles"

Posted by: m at March 31, 2025 11:02 AM (CQE5S)

308 The future is being fought over right now with things like AI. The EU is not a serious player. It's either the US or China.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2025 10:49 AM (LkLld)

The EU has chosen to rule their people with a divide and conquer strategy, which has, for now, failed here. I don't see the EU siding with us, so is the WEF a third choice?
Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 31, 2025 10:53 AM (2NXcZ)

The EU has a certain advantage in that they rule over countries with different histories so playing one against the other for "the mutual benefit of all" works really well. Mostly it's the WEF and Germany and France all playing their little games to see who can be King of the Shitpile.

The US is by contrast fairly well united historically and culturally.

That's why the Commies/Democrats?WEF/Gope work so hard to divide us into easily controlled population chunks stuffed in antagonistic boxes.

So far, they haven't totally succeeded. If we can get 20-30 more years or MAGA,there's a good chance that there will be a stake driven thru Our Betters hearts.

Frankly though, I'm surprised Europe hasn't acquainted politicians with lampposts yet over there.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2025 11:03 AM (iJfKG)

309 Empty, dead eyes on that one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

Child of the Corn. Still a zealot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 31, 2025 11:03 AM (/x6eu)

310 283 One side made up of NR editors and writers and the other side, one average AoS moron.

We'll give them a handicap. The moron chosen for this will take a few shots of Val-U Rite Vodka.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2025 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

311 177. The new line is that they pay in but don't take out, so we're attacking Social Security by demanding it to be clean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman
--
>>Brookings dot edu, 'DOGE is disrupting Social Security,' Elaine Kamarck, March 26, 2025

In part, The importance of the SSA database

"The greatest concern about unauthorized access to the database is that earnings records could be erased or altered—either maliciously or by accident. A president intent on retribution, for example, could manipulate the earnings record of a political opponent. Errors could also be introduced that erase the last four jobs of anyone applying for Social Security, significantly reducing their benefits. Such a change would save a considerable amount of money, as most people earn more in their 50s and 60s than they did as teenagers."
---
Pew Research Center, Jan. 7, 2025, 'What the data says about federal workers'

In part,

"In November 2024, the federal government employed just over 3 million people, or 1.87% of the entire civilian workforce, according to BLS data."

"The average tenure across the entire workforce is 11.8 years, but this too varies considerably..."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 31, 2025 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

312 DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics Mar 29
🇷🇺🚨 THIS IS NOT PUTIN’S LIMO. STOP SPREADING FAKE NEWS.

According to SHOT, an Aurus Senat caught fire in central Moscow today. The fire began in the engine compartment on Sretenka Street and spread to the cabin. Emergency crews arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze.

No injuries have been reported.

Despite rumors circulating online, this was not President Putin’s vehicle, if it were, the response would be MUCH different lol.

Michael Spain @Michaelspain53 Mar 29
Replying to @Bannons_WarRoom @ScottAdamsSays @JackPosobiec
Was he driving a Tesla?

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics Mar 29
This is what happens when Elon tells everyone they're a journalist. Common sense would tell you that a vehicle in Putin's fleet would never be parked on a random street in Moscow in front of a restaurant unguarded. Secondly, if it were his vehicle, civilians would NOT be that close to it even if it were on fire.

Use your brains. PLEASE we beg.

Also, ACTUAL JOURNALISTS know not to take THE FUCKING SUN as a credible source.
http://tiny.cc/iw0f001
21 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 11:06 AM (/tzYP)

313 223 Listening to Wagner, admiring Carl Spitzweg....
Posted by: runner

And banging Eva!

with a pistol in the bunker?

Posted by: anachronda at March 31, 2025 11:08 AM (oY6Yp)

314 Look at this:

https://tinyurl.com/ycx6uetd

Texans elected this jackass. Also note the comments which easily refute the claims and correct the blatant lies.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2025 10:19 AM

Austinites elected that turd, not Texans. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2025 11:08 AM (a3Q+t)

315 with a pistol in the bunker?
------
What's "Colonel Mustard" in German??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 31, 2025 11:09 AM (/tzYP)

316 This lends even more credence to the fact that being governed by the most unique political system in history and living in the most exceptional country on the planet is an undefeatable combination, as has been noted several times throughout history.

Be thankful you live in such a country.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 31, 2025 02:55 PM (hKoQL)

317 Okay who has the Basket and Potato Salad?

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at March 31, 2025 05:13 PM (FLiOE)

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