Mid-Morning Art Thread

Venus And Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 That's tits!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 I was hoping for something by Banksy.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 09:30 AM (f1epl)

4 A bit awkward to have the kid yankin' it right there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Oh my goodness!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (0nHVk)

6 Cupid is a little perv tweaking his pecker like that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (xMZKl)

7 Cupid's packing half a roll of Certs there.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (JI10i)

8 It's kind of hard to believe Psyche ever fell for that little twerp.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (f1epl)

9 Ah, starting the week off with boobs. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 I guess they didn't have Ozempic back then.

Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (GhFyc)

11 She still has her arms. WTF?
Posted by: Michelle Fields.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (FWMqC)

12 I got yer wreath right here, sister!

Posted by: Cupid at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (i0F8b)

13 What you'd see in the 'nice' brothel.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

14 Toobin'

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (bdhKV)

15 Would not hang and can't imagine why anyone else would either.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

16 Golden Showers

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (FWMqC)

17 Seems fitting........

https://youtu.be/YmtLHcx2kxs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Cupid couldn't find a restroom in time. That's how bad things were back then.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (JI10i)

19 See! A boob belt!

Posted by: Big Mike at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (i0F8b)

20 A bit awkward to have the kid yankin' it right there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Actually, I believe he's peeing on her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (ExV1e)

21 Seems they're in the woods somewhere. Where'd the conch come from?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

22 I guess they didn't have Ozempic back then.
Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025

***
Yeah, Venus has been skipping ab day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

23 Nice, I guess.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)

24 What is that debris all over Venus? Flower petals?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (0nHVk)

25
Actually, I believe he's peeing on her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (ExV1e)

Ah.....so CBD is baggin' on Trump!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

26 Why does this painting remind us of our player Miles Mastrobuoni?

Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (GhFyc)

27 Ah a NUDE NOOD

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

28 This art is bad, IMO.

Good morning.

Posted by: Don Black at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

29 At least Venus has her arms.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (6TePA)

30 Seems they're in the woods somewhere. Where'd the conch come from?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 07, 2025

***
Venus/Aphrodite was born from the sea foam. No doubt she liked to keep a little reminder of home around her wherever she went.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (omVj0)

31 Actually, I believe he's peeing on her.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

A little tame, but kink shaming was a thing in the Dark Ages before 2015.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 07, 2025 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

32 Hmmm. That distribution of fallen leaves doesn't look entire coincidental...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (WkNQM)

33 Where'd the conch come from?
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I am told it is suggestive of vagina.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (pZ64F)

34 There something happinin here...

...What it is ain't exactly clear.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (MkuC5)

35 Oh, good grief! He is peeing on her!

That is some messed-up shit.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

36 10 I guess they didn't have Ozempic back then.
Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 09:32 AM (GhFyc)
____

Seattle prefers the svelte look of meth chicks? Makes sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (Dv3i1)

37 Looks, too, likeVenus is dangling that wreath as if she's playing with a cat. Was Cupid the type to be distracted easily by laser pointers or a string disappearing around a corner?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

38 I'm not a big fan of Uma Thurman but her introduction as Venus in The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen was amazing.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (t0Rmr)

39 They must be practicing for their county fair talent show. They'll light the ring on fire for the actual performance for him to pee through.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

40 Peeing through a fake halo.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM (jIwVO)

41 Cupid's behavior is only acceptable if the two bagger is a progressive.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM (MkuC5)

42 So, where do these two fit in the Russia collusion narrative?

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

43 I invented the comma.

Posted by: Baron Munchhausen at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM (bdhKV)

44 The lasso means Cupid wants to become a cowboy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:38 AM (pZ64F)

45 All seriousness aside, the colors used here, while not bold, are pretty vivid -- the contrast of the red blanket or tapestry and the blue cloth with the cream of Venus's skin and that of Cupid is striking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

46 Arts-related:

AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 15h
Jay North, the former child actor who starred as the titular troublemaker on Dennis the Menace, has died at age 73. (Deadline)

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:38 AM (/tzYP)

47 Artist Lorenzo Lotto
Year c. 1520s
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 92.4 cm × 111.4 cm (36.4 in × 43.9 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

48 44 The lasso means Cupid wants to become a cowboy.
____

...and you can be my cowgirl

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2025 09:39 AM (Dv3i1)

49 Now this is art.
Def would hang

Posted by: R Kelly at April 07, 2025 09:39 AM (HcoTw)

50 Oh, I get it now...

Cupid = Orange Man Pissed

2 Bagger = CNBC

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 07, 2025 09:39 AM (MkuC5)

51 Baby snake.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 07, 2025 09:40 AM (hTSkD)

52 46 Arts-related:

AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 15h
Jay North, the former child actor who starred as the titular troublemaker on Dennis the Menace, has died at age 73. (Deadline)
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Honestly, I never liked Dennis the Menace. His shit got old fast. Now, Beaver Cleaver was a step up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:40 AM (pZ64F)

53 At first glance I read the title as Anus and Cupid.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 07, 2025 09:40 AM (kTd/k)

54 It was discovered in a private Swiss collection by the English art dealer Adrian Ward-Jackson in 1986. It was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in July 1986 for $3 million (equivalent to $8,605,647 in 2024) funded by Jayne Wrightsman in memory of Marietta Peabody Tree.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

55 Nice tits, but a FUPA is beginning to emerge above the birthin' hips.

Ergo, whould not bang.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 07, 2025 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)

56 I would have thought this was German.

Posted by: blaster at April 07, 2025 09:41 AM (QfvaV)

57 where'd that 'h' come from?

Posted by: one hour sober at April 07, 2025 09:41 AM (Y1sOo)

58 Jay North, the former child actor who starred as the titular troublemaker on Dennis the Menace, has died at age 73

***
I had no idea he was older than I was back then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:41 AM (omVj0)

59 Calvin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dennis the Menace

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

60 'Don't play with your junk at the table, Mr Toobin!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 09:42 AM (bss/y)

61 THE ARISTOCRATS!!!

Posted by: blaster at April 07, 2025 09:42 AM (QfvaV)

62 Nice head of hair on the Cupid kid.

Posted by: Hair Today-Gone Tomorrow at April 07, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)

63 57 where'd that 'h' come from?
Posted by: one hour sober at April 07, 2025 09:41 AM (Y1sOo)

Whouldst thou take this and wash it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)

64 I knew some girls who were titular troublemakers.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

65
Her neeples are borshting with excitements.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (x0n13)

66 54 It was discovered in a private Swiss collection by the English art dealer Adrian Ward-Jackson in 1986. It was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in July 1986 for $3 million (equivalent to $8,605,647 in 2024) funded by Jayne Wrightsman in memory of Marietta Peabody Tree.
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Cool. BTW, I saw this just yesterday...

Quite Interesting @qikipedia Mar 14
In 2019, a Renaissance painting called 'Christ Mocked' was discovered hanging above an elderly woman’s cooker in her home in northern France. It sold at auction for €24 million.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (/tzYP)

67 Cupid seems a bit peckish

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (Cki93)

68 Cupid is gonna need a bigger load of lumber to deliver.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (pZ64F)

69
Discretely placed hand and flower petals - a limerick

I say confidentially (just between us)
That this depiction of Cupid and Venus
Is a little too demure
so that school kids can't be sure
Girls have a ???? and boys have a ????

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)

70 Well this is nice

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2025 09:46 AM (eOTU1)

71 You know who else was famous for reclining naked in bed?
Give Peace A Chance
Hair-Bed-Peace

Posted by: Honeymooning Down By The Seine at April 07, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

72 So this Cupid kid's job is to wander around nekkid holding his crank and occasionally shoot people with his bow and arrow?

Are they still hiring? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 07, 2025 09:46 AM (l7Uym)

73 Just zoomed in. Ewwwww.

I'd like to issue a retraction for my limerick which was done upon first impression.

Later y'all.

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

74 Omigaw he really is peeing. Couldn't tell until I engorged the picture.

The band of hair (?) under her breasts looks odd, like the waistband of pantyhose.

P0rn in the old days wasn't available with a few clicks of a mouse. Had to DIY in your preferred genre. "But I know it when I see it." Use classic subjects and call it art.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you're an eight at April 07, 2025 09:47 AM (qzYav)

75 I don't do first impressions. I'm an HQ commenter.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:48 AM (/tzYP)

76 Omigaw he really is peeing. Couldn't tell until I engorged the picture.

He must be German.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (kxUKc)

77 I got nothing.
Off to walk the dog.
Have a good day, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (Cki93)

78 Is that a WHELK above her head?

Posted by: m at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (CQE5S)

79 I invented the comma.
Posted by: Baron Munchhausen at April 07, 2025 09:37 AM

I invented the question mark.

Posted by: Mr. Evil at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (bFu5X)

80 Well, it's Monday.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

81 I'm with Cupid; I like her too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 09:50 AM (pEm+o)

82 One of the funniest comics I've ever seen, one that makes me laugh even after all this time, had Dennis the Menace walking into the kitchen carrying a skull and saying "Look what I found in Mr. Wilson's head"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 09:51 AM (Oq5OE)

83 76 Omigaw he really is peeing. Couldn't tell until I engorged the picture.

He must be German.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (kxUKc)

One particular fetish I never got. Humiliation porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 09:51 AM (bss/y)

84 19 See! A boob belt!
Posted by: Big Mike at April 07, 2025 09:33 AM (i0F8b)

It is!

Posted by: m at April 07, 2025 09:51 AM (CQE5S)

85 This is hanging in R Kelly's home

Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (Tn7Ji)

86 Well, it's Monday.
Posted by: redridinghood

What special day is it today?

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

87 Wait...wut?! Cupid seems to be ...ummm....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (W/2in)

88 Golden shower power.

No thank you.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (mFz+I)

89 Cupid (shaking his junk): "Yeah, I got yer arrow right here"

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (vf0Y9)

90 "Oh April showers, may comea your waayyyy..."

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 07, 2025 09:53 AM (Hw6WF)

91 John and Yoko did get out of bed long enough for the maids to change sheets and fluff up the bed.

Posted by: Econolodge at April 07, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

92 Wait...wut?! Cupid seems to be ...ummm....
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (W/2in)
++++
Protecting his modesty, obviously...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:53 AM (WkNQM)

93 What in the world is that fucking thing?
Do you need some tweezers to put that little thing away?
That has got to be the smallest dick
I have ever seen in my whole life
Get the fuck outta here!
Eeny weeny, teeny weeny
Shriveled little, short dick man
Don't want, don't want, don't want, don't want, don't want, don't want, don't want...
Isn't that cute an extra belly button!
You need to put your pants back on, honey

Posted by: Venus at April 07, 2025 09:53 AM (ekEaX)

94 Omigaw he really is peeing. Couldn't tell until I engorged the picture.

He must be German.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 09:49 AM (kxUKc)
*******
I know. Reminds of those tacky water fountains.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (NpAcC)

95 Part of the Russian dossier. Claimed it was a photo of Trump.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (VofaG)

96 What special day is it today?
Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

Beers and beaver. For real

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (vf0Y9)

97 >>>Lorenzo Lotto

Lotto Venus going on here!

Posted by: m at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (CQE5S)

98 That picture perfectly encapsulates that the ancients were in near constant stake of intoxication or suffering from the effects of poisoning of some form or fashion.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (XV/Pl)

99 I think the band under her boobs is supposed to be the edge of some sort of onesie. Her skin is faintly shaded from that band down.

Maybe some sort of nod to decency? Although with the midget peeing on you you cannot claim to be in a classy joint.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (bss/y)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (CQE5S)

101
Where'd the conch come from?
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I am told it is suggestive of vagina.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 09:36 AM (pZ64F)

Why be "suggestive"? The idiots who look at art nowadays wouldn't know a vagina blossom if you rubbed their nose in it.

Posted by: Zombie Georgia O'Keefe at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (FoIOl)

102 What special day is it today?
Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
*****
National Beer Day and
International Beaver Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (NpAcC)

103 Interesting painting and not just for the nudity (although that doesn't hurt). There is a motherly playfulness about Venus but the emphasis is on carnality and the flesh. Venus looks out directly at the viewer. She is the embodiment of physical love and sex and she enjoys that. The detailed tiara and earrings, deep blue of the coverlet and reds of the background further brings out a sensuous aspect to the myth. Lotto took the basic myth and presented it in a humanly physical manner that the viewers could really understand.

Looking at his other works on the Wiki page, I noticed that Lotto's alter pieces and religious themed paintings have the faces averted from the viewer, focussing on the others in the scene. But his portraits usually have the model, like in this work, meeting the viewers' eyes. It makes for a more personal experience. Don't know if that was a common technique of Italian High Renaissance art but Lotto does it so effectively.

Posted by: JTB at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (yTvNw)

104 I don’t like the Calvin cartoon sticker you see on a lot of trucks.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (VofaG)

105 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?

Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (EwaUh)

106 "Whole Lotta Shaking Goin' On"!

Posted by: m at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (CQE5S)

107 I guess that whole thing about Cupid shooting arrows was marketing from Ancient Greek greeting card publishers.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (Oq5OE)

108 That picture perfectly encapsulates that the ancients were in near constant stake of intoxication or suffering from the effects of poisoning of some form or fashion.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2025 09:54 AM (XV/Pl)
++++
Still built empires time and again.

Perhaps intoxication of some kind is mandatory for empire-building...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (WkNQM)

109 108 Still built empires time and again.

Perhaps intoxication of some kind is mandatory for empire-building...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (WkNQM)

=======

It was a fight. Which nation made the best booze won.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

110 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?
Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (EwaUh)
++++
:: raises hand ::

I'm not saying I'm above it, just that the situation has never presented itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (WkNQM)

111 Someone needs to remove CBD's ability to embiggen the art. He got us good on April 1.

Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten., No... at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

112 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?
Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM

*picks up stone*

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 07, 2025 09:57 AM (bdhKV)

113 78 Is that a WHELK above her head?
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And a sous-vide bag as a boob-belt??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:57 AM (/tzYP)

114 110 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?
Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (EwaUh)
++++
:: raises hand ::

I'm not saying I'm above it, just that the situation has never presented itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (WkNQM)

Does a bush in front of some random person's house count?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 09:57 AM (bss/y)

115 Jay North, the former child actor who starred as the titular troublemaker on Dennis the Menace, has died at age 73

***
And he guested on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., as did the actor who played Dennis's father, though in different episodes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 09:57 AM (omVj0)

116 One particular fetish I never got. Humiliation porn.
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New here??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (/tzYP)

117 It was a fight. Which nation made the best booze won.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
++++
Heh. That's closer to the mark than most would guess. Without booze, everyone dies (at least, once you have the witch's brew of high population density and livestock combined with poor sanitation - and sanitation was poor by definition prior to the late 18th century). If you have good and plentiful booze, not *everyone* will die of dysentery and cholera. Then, you conquer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (WkNQM)

118 I'm not saying I'm above it, just that the situation has never presented itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

You got a high-class harem. Those busty bikini chicks draw the line at that sort of thing.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

119 ~~Dream~~Pisscatcher

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:59 AM (WkNQM)

120 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?
Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025

***
Depends on what kind of wreath it is. That holly stuff is damned sharp!

Posted by: Guy Who'll Try (Most) Anything Once at April 07, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

121 You got a high-class harem. Those busty bikini chicks draw the line at that sort of thing.
Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
++++
Nah, most of 'em are yacht girls who are relieved at the relative tameness of the request...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:59 AM (WkNQM)

122 And he guested on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., as did the actor who played Dennis's father, though in different episodes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You know, I was going to ask about that once we got past 100 comments.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

123 117 Heh. That's closer to the mark than most would guess. Without booze, everyone dies (at least, once you have the witch's brew of high population density and livestock combined with poor sanitation - and sanitation was poor by definition prior to the late 18th century). If you have good and plentiful booze, not *everyone* will die of dysentery and cholera. Then, you conquer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:58 AM (WkNQM)

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Also, life probably sucked in Ancient Greece.

Hardly any protection from the elements. Threat of death from nature and the capricious nature of whomever ruled your city-state.

Gods playing with humanity because they were bored.

Booze made it bearable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

124 It's axiomatic that the wealthier a class is and the more disconnected they become from society, the more absolute weird bizarro shit they get into.

For all we know, the 16th Century person who commissioned this was all "Yeah, my son pisses on my wife all the time and we get a charge out of it. Can you do something like that, but just dress it up a little...?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 10:00 AM (Oq5OE)

125 Reminds of the big seller. The mistletoe belt buckle.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:00 AM (VofaG)

126 OK, guys. Be honest. Which of you HASN'T tried peeing through a wreath held by a goddess?
Posted by: Kris at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM (EwaUh)
++++
:: raises hand ::

I'm not saying I'm above it, just that the situation has never presented itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

You need to get out more. And bring $20.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (FWMqC)

127 And he guested on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., as did the actor who played Dennis's father, though in different episodes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
You know, I was going to ask about that once we got past 100 comments.
Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025

***
Unlike Cupid here, we aim to please.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (omVj0)

128 OG Sniper

Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (Tn7Ji)

129 So...

China's stock market closed down 14.5%.

Think their political commentators are wondering when Xi is going to stop his tariff war with America?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

130 Also, life probably sucked in Ancient Greece.

Hardly any protection from the elements. Threat of death from nature and the capricious nature of whomever ruled your city-state.

Gods playing with humanity because they were bored.

Booze made it bearable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
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But hey - lots of olives and seafood. Could be worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (WkNQM)

131 Nah, most of 'em are yacht girls who are relieved at the relative tameness of the request...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 09:59 AM (WkNQM)

Oddly, often the same demographic for the weird Arab parties I keep seeing rumors of.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (bss/y)

132 Maybe some sort of nod to decency? Although with the midget peeing on you you cannot claim to be in a classy joint.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Uhm, akshully, he isn't necessarily peeing on her in the painting. With no real depth or perspective, he could quite easily be peeing over, or past, her.

Also, the term is "little person".

Posted by: Uhm Akshully Guy at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

133 Didja see this?

REDUXX@ReduxxMag
BREAKING
Two men will face each other for a women's championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK.
Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event.

https://shorturl.at/tCZH5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

134 Think their political commentators are wondering when Xi is going to stop his tariff war with America?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
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Nah, they're probably saying the same thing our press is, and demanding that Donald Trump go back to having the US be the world's strip-mine.

Their propagandists and ours *do* share a fair number of the same paymasters, after all...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (WkNQM)

135 130 But hey - lots of olives and seafood. Could be worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (WkNQM)

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"Well, at least I get a break from the capriciousness of my rules with this nice selection of olives. Hey...what's that over there? A very large shadow upon the land. Looks like Persia has come for a visit."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

136 Gods playing with humanity because they were bored.

Better them than Fauci.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

137 It's axiomatic that the wealthier a class is and the more disconnected they become from society, the more absolute weird bizarro shit they get into.

When you aren't spending 20 hours a day scratching a living out, you tend to get bored easily.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (FWMqC)

138 OK, speaking of...

I had this small tree in the sunroom which I really rather liked. I kept watering it, kept fertilizing it, but it always looked kind of sickly. Drove me nuts until I was home early one day and I saw Kid #1 peeing in it.

Aha.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (Oq5OE)

139 Uhm, akshully, he isn't necessarily peeing on her in the painting. With no real depth or perspective, he could quite easily be peeing over, or past, her.

Posted by: Uhm Akshully Guy at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

Because that makes it better?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (bss/y)

140 I had this small tree in the sunroom which I really rather liked. I kept watering it, kept fertilizing it, but it always looked kind of sickly. Drove me nuts until I was home early one day and I saw Kid #1 peeing in it.

Aha.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (Oq5OE)
++++
Expected: a cat
Got: a kid
Expectations status: subverted

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (WkNQM)

141 Murder Justification: 31% and 38% of respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively. (These effects were largely driven by respondents that self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, indicating significantly higher justification for violence against these figures.)

Property Destruction: Nearly 40% of respondents (39.8%) stated it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest.

I have always thought that people that do not respect property also do not respect life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (gbOdA)

142 134 Nah, they're probably saying the same thing our press is, and demanding that Donald Trump go back to having the US be the world's strip-mine.

Their propagandists and ours *do* share a fair number of the same paymasters, after all...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (WkNQM)

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It's an underlying point that no one seems to want to talk about.

If tariffs are so bad, then other countries should be dropping them voluntarily as fast as possible. Trump is signing a 0 tariff deal with Israel today. The press should be holding Bibi up as a model of how to deal with this issue.

And yet...it's just demands for Trump to stop.

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

143 Also reminds me of my favorite joke.

Just the punch line

‘ He bet me $50,000 he could piss all over your desk and you’d be happy about it’

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (VofaG)

144 Also, life probably sucked in Ancient Greece.

Hardly any protection from the elements. Threat of death from nature and the capricious nature of whomever ruled your city-state.

Gods playing with humanity because they were bored.

Booze made it bearable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025
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But hey - lots of olives and seafood. Could be worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025

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Ancient Greece (and Rome, too) was hot a lot of the year, but probably a drier heat than the Gulf Coast -- the Mediterranean climate -- and winters were short. Kind of like living in Southern California without the nuts and communists.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)

145 China's stock market closed down 14.5%.

China's economy has been fragile for a while, it'll be interesting to see if that causes further issues.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (2ocoG)

146 I have always thought that people that do not respect property also do not respect life.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (gbOdA)
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That's because this is true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (WkNQM)

147 136 Gods playing with humanity because they were bored.

Better them than Fauci.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

========

We need a god of war:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylS-X0s-KM

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

148 Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
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You left out the second weird!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler at April 07, 2025 10:05 AM (WkNQM)

149 Uhm, akshully, he isn't necessarily peeing on her in the painting. With no real depth or perspective, he could quite easily be peeing over, or past, her.

--

So maybe a better title would be "Under The Rainbow."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 07, 2025 10:05 AM (Oq5OE)

150 116 One particular fetish I never got. Humiliation porn.
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New here??
Posted by: andycanuck

One isn't born a cuck. It takes years of humiliation in life and love, coupled with a porn addiction, to develop. Then, it's beautiful and empowering...really! I love watching my wife get plowed by her bull while I watch, touching myself in the corner while she insults my masculinity...😭

Posted by: David French at April 07, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

151 I'm off to the grocery, all. Back later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)

152 Guess I don't care much for this one. Technique seems fine, it just seems a bit too academic.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (WPL6O)

153 One isn't born a cuck. It takes years of humiliation in life and love, coupled with a porn addiction, to develop. Then, it's beautiful and empowering...really! I love watching my wife get plowed by her bull while I watch, touching myself in the corner while she insults my masculinity...😭
Posted by: David French at April 07, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Oh, what was that one guy's name? Jack Murphy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (bss/y)

154 And so it begins…

Rasmussen has Trump under water approval for the first time his second term.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (MmH/W)

155 Think their political commentators are wondering when Xi is going to stop his tariff war with America?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

One did. His family just took out a loan to pay for the bullet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

156 Posted by: David French at April 07, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

I was trying to decide if the sock was gonna be French or Goldberg. Always bet on French.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

157 154 And so it begins…

Rasmussen has Trump under water approval for the first time his second term.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (MmH/W)

========

The stock market lost 20% of its value in Autumn of 2022.

I'm told that 2022 was a terrible Republican year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

158 152 Guess I don't care much for this one. Technique seems fine, it just seems a bit too academic.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (WPL6O)

Ok, I've realized why you are so down, man. We have got to pull you out of the time portal from Weimar Germany.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 10:07 AM (bss/y)

159 I was trying to decide if the sock was gonna be French or Goldberg. Always bet on French.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:07 AM (2ocoG)
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Yes.

Always.

:: shifty eyes ::

Posted by: Ze Germans at April 07, 2025 10:07 AM (WkNQM)

160 Rasmussen has Trump under water approval for the first time his second term.

At least it's costing the Dem billionaires their own money this time to cause it.

Or as someone on X said, "Old white people waving swastikas? It's nice to see the Democrats getting back to their roots".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:08 AM (2ocoG)

161 International Beaver Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 07, 2025 09:55 AM

International Beaver Day?

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/YcdvP8CYPB0

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2025 10:09 AM (hV15f)

162 Just waiting out all the "boobies!" comments

Posted by: Josephistan at April 07, 2025 10:09 AM (y9ksN)

163 And polls have the majority of Americans approve of Doge and deportation.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

164
On Further Reconsideration

I'm going to tell you the truth
This painting's a little uncouth
Without sounding stupid
It seem's our friend Cupid
Has discovered the Fountain of Youth!

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 10:10 AM (/iMjX)

165 Just waiting out all the "boobies!" comments

This is the most negative I've ever seen the Horde about boobs. I guess Peter Dinklage peeing on her isn't going over well.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:10 AM (2ocoG)

166 Head for the hills!

Inverse Cramer warned today will be a "Black Monday" market crash, but he also said he's not panicking ... here's where things stand ahead of the opening bell

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

167 133 Didja see this?

REDUXX@ReduxxMag
BREAKING
Two men will face each other for a women's championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK.
Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event.

https://shorturl.at/tCZH5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

19-Ball tornament

Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 10:10 AM (Tn7Ji)

168 The knees of Venus are awfully red. Rug burn.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 07, 2025 10:10 AM (u82oZ)

169 154 And so it begins…

Rasmussen has Trump under water approval for the first time his second term.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:06 AM (MmH/W)

It's a good thing I never paid attention to the polls that had him riding high.

We hired a Honey Badger, not a weather vane mccain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 07, 2025 10:11 AM (bss/y)

170 163 And polls have the majority of Americans approve of Doge and deportation.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

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It's hard to imagine a downturn in the market this big and fast not negatively affecting approval of the sitting president, especially when everyone in the world is tying it to his change policies.

However...it's April...of the year before the election.

His approval is meaningless right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

171 Inverse Cramer warned today will be a "Black Monday" market crash, but he also said he's not panicking ... here's where things stand ahead of the opening bell

Cramer said it's Black Monday? New Dow high by closing. Also, raaaaaacist.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:12 AM (2ocoG)

172 Don't look now, but the Nasdaq is UP!

Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 10:13 AM (GhFyc)

173 Cramer said it's Black Monday? New Dow high by closing. Also, raaaaaacist.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:12 AM (2ocoG)

Let me know when it's Black Friday

Posted by: Steely Dan at April 07, 2025 10:13 AM (y9ksN)

174

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (5hfjS)

175 172 Don't look now, but the Nasdaq is UP!
Posted by: THE SEATTLE MARINERS at April 07, 2025 10:13 AM (GhFyc)

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No one institutionally thought this was a collapse. Not one of them.

Bond action said so.

I think it was a giant profit taking move.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

176 However...it's April...of the year before the election.

His approval is meaningless right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Exactly. Let's all calm our tit's and see how it all plays out. I think Trump is going to come out winning (as usual) on this in a few months. Previously, GOPers would undermine him, but now he has no fucks to give, and doesn't care what they think. He will drag them along, kicking and screaming, to victory.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

177 Rasmussen has Trump under water approval for the first time his second term.

The funniest thing about the left making all this about Trump is that Vance is unscathed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (ExV1e)

178 Let the crack squirrels do their crack squirrel thing.

Posted by: jsg at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (Tn7Ji)

179 His approval is important because republicans who are scared of their own shadow will abandon him if the polls get too bad.

As long as markets find a bottom quickly it shouldn’t be a big drop.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:15 AM (MmH/W)

180 It's hard to imagine a downturn in the market this big and fast not negatively affecting approval of the sitting president, especially when everyone in the world is tying it to his change policies. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)
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Well, his policies are triggering it.

Equities have been bubblicious for years and primed for a decline. The only reason it wasn't well underway a year ago was the AI bubble riding to the rescue. We were already primed for both a market decline and a recession well before Trump took over.

But context doesn't matter. He's going to get the blame for it. It's why I was *very* nervous about Trump's habit of touting the stock market as a symbol of his brilliance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:15 AM (WkNQM)

181 176 Exactly. Let's all calm our tit's and see how it all plays out. I think Trump is going to come out winning (as usual) on this in a few months. Previously, GOPers would undermine him, but now he has no fucks to give, and doesn't care what they think. He will drag them along, kicking and screaming, to victory.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

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I can't wait for the proposed tariff reclamation bill (or whatever) just dies quietly in committee by June because the tariff issue is dead, the market has recovered, and no one even remembers the great panic of early April.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

182 I worked in a pre-K-12 private school for 12 years. In the lower school, there was a boys bathroom that had urine under and around it every day. I checked in the early AM and it was dry/had been cleaned by janitorial staff, then by like 10 AM, it was fouled.
I decided to keep an eye on what was going on, and was working on a ceiling A/C unit nearby in the hallway. I heard maniacal laughter and burst through the door. A boy about 10 years old was standing about 5 feet back from the urinal trying to hit it. Only some got there. I told him I would tell the female principal exactly what he was doing if he ever did it again. It never did.

Posted by: On Topic, For Once! at April 07, 2025 10:15 AM (G5+As)

183 180 But context doesn't matter. He's going to get the blame for it. It's why I was *very* nervous about Trump's habit of touting the stock market as a symbol of his brilliance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:15 AM (WkNQM)

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He'll be right back to touting the stock market as a signal of his great presidency in a month.

He uses whatever is at hand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

184 It's hard to imagine a downturn in the market this big and fast not negatively affecting approval of the sitting president, especially when everyone in the world is tying it to his change policies.

However...it's April...of the year before the election.

His approval is meaningless right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

Unless Trump voters are idiots the positive polling approving of his two main policies don’t correlate with the underwater poll of Trump approval rating .

I believe it’s just the Left lying again. I agree that his approval rating would be lower ( lot of 401ks) but not underwater.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:16 AM (VofaG)

185 see the epidemic of AWFL teachers r@ping the minor students (of either sex)?

I blame this painting

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

186 He'll be right back to touting the stock market as a signal of his great presidency in a month.

He uses whatever is at hand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)
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True enough. If he can, he will.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:17 AM (WkNQM)

187 184 Unless Trump voters are idiots the positive polling approving of his two main policies don’t correlate with the underwater poll of Trump approval rating .

I believe it’s just the Left lying again. I agree that his approval rating would be lower ( lot of 401ks) but not underwater.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:16 AM (VofaG)

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I have learned that a shocking number of older people treat their stock portfolios like bank accounts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

188 Unless Trump voters are idiots the positive polling approving of his two main policies don’t correlate with the underwater poll of Trump approval rating . ...
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:16 AM (VofaG)
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This is pretty normal.

"I hate congress and every congressman is a shit head - except my guy. No, I don't know his name, but I'm sure *he* is good."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (WkNQM)

189 Dow up over 800. Leftist will now lose their minds, again, as Trump is succeeding

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (6TePA)

190 Holy shit and just as I said find a bottom….lol.
What the fuck is happening?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (MmH/W)

191 As an artist, this is what I see:

warm tone dominates background and upper 3/4 of painting
cool tone, base (lower 1/4)

a lot of pasty flesh tone in between

and what is that sash(?) around her ribcage...16 c brassiere technology? I can tell u right now gurl, it won't work

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (dCxaZ)

192 Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event.
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Cat fight!

Er.

Dog fight!??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (/tzYP)

193 Holy shit and just as I said find a bottom….lol.
What the fuck is happening?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (MmH/W)
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Per 166, Cramer spoke.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:19 AM (WkNQM)

194 •GOP fears 'decimation' as tariff angst grows in Congress
Yahoo Finance 36 minutes ago - ^DJI +1.07%
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They talk it down. GOPe, the yellow dog Market Yackers, Media Moguls; Trump cuts them to the quick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:19 AM (9pHx8)

195 No one institutionally thought this was a collapse. Not one of them.

Bond action said so.

I think it was a giant profit taking move.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

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Next you'll be telling me that 90% of stock trading is performed by automated algorithms based primarily on key technical indicators ... or something to squeeze short-term profits out of the market.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 10:19 AM (hASXU)

196 190 Holy shit and just as I said find a bottom….lol.
What the fuck is happening?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (MmH/W)

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The stock market is not rational, tied to actual policy, or even real.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

197 Haven't they suffered enough?

A Pro-Trump Boat Completely Ruined the DC Cherry Blossom Race for Dozens of Miserable Libs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

198 When one rebuilds anything the bad parts must be taken out first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:20 AM (9pHx8)

199 I saw Black Friday open for Black Sabbath at the CNE!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 10:20 AM (/tzYP)

200 I think it was a giant profit taking move.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

Partially. The other part is clearing out the suckers. People who panic sold and locked in their losses bought a bunch of new mistresses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:20 AM (ExV1e)

201 Lot of bargains and a lot of insiders that play the market like the devil’s fiddle.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:21 AM (VofaG)

202 ------
Cat fight!

Er.

Dog fight!??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 10:18 AM (/tzYP)

bitch slap!!

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:21 AM (dCxaZ)

203 The stock market is not rational, tied to actual policy, or even real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So it's like Rhode Island?

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

204 50 countries want to negotiate tariffs with Trump.

Posted by: scottst at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (ojBxe)

205 203 The stock market is not rational, tied to actual policy, or even real.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So it's like Rhode Island?
Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

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The stock market is an actual place, so more real than Rhode Island.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

206 204 50 countries want to negotiate tariffs with Trump.
Posted by: scottst at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (ojBxe)

Never saw that coming LOL....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2025 10:22 AM (VE6XX)

207 I guess a nudist would like it. Art has something for everyone,they say.This is just not my cup of tea.

Posted by: Case at April 07, 2025 10:23 AM (OrSPY)

208 That was a quick capitulation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:23 AM (MmH/W)

209 What a difference 3 decades make.

1995: Mother- "My baby keeps getting recurrent UTI's and unexplained fevers. You have to give her IV antibiotics and an extensive evaluation!"
DIAGNOSIS: Munchausen's syndrome by proxy
RECOMMENDATION: Intensive psychiatric therapy and jail time for the mother.'

2025: Mother- "My pre-teen expressed curiosity about women's make-up. You need to prescribe puberty blockers and cross sex hormones so that he can become a girl.
DIAGNOSIS: Munchausen's syndrome by Progesterone
RECOMMENDATION: Throw a parade for the mother and jail the father.

Posted by: muldoon at April 07, 2025 10:23 AM (/iMjX)

210 Lot of fountains where Cupid is peeing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:23 AM (VofaG)

211 News of the Day: Gerald Nadler stinks.

https://tinyurl.com/mu66rwjx

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 10:24 AM (gObbq)

212 Partially. The other part is clearing out the suckers. People who panic sold and locked in their losses bought a bunch of new mistresses.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:20 AM (ExV1e)
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And the other part: vast numbers of enterprises are fake. Zombies feeding off finance activity but with no real value. With the change in finance structure that is going to come as a result of the new regime, a lot of firms - some of them very large - are doomed.

Stock declines should be expected, as well as some business failures. It's going to take a while to shake out. I also think it probably will cost us the midterms (assuming they aren't lost by default, which the calendar and history indicates that they are). That won't matter if things are fixed and settled on a new course by then, and then 2028 will be very winnable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:24 AM (WkNQM)

213 Dow now down 500. Leftist lose their minds because Trump ended up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 07, 2025 10:24 AM (6TePA)

214 They’re talking tariff pause now? WTF?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:25 AM (MmH/W)

215 212 Stock declines should be expected, as well as some business failures. It's going to take a while to shake out. I also think it probably will cost us the midterms (assuming they aren't lost by default, which the calendar and history indicates that they are). That won't matter if things are fixed and settled on a new course by then, and then 2028 will be very winnable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:24 AM (WkNQM)

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We still need to see how the Democrat Party will be institutionally affected by the cutting of federal government grants to their cronies before we assume 2026 will follow anything like a regular midterm pattern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

216 They’re talking tariff pause now? WTF?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:25 AM (MmH/W)
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The markets may have spooked them, just like happened last time.

If he backtracks in a big way now, though, it's over. Zero credibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

217 214 They’re talking tariff pause now? WTF?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:25 AM (MmH/W)

Who is they? Someone actually in the admin?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (TJLr1)

218 216 The markets may have spooked them, just like happened last time.

If he backtracks in a big way now, though, it's over. Zero credibility.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

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There's rumor floating of a 90 day pause.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

219 NATIONAL BEER DAY - April 7

Posted by: SMOD at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

220 We still need to see how the Democrat Party will be institutionally affected by the cutting of federal government grants to their cronies before we assume 2026 will follow anything like a regular midterm pattern.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)
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True, but I don't think DOGE is anything like powerful enough - or broad enough - to turn off enough taps between now and then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

221 The rumor's source seems to be Kevin Hassett, director of the NEC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

222 Ursula von der Leyen says the EU is ready to negotiate a zero tariff deal with the US.

https://tinyurl.com/ru2dh3dy

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (paSBy)

223 We still need to see how the Democrat Party will be institutionally affected by the cutting of federal government grants to their cronies before we assume 2026 will follow anything like a regular midterm pattern.

that - and also we've entered a First Turning and the rules of the last 2 cycles no longer apply.

IOW --- expect the unexpected

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

224
If he backtracks in a big way now, though, it's over. Zero credibility.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

Yep.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (MmH/W)

225 207 I guess a nudist would like it. Art has something for everyone,they say.This is just not my cup of tea.
Posted by: Case
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wiki said urination was symbolic of ejaculation
said people of that period would have thought it humorous
Cupid ejaculating on his mother Venus as a symbol of her fertility.
Guess it was their culture.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:28 AM (9pHx8)

226 NASA warns asteroid now has 4% chance of striking the MOON in 2032

Astronomers tentatively designated the asteroid 2025-XF47. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program first detected it earlier this year.

Posted by: SMOD at April 07, 2025 10:28 AM (RHGPo)

227 NATIONAL BEER DAY - April 7
Posted by: SMOD at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM

Wait...we need a day for that?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2025 10:28 AM (bFu5X)

228 REDUXX@ReduxxMag
BREAKING
Two men will face each other for a women's championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK.
Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event.

https://shorturl.at/tCZH5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

19-Ball tornament
Posted by: jsg

They snookered their way in.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 10:28 AM (kxUKc)

229 They snookered their way in.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 10:28 AM (kxUKc)
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Roll it up. We're done here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (WkNQM)

230 221 The rumor's source seems to be Kevin Hassett, director of the NEC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

Who knew the National Electric Code writers had so much sway in finance markets.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (TJLr1)

231 Ursula von der Leyen says the EU is ready to negotiate a zero tariff deal with the US.

—

3 days ago she said the EU was going to retaliate.

Also, that is the most evil sound name ever. Could be James Bond villain.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (MmH/W)

232 220 True, but I don't think DOGE is anything like powerful enough - or broad enough - to turn off enough taps between now and then.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

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Once I realized that probably about 90% of USAID's $40 billion budget was going to Democrat cronies, helping to prop up their entire political ecosystem, I realized that my assumptions about how midterms should operate within normal bounds might have been...biased.

Maybe that equivalent of 5 Hollywood years of box office revenue will have negligible impact on how Democrats can run their operations and spread their messages.

Maybe it will represent a very large amount of what they can do in modern day, especially after more than a decade of having relied on that funding structure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

233 NASA warns asteroid now has 4% chance of striking the MOON in 2032

Thundarr the Barbarian has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (kxUKc)

234 222 Ursula von der Leyen says the EU is ready to negotiate a zero tariff deal with the US.
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Can't be, distinctly remember her saying something like, Over my dead body.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM (9pHx8)

235 Ursula von der Leyen says the EU is ready to negotiate a zero tariff deal with the US.
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Can't be, distinctly remember her saying something like, Over my dead body.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:29 AM

Trump Administration: Challenge accepted!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2025 10:30 AM (bFu5X)

236 wouldn't the 90 day pause be due to these negotiations taking place??

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:30 AM (dCxaZ)

237 There'll be standing room only!

Neil Young and Joan Baez Join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-“Oligarchy” Rally

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

238 224
If he backtracks in a big way now, though, it's over. Zero credibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:26 AM (WkNQM)

Yep.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 07, 2025 10:27 AM (MmH/W)

If there's a 90-day pause because he's taking time to hammer out new deals, fine. But if it's just a pause to let things settle and then get us back here again in three months, well...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

239 236 wouldn't the 90 day pause be due to these negotiations taking place??
Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2025 10:30 AM (dCxaZ)

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Possibly.

Narrative will say that all the old people protesting scared him, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

240 That explanation regarding Goldberg being added to the Signal chat because of an iPhone "automated suggestion" that would replace *on the phone of the text's receiver* the existing contact info of a text's sender, with any random contact information contained in the message content of that sent text? No. Sorry, but no. Either they're not explaining it accurately, or they're lying.

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (TIizU)

241 Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, RIP.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (WPL6O)

242 Fox News site isn’t reporting the 90 day rumor. They are just reporting Trump doubling down and bashing the critics.

I hope it’s just a false rumor. I can see possibly that a pause could be in effect for specific countries that have agreed to negotiate but I still think it’s a bad idea.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)

243 Hey, it's your painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at April 07, 2025 10:33 AM (a3Q+t)

244 She had the face of an angel
Smilin' with sin
The body of Venus with arms.
Dealin' with danger
Strokin' my skin
Like a thunder and lightning storm

Posted by: Angus Young at April 07, 2025 10:33 AM (W5ArC)

245 I hope it’s just a false rumor. I can see possibly that a pause could be in effect for specific countries that have agreed to negotiate but I still think it’s a bad idea.

that was Ackman on X pushing the 90 day "pause"

it's BS - hopefully Ackman doesn't have that much pull

no need for it!

then our stupid paper is saying (on X) that Elon is against the tariffs as well, which I doubt. he might have done it differently but whatever

the usual FUD

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

246 > Neil Young and Joan Baez Join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-“Oligarchy” Rally
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

I wonder how she feels being the only one there who's not eligible for Medicare.

Posted by: Angus Young at April 07, 2025 10:34 AM (W5ArC)

247 Neil Young and Joan Baez Join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-“Oligarchy” Rally

Nobody says avant garde and cutting edge in 2025 like Joan Baez. Did they defrost her from the back of the 1960s freezer?

Also, I very much doubt she can spell "oligarchy", much less define it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2025 10:34 AM (xCA6C)

248 Fox News site isn’t reporting the 90 day rumor. They are just reporting Trump doubling down and bashing the critics.

I hope it’s just a false rumor. I can see possibly that a pause could be in effect for specific countries that have agreed to negotiate but I still think it’s a bad idea.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)

But the rumor has already been reported on the internet. And we all know the internet never lies.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 07, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)

249 Neil Young and Joan Baez Join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-“Oligarchy” Rally
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
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I advocate truth in advertising.

They should have to call this a "we prefer OUR oligarchy" rally.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:35 AM (WkNQM)

250 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at April 07, 2025 10:35 AM (cAV5e)

251 The stock market is not rational, tied to actual policy, or even real.

Even the institutional guys know that if Cramer predicts doom, buy like the wind.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:35 AM (2ocoG)

252 Even the institutional guys know that if Cramer predicts doom, buy like the wind.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:35 AM (2ocoG)
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Cramer has had a nearly uninterrupted track record of being wrong on every major call for decades. It's astonishing - even to me - that he's still employed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:36 AM (WkNQM)

253 I wonder how she feels being the only one there who's not eligible for Medicare.

She's 84. When she was young, Medicare involved a bottle of whiskey and a bone saw.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2025 10:36 AM (xCA6C)

254 this is - finally! at long last! - the popping of the tech bubble

so of course Ackman is all mad

but it needs to happen. It should have happened nearly 20 years ago! instead the big tech firms allied with govt to prevent it, and look where we are now

it's time guys. tech bubble go boom now

and then we can heal, and we can make actual progress with tech again, rather than just rent seeking and collusion.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:37 AM (Pv3Rg)

255 Florida a point and a half favorite over Houston tonight. Any opinions here?

Posted by: mr tmz at April 07, 2025 10:37 AM (rJ48h)

256 This doesn't sound like backtracking. Trump post on Truth a few minutes ago:

Countries from all over the World are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese Prime Minister this morning. He is sending a top team to negotiate! They have treated the U.S. very poorly on Trade. They don’t take our cars, but we take MILLIONS of theirs. Likewise Agriculture, and many other “things.” It all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!

Donald Trump Truth Social 04/07/25 09:27 AM

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (paSBy)

257 Commies having a rally with their useful idiots.

What’s new?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

258 Given the wild rumors and momentum trading, I'm sitting tight and not buying during the downturn. Yet, anyway. The market looks to me like it may still have some down distance to go.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (BkfnC)

259 255 Florida a point and a half favorite over Houston tonight. Any opinions here?

all I know is I'm winning my pool regardless having had Houston v Florida for the final two! sure, my pool are ad agency dolts, but still.

I have florida and believe they shall prevail!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

260 237 There'll be standing room only!

Neil Young and Joan Baez Join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-“Oligarchy” Rally
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Banana Republic Puppets sing for their dinner?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (pZ64F)

261 https://youtu.be/1fbD0btGvBE

Somebody mentioned Uma as Venus

Posted by: scottst at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (ojBxe)

262 Cramer has had a nearly uninterrupted track record of being wrong on every major call for decades. It's astonishing - even to me - that he's still employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:36 AM (WkNQM)

He’s George Castanza (no idea how to spell that name…

. Remember that he’s always wrong and act accordingly.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (TJLr1)

263 262 He’s George Castanza (no idea how to spell that name…. Remember that he’s always wrong and act accordingly.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (TJLr1)

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"Hi. My name is George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

264 233 NASA warns asteroid now has 4% chance of striking the MOON in 2032

Whoa! If the MOON gets blasted out of orbit, will the tide go out and never come in, or come in and never go out?

Posted by: Tide Is High, But I'm Holdin' On at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM (G5+As)

265 Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2025 10:36 AM (xCA6C)

Think he was talking about AOC.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)

266 btw a total aside but the car thing - the tariffs other countries put on US cars are CRAZY and fuel the car thieving rings here

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM (Pv3Rg)

267 She's Zaftig.

Posted by: San Frampsycho at April 07, 2025 10:40 AM (RIvkX)

268 all I know is I'm winning my pool regardless having had Houston v Florida for the final two! sure, my pool are ad agency dolts, but still.

I have florida and believe they shall prevail!
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

Not bad. I had Wisconsin winning so nobody should ever take my advice on college hoops.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 07, 2025 10:40 AM (rJ48h)

269 She skips face day. And everything else.

Posted by: Homely, pudgy Venus at April 07, 2025 10:41 AM (TbWk/)

270 Think he was talking about AOC.

Well, damn. I was so anxious to get out the Joan Baez Medicare joke, I completely whiffed on AOC.

Shut up.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2025 10:41 AM (xCA6C)

271 Of course the press doesn’t report that our tariff increase is just half of what other countries tariffs are against us.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)

272 Uhm, akshully, he isn't necessarily peeing on her in the painting. With no real depth or perspective, he could quite easily be peeing over, or past, her.

-

Normally, one has to pay extra for that sort of action.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2025 10:42 AM (lTGtQ)

273 > Think he was talking about AOC.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)

Yep. Bernie is 83. Baez is 84. Young is 79. O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca is 35.

"One of these things... is not like the others...."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:43 AM (W5ArC)

274 Oh my ... she's taunting the angel, isn't she ... ? Bet she heard that 'angel rod' is the 'best rod' ... or sump'm like that.

Posted by: Dr_No at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (ayRl+)

275 unusual_whales @unusual_whales Apr 3
Call your mother, immediately.
Worst day in the market since June 2020.

L. Ron Hubbard (Parody) @FakeLRonHubbard Apr 3
📉 Ah, the market’s shrieking like a banshee in a typhoon, don’t you see? Blood on the charts, Wall Street clutching its pearls—worst day since June 2020. But I tell you plainly: let it burn. The stock market is not our economy. It’s a casino built atop a house of mirrors, propped up by delusion, derivatives, and the daydreams of globalist bankers who never learned how to swing a hammer or plant a field.

Now listen carefully—Trump’s tariffs? Divine intervention. A cosmic correction, ok? While the Wall Street cult whines about short-term losses, real Americans are finally being liberated from the supply-chain leash held by Beijing and its apologists. We’re not here to appease foreign markets or keep the Dow Jones happy. We’re here to rebuild this nation from the bedrock up—steel, oil, wheat, and sovereignty. That’s value, not vibes.

🛠️ These tariffs are a spiritual filter, separating the parasites from the producers. You think a drop in the NASDAQ means anything to the man running a CNC machine in Alabama? Or the family

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (/tzYP)

276 L. Ron Hubbard (Parody) @FakeLRonHubbard Apr 3
🛠️ These tariffs are a spiritual filter, separating the parasites from the producers. You think a drop in the NASDAQ means anything to the man running a CNC machine in Alabama? Or the family welding together a pipeline in West Texas? Not a chance. They’re the new vanguard. The chosen class.

💡 So, let Wall Street crash. Let the speculators cry. The market is not our long-term success—it’s a thermometer taped to a fevered corpse. America’s resurrection isn’t found in tech stocks or manipulated earnings calls. It’s found in the factories, the fields, and the flame of self-reliance.

📞 And still—call your mother. Tell her we’re on the right track, even if CNBC says otherwise. She’ll understand. She always does.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (/tzYP)

277 > Cramer has had a nearly uninterrupted track record of being wrong on every major call for decades.

He's like the Paul Krugman of stock advisors.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (W5ArC)

278 Social Media Users Debate If It’s Really Murder if Victim Is White

https://shorturl.at/b33kL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

279
It's no "Boy With Apple", that's for sure.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

280 Markets doing market stuff and people are losing their fucking minds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 10:45 AM (Q4IgG)

281 280 Markets doing market stuff and people are losing their fucking minds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 07, 2025 10:45 AM (Q4IgG)

======

"Market only ever goes up. When it goes down, I lose everything."
-someone who's forgotten every down day ever

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 07, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

282
Cramer has had a nearly uninterrupted track record of being wrong on every major call for decades.

The man's voice sounds like my idiot DiL's father.

That in itself moved him deep into Idiotland for me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 10:46 AM (xG4kz)

283 and then we can heal, and we can make actual progress with tech again, rather than just rent seeking and collusion.
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:37 AM (Pv3Rg)

It's a bullshit-based economy. Rent-seeking and collusion are the orders of the day from tech to healthcare to real estate to transportation.

Posted by: It must be purged! at April 07, 2025 10:46 AM (TbWk/)

284 Golden showers bring May flowers? Or something...

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 07, 2025 10:46 AM (ViCCR)

285 Social Media Users Debate If It’s Really Murder if Victim Is White

https://shorturl.at/b33kL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

They must have watched Frailty like I did again last night. White people are demons so it’s not technically murder. It’s destroying.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)

286
Not much averting of eyes going on there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (xG4kz)

287 Bernie is 83, Baez is 84, Neil Not So Young is 79. The Anti-Oligarchy Tour sponsored by Depends and Geritol!

Posted by: Purewick For Home Use at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (G5+As)

288 X up nearly 12% today.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (W5ArC)

289 Can we legitimately refer to this as 'Angel-Porn' ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (ayRl+)

290 It's a bullshit-based economy. Rent-seeking and collusion are the orders of the day from tech to healthcare to real estate to transportation.

lol probably true but I am more aware of tech

plus the top co's of the US market are tech

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:49 AM (Pv3Rg)

291 Joan Baez has aged gracefully. My suspicion is she eschewed plastic surgery and all that stuff. So many women look like aliens now. Men look like aged Lesbians

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 10:49 AM (ExGho)

292 Oligarchy > Oldigarchy

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 07, 2025 10:50 AM (VoAdT)

293 The tariffs are really more about fair trade negotiations.
Many countries like to paly a game where the tariffs may be low but there are hundreds of regulations that make it impossible to compete.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 10:50 AM (gbOdA)

294 Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place.

Tweeted by Trump ~3 hours ago. I suspect that rumors of a pause are people trying to convince Trump and not that Trump is gonna do it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:50 AM (ExV1e)

295 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Probably not the Venus in blue jeans the song was about.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 07, 2025 10:50 AM (W/lyH)

296 More Than 500 Inmates Escape After Gangs Attack Police Station, Prison in Haiti

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Thank God the Clintons fixed Haiti!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

297 April Flowers bring Golden Showers?

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 07, 2025 10:51 AM (Gd0NB)

298 And we all know the internet never lies.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 07, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew

https://youtu.be/bufTna0WArc

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

299 Admittedly I watch Million Dollar Listings. Definitely gives appearance that most filthy rich people are arrogant assholes that aren’t bright but just bold and entitled . That combination seems to be a formula to become rich in a lot of cases.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)

300 They must have watched Frailty like I did again last night. White people are demons so it’s not technically murder. It’s destroying.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)

See above where 55% of liberals think it is just to murder Trump or Elon.
40% say it is OK to destroy Teslas and Dealerships.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (gbOdA)

301 More Than 500 Inmates Escape After Gangs Attack Police Station, Prison in Haiti

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Thank God the Clintons fixed Haiti!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

The bad news about breaking out of a Haitian prison is that you're still in Haiti.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (VoAdT)

302 I know we like to bash Boomers, and God knows they deserve it, but some of the most truly repugnant humans to walk the Earth come from the Silent Generation. If you think about it, they're the ones who really ushered in the horrendous cultural shifts of the 60s and 70s...and just because they're now desiccated and decrepit shouldn't give them any cover.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (qwx/I)

303 Alternate title: Hunter With His Nanny

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (Gd0NB)

304 Cramer has had a nearly uninterrupted track record of being wrong on every major call for decades. It's astonishing - even to me - that he's still employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:36 AM (WkNQM)

My guess is that lots of little people listen to him and get screwed. Hence his continued employment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 07, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)

305 Hmm... oil prices way down. Oklo, Inc (a nuclear reactor company) is way up.

What do the insiders know that we don't?

Hopefully that Trump is going to start fast-tracking nuclear power, while letting the commies screech.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:53 AM (W5ArC)

306 Admittedly I watch Million Dollar Listings. Definitely gives appearance that most filthy rich people are arrogant assholes that aren’t bright but just bold and entitled . That combination seems to be a formula to become rich in a lot of cases.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)
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Assuming honesty is involved, getting rich requires three things:
1. Hard work
2. Intelligence
3. Luck

The mix will vary, but those three components will be there in some ratio. The people you're describing, in my experience, are those who do not believe that the third item is ever a component.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

307 > I know we like to bash Boomers, and God knows they deserve it, but some of the most truly repugnant humans to walk the Earth come from the Silent Generation. If you think about it, they're the ones who really ushered in the horrendous cultural shifts of the 60s and 70s...and just because they're now desiccated and decrepit shouldn't give them any cover.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 07, 2025 10:52 AM (qwx/I)

The oldest Boomer was 14 in 1960.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 07, 2025 10:54 AM (rJ48h)

308 288 X up nearly 12% today.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:47 AM (W5ArC)

X just got purchased again. By Musk.

Another of his companies in a stock trade purchase worth 33 billion.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 07, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

309 You guys must be shitting bricks after the Hand Off rallies on Saturday.

You misspelled "Hand Job".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 07, 2025 10:54 AM (2ocoG)

310 > X just got purchased again. By Musk.

My mistake there. X on the stock market is actually the symbol for US Steel.

Makes sense that tariffs would improve its outlook.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 07, 2025 10:55 AM (W5ArC)

311 What do the insiders know that we don't?

Nothing.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 07, 2025 10:55 AM (6t8M3)

312 Cupid's a little dick

She sure as heck doesn't look as good as even an Instagram THOT.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 07, 2025 10:55 AM (xcxpd)

313 291 Joan Baez has aged gracefully. My suspicion is she eschewed plastic surgery and all that stuff. So many women look like aliens now. Men look like aged Lesbians
Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 10:49 AM (ExGho)

Well I never!

Posted by: Mark Cuban at April 07, 2025 10:56 AM (PiwSw)

314
Ugh.

I don't see how we can have a country ie.a Democratic Republic) with such people in it,

who think they can never ever lose or it's violence time.

Do they really want a civil war again?

Do they really understand what this means?

People trying to goon up political muder with a wink and a smile- probably need to be tried and enjoy a Gitmo vacation.

Welp, I hope they fail. They is no constitutional right to steal taxpayer's money with your malignant grifts, assholes.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 10:56 AM (iJfKG)

315 >>>then our stupid paper is saying (on X) that Elon is against the tariffs as well, which I doubt. he might have done it differently but whatever

the usual FUD

Posted by: Black Orchid
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Nothing recent at Musk's X about tariffs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:57 AM (9pHx8)

316 oops.

Here's the link:

https://pjmedia.com/matt-

margolis/2025/04/07/bombshell-study-reveals-how-

many-leftists-support-killing-trump-and-musk-

n4938661

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2025 10:57 AM (iJfKG)

317 Mark Cuban Weighs in on Trans Athletes: “You Can’t Force It Down People’s Throats”

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Appropriate analogy, dude.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

318 Bernie is 83, Baez is 84, Neil Not So Young is 79. The Anti-Oligarchy Tour sponsored by Depends and Geritol!
Posted by: Purewick For Home Use

Jay North, the original Dennis the Menace passed away yesterday. They're getting closer & closer to my birthdate.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (FWMqC)

319 I know we like to bash Boomers, and God knows they deserve it, but some of the most truly repugnant humans to walk the Earth come from the Silent Generation.

you are a thousand percent correct

Silents seem to be happy to stay silent and let their younger siblings in the Boom generation take the heat that THEY deserve

oh well the clock is going to stop ticking for them soon, in most cases sadly, but then there's Joe Freaking Biden.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

320 291 So many women look like aliens now. Men look like aged Lesbians
==

How about both?

Posted by: Tom Brady at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (eb5mD)

321 Hopefully that Trump is going to start fast-tracking nuclear power, while letting the commies screech.
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Trump just replaced the board chairman of TVA with a very pro-nuclear guy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (paSBy)

322 Nothing recent at Musk's X about tariffs.

I know!

The Inquirer was lying, try not to be shocked.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 07, 2025 10:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

323 317 Mark Cuban Weighs in on Trans Athletes: “You Can’t Force It Down People’s Throats”

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Appropriate analogy, dude.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 07, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

It’s not the policy that’s wrong, it’s the implementation!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 07, 2025 10:59 AM (TJLr1)

324 >>> I know we like to bash Boomers, and God knows they deserve it

Next time I fuel up by boat using my SS payment, I'm going to think of you working and paying into FICA and smile.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 07, 2025 10:59 AM (Y1sOo)

325 The oldest Boomer was 14 in 1960.
Posted by: mr tmz
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The oldest boomer was too young to vote for Johnson.
Boomers voted Nixon into office.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 10:59 AM (9pHx8)

326 NASA warns asteroid now has 4% chance of striking the MOON in 2032

Whoa! If the MOON gets blasted out of orbit, will the tide go out and never come in, or come in and never go out?
Posted by: Tide Is High, But I'm Holdin' On at April 07, 2025 10:39 AM

Ask King Cnut.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 07, 2025 11:00 AM (a3Q+t)

327 Assuming honesty is involved, getting rich requires three things:
1. Hard work
2. Intelligence
3. Luck

The mix will vary, but those three components will be there in some ratio. The people you're describing, in my experience, are those who do not believe that the third item is ever a component.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 07, 2025 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

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"You left out Theft."

-- Congress and the Clinton & Biden Crime Family Syndicates

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 07, 2025 11:00 AM (+kJbH)

328 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 07, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

329 Bernie is 83, Baez is 84, Neil Not So Young is 79. The Anti-Oligarchy Tour sponsored by Depends and Geritol!
Posted by: Purewick For Home Use

Ain't no fool like an old fool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 07, 2025 11:01 AM (kxUKc)

330 Obligatory: boobehs!

Venus and Cupid both look a little pudgy, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2025 11:01 AM (8zz6B)

331 Biden's not a Boomer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 11:02 AM (9pHx8)

332 Tavistock, MkUltra, Rockefeller foundations, NIH - the list of shadowy pseudo-government think tanks manipulating the Boomer generation was like nothing ever seen before.

It was a huge demographic bulge and had to be managed properly. Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll was the method.

“Well it worked, didn’t it?”

Posted by: Common Tater at April 07, 2025 11:04 AM (K0w3s)

333 “Well it worked, didn’t it?”
Posted by: Common Tater
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Simply Irresistible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 07, 2025 11:06 AM (9pHx8)

334 A few good smacks on the butt with the paperback book of Dr. Benjamin Spock, 'Baby and Child Care,' was needed.

It was never necessary more than once each for mine, IIRC, and the sound more than the fury encouraged compliance.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores both Musk and Miller. at April 07, 2025 12:18 PM (NFX2v)

335 Years ago had a number of occasions to travel for business to Victoria, British Columbia. Only practical way to fly there was via Air Canada through Vancouver.

Air Canada had like four flights a day, but not enough passengers to fill them, so the first two or three flights of the day would have "nose wheel problems" that delayed them so the full load of passengers could be held up and flown on the last one or two flights!

It was literally always the nosewheel... they didn't even try to hide it, and everyone knew the scam.

So folks like me figured out we could fly back and forth on Helijet Airways, in a sexy Sikorsky S-76, for only a little more, BUT could avoid a hotel fee and still work a full day! So eventually Air Canada lost all those passengers and all but two of the routes.

And let me tell you, the flight through the Gulf Islands at 3000 feet was spectacular! One afternoon the pilot came on the intercom and asked "Anybody in a hurry? Or would you like to watch some whales?"... and down we went to circle around an Orca pod at a couple hundred feet!!

Those choppers are noisy as shit though!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 07, 2025 02:29 PM (lYXIK)

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