Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Laundress
Honoré Daumier

From the museum's website:

This painting depicts a subject visible from Daumier's studio on the quai d'Anjou in Paris: laundresses returning from laundry boats moored on the Seine. Despite the weight of her bulky load, the woman tenderly extends her hand to help a child up the steps of the embankment. With her sturdy form silhouetted against a bright background, the humble worker acquires a certain monumentality. This picture is the largest and possibly the last of three painted versions of the composition; Daumier's pigments have deteriorated, obscuring the last digit of the date inscribed at the lower left, but in 1893 it was recorded as 1863.

It can be frustrating to see a faded painting that must have been radically different when it was completed, and this is a fine example of that!

On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 09:30 AM (ypFCm)

2 No tickee no washee

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 13, 2025 09:31 AM (d0vYf)

3 Just a bit blured out for my liking

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 09:31 AM (ypFCm)

4 Sorry, Lady, but no matter how hard you scrub, you ain't never gonna get that kid clean.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6 I hate doing laundry and I loathe ironing.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

7 Childhood obesity.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 13, 2025 09:32 AM (d0vYf)

8 Alternate Title: "Shoveling Off"

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (xVYib)

9 Kid looks.... unhappy. Mom looks.... torqued off.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

10 The only worse water than the Seine is the canals of Venice.

I mean, condom

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Oq5OE)

11 They're kinda chunky.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

12 Lumpy woman and her equally lumpy child traverse a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Tumors from the radiation. Lady was a Denny's parking lot 6 before the war.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (TdYBy)

13 Ah, hit send too soon.

Venice has condoms floating in the water.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Oq5OE)

14 These two haven't missed any meals.

Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

15 On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

"Glistening blue, which is amazing considering how many turds are in it......"

- - - - Jeremy Clarkson Referring to the Mediterranean Sea Near Monaco

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Commissar...I'll fix that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (LjcqP)

17 Shoulda bought a Maytag. And better paint.

Posted by: Don't Go Cheep! at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

18 French? Looks Polish to me......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

19 Did he use a Sepsis filter for this painting?

The Seine must have been like the Ganges back then.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Lw+Pk)

20 Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Oq5OE)

I just sent you an e-mail as requested.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

21 These two haven't missed any meals.
Posted by: dantesed

Stronk peasant stock.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 09:36 AM (QMyMX)

22 "The Condoms of Venice," was that the B side to "Werewolves of London"?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:36 AM (Lw+Pk)

23 Funny, she don't look like no Chink.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at May 13, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

24 That's very 'evenink wear.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

25

Shame about your brother, but he failed to follow orders!

You vill do so or you go in the river too!

Posted by: Nanny Ilsa at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (1NDRs)

26 The Seine must have been like the Ganges back then.
Posted by: Anna Puma

"back then"??

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

27 On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!

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"It's no Yamuna!"

/Does India have an EPA?

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (xVYib)

28 Condominiums?
I don't use 'em.

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

29 "The Condoms of Venice," was that the B side to "Werewolves of London"?
Posted by: Anna Puma

By jazz great Eddie Condom.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

30
/Does India have an EPA?
Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:37 AM (xVYib)

If they do, they're not very good at their job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

31 French? Looks Polish to me......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Like a couple of sausages.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

32 I just sent you an e-mail as requested.
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

Copy that

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:38 AM (Oq5OE)

33 Ah, hit send too soon.

Venice has condoms floating in the water.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Oq5OE)

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I'm old enough to remember racing Popsicle sticks.

The kids sure grow up fast now ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:39 AM (xVYib)

34 How far are you goin' with them sacks full of warsh?

Posted by: Karl Childers at May 13, 2025 09:40 AM (YStF8)

35
I'm old enough to remember racing Popsicle sticks.

The kids sure grow up fast now ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:39 AM (xVYib)

"I sawed this BITCH in half!!"

= = = = = = Phil Swift for Flex Seal

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Ok. I really gotta go to work.

Be excellent to each other.

Sid is Average Joe who we all know sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

37 His other paintings are just as dark . He had a thing for Don Quixote too. I see at least 4 paintings on that subject.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (VofaG)

38 I'm old enough to remember racing Popsicle sticks.

The kids sure grow up fast now ...
Posted by: ShainS

Pooh sticks FTW!

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

39 Washing clothes in the Seine >> bathing in the Ganges.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 13, 2025 09:42 AM (tT6L1)

40 Washing clothes in the Seine >> bathing in the Ganges.
Posted by: blake

Floating down the Nile beats both.
-- Baby Moses

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

41 The Seine couldn't have been worse than the Thames.

What does Charles Dickens have to say about it?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 13, 2025 09:44 AM (VofaG)

42 Don't know if "deteriorating pigments" fully explains the blurriness.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 09:45 AM (MFYQF)

43 Pooh sticks FTW!

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

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There's a Churchill pun in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Sovereignty Trumps Journalism (#OrangeHorseBad)! at May 13, 2025 09:45 AM (xVYib)

44 CBD: On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!

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

Old Joke, New Format

A young Parisian laundress named Lorraine
Said "Getting your whites white is a pain
If you're using river water
Well I just don't think you oughter
To do so you'd have to be in Seine!

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:46 AM (HOX+I)

45 This painting looks like it was filmed with a potato* You can keep this one.

*Hat tip : Steve Inman

Posted by: Kwak! at May 13, 2025 09:47 AM (89Sog)

46 'Next time you embarrass me like that I will throw you in. You never tell strangers the color of your mother's pantaloons!'

Posted by: Eromero at May 13, 2025 09:47 AM (LHPAg)

47 Looks like the kid is swinging a bottle of booze.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 09:47 AM (Q4IgG)

48 The Thames is tidal in London, so you can do your laundry in it when the shit is going out on the tide.
The Seine in Paree is very far from the coast, so the shit hangs around. Which is why Frenchmen smell quite bad.

Posted by: Ebb and Flow at May 13, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

49 The kid is holding the paddle, what does that say?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:48 AM (Lw+Pk)

50 The Seine couldn't have been worse than the Thames.

What does Charles Dickens have to say about it?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

"It was the best of Thames, it was the worst of Thames..."

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

51 I like how she is in shadow. It obscures her features and details. I also like how the light shining on the buildings across the river silhouette her form.

Posted by: Kris at May 13, 2025 09:51 AM (EwaUh)

52 How is the Seine pronounced?

See-anne or what?

Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

53 On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Definitely a "Charles River in the 70s vibe".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

54 A palm sander with a 180-grit attachment would bring that baby back to life.

Posted by: Molly Mid at May 13, 2025 09:53 AM (wzAuc)

55 How is the Seine pronounced?

See-anne or what?
Posted by: dantesed

I've always heard it pronounced as "sen."

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

56 "Did the Seine ever catch fire?" - Cleveland.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:53 AM (Lw+Pk)

57 End of the work day for woman and child. Woman washing clothes, child playing with water and dirt. Woman has to be tired but will extend hand to child who is climbing stairs that are very steep for them. Woman is slightly bent forward to help child. Child is also bent forward to manage the steepness of the stairs. Depicts connections between work and play, adult and child. I like the compassion demonstrated by the woman.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 13, 2025 09:54 AM (PcTds)

58 The largest steam engines in world history were built to pump raw sewage to retention ponds to be released on the outgoing tide in London. It made a huge difference in public health and the general smell and liveability of Victorian England. One of these pumping stations is restored and is a Modern Marvel.

Posted by: Pungent Pete at May 13, 2025 09:54 AM (G5+As)

59 How is the Seine pronounced?

See-anne or what?
Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

For English speakers, rhymes with "sane".

In French, closer to rhymes with "hen".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 09:54 AM (MFYQF)

60 This is nice and peaceful. I prefer Daumier's cartoons, but I could see myself hanging this up on the wall somewhere where I could simply sit and look.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 09:54 AM (Dg2sF)

61 "It was the best of Thames, it was the worst of Thames..."
Posted by: Bulg

********

Threadwinner!

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:55 AM (HOX+I)

62 49 The kid is holding the paddle, what does that say?
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's a shovel. He was mudlarkin', ee was!

Posted by: Victorian Street Urchin at May 13, 2025 09:57 AM (JCZqz)

63 How is the Seine pronounced?

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For my purposes it is pronounced exactly how I say it's pronounced! And that's all I am going to say about that.

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 09:58 AM (HOX+I)

64 For my purposes it is pronounced exactly how I say it's pronounced! And that's all I am going to say about that.

And Humpty-Dumpty Muldoon hath spoken

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:58 AM (Lw+Pk)

65 Good morning, Morons!

It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday! Get in there and give those bellies all the good rubbies! They love it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 13, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

66 Mudlarkin is fine and dandy until you find that unexploded SC500 bomb left over from the Blitz.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 09:59 AM (Lw+Pk)

67
The Seine, the Seine
When will I again
Meet her there
Greet her there
On the moonlit banks of the Seine

Posted by: The Kingston Trio at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (XeU6L)

68 The kid is holding the paddle, what does that say?
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's a shovel. He was mudlarkin', ee was!
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I saw it as a toy to help the child pass the time as they wait. If it was a tool to help with the washing. Then carrying it is the child's contribution to the work.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (PcTds)

69 Do not like smeary paintings, though smearing may help some such as Nekkid Lardass on Ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (pohLc)

70 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday! Get in there and give those bellies all the good rubbies! They love it!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 13, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

Tell that to Ciampino's cat. It seems to not have gotten the memo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (MFYQF)

71

The Seine smells like Cory Brook's underwear on Sunday morning...

Posted by: David Hogger at May 13, 2025 10:02 AM (1NDRs)

72 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (MFYQF)

You said yesterday that you sent an e-mail to Andycanuck. Did you ever hear back?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

73 The picture got to me to thinking. When I got up this morning, the wife told me a tree had fallen across the driveway, and she couldn't leave to go to the doctor. I dutifully put on my rain jacket (it's been raining since last night), got my buck saw, and dealt with the problem. It was more like a very large branch than a tree, but still.

I don't resent having to do it, because she does her share of the work around here and then some, but it started me thinking about all those brainwashed cretins who claim to need no man. What exactly would their strategy have been? Of course, we all know it would have been to call someone, almost certainly male, to deal with it. By the time that happened, though, they'd have missed their appointment, and been out a considerable sum of money.

I don't hate these girls; they're mostly just young, ignorant, and parroting what the culture has taught them. But they would do well to consider my example before they start in with their independent, stronk nonsense again.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:04 AM (s8j++)

74 Isn't the paddle to beat the clothes out on a rock or something?

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 10:04 AM (ypFCm)

75 You said yesterday that you sent an e-mail to Andycanuck. Did you ever hear back?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

I did, just this morning. He is alive and well, just taking a break.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:04 AM (MFYQF)

76 Tell that to Ciampino's cat. It seems to not have gotten the memo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:00 AM (MFYQF)
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Bailey? is a ninja assassin with fur.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2025 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

77

I'd hit 'em...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 13, 2025 10:06 AM (5hfjS)

78 I like how she is in shadow. It obscures her features and details. I also like how the light shining on the buildings across the river silhouette her form.

I agree. It makes her stand out in contrast to the buildings and yet only gives slight details of features. It could be any and every laundress.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 13, 2025 10:06 AM (PcTds)

79 AOP thank for update

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 10:07 AM (ypFCm)

80 I've always heard it pronounced as "sen."

Posted by: Bulg

Bah, foolish, stupid American. It's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.

Posted by: Parisians at May 13, 2025 10:07 AM (s8j++)

81 You said yesterday that you sent an e-mail to Andycanuck. Did you ever hear back?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

I did, just this morning. He is alive and well, just taking a break.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Great news!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:08 AM (QMyMX)

82 I don't hate these girls; they're mostly just young, ignorant, and parroting what the culture has taught them. But they would do well to consider my example before they start in with their independent, stronk nonsense again.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:04 AM (s8j++)

"I can't use a buck saw, the very name is sexist!"

-feminist, probably

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:08 AM (MFYQF)

83 Isn't the paddle to beat the clothes out on a rock or something?
Posted by: Skip

**********

Clothes in those days were often infested with various pests and insects. I think that paddle is a cricket bat.

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:08 AM (HOX+I)

84
Swim the Seine? You shouldn't oughter.
There's condoms floating on the water.
Then wading lightly as a dream
In the moonlight came my heart's queen
My life, my love, the plumber's daughter

Posted by: naturalfake at May 13, 2025 10:09 AM (iJfKG)

85 On the other hand, I am not sure I want my laundry done in the water of the Seine!
_______
Maybe, maybe not. When I was kid, my grandmother pointed out that she, as a child, used to swim where the was built. We thought that gross. But she'd have been talking about the time the above was painted.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 13, 2025 10:10 AM (1bNHn)

86 That paddle is also useful for keeping the French maids in line.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

87 Swim the Seine? You shouldn't oughter.
There's condoms floating on the water.
Then wading lightly as a dream
In the moonlight came my heart's queen
My life, my love, the plumber's daughter

Dang, this place is just full of master poets. I might have to put on pants.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:10 AM (s8j++)

88 Clothes in those days were often infested with various pests and insects. I think that paddle is a cricket bat.
Posted by: muldoon

A valuable source or protein those ignorant and culturally backwards colonizers were too proud to consume, unlike the noble savages they conquered and looked down upon!

Posted by: George Soros at May 13, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

89 Isn't the paddle to beat the clothes out on a rock or something?
Posted by: Skip

*********

It's to beat off potential rapists.

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:11 AM (HOX+I)

90 Clothes in those days were often infested with various pests and insects. I think that paddle is a cricket bat.
Posted by: muldoon

Lot of wasted effort. They don't fly that far when hit with a bat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:11 AM (QMyMX)

91 Way to conk that squid on the head with your shovel, child!

It's calamari for dinner tonight!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (w9Wax)

92 Clothes in those days were often infested with various pests and insects. I think that paddle is a cricket bat.
Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:08 AM (HOX+I)

Heh. By the way, the Liberal-funded cricket farm in Ontario is now in receivership. Seems cricket sales were less than hoppin'.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (MFYQF)

93 Isn't the paddle to beat the clothes out on a rock or something?
Posted by: Skip

*********

It's to beat off potential rapists.
Posted by: muldoon

Easier to just use her hands.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (QMyMX)

94 The largest steam engines in world history were built to pump raw sewage to retention ponds to be released on the outgoing tide in London.

They might think about now using them to pump out the woggies from Piccadilly.

Posted by: Danger Mouse at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (PAPHZ)

95
Clothes in those days were often infested with various pests and insects. I think that paddle is a cricket bat.

Nicely done!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (PcTds)

96 I find myself taken aback that not a soul has mentioned her full and plentiful bewbs.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 13, 2025 10:13 AM (VJc7E)

97 During the Olympics, I believe a swimming event was postponed or cancelled due to the Seine being heavily polluted.

Posted by: dantesed at May 13, 2025 10:13 AM (Oy/m2)

98 How many quarters does the washer take there? How about the dryer?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 10:13 AM (Q4IgG)

99 Too many floaters for the swimming race, not enough for the stepping-stone race.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:14 AM (MFYQF)

100 During the Olympics, I believe a swimming event was postponed or cancelled due to the Seine being heavily polluted.
Posted by: dantesed

Didn't some swimmers puke after swimming in it?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

101 https://legalinsurrection.com /dnc panel starts process to remove david hogg as vice chair

Oh but as it says, is even funnier. It's a diversity problem.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ypFCm)

102 During the Olympics, I believe a swimming event was postponed or cancelled due to the Seine being heavily polluted.
Posted by: dantesed

Yes. Fwance was literally shitting themselves trying to get the Seine clean enough to race in.

And swimmers still got sick.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (QMyMX)

103 That was the Seine? Thought it was at Rio?

Or did it happen at both?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (Lw+Pk)

104 One of my daughter's grad school friends used to row in India. She described the...less than salubrious waters in which she rowed. At least she was in the boat. I suppose it was a good way to discourage the rowers from overturning the boat.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:16 AM (s8j++)

105 99 Too many floaters for the swimming race, not enough for the stepping-stone race.
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Doo Dee!

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 13, 2025 10:16 AM (n17eQ)

106 Oh but as it says, is even funnier. It's a diversity problem.
Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (ypFCm)

He's about as diverse as can be, and still be classed as "human".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:16 AM (MFYQF)

107 102
Yes. Fwance was literally shitting themselves trying to get the Seine clean enough to race in.

And swimmers still got sick.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:15 AM (QMyMX)

IIRC, there were claims from the competitors of certain "things" floating that they would encounter during their swims.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (N39Ws)

108 https://legalinsurrection.com /dnc panel starts process to remove david hogg as vice chair

Oh but as it says, is even funnier. It's a diversity problem.
Posted by: Skip

Who installed him? Same people?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (QMyMX)

109 https://tinyurl.com/2y5yv9xj

Thank you President Trump.

!עם ישראל חי

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (RIvkX)

110 Not that I follow the Olympics but think it was bad intestinal bacteria in the river

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (ypFCm)

111 If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

112 Did the Seine ever catch fire?" - Cleveland.
——-

We were a better country when the Cuyahoga had an octane rating, when cigarettes could advertise, and lawyers (and pharmaceutical drug co’s!) couldn’t.

Weird, but undeniably true.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 13, 2025 10:17 AM (hoi0O)

113 105 99 Too many floaters for the swimming race, not enough for the stepping-stone race.
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Doo Dee!
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 13, 2025 10:16 AM (n17eQ)

Thank you for the movie reference. Brought a smile to my face - which I really needed today.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 13, 2025 10:18 AM (N39Ws)

114 https://legalinsurrection.com /dnc panel starts process to remove david hogg as vice chair

Oh but as it says, is even funnier. It's a diversity problem.

Understandable. He said something that made sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:18 AM (s8j++)

115 The invention of One-Hour Martinizing put this lady and the kid on the county poor farm. Sad.

Posted by: Carbon Tet Offensive at May 13, 2025 10:18 AM (G5+As)

116 That was the Seine? Thought it was at Rio?

Or did it happen at both?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Seine. Fwance spent billions of Euros trying yo clean it up enough to race in.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:18 AM (QMyMX)

117 111 If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?
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East is East and West is West.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 13, 2025 10:18 AM (n17eQ)

118 Carry over from last thread about own goals.

Red Wings' Paul Coffey's own goal in his "hat trick" game against the Avs:

https://tinyurl.com/3nn89kjc

Dumbass. No need for him to be at that spot, let alone with his stick on the ice. His responsibility in that scenario is to body-up the trailing Avs player who had actually stopped skating.

And to whomever asked the question in the last thread, Stephane Yelle, the Avs player who put the puck in front of the net before Coffey slapped it in, was credited with the goal.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 13, 2025 10:19 AM (Y1sOo)

119 Hogg being removed because that seat is formally reserved for a black lesbian is the most DNC thing possible.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2025 10:19 AM (3cXfB)

120 I was astonished at the state of the Seine. What modern, first world country doesn't put sewage treatment at the top of their to do list?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:19 AM (s8j++)

121 During the Olympics, I believe a swimming event was postponed or cancelled due to the Seine being heavily polluted.

**********

Gold medal was awarded to A.A. Milne of Britain for Winning the Pooh!

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:19 AM (HOX+I)

122 If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?
Posted by: Bulg

Indians are a silly people. They let cows walk loose while people starve.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:20 AM (QMyMX)

123 Utah Oil Tycoon James Jensen and Wife Arrested in $300M Mexican Oil Smuggling Scheme — Feds Raid $9.2M Mansion with Battering Ram

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

124 Gold medal was awarded to A.A. Milne of Britain for Winning the Pooh!
Posted by: muldoon

ISWYDT. Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:20 AM (QMyMX)

125 Hogg being removed because that seat is formally reserved for a black lesbian is the most DNC thing possible.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2025 10:19 AM (3cXfB)

We all should send Hogg a tin of black Shinola.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (MFYQF)

126 An Indian bakery just opened, but it's in a bad part of town.

It's called Hindoo Muffin.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (w9Wax)

127 I was astonished at the state of the Seine. What modern, first world country doesn't put sewage treatment at the top of their to do list?
Posted by: Archimedes

All first world countries do. IYKWIMAIKTYD

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (QMyMX)

128 Indians are a silly people. They let cows walk loose while people starve.
Posted by: rickb223

And they have one temple where they feed rats.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

129 Hogg being removed because that seat is formally reserved for a black lesbian is the most DNC thing possible.

It really is. This after he and Maher have both said if the DNC doesn't get ahead of the straight, white male hatred, they're doomed as a party. Actually, that's WHY they want to remove him.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (s8j++)

130 If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?

*********

Holy Crap!!

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (HOX+I)

131 If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?
Posted by: Bulg

Surely, you've heard the phrase, "Holy Shit!!!".

Posted by: naturalfake at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

132 What exactly would their strategy have been? Of course, we all know it would have been to call someone, almost certainly male, to deal with it.

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Haha. Funny you bring this up.

My yard has a couple of awesome maple trees. Both 100+ years old. Provide great shade in the summer. But every 2-3 of years they need to be trimmed up, otherwise they block light from coming into the house.

Last time I had this done it cost $700. I was like fuck me $700 to trim some trees? But yeah that’s the going rate. This year it’s $800.

Which sounds insane right? The dude is here for a couple of hours. But I don’t have a chainsaw. I could go rent one I suppose. And one of those extender things. And then hope the branches don’t fall on my head, lol. I don’t have a way to dispose of the branches. I could go rent a trailer and a truck. And then go to the dump. It would be less than $800, Maybe $400 including the dump fees. And a giant pain in the ass and potentially dangerous.

Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (d4dD2)

133 Fwance spent billions of Euros trying yo clean it up enough to race in.

I'm too lazy to look it up, but I believe it was a Frenchman who once sneered that "the English think soap is civilization."

Or, as the noted songwriter Ron Nasty once said, "Civilization is really an effective sewer system."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (Dg2sF)

134

If the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?
Posted by: Bulg

You always shit on the ones you love.

Posted by: David Hogger at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (1NDRs)

135 The Rio Olympics couldn't even keep the indoor swimming/diving pools clear. The water was green. Somehow, I manage to keep my pool water clear and balanced.

Posted by: HTH at May 13, 2025 10:23 AM (G5+As)

136 All first world countries do. IYKWIMAIKTYD
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:21 AM (QMyMX)

AFAIK, Victoria, B.C., that bastion of wokeness and ecological awareness, still pumps raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:24 AM (MFYQF)

137 AFAIK, Victoria, B.C., that bastion of wokeness and ecological awareness, still pumps raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Anything known as Juan de Fuca is full of shit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (n17eQ)

138 Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (d4dD2)

I once had it explained: You're not buying the service. You're buying your time back.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

139 Month after month, the government bean-counters at the Bureau of Labor Shitistics under former-president Biden published overly optimistic estimates for everything from job growth to the size of the economy, only to have those numbers routinely—and quietly—revised down later…

Instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000 of them. The next annual benchmark will probably be a (retroactive) reduction of jobs under Biden that exceeds this year’s large downward revision.

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (RHGPo)

140 I'm too lazy to look it up, but I believe it was a Frenchman who once sneered that "the English think soap is civilization."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Voltaire once said something along the lines of "The English have 20 religions but only two sauces." (I don't remember what the actual number for the religions was, but I do remember that it was meant to contrast with the small number of sauces.)

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

141 We all should send Hogg a tin of black Shinola

Or a tin of shit. He wouldn't know the difference

Posted by: Karl Childers at May 13, 2025 10:26 AM (YStF8)

142 Yes, faded - and that's a shame - but a very nice painting for Mother's Day & just a few days late.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 13, 2025 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

143 Gold medal was awarded to A.A. Milne of Britain for Winning the Pooh!
Posted by: muldoon
=========
Nice. Now do one about the poor woman in the painting and her mental issues.

She's in Seine, you know.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at May 13, 2025 10:26 AM (S20uS)

144 Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.

I've reached the stage when I will call someone when I never would have considered not doing it myself, but I have the excuse of being 29, and I can afford it. I really don't want to do a Dennis Prager off a ladder.

There's a difference between wisdom and just using common sense, and I don't pretend I can still do everything I could when I was 25. I can't, but I have done it in my life, so I'm not just blowing smoke, like the young ladies who claim to need no man.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 13, 2025 10:26 AM (s8j++)

145 Those are a lot of steep steps to climb. The child must have been exhausted. Chores are hard. Back in those times I guess you did what you had to do. People didn't live very long back in the day. Makes you kind of think how spoiled we are these days.

Posted by: Case at May 13, 2025 10:26 AM (Qdqx6)

146 You always shit on the ones you love.
Posted by: David Hogger at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (1NDRs)

Sometimes you hire an escort to pee on them and then beat the shit out of them. Allegedly. -- Diddy

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

147 Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I never "call a guy" for anything. Only exception, I had a company pump out my septic tank 4 years ago. Was thinking about pumping it out myself and depositing the solids on my property line, but thought better of it.

Posted by: Blot On The Landscape at May 13, 2025 10:28 AM (G5+As)

148 the Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?
——-

There’s an Indian tribe bitching about Moon exploration. Says the Moon is “Sacred” and shouldn’t be utilized or exploited. Somebody pointed out all those junked cars and trash on their Rez don’t correspond with the “Sacred” land philosophy.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 13, 2025 10:28 AM (yfFl/)

149 > 10 The only worse water than the Seine is the canals of Venice.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Oq5OE)

The Pearl River Delta has entered the chat.

86 million Chinese crapping in it directly, and that's not counting what comes from upstream.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2025 10:29 AM (W5ArC)

150 Nice. Now do one about the poor woman in the painting and her mental issues.

She's in Seine, you know.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

*********

See #44

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:29 AM (HOX+I)

151 AFAIK, Victoria, B.C., that bastion of wokeness and ecological awareness, still pumps raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You are correct.

When we would go up there for Swiftsure (sailboat race) the party at the Yacht Club was always a bit on the stinky side of the tide was in.

You could sometimes see floaters at the tide line.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 13, 2025 10:29 AM (LXrdm)

152 How is the Seine pronounced?

See-anne or what?
Posted by: dantesed

Some Buddhists pronounce it "zen."

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

153 I once had it explained: You're not buying the service. You're buying your time back.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

I once had a reasonably simple, yet moderately expensive, repair done to my wife's car. The tech scheduling it said, "You know, if you did this yourself, you could save $200." I replied that I lacked the tools and, if something got screwed up in the process, I preferred that it was on their head.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

154 DNC panel votes to void David Camera-Hogg’s election to Democrat vice chair

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This little piggy went to DNC.
This little piggy went home.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 13, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

155 Gold medal was awarded to A.A. Milne of Britain for Winning the Pooh!
Posted by: muldoon
=========
Nice. Now do one about the poor woman in the painting and her mental issues.

She's in Seine, you know.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

Edvard Munch. The Scream.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:31 AM (QMyMX)

156 Isn't the paddle to beat the clothes out on a rock or something?
Posted by: Skip

*********

It's to beat off potential rapists.
Posted by: muldoon

Easier to just use her hands.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:12 AM (QMyMX)

When all you have is a hammer . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 13, 2025 10:32 AM (i24o9)

157
I once had it explained: You're not buying the service. You're buying your time back.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2025 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

Good way to look at it. Also stress levels.

Also the concept of specialization. Everyone can’t be good at everything. Some people know how to cut trees most don’t. Some people know how to prepare taxes, most don’t.

The tree guy probably hires an accountant and thinks $2k to do my taxes? Fuck me that’s highway robbery.

Circle of life.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 10:32 AM (d4dD2)

158 They look like the fat people in Wall-E . Would hang but it definitely looks faded. Thx CBD, always liked Daumier

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 13, 2025 10:32 AM (2ZThz)

159 I think the DNC is dumping Hogg because he publicly said he was going to use PAC funds to primary sitting Democrats that he felt were not sufficiently woke.

Now the DNC is claiming he doesn't share their "values."

It's all horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 13, 2025 10:33 AM (Q4IgG)

160 > It would be less than $800, Maybe $400 including the dump fees. And a giant pain in the ass and potentially dangerous.

Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 13, 2025 10:22 AM (d4dD2)

The Guy probably also has to worry about taxes and insurance (which I'm certain is not cheap... "I see, Mr. Johnson. Your work involves chainsawing off chunks of tree weighing hundreds of pounds, while perched on a ladder 50 feet in the air. The blood of your firstborn should just about cover the premium.").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2025 10:34 AM (W5ArC)

161 >>>Ganges is so sacred to the Hindoos, why do they shit in it?

Why does the Sun come up in the East.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 13, 2025 10:35 AM (i24o9)

162 Looks like what you'd find on a FREE CANDY van that's been parked outside too long.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 13, 2025 10:35 AM (vYDwg)

163 This little piggy went to DNC.
This little piggy went home.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 13, 2025 10:30 AM

I LOL'd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2025 10:35 AM (kgE5c)

164 Hogg is getting off easy. They uninstalled Seth Rich the permanent way.

Posted by: "Botched Robbery" at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

165 @132. The reason it cost so much to have trees trimmed or cut down is insurance. That is if the people you hire are legitimate.

Posted by: Case at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (Qdqx6)

166 Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.

I do have a chain saw but I won't get off the ground with it.

Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (FhXTo)

167 162 Looks like what you'd find on a FREE CANDY van that's been parked outside too long.
Posted by: Cicero

Had this painting on side of my bitchin' Chevy Van, but it faded like the original.

Posted by: Sammy Johns at May 13, 2025 10:38 AM (G5+As)

168 Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.

I do have a chain saw but I won't get off the ground with it.

Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (FhXTo)

That literally takes rocket scientists.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 13, 2025 10:38 AM (i24o9)

169 I do have a chain saw but I won't get off the ground with it.
Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (FhXTo)

Yep. Might climb a ladder, securely tied down in my truck box, but that's it. Bigger jobs, hire they guy from town with the bucket truck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:38 AM (MFYQF)

170 I do have a chain saw but I won't get off the ground with it.
Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:36 AM (FhXTo)

Yep. Might climb a ladder, securely tied down in my truck box, but that's it. Bigger jobs, hire they guy from town with the bucket truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

For certain heights, we cheated. Climbed in the scoop on the tractor, was raised up, then used the gas pole saw.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:40 AM (QMyMX)

171 135 The Rio Olympics couldn't even keep the indoor swimming/diving pools clear. The water was green. Somehow, I manage to keep my pool water clear and balanced.
Posted by: HTH at May 13, 2025 10:23 AM (G5+As)

When questioned about it, the Brazilian spokes idiot said, and I am not making this up, "Chemistry is not an exact science."

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 13, 2025 10:41 AM (pIfcn)

172 Yep. Might climb a ladder, securely tied down in my truck box, but that's it. Bigger jobs, hire they guy from town with the bucket truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I figgered you owned a Studebaker bucket truck. Surprised, I am.

Posted by: South Bender at May 13, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

173 I think the DNC is dumping Hogg because he publicly said he was going to use PAC funds to primary sitting Democrats that he felt were not sufficiently woke.

Now the DNC is claiming he doesn't share their "values."

He committed two unpardonable sins:
1) Threatening to disrupt the graft of sitting useless members
2) Suggesting men were worth being listened to

Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2025 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

174 Yep. Might climb a ladder, securely tied down in my truck box, but that's it. Bigger jobs, hire they guy from town with the bucket truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When I was a little kid, my Dad used to paint the outside of the house by hand. It was a big house, and to reach the top of the outside walls he would use a ladder that was on top of a picnic table that was in the bed of a pickup truck.

Mom made sure we got aluminum siding after that.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

175 What do all these women do when they need a spider squished or a rat expelled?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 13, 2025 10:43 AM (flHRX)

176 For certain heights, we cheated. Climbed in the scoop on the tractor, was raised up, then used the gas pole saw.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:40 AM (QMyMX)

Yeah, I have a bucket on my tractor, can easily raise it to eight feet. But I would need a driver on the tractor to do that with me in the bucket.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:44 AM (MFYQF)

177 Axios@axios
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, @jaketapper and @AlexThomp write in their new book.

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I'd go with an iron lung to be on the safe side.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 13, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

178 Yeah, I have a bucket on my tractor, can easily raise it to eight feet. But I would need a driver on the tractor to do that with me in the bucket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Long pvc pipe to manipulate the levers?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (QMyMX)

179 Mom made sure we got aluminum siding after that.
Posted by: Bulg

"They're sealing us in, like a tin can"!

Posted by: archie Bunker, Queens, NY, 1973 at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (G5+As)

180 Would not hang. My taste runs to happier subjects not ones that remind me of drudgery

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (NVNRw)

181 What do all these women do when they need a spider squished or a rat expelled?
Posted by: nurse ratched

My wife is actually pretty cool about spiders and other bugs. She tries to get them to crawl on a piece of paper, and then takes the paper outside and brushes the critter off into the grass or dirt.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

182 Ooh, she's dirty, sturdy and none too purdy.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (144I4)

183 I figgered you owned a Studebaker bucket truck. Surprised, I am.
Posted by: South Bender at May 13, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

Well, I have a couple of Studebaker trucks that could handle a manlift. But I think manlifts were pretty new in the marketplace when Studebaker stopped making big trucks.

Rocket launchers, OTOH...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (MFYQF)

184 Yeah, I have a bucket on my tractor, can easily raise it to eight feet. But I would need a driver on the tractor to do that with me in the bucket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*********

You could position the bucket then use a ladder to climb up into the bucket

😊

Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (HOX+I)

185 Learn to work the saxophone
I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2025 10:47 AM (RHGPo)

186 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uki4lrLzRaU

limitations must be known
especially "where'd that bomb go"?

Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:47 AM (FhXTo)

187
Re: the art

murky, muddled
Grade: nah

Posted by: Don Black at May 13, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

188 Long pvc pipe to manipulate the levers?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (QMyMX)

I was thinking push/pull cables, like used for outboard motor controls. But it winds up being a kludge, and not safe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:48 AM (MFYQF)

189 Had some trees taken down by a local company… watched the climber go up and disassemble the giant oaks… impressive. Small wiry very strong and agile guy.. and young. Worth his weight in gold, he is….

Posted by: tubal at May 13, 2025 10:50 AM (PCK5/)

190
"Yes, child, our clothes are still dingy and gray. That is our lot in life, I'm afraid."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 13, 2025 10:51 AM (xG4kz)

191 Had some trees taken down by a local company… watched the climber go up and disassemble the giant oaks… impressive. Small wiry very strong and agile guy.. and young. Worth his weight in gold, he is….
Posted by: tubal

That's a fascinating process to watch.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

192 You could position the bucket then use a ladder to climb up into the bucket

😊
Posted by: muldoon at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (HOX+I)

Truth be known, the hydraulics leak down on both lift and curl. Slowly enough that I can live with it for the uses I put it to, but fast enough to make me leery of trusting my life to it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:51 AM (MFYQF)

193 >Sometimes it’s easier to just “call the guy”.
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mos def
anything beyond changing a light bulb, I call a guy. It's just safer for me.

Posted by: Don Black at May 13, 2025 10:51 AM (AOsQT)

194 191 Had some trees taken down by a local company… watched the climber go up and disassemble the giant oaks… impressive. Small wiry very strong and agile guy.. and young. Worth his weight in gold, he is….
Posted by: tubal

That's a fascinating process to watch.
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

He had his guys on the ground with the tie-off ropesdirecting the controlled falls… amazing team.

Posted by: tubal at May 13, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)

195 So that was the problem! She was too tough on crime.

Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Jasmine Crockett tells Chuck Todd she thinks Kamala Harris struggled with black men in 2024 due to her prosecutor background
"I think that what had been baked in about the vice president was that she was a prosecutor. They did not know very much beyond that."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 13, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

196 Climbing arborists are expensive, but holy camoly i get why. In to of all the insurance they have to carry, the gear alone would make golfers blush at the price tag. And the stuff can only be used a certain number of climbs before it needs to be replaced.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 10:54 AM (MdyBk)

197 Ok, I'm blaming those typos on my eyes.

Zoom in before you type, dummy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 10:54 AM (MdyBk)

198 I always "call the guy(s)" when staying at local motels.

Posted by: Andrew Gillum. at May 13, 2025 10:55 AM (G5+As)

199 They did not know very much beyond that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 13, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

Is that how they pronounce "chickenhead" in her dialect?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2025 10:55 AM (MdyBk)

200 Well, time to get on with my day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2025 10:56 AM (MFYQF)

201 Well, time to get on with my day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Have a good one, AOP.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

202 Strait of Juan de Caca

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 13, 2025 10:57 AM (144I4)

203 My wife is actually pretty cool about spiders and other bugs. She tries to get them to crawl on a piece of paper, and then takes the paper outside and brushes the critter off into the grass or dirt.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

Pretty much what my wife does... except for the screaming and running from the room part.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2025 10:58 AM (LjcqP)

204 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uki4lrLzRaU

limitations must be known
especially "where'd that bomb go"?
Posted by: DaveA at May 13, 2025 10:47 AM

There is much iron in Callahan's words of death.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2025 10:58 AM (kgE5c)

205 PDT inks 142 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 10:59 AM (NVNRw)

206 PDT inks 142 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Ben Had

For what?

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

207 PDT inks 142 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Ben Had

For what?
Posted by: Bulg

Sand. They're buying our sand. Told you Trump was good.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 11:00 AM (QMyMX)

208 205 PDT inks 142 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 10:59 AM (NVNRw)

This is what he does… we knew this before we hired him, all three times… approved.

Posted by: tubal at May 13, 2025 11:00 AM (PCK5/)

209 Bulg, arms

Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 11:00 AM (NVNRw)

210 NOOD Guest Rant

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 13, 2025 11:01 AM (/HDaX)

211 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

212 PDT inks 142 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Ben Had

For what?
Posted by: Bulg at May 13, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

Hookahs and tents.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 13, 2025 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

213 Bulg, arms
Posted by: Ben Had at May 13, 2025 11:00 AM (NVNRw)

Honest and for true?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 13, 2025 11:02 AM (JA4sW)

214 PDT inks 162 billion dollar deal with Canadian Inuit for refrigerators.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2025 11:03 AM (QMyMX)

215 In 1974 the Venice canals had lots of unmentionable flotsam. Yuck. I was shocked last summer to see clear water and a small school of mullet swimming on some submerged steps. With video to prove it. And no odor at all .

Posted by: Lester Fahrner at May 13, 2025 02:05 PM (dFw9b)

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