Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Rope Dance
Léonard Defrance

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 cool

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

2 Earliest!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:32 AM (W/lyH)

3 First?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 10, 2025 09:32 AM (2UZZJ)

4 Alternate title: Gavin Newscum tries to walk a fine line to keep his political aspirations alive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:33 AM (aVx/C)

5 Drat, foiled again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 10, 2025 09:33 AM (2UZZJ)

6 Carnies, the early days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

7 It's a metaphor for aging.

The rope is a metaphor for aging. The figures are metaphors for aging. The background is a metaphor for aging. The cello, though, is a metaphor for debauchery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

8 I'm up on the tightwire
One side's ice and one is fire
It's a circus game with you and me
I'm up on the tightrope
One side's hate and one is hope
But the top hat on my head is all you see

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

9 I like this one , would hang. Infinitely less gay than yesterday's art.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (2UZZJ)

10 Busty.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (l3YAf)

11 Well, it's not as faggy as yesterday's offering...

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

12 Predecessor to The Safety Dance.

Posted by: With or without hats at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (lIgBp)

13 Subtle difference in Rope Dance and Dancing at End of a Rope.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

14 Guy in the chair is about to twang the rope. They'll see some dancing then.

Posted by: huerfano at June 10, 2025 09:35 AM (n2swS)

15 Hmmmm...
Im thinking while everyone is watching the one on the rope, the people on the stage are into the hanky-panky.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:35 AM (W/lyH)

16 Well if your friends can't dance, they're no friends of mine.

Will they take a header into the tuba next?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:35 AM (aVx/C)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

18 A lot less pride-y than yesterday

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (tQYXz)

19 The MET

Title: The Rope Dance

Artist: Léonard Defrance (Flemish, 1735–1805)

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: 19 7/8 x 28 5/8 in. (50.5 x 72.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Purchase, 1871

Object Number: 71.105

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

20 Kinda cruel to throw the Down's kid up there on the rope like that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

21 dude without a hat seated on far right needs to chill the f out

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (sJHOI)

22 This crowd is easy pickins!

Posted by: A Pickpocket at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Aqu9a)

23 This is the French equivalent of those old Japanese woodblock prints of lean sumo wrestlers.

50% less gay than yesterday.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

24 Five feet off the floor is not death defying!

Raise the rope!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (aVx/C)

25 rhennigantx, you beat me to it, I was thinking of Leon Russell also.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0nHVk)

26 It's all good until someone has a 'slip 'n fall' onto the rope and crushes a nut, yes ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ayRl+)

27 Scandalous outfits!
*hies to fainting couch*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Splbu)

28 She never skips calf day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

29 His name was Lennie of France?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (aVx/C)

30 >>I'm up on the tightwire
One side's ice and one is fire
It's a circus game with you and me
I'm up on the tightrope
One side's hate and one is hope
But the top hat on my head is all you see

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM

I love Leon Russell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UkNp4YMcWQ

Posted by: huerfano at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (n2swS)

31 Why is the dude in Black on the right looking thru a soup can?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

32 She's no Nikolas Wallenda.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

33 Sobriety test?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (DLqye)

34 Misogynistic.

The woman rope-walker needs a man to catch her if she falls.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (Y1sOo)

35 One dude's getting the vapors, it ain't like she gone dine from a fall

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

36 And here I was hoping for commies to be dancing the Danny Deaver.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (o18eU)

37 They had female tight rope walkers in 1805?

Also, weren't French people a little more involved with being at war with everyone else in Europe at the time?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (t0Rmr)

38 Alrighty!
Where are the clowns?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (F/B4x)

39 die not "dine"

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (sJHOI)

40 Off to work.

Be excellent to each other.

In the immortal words of Sid, VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

41 These people are really into their headwear.

Posted by: Can't help but notice at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (lIgBp)

42 >> Scandalous outfits!
*hies to fainting couch*

We can see her bloomers!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2025 09:39 AM (F/B4x)

43 The tightrope contraption looks pretty primitive and unsafe.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

44 She's no Nikolas Wallenda.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

That's cause she's his great-great-great grandmother. This is the moment where it all began.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Aqu9a)

45 Guy with the spyglass wants to see her large tracts of land.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:40 AM (aVx/C)

46 Alrighty!
Where are the clowns?
Posted by: Lizzy

Maybe next year.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

47 >> Five feet off the floor is not death defying!

In an era with no penicillin, everything is death-defying.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 10, 2025 09:40 AM (l3YAf)

48 Ok this painting is very, very racist. They made all the black people in France in 1805 white. HOW DARE THEY!

Posted by: NetFlix at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (t0Rmr)

49 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Get em while they’re napping!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (nynJs)

50 The dude in white clothes has no neck.

Posted by: dantesed at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)

51
You're Walking a Fine Line, Buddy - a limerick

Every woman knows how it feels
What the typical Rope Dance reveals
What the boys do with ease
On the flying trapeze
Girls do the same thing. Backwards. In heels.

Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

52
ELO has something to say about this painting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdxfewxLFd8

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (iJfKG)

53 31 Why is the dude in Black on the right looking thru a soup can?

It was the style at the time.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (lIgBp)

54 No neck?

Cue up Rocky Horror Picture Show

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (aVx/C)

55 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I wonder if we might see Them Pants one day soon from the Perfessor?
Goes look for.coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (W/lyH)

56 To clarify my last statement: high-wire > low-rope.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 10, 2025 09:42 AM (BHrzb)

57 The dude in white clothes has no neck.
Posted by: dantesed

He looks like some character that Lon Chaney Sr. would play.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

58 Those calf muscles are impressive.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

59 I see Muldoon has managed to coax the limerick portion of his brain out of its safe space after yesterday's horror.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:42 AM (aVx/C)

60 Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

Glad to see that the Limerick Area in your brain has recovered.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

61 Lizzy, you're right.
Send in the clowns
There ought to be clowns.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (BHrzb)

62 I see they airbrushed the penguins out.

Posted by: fd at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (vFG9F)

63 It's a metaphor for aging.

The rope is a metaphor for aging. The figures are metaphors for aging. The background is a metaphor for aging. The cello, though, is a metaphor for debauchery.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

Seems like someone is feeling Father Time breathing down their neck.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (ExV1e)

64 Generally how I feel at any family gathering.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (uWKK8)

65 50 The dude in white clothes has no neck.

Then I met a man who had no feet.

Posted by: Just the punchline at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (lIgBp)

66 It's the Man on Wire prequel.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (MGB5H)

67 Alternate title:

"Dolley Does the Rope Dance at TMJ's Birthday Party, While TMJ...uh...Waves a Hat Under Her Feet..."

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

68 >> They had female tight rope walkers in 1805?

This was the first one. A pioneer for women’s rights.

She was also the first lady mime. She broke the invisible ceiling.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (l3YAf)

69 So if any gentleman pulled out a block of cheese would it have distracted the tight rope walker?

Posted by: The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft, at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)

70 I see they airbrushed the penguins out.
Posted by: fd at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (vFG9F)

Opsec. -- Big Penguin

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ExV1e)

71 You walk with me out on the wire
'Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen, back when he didn't suck at June 10, 2025 09:45 AM (qpyNK)

72 She was also the first lady mime. She broke the invisible ceiling.

/Mimes playing a slide whistle as I read this

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

73 there's assholes in the top right what didn't pay admission

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:45 AM (sJHOI)

74 I found the art from yesterday to be far more interesting and technically superior.

Honestly, I find this one dull.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (lfiac)

75 The spotters need to pay more attention.

Posted by: huerfano at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (n2swS)

76 So which one in the background is Taylor Lorenz?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (aVx/C)

77 The Rope Dance evolved into the Fan Dance evolved into the Lap Dance evolved into AI/Only Fans.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (Aqu9a)

78 Guy with the spyglass wants to see her large tracts of land.
Posted by: Anna Puma

**********

Optical Illusion - a limerick

I'd like to pay an homage
To her marvelous décolletage
But "Objects in the mirror
are not as large as they appear"
Alas! It was just a mirage!

Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

79 Hmmm. No net, so definitely not a safety dance.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:46 AM (kgE5c)

80 Going to live shows in the era of big hats must have been annoying if you weren't very tall.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (t0Rmr)

81 > 48 Ok this painting is very, very racist. They made all the black people in France in 1805 white. HOW DARE THEY!
Posted by: NetFlix at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (t0Rmr)

Ahem.

Posted by: Alexandre Dumas at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (qpyNK)

82 Every woman knows how it feels
What the typical Rope Dance reveals
What the boys do with ease
On the flying trapeze
Girls do the same thing. Backwards. In heels.
Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

I'm guessing Muldoon spent yesterday binging on Ginger Rogers movies.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (W/lyH)

83 Guy on stage is getting to work with that hooker.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Y1sOo)

84 61 Lizzy, you're right.
Send in the clowns
There ought to be clowns.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 10, 2025 09:43 AM (BHrzb)

don't bother, they're here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (uWKK8)

85 Going to live shows in the era of big hats must have been annoying if you weren't very tall.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (t0Rmr)

It's still annoying.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (MGB5H)

86 Internet describes painter as. Walloon painter Is that some area that is now Belgium?

I prefer his portraits of individuals to this, although it's not a subject that comes up all that much, I expect., so it that respect it's interesting

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2025 09:48 AM (tF1qI)

87 Baby got low center of gravity.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:48 AM (qpyNK)

88 Many of the faces are horribly ugly, in a demonic sort of way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 09:48 AM (lfiac)

89 That Salsa dance was made in New York Clty?

Get a rope.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 10, 2025 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

90 The Walk was pretty intense movie when you finally got to the walk part.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:48 AM (VofaG)

91 inbreeding was more acceptable, it was a different era

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)

92 Booty limericks!

Posted by: It's all about that bass at June 10, 2025 09:49 AM (lIgBp)

93 Walloon = Belgian Frenchie

Fleming = Belgian Dutchman

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

94 Posted by: Alexandre Dumas at June 10, 2025 09:47 AM (qpyNK)

I was so thrilled to read your books Mr Dumb As or like you know the movies. And did you like actually invent the Monte Cristo sandwich?

Posted by: Some Publik School Graduate at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

95 Internet describes painter as. Walloon painter Is that some area that is now Belgium?

Flemish. From Flemland.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

96 Note the wide birthing hips.

Posted by: All the men watching at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (lIgBp)

97 inbreeding was more acceptable, it was a different era

Infidel say what now

Posted by: Some Jihadi married to his cousin/aunt/half sister at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

98 95 Flemish. From Flemland.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

======

Gross.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

99 50% less gay than yesterday.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

Just the tip

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

100 96 Note the wide birthing hips.
Posted by: All the men watching

I thought those were bloomers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (Dv3i1)

101 54 No neck?

Cue up Rocky Horror Picture Show
Posted by: Anna Puma

Walt "No Neck" Williams was a Major Leaguer for 11 years, later played in Japan. Batted .270 lifetime.

Posted by: Necks Are Overrated at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)

102 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

103 59 I see Muldoon has managed to coax the limerick portion of his brain out of its safe space after yesterday's horror.
Posted by: Anna Puma

60 Glad to see that the Limerick Area in your brain has recovered.
Posted by: Bulg

*********

A couple beers and 45 minutes of hot yoga and the little fellow perked right up.

Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

104 Flemland?

Gesundheit

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (aVx/C)

105 Walloon = Belgian Frenchie

Fleming = Belgian Dutchman
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:49 AM

Poirot = Belgian Detective

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (kgE5c)

106 I think I saw this very act at Circus Circus in Vegas in 1984.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (g8Ew8)

107 Walloon sounds like a good word for a limerick.

Posted by: Hint, hint at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (lIgBp)

108 TJM get the hell off my lawn before I call the cops.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (RIvkX)

109 11 Well, it's not as faggy as yesterday's offering...
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
_______
There are drag queens less faggy than yesterday's.

CBD owes us bewbs.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (od0dV)

110 This country has been under Marshall law since 1803!

Posted by: Zombie Andy Jackson, readying the militia against insurrectionists at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (l3YAf)

111 108 TJM get the hell off my lawn before I call the cops.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 10, 2025 09:51 AM (RIvkX)

======

They'll just let me out without bail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

112 If the painter had replaced the canvas background with bright colored circus flags the painting would be 10 times better.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

113 Japanese burlesque show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bW3bUfFcI8

Now for the boys

https://youtu.be/Ys0QtGoeNi4?si=CSg2VaFiJMYKBTI_

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (aVx/C)

114 Well, off to Geezer Golf shortly.
Time to start putting the squeeze on the old duffers. All this sand bagging and now it's time for the payoff.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

115 95 Flemish. From Flemland.

Call me.

Posted by: Mucinex at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM (lIgBp)

116 I think I saw this very act at Circus Circus in Vegas in 1984.

Amazing!

Most 200+ year old women can't even walk, let alone walk a tightrope

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t0Rmr)

117 It’s okay, but they need to add bear baiting…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (PCK5/)

118 CBD owes us bewbs.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM

Be careful what you ask for.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

119 I rather like this painting. It captures the feel of a traveling company of entertainers for the 1700s: rough wooden walls, well used curtains to give an air of something special, the improvised tightrope supports, all realistic enough. The two circus figures in the center stand out in the painting and the crowd with their bright white costumes, keeping the focus of the art viewer and the performers' audience. The spectators are sufficiently individual but not so much they take a lot of attention from the performers. It's very effective.

This wouldn't apply to the viewer of the period but, looking at it today, there are echoes of Elizabethan and earlier times with itinerant companies of actors trying to survive on talent and content alone with minimal backdrops and few possessions. It's easy to imagine Puck giving the closing lines of A Midsummer Night's Dream or Hamlet examining Yorick's skull.

Posted by: JTB at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

120 CBD owes us bewbs.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM

Be careful what you ask for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

Just over here prepping the ottoman.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (MGB5H)

121 118 CBD owes us bewbs.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM

Be careful what you ask for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

Right.. It could be man boobs

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (VE6XX)

122 CBD owes us bewbs.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM

Be careful what you ask for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

*finger curls*

Posted by: Monkeys paw at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (l3YAf)

123 Japanese burlesque show

Farcebook gave me an ad for a star war themed burlesque show and...how has America gotten nerdier then Japan?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (t0Rmr)

124 It’s nice and cool this morning. All the windows are open. The marine air is salty and briny and cool
Hopefully it doesn’t get too gross this afternoon/evening.

Time to head for the boat.

Stay cool, horde!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (lfiac)

125 BruceWayne gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

126 They're not exactly the Flying Wallendas, but I guess you have to start somewhere.

Posted by: PabloD at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (Dsfkc)

127 8 CBD owes us bewbs.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 10, 2025 09:52 AM

Be careful what you ask for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

He’ll give us some Alice Neel.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (VofaG)

128 Flemish. From Flemland.
Posted by: Diogenes

**********

You asked for it:

From the Archives

A Belgian hooker with nary a blemish
Had a Frenchman who stayed 'til the finish
She was heard to emote
"I've a Frog in my throat,
So excuse me, if I'm just a bit Phlegmish"

Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

129 Stay cool, horde!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM

My car's a/c is being looked at as we speak!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 09:55 AM (kgE5c)

130 or Hamlet examining Yorick's skull.

You sir have my attention.

Posted by: Khorne at June 10, 2025 09:55 AM (t0Rmr)

131 Alternate title:

"Rope Dancer, Giselle LeFau, Risks Life and a Really Badly Sprained Ankle As She Performs a Full One and a Half Meters Above the Ground"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

132 > Walloon painter Is that some area that is now Belgium?

Yeah. Walloons = Frog-speaking Belgies. Flemings = Flemish-speaking Belgies (or "Phlegms").

Both mostly Catholics. The Catholic part of the Netherlands, now Belgium, was historically known as the "Spanish Netherlands". What we now call the Netherlands was the Protestant part. Flemish is quite similar to Dutch.

"Sometimes the English and the Dutch ally against the French, and fight in the Spanish Netherlands. Sometimes the English and the French ally against the Dutch, and fight in the Spanish Netherlands. Sometimes the Dutch and French ally against the English, and fight in the Spanish Netherlands." -- Neal Stephenson

Nothing has changed. The Eurosavages alway prefer to fight in Belgium, if they can manage it. Why fuck up their own countries, and let's get real: what are the Belgians going to do about it?

"France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium. With the possible exception of inventing Brussels sprouts, I can't think of anything they've done to deserve this."

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)

133 Amazing!

Most 200+ year old women can't even walk, let alone walk a tightrope
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t0Rmr)

She used a very long orthopedic cane.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

134 A Belgian hooker with nary a blemish
Had a Frenchman who stayed 'til the finish
She was heard to emote
"I've a Frog in my throat,
So excuse me, if I'm just a bit Phlegmish"
Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

Shall I dare say that might be your best ever.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

135 Be careful what you ask for.

I did bring up Leonard Nimoy's art the other day...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (t0Rmr)

136 I'm up on the tightwire
Flanked by life and the funeral pyre
Putting on a show for you to see

Like a rubber-neck giraffe
You look into my past
Well, maybe you're just too blind to see
I'm up in the spotlight
Oh, does it feel right
Well, the altitude really gets to me

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

137 That redhead on stage...baby's got back!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (144I4)

138 My car's a/c is being looked at as we speak!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

My car hasn't had a/c in, like, ten years.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

139 Star Wars burlesque?

Cosplay contests weren't enough?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 09:57 AM (aVx/C)

140 114 Well, off to Geezer Golf shortly.
Time to start putting the squeeze on the old duffers. All this sand bagging and now it's time for the payoff.
Posted by: Diogenes

HA! Played that and got played.

Wait... Dykhouse, is that you?

Posted by: Auspex at June 10, 2025 09:57 AM (j4U/Z)

141 134 A Belgian hooker with nary a blemish
Had a Frenchman who stayed 'til the finish
She was heard to emote
"I've a Frog in my throat,
So excuse me, if I'm just a bit Phlegmish"
Posted by: muldoon at June 10, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

20 bux is 20 bux

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 09:57 AM (gbOdA)

142 Old timey scenes like this make me happy that I live in an era of Lume, Arrid, Secret, and even Axe body spray. Especially when the French are involved.

Posted by: Olfactory Overload at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

143 WTF? PAID-FOR "bionic shields" (filterless gas masks) are being trucked in for the Los Angeles rioters.

These cost around $60, each...and there are BOXES and BOXES of them being handed out.

"That's not the kind of thing that you buy in bulk if you don't plan on doing something with it..."

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

144 They'll just let me out without bail.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

TJM, happy birthday!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (8mqiT)

145 > Right.. It could be man boobs
Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2025 09:54 AM (VE6XX)

Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (qpyNK)

146 The looting phase of the program has begun.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (i24o9)

147 Old timey scenes like this make me happy that I live in an era of Lume, Arrid, Secret, and even Axe body spray. Especially when the French are involved.
Posted by: Olfactory Overload at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

Don’t forget about the syphilis epidemic in Paris in the 1800’s.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

148 142 Old timey scenes like this make me happy that I live in an era of Lume, Arrid, Secret, and even Axe body spray. Especially when the French are involved.
Posted by: Olfactory Overload at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

Maybe the onions and garlic mitigated their stench…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (PCK5/)

149 144 TJM, happy birthday!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (8mqiT)

========

Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

150 Don’t forget about the syphilis epidemic in Paris in the 1800’s.

Coming soon to LA!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (aVx/C)

151 Star Wars burlesque?

Cosplay contests weren't enough?

The ad showed two women one with some...tentacle looking thing on her head...which I remember from Return of the Jedi, and then the other wearing a stormtrooper helmet and in both cases wearing about as much as a woman might wear at the beach, and they were doing some dance routine.

Honestly neither sexy nor entertaining as say the original SW movies were. It worked as well togoether as saw chocolate and...french fries.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (t0Rmr)

152 Happy birthday, TJM!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (kgE5c)

153 143 WTF? PAID-FOR "bionic shields" (filterless gas masks) are being trucked in for the Los Angeles rioters.

These cost around $60, each...and there are BOXES and BOXES of them being handed out.

"That's not the kind of thing that you buy in bulk if you don't plan on doing something with it..."
Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

The left is coordinated. This has been planned like a military operation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (ohom6)

154 147 Old timey scenes like this make me happy that I live in an era of Lume, Arrid, Secret, and even Axe body spray. Especially when the French are involved.
Posted by: Olfactory Overload at June 10, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)

Don’t forget about the syphilis epidemic in Paris in the 1800’s.
Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

Eh, nothing that an agressive regimen of mercury can’t cure…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

155 The Rope Dance, Léonard Defrance

It's so cruel but I guess it was intended to capture some of the history of the time, class differences.

Interesting, but hard pass for hanging this painting.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 10, 2025 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

156 146 The looting phase of the program has begun.
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We should be safe.

Posted by: The steel toed work boots at Red Wing Shoes at June 10, 2025 10:01 AM (lIgBp)

157 Gentlemen, let me introduce to you the latest technology. The Tripod.

Posted by: DaveA at June 10, 2025 10:01 AM (FhXTo)

158 Here’s a breakdown of the groups, the money, and the people pulling the strings.

A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation.

CHIRLA has the EIN of 954421521. Most of its private funding appears to be from DAFs, which are the hardest to trace. However 34 million of its reported 45 million in revenue are from government grants.

The riots are paid for by USAID types.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 10:02 AM (gbOdA)

159 So you don’t use tear gas. Time to bring out the auditory weapons and water cannons.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:02 AM (VofaG)

160 152 Happy birthday, TJM!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (kgE5c)

======

Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

161 Regretta Scumberg is now on a flight to Paris after being deported.

They should've interned the little scrunt until the end of hostilities (which, considering that the "Palestinians" have been getting their asses kicked for 77 year straight at this point, might be...a while).

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at June 10, 2025 10:02 AM (qpyNK)

162 What's a DAF?

Posted by: Ok, I I'll bite at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (lIgBp)

163 Dang. Muldoon working blue in this set. I like it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (jeWRt)

164 18-1

Sounds like desperate OnlyFans 'content' creators.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (aVx/C)

165 LA could stop the riots cold if they wanted.

The riots continue and escalate.

Ergo, LA wants the riots to happen.

Q.E.D.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Aqu9a)

166 > The left is coordinated. This has been planned like a military operation.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:00 AM (ohom6)

Wait until they Find Out that, unlike LAPD, the communist mayor doesn't sign the paychecks of the National Guard and Marines. FAFO.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

167 What's a DAF?
Posted by: Ok, I I'll bite

$20...

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

168 Been without power since 10:02 pm Sunday night. Power won't be restored until tomorrow. Storm broke 23 power poles. More than nine were phase 3 poles. We got a room in town and we have lost everything in three freezers and two refrigerators.

FML.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

169 What's a DAF?/i]

Dapper as F__k.

Posted by: Joseph Ducreux at June 10, 2025 10:05 AM (t0Rmr)

170 Warai-otoko

#113

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:05 AM (aVx/C)

171 Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

Sorry to hear that...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

172 165 LA could stop the riots cold if they wanted.

The riots continue and escalate.

Ergo, LA wants the riots to happen.

Q.E.D.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Aqu9a)

correctamudo
It is an information war with a side of violets.

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

173 166 Wait until they Find Out that, unlike LAPD, the communist mayor doesn't sign the paychecks of the National Guard and Marines. FAFO.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

=====

This DOJ arrested a sitting judge who helped an illegal immigrant out a back door.

People need to remember that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

174 168 Been without power since 10:02 pm Sunday night. Power won't be restored until tomorrow. Storm broke 23 power poles. More than nine were phase 3 poles. We got a room in town and we have lost everything in three freezers and two refrigerators.

FML.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

That sucks, rick… sorry for you dude..

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:06 AM (PCK5/)

175 Not much of a neck on anybody in the painting. The artist must not be good on necks. I don't much care for the painting anyway. Who cares about someone walking on a rope that's barely off the ground?

Posted by: Case at June 10, 2025 10:06 AM (k7qYZ)

176 Hitting Federal agents with fireworks - assault.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:06 AM (aVx/C)

177 rickb223, you really got slammed. Power was out here for about 26 hours. Screwed up the A/C.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (DLqye)

178 > Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

Sorry, mang.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (qpyNK)

179 Been without power since 10:02 pm Sunday night. Power won't be restored until tomorrow. Storm broke 23 power poles. More than nine were phase 3 poles. We got a room in town and we have lost everything in three freezers and two refrigerators.

FML.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

Condolences on your bbq losses. A tragedy, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Aqu9a)

180 I love how the left is whining and and calling everyone bootlickers if the back the police & military.

Bitch, come to my town, riot & burn & I'll shoot you myself. I won't need the military.

And I WILL shoot you. No nightstick and arrest.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (8mqiT)

181 146 The looting phase of the program has begun.
---
We should be safe.
Posted by: The steel toed work boots at Red Wing Shoes at June 10, 2025 10:01 AM (lIgBp)

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Posted by: Fathers Day cards at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (l3YAf)

182 Hitting Federal agents with fireworks - assault.

The hell you say. The style book says "mostly peaceful protest"

Posted by: The FNM at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (t0Rmr)

183 165 LA could stop the riots cold if they wanted.

The riots continue and escalate.

Ergo, LA wants the riots to happen.

Q.E.D.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Aqu9a)

I said yesterday the Democrats refuse the NG because they want the riots .Same reason they prevented the NG to be deployed on J6 . They wanted a riot to happen with nothing to stop their instigators.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:08 AM (VofaG)

184 We got a room in town and we have lost everything in three freezers and two refrigerators.

FML.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM

Ooof. That's an expensive power loss.

If the house I buy doesn't have a generator installed, I'm installing one as soon as practical.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:08 AM (kgE5c)

185 180 I love how the left is whining and and calling everyone bootlickers if the back the police & military.

Bitch, come to my town, riot & burn & I'll shoot you myself. I won't need the military.

And I WILL shoot you. No nightstick and arrest.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:07 AM (8mqiT)

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The left tried to riot in Tampa.

They were met by more Trump supporters than rioters.

Rioting is a blue enclave problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

186 170 Warai-otoko

#113
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:05 AM (aVx/C)

Nothing says "burlesque" like red sequined boleros that literally have "BURLESQUE" printed across them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:09 AM (jeWRt)

187 >>>That sucks, rick… sorry for you dude..

We tried to tell y'all

Posted by: Generac at June 10, 2025 10:09 AM (Y1sOo)

188 rickb223, you really got slammed. Power was out here for about 26 hours. Screwed up the A/C.
Posted by: Ben

Yeah. An F1 hit Bonham. Took off a few roofs and one long wooden fence around the old folk's home.
Braum's lost their roof for a second time in two years. Still have 1,000+ meters without power. (Ours included) It tool out a phase 3 power line that 1,800+ customers were on.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:10 AM (8mqiT)

189 Scandalous!

Posted by: javems at June 10, 2025 10:10 AM (8I4hW)

190 Speaking of cops, what happened to our Wyatt Earp?

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

191 Generac is unfortunately woke . Kholer is a better generator but that also means way more expensive.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)

192 If the house I buy doesn't have a generator installed, I'm installing one as soon as practical.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

We should have, but we were already bumping up against out budget limit.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (8mqiT)

193 187 >>>That sucks, rick… sorry for you dude..

We tried to tell y'all
Posted by: Generac at June 10, 2025 10:09 AM (Y1sOo)

We got a generac for our new house.

It's mostly just so we have running water. We'd have to completely write off about twenty fridge/freezers full of food to even come close to RoI.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (jeWRt)

194 Warai-otoko

That should be a mission in some disaster FPS, rescue the Japanese burlesque dancers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (aVx/C)

195 They were met by more Trump supporters than rioters.

Rioting is a blue enclave problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That's why Trump should just deploy the Guard to protect federal facilities in LA, and only assist with protecting the rest of the city if he gets a formal request from the State. "Newsom and Bass say they have LA under control. It doesn't look like that to me, but maybe burning the city down is what the voters want. I believe in separation of powers, so I'll protect the Federal stuff, and they can protect their stuff. If they can't do it and need help, all they have to do is ask."

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

196 Rioting is a blue enclave problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:08 AM

There was supposed to be a big ICE protest yesterday on City Hall Plaza, about 300 yards from my office. If there was one, it was small enough that I never noticed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (kgE5c)

197 190 Speaking of cops, what happened to our Wyatt Earp?
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

Dunno.. we have a number of missing persons.. time to get some posters printed up and hung??

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (PCK5/)

198 The Rope Dance
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That's not what I usually picture for the "rope fandango."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (7fElN)

199 194 Warai-otoko

That should be a mission in some disaster FPS, rescue the Japanese burlesque dancers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (aVx/C)

Wait I thought that was the entire plot arc for Stellar Blade.

Don't tell me all the Games Journalisms were lying to me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (jeWRt)

200 195 That's why Trump should just deploy the Guard to protect federal facilities in LA, and only assist with protecting the rest of the city if he gets a formal request from the State. "Newsom and Bass say they have LA under control. It doesn't look like that to me, but maybe burning the city down is what the voters want. I believe in separation of powers, so I'll protect the Federal stuff, and they can protect their stuff. If they can't do it and need help, all they have to do is ask."
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

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That's exactly what Trump is doing.

The NG is there to protect ICE and federal buildings. They are providing perimeters.

The three-square blocks were rioters are being allowed space to destroy are not being approached by the NG. So, the rioters are being allowed space to light electric cars on fire to hurt the environment, and the left is calling this a victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

201 Mass Looting Begins in Los Angeles – Gas Stations, Adidas, Nike, T-Mobile Hit

A couple of people with Sheridan Blue Streak pellet guns could stop this real fucin fast

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

202 They're mostly peaceful fireworks.

Posted by: Evergreen response at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (lIgBp)

203 That's not what I usually picture for the "rope fandango."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM

Me either.

Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

204 Dunno.. we have a number of missing persons.. time to get some posters printed up and hung??
Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (PCK5/)
----
That would make for an interesting Art Thread....

"Have you seen this Moron?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM (7fElN)

205 There was supposed to be a big ICE protest yesterday on City Hall Plaza, about 300 yards from my office. If there was one, it was small enough that I never noticed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Boston City Hall? I'd protest that monstrosity, too.

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

206 In Stellar Blade the rescue mission was done by a cybernetic burlesque dancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM (aVx/C)

207 196 Rioting is a blue enclave problem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:08 AM

There was supposed to be a big ICE protest yesterday on City Hall Plaza, about 300 yards from my office. If there was one, it was small enough that I never noticed.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:12 AM (kgE5c)

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Not even Massachusetts can come up with something?

The energy is out.

All they have is direct payments to professional rioters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

208 Well my yard guys don’t seem to be at any protest. They’re here doing a crappy job as usual. ( the HOA hires them )

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM (VofaG)

209 > A couple of people with Sheridan Blue Streak pellet guns could stop this real fucin fast
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

Never underestimate the persuasive ability of a few cannon loaded with grapeshot.

Posted by: Napoleon BlownApart at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM (qpyNK)

210 Generac is unfortunately woke . Kholer is a better generator but that also means way more expensive.
Posted by: polynikes

Would kill to have the CAT that we have at work, but I don't need to supply the area.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (8mqiT)

211 Not even Massachusetts can come up with something?

The energy is out.

All they have is direct payments to professional rioters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM

It's been pretty lame, even in Boston.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

212 191 Generac is unfortunately woke . Kholer is a better generator but that also means way more expensive.
Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)

At wholesale about $500 diff. But then Kholer makes you buy the ATS Wifi etc on the side.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (gbOdA)

213 Buy a generator and the power won't go out for five years.
Buy a snowblower and you won't get a flake for five years.

Posted by: It is known at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (lIgBp)

214 211 It's been pretty lame, even in Boston.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (kgE5c)

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Lib Boomers are dying out.

Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

215 That's not what I usually picture for the "rope fandango."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM

Me either.
Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at June 10, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

Me either.

Posted by: Shibari enthusiast at June 10, 2025 10:16 AM (Aqu9a)

216 We should have, but we were already bumping up against out budget limit.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:11 AM

Yeah...that's been a problem with me just finding a house up here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:16 AM (kgE5c)

217 Tensor just generated some pretty good manga style cover art. Save to hard drive. Not being posted.

Just need to write a story to fit the cover nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:17 AM (aVx/C)

218 At wholesale about $500 diff. But then Kholer makes you buy the ATS Wifi etc on the side.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (gbOdA)

Is that all? Maybe I saw the prices with the other equipment you listed,

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:17 AM (VofaG)

219 Bought a generator a few years back.. two weeks later huge storm hit, with icing, and power was out in neighborhood for 3 days… best thousand bucks I ever spent…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

220 We just need more windmills.

Posted by: Your local neighborhood AWFL at June 10, 2025 10:19 AM (lIgBp)

221 Boston City Hall? I'd protest that monstrosity, too.
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 10:14 AM

Fortunately, while my window faces that way, there's another building or two between me and it, so I can't see it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:19 AM (kgE5c)

222 We just need more windmills.
Posted by: Your local neighborhood AWFL at June 10, 2025 10:19 AM (lIgBp)

And Gilligan-style bicycle generators.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Aqu9a)

223 I don’t have anything to lose except my comfort so I’ll keep my 15k for now.

I have wondered whether the gas companies are prepared for the spike demand when a large and extended area loses power.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:21 AM (VofaG)

224 And Gilligan-style bicycle generators.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Aqu9a)

I'm tellin' ya, with all the M&A action that flies around, the fact that Generac and Peloton haven't thrown in together is baffling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:22 AM (jeWRt)

225 Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You'll find out soon enough, old man!

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

226 Been without power since 10:02 pm Sunday night. Power won't be restored until tomorrow. Storm broke 23 power poles. More than nine were phase 3 poles. We got a room in town and we have lost everything in three freezers and two refrigerators.

FML.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:04 AM (8mqiT)

This is why I paid homeowner's insurance.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:23 AM (g8Ew8)

227 rickb, where are you?

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

228 Cirque du Soleil: Origins

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 10, 2025 10:23 AM (36PRH)

229 I bought a nice little generator for not a lot, wired it into the breaker box… does about 80% of the power needs for the house.. all the essential stuff plus some others.. my only regret is it is a pull start, not push button.

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (PCK5/)

230 Not even Massachusetts can come up with something?

The energy is out.

All they have is direct payments to professional rioters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have you checked out the nokings.org website? Iowa has 32 events listed, many in tiny little towns. I'm hoping many end up like the Florida videos, with a few losers protesting Trump and then getting mercilessly mocked and shamed by their neighbors all day.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

231 I'm tellin' ya, with all the M&A action that flies around, the fact that Generac and Peloton haven't thrown in together is baffling.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:22 AM (jeWRt

Reminded me of the Rick and Morty episode where Rick created a micro world to power his spaceship battery. They were using stair steppers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (VofaG)

232 21 dude without a hat seated on far right needs to chill the f out
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 10, 2025 09:36 AM (sJHOI)

Justified! The guy under the rope waving a hat around... He stole that hat and is now taunting the victim with it.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (vlXMQ)

233 225 Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You'll find out soon enough, old man!
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

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Days away.

Practically no time at all when compared to the time until the heat death of the universe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

234 >>And Gilligan-style bicycle generators.

Ooo, great idea. And we could get thousands of our lovely illegals to ride those bikes.

Posted by: AWFLs from Martha's Vineyard at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (Y1sOo)

235 RMBS & Rickb223 -
We picked up a portable generator for the house. 9000 watts running, forget what peak was. Had the electrician run a 30a outlet into the panel with a generator interlock plate. Gives you the flexibility to power what you want by flipping breakers, without the expense of a whole house generator. This covers my well, water treatment, furnace, fridges, freezer with enough to spare.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM (N39Ws)

236 230 Have you checked out the nokings.org website? Iowa has 32 events listed, many in tiny little towns. I'm hoping many end up like the Florida videos, with a few losers protesting Trump and then getting mercilessly mocked and shamed by their neighbors all day.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

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So, the same as the USAID protests?

Remember those?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

237 Guy with spyglass looking directly at her boobs.
Probably noted a half dozen times in first twenty comments.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM (n4GiU)

238 Lib Boomers are dying out.

Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Bring LOTS of lube. And maybe a noseplug.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

239 238 Lib Boomers are dying out.

Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Bring LOTS of lube. And maybe a noseplug.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

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You'll already have the camera, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

240 Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.

Jennifer Anniston starring in Sex and the Nursing Home

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:28 AM (aVx/C)

241 With these ICE protests, I'm waiting for things to get sporty near me. Our county jail houses LOTS of illegals. Sadly, my house is 2 miles from it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 10, 2025 10:28 AM (N39Ws)

242 Days away.

Practically no time at all when compared to the time until the heat death of the universe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

Worry not. We'll all die from the humidity long before then.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:28 AM (jeWRt)

243 Yyrog agrees with the "no kings" sentiment. All should bend the knee to their rightful overlord, who is I.
Bathe them and bring them to me! On second thought, just bathe them.

Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 10, 2025 10:28 AM (yYROg)

244 243 Yyrog agrees with the "no kings" sentiment. All should bend the knee to their rightful overlord, who is I.
Bathe them and bring them to me! On second thought, just bathe them.
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 10, 2025 10:28 AM (yYROg)

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God Emperor of Dune, Leto II > Yyrog the Sorcerer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

245 "Oh the humidity!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:29 AM (aVx/C)

246 There were five people and a three legged dog holding crowns with a red strike through, standing on a couple of corners in my little Junction on Saturday. They made the evening news.

I guess downtown got a hundred or so?

I’m not for letting my guard down though. These freaks are Wackadoodle. Avoid avoid avoid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 10:29 AM (QKI1C)

247 That's why Trump should just deploy the Guard to protect federal facilities in LA, and only assist with protecting the rest of the city if he gets a formal request from the State. "Newsom and Bass say they have LA under control. It doesn't look like that to me, but maybe burning the city down is what the voters want. I believe in separation of powers, so I'll protect the Federal stuff, and they can protect their stuff. If they can't do it and need help, all they have to do is ask."
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Precisely. Perfect.

Q: Why are federal troops present?
A: To protect federal employees and federal property.

Short, sweet, and inarguable.

Posted by: Crusader at June 10, 2025 10:29 AM (TN0g+)

248 rickb, where are you?
Posted by: Bulg

Far NE Texas. 1/2 mile from the Red River & Oklahoma.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:30 AM (8mqiT)

249 Mass Looting Begins in Los Angeles – Gas Stations, Adidas, Nike, T-Mobile Hit

Good. Let the woke companies burn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:30 AM (ohom6)

250 248 rickb, where are you?
Posted by: Bulg

Far NE Texas. 1/2 mile from the Red River & Oklahoma.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2025 10:30 AM (8mqiT)

Gets really breezy there…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:30 AM (PCK5/)

251 Probably pretty spicy in the nursing homes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

Hey hey
Ho ho
This shit was old
Sixty years ago

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

252 >>>I'm tellin' ya, with all the M&A action that flies around...

A little ~~T&A~~ M&A.

Muff & Ass?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:31 AM (144I4)

253 Muff & Ass?
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:31 AM (144I4)

Did you just call me a muffin ass?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:32 AM (jeWRt)

254 Kirsche reading a comment on the LA riots, "Are we allowed to call them the unemployed Olympics?"

Kirsche, "I would say so."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:33 AM (aVx/C)

255 I saw Muff & Ass open for the Indigo Girls in Toledo circa 1998.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:33 AM (ohom6)

256 My car's a/c is being looked at as we speak!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I just fixed my daughter's. Turns out is was the ambient air temp. sensor. When it goes bad, the readout of the temp goes to 32F. So as a safety, the A/C won't kick in.

Cheapest a/c fix I've ever done! $13. I usually don't get that lucky.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (144I4)

257 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 10, 2025 10:25 AM

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind down the road.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

258 Muff&Ass would be a great team up with Butthole Surfers and Pussy Riot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (aVx/C)

259 Man, Netflix really sucked in those days.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (s8j++)

260 I have a great deal of admiration and respect for Christopher Rufo, but his essay entitled Trump Should Crush the L.A. Riots—with a Subtle Hand, How the president can restore order and win the war for visual symbolism, makes no sense. I invite him to define the word "subtle" in the context of this situation.

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"Subtle" = flamethrowers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

261 Have you checked out the nokings.org website?
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No Kings? Based on some fever dream libs have that Trump and MAGA wants him to be a monarch? These people are insufferable.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

262 JJ and TJM share a birthday???

Happy Birthday you's guys!

Posted by: Darth Doodah at June 10, 2025 10:35 AM (Vu7A1)

263 I just fixed my daughter's. Turns out is was the ambient air temp. sensor. When it goes bad, the readout of the temp goes to 32F. So as a safety, the A/C won't kick in.

Cheapest a/c fix I've ever done! $13. I usually don't get that lucky.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM

They did say there was an extended warranty for the condenser, so if that's the problem, it's covered. The thing died the day before the temp spiked to 95. Figures. At least it's back to being cool and rainy.

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

264 If the president of Mexico is supporting the rioters doesn't that make the rioting an act of war and the endorsement of said rioters a declaration of war?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 10, 2025 10:35 AM (1zF3x)

265 258 Muff&Ass would be a great team up with Butthole Surfers and Pussy Riot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:34 AM (aVx/C)

Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen's new band.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:35 AM (jeWRt)

266 Flammenwerfer?

Burnice reporting for duty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYY8vA-g8-k

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:35 AM (aVx/C)

267 "Subtle" = flamethrowers.
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Nappy says grapeshot.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:36 AM (FmapG)

268 The "No Kings" might refer to the press around Curtis Yarvin. If they held up signs saying "Get An Editor" I might prefer it.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 10, 2025 10:36 AM (yYROg)

269 And 113 Dems vote No on resolution to condemn the anti-semitic terror attack on Jews in Boulder CO. Lots of resonating, yo.flamethrower.

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Just a few bad apples.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 10, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

270 "France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium. With the possible exception of inventing Brussels sprouts, I can't think of anything they've done to deserve this."

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)

Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mape, the Housekeeper at June 10, 2025 10:37 AM (PiwSw)

271 Generac is unfortunately woke . Kholer is a better generator but that also means way more expensive.
Posted by: polynikes

Give Champion Home Stand-by Generators a look-see.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

272 Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen… the late Cretaceous on tour!!

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (PCK5/)

273 No Springs!

Posted by: Coily the Spring Sprite at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (vFG9F)

274 No Kings? Based on some fever dream libs have that Trump and MAGA wants him to be a monarch? These people are insufferable.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

That's precisely right. They are really pushing mass, nationwide protests Saturday...I guess to counter Trump's parade in DC? They will certainly have a lot of protests across the nation, but most (I think?) will be small and embarrassing. Larger cities will probably have much better turnout, but they've been having stupid, anti-Trump protests regularly already with 50501 and a host of other Leftwing losers, so no one will care.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

275 "$13. I usually don't get that lucky."

The Paolo, he does not understand this, how you say, not getting lucky.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 10, 2025 10:39 AM (lIgBp)

276 Isn't the EU headquartered in Belgium?

Nuke away!

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

277 I have a great deal of admiration and respect for Christopher Rufo, but his essay entitled Trump Should Crush the L.A. Riots—with a Subtle Hand, How the president can restore order and win the war for visual symbolism, makes no sense. I invite him to define the word "subtle" in the context of this situation.

https://is.gd/xZKsdS

I get what he's saying, but sometimes, the best thing you can do is make an object lesson of people who are misbehaving. Otherwise, you run the risk of tying yourself up in knots trying to avoid giving the bad guys a photo op. Instead, think creatively, and make your own photo op of your side crushing them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 10:39 AM (s8j++)

278 270 "France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium. With the possible exception of inventing Brussels sprouts, I can't think of anything they've done to deserve this."

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)

Sir is an expert on more than one topic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2025 10:39 AM (Dv3i1)

279 "France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium. With the possible exception of inventing Brussels sprouts, I can't think of anything they've done to deserve this."

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)
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Do the French hate Belgian pommes frites that much? That would be a terrible loss for the world.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:40 AM (7fElN)

280 276 Isn't the EU headquartered in Belgium?

Nuke away!
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NATO HQS as well. Double nuke it.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:40 AM (FmapG)

281 274 That's precisely right. They are really pushing mass, nationwide protests Saturday...I guess to counter Trump's parade in DC? They will certainly have a lot of protests across the nation, but most (I think?) will be small and embarrassing. Larger cities will probably have much better turnout, but they've been having stupid, anti-Trump protests regularly already with 50501 and a host of other Leftwing losers, so no one will care.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

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If they didn't show up for the USAID protests, they won't show up for this.

They're really trying to recapture the Women's March energy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

282 Nuke from orbit just to be sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 10, 2025 10:41 AM (aVx/C)

283 House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced Monday he will resign from the lower chamber once it votes on the reconciliation package again to take a job in the private sector. Green, who was first elected to the chamber in 2018, has been serving in the lead post on the Homeland Security committee since 2023. He helped orchestrate the impeachment of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024.

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2025 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

284 Nofa King Allowed?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:41 AM (144I4)

285 "France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium. With the possible exception of inventing Brussels sprouts, I can't think of anything they've done to deserve this."

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at June 10, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)
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Do the French hate Belgian pommes frites that much? That would be a terrible loss for the world.

I mean, if mayo on french fries doesn't warrant a nuking, I don't know what does.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (s8j++)

286 There seems to be a protest every few weeks. At some point t it just becomes background noise.

And by the way, isn’t June all about the gays? How dare they take the spotlight away? For shame.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (ohom6)

287 Arrest and Jail the Mayor of LA. Then send some Marines to the Governor's Mansion.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (FmapG)

288 We saw "Ballerina" yesterday.

It's a tremendous amount of fun. Just a great action movie that just builds and builds, getting more crazy as it goes along. I could give some examples but that would just spoil the fun. Go in blind if you can.

The story's more or less a John Wick story with a little girl training and growing up to be an assassin to get revenge on the man who killed her father.

I suppose you could see a bit of girl boss if you wished but early on there's a training scene where a male trainee just keeps whipping her butt and she complains that she can't win cuz he's bigger and stronger, so-

Eve's trainer tells her that everyone is bigger than her so she needs to cheat, exploit her opponents weaknesses, don't try to fight fair, fight with anything and everything she can, improvise

"Ballerina" takes that bit of advice to the max and that's what makes the movie so fun.

Eve often finds herself in a bad spot but then uses whatever she can to get out of it. One great thing about the movie is that once Eve finds a weapon to even the odds, she keeps using it in wilder ways until she no longer can.

Excellent summer action flick with a John Wick bonus.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (iJfKG)

289 Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2025 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

Great so we lose a Congressman...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

290 No Juan is Above the Law.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (TbpGr)

291 Instead, think creatively, and make your own photo op of your side crushing them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 10:39 AM (s8j++)

"Defense is the best offense" isn't true except for in sports.

In politics and politicking (and outright warfare), offense is usually the best defense. Vae Victis, etc etc. Quit whining and bitching and trying to "win" by sniveling technicalities, and just crush the bastards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (jeWRt)

292 I mean, if mayo on french fries doesn't warrant a nuking, I don't know what does.
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Take the Mayo and leave the fries.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (FmapG)

293 What about us?

Posted by: Juanitas at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (lIgBp)

294 The No Kings thing is fascinating in a way.

The argument is that Trump implementing the immigration policies he ran on he becomes a "King" because leftwing jurisdictions disagree with him.

There is no serious argument that the president has these powers from existing laws - just that using them is wrong and authoritarian. Which, you'll not, still has NOTHING particularly to do with monarchy.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (t0Rmr)

295 292 I mean, if mayo on french fries doesn't warrant a nuking, I don't know what does.
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Take the Mayo and leave the fries.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (FmapG)

And then there’s poutine…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (PCK5/)

296 I hate this resign form congress shit. It’s a 2 year term. Commit to it or don’t run in the first place. There should be some penalty for resigning.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (ohom6)

297 >>Arrest and Jail the Mayor of LA. Then send some Marines to the Governor's Mansion.

To eat the food out of his fridge.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 10, 2025 10:44 AM (TbpGr)

298 Was it all about the specific candidate with no concern as to how they would work together if both elected? Was it hatred of the GOPe?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

There are a lot of people who don't care about "party". They pride themselves on being "independent". They don't see any difference between the two parties (ahem). They have no idea about anything at all.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 10:44 AM (NVQp8)

299 230 Have you checked out the nokings.org website? Iowa has 32 events listed, many in tiny little towns. I'm hoping many end up like the Florida videos, with a few losers protesting Trump and then getting mercilessly mocked and shamed by their neighbors all day.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 10, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)
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Apparently my town is having one as well. Instead of picking a central location, though, they are hosting it in the parking lot of a facility on the south side of town, about as far from downtown as you can get.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (7fElN)

300 What about us?
Posted by: Juanitas

You still working down at the diner?

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

301 296 I hate this resign form congress shit. It’s a 2 year term. Commit to it or don’t run in the first place. There should be some penalty for resigning.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (ohom6)

Yeah, that’s an asshole move…

Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (PCK5/)

302 Sofa Kings>>>No Kings.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (Ak2xC)

303 294 The No Kings thing is fascinating in a way.

The argument is that Trump implementing the immigration policies he ran on he becomes a "King" because leftwing jurisdictions disagree with him.

There is no serious argument that the president has these powers from existing laws - just that using them is wrong and authoritarian. Which, you'll not, still has NOTHING particularly to do with monarchy.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:43 AM (t0Rmr)

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I think it's more about Trump reigning in executive agencies, making them accountable to him instead of "independent".

People have swam in the idea that executive agencies are rightfully independent of the president (ie, the people) for decades.

Of course, it's been a crock of shit. They're deeply dependent on Democrat presidents and Republican presidents when the Republican president says the right thing. But the fiction remains.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

304 The cretins on the left don’t realize that if Trump were truly a king or dictator, anyone protesting him would be shot on site. No questions asked. And their families would then be taken to a work camp somewhere.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (ohom6)

305 Then send some Marines to the Governor's Mansion.

To eat the food out of his fridge.
Posted by: Vengeance

Does he keep his crayons in the fridge?

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

306 Bought a generator a few years back.. two weeks later huge storm hit, with icing, and power was out in neighborhood for 3 days… best thousand bucks I ever spent…
Posted by: tubal at June 10, 2025 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

During Hurricane Sandy, we were without power for 11 days. Poles snapped in half, substations down. We ran off our 8KW Craftsman. never lost any food, well pump was happy. Neighbors who didn't prepare, lost food in their freezers and fridge. We even had hot water for showers. Best investment I ever made. We've used many times since then, but for shorter periods.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (5xuJ/)

307 Larger cities will probably have much better turnout, but they've been having stupid, anti-Trump protests regularly already with 50501 and a host of other Leftwing losers, so no one will care.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

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If they didn't show up for the USAID protests, they won't show up for this.

They're really trying to recapture the Women's March energy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)
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They didn't show up for LA either. Those riots are basically the same bunch of vomitous scumbags in different locations, all carefully stage-managed and filmed to make it look like a much bigger crowd. A few of the vids give it away. Like that scene of the fuckwads throwing shit in front of a burning car ... wide angle video shows almost nobody there, and a small fire planted next to the car. There were like 5 cameramen positioned right in front of the fire, to give the illusion the whole place was burning.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (iFTx/)

308 Wow, there's a No Kings protest in my tiny little town.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mape, the Housekeeper at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (PiwSw)

309 We saw "Ballerina" yesterday.

Critical Drinker's take was that it was pretty good but had the misfortune of following in the footsteps of the best action franchise of the past 30 years.

And that Ana de Armas should probably not take out any mortgages relying on her skills as an action star.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (ExV1e)

310 308 Wow, there's a No Kings protest in my tiny little town.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mape, the Housekeeper at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (PiwSw)

Same here in NH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (N39Ws)

311 I think it's more about Trump reigning in executive agencies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

So you DO think he's a monarch!

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (NVQp8)

312 I mean, if mayo on french fries doesn't warrant a nuking, I don't know what does.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM

I tried that in the Netherlands. When in Rome, and all. It's every bit as bland and boring as it sounds. Explains a lot about the Low Countries, that does.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (kgE5c)

313 And that Ana de Armas should probably not take out any mortgages relying on her skills as an action star.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (ExV1e)
_______

[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- OnlyFans

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (iFTx/)

314 307 They didn't show up for LA either. Those riots are basically the same bunch of vomitous scumbags in different locations, all carefully stage-managed and filmed to make it look like a much bigger crowd. A few of the vids give it away. Like that scene of the fuckwads throwing shit in front of a burning car ... wide angle video shows almost nobody there, and a small fire planted next to the car. There were like 5 cameramen positioned right in front of the fire, to give the illusion the whole place was burning.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (iFTx/)

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It's a marketing coup.

But riots never play well with the public. It's not their marketing coup.

If CNN wanted to downplay it, they'd just stop covering it, but they think it's helping them for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

315 Eve's trainer tells her that everyone is bigger than her so she needs to cheat, exploit her opponents weaknesses, don't try to fight fair, fight with anything and everything she can, improvise

"Ballerina" takes that bit of advice to the max and that's what makes the movie so fun.

Eve often finds herself in a bad spot but then uses whatever she can to get out of it. One great thing about the movie is that once Eve finds a weapon to even the odds, she keeps using it in wilder ways until she no longer can.

Excellent summer action flick with a John Wick bonus.

Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:42 AM (iJfKG)

Why go thru all of that horseshit. Just buy a fucking gun.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (g8Ew8)

316
Graz Austria - nine people killed at a high school

Posted by: four seasons at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (3ek7K)

317 311 I think it's more about Trump reigning in executive agencies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

So you DO think he's a monarch!
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (NVQp

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Yes! Monarch of the executive branch of government!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

318 Like that scene of the fuckwads throwing shit in front of a burning car ... wide angle video shows almost nobody there, and a small fire planted next to the car. There were like 5 cameramen positioned right in front of the fire, to give the illusion the whole place was burning.
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Its Hollywood, Jake. Hollywood.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (FmapG)

319
And that Ana de Armas should probably not take out any mortgages relying on her skills as an action star.

Ana is a pretty woman but the notion of her winning a physical fight against a man within 20-30 years of her age is silly.

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

320 Anybody up for an A10 video? Of course you are!

https://tinyurl.com/ez5fpp3r

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (gTYlE)

321
We could've used that "No Kings" slogan during the Reign of Senile Joe.

It would've been appropriate there.

Now, it's just stupid, an accusation that's harmful yet stupid to argue with...like the Dims big favorite, "You're Racist!!!1111"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (iJfKG)

322 No Kings except demented "Dark Brandon" giving angry fuhrer speeches and pounding his fist. The Left are truly a bunch of weirdo faggots.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (NVQp8)

323 Happy Birthday TJM. Celebrate by doing a Tarkovsky marathon.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mape, the Housekeeper at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (PiwSw)

324 Graz Austria - nine people killed at a high school
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Did someone annoy the invaders?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (FmapG)

325 Any entity that gets federal tax dollars is not independent. It’s like a teenager being independent. Uhm no honey. As long as I pay for your food and shelter you’re not independent and you’ll do whatever the fuck I tell you to do.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 10, 2025 10:49 AM (ohom6)

326 Why go thru all of that horseshit. Just buy a fucking gun.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (g8Ew

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Guns get less and less effective as the John Wick movies progress. By the fourth film, everyone is wearing magical body armor, so only a head shot seems to take anyone down.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:50 AM (7fElN)

327 Does he keep his crayons in the fridge?
Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

Dammit. Curse you for beating me to the obvious joke.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2025 10:51 AM (FoIOl)

328 When I look up towards the ceiling
I see you, a queen in the air
Leaning, wobbling and weaving
When you lift your leg for balance
I peek, and spy perchance...
Dang! You've got a lot of hair down there!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:51 AM (144I4)

329 What about us?
Posted by: Juanitas

My Juanita!

Posted by: Fat Man In The Bathtub, With The Blues at June 10, 2025 10:51 AM (Aqu9a)

330 My Sharona > My Juanita

Posted by: The Knack at June 10, 2025 10:52 AM (t0Rmr)

331 They didn't show up for LA either. Those riots are basically the same bunch of vomitous scumbags in different locations, all carefully stage-managed and filmed to make it look like a much bigger crowd. A few of the vids give it away. Like that scene of the fuckwads throwing shit in front of a burning car ... wide angle video shows almost nobody there, and a small fire planted next to the car. There were like 5 cameramen positioned right in front of the fire, to give the illusion the whole place was burning.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:46 AM (iFTx/)

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It's a marketing coup.

But riots never play well with the public. It's not their marketing coup.

If CNN wanted to downplay it, they'd just stop covering it, but they think it's helping them for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)
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They thought the 1960s riots helped them too. They think the riots in 2020 helped. It's sorta the same thing that they see absolutely everything through a Marxist lens. Gym bros pump iron to take their minds off all the impotent confusion they feel at an uncontrollable world, don't ya know?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:52 AM (iFTx/)

332 Why go thru all of that horseshit. Just buy a fucking gun.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (g8Ew

Well, that action is taken but guns run out of bullets.

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

333 Give Champion Home Stand-by Generators a look-see.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

Have you had good luck with them? How do they compare to Generac and Kohler?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:53 AM (144I4)

334 Guns get less and less effective as the John Wick movies progress. By the fourth film, everyone is wearing magical body armor, so only a head shot seems to take anyone down.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 10, 2025 10:50 AM (7fElN)

Oh......okay......I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

335 Where are these guys during the Oscar Shows? I could find my way to support them if they trashed the Oscars and threw chunks of concrete at them.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 10:53 AM (FmapG)

336 331 They thought the 1960s riots helped them too. They think the riots in 2020 helped. It's sorta the same thing that they see absolutely everything through a Marxist lens. Gym bros pump iron to take their minds off all the impotent confusion they feel at an uncontrollable world, don't ya know?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:52 AM (iFTx/)

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I find it impossible to imagine anyone thinking the 60s riots helped them.

Nixon won 49 states in 1972, and the riots had been over for a couple of years by that point.

But, people are stupid and don't remember things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

337 Well, that action is taken but guns run out of bullets.

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

Not in Hollywood!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:55 AM (g8Ew8)

338 And that Ana de Armas should probably not take out any mortgages relying on her skills as an action star.

Ana is a pretty woman but the notion of her winning a physical fight against a man within 20-30 years of her age is silly.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (t0Rmr)

Well, that's kind of the point they address in the movie. These aren't straight up punch-ups, which she would lose every time.

Not going to tell you how things play out, cuz that would spoil the fun of those who might like to see the movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

339 Why go thru all of that horseshit. Just buy a fucking gun.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 10, 2025 10:47 AM (g8Ew

Well, that action is taken but guns run out of bullets.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:53 AM (iJfKG)
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[Smirking]

-- John Woo

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 10, 2025 10:55 AM (iFTx/)

340 France now has short-range nuclear missiles. Near as I can figure, they're all set to nuke the hell out of Belgium.

Tintin and Snowy hardest hit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 10, 2025 10:56 AM (Dg2sF)

341 The Left want to look strong. Riots help them look strong. Trump makes them look weak and ineffectual in general but this is a show of strength.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2025 10:56 AM (NVQp8)

342 Today's Art >>>>>>> Yesterday's Art

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 10, 2025 10:56 AM (qBdHI)

343
Are we really debating the realism of the John Wick franchise? Because if we are I'd like to point out that there aren't THAT many Krugerrands in the world...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2025 10:57 AM (FoIOl)

344 Give Champion Home Stand-by Generators a look-see.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

Have you had good luck with them? How do they compare to Generac and Kohler?
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 10:53 AM (144I4)

I like mine after comparison shopping what's available. always works well.

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

345 Ana is a pretty woman but the notion of her winning a physical fight against a man within 20-30 years of her age is silly.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (t0Rmr)

Drinker's complaint wasn't that so much as she didn't seem comfortable with the choreo and it showed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

346 343
Are we really debating the realism of the John Wick franchise? Because if we are I'd like to point out that there aren't THAT many Krugerrands in the world...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2025 10:57 AM (FoIOl)

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Let's talk about puppy delivery services for the recently deceased.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 10, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

347 My Sharona > My Juanita
Posted by: The Knack at June 10, 2025 10:52 AM (t0Rmr)
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This is a terrible take and I'm dropping a brick on it from the nearest overpass

Posted by: LA Rioters Defending Lowell George at June 10, 2025 10:58 AM (gTYlE)

348 Are we really debating the realism of the John Wick franchise? Because if we are I'd like to point out that there aren't THAT many Krugerrands in the world...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2025 10:57 AM (FoIOl)

Von Mises and Rothbard beat Siskel and Ebert hands down when it comes to action movie analysis.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 10:58 AM (jeWRt)

349 There's a No Kings event planned for little bitty ol Brenham, TX. After the protest, they can take the Bluebell Ice Cream tour at the factory and enjoy some delicious samples. Then maybe wander over to Chappell Hill and pick up some smoked sausages.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 10, 2025 10:58 AM (Aqu9a)

350 Well, that action is taken but guns run out of bullets.

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

Job security bitchez.

Posted by: Production Assistant with a crate of 9mm blanks at June 10, 2025 11:00 AM (FoIOl)

351 Anybody up for an A10 video? Of course you are!

https://tinyurl.com/ez5fpp3r

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (gTYlE)

Always! But it's not live footage from LA. I is disappoint.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 10, 2025 11:00 AM (144I4)

352 Nicely detailed

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2025 11:00 AM (+qU29)

353 People.

People. Listen. No seriously. Listen.

We get a list of where all these "No Kings" assholes are going to be.

We print up tens of thousands of "Go Fish" signs.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2025 11:00 AM (jeWRt)

354 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 10, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

355 .
NOOD

Rant is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

356 They thought the 1960s riots helped them too.
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Oddly, the 60s riots were all about Klansmen, Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists from the South. No one noticed that 152 of the 156 cities hosting the riots were in the Northeast and Midwest. Two were in CA. The last two were in Atlanta and Birmingham. Yeah, the narrative is a bitch.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 10, 2025 11:04 AM (FmapG)

357 Ana is a pretty woman but the notion of her winning a physical fight against a man within 20-30 years of her age is silly.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 10, 2025 10:48 AM (t0Rmr)

Drinker's complaint wasn't that so much as she didn't seem comfortable with the choreo and it showed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

Yeesh, this is the second week in a row where I gotta kinda sorta disagree with the Drinker.

I strongly suspect that most (all?) movie goers aren't going to see that cuz they'll be caught up in the fun action.

There was only one instance that I can think about where Eve didn't seem comfortable and that was in the first big set piece. I assumed though that that was because it was her first job and she hadn't quite figured things out yet.

But, yeah, coming right on the heels of Mission Impossible was a poor choice for release.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG)

358
Interesting, I'd hang that simply so people could look at it and ask just what they were doing.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 10, 2025 11:13 AM (hKoQL)

359 "Hmmm. No net, so definitely not a safety dance."
they're working without annette.

Posted by: cmeat at June 10, 2025 12:05 PM (8HmRF)

360 95 "Flemish. From Flemland.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

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Gross."

what's green and slides on ice?
peggy phlegm.

Posted by: cmeat at June 10, 2025 12:08 PM (8HmRF)

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