Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Venetians
Ernest Meissonier

There might be something worth zooming in on...

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Foist!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 nothin to see here

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 in early, for me...

Posted by: cmeat at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (GAyiy)

4 Is the Venetian blind?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

5 Picture is missing

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

6 zoom in on what ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (VE6XX)

7 Love it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

8 It's anti-art. Perfect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

9 Must be the Venetian blinds.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (vFG9F)

10 It's a blank canvas

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

11 I muzt be blind, can't see the venetians.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (XZ5S6)

12 Still better than yesterday's.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (+1O+p)

13 Conceptual art.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)

14 Where’s the picture?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

15 What technique... I mean what technique ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (VE6XX)

16 Tabula Rasa

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

17 Would not hang.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

18 Too zoomed in or too zoomed out?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

19 Dang you gotta get up pretty early in the morning to grab the low hanging fruit around here.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

20 17 Would not hang.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

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I have this hanging around my house all over the place, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (GBKbO)

21 Taboo La Raza

Posted by: Gov. DeSantis at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

22 Hilarious… tabula rasa…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (PCK5/)

23 Mayonnaise on white bread in a snowstorm.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (ExV1e)

24 Blind leading the blind

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (+qU29)

25 Imaginary art. Awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

26
I see a MILF selling Penis pills.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (x0n13)

27 John Sargent completed some exquisite artwork in Venice. I can see it right now, in my mind’s eye.

Posted by: kallisto at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (0Tgaa)

28

The Venetians seem blind . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (x0n13)

29 Those Venetians, such jokers. Good one!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (36PRH)

30 Oh, I get it. That are no actual Venetians. Like penguins, they are extinct.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

31 No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)

32 are they horizontal or vertical?
and if they're horizontal, are they adjusted near edge up or down?

Posted by: cmeat at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (GAyiy)

33 Blind?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (JmEcb)

34 >>Would not hang.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:32 AM

No hanging necessary.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (n2swS)

35 No Gator, No Art.

Posted by: Wally Gator The Swinging Alligator in the swamp at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (5yGIt)

36 4 Is the Venetian blind?

The whole thing gives me the shutters.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (Riz8t)

37 Best art ever!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (MGB5H)

38 The absinthe finally got to our Dildo…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (PCK5/)

39 Kris is gonna analyze the crap out of this one.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

40 All cross over into the light.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

41 I think I once saw a blank canvas in Carnegie Museum. And I thought to myself, "I can do that!"

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (NFX2v)

42 There are four paintings!

Posted by: Jean-Luc Pickart at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

43 John Cage's favorite painting.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

44 Had to look it up.
The Venetians

https://tinyurl.com/bd2yhn75

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

45 Like this one CBD . would hang . Very serene

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (eBgDF)

46 would hang

In fact, I have a room covered in identical art!

Posted by: ghbucky at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (/xDbx)

47 https://tinyurl.com/yckezejk+

For anyone who wants to see the art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

48 Very, very abstract art. Would hang.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (u1rRx)

49 Is the Void white or black? Discuss.

Posted by: Linda Richman at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (36PRH)

50 I'm giving it a blank stare.

Posted by: scottst at July 01, 2025 09:35 AM (qcvs8)

51 It's a painting by Pollock, you heathens. It's called "The Emptiness of Being".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (Riz8t)

52 I think we're being tested.

Posted by: Weasel at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (rAX2y)

53 gone dough la.

Posted by: cmeat at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (GAyiy)

54 https://tinyurl.com/f2dfvwa4

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (uqyLy)

55 51 It's a painting by Pollock, you heathens. It's called "The Emptiness of Being".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (Riz8t)

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Sold for $54 million in 1995.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (GBKbO)

56 Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (2GCMq)

57 Same as always. No little man in the boat to be found.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (wVcYX)

58 It's no Rothko.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (ufFY8)

59 Between the paintings.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (n2swS)

60 So, we can’t say anything until after the 100th comment?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

61 I don’t get it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

62 Polar bear in a snowstorm?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

63 Is the Void white or black? Discuss.

Dog whistle?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (JmEcb)

64 This canvas intentionally left blank.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (JRP2U)

65 The absinthe finally got to our Dildo…
Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 09:34 AM

I'll take Statistically Improbable Phrases for $1,000, Alex.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (u1rRx)

66 Who knew my ceilings were worth a fortune!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (w9Wax)

67

Tomorrow's art:

.

.

.

Posted by: imp at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (g6TN6)

68 Taking minimalist quite literally.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (2bFN5)

69 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

70 I see a MILF selling Penis pills.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2025 09:33 AM (x0n13)

Dammit!
I see an SUV for sale.

Happy Birthday to you!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:38 AM (ufFY8)

71 Sniper MIA

Posted by: scottst at July 01, 2025 09:38 AM (qcvs8)

72 I think we're being tested.
Posted by: Weasel at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM

I don't feel tardy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:38 AM (u1rRx)

73 Well, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez just had a 50 million dollar wedding in Venice, so there's that.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 01, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

74 It's a painting by Pollock, you heathens. It's called "The Emptiness of Being".

Joey Bidet's Presidential portrait?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:38 AM (JmEcb)

75 Someone eat the Venetians?

Posted by: Wally Gator The Swinging Alligator in the swamp at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (5yGIt)

76 It's a Russian painting, entitled The Russian Front, January 1942.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (Riz8t)

77 Oh, there's actual art now.

All of our comments now make no sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (GBKbO)

78 Venusians are living creatures who are native or long inhabited with the planet Venus. Phosphine, a life biosignature was discovered to emit from Venus in 2019. Scientist think this is proof of aliens on Venus.

Posted by: Venutian Facts at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

79 Oh. "Venetian". Never mind.

Posted by: Venutian Facts at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

80 And then it appeared, suddenly, then all at once.

Posted by: scottst at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (qcvs8)

81 Looked up the artist. He had an awesome v-shaped beard.

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

82 now we got picture Kenneth

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (JmEcb)

83 Is the Venetian blind?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 01, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

Oops!

I love those single extra characters in links.

Fixed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (L5An7)

84 This is sho nuff a bizarre sight inna middle a this shit

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (AOsQT)

85 Ah, finally.

Hope this doesn’t reset the 100-comment clock.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

86 Only art comments til 180 now

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (MGB5H)

87
"The Venetians"...

Is that "The Aristocrats" of the art world?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (hXmGs)

88 Venusians are living creatures who are native or long inhabited with the planet Venus. Phosphine, a life biosignature was discovered to emit from Venus in 2019. Scientist think this is proof of aliens on Venus.
Posted by: Venutian Facts at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

So, Sea Monkeys then.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (wVcYX)

89 Well, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez just had a 50 million dollar wedding in Venice, so there's that.

A $50M celebration of yourself? That's not crass at all.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (Riz8t)

90 Nice rack.

Don't need the guy, though.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (ufFY8)

91 Those blue stockings...

Ghey, and lame.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (ufFY8)

92 All of our comments now make no sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:39 A

And that's different from normal?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (MGB5H)

93 That rug on the bannister is just flaunting technique.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (GBKbO)

94 Was going to comment on the guy's weird socks but then I notice the decolletage

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (t0Rmr)

95 92 All of our comments now make no sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:39 A

And that's different from normal?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 01, 2025 09:40 AM (MGB5H)

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It's all Greek to me.

For I am illiterate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (GBKbO)

96 Yes, she has large tracts of land.

So what is wrong with the guy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (JmEcb)

97 J.J. Sefton, you got the "MILF selling Penis pills"? I got LeeAnn Rimes putting her teeth back in her mouth.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (BHrzb)

98 Turquoise Socks. Imma go shopping tonight.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (W3T6M)

99 Lost Contact.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (LL6Kc)

100 You can see down all the lady's dresses from up here.

Posted by: the guy in the red at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (vFG9F)

101 Why is the carpet hanging on the staircase railing?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (wVcYX)

102 Well, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez just had a 50 million dollar wedding in Venice, so there's that.

That's more then half as much she spent on her lip filler!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

103 Last night it was Cafe threads above the ONT. This morning it's Schrödinger's art thread.
I'd like to speak with the manager, but I understand he doesn't even get out of bed until noon.

Posted by: PabloD at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (TgNVd)

104
There it is.
Okay. At 1st glance, totally ghey.
2nd look: I was right.

No hang.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (AOsQT)

105 What are they looking at, I wonder?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

106 Title
French: Sur l'escalier
The Venetians
Object type painting
Description
The Venetians (1879), by Ernest Meissonier
Date 1879
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions height: 42.5 cm (16.7 in); width: 31.1 cm (12.2 in)
Collection Private collection
Place of creation France
Inscriptions
Signature and date bottom left:

EMeissonier 1879

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

107 Was going to comment on the guy's weird socks but then I notice the decolletage
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:41 AM (t0Rmr)

I commented on the cleavage, THEN the socks.
I know my priorities.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (ufFY8)

108 >>Looked up the artist. He had an awesome v-shaped beard.

Posted by: Tuna at July 01, 2025 09:39 AM

My cousin's beard does that. I don't think it's intentional.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (n2swS)

109 They're looking at Jill Biden, who is running naked down the stairs. You can see her dress on the railing...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 01, 2025 09:43 AM (nhlex)

110 So the woman has red hair...likely not that common in Venice with its connections in Italy, the Adriatic, Greece, and the Middle East.

Perhaps a wife from the Hansa for some alliance in the northern trade?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:43 AM (t0Rmr)

111 101 Why is the carpet hanging on the staircase railing?
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Its asking to be beaten.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 09:43 AM (W3T6M)

112 Why is the carpet hanging on the staircase railing?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM (wVcYX)

Because it didn't match the curtains?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (ufFY8)

113 "Why is the carpet hanging on the staircase railing?
Posted by: Count de Monet "

I'm going to ride that carpet down the rail so hard.

Posted by: the guy in the red at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (vFG9F)

114 What's with the little flag? Is she signaling that she's available?

Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

115 When I look at this, I wonder how long it took people to get dressed in those days. Today we say "I'll be down in a minute." Back then, did they say "I'll be down in a couple of hours"?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)

116
I commented on the cleavage, THEN the socks.
I know my priorities.

If her assets were smurf blue I would have noticed them first as well

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)

117 >>What are they looking at, I wonder?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM

Mrs. Bezo's impressive plastic cleavage or the reflection from Jeff's highly polished dome.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (n2swS)

118 "What are they looking at, I wonder?
Posted by: Bulg"

C#100

Posted by: the guy in the red at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (vFG9F)

119 Aladdin failed to stick the landing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (LL6Kc)

120 When I look at this, I wonder how long it took people to get dressed in those days. Today we say "I'll be down in a minute." Back then, did they say "I'll be down in a couple of hours"?

I've seen videos (yes there are videos of everything) and while it took more time then now it didn't take that long - especially when you had servants.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

121 There might be something worth zooming in on...

I'll say! Those shoes are to DIE for!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (JCZqz)

122 Venusians>>>Venetians

Posted by: Omnec Onec, From Venus I Came at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (OXFtY)

123 Venusians getting mad about Jeff Bezos having his wedding on Venus has to be the dumbest thing anybody ever got mad about.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (fV+MH)

124 So the woman has red hair...likely not that common in Venice with its connections in Italy, the Adriatic, Greece, and the Middle East

Akshually...

Ancient Romans achieved blond hair through a variety of methods, including using natural lightening agents and even applying gold dust for a shimmering effect. Blond hair was seen as a symbol of youth and beauty, so both men and women sought ways to lighten their hair.
Here's a more detailed look at the techniques:
Natural Lightening:

Ash and Sun:
A mixture of goat fat and ashes, or ashes from burnt wood, nuts, or plants, was applied to the hair and then exposed to the sun to lighten the hair.

Vinegar and Lemon Juice:
A concoction of vinegar and lemon juice was also used as a lightening agent.
Saffron:
This spice was used to create golden hues, and wealthy Romans might even sprinkle gold dust into their hair for a shimmering effect.
Other Natural Ingredients:
Crushed yellow flower petals, pollen, or even berries were sometimes used

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (Riz8t)

125 So who did they murder by pulling the rug out?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (w6EFb)

126 They're watching their children run around with scissors.

Posted by: Linda Richman at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (36PRH)

127 Aunt Hilga's rug-ride down the bannister didn't go quite the way she'd planned.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (Hw6WF)

128 120 When I look at this, I wonder how long it took people to get dressed in those days. Today we say "I'll be down in a minute." Back then, did they say "I'll be down in a couple of hours"?

I've seen videos (yes there are videos of everything) and while it took more time then now it didn't take that long - especially when you had servants.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

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It's also my understanding that it was common practice to sleep in one's clothes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (GBKbO)

129 It's like a hotel balcony on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras ...

Posted by: Dr_No at July 01, 2025 09:46 AM (ayRl+)

130 I zoomed in on the stairs.

Excellent craftsmanship.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (fV+MH)

131 So who did they murder by pulling the rug out?

It wasn't Taylor Lorenz or Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (JmEcb)

132 They're looking at Jill Biden, who is running naked down the stairs. You can see her dress on the railing...

I know you're lying. Nobody would look AT a nude Dr. Jill. It would be like looking at the sun unaided.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (Riz8t)

133 I admit I zoomed.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (gAG18)

134 What are they looking at, I wonder?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:42 AM
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Someone downstairs has a tray of tramezzini sammiches.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (2bFN5)

135 What's with the little flag? Is she signaling that she's available?
Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

She's ready for some more Brazilian steak servings at Fogo de Chao.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

136 You can get a copy of this for $ 329.50 at OilPaintings.com. FYI

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (eBgDF)

137 It's like a hotel balcony on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras ...

Out: Glass Beads

In: Glass Ducats

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 09:47 AM (t0Rmr)

138 Is Vennice where those cute diagrams come from?
— Kamala

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

139 Had to look this one up. Meissonier usually has realistic, detailed paintings. The figures here are in that vein. But when you embiggen it the background and foreground parts, which looked true to life, are much looser reminding me of Monet. Interesting when that happens. I've been at galleries looking at a painting that from a distance looks almost like a photograph but as you get closer the brush work is revealed. It doesn't diminish my enjoyment, it adds to my admiration for the artist's talent and technique.

Posted by: JTB at July 01, 2025 09:48 AM (yTvNw)

140 67
Tomorrow's art:
.
.
.
Posted by: imp

I'm waiting with baited breath.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

141 Mrs. Bezo's impressive plastic cleavage or the reflection from Jeff's highly polished dome.

Zuckerberg staring down her cleavage at the inauguration will always be hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 09:48 AM (e4w/6)

142 "let's see if I can spit on Giacomo's head"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (eBgDF)

143 It's Venice, they are looking down watching as the water rises inside their house and are pondering how best to escape off the balcony and into a gondola.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (JmEcb)

144 142 "let's see if I can spit on Giacomo's head"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (eBgDF)

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"For the last time, my name is Giuseppe!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

145 Is Vennice where those cute diagrams come from?
— Kamala
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

I snorted.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (nwGCR)

146 I know you're lying. Nobody would look AT a nude Dr. Jill. It would be like looking at the sun unaided.
Posted by: Archimedes

Not NOBODY...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

147 Her rival slipped and fell in the canal.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 09:50 AM (08DAr)

148 They are looking at Nancy Mace getting some action before she goes to a prayer meeting.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 01, 2025 09:50 AM (ufFY8)

149 Could use a nice, tasteful runner on the stairs. Something to complement the tapestries.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:50 AM (u1rRx)

150 Lady on the right looks like the actress playing the whore who gets her face cut up in Unforgiven.

Colorful and detailed -- blue hose on the guy contrasting with his red cloak, and the rich red-and-gold tapestry on the railing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

151 TJM

Got some new movie content for you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks he is a movie critic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:51 AM (JmEcb)

152

Re:dark hair

Even today, northern Italy is significantly (if not predominantly) of fair complexion. Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.

Posted by: imp at July 01, 2025 09:51 AM (g6TN6)

153 I know you're lying. Nobody would look AT a nude Dr. Jill. It would be like looking at the sun unaided.
Posted by: Archimedes

Not fair! Dr. Jilly looked very cute "babysitting" for the Bidens in 1972.

Posted by: Jurassic Pork at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM (OXFtY)

154 Venusians are living creatures who are native or long inhabited with the planet Venus. Phosphine, a life biosignature was discovered to emit from Venus in 2019. Scientist think this is proof of aliens on Venus.
Posted by: Venutian Facts at July 01, 2025

***
"Thigarek?"

Posted by: Venusian in Heinlein's " at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM (omVj0)

155 They are assessing bomb damage at Fordorow.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM (ufFY8)

156 151 TJM

Got some new movie content for you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks he is a movie critic.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:51 AM (JmEcb)

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*shrugs*

I'm just an asshole on the internet who watches too many movies.

Other people can do that, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

157 155 They are assessing bomb damage at Fordorow.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM (ufFY

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In those shoes?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

158 Got some new movie content for you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks he is a movie critic.

I wish he’d just go away and shut up. He’s the midwit who thinks he’s smart meme personified.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (e4w/6)

159 There are parts of northern Italy that speak German.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

160 Even today, northern Italy is significantly (if not predominantly) of fair complexion. Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.
Posted by: imp

Anything south of Rome is Africa!

Posted by: 23 and Me at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (OXFtY)

161 I'm just an asshole on the internet who watches too many movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM

I don't think you watch too many movies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (u1rRx)

162 Even today, northern Italy is significantly (if not predominantly) of fair complexion. Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.
Posted by: imp at July 01, 2025

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Yes; Juliet could be played as a little blonde.

Posted by: Venusian in Heinlein's at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

163 161 I'm just an asshole on the internet who watches too many movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:52 AM

I don't think you watch too many movies.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 09:53 AM (u1rRx)

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I'm watching a movie right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:54 AM (GBKbO)

164
Not fair! Dr. Jilly looked very cute "babysitting" for the Bidens in 1972.
Posted by: Jurassic Pork at July 01, 2025

***
A lot of us looked very cute fifty years ago. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)

165 Got some new movie content for you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks he is a movie critic.

I wish he’d just go away and shut up. He’s the midwit who thinks he’s smart meme personified.\

He's no Ketanji Jackson Brown, to be sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:54 AM (Riz8t)

166 Starring Pia Zadora as Juliet.

And Paul Williams as Romeo.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

167 *shrugs*

I'm just an asshole on the internet who watches too many movies.

Other people can do that, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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No one said being an auteur is fun.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (ctrM5)

168 On an art-adjacent topic, I somehow stumbled onto a trove of YouTube shorts on men's suits. I never really paid much attention, but after a few of these, I might need to reconsider and add a new (incredibly expensive) hobby...

https://tinyurl.com/nhbmap7y
https://tinyurl.com/2sdk867p
https://tinyurl.com/ywkbutja

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

169 “Harvard’s inaction in the face of these civil rights violations is a clear example of the demographic hierarchy that has taken hold of the University. Equal defense of the law demands that all groups, regardless of race or national origin, are protected. Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies — where individuals are sorted and judged according to their membership in an oppressed group identity and not individual merit — has enabled anti-Semitism to fester on Harvard’s campus and has led a once great institution to humiliation, offering remedial math and forcing Jewish students to hide their identities and ancestral stories.” - DOJ
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Lecture me all over again about inclusion, tolerance, safe spaces, and mini-aggressions you lying hypocritical sacks of sh*t.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

170 Sefton

re: ICE Dox-ing

Did you see that Hunting Beach, CA is demanding that Federal agents identify themselves if operating in the city.

Why?

Because of one guy named Diaz who was impersonating a federal agent. Kicker is, Huntington Beach has not arrested Diaz on these charges.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (JmEcb)

171 There are parts of northern Italy that speak German.
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025

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Thanks to some of those people with the holes in their cheese?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

172 strawberry blonde is my weakness. contentedness of polarizing sunrise light mornings.

Posted by: cmeat at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (GAyiy)

173 The Venetians look like Parisians.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (g47mK)

174 TJM, how’s Dolley? You mentioned yesterday that she was pretty sick.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

175 He's no Ketanji Jackson Brown, to be sure.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 09:54 AM (Riz8t)

I think the unit of stupidity needs to be changed from "millikrohns(?)" to "ketanjis".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (ufFY8)

176 I'm watching a movie right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Too bad there are no movies on reconciliation and the budgetary process.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (ctrM5)

177 Even today, northern Italy is significantly (if not predominantly) of fair complexion. Not everywhere on the boot is Sicily.
Posted by: imp

Northern eye-talians immigrated to South America in the 19th and 20th centuries. North America got the southerners. So for Americans, when we think Italian we think southern Italy. But as you say the north is a totally different world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (nwGCR)

178 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
So the woman in the picture is amazed. You can almost hear her saying "Amazing! That cat didn't land on it's feet!"
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (1bdKO)

179 174 TJM, how’s Dolley? You mentioned yesterday that she was pretty sick.
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

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Better. She's just had a draining cold like thing for a few days.

Thanks for asking!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

180 What movie are you watching TJM?

Not The Lady and the Monster from 1944?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (JmEcb)

181 The rug on the bannister is to be cleaned with rug-beaters. The object she holds in her right hand is, I suspect, some sort of fan. It’s too frail to be a proper rug-beater: it sort of looks like a flag, but is stiffly mounted, and has a design that looks like nothing so much as a rug itself. They are both too richly dressed to be servants and aren’t in livery. They are looking below from at or near the top of the bannister at something or some peoples below: a very Hé, La-bas! attitude, pardon my French.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (PY8/y)

182 176 I'm watching a movie right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Too bad there are no movies on reconciliation and the budgetary process.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (ctrM5)

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Anatomy of a Murder doesn't count?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

183 In the movie "The Go-Between" the narrator remembers when he was a boy in 1900 and guest at a manor house like Downton Abbey. He finds himself in the smoking room - a men-only space. The men ask him what he thinks of the artwork on the wall. The implication is that it's "naughty" - but not too naughty, since they're still Victorians, after all!

I imagine it would be something like this.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (BHrzb)

184
"Dodging the Doge: A Tale of Lusty Appetites and Loves in Old Venice"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (xG4kz)

185 180 What movie are you watching TJM?

Not The Lady and the Monster from 1944?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (JmEcb)

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A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

186 Krohns is a bowel disorder.

Sally Kohn is the measure of stupidity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (JmEcb)

187 In his Memoirs (which are actually fascinating reading if you like that sort of thing), Casanova noted that the nuns of Venice were legendary for their licentiousness, and that nearly any Venetian grandee with any pretention to status took a Mother Superior as a mistress.

My only other comment is that I could wear those pantaloons. I happen to have an excellent pair of legs.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (Dg2sF)

188 I was just thinking, per a topic from the Morning Report, that an Admiral Ackbar Etouffee might not be too bad…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 09:59 AM (PCK5/)

189 6 Starring Pia Zadora as Juliet.

And Paul Williams as Romeo.
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025

***
We watched the first episode of Wednesday with Jenna Ortega last night. Most of the casting is pretty good, but Luis Guzman as Gomez??? He looks like a toad in a pinstripe suit. Gomez has always been portrayed (by John Astin and Raul Julia) as rather dashing. Yes, the Gomez in Addams's original cartoons wasn't, but Guzman -- especially sitting next to Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia -- just looked obscene.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

190 187 In his Memoirs (which are actually fascinating reading if you like that sort of thing), Casanova noted that the nuns of Venice were legendary for their licentiousness, and that nearly any Venetian grandee with any pretention to status took a Mother Superior as a mistress.

My only other comment is that I could wear those pantaloons. I happen to have an excellent pair of legs.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (Dg2sF)

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Producers pushed Fellini to make a movie about Casanova for years because they thought the two Italian womanizers had so much in common.

Except, Fellini hated Casanova. Hated him.

When he finally did make a movie about Casanova, it's unfettered hatred in celluloid form.

Pretty good, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

191 Democrats are planning a nationwide sick day where they pledge to stop working, spending, and producing.

Sounds good, make the Democrat-led cities collapse even faster.

.. so, its like every other day

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (RHGPo)

192
A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025

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With Starbuck (not the coffee, the flim-flam man)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

193 Anatomy of a Murder doesn't count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

I got that confused with Anatomy of a Fall for a moment, until the boss corrected me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (ufFY8)

194 192
A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025

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With Starbuck (not the coffee, the flim-flam man)?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

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And Ahab!

jk

But yeah. Tommy Lee Jones plays Starbuck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

195 Anatomy of a Fell Murder?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (JmEcb)

196 Twitchy reports (through the Idaho Tribune) that the Idaho shooter was a Furry and a Broney...that is a new one for the mental illness crowd...

https://twitchy.com/samj/2025 /07/01/more-info-on-idaho-gunman-n2415023

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL)

197 In the movie "The Go-Between" the narrator remembers when he was a boy in 1900 and guest at a manor house like Downton Abbey. He finds himself in the smoking room - a men-only space. The men ask him what he thinks of the artwork on the wall. The implication is that it's "naughty" - but not too naughty, since they're still Victorians, after all!

I imagine it would be something like this.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 01, 2025

***
I think that's the novel with the opening line, "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."

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

198 168 On an art-adjacent topic, I somehow stumbled onto a trove of YouTube shorts on men's suits. I never really paid much attention, but after a few of these, I might need to reconsider and add a new (incredibly expensive) hobby...

https://tinyurl.com/nhbmap7y
https://tinyurl.com/2sdk867p
https://tinyurl.com/ywkbutja
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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Depends on whether you can deduct the cost of the suits as a business expense.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (ctrM5)

199 There might be something worth zooming in on. 🤔 Boobs?

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It's a beautiful painting; rich colors, exquisite detailing.

Sur L'escalier (The Venetians) by Ernest Meissonier -
Artvee

"While known for military paintings, "The Venetians" showcases his ability to capture genre scenes with meticulous detail, including period costumes and settings.
Key details about the painting and artist:
Title: The Venetians, also known as "Sur L'escalier".
Artist: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.
Date: 1879.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Setting: Likely Venice, Italy, with figures in traditional Venetian attire.
Style: Realistic and detailed, reminiscent of 17th and 18th-century Dutch and Flemish genre painting.
Subject: Two well-to-do Venetians on a staircase observing something below.
Artist's Background: Meissonier was a highly successful French artist, renowned for his meticulous attention to detail and historical accuracy in his paintings.
Notable Features: Meissonier often studied figures and horses from sculptures he modeled in wax or clay. He also used authentic period costumes and props in his work."

But would pass hanging it. Thanks.

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

200 Kicker is, Huntington Beach has not arrested Diaz on these charges.

They probably arranged for him to do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (e4w/6)

201 “Dangerous Beauty” is an interesting movie about a Venetian whore in the late 16th century.

Stars the very yummy actress who played Gibson’s wife in Braveheart.

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

202 The regions of northern Italy were conquered by an invading Germanic tribe: hence the fair complexions and that very curly blonde hair you often see in the north oh Italy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (PY8/y)

203 Democrats are planning a nationwide sick day where they pledge to stop working, spending, and producing.

—

I doubt any of them can go 24 hours without Starbucks or Instagram.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (nwGCR)

204 Yes; I zoomed in on the carpet. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (2GCMq)

205 No motivation for the [Coeur d'Alenes firefighter shootings] sadistic attack has been identified yet, though investigators have ruled out any form of terrorism.

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Nope. Not terrorism. Nothing terroristic about it. Just forget terrorism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

206 202 The regions of northern Italy were conquered by an invading Germanic tribe: hence the fair complexions and that very curly blonde hair you often see in the north oh Italy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (PY8/y)

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Feeds into the idea that Italy isn't really a nation at all.

It's, like, five different nations inelegantly squished together in the 1850s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

207 She was the daughter of a wealthy
Florentine pogen

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (vFG9F)

208 Went to look up what the current Miss Italy - and she looks classically Italian (olive skin and dark hair)

I also ran across a picture of Miss England who is a beautiful pale redhead - standing next to her is Mr Pakistan who looks like a Pakistani guy and next to him is "Mr England" who looks like a taller Mr Pakistan.

Europe is just about dead...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:02 AM (t0Rmr)

209 The blue hose on the Fop looks stupid… Sheldon Cooper stupid…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (PCK5/)

210 He's no Ketanji Jackson Brown, to be sure.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025
*
I think the unit of stupidity needs to be changed from "millikrohns(?)" to "ketanjis".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025

***
"Millikohns" is the metric version, "ketanjis" is the Imperial.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

211 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

Nash later adapted that into a flop musical, 110 In The Shade.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (Dg2sF)

212 Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL

What is a broney or that is explained In the link?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (2GCMq)

213 This is nice

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (+qU29)

214 211 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

Nash later adapted that into a flop musical, 110 In The Shade.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (Dg2sF)

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It's funny.

People in the play complaining about the temperature, naming the numbers hitting the thermometer.

Right about what we're getting this summer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

215 CZJ as Morticia?

I’ll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

216 Anatomy of a Murder doesn't count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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More like Orwell's version of The Trial.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (ctrM5)

217 What is a broney or that is explained In the link?

Male My Little Pony fan. Like a Disney adult but somehow gayer.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (e4w/6)

218 After the dull envy, the colors!

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (RqH5H)

219 212 Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL

What is a broney or that is explained In the link?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (2GCMq)

Nah, don’t go there, Fen…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (PCK5/)

220 she's holding a Cubs banner ... must have been back in Harry Caray days.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (vbXSk)

221 Feeds into the idea that Italy isn't really a nation at all.

It's, like, five different nations inelegantly squished together in the 1850s.

I do laugh with all the focus on Ukraine, it is more a part of Russia historically and culturally then Palermo, Rome, and Milan are part of some notion of a unified Italy.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (t0Rmr)

222 Reading about the shooter looks like he was just a fucked up kid who fell apart mentally. He’s not Antifa or a secret Iranian plant or whatever. Sometimes there really is no there, there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (nwGCR)

223 In central Italy, you travel across the mountains and the cuisine may completely change on you.

Italy never existed as a 'country' until the 1800s. And still has no idea of being one.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (JmEcb)

224 216 Anatomy of a Murder doesn't count?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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More like Orwell's version of The Trial.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:04 AM (ctrM5)

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I suddenly need a crossover between the two.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

225 While known for military paintings, "The Venetians" showcases his ability to capture genre scenes with meticulous detail, including period costumes.

So. I wonder. Did they know then they were wearing period costumes?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (1bdKO)

226 "Millikohns" is the metric version, "ketanjis" is the Imperial.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

I accept this and deem it so.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (ufFY8)

227
Look Out Belowwww! - a limerick

The Venetian blind man was a fool
He yelled, "Mama mia! Fangool!"
When he slid down the bannister
And ruptured his canister
It seems he hadn't noticed the newel

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (poXs5)

228 212 Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL

What is a broney or that is explained In the link?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 10:03 AM (2GCMq)

It's explained in the link - it's pretty much a huge My Little Pony fan who completely goes nuts into the genre...and many are Furries, where they dress as, well, furred characters often in real life...and use avatars of animals to interact with the online world...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:05 AM (tOcjL)

229 CZJ as Morticia?

I’ll be in my bunk.
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025

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As with Carolyn Jones, you can really see why Gomez was so enamored with her. Not so much Angelica Huston's Morticia, though she was striking in the 1991 and 1993 films.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)

230 Fenelon Spoke

A Brony typically refers to an adult male human who is a serious fan of My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:06 AM (JmEcb)

231 Pardon: Hé, là-bas!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:06 AM (PY8/y)

232 PS - My explanation of the term Furry and Broney are the G rated ones...I would not suggest googling.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:06 AM (tOcjL)

233
The Venetians
Ernest Meissonier

Him: knock knock
Her: Who's there
Him: Venice
Her: Venice who
Him: Venice DoorDash gonna get here with the pizza

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:07 AM (AOsQT)

234 Schumer More Unpopular Among Jews Than Any Other Religious Group

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My hatred for Chuckie Cheese Schumer is second to none!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:07 AM (L/fGl)

235
A thousand Morons zoom in on the lady's chest...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 10:07 AM (FoIOl)

236 My explanation of the term Furry and Broney are the G rated ones...I would not suggest googling.

I think Broneys nominally are, but no, furries are not.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:08 AM (t0Rmr)

237 Godspeed Jay Guevara! One of the good ones. I will miss his incisive mind and subtle wit.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:08 AM (poXs5)

238 My explanation of the term Furry and Broney are the G rated ones...I would not suggest googling.

Very popular with ghostly entities that sit in his Senate seat though.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:08 AM (t0Rmr)

239 My explanation of the term Furry and Broney are the G rated

Curse of the First World. Apparently we don't have to concentrate on survival too much.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (ufFY8)

240 Twitchy reports (through the Idaho Tribune) that the Idaho shooter was a Furry and a Broney...that is a new one for the mental illness crowd...

https://twitchy.com/samj/2025 /07/01/more-info-on-idaho-gunman-n2415023
Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL)
____

So my initial instincts were correct: dude is a weirdo faggot and probably trans. No straight dude in this world or any other would brag about being a broney. Only fags and trans. Watch this entire story disappear.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (iFTx/)

241 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025
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Nash later adapted that into a flop musical, 110 In The Shade.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025

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A memory flickers in the shallows of my mind. Wasn't there a song released as a single from that, with a chorus lyric about "Miss Lizzie, I'm gonna make it rain!" If not as a single, then it showed up on one of the old variety shows?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (omVj0)

242 The CSI Vegas episode "Fur and Loathing" gives a pretty good synopsis of how deranged too much of the Furry fandom is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (JmEcb)

243 I suddenly need a crossover between the two.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The whole budget process is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque. All the budgetary language and senatorial debates are filled with New Speak and the entire process is fraught with randomness mixed with vague evil and nefarious motives by faceless uniparty actors.

How's that. As a sideline, I can see Mitch McConnell's character becoming a cockroach.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (ctrM5)

244 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

Is that one with Katherine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster?

Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (Oy/m2)

245 ‘Did you just empty that pot in the canal?’

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (ynOt3)

246 Godspeed Jay Guevara! One of the good ones. I will miss his incisive mind and subtle wit.

One of my favorites too. I swear he was commenting normally just a few days ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 10:10 AM (e4w/6)

247 244 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

Is that one with Katherine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster?
Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (Oy/m2)

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No, the one made for TV in the 80s.

That one from the 50s I haven't seen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

248 In Venice all the men are quite gay
And the women have small boobs, they say
Which makes the Venetians
A lot like the Grecians
Without a formula to stop turning gray

Posted by: naturalfake at July 01, 2025 10:10 AM (hXmGs)

249 Every deviance is available on the internet… a few clicks is all it takes.. talk about a double edged medium…

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

250 A filmed play by N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025
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Is that one with Katherine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster?
Posted by: dantesed at July 01, 2025

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I associate Hepburn with "Miss Lizzie" in that, I think.

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

251 243 The whole budget process is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque. All the budgetary language and senatorial debates are filled with New Speak and the entire process is fraught with randomness mixed with vague evil and nefarious motives by faceless uniparty actors.

How's that. As a sideline, I can see Mitch McConnell's character becoming a cockroach.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (ctrM5)

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1. "becoming"?

2. I blame Jefferson for loving rules so much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

252 People want clean explanations for these things. He hated firefighters. Or he’s antifa. Or he’s a neo Nazi. He’s a (fill in the blank)

The reality is there are a ton of people like him out there. Could be your neighbor. People who are fucked up in the head and will one day wake up and think I want to go kill a bunch of people. No reason, no motive other that he had that thought.

And that’s the scary part for everyone. Because if you can pinpoint a motive you can feel safe thinking well he did it for x reason. If we look for x we can prevent this again. But there’s no x reason most of the time. It’s random and can’t be prevented.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:10 AM (nwGCR)

253 Venice took a bunch of artifacts from Greece since they controlled parts of it for a while...eventually losing them to the Ottomans.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:11 AM (t0Rmr)

254 So my initial instincts were correct: dude is a weirdo faggot and probably trans. No straight dude in this world or any other would brag about being a broney. Only fags and trans. Watch this entire story disappear.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Add in self medicating by heavy drug or alcohol abuse. Result is you get a rancid nutty little turd in the toilet bowl of life that in a better society would be in a septic tank right now.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:11 AM (ctrM5)

255 Dude's wearing an early version of Crocs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)

256 And Leftist society and their love of victims, enables their illness instead of seeking ways to truly help the person.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:12 AM (JmEcb)

257 Schumer More Unpopular Among Jews Than Any Other Religious Group

—

But we’ll still vote for him because his Republican opponent is a fascist right winger who wants to burn gays.
- NY Jews

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:12 AM (nwGCR)

258 I think we're being tested.
Posted by: Weasel at July 01, 2025 09:36 AM

Nah. CBD is just amusing himself. The Parisian ennui is starting to affect him.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

259 I thought The Rainmaker was Matt Damon and Claire Danes

a John Grisham joint

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (AOsQT)

260 217 What is a broney or that is explained In the link?

Male My Little Pony fan. Like a Disney adult but somehow gayer.
Posted by: Ian S.

To be fair, having watched MANY an episode with my young (at the time) children, it's actually a pretty good show, and not full of woke indoctrination, which is refreshing. There's even a great episode called "The Cutie Map - Part 1" which introduces a new character running a "utopian" village where all are equal, all the citizens give up their special marks and abilities, and they're miserable. A communist village portrayed as evil, and ultimately they're liberated lol.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

261 Everyone wears period costume, every day. We just don’t think about the attitudes of future clothing historians. There’s a scene in a science fiction story where a time travel cop comes to deport some illegal time aliens from our present day (the cop is from the future, too). He catches out the men he’s after because they don’t know to lift up their pant legs getting into a car. You see, in their future, men wear breech-clouts, and don’t have to worry about such things!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (PY8/y)

262 259 I thought The Rainmaker was Matt Damon and Claire Danes

a John Grisham joint
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (AOsQT)

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It's also that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

263 Anna Puma is gonna dig that he was a Bronie.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 10:14 AM (0sNs1)

264 Can someone explain why CBD is in Europe

I was absent that day...

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:14 AM (AOsQT)

265 Twitchy reports (through the Idaho Tribune) that the Idaho shooter was a Furry and a Broney...

**********

Authorities are speculating that he died of a self-administered drug overdose. After climbing the mountain they found the furry with a syringe on top...

🤭

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:14 AM (poXs5)

266 I love the wood work in the staircase. Each piece meticulously carved by highly skilled woodworkers. That staircase has a shitload of man hours in it. I appreciate the skill of the artist who depicted it as well.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 01, 2025 10:14 AM (pohLc)

267 259 I thought The Rainmaker was Matt Damon and Claire Danes

a John Grisham joint
Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:13 AM (AOsQT)

“joint”… made me think of Spike Lee… saw a recent pick of him… he looks like a tiny little insect wearing glasses…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

268 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Drop your cocks and grab your socks, you have bellies to rub!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM (d8mPq)

269 1. "becoming"?

2. I blame Jefferson for loving rules so much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Jefferson was bored as VP and did it as a means to pass the time away. He was never a really good legislator. He could write flashy works of brilliance but was never a plodder required to be an excellent legislator.

Adams, who was technically far better as a lawmaker than executive (see his ghostwritten Mass Constitution as an example), but as first VP was too concerned with trying to run the chamber with senators that did not want him to do so.

The whole concern of Adam's in the Senate regarding what Adams thought the title of the VP should be there is hysterically funny.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM (ctrM5)

270 The Cutie Mark

Every young pony wonders what their mark will be.

The Cutie Mark, not their intelligence or talents, determines what they will be life.

Screw My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with Taylor Lorenz' sex toy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (JmEcb)

271 Furries are oddly one of the sex perverts that lefties will allow people to make fun of.

I assume at some point they'll be added to the formal alphabet group though.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (t0Rmr)

272 Guess I should join the art thread now.

Bulg tried to tell everyone, but I missed it.

On the art: "If I hold my head just like this, the flag blocks her from seeing where I'm looking!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (O7YUW)

273 52 I think we're being tested.
Posted by: Weasel

Or, he was messing with the coffee maker and forgot to push the key twice.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

274 Kremlin Warns West Against Backing 'Color Revolution' in Serbia As Protests Grow

President Vucic: "They wanted to topple Serbia, and they have failed."

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (RHGPo)

275 Duncanthrax

Up your nose with a rubber hose

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:16 AM (JmEcb)

276 Toronto Zoo Hires Drag Queen Who Posts Naked Photos Online To Read To Kids

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I'm OK with this if they're going to throw him to the lions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:17 AM (L/fGl)

277 Authorities are speculating that he died of a self-administered drug overdose. After climbing the mountain they found the furry with a syringe on top...

🤭
Posted by: muldoon
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You might like the whole Callahan's Bar set of books by Spider Robinson. Basically short stories set in a bar with a host of wild characters but they have a character named Doc who was a master punster.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:17 AM (ctrM5)

278 This is a beautiful composition, not just in line, but in use of colors. The diagonal of the staircase points inwards to the principals in counter-action to where they're looking. The red rug (red being the most "interesting" color) also points up to them and both figures are bracketed by more red on the walls behind them. Blues on the walls also pick up the blue hose the man's wearing, which would otherwise rivet our attention as being a singular color. The man's black velvet hat is also strategic, once again pulling our eye deep into the picture plane and straight to where the action is happening -- the principal's faces. Me like!

Posted by: tankascribe at July 01, 2025 10:17 AM (NtoJk)

279 Nice recovery for the Venetians: from swamp rats hiding from Attila, to the economic center of the Medieval world.

Posted by: front toward enemy at July 01, 2025 10:17 AM (TIizU)

280 272 What did I try to tell everyone?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

281 I can't tell if the dude in the painting is looking at something or is ready to hurl over the rail at someone the girl has targeted. In any case, the girl has nice cleavage.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 10:18 AM (/U5Yz)

282 279 Nice recovery for the Venetians: from swamp rats hiding from Attila, to the economic center of the Medieval world.
Posted by: front toward enemy at July 01, 2025 10:17 AM (TIizU)

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Location, location, location.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

283 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Drop your cocks and grab your socks, you have bellies to rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM

Ummmm ... if it's Tummy Rub Tuesday, wouldn't it be more fun to reverse the verbs?

Asking for the 'Rons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 10:18 AM (0sNs1)

284 In central Italy, you travel across the mountains and the cuisine may completely change on you.

I hear that in Sicily they have a great affinity for eggplant...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 10:19 AM (FoIOl)

285 There is only one Hepburn.

And it ain't Katharine.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:19 AM (fV+MH)

286 188 I was just thinking, per a topic from the Morning Report, that an Admiral Ackbar Etouffee might not be too bad…
Posted by: tubal

Just, uh, Admiral Ackbar inspired, right? Like Girl Scout Cookies. Not actually MADE with Admiral Ackbar?

What's a suitable trap you could place inside? Aside from cheating and making it inedible, pouring in TurboLax (ala Dumb and Dumber)...something food-related, weird (but some people eat), that wouldn't go with etouffe at all?

Maybe a rum soaked fruit cake that the etouffe is served on?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 10:19 AM (JCZqz)

287 Nice recovery for the Venetians: from swamp rats hiding from Attila, to the economic center of the Medieval world.

When your rivals are in ruins, it is easy to be top dog. Or Doge. Just ask Constantinople, oh you can't.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:19 AM (JmEcb)

288 Venice's big competitor, Genoa, had problems in that being on the mainland they face much more pressure from their larger neighbors, Venice's location allowed them a high degree of freedom as long as they maintained a navy stronger then their land based rivals.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:20 AM (t0Rmr)

289 Yes, rub the geezers’ tummies after you fleece them.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

290 283 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Drop your cocks and grab your socks, you have bellies to rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM

Ummmm ... if it's Tummy Rub Tuesday, wouldn't it be more fun to reverse the verbs?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

That sounds DANGEROUSLY close to furry activity.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 10:20 AM (JCZqz)

291 Mitch McConnell woke up one day, dismayed to discover he had become a giant cockroach.

- Franz Kafka

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:21 AM (PY8/y)

292 I hear that in Sicily they have a great affinity for eggplant...

/Laughs

/Reaches for gun

Posted by: Christopher Walken at July 01, 2025 10:21 AM (t0Rmr)

293 Toronto Zoo Hires Drag Queen Who Posts Naked Photos Online To Read To Kids
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The phrasing made that more difficult to follow.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:21 AM (TN0g+)

294 So they hired a drag queen to read to baby goats?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:22 AM (JmEcb)

295 A memory flickers in the shallows of my mind. Wasn't there a song released as a single from that, with a chorus lyric about "Miss Lizzie, I'm gonna make it rain!" If not as a single, then it showed up on one of the old variety shows?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (omVj0)

Probably "The Rain Song," though I admit I haven't listened to the score in years. As an aside, you might like Ken Mandelbaum's 1992 book Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Very entertaining book.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 10:22 AM (Dg2sF)

296 Toronto zoo...you had one job...

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:22 AM (fV+MH)

297 Fox News@FoxNews

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (TGPs7)

298 So they hired a drag queen to read to baby goats?

I'm here to read books and groom kids and look at that we just finished "That's Not my Truck"

Posted by: Some tranny at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (t0Rmr)

299 Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM (d8mPq)

So nurse is now channeling R. Lee Ermey?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (Dg2sF)

300 Hilda Hepburn, Queen of the Pascagoula Bingo League.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

301 @280/Bulg: "What did I try to tell everyone?"

That the art thread was up. You posted @ #391 in the Morning Report thread, "Art…allegedly."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (O7YUW)

302 Sicilians… my Sicilian relations by marriage check ALL of the stereotype boxes… fun family get togethers were had..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (PCK5/)

303 274 Kremlin Warns West Against Backing 'Color Revolution' in Serbia As Protests Grow

President Vucic: "They wanted to topple Serbia, and they have failed."
Posted by: SMOD

Serbia/Kosovo is a stable situation, waiting for a US-led political solution, that would free US troops up from a mission that has been ongoing since 1999 or so. Trump is just the man to do it, I think. Might be another bullet point on his Nobel Peace Prize nomination lol

Posted by: Military Moron at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

304 People want clean explanations for these things. He hated firefighters. Or he’s antifa. Or he’s a neo Nazi. He’s a (fill in the blank)

The reality is there are a ton of people like him out there. Could be your neighbor. People who are fucked up in the head and will one day wake up and think I want to go kill a bunch of people. No reason, no motive other that he had that thought.

And that’s the scary part for everyone. Because if you can pinpoint a motive you can feel safe thinking well he did it for x reason. If we look for x we can prevent this again. But there’s no x reason most of the time. It’s random and can’t be prevented.
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Its the endgame of nihilism.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (TN0g+)

305 WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend

Looks like a young Ice Cube.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (t0Rmr)

306 Too bad there are no movies on reconciliation and the budgetary process.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 09:56 AM (ctrM5)

If there was I know someone who would have watched them.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (VPwHp)

307 297 Fox News@FoxNews

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (TGPs7)

I can’t stop snickering…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:25 AM (PCK5/)

308 Everyone wears period costume, every day. We just don’t think about the attitudes of future clothing historians.

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The secret to enjoying studying history is to realize that the people living back in olden days didn't realize they were living back in olden days. They thought they were living in now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

309 So I'm playing here at Trump National in Sterling VA last Tuesday. Got to see President Trump up close. Damn. He can crush the ball!
And he has a sound system on his cart. As he drove past he had country playing.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 10:25 AM (1bdKO)

310 303 IIRC, Trump already brokered some kind of deal between Serbia and Kosovo in his first term.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

311 Twitchy reports (through the Idaho Tribune) that the Idaho shooter was a Furry and a Broney...that is a new one for the mental illness crowd...

https://twitchy.com/samj/2025 /07/01/more-info-on-idaho-gunman-n2415023
Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM

I guess furries really do get a bullet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 10:26 AM (u1rRx)

312 If you people want to stop these sorts of mass shootings we are going to have to go back to the culture of the 50s.

But the people that scream about "thoughts and prayers" will in no way actually solving this problem.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:26 AM (t0Rmr)

313 That sounds DANGEROUSLY close to furry activity.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 01, 2025 10:20 AM

Perhaps, if they appreciate Bob Ross' philosophy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 10:26 AM (0sNs1)

314 WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Posted by: Mister Ghost

I guess there is crying in the WNBA.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

315 WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (TGPs7)

So that's what that brief plunging sound was.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (VPwHp)

316 You know what would really suck?

Being a sports team mascot on the road staying at a hotel hosting a furry convention.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (t0Rmr)

317 Is Comic Con still a thing? If so, go to one and feast your eyes on the crowd. You will find Bronies and Furries and a shit ton of Super Heroes/Heroines. It is interesting but after awhile you want to leave.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (W3T6M)

318 What the hell are those dogs doin. . . . . .

Oh, nevermind.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (H7X8V)

319 Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 10:15 AM (d8mPq)

So nurse is now channeling R. Lee Ermey?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 10:23 AM (Dg2sF)

Probably a better shot too.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (1bdKO)

320 I feel like I'm living in a time future people will laugh at.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:27 AM (fV+MH)

321 And he has a sound system on his cart. As he drove past he had country playing.
Posted by: Diogenes
_______

So what? So let's dance!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 01, 2025 10:28 AM (+1O+p)

322 Fox News@FoxNews

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 10:23

https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 10:28 AM (u1rRx)

323 240 Twitchy reports (through the Idaho Tribune) that the Idaho shooter was a Furry and a Broney...that is a new one for the mental illness crowd...

https://twitchy.com/samj/2025 /07/01/more-info-on-idaho-gunman-n2415023
Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 10:01 AM (tOcjL)
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So my initial instincts were correct: dude is a weirdo faggot and probably trans. No straight dude in this world or any other would brag about being a broney. Only fags and trans. Watch this entire story disappear.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 10:09 AM (iFTx/)

So basically the guy was a middle of the road Democrat

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 01, 2025 10:28 AM (OA79/)

324 I wish women would always wear Tudor style hats.

Cute as the dickens.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:28 AM (fV+MH)

325 WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Grow up. You're a commodity just like the rest of us working stiffs.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 10:28 AM (H7X8V)

326 Tudor hats and yoga pants.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:29 AM (fV+MH)

327 Serbia/Kosovo is a stable situation, waiting for a US-led political solution, that would free US troops up from a mission that has been ongoing since 1999 or so

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Wait what? There are US troops there now?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:29 AM (nwGCR)

328 I wish women would always wear Tudor style hats.

Might get cold in the northern regions wearing just a hat.

Posted by: Some Moron at July 01, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

329 So I'm playing here at Trump National in Sterling VA last Tuesday. Got to see President Trump up close. Damn. He can crush the ball!
And he has a sound system on his cart. As he drove past he had country playing.
Posted by: Diogenes

He's a redneck?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

330
There might be something worth zooming in on...

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I did not see a dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:29 AM (/HVsR)

331 Fox News@FoxNews

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
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Galaxy Aces > Las Vegas Aces

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+)

332 An Iran-linked cyberattack group that hacked President Trump's 2024 campaign is threatening to release another trove of emails it has stolen from his associates, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Roger Stone.

The big picture: Reuters first reported the threat on Monday that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on X called a "calculated smear campaign" — which came the same day as the Trump administration released a report warning that "Iranian Cyber Actors" may target U.S. firms and "operators of critical infrastructure." ...

Hackers who gave themselves the pseudonym "Robert" told Reuters in online conversations on Sunday and Monday they had around 100 gigabytes of emails involving Wiles, Stone, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan and adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and others.

... more Stormy Daniels when we need more cowbell

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

333 I'm trying to figure out what the guy finds more interesting than her decolletage.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 10:31 AM (tT6L1)

334 After climbing the mountain they found the furry with a syringe on top...

🤭
Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:14 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 01, 2025 10:31 AM (u1rRx)

335 I hear that in Sicily they have a great affinity for eggplant...
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Eggplant is hideous.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 10:31 AM (W3T6M)

336 If there was I know someone who would have watched them.
Posted by: ...
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Myself, I actually prefer reading rather than watching movies much anymore.

Watch old British TV series for a 30 minute to 1 hour show. Back and sometimes legs/arms, starts hurting after that. So I rarely have the focus necessary on watching the movie. Like a shark, I have to keep moving periodically in order to keep from stiffening up.

No such problem getting up reading something as you don't miss key moments. Although I rarely read any fiction nowadays.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:31 AM (ctrM5)

337 " I'm trying to figure out what the guy finds more interesting than her decolletage.
Posted by: blake"

He's a bit of a dandy.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:32 AM (fV+MH)

338
Hackers who gave themselves the pseudonym "Robert" told Reuters in online conversations on Sunday and Monday they had around 100 gigabytes of emails involving Wiles, Stone, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan and adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and others.

... more Stormy Daniels when we need more cowbell
Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

Jeebus not stormy Daniel's again.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 01, 2025 10:32 AM (OA79/)

339 320 I feel like I'm living in a time future people will laugh at.
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We live in Clown Town Times.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 10:32 AM (W3T6M)

340 Medieval French cuisine was nothing like the moderne haute cuisine of today. The essence of modern French cooking came from France’s attempts to conquer northern Italy in the first half of the 1500s. The French didn’t stay in Italy, but they did bring back a lot of recipes. And northern Italians are really Germans, you can say Frenchmen learned how to cook from Germans!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (PY8/y)

341 Are the walls closing in on Trump?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (nwGCR)

342 317 Is Comic Con still a thing? If so, go to one and feast your eyes on the crowd. You will find Bronies and Furries and a shit ton of Super Heroes/Heroines. It is interesting but after awhile you want to leave.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Western society has a problem with people that do not want to leave childhood behind.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (ctrM5)

343 331 Fox News@FoxNews

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
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Galaxy Aces > Las Vegas Aces
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+

Please remember stereotypes are bad.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (OA79/)

344 333 I'm trying to figure out what the guy finds more interesting than her decolletage.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Do you see his left hand?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

345 I love all the detail in this painting, and the range of color, but I wish I could see this in person. My objection to this is the relatively small size of the painting; it should be a big thing, taking up a lot of wall space.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (kjt0l)

346 "And northern Italians are really Germans"

Mind blown.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (fV+MH)

347 you can say Frenchmen learned how to cook from Germans!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:33 AM (PY8/y)

Heaven: The British are the police, the French are chefs, the Germans are the mechanics, the Swiss are the administrators, and the Italians are the lovers.

Hell: The Germans are the police, the British are the chefs, the French are the mechanics, the Italians are the administrators, and the Swiss are the lovers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (nwGCR)

348 The French didn’t stay in Italy, but they did bring back a lot of recipes

And syphilis.

Posted by: Some Moron at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (t0Rmr)

349 If the left is trying to make Stormy Daniels a thing again, then they've really got nothing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (tT6L1)

350
I may have left the wrong impression in the last thread.

A DUite said "I'm traveling abroad tomorrow. If anyone asks I'm telling them I'm Canadian." I said this was the very definition of an asshole.

To be sure, I didn't intend that to be a slam against Canadians. I intended it to be a slam against that species of American so embarrassed to be one they feel they have to pretend to be something else.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (/HVsR)

351 Northern Italy is even more productive than Germany per square mile.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (LL6Kc)

352 If the left is trying to make Stormy Daniels a thing again, then they've really got nothing.

They are still trying to use the egg thing...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (t0Rmr)

353 "Are the walls closing in on Trump?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald "

ruh roh

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (fV+MH)

354 Cleavage and Weavage

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (P0m9n)

355 No such problem getting up reading something as you don't miss key moments. Although I rarely read any fiction nowadays.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:31 AM (ctrM5)

I'm sorry to hear it. One of the first crohns drugs they put me on left my joints "locked" if I ever stayed still for like 45 minutes, say I fell asleep on the couch. The pain was in every joint, like each had been rusted over. I pray it's nothing like that but it doesn't sound good. I told the doctor and he said "that shouldn't be happening, that drug isn't known to do that". Great.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:36 AM (VPwHp)

356 @276/Anonosaurus Wrecks: "Toronto Zoo Hires Drag Queen Who Posts Naked Photos Online To Read To Kids"

And given that revelation, I did some searching on their site, and found this program that the Toronto Zoo is offering to children:

https://tinyurl.com/bd44cbpk

Oh HELL no.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 10:36 AM (O7YUW)

357 Crocs, the early years.

Posted by: steevy at July 01, 2025 10:37 AM (YwEeS)

358 Just registered the woman is holding a Magic Wand….

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:39 AM (PCK5/)

359 Cleavage and weavage and crocs, oh my.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:39 AM (fV+MH)

360 Dude on the stairway sings softly to himself:

♫ ♫
Knees in Blue satin
Never reaching the end
Letters are written
Never meaning to send

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:39 AM (poXs5)

361 Western society has a problem with people that do not want to leave childhood behind.
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It is strange to meet a grown man that is dressed as a Pretty Pony. It is creepy. It just is.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 10:40 AM (W3T6M)

362 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 10:41 AM (eBgDF)

363 SOOPER SEKRIT DAMGING LAWYERS EMAILS TO BE LEAKED:
(names deleted)
..."Hey could we meet for a conference next Thusday?"
-- "Thursday's no good, how about Friday?"
---"Ok Friday, lets make it lunch. How about Massino's?"
---"no, Frank's has a great happy hour special on Friday."
---"Ok Franks, how are the margueritas?
---"Oh they are great you'll love them!"
---"what are we meeting about again?"
---"I don't know, doesn't matter."

100 megabytes of this...

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:41 AM (uWKK8)

364 Build Back Better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (LL6Kc)

365 362 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 10:41 AM (eBgDF)

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I have no idea what's in it until it comes out of conference with the House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

366 I look at the painting and all I can think about is the poor bastard that had to hand carve all the parts of the stair railing and spindles.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (snZF9)

367 I'm sorry to hear it. One of the first crohns drugs they put me on left my joints "locked" if I ever stayed still for like 45 minutes, say I fell asleep on the couch. The pain was in every joint, like each had been rusted over. I pray it's nothing like that but it doesn't sound good. I told the doctor and he said "that shouldn't be happening, that drug isn't known to do that". Great.
Posted by: ...
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Crohns apparently is similar to autoimmune conditions so I can see where a drug could cause stiffening of the ligaments and surround muscular tissues.

FWIW, certain antibiotics do it like K-Flex (mild usually) and Levaquin (much worse so now 'black' labeled ) so you have the risk of tearing and straining ligaments well after use of them.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)

368 Assuming senate passes the bbb, it has to go back to the house right? Since it’s different than what the house passed.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (nwGCR)

369 Oh HELL no.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Oh HELL no squared.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

370 348 The French didn’t stay in Italy, but they did bring back a lot of recipes

And syphilis.
Posted by: Some Moron

There was a lot of that going around!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (PY8/y)

371 362 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 10:41 AM (eBgDF)

I doubt that mollusc would say it if it wasn’t true.. bivalves are not known for boldness…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

372 "And northern Italians are really Germans"

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

Well sure. If you go far enough north.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:43 AM (poXs5)

373 Well, it's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go, cat, go

But don't you
Step on my blue suede peidi
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede peidi

Posted by: Carlo Giuseppe Perkins at July 01, 2025 10:43 AM (wVcYX)

374 362 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Kabuki dance. The truth of the matter is that Senators can be bought and sold by leadership by massaging the language of the bill. So big profile votes rarely fail and if they do, they are very quickly tweaked enough to do so.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)

375 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.
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I'm "meh" about the entire thing. These are uninspiring efforts at responsible government. The whole "..well its babysteps but we *need* these babysteps..." argument just never seems to match what the Democrats do when THEY have the votes.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:44 AM (TN0g+)

376 Peidi R Squared.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:44 AM (LL6Kc)

377 Very Willowed:
Once, on the Capitol Beltway, I saw Jeff Bostic- played guard for the Redskins
he was driving a little Mitsubishi thing, which I though was probably uncomfortable for an NFL lineman
Posted by: Don Black

Bostic played center. He actually wasn't that big, even though a Hog. He started at 6'2/250 and eventually got to 265. Big for a little Mitsubishi, but hardly why the line got named "the Hogs". (That would be the dudes at 6'3+ pushing 300, especially Jacoby at 6'7/300-310.)

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 01, 2025 10:44 AM (KAi1n)

378 All of Europe has been conquered and reconquered for centuries. Everywhere is a little something else.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:45 AM (nwGCR)

379 FWIW, certain antibiotics do it like K-Flex (mild usually) and Levaquin (much worse so now 'black' labeled ) so you have the risk of tearing and straining ligaments well after use of them.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:42 AM (ctrM5)

I can't remember if Levaquin was the one that made me incredibly nauseous. Didn't know it was black labeled now. There was something about it I didn't like. Great.

You are still in my prayers bud.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:45 AM (VPwHp)

380 368 Assuming senate passes the bbb, it has to go back to the house right? Since it’s different than what the house passed.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yes, unless you pull the deemed as passed, but in reality, unless the House decides to adopt the Senate bill, there might be a conference cmte.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

381 The Irish came from Anatolia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:46 AM (LL6Kc)

382 Thune says he has the votes to pass BBB. I'll believe it when I see it.
-----------

I'm "meh" about the entire thing. These are uninspiring efforts at responsible government. The whole "..well its babysteps but we *need* these babysteps..." argument just never seems to match what the Democrats do when THEY have the votes.
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In fact, what if we just said "Nah" and then asserted that there won't be any continuing resolutions either. Let's just stop funding anything other than what the law makes clear continue on without any votes.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:46 AM (TN0g+)

383 380 Yes, unless you pull the deemed as passed, but in reality, unless the House decides to adopt the Senate bill, there might be a conference cmte.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:45 AM (ctrM5)

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Some of the changes will probably have enough House Reps in revolt that the conference will have to happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

384 The Raiders crushed those fagz.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:46 AM (fV+MH)

385 366 I look at the painting and all I can think about is the poor bastard that had to hand carve all the parts of the stair railing and spindles.

Hey! Carpenters need work, too!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:47 AM (PY8/y)

386 I can't remember if Levaquin was the one that made me incredibly nauseous. Didn't know it was black labeled now. There was something about it I didn't like. Great.

You are still in my prayers bud.
Posted by: ...
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Thanks. Likewise as to prayers, fighting something like Crohn's disease is awful as well. Knew some colleagues with it before retiring.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

387 "All of Europe has been conquered and reconquered for centuries. Everywhere is a little something else.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

Apparently the Celts and the Vikings got around.

And who even were the Sea People?

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:48 AM (fV+MH)

388 The Gauls looted Greece.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:48 AM (LL6Kc)

389 All of Europe has been conquered and reconquered for centuries. Everywhere is a little something else.

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

Thanks to Johann Apfelkern

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:49 AM (poXs5)

390 Hell: The Germans are the police, the British are the chefs, the French are the mechanics, the Italians are the administrators, and the Swiss are the lovers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (nwGCR)
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Modern life is turning this joke on its head, as the British police are now fascist, the Italian administrators are doing a passable job these days (and Meloni is an adept politician), and British restaurants are in some cases truly excellent. We just spent a little time in London over two recent trips and we loved the places we ate.

The Swiss are still the Swiss, and the Germans might be becoming German again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 10:49 AM (Gp7Cl)

391 And the Franks were Germans. wtf

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:49 AM (fV+MH)

392 "I might need to reconsider and add a new (incredibly expensive) hobby..."

You want expensive? Hire someone who professionally makes costumes for the S.F. opera to make you a bespoke outfit circa 1750. (Even after designing it myself and getting the material, it was still some coin.) If (when?) I drop a couple inches, I could still fit into it. 19th c. men's isn't so expensive compared to today; just a little more fabric though tying cravats all fancy-like is a pain (and there were no clip-ons).

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 01, 2025 10:49 AM (KAi1n)

393 AFP News Agency@AFP
#BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study

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Hmm. 14 million people dying or me not getting a tax cut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

394 342. Western society has a problem with people that do not want to leave childhood behind.
Posted by: whig

One possibility -
Healthcare dot gov.
People under 30
How to get or stay on a parent’s plan
If a parent’s health insurance plan covers dependents, you usually can be added to their plan and stay on it until you turn 26.

Further, some state laws.
While the ACA sets the federal standard at age 26, some states have extended dependent coverage beyond this age. For instance, Pennsylvania allows children to stay on their parents' plan until age 30 if they are unmarried, have no dependents, and are residents or full-time students. Florida also allows coverage until age 30 under certain conditions, including student status.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 10:50 AM (NFX2v)

395 348 [The French didn’t stay in Italy, but they did bring back a lot of recipes]
And syphilis.
Posted by: Some Moron at July 01, 2025 10:34 AM (t0Rmr)
349 If the left is trying to make Stormy Daniels a thing again, then they've really got nothing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 10:35 AM (tT6L1)

I wouldn't say Daniels comes with nothing.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 10:51 AM (08DAr)

396 Some of the changes will probably have enough House Reps in revolt that the conference will have to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Most of the negotiations are an inside game among the GOP right now in Congress and Trump and depend on dynamics that are simply not reported very well by our media. Budget bills are where the Price is Right for senators and representatives to sell their votes come in and that is simply something nauseating about the whole budgetary process. However, this is endemic to every single legislative system that is 'democratic' but less problematic in a first past the post parliamentary system due to the powers of the PM and Cabinet.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

397 #BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study

It must really suck being them. Next.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 10:51 AM (/U5Yz)

398 Bostic played center. He actually wasn't that big, even though a Hog. He started at 6'2/250 and eventually got to 265. Big for a little Mitsubishi, but hardly why the line got named "the Hogs". (That would be the dudes at 6'3+ pushing 300, especially Jacoby at 6'7/300-310.)
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Redskins Salad Days. They put the Hogs together basically in one draft. Amazing. Then there were Man, Manly and Jumpy Geathers. Jeebus.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 10:51 AM (W3T6M)

399 #BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study

"could" does some extremely heavy lifting. Check it for steroids.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (Dv3i1)

400 Thanks. Likewise as to prayers, fighting something like Crohn's disease is awful as well. Knew some colleagues with it before retiring.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:47 AM (ctrM5)

Thank you. I have been incredibly blessed after feeling like I was at deaths door for some time to have a loooong reprieve from most of it. Every day really is a blessing but I will specifically pray for some pain relief for you.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (VPwHp)

401 COULD die.

Or also could NOT die.

This is like when you see an add saying up to 80% off sale. Great. But be aware 0% is also up to 80%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (nwGCR)

402 397 #BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study

It must really suck being them. Next.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 10:51 AM (/U5Yz)

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They should respect property rights in order to build their own wealth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

403 372 "And northern Italians are really Germans"

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

Well sure. If you go far enough north.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/
ancient-places-europe/lombards-0015988

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (PY8/y)

404 Funny thing about the Hogs even though Jacoby was 300-320 today that line would be small. The Denver line from the 90s would be munchkins

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (eBgDF)

405 393 You don't need to continue to sell me on the idea, I'm already for it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (LL6Kc)

406 Speaking of dozy sluts with a tenuous grasp on reality, E Jean Carroll has a book out. Wiki: Her book Not My Type, subtitled One Woman Against a President, debuted at #2 on the New York Times best-seller list on June 28, 2025.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (08DAr)

407 >Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 01, 2025 10:44 AM (KAi1n)
---

You really went all out to fisk my comment. Noted.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (AOsQT)

408 Western society has a problem with people that do not want to leave childhood behind.
Posted by: whig

And a bigger problem with people who don't want to leave childhood behinds.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:53 AM (VPwHp)

409 406 Speaking of dozy sluts with a tenuous grasp on reality, E Jean Carroll has a book out. Wiki: Her book Not My Type, subtitled One Woman Against a President, debuted at #2 on the New York Times best-seller list on June 28, 2025.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 10:52 AM (08DAr)

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It should be remembered that The NYT admitted in court that its best seller list is not related to sales but is an editorial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

410 For instance, Pennsylvania allows children to stay on their parents' plan until age 30 if they are unmarried, have no dependents, and are residents or full-time students.
___

AKA the Insurance for Antifa Kids Act.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

411 BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study
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The Lancet also claimed that pretty much every Iraqi died of war atrocites in 2006.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 01, 2025 10:54 AM (XZ5S6)

412
Hey! Carpenters need work, too!

And just like me they long to be close to you.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 10:54 AM (63Dwl)

413 Dude on the stairway sings softly to himself:

♫ ♫
Knees in Blue satin
Never reaching the end
Letters are written
Never meaning to send
Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 10:39 AM (poXs5)
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Darnitall.

You astonish me.

Congratulations.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 01, 2025 10:54 AM (RqH5H)

414 Italians can do architecture, food and music

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (+qU29)

415 "The Lancet also claimed that pretty much every Iraqi died of war atrocites in 2006.
Posted by: Captain Obvious"

Yeah they blew their credibility on that one.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (fV+MH)

416 >>#BREAKING Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: Lancet study

Is this like those guys in Africa who blamed Trump for getting AIDs after he cut USAID?

At what point can we agree that the US taxpayer is not responsible for all disease and disaster care throughout the world?

It's funny, I don't recall the MSM screeching about how many people would die when Biden was withholding disaster support to NC last fall.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (VVnrT)

417 414 Italians can do architecture, food and music
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (+qU29)

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Don't sell short their ability to create traffic jams.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

418
How did people survive before US foreign aid?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (/HVsR)

419 And that’s the scary part for everyone. Because if you can pinpoint a motive you can feel safe thinking well he did it for x reason. If we look for x we can prevent this again. But there’s no x reason most of the time. It’s random and can’t be prevented.
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Its the endgame of nihilism.
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 10:24 AM (TN0g+)

And nihilism is one of the core subjects of our present day education (indoctrination) systems.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

420 And a bigger problem with people who don't want to leave childhood behinds.
Posted by: ...
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I saw what you did there.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)

421 We want radical lasting change… disappointment is inevitable since we have DC to work with.. the way it goes..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

422 418
How did people survive before US foreign aid?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Cannibalism and shamans?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (/U5Yz)

423 Lancet?

Oh right, people in Africa are blaming Trump for them getting AIDS since he cut off drug funding.

Uh how about you stop playing dangerous sexual games.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (JmEcb)

424 Shane Goldmacher@ShaneGoldmacher
NEWS: A group of Democratic thinkers are plotting to lay out a new agenda for the left.
They’re called it Project 2029.
Comes in middle of raging Democratic debate: whether the party needs better ideas or just better salesmanship to succeed in 2028.

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Maybe just more terrorism, riots, and perversion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

425 How did people survive before US foreign aid?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (/HVsR)

They didn't.

Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (LgDgc)

426 And nihilism is one of the core subjects of our present day education (indoctrination) systems.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew

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Fuck me...

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (XZ5S6)

427 Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)

It was on a tee but then again for me everything is on a tee.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (VPwHp)

428 The Left: If Trump cuts funding, we will shoot this dog

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 10:58 AM (VPwHp)

429 Thank you. I have been incredibly blessed after feeling like I was at deaths door for some time to have a loooong reprieve from most of it. Every day really is a blessing but I will specifically pray for some pain relief for you.
Posted by: ...
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Thanks. I need them.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:58 AM (ctrM5)

430 425 How did people survive before US foreign aid?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:55 AM (/HVsR)

They didn't.
Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (LgDgc)

I've been told that in the past, everyone died.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 10:58 AM (uWKK8)

431 There is no aid in usaid. It’s all money laundering to leftist groups. Hence nobody will die without it. Well maybe a few “non profit” orgs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (nwGCR)

432
Uh how about you stop playing dangerous sexual games.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (JmEcb)

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AIDS is an incredibly easy disease to avoid contracting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (/HVsR)

433 It was on a tee but then again for me everything is on a tee.
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Never change.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (ctrM5)

434 The Oregon Trail was a real killer before Federal funding turned it into a highway.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (JmEcb)

435 Oh well. We don't beed them anyway. People who can't feed themselves are never going to invent flying cars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (LL6Kc)

436 Redskins Salad Days. They put the Hogs together basically in one draft. Amazing. Then there were Man, Manly and Jumpy Geathers. Jeebus.
Posted by: pudinhead

Ehhh, Bostic was a FA drafted by Philly in '81 (and cut), Stark (RT) was a rookie in SB 7 (Miami 14, Wash 7), Jacoby (LT) was a 1982 non-drafted FA Gibbs thought was a DT. May (RG) and Grimm (LG, HOF) were drafted in '82.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (KAi1n)

437 432
Uh how about you stop playing dangerous sexual games.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:57 AM (JmEcb)

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AIDS is an incredibly easy disease to avoid contracting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (/HVsR)

Monogamy is helpful…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:00 AM (PCK5/)

438 @426 Shut up Donny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:00 AM (eBgDF)

439 >Comes in middle of raging Democratic debate: whether the party needs better ideas or just better salesmanship to succeed in 2028.
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The new plan is to stick with the old plan, only much louder.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 11:00 AM (AOsQT)

440 Where the hell was Brian Kohlburger when the Beatles were around?

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (VPwHp)

441 And who even were the Sea People?

In a mural from an ancient Egyptian temple wherein Pharaoh is shown subduing the Sea People (of course!), the costumes of the Sea People look exactly like those of the Minoan men from the ancient murals in the palace at Knossos on Crete!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (PY8/y)

442 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)

443 The Oregon Trail was a real killer before Federal funding turned it into a highway.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 10:59 AM (JmEcb)

Them Fed dollars got us all trained on dynamite usage.

Posted by: Oregon Highway Dept. at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (wVcYX)

444 Nood, for those of you who didn't see the non-nooding bastiges nood notification.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM (0sNs1)

445 Madmani dancing with what brung him.

Mamdani Says Illegal Aliens Have Kept NYC Safe For Decades, Vows To Fight ICE If Elected

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

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