Mid-Morning Art Thread

Portrait of a Man with a Shell
Thomas de Keyser

Posted by: CBD at 09:50 AM

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1
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 09:49 AM (3ek7K)

2 very nice

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 09:49 AM (g47mK)

3
Shell, but no dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 09:49 AM (HZi96)

4 Not the most creative of titles.

Posted by: But it's accurate at August 01, 2025 09:50 AM (HXAcV)

5 All of the anticipation for... dude in a ruffle collar.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2025 09:50 AM (ftFVW)

6 Because you need a HANS device when racing your snail.

Posted by: DaveA at August 01, 2025 09:50 AM (FhXTo)

7 Willowed

This concerns me as I have a room booked there for two nights.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 09:46 AM

That's what we were told when we tried to book. Give em a ring.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2025 09:49 AM

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (MGB5H)

8 That guy looks kinda rough.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (kgE5c)

9 That get up is pretty silly. But the shell ties it all together.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (SSEhk)

10 seems like an afterthought

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (sJHOI)

11 Ruffles have ridges.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (0nHVk)

12 Most people stop being excited when they find a cool sea shell around age 7. I guess he's just a child at heart.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (6U6Ae)

13 "Shell, but no dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

Nautilus art.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

14 That get up is pretty silly. But the shell ties it all together.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM

It was the fashion at the time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

15 Looks like a moonsnail. Cool
Shells.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (n9Tky)

16 IDK if I could pull off that hat.

Posted by: DaveA at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (FhXTo)

17 Man with High Collar and Shell.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (Oy/m2)

18 Mind if I mussel in?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (3aQjF)

19 He's styled his facial hair so that he always has a snack on hand. Practical.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (SSEhk)

20 IDK if I could pull off that hat.

Posted by: DaveA at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (FhXTo)
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Do you think it's woven on?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (krQz2)

21 I call him "Gary".

Posted by: A shell of a man at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (vFG9F)

22 Willowed...

Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. And I thought I was late.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

Sheesh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (W/lyH)

23 I like his face . His eyes look kind. Also, holding a shell just seems like a sort of an interesting, different thing to have in a portrait and the color is nice against the black of his outfit. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (2GCMq)

24 Pass the snail shell to the left hand side

Posted by: Get moving Dutchie! at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (HXAcV)

25 First documented use of the the three seashells...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (tubbA)

26 Ruffled collars make the list of Things More Masculine Than Barack Obama.

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (NdPqb)

27

Emir Shel of Oman, (what was almost my nic before I settled on JJS)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (x0n13)

28 He probably shelled out way too much for that portrait.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (krQz2)

29 Whelk, this was hardly worth waiting for.

Posted by: I'll Clam Up Now at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

30 12 Most people stop being excited when they find a cool sea shell around age 7. I guess he's just a child at heart.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

Nuh uh.
I love finding cool shells on the beach. And cool rocks too. And throwing rocks in the water.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2025 09:54 AM (n9Tky)

31 That get up is pretty silly. But the shell ties it all together.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM (SSEhk)
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Snailed it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 09:54 AM (okFN+)

32 In my neighborhood, if you stop at a Shell station dressed like that, you're askin' for trouble.

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

33 You wonder why the shell ever consented to get his picture painted with some rando.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:55 AM (krQz2)

34 That's delightfully random. I wonder how they settled on shell and not green dildo?

Very dark colours. I'd like something brighter.

Art question. The prints you buy from Amazon. Can those be framed or do they just hang without frames. The house is mine now, many pictures have been taken down and shredded, and I have a lot of wall space.

And the Art Thread makes me think I wouldn't mind art up in the house.

Thanks in advance. I have to carry 41 cases of water into the basement.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at August 01, 2025 09:55 AM (jvJvP)

35 Art today is Frills and frippery. But serious frills and frippery because wearing black.

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

36 This guy looks kind of selfish.

Posted by: dantesed at August 01, 2025 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)

37 That frilly collar is gayer than cum on Pedro Pascal's mustache.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (t7hQH)

38 Alternate title:

"Simon Pegg in Daan of the Dead"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

39 He found that shell when he was struggling with alcoholism.

Now it's just a shell of his former self.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (krQz2)

40
He's not wearing pants.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (HZi96)

41 Posted by: Moron Analyst

I like finding shells with different colors. I also like finding little pieces of different colored glass that have been smoothed by water.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (2GCMq)

42 He probably shelled out way too much for that portrait.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:53 AM (krQz2)
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His squandering eventually gave him a guilty conch sense.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (okFN+)

43 Keep clam.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2025 09:56 AM (n9Tky)

44
He just had escargot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 09:57 AM (HZi96)

45 Very weird. Why does the guy have a shell? What in the artist brain led him to paint man with a shell? Could have man with a pumpkin or man with a spittoon or man with a dildo.
Would hang though. Thx CBD have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2025 09:57 AM (j1Y/l)

46 If you can successfully sell a Portrait of a Man With a Shell, the world is your oyster.

Posted by: Don't Chamber Your Nautilis at August 01, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

47 14 That get up is pretty silly. But the shell ties it all together.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:51 AM

It was the fashion at the time.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

You think people a few hundred years from now will be looking at pictures of us and observing, "Get a look at these doofuses"?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:57 AM (SSEhk)

48 Does he live by the seashore?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 09:58 AM (Vvm2m)

49
You're Burning Daylight, Diogenes - a limerick

The young Dutch mechanic Hans Broylee
Kept the grease off his clothes with a doily
If you think that you can ever
get the best of one so clever,
You're going to have to wake up oily

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2025 09:58 AM (poXs5)

50 "Hey, ladies! Look at my shell!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 09:58 AM (krQz2)

51
Royal Dutch Shell

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (HZi96)

52 I don't like portraits like this, because putting it on the wall is like inviting someone into your home, after which they never leave.

Also this is very dark- I guess the artist had a lot of black he had to use up before it expired.

I rate this as Meh, with a No Hang.

IMO, don't fact check me.

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (AOsQT)

53 Reminder that summer is coming to an end.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (NpAcC)

54
Bivalve or Heterovalve

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (x0n13)

55 Most people stop being excited when they find a cool sea shell around age 7. I guess he's just a child at heart.

Or he realizes he can buy all of Manhattan with it.

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (NdPqb)

56 Not very manly.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (NpAcC)

57
You think people a few hundred years from now will be looking at pictures of us and observing, "Get a look at these doofuses"?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:57 AM (SSEhk)

I think they’ll be dumbfounded how within a few years we went from ultra tight skinny jeans to pants 6 sizes too big being fashionable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (Vvm2m)

58 You know if you hold up one of those shells to your ear, you can hear the complete speeches of Enver Hoxha.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 09:59 AM (SSEhk)

59
Tomas de Keyser Sozé?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2025 10:00 AM (x0n13)

60
The eyes. "That one, there. Shoot him."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:00 AM (HZi96)

61 I like it very much. The shading is incredible. You can just barely make out the outline of his hat.

Also, he looks like the ginger wilding in GOT.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 01, 2025 10:00 AM (bNf8H)

62 Jumping in without reading the comments so sorry if repetitive.

I like it. The eyes convey emotion, contentment maybe, acceptance of life as it is with a dash of humor. Very skillfully done. The aging of the eyes and the grey in the beard. Wouldn't hang but would stand before it gazing for awhile.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2025 10:01 AM (PcTds)

63 Not very manly.

Sooo...a Democrat.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2025 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

64 I thought it was going to be by Joseph Ducreux, but that's the only portrait guy I remember, the subjects are generally more jaunty.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:01 AM (cduTK)

65 52 I don't like portraits like this, because putting it on the wall is like inviting someone into your home, after which they never leave.

Like a Ouija Board. But with eyes that never stop watching you.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 01, 2025 10:01 AM (SSEhk)

66 I'm looking at his works, I bet he owned a lot of black paint.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (cduTK)

67
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (tljrc)

68 You think people a few hundred years from now will be looking at pictures of us and observing, "Get a look at these doofuses"?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

I always felt the plural should be "doofi".

Posted by: Retired Stalker at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (OUMaO)

69 I like finding shells with different colors. I also like finding little pieces of different colored glass that have been smoothed by water.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I just gave my sister-in-law about 30 lbs. of sea glass I collected over the years. She makes "beachy" crafts from driftwood, etc. and sells them online. She does quite well. And it keeps her out of trouble, mostly.

Posted by: The Old Beach Comber at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (G5+As)

70 How in the world does one eat spaghetti with an Elizabethan collar?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2025 10:03 AM (NpAcC)

71 Sock-b-gone.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 01, 2025 10:03 AM (OUMaO)

72 "Pat, I'd like to buy a v..."

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 10:03 AM (tubbA)

73 Keyser? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at August 01, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

74 How in the world does one eat spaghetti with an Elizabethan collar?

Posted by: redridinghood

Dang if I know, most folks use forks.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 01, 2025 10:03 AM (OUMaO)

75
He's using the shell to spell out "86 47" on the beach.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:04 AM (HZi96)

76 Yeah those frilly collars
what were they thinking

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

77 I always felt the plural should be "doofi".
Posted by: Retired Stalker

One Doof is plenty. And no, I wouldn't hang this.

Posted by: Beach Baby at August 01, 2025 10:04 AM (G5+As)

78 I'm not sure if those silly collars were a fashion statement, or if they functioned as a seal to contain things if he cracks ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 10:04 AM (snZF9)

79 I'm looking at his works, I bet he owned a lot of black paint.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (cduTK)
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I think he was kind of showing off. It's hard to get black to look like that kind of black.

There doesn't seem to be a bias to the green or blue in it. Just a flat black. And even though it's black, you can see the detail quite well.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:05 AM (krQz2)

80 Yeah those frilly collars
what were they thinking

Posted by: Don Black

Probably to keep them from licking at the wound after they got fixed.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 01, 2025 10:05 AM (OUMaO)

81 There's an onion tied to his belt.

Posted by: Just out of frame at August 01, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

82 Posted by: The Old Beach Comber at August 01, 2025 10:02 AM (G5+As)

I don't do crafts, but I think that's interesting and it's nice of you to help your SIL out in that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 10:05 AM (2GCMq)

83 Make Puffy Collars Great Again.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:05 AM (krQz2)

84 Everyone owned a puffy shirt back then. We all would be considered severely underpuffed with what we wear.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:06 AM (cduTK)

85 Really? A univalve? I would have taken him for a bivalve man for sure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:06 AM (hY4dx)

86 Bivalve or Heterovalve
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Non-binary valve.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:06 AM (t7hQH)

87 I see a canvas and I want to paint it black

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:06 AM (AOsQT)

88 Isn't this that pipe tobacco guy?

Posted by: Is he in a can? at August 01, 2025 10:06 AM (XQo4F)

89 "Was this your shell?"

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:07 AM (krQz2)

90 Yeah those frilly collars
what were they thinking
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:04 AM (AOsQT)

They were thinking: "I'm a classy guy wearing a classy ruffle and my happy hat."

Posted by: mrp at August 01, 2025 10:07 AM (rj6Yv)

91
Black is black
I want my baby back

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

92 Well I am off to see the wizard, keep clam and carry on.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2025 10:07 AM (0nHVk)

93 But I don't wanna be a pirate!

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 01, 2025 10:07 AM (XQo4F)

94 I've always preferred "Portrait of a Man with a Rock" myself...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 01, 2025 10:07 AM (i49OE)

95 ACK shually I think that shell is a type of nautilus

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:08 AM (AOsQT)

96 First reaction was the collar was referenced in the title.
Then I saw the shell. Unimpressive.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 01, 2025 10:08 AM (n4GiU)

97 FIRST! ... wait ... no. Sorry ...

Posted by: Dr_No at August 01, 2025 10:09 AM (ayRl+)

98 All about ruffs, and some other portraits with people wearing them:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3supw8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 10:09 AM (2GCMq)

99 Watch it! He's got a shell!!

Posted by: Weasel at August 01, 2025 10:10 AM (a4dG3)

100 Alternate title:

"Grute van der Flurbin: Inventor of the Shell Bong (1626)"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)

101 Why is the shell kind of peeking out from under his shirt? Guess he found a shy shell on the seashore!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 01, 2025 10:11 AM (i49OE)

102 First reaction was the collar was referenced in the title.
Then I saw the shell. Unimpressive.
Posted by: From about That Time

Obligatory: That's what she said.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:11 AM (t7hQH)

103 It did seem to be a thing in portraiture for a while. The subject would just be holding or sitting next to some sort of random object.

I like the painting of the guy. Has the edgy black thing going on. The shell is a bit wtf.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 01, 2025 10:11 AM (bss/y)

104 And 100 has been reached. Man that was painful.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:12 AM (krQz2)

105 Black velvet instead of canvas would have been an early trendsetter.

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

106 >Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 10:09 AM (2GCMq)
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Thank you
some lovely examples there

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:12 AM (AOsQT)

107 Not exactly beach attire.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2025 10:12 AM (NpAcC)

108 FUN FACT:

Alban's Frilly White Neck Slug was the most common parasite throughout the 1600s.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2025 10:12 AM (iJfKG)

109 "They don't call it a 'Conch' for nothing, laaadies!"

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 01, 2025 10:13 AM (i49OE)

110 104 And 100 has been reached. Man that was painful.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:12 AM (krQz2)

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And if he wasn't holding that stupid she'll we'd still be at comment 25.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:13 AM (hY4dx)

111 Alternate title:

"Grute van der Flurbin: Inventor of the Shell Bong (1626)"

Posted by: naturalfake

Alternate alternate title: James Comey's great great great grandfather sending a message.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:13 AM (t7hQH)

112 How much more black could that guy be wearing?

And the answer is "None".

None more black.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:13 AM (krQz2)

113 Snail shell or Conch ... ? YOU be Da Judge ...

Posted by: Dr_No at August 01, 2025 10:13 AM (ayRl+)

114 The clear gaze and perfect skin tones are so well done. The expressions are not wooden but you can see where Rembrandt came along and took those qualities to the next level.

It's not much a factor in this painting but in others de Keyser does an excellent job with details and color. The few I saw with landscapes were also excellent. I wish he had done some still life paintings.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (yTvNw)

115 Lovely plumage, the man with shell!

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (krQz2)

116 He isn't fooling anybody, that shell is a functioning hash pipe. No other way to explain the whole thing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (snZF9)

117 And 100 has been reached. Man that was painful.
Posted by: Axeman

I don't know. Seemed to get there fairly quickly considering the late start.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (ftFVW)

118 Only reason libs are upset with Sunny Sweeney's ad for women's jeans is because there's no room for their balls.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (t7hQH)

119 I think he looks like a bird who's swallowed a plate, my lord.

Posted by: Baldrick at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

120 You're Burning Daylight, Diogenes - a limerick

Is it really burning daylight if it's cloudy?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:15 AM (W/lyH)

121 Watch it! He's got a shell!!
Posted by: Weasel at August 01, 2025 10:10 AM (a4dG3)
*****
It's really a grenade disguised as a shell.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2025 10:15 AM (NpAcC)

122 Lord of the Flies: The Later Years

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:15 AM (viF8m)

123 Any proper portrait is greatly enhanced by the addition of a gastropod.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:15 AM (hY4dx)

124 He isn't fooling anybody, that shell is a functioning hash pipe. No other way to explain the whole thing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Maybe he's got booze in there?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (ftFVW)

125 Little Known Muldoon Factoid #473

In the late Renaissance Period the conch shell had a special prominence in society and was thought to symbolize health and longevity. The spiral configuration of the shell evoked a sense of eternity. Conch shells were used as adjuncts in portraits as a sort of. token of good luck. This is in stark contrast to the similar placement of skulls in various artwork of the era, symbolizing death and foreboding.

Ir was widely believed that if you stared at the shell with deep focus you could make yourself go cross-eyed permanently.

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

126 Black velvet in that slow Southern style

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (AOsQT)

127 I read something in Axios, whining about poor illegals getting deported. So sad.!!

But one thing in the article caught my eye. They said ICE deportations are up 300% this year vs last year in Colorado. And I’m like wait only 300%? During Biden’s years there were no virtually zero deportations and especially in deep blue states like Colorado where every city is a sanctuary city. 300% increase from a really low number doesn’t sound that impressive. I was hoping for more like 3000% increase.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (Vvm2m)

128 Only reason libs are upset with Sunny Sweeney's ad for women's jeans is because there's no room for their balls.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:14 AM (t7hQH)
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I thought it hilarious when I read she got her start in Handmaid's Tale.

Yet another example of the libs eating their own.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (krQz2)

129 118 Only reason libs are upset with Sunny Sweeney's ad for women's jeans is because there's no room for their balls.

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Wait. Which libs have balls?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (hY4dx)

130 Most of the social media freakout about the jeans ad I’ve seen has been from ugly white women. They’re the ones mad about “good genes” and for a good reason.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:17 AM (Vvm2m)

131 Everyone owned a puffy shirt back then. We all would be considered severely underpuffed with what we wear.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream

Reminds me of the puffy shirt Seinfeld episode. Funny.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2025 10:18 AM (lJ0H4)

132 Happy little bush > non-determinate sea shell

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at August 01, 2025 10:18 AM (0sNs1)

133 The longer I look at it, the more I'm impressed by it. The ability to show such detail in the black of the hat, jacket and sleeves. The shading in the white of the ruffle.

I would like to think there was symbolism in the nautilus shell, the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, the code of the universe.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2025 10:18 AM (PcTds)

134 Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday.

Posted by: He's Gone at August 01, 2025 10:19 AM (G5+As)

135 Wait. Which libs have balls?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM

Heloooooooo!

Posted by: Doug, Tim, David, and Eric at August 01, 2025 10:19 AM (0sNs1)

136 He isn't fooling anybody, that shell is a functioning hash pipe. No other way to explain the whole thing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Maybe he's got booze in there?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM (ftFVW)

Hmm, thats actually a good way to smuggle booze on a beach.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 10:19 AM (snZF9)

137 Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday.
Posted by: He's Gone at August 01, 2025 10:19 AM (G5+As)
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He will get by.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:19 AM (krQz2)

138 130 Most of the social media freakout about the jeans ad I’ve seen has been from ugly white women. They’re the ones mad about “good genes” and for a good reason.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:17 AM (Vvm2m)

Wasn't it InstaPundit that pointed out that feminism exists to make beautiful women miserable.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at August 01, 2025 10:20 AM (jvJvP)

139 Is it really burning daylight if it's cloudy?
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

This is the sort of nuanced distinction that has paralyzed our entire system of jurisprudence.

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2025 10:20 AM (poXs5)

140 I'll let you off on a technicality.

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2025 10:21 AM (poXs5)

141 "It was widely believed that if you stared at the shell with deep focus you could make yourself go cross-eyed permanently."
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I can't see it Elaine!

Posted by: Yet another obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 01, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

142 Wait. Which libs have balls?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:16 AM
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Besides Obama?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:21 AM (krQz2)

143 The subject of the painting might have been from an Olde Dutch Plexaderm ad.

Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at August 01, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

144 Clearly none of you people have ever visited the Florida Keys.

That is NOT a conch shell. It is some type of nautiloid shell.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:22 AM (0sNs1)

145 Wait. Which libs have balls?
Posted by: Cicero

The "girls".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:23 AM (t7hQH)

146 Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday.
Posted by: He's Gone

Betcha he'd still be on tour.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 01, 2025 10:23 AM (OUMaO)

147 Any proper portrait is greatly enhanced by the addition of a gastropod.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43

It had to be said. Thank you.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2025 10:23 AM (PcTds)

148 >> Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday.

Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:23 AM (viF8m)

149
Wasn't it InstaPundit that pointed out that feminism exists to make beautiful women miserable.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at August 01, 2025 10:20 AM

didn't Rush say that feminism was created to give unattractive women access to society?

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2025 10:23 AM (tljrc)

150 Little Known Muldoon Factoid #473

In the late Renaissance Period the conch shell had a special prominence in society and was thought to symbolize health and longevity. The spiral configuration of the shell evoked a sense of eternity. Conch shells were used as adjuncts in portraits as a sort of. token of good luck. This is in stark contrast to the similar placement of skulls in various artwork of the era, symbolizing death and foreboding.

***

Out here on the beaches of Washington State, we have the geoduck. Ever see a geoduck? They were popular for a totally different reason.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:25 AM (W/lyH)

151 >didn't Rush say that feminism was created to give unattractive women access to society?
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He also said that politics is show business for ugly people

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:25 AM (AOsQT)

152 You gotta read this from Mollie Hemingway. The incestuos nature of DC is mindboggling. Swamp is too kind a term.

https://tinyurl.com/yfszkkc9

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:25 AM (viF8m)

153 BREAKING from ABC News!

ABC News@ABC
At least 91 people were killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip between Wednesday and Thursday, according to reports from Hamas and local hospitals. Israeli forces were reported shooting at the crowds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

154 OK, I've been meaning to ask. Why is it on some posts the second comment is null data...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 01, 2025 10:26 AM (PzXaK)

155 Out here on the beaches of Washington State, we have the geoduck. Ever see a geoduck? They were popular for a totally different reason.
Posted by: Diogenes

Why a Geoduck? Why not a Geochicken?

Posted by: Chico Marx at August 01, 2025 10:27 AM (G5+As)

156 Most of the social media freakout about the jeans ad I’ve seen has been from ugly white women. They’re the ones mad about “good genes” and for a good reason.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Don't let ANYONE lie to you. It's ALL about racism.

There's a picture out of Beyonce seductively laid back on a chaise lounge dressed in a jean jacket, denim shirt and jeans and not a word was said.

But when a white woman does it...

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:28 AM (t7hQH)

157 Colorado where every city is a sanctuary city.

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

By state law the entire state is a sanctuary state. The activist Attorney General with aspirations to be governor (Phil Weiser) is currently suing a Mesa County Sheriff's deputy for tipping off ICE about a young woman from Brazil (who has been living in Utah for the last twelve years on an expired tourist visa) after a traffic stop.

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2025 10:28 AM (poXs5)

158 Why a Geoduck? Why not a Geochicken?
Posted by: Chico Marx at August 01, 2025 10:27 AM

To make geoduck soup, of course.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 10:29 AM (kgE5c)

159 You guys don't know what the shells are for...?

Posted by: The Man with a Shell at August 01, 2025 10:30 AM (xn33A)

160 Danger, Will Robinson!

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Joe Biden says Trump is trying to “dismantle" the Constitution.
“I’m being deadly earnest, man."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

161
ABC News@ABC
At least 91 people were killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip between Wednesday and Thursday, according to reports from Hamas and local hospitals. Israeli forces were reported shooting at the crowds.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

BS

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2025 10:30 AM (VE6XX)

162 From the NFL:

To make room, the 49ers released WR Equanmious St. Brown and....
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somebody named their kid Equanmious

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:32 AM (AOsQT)

163 OK, I've been meaning to ask. Why is it on some posts the second comment is null data...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

It's an ad that your browser is either blocking or botching.

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2025 10:33 AM (ugKWv)

164 Joe Biden says Trump is trying to “dismantle" the Constitution.
“I’m being deadly earnest, man."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)
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I never watched any of the Ernest movies.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:34 AM (krQz2)

165 >>Joe Biden says Trump is trying to “dismantle" the Constitution.
“I’m being deadly earnest, man."

Joey's time on the wheel is coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:34 AM (viF8m)

166 From the NFL:

To make room, the 49ers released WR Equanmious St. Brown

We are saved!

Posted by: Football Announcers at August 01, 2025 10:34 AM (ugKWv)

167 That was then (9/26/19).

John O. Brennan@JohnBrennan
Whistleblower deserves our praise & gratitude.
Donald Trump getting very sloppy & careless in corrupt practices & cover up attempts.
Democrats & Republicans (those who have a conscience) need to work together to prevent desperate moves by Trump that could wreak further havoc.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

168 somebody named their kid Equanmious
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:32 AM (AOsQT)
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And you think that's the worst name your mama could name you?

Posted by: Lemonjello at August 01, 2025 10:35 AM (krQz2)

169 Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday.
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
Posted by: JackStraw

He was born in a desert, but he died in a rehab room.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 01, 2025 10:35 AM (KAi1n)

170 You guys don't know what the shells are for...?
Posted by: The Man with a Shell at August 01, 2025 10:30 AM (xn33A)
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White supremacy?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:36 AM (krQz2)

171 The art...

Yes it's a man and he is definitely holding a sea shell. Title checks out!
Nice portrait.
Thanks CBD!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 01, 2025 10:37 AM (2J/Lj)

172 PSA, if any of you have children in Illinois public schools GET THEM OUT NOW! Apparently that fat governor signed a law that makes "mental health screening" of kids mandatory in all Illinois public schools. Mind you , not for the cray-cray low IQ teachers, who can't pass a single competency exam , but the kids. Consent of the parent ? Forget it charlie, he is on a roll. The consequences of this insane (!) law are scary. illinois is a socialist state where kids belong to the state, to do with as the state pleases, I guess.

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 10:37 AM (g47mK)

173 >>You guys don't know what the shells are for...?

There are 3 shells.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)

174 To make room, the 49ers released WR Equanmious St. Brown and....
----

somebody named their kid Equanmious

That's not the half of it! His full name is "Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep John St. Brown"

'Saint Brown'?

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (ugKWv)

175 My two cents re the ad: it is racism and it is mostly being pushed by AWFLS.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (PcTds)

176 All my idiot friends going to the Dead & Co. show are using our house while we are in Sonoma.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (JvZF+)

177 this crap will spread to other blue states, that's for sure

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)

178 > You gotta read this from Mollie Hemingway. The incestuos nature of DC is mindboggling. Swamp is too kind a term.
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A century of "family business" will do that. If it's not husbands and wives it's parents and children. And they all run in the same, small, closed circle that is the Capitol City.

The Venn diagram of family connections to corruption is a circle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (Q4IgG)

179 Stunning and brave.

Nick Sortor@nicksortor
In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn’t want to run for Governor of California
“The system’s broken… so I don’t wanna go back into the system.”
She just GAVE UP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

180 >>Joe Biden says Trump is trying to “dismantle" the Constitution.
“I’m being deadly earnest, man."

Joey's time on the wheel is coming.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:34 AM (viF8m)

Not soon enough.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (snZF9)

181 You guys don't know what the shells are for...?

There are 3 shells.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)
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Four!

Posted by: Winston Smith at August 01, 2025 10:40 AM (krQz2)

182 I never watched any of the Ernest movies.
Posted by: Axeman

Are you kidding? Ernest Saves Christmas is a holiday staple. The great Gailard Sartain had a memorable role in it.

Posted by: Maynard at August 01, 2025 10:40 AM (G5+As)

183 Why a Geoduck? Why not a Geochicken?
Posted by: Chico Marx at August 01, 2025 10:27 AM (G5+As)

Geoducks got diggers. Big diggers

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:40 AM (W/lyH)

184 And Josh Hawley should know if the Dems fully support his bill that something is wrong with his bill. What a dumbass.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)

185 Captain of the Nautilus?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:42 AM (bEz7t)

186 if any of you have children in Illinois public schools GET THEM OUT NOW!

100% agree with one minor change: if any of you have children in public schools GET THEM OUT NOW!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2025 10:42 AM (PcTds)

187 From the NFL:

To make room, the 49ers released WR Equanmious St. Brown and....
----

somebody named their kid Equanmious
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:32 AM

Obligatory:

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

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 10:43 AM (kgE5c)

188 Don't let ANYONE lie to you. It's ALL about racism.

There's a picture out of Beyonce seductively laid back on a chaise lounge dressed in a jean jacket, denim shirt and jeans and not a word was said.

But when a white woman does it...
Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:28 AM (t7hQH)

A pale skinned Beyonce. With long, flowing, blonde hair.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)

189 Equanmious sounds like a geological period in the Earth's history

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:44 AM (AOsQT)

190 >>Not soon enough.

This dropped overnight.

>Then-Vice President Joe Biden was the first major Democrat in summer 2016 to publicly try to link Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin after U.S. intelligence intercepted a purported plan by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to vilify Trump by falsely linking him to a Russian plot.

https://tinyurl.com/24cfmekx

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:44 AM (viF8m)

191 Kamala Harris is writing a memoir?

The first See&Say with sex toys?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:44 AM (bEz7t)

192 Thanks CBD!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 01, 2025 10:37 AM (2J/Lj)

My pleasure!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (n9ltV)

193 That's not the half of it! His full name is "Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep John St. Brown"

'Saint Brown'?
Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (ugKWv)
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We got a WR on the Lions Aman-Ra St. Brown.
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https://www.google.com/search?nord=1&q=Aman-Ra+St.+Brown
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Equanimeous is his older brother, it turns out.

Apparently, their parents wanted to give them names that stand out.
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Posted by: Winston Smith at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (krQz2)

194 Steve Bannon is a Grateful Dead fan and is playing their music on his intros and outros on the War Room today.

Posted by: Rip Jerry, Phil, and all at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

195 A pale skinned Beyonce. With long, flowing, blonde hair.

blonde WIG

and so full of fillers she looks like a tick about to pop

very attractive!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (Pv3Rg)

196
If it's not geo you're doing it wrong

Posted by: Geo sex workers of the northwest at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (5hfjS)

197 Good v. Bad advertising.

https://is.gd/D7boBh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

198 >Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 10:43 AM (kgE5c)

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so accurate

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:46 AM (AOsQT)

199 One of the best football names was Peerless Price. I guess he was home-schooled.

Posted by: Gridiron Groaners at August 01, 2025 10:47 AM (G5+As)

200 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn’t want to run for Governor of California
“The system’s broken… so I don’t wanna go back into the system.”
She just GAVE UP
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

Remember they deal in the language of lies. All they do is lie. So this one has a purpose.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:47 AM (RLuzd)

201 Nice. The collar catches whatever food drops out of his beard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 01, 2025 10:47 AM (07jWp)

202 You can’t reason with mentally ill people. Up is Down. In is out.

War is Peace
Slavery is Freedom
Ignorance is Strength

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:48 AM (VofaG)

203 Aman-Ra?

That's Amun-Ra you puny dun beetle of a human.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:48 AM (bEz7t)

204 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn’t want to run for Governor of California
“The system’s broken… so I don’t wanna go back into the system.”
She just GAVE UP
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

I am sure that it has nothing to do with big money campaign investors not wanting to throw in with a horrible candidate. They have already been burned and lost big.

Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2025 10:48 AM (oiNtH)

205 Dunkin Donuts did a “genes” ad as well.
The left is doing its thing about it of course. Lol

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (Vvm2m)

206 Fair Hooker (born May 22, 1947) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft. He played college football at Arizona State.

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (AOsQT)

207 Democrats always blame the system (or its cousin racism) for their failures. It’s never them personally.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (Vvm2m)

208 Remember they deal in the language of lies. All they do is lie. So this one has a purpose.

yeah young people are wise to how corrupt the US political system is (because of RINOs and Dems but mostly Dems) BUT the kids might not know it's really dems ... so this is the new Gen Z friendly message

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (Pv3Rg)

209 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 10:43 AM (kgE5c)

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so accurate
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:46 AM

That one never fails to make me laugh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (kgE5c)

210 Three Shells> The Shell

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (gbOdA)

211 Well I mean Beyoncé is a “country” singer so I guess she’s kinda white?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:50 AM (Vvm2m)

212 Kamala Harris is writing a memoir?

The first See&Say with sex toys?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:44 AM (bEz7t)

The strap-on goes...SHMACK

Posted by: The Kamala says...SLURP at August 01, 2025 10:50 AM (HXAcV)

213 So is "genes" pure zeitgeist - the collective unconscious - or is it an op? The ad agencies have been known to be test beds for the vile messages from our betters.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:50 AM (RLuzd)

214 Fair Hooker (born May 22, 1947) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft. He played college football at Arizona State.
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (AOsQT)
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That's fair.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (krQz2)

215 Glenn Kessler's last fact check.

Glenn Kessler@GlennKesslerWP
My final #FactChecker --> The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

216 I guess the Left will start boycotting 23&Me and Ancestry.com .

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)

217 Kamala's autobiography could also be in popup form. Wait til you see the page with her first job interview in SF

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (gKWVE)

218 I had never heard of geoduck until today. Against all common sense, I looked it up.

A clam with a giant dick does not seem appetizing. But, whatever. To each his/her own.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 01, 2025 10:52 AM (2J/Lj)

219 Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:49 AM (Pv3Rg)

Imagine - Kamala Harris primo numero uno beneficiary of and operator within "the system" claiming she's gonna fight it. How much you wanna bet she fights the system with more system?

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:52 AM (RLuzd)

220 Glenn Kessler's last fact check.

Glenn Kessler@GlennKesslerWP
My final #FactChecker --> The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

Lies are Truth
Truth are Lies

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)

221 If it's not geo you're doing it wrong
Posted by: Geo sex workers of the northwest at August 01, 2025 10:45 AM (5hfjS)
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Damn straight.

Posted by: Chevy at August 01, 2025 10:52 AM (krQz2)

222 Sanibel Island in Florida is a primo spot for shell people. They even have the National Sea Shell Museum.

Posted by: She Sells Sea Shells at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (G5+As)

223 You contain your geoduck flock with geofencing.

Posted by: And pay in geocache at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (HXAcV)

224 ABC News@ABC
At least 91 people were killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip between Wednesday and Thursday, according to reports from Hamas and local hospitals. Israeli forces were reported shooting at the crowds.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

So much of this just seems like a full court press. I saw something where someone posted a tweet from some rando last night saying that Israel was losing the PR battle 'HANDS DOWN'.

Who gives a fuck? You retards are essentially telling Israel that every few years they have to accept terror raids into their territory and rapes and murders of their citizens in terror raids and that they can do nothing to stop it because Hamas is just allowed to do that.

Fuck off.

(Side note: this reminds me exactly of the picture of the SV guy executing that vietcong guy. The story behind that picture is that that VC had been part of raiding parties specifically targeting the civilian families of south Vietnamese guys. Just that day. So, fuck Hamas.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (bss/y)

225 Kessler is gone. So did our most precious democracy die in darkness?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (Vvm2m)

226 172 PSA, if any of you have children in Illinois public schools GET THEM OUT NOW! Apparently that fat governor signed a law that makes "mental health screening" of kids mandatory in all Illinois public schools.
Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 10:37 AM (g47mK)

They are screening for kids that have vulnerabilities in their mental health or home life that would make them good candidates for transing or other abuses.

Posted by: Emmie at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (FMtrg)

227 Glenn Kessler@GlennKesslerWP
My final #FactChecker --> The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)
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Impressive. Kessler's last "fact-check" is a lie.

2020 was the hey day of falsehoods.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (krQz2)

228 Yeah, solid portrait.
Well done.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (xcxpd)

229 You guys don't know what the shells are for...?

There are 3 shells.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)
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Four!
Posted by: Winston Smith

Three shells if you're hunting migratory game birds.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (t7hQH)

230
So much of this just seems like a full court press. I saw something where someone posted a tweet from some rando last night saying that Israel was losing the PR battle 'HANDS DOWN'.

—

This is accurate. The Palestinians have played the west beautifully with their propaganda and lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (Vvm2m)

231 Kamala's autobiography could also be in popup form. Wait til you see the page with her first job interview in SF
Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 10:51 AM (gKWVE)

My biography will be as it will be as truth is all encompassing and should be available to all on a higher plain. ——K Harris

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

232 Sanibel Island in Florida is a primo spot for shell people. They even have the National Sea Shell Museum.

Posted by: She Sells Sea Shells at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (G5+As)

I was there during my honeymoon. The whole frigging beach was practically crushed shells.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (snZF9)

233 Kamala Harris is writing a memoir?

The first See&Say with sex toys?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Old: If I Did It - O.J. Simpson

New: If I Did Them - Kamala Harris

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (M0V4/)

234 You contain your geoduck flock with geofencing.
Posted by: And pay in geocache at August 01, 2025 10:53 AM (HXAcV)
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Geodome works better.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (krQz2)

235 I had never heard of geoduck until today. Against all common sense, I looked it up.

A clam with a giant dick does not seem appetizing. But, whatever. To each his/her own.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 01, 2025 10:52 AM (2J/Lj)

There is a rumor that The Paolo vacations on the Washington beaches every summer.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (W/lyH)

236 Is Equanimeous supposed to be thought of as another version of equanimity? They should have just called him "Calmness" He and his brother both have some sort of Egyptian name in their long names as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (2GCMq)

237 Wearing that cushion around your neck won't help you piles, sir. you are to sit on it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (LHPAg)

238 Remember - ALL journalists are supposed to be "fact checkers".

It's the entire understood point of the job.

So why would anybody need a specialist?

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (RLuzd)

239 Three shells if you're hunting migratory game birds.

5 if the game warden ain't around.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (vd6bO)

240 >>My final #FactChecker --> The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.

He really is the star of his own superhero movie, isn't he?!

He alone was the finger in the dyke

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (GbwPZ)

241 back from my travels with a weekend to hopefully catch up with laundry and such

parts of Florida I had no experience with changed my mind on moving there entirely! it felt very much like home. lots of fun people and just .. I already miss it. western/panhandle FLA is just another world.

then off to Alabama which my husband prefers. It's very similar. then VA which WAS where we were thinking (western VA) but now not so sure.

PA itself is trying and might swing over to normalcy! but as it stands we have so many friends down in FL and AL and NC now. it felt very right down there, even with the heat etc

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (Pv3Rg)

242 So why would anybody need a specialist?
Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:55 AM (RLuzd)
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To "check the facts" of non-media people.

Like a hockey guard.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (krQz2)

243 A clam with a giant dick does not seem appetizing. But, whatever. To each his/her own.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

Every pron hub video ever.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (t7hQH)

244 At least 91 people were killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip between Wednesday and Thursday, according to reports from Hamas and local hospitals. Israeli forces were reported shooting at the crowds.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

Was Green Helmet Guy spotted? It's not true Pallywood Propaganda without a good shot of Green Helmet Guy.

Posted by: Holding a "dead" kid who runs off when the shoot's over at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (HXAcV)

245 *sighs*

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (mT+6a)

246 The Palestinians have played the west beautifully with their propaganda and lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (Vvm2m)

With the help of oceans of Arab money...mostly Qatar now.

And of course the active participation of the American academy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (n9ltV)

247 Three Shells> The Shell

...for the exact same reason that we went from single-blade razors to five blades in the Mach 5. One shell? Man, that's aggressive...

Posted by: Gilette at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (rsGFG)

248 "The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims."

This isn't just projection, it's a confession.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (RLuzd)

249 >>So why would anybody need a specialist?

To discredit the independent media and social media.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (GbwPZ)

250 but as it stands we have so many friends down in FL and AL and NC now. it felt very right down there, even with the heat etc
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (Pv3Rg)

This is a good time to try out the heat and see if it bothers you too much.

Posted by: Emmie at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (FMtrg)

251 also did a ton of flying and picked up a little plane cold but the overall experience of flying was SO MUCH better! I might be back to loving to fly!

no worries about liquids anymore and no taking off shoes. we're getting there!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

252 You wonder why the shell ever consented to get his picture painted with some rando.
———

Humans are disgusting! I mean, displaying luridly posed tumescent plant genitals (flowers) around the home, calendars. Even exchanged or as gifts.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (w3KHJ)

253 The Palestinians have played the west beautifully with their propaganda and lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (Vvm2m)

With the help of oceans of Arab money...mostly Qatar now.

And of course the active participation of the American academy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 01, 2025 10:57 AM (n9ltV)

***

I think the Palis are too stupid to play the media. The media is just using them as a tool.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

254 Johnny Midnight @its_The_Dr
Liberal Woman wants to know what MAGA men find attractive so that she can wear the complete OPPOSITE.

https://is.gd/CukBQs

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Take it from me, toots. You are in no danger ot attracting a MAGA man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 01, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)

255 This morning I had an Uber ride to work with a driver that I have rode with before. He is nice enough but somewhat insane = Democrat. Somehow he feels free to express his opinions to me and they are all nonsense but this morning took the cake. "Did you now, that Trump said that before Epstein got ahold of Virginia Giuffre, that Trump "dated" her at age 15?" I told him that was false and quick frankly nonsense. He claimed that Trump just said this and that he was "worried" that Trump was losing his mental capacities. Wow.

Needless to say, I won't ride with him again. There is no use in arguing with a demented dolt who gets his "news" from the DU.

Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2025 10:59 AM (oiNtH)

256 The Palestinians have played the west beautifully with their propaganda and lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 10:54 AM (Vvm2m)
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There was this term "Pallywood" for the productions they would put on.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 10:59 AM (krQz2)

257 This is a good time to try out the heat and see if it bothers you too much.

it didn't bother me a bit. kept active no worries at all.

not that different up here in the summer

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

258 Fact Checker is just another contradictory term the Left uses.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

259 "People like me climbed the ladder at a time when ruthless bastards were getting one over on everybody and making absolute bank."

Oh? And you think this is complimentary to yourself, do you?

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2025 11:00 AM (RLuzd)

260 NASA's lesbian mission misson commander is about to blast off for the ISS on the Crew 11 mission.

The lesbian currently on board ISS is being releived so there is very little time for a zero g hookup.

Posted by: pawn at August 01, 2025 11:00 AM (QB+5g)

261 He alone was the finger in the dyke
Posted by: Lizzy at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (GbwPZ)

Bet she didn't like that.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 01, 2025 11:00 AM (2J/Lj)

262 I’ve axed this before but if Israel has been starving the Gazans for the past month or whatever, shouldn’t they all be dead by now?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 11:00 AM (Vvm2m)

263 but as it stands we have so many friends down in FL and AL and NC now. it felt very right down there, even with the heat etc
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 10:56 AM (Pv3Rg)

This is a good time to try out the heat and see if it bothers you too much.
Posted by: Emmie

It's hard to stop a Trane.
Seriously. Very little outdoor activity in Texas between mid-June and third week of September. After that, very little indoor activity until mid-June.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 11:01 AM (t7hQH)

264 Johnny Midnight @its_The_Dr
Liberal Woman wants to know what MAGA men find attractive so that she can wear the complete OPPOSITE.

https://is.gd/CukBQs

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I would say to her that topping her hair with a big spiral of toothpaste would be a total turn off.

And that's all I really care about: Does she have a spiral of toothpaste on the top of her head?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 11:01 AM (krQz2)

265 Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2025 10:59 AM (oiNtH)

That’s why he’s an Uber driver.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

266 NASA's lesbian mission misson commander is about to blast off for the ISS on the Crew 11 mission.

The lesbian currently on board ISS is being releived so there is very little time for a zero g hookup.
Posted by: pawn

Something something...unable to achieve re-entry.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 01, 2025 11:02 AM (M0V4/)

267 NASA's lesbian mission misson commander is about to blast off for the ISS on the Crew 11 mission.

The lesbian currently on board ISS is being releived so there is very little time for a zero g hookup.
Posted by: pawn

She's licked all the problems on the ISS.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2025 11:02 AM (t7hQH)

268 I have a very large seashell collection. I store it on various beaches all around the world. Perhaps you’ve seen it?

Posted by: Steven Wright at August 01, 2025 11:02 AM (w3KHJ)

269 Ze Rant. She is here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 11:02 AM (ExV1e)

270 I saw Demented Dolt open for Ministry last June at Brutal Assault in Jardmer, Czechia...
... oh wait, that was Al Jourgensen.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 11:03 AM (gKWVE)

271 I saw a clip of some 30ish year old chick complaining that every date she goes in, the guy turns out to be maga. And she wants dating apps to force people like that to self identify so she doesn’t waste her time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 01, 2025 11:03 AM (Vvm2m)

272 IDF shooting at civilians lining up to receive food aid > Jews using blood in matzah

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2025 11:03 AM (JvZF+)

273 NOODenfraude.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 11:03 AM (krQz2)

274 I think except for the already Hamas supporters, no one believes that Israel is just shooting random civilians.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

275 And that's all I really care about: Does she have a spiral of toothpaste on the top of her head?
Posted by: Axeman

Just not my brand.

Posted by: Mighty White Fluoride Toothpaste at August 01, 2025 11:05 AM (G5+As)

276 "Man with empty moonpie wrapper."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 01, 2025 11:44 AM (36PRH)

277 Oh, that[i/] guy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 01, 2025 11:47 AM (w6EFb)

278 Well fuck me. that

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 01, 2025 11:48 AM (w6EFb)

279 Racist!
Portrait of a shell with a man!

Posted by: comradearthur at August 01, 2025 02:56 PM (OdNzD)

280 MY SISTER SUZIE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEASHORE

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 01, 2025 06:38 PM (wGqjj)

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