Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 09:31 AM (0lawO)

2 Would not hang.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

3
Boobs, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 09:32 AM (tgvbd)

4 Nice colors. I'm glad he's showing the lead up to rape and not the actual sexual violence.

Would not hang.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 09:32 AM (DsbQ3)

5 Thank you for this picture.

(I am trying to show extra gratitude this week.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 09:33 AM (U8Hts)

6 Rape with a side of homicide.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 24, 2025 09:33 AM (8Zudl)

7 Tamar? Don't know 'er.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

8 Morning.

What? Dude can land any woman he wanted super easy but he's tryin' to rape this one?

Probably like Harvey Weinstein and has a deformed micropenis or something.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (xt2dn)

9 She's very pale. I don't know that she's ever been outdoors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (0lawO)

10 But is it "rape" rape?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

11 Bold, bright colors, great sense of movement.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)

12 Bewbs and violence!

Seriously though, the folds of the draperies and clothing are impressive.

I like it but I'm not sure I could hang it in the dining room.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (cYBz/)

13 7 Tamar? Don't know 'er.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)
_______
In Samuel, IIRC.

Nice to see something old on a Monday.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (s0JqF)

14 And that dude in the background running away?

Pussy.

I think if not for that detail I'd hang but that gutless wimp in the background kinda pusses me off.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (xt2dn)

15 But is it "rape" rape?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)
++++
Yes. The perpetrator is also white, so it's a crime.
Now if he were swarthier? Not rape.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (0lawO)

16 He raped her with a knife? The House is David was a rough neighborhood.
Don't think I'd hang this one.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (bfwj/)

17 Does Tamar ever go outside?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (mFz+I)

18 King David was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (XQo4F)

19 From Claude F Maratonni

Amnon was David’s firstborn son by his second wife Ahinoam. Amnon raped his half-sister Tamar and was killed by Absalom. The story of Tamar’s rape is not only a story of lust, but also of political ambition. Amnon was the first-born son of David and Absalom was his second son. Both men were in the line of succession for David’s throne. In this story of lust, Tamar is a pawn in the hands of her rapist, a fact that reveals the vulnerable estate of women who lived in a patriarchal society.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

20 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (5rh/l)

21 stabby, stabby rape

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (kiGop)

22 Are we gonna have a rape week? Rape of Tamar, Rape of the Sabines, etc. etc.
I mean, why the hell not.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (sl73Y)

23 14 And that dude in the background running away?

Pussy.

I think if not for that detail I'd hang but that gutless wimp in the background kinda pusses me off.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (xt2dn)
________
I think that's a girl. Look at the hair.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (s0JqF)

24 Stabbing and raping? The worst part is the hypocrisy.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (Mp1TU)

25 Could also have been titled:

'Married to My Three Sons'
-- Judah

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

26 It's not even Rapey Tuesday yet.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 09:38 AM (mFz+I)

27 Painting tomorrow : Weinstein Rapes a Fern

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 09:39 AM (bfwj/)

28 I think if not for that detail I'd hang but that gutless wimp in the background kinda pusses me off.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 09:35 AM (xt2dn)
________
I think that's a girl. Look at the hair.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (s0JqF)

I think it's a servant, and they noticed the dude's candy dish is empty.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:39 AM (Mp1TU)

29 The Mayor: Callahan... I don't want any more trouble like you had last year in the Fillmore district. You understand? That's my policy.

Harry Callahan: Yeah, well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard - that's my policy.

The Mayor: Intent? How'd you establish that?

Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
[leaves]

The Mayor: ~~I think he's got a point.~~ Ah yes, the Rape of Tamar painting.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

30 I'd tell you the story, but it takes 37 verses to get through it all.

Posted by: 2 Samuel 13 at November 24, 2025 09:39 AM (XQo4F)

31 Okay: "Tamar . . . was the daughter-in-law of Judah (twice), as well as the mother of two of [Judah's] children: the twins Perez and Zerah." (Wiki). She was the wife of Er, Judah's eldest son, who died at the hand of God because of wickedness. Then the second son, Onan, was supposed to marry and impregnate Tamar to carry on the family line. Onan, as we know, refused to mate with her and "spilled his seed upon the ground." So God polished him off as well.

Tamar went on to have other adventures. That might make an interesting TV mini-series. (As if)

Anyway: It's a colorful painting with a strong sense of movement and action.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

32 Nope. Not gonna even comment on the vile subject matter. Gonna sit this one out.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (89Sog)

33 a fact that reveals the vulnerable estate of women who lived in a patriarchal society.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

They can never shut up up about this sort of stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (n9ltV)

34 As Joe B said regarding domestic violence: we have to “…keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it.”

Posted by: Dem Dems at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (2d1hg)

35 Would steal from the Louvre.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (mADJX)

36 Lust was big in the House of David, I guess, and so was violence. Not for the first or last time in kingly palaces.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (kiGop)

37 What are the things on the floor? Lower right I guess is an overturned urn. But there seems to be a hand almost next to it (a bit to the left). And what's that red thing to the lower left?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:41 AM (s0JqF)

38 Wasn't familiar with the artist. Looked him up. He was one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. Known for his paintings of religious subjects.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)

39 22 Are we gonna have a rape week? Rape of Tamar, Rape of the Sabines, etc. etc.
I mean, why the hell not.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2025 09:37

###
I'm sitting right here...

Posted by: Nanjing at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)

40 I don't like it, but I respect it. Like free speech - it's about allowing the stuff we DON'T like. So in that regard, I'll say thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Ltmlv)

41 Tamar is about to get pricked.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

42 This is how the eternal question of "what do you want for dinner?" typically ends.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (NwnyJ)

43 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

44 He certainly didn't skip leg day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Tamar is gonna get fucked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (Wg6v7)

46 33 a fact that reveals the vulnerable estate of women who lived in a patriarchal society.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

They can never shut up up about this sort of stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (n9ltV)
_______
At least it wasn't preaching about "Whiteness". (Or should I say "Caucacity"?)

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (s0JqF)

47 Absolom was pretty rapey himself, as I recall.

It was the style at the time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (IG3/x)

48 it's about allowing the stuff we DON'T like.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Ltmlv)

Except for Pickleball.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (n9ltV)

49 I think that's a girl. Look at the hair.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:37 AM (s0JqF)

By Jove, I think you're right!

Chick's built like a Mack truck.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (xt2dn)

50 He doesn't seem islhamic.

Other than the rape part, that is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

51 What are the things on the floor? Lower right I guess is an overturned urn. But there seems to be a hand almost next to it (a bit to the left). And what's that red thing to the lower left?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025

***
On the lower right is the basket for Tamar's kitty, and the red thing is her favorite toy.

(Why, yes, I do interpret most things through the lens of a cat owner; why do you ask?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

52
The Rape of Babar?

Babar the Elephant?!?!

Nooooo! Not Baber! Not sweet Babar the Elephant!!!!

....

What?

....

....oh...well...never mind.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

53 > ###
I'm sitting right here...
Posted by: Nanjing at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)

Me too.

Posted by: The Lock at November 24, 2025 09:44 AM (IG3/x)

54 As Joe B said regarding domestic violence: we have to “…keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it.”
Posted by: Dem Dems at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (2d1hg)

I thought he said "just shoot your double barrel through the door."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

55 That looks like the finest shimmering Samite!

Posted by: I Am Your King! at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (8fUId)

56 I remember when the downtown show "The Fantasticks" had a famous song about rape right in the show, but I think the song got cancelled.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (nha4a)

57 And what's that red thing to the lower left?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:41 AM (s0JqF)

Looks like a scabbard for his knife.

What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Mp1TU)

58 4 Nice colors. I'm glad he's showing the lead up to rape and not the actual sexual violence.

Would not hang.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Be it so. Not hanging this painting is your custom; lay down your hammer. But my nation has also a custom. When men rape their half-sister, we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned. Let us all act according to national customs.

Posted by: General Charles Napier at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

59 it's about allowing the stuff we DON'T like.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Ltmlv)

Except for Pickleball.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:43 AM (n9ltV)

Haha! When pickleball is outlawed, only outlaws will play pickleball.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (Ltmlv)

60 31 Okay: "Tamar . . . was the daughter-in-law of Judah (twice), ...Then the second son, Onan, was supposed to marry and impregnate Tamar to carry on the family line. Onan, as we know, refused to mate with her and "spilled his seed upon the ground." So God polished him off as well.
...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
________
I guess blindness and hairy palms is getting of lightly.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (s0JqF)

61 They can never shut up up about this sort of stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:40 AM (n9ltV)
******
No wonder why women vote the way they do. Of course that's the left's evil little plan.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

62 I do interpret most things through the lens of a cat owner
——-

Betcha I know what way you install the TP roll in the holder.

Posted by: Remote Viewer at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (8fUId)

63 Haha! When pickleball is outlawed, only outlaws will play pickleball.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (Ltmlv)

I've read somewhere that they've started doing that. Outlawing pickleball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

64 Soon to be a major motion picture: I Spit On Your Ossuary.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (mFz+I)

65 Absalom, Absalom!

Posted by: Person who read too much Faulkner as a callow youth at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (XQo4F)

66 53 > ###
I'm sitting right here...
Posted by: Nanjing at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)

Me too.

Posted by: The Lock

You get used to it.

Posted by: Seed at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (Riz8t)

67 Oh, okay; there was a later Tamar, David's daughter. "In the narrative of 2 Samuel 13, she is raped by her paternal half-brother Amnon . . . before fleeing with torn robes to Absalom's house; David is angered by the incident, but does nothing, as Amnon is his heir apparent."

The original Tamar's son by Judah, Perez, was supposed to be an ancestor of King David.

Man, this genealogy stuff is complicated.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (wzUl9)

68 Onan and "polished" in the same paragraph is appropriate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (bfwj/)

69 Wasn't familiar with the artist. Looked him up. He was one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. Known for his paintings of religious subjects.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)
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my kind of "religious subject"

Posted by: Bill Clinton at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (tBdwD)

70 Yikes. This one is not something I want
To look at for any amount of time.

Skip!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (O7rK+)

71
What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Mp1TU)

Bad dates.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

72 I'm sitting right here...
Posted by: Nanjing at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)

Don't Shanghai the thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Mp1TU)

73 *I've read somewhere that they've started doing that. Outlawing pickleball.*

Could lead to dancing.

Posted by: Church lady at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)

74 I've read somewhere that they've started doing that. Outlawing pickleball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, somewhere in commie-fornia. CBD added a link and snarky comment in the sidebar.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Ltmlv)

75
Bad dates.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

That's what SHE said.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Mp1TU)

76 Onan and "polished" in the same paragraph is appropriate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025

***
Heh, heh, heh. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

77 Tamar is about to get pricked.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

Maybe Amnon will prick his finger, instead.

Posted by: Zombie George Carlin at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

78 Mayor:
Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side like last year, that's my policy.

Frank:
Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in front of a full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards, that's my policy.

Mayor:
That was a Shakespeare In The Park Production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (Gg9wh)

79 'The Sin of Onan"

From the 'Stuff I did not know file':

- deliberately refusing to fulfill the levirate duty + exploiting the widow sexually while denying her a child. It is condemned as an act of greed, injustice toward a vulnerable woman, and defiance of family/religious obligation. It is not a biblical condemnation of contraception, masturbation, or “spilling seed” in general.

That is why Tamar later takes matters into her own hands—and why Judah ultimately declares “She is more righteous than I.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (cYBz/)

80 Tough scene but well painted. The vibrant colors grab your attention at the same time as the figures. I was surprised at the knife (phallic symbol?) and cup he's holding. The few accoutrements show the woman's wealth and status but isn't enough to protect her. The story of the rape of Tamar is almost Shakespearean in its tragic outcome and this could be an opening illustration in a novel or play.

I was surprised this was painted in the 17th century. It had the feel of some neoclassical paintings from the early 19th century. I assume it was an influence on the later artists.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

81 What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Mp1TU)

Well...as you can see- Treat or Treat was quite a bit different in the olde days.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

82 When men rape their half-sister, we hang them...

Posted by: General Charles Napier at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

Absalom killed Amnon for raping Tamar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (n9ltV)

83 69 Wasn't familiar with the artist. Looked him up. He was one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. Known for his paintings of religious subjects.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)
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my kind of "religious subject"
Posted by: Bill Clinton

There are ways Amnon could have made this go MUCH more smoothly. A little "enhanced" wine, and he'd get what he wanted without all the drama afterwards.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at November 24, 2025 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

84 > 47 Absalom was pretty rapey himself, as I recall.

It was the style at the time.

After murdering his (full) sister Tamar's rapist, their half-brother Amnon, Absalom fled to his maternal grandfather, the king of Geshur. Later Absalom came back and tried to overthrow their collective father, David. He had some initial success, which included raping a bunch of David's concubines, but eventually lost and got whacked.

Quite a family dynamic they had going on there.

Posted by: The Lock at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (IG3/x)

85 71
What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Mp1TU)

Bad dates.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)
_________
I guess he first tried to woo her with sweets. (Probably advised by Jeffrey Epstein.) When that failed, he went to the hard sell.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (s0JqF)

86 In Hebrew, the pansy flower is called Amnon & Tamar. The flower also has a nickname in English: Jack & Jill. But that hopefully doesn't make sense.

Leh me 'splain.

This started with the Russian nickname for the pansy, Ivan & Maria. It's from a folk tale about a brother and sister who were separated in infancy/childhood, met and fell in love later ad adults and when they found out the bad news, they died in sorrow embracing each other.

So when Hebrew poet Shaul Tchernichovsky translated the Russian tale, he used the closest biblical story when translating their names.

Now you know.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (POgqv)

87 An AoS meet up featuring a pickleball tournament, followed by a meal of chili with carrots and a late showing of Prometheus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (bfwj/)

88 What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Mp1TU)

Well...as you can see- Treat or Treat was quite a bit different in the olde days.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

Hmmm, I bet they didn't have female refs doing their football games either.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:52 AM (Mp1TU)

89 Kinda rapey, no?
nice colors
would auction off to some rich guy

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM (AOsQT)

90 Question for the artist:

And this subject is worthy, because....?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM (vL0rw)

91 "In the narrative of 2 Samuel 13, she is raped by her paternal half-brother Amnon . . . before fleeing with torn robes to Absalom's house; David is angered by the incident, but does nothing, as Amnon is his heir apparent."

***
King David (pacing in his throne room, in an angry tone

"Amon, you pustule upon the face of the land! You fucker of goats! You can have any woman you please. You're the king's son and heir! Why, why, why must you rape your half-sister???"

Amon (smirking): "Hey, she was hot. Just don't tell the media, and it'll all blow over, right?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

92 The knife makes me think a murder is about to happen, inconsistent with the title.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM (36PRH)

93 82 When men rape their half-sister, we hang them...
Posted by: General Charles Napier at November 24, 2025 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

Absalom killed Amnon for raping Tamar.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

2 years later. Lightning speed for a death penalty completion, sadly.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 24, 2025 09:54 AM (JCZqz)

94 Bad dates.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

I don't see a dead monkey, though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Pek1+)

95
Now you know.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (POgqv)

The Rest Of The Story.

Posted by: Paul Harvey at November 24, 2025 09:54 AM (6KcYW)

96 The knife makes me think a murder is about to happen, inconsistent with the title.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM (36PRH)

Maybe depends on how many rounds he has in the chamber.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (Mp1TU)

97 I don't see a dead monkey, though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Pek1+)

It’s at a dead monkey’s party. Who could ask for more?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (6KcYW)

98 It's clear the attacker never missed Leg Day

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (AOsQT)

99 On an early boat this morning. It’s chilly out in the water.

Two day work week!

Huzzah!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (00Rtw)

100 Hmmm, I bet they didn't have female refs doing their football games either.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:52 AM

Or tranny cheerleaders.

Posted by: Ewwww... at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

101 Just look at that dress she's wearing. She's just begging to be raped.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (g8Ew8)

102 96 The knife makes me think a murder is about to happen, inconsistent with the title.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

They didn't even have gun control laws in ancient Israel!

Posted by: AOC at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

103 Alternate title:

"Hunter Biden, Fashion Critic: I Told You- No Yellow!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

104 I don't see a dead monkey, though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 09:54 AM (Pek1+)

That's what SHE said!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (Mp1TU)

105 Perked up my brain enough to do some reading. Not something I'd hang, given the subject matter. Informative mental detour into its history / back story.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (2bFN5)

106 47 Absalom was pretty rapey himself, as I recall.

It was the style at the time.
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After murdering his (full) sister Tamar's rapist, their half-brother Amnon, Absalom fled to his maternal grandfather, the king of Geshur. Later Absalom came back and tried to overthrow their collective father, David. He had some initial success, which included raping a bunch of David's concubines, but eventually lost and got whacked.

Quite a family dynamic they had going on there.

Posted by: The Lock at November 24, 2025

***
Makes the families on Dallas and Dynasty look pretty tame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

107 I hear he also stampeded cattle

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (xcxpd)

108 In and out of TX DPS in 15 minutes. If I heard right, I need no passport or anything proving my citizenship again.

But then I might not have to go back to DPS if I play my cards right for 16 years.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (6KcYW)

109 Or tranny cheerleaders.
Posted by: Ewwww... at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

Right. That would have been Greece.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:57 AM (Mp1TU)

110 Perked up my brain enough to do some reading. Not something I'd hang, given the subject matter. Informative mental detour into its history / back story.
Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (2bFN5)

A Doggo sighting at this time of day??

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:57 AM (Ltmlv)

111 90 Question for the artist:

And this subject is worthy, because....?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 09:53 AM

+++
Biblical drama.
Always sure to get page views.

Posted by: 17th century marketing guru at November 24, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

112
Bad dates.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Tamar didn't give a fig about that.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

113

If you're looking for stuff to hang, why not take a page from Misanthropic Humanitarian's book, and show a pic of something real worthwhile, like our flag?

Leave all this shit in the dumpster where it belongs.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2025 09:58 AM (vFbHf)

114 Hmmm, I bet they didn't have female refs doing their football games either.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 09:52 AM

Or tranny cheerleaders.
Posted by: Ewwww... at November 24, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

Or an announcer hawking the latest same rape parlay on Fan Duel.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:59 AM (Ltmlv)

115 From last thread: The Mamdani meetings was whatever. It stirred the pot, got the Left mad at the Commie Mayor. No real damage done other than Trump being Trump.

Whenever a Leftist gloats that Mamdani "won" somehow, remind them of one of their favorite sayings: if a Nazi is sitting at a table and someone joins him, there are now two Nazis at the table.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

116 If I heard right, I need no passport or anything proving my citizenship again.

-

Tee hee.
- Democrats

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 09:59 AM (HW6XE)

117 Yeah, I've got nothin' for this one.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 09:59 AM (UnA8+)

118 Biblical drama. with boobs
Always sure to get page views.
Posted by: 17th century marketing guru

You missed an important part.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 24, 2025 10:00 AM (JCZqz)

119 I hear he also stampeded cattle
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (xcxpd)

=====

Through the Vatican?

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 10:00 AM (Pek1+)

120 A Doggo sighting at this time of day??
Posted by: Doof
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Got up early to bark at the leaves.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 10:00 AM (2bFN5)

121 This artist is talented, I think. But I hate this, subject matter aside. Every figure looks like they're on steroids and every day at the gym is core day.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 10:01 AM (mFz+I)

122 Hmmm. Very Biden-esque family behavior.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 24, 2025 10:01 AM (Gg9wh)

123 They didn't even have gun control laws in ancient Israel!
Posted by: AOC at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM

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One incestuous rape a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Biblical era Karen McAwfl at November 24, 2025 10:01 AM (XQo4F)

124 A Doggo sighting at this time of day??
Posted by: Doof
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Got up early to bark at the leaves.
Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 10:00 AM (2bFN5)

Cool. Can you find my golf ball?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:02 AM (Ltmlv)

125 57 >>What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.

"Nobody says 'no' to a Werthers!"

Posted by: red speck at November 24, 2025 10:02 AM (Ve/HL)

126 Trump has been a Nazi for 10 years. That’s baked in already. Nobody who thinks that will I think it because Mamdani met with him.

But Mamdani is brand new. The image of his is still being formed. Trump praising him will have an effect.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:02 AM (HW6XE)

127 Perked up my brain enough to do some reading. Not something I'd hang, given the subject matter. Informative mental detour into its history / back story.
Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM

You know CBD posts these for his own amusement. Any erudition that occurs is an unintended second-order effect.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 10:02 AM (0sNs1)

128 This artist is talented, I think. But I hate this, subject matter aside. Every figure looks like they're on steroids and every day at the gym is core day.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 10:01 AM (mFz+I)

Well, when no one had really done a lot of research into 'mechanical advantage,' everything was pretty manual. I'm betting people were in a lot better shape because of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

129 99 On an early boat this morning. It’s chilly out in the water.

Two day work week!

Huzzah!
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Nurse, does this mean the patients are marooned in a ward for the holidays?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 10:03 AM (Wg6v7)

130
But is it "rape" rape?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

"Rape" in the old-timey sense meant abduction, not necessarily forcible penetration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 10:03 AM (tgvbd)

131 I hear he also stampeded cattle
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 24, 2025 09:56 AM (xcxpd)

=====

Through the Vatican?

Posted by: Jordan61

Kinky...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 10:03 AM (OUMaO)

132 The artist painted Tamar having a greek toe.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (wVcYX)

133
Just a little suggestion, the occasional Bierstadt or Landseer would be welcome.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (tgvbd)

134 Some people aren't good at faces, I guess.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (Dv3i1)

135 Leave all this shit in the dumpster where it belongs.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2025 09:58 AM (vFbHf)

Well, it's at The Met.

I bet they don't have any U.S. flags on display there.

The commie bastards.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (uJhy0)

136 *Happy* bushes, people! Happy bushes!

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (0sNs1)

137 King David (pacing in his throne room, in an angry tone "Amon, you pustule upon the face of the land! You fucker of goats! You can have any woman you please. You're the king's son and heir! Why, why, why must you rape your half-sister???"

Amon (smirking): "Hey, she was hot. Just don't tell the media, and it'll all blow over, right?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025

***
Amon (after a pause during which he sniffs some proto-opium): "Hey, Pop, want to buy a painting?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

138
Or an announcer hawking the latest same rape parlay on Fan Duel.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 09:59 AM (Ltmlv)

SpongeBro came up with a new heckle for officials making bad calls.

"Check their Draft Kings!" Clap clap clap clap clap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

139 How did he get them to hold still ? Being all rapist and stuff ?

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 24, 2025 10:06 AM (7S+mI)

140 You know CBD posts these for his own amusement. Any erudition that occurs is an unintended second-order effect.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
-----------
I chase leaves and look for Doof's golf ball. Second-order effect is purely accidental.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 10:06 AM (2bFN5)

141 Last thread certainly had its fair share of concerned trolls. Looks like X exposing the foreign agitators has driven them to other venues to spread their agenda. Yikes.

Posted by: Ann at November 24, 2025 10:06 AM (x1OYB)

142 At DM, "Karoline Leavitt, 28, reveals pressure her job puts on marriage to husband, 60"

Leavitt is age 28 and her husband is age 60? IDNKT.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:06 AM (4kcNT)

143 Nasdaq up bigly again today. The big bad AI crash so many are hoping for refused to show up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:07 AM (HW6XE)

144
Leavitt is age 28 and her husband is age 60? IDNKT.
Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:06 AM (4kcNT)

Love is love, you bigot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

145 The way he's swinging that knife, it looks like his plan is to rape her dead body.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (8mulE)

146 >>What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
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I think it's supposed to be a wine goblet, to indicate he is drunk

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (AOsQT)

147 After murdering his (full) sister Tamar's rapist, their half-brother Amnon, Absalom fled to his maternal grandfather, the king of Geshur. Later Absalom came back and tried to overthrow their collective father, David. He had some initial success, which included raping a bunch of David's concubines, but eventually lost and got whacked.

Quite a family dynamic they had going on there.
Posted by: The Lock at November 24, 2025 09:51 AM (IG3/x)

Being a bit on the heathen side of things it's interesting how the House o'David is so venerated.

And by interesting I mean WTF!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (xt2dn)

148 At DM, "Karoline Leavitt, 28, reveals pressure her job puts on marriage to husband, 60"

Leavitt is age 28 and her husband is age 60? IDNKT.
Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025

***
Dude! My hero!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

149 She’s only 28? Shit. I had no idea either. Figured mid 30s.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:09 AM (HW6XE)

150 I bet Thanksgiving is always trouble at David's house.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (3uBP9)

151 What I don't understand is the candy dish in his left hand.
----

I think it's supposed to be a wine goblet, to indicate he is drunk
Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (AOsQT)

Could have been a fish full of CBD gummies.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (xt2dn)

152 ***
Dude! My hero!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

She's one to keep tabs on. She would possibly be a widow in her late 40's, early 50's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

153 This artist is talented, I think. But I hate this, subject matter aside. Every figure looks like they're on steroids and every day at the gym is core day.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 10:01 AM (mFz+I)

Rumor has it a lot of these artists were teh ghey.

So when they do show female bodies, they're really just the artists' ideal of a male body, with teets. And because they'd never actually seen a female tit, they often look weird.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (N5fjw)

154 "Karoline Leavitt, 28, reveals pressure her job puts on marriage to husband, 60."

###
The Paolo, he is, how you say, available, to assist in any way he can.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

155 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom!

Posted by: Distant Early Warning at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

156 Dude! My hero!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

She's one to keep tabs on. She would possibly be a widow in her late 40's, early 50's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

JFC, dude's body is still quite warm and you people are already plotting to pick her up on the rebound.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:12 AM (xt2dn)

157 155 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom!
Posted by: Distant Early Warning

---

I tried that.
Decided to go with Omaha instead.

Posted by: Peyton Manning at November 24, 2025 10:13 AM (XQo4F)

158 Dude is 60 and has an infant. I don’t care how hot a woman is, I’m not changing diapers at 60.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:13 AM (HW6XE)

159 But why is he holding a candy dish in his other hand, anyway?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 10:14 AM (Cjt/F)

160 I guess overflowing robes and cloths were a thing at one time...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 10:14 AM (6qf1m)

161 What's the purpose of the empty fruit bowl held just below the boob-deck?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (3uBP9)

162
She's one to keep tabs on. She would possibly be a widow in her late 40's, early 50's.

She’ll be looking for young dick well before that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (HW6XE)

163 158 Dude is 60 and has an infant. I don’t care how hot a woman is, I’m not changing diapers at 60.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:13 AM (HW6XE)

My great-grandfather was 68 when my grandfather was born.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (UnA8+)

164 >>> But why is he holding a candy dish in his other hand, anyway?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 10:14 AM (Cjt/F)

Yes, enquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (3uBP9)

165 JFC, dude's body is still quite warm and you people are already plotting to pick her up on the rebound.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:12 AM (xt2dn)

People line up for days waiting for the ticket window to open for a Who concert.

You don't want to be last in line.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (N5fjw)

166 Just a little suggestion, the occasional Bierstadt or Landseer would be welcome.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 10:04 AM (tgvbd)

I have posted a dozen Bierstadts and four Landseers.

Apparently I can please nobody, so why bother?

I think I'll post what I want to post.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:16 AM (n9ltV)

167 145 The way he's swinging that knife, it looks like his plan is to rape her dead body.
Posted by: No Name Today

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at November 24, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

168 My great-grandfather was 68 when my grandfather was born.
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There was no TeeVee are radio back then. Guys get bored.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 10:17 AM (Wg6v7)

169 165 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:17 AM (4kcNT)

170 What's the purpose of the empty fruit bowl held just below the boob-deck?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (3uBP9)

He's going to milk her.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:17 AM (xt2dn)

171 People line up for days waiting for the ticket window to open for a Who concert.

You don't want to be last in line.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:15 AM (N5fjw)

Good Lord, the mental image that just popped into my mind...

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:18 AM (xt2dn)

172 Painting: Good. Fabrics well rendered.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:18 AM (4kcNT)

173 You'll eat what I cook and like it!

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:19 AM (KDPiq)

174 I don't begrudge CBD from posting whatever art he wants. If the subject matter is not for you, just say so and go listen to music or take a nap.

Which is where I'm headed.

No need to be insulting or rude to our host.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 10:19 AM (89Sog)

175 Love is love and whatever. But I dunno what do you talk about with someone 32 years younger? Your whole world view is different, all life experiences, etc. are you you friends with her young friends, is she friends with your geezer friends? It would be an odd situation.

But whatevs, if it works do your thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:20 AM (HW6XE)

176 COMPLETELY OT, but I only just yesterday noticed they changed the image of Washington on the quarter?

It makes him look haggard with possible throat cancer.

Go back to the old one.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:20 AM (xt2dn)

177 *Why would a 118-year-old guy want to get married?"

The old timer shot back, "Who said he wanted to?"*

Posted by: Just the punchline at November 24, 2025 10:20 AM (XQo4F)

178 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (u82oZ)

179 PJ O'Rourke had a young wife and kids in his 60s. I remember seeing him at a speaking event around that time with some other authors. He was late and was carrying a mountain of baby stuff, the bags and backpacks you normally have when you are traveling with babies. He looked absolutely exhausted.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (3uBP9)

180 "No need to be insulting or rude to our host."

Insult the art, not the host.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (4kcNT)

181
I think I'll post what I want to post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:16 AM (n9ltV)

________

Sorry, I had been kidding.

*furtively slips out back door*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (tgvbd)

182 Late start today. Slept in.

But leaving soon to have lunch with NotSoThoreau.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (u82oZ)

183 PJ O'Rourke had a young wife and kids in his 60s. I remember seeing him at a speaking event around that time with some other authors. He was late and was carrying a mountain of baby stuff, the bags and backpacks you normally have when you are traveling with babies. He looked absolutely exhausted.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (3uBP9)

Reminds me of a joke I learned at this here blog.

Why do men die before their wives?

Because they want to.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:22 AM (xt2dn)

184 179 When PJ got domesticated, his fiery satire died. He mellowed a lot.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (4kcNT)

185 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (u82oZ)

This is sound advice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

186 179 PJ O'Rourke had a young wife and kids in his 60s. I remember seeing him at a speaking event around that time with some other authors. He was late and was carrying a mountain of baby stuff, the bags and backpacks you normally have when you are traveling with babies. He looked absolutely exhausted.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (3uBP9)

Heh. Thats always my first though when I hear about these situations. I was exhausted doing this in my 30s. In my 60s? I want nothing to do with any of it. Shudder.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (HW6XE)

187 I think I'll post what I want to post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Quite possibly better than posting what we deserve.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

188 SpongeBro came up with a new heckle for officials making bad calls.

"Check their Draft Kings!" Clap clap clap clap clap.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Love it!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (Ltmlv)

189 168 There was no TeeVee are radio back then. Guys get bored.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 10:17 AM (Wg6v7)

There was by the time my grandfather was born.

I'm not part of the senior citizen contingent of the Horde.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (UnA8+)

190 Dip your tittie in my wine glass or I'll stab you seems like a particularly strange fetish. Blotting his armpit might confuse him long enough to get away.

Posted by: DaveA at November 24, 2025 10:23 AM (FhXTo)

191 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be blessed with smooth travels and warm companions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2025 10:24 AM (u82oZ)

192 I think it would be cool to have a kid when you're old, as long as you have older kids to take care of them if the Reaper comes for you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

193 Dude must be into necrophilia.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 10:25 AM (XeU6L)

194 She's one to keep tabs on. She would possibly be a widow in her late 40's, early 50's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

JFC, dude's body is still quite warm and you people are already plotting to pick her up on the rebound.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 10:12 AM (xt2dn)

One of Covey's 7 Habits -- BE PROACTIVE!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:25 AM (Ltmlv)

195
Dip your tittie in my wine glass or I'll stab you seems like a particularly strange fetish.

Weren't The Titty Dippers a folk group from the 60s?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (xG4kz)

196 192 I think it would be cool to have a kid when you're old, as long as you have older kids to take care of them if the Reaper comes for you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

Have you ever wondered what the Reaper would smell like?

I think clinical-grade disinfectant.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (UnA8+)

197 I suppose this guy has been arrested at least 70 times before this incident.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (vFG9F)

198 Thanksgiving Educational Moment:

"How to tell if your turkey is a boy or a girl"

https://x.com/JeepguyTexas/status/199264035368

2506100

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

199 I've read through the entire story beginning with the Rape of Tamar, with just a bit of reading through the lines, and come to the conclusion that Absalom, in fact was right, and the entire situation was caused by David's failures as a father and as a King.
After the rape was discovered, David disciplined Amnon a little bit but basically said "oh he's my son, boys will be boys" even though under their law the punishment should have been death, or at least banishment.
Absalom, being the kind of man who holds a grudge intensely, played nice for an entire year before he set up a scene where he could slaughter Amnon as revenge, and David was much harsher on him. (But he eventually allowed him back, another mistake on David's part)
When Absalom rebelled, at least half of Israel was willing to join him because David's friends and advisors were running things so corruptly, and he only got his crown back because Absalom made foolish choices as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (uWKK8)

200 think it would be cool to have a kid when you're old, as long as you have older kids to take care of them if the Reaper comes for you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

Or wealthy enough to have a nanny.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (KDPiq)

201 >>> I don't begrudge CBD from posting whatever art he wants. If the subject matter is not for you, just say so and go listen to music or take a nap.
Which is where I'm headed.
No need to be insulting or rude to our host.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 10:19 AM (89Sog)

But CBD loves the delightful critical banter!

Posted by: Naked Guys On An Ottoman Union #736 shop steward at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (3uBP9)

202 Sorry, I had been kidding.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2025 10:21 AM (tgvbd)

No worries!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:27 AM (n9ltV)

203 This painting is early Charlotte, NC.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:27 AM (KDPiq)

204 I don't begrudge CBD from posting whatever art he wants. If the subject matter is not for you, just say so and go listen to music or take a nap.
Which is where I'm headed.
No need to be insulting or rude to our host.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 10:19 AM (89Sog)

The advice is always "go enjoy the rousing art thread over at Hot Air."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Cut his ankle monitor off too.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2025 10:28 AM (vFG9F)

206 Yeah a nanny would make it easy but then what’s the point? You’re just having a kid for someone else to raise.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:28 AM (HW6XE)

207 Dude must be into necrophilia.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 10:25 AM (XeU6L)

Speaking of, that's how I knew Hamlet was gay.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:28 AM (N5fjw)

208 If you think telling CBD how do run his Art Thread, you should try telling Ace to use Rumble for videos in the Cafe posts.

That one is ALWAYS a winner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

209 lots of fluid motion drapery here

let's see that would be...baroque era?

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (dCxaZ)

210 One of Covey's 7 Habits -- BE PROACTIVE!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:25 AM (Ltmlv)

I worked for a company that embraced that crap.

"Come on everyone! We are hammering square pegs into round holes!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (n9ltV)

211 *is fun.

I forgot something....damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

212 "Speaking of, that's how I knew Hamlet was gay."

He couldn't decide for sure if he was gay.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (4kcNT)

213 Monday brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

214 I don't mind changing diapers and all that, I don't need a nanny.

As long as your child is healthy, there isn't too much that goes into caring for them. Feed 'em, clean 'em, dress 'em in clothes, clean up their messes on the floor. That's about it on the labor end of the operation. It's pretty easy stuff once they start sleeping through the night.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:30 AM (BI5O2)

215 Yeah a nanny would make it easy but then what’s the point? You’re just having a kid for someone else to raise.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:28 AM (HW6XE)

No a nanny is like your own kids and you get to have all the fun time with the kid like a grandparent.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:30 AM (KDPiq)

216 yes, 1640 is date of painting

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 10:30 AM (dCxaZ)

217 "If you think telling CBD how do run his Art Thread, you should try telling Ace to use Rumble for videos in the Cafe posts.

That one is ALWAYS a winner."

Pester Ace about the sidebar. But please warn us 48 hours ahead of time if you plan to do so. Takes a while to prep that much popcorn.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:30 AM (4kcNT)

218 I love the art posts/threads whether I like the art or not.

It's one of the highlights of my otherwise grueling work-a-day morning treadmill drudgery. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 10:31 AM (6qf1m)

219 Looks like she has a bad case of athlete's foot. Probably welcomes the diversion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 10:31 AM (npFr7)

220
"Don't you EVER serve cranberries from a can EVER again! You hear me?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:31 AM (xG4kz)

221 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:30 AM (BI5O2)

You just said having other older kids to help raise the baby.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:31 AM (KDPiq)

222 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. If only she had followed Weasel's thread and learned the security that comes from being prepared.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2025 10:32 AM (y3bZw)

223 Absalom, being the kind of man who holds a grudge intensely,
---------

I wrote a book about the guy.

Posted by: Faulkner at November 24, 2025 10:33 AM (XeU6L)

224 I wrote a book about the guy.

Posted by: Faulkner at November 24, 2025 10:33 AM (XeU6L)

So did I.

Posted by: Samuel at November 24, 2025 10:34 AM (n9ltV)

225 >>> I worked for a company that embraced that crap.

"Come on everyone! We are hammering square pegs into round holes!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (n9ltV)

Every time a company I work for has a leadership shuffle I cringe. Because they will embrace a new book. And that book will be The Way. We will all get copies sent to us, and The Way will be a major part of our meetings, there will be numbered bullet points, and our yearly self-evaluation will have to reference them.

Have you found The Way employee #23281? Have you?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:34 AM (3uBP9)

226 "Don't you EVER serve cranberries from a can EVER again! You hear me?"

Amy Bishop, is that you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:35 AM (+k/kq)

227 155 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom!
Posted by: Distant Early Warning at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

Good jam there : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:35 AM (6KcYW)

228 had by all

Posted by: cmeat at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (R11M+)

229 225 Dilbert Zone is real. I don't miss it a bit.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (4kcNT)

230
The only down side to the art thread is the days when the proffered work is "meh" and the commenting is dragging along.

That's when one applies the whip hand to shame you loutish types to at least help push the comments over one hunnert so that we can let fly with our full arsenal of wit and knowledge, unhindered by a rule to stay on topic.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

231 Every time a company I work for has a leadership shuffle I cringe. Because they will embrace a new book. And that book will be The Way. We will all get copies sent to us, and The Way will be a major part of our meetings, there will be numbered bullet points, and our yearly self-evaluation will have to reference them.

Have you found The Way employee #23281? Have you?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:34 AM (3uBP9)

As a nerd who kept up with the CSAF Reading List…I agree.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

232 He couldn't decide for sure if he was gay.
Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (4kcNT)

If Hamlet hasn't been made into a gay porno, I would be shocked.

I mean, even the ending, where he dies from being pricked by a poison sword...

Oh sorry. SPOILERS.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (nlmQn)

233 Its interesting that the painter woke up one day and thought to himself "You know what would be cool to paint? A big picture of a guy..."

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (TN0g+)

234 love the way the primary colors are represented here, offset by muted tones such as the light salmon of the throw and the greys and cement shades

I'm wondering if Tamar's skin is so pale because light skin represents purity or virginity

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (dCxaZ)

235 The prodigal son is the parable I have the most problems with. I understand what Jesus is saying but I have to consciously stop myself from ignoring the message. The opposing feeling comes naturally.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)

236
Rumor has it a lot of these artists were teh ghey.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:10 AM (N5fjw)

I always thought that it's a good thing that Michaelangelo was teh ghey, from how he did the David. Then again, even though his body was the perfect male form in art, Davey was hung like a chipmunk, which made me doubt that Michaelangelo was really ghey.

One of my favorite Michaelangelo jokes was that if Mike was straight, the Sistine ceiling would have been painted with a roller.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (y9nCu)

237 If Hamlet was gay, "Ophelia! Take thee to a buggery!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (+k/kq)

238 Every time a company I work for has a leadership shuffle I cringe. Because they will embrace a new book. And that book will be The Way. We will all get copies sent to us, and The Way will be a major part of our meetings, there will be numbered bullet points, and our yearly self-evaluation will have to reference them.
------

I think "Who Moved My Cheese?" started this whole mess.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (TN0g+)

239 I'm not stupid. I'm smart. All the managers love me.

Posted by: Six Sigma at November 24, 2025 10:38 AM (+Rs+1)

240 227 155 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom!
Posted by: Distant Early Warning at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

Good jam there : )

Absolutely!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 10:38 AM (6qf1m)

241 Just saying pickle ball is violence.

Also in the painting, that's the sharpest dijldo i've ever seen.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 10:38 AM (EyfuW)

242 237 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 10:38 AM (4kcNT)

243 Absalom, being the kind of man who holds a grudge intensely,
---------

I wrote a book about the guy.
Posted by: Faulkner
__________

So, is Henry the character in the book based on Absalom?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 10:39 AM (XvL8K)

244 One of my favorite Michaelangelo jokes was that if Mike was straight, the Sistine ceiling would have been painted with a roller.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (y9nCu)

Every woman painted by Michaelangelo is just a big muscular man with boobs bolted on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:39 AM (uWKK8)

245 Davey was hung like a chipmunk, which made me doubt that Michaelangelo was really ghey.

he was a grower not a show-er

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 10:39 AM (dCxaZ)

246
Every time a company I work for has a leadership shuffle I cringe. Because they will embrace a new book. And that book will be The Way.

It could be worse. The Answer could have been Six Sigma. That was a longer lasting affliction than most.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:40 AM (xG4kz)

247 Da Vinci was not a fan of Michaelangelo.

Gays can be real passive aggressive with each other.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:40 AM (KDPiq)

248 Posted by: Distant Early Warning at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

Good jam there : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:35 AM (6KcYW)

I think it's one of their best, honestly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

249 I think I'll post what I want to post.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:16 AM (n9ltV)
=====

Moar bananas on the wall with duct tape
Moar graffiti
Moar animation cels
Moar digital art
Moar comix!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:40 AM (I8Tp0)

250 I worked for a company that embraced that crap.

"Come on everyone! We are hammering square pegs into round holes!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2025 10:29 AM (n9ltV)

Was that before or after "Management By Walking Around"?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (Ltmlv)

251 Davey was hung like a chipmunk, which made me doubt that Michaelangelo was really ghey.
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he was a grower not a show-er
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 10:39 AM (dCxaZ)

No need to psychoanalyze too much, but I'm guessing the gays in those days were mostly closeted.

Mostly.

So doing artworks with massive dongs would have been a wee bit more of a giveaway than they would have wanted.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (nlmQn)

252 Moar comix!

So more Assterix & Absolix?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (+k/kq)

253
Moar bananas on the wall with duct tape
Moar graffiti
Moar animation cels
Moar digital art
Moar comix!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Moar black velvet Elvis
Moar black velvet toreadors and bulls
Moar black velvet dogs playing poker

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)

254 Absalom! Absalom! Absalom!
Posted by: Distant Early Warning

---

I tried that.
Decided to go with Omaha instead.
Posted by: Peyton Manning
----

*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

255 >>> As a nerd who kept up with the CSAF Reading List…I agree.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:36 AM (6KcYW)

I guaran-damn-tee you that Turn This Ship Around was on that. Navy author, but disseminated everywhere that was remotely mil adjacent. Not even the worst book I've had at a company. Not a bad book, not bad advice. But if you have a lazy manager he took it all to mean, "I do nothing but sit back and let my minions do everything."

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (3uBP9)

256 Posted by: Distant Early Warning at November 24, 2025 10:11 AM (Dv3i1)

Good jam there : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:35 AM (6KcYW)

I think it's one of their best, honestly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

That was the one you played at MoMe Camper City?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (Ltmlv)

257 Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (nlmQn)

They were closeted because there were laws against it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (KDPiq)

258 I didn't realize they had Subway systems back then. Dude stabbing is the wrong color though ...

Posted by: JML at November 24, 2025 10:44 AM (EtRph)

259 When Absalom rebelled, at least half of Israel was willing to join him because David's friends and advisors were running things so corruptly, and he only got his crown back because Absalom made foolish choices as well.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:26 AM (uWKK

====

A "stiff-necked" people

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:44 AM (I8Tp0)

260
Was that before or after "Management By Walking Around"?
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (Ltmlv)

Followed by "How to stifle your direct reports to take all the credit and advance YOUR career."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

261 > I think "Who Moved My Cheese?" started this whole mess.
---------
There is an entire sub-culture of FedGov "consultants" that come up with the "next best thing" for managers to try out on their employees.

These consultants, contractors or whatever make a shit ton of money off this crap.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 10:44 AM (NwnyJ)

262 DOJ Launches Investigation After Pro-'Palestinian' Mob Targets NYC Synagogue

-
We'll probably never know their true motive.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

263
That was the one you played at MoMe Camper City?
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (Ltmlv)

Did I play Rush? If I did, that likely would've been it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

264

REggae legend Jimmy Cliff has passed away at 81. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (x0n13)

265
Every woman painted by Michaelangelo is just a big muscular man with boobs bolted on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:39 AM (uWKK

Then again, when he worked in marble, things were rather different. In the Pieta sculpture, Mary is smokin' hawt, to the point that Mike's patrons in the Church bitched about her body being too sexy under her robes. He responded that virgins retain their youth and beauty.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (y9nCu)

266 "The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're goin through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you"

Lyics like that are the pinnacle of rock music. Neil was THE BEST.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (6qf1m)

267 Just in Time inventory is still a thing even though Covid exposed its failures.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (KDPiq)

268 Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (nlmQn)

They were closeted because there were laws against it.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (KDPiq)

Sure sure sure. That would probably have something to do with it.

What I wonder though, did the Pope let Mike paint his church in spite of Mike being teh ghey... or because of it?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (nlmQn)

269 Wait. Six Sigma isn't the current thing? I'll tell management today. Maybe I can take down the inspirational posters.
No more "hang in there" kitty.
I'll replace them with good posters like "Lack of proper planning and preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine" and maybe a few take a number grenades.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (+Rs+1)

270 This painting references one of those parts of Samuel II that they don't put in the Bible story books. It seems like an odd subject for displayable art, but there's the painting.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (XjTSo)

271 Was that before or after "Management By Walking Around"?
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 10:42 AM (Ltmlv)
====

In my business this was critical to success.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (I8Tp0)

272

"We'll play the Rape of Lucretia!, You'll beLucretia and I'll be Rape."

- - Max Bialystock

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (x0n13)

273 There is an entire sub-culture of FedGov "consultants" that come up with the "next best thing" for managers to try out on their employees.

These consultants, contractors or whatever make a shit ton of money off this crap.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

—

See also education. All the idiocy like common core and Ebonics and all the nonsense comes from consultants. You can’t make money by saying you know, what you’re doing is pretty good, keep doing it. You make money by saying everything you’re doing is bad. Hire me and I’ll show you how to fix it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:47 AM (HW6XE)

274 >>REggae legend Jimmy Cliff has passed away at 81. RIP

That sucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 10:47 AM (viF8m)

275 At my company we had some stupid “new thing” to embrace. Pretty much nobody did it. It was a company wide quiet revolt. And it was quickly abandoned.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:48 AM (HW6XE)

276 This painting is interesting...guy in a dress raping a hot young woman?

I wonder if its for sale...

Posted by: Bill Clinton at November 24, 2025 10:49 AM (sKqQm)

277 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:47 AM (HW6XE)

Psychiatry enters the discussion.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:49 AM (KDPiq)

278 exdem13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbcEs48-v6g

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:49 AM (+k/kq)

279
"Take This Job and Shove It" (Office Space)

https://youtu.be/1GBEMCExaQw

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:49 AM (xG4kz)

280 The prodigal son is the parable I have the most problems with. I understand what Jesus is saying but I have to consciously stop myself from ignoring the message. The opposing feeling comes naturally.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:37 AM (KDPiq)

It's really not hard to understand. One lesson is celebrating a homecoming, the other is recognizing established trust.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew8)

281 I really liked that 4 Q thing back in the 90's.
I used it all the time.
Still do in fact.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 10:50 AM (+Rs+1)

282 "We'll play the Rape of Lucretia!, You'll beLucretia and I'll be Rape."

- - Max Bialystock

And the sweet old lady squealed in delight before writing Max a check.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:50 AM (+k/kq)

283 See also education. All the idiocy like common core and Ebonics and all the nonsense comes from consultants. You can’t make money by saying you know, what you’re doing is pretty good, keep doing it. You make money by saying everything you’re doing is bad. Hire me and I’ll show you how to fix it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:47 AM (HW6XE)
I’m tired of the screechin’ and preachin’, karen. Your problems ain’t my fault or concern.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 10:50 AM (Bg+2b)

284 "The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you

I know it makes no difference
To what you're goin through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you"

Lyics like that are the pinnacle of rock music. Neil was THE BEST.
------

Yeah, and the musical section that comes right after that set of lyrics is just simply amazing. Rush seems to be one of those things that people either "get" or don't get, but even though that particular song doesn't show up on many "Top 20 Rush Songs" lists, that band could just rip into outright *magical* sections within a song that few even remember today.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (TN0g+)

285 Umm....okay. I mean, I realize that back in the day a painting or sculpture depicting rape was probably the only way to have "acceptable" female nudity on public display, but it is quite a disturbing subject.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (SRRAx)

286 270 This painting references one of those parts of Samuel II that they don't put in the Bible story books. It seems like an odd subject for displayable art, but there's the painting.
Posted by: exdem13 at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (XjTSo)

It tells you that these stories are about real people, shown with their ugly sides as well as their good sides. The Death of Absolom has been painted often, and that's probably even more significant. David had ordered no one to harm Absalom, even though he had rebelled, because David still loved him. So Joab said "Fuck you, I'm the head of the Army now!" and killed him personally. David tried to appoint someone else head of his army, but Joab killed him as well.
After that you can read between the lines and sense that David never left his palace in Jerusalem again - Joab appears to have been in charge in any real sense.
One of the first acts Solomon undertakes when he is crowned King is to have Joab murdered.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (uWKK8)

287 >275 At my company we had some stupid “new thing” to embrace. Pretty much nobody did it. It was a company wide quiet revolt. And it was quickly abandoned.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:48 AM (HW6XE)

Six Sigma has entered the chat.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (GTqXr)

288 Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur

It could be a week of lessons in morality &/or stupidity. 🤷‍♀️

The story is a pivotal moment in the biblical narrative, serving as a catalyst for violence and rebellion within David's household, as prophesied by Nathan after David's own sins with Bathsheba.

I'd pass hanging the painting but this art thread did get me to go back and reacquaint myself with the history behind it. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (NFX2v)

289
Has anyone here seen "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc"?

Some folks think it's a big ole mess. Others thinks it's pretty great.

What's your opinion?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)

290 The one business philosophy my company implemented that I thought was really good was CFA. Critical Factor Approach.

Don't prioritize the less important things because it's easier to accomplish. Identify and prioritize that which is critical. It should be the mission statement in the insurance claims business.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:53 AM (KDPiq)

291
At my company we had some stupid “new thing” to embrace. Pretty much nobody did it.

Once I had been around for a long enough time, it was fun to ask in group meetings, "How, exactly, does this differ from the program "x" from a decade ago?" Bonus points if I could cite two or more similar programs from past years.

Getting the stink eye from those "in charge" became a form of sport.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:53 AM (xG4kz)

292 "Lack of proper planning and preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine" ....
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 10:46 AM (+Rs+1)
====

A perennial favorite followed by, "I can discuss this with you on Friday at 4:30."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:53 AM (I8Tp0)

293 Wait. Not 4 Q. TQMP.
4Q is my soon to be released management system.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 10:53 AM (+Rs+1)

294
This is funny.

Probably the best laugh you'll have all day:

https://x.com/JeepguyTexas/status/199264035368

2506100

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (iJfKG)

295 It’s ‘Just a Lie’ That Vaccine-Autism Link Has Been Disproven: RFK Jr.

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They prefer to call it a policy statement.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

296 The one business philosophy my company implemented that I thought was really good was CFA. Critical Factor Approach.

Don't prioritize the less important things because it's easier to accomplish. Identify and prioritize that which is critical.
------

Gary Keller (of Keller Williams fame) penned a similar book called "The One Thing".

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (TN0g+)

297 Sorry, I have to leave this Team meeting, for another Team meeting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (XeU6L)

298 I worked for a company that embraced that crap.

"Come on everyone! We are hammering square pegs into round holes!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Interestingly, wooden sailing ships were assembled with wooden pegs, called trunnels, which were used like nails. One end was round to fit in the hole, and the other end was square. The trunnel was pounded into the hole until the square end was seated in the hole, a square peg in a round hole.

Now you know.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (0U5gm)

299 I bet most rapes are not reported to any cops. Many may not tell anybody.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (EyfuW)

300 REggae legend Jimmy Cliff has passed away at 81. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2025 10:45 AM (x0n13)

The Clash are unquestionably one of the greatest bands of all time. They were also a bunch of lefty douchebags.

Looking at it from today's perspective, even though their forays into reggae were fantastic, you'd have to call it culturally appropriating virtue signaling.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 10:54 AM (nlmQn)

301 You can’t make money by saying you know, what you’re doing is pretty good/i]

One of the odder things in modern corporate culture is that there are constant expenditures of time and money on improving things with very, very little interest in making sure any of these changes actually improve anything.

And...come review time, "I did the new thing" will indeed go over better in most companies then "my team did the same thing which generated $X revenue again"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 10:55 AM (sKqQm)

302
But if you have a lazy manager he took it all to mean, "I do nothing but sit back and let my minions do everything."
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 10:43 AM (3uBP9)

The defining paradigm of military staff management is "find the one E4 who isn't totally incompetent and work him to death".

You know you're that guy when you get two E8s almost coming to blows arguing over who you work for, and the shouting match in front of a bunch of lower enlisted only ends after the 6'4" company XO wades in and physically separates the two E8s.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2025 10:56 AM (y9nCu)

303 Really nice colors, but too violent to hang.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

304 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocked a federal court ruling Friday that struck down Texas' new map, allowing Republicans to continue using the boundaries.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 10:56 AM (iFTx/)

305 Alito can block a ruling by himself? My bro start blocking more!! lol

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (HW6XE)

306 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocked a federal court ruling Friday that struck down Texas' new map, allowing Republicans to continue using the boundaries.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Nice. He is in effect saying that the lower ruling was so stupid, it doesn't even warrant a review.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (0U5gm)

307
Gotcher hip boots on? Yes? Then you may proceed ...

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, it was considered that Le Sueur's work lent itself readily to the engraver's art, as he had a delicate perception of varied shades of grave and elevated sentiment, and possessed the power to render them. His graceful facility in composition was always restrained by a very fine taste, but his works often fail to please completely, because, producing so much, he had too frequent recourse to conventional types, and partly because he rarely saw colour except with the cold and clayey quality proper to the school of Vouet; yet his St Paul at Ephesus and one or two other works show that he was not naturally deficient in this sense, and whenever we get direct reference to nature—as in the monks of the St Bruno series—we recognize his admirable power to read and render physiognomy of varied and serious type.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (xG4kz)

308 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew

I have a different understanding and prefer the celebrating finding the lost sheep or coins parable.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (KDPiq)

309 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocked a federal court ruling Friday that struck down Texas' new map, allowing Republicans to continue using the boundaries.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Nice. He is in effect saying that the lower ruling was so stupid, it doesn't even warrant a review.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (0U5gm)
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I believe its a temporary stay, subject to full review, but this is a good sign.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

310 Alito can block a ruling by himself? My bro start blocking more!! lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (HW6XE)
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Temporary, I believe, pending full court review

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

311 My company is all about implementing stuff but never following up to see if the new stuff did anything.

I used to give a fuck but I don’t any longer. It’s not my company, I just work there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 10:59 AM (HW6XE)

312 >>Alito can block a ruling by himself? My bro start blocking more!! lol

Yes. Because he has oversight of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Fifth circuit.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 11:01 AM (viF8m)

313 I used to give a fuck but I don’t any longer. It’s not my company, I just work there.

I think ultimately this is why.

If it was your private company you'd probably care not only that you'll have a good quarter BUT that you have a plan for long term profit.

But even a highly paid in stock CEO generally just wants to pump stock value short term.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 11:01 AM (sKqQm)

314 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito blocked a federal court ruling Friday that struck down Texas' new map, allowing Republicans to continue using the boundaries.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Nice. He is in effect saying that the lower ruling was so stupid, it doesn't even warrant a review.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 10:58 AM (0U5gm)

I really don't understand all the legal shenanigans going on these days, but it seems to me the lowly district judges who try to issue nationwide injunctions should not have more power than a Supreme.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 11:01 AM (lH8E4)

315 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2025 11:02 AM (wzUl9)

316 really don't understand all the legal shenanigans going on these days, but it seems to me the lowly district judges who try to issue nationwide injunctions should not have more power than a Supreme.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 11:01 AM (lH8E4)

I concur.

However this wasn’t a lowly district judge. It was a 3 judge appeals court panel.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 11:03 AM (HW6XE)

317 I think it's supposed to be a wine goblet, to indicate he is drunk
Posted by: Don Black

That's silly. Dude wasn't drunk.

He pretended to be sick in bed and had Tamar make him some food where he could watch, then dragged her down when she came over to hand it to him.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2025 11:08 AM (LFbOl)

318 Tamar should have been carrying.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 24, 2025 11:09 AM (TezPK)

319 You just said having other older kids to help raise the baby.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 10:31 AM (KDPiq)

Yeah, if im dead, not old.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 11:14 AM (BI5O2)

320 Sooooooo … he kilt her and then raped her corpse … ? Ain't many other contusions one can come to after seeing the knife …

Posted by: Dr_No at November 24, 2025 11:17 AM (ayRl+)

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