Mid-Morning Art Thread

Lytton Strachey
Dora Carrington

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 Reading in bed hurts your eyes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 How do you pronounce his last name, anyway?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

5 Those fingers look even weirder than those generated by AI...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)

6 Waiting for the Embalmer.

Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (pDt9x)

7 Reading in bed hurts your eyes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Maybe he should switch to a Kindle...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

8 Those fingers look even weirder than those generated by AI...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)

Everybody's favorite proctologist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Longfinger, the man with the surgeon's touch...

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (W7XSX)

10 Lytton Strachey?

What a freakin' gay name.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

11 Artist: Dora Carrington (1893-1932)

Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.

Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel

Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)

Location: National Portrait Gallery, London

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

12 His hands are really long. Kind of creepy..

Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

13 Reading in bed hurts your eyes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025

***
So I've discovered!

Posted by: Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

14
I see no NOODity here

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)

15 Before AI made weird uncanny-valley type hands on people, there was Dora Carrington.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (O7YUW)

16 I see no NOODity here
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)

Which is always the case, unless you want to wind up in the barrel, until the next thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Looks like he's just looking at the cover of a book.

Kinda like that one basketball hotshot.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

18 Why is he wearing a smoking jacket in bed?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

19 I can smell the B.O. come right through the paint. This is a Top Ten Worst. Thanks, CBD!

Posted by: Art Aficionado at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)

20 Must undoubtedly be referring to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author not only of many 19th century books but of the infamous opening line, "It was a Dark and Stormy Night..."

Better than a sominex, I'm sure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (uWKK8)

21 Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.
__

Everyone's a critic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)

22 Dora Carrington was a fun gal. Going out with her was always an event.

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

23
lol @ Nosferatu's hand

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ASZ8O)

24 "Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize."

Which I guess means he injected his own opinion of the biographical subject into every page.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

25 Alternate title:

"When Quarterback or Basketball Star Hands Go Unused, the Angels Cry"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

26 Lytton Strachey was a FREAK.

The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)

27
What a freakin' gay name.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

Not so fast, my friend.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

28 Why is he wearing a smoking jacket in bed?
Posted by: Sponge

Facilitates the spontaneous human combustion.

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

29 Both artist and model died relatively young, which is right and proper.

Posted by: Piss-Poor Art at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)

30 Interestingly, his wikipedia page (the subject, not the artist) makes no mention of him being 27 feet tall... as evidenced by his hands.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

31 Red Beard..hmmm..."Muslims often color their beards red using henna for cultural and religious reasons. This practice is linked to tradition, as it is believed that the Prophet Muhammad dyed his beard, and many older individuals use henna to cover grey hair and maintain a youthful appearance."

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)

32 11 Artist: Dora Carrington (1893-1932)

Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.

Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel

Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)

Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

Strachey died first. Carrington committed suicide after his death.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0CU3H)

33
Marfan's

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (tgvbd)

34 In other words, the Dude was an obnoxious prick.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

35 Freddy Krueger: The Early Years

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

36 DAMN........

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

37 Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey were very weird, together, right up until she suicided at his death.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (pP43i)

38 Never heard of either of them!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Vq1pX)

39
Bloomsbury Group: fags and commies

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (tgvbd)

40 Why?

Posted by: Crap Art at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (bC9HI)

41
bro's fingers can clean pipes

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ASZ8O)

42 I miss Kris.

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

43 From Artaddict-

Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.

This portrait, painted with the kind of tenderness only deep familiarity allows, speaks of that love. Strachey isn’t framed as the acerbic critic or the celebrated writer; he is simply himself, as Carrington saw him—an irreplaceable presence in her life, captured with quiet reverence.

On the day she agreed to marry Ralph Partridge she wrote to Strachey, who was in Italy, what has been described as one of the most moving love letters in the English language.

She wrote:

“I cried last night Lytton, whilst he slept by my side sleeping happily — I cried to think of a savage cynical fate which had made it impossible for my love ever to be used by you.”

Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

44 If I'm reading the Wiki articles on him and on the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) correctly, his last name was pronounced "Straight-shee."

As for the painting, yes, the hands seem abnormally long and creepy because of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

45 Why is he staring at the book cover?

Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

46 FUN FACT:

Lytton Strachey was the Most Popular Member of the Bloomsbury Group due to his ability to jerk off five men all at the same time.

Oscar Wilde called this "holding a Bloomsbury Parliament".

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

47 26 Lytton Strachey was a FREAK.

The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)

just skimmed his bio. How unusual that a man with a domineering mother who controlled his entire life would turn out that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (uWKK8)

48 I miss Kris.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
What happened to Kris?

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

49 Dude needs the $99 deal from America's Best eyeglasses...

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

50 Dude could palm a cage ball.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

51 NO

Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (IvPcr)

52 *******
What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

It's been asked several times why she's not been around but no answer that I've seen has been provided.

One can only pray that she's fine and just taking a long hiatus.

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

53 I have his bio of Queen Victoria.

I keep meaning to read his Eminent Victorians, but have yet to get around to it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ufSfZ)

54 Why is he staring at the book cover?
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

The Lebron James effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

55 What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood

I don't think we know. She just hasn't shown up here for awhile.

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

56 Looks like Strachey was an early adopter of white boy dreadlocks.

Or, the artist needed more skill and a finer brush.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (zYpTz)

57 You work your fingers to the bone and what do you get?

Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)

58 Nice use of color, albeit muted, on the book and on his blanket.

And that beard was long enough to conceal jellybeans in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

59 Lytton Strachey

I thought he was dead, along with Barzini, Tataglia, and the rest.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (bFu5X)

60 "Fag Hag" is not a noble aspiration.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)

61 You work your fingers to the bone and what do you get?

Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)

Several days older and deeper in debt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

62 CBD may know how to reach Kris.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (bocmW)

63 Not only is he straining his eyes with the page so close, he's got it in shadow instead of light.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

64 I don't think we know. She just hasn't shown up here for awhile.
Posted by: Bulg

I miss her occasional in depth analysis of a particular painting.

Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)

65 Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.
Posted by: redridinghood

That's a ton of words to say "she was his fag hag."

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (nhCoE)

66 Those are some long fingers.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)

67
Hands

Handel

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (ASZ8O)

68 Corsicana news: at the Game Stop "trade anything day", someone traded in a taxidermy lounging Bob Cat.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)

69

Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)

70 That hipsters got alien fingers.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)

71
Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.

The advantage of being upper-class is that the same behavior we'd scorn in trailer trash becomes liberating and ennobling and we're supposed to admire them for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)

72 Shiny nails from his manicure and has to keep his hands still so the polish can set.

Was the artist making fun of the hands problem for drawing?

Meh.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (lL6v/)

73 That hipsters got alien fingers.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)

Phone home.

Posted by: ET at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)

74 Corsicana news: at the Game Stop "trade anything day", someone traded in a taxidermy lounging Bob Cat.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)

What'd they get for it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

75 I've met a couple fag hags, but can anyone name any current prominent fag hags?

Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)

76 Carrington's portrait of E.M. Forster, shown on her Wiki page, is NOT a flattering image.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

77
Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)

I did once. William Smith conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Might be all right done in a church, otherwise you can get 95% of the experience listening to a recording.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)

78 Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)

79 "Fag Hag" is not a noble aspiration.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)

I wonder if they ever offer to engage in butt stuff in the hopes of appealing, somewhat, to their preferences only to be turned down because the dude hates the wimmins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)

80 I've met a couple fag hags, but can anyone name any current prominent fag hags?
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)

Kathy Griffin will be cursing our TV screens in a couple weeks.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

81 I've met a couple fag hags, but can anyone name any current prominent fag hags?
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025

***
Current? No. There was Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), Jackie Kennedy's sister, who was a friend and hanger-on of Truman Capote.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

82 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

I went to one in Ann Arbor, December 1984. It's worth doing once. But it's not for the faint-hearted.

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

83 Alternate title:

"After Causing Several Deaths Due to Punctured Colons the BMA Revoked Lytton Strachey's Proctologist License, and He Was Forced To Study Poetry Fora Living"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

84 Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)

Perhaps they'd reached their sodomy quota.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e)

85
Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)

Put down as a conscientious objector so that some dumb Cockney could get blown to pieces instead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (tgvbd)

86 When El Greco does the elongated bodies, I dig it. This elongated hand, however, is a bit creepy.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (4I7QN)

87 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?
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The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast. Sister finds one every year. Pricey sometimes, but a lot of fun. She's kinda snooty and picky, but doing it really brings her back to the fun person I remember.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (lL6v/)

88 Perhaps they'd reached their sodomy quota.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e

All England is based on a sort of fagdom

Posted by: Things Archie Bunker said at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

89 This elongated hand, however, is a bit creepy.
Posted by: tankdemon

Strachey had a bright future as a proctologist.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)

90 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

It's fine but I think you get more bang for your listening buck with a-

Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

91 3 Reading in bed hurts your eyes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Since I turned 29, it kills my back. I am not sure why. Might be the head/body orientation, I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

92 Jonathan Price played him in "Carrington". Good movie.

I like Carrington's paintings.

All the Bloomsburians were odd ducks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)

93
The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Que?

What is this (in 20 words or less)?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (ASZ8O)

94 90 Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

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Ah, Ludwig van...

The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

95 The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast. Sister finds one every year. Pricey sometimes, but a lot of fun. She's kinda snooty and picky, but doing it really brings her back to the fun person I remember.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Does she do the whole thing, or just the Hallelujah Chorus?

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

96 Fingers are a bit too long
But nicely done

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (DQRr+)

97 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM

Attended one at the Cadet Chapel at West Point. With that organ, it's an impressive experience. Elsewhere? Probably still worth it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)

98 Since I turned 29, it kills my back. I am not sure why. Might be the head/body orientation, I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

I only read my phone in bed with my head propped up. That doesn't really mess with my back as much as sleeping on my stomach or too soft a mattress. Those make my day miserable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

99 Do It Yourself Messiah - The audience sings the chorus. The soloists and the orchestra are professionals.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (lL6v/)

100 the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

101 I like Carrington's paintings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)

As do I!

This one is an interesting portrait...it is accurate, and it also conveys a bit of personality, which is of course the point!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (n9ltV)

102
An early attempt, "proto" if you will, at creating a bird hand

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (xG4kz)

103 100 comment rule satisfied

@nypost
·
23h
Today on NY POSTcast: Bullets wrapped in “wet” underwear were found in Luigi Mangione’s backpack following his arrest, a Pennsylvania cop testified Monday —

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have fun with that- imma go do the crossword

Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (IvPcr)

104 100 the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

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That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)

105

Do not click

I cued it up...

All these broads singing [Handel's] "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" barely add up to a 10

https://is.gd/v6G8iu

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (ASZ8O)

106 Attended one at the Cadet Chapel at West Point.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Didn't know you were in the Army.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

107 Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

======

Ah, Ludwig van...

The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

I always found that it made me want to gather me droogs together and go hunting for a bit of the old ultra violence.

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

108 Dora chased after a gay man and there he is.

Posted by: night lifted at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (/YboP)

109 Traffic hazard.

https://is.gd/qWGNY7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

110 Her surrealist paintings remind me a lot of those by Remedios Varo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (kpS4V)

111 107 I always found that it made me want to gather me droogs together and go hunting for a bit of the old ultra violence.

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

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There's nothing wrong with a bit of the old in-out, in-out. But first, I viddied a horrorshow house filled with goodies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

112 The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)

Interesting film.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

113 89 Strachey had a bright future as a proctologist.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)

He's the only proctologist in the world who could check your uvula.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (4I7QN)

114 Does she do the whole thing, or just the Hallelujah Chorus?
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All of it. Audience is the chorus.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (lL6v/)

115

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks,, under threat of a "winter storm". As usual, media is orgasmic at the thought--which may be the eventual outcome, merely a thought. Our area tends to shrug off a lot of crap weather by it's physical configuration. How ever, after a short eyeballing, the currently falling snow is very fine and straight down which tends toward longevity.

We shall see. Meanwhile, may all effort from you result in maximum benefit at all times, with congruent major heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (vFbHf)

116 112 Interesting film.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

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I read the book!

The book has an extra chapter at the end. It's a stupid chapter and the movie is better without it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

117 I've met a couple fag hags, but can anyone name any current prominent fag hags?
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
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I read yesterday that it was Anna Wintour who introduced Cory Booker to his new bride.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (A0sqA)

118 Fingers are a bit too long
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip

That's NOT what she said...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (+Oyis)

119 Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

120 Traffic hazard.

https://is.gd/qWGNY7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

Pilot couldn't keep that shit in the air just a bit longer? I mean, I see the flaps were down, but geez.....pull up and slow down a bit more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

121 Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

Technically, it was said by Alex DeLarge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (ExV1e)

122 Gotta keep the gravy train running.

Hakeem Jeffries Exposed: Anna Paulina Luna Says He’s Blocking Insider Trading Ban

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

123 119 Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

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It was the book that came to mind, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)

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

Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

125 "Jonathan Price played him in "Carrington". Good movie."

Jonathan Price plays a former head of MI5 and the grandfather of one of the main characters in the Apple series, "Slow Horses". He's an excellent actor.

Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (lJ0H4)

126 There's nothing wrong with a bit of the old in-out, in-out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

That's what she said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

127 90 It's fine but I think you get more bang for your listening buck with a- Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)

If I am going tonsee a fully armed orchestra, it will probably be to hear the 1812 Overture.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (4I7QN)

128 124 Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

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And those who use it as emotional background for brainwashing the youth into no longer loving the ultra-violence? What of them?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

129 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

Do you know anything about Kris, CBD? She hasn't been here in a while.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

130 Since I turned 29, it kills my back. I am not sure why. Might be the head/body orientation, I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

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We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)

131 Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Dare I hope?

Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)

132 Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

133 131 Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Dare I hope?

Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)

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I imagine if one like The Gentlemen series, one will like his Sherlock Holmes series as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

134 There's nothing wrong with a bit of the old in-out, in-out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

That's what she said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm married. That is, in fact, NOT what she said.

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

135 132 I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

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I hadn't considered that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

136 "No one ever talks about my movie."

*kicks dirt*

-- Epimetheus

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

137 ======

I hadn't considered that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

Because you're an asshole.

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

138 I'm married. That is, in fact, NOT what she said.

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

The OTHER she......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?

I live close enough to Boston that I could go and listen to the Handel & Haydn Society's annual performance, but I never have. I've also wanted to attend a "Messiah Sing" concert (when I want to, I have a decent first tenor), but that, too, I have never done.

https://tinyurl.com/2uymbvhs

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

140 "No one ever talks about my movie."

*kicks dirt*

-- Epimetheus
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

Should've had more busty lesbians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ExV1e)

141 Arachnodactyly (literally "spider fingers") is one of the hallmark features of Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by abnormal connective tissue. Collagen in the skeleton lacks the normal elasticity. Other skeletal features include pectus excavatum (sunken chest), pectus carinatum ("pigeon" chest), middle finger length greater than palm length, arm span greater than height. Cardiac findings include mitral valve prolapse and potentially fatal aortic root aneurysm.

The condition ranges from quite mild to very extreme. I once knew a child that I first met the day he was born, whose hands (proportionately speaking) looked very similar to the man in the painting. He had severe cardiac involvement from the get-go and survived multiple heart surgeries. He developed into a very inspirational young man.

Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

142 >>Pilot couldn't keep that shit in the air just a bit longer?

With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)

143 I think the word you're looking for is "pure."

BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)

144 Fingers are a bit too long
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip

Too bad he was born a (gay) man. He'd have been an amazingly well-hung lesbian.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (nhCoE)

145 Arachnodactyly (literally "spider fingers") is one of the hallmark features of Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by abnormal connective tissue. Collagen in the skeleton lacks the normal elasticity. Other skeletal features include pectus excavatum (sunken chest), pectus carinatum ("pigeon" chest), middle finger length greater than palm length, arm span greater than height. Cardiac findings include mitral valve prolapse and potentially fatal aortic root aneurysm.
Posted by: muldoon

All that, and no code?

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

146 We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)

We have a mattress like that, however, didn't splurge for the base and it rests flat in the California King waterbed frame. The wife uses a substantial amount of pillows to achieve her comfort zone.

I'm told when we move, my beloved waterbed frame will NOT be coming with us.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

147 I am shocked that TJM is such a young man. It thought we were nothing but old farts here.

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)

148 147 I am shocked that TJM is such a young man. It thought we were nothing but old farts here.

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)

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There are a few in my age bracket.

Mannix is my age, and I think YD is just a bit older. I think BruceWayne is roughly my age as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

149 pectus carinatum ("pigeon" chest),

My brother has that.

They offered a surgery for it where they saw part of his sternum off, but he declined.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

150 What'd they get for it?
Posted by: Sponge
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Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)

151 Actually it's Leonora Carrington who reminds me of Varo.

But still like Dora's works. It's like Grant Wood licked a toad.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (kpS4V)

152 hmmm...

"If I were a Democrat political operative I would just fund and operate anonymous right-wing accounts that post cope so that Republicans would think everything is fine as Democrats flip seat after seat:

https://tinyurl.com/3e7kzp96"

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (g47mK)

153 It used to be thought that Abe Lincoln had Marfan Syndrome, but apparently that is now disputed.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

154 That's a terrible toupee. And weird long fingers.

Posted by: Case at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (G1OIb)

155 Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

I actually prefer the Third.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)

156
With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)

Valid, however it didn't appear he made any evasive actions whatsoever to avoid the car.

I think it was a hit. Just a really creative one.

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

157
155 Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

I actually prefer the Third.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)

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The 7th is my favorite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

158 Today's art: A lesson about rigor mortis at the embalmer's school.

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

159 Beethoven fight!

No. 6. Pastorale, baby.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (kpS4V)

160 Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

My fingers didn't fit in the trigger guards.

Posted by: zombie Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (nhCoE)

161 The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yeah, the 7th is very nice.

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

162 We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.
Posted by: Jordan61
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Next bed we're getting!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)

163
I am firmly in the Not A Fan Of Public Flash Mob Performances.

There's a very powerful "LOOK AT MEEEE!" vibe to the whole thing.

As our band leader in junior high paraphrased it, "Loud and lousy cannot hold a candle to accomplished and practiced."

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

164 TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO

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

165 Went to a Messiah performance by Virginia Symphony at Regent University. Pat Robertson was in attendance. The performance was great and the place was beautifully decorated for Christmas.

Posted by: Fun Time at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (oftw2)

166 WALZ ON MASCULINITY: "I think I scare them a little bit. No, I'm serious, because I can fix a truck. They know I'm not bullshitting."

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Give him something to fall back on if this politician thing doesn't work out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

167 Wasn't it Beethoven they had his hair and did a DNA test on it and found that he was riddled with poisons so much it was amazing he lasted as long as he did?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

168 I can't read in bed. It helps my wife fall asleep, but it just keys me up.

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

169 My first thought was Sigmund Freud.

Freudian Slip?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (RV1wf)

170 We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.
Posted by: Jordan61

But does it have a setting for watching Los Doyers ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (van9r)

171 BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"

I could have saved them the $250k spent on a task force and told them for free.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (9iyS+)

172 Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)

I actually prefer the Third.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)

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The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

The Ninth is my fave, but-

a very close second is Beethovan's Sixth.

Lovely stuff.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

173 164 TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)

What ? Something I agree with ? ....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

174 ---
Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)

Wonder if they're reselling what they get. That'd be one interesting auction, I'm betting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)

175
The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yeah, the 7th is very nice.
Posted by: Bulg

Difference splitter here: I enjoy the 8th most of all his symphonies, with the 3rd running a close second.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (xG4kz)

176 Went to a Messiah performance by Virginia Symphony at Regent University. Pat Robertson was in attendance. The performance was great and the place was beautifully decorated for Christmas.
Posted by: Fun Time

Since my parents-in-law lived in Virginia Beach, we'd often go to the Thanksgiving/Christmas buffets at Regents when they were still alive. Very nice. Great decorations and amazing amounts of food. Wonderful experience.

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

177 I can't read in bed. It helps my wife fall asleep, but it just keys me up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

Read Isaac Asimov. That should bore you to almost death.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

178 Since we're talking about music, I confess that I wish I could read it. I've tried and tried, but I simply can't. I have to learn things by ear. I'm guessing that it's because music is mathematical and I have absolutely no maths ability.

I can't play any instrument, either.

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

179 I'd recommend chopping the fingers off at the last joint to normalize their length.

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (2HALl)

180 National Portrait Gallery

Home / Explore our Collection / Portrait - NPG 6662; Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey

This portrait -
"In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector. He wrote for various journals and magazines while his Eminent Victorians (191

, with essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, made his name and set standards for literary biography for the twentieth century."

"What long fingers!" my 1st thought. I'd pass hanging today's art selection but 'tis another interesting lesson. Thanks.

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

181 177 I can't read in bed. It helps my wife fall asleep, but it just keys me up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

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I can't read.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

182 I like the portrait. I have read a couple of his works- Eminent Victorians and a biography of Queen Victoria. I enjoyed them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (Nx5jP)

183 TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)

Da fuq outta here with your communist bullshit!!!
- US Defense Industry

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (9iyS+)

184 Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.
Posted by: Sponge

Considers mentioning Prometheus.
Does his part to keep the thread Prometheus free.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (+Oyis)

185
TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD

Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

186 BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"

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great. next step is to excuse them. because "Zionism = Racism", one man's terrorist (and suicided bomber) another man's freedom fighter. You are transparent, Columbia. Your report is bullshit and an excuse to keep systemic antisemitism, and (foreign sponsored) antisemites on the payroll.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)

187 >Hakeem Jeffries Exposed: Anna Paulina Luna Says He’s Blocking Insider Trading Ban
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he'll have plenty of help

Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (IvPcr)

188 Freudian Slip?
Posted by: ShainS

"Be patient. I'm not done with the painting yet. You can put on a slip when I'm done. I'll turn up the heat until then. Now get back on that ottoman."

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

189 Next bed we're getting!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)

We got the air / inflatable "sleep number" style mattress. It really did wonders for my back in the beginning. I guess I'm just too used to it now and it's not as effective as it once was, but it's still pretty comfortable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

190 178 Since we're talking about music, I confess that I wish I could read it. I've tried and tried, but I simply can't. I have to learn things by ear. I'm guessing that it's because music is mathematical and I have absolutely no maths ability.

I can't play any instrument, either.

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

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Junior learned how to read music at about 7/8, and he learns by ear as well, and he memorizes his pieces.

He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.

He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

191 The painting?

Uptwinkles!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (NuV6c)

192 TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)

This will go nowhere and I am immensely saddened by that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (ExV1e)

193 You find out if you're a decent tenor if you can sing the tenor part in "Hallelujah Chorus" - not easy at all.

My favorite Messiah performance was a full baroque performance, with baroque instruments and only 16 singers, 4 per part.

16 high quality singers (some were true professionals) can blow away a 100 part choir of decent amateurs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (uWKK8)

194 ALZ ON MASCULINITY: "I think I scare them a little bit. No, I'm serious, because I can fix a truck. They know I'm not bullshitting."

I call bullshit on that. I'm betting he's considering 'changing oil' or the air filter as "fixing a truck."

I'd like to see the prissy fag change a tire with a 4-way lug wrench.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

195 I can't read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Ah cain't breave!

Posted by: Saint George Floyd at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)

196
Deep down, in places he'd never admit exist, what entertains THM about the Promethium abomination is that the two chickies failed the survival skills' test of taking a flying fook at a rolling doughnut.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (xG4kz)

197 Since we're talking about music, I confess that I wish I could read it. I've tried and tried, but I simply can't. I have to learn things by ear. I'm guessing that it's because music is mathematical and I have absolutely no maths ability.

I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Nothing wrong with doing music by ear.

Neither Irving Berlin nor Lionel Bart could read music, either. I don't think McCartney could either until relatively recently.

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

198 >>BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"

In other news, water is wet and, get this, bears DO sh#t in the woods!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (NuV6c)

199 Posted by: Fun Time at December 10, 2025 10:10

Very nice. Glad you had a good time!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Nx5jP)

200
TJM

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (xG4kz)

201 I can see 10 years from now when a lot of dinosaurs in both parties have retired or died, getting out of nato might be feasible. But today way too many Cold War types are still in power who think the Ruuuuushians are about to roll tanks into West Germany any second and we need nato to stop them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)

202 155/157 etc - Funny - the top part of the head of the portrait, with the glasses, reminds me of another composer - Dmitri Shostakovich (or however you render the Cyrillic). Although he never did sport one of those big beards a la Brahms, etc...

Posted by: One of many lone wolves at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (OVaMN)

203 I can't read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/3st77r77

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (ufSfZ)

204 He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

Van Cliburn has entered the chat.

Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Oy/m2)

205
Oh, wow : two hunnert!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (xG4kz)

206 “Why does it take 4 to 6 weeks for my Space Patrol flashlight to arrive, anyway?”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)

207 >>"What long fingers!" my 1st thought. I'd pass hanging today's art selection but 'tis another interesting lesson. Thanks.

You find the digital version impressive?!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (NuV6c)

208 Ain’t no one fixing any truck built after 2020 unless they have all the computer equipment , specialized tools and a lift.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (KDPiq)

209
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

We learned that our daughter memorized her favorite books we read to her as a youngin. Switching it up did wonders for her reading ability.

She also played music, flute/piccolo, not a piano, but learned to read music at a reasonably high level.

It's a shame her HS music director ruined everything for her and she hasn't played a note since graduation. She was damn good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Beautiful snowfall all morning. Aesthetically pleasing flakes. Perfect weather for crosswords, reading, and listening to music.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)

211 >>We got the air / inflatable "sleep number" style mattress. It really did wonders for my back in the beginning. I guess I'm just too used to it now and it's not as effective as it once was, but it's still pretty comfortable.

Same here. After a year or so, we added a 3-inch thick foam pad to hours, cut at the top to accommodate the split mattress feature. Never had a bad night's sleep due to lack of comfort after that.

(The foam top makes it a tight fit for the fitted sheet, but it's doable if you work at it).

Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)

212 Why does it take 4 to 6 weeks for my Space Patrol flashlight to arrive, anyway?”
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)

It comes from outer space. Long delivery time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (9iyS+)

213 It's a shame her HS music director ruined everything for her and she hasn't played a note since graduation. She was damn good.
Posted by: Sponge

How did the music director do that?

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

214 TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD

Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

If we add a requirement to bomb Brussels, we could get all the defense industry owned members of Congress to go along.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)

215 THE 7TH SYMPHONY BY LUDWIG IS THE GREATEST PIECE OF MUSIC IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!!!

Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (uWKK8)

216 >>I'd recommend chopping the fingers off at the last joint to normalize their length.

Not the thumbs!

Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)

217 How did the music director do that?
-------------
The same way a bad baseball coach can ruin a good player.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 10:22 AM (3QiDE)

218 Day late. Dollar short.

Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

219 I read music at an 9th grade level but my Sax playing sounds like a seventh grader’s recital.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (KDPiq)

220
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

He was really good at tearing people down, not so good at building them up and she was on his shit list. Now, she didn't help herself much in that regard, but he wasn't one to complement or encourage as much as he would insult and demean.

She hates him with a passion to this day.

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

221 Beautiful snowfall all morning. Aesthetically pleasing flakes. Perfect weather for crosswords, reading, and listening to music.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)

Pablo Casals, the Bach cello suites.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)

222
I saw Render the Cyrillic open for Instantiate the Counterfactual at the Great Phlebotomists' Coagulation at Branson, MO in ought two or ought three.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

223 219 I read music at an 9th grade level but my Sax playing sounds like a seventh grader’s recital.
Posted by: the way I see it

A saxophone is an ill wind that nobody blows good!

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (oftw2)

224 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IF THE US LEFT NATO, RUSSIA WOULD EASILY ROLL THROUGH WESTERN EUROPE.

Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (W7XSX)

225 Sponge,
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/rc66acbr

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)

226 He was really good at tearing people down, not so good at building them up and she was on his shit list. Now, she didn't help herself much in that regard, but he wasn't one to complement or encourage as much as he would insult and demean.

She hates him with a passion to this day.
Posted by: Sponge

That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.

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

227 Junior learned how to read music at about 7/8, and he learns by ear as well, and he memorizes his pieces.

He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.

He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

Genetics for the win!

Both you and Dolly are Computer/Math types, right?

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

228 Now I think I might put some Bach on when I clock out in an hour.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (ufSfZ)

229 218 Day late. Dollar short.

Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

Still important because there will be another “pandemic” in the future. This is a good precedent.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (9iyS+)

230 Pablo Casals, the Bach cello suites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

231 Wait. They needed a “task force” to determine that …. Moslems hate Jews? No way! I simply shan’t believe it.

Like, a lot. A whole bunch.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (y+G1Q)

232 Now I think I might put some Bach on when I clock out in an hour.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Aaaaah, Bach.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

233 everything for her and she hasn't played a note since graduation. She was damn good.
Posted by: Sponge

How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

It was that one time at band camp.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (g8Ew8)

234 227 Both you and Dolly are Computer/Math types, right?

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

======

She is for sure. I may be, I just never cared enough to pursue it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

235 Russia hasn’t been able to beat Ukraine in 4 years. But they’re like gonna totally invade all of Europe without nato.

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (9iyS+)

236 >>> 225 Sponge,
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/rc66acbr
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)

What, no live animals? They missed out on a breeding pair of cassowaries!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (ULPxl)

237 Thanks MP4.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (kpS4V)

238 She is for sure. I may be, I just never cared enough to pursue it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

239 238 She is for sure. I may be, I just never cared enough to pursue it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

=====

I don't know how to respond to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

240 231 Wait. They needed a “task force” to determine that …. Moslems hate Jews? No way! I simply shan’t believe it.

-

They also needed a study to tell them locking up criminals - get this - reduces crime.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (9iyS+)

241
Little known music fact -- Modest Mussorgsky had a younger sister named Immodest Mussorgsky.

Her life of dissolution and debauchery was a deep and enduring source of shame for her family.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

242 Pablo Casals, the Bach cello suites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.
Posted by: Bulg

There's always room for cello.

Posted by: Yo-Yo Crosby at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (w9Wax)

243 Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination

Posted by: Lytton Strachey with Brass In Pocket at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (wVcYX)

244 Aaaaah, Bach.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

Yet another overrated 'composer'. -- Antonio Salieri

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

245 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'd better get busy reading the comments.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (2WIwB)

246 I quit band in junior high because the music director just flat-out allowed unspeakable bullying, with me being one of the bullied. He knew it. He saw it. He therefore condoned it by ignoring it. It's kind of impossible to ignore a kid getting punched in the face and sent flying to the ground right in the middle of band practice, instrument and music stand along with them. Not once. Repeatedly.

Had a lot of teachers like that. May they all burn in hell. Yeah, this was in band practice. I went to a tough school.

Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)

247 "Here's an apple and a gun. Don't talk to strangers... shoot them"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

248
The Ninth, like the Fifth, gets overplayed and loses its impact thereby. Listen to them only occasionally and you'll appreciate them more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (tgvbd)

249 I'd recommend chopping the fingers off at the last joint to normalize their length.

Not the thumbs!
Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)

And certainly not the nose-picking finger.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)

250 Has anyone mentioned Strachey’s significance to civilization?
He made his fame by mocking and pissing on British values and tradition. He was at the vanguard of the civilization destroying left.
In addition to being a degenerate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (jbnUc)

251
That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

We sold her flute to an incoming freshman, so that will live on, but she took her piccolo with her to college. She hasn't played it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

252 He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
====

My preferred method of freaking people out is typing while having a conversation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (9ipOP)

253 Ugh!

Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)

254
I don't know how to respond to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

It would help if you could read it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

255 SHAVE, HIPPIE!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)

256 The only time I ever came close to being bullied in HS was in marching band practice, by one of the baritone horn players who was also on the football team.

He threatened a friend and me because we weren't doing the marching routine correctly. LOL.

Later on, he found out that I was friends with a hot girl that he wanted to date, so he turned nice to me.

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

257 Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl) /i]

The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:

1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot

And

2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (sKqQm)

258 I asked an innocuous question once, I thought, and got jumped on for being insensitive, naturally, by leftists. Maybe I wasn’t specific enough.

I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (y+G1Q)

259
It was listening to a recording of the Beethoven Ninth that started my 50+ years of listening to and learning from classical music. Specifically, this recording:

https://tinyurl.com/3vta4sby

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (tgvbd)

260 Yeah, this was in band practice. I went to a tough school.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
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I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.

I was not in the band.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)

261 This one time in band camp I stuck a flute in my ...

Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)

262 My father didn't want me to learn how to fight. He didn't want me to grow up like him.

I'm so much worst.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)

263
I asked an innocuous question once, I thought, and got jumped on for being insensitive, naturally, by leftists. Maybe I wasn’t specific enough.

*rolls eyes*

One of those perfect pitch elitists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (tgvbd)

264 Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?

Worth it? Or overrated?
-----

We performed it in high school choir! To this day I still admire that work.

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

265 I always found that it made me want to gather me droogs together and go hunting for a bit of the old ultra violence.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

After a round at the Korova Milkbar. With some Moloko with the knives in it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)

266 Yeah, this was in band practice. I went to a tough school.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
====

I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.

I was not in the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)

Chess Club was were the real thugs hung out. Unbelievable brutality given for an ill-considered move.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (wVcYX)

267
The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:

1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot

And

2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted rby: 18-1

You neglected to include

3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)

268 Ugh!

Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)

NOOO!!!!! Dammit. He had such a great voice. One of my favorites for Christmas songs.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (2J/Lj)

269 265 After a round at the Korova Milkbar. With some Moloko with the knives in it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)

=====

It gives you a real horrorshow boohoo for bitva in the nochy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

270 261 This one time in band camp I stuck a flute in my ...
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)

Not a cigar?

Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)

271 3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.

In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:39 AM (sKqQm)

272 English as taught by Victor Borge, 'The Great Dane'. Classical music for the beatbox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIf3IfHCoiE

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (lL6v/)

273 This one time in band camp I stuck a flute in my ...
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)

Not a cigar?

Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)

I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)

274
I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater

Might it have something to do with younger folks being capable of hearing sound over a wider range of frequencies, particularly at the higher pitches?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:41 AM (xG4kz)

275 I chose sports over band once I got into High School. Though I should have continued with private lessons for piano or guitar.

Still think it’s cool to be able to sit at an empty piano at a bar or restaurant and crank out a piece of music.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (KDPiq)

276
I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)

He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

277
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1

"dead-dead" has entered the chat

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)

278 Fun fact: horrorshow is a corruption of the Russian word for "good"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)

279 He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

??

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9iyS+)

280 He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.

Jason Biggs is the Ross Gellar of American Pie...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

281 Dude looks soy as hell.

Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UnA8+)

282 278 Fun fact: horrorshow is a corruption of the Russian word for "good"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)

======

I believe most of Natsec is derived from Russian, and yeah, the context of its use, especially in the novel, leans towards common usage being "good".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

283
??
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9iyS+)

Liberal douchenozzle.

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

284 Bad News for our stock market traders & invaders (where most of our personal wealth is in dividend-payers) who are LONG the "AI" boom -- instead of short the "AI" bubble:

The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI."

/The Real Danger is the Employment Bust ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (kEIvm)

285 If anyone has any lingering doubts about what Tucker is about, he's now doing Podcasts focused on how much he hates any Christians or Christian Pastors who say that they support Israel.

which was the source more than any other of my complete rejection and disgust for him and anyone allied with him.

And I note that he embarked on this immediately after his nice week long vacation in Qatar; guess he picked up new orders along with his paycheck. Tucker lies when he says he is "America First" - he is now clearly "Qatar First".

Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (uWKK8)

286 I started concert band in 6th grade. Most of us played on the sharp side except for the tuba section which was remarkably flat. Dunno why. Used normal instruments that carried thru high school. Concert band, marching band, pep band.

I still can't read music.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (2J/Lj)

287 In the clot shot space I saw another infograph showing that every state in America was at least 60% clot shotted.

I have a lot of trouble believing that. I live in a blue area and we *maybe* hit 60%. But...Wyoming or SC or the like? I have a hard time believing they were hitting 60%+

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)

288 I lived in a free state during the Plandemic and gave zero fucks about masks or 6 ft distancing or vaccines. Everything was open almost immediately.

It still boggles my mind knowing some people spent 2+ years in their apartments in NYC or San Francisco and when they dared venture out they were triple masked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (9iyS+)

289 Fun fact: horrorshow is a corruption of the Russian word for "good"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

A girl I knew in college pronounced "ochen' khorosho" as "ocean carshow." She hadn't studied Russian; she got that from a mutual friend of ours who had.

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

290 You neglected to include

3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Yeah. Right. I always chuckle about that one...

I actually had the coof, about a month ago. Was tired for a few days and sense of smell was absent. No big deal. "Pureblood" me, had it very easy.

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (rdVOm)

291 But...Wyoming or SC or the like? I have a hard time believing they were hitting 60%+
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)

Plenty of idiots in every state, red or blue.
Lynne Cheney represented Wyoming after all.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (9iyS+)

292 I, to this day, am still incredibly humbled and grateful that I was guided into advising my family to NOT get that death knell called the covid vaccine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

293
The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI." /i]

I ran across a reverse Cramer ETF.

Too be honest its results weren't great. Though given the credence he is given in the FNM it is amusing that the results weren't horrible.

And...if you want a named ETF the Nancy Pelosi one is still one of the best...but we'll see how much longer she still gets insider info...and is above ground...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (sKqQm)

294 The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:

1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot

And

2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted by: 18-1

The new take on closing the schools.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Randi Weingarten is blaming Trump for schools not reopening during COVID.
Yes… the same woman who fought to keep schools closed.
Unreal.
They’re trying to rewrite history

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Damn Trump keeping Randi from opening the schools!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

295 The good thing about having Sydney Sweeney in your musical ensemble is that she's never flat.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

296 277
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1

"dead-dead" has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)

I tried to have that discussion with an older relative once. I tried to ask "Can you imagine a polio vaccine, for example, where the doctor would say "okay so you still got polio, but it wasn't quite as bad a case of polio as you could have gotten!"

but I don't think they could understand the logic. Or any logic, for that matter. Like far too many, they just wanted to believe what they were told.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)

297 280 He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.

Jason Biggs is the Ross Gellar of American Pie...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

you're not wrong

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)

298 Ugh!

Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)

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This is not helping my escalating survivor's guilt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (kEIvm)

299
Tucker cemented his place on my "don't bother" list when he cackled in smart girl girlish glee because Ted Cruz could not tell him what was the population of Iran prior to their nuke works getting bombed.

A regular L. L. Bean fly fisherman that poser is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xG4kz)

300 Ol' Taffy Hands we'd call him.

Us: Hey, Taffy Hands, you readin' another book?

Taffy Hands: Yes.

Us: Well, okay then.

He liked books. That Ol' Taffy Hands.

Posted by: Tomorrow's Comments Today at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (H/w5W)

301 292 I, to this day, am still incredibly humbled and grateful that I was guided into advising my family to NOT get that death knell called the covid vaccine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Other members of my family were pressuring me to get it. Then my grandfather had a heart attack and my father got a blood clot in his leg.

Then I got a call, "Never mind."

Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (UnA8+)

302 My family did not get the clot shoot either.
I am not necessarily anti-vac. I did get the shingles vaccine.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (VCgbV)

303 If Trump is to blame for school closings surely on Jan 21, 2021 all schools were opened right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (9iyS+)

304 It still boggles my mind knowing some people spent 2+ years in their apartments in NYC or San Francisco and when they dared venture out they were triple masked.

Locking down in a mansion is one thing. Hell, "Locking down" when you live in a rural area and can still just go where you want is similiar.

But people locked in micro apartments in the big blue shitties? Masked basically all the time?

Ugh.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (sKqQm)

305 I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater
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Tuning is an art and it depends on the ear of the person and I suspect slightly sharp is a 'happier' tone to most people's ears than slightly flat (sadder). Few people have perfect pitch (I used to have it prior to tinnitus started in as a result of psoriatic arthritis), and that also makes a difference in getting it pitch perfect.

Old chromatic scales of ancient music often sound 'melancholic' for a reason to our modern ears.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

306 I see the troll is trolling again.
(Not you, this time, TJM)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)

307 I am not necessarily anti-vac. I did get the shingles vaccine./i]

The shingles vax has pretty good numbers in reducing shingles out breaks. And a measurable reduction in severity for those that get it.

The clot shot went from "you can't get COVID if you get the two shots" to "it will lesson the symptoms, honest, err, maybe, if you get a booster every 3 months and don't die from heart damage"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (sKqQm)

308 The clot shot was just the largest cancer treatment test group ever assembled , now or in the future.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (KDPiq)

309 Even now with all the info out there the vast majority of leftists still think locked down for 2 years was the right thing to do.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (9iyS+)

310 Hubbymayhem and I did not get the clot shot and refused to allow our girl spawn to get it. The boy spawn works for fedgov and was required to get one. He got one dose of the J&J vax and never got any more. It was enough to cover his ass at work. Hubbymayhem cardiologist told him No! Do not get that!

Both of us had covid both of us recovered. I refused to wear the masks.

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

311 306 I see the troll is trolling again.
(Not you, this time, TJM)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)

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Bolshy sammy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

312 Locking down in a mansion is one thing. Hell, "Locking down" when you live in a rural area and can still just go where you want is similiar.

—

Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:53 AM (9iyS+)

313 The family of a Colombian fisherman who died in a U.S. military boat strike in September has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.

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Trump hates fishermen! Particularly Columbian fishermen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

314 Tunings of pitch and the evolution of various scales is a great rabbit-hole to dive into, if you're into that sort of musicology.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)

315 314 Tunings of pitch and the evolution of various scales is a great rabbit-hole to dive into, if you're into that sort of musicology.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)

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You can't study, like, music, man. Music is about emotion, man. It's about vibes and good times, man.

Ain't no studying that, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

316 Leftists and criminals ( I repeat myself) will eventually use the legal system ( lawfare) when backed into a corner.

It’s criminal judo.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)

317
Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Just as it takes time for a caterpillar to metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly, so it is for a past his prime radio shock jock to metamorphose into a bedraggled and gibbering old lesbian.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (xG4kz)

318 Wouldn't hang, those fingers would give me nightmares.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 10:58 AM (D+mpw)

319 Like far too many, they just wanted to believe what they were told.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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This is from memory when I last studied it and discussed the matter with an infectious disease doctor (autoimmune combined with covid is the devil btw)

The Covid Vaxx is a prophylactic--aka genetic medicine. The vaxx was designed to use the body's immune system to teach it that the spike was harmless and thus avoid the massive inflammatory response killing people when the body is exposed to a novel virus without any learned or genetic immunity.

IIRC, it targeted the IGG-4 subtype related to allergies to tell the immune system that the spike was a harmless irritant. Same as allergy shots. What is a problem is that the spike itself caused body damage by adhering to various receptors whether it was real Covid or the vaxx facsimile.

True vaccines are sterilizing targeting the other types of IGG (depending on bacterial versus viral) in that they teach the immune system to recognize and attack suspect bacteria or viruses.

Feel free to correct me if you know better as this is from memory of discussions circa 2021-22.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:59 AM (WDjG6)

320 You can't study, like, music, man. Music is about emotion, man. It's about vibes and good times, man.

Ain't no studying that, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

Wow. Like that's heavy, man.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)

321
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)

322 Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)

you're not wrong

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)

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Never saw any of those films, primarily because I thought it was sacrilege using the name of my second favorite song (after Hotel California) ... and love the great (and conservative Trump supporter) Don McLean.

Damn, I remember singing that song like during 4th grade chorus in the early '70s. I studied the meaning of all the great lyrics in college, and wrote a parody when carpethagger Hillary ran for Senate in 2000:

lyrics.com/sublyric/192755/
Don+McLean/American+Lie

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (eAryO)

323
NOOD Monkey
That funky monkey

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (xG4kz)

324 Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:59 AM (WDjG6)

Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)

325 Tunings of pitch and the evolution of various scales is a great rabbit-hole to dive into, if you're into that sort of musicology.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Probably 20 years ago, I read a book on temperament, micro tunings used to create different scales in hopes of finding the perfect scale for western music. The author had to write an appendix explaining why he didn't include African and Eastern scales. I then realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)

326 Still no clot shot here. (I can track this year's fun and games to prior to COVID in all likelihood.)

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (OUMaO)

327 Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:59 AM (WDjG6)

Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)

It wast. FJB promised to cure cancer and mRNA was the intended tool. The clot shot was just the massive non-consensual human trial of mRNA.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (dK+Kv)

328 *It wasn't.

I suppose I should get up and make coffee.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (dK+Kv)

329 I should have included the background. Immune system subtype components are IGG-1-4. You can have apparently normal immune system from std. blood tests but abnormal subtype results which is often genetic in origin.

From wiki,
"Given the opposing properties of the IgG subclasses (fixing and failing to fix complement; binding and failing to bind FcR), and the fact that the immune response to most antigens includes a mix of all four subclasses, it has been difficult to understand how IgG subclasses can work together to provide protective immunity. In 2013, the Temporal Model of human IgE and IgG function was proposed. This model suggests that IgG3 (and IgE) appear early in a response. The IgG3, though of relatively low affinity, allows IgG-mediated defences to join IgM-mediated defences in clearing foreign antigens. Subsequently, higher affinity IgG1 and IgG2 are produced. The relative balance of these subclasses, in any immune complexes that form, helps determine the strength of the inflammatory processes that follow. Finally, if antigen persists, high affinity IgG4 is produced, which dampens down inflammation by helping to curtail FcR-mediated processes."

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (WDjG6)

330 My father didn't want me to learn how to fight. He didn't want me to grow up like him.

I'm so much worst.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)

Say, this gives me a song idea.

Posted by: Kenny Rogers at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (wVcYX)

331 That guy's fondling invisible tittehs …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (ayRl+)

332 Interestingly, I'm laying on my bed, beard on chest, reading AoS.

Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 02:14 PM (NLbsy)

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