Mid-Morning Art Thread

Painted in a Welsh Village
Albert Houthuesen

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 yuk

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 09:30 AM (/+uur)

3 Douche......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:31 AM (kbShR)

5 The hat was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at April 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

6 And then, the murder happened.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (0/IAB)

7 Tate UK

Artist Albert Houthuesen 1903–1979
Medium Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions support: 940 x 686 mm (.006 Hectare)
Collection Tate
Acquisition Presented by Dr Edwin Charles Montgomery-Smith 1938

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)

8 Jimmy Stewart!

would not hang

Posted by: Gref at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (5rh/l)

9 He looks familiar. Which says to me that the artist did a fine job in giving us a recognizable human being.

He's got a little Donald Sutherland going on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (+2QQb)

10 Potentially teh ghey.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (AkEZC)

11 Dude has no shoulders.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

12 Right side of his head took some trauma.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (kbShR)

13 Does this coat make my hips look wide?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

14 Title doesn't check out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at April 22, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Painted in a Welsh Village

Village names looks like a cat walked across your keyboard.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 09:33 AM (/+uur)

16 He looks like a taxi cab with one door open.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

17 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

18 No broad sgoulders. Ragbag dress shirt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (kbShR)

19 prints of whales.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

20 He's the 3rd generation to wear that jacket. They constantly married the short broad in the corner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

21 OK. I feel his hat is felt.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (DgMqy)

22 The name' Blodeuwedd Cadwgan-bach. Llewellyn Blodeuwedd Cadwgan-bach.

Posted by: 008 at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

23 All his clothes, including his shirt collar, look soft and comfortable, or at least well-worn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (+2QQb)

24 Alternate title: Man without shoulders

Posted by: Weasel at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (GNqmQ)

25 Proportions are off. . . or the dude was misshapen!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (5xoct)

26 Bro is skinny fat. Needs to drop the pints and hit the gym.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (NgqoH)

27 11 Dude has no shoulders.
Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2026 09:32 AM

And really wide hips.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 22, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

28 Wanted: suit that fits!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 09:35 AM (5xoct)

29 Owain Tegid Llewellyn is the mans name.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 09:35 AM (/+uur)

30 He never learned to tie a tie. Single Mother.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:35 AM (kbShR)

31 Right side of his head took some trauma.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026

***
That's just a stray lock of his hair showing beneath his hat. But that ear does look a bit overgrown and misshapen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 09:36 AM (+2QQb)

32 "crumpled" comes to mind.
i have that same jacket, but it's stressing.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:36 AM (R11M+)

33 His arms look HUGE compared to the rest of him, especially his head.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

34 Big Hands... lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 22, 2026 09:36 AM (DgMqy)

35 Houthuesen?

Well, that shirt isn't a Van Huesen.

Posted by: Fashion critic at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

36 21 i know where i can get felt for free.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

37
*snickers*

The Welsh. Making the Irish look good for time immemorial.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (tgvbd)

38 This guy influenced David Byrne's wardrobe.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (EI0rs)

39 The proportions are ... odd.
You can't even see the zipper on his human suit though. So he's got that going for him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (jwFh7)

40 Dude has no shoulders.
Posted by: dantesed

And really wide hips.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

When life goes pear shaped...

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (/Vcgx)

41 He borrowed the suit from David Byrne.

Posted by: PabloD at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (zUFRX)

42 Also, why are his hands the size of his head? I cannot look at this! Take it away! Be gone!

Posted by: Weasel at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (GNqmQ)

43 Fun House mirror?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (kbShR)

44 i know where i can get felt for free.
Posted by: cmeat

As a cabin boy on a tramp steamer?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (/Vcgx)

45 His arms look HUGE compared to the rest of him, especially his head.
Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

Was in a club in Miami once. One of the guys working there had large arms, but nothing else. Only thing was, his arms looked like all he did was triceps presses. It was the craziest look ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

46 @41 and added immense shoulder pads.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (EI0rs)

47 >38 This guy influenced David Byrne's wardrobe.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (EI0rs)

*taps arm with side of hand*

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (NgqoH)

48 34 Big Hands... lol
Posted by: Bad Andrew

###
He's all thumbs.

Posted by: NTTAWWT at April 22, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

49 40 these rock don't lose their shape

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (R11M+)

50 I knew a set of triplet brothers growing up. The one who gestated in the middle had a somewhat crescent-shaped head like this guy from being squeezed in there.

Posted by: Jimmy, Robert, and Richard at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (oftw2)

51 41 He borrowed the suit from David Byrne.
Posted by: PabloD at April 22, 2026 09:37 AM (zUFRX)

Stop making sense!

Posted by: Rex B at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (a992C)

52 Also, why are his hands the size of his head? I cannot look at this! Take it away! Be gone!
Posted by: Weasel

Thank GOD he's not a proctologist!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (/Vcgx)

53 Right ear is not on right. Remnants of an injury?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (5xoct)

54 I hate to see what the rest of the Welsh village looks like.

Posted by: dantesed at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

55
He's eyeing the artist's sandwich.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (tgvbd)

56 And She Was = fave Talking Heads tune

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 22, 2026 09:39 AM (DgMqy)

57 Fedora?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:40 AM (kbShR)

58 awful

Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2026 09:40 AM (ZxPkt)

59 The hat was angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at April 22, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)
******
The hips were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2026 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

60 He's got.......

Marty Feldman eyes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

61 44 never confuse pegging with felting.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:40 AM (R11M+)

62 >>He borrowed the suit from David Byrne.

>>Stop making sense!

And you may ask yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 09:41 AM (5xoct)

63 Hurry it up, will yah? I got an eisteddfod to go to.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

64 I'll bet the guy was a coal miner.

Posted by: Tuna at April 22, 2026 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)

65 Welsh uses too many consonants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:43 AM (kbShR)

66 what the rest of the Welsh village looks like.

On autumn nights when the moon is gibbous, rugose shapes can be seen slithering in the pond behind the oddly-proportioned llan

Posted by: gKWVE at April 22, 2026 09:43 AM (tNKqD)

67 Random dude dragged in off the street for a portrait session.

"Here, put this coat on. And this hat. Look interested."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2026 09:44 AM (AkEZC)

68 Weird proportions. Very unnatural.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:44 AM (RIvkX)

69
The Mug Shot - a limerick

A young serial killer named Roddy
Killed aa prostitute, murder most shoddy
Seventeen months later
a tough interrogator
Growled, "Tell me scumbag! Where'd you hide the bawdy!"

Posted by: muldooon at April 22, 2026 09:44 AM (I0N4X)

70 Wales is near Ireland. No Irish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:45 AM (RIvkX)

71 64 I'll bet the guy was a coal miner.
Posted by: Tuna at April 22, 2026 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)
--
Hand me down from grandpa bigfoot.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 22, 2026 09:45 AM (EI0rs)

72 > A young serial killer named Roddy

A psychokiller!

Posted by: Rex B at April 22, 2026 09:46 AM (a992C)

73 Young Columbo!

Aside from that....meh. Needs more biological females breasts if we didn't get this years' allotment in that forest painting a while back.

Oh, Kate Mulgrew - Voyager's Captain Janeway - actually played Mrs. Columbo in a short-lived series.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 09:46 AM (Sco7b)

74 Has that gas station murder hobo look about him. Would not hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (abIsI)

75 He has just been informed he is being inducted into the 24th foot regiment.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (tYGL3)

76 from blaenau ffestiniog to llanfair caereinion tomyrthyr tidfil, penmaenmawr/ penrhyndeudraith.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (R11M+)

77 RIP

Dave Mason, legendary Traffic co-founder, dead at 79

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (/+uur)

78 66 and gimbled in the wabe.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:48 AM (R11M+)

79 Has that gas station murder hobo look about him. Would skin~~not hang.~~
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (abIsI)
=====

FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

80 Weebles wobble but they don't fall down

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2026 09:48 AM (v3EFS)

81 How green was my valley, and how misshapen was my head.

Posted by: Prints of Wales at April 22, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)

82 77 reebob kwkuba mourns.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:49 AM (R11M+)

83 >72 > A young serial killer named Roddy

A psychokiller!

Posted by: Rex B at April 22, 2026 09:46 AM (a992C)

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 22, 2026 09:50 AM (NgqoH)

84 When word got out that he didn’t really shoot Liberty Valance, things went south for Ranse Stoddard.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at April 22, 2026 09:51 AM (z/EYI)

85 Oh, and if baby Jessica ever falls down the well...
Kitten in a narrow sewer-pipe....
Locked out of your house but you have a doggie door...

This is your man!
Call 555-IMA-PIPE

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 09:51 AM (Sco7b)

86 when he has nothing to say...

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:51 AM (R11M+)

87 Alternate title:

"Mr Grwlfwlwf of Rwywldwffll on the Grndlyfyld"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 09:51 AM (iJfKG)

88 Alternate title:

"Yes, that's correct. Me bum is thirteen times larger than me head"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

89 Welsh uses too many consonants.
Posted by: Boss Moss

***********

Welsh Conquered - a liimerick

There's much about the Welsh to criticize
All those consonants! Mostly L's and Y's,
They have dark and swarthy faces
Ad odd names for all their places
But their grape juice is a flavorful surprise!

Posted by: muldooon at April 22, 2026 09:53 AM (I0N4X)

90 The proportions look weird.

He looks like he is melting into that chair like an overheated bar of chocolate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2026 09:54 AM (gnNyN)

91 I get the feeling there's a good amount of space between when you say something to this guy and when he responds

Posted by: 496 at April 22, 2026 09:55 AM (DWmGl)

92 I'm a Welshman! Or at least that is how my surname tags me.

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 22, 2026 09:55 AM (KiBMU)

93 As of September 2025, approximately 828,500 people in Wales were able to speak Welsh, which represents about 26.9% of the population aged three years or older.
===

Why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

94 Guy looks kinda skittish.

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2026 09:56 AM (r51hs)

95 They call themselves Cymry and their language Cymraeg.

Make it make sense.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

96 There’s actually a dialect of Welsh spoken in Patagonia. A lot of Welshmen settled there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

97 Bet his free candy van is awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2026 09:58 AM (AkEZC)

98 Alternate title:

"Born in the Wrong Country on the Wrong Continent, Arthur Never Achieved His True Destiny as a Character in a Flannery O'Connor Short Story"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

99 Cimbri.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 09:58 AM (kbShR)

100 Ironically enough, amongst the ladies, he was well known for his girth....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 09:59 AM (Sco7b)

101 I like his face, and yes, he does look rather like Jimmy Stewart.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 09:59 AM (8Xy/A)

102
Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 09:47 AM (R11M+)

___________

I'm sorry, this is a Welsh-free zone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 09:59 AM (tgvbd)

103 Funny how Democrats found a way to continue to fund the KKK well into the 21st century, huh?

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 09:59 AM (HgRco)

104 94 oh, he skits.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:00 AM (R11M+)

105
His hips and hands aren't big, it's his head that's remarkably tiny.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 10:00 AM (tgvbd)

106 Makes as much sense as Hungarians calling themselves Magyars.

Something happens to the psyche of nations caught in linguistic eddies, like the Breen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)

107 He's the 3rd generation to wear that jacket. They constantly married the short broad in the corner.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
===================
He doesn't buy clothes, he just has them

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 22, 2026 10:00 AM (O/nP+)

108 Nicolas Cage needs a better tailor.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 22, 2026 10:01 AM (+4yJ5)

109 96 my kids gal talks porch geese.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)

110 There’s actually a dialect of Welsh spoken in Patagonia. A lot of Welshmen settled there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

Too bad they weren't Irishmen,

then they could've changed the name to "Paddygonia".

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

111 97 i'm sitting right here.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (R11M+)

112 Funny how Democrats found a way to continue to fund the KKK well into the 21st century, huh?
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 09:59 AM (HgRco)
===============
until Antifa really got competitive for the money

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (O/nP+)

113 Now that we're past 100: My appt. for my headlight bulb is not until 3:00 today. I may drive out to the downtown and have a coffee and muffin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (+2QQb)

114 As of September 2025, approximately 828,500 people in Wales were able to speak Welsh, which represents about 26.9% of the population aged three years or older.
===

Why?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 09:55 AM

I see that as a positive in an era where the communists are trying furiously to justify the Great Replacement by saying that Caucasians have no unique culture and are disposable.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (2ocoG)

115 Van Gogh would be eying that ear, for certain

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (O/nP+)

116 Does this have something to do with the prints of whales?

Posted by: From yesterday at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

117
the Welsh version of Elisha Cook Jr.

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (Yj7Sh)

118 He's got.......
Marty Feldman eyes.......
Posted by: Sponge

**********

In keeping with the theme - a limerick

A Young serial killer named Delph
Had a pretty high opinion of himself
To everyone's surprise
He had Marty Feldman eyes
In his basement...
...in a bottle...
...on a shelf

Posted by: muldooon at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (I0N4X)

119 Charlie called out SPLC about 5 months before they killed him.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (/+uur)

120 Funny how Democrats found a way to continue to fund the KKK well into the 21st century, huh?

We knew there was no real KKK, we just thought it was USAID or CIA funding it. (Actually, USAID funded SPLC, so still mostly correct).

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

121 Awaiting SCOTUS decisions now. Louisiana v. Callais is a possibility, and that would have big implications for VA's redistricting.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (3ImbR)

122 There’s actually a dialect of Welsh spoken in Patagonia. A lot of Welshmen settled there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

Too bad they weren't Irishmen,

then they could've changed the name to "Paddygonia".

Posted by: naturalfake

How long have you been sitting on that joke? LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 10:04 AM (/Vcgx)

123 I may drive out to the downtown and have a coffee and muffin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (+2QQb)

No begnets?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 10:04 AM (/+uur)

124 Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

Posted by: Super Duper at April 22, 2026 10:04 AM (NZIuw)

125 Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:03 AM (2ocoG)

On the contrary I think that IS the real KKK!

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:05 AM (HgRco)

126 124 Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

Looks like Jimmy Stewart to me

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 10:05 AM (2/T3Z)

127 Pic shows a man that knows how to work and provide for his family. I'll befriend him over any politician or any of today's overbearing poofters. He's probably killed a couple of people in his defense or as a soldier. I don't care.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 10:06 AM (g8Ew8)

128 Too late to be first, huh … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 22, 2026 10:06 AM (ayRl+)

129 "linguistic eddies" might find a home in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick Lover at April 22, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

130 On the contrary I think that IS the real KKK!
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:05 AM

True dat.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:07 AM (2ocoG)

131 I'll befriend him over any politician or any of today's overbearing poofters.

The Overbearing Poofters opened for Pussy Riot on their '08 tour.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:08 AM (2ocoG)

132 It looks like one of those painted boards at the fair where you stick your head through the hole and get your picture took.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 22, 2026 10:08 AM (NYInA)

133 121 Awaiting SCOTUS decisions now. Louisiana v. Callais is a possibility, and that would have big implications for VA's redistricting.

I have a feeling the celebrations on the left today will be short lived.

they basically spit on VA law with the wording of that ballot question.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 22, 2026 10:08 AM (j+aD2)

134 It's a really good painting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 22, 2026 10:09 AM (ewhCO)

135 Interesting how the artist had the man tilt his head to the side, emphasizing HIS ENORMOUS EAR!!!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 22, 2026 10:10 AM (w9Wax)

136 "...they basically spit on VA law with the wording of that ballot question."
+++

We're going to temporarily restore fairness.

Posted by: Old Lady Spamalot at April 22, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

137 I have a feeling the celebrations on the left today will be short lived.

they basically spit on VA law with the wording of that ballot question.
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 22, 2026 10:08 AM (j+aD2)
----
Considering how ballot questions are normally worded, how many people voted "YES" thinking they were voting "NO"?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2026 10:11 AM (gnNyN)

138 Maybe the painter is just crummy.

Posted by: Case at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM (pvf3X)

139 133 I have a feeling the celebrations on the left today will be short lived.

they basically spit on VA law with the wording of that ballot question.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 22, 2026 10:08 AM (j+aD2)

======

Every GOP hold in a special election that's an underperformance is evidence of the GOP not turning out in anything but with Trump on the ballot.

This election (which might be the most prominent special election of the 2025-26 cycle) where the GOP overperformed 2024 by 3 points is not evidence of anything except that the GOP loses everything no matter what, and we should all just blackpill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM (QEvSP)

140 What's that?

Welch's?

Nor Welsh's? Are you sure?

Oh well. Never mind.

Posted by: muldooon at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM (I0N4X)

141 You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

--Man in a Welsh Village

Posted by: No Name Today at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM (8mulE)

142 Seems Obama and Biden both had secret rules on who could foster children.

Number of Foster Kids Needing Homes Drops 100,000 as Christian Families Step Up

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 22, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

143 Painted in a Welsh Village
Albert Houthuesen

BURU Org UK
Ben Uri Research Unit, for the study and digital recording of the Jewish, Refugee and wide Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

It begins,
Albert Houthuesen artist
Albert Houthuesen was born in 1903 in Amsterdam, moving to London with his mother and siblings in 1912, following the sudden death of his artist father. Houthuesen studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art, afterwards earning a living through part-time teaching at the Working Men's College. Despite creating art throughout the 1930s–50s, and the Tate Gallery acquiring a number of his paintings in the late 1930s, Houthuesen became recognised only later in his life, following a solo exhibition at Reid Gallery in London in 1961.

Albert Houthuesen's biography follows, and is worth reading imho.

Likely wouldn't hang today's art selection, but I wasn't familiar with this artist and his story is quite interesting.

Thanks

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 22, 2026 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

144 Thought so too close to Jimmy Stewart, wouldn't pass him as just closet look

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 10:14 AM (SUTeF)

145
With the latest SPLC scandal-

once again I am amazed at just how much of the yearly budget of the US gov't was dedicated to the overthrown of that gov't and culture by sociopathic assholes.

There aren't enough jail cells to hold them all.

A fresh look at deporting criminal a-holes to north Korea?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 10:15 AM (iJfKG)

146 Preferred to its sequel from later that evening, "Plastered in a Welsh Pub".

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 22, 2026 10:15 AM (OUMaO)

147 121 Awaiting SCOTUS decisions now. Louisiana v. Callais is a possibility, and that would have big implications for VA's redistricting.

I read the GOP could have spent $2.5M of their $800M stash on ads and won the vote outright. They didn't do squat as usual.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 22, 2026 10:15 AM (abIsI)

148 127 Pic shows a man that knows how to work and provide for his family. I'll befriend him over any politician or any of today's overbearing poofters. He's probably killed a couple of people in his defense or as a soldier. I don't care.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

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Exactly. A working man in a borrowed, or hand-me-down, suit. It's too big, and the cuffs are a bit dingy. The shirt collar is not crisp, and the tie is knotted clumsily.
This kid - because he is a young man - is wearing the best suit available to him.
He is looking rather dubious about this whole posing business, but the artist has promised to pay and him, and there doesn't seem to be any hanky panky involved.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 22, 2026 10:16 AM (4tsnh)

149 Needs shoulder pads

Posted by: Jen the original at April 22, 2026 10:17 AM (HOyAg)

150 You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to boyo?

--Man in a Welsh Village
Posted by: No Name Today at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM

Fixed for Welshness

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 10:17 AM (bFu5X)

151 I read the GOP could have spent $2.5M of their $800M stash on ads and won the vote outright. They didn't do squat as usual.

The numbers look extremely cheaty: early voting was against the gerrymander, day-of was about 5 points for, and mail-in was 70/30 for. (Why is mail-in voting even allowed? It's banned literally everywhere else on Earth)

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

152 I read the GOP could have spent $2.5M of their $800M stash on ads and won the vote outright. They didn't do squat as usual.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

Swear to God, the "two party system" is the longest-running and most successful con job in American history.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 22, 2026 10:18 AM (OUMaO)

153 Wolfus, while in Salina check out the Stiefel Theater. They get a surprising variety of performers.

What's the name of the pipe shop in Wichita?

Posted by: Flinty Hills at April 22, 2026 10:20 AM (5gcTS)

154 "linguistic eddies" might find a home in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick Lover

***********

Speaking in Tongues - a limerick

The language expert Edward P. Geddy
Made love with his best sweetheart, Betty
He gave his tongue a swirl
with a counterclockwise twirl
A move he calls the "Linguistic Eddy"!

Posted by: muldooon at April 22, 2026 10:22 AM (I0N4X)

155 151 (Why is mail-in voting even allowed? It's banned literally everywhere else on Earth)

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:17 AM (2ocoG)

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Because Glenn Youngkin did nothing to shore up voting in VA because he's not on our side.

He also tanked the strategy that got him elected (which Democrats then adopted), and backed his milquetoast Lieutenant Governor to be his successor despite obvious issues with her ability to appeal to GOP voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:22 AM (QEvSP)

156 (Why is mail-in voting even allowed? It's banned literally everywhere else on Earth)

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Asked and answered, your honor.

Posted by: Slowpoke Rodriguez at April 22, 2026 10:23 AM (E8/I3)

157 If this were truly authentic, wouldn't the title be "Pntd n Wlsh Vllg"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 22, 2026 10:24 AM (0sNs1)

158 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at April 22, 2026 10:27 AM (M0/5V)

159 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. Would not hang. I don't like the look of this guy.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2026 10:29 AM (2WIwB)

160 I see that as a positive in an era where the communists are trying furiously to justify the Great Replacement by saying that Caucasians have no unique culture and are disposable.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 10:02 AM (2ocoG)
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I agree with your point but remain an English Supremacist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:29 AM (RIvkX)

161 If this were truly authentic, wouldn't the title be "Pntd n Wlsh Vllg"?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 22, 2026 10:24 AM (0sNs1)

Wedi'i baentio mewn pentref Cymreig

Posted by: odd language, Welsh at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (TbWk/)

162 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

163 This election (which might be the most prominent special election of the 2025-26 cycle) where the GOP overperformed 2024 by 3 points is not evidence of anything except that the GOP loses everything no matter what, and we should all just blackpill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:12 AM (QEvSP)

There are a LOT of defeatists on AoS.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (E6xSb)

164 127 Pic shows a man that knows how to work and provide for his family. I'll befriend him over any politician or any of today's overbearing poofters. He's probably killed a couple of people in his defense or as a soldier. I don't care.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 10:06 AM (g8Ew

Never mind he could have serious character deficiencies.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:31 AM (E6xSb)

165 Interesting composition. Don't know him, wouldn't hang.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 22, 2026 10:33 AM (Fbc0I)

166 163 There are a LOT of defeatists on AoS.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (E6xSb)

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Did you see that the GOP only won the special election in OH-6 by 9 points?!

They last won it by 35!

That's a 26 point swing! You can't deny that this is a sign of impending doom!

Wait, wait...wait...That special election was June 11, 2024, and it did not precede doom.

Because special elections are not predictive, never have been, and never will be, and if you have to cherry pick special elections instead of taking them all then, well, that's not how predictive statistics work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:33 AM (QEvSP)

167 The Paolo has often been told that he, too, has, how you say, overperformed.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 22, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

168 There are a LOT of defeatists on AoS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (E6xSb)
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You mean Geniuses of Sarcasm, amirite?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:33 AM (RIvkX)

169 The Welsh were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 10:34 AM (xvhJH)

170 Considering how ballot questions are normally worded, how many people voted "YES" thinking they were voting "NO"?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2026 10:11 AM (gnNyN)

Question 1

I concur that the moratorium on banning gerrymandering that was removed henceforth, shall no longer be permitted in limited jurisdictions thereof, thereby effectively removing the moratorium on bans of gerrymandering and allowing the previous temporary joint filing of banned moratoriums to continue forthwith as previously worded, but specifically NOT as worded by this ballot question, and solely as limited by ballot questions such as this one, chartered under said moratorium in a negatory manner.

Yes No

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:35 AM (HgRco)

171 *looks at painting*

Not in a big country.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2026 10:36 AM (+oDFe)

172 No Louisiana v. Callais (voting rights) decision today. It's getting more and more obvious (to me at least) that the liberals on the court are slow walking their dissents so that nothing can be done by republicans to rectify things before the midterms.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 22, 2026 10:36 AM (3ImbR)

173 Never mind he could have serious character deficiencies.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:31 AM (E6xSb)
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Close-harmony singing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 10:36 AM (xvhJH)

174 A prediction is a guess at what is happening now based on past known data. A forecast is a guess at what will happen in the future based on past known data.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

175 of which i have a predeliction.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:38 AM (R11M+)

176 Assuming the past 'known' data has not been porked over.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2026 10:38 AM (+oDFe)

177 no such word.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:38 AM (R11M+)

178 Question 1

I concur that the moratorium on banning gerrymandering that was removed henceforth, shall no longer be permitted in limited jurisdictions thereof, thereby effectively removing the moratorium on bans of gerrymandering and allowing the previous temporary joint filing of banned moratoriums to continue forthwith as previously worded, but specifically NOT as worded by this ballot question, and solely as limited by ballot questions such as this one, chartered under said moratorium in a negatory manner.

Yes No
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:35 AM (HgRco)
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If your Attorney General were Jerry Brown, he would say that language was legal on the ballot, but after approval of the voters, changes his opinion to say the language is illegal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:38 AM (RIvkX)

179 I saw Geniuses of Sarcasm open for Ace Of Base at The Echo Theater in '07.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 22, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

180 There are a LOT of defeatists on AoS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (E6xS

Labeling someone you disagree with a "defeatist" is cheap rhetorical tactic.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:39 AM (HgRco)

181 This fellow is probably just a hobo on his best behavior.

The slender shoulders tell me he's not a working man, most likely looking for a handout.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 22, 2026 10:40 AM (Fbc0I)

182 Assuming the past 'known' data has not been porked over.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2026 10:38 AM (+oDFe)
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Government data?

Oh dear we must increase the chocolate rations and the wheat harvests again!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

183 182 Government data?

Oh dear we must increase the chocolate rations and the wheat harvests again!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

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Increase from 25g to 20g?

I do love Big Brother.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (QEvSP)

184 There are a LOT of defeatists on AoS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:30 AM (E6xS

Labeling someone you disagree with a "defeatist" is cheap rhetorical tactic.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:39 AM (HgRco)

OTOH, people who post that the world is ending and all is lost after every single world event could, reasonably, be considered to be at least mildly defeatist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

185
Never mind he could have serious character deficiencies.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:31 AM (E6xSb)

So? Everyone has character deficiencies.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 10:42 AM (g8Ew8)

186 Funny how the trolls come out in force the day after the SPLC indictment, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 10:44 AM (5xoct)

187
*cheap rhetorical tactic*

Cheap fabric and dim lighting: that's how you move merchandise.

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at April 22, 2026 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)

188 I miss Monty's 'DOOM' posts.
Hope he's well.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 10:44 AM (Sco7b)

189 My favorite government data was jobs "created or saved" during the Obama regime.

They also played games with jobs data during Biden. Continuously revising them by statistically improbable deviations months later.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:44 AM (RIvkX)

190 Because special elections are not predictive, never have been, and never will be, and if you have to cherry pick special elections instead of taking them all then, well, that's not how predictive statistics work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You are correct about special elections and to some extent off year elections. Comes from misapplication of by-elections from parliamentary systems to the US.

By-elections and aggregated local council elections in the UK do have some predictive value aka swing because of a unified central government and relatively high turnout.

In the US, not so much. Part of it is election fatigue, we have more elections for different levels of government that parliamentary systems. All sorts of referenda, initiatives, special elections, off year municipal elections, school boards, runoff elections, primary elections, and general elections.

So you get voter fatigue in the US and special elections for the US House are often hurry up affairs requiring an existing party and candidate to spin up a campaign on short notice to try to take advantage of an opportunity. Many of which are in noncompetitive seats.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 10:44 AM (E4rtv)

191 186 the rev. says hobo- get busy.

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:45 AM (R11M+)

192 I do love Big Brother.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (QEvSP)
====

Have you met Big Sis?
-Mary Moriarty

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

193 I'm a pessimist at heart but I always hold out hope that I'm wrong... Happened before

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 10:46 AM (FtULh)

194 So? Everyone has character deficiencies.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 10:42 AM (g8Ew

You judged someone on the most shallow aspects. And you probably do so every day in the real world. That’s “so”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:46 AM (E6xSb)

195 >>"...they basically spit on VA law with the wording of that ballot question."

Welcome to Colorado ballot initiative intentional incoherence. They've been doing that here for many years.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 10:46 AM (5xoct)

196
Had the VA referendum failed, the legislature would have just "deemed" it to have been approved. Because who's going to stop them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 10:47 AM (tgvbd)

197 194 "stereotypes are real time savers"

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 10:47 AM (R11M+)

198 Everyone has character deficiencies.

I, myself, am too humble and, so I've been told, addictively pleasing to women. It's a burden but I carry on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

199
Labeling someone you disagree with a "defeatist" is cheap rhetorical tactic.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:39 AM (HgRco)

And you engage in a cheap rhetorical tactic of your own: ignoring the point and building a strawman.

There are plenty of people who I heartily agree with here who nevertheless look at everything with a sense of glom and doom, why bother, our defeat by (pick opponent) is inevitable, blah blah blah. Whether or not I agree with someone is different from their attitude towards things.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:48 AM (E6xSb)

200 OTOH, people who post that the world is ending and all is lost after every single world event could, reasonably, be considered to be at least mildly defeatist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

Who? Call them out and move on. There's a good number of people here on any given day. It can sound like a cacophony but I guarantee there are many levels of opinion here. No reason to cordon everyone into groups. It's never gonna make your (general you) opinion hold any more weight. In fact it may degrade it in some eyes.

Every normal contributor has something occasionally worth listening to, no one is here to read only like minds expressing like thoughts - may as well masturbate to an AI companion.

That said if anyone is on a political blog to read all good news and talk about how wonderful the world is, I question their judgment. People are mostly here to bitch and moan because that's what keeps them invested in dopey politics.

My source of good news is not Republicans or the government, that's for sure.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:49 AM (HgRco)

201 The Old Dominion has morphed into The Old Dumb Union.

Posted by: Jefferson weeps, Madison hides, and Mason cowers at April 22, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

202 I'm not a defeatist, I'm a realist.

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 22, 2026 10:50 AM (Qg2ko)

203 Iranian diplomat makes a Jane Austen reference, British news presenter doesn’t get the reference

https://tinyurl.com/f4bhzt88

On the one hand, he's a guy, but he's British and it's a famous British novel's opening line.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 10:51 AM (5xoct)

204 Guy looks kinda skittish.

It isn't surprising. Anthropologists say that there were significant rates of intermarriage when the Skits invaded the less-desirable areas of Wales.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 22, 2026 10:51 AM (8ty7h)

205 188 I miss Monty's 'DOOM' posts.
Posted by: Stateless
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Monty, like me, applied standard economics to the problems of government spending but both of us did not perceive how global flows of US dollars from being a reserve currency helped bolster the US from directly feeling the effects of inflation and implicit devaluation of the dollar.

I would have predicted the EU's collapse for similar reasons by now and Japan/China are in the realm of 200-300 debt to GDP level with faster aging populations than the US.

Standard economic theory right now is similar to the standard model in cosmology. Observances we see in the real world do not correspond with how the std. theory predicts them to be.

Doesn't seem that Modern Monetary Theory works either (closest are Biden, Zimbabwe, and now Iran). The piecemeal Friedman idea that money essentially is a product subject to demand and supply works but the Keynesian system that Friedman's observances come from increasingly do not seem relevant to today's global economy.

And the Austrian school would have us dead and buried sometime during the Obama administration by now.

Globalization is probably the reason.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)

206 201 The Old Dominion has morphed into The Old Dumb Union.

Posted by: Jefferson weeps, Madison hides, and Mason cowers at April 22, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

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I think the result from last night suggests that Democrats aren't going to get 10-1.

It'll be a real swing, but it may be something like 8-3.

And FL is still going to redraw their maps. Probably R+4 there. That's without the VRA decision.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 10:52 AM (QEvSP)

207 202 I'm not a defeatist, I'm a realist.
Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 22, 2026 10:50 AM (

That’s the usual response to being called a defeatist. But a defeatist doesn’t know what will happen either.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:52 AM (AZWEO)

208 Labeling someone you disagree with a "defeatist" is cheap rhetorical tactic.

Name-Caller!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 22, 2026 10:53 AM (zdLoL)

209 On the one hand, he's a guy, but he's British and it's a famous British novel's opening line.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 10:51 AM (5xoct)

Of course, the end of WW2 should have put paid to that 'truth', universally acknowledged.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 10:53 AM (ExV1e)

210 Alternate Title: The Strangler

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 10:53 AM (4NO2D)

211 Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us. — Robert W. Pratt

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:53 AM (AZWEO)

212 You judged someone on the most shallow aspects. And you probably do so every day in the real world. That’s “so”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:46 AM (E6xSb)

OMG! Busted! I'm very shallow in my assessments. You've got quite the sensitivity.

Have you ever worked with ghost hunters?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

213 *Jefferson weeps, Madison hides, and Mason cowers*

But Wilson smiles.

Posted by: So there's that at April 22, 2026 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)

214 Are you saying that I'm have been wrong?

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 22, 2026 10:54 AM (Qg2ko)

215
Are we doing "Painting shaming" now?

Is that even a thing?

Did the morons and ettes just invent a new category of "That's Not Funny" for the Left to exploit.

Nice! Lessee here....

How dare you!

How dare all of you!!! That's not funny!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 10:54 AM (iJfKG)

216 Dude got no shoulders.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 22, 2026 10:55 AM (CtYil)

217 And you engage in a cheap rhetorical tactic of your own: ignoring the point and building a strawman.

There are plenty of people who I heartily agree with here who nevertheless look at everything with a sense of glom and doom, why bother, our defeat by (pick opponent) is inevitable, blah blah blah. Whether or not I agree with someone is different from their attitude towards things.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:48 AM (E6xSb)

Fine. I take back that you are referring only to people you disagree with. That was a leap and I will own it and apologize for going there.

That said, there is little to be gained from labeling some phantom set of people here as "defeatist", which is an intentional slur or at least a thoughtless label, other than controlling or otherwise directing the flow of conversation to something more palatable to you. That is not how forums work. Unless you are a moderator.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:55 AM (HgRco)

218 When you encounter difficulties, you need to be optimistic. The pessimists tend to die. — Zhou Youguang

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:55 AM (AZWEO)

219 Are we doing "Painting shaming" now?

Contenders: https://tinyurl.com/3ms3k68m

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 10:56 AM (ExV1e)

220 203 Iranian diplomat makes a Jane Austen reference, British news presenter doesn’t get the reference

https://tinyurl.com/f4bhzt88

On the one hand, he's a guy, but he's British and it's a famous British novel's opening line.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 10:51 AM
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Point Of Order: Sky News is Australian, but we'll allow it.

Posted by: The Judges at April 22, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)

221 That said, there is little to be gained from labeling some phantom set of people here as "defeatist", which is an intentional slur or at least a thoughtless label, other than controlling or otherwise directing the flow of conversation to something more palatable to you. That is not how forums work. Unless you are a moderator.

Read #211. I suspect you are just upset because you yourself are a defeatist and you see yourself here. But that’s only suspicion.
P

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:58 AM (AZWEO)

222 Are you saying that I'm have been wrong?

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 22, 2026 10:54 AM (Qg2ko)

Not until it goes to court, isn't thrown out by some leftard communist judge and someone goes to f*cking prison, you're not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 10:58 AM (vf0Uk)

223 Sky News is British but they have an Australian division which is extremely based.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 10:59 AM (HgRco)

224 /darn sock

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (I0N4X)

225 I went undefeated.

Posted by: Rocky Marciano at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (w9Wax)

226 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (vf0Uk)

227 Monkey is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (ExV1e)

228 Munkey nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (bFu5X)

229
Not so much "painted" as "plastered", I'd say, although I think that my Welsh ancestors might take grave umbrage at my saying so.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (xG4kz)

230 I don't think it's defeatist to employ pattern recognition and notice that the GOP has done sweet fuckall in the last 40 years to stop the left's nonstop march toward totalitarianism.

Posted by: ballistic at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (oqH4h)

231 marziano--> graziano

Posted by: cmeat at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (R11M+)

232
The opening line of "Pride and Prejudice" is: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Posted by: The More You Know at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (2Ez/1)

233 Defeatism is a protective mechanism. Works pretty good too. If you turn out to be wrong, a little joy may ensue.

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (Qg2ko)

234 Read #211. I suspect you are just upset because you yourself are a defeatist and you see yourself here. But that’s only suspicion.
P

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 10:58 AM (AZWEO)

See how this went? I apologized to you with sincerity, and your response was to take it further and personally attack me.

IOW my apology wasn't good enough. It didn't give you the satisfaction of doing what you were doing. Which is labeling and controlling. You want submission and you are looking I'm the wrong place. Apply to be a moderator, it suits you.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:03 AM (HgRco)

235 223 Sky News is British but they have an Australian division which is extremely based.
Posted by: ...

Oh.

Posted by: The Judges at April 22, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

236 I think I read somewhere recently that Sky News Australia is no longer affiliated with the British Sky News.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (Y1sOo)

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