Mid-Morning Art Thread

La Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1
Trains

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)

2
Not trans

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)

3

How is this possible?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:31 AM (iJfKG)

4 The trains were smoky that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 07, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

5 New glasses might help!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Deadbeat Dad and Artiste at May 07, 2026 09:31 AM (BIg7z)

6
Train, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (HdYcL)

7 Is this the station with the nudes?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (jehhT)

8
It's like I don't know any of you Firsters!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

9 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)

10 Morning.

I...don't know how I feel about this.

It's one of those "Seen through the eyes of someone with horrible cataracts" type of paintings.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (Gq5ke)

11 Train station as seen by an astigmatic!

Somebody better help him read the signs, or he'll get on the wrong train.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

12 Lot of smoke in that train station.

Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

13 Although I do like the color.

Very bright and blue.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (Gq5ke)

14 Myopic.

Posted by: huerfano at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (VJX5o)

15
It's Monet so I'm more or less compelled to like it.

Somehow he's made a train station scene look pastoral.

Talent!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

16
Pardon me, garçon, is this the Charleroi Choo-Choo?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (HdYcL)

17 Ahhh... another Steve Inman potato cam painting.

I'll give this one a blue star and tell the painter "good try!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (zBgIx)

18 Or maybe not that blue, but certainly bright.

Fuck, don't know if would hang or not.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (Gq5ke)

19 Pardon me, boy, is that La Gare Saint-Lazare?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (yUXIX)

20 You know, the glass architecture meta was far better than the later concrete brutalist style.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (bss/y)

21 "The Gare Saint-Lazare officially Paris Saint Lazare, is one of the seven large mainline railway station terminals in Paris, France."

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Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

22 19 Pardon me, boy, is that La Gare Saint-Lazare?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (yUXIX)

Track 29!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (bss/y)

23
Pictured just before the Allied air raid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:35 AM (HdYcL)

24 Trains only go where the apparatchiks want them to go.

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:35 AM (FpHTM)

25
Knife-wielding Muzzies on the right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:36 AM (HdYcL)

26 It's Monet, nuff said.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 07, 2026 09:36 AM (XV/Pl)

27 Good morning!
Today is my last day with my seniors. It’s been a rough year. Glad that it is almost over

Posted by: Jmel at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (rkK33)

28 Know who else liked trains?

Posted by: Let's go ahead and get this one out of the way at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

29 Show me the Monet.

Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

30 Love this. Aesthetic and ethereal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (2icm1)

31 I've always been a fan of Monet.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

32 Train, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (HdYcL)

You changed your rules?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (iERP6)

33 I used to see like this.

Then I had Lasik performed on my eyes.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (Kyh8Y)

34 6
Train, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (HdYcL)

Still needs mama, prison, truck, rain, and getting drunk to be a song, though.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (5rh/l)

35
On Track - a limerick

There once was an artist named Cecil
Painted trains at the Gare de Ste. Liesel
"It's a challenge though, innit?
'Cause every ten minutes
A train runs over my easel!"

Posted by: muldoon at May 07, 2026 09:38 AM (I0N4X)

36 Know who else liked trains?
Posted by: Let's go ahead and get this one out of the way at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

Brazzers?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 09:38 AM (rbvCR)

37
I find it hard to believe that this is a train station.

No random feces, no random stabbings, no one being pushed in front of the oncoming train.

Madhouse! It's a madhouse!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

38 26 It's Monet, nuff said.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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You should still count it.

Posted by: Something your dad would have said at May 07, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

39 would hang

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2026 09:39 AM (5rh/l)

40 You know, the glass architecture meta was far better than the later concrete brutalist style.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yep. And yet the Boston City Hall remains standing but they tore down NYC's Penn Central Station.

People. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (Kyh8Y)

41 A classic!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (8Fxbo)

42 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K)

43 Pardon me, boy, is that La Gare Saint-Lazare?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (yUXIX)

About 15 minutes away from where we lived in Paris. The station is really nice inside, but not particularly imposing from the outside. And the north side of it is just a maze of tracks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (iERP6)

44 The man needed glasses, its all blurry

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (wOYq+)

45 24 Trains only go where the apparatchiks want them to go.
Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:35 AM (FpHTM)

Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (bss/y)

46 One of my Faves...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (MUEZN)

47 I hate Impressionism. Would not hang.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

48 I have ridden on a train with a coal fired locomotive. Smoke from the stack is not blue and it comes with cinders.

Posted by: huerfano at May 07, 2026 09:41 AM (VJX5o)

49 32 Train, therefore art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:32 AM (HdYcL)

You changed your rules?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (iERP6)

Looks more like an amendment. I wonder how he got it out of committee?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:41 AM (bss/y)

50 I wonder if they know there's a room with naked ladies in it just off to the side a bit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (ExV1e)

51
You changed your rules?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:37 AM (iERP6)

_________

Dog, principally, but also

Cat
Horse
Boobs
Train

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (HdYcL)

52 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K)

Monet showing off his knowledge of perspective?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (iERP6)

53 42 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Scaffolding stuff.

Posted by: Class clown in the back row at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

54 What is it Elaine? I can't see it.

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (0nHVk)

55 Blurry, blotchy, can hardly make out the graffiti.

Two stars.

Posted by: Art Cretin at May 07, 2026 09:43 AM (oftw2)

56 53 42 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Scaffolding stuff.
Posted by: Class clown in the back row at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

The downside to the Glass architecture style was all that shit had to be cleaned. And Consuela does not do windows.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:43 AM (bss/y)

57 Steam locomotive Would hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 07, 2026 09:44 AM (abIsI)

58 Somehow, in a smoky train station where everything is obscured, the dominant color is the blue sky. That's artistic optimism for you!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2026 09:44 AM (I9RuV)

59 52 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K)

Monet showing off his knowledge of perspective?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:42 AM (iERP6)

This. It aids in the three dimensionality of the painting. Without it, the scene would look more flat. This way, it is like you can see the painting stretching back into the middle distance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:45 AM (bss/y)

60 Ahh, excellent. From his glaucoma period.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 07, 2026 09:45 AM (w/O5Q)

61 58 Somehow, in a smoky train station where everything is obscured, the dominant color is the blue sky. That's artistic optimism for you!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2026 09:44 AM (I9RuV)

I really like it. 1877. So this is well before everything went to shit. A whole series of train paintings.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:46 AM (bss/y)

62 I’m not a big fan of Impressionism, but I like the colors

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 07, 2026 09:46 AM (qlyY8)

63 45 Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (bss/y)

Admittedly, some of the train-based video games out there (Densha de Go! and Tetsu-One : Densha de Battle) seem kind of interesting, but other than that...

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (FpHTM)

64 Colorful. Would hang.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (E4rtv)

65 From his glaucoma period.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 07, 2026 09:45 AM (w/O5Q)

I thought it was cataracts.

Posted by: dantesed at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

66 Shouldn't there be menacing migrants milling about?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (up7m8)

67 Looking at it done more...this painting needs more dogs.

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (fR1Q6)

68 Is that Lumpy Fetterman tied up on the tracks?

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 07, 2026 09:48 AM (fp9OD)

69 From the same series. I like this one too:

https://tinyurl.com/57byzf22

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:48 AM (bss/y)

70 Monet showing off his knowledge of perspective?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
___________

You were there. Is there anything hanging below the roof? Otherwise, is it like Monet to just invent physical objects in his paintings?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:49 AM (XvL8K)

71 Admittedly, some of the train-based video games out there (Densha de Go! and Tetsu-One : Densha de Battle) seem kind of interesting, but other than that...
Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (FpHTM)

Yeah, Railroad Tycoon was interesting, but I need a bit more... motivation than simply moving goods from one area to buy low and move them to another area to sell high.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:50 AM (bss/y)

72 CBD, dude, they just keep getting better!

If you nail it tomorrow, I'm gonna...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 07, 2026 09:50 AM (dmDsy)

73 70 Monet showing off his knowledge of perspective?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
___________

You were there. Is there anything hanging below the roof? Otherwise, is it like Monet to just invent physical objects in his paintings?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:49 AM (XvL8K)

CBD was there in 1877?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:50 AM (bss/y)

74 Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (bss/y)

Admittedly, some of the train-based video games out there (Densha de Go! and Tetsu-One : Densha de Battle) seem kind of interesting, but other than that...
Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:47 AM (FpHTM)
——-

‘I love trains!’

— Pete Ballgag

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (qlyY8)

75 Not my favorite Monet, but interesting.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (gu0hJ)

76 "Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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A few years back I read a well done essay by someone who rode the train across the country. (Thank goodness the hideous ticket cost was underwritten by some journalistic benefactor.)

He said it was a completely different universe which he playfully named "Amtrakistan."

I think this may be it:
https://tinyurl.com/mdzhwxr7

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Per the Carlson impersonator in the sidebar, there's another good impression of him from one of the dorks on SNL. He attacks him from the Left rather than the Right, but the impression is still really funny.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (BI5O2)

78 71 Yeah, Railroad Tycoon was interesting, but I need a bit more... motivation than simply moving goods from one area to buy low and move them to another area to sell high.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:50 AM (bss/y)

Densha de Go! is more about directly manipulating a passenger train's acceleration and braking to keep on a tight schedule, with harsh time penalties if you overshoot the platform at stopping points.

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (FpHTM)

79 >> Somehow, in a smoky train station where everything is obscured, the dominant color is the blue sky. That's artistic optimism for you!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2026 09:44 AM

That's the smoke from the engine and Monet painted it the wrong color.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c1TumNi_BI4

Posted by: huerfano at May 07, 2026 09:52 AM (VJX5o)

80 I really like it. 1877. So this is well before everything went to shit. A whole series of train paintings.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:46 AM (bss/y)

The Franco-Prussian War would like a word with you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:53 AM (iERP6)

81 This is a different scene from Monet, at least in my limited exposure. I didn't know he did any cityscapes. Monet's scenes aren't especially unusual or riveting. But the techniques of pastels and their application along with his color choices is interesting. Today's selection really shows the Impressionistic style.

I didn't used to like Impressionist paintings until I saw a few in person. Being able to stand close and see the techniques then standing back to see the whole effect was eye opening.

Posted by: JTB at May 07, 2026 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

82 Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There's something about steam/coal or wood engines that is hard to put into words. It's just cool.

Diesel electric just isn't the same.

Mag lev bullet trains are another level entirely

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (izPaR)

83 Which track takes me to Bauxbatons Academy of Magic?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (gnNyN)

84 Beautifully framed by the high glass structures which were made possible with the development of iron and steel. One can imagine the noise, the smoke and the smell of a train station of that age. I also like the dim outlines of typical French buildings in the background.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (WQF8x)

85 The Franco-Prussian War would like a word with you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:53 AM (iERP6)

That was just youthful hijinks by comparison.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (bss/y)

86 This really transmits that one-of-a-kind feeling of arriving in the big city on a clear, chilly morning. I feel the air, I smell the smells. I like it!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 07, 2026 09:55 AM (0bjKf)

87 Which track takes me to Bauxbatons Academy of Magic?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That would be Track 9 & 3/4, monsieur.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2026 09:55 AM (izPaR)

88 You were there. Is there anything hanging below the roof? Otherwise, is it like Monet to just invent physical objects in his paintings?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:49 AM (XvL8K)

I didn't take any surface rail out of that station...just subways. The station was redone on the inside, and is now a two-level shopping mall on top of the subway station, with the trains to the north. It's sort of a weird place.

But I don't remember seeing those structures...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:55 AM (iERP6)

89 84 Beautifully framed by the high glass structures which were made possible with the development of iron and steel. One can imagine the noise, the smoke and the smell of a train station of that age. I also like the dim outlines of typical French buildings in the background.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (WQF8x)

In all the paintings in the series, he really emphasizes the smoke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Saint-
Lazare_(Monet_series)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:56 AM (bss/y)

90 52 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM
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That was to support the LED lighting. Very advanced for its day.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at May 07, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)

91 Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (bss/y)
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Trainspotting is a really odd hobby...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 07, 2026 09:56 AM (gnNyN)

92 But I don't remember seeing those structures...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Just looked for the some current photos. It is indeed just scaffolding stuff.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 07, 2026 09:57 AM (XvL8K)

93 It's OK, but a little to unfocused for my exacting tastes.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 07, 2026 09:58 AM (DgMqy)

94 too

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 07, 2026 09:58 AM (DgMqy)

95 My dad was into model trains as a kid. The train set got packed up and stored in the garage. When I was a kid, I thought it would be cool to set it up again. I expected maybe 10-15 feet of track. Nope. Had to be hundreds of feet of track. My dad had set the track up all throughout the then-unused basement, winding in and out of the rooms.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at May 07, 2026 09:59 AM (qlyY8)

96 Claude Monet...my favorite painter. He did a series of train depot scenes. Nobody does blue colors like Monet.

Imagine how revolutionary his impressionist paintings were in 1870's France.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 07, 2026 10:01 AM (y171U)

97 It's one of those "Seen through the eyes of someone with horrible cataracts" type of paintings.
Posted by: Robert

Each day is blurrier. Wait'll you see Friday's!

MiladyJo used to work at the Gare Saint-Lazare,* but she says she worked in the cafe so she never saw the trains.

*Chicago French restaurant is the joke there.

Posted by: mindful webworker - exquisitely at May 07, 2026 10:01 AM (tj3OD)

98 qlyY

63 45 Trains are an odd one. I think for the most part the people fascinated with them (like my Dad, definitely my Dad) are not really thinking of the kind of societal impact of them. It is just an obsession. (I feel it a bit for airships.) There is a romance for people there that is compelling. It is not about the practicality, but something inherent in the thing. During Thanksgiving/Christmas, my uncle will literally just put train switching station webcams on their giant TV and he and my Dad will just sit there and watch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 09:40 AM (bss/y)

I'm a train fan. I think it all boils down to me as mass, velocity, and the sound of raw power.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2026 10:02 AM (g8Ew8)

99 >I didn't take any surface rail out of that station...just subways. The station was redone on the inside, and is now a two-level shopping mall on top of the subway station, with the trains to the north. It's sort of a weird place.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 09:55 AM
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So now it has three Starbucks?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

100 I'm a train fan. I think it all boils down to me as mass, velocity, and the sound of raw power.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2026 10:02 AM (g8Ew

Like Stacy Abrams at a Golden Corral.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (bss/y)

101 I love trains, BTW.

I recall a train museum in Galveston that I really liked.

Galveston, woah Galveston!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (DgMqy)

102 Monet's Morning Haze ain't too dusty either.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (q3u5l)

103 Making the trains run on time.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:04 AM (fV4Kz)

104 Still higher speed than California.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:04 AM (fV4Kz)

105 I also like the dim outlines of typical French buildings in the background.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 07, 2026 09:54 AM (WQF8x)

That big building in the background is along Boulevard de Batignolles, which leads to Montmartre, and sort of to Sacre Coeur. Not a beautiful walk because the neighborhood is sort of dumpy (unless you want to pick up a hooker), but the view of the church is amazing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 10:04 AM (iERP6)

106 Like Stacy Abrams at a Golden Corral.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:03
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LOL!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

107 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

108 After this week I'm going to have to undergo de-train-sitioning.

Posted by: muldoon at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (I0N4X)

109 Sponge art you did in Elementary School.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

110 I get trains, though they aren't my thing. They were the ultimate symbol of industrial power on the outside, and refined elegance (in the best cases) on the inside. In a sense it was the ultimate symbol of the West of that age. Still is for some, I suppose...for better or worse.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (Nv+9A)

111 I could see this train pulling up next to the Obama Library for a resupply of water and coal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 07, 2026 10:06 AM (D1E+2)

112 I heard this today:

Liberal: "Trump is traumatizing the world."

Me: "OKKKAAAAAYYYYY..."

Posted by: Bad Andrew at May 07, 2026 10:06 AM (DgMqy)

113 52 What is that scaffolding stuff hanging below the roof?

They could be tensioning wires giving structural integrity to the roof. You see these sort of cabling systems in large arena roofs.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 07, 2026 10:06 AM (WQF8x)

114 So now it has three Starbucks?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)

No Starbucks! A really good restaurant, and a bunch of nice shops.

There are Starbucks in Paris, but espresso is always so good, even in crappy little cafes, that I simply don't understand how they survive. Maybe they cater to tourists?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 10:06 AM (iERP6)

115 Which one of us hasn't picked up a hooker on the way home from church?

Posted by: Was that wrong? at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

116 "Trump is traumatizing the world."
-------

Guess TACO didn't work

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (fV4Kz)

117 Well, it's no...

Dammit, now that you mention it,
it might be a Rothko.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (zdLoL)

118 Yes to today's art!

Would hang just about anywhere in my place. I know many people find impressionist techniques difficult, but for those of us with astigmatism and other issues, the fractured colors are realistic.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (2OYwF)

119 Trainspotting is a really odd hobby...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I had a cow orker who's dad loved photographing black and white and color photos of trains coming down the tracks. He would post up off to the side of the tracks and get shots of them coming towards him. He sold a few photos to those calendar companies that make the annual calendar themes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (izPaR)

120 Like Stacy Abrams at a Golden Corral.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:03 AM (bss/

😄

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2026 10:08 AM (g8Ew8)

121 Actually, now that I think about it, the trains a land runs say a lot about the place. Japanese trains? Technology. Speed. Efficiency. India? Barely held together and running. Overloaded. Constantly stopping for local conditions. Russia? Hoo boy, do NOT get me started...yeah. Trains say a lot about a nation.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 07, 2026 10:09 AM (Nv+9A)

122 Trainspotting is a really odd hobby...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I saw that movie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

123 Which one of us hasn't picked up a hooker on the way home from church?
Posted by: Was that wrong?

*turns back to the group.

Wow, would you look at that? This wall needs painting.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2026 10:09 AM (izPaR)

124 Still higher speed than California.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:04 AM (fV4Kz)

What's the over/under on the first trip on the California high speed rail system?

10 years?

We took the TGV a lot, and it is fantastic. But it is also financed by the government via ridiculously high taxes. And...of course...France is much denser and smaller than the USA, so trains can work. Here it's just a joke.

But longer distances...into central and eastern Europe... are not so great.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2026 10:10 AM (iERP6)

125 For train fans, I highly recommend O. Winston Link’s black-and-white railroad photos. Really good stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

126 Well, it's no...

Dammit, now that you mention it,
it might be a Rothko.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 07, 2026 10:07 AM (zdLoL)

I was thinking "Norman Rockwell" at first because he had a period where he painted floofly clouds and a lot of that pale blue "atmospheric" faded out look.

But nothing quite that "gare-ish"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:11 AM (rbvCR)

127 That's my world without glasses

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 07, 2026 10:12 AM (re0Ak)

128 That's the smoke from the engine and Monet painted it the wrong color.
Posted by: huerfano

"Well, I already had the blue on my palette."
-Monet

Posted by: mindful webworker - exquisitely at May 07, 2026 10:13 AM (tj3OD)

129 One of the first train stations in Frech Louisiana was called Alligator Gare.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 07, 2026 10:13 AM (WQF8x)

130 "floofly?"

Posted by: Now you're just making stuff up at May 07, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

131 I emailed Maria Bartiromo yesterday but no reply yet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2026 10:15 AM (2icm1)

132 So nice of the French to build extensive rail network to facilitate the movement of German troops and supplies.

Posted by: Marching In The Shade at May 07, 2026 10:16 AM (oftw2)

133 I emailed Maria Bartiromo yesterday but no reply yet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2026 10:15 AM (2icm1)

About? You want to date her?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

134 The Union Pacific "Big Boy", the largest steam engine in the world, is going on a cross country tour this summer for our 250th birthday.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 07, 2026 10:17 AM (FLx59)

135 For train fans, I highly recommend O. Winston Link’s black-and-white railroad photos. Really good stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

I had that book until my sister sold off my library. Had a whole bookshelf of nothing but railroad and aviation pictorial books.

Winston Link was a genius at capturing the last of the steam era.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2026 10:17 AM (g8Ew8)

136 So nice of the French to build extensive rail network to facilitate the movement of German troops and supplies.
Posted by: Marching In The Shade

Twice!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2026 10:17 AM (izPaR)

137 The Smithsonian's US History Museum used to have a pretty good selection of locomotives. A number of steam engines and one or two more modern, diesel electric.

There was a playground in Monterey, CA called "Denis the Menace" that used to have an old steam engine you could climb on. At some point a Karen or two bitched about it not being safe for little Kayden so it got roped off. It's a Southern Pacific #1285. Historical Landmark.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2026 10:17 AM (jehhT)

138 An all-time great.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 07, 2026 10:18 AM (wGerL)

139 "floofly?"
Posted by: Now you're just making stuff up at May 07, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

can you think of a better word to describe the billowing pillowy clouds that float like gobs of coal fired merengue?

also, typo

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:18 AM (rbvCR)

140 So nice of the French to build extensive rail network to facilitate the movement of German troops and supplies.
Posted by: Marching In The Shade at May 07, 2026 10:16 AM (oftw2)

Also Jews.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2026 10:18 AM (g8Ew8)

141 131 Sorry, SanFran, you probably don’t know earn enough for her.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

142 New Jersey company Cento has been sued over false tomato claims.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2026 10:19 AM (2pkE8)

143 Thank you for the amazing selection. It is well known that all the best artists are Claudes. Even my main man Spengler would acknowledge that Monet is technically brilliant, even though he did not like the impressionists very much.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2026 10:20 AM (2ap+5)

144 New Jersey company Cento has been sued over false tomato claims.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2026 10:19 AM

No one learned from the Subway tuna salad with no actual tuna?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

145 I emailed Maria Bartiromo yesterday but no reply yet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2026 10:15 AM (2icm1)

I emailed Monica Bellucci once. Did not appreciate the tone of her lawyer's response.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 07, 2026 10:20 AM (FLx59)

146 Okay, we passed 100.

Guys, this is freakin' great. Lord Of The Rings but cast with actors from the 50s.

https://youtu.be/VAFU8fpNe_g

Posted by: Robert at May 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Gq5ke)

147 Commute via boat>>>> commute via train

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2026 10:23 AM (CFSPL)

148 Speaking of Claude

Ow! - a limerick

An historical novelist named Paul Black
Wrote a late nineteenth century call back
The story was appalling
'bout a mountain lion mauling
Using the pseudonym Claude Balzac

Posted by: muldoon at May 07, 2026 10:23 AM (I0N4X)

149 New Jersey company Cento has been sued over false tomato claims.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2026 10:19 AM

They have been driving me crazy for years. They sell San Marzano tomatoes and have a fake DOP seal on their can that has plausible deniability. Oh? You thought that was a DOP seal? No that's just a special logo that doesn't mean anything but looks exactly like a DOP seal. And I'll be honest the last set I got at Costco on sale in a three pack was bad even for regular tomatoes.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:24 AM (fV4Kz)

150
I was never a big fan of trains, except-

we lived within walking distance of train tracks when I was a wee tad and my friends and I would occasionally wander down there to place pennies on the track and have the train flatten them.

That was cool.

As was getting the engineer to blow his horn when passing.

On the down side- my folks told me to stay away from the tracks because hobos would occasionally hop off the trains and were dangerous to children.

And in fact we sometimes saw hobos coming away from the train track area.

They always looked pretty grotty so, I suppose the romance of riding the rails was more myth than reality.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 10:24 AM (iJfKG)

151 So 6 of the 7 RINOs in IN up for re-election, who refused to redistrict, lost?

I've not seen such brilliant tactics from them since that near 50 of them decided to resign from Congress in 2018 to teach Trump a lesson.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2026 10:25 AM (MtSIY)

152 On the down side- my folks told me to stay away from the tracks because hobos would occasionally hop off the trains and were dangerous to children.

And in fact we sometimes saw hobos coming away from the train track area.

They always looked pretty grotty so, I suppose the romance of riding the rails was more myth than reality.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 10:24 AM (iJfKG)

Boxcar Willie hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

153 110 I get trains, though they aren't my thing. They were the ultimate symbol of industrial power on the outside, and refined elegance (in the best cases) on the inside. In a sense it was the ultimate symbol of the West of that age. Still is for some, I suppose...for better or worse.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 07, 2026 10:05 AM (Nv+9A)

I feel like I'd get them more had I not been conditioned to only think of trains as "The thing authoritarians use to take everyone to the Death Camps".

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 10:27 AM (FpHTM)

154 More faffery on international trends of manufacturing, as viewed by anvils.

https://tinyurl.com/mu6jxdau

It starts:

Jakub Danielka
@jakub
4h
Replying to @dfranke
You buy a British anvil. It comes from a manufacturer founded in 1743 whose Wikipedia page contains a 4,000-word section titled “Decline.” The casting is genuinely magnificent, the proportions perfected over eleven generations of wheelwrights and naval ironmongers. It arrives three weeks late with a handwritten apology referencing “industrial action at the Crewe distribution hub.” The accompanying booklet is bound in green cloth and contains a foreword by a minor royal. Halfway down page 12 you discover that the company was acquired in 2009 by a private equity firm headquartered in Luxembourg, and that the anvils are now manufactured in a facility outside Katowice. The quality is, against all odds, still excellent. There is a small brass plaque on the side which reads “By Appointment.” It does not specify to whom.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:27 AM (rbvCR)

155 I actually saw Boxcar Willie in concert once at the county fair. He was OK.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

156
That's the smoke from the engine and Monet painted it the wrong color.
Posted by: huerfano

That's why it's called art and not photography.

Don't look up[ Fauvism or your eyes might explode!

🤪

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 10:27 AM (iJfKG)

157 Impressionists need glasses.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2026 10:29 AM (Frqjk)

158 149 They have been driving me crazy for years. They sell San Marzano tomatoes and have a fake DOP seal on their can that has plausible deniability. Oh? You thought that was a DOP seal? No that's just a special logo that doesn't mean anything but looks exactly like a DOP seal. And I'll be honest the last set I got at Costco on sale in a three pack was bad even for regular tomatoes.
Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:24 AM (fV4Kz)

So, if they aren't tomatoes, what ARE they?

Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 10:29 AM (FpHTM)

159 "They always looked pretty grotty so, I suppose the romance of riding the rails was more myth than reality.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 10:24"
+++

He has departed us now, but the Hobo Shoestring videos were quite interesting.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

160 Fauvism >>>> Faucism

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2026 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

161 AAPL is going up nicely for the year, and emotions are impediments to investing, but I can't help it. AAPL seems soulless, still capable of an occasional engineering feat, but what it is is all it will ever be. A rational response would be, "well, that's more than most other companies can even dream of being," but it's akin to the death of a friend.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2026 10:30 AM (2ap+5)

162
So, if they aren't tomatoes, what ARE they?
Posted by: XTC at May 07, 2026 10:29 AM (FpHTM)

Pods. Bodysnatcher pods.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

163 What does DOP stand for?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

164 There was one label on a jar that had the image of the award presented to the company by Victor Emmanuel III at some festival in Italy, which is a really long time to rest on one's laurels.
I don't even remember what it was, it may have been sauce or olives, or olive oil for all I can remember

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (rbvCR)

165 One toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sitting downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line...

Posted by: Brewer & Shipley at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (mC7bQ)

166 This is interesting. Washington had a pension plan and raided it and used all the money for other shit:

https://tinyurl.com/3fmrjd3p

The thing that is the most sad about this is that they protest 'It was fully funded! It was going to have a surplus! Why?' and I have to reply 'Why do you think they took it?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

167 And while we're at it, AAPL.

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (2Ez/1)

168 What does DOP stand for?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Don't
Obfuscate
P*ssy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

169 There's a campsite in WV our friends have a camper at that sits right next to some tracks. You can feel the ground shake when the coal trains run. Typically, several tandem engines.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2026 10:35 AM (jehhT)

170 167 And while we're at it, AAPL.
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (2Ez/1)

=======

AAPL is Apple Inc.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2026 10:35 AM (2ap+5)

171 Amusing myself while waiting for the snow to melt.

/Claude Balzac

Posted by: muldoon at May 07, 2026 10:35 AM (I0N4X)

172 Sixty ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal a radiant blur
Scars in the country the summer and her
Always the summers are slipping away…

Posted by: Porcupine Tree at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (rkhDX)

173 169 There's a campsite in WV our friends have a camper at that sits right next to some tracks. You can feel the ground shake when the coal trains run. Typically, several tandem engines.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2026 10:35 AM (jehhT)

Like Stacy Abrams at a Golden Corral.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

174 The thing that is the most sad about this is that they protest 'It was fully funded! It was going to have a surplus! Why?' and I have to reply 'Why do you think they took it?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

The courts have repeatedly ruled that states cannot change the conditions of the pensions, and must provide them as promised. With all the big companies leaving, Olympia is going to have to resort to stealing and fencing cars off the streets

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

175
https://tinyurl.com/3fmrjd3p

The thing that is the most sad about this is that they protest 'It was fully funded! It was going to have a surplus! Why?' and I have to reply 'Why do you think they took it?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

Wait till they come for your 401k.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

176 16
Pardon me, garçon, is this the Charleroi Choo-Choo?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2026 09:34 AM (HdYcL)

Oui, oui

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:37 AM (rkhDX)

177 Wait till they come for your 401k.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, exactly this. They hunger. There is never enough of other people's money.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (bss/y)

178 *You can feel the ground shake when the coal trains run.*

Without love, where would you be now?

Posted by: The Doobie Brothers at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

179
Like Stacy Abrams at a Golden Corral.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y)

This will be the next "between the sheets" meme.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

180 JUST IN: Minnesota Democrats Block Efforts To Remove Deceased Voters ...

-
How can anyone be deceased on stolen land?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

181 I’ve been through Saint Lazare a few times. But mostly I have used Gare Nord and Gare Est. Nord is the terminus for the Chunnel line to/from London/Londres.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:39 AM (rkhDX)

182 This will be the next "between the sheets" meme.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Stacy Abrams is so fat she barely fits between the Sheetz!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)

183 We have better coffee.

Posted by: WaWa at May 07, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

184 180 JUST IN: Minnesota Democrats Block Efforts To Remove Deceased Voters ...

-
How can anyone be deceased on stolen land?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

You also have to love the bald, in your face, twerking, booty shaking corruption of it.

Like being motorboated by Stalin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (bss/y)

185 177 Wait till they come for your 401k.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, exactly this. They hunger. There is never enough of other people's money.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (bss/y)

There was a CA rep in Congress that proposed exactly that some years ago. To save SS of course.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (rkhDX)

186 Sophia Loren as Eowyn? Not quite the fair flower in a spring morning's frost. But I'd get over it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (up7m8)

187
There was a CA rep in Congress that proposed exactly that some years ago. To save SS of course.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (rkhDX)

They do this and I will fire at will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

188 This will be the next "between the sheets" meme.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

I have to stop that one. I try to go for a bit more wit in my shitposts, and this just feels like recycling. Like Adam Sandler posting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:41 AM (bss/y)

189 166 This is interesting. Washington had a pension plan and raided it and used all the money for other shit:

https://tinyurl.com/3fmrjd3p

The thing that is the most sad about this is that they protest 'It was fully funded! It was going to have a surplus! Why?' and I have to reply 'Why do you think they took it?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

======

The most significant factor in the demise of private defined benefit pension plans is Howard Metzenbaum's excise tax on reversions to private employers. Washington taking the reversion is not what bugs me; it's that XYZ, Inc. can't without paying an enormous penalty.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 07, 2026 10:41 AM (2ap+5)

190 Who has the standing to defend undead suffrage?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2026 10:41 AM (Frqjk)

191 With all the big companies leaving, Olympia is going to have to resort to stealing and fencing cars off the streets
Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

They are already attempting an income tax IIRC, and illegally so.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:41 AM (rkhDX)

192 186 Sophia Loren as Eowyn? Not quite the fair flower in a spring morning's frost. But I'd get over it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (up7m

The Witch King dies because he is mesmerized by her tits (imagine Boy on a Dolphin.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y)

193 What does DOP stand for?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Oh sorry..Denominazione d'Origine Protetta, which certifies they are from the Agro Sarnese-Nocerino origin.

It's an authenticator, like for Champagne being from Champagne. The tomatoes from that region are generally superior.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:42 AM (fV4Kz)

194 This is interesting. Washington had a pension plan and raided it and used all the money for other shit:

https://tinyurl.com/3fmrjd3p

The thing that is the most sad about this is that they protest 'It was fully funded! It was going to have a surplus! Why?' and I have to reply 'Why do you think they took it?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y)

Welp, the GOP should be advertising this little bit of Democrat perfidy everywhere. Especially in blue states.

If they don't, why that just makes the GOP) useless..and who would ever think that?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 07, 2026 10:42 AM (iJfKG)

195 164 There was one label on a jar that had the image of the award presented to the company by Victor Emmanuel III at some festival in Italy, which is a really long time to rest on one's laurels.
I don't even remember what it was, it may have been sauce or olives, or olive oil for all I can remember
Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:33 AM (rbvCR)

Now do Campbell’s Soup : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:43 AM (rkhDX)

196 And Cento has been selling fake ones. They aren't the only company doing it. You see cans with SAN MARZANO (style) on the label.

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:43 AM (fV4Kz)

197 Region not origin

Posted by: ... at May 07, 2026 10:44 AM (fV4Kz)

198
It's an authenticator, like for Champagne being from Champagne. The tomatoes from that region are generally superior.

You think those tomatoes are superior? Check out these tomatoes...

Posted by: Lorna Hajdini at May 07, 2026 10:44 AM (Riz8t)

199
Now do Campbell’s Soup : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:43 AM (rkhDX)

They have a facility in Paris, TX.

It's about to switch from soups to cheeses or some such that's going to cut their employee count in half. A LOT are about to lose their jobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

200 They do this and I will fire at will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

It's more complicated than that. They literally stole an election in plain site, then pulled a Reichstag fire on the people who showed up to protest. Crickets.

The thing is even then things did not get bad enough for people to overcome the need to not blow up their life to hang them all from lampposts. It is natural.

That is why I think the line has to be at gun confiscation- because after that you won't be able to stop them. But they will try to ease in the dildo of tyranny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:45 AM (bss/y)

201 Oh. Well. Not first again, hmm … ? But today we got choo-choo terrains … dat'sa nize …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 07, 2026 10:46 AM (ayRl+)

202 They are already attempting an income tax IIRC, and illegally so.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 07, 2026 10:41 AM (rkhDX)

Well, like Oregon, nothing is unconstitutional if the Oregon Supreme Court (which is selected specifically for this) says it is OK.

Dad always swore the Oregon Supreme Court got captured politically when they decided they could be included in the state pension

Posted by: Kindltot at May 07, 2026 10:46 AM (rbvCR)

203 'sight' not site. I always choose the wrong form of a word when I am typing fast. Fucking 29 year old brain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:47 AM (bss/y)

204 'sight' not site. I always choose the wrong form of a word when I am typing fast. Fucking 29 year old brain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2026 10:47 AM (bss/y)

It's ok.

The grammar Nazi is on break.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 07, 2026 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Is that the same train station that a WW Two US airman crashed thru and survived after bailing out of a plane with no parachute?

Posted by: Rex B at May 07, 2026 10:48 AM (rgnea)

206 Grocery store tomatoes have had zero flavor for more than a decade. I thought everybody knew that and today you only put a slice on a burger is for sentimentality. Like a garnish.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

207 So... he wasn't wearing his glasses when he painted this? It's all fuzzy....

Posted by: GWB at May 07, 2026 10:49 AM (OGfwY)

208 Okay … it's a 'Monet' — but: Is it a COUNT de Money … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at May 07, 2026 10:49 AM (ayRl+)

209 Islamophobia!

https://tinyurl.com/mwt79ysb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 07, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

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