Mid-Morning Art Thread

Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Salvador Dali

[Hat Tip: The commenter who suggested this last week, and whose name I have forgotten. Sorry!]

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 26, 2026 09:36 AM (bar5X)

2 Morning all.
First?

Posted by: Reforger at October 26, 2026 09:36 AM (Ae6Br)

3 St

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2026 09:36 AM (BI5O2)

4 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at October 26, 2026 09:37 AM (bar5X)

5 Well now...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2026 09:37 AM (RORbl)

6 I bet this no talent hack couldn't draw a melting clock if his life depended on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 09:37 AM (AutN8)

7 Christ in space.....

"I can't breathe!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2026 09:38 AM (2GVsD)

8 Would hang...pun unintended.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at October 26, 2026 09:38 AM (2CeDH)

9 Looks unfinished.

Posted by: Reforger at October 26, 2026 09:39 AM (Ae6Br)

10 Very dramatic. The guy could paint when he wanted to.

Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

11 Oh, the minister of my childhood church had a huge framed print of this behind his desk. It was the 70's.
He was the best.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 26, 2026 09:39 AM (rOKnE)

12 I bet this no talent hack couldn't draw a melting clock if his life depended on it.

Wait until you see what he does on a Ford Econoline van.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2026 09:39 AM (2GVsD)

13 would hang

Posted by: Gref at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (5rh/l)

14 My Timex won't melt. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!

Posted by: John Cameron Swayze at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (EdP2u)

15 I find it full of hope and promise.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (y5yZ4)

16 Is the black upper part a reference to The Dark Night of the Soul?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (JzUSu)

17 10 Concur.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (Jr5Lq)

18 It's like a mashup of two paintings I would like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 09:40 AM (Y/06r)

19 The first Dali I have ever liked. Thanks CBD, a timely painting since I will spend part of my day restoring the large crucifix that hangs in our parish family center.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 26, 2026 09:41 AM (2NHgQ)

20 Good art, just not what I was expecting first thing in the morning...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 26, 2026 09:42 AM (s1VwS)

21 Wouldn't paint this on my bitchin' Chevy Van. Chick repellent, for sure.

Posted by: Sammy Johns at October 26, 2026 09:42 AM (EdP2u)

22 Very beautiful.
Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 26, 2026 09:42 AM (Sco7b)

23 This one has broken me. It's like I've lost my ability to generate snark.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 26, 2026 09:45 AM (igBuc)

24 Thanks CBD! Good morning Horde, and God's blessings to all of us here.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at October 26, 2026 09:47 AM (z6ONu)

25 This one has broken me. It's like I've lost my ability to generate snark.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)

It is stunning isn't it? Wonder what museum is lucky enough to have it in it's collection.

Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 09:48 AM (lJ0H4)

26 I'm not partial to Dali but this is nice. From where is the light coming?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

27 absolutely beautiful painting thank you

always, for the glory of God, we should be creating

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 26, 2026 09:49 AM (qBivk)

28 Impressive. Most impressive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 26, 2026 09:50 AM (bFu5X)

29 It's in a museum in Glasgow. Too far to travel.

Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 09:50 AM (lJ0H4)

30 I suggested this painting . Dali was a tremendous talent. I wish he would have done more of this though we may never heard of him if he had. The art world has thrown many talented artists into the trash heap because of mob mentality and political affiliation.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:51 AM (Ti9vn)

31 I'm not partial to Dali but this is nice. From where is the light coming?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Seems to be a spotlight from the bottom third on the right.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 26, 2026 09:51 AM (igBuc)

32 It's in a museum in Glasgow. Too far to travel.
Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 09:50 AM

I dunno...combine it with a nice highlands distillery tour and you could make a case for it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 26, 2026 09:52 AM (bFu5X)

33 My cross painting. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:52 AM (Ti9vn)

34
I hope you can admire the art without admiring the artist. Much better than his later Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 09:53 AM (eRlcH)

35 26 I'm not partial to Dali but this is nice. From where is the light coming?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

His left middle finger?
I really don't like this painting at all. It's like two unfinished bad paintings for the price of one.

Posted by: Reforger at October 26, 2026 09:53 AM (Ae6Br)

36 lovely polynikes

thank you for sharing it

this time of year I dream a little bit wild. the veil is thin.

lots of more positive dreaming tho, over previous years! so am feeling overall very good.

a theme is - get back to creating. and do it for the Lord. it's way way past time.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 26, 2026 09:54 AM (qBivk)

37 Nice, polynikes!

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at October 26, 2026 09:54 AM (z6ONu)

38 reforger I would say with Dali - I didn't used to like so much

but exposure to them in the flesh, changes your perception of his work.

it looks far far better in person.

he also has a larger oeuvre than I knew of

we had a surrealist show here recently and it really changed my mind about him

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 26, 2026 09:55 AM (qBivk)

39 How Dali could have enough clairvoyance to offer this piece up and choose to live the ridiculous life he did is confounding.

Posted by: red speck at October 26, 2026 09:56 AM (Ve/HL)

40
Excellent painting. Probably Dali's best work.

One detail that leaps out at me is that Christ has a great head of hair, and is very fit.

This is the portrait of a young man in his prime. Not a beaten and broken crucified man.

I take this then to be a depiction of Christ's victory over death and the cross. There are no nails, no crown of thorns. Nothing to bind him. The cross is a fact, but so is the life of the Son of God.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 26, 2026 09:57 AM (YSUhf)

41 There is a Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida that is pretty nice.

I went to it the late 90s.
The building itself is very cool, they have a very large collection of Dali's works and, of course, a gift shop with poster prints, t-shirts and the like.

And since it's in the Tampa-St.Pete area there's plenty to do once you leave the museum.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 26, 2026 09:58 AM (6ydKt)

42 Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Two - one to change the bulb and one to throw all the clocks in the bathtub.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 26, 2026 09:58 AM (bFu5X)

43 Dali is a maddening artist. All that incredible talent often subsumed by a deliberate flamboyant lifestyle and interesting, bizarre (even if technically brilliant) surreal paintings.

Then he does something like today's image: realistic detail of musculature (look at Saint John's hands) and human figures with completely natural tones, realistic shadows the emphasize the light, fascinating perspective, clean exact lines of the cross against the human figures and other parts, and glowing but still natural colors. He combines these components into a powerful, emotional image.

Just to prove this wasn't a one off, he also did The Last Supper, which I saw at the National Gallery. It is a work of genius even though not traditional. But the same elements that make today's painting so effective are used in The Last Supper.

Posted by: JTB at October 26, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

44 Funny, this is such a striking, provocative painting, I never noticed before how the Christ figure is so unblemished — no blood, no scars, no crown of thorns. Who was Dali actually painting on the cross?

Posted by: red speck at October 26, 2026 09:59 AM (Ve/HL)

45 Dali is was kicked out of the surrealists group by the commies.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 10:00 AM (Ti9vn)

46 45 >>>Dali is was kicked out of the surrealists group by the commies.

How perfectly fitting. Surreal.

Posted by: red speck at October 26, 2026 10:01 AM (Ve/HL)

47 45 Dali is was kicked out of the surrealists group by the commies.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 10:00 AM (Ti9vn)

=======

He saw too many rhinoceroses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:02 AM (AutN8)

48 From wikipedia:

On the bottom of his studies for the painting, Dali explained its inspiration: "In the first place, in 1950, I had a 'cosmic dream' in which I saw this image in colour and which in my dream represented the 'nucleus of the atom.' This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I considered it 'the very unity of the universe,' the Christ!"

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2026 10:03 AM (ViCCR)

49 More from wiki:

In order to create the figure of Christ, Dali had Hollywood stuntman Russell M. Saunders suspended from an overhead gantry, so he could see how the body would appear from the desired angle and also envisage the pull of gravity on the human body. The depicted body of water is the bay of Portlligat, in Catalonia, Spain, Dali's residence at the time of the painting

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2026 10:05 AM (ViCCR)

50 Always thought this was Dali's best
Would hang.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 26, 2026 10:05 AM (h7zKj)

51 i would not still be fishing.

Posted by: cmeat at October 26, 2026 10:07 AM (Bep7s)

52 (cont.)

The painting is known as the Christ of Saint John of the Cross, because its design is based on a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2026 10:08 AM (ViCCR)

53 Really well done. I thought it was a photo of a crucifix in front of a painting at first.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 26, 2026 10:09 AM (2ocoG)

54 Dark, wet and cold here on the water this morning.

This painting is just beautiful.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 10:12 AM (TQKnz)

55 "...but became a public favorite in Glasgow, despite being vandalized twice (slashed in 1961 and shot at in the 1980s)."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 26, 2026 10:12 AM (JzUSu)

56 Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:51 AM (Ti9vn)

Thank you. Excellent choice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:14 AM (k5CNB)

57 55 "...but became a public favorite in Glasgow, despite being vandalized twice (slashed in 1961 and shot at in the 1980s)."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 26, 2026 10:12 AM (JzUSu)

slashed in 1961. This is why you get so many works of art sitting in glass cases. See also: The Pieta.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:15 AM (Y/06r)

58 Well this one doesn't allow for really snide comments. Whatever will we do?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2026 10:15 AM (sl73Y)

59 Well this one doesn't allow for really snide comments. Whatever will we do?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2026 10:15 AM (sl73Y)

It's gonna be a slow, uphill climb to Comment 100.

Where's the sherpa?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 26, 2026 10:18 AM (YSUhf)

60 Isn't this in the Glasgow Art Museum?

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at October 26, 2026 10:18 AM (FvBFd)

61 "a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross."

alamy.com has a couple of them.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 10:19 AM (Jr5Lq)

62 Well, if there are no snide comments to be made, how about hopeful ones?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 10:19 AM (Q+DUH)

63 In Nevada, the wealthy Republicans are staying home so far.

Posted by: Jeff Carter at October 26, 2026 10:19 AM (amOjK)

64 Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951

Different for Dali & I like it, though it would be doubtful I'd hang it.

Conversatio dot org, A Meditation on Salvador Dalí’s Christ of St. John of the Cross, O Taste and See, Tara M. Owens

"The lower scene depicts two fishermen, standing by the shore of a preternaturally brilliant and gorgeous lake. Immediately, we identify it as the Sea of Galilee. Is this Dalí’s way of reminding us of the calling of the first disciples? On closer inspection, things turn out to be a little more complex. The fishermen are wearing seventeenth-century dress. In fact, they seem to have been copied from Diego Velázquez’s The Surrender of Breda, painted some time before 1635. And the “lake” is actually a harbour—in this case, Dalí’s home town of Port Lligat, on the Spanish Costa Brava, which had already featured in his The Madonna of Port Lligat (1950).

Then we realize what is going on. Dalí, like other leading Spanish artists of the twentieth century, including Picasso, regarded Velázquez as Spain’s greatest painter. Port Lligat is the place where Dalí lived. What Dalí has done is recast the calling of the disciples... " (Much more follows.)

👍🏻

Posted by: L - No nic.... at October 26, 2026 10:22 AM (NFX2v)

65 We had this painting prominently displayed in the front room of the house I grew up in. This helped me appreciate great art.

Posted by: Margaret at October 26, 2026 10:23 AM (WGUBN)

66 65 We had this painting prominently displayed in the front room of the house I grew up in. This helped me appreciate great art.

Posted by: Margaret at October 26, 2026 10:23 AM (WGUBN)

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The real one. Margaret's father stole the real one and replaced it with a fake during a US tour of the painting.

Much better to appreciate in a family's house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:26 AM (AutN8)

67 I like how it seems the light of the world is emanating from the base of the cross.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 26, 2026 10:26 AM (igBuc)

68 60. 60 Isn't this in the Glasgow Art Museum?
Posted by: TANSTAAFL

A collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.

👉🏻The Times (4 days ago)
Mummies removed from Glasgow museum because they did not ‘consent’

Posted by: L - No nic.... at October 26, 2026 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

69 The Times (4 days ago)
Mummies removed from Glasgow museum because they did not ‘consent’
Posted by: L - No nic....

What were they doing to the mummies? Yeesh!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 26, 2026 10:28 AM (igBuc)

70 "a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross."

Here's one at britannica.com I think:
https://tinyurl.com/5n83h8z3

There are several possible candidates. I had trouble making short links to the ones at alamy.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 10:29 AM (Jr5Lq)

71 Well done and very moving...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 26, 2026 10:29 AM (+gK6I)

72 Lovely and moving painting. I see it as a reminder that Christ's sacrifice was for all of us, at all places and times. Thank you, CBD.

Posted by: bluebell at October 26, 2026 10:29 AM (uyuYG)

73 I'll suspend the 100 comment rule because all of you are in such awe that Dali actually produced something wonderful that you can't even snark!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:31 AM (k5CNB)

74 Mummies removed from Glasgow museum because they did not ‘consent’
Posted by: L - No nic....

Almost seems like a Babylon Bee headline but it's reality. So stupid.

Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (lJ0H4)

75 Molested mummies?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (r2Icn)

76 My other religious painting. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (Ti9vn)

77 73 I'll suspend the 100 comment rule because all of you are in such awe that Dali actually produced something wonderful that you can't even snark!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:31 AM (k5CNB)

I like Dali... This one is just different

Posted by: It's me donna at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (+gK6I)

78 Jeff Carter has an interesting take on Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos catastrophe.

https://is.gd/lGLosF

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (k5CNB)

79 I'll suspend the 100 comment rule because all of you are in such awe that Dali actually produced something wonderful that you can't even snark!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I don't snark when it comes to God.

That's bad karma I don't need.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 26, 2026 10:33 AM (bar5X)

80 The art today was, I believe, Tom Holland's cover art for his book Dominion.
No, not spiderman, the historian.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 26, 2026 10:34 AM (88C+u)

81 I like that Polynikes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 10:35 AM (r2Icn)

82 The art today was, I believe, Tom Holland's cover art for his book Dominion.
No, not spiderman, the historian.
Posted by: 88C+u at

You are correct.

Posted by: Tuna at October 26, 2026 10:36 AM (lJ0H4)

83 'I don't snark when it comes to God. That's bad karma I don't need.'

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" Proverbs 1:7 NIV.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 10:37 AM (Jr5Lq)

84 You know who's responsible for the high price of eggs? Hint: they wear yarmulkes.

https://tinyurl.com/mppbb6st

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)

85 Tuna. 3 years ago I hired a contractor to spay for weeds in the cemetery. He wouldn't spray over the graves since he didn't know if the people buried were ok with pesticides. Insert emoji of head being slapped in frustration.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 26, 2026 10:40 AM (2NHgQ)

86 Eliz. Holmes deserves prison.

If the prisons are crowded, build more prisons.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2026 10:40 AM (LOvBA)

87
You're lookin' swell, Dali
I can tell, Dali
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
I feel the room swayin'
While the band's playin'
One of our old favourite songs from way back when

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:41 AM (eRlcH)

88 I'll suspend the 100 comment rule because all of you are in such awe that Dali actually produced something wonderful that you can't even snark!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:31 AM (k5CNB)
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My snarkophone needs a new doohickey.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

89 "a drawing by the 16th-century Spanish friar John of the Cross."

Here's one at britannica.com I think:
https://tinyurl.com/5n83h8z3
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Nah, that's not it. Try this.

https://is.gd/53GEEg

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2026 10:41 AM (ViCCR)

90 88 My snarkophone needs a new doohickey.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

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It's not the doohickey. It's the thingamajig.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (AutN8)

91 Dalí seems to have been a monarchist, at least for a while. Very cool.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (2ap+5)

92 91 Dalí seems to have been a monarchist, at least for a while. Very cool.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (2ap+5)

======

Tolkien was a monarchist.

He might have changed his mind if he had seen how Elizabeth's children and grandchildren turned out, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (AutN8)

93 78 Jeff Carter has an interesting take on Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos catastrophe.

https://is.gd/lGLosF
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:32 AM (k5CNB)

So, his take is she is a con artist with the belief of a true believing zealot.

Which means she's stupid. If she was competent, then she knows she was selling vaporware.

If she knew what her guys had come up with, then she is smart, but also a psychopath.

Make your choice. You cannot have it both ways which is how often these things are portrayed. She's a brilliant woman, master of all she surveys- but then things come crashing down and she was just a poor, ignorant woman, innocent of blame.

Pick one. It can be either. She cannot be both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (Y/06r)

94 89 Thanks!

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 10:43 AM (Jr5Lq)

95 86 Eliz. Holmes deserves prison.

If the prisons are crowded, build more prisons.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 26, 2026 10:40 AM (LOvBA)

That was an odd part of the story CBD linked: 'If we imprison her we'll have to release far more violent MEN!'

Oh, fuck off, you simpering shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:44 AM (Y/06r)

96 You know who's responsible for the high price of eggs? Hint: they wear yarmulkes.

https://tinyurl.com/mppbb6st
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)
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I have been using extra eggs in the waffles lately...
/ponders to self

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:44 AM (RIvkX)

97
You cannot have it both ways which is how often these things are portrayed. She's a brilliant woman, master of all she surveys- but then things come crashing down and she was just a poor, ignorant woman, innocent of blame.

Pick one. It can be either. She cannot be both.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:42 AM (Y/06r)

___________

No different than the stronk, independent woman who was ravished by a cad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:45 AM (eRlcH)

98 So, crucified Christ is the limit for the Horde?

My mind works so that I was trying to think of something funny...

'My nose itches.'

Best I can do. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:45 AM (Y/06r)

99 A Dali I actually like (I don't like the Last Supper at the National gallery as well as this one). We saw it in person at the Kelvingrove some years back. That museum was such a treat, and free! Too bad the Scots are infected with the woke, because there was so much to enjoy in Glasgow.

Posted by: Analytical lurker at October 26, 2026 10:45 AM (o6g5t)

100
No different than the stronk, independent woman who was ravished by a cad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:45 AM (eRlcH)

Or seven cads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:45 AM (Y/06r)

101 Oh, fuck off, you simpering shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:44 AM (Y/06r)

No, Jeff Carter is wrong, but he isn't a "simpering shit."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:46 AM (k5CNB)

102 By your fourth cad, you are not innocent.

Or second gangbang- which would be cads four, five and six.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:46 AM (Y/06r)

103 That was an odd part of the story CBD linked: 'If we imprison her we'll have to release far more violent MEN!'

Oh, fuck off, you simpering shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:44 AM (Y/06r)
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Wait. So if she is imprisoned judges will release MORE violent men? How does that track?

Aren't judges already releasing violent men--especially illegal immigrants--back into society?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 10:46 AM (FZ29D)

104 Cardiff Council
@cardiffcouncil
Tonight, Cardiff Castle will light up green to mark Dwarfism Awareness Day.
The illumination celebrates diversity and helps raise awareness and understanding of dwarfism.

-
For too long dwarfs have been given short shift.

Bonus: little people and sign language.

https://tinyurl.com/ytxk96ar

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)

105 Which means she's stupid. If she was competent, then she knows she was selling vaporware.
====

When I worked in Silicon Valley it went like this
Customer: my sales rep said I could have version 5!
Franpsycho: there is no version 5 yet, we only have version 4
Customer: but I paid for version 5!
Franpsycho: ...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

106 Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:44 AM (Y/06r)

Carter was quoting someone who said that. Those are not his words.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (k5CNB)

107 No, Jeff Carter is wrong, but he isn't a "simpering shit."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:46 AM (k5CNB)

Why bring sex into it, then? Why not make it a case of white collar, non-violent offenders vs violent offenders?

Why make it non-violent women vs violent men?

Word choice matters, CBD.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (Y/06r)

108 105 When I worked in Silicon Valley it went like this
Customer: my sales rep said I could have version 5!
Franpsycho: there is no version 5 yet, we only have version 4
Customer: but I paid for version 5!
Franpsycho: ...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

========

"But sales rep said that Version 5 did blowjobs."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (AutN8)

109
When I worked in Silicon Valley it went like this
Customer: my sales rep said I could have version 5!
Franpsycho: there is no version 5 yet, we only have version 4
Customer: but I paid for version 5!
Franpsycho: ...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

___________

I once went on a customer visit with some sales reps. It was an eye-opening experience.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (eRlcH)

110 Tuna. 3 years ago I hired a contractor to spay for weeds in the cemetery. He wouldn't spray over the graves since he didn't know if the people buried were ok with pesticides. Insert emoji of head being slapped in frustration.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

He shoulda had some candles and a Ouija board in his truck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (r2Icn)

111 Carter was quoting someone who said that. Those are not his words.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:47 AM (k5CNB)

Ah, valid. The tone felt different than the other writing, but was portrayed in the article not as a quote.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (Y/06r)

112 100 comments took over an hour. Man this place is dying.

Posted by: What happened at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (olIOR)

113 109 I once went on a customer visit with some sales reps. It was an eye-opening experience.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (eRlcH)

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"This software will do absolutely anything you want."

"It's a spreadsheet."

"Anything. You. Want."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (AutN8)

114 Criminals should stay in prison until they are no longer a danger society. However long that takes. Regardless of the nature of the crime.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (2ap+5)

115 "But sales rep said that Version 5 did blowjobs."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (AutN

That's why it's the moneymaker.

https://youtu.be/6vwNcNOTVzY

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:50 AM (Y/06r)

116 @cardiffcouncil
Tonight, Cardiff Castle will light up green to mark Dwarfism Awareness Day.
The illumination celebrates diversity and helps raise awareness and understanding of dwarfism.

Are people not aware of dwarves? And why green? Are you confusing them with leprechauns? They might not appreciate that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 26, 2026 10:51 AM (bFu5X)

117 "This software will do absolutely anything you want."

"It's a spreadsheet."

"Anything. You. Want."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (AutN

Excel will do pretty much anything. You just have to know how to get it to do it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (Y/06r)

118 I have one good friend from back in those days and recently we reminisced about being phoned by the same sales rep from her maternity bed, within a few hours after giving birth.

Franpsycho: "No, I'm not speaking with you now."

She made me go to her hospital room the next day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (RIvkX)

119 "This software will do absolutely anything you want."

"It's a spreadsheet."

"Anything. You. Want."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM

It calculate long time!

- Saigon sales rep

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (bFu5X)

120 Why make it non-violent women vs violent men?

Word choice matters, CBD.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:48 AM (Y/06r)

I agree.

And...word choice does matter: you misquoted Jeff Carter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (k5CNB)

121
"Anything. You. Want."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:49 AM (AutN

___________

Not quite that bad, but it revealed to me that being in sales requires a set of skills I manifestly do not possess.

Actually, I was talking to a nephew, who is in sales for a pretzel manufacturer. What they negotiate about with stores is mind-boggling.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (eRlcH)

122 117
Excel will do pretty much anything. You just have to know how to get it to do it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2026 10:52 AM (Y/06r)

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I bet it can play DOOM.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 26, 2026 10:53 AM (AutN8)

123 Holmes entire "idea" was 'let's miniaturize something.' It was a solution in search of a problem. Her powerful reality-distortion field (second only to that of Steve Jobs,) hoodwinked a lot of old codgers who should have known better.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2026 10:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

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