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That line from the father's song in Mary Poppins, where he's going on about how nothing can go wrong, in Britain in 1910.  That's about the point I realized the boy was gonna die in a trench.

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#21
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Civilian Gun Violence in '...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - September 11, 2025, 04:27:42 PM
When groups of 'Merican school children are Second Amendmented, the right-wing political response is always as follows:

1. Thoughts and prayers.
2. It's too soon to talk about gun violence.
3. Arm our teachers.
4. Station armed guards in our schools.
5. A good guy with a gun is the best defense against a bad guy with gun.   

So, as the right-wingers don't really give a damn about the all too frequent mass shootings of our children, I don't have much sympathy for them melting down over only one adult being shot. Therefore, my response to right-wingers is: "It's too soon to talk about gun violence."
#22
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Civilian Gun Violence in '...
Last post by Faust - September 11, 2025, 07:39:08 AM
I can see the conservative base is in meltdown over this. It shouldn't need to be said that murder of you political opposition is never acceptable.

The point is, the second ammendment makes it easy, to aquire a gun legally or illegally, the supply is there.
#23
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Civilian Gun Violence in '...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - September 10, 2025, 11:07:58 PM
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dead after being shot at university event, Trump says

As per this article:

"Kirk is a well-known gun activist and defender of the Second Amendment.

Immediately before the shooting, Kirk was taking questions for an audience member about mass shootings and gun violence."

So, to paraphrase, Kirk, who was a well-known gun activist and staunch defender of the Second Amendment, was himself Second Amendmented today, while ardently defending the Second Amendment he so loved.
#24
Bring and Brag / Re: Lay Day Gar Gar vs the Fai...
Last post by whatnotery - September 08, 2025, 11:54:04 PM
This song popped in my head after a good 15 years. If anyone knows where to find it other than the defunct myspace linked here please reach out
#25
Aneristic Illusions / Re: But ... but ... isn't this...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - September 08, 2025, 11:04:47 PM
Obviously, this meeting was not called, or run by Discordians, as MAL-2 warned the faithless about the dangers of praying: 

Arkansas Farmers Pray To God & Trump To Save Them

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.

And, as if praying to the POSOTUS isn't bad enough, these self-righteous hypocrites now want the government they've consistently voted to shrink to a size that could be dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub to now rise up and save them from themselves. Oh, where oh where is their unshakable faith in the virtues of soulless, take-no-prisoners, laissez-faire, let-the-buyer-beware Capitalism now? Isn't this passel of parasites *gasp* praying to be afflicted with an unpardonable sin of Dread Socialism?!

So, I wonder, what will these same fuckers be praying to, and for, next? Will it be for Socialized Medicine to come and save their soon to be closing rural hospitals from their worshiped messiah's Billionaire's Big Bonus Bill?!
#26
Principia Discussion / Re: Eris in classical art
Last post by Pope Mome Apocrypha - September 07, 2025, 09:10:02 PM
Yes! Great work
#27
Principia Discussion / Re: Eris in classical art
Last post by Abbot Mythos - September 06, 2025, 11:38:11 PM
Those are some nice additions to your collection, Nibor.

I especially like the Gustave Moreau painting.
#28
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade
Last post by Abbot Mythos - September 02, 2025, 08:46:30 PM
I'd been hoping for an opportunity to post a link to an article with this title, and this afternoon I found one:

Jeanine Pirro Couldn't Even Indict A Ham Sandwich

As per this article:

"Trump supporters have been using the phrase coined by Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court Sol Wachtler when he said, "any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich," to defend Trump's many misdeeds and criminality, but apparently, the former Fox News host failed to do so."

I'm beginning to wonder if it's even possible to find and hire legitimate college graduates who are more incompetent than all of these very popular Fox News Media "personalities."
#29
Principia Discussion / Re: Eris in classical art
Last post by Nibor the Priest - September 02, 2025, 03:37:34 PM
Ooh, another one! From the 15th-century French manuscript Épître d'Othéa:


This one reminds me of Quentin Blake's illustrations of Roald Dahl's stories.
#30
Principia Discussion / Re: Eris in classical art
Last post by Nibor the Priest - September 02, 2025, 03:22:10 PM
I stumbled upon a couple more Erises yesterday via La Fontaine's Fables, which is a 17th-century collection of cloying French morality poems. One of the poems, number XX, features Eris (Discord), in what seems to be an "Are the straights OK?" type anecdote where Eris, cast out of Olympus, finds permanent refuge in the temple of Hymen, god of marriage, because hahahaha the old ball and chain am I right??

Anyway, this has been published in at least two illustrated editions: once in French in 1868, illustrated by JJ Grandville (1803-1847) (I'm not sure how those dates add up)...


Eris guides a happy couple through some consensual activity

...and once in an 1886 English translation by Walter Thornbury, illustrated by Gustave Doré (1832-1883) (what is it with these guys and dead illustrators?)


Meh.

In 1879, Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was commissioned to create painted illustrations of the Fables, and his Eris (La Discorde, 1880) is one of the more flattering pre-Malaclyptic images.