[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Time for an Antiques Roadshow visit, Azath!

[Macros]

Time for Vegas.
Sell it and put it all on black!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Found an oil painting by this guy:

https://www.artsy.ne...-result/7252397

Should go for at least $20,000 at auction at Christie's... don't think I'll sell anytime soon though.

I might have a few by this guy (they bought three, and at least one was an oil painting), but haven't confirmed it yet:

https://www.artsy.ne...sale_dates=true

Oil paintings by him going for $954,457, $2,340,000, $2,470,000... hmm.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Found one of the Gaitonde oils---Google Lens helped me match the signature (in Hindi I think).

But it's a relatively small painting, and it looks like it may have gotten dusty... I had it stacked in front of a bunch of other paintings. Hmm. It's abstract so I'm not sure if that's dust or paint. Shit.

Well there should be two more, and now I know what signature to look for...

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I have many questions

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Whew... the painting is probably supposed to look that way. (Well.. probably.) That "dusty" aspect looks similar to this one:

https://www.artsy.ne...-result/6654482

... which sold for $2,340,000... but is also a lot bigger.

Paintings closer to its size have apparently only been going for a few hundred thousand.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 11 May 2025 - 08:46 PM

[amphibian]

One note - do not work to get the dust off yourself. If the painting is worth a large amount of money, having a professional do it will preserve the painting better than someone who doesn't know what they are doing. Best of luck with this.

[worry]

See if you can get on Antiques Roadshow.

Edit: Whoops, Whisperzzzzzzz already said that.

This post has been edited by worry: 13 May 2025 - 12:34 PM

[Macros]

VEGAS!
VEGAS!
VEGAS!

[Tsundoku]

...baby?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

[Slow Ben]

These are the same people that think Rage Against the Machine are raging against a dishwasher.

[Tiste Simeon]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Meanwhile, someone else didn't take it too well:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/No3EijupIe

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 16 May 2025 - 03:42 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Meanwhile, someone else didn't take it too well:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/No3EijupIe

Absolute gold.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

 Tiste Simeon, on 16 May 2025 - 03:42 PM, said:

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Meanwhile, someone else didn't take it too well:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/No3EijupIe

Quote

Trump Demands 'Major' Investigation Into Beyoncé and Springsteen Appearances in Late-Night Rant

[...] After the Boss responded at his show Saturday by calling Trump an "unfit president" whose administration was "persecuting people for their right to free speech and voicing their dissent," [...]

"HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?" Trump wrote. "WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN'T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter."

The Democrats, however, already beat him to it, as Harris' campaign spending came under scrutiny after the campaign raised more than $1 billion but still lost every single battleground state during the election.

https://www.thedaily...ate-night-rant/

Yes but did they try sending him to Gitmo to be electrocuted into telling the truth?... Let Musk surgically insert a neuralink (or two), then he'll talk!

Aside from this (and plenty of other stuff), Trump's actually made a bunch of surprisingly good proposals recently. And now it seems there's an accelerating rift between Trump/MAGA and RFK/anti-vax over measles, vaccines, etc.

Insiders Say Trump's Alliance With RFK Jr. Is Falling Apart - The Daily Beast

[Tiste Simeon]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Hey here's another somewhat hilarious response:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/KbrroDK4xa

[Abyss]

 Tsundoku, on 16 May 2025 - 10:39 PM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 16 May 2025 - 03:42 PM, said:

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Meanwhile, someone else didn't take it too well:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/No3EijupIe

Absolute gold.

i have some maplemaga friends who are going to be absolutely destroyed by this conflict. ...not that i take pleasure in their oh fuckit i absolutely love this and they can put THAT in their willfully blind right leaning pipe and smoke it ...idiots!!!

[QuickTidal]

 Abyss, on 20 May 2025 - 03:39 PM, said:

i have some maplemaga friends who are going to be absolutely destroyed by this conflict. ...not that i take pleasure in their oh fuckit i absolutely love this and they can put THAT in their willfully blind right leaning pipe and smoke it ...idiots!!!

It's hard to watch my sister and BIL (who are still deeply RW and believe a lot of the Trump shit) take their time coming around on topics. We don't talk about politics anymore to save the family events from upset...but I HAVE hit them recently with one topic a time with facts to try to help bend them out of it....a while back I informed my sister of the carbon tax existing due to the removal of Cap & Trade by Ford in Ontario....and that before that it didn't need to exist for the consumer, and that we HAVE to have some carbon emission policy to stay in good trading terms with the G7....she took that single issue fact info in with quiet reservation (unheard of for her, she's traditionally a loud mouth) and we didn't speak of it again (nor did she rebut me; I call that a win)...I've been informed by people in the know about cults that I'll never get an all at once "We were wrong" comment or public realization from my sister, and that we should not expect one en masse by the Maple MAGA cult....when they come around, it will be quietly, personally, internally, and they will likely NEVER admit fault, even if challenged...but internally they will realize, even if it's a decade from now that they were duped.


Like I'm watching a documentary series on Vietnam at the moment and it's SO EASY to see how they (The Boomers and those that they have co-opted and affected into their conspiracies, like my Gen X sister) got there...Vietnam was the first inkling that this very generation began to realize and mistrust of the government as a whole as having lied to them, over and over about things to try to avoid telling them the brutal truths that would lose them (I mean he's obviously not, but they see him as that nonetheless)...there's a guy on the doc who said America exists as Before Vietnam, and After Vietnam as a fundamental divide in history where a loss of innocence happened and never returned.


I realize the comment was lighter and about the Boss (Springsteen is the man!), but I always come back to how we got here with Maple Maga existing at all...and I think that's why.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 20 May 2025 - 04:49 PM

[Tsundoku]

 Tiste Simeon, on 20 May 2025 - 03:03 PM, said:

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Hey here's another somewhat hilarious response:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/KbrroDK4xa

"Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/facepalm."

[Tiste Simeon]

Tsundoku, on 20 May 2025 - 08:08 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 20 May 2025 - 03:03 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 May 2025 - 07:20 AM, said:

Having a good chuckle at the hundreds of people who seem to have been upset by Bruce Springsteen's Manchester show being "political".

Have you perhaps heard of.... his entire back catalogue? also I have no idea why British people would be mad at a staunch Democrat coming out swinging about Trump. Can't wait for the Liverpool show in a few weeks!

Hey here's another somewhat hilarious response:

https://www.reddit.c...lm/s/KbrroDK4xa

"Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/facepalm."

It was a joke post that looked real that basically had the press woman saying that it's illegal for Springsteen to call himself "The Boss" because he's not actually the president of the US.

Someone mocked it up, sure, but it's not that far removed from actual dumb stuff that has been said.