What the hell is going on in GD now?

[CTyankee]

Where did all the vitriol about "color" come from?

I am reconsidering putting my art challenge in there today. I am appalled...

[sufrommich]

1. Please do your art challange.

I never guess right,but I love them.

[CTyankee]

2. thanks for the encouragement!

I just read that thread and got a little sick at my stomach...

[chillfactor]

5. same here ... nt

[sufrommich]

6. I know,that's why we need art!

Take some comfort in the fact that it's the same cast of retrograde characters it always is.

[CTyankee]

10. It just seems so "in yer face."

[sufrommich]

15. I try to think of it as akin to

the howls coming from the religious right as they realize they're on the wrong side of history and that makes me feel better. If that doesn't work I try to think about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.

[mercuryblues]

16. perhaps

Sea can start an OP about how yellow snow is bad to eat. It would be fun to watch certain people defend eating yellow snow.

[sufrommich]

17. Lol. Sea will get a kick out of that. nt

[seabeyond]

42. wouldnt it be a hoot if i said eating yellow snow is bad, yet baines says it is healthy. what say

you all....

we have wondered just how they would split that one up.

[Squinch]

48. They would implode. Might be fun...

[mercuryblues]

95. now you know

that where I live we never have snow. Much less yellow snow. Therefore, I have not seen it, it does not exist. So I should not concern myself with it and no one should ever discuss it evernever again.

for your listening pleasure.

[seabeyond]

96. ah hahahahah. perfectly played. lol. thanks.

thanks for that video. look at those hairstyles, lol

snowblind, ... so fuggin funny. how did you dig that up.

[mercuryblues]

98. thnx

LOL. As I was reading that thread, the song came to mind. I have been a rock and roller since I 1st heard Queen on the radio, when I was about 12.

Hey, don't laugh at those hairstyles. I probably had a few of them myself.

[seabeyond]

99. lol, ya. that is the thing. that was the hairstyle of the guys i went to school with. nt

[Squinch]

47. And I bet before we even put it up, we could list about 90% of the names of those who would take the

"I love yellow snow" position.

[freshwest]

71. If the yellow snow was from reindeer that ate psychedelic fungi, we'd get high. Just sayin' n/t

[Lunacee_2013]

84. Which thread?

There seem to be so many telling us what we can/cannot discuss, telling gay posters that they don't face that much hate, or mocking black people for being offended by something. Did people here start turning on others since Bush left office (thereby taking away our main opposition), or has it always been this way?

[BainsBane]

85. He self deleted

But you can still read the thread. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4580035

[CTyankee]

88. do you think one of the admins slipped him the word to self delete?

[BainsBane]

97. I doubt it

I don't know that they do that. They would simply lock it. Also it was late at night. They weren't around. I suspect he self-deleted because he was sick of people telling him what they thought.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Color is the new feminist bugaboo ... or something ...

DOORS .... well not Doors but, you get the drift .... and Yes, Please Post your Art Thread

[CTyankee]

7. It's times like this that I wonder what has happened to DU...

so I thought I'd ask if I am overreacting...lately, I'm feeling discouraged.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

83. yes, I am right there with you, CTyankee,

and No, You are not overreacting.

I am pretty sad about what I am watching and, I feel pretty left out of the loop. I guess the PM Brigade is out in full force.

Maybe that is a good thing.

I just don't know any more.

[bravenak]

4. I would also like to see your art challenge.

It would be nice to see something new.

[CTyankee]

8. usually it would not bother me, but lately I dunno...

[bravenak]

13. Never know what might happen.

Could be fun.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. +10000

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I know it's bananas huh?

Post your art challenge - focus on positive. M0rpheus and I will handle the fools.

[CTyankee]

12. thanks. that's very nice...

[gollygee]

14. They were losing the anti-HOF fight

so they've moved on to the AA group?

Or maybe this is another part of the same exact thing - white male privilege fighting for life. They just move back and forth denying the problems of women and people of color.

I have no idea but it is sad, and at the same time maybe good for DU as a whole to see their true colors exposed. So to speak.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. You are absolutely correct

But the thing is - they'll be back my friends. Oh - trust me on that. Whatever the heck is going on here lately - they'll be back. Me? I have the joy of being a black feminist. Oh happy happy joy joy for me!

Grab a bottle of champagne and let's enjoy the moment of silence before the 'party' starts again.

Here's to the ones at DU I love!

?itok=Z3a3LP1y

[CTyankee]

24. OK, I feel better...visit the challenge if you can today...

we'll have a good time!

[seabeyond]

52. Oh happy happy joy joy for me! love you too woman. and love that picture.

yes... a bottle of champaign. has been too long. and i luv the stuff. maybe, even if just for me. thanks

[JustAnotherGen]

53. A bottle of champagne

And Big D works or me!

[seabeyond]

54. lmfao

not sure what the big d is, but, sure, i will toast to that. hey...

how is your hubby? give him a hug from me. just in the mood

[JustAnotherGen]

56. My hubby

Is wondering why I'm posting pics of Big D (DiCaprio) at DU!

[seabeyond]

57. lmao some more. see,

i thought the big d was reference to the hubby.

i am not good with names and all.

[BainsBane]

58. You're not the loyal type are you?

I remain forever devoted to the same man.



DiCaprio. Pshaw.

[seabeyond]

59. whose he. you all are doing great. let me see.... nt

[BainsBane]

60. Idris Elba

Stringer Bell from The Wire, star of Luther, and he played Nelson Mandela is a film released this fall.

[seabeyond]

61. see what happens when i never watch tv or watch movies, lol. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

62. Ahhhhhhh

Namaste. ommmmm. 108 words. Oooohhhhhh

I meditate to that man!

[freshwest]

72. I'm rather fickle. I was in love with Richard Sherman for a few weeks:

I saw Tyrese Gibson in Fast and Furious 2 today. I could watch that man all day long:



I'd never gone in for the bald headed look, but I might have to rethink that. Still, Richard will always have a special place in my heart.

[seabeyond]

75. Sherman? Seattle Seahawks?

You know when he first did the interview I was all that, not impressed. Over the ensuing weeks listening to him with different issues, I gotta say he found a special place in my heart too. Was cheering him on

[BainsBane]

80. You know the football player but not Idris Elba?

What kind of priorities are those?

[seabeyond]

91. bah hahaha. clever woman. the difference between watching tv and reading news? and, i do have

two sons.

[freshwest]

93. The Seahawks were hard to miss - the place is still reverberating from the big win. And I haven't

been to a movie theatre in over 20 years, don't do Netflix, or buy current DVDs.

I'm totally out of it, don't even watch TV. So most of this stuff just goes right over my head. I had enough of TV long before 2008, and watched stuff on youtube during the Bush reign of terror. I didn't even want to hook up the cable again until the inauguration when people said I just had to watch it.

So I did, and promptly called my broadband + landline + cable company and told them to cut it all off but TWC and SCAN.

I hate most of the stuff that's on as a sensory overload, the RW stuff pollutes the spirit. So there are some discussions I don't get into at all.

The local mania prior to the Superbowl got me to watch youtube videos of the players and I fell in love with Richard. Best to love 'em from afar, safer that way, haha.

And I didn't even get to see all of the F&F2, as we turned the sound off for the meeting. I like to read, that's why I'm here at DU.

[KitSileya]

90. I went more for Vin Diesel in that movie franchise

Not to mention Paul Walker, may he rest in peace, who was really under-appreciated as an actor, I think.

The first Fast and the Furious movie has one of the better love stories on film, I think. When Brian O'Connor risks his entire career to make sure Dom Torretto manages to escape? That, my friend, is love.

[freshwest]

94. That sounds like it was a really good movie. Thanks for explaining it. n/t

[historylovr]

105. I'm giving you a +1 just for posting a picture of Idris.

[Squinch]

50. It's all the same names.

[BainsBane]

19. Someone referred to GD as the "Big House"

a reference to the master's house under slavery. I am sorry to say I do see the analogy.

[sufrommich]

20. I saw the one that referred to GD being

"downtown". I'm going to assume some would like to see HoF as a gated community only THE GATES ARE LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE!!!!

[BainsBane]

21. I was told to get back to HOF

essentially to stay in my place.

[BainsBane]

23. That same poster now just told

one of the few African American members of the site to "stay out of a discussion" on race because she was "out of her element."

[CTyankee]

25. this kind of thing is what I am talking about...

[Sheldon Cooper]

26. Can you name that person or link that post?

I need to see this. Thanks.

[BainsBane]

28. I'll post once I receive the alert results.

[BainsBane]

34. The post was hidden

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&address=10024580035&alert=96#post96

[Sheldon Cooper]

37. That one is headed toward a big flame out.

[hlthe2b]

38. Surprise surprise on the identity...

NOT (sadly)...

The past few weeks has really "released" the inner selves of some posters.

[freshwest]

77. When I click on the link, there's nothing there and no #96 on the thread. Must be ignoring that one.

[BainsBane]

81. The link works, though I noticed the OP self deleted.

You may well have them both on ignore.

[BainsBane]

79. (wrong spot)

deleted.

[sufrommich]

27. Holy shit!

[sufrommich]

32. Bravnak is in that thread slaying dragons and

dropping the mic all over the place.

[seabeyond]

43. OMG.... lol. you are just gonna have to pm me a link. i wanna see. nt

[840high]

106. WOW!

[seabeyond]

41. bah hahhaha. you all are a hoot. i do not know what ANY of you are talking about and still....

laughing my fuggin tush off.

i saw you reference about downtown. what is that. and love locking us in. that is too too truly. silly boys...

[JustAnotherGen]

55. Me too

But she didn't know who she was saying that to. The poster she posted that to I'm convinced could be rocket scientist if she had the shot at the education. Brilliant woman and one who has very little tolerance for nonsense. Handed her ass to her!

[wryter2000]

22. Where?

I think I'd like to see what you're talking about. Maybe not, too.

[CTyankee]

29. here, without further comment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4580035

[wryter2000]

39. Oh, brother

Some really blind people in that thread.

[bravenak]

78. It's been deleted.

[CTyankee]

89. I wonder if he got a pm from "someone" suggesting that he

"delete that shit NOW."

[elleng]

30. Dunno, yank.

I avoid topics and trends that I don't like (and/or am not interested in.)

Remember?

[CTyankee]

31. of course! I put that in a challenge here because of the fact that Leonardo painted it

twice...Paris version and London version...something I hadn't known until very recently!

[elleng]

33. I missed that!!!

Have to try to 'see' them both!!!

Louvre:




National Gallery:

[CTyankee]

35. the one you posted is in the National Gallery in London...imagine my surprise...

I scratched my head and said, "wow, I thought it was in the Louvre, where I swear I saw it..."



http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/article7427535.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/Leonardo%E2%80%99s+first+Virgin+of+the+Rocks.jpg

[elleng]

36. Yes, and trying now to post Louvre version,

along with London, with little success!

Finally got them both!

[CTyankee]

86. These are both the Louvre version. For the London version go back to your

first posting, the one with the pointing angel.

[aquart]

101. Okay, I don't know the joke but what is up with that ill-placed pointing hand?

Not the one on Jesus.

[elleng]

102. CTyankee can explain it, I'm sure!

[seabeyond]

40. your art challenge is what gives GD a little bit of class once a week. you cannot deprive GD

of this gift you give weekly. please, do not.

[CTyankee]

44. I have posted it...I got some real encouragement from everyone here...

for a while there I felt like I was on a different planet all of a sudden. I grew more horrified as I read further. I wondered if I was just blind to the real DU and if so, what was I doing here? I don't mean to beat this to death, but I felt that "chill wind" blow...

[seabeyond]

45. ah... but i saw you when you did not see. and all it was, was you were busy with other stuff.

wasnt hittting your radar. that is all. it took a while to progress to this point. now a person can not hardly not see.

we do not want the site to be this. so we do what we need to make sure it is not, one way or another.

some of us yell and scream, rant and rave. others bring culture to us, and are all about showing us classy.

[ismnotwasm]

63. Just for you

[seabeyond]

64. you talking snow woman.... lol.

hey. i have even heard of coldplay. but, i cannot remember any songs. i liked that. so not you. is it? but i liked that. thanks.

[ismnotwasm]

65. No I can't stand Coldplay

But I knew there was a use for this one someday It's kinda nice. Yellow and all

[seabeyond]

69. lol lol. i knew it. too funny. nt

[BainsBane]

82. Same here.

[awoke_in_2003]

46. No, do not reconsider please...

I am not well versed in art, and never comment in the threads, but I do enjoy seeing them. I think GD definitely needs some class that an art challenge can provide.

[etherealtruth]

49. OMG

GD has become a cess pool of hate. Hate hate based on race, gender orientation ... you name the hate, apparently we have it

I keep worrying that I have a virus that keeps redirecting me to FR.

[Squinch]

51. I just read through some of those threads. What an ugly train wreck. We might as well

be hanging with a pack of pissed off tea baggers.

Really, you are right. Too much similarity to FR.

[ismnotwasm]

66. Purple Rain by Etta James

[ismnotwasm]

67. Red by Taylor Swift

[ismnotwasm]

68. Paint it Black ( good old version)

[freshwest]

73. That was pretty much my theme song when my father died. Wore black for years. n/t

[ismnotwasm]

74. That's sad

It was my favorite song when I was 9. Shades of things to come

[freshwest]

76. The Vietnam war was getting going, civil rights people were being killed, so my teenage years seemed

to be surrounded by death. My family fell apart and I was quickly faced with adult responsibilities and had to be very serious. Seemed logical at the time. I wasn't doing it for effect or attention. It was who I was at the time, very focused.

[ismnotwasm]

92. I must be a bit younger

My teenage years were similar in that there was too much death-- I was a chronic runaway, and lived downtown with male and a few female prostitutes and lots of street people just before AIDS hit hard. Then-- they were all gone, all dead. Took me years to realize how much that effected me.

I do know that kind of thing shapes who you are.

[Squinch]

100. Wow. That must be where you get your insight. But it must have been a devastating way to earn it.

[theHandpuppet]

70. I think you would enjoy these works

Hundreds of stunning works by Tamara de Lempicka.

http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/

[CTyankee]

87. I just love tamara. that green bugatti...oh, my...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

103. I think I just witnessed the collective IQ of this site raised by at least 10 points.

Kudos and well done to the two juries. Thank you.

[seabeyond]

104. +1. nt