The Unwatched Episode 9 – Gundam AGE Arc 4

by | Aug 17, 2025 | Media, Opinion, Reviews | 128 comments

Genre – Anime Science Fiction Action
Series* – 10 Episodes
Total Runtime* – 4 Hours 2 Minutes
Spoilers – Yes
*For this Arc

Unlike previous Arc transitions, Arc 4 picks up immediately where Arc 3 leaves off without a time skip. The Earth-Mars war is ongoing in its seventh decade. Two episodes in, I have to pause and rant a bit regarding the ongoing war and it’s potential outcomes. From what we’ve seen there is no lack of will to fight or industrial base to support the ongoing efforts. We’ve seen ample voluntary enlistment on both sides. So, there are five probable outcomes as of the start of Arc 4.

Possibility 1: Federation Powers That Be Victory – The Federations forces overcome the technological advantage of the Martian forces and counter-invades Mars. They avoid Flit’s plan and merely disarm the Martians and cripple their industry. Life continues to be miserable for the Vagan.

Possibility 2: Vagan Declared War Goal Victory – Fearless Leader succumbs to his disease and his designated successor isn’t there to enact his secret plans (killed in battle?), resulting in whoever takes over enacting the openly declared plan of resettling the Martians to Earth, resulting in the death or displacement of many already living there.

Possibility 3: Flit Asuno’s Dalek Plan – Federation forces overcome the technological advantage of the Martian forces and during the counter-invasion of Mars, Flit pushes the “Exterminate” button. Most of the Vagan are dead.

Possibility 4: Fearless Leader’s New Eden – Martian forces complete their invasion of Earth and Fearless Leader conducts his purge of those deemed unfit for the future on both sides, resulting in massive casualties on both sides.

Possibility 5: All Quiet On The Western Front – The war remains bogged down in a bloody, grinding stalemate as both sides with mounting losses and ever more desperate efforts to break the stalemate until both sides are bled dry with a loss of population and industrial capacity and an armistice is signed. A generation later, whichever side recovers faster reignites the conflict and we get another chance at Possibilities 1-4.

Being fiction, however, I’m going to predict that some absurd outcome may also be in the cards. However, I don’t see it being the rational outcome. From this perspective, I will assess the viewpoints and goals of the collected main characters. We’ve already had some declarations of intent in the first two episodes. As mentioned, Flit wants to wipe out the Vagans, who I will resume calling Euros for consistency with earlier reviews. They’ve killed his parents and burned several colonies he’s called home with him on them. He’s built up decades of hate for an unrelenting enemy, so his viewpoint is understandable from a human perspective. He’s not past the point of no return, if he can be talked into staying his hand.

Blond Boy is exceedingly stupid. He is trying to stalemate the war, resulting in more protracted fighting and losses rather than a decisive end to the war one way or another. Mind you both Flit and Fearless Leader are a bit genocidal, Flit is no longer in authority and Fearless Leader has less than six months before his disease offs him. Blond Boy’s plan is to have his pirate forces continue to work to keep both sides balanced, stalemated, and eternally killing each other in more desperate bids to break the stalemate leading to more massacres like those we’ve already witnessed. Dumbass.

Kio has decided to double down on naive and spends every battle crying out “Can’t we all just get along?” I get it, you’re a child soldier with deep psychological scars from being forced to kill people, then being guilted over it, then watching more than one person you’ve regarded as a friend die. You just want it to all end, but Kumbaya isn’t going to cut it. It still irritates me whenever I have to hear Kio protest yet again “We’re all humans, can’t we just stop fighting?”

Anyway, with my spleen vented, I shall resume watching.

This show is really not good at showing the passage of time. On being returned to the Diva, Kio declares “It’s been Three Months.” It certainly didn’t feel like that from the viewer’s perspective – maybe a few days or a week or so. Then again, this same series insists Arc 2 ran for several years rather than the two to five weeks it felt like. This is a recurring issue caused mainly by the fast pace of the actual episodes. I’ll take the faster episode pacing over a more realistic depiction of elapsed time, however. The Arc immediately starts into the counterattack to retake Luna base.

Due to the damage inflicted on the AGE-3 it got rebuilt as the AGE-FX so they can sell more toys it can make better use of Kio’s psychic abilities. What he does with it is try to incapacitate Mobile Suits without killing the pilots, fully embracing naive idealism to try to plaster over his psychological scarring.

Somehow the commander of the captured Luna Base is surprised that the Federation opted to counterattack in such large numbers – despite the fact that the Luna Base was the vital link in bringing forces and supplies in for the ongoing invasion of Earth. I’d rate it as one of those “at all costs” targets if you wanted to stem the onslaught against the planet.

One thing I hadn’t yet found a good place to talk about is the fairly consistent design language in the equipment used by the Federation and the Euros. You can tell at a glance who made a particular Mobile Suit from the appearance, even if it’s a new model. When a Federation turncoat joins the fray, her Mobile Suit has a Federation aesthetic despite being on the Euro side. It was visible before the dialog eventually mentioned the fact in the character exposition about why she turned. Long story short, her significant other test pilot plowed into an asteroid because of a hasty test, now she wants to hurt the Federation.

By the end of Episode 3 they are still trying to break through the Luna base perimeter. The Euros rightly recognized the importance of the facility, and stacked it with named characters. It takes quite the toll on the mass of unnamed Mobile Suit pilots. Shortly after Flit commits himself to the fray in an upgraded AGE-1, a psychic… incident causes issues for the psychic pilots on the field, meaning the only named character to not see it is Blond Boy. Innately, it’s because Turncoat woman is broken and high emotional states, such as combat, cause psychic leakage and mental breakdown. Unfortunately, this also impacts other nearby psychics to some extent. She starts blasting everyone with the submunitions a lot of the Mobile Suits are now armed with, taking them over from everyone else as her psychic meltdown goes into overdrive. Kio can’t talk her down, so Flit puts her down.

More psychological scarring for Kio, who at least manages to convince Flit to spare the retreating Euros. This does imply that Flit isn’t past the point of no return and could be talked down from his genocide plan. Though I’m not sure there’s enough therapy in this world to help Kio.

White-Haired Prettyboy finally hears the New Eden plan from Fearless Leader. Since Fearless Leader is dying, he hands over overall command of all Euros and the project to White-Haired Prettyboy. At the same time, the Federation recalls Flit from the reserves and gives him command of the assault on the Mobile Base.

I wish that the show would better define the regions included within the “Earth Sphere” and “Mars Sphere” as there are apparently asteroid fields within the “Earth Sphere”. So, what part of the solar system falls in that? The artificial space colonies make it less tied to the existing planetary bodies. The rumors of where the LosTech data core are to be found have narrowed it down to ‘an asteroid field in the Earth Sphere’ which apparently only partially narrows it down. White-Haired Prettyboy does get ambushed by a bug-like giant Mobile Suit while flying around one of these in the Euro Gundam. This thing is the automated boss monster protecting the MacGuffin and has been trashing even warships that wandered too close.

So on seeing the battle, Flit decides to continue towards his mission objective while Blond Boy opts to go join in. Unlike a lot of the characters in the series, the boss monster remembers that space has three dimensions and attacks from a variety of angles. Indeed, this thing fights smarter than most of the human pilots in the show. While White-Haired Prettyboy managed to beat the boss with help from Blond Boy, he reveals he has gone round the bend and embraced Fearles Leader’s New Eden plan. The pirates blast the data core to prevent it being used.

In the pre-battle motivational speech, Admiral Grandpa abandons exact timelines and says that the war has gone on for many years. Given the math errors seen so far, it’s probably for the best. Captain Nepobaby is still in command of the Diva for some reason, despite still not being fit for purpose. While I have been sarcastic and mocking of these characters, they are actually more developed than my sarcasm would suggest. Not what I expected from the superficial aesthetics and stereotypes of animated robots. So while I do get annoyed at times, you can at least understand them. Even if that understanding is “This dude be crazy”.

So the Federation launches its attack on the main Euro base over Earth. It’s a huge battle with plenty of Mobile Suit duels and mega mega cannon blasts. Kio nearly gets himself killed trying not to kill people until Fat Euro decides to try to kill off White-Haired Prettyboy out of resentment over not being picked to succeed Fearless Leader. The Euros drop another cache of named characters into the fray, including the last survivor of the Phantom Three alongside Lou’s older brother who had signed up in the coda of Arc 3. This series has not been shy about killing off named characters in unexpected, traumatic and tragic ways, especially towards the end of an Arc. And, it’s near the end of the whole series, so it’s anybody’s guess who’s not going to make it.

So I got suckered in to doing some research where I looked up the actual character names. Turns out Lou was spelled Lu, her brother is Deen, and their family name is… Anon. Dammit Gundam, I was just starting to take you seriously. Anyway, Deen and his crew go after Blond Boy while the last of the Phantom Three gets stuck with the background players – inheritors of Redheaded Steppilot’s role as the guys who are always just in the shadow of the main cast. White-Haired Prettyboy leaves his Henchgirl to hold off Fat Euro, since he has a wider battle to coordinate.

After some more fighting and another mega mega cannon blast, Deen ends up fighting Kio. With limited combat experience he loses pretty quickly. But Kio’s still in “I want everyone to live” mode and merely disarms the Mobile Suit while crying. They have a sentimental conversation in the lull after fighting is no longer possible. Then Fat Euro blasts through Deen to reach Kio.

More psychological scars for Kio who flips to berserk mode.

He trashes the Mobile Suit XXL, doing more damage than planned and nearly killing Fat Euro if not for him ejecting mid-explosion.

With the ongoing push to close with the Euro Mobile Base, the forces become comingled and confused. Unfortunately, White-Haired Prettyboy has started to lose his grip on reality and starts planning to simply blast the combined battlefield with their mega mega cannon. Planning to sacrifice his own forces to deal with the Federation attack force. He explicitly orders Henchgirl to lure the Gundams into that line of fire, putting her in the same space.

The fight to get the main cast out of the area of effect churns through named characters on both sides, so ultimately only Fat Euro and an evacuated Diva are destroyed in the actual shot. White-Haired Prettyboy loses his last grip on reality when he realizes the Gundams got away, so he launches in Euro Gundam to take all of them on alone in berserk mode.

This does not go well.

Blond Boy and White-Haired Prettyboy have a character moment as White-Haired Prettyboy bleeds out before the Euro Gundam goes Boom.

With one episode left, the Euros have virtually depleted their stock of named characters, leaving only a commander of dubious nominal importance and all their nameless masses. Well, Fearless Leader is technically alive, but on his deathbed. They send out their last ultimate weapon, the Vagan Gear piloted by guy who’s been in a glass tube all Arc. Narratively, I think it was a mistake. There was virtually no establishment of the Vagan Gear or its pilot. But it gives time for Kio and Fearless Leader to have a telepathic argument over philosophy.

Without any tactical options, nameless background commander decides plan “Shoot them both” will work again, despite the damage to their own systems from overuse of the mega mega cannon.

…What the – ?

Out of sheer batshittery, the presumed destroyed boss monster from the data core arrives and merges with the Vagan Gear and goes on a rampage in the Euro Mobile Base as the tube pilot fails to control it. It is unclear where it came from or why it isn’t space dust as previously indicated. The damage starts to take out the Euro colony powering the Mobile Base. While this is going on, Flit decides to manually fire the last Federation superweapon to destroy the Euros. They had threatened to use it on Luna, but didn’t. Kio interposes himself in the way to stop the genocide plan.

Kio and Blond Boy try to talk Flit down. The ghosts of Arc 1 finish the job of convincing him that blowing up a whole colony isn’t the way. They opt instead to save the Euro civilian population by carving away the connection between the colony and the Mobile Base’s mega mega cannon. Because of the tinker-toy construction, this requires both sides to divert to demolitions instead of fighting each other.

Boss Monster re-enters the fray with its sole objective of defeating the Gundams. The Federation forces send out the last toy accessory weapon upgrade to take it out. Unfortunately, Kio isn’t a great shot with it, and the boss dodges like it’s a Fromsoft protagonist. It takes attacking through the Mobile Base structure to hit it.

Arc 4 would have gotten bonus points for not having had the green sphere talk, but it did in the last celebration. Dammit.

Fearless Leader finally croaks.

With a shortage of Eden Plan adherents, and Flit talked down from the Dalek Plan, the peace involves finding a fix for the Mars Rays to render the Martian territory habitable. This is done in voiceover using information from the data core… which they destroyed, and the AGE system… which they destroyed… both of which contained primarily combat and weapons information.

Devil’s advocate, there was enough of the AGE system still in the AGE-FX to at least have the data even though the fabricator got blowed up, but the data core… that should have been long gone. However, it is possible that there was enough data to produce shielding against these rays which could be gleaned from the type of info the AGE collected.

Anyway, they needed to wrap up the series. Show ends with Adult Kio and Blond Old Man visiting the memorial statue to Flit on a peaceful Earth in the year 201, listed as 100 years after Angel’s Fall.

Fin.

Yes, I suppose I would recommend people watch this. I took a peek at the wider Gundam franchise and found it has so many series and multiple timelines that my head began to hurt. Thankfully, Gundam AGE is a standalone both in plot and timeline, so there was no prequel data to familiarize with. It is probably a good litmus test to see if you would want to get into the rest of the franchise, though find a guide, it looks complicated out there.

Addendum… This just turned me off looking into any of the other series. Were the green ball an aberration of this series, it would be bad enough, but the darn thing shows up in more than one universe.

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128 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Production Code S01E10

    There was one downside to the large cast, I lost track of some of the named characters.

  2. Gender Traitor

    Blond Boy is exceedingly stupid. He is trying to stalemate the war, resulting in more protracted fighting and losses rather than a decisive end to the war one way or another.

    Are you sure your nickname for him shouldn’t be spelled “Blond Boyy”?

    • UnCivilServant

      It took my too long to figure out what you were referencing.

  3. Sean

    There was a store on vacation selling big ass Gundam models. Looked straight out of China.

    • UnCivilServant

      Some are.

      Some are made in Japan.

      Caveat Emptor

    • Sean

      Err…Japan, perhaps…

      • UnCivilServant

        The Japanese made ones are likely of higher quality than the Chinese made ones. And you’ll get what you pay for (they will cost more)

      • UnCivilServant

        I need a guide to which kits are cross compatable, which contain a base model, and which are just accessories. I just don’t know enough to be sure that I won’t be stuck with stuff that doesn’t mesh. (I get the various skill ratings and how to read the overall scale ratio, it’s that the storefronts where I find the plastic crack don’t have enough info about what’s actually in the box.)

      • R C Dean

        Well, isn’t she just adorable.

      • UnCivilServant

        Bah, a stack of 30 Minute Mission models costs as much as a single Warhammer kit, I’ll take a risk on the cheap stuff.

  4. Plinker762

    Is Haro the green blob of evil from Heavy Metal?

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t remember Heavy Metal in enough detail to answer that question.

      • Plinker762

        It was a flippant question. Your distaste for the green ball thing just made me think of the evil orb in HM.

      • Ted S.

        If you have green balls, you may want to see a doctor.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wouldn’t that be the result of touching grass? Just wash.

    • Common Tater

      Loc-Nar

  5. Sensei

    The Google says that

    Aurora

    Is opening song. The funny thing is I never got into the franchise, but it always gets A list talent to do its opening and endings. Eir Aoi qualifies although she sadly lost her voice and dropped out of the industry for like 30 months and her career never recovered.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m trying to remember if there was more than one piece of music over the opening credits. I know the visuals changed each arc, but I didn’t make special note of the music.

      Please Hold

      *Opens VLC*

      Each Arc had different opening music.

      • UnCivilServant

        That is ultimately a YouTube video.

        Listening to it, I can see why the cover might appeal. It is very well done. I just prefer higher tempo, more energetic music more.

  6. Plinker762

    Nothing like a summer trip to Iowa to remind me why I stayed in the PNW after moving from NH.

    • Ted S.

      You’re sexually attracted to Antifa?

      • Plinker762

        We don’t have Antifa in eastern WA, just the meth heads and homeless camps.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I am sure there are two or three antifas in Pullman, a couple more in Moscow.

    • kinnath

      The dew point only hit 82 today after hitting 85 yesterday. It was so much better when I was out mowing the lawn today. It helps to get me psyched up for shoveling the driveway when it’s -10 this winter.

      • Plinker762

        Looks like the dew point is 48 with and air temp of 78 in Spokane. I have a project here in Boone this week. I ate at an outdoor barbecue place today and there was a huge puddle on the table from the water condensing on my drink.

      • rhywun

        We had reasonably pleasant dew points when it was pushing 90 most of last week – now it’s 71 and the dew point is consarned 70.

        Make Weather Pleasant Again πŸ§’πŸ†’

    • Threedoor

      Hummidity sucks.

      • rhywun

        50Β° and 100% humidity. Sigh… fine.

      • Gender Traitor

        In those conditions, it must at least be foggy enough to block your view of the crappy apartment building next door/across the street. (I forget which.)

      • rhywun

        Mostly clear skies. 🫀

  7. Akira

    From the dead thread regarding the Racist Test:

    The Hyperbole on August 17, 2025 at 2:44 pm
    11, should have been twelve but they didn’t ask if I had ever told a black person that what they just did was β€œMighty white of them”

    I did witness a friend’s grandparent tell a black guy “I haven’t seen you in a coon’s age!”

    • creech

      Years ago, a Philly( D ) official introduced a 4th of July guest speaker at Independence Hall as “the ambassador from Niggeria.”

    • Fourscore

      Was he black as the Ace of Spades?. Spade was another slang expression I heard used in the army

  8. rhywun

    Suthenboy on August 17, 2025 at 04:27 PM [+]
    Good money cant buy this kind of entertainment.

    β€œShe’s a nutjob. I watched her the other night. She’s all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City etc. etc.”

    I can’t wait for Donald’s reaction when Chuck and Hakeem inevitably endorse that guy, as they pretty much have to.

  9. Nephilium

    For those who did not know, happy belated National Rum Day. The local tiki bar celebrated with Sunday Rum Day. Partnered with Bacardi and a local creamery (they brought salted coconut and rum raisin as their flavors). Drink specials, free food (and ice cream), and swag. A good time was had by all.

    • UnCivilServant

      Among the many tragedies of Rum is that you can’t have Rum in Rum.

      Free Byzantium!

      • Nephilium

        Of course you can have rum in Rum.

        I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

        –Bernardo de la Paz

      • Aloysious

        Free Byzanti-rum?

        Sounds fun.

      • UnCivilServant

        You won’t be free for long once you end up in a Turkish prison.

      • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

        The ban on alcohol didn’t stop Selim the Sot or Kemal Ataturk from drinking themselves to death. Power has its perks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I always thought Ataturk went cold Turkey.

      • rhywun

        Ahem it’s cold tΓΌrkiye now.

    • R.J.

      Fantastic. I am still fighting off a flu the wife and I caught in Florida. Once it passes I shall celebrate.

      • UnCivilServant

        How well does Ethanol work at removing viruses?

        πŸ€”

      • Nephilium

        It was the girlfriend’s first time at a small/non-publicized event. One of the shirts they were handing out has “Staff Meal” tied with the branding. The other free shirt I got, I realized was not what I thought it was when I got home. I thought it was a regular t-shirt, instead it was a bare midriff shirt. I really don’t want to know why they had those in XL and higher.

      • Ted S.

        I really don’t want to know why they had those in XL and higher.

        Rule 34 says somebody’s into it.

        Tonio?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        He is more into a bear midriff.

    • Ted S.

      When do we get Sodomy Day and Lash Day?

      • (((Jarflax

        As soon as you install Grindr

  10. Derpetologist

    It’s not hard to score booze in Turkey:

    ***
    RakΔ±, TΓΌrk RakΔ±sΔ± or Turkish Raki (/rΙ‘ΛΛˆkiː/, Turkish pronunciation: [ΙΎaˈkΙ―] β“˜) is an alcoholic beverage made of twice-distilled grape pomace and flavored with aniseed.[1] It is a national drink of Turkey, it is especially popular in the coastal regions.[1][2] Among drinkers, it is popular in Turkic countries and Caucasian countries as an apΓ©ritif. It is often served with seafood or meze. It is comparable to several other anise-flavored liqueurs such as pastis, ouzo, sambuca and arak. The alcoholic content of rakΔ± must be at least 40% according to Turkish standard.[3] The largest producer of raki is Diageo; Yeni RakΔ± is the largest brand.[4]
    ….
    The founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal AtatΓΌrk, was very fond of rakΔ±, drinking up to a half-litre daily, and his late-night rakΔ± sofrasΔ± sessions were his favourite place to debate issues with his closest friends and advisors
    ***

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak%C4%B1

    Speaking of Turkey, Russia is helping them build a $25 billion nuclear power plant:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ZKjfms8CA

    • R C Dean

      Oh, great. Turks with nukes. That’ll end well.

  11. Tres Cool

    “Anyway, with my spleen vented, I shall resume watching.”

    You know who else had a damaged spleen…?

    • UnCivilServant

      Not me, proper venting prevents damage,

    • R C Dean

      I finally figured out why the β€œmigrant” terminology irritates me (other than just being another leftist obfuscation/neologism).

      A migrant is somebody who is passing through. An immigrant is someone who is here to stay. These illegals aren’t passing through; calling them β€œmigrants” obscures their intent to stay indefinitely. They are β€œmigrants” in Mexico, on their way here. They are β€œimmigrants” here.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Immigrant implies they passed through immigration and wish to enter properly and legally. They have no desire to do so. Invader is the correct term. Illegal alien if a polite euphemism is needed.

      • The Last American Hero

        migrant workers used to be seasonal help that would come up for the harvest then head back home until planting season. Now, it includes people that came illegally and were given cell phones, health care, visa gift cards, and hotel rooms in NYC.

    • Sensei

      It remains unclear what country Singh is originally from.

      I’ll give you a guess…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Fiji?

      • rhywun

        It IS an interesting curveball.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        The UK? Canada?

  12. Evan from Evansville

    The characters, written by Japanese, are awfully damn comfortable letting folk with psychological-superpower nightmares wield extraordinarily dangerous machines. (I was joking with that, but thinking on it, I suppose we all are with the nuke-wielding minority. Well. At least we’re not also literally superhuman. Well. Some of us are.)

    Another To Be Fair: The surname “Anon” could potentially be an English spelling of a common Japanese name.

    • UnCivilServant

      Another To Be Fair

      I am always going to lean into the funny when an opportunity drops.

      • Evan from Evansville

        You were correct to do so.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I spent a couple days in LA and now half my ads on YouTube are in Spanish. Nice work, Google.

    • Akira

      I live in Ohio, have not left Ohio for any extended period, and get random Spanish ads sometimes.

      I also watched a few channels about raising meat sheep, then periodically saw a Subaru ad where a gay couple had a sheep climb into their vehicle and adopted it as a pet.

  14. rhywun

    lol Are the Bills still going to pretend they can get anywhere without Josh Allen? Perhaps not after tonight.

  15. Brochettaward

    I’m about to spring my greatest invention yet on the world. My Jump To First interactive mat.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “My Jump To First interactive mat.”

      After Flirt, that’s the second Level-Up on your sex doll, timid, little you.

      No wonder it took Hu so long to see you at first.

  16. Evan from Evansville

    I thank y’all for clueing me into Rick & Morty. It’s conveniently timed for my end of bunk ritual… fuck. My going to bed rituals! Brushing my teeth and sorting my clothes out shit!

    It’s remarkably clever and I just laughed at torsos stabbing themselves to death on factory lines to make themselves into spaghetti, with two rival protesters goading each other and blowing themselves up with the bombs they both attached to themselves.

    Wizened folk, y’all. As am I, for typing what I just typed.

    • rhywun

      I never watched it much and then the creator/actor got #metoo’d – whether fairly or not I have no idea – but apparently he got replaced so is the show worth it or not anymore I have no idea.

    • UnCivilServant

      The architecture is okay, but I wonder what’s going on in the decorator’s head. Some rooms are pretty and some rooms likke like the direction was “rape my eyes”

    • UnCivilServant

      $510/mo HOA

      Da Fuq? A $15Million house in an HOA?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, it’s a Gated Community, I wager it has fewer intrusive bylaws.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah, the Russian oligarch meets Vegas Elvis school of interior decorating.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I have never seen the like.

    • Sean

      But why?

      • Ted S.

        FYTW?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        A country singer who made it, I surmise by the costumes.

    • Gender Traitor

      Conspicuous consumption at its…most conspicuous. πŸ˜•

      • Gender Traitor

        Way too much white fluffy stuff for me, for one thing. Decidedly un-pet-friendly.

        And they definitely lost me at the pink chandeliers (and the sheer number of chandeliers of any color or lack thereof.)

        I’m (perhaps a wee bit unfairly) reminded of the expression used by an acquaintance when I described the house the Rev. GT and I bought, with its replaced-before-we-even-moved-in ghastly shag carpets in colors that didn’t even coordinate with the walls: “They had their taste buds in their assholes.”

      • Ted S.

        You’ve just lit the Heroic Mulatto signal….

  17. UnCivilServant

    πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Just ran into a simile that made me facepalm. “Like gnats in a meatgrinder” That tells me the person who wrote it does not know how a meat grinder works. It’s an augur that pushes the product against a plate with holes in it. Gnats are so small they would just ride the augur unharmed.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Perhaps a recipe suggestion.

    • Ted S.

      I didn’t know meat grinders could predict the future.

      • UnCivilServant

        And that is why you fail.

  18. Evan from Evansville

    Off for my Friday on your Monday. Don’t none of you do what I wouldn’t do. Which is a fairly small list, but still, don’t do it. Let me know first and we can rock out, check it off the list together.

    See also: I wanna go Porta Potty hoppin’! It’ll be so exciting! Try to guess which one I’ll abandon ya in! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Paired w Cutie Colleague to start the day. This pleases me.

      “Body language expert breaks down Trump-Putin meeting”
      ^^ Go fuck yourself. No, I didn’t read it. Why? “Handshakes demonstrate a dominating, authoritarian character the two world leaders share.” Close enough, I’m sure.

    • UnCivilServant

      The computer can go *beep* itself.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, U, EfE, Ted’S., and TO’G!

      • Gender Traitor

        How are you today?

      • UnCivilServant

        I haven’t managed to properly reset my sleep schedule. I’m still going to work (it’s a remote day).

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m sorry your sleep is still off kilter, but it’s good you’re not missing another day of work. Hang in there! 😟

      • UnCivilServant

        I can’t afford to burn more leave.

      • Gender Traitor

        😬🀞

      • Sean

        *waves*

    • rhywun

      Heavens to Betsy I hate that song. I sampled two random seconds and was like, “Yep, still terrible.”

      • Sean

        LOL. πŸ˜‰

  19. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

    Mornin’, UCS.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you and yours today?

      • Grosspatzer

        Dinner yesterday for my first born’s birthday. It will also be tonight’s dinner. How do people finish an entire restaurant portion? Dentist today, crown fell out. Crossing my fingers. How are things in Ow-hee-yo?

      • Gender Traitor

        We’re pluggin’ along. It’s been too daggone hot, but with a fan out at Tranq Base, we can sometimes make it tolerable in the early morning or late afternoon/evening. Failing that, it’s always nice and cool in the basement “listening room.”

      • Grosspatzer

        Freezing here, what happened to summer?

  20. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

    TALL ERIE CANS!

  21. Beau Knott

    Mornin’ all!

  22. Common Tater

    GM πŸ™‚

  23. Common Tater

    I had this weird dream, Porky Pig was singing Bweaking The Law

    • R.J.

      You need to see if AI can reproduce that.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t think any of the free ones can?

    • rhywun

      Genius class.

    • Grosspatzer

      Sheesh, if you’re gonna burn down a store, try something better than Dollar Tree.

    • Common Tater

      Why be charged with shoplifting when you can be charged with arson?

    • Ted S.

      Can’t they move on from starting fires in Philly?