Althouse: I like how the blurred pink petal in the foreground reads subliminally as her naked ass.

March 20, 2026

I like how the blurred pink petal in the foreground reads subliminally as her naked ass.

I say when Meade texts me this.

ADDED: It's video at the link, making it more subliminal. A freeze frame:

70 comments:

R C Belaire said...: AA has a dirty mind. Often, a blurred pink petal is simply...a blurred pink petal.; 3/20/26, 8:57 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: "There are no goodbyes between us, baby. We'll always have Hiroshima."; 3/20/26, 8:59 AM
tim maguire said...: I'm trying to see something suggesting a naked ass and I'm failing.; 3/20/26, 9:02 AM
Jake said...: I literally have no clue what this is a reference to in that video. Pretty low effort post for a friday. lol. I kid. But seriously, what petal looks like a naked ass where? Also, that's projecting a bit too much credit to the ai that created that video.; 3/20/26, 9:16 AM
Jake said...: OK. Just saw the freexe frame. Not even close, Professor.; 3/20/26, 9:17 AM
Captain BillieBob said...: That's a real stretch to get to naked ass there Professor Naughty.; 3/20/26, 9:19 AM
imTay said...: Supposedly, FDR kept the Japanese delegation cooling their heels in the outer office for two hours, so that they could not present a declaration of war, and the attack, which we baited, the Japanese took the bait, no question, but because the American public did not want any part of any war, so the attack could be portrayed as a "surprise attack," and it worked. Just like 9-11 brought America around to fight not just in Afghanistan, but Iraq, Syria, bombing Libya, and is still used to justify this Iran war.

Oh yeah, and that dastardly attack on the Marines in Lebanon! Just because the New Jersey, I think it was, was pounding Lebanon with its long range guns was no excuse for Hezbollah to fight back! Such perfidy by an Iranian ally proves that we needed to do a surprise attack on Iran during negotiations with them!

This is where American and Israeli propaganda loses me, I just can't follow the logic, but I guess it makes more sense if you ignore that our navy was shelling the Bekaa Valley at the time.; 3/20/26, 9:29 AM
FullMoon said...: Interesting that some boomers are unable to see the ass. And, watching the vid, took a bit of effort to freeze frame at that moment. Was placement intended, or coincidence?; 3/20/26, 9:33 AM
rehajm said...: yah eye of the beholder but if it works for you. I see someone in a dry spell..; 3/20/26, 9:35 AM
Narr said...: Supposedly, imTay has some solid historical research to cite for his Pearl Harbor theories.

What are the best one of two books or articles to help us understand the truth, imTay?

Or have you arrived at the truth all on your lonesome in your spare time?; 3/20/26, 9:46 AM
john mosby said...: When I hit the back button and returned to the pic, I did get a fleeting side-thigh effect. Probably because of the recent Paltrow dress. CC, JSM; 3/20/26, 9:46 AM
RNB said...: ImTay: 'Supposedly' is doing a lot of work here. I cannot count all the errors in this conspiracy-theory version of the history of 7 December 1941. Let's just pick one off the top: The Japanese envoys (Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura and special envoy Saburo Kurusu) were waiting to meet with SecState Cordell Hull, not FDR. They had already blown past the deadline set for delivery of the last part of the response from their government, and that was not a declaration of war.; 3/20/26, 9:47 AM
john mosby said...: Good thing the petal wasn't on Trump's side. CC, JSM; 3/20/26, 9:47 AM
narciso said...: No we were shelling the chouf the home of the druze (dont ask me why); 3/20/26, 9:50 AM
narciso said...: To aid the lebanese army; 3/20/26, 9:56 AM
narciso said...: The billy mitchell raid is a closer example; 3/20/26, 10:07 AM
Enigma said...: I'm shocked when there is NOT nudity in Japanese-themed anime or manga...

I'm shocked that there are not tentacles in that image...; 3/20/26, 10:22 AM
Rustygrommet said...: I like the way you think, Althouse.; 3/20/26, 10:24 AM
Hannio said...: Imtay is moving the goalposts. Trump didn't criticize the Japanese for attacking Pearl Harbor, he was saying the reason Japan was not notified ahead of time is the same reason the Japanese didn't notify anybody prior to their attack. That is, the whole purpose of a secret attack is to keep it secret.; 3/20/26, 10:26 AM
Narr said...: I didn't see the fanny until prompted by the Prof.

That's just how pure of heart I am.; 3/20/26, 10:29 AM
Ann Althouse said...: You would have been more likely to see it if I hadn't suggested it. How can there be subliminality when I prompted you to see it before it came into view?; 3/20/26, 10:31 AM
Swifty Quick said...: OTOH it might just be her ass.; 3/20/26, 10:54 AM
Rabel said...: I'll withhold judgement until I hear what Warner Herzog has to say about it.; 3/20/26, 11:01 AM
Saint Croix said...: Side-ass!; 3/20/26, 11:04 AM
n.n said...: The artist is taking liberties behind the scene.; 3/20/26, 11:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: This reminded me of the Barenaked Ladies song that complains that the Sailor Moon anime "Makes me think the wrong thing."; 3/20/26, 11:13 AM
Wilbur said...: This old man sure as hell saw it when prompted to do so. I found it mildly erotic.

But I identify with Fred Sanford - when told he was a dirty old man replied "Yeah and ahmo be a dirty old man until I'm a dead old man".; 3/20/26, 11:19 AM
narciso said...: Cherry blossoms in the foreground; 3/20/26, 11:24 AM
John henry said...: Narr said...

Supposedly, imTay has some solid historical research to cite for his Pearl Harbor theories.

I don't know if Imtay has this in mind or has ever read Herbert Hoover's memoirs. I do not recall Hoover talking about a delay in FDR receiving the Japanese delegation.

BUT, in volume 3 of Hoover's memoirs, Hoover is very explicit in his statements that 1) FDR goaded the Japanese into war, as he did with the Germans and 2) FDR knew about the impending attack on PH hours or a day or 2 ahead of time and could have been prepared for it but chose not to be.

He based this on research in govt files that he had access to as a former Prez. (ISTR, it's been 15-20 years since I read it)

OT but I am currently rereading (or listening to) Vernon Kelloggs 1920 bio of Hoover. It is not an audio book but I put the @Voice app on my Android phone, fed it the Gutenberg.org file and converted the text to speech. It is artificial but does a remarkably good job of sounding human.

Hoover is something of a hero to me. Between 1914 and 1920 he is credited with saving 20,000,000 Belgian and other European civilians from death by starvation. He did it at considerable personal expense and physical danger.

Vernon Kellogg was a professor of Entomology and Hoover's chief of staff. So his bio is based on first hand and hands on knowledge. I first read it 20 years ago and it is as good as I had remembered.

John Henry; 3/20/26, 11:34 AM
Wince said...: I went for a colonoscopy this week. While waiting on the operating table, I looked at the video monitor above me. I saw what looked like a primitive computer generated animated ass on the screen. Like two shaded buttocks, displaying rounded highlights with a crease up the middle. I wondered if it was for training or some kind of logo for an ass scope device company.

I asked the anesthesiologist if that indeed was what I saw. She got flustered and said no, and the assistant lifted the scope and showed that it was just the extreme close-up image from the scope's cradle on the instrument tray.

Not entirely subliminal suggestion, however, as I think they saw what I had perceived.

Anyway... No Polyps!; 3/20/26, 11:37 AM
narciso said...: Good to hear

Fdr did have a strong anti japanese bias maybe from his fathers part in the chins trade; 3/20/26, 11:43 AM
rehajm said...: …sometimes ads with racy underwear showing cutouts like that end up in the yahoo ad column. I blame coming here…; 3/20/26, 11:46 AM
narciso said...: China trade, but that doesnt excuse the behavior of the imperial japanese navy; 3/20/26, 11:48 AM
Joe Bar said...: The original hug. Possible inspiration for the anime:
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2034654450791350657; 3/20/26, 11:54 AM
John henry said...: Still OT, but Hoover's 3 volumes of memoirs, especially the 1st two up to the end of his presidency, are well worth reading. He had a more interesting and impactful life, as a mining engineer and preventing famine as well as Sec Commerce than many of our presidents.

He is also one Hell of a good writer and interesting to read on any subject. If I'd still been teaching when I read it, I would have put his 1912 book on mine management on my MBA reading list. It still seems pretty relevant today.

I'd love to read his book on fly fishing and I don't even fish!

John Henry; 3/20/26, 11:56 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “Fdr did have a strong anti japanese bias maybe from his fathers part in the chins trade”

The gob-smacking barbarity of the Jap’s war in China may have had something to do with it. Without exaggeration, a hundred Hiroshimas wouldn’t even the scorecard. But they were just Chinks, so, whatever.; 3/20/26, 11:56 AM
narciso said...: Going back to the 1920s, it doesnt excuse the control faction by any means

Yamamoto was the moderate in the cabinet; 3/20/26, 11:58 AM
John henry said...: narciso said...

Fdr did have a strong anti japanese bias maybe from his fathers part in the chins trade

Given what the Japanese had been doing to China in the 10 years prior to PH specifically and for hundreds of years prior to that more generally, any rational person should have had a bias against the Japanese.

John Henry; 3/20/26, 11:59 AM
John henry said...: I see Cracker beat me to it.

John Henry; 3/20/26, 12:00 PM
stlcdr said...: Related story: we (Americans) were in a meeting with our Japanese industrial suppliers when they informed us the equipment they had just supplied us was obsolete and not being manufactured anymore.

Our manager replied "well, that just dropped the bomb on us!"; 3/20/26, 12:03 PM
narciso said...: Why did he only send the flying tigers though; 3/20/26, 12:29 PM
Narr said...: Thanks for the Hoover reference, John Henry. I'll check it out. (I have long thought that Hoover gets a bad rap, for the obvious reason, and that the rest of his life was interesting in itself.)

That said, I think you are mistaken in your claim that the Chinese had suffered from the Japanese 'for hundreds of years' by the 1940s. The Japanese had minimal contact with the outside world until the 1850s, and they definitely were in no position to oppress Chinese until the 1890s at the earliest.

The Japanese (and others) did participate fully in medieval East Asian piracy, but the Japanese authorities themselves had squelched Japanese pirates by 1600.

And just to illustrate how people can change, during the Russo-Japanese War the Japanese were noted for their relatively humane treatment of PoWs.; 3/20/26, 12:53 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2035004163969675353; 3/20/26, 1:45 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: The japanese treatment of POWs in WW 1 and in the Russo-Japanese war was influenced by their desire for good PR with both the USA and the UK. IRC, they had a formal alliance with the Brits, and were having their BB's made/designed in the UK in the 1910s.

And if they'd been acting like barbarians in 1904 or 1914, we probably wouldn't have been A-OK with them taking the German colonies in the Pacific.; 3/20/26, 1:49 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: BTW, I was just reading some Marine/Army Intelligence reports on the battles for Saipan/Guam. Up until the islands were secured the number of Japanese who surrendered was incredibly small. Approximately 1500 taken POW, of whom 50 percent were Korean laborers. And of the 750 Japanese captured about 1/4 were wounded and in no condition to resist. Total Japanese KIA was about 60,000.

So few officers were taken POW the intelligence report actually lists out their ranks and service. 15 officers, most of them Navy. One Army Major who was a staff officer. The rest 2nd leutientants.

Its a good thing we had super weapons and material. Had we had to take on the IJA on equal terms it would've been a struggle.; 3/20/26, 1:55 PM
Hassayamper said...: How about a tag for asses/buttocks, Ann? I seem to remember the topic being touched upon in a few previous discussions...; 3/20/26, 1:55 PM
Hassayamper said...: ... So to speak ...; 3/20/26, 1:56 PM
narciso said...: Iran Strikes: Day 20 « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog https://share.google/V769F2VsQi0SlA3dr; 3/20/26, 2:10 PM
narciso said...: Ocean would prefer we were soeaking japanese i reckon; 3/20/26, 2:23 PM
Hassayamper said...: That said, I think you are mistaken in your claim that the Chinese had suffered from the Japanese 'for hundreds of years' by the 1940s. The Japanese had minimal contact with the outside world until the 1850s, and they definitely were in no position to oppress Chinese until the 1890s at the earliest.

There was very little conflict for most of the period since China and Japan have both been unified nations. Most of it was in the 20th century.

China (under the Mongols) attempted to invade Japan twice in the 13th century, but both invasions were dispersed by storms. That is where the term "kamikaze" (Divine wind) comes from.

The great Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea in the Imjin War in the 16th century, intending to conquer China during a period of weakness late in the Ming Dynasty, but was repelled by the Koreans and the Ming army.

Other than that, I don't think there were any major hostilities recorded in either direction until the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895.; 3/20/26, 2:31 PM
narciso said...: Mike Coté on X: "If there was a binding fatwa against building nuclear weapons, why were you guys so gung-ho about getting a deal with Tehran to stop them from building nuclear weapons?" / X https://share.google/YTYwSTvIeKtOw8jxL; 3/20/26, 2:40 PM
Josephbleau said...: “The billy mitchell raid is a closer example”

Doolittle perhaps? But corrections are seen as snotty.; 3/20/26, 2:45 PM
Josephbleau said...: I’ll admit I found Trump making out with Japan very sexy for some reason, I’ll blame the petal.; 3/20/26, 2:46 PM
Josephbleau said...: Hoover was in the first class held at the then new Stanford and was a Geologist by education, Stanford had no Mining Engineering program. He worked in Western Australian gold and in China where, during the Boxer rebellion he organized the expats into an armed cohort their families until help arrived. In ww1 he saved millions and millions of women and children with food aid much from his own pocket. FDR had to make him a devil in order to win, such are Democrats.

In his mining days he did a feasibility study on a gold mine a family owned on their Arizona ranch. It was rich but after talking to them he advised them to open it small and take out what they wanted to spend each year and keep it as an ongoing family treasure for generations. Otherwise it would be captured by corrupt stock manipulators and government tax officials and lost, because a little rancher is not going to win. I thought that was good advice.; 3/20/26, 3:06 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: People used to say: "Laissons la Chine dormir, car quand elle se réveillera, le monde tremblera" in the 19th century and attribute it to Napoleon. Well, the USA/UK/Russia wouldn't let Japan sleep. The Japanese after their Korean adventure just wanted to be left alone. But of course, even in the 19th century Anglo-Americans were "invading the world and inviting the world".

The end result was pearl harbor, the bataan death march, and 110,000 dead Americans. Since they were mostly Gentiles we've all just decided to forgive and forget. Imagine if the Japanese had killed 110,000 Jews. God, we'd be hearing about it every day and twice on sunday!

Anyway, no lesson of history can keep Yeehaw Americans from bombing and invading foreigners, no matter what the cost. The just love war too much.; 3/20/26, 3:48 PM
Bill in Glendale said...: “The billy mitchell raid is a closer example”

"Doolittle perhaps? But corrections are seen as snotty."

Doolittle raid was with Mitchell B-25s. So you're both right.; 3/20/26, 3:48 PM
narciso said...: Is there any enemy you wont go defending; 3/20/26, 4:49 PM
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Craig Howard said...: Definitely butt cheek. When I opened the page, it was the first thing I saw. My only objection is that she spoke unaccented American English.; 3/20/26, 4:50 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: They made a movie "30 seconds over Tokyo" which gives the impression we were just trying to bomb civilians. But in fact, the targets in tokyo were supposed to be military ones. The fact that the actual bombers missed doesn't mean they were trying to kill civilians.

Now, we've adopted Israeli ethics. We're not only into "sneak attacks" and bombing civilians, we brag about it. When the Israeli killed the latest Iranian leader they leveled the apartment building he lived in. 100 innocent Iranians were killed. Oh well, say the Yeehaw American, them thar Iranians deserved it. "Cant make an omelett without breaking a few eggs" har har.

Water finds it own level. Amoral and Immoral people justify mass murder and revel in it. And so it goes.; 3/20/26, 5:50 PM
buwaya said...: There were quite a few Jews killed by the Japanese. You can take a stroll through Manilas US cemetery, there are plenty of Star of David headstones. Most of those died in the death camps btw, like my uncles.
President Quezon attempted to invite in Jewish refugees, starting in 1938. He was opposed by the US State Dept (there was a question at the time re just how much sovereignty the Philippines had) for what reason I dont know, perhaps it was full of RCOCEANS at the time. In the end Quezon got his way and about 2000 Jews got in, before the Japs attacked. Since most of these were in Manila a few hundred of them were slaughtered in Feb-March 1945, along with 100,000 Filipinos and misc foreigners.
Some years ago a local historian looked into it, and it turned out that the house next door to ours, which we already knew was the site of a Japanese massacre, had among the victims six German Jews.
The house on the other side was a Chinamans mansion, and the site of another massacre. The man lost his whole family and servants.; 3/20/26, 8:05 PM
buwaya said...: Israeli ethics. It is said that when my grandma heard of Hiroshima she shouted "castigo de dios!" - Gods punishment.
She owed the Japs a great deal of vengeance.; 3/20/26, 8:09 PM
narciso said...: Sadly cuba also denied the jews under laredo bru some suggest it may have cursed us with the wandering coma; 3/20/26, 8:23 PM
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john mosby said...: Wince, congrats on the excellent result. And your anecdote reminds me of the classic Rorshach joke; "hey, you're the one with the collection of dirty pictures!" CC, JSM; 3/20/26, 9:23 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: While "some" Americans, Koreans, Austrailians, Indians, chinese, Filipinos, Malaysians, Vietnamese, Indonesians and Japanese were killed in Pacific War lets never forget to remember the real victims - Jews.; 3/20/26, 9:29 PM
buwaya said...: RCOCEAN, out of my abounding admiration for you, I recommend that you append this little piece of music to your posts, to add an element of well merited gravitas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuChRJ6qNtk
The proper name for the piece is "Die Fahne Hoch" - "raise the flag"; 3/21/26, 5:27 AM
Narr said...: I won't be online again until tonight, and it's been a long time since I watched "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", but I have to wonder why a US propaganda film made in 1944 would "give the impression we were just trying to bomb civilians."

The US official line was that we don't bomb civilians, only military targets.; 3/21/26, 8:28 AM
Rustygrommet said...: "Yamamoto was the moderate in the cabinet"

Wasn't he the one that promoted the Pearl Harbor idea?; 3/21/26, 9:20 AM
donald said...: That’s the funny part.; 3/21/26, 11:57 AM

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