Chamber pot with a print of Royal Navy Captain Basil Hal, 1830
If you recall the chamber pot with Napoleon’s likeness at the bottom, you’ll know that this type of chamber pot was very popular to express displeasure with certain people. Especially popular at the time of the Napoleonic Wars were Royal Navy officers and Napoleon himself (what a surprise). This chamber pot, however, comes from America and was probably brought onto the market around the 1830s. But what had this rather unknown captain done that caused the Americans to want to piss on him?
Basil Hall was born in 1788 and joined the Royal Navy in 1802. He saw action in various expeditionary missions in Asian and South American waters. He even had an interview with Napoleon on St Helena in 1817. He retired from the Navy in 1823 and began traveling. Among that was a voyage to North America and Canada in 1827/28.
As he published his voyage report, the Americans hoped that he would report positively on the new nation. But he insulted everyone as uneducated idiots, to put it kindly. He blaggarded the colonies from one side to the other and suggested that giving them up was the best thing that the King had done. Hall made most of it up and spread a lot of half-truths in his report and thus ensured that fewer visitors came and the American reputation was tarnished among the British. Even new transcripts with some corrections on his part did not make the whole thing any better and negative voices were raised against him, it was even rumored that he did this deliberately to turn the British against the Americans.
Whether he did all this out of pure malice or imagination is hard to say, because Hall himself was admitted to the Royal Hospital Haslar in Portsmouth in 1840 and died there in 1844 at the age of 55. It is assumed that he only wrote his travelogue in the way he did due to his mental illness.
This brings us up to this moment in time and possible business opportunities to create chamber pots for sale with faces of people who deserve their place in the pot – and in that part of history.
On the heels of Columbus Day
The Jupiter/Earth graphic isn’t a map really
Language
Not quite density – but it speaks to culture
Carnivores have more fun…
Camela Harris under fire?
Critics again took to social media to mock Harris over the video, with some comparing it to the hit HBO show “Veep,” which depicts an incompetent vice president and her hapless political team.
Watch the video here.
KAMALA HARRIS MOCKED OVER SCIENCE VIDEO FOR KIDS
“Stop it. I just heard the children in the cringe-worthy video with Kamala Harris were child actors. Everything in the Biden admin is fake,” wrote one critic, while another suggested Harris was “faker than Hillary Clinton.”
I felt sorry. for the kids until I learned they were making union scale and were on the clock for take after take until the producers were happy with the finished product. It will make for a powerful campaign ad against the Ho should she run for office again.
And it’s October
The chamber pot reminds me of the Jane Fonda urinal targets of a few years ago.
There have been Pelosi targets too. The general idea goes back into hallowed antiquity.
Reference the chamber pot images: somewhere I’ve got the modern equivalent: “Jane Fonda Urinal Stickers” acquired in 1990 at USAF Survival School…
See, you took something very important away from USAF Survival School.
They were there in the 80’s also.
Too many candidates for chamber pot/ urinal stickers. I propose a gallery with a different face every few squares of TP. That way each person can pick the most worthy candidate for any given episode
Chamber pots? OUTSTANDING business opportunity. Count me in.
Naturally, if it’s a Michelle Obama chamber pot, there would be a hole in it to sprinkle onto your shoes.
Yep, seen the Fonda and Pelosi targets. And Larson was always good for classic toons!
We need more targets, Old NFO. When the world provides them, we need to acknowledge them.
Vampires: at some point one becomes accustomed to being surrounded by them. Where I live, basically everyone is a prog of one sort or another. It’s amazing how so many individually bright-seeming persons can collectively be so stupid. And for the most part, smug about their stupidity.
Hard to believe the Portuguese maps of Columbus’ time were so wrong about Scandinavia. But then again what I know about that?
Far away = B.F.E. Or is that a midwestern regionalism?
Just think what history would have recorded if Columbus headed north.
It always struck me in a weird way that some of the most anti-tobacco smokers are pot smokers. Ban all tobacco products! And pot should be free! Crack and Heroin are A-Okay but tobacco is The Devil!
Same with vaping. Oh, noes, someone can vape nicotine, let’s regulate it and make it illegal, but at the same time we need to be able to vape whatever chemicals we want because freedom or something.
Cognitive dissonance. It is a real thing.
As to our current Veep, well, there are, according to Southerners, two types of women. Ladies and whores. And she’s no lady. (And neither was the Moochelle, but that’s a different ‘not a lady’ thingy…)
Maybe we just say no to all carcinogenic vapor being introduced into our lungs voluntarily or involuntarily.
Carnivores have more fun…
To my certain knowledge, I’ve never eaten in a vegan restaurant. During our journey to Pikes Peak, I did enter one in Manitou Springs for a chai for Sisty and a coffee for me, to go.
What could I possibly order at a vegan restaurant – water with a lemon wedge – only – if it’s an organic lemon?
Juxtaposing the world near Jupiter’s storm, took my breath away. There truly is a wonderful God.
The more you look at the grandeur of our world, and the space around us, the more you say, “how great thou art.”
Amen.
fifty-four in d/c? that could explain the insanity going on there…..the days are many that i feel like that guy on the soapbox. vampires, vampires everywhere….i find it telling, and sad, that they can’t make kamelface likeable even with hollywood involved. she reminds me of many “diverse” nco’s i knew over the years. wanted the position but not the job. “you aren’t hanging this shit around my neck!” kamelface. well, we just might hang something around her neck yet.
Her neck might look better if it was longer.
Not “might”.
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