While you goyim run outside to see a Mercedes with a big bow-tie on it (I assume that’s what you people do, it’s every other damn commercial during football), I’m inside looking at retailer stock prices and rubbing my grubby Jew paws together while cackling.
Something that gave me hope for America was having a bright young man over here last night who had been homeschooled, started college early, and was trying to figure out whether he was more of a minarchist or an an-cap. Good luck in college- they’re do everything they can to beat that out of you.
Sic transit gloria Lainie. My father used to drool over the younger version of her, but he was always a sucker for a large set of boobs.
There are old pilots and there are stupid pilots. There are no old, stupid pilots.
Pope Frankie lectures us all. Just curious, does Vatican City welcome immigrants? (BTW: my Honduran next door neighbor dropped in last night while we were all having drinks- and he brought multiple bottles with him. Yahweh bless our new citizens)
The Palestinian Arabs learned the Washington Monument maneuver from us. Well done, you killed commerce for your co-tribalists. Let’s see how the money-beg to the US works out for you. While we’re looking at news from the least important part of the Middle East, looks like Guatemala is moving their embassy to a better chunk of real estate. Rumor is that Romania is next, so I’m planting the suggestion in the Elders of Zion’s sidelock-bordered ears that they request Pie as the ambassador.
Old Guy music presents to you the best Christmas song ever written.
While you goyim run outside to see a Mercedes with a big bow-tie on it (I assume that’s what you people do, it’s every other damn commercial during football), I’m inside looking at retailer stock prices and rubbing my grubby Jew paws together while cackling.
Irish comedian Dave Allen had a similar joke on one of his old shows, but I can’t find it on Youtube.
One of those commercials particularly creeps me out. It’s got an insufferable little girl talking to her new car about how much she loves it. She then morphs into an adult and grins while hugging the car. And that grin… it’s The Joker. Pure evil.
I mean, she’s so creepy I didn’t want to molest her.
It’s a Christmas miracle.
Dave Allen was awesome. Wonder what his 2D:4D was?
There’s something cheeky about this comment but I can’t point a finger at it.
** scratches itch on nose and takes a sip more whisky **
Merry Christmas!
Happy Decemberween! I’m off to work.
Eating and drinking all day is hard work in itself
Well, Haley just announced a sizeable cut to the UN budget, so that’s a good start.
“Haley just announced a sizeable cut to the UN budget, so that’s a good start.”
Every day is like Christmas with this guy…oh, wait.
What do you call a budget cut of $235 Million?
A good start.
moar
The inefficiency and overspending of the United Nations are well known. We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.”
Getting rid of the IRS?
Well, she’s gotta start somewhere. I’ll take this.
You mean this isn’t the best Christmas song ever written?
More seriously, how about this for best Christmas song ever?
Ya, I like that one.
Silent Night?
Really? Obvious, but I’m going with this one.
This one. Right here. It’s a song that caused the British censors to back off for a bit.
Kirsty was a tough “old” broad, and hailed from my parish.
Not the best ever, but I like this version of a classic.
God I hate that song. It is impossible to not hear three notes of that dreck and have it stuck in your head for an hour.
Objectively it’s not very good, but it’s one of those songs that’s just so much fun. I’m reminded of McCartney’s “Hello, Goodbye”. In fact, McCartney wrote a lot of songs that are a bit insipid but a lot of fun, while Lennon wrote the tedious dirges. (I hate “Happy Christmas”.)
Yes. Lennon alone took everything too seriously, Paul was all cotton candy.
The Beatles truly were more than the sum of the parts.
Yep. It is possibly the worst
Christmassong ever.Worst song ever?
I am entering this as the best Christmas song ever
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7HvF3a_Iw
The only Christmas performance I insist on hearing today.
My favorite after The Pogues song straffinrun linked.
Best Christmas Song Ever
This is good.
So is this.
A solid effort from one of my favorite bands.
A terrific one I stumbled across.
Their first album is great. Nice people too.
From America’s Tropical Outpost our local Christmas song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvGKUXW0iI
You are all wrong. The coreect answer is Spinal Tap. It’s always Spinal Tap.
https://youtu.be/KneOdEDwDEc
My favorite Christmas Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFVkUOc2bo
God’s favorite version of the classic.
Very nice but bow before the Tap.
Here is the XMAS album made for glibs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uKnd6IEiO0
Who knew people would make an album for us?
nice!
Great find! Hilarious!
So the plane crashed, thoroughly destroyed, at the end of the runway he was attempting to take off from. Any guesses as to exactly how that happened?
Wasn’t as high as he though when he tried to turn?
Possibly overloaded?
Shitty story. Get-there-itis is a hell of a disease.
Ground Sickness is usually terminal.
I find this all the more disturbing because my girlfriend suddenly decided she wants to learn to fly, and has a grandfather who owns planes. She’s generally a fairly capable person, but a pretty risky driver…
When you read aviation accident reports you find that most of the risk is in the hands of the pilot, and that it takes a chain of errors to have a significant issue. Following checklists, maintaining procedures and prudent planning will mitigate large areas of risk.
Flying is fun, empowering and a very different mental exercise from driving. I would say that unless they exhibit extremely risky behavior in general it would be unlikely to carry over into flying.
I went and looked at the metar history on the morning of the 24th.. (it goes until 7:15, so his crash affected the weather station)
24 07:15 Calm 0.15 Fog OVC003 54 NA NA NA NA 30.18 NA
24 06:55 Calm 0.15 Fog OVC003 55 NA NA NA NA 30.18 NA
24 06:35 Calm 0.15 Fog OVC003 55 NA NA NA NA 30.17 NA
That is 800′ horizontal visibility 300ft vertical vis no wind, so that fog was sticking around until it burned off.
Under part 91 you are allowed to takeoff in zero/zero, but it Isn’t a good Idea.
There are no IFR alternate takeoff minimums for KBOW, so the standard minimum for part 135 & part 121 would be 1 mile visibility.
I’ve taken off from my local airport with fog and waited until at least 1 mile visibility. You have to bring your A game as you go on full instruments immediately.
The runways were not particularly short for a Cessna340, nor was it hot to have density altitude issues. Only 5 passengers so it could have been loaded heavy, but just as likely within spec since they were only going to Key West.
Unless there was a mechanical it will be pilot error, loss of control.
The Pope stressed that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere.
With a gun at the head of taxpayers. Amirite, Papa pacifist?
Listened to AFN (Armed Forces Network) today for the first time in years. Between the awful Creedlike music they played all day were announcements of the the Guatemalans moving their embassy. Weird.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. Unless he comes bearing bombs
Unless they try to enter the Holy City, which has walls to keep the unwashed masses out.
Guatemala is moving their embassy to a better chunk of real estate.
The Guatemalan’s know where their tortilla is buttered. (do Guatemalan’s eat tortillas?)
Don’t be racist. All hispanic types eat torillas
On the side without the virgin on it?
Dunno. All i know is the Salvadorian papusa is fine eating.
She sounds hot
Hmmmm papusas.. there’s a papuseria right next to my work that I need to visit…
I tell you, it’s just like the core story arc in Shogun. Wait for a brave warlord to challenge the hegemon, and ride his coat-tails out of the dojo.
In Bethlehem and Gaza, Christmas celebrations nixed over Jerusalem decision
Guatemala gets it.
Best Eksmaz song? Try this one
Why is the government UFO program in the news all of a sudden?
“What we need to stimulate the economy is for the government to fake an alien invasion”
-Noted braintrust Paul Krugman
I keep seeing little stories like that mostly from the English.
+1 noted economist Alan Moore
Morning.
What do you mean morning? Are you othering those of us who finished the first bottle of wine already
I don’t drink wine.
I did just drag myself out of bed.
First bottle of wine? Who are you othering? BTW, I learned the hard way that milled red wine is not the same as other reds. Tastes like easter egg dye with brown sugar.
Wait is milled a mispeling or something i never heard of
I read that as ‘mulled’ wine, which is a real thing.
Some crap called “Vinterstale” from Sweden. Present. It says, “Milled Red Wine” on the label and after drinking it, I assumed it was foolish sub genre.
Northen european countries.sell wine mixed with sugar and spices for boiling to make mulled wine. German stores are full of this.stuff. for when it is to much trouble to add a spoon of.sugar and a stick od cinnamon to wine yourself you buu it oremixed and just put it in a pot on the stove
You’re right. I just checked it out online. It’s a German wine called Vintersaga and, of course, it’s from Ikea. Who gives wine as a present from Ikea?
Aren’t you in the country where they eat KFC on Christmas?
Huge lines there today. I went for kaiten sushi. Stuffed to the gills.
If you are developing gills, you may want to cut back on the sushi.
Thats what i though as well bit you never know. I dont like mulled wine but do drink on occasion mulled tuica
Mulled wine always sounds like a good idea. I drink it once a year and remember why it’s better in theory than practice. Then the next year I am convinced that this time it’ll be good if I just get the spices right. Nope.
I spent several Christmases in Germany drinking Gluhwein at outdoor stalls. It’s remarkable how fast that shit will get you toasted.
And that’s another reason it’s not actually a good idea.
Had a decent pinot noir from Moldavia – the country not the province of Romania. Minis Terrios pinot noir decent for an Eastern European pinot, not our forte
Is Moldavian wine made from grapes crushed by the feet of scantily clad Moldavan maids with slightly thick ankles?
Moldavian.chicks have quite.delicate ankels
This has not been my experience. My experience is very limited though.
Q I am telling you in advance I expect the boobs to be apropriatly festive today
It is 13 degreese in Bucharest and no hint of snow. I blame global waming.
I assume that’s those pussy Euro degrees, not fine American Fahrenheit degrees.
Woke up to about four inches of snow this morning. I was irritated with myself for not putting the car in the garage last night.
Dammit, why did you tell me? I was blissfully ignorant.
Now I have to shovel.
You mean our ridiculously high taxes don’t pay for government workers to clear snow?
No your ridiculously high taxes pay for government workers to fine you for not clearing the snow.
Are we using metric or moon landing degrees?
We got a couple inches and it is 31 (in proper temp measurement) which is good because I forgot to bring the beer in off the porch last night and if it was clear, it would have froze. Exploded beer on the porch would have been a Christmas tragedy.
Speaking of beer on the porch….
It’s 13 degrees where I am too!
It’s 17 degrees here. Below zero.
71 beautiful moon walking nation degrees here. But it is only 0800 and will warm up later.
Hey! Your eggnog recipe was a big hit last night. Thanks again for posting it!
Something soothing and melodious for the season
Today in sentences you can’t un-read, “He reportedly purchased the butt plug in order to help ease an infection.”
“…by using a butt plug—a toy specifically designed to be inserted in the rectum.”
Just in case the concept wasn’t clear enough.
Well how do you recharge your phone?
LOL!
My wife told me recently that at the hospital where she works a large straight male came into the ER because of an 18″ sex toy stuck in his rectum. The doctors couldn’t pull it out the way it went in so they had to open up his abdomin. This was supposedly two days before his wedding.
Can’t be assed to read it.
I initially read that as “repeated purchased,” which didn’t make much sense. “Reportedly purchased” makes fractionally more sense, but still not much.
By the way- Ho ho ho. merry Cthulumas.
So i got socks, a scarf, a wallet and a bottle of cheapish moldavian brandy for christmas who can top that?
*contemplates bad pun*
They don’t actually work together as a single dish.
I got a beer making kit:)
Nice. That is what I was going to get myself, but I bought Prime Rib instead.
Yum
Seems I got drunk yesterday and while sleeping through the Bronco game, which is the best way to watch the Bronco’s play this year, I slightly overcooked it by leaving it in the smoker too long. It is still good, but it could have been better.
Latinos (**mi novia esta Salvadoran) celerate Christmas – gifts, big meal – on Xmas Eve. This year we had prime rib. A 13-lb, 5-bone rack of prime rib. It was the best piece of meat I’ve ever seen not made professionally and leaves all but a handful of restaurant meals in the dust. Yum. Mee.
And then, in what I hope will become the new Christmas Day tradition, we used the leftovers and made the greatest French Dip sandwiches evah w/ melted, Greyeur chz on crusty sammich rolls. Topped off with a great horseradish spread Nadia made yesterday. Delightful! No KFC here, bitches!
** and, yes – papusas are the shit!
Merry Christmas, my friends
It occurs to me that this tradition can work for (((you))) as well.
L’chayim!
Have to deal with that beef+dairy limitation though.
Your list of Christmas gifts reminded me of this.
I got a gift certificate to the local home grown meat market. I picked up a brisket flat and some sausage Friday. The brisket shall be smoked for new years.
4 packages like this from a family who aren’t going to pay for one of these.
But it’s OK by me.
I don’t know much about the situation with the Palestinian Arabs, but it seems that terrorism is no exception to the Metallic Rule “You get more of what you reward”.
According to the weather service, it is currently three degrees, and will zoom upward to seven. More snow coming.
I’m still waiting for the wind to come blow away what fell the other day. Hibernation continues. As long as the power and internet stay on, I’m good.
We were -2 wind chill when I got up this morning.
-4 actual, -23 wind chill.
Bring it, Gaia!
-17 actual, -39 wind chill.
Don’t have to go anywhere today, and we aren’t getting any company. I’m thinking a Irish coffee or three would be good about now.
Merry Christmas, Mike!
Sounds like a perfect day!
Merry Christmas to you to, man! As is typical with these cold snaps (as you know) is there’s not a cloud in the sky. It’s a beautiful Christmas day!
Same here. Just gorgeous!
Wife and dog just got back from a walk, daughter is impatiently waiting for her brother to wake up. I’m sitting by the fire, drinking coffee and Glibbing out.
That sounds great. Today is normally Christmas with the in-laws, but it got postponed to next weekend. So just me, the wife, and the dogs staying inside and keeping warm today. Glorious.
Seriously? That’s even too cold for my namesake.
Yep. Headed for a high temp of -9. Courtesy of some Siberian air that decided to invade North America. It’s always the damn Russians!
A balmy 32, 31 including wind chill.
Time to put on those Bermudas and start up the grill.
I always like hearing this Christmas song.
https://youtu.be/JPm6CheT6rs
Very nice.
Never heard of it.
That’s where lepers are from
I’ve decided to try out the spice mix Suthen shared. No grill (and four inches of accumulation outside) so I’m going to see how different cooking methods work with it.
If you have a broiler, you have a grill.
Shhh…
Good. I hope it turns out well. Let me know what you think.
Baked works well, both raised and on the pan. Because one mix produces so much and there’s only one of me, I’ll be trying a few more cooking methos throughout the day.
Buttermilk pancakes from my great-grandmothers recipe this morning, with bacon cured by my father-in-law.
Merry Christmas to the Glibs that roll that way, and fuck-you-cut-spending to all!
Nutty sticky rolls (Christmas tradition), sausage patties, eggs, toast, and milk.
Now I need a nap. Except everyone gets here in 45 minutes and I still need to shower.
Breakfast was a variation on something I like to call “hot mess.” Oven baked tater tots, scrambled eggs, pork sausage chunks, diced garlic, all stirred together with some American cheese until melted. Topped with sriracha. I don’t know what it is about American processed cheese product, but it tastes fantastic with sriracha 100% of the time.
Last night’s Xmas eve dinner was seafood. I’m particularly proud of the poached salmon: The lobsters were steamed in a garlic-msg-black pepper-crushed red pepper-chicken stock-pinot grigio broth, became a garlic lobster broth. Poached the salmon fillet in the lobster broth until the fat liquefied. Delicious. For oysters, I have given up cocktail sauce permanently for this dude’s three pepper ketchup.
FWIW, leaving the rubber bands on lobsters whilst cooking them is the practice of savages. Snip the rubber bands before they go into the water.
Nice Xmas eve dinner. That broth would do some mussels proud. I had tater tot hot dish with my prime rib last night. Leftovers this afternoon will be with tater tot hotdish and cheesy garlic mashed potatoes. It is a potato kind of day.
Yeah, it just so happens I was trying to find mussels yesterday, but all of the local markets were picked clean of the mussels. But by luck, I found those excellent large oysters at a good price instead. One of the benefits of living in a climate that gets snow regularly, is that you can just go outside and collect snow instead of crushing ice for your oysters. I don’t have any orphans that specialise on shucking oysters unfortuantely.
Also my whole childhood and adolescence in Denver metro and past the divide, i never heard the term “hotdish” from a local. That a new thing around those parts?
New combination snarc and b.s. detector. One setting for TOS and one setting for Glibs.
While you goyim run outside to see a Mercedes with a big bow-tie on it (I assume that’s what you people do, it’s every other damn commercial during football), I’m inside looking at retailer stock prices and rubbing my grubby Jew paws together while cackling.
I’m not Jewish, I’m Gentile, but I’m much more likely to look with glee on rising stock prices than run outside to see a Mercedes with a bow-tie on it. No one is going to buy me one of these, I’ll have to buy it my own damn self, and where is the money for that going to come from? The same place the money for all my guns came from: my work and saving.
The snow is coming down hard here. I can barely see the houses across the street. Accuweather claims the storm will end in an hour or two. We’ll see.
Merry Christmas everyone!
So jealous of the snow.
Trade you. /idiot that complains about winter weather but never moves to somewhere close to the tropics.
The jobs up here are lucrative enough that I’ll stay, but once that changes, I’m out of here. No income tax on my salary, no sales tax, and few gun laws are nice but aren’t enough to keep me here through the winter.
I’m the idiot that perpetually complains about the cold but never moves away. Same idiot engaged in a mortgage at the peak of the last real estate bubble.
Wife is watching the hallmark channel. Lots of snow on TV and I dont have to drive in it.
Exactly. Anyone who wants snow is someone who doesn’t have to shovel it.
John Deere 524, HM.
And you still have to wake up early to do it.
To your point several days ago about how crucial good tires are in the winter: truth.
I just happened to get my first pair of studded snow tires the Sunday before last. Drove back from Jay Peak in the middle of that snow storm on Friday. Coupled with judicious driving choices, it was smooth sailing the whole way, and oddly enough Franconia Notch was the least stressful part about the whole drive. Surprisingly there weren’t more idiots spun out on the shoulder through the whole way.
I shovel as it snows which often let’s me just use a broom here. It doesn’t snow much here, so it’s kind of fun. If I had to do it all the time, that would be different, but a few times a year is good.
When we expect snow, I usually let a neighbor without a driveway park in my drive (he is right at a T and is paranoid because someone slid into his car once) and he shovels the overnight if I’m not quick enough.
Marion Barry?
HM speaks the truth.
I have a snowblower, which helps, but seriously. Fuck snow.
It looks like the storm just ended. If it doesn’t pick up in a half hour, I’m going to go clear all the shit off my driveway.
Kinky.
Figuratively, not literally. I don’t want frostbite on my cock.
Q: What’s the difference between kinky and perverted?
A: Kinky is when you use a feather. Perverted is when you use the whole chicken.
you lookin’ at my cock?
There is something wrong with you. Winter sucks. Snow sucks.
Erroneous. It’s clean and beautiful.
Barf.
Blows raspberry at DEG.
Christ, what an asshole!
😉
We watched Scrooged last night. Workplace violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault. Love that movie:)
Murray and Sandler are very different actors, but they both knew how to dial it back realistically when the scene demanded it. When Will Ferrell took over all the big comedy roles, I stopped watching. I can’t stand his humor. Murray is genius.
Will Ferrell movies suck the funny out of the room, leaving a hollow pit in the bottom of my stomach, and render me unable to laugh for the same reason, and in the same interval that crack-cocaine addicts are unable to smile after coming down.
I overheard a conversation the other day between two workers in my building gushing about how every single word out of Sandler’s mouth is hilarious. I almost fell over, because I know the truth. The man is unwatchable.
You gotta look at Sandler for what he is: someone who really knows how to make it rain. For that, I respect him. Films like Grown Ups 2, Big Daddy, and even the R-rated The Do Over are unwatchable.
Yeah, it’s one of those things I completely don’t understand. Like particle physics, or the popularity of Rachel Maddow.
That stuff falling on our heads? That ain’t rain, dude.
You’re right, it’s $100 bills.
Back when I had my gall bladder, I had ‘episodes’ that were funnier than Ferrell *OR* Sandler.
He’s hit or miss. Talladega Nights was hilarious.
We watch it every year. Far and away my favorite Christmas movie.
Not Die Hard?
I’m actually wondering where they plan on putting any of these embassies. Central Jerusalem doesn’t have much in the way of undeveloped real estate. And people get a bit nutty about the idea of tearing down old buildings there.
How long before a Palestinian tries to blow up these new embassies?
I would not be surprised if they already tried.
The lack of a building would not be an impediment to their ambition.
Depends on how they end up situating it, I guess. The current embassy in Tel Aviv is physically pretty accessible if you wanted to roll up with a truck bomb, but until now why would you? In any event, bombings have been pretty well curtailed, hence resorting to knife and vehicular attacks over the past few years.
If they’re going to get cranky anyway, we may as well bulldoze a few blocks in the Muslim quarter to make room for it.
for some added perspective on how sticky real estate issues are there, even the Knesset sits on land leased from the Greek Orthodox Church.
My family got me a porcupine ornament, because liberty.
No Merc outside.
Very disappointed.
It got bogged down in the lack of ROADZ.
I want a Mercury Sable too.
Christmas music for ya.
Tracer. Tracers were cool.
Meh. Never been a Merc guy anyway.
Dad got me a gift card to sor.com and a rebuild kit for my old carb.
Much better.
Wow! Best dad ever!
Nice to be home, huh?
It really is.
You getting any snow there? You picked a good winter to vacate CO. Unless it turns around skiing will be dismal this year.
It’s been two winter storm warnings in 4 days. One right now. It’s not snowing too bad, but the ice is a huge issue. It starts as rain in the 30’s and then changes over.
No more fanciful than Al Gore’s predictions.
“Most famously, the United Nations Environment Program predicted there would be 50 million “climate refugees” by 2010. When that didn’t come to pass, the UN quietly removed a web page containing the information, and pushed the prediction to 2020.”
Scammers are going to scam.
OOMWC: what’s the deal with the banner that has the yin-yang and the Star of David?
Jews are required to eat Chinese food on Christmas. It’s a rule.
It makes more sense when the top isn’t cut off.
Christopher Moore’s Lamb has a great explanation of how the tradition began.
I always assumed it was because Chinese restaurants and movie theaters were about the only places open.
Short version would be?
During the missing 30 years of his (Gospel) life, Jesus travels the Silk Road, lives with a Wise Man and his Chinese concubines, easts Chinese food on his birthday.
Great book, by the way. Funny as hell.
That totally makes sense. BTW, a former “boss” of mine is jewish (married a dutch CRC man, but whatever) carries on the Chinese food tradition.
My best friend’s family is Episcopalian and they eat Chinese on Christmas Eve! I love cultural appropriation!
I make pizza for Xmas eve dinner every year while all the rest are off at Mass. This year, it ‘officially’ became a family tradition that the kids have pledged to continue. Yeah, right.
My family also does pizza on Christmas Eve.
THX1138 for enacting the labour for my lazy ass. GIS is not worth the trouble on a mobile device.
So they can be polite.
Merry Christmas to all!
I want Glibsmas to be a real holiday, but I’m not sure when it should be. I’m considering the day of the first posting as its own sacred day called “The Englibening.”
For Christmas you get two presents wrapped in one package. Take care unwrapping them.
https://archive.is/fF53K
It’s Christmas so it has to be an orgy.
(((I))) want to thank you for more excellent work. If an orgy it must be then an orgy it must be.
26 is one of those chicks from Two Broke Girls
Anyway, an orgy is fine if I must. However, I will still need some special alone time with #18…who may also be the bunny boiler.
Kat Dennings.
Overall, I think this is seriously the nicest of your links I’ve seen in a while.
Seems to have been a lot of “meh” to my eye recently. Not in this one.
My faith is restored.
:thumbsup:
Lucky 13 for me!
Thanks, Santa!
That one stood out for me too.
Orgy. Yes.
#14 Danielle Riley
Good lord.
I think #2 and #17 are the same person, who also happens to be my fiancee, although she doesn’t know about it yet.
2 and 17 are my choices, I’ll just imagine it’s twins.
5
I like 35 as well, just cause I know exactly where that photo was taken.
Snow seems to be a constant today. I just ventured outside, and all I could muster was to shovel the front porch & walkway, and brush off the car. I’ll try again soon.
Sitting inside watching the rest of my family units (LH & his mighty offspring) play a new Nintendo Switch is a better option.
I had a muted family Christmas last night. I thought I’d go talk to my dad in the living room, but then I remembered he wasn’t there. My mom was OK until we started to say goodbye at the end of the night, but kept it together. Leaving for the night almost made me lose it too, because there’s one less person to say goodnight to.
I failed at the gift-exchange today. I will manage to redeem myself somehow.
Just hoping the continued snow doesn’t mean we are shut in all day.
Know the feeling. Still have split seconds where I think about something I want to say to the old man.
Just hoping the continued snow doesn’t mean we are shut in all day.
Fuck it. Go sledding.
Snowmobile or snow machine? I’ve heard both. That’s always been on my list of “fun stuff I’d like but probably wouldn’t buy”
We call them snowmobiles here.
I actually meany sledding, as in climbing the tallest hill you can find and hurtling down it with zero regard for personal safety and common sense.
Meant.
*coffee*
Fun trivia, back in the 1980s, my cousin’s husband use to race for Polaris.
Racing snowmobiles takes a very special brand of crazy.
That would be a good description of him.
Thats what we do here.
We have old runners for the icy driveway, and years ago we had a luge with banked turns into the trees for the inflatable tubes.
till my cousin broke his collarbone.
then the trees got wrapped in blankets.
There’s a sledding hill near here, and one side is a straight-ish hill: the other also goes down hill, but into some woods, with a path in the middle. It’s really fun to go on the woodsy side, but yeah, super easy to get caught on a tree. . . A few winters ago I went to a sledding party with my sister’s family, encouraged the kids (niece, nephew, and the heir) to go on the woodsy side, and later heard a mom lecturing her kids not to go there.
It’s more fun having subversive parents who put you within ‘reasonable’ harm’s way.
Always be the exciting uncle/aunt.
Don’t be a killjoy.
That is all.
That’s what I’m talking about!
I grew up calling them snowcats, even though I lived in a Polaris town. Arctic Cat was maybe an hour away.
#metoo. There’s a smallish pocket in northern ND and MN where they are called snowcats. We were talking about it at work a few weeks ago. And it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with proximity to Arctic Cat. A couple guys that grew up close to TRF were in the snowmobile camp. It’s weird.
Maybe later. Supposed to be wicked cold though.
Holdiays are rough. Best wishes.
damn.
Sorry.
No one is going to give The Kinks props for their Christmas song? Fine. Here it is.
https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk
It’s in my link-fest up there ^, but it’s worthy of another!
Sorry I missed it. I actually clicked on the links (or so I thought.)
As I said before the only good Xmas song is one you would listen to regardless of time of year, thus Father Christmas is the only good Xmas song, and there are no good Xmas movies, Bah Humbug to us all, Bah Humbug ever one!
One more.
Now we’re talkin!
mini booze review:
If you love drinking Cherry Ny-Qil, but don’t love the extra liver damage from the acetaminophen, try “Jim Beam: red STAG – by Jim Beam”
The typography is your symbol of quaity(tm)
That sounds gross.
I’ll probably try it then. I’m 12 years old sometimes.
Using it as the alcoholic equivalent of a Torani syrup works very well. Beam makes an apple-flavored whiskey that I use in cinnamon tea, but I enjoy artificial fruit-flavored candy.
I’m a huge fan of Bourbon (or rye) mixed with unsweetened black cherry juice and ginger ale. I’ll give the Beam product a try.
The day after Sloopy and Banjos got married, my wife and I were strolling through Caesar ‘s Palace and decided to stop at a bar for a drink. The bar had just recieved the whole line of new Beam products (Devils Cut, cinnamon, apple, Silver, and more…) Now, we are a Jim Beam household. So we order two Beams neat. The bartender asks us if we want to sample the new stuff? Of course we do! Three hours later, eight *free* rounds later, after a dozen oysters, and maybe the best steak sandwich ever produced, we had a fine afternoon in Caesar’s.
But you know what? Jim Beam neat is still the way to go.
I do like the Devil’s Cut quite a lot.
Merry Christmas good gentles.
Should be a quiet morning spent cleaning the guns.
Spending time with the ones you love!
Sitting at the dining room table with my lovely wife, both of us cleaning our guns. It was a quiet and cozy Christmas morning.
One from Brian Setzer
A rather nice and sentimental one from noted insaniac Lee Ving https://youtu.be/YYqTij5OVV8
More typical fare from Fear: Another Christmas Beer https://youtu.be/_zeLaezlsEk
The Dwarves: Drinkin’ Up Christmas https://youtu.be/O5zKJVY6fd8
The Business: Bollocks to Christmas https://youtu.be/tHg8DK4132Q
A very special punk rock Christmas!
I hope you have a great day, EDG!
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Cheers!
On this day in history: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were tried, sentenced, and executed.
This calls for a celebratory shot of booze. Cheers.
Seconded. As creepy dictators go he was among the creepiest. A real monster.
To the demise of a grade A dickhead.
::Raises a shot of rakija::
After I clear the driveway, I’m going to bring in some firewood, start a fire, and open a bottle of Samichlaus Helles. I’ll toast their death then.
Finishing off the eggnog, spiked up with some Bacardi. Cheers!
Wasn’t much of a trial though, was it? Not that I’m awfully unhappy about the whole thing.
I remember seeing the live footage when the uprising began on TV. It was grainy, washed out and surreal right out of a horror movie. It unsettled me for years afterward.
The trial and execution videos used to be floating around out there on the Internet.
Yeah, I have seen them. Not the kind of thing I want to see today. I do remember reading that when they started putting the firing squad together they had hundreds of volunteers.
I’m so full of the Xmas spirit I’m watching the Dr Who marathon of the season I just missed. There better be a good episode in here somewhere. The one that’s on now stinks.
I’ll lift a glass and wish you well, though the omens are not good. I was cautiously optimistic when they brought in Peter Capaldi, but .. well .. let’s just say I wasn’t rewarded for it.
I thought they ruined it with proggy poison. I thought the new Dr. Who was going to be played by a trans-black- otherkin or something. I haven’t watched it for years.
A white woman, I believe. Yeah I don’t care about that stuff. It’s not like it affects anything. I just care about good stories.
Lotsa snow last night. Now the wind is picking up and blowing multi-pound blocks of it out of the spruce trees and onto the roof. Sounds I never heard until I moved up here (Saratoga Springs).
We have the crazy wind here in NYC but as usual no snow.
Good Morning from the Left Coast, partly cloudy 48 Moon landing degrees, going to 70.
Japanese and KFC? Jews in Chinese restaurants? the More you Know………
Asian KFC >> Stateside KFC
And there’s like one on every corner.
so basically Starbucks for Japs?
I can only vouch for Chinamen.
Starbucks is the Starbucks of Asia.
Yeah, but you eat it, and 5 minutes later you feel empty again.
Just to comment on the alt-text, I don’t mind the theme. It lends credibility to our credentials as a Family Friendly Website.
“Breaking News”
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/945279722350694401
nice.
If your dad’s name is Bob, you could get him this.
Merry Christmas, Glibs!
Stop by my House, it’s right next door,
Merry Christmas, you ragtag buncha assholes!
You too, KK!
May there be a crazy car chase for you to enjoy on this on this hallowed day. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for tipping me off to the Space X launch the other day. We climbed up on my roof and had a helluva show! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas y’all. Off to the in laws then my fam.
Started off with bloody mary’s, switched to vodka and cranberry. Polished off with shots of Jack and Coke chasers.
Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.
Happy Xmas. Best I can do.
… Hobbit