We hope you all had a nice holiday, if you celebrate.
Pour a beverage and continue to talk amongst yourselves.
Christmas Night Open Post
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We hope you all had a nice holiday, if you celebrate.
Pour a beverage and continue to talk amongst yourselves.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas, nick!
White Supremacy.
Bokoff, Director of Development at the Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, slapped followers on Twitter with an “annual reminder” that “not everyone celebrates Christmas!” and that, moreover, the “default” to the Christian salutation “as a normal greeting” is also “white supremacy culture at work”.
Fuck off, Jen Bokoff. Not a Christian nor a white supremist. I don’t want any part of your race war.
Is it wrong for me to wish my (((employee))) a Happy Hanukkah?
He’s actually pretty happy that I know the Jewish holidays and understand that they typically begin at sunset on the day prior.
My atheist employee wishes everyone a Merry Christmas too. Can he do that? Is it like how a black rapper can use the N-word even though the rest of us can’t?
No it’s not. In fact it’s kind. You are absolutely right most non-Jews haven’t the faintest idea when it starts.
If “Merry Christmas” is offensive then I won’t bother making an effort to wish my other-celebrating friends and colleagues anything any more.
“Have a bland winter and an intolerant next annual measuring period” for everyone.
I lacked Christmas enthusiasm coming into the season.
The Greenbrier vacation flipped a switch for me.
I was Merry Christmasing everyone I talked to by the end.
My general rule: when someone is genuinely trying to be kind and generous and gracious, and this pisses you off. _They_ aren’t the problem.
Exactly this. When I was younger, it rubbed me the wrong way hearing Merry Christmas wherever I went. It finally dawned on me people are just happy and sharing it with other people. It wasn’t an effort to convert everyone to Christianity. From that time on, I graciously accepted it and wished them the same.
In the before times it was obvious when Hanukkah began because there were displays everywhere (I do live in NYC). Now… I saw it on my wall calendar.
Ugh, thread fail. This was a response to “most non-Jews haven’t the faintest idea when it starts”.
In NYC that’s insane. Can I blame Cuomo and/or DeBlasio?
I dunno. There might still be displays everywhere but I haven’t been anywhere I might see one in nine months so I wouldn’t know.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Awesome.
Merry Christmas!
Mises!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqGUNi6XMAE-yjJ?format=jpg&name=900×900
Now that’s something I’d be willing to put in my house.
Merry Christmas, Glibbies! Quiet day here with good food, booze, presents and Christmas movies.
Same.
Merry Christmas all.
We watched old camcorder movies of the kids when they were 3-5 years old. Oldest is 19 now. It went by so fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igm2iGvo-us
WaPo is assho.
Scoff. That’s what we did years ago when we each first heard about Holocaust denial, as a Holocaust historian and the child of a survivor, respectively. Dismissing it as the historical equivalent of flat-Earth theory, we reassured ourselves that the Holocaust has the painful distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world. Who could claim it did not happen? But we soon discovered we were wrong to laugh at it, as the falsehood crept into classrooms, books and even international relations. We have learned — the hard way — to take it seriously.
That is why in recent weeks we have watched with alarm the birth of another powerful disinformation mythology: the false conviction pushed by President Trump and his enablers that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen.
We had wondered whether the definitive vote of the electoral college and the declaration by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that Joe Biden was the president-elect might provide a final end to Trump’s electoral fraud fantasies. But he has instead redoubled his dangerous disinformation crusade, reportedly even probing the use of the military to further his bizarre theory that the election was stolen.
Call it democracy denial.
As students of history, we do not make this comparison lightly: No lie could be as bad as denying the reality of a genocide. But democracy denial is bad enough.
All-but calling Trump and his supporters “neo-Nazis” has been going on for four years. Try to be more original.
“We’re not saying that questioning whether this election was the fairest and most transparent ever is morally equivalent to Holocaust denial – but shut up and BELIEVE or you’re like, literally, Hitler.”
“democracy denial” My next Album
Chinese Democracy?
Uh dude, it isn’t history if it’s current events.
I’m particularly disgusted with a fellow Jew using the Holocaust for his political pet peeve. Fucker learned nothing.
I blinked and the whole day disappeared.
GF went to Jersey to visit family and left me home to play Fallout 4 all afternoon.
Today’s NFL game was pretty boring. Kinda competitive until the 4th quarter in which the Vikings screwed the pooch.
So back to needlepoint for me…
They’re still playing football? In the middle of a pandemic?
*faints*
The fun part is it’s a crapshoot who you’re gonna get as players rotate on and off the “Covid list” every week.
I am impressed they made it this far into the season. I thought for sure it would have been called off weeks ago.
I listened to the game on the radio as I was driving. Vikes are entering Cleveland Browns territory (constantly letting me down).
And the Browns have a chance to make the playoffs on Sunday, and depending on the Stillers/Colts, a chance for the division!
Look out. The Jets are on a roll.
Local news has been running stories about all the ways the Browns won’t make it into the playoffs. 🙂
Well, if they lose to the Jets they don’t deserve the playoffs. 🙂
On the bright side, the Vikings now have no way to make it to the playoffs.
Agreed. But we can beat the Jets, and if the Colts, Dolphins, and Ravens all win, that’s when things get strange. Then we need to beat the Stillers to get the division and if we lose, we still could miss the playoffs with an 11-5 record.
To add to the conflicted cheering, the Colts are playing the Stillers at the same time as the Browns/Jets game Sunday. I still can’t cheer for the Stillers.
Go Colts!
Go Browns!
*sad face*
I guess I root for the Green Bay Peckers now.
Trying to cushion the blow?
Merry Christmas to you all. Even you non-celebrants. 😉
?⛄❄???
DONT TELL ME WHAT KIND OF CHRISTMAS TO HAVE!!
Uh, I meant Thank You!
Am I being detained?!
Io Saturnalia
Even to Tulpa???
https://mobile.twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1342561489677410309
Wtf?
I think he’s bombed.
Definitely. And a dumbass.
Best reply: It’s tradition for Nashville Mayors to drop acid early Christmas morning since it’s normally their only day to themselves.
Religion of peace.
Kabary Salem is a former Olympic boxer who was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges over the strangulation death of his daughter, Ola Salem. Ola Salem, a Muslim women’s rights activist, was found dead in Staten Island on October 24, 2019. According to an acquaintance, Ola Salem was “becoming very Americanized,” and that seems to have been what sent her father over the edge.
Uppity American girl. Shut up and wear your
maskhijab.I have a book suggestion for Mojo.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000LG8348/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_8?smid=A2R8HH2NX5KSRH&psc=1
I kept hoping the price would drop but it hasn’t. I got lucky and picked mine up years ago when it was cheaper.
Oh, that’s an interesting title. Thank you!
Though you come & go, please always feel free to join us in the Zoomin’ (no Toobin’). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09
needs MOAR boobin’ -Q
All are welcome. All welcome.
Fredo Cuomo is a dishonest hack who is dishonest and a hack. ///ChrisCuntmo
https://mobile.twitter.com/LloydLegalist/status/1342601692886552576
Heh.
The new Mortal Kombat let it all lay bare.
*Vomits*
He’s a national treasure. Let’s all wish Dr. Anthony Fauci a Happy Birthday today. We are all so grateful to him for saving lives over all these years. And we need him now more than ever.
Indeed. Let me know when you find one.
It’s the same way they treated Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
It is and the hagiography has got to stop. Fauci is undermining public trust. Some time in the future we will have a genuine public health crisis. Public trust is science/scientists/public health officials will be necessary to address it. This douche is destroying that trust with his lies and constantly moving the goal posts.
She has returned. She has more presents.
Woot!
Santa is non-binary?
It’s a Festivus miracle!
Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good night. God bless you every one.
“God bless you every one.”
And you too, Merry Christmas.
I mean, he IS a potato…
Lawrence Jones called the commentary “disgusting”, and Emily Compagno argued that Joe Biden’s calls for national reconciliation are hollow words from the president-elect. Kennedy added that free speech must be protected no matter how “abhorrent, simplistic, overly busy, unreadable,” or “unpopular” it might be, but then she ripped into Stelter, quoting conservative commentator Stephen Miller.
Pwnd.
Even Stelter’s First Amendment rights are important and are protected. Just laugh at him or attack him with facts. I know ad hominums are fun and may be accurate but don’t support your own argument too well.
Agreed. Not my style, either.
Even if he is a hamhead.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Fuck Off Tulpa, and all that.
Front page of the local rag the lead story is about the PA at the hospital being the first one in the county to get the cootie shot. OK story until the end where he tells us you see you could still be contagious even with the shot so we have Wear The Mask until half of us have got our shots. WTF?
Merry Christmas y’all.
Oh, so now the mask is to protect . . . who, exactly?
If you’re vaccinated you can neither get sick nor transmit. If the vaccine works, of course.
I’m trying to follow this. Is the claim you can’t get ill but can be a carrier?
Sort of. First, none of the vaccines (and this includes most/all of previous vaccines for other diseases, something that often gets glossed over) provide 100% protection against infection in everyone. But so far the data seems to be showing when vaccinated people do get infected, they have milder cases. Keeping people out of the morgue and more so, out of the hospital goes a long way.
Some discussion of that and other things surrounding the vaccines
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/18/vaccine-possibilities
(from the dead thread)
Ham, decadent potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls, and cinnamon rolls. A very excellent wine (19 crimes, and I am not a wine connoisseur), 4 shots of Jack and 5 beers. I’m well-stuffed and quite drunk.
Happy fucking Xmas to the only online friends that I have.
And a “howdy” to my friend Jake who is an occasional lurker and about the only true friend I have left in the “real” world.
Hello Mr. Hobbit.
Sounds like you have enjoyed an exceptional day.
Hello, kinnath,
We enjoyed our visit with you and hope to do it again sometime.
And we enjoyed your mead, thank you!
You’re welcome.
Let us know the next time you roll through Iowa.
Beer, short ones in green cans. Watching how-to videos of car fixin’. The videos were unnecessary. I’ve done the job dozens of times.
Spiral sliced Ham and Prime Rib, Funeral Potatoes, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Creamed Corm, Garlic Toast served in Great Grandma’s Copper dish, Creamed Corn, Smoked Whitefish Pate, Pickles, Salad, Thinly sliced Albanian Dried and Smoked Pork Loin. Salad.
It mostly sounds like great eats but the Creamed Corm gives one pause.
I’m off to work, kids. Mind the store.
Growing up in the 1980s, I like to think we had some of the best music. This however, isnt an example of that.
Or is it?
/moons @ Zoom call
Lots of great 80s music. But none of it was punk or metal.
Shut your whore mouth.
No, it isn’t.
I still come across the odd new-to-me eighties track that I dig. This one might be the most eighties song I’ve ever heard.
So much music out there.
Christmas music #1
Christmas music #2
Christmas music #3
Christmas music #4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtFfhlZPLls
Live hockey on TV: Russia vs USA. Who should I root for?
Bayern München, of course.
China?
Jamaica
Poland.
Wat? Where?
Never mind. I found it. Had no idea this was going on.
MIRACLE ON ICE 2, COLD WAR AIN’T OVER BOOGALOO!
Sigh. This isn’t looking good.
Oh, good. We pulled our goalie.
Anyway it’s nice to see some hawkey after nine months.
WJC 2021. NHL channel.
Your mom.
With Capitalism there might be bread lines but with Socialism there will not be any bread to line up for.
Our Christmas tradition is to have monkey bread on Christmas morning. Then we play the dice game. During the dice game we roll 3 die, if you get doubles, you get to pick a gift. Once all the gifts (less than $20) are claimed, we start a 10 to 15 minute timer. If you roll doubles, you can steal another person’s gift. It usually ends up with people getting what they want. I got stuffed olives, habanero chick peas and Jalapeno Carne Seca beef jerky this year.
Christmas is changing as people get older. I did most of the cooking AND most of the clean-up this year. Previous years, I was mostly clean-up. I guess that means I am accepted as the better cook. I AM THE BEST COOK!
I also noticed that the eldest daughter transitioned from getting the best gifts to giving very thoughtful gifts,
We don’t do the dice game, but we make the Monkey Bread every year on Christmas Morning. Look forward to it all year ’round. Though my tee-totaller parents my suggestion of using some aged rum as a bonus ingredient was vetoed.
*nixed my suggestion.
You should have spiked it anyway.
As there was no family gathering today, I indulged and made biscuits and gravy for breakfast and steak and roasted vegetables for dinner.
“biscuits and gravy”
With sausage? If I were on death row, THAT would be my final dish!
Of course it was sausage gravy. I have some standards.
Huzzah!
Cast iron is your friend. Butter is your other friend.
It was done in my cast iron skillet as well. Which was then cleaned and used for the dinner steaks.
Nice Neph!
https://mobile.twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1341803447746760707
Unsurprisingly, the claim picnic is a racist word is unmitigated bullshit.
Merry Titsmas to all and to all a Big Rack!
https://archive.li/OsTJo
One and done.
Heavens to Betsy! #2 is the spitting image of a girl that nearly got me shot dead 30 years ago. It was worth it.
Risking the uxorial wrath again, huh?
Bah, she’s mostly wrathed out unless she decides to hit me upside the head with a skillet I should be fine and dandy.
Merry Christmas to all and sundry!!
Don’t trust him! It’s a (chinese finger) trap!
https://theundefeated.com/features/doc-rivers-and-americas-preoccupation-with-black-failure/
Merry Coronomas. A little something to remind us all of the inherent treachery, hatred, and racism of whitey on this most “holy” day that celebrates yet another example of the oppression of the marginalized by the colonizers.
Go fuck yourself.
I don’t have any patience for this nonsense anymore.
“America prefers its Black men and women dead.”
Well, I’m starting to prefer YOU dead. You’d be less annoying.
I never had patience for it. But since we are on the topic, statistics show that black Americans want black Americans dead seeing as they kill each other in droves.
*peruses article*
So many false premises (and every logical fallacy in the book), so little time.
Grandma’s pressure cooker has a relief valve. In the clement times it was rioting and looting. Now that the weather has turned we’ll need some racist screeds to hold us over until the Magnolias blossom again.
Doc Rivers was paid $5 million per year when he coached the Clippers. I don’t see that as wanting him dead.
Huh. Four boxes of chocolate. I don’t even care that much for chocolate. Officially a grumpy old man now.
The annual rites of Leavemethefuckalone Day have taken root! Now where the fuck is that bag of tube socks?
But a funny one.
High praise! I don’t want anyone to give me anything. Feels weird to me, hence the 25 year-old tradition of Festus receiving a bag of tube socks from his step-daughters.
I got socks for Xmas, it felt good.
An old school soul present for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-3FtRFsxw
G’night my Glibz on Zoom and otherwise.
Merry Everything to all and to all good stuff or something…
Night Q
Damn phone died, sorry Glibs, I oops,
SkSkSkskSk!
I have seen most of the Bond movies at least twice, if not a bunch more, and have been going through the series again, especially the Connery and Moore ones. It’s been a while since I’ve watched the Dalton ones, which were underrated I think. Lazenby was a great Bond, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service easily stands up against the best, and Diana Rigg is amongst the hottest Bond girls, with Solitaire and Pussy Galore competing of course. And although I think Goldfinger, Dr No, From Russia with Love and The Spy Who Loved Me are the best, I have a soft spot for the crazy blaxploitation plot of Live and Let Die. Brosnan and Craig have each had a good one (and some questionable ones).
Tilly Masterson over Pussy Galore. I’m a sucker for Helen Mirren’s cousin.
Jill Saint John and Eva Green.
I would go Pussy over Tilly three days out of four. Jill St John absolutely, and Ursula Andress with a knife strapped to her thigh would make the top 5.
Hey now! Whatever pokes your pocket. It’s a big old world…
I’ve always been pro conch shell gathering women. It’s an admirable skill.
They can hold their breath longer?
Why do we spell that word that way? Why not spell it correctly? Konk. Konk konk on the head!
Piloting a canoe out alone to deserted islands where a devil creature lives is bad ass. Doing it in a bikini with a knife strapped brings it to another level. That is what I am in favor of. This is a movie, but I have seen glimpses of the incredible in humans in real life, I’d like to see some more of that. This year has been hard to swallow, it’d be nice to see a real wake up to reality.
Understood, KS. I too am about done with this year.
I can’t believe it got to this point. I am making it a point to be as free as possible in my daily life. Freedom needs a comeback.
It’s not as if 2021 is going to be any better.
How to Live Free in an Unfree World. Wonder if any of the advice therein is applicable today.
Tap-tap-tap
Anyone there?
Hello-hello?
mornin’ fam
Nope, nobody’s here.
New version of “Irish People Try”, but with Punjabi villagers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edj93DTZIGg
Bismillah
I noticed their sammiches had salami on them. I wonder if they use beef for salami at the Subways in Muslim regions?
WTF why am I posting here?