The Classiest! The Best! Christmas Wishes from Donald, the Hat, the Hair and tha Hat! None of that happy holidays shit! Open Post!!!!111!!
Oh, and music link.
Christmas day Glib Zoom/Happy HourDay/Gathering place
Classy Christmas to All
About The Author
CPRM
Organic troll farmer.
You left out the Santa hat. That can’t just be some non-sentient headgear can it?
It’s been a good Christmas art Casa Dean. Santa was good to us this year. Mrs. Dean’s first whole turkey turned out very well yesterday (spatchcocked, brined, cooked on the grill with Piri Piri sauce, basically a giant Piri Piri chicken). So, turkey sandwiches today, noshing on sausage and cheese that were gifts from family.
As many have said, thanks to all here, with a special blessing on TPTB. The learning, the talent, the lulz – all much appreciated In These Uncertain TImes.
Peace and prosperity to all, my friends.
Dad and I had one of those 3-lb. Butterball turkey-like things. I had picked one up for Thanksgiving just in case Dad wasn’t able to get one with the supply chain issues. It turned out Dad bought one the very same day as I did, so we had one at Thanksgiving and the other one today.
The dog already has his rawhide bone in two pieces.
Merry Christmas, CPRM!
Everyone on Zoom is 3 sheets. Now’s the time to join…
I don’t find it entertaining to be the sober guy in a room full of drunk people.
/designated driver
Or the sick guy.
This is what happens when you don’t wear a mask.
/your governor
Sorry you’re sick.
That’s OK, I took a few people out with me at the market and the liquor store yesterday.
⬅
I used up my allotted time last night 🙂 Merry Christmas.
Everyone talks about their favorite Christmas movies, what about New Year’s movies? I’m going with Four Rooms.
The Poseidon Adventure.
The original Ocean’s 11.
Remix the two together and rob the upside-down ocean-liner casino.
The original Ocean’s 11 was very much a Frank flick. Casino security was much more basic, but probably involved more holes in the desert. Be careful when you plant any trees Hayek.
I’m not sure if Four Rooms is so bad it’s good or just bad.
I’d be lying if I said I’m not into it mostly for the misbehavers scene.
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine celebrate New Year’s at the end of The Apartment.
Thanks to everyone for the movie suggestions.
Not 2 Girls 1 Cup?
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
BAH HUMBUG!!
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Good place for this. She seems nice…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/style/marriage-heather-havrilesky-foreverland.html
No beautiful ladies with a Santa hat?
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Well hello Santa’s helper.
When I resigned my job in September, one of my direct reports and his lovely wife gave me a bottle of mead. The wife makes mead as a past time; she told me that it’d be ideal by Christmas  . I will not disagree ? Thank you, Ben and Marlee!
https://imgur.com/a/pSyqdeZ
Cheers!
I hope you thanked Freya and Skadi as you enjoyed it.
Suuuuure…!
Maybe you can show me how someday. 🙂
I hope you enjoyed it.
kinnath knows mead
The Packers offense and defense need to remember that the 4th quarter is part of the game, and you have to play hard then too. In the playoffs they can’t keep getting away with this three periods bullshit.
And the refs won’t always have their back.
If you’re referring to the last play, I don’t think anyone makes anything out of it if Aikman doesn’t bitch. The DB had his hand on his back. I didn’t see any tug, even if I am a biased observer here.
Yeah, it was hard to tell if there was a tug as nobody seemed interested in examining it very closely.
Oldest is home from college for semester break. She asked if we could get Chinese food for dinner. I’m so glad (((we))) are perpetuating the stereotype.
I left about an hour ago to pick up Chinese and just got back. Who’d’ve guessed one of the only restaurants open on Christmas would be slammed??
I got a call from the restaurant two minutes after getting confirmation of my online order. I was told it would be an hour and a half before our meal was ready.
In the old days some poor goy had to run the movie projector too.
No idea if movie theaters are open on Christmas anymore…
Makes me want to watch Inglorious Basterds again.
OT. Tesla royally fucked up their latest UI on the Model 3.
On the plus side they did add some nice features such as displaying the side camera with the turn signals.
Take me down to the Firsting City
Where the seconders are slaves and the girls are pretty
(Take me home) Oh, won’t you please take me home?
If we have to read this shit, can you at least make it sensual or something ?
I mean, like tell us how awesome it will be when you first, or when you hire people to precondition us to be ready?
He’s the fastest man in the world!
…and his wife complains…
Henny Young man applauds.
“can you at least make it sensual or something”
If not, make it sensible or something. I know, I know, that’s asking a lot…
Everyone wants to read, hear, and see the sensual life of Firsters. But I’m not here for tabloid teengirl magazine style drama. I’m here to First and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.
Still working on the first page, I guess
Glibs, come for the intellect, stay for the Craziness!
I love this place,
Odds that the “armed” intruder at Windsor Castle was “armed” with a 3” locking pocket knife?
Lots of articles and none notes the armament.
Sounds like the queen could disarm the intruder with a cold stare.
She does have experience dealing with unexpected intruders, after all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fagan_(intruder)
And her daughter is no piker either
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal#Kidnapping_attempt
Did the queen do anything about her assailant? I get the impression she would grab a gun or sword if one was available.
Apparently not in that case, other than try to find her missing security or other servants. That’s my impression too, particularly in her younger days. I think she’s got more stones than her three sons put together.
Related, a guy who stole Queen Vic’s panties:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones
Rule 34 before the internet
Stumbled onto a 1982 episdoe of the “Price is Right” on youtube with late 1990s commercials baked in.
Talk about surreal served two ways.
And I keep failing to guess the prices. I was not born yet when the show originally aired.
I had no idea you are the baby of this group.
How much could a toaster-oven cost, Michael? Twelve thousand dollars?
“Four of these products are under $1.38” goes through seven products which would each be more than $10 today.
I was flipping around today and caught an episode from the early sixties. It was a very different show.
And with Bill Cullen (the host) doing commercials for laundry soap in the middle of the show.
I thought PIR started in 72.
The original version ran from ’56 to ’65.
Had no idea. Interesting.
I kept watching episodes from the 70s and 80s and noticed something that’s since changed – No one on contestant’s row bid $1.
1986 episode, item is an Apple IIc. Contestants stare in confusion, having no more clue than I do the MSRP.
It was a little over $2000 in 1986 dollars.
I guess Apple prices never really change. In a little while they’ll be a discount brand.
Merry Christmas y’all!!
Coconut cream pie – yum
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f7YFB_NAOqG7k5gIVajD3uOQ
That looks good.
Sometimes I can’t fault Youtube’s algorithm for being random.
That’s a keeper.
/me coughs
I know that tune!
Funny
I feel like a regular in Key West. Tonight a waiter recognized us in a restaurant which we had visited for the first time in November. Naturally, the place was recommended by Shpip.
Am I the only one who is distrubed by being recognized in restaurants? I take it as a sign that I eat out too much.
But I thought you lived in the northeast, did you move to Key West?
Regular customers get better service.
Yes.
The staff at places I’m regulars at recognize me. Service is good.
I wish I could afford a second home in Key West. We liked the island so much during our trip there in November that we immediately booked another trip for Christmas.
And he remembered you?
Yes, the waiter pointed to the table where we had dinner in November. Tonight we had a different table.
With a memory like that I’d imagine he doesn’t get too many orders wrong.
Glad you guys are enjoying Bone Island. I try to steer our visitors right.
Bone Island. On Key West. The joke writes itself.
So, a good visit with relatives; some Malbec was swallowed, etc. etc. Now one relative, who is into genealogy, claims one branch of the family traces back- according to a genealogist – to a Viking king named Ragnar Lothbrook. Isn’t he the dude who appeared in “The Vikings?” Anyway, I take it he was a real person and not some History Channel fiction to sell axe-throwing and sexy women. I was kind of skeptical about the genealogist, figuring he’s another one who will connect you to famous folks so you can get all puffed up about your ancestry. What gives me pause, however, is this particular genealogist did the family tree way back in 1927. Would there have been any reason to connect someone to Ragnar a hundred years ago before a popular tv series made him notorious?
Ragnar is an almalgam of several Danish kings of that time, he was real, but the legends surrounding him are just that, legends. But that shit went down, although no one can prove direct lineage,
/Research
I heard he was really into rock.
and they burned a sacred shrub, and MEAD!
Yes, he was a real person, though lots of legends around him.
And as said below, let’s see the records. He had children, and I think the Danish monarchs claim descent from him. But let’s see the records.
I’m going to need a bibliography of the records used during the viking age. We had a hard time getting past 1500s Devonshire (as in, that’s where the records ran out). Darn peasants not keeping detailed birth records in archival quality materials at the nearest ragnarok proof, climate controlled bunker.
Pretty certain my family tree includes many notable dirt farmers from northern Europe, some American injuns, and maybe a West African or two.
The only royalty was how they were all royally poor.
I’ve dug into my genealogy. Discovered the Irish are shitty record keepers and the Bavarians are meticulous record keepers. But even then I was only able to trace my Bavarian ancestors back to the late 1600s. I can’t imagine lineage being traced back to the Viking Era. Especially with a culture so full of legend.
49 year old NYT editor dead Fromm heart attack 24 hours after booster shot.
Just a coincidence I’m sure.
Eating dog food probably didn’t help.
The golden calf worshipping from their social media feeds is absolutely vile and pathetic. I feel for this guy’s kids but give me a fuckin’ break; CS Lewis was right, when you stop believing in G-d, you don’t believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything. Clearly “experimental vaccine to save me from the Evil Eye” falls under the “believing in anything” category.
See also:
‘”There are many students, faculty, and staff who are concerned about this, but there is nothing we can do,’ the student continued. ‘And if we sound the alarm, we will be labeled racists.'”
I’m not Catholic, but isn’t violating the 1st Commandment worse than being called a racist by a bunch of woke shitheads?
I wonder if that is where Piss Christ and Poop Mary wound up.
Ain’t that the truth.
Pretty obviously another case of post pandemic stress disorder.
He was terrified that the pandemic might be over?
With all these sudden heart attacks they need to point to something so they just make shit up.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/health/post-pandemic-stress-disorder-heart-conditions-covid-london-physicians-b969436.html%3famp
They may want to look for a physical cause before looking for a psychological one.
Merry Christmas, you reprobates! And especially to you, Pat. Glad to see you again and can’t believe it’s been a year.
Busy all day today with this once in a lifetime snow and coming arctic air. Put up some makeshift cold frames for more susceptible plants. Then grilled a turkey breast for dinner. Still need to put a trouble lamp out in the pump house. Guess which jackass forgot to replace the insulation removed after it got soaked from a burst pipe last summer? Yeah…
Is RoboCop fall under a New Years Eve movie? There’s a NYE party scene in it after all.
Hmm… Robocop is appropriate for almost any celebration. I just got a bottle of this for Christmas. It tastes really good.
https://www.basilhaydenbourbon.com/
I’d buy that for a dollar!
The wife got this for me
https://www.ignatius.com/The-Collected-Works-of-G-K-Chesterton-Vol-4-P964.aspx
I’m in love.
Oh man. I want to read that too! Enjoy!
Not that I would have watched it, but it just occurred to me that as far as I know, there wasn’t a Doctor Who Christmas special today – and maybe not for the last few years. I wonder if the culprits responsible for the current state of the franchise have finally admitted how horribly they screwed it up.
One of the most important things I learned from the twenty-first century revival of Doctor Who was never to spend Christmas in London.
Ah – I was mistaken. Apparently there HAVE been holiday specials, but they’ve been on New Year’s Day.
Still not planning to watch.
You can be sure the people running the franchise have not admitted their mistakes.
OT: My Covid test was positive. I’m feeling fine now except for dealing with some occasional phlegm that is harder to hack up than usual. My girlfriend has cough and cold symptoms, but she’s getting better.
The backstory is: Before visiting my Dad on Wednesday, I took an instant home test and it was negative. I felt completely fine. Some time after coming home, I started feeling very dizzy and tired with no explanation. Thursday, I was still feeling that way, so I took another instant test which came back positive. Not knowing how accurate these were, I scheduled an actual test at an urgent care and notified my Dad of all this. We got the tests done yesterday and the results came back today as positive (notified Dad of this as well; he said he showed negative on a home test and feels fine).
Ever since the positive home test result, there has been no chatter in a siblings group text that is usually very busy, and my brother hadn’t texted me either. This morning he texts asking how we are both feeling. I answered that we’re doing fine and improving. His very next text is “do you have any regrets about not getting vaccinated?”
I haven’t replied yet. This pisses me off and leaves me at a real loss for what to say back. I might also mention that a stepsister is fully vaxxed and has symptomatic Covid also (there were only warm well-wishes for her quick recovery in the group chat). I’m just not understanding why me getting Covid is some kind of “Akira gets DESTROYED” moment. I never said Covid is not real, that it’s not dangerous, that you shouldn’t get tested if you have symptoms, or that you should just go about your business if you test positive. I did, however, say that it’s boneheaded to think that we can stop the virus dead in its tracks, that the vaccines do not stop the spread but only lessen the symptoms (per the CDC director) and that Covid is going to be a fact of life now but hopefully a minor one as it evolves into less deadly forms.
It’s just upsetting to be the target of what seems like some shunning and ostracism. The Democrats and the corporate media are truly running a hate campaign against the filthy unvaxxed, and it might just do some damage to my family ties. Not sure what I’m going to say back to my brother yet.
Sorry.
It’s sickening what the propaganda campaign has done.
So much this though I admit I get mad at people for failing to think for themselves.
The problem is that a lot of otherwise intelligent people try to outsource their thinking to the corporate media.
The frustrating part is when I’m accused of relying on “misinformation” by people who believed that:
– There’s no possible way that COVID came from the Wuhan lab
– The lockdowns will only be for two weeks to “flatten the curve”
– Once the vaccines are out, masks and lockdowns will go away forever
– When an area hits a 50% vaccination rate, there won’t be surges in case numbers anymore
– Vaccines will prevent you from transmitting the virus to others, and actual sickness in vaccinated people will be virtually nonexistent
… And so on.
I just heard on NBC news that “more than 819,000 Americans have now died OF Covid.” I’ve used the “with Covid” line several times but have been admonished that, even with severe comorbidities that might have led to death in six weeks or six months anyway, it was the Covid that tipped the scale to death and, therefore “of Covid” is correct cause of death.
I’ve tried getting people to see this, but it’s like pissing into the wind.
I’ve listed off how the “COVID deaths” include 90+ year old hospice patients with terminal health conditions, car accidents, gunshot wounds, people who tested positive over a year ago and cleared it, etc. I always get something along the lines of “there’s bound to be some mistakes in any large dataset, but it’s mostly correct”.
It’s not a few statistical anomalies – it’s a major data quality problem that makes the entire dataset worthless. I won’t take those death numbers seriously until there’s a massive retrospective audit that separates “died of COVID” from “died with COVID” (in other words, never).
“No.”
So the lesson is you should have gotten vaxxed so this minimally symptomatic episode of covid would be minimally symptomatic?
I would like to think these people will feel a little ashamed about their behavior this past year, but I suspect most of them will simply move on to the next hysteria and will simply redirect all their freakout energy into that happy horseshit.
And there’s so much sunk cost lost to this fucking moral panic that even if they do realize what shitheads they’ve been, they’ll never admit it to you.
I expect it will be pretty much like the Iraq War: If you criticize it when it’s being done, all the serious right-thinking people will accuse you of wanting to “do nothing” in the face of disaster and being insensitive to all the deaths that happened. But ten years later, it will become socially acceptable to admit that it was a huge fuckup that was ultimately worse than doing nothing. All the former supporters will shrug and say “well hindsight is always 20/20; we did the best we could in the moment“.
I’m into Stoic philosophy, so I try to avoid high expectations about human nature and notions about the eventual fairness of the world… But my only comfort is that maybe someday, some of these people will have a Gob Bluth “I’ve made a huge mistake” moment and realize that they behaved wretchedly towards loved ones (who probably could have used their support and companionship in that moment). And they’ll have to live with it.
realize that they behaved wretchedly towards loved ones (who probably could have used their support and companionship in that moment).
This is similar to what I’ve tried to keep in mind, not always successfully, since this began.
Right?
If my choices were “deal with two days of dizziness” or “take an experimental treatment for a disease that has virtually no chance of killing you”, then I’m satisfied with my choice.
Precisely.
Also, the risk return calculation worked well in your favor.
Sorry Akira. That’s a rotten position to be in.
You can only really ever be ostracized if you allow yourself to be. The solution is always to become as belligerent and indignant as possible. Alcohol helps.
Four Rooms? Great soundtrack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IU32ZguQXw
That’s wonderful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjSXbfORnw
That’s a Christmas movie I never expected to see.
The Boyscast talking penises for a solid half hour now. 10/10 would recommend.
Boyscast = Glib Zoom?
Ryan Long’s podcast but that’s pretty funny too
Spitty! I hope you are feeling better.
Thanks, man, I really am.
/lass
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Random thought: The CDC director has admitted that the vaccines do not stop transmission but sometimes lessen the symptoms. They’ve also said there is no difference in viral load between vaxxed and unvaxxed people. Is it possible that vaccinated people are spreading the virus more since they are less likely to have the symptoms that might prompt someone to avoid contact with other people? I mean just going by personal observation, most vaccinated people act like they’re immune from COVID forever.
I’m no expert, but asymptomatic spread always seemed like bullshit propaganda to me.
I have a super immune system, regardless. I have never had covid. I don’t get sick. The Firsting keeps me young. If people would only follow my way, we could solve most of America’s health problems.
I literally cannot die as long as I First. Which comes as natural to me as not being second.
Well, blue America is a giant petri dish experiment that will soon provide the answer to this. The anointed ones are filling stadiums and restaurants and other places where I am not welcome, yakking away without a care in the world, and yet there is still case-demic.
It is a mystery.
Merry christmas glibs.
My brother bought my 9 year old a couple pounds of tannerite for christmas, and we spent the better part of the afternoon blowing it up. Lachowsky Jr. used my dad’s RPK to blow most of it up. After that, we went home and Lachowsky spent the rest of the day building barbie house for the littliest lachowsky. She loves it, but not as much as the 9 year loves shooting shit.
Merry christmas.
Cool gift. I thought some type of license is needed to buy tannerite.
Maybe the littlest Lachowsky would like to blow shit up, too.
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Good Morning, the day after. Hope everyone is over the Christmas stress and we can get back to not being cheerful and nice.
Looks out the window at the fresh snow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQOY-0sViQ
We had rain yesterday that melted the inch of snow we had Friday morning.
I’m sure the dog will want me to take him for a nice walk in 30-degree weather. 🙂
Mornin’, Fourscore. Still dealing with fever and achy body. Too bad there are no doctors hereabouts who actually practice medicine. Vacation plans not looking good.
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Good morning, 4(20) – and Sean and Ted’S! I hope you all spent yesterday pleasantly and can spend today likewise.
Happy Kwanzaa.
Umoja, bitches.
https://www.trentonian.com/2021/12/25/kwanzaa-kicks-off-with-a-call-for-umoja-unity-l-a-parker-column/
Umoja emoji? ?
Mojeaux needs one of those! ?
Took my coffee onto the balcony and watched the sunrise over the Atlantic. Life is good.
Nice! Please refresh my alleged memory – FL?
Yes, I spent last week in Destin, and am now in Daytona. I like Daytona better.
I like the sunrise
I was expecting the Archer/Magnum PI scene.
*leaves disappointed*
Slightly quieter week end in Chitown. Wait ’til tomorrow and the aggravation of trying to return gifts with no receipts sets in.
I got even more books for xmas.
I should resume my reading habits.