Does it look like we’re phoning it in? Because it could look like we’re phoning it in.
Merry Christmas Eve, Gliberati! And Happy Saturday Evening to those of who do not celebrate the holiday.
First, a task:
Rudolph is in there somewhere.
And then one of the finest Christmas songs of all time. Followed by have fun chatting amongst yourselves. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas all you reprobates!
https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk
Excellent. Forgot about that one too.
Merry Christmas, Glibs!
Shouldn’t your avatar be KFC?
Onigiri for Christmas breakfast. We follow the old ways.
He isn’t in Korea.
OK, that’s funny.
Is “reprobate” a code word for “Jew”?
Shit, I left my secret coded dictionary at work. I dunno.
Reprobation, in Christian theology, is a doctrine which teaches that a person can reject the gospel to a point where God in turn rejects them and curses their conscience. Since by definition Jews reject the gospel I suppose reprobate could be code for Jews.
(((answered))) then?
I thought that was “Zionist”.
I thought I could bring a little humor into our crèche this year and update it for what The Critical Drinker calls “Modern Audiences.”
Now I’m in the dang ol’ doghouse again.
Marty and Doc were unavailable for comment.
Love the Cheech and Chong Santa routine. Last time I heard that it was from an actual record on an actual record player.
Sirius played the Bob and Doug “12 Days” routine the other day. I hadn’t heard it for a while and wound up laughing my ass off.
Next up in the Youtube rotation was this.
Waves at Neph!
Then this was shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uVUSBi3u0E
Merry Christmas!
We did our “open 1 present on Christmas Eve” a few minutes ago, and it seemed like a hit with both kids.
We got each of them one of those Fuji Instax cameras (a modern Polaroid-type deal).
As a guy who vastly prefers physical media (particularly music) to digital ether, I recently broke down and bought a cassette deck. I’ve been listening to vinyl for a long time, and never stopped buying CDs, but I abandoned tapes somewhere in the 90s. Several labels I’m very into only produce physical media on cassette (fucking hipsters), and I wanted in on that, so finally caved after years of resistance and not wanting to keep a pencil in my listening room.
I recently received a limited release cassette (only 20 copies produced), and in the tape case, along with the cassette and J Card, was a wallet sized photo. A real photo, taken with real film, and developed on to photo paper. You know, like most of us had when we were kids.
That 1 photo got many ideas stirring in my head. About how special a real photo is in comparison to the never ending supply of digital photos that never get seen again after being compressed to hell and posted on social media.
I contemplated the entire idea of “real stuff” vs the digital everything we currently have. Digital is cheap and easy, but ultimately there’s nothing special about it because it’s not a real thing. People prefer real things because those are the things we can value. It’s tough to value the filtered to hell pic on Snapchat, but even a shitty instant film picture can be treasured for decades.
I wanted my kids to have a taste of that.
Love it. Now get them a 35mm camera and a dark room set.
Piss on all that.
I’m not opposed to the idea, but I’m not paying for all that shit.
Heard that. Gave my kid nice flower pots, soil and tomato and strawberry seeds. She looked a looked a little confused at first.
Hey!!!!
61 yarder for the win. High five, KK.
So you’re saying I should get a Polaroid.
Brand new Polaroids.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Now go don your gay apparel.
Ha! You are going to like tomorrow’s GlibFit.
I hope our Canadian Glibs are safe and warm.
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1606533170647769088?s=20
I’m sure they are fine. They have heat and stuff.
Have you read about their Prime Minister?
My natgas provider is sending out pleading emails and texts asking us to knock it off with the consuming already. Yeah, OK.
Just put on a sweater you loser…Oh, and take cold showers.
I just took a hot shower. It was AMAZING.
How is refusing to build more pipelines working out?
Great!
/every elected Democrat
👍
There’s a reason most of them huddle close to the border with the US.
Energy? Freedom? Tacos?
Sausage and eggs for dinner. It was so good I might do it again tomorrow.
Gustave beat me to it, still…
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL YOU REPROBATES!!!
There a Glibzoom tonight?
Only for the reprobates.
I was once called a reprobate by an English professor. Does that count?
Only to ten.
She *does* have a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.
Yes, let me see if I can nudge Neph or Tonio into posting a link.
This should work until someone kills it.
Try this although no one is currently there.
I’m there which makes me the cool kid amongst all you losers.
Animal showed up but he quickly left. Which I find funny.
I’ll be back in a bit. I popped in and remembered I hadn’t brought firewood into the house.
One does not forget for very long though.
I brought mine in this morning, I was gone this afternoon and didn’t want to work too late.
I’ll be on in maybe an hour
Here’s a good one….
https://youtu.be/EMWpnUxOPyk
I picked up a 15 pack of Ninkasi Lager the other day, and after wrestling with that damn vinyl sheel, I am sitting and getting plesently drunk. The wife, with the exception of yesterdays ice slide, is feeling much better post gall bladder removal, and is starting to drink again. Just a quiet Xmas with the two of us.
I might light some candles. Merry Christmas, ya weirdos.
Faucet in master bathroom is working. No sign of permanent damage.
Last Christmas I gave you my heart…
There, now it’s in you head, too.
Babylon Bee wrote that up.
https://babylonbee.com/news/shepherds-flee-as-heavenly-host-starts-singing-last-christmas-by-wham
Merry Christmas, you nuts!
Merry Christmas, you nuts!
Same to ya, Big Joe.
Anyone here use LastPass for your personal or business passwords? Well you done been hacked:
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/lastpass-just-sent-this-email-to-let-customers-know-their-encrypted-passwords-may-have-been-hacked.html
Merry Christmas!
Your avatar is perfect for that announcement.
I *hate* LastPass.
Work took away my browser’s ability to remember passwords and replaced it with LastPass. Ugliest fuckin’ interface I’ve ever seen.
Meh, it’s still encrypted.
You’re not paying for security – you’re paying for centralized storage.
Yeah, still encrypted, still probably wouldn’t hurt to change the more sensitive passwords at least. Also, be aware of phishing attempts saying you’ve been compromised and need to change your master password. If they managed to get email or phone info that’s probably how they’ll get most of their victims.
Yeah, no doubt the criminals will catch a lot of folks who aren’t following what should be obvious precautions.
KeePass here.
I use Codebook (formerly STRIP, an acronym that I’ve forgotten). I’ve used a version of it from way back in the Palm Pilot days.
My brain and a simply algorithm that I rotate through every month
Heh most password managers have caught up with my simple algorithms by now. I can’t use them anymore.
Yeah, I don’t use a password manager either.
Merry Christmas, Glibs and Gliberinas!
Merry Christmas!
Well, Festivus came and went without any grievances being aired my way. I think it’s because I’m a complete catch — the perfect specimen of adult malehood — and the missus knows how lucky she is to have me. I am, however, open to other theories.
You sedated her for the entire day?
Well, I did take her out for cocktails around 1:30. She was in a pretty good mood for the rest of the day.
Though she threatened me with a thrashing if I followed through with my new Christmas cookie idea.
Spam on a stick over an open fire. Does life get any better? Kid days were great.
Oooo. Spam cookies.
On big island Hawaii one of the gas station snacks is “Spam sushi” with rice and a seaweed wrap. People ate it at the drag strip I visited.
They are everywhere and delicious. A rectangle of rice with a slice of marinated and cooked spam with a seaweed wrap holding it in place. “Spam sushi” made me laugh, their name is “musubi” and are usually Spam but sometimes you can find chicken.
I never caught/saw that as a thing there but would.
Does it look like we’re phoning it in? Because it could look like we’re phoning it in.
A collect call I suppose.
Childhood memory: because of my mom’s job, I obtained a copy of Christmas With the Chipmunks (Vol. 2). Being like any other small child, I listened to the thing over and over again. While I liked most of the comedic Chipmunk songs, my favorite off the album was David Seville‘s (the stage name of one Ross Bagdasarian) sang “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” straight. To this day it’s one of my faves. It was years before I realized that Bagdasarian / Seville also performed the #1 single “Witch Doctor.”
I don’t care for most Christmas music, but that’s a good one. Very pleasant. Song link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PaKYo0ICEo
+1 Hula-Hoop
Cancel Russia.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko called upon the West to halt and boycott performances of Russian music, Russian ballet and other forms of Russian culture in retaliation to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country. Tkachenko specifically cited famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose music from the timeless ballet The Nutcracker brightens the season of Christmas every year.
“We’re not talking about cancelling Tchaikovsky, but rather about pausing performances of his works until Russia ceases its bloody invasion,” Tkachenko said.
Has someone informed Tkachenko that Tchaikovsky is dead and therefore unavailable to cancel personally?
Roll over Beethoven Tell Tkachenko the news
Mussorgsky back at ya Tkachenko!
Yeah, you’re gonna have to pry Mussorgsky out of my cold, dead hands.
Technically, that’s Maurice Ravel. Mussorgsky wrote “Pictures at an Exhibition” for solo piano.
The first time I heard the original it felt “incomplete”, but I’ve grown to appreciate it.
But I do like the bombast of an orchestra.
Have you heard a good pipe organ transcription?
No. 😲
I thought I heard that venues were way ahead of this already, at least around here.
C’mon. This is plain stupid and sets a terrible precedent. If they think this won’t be done to US citizens over some of the crap out govt does overseas, they are dreaming. Or arrogant. Or both.
Might as well call off the rest of the NHL season too.
Yeah squash Ovechkin so he can’t catch Gretzky!
I’m OK with that.
Merry Christmas everybody!
We visited my SIL and her family to exchange presents and that was quite nice. Tomorrow will be quiet with just us (spouse, college student son, and my mom who lives close by) opening gifts and dinner. I won’t share the current weather for fear of catbutt 🙂
Eh, I can handle the cold.
Yeah, but it’s fun to bitch about it.
Your graphics haven’t been updated for the same time period.
He’s making his list; he’s checking it twice — our joint and allied partners at NORAD have been tracking Santa for 67 years, and you can too!
I’m from the government, and I’m here to tell if you’ve been naughty or nice.
Didn’t know what to get brother, sister and both sets of parents so they all are getting some Omaha Steak deal. Lazy but efficient
I’m watching the Steelers game. Did we ever find out Franco Harris’ cause of death? As far as I know he was in good health and died at 72. Something is missing.
Obviously he wasn’t Glibfit.
Well played Ted S. Well played.
I have it on with the sound off. I wonder if we can make it a trifecta of teams I half-heartedly rooted for today losing.
Didn’t Buffalo win?
Oh, right. I meant only the teams that were available for me to watch. Which were the Giants and the Eagles.
And I guess 49ers and Redskins were available too but beneath my interest.
Hecks yeah.
Tough first half, but the second half was solid.
Probably Madden, coming back from the dead, still contesting the immaculate reception.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND
Evening Glibs, I finished my visit to relatives, and I made it back to my house without any incidents.
Holiday success.
Excellent. My Christmas visit is tomorrow. Travel starts at 7:30 AM, back at 7:00 PM. Hope to Zoom then if I am not beat down.
👍
Good luck, you’ve got this.
Enjoy your travels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqknHehplc
That Thomas Nast Santa drawing is the first where Santa isn’t an elf and has morphed into something resembling the character we depict today. Note that Nast’s Santa wasn’t a neutral kind of guy: his backpack is a soldier’s pack, he wears an officer’s sword, and on his left arm is a U.S. soldier’s belt. Seems he served in Mr. Lincoln’s Army!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EIhNQ-sfEXk/UrXs95qTaII/AAAAAAAAAWw/8qTy10YHqWA/s1600/christmas-snapshot3.jpg
https://soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0612.jpg
That’s when Santa was cool. I’m surprised the CDC hasn’t coopted him for a vaccine poster.
Why’s he kidnapping a kid though?
THE KID HAS A DOLL’s EYES!
Santa must’ve drugged the kid first.
That’s how he gets “elves” for his workshop I heard.
For those that care, the Buffalo Brisket Bites were better than the wings. I am meat coma now.
recipe needed
Pics?
And was there blue cheese dressing?
Are all of you tucked in and waiting for Santa?
Not yet – just woke from dozing off in front of the Raiders/Steelers game.
Watching Midnight Mass – maskage is around 0.5%.
OMG Tripledemic!!1!
Good. People may be remembering we get sick, we mostly recover and at times, may succumb.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Note: Eastern Time Zone
Merry Christmas, Nomad et al!
So does anyone else do the faux-German tradition of the Christmas pickle? It seems like most Glibs have children that are already grown, or (like The Bosslady and me) don’t have any at all.
Still, it’s a fun thing we do where I make the wife hunt for the shiny green ornament before giving her the sparkly things that she enjoys.
These euphemisms.
Dropped in briefly, food coma, now gone again.
The “Christmas pickle”? These euphemisms…
I didn’t get a Christmas pickle the one year I lived in Germany. I feel cheated.
I have to agree with everyone else. Fantastic euphemism. But if slipping the pickle is a Christmas tradition then I’m interested in joining.
The battle against the anti-Bro still wages. There are casualties. The ground is a pool of red. There is nowhere to walk, but The Bro’s fight on. All to save a species that seemingly doesn’t even want to be saved. A species that seemingly celebrates victimhood over Firstdom.
I have sacrificed so much of myself. More than any of you will never know. The Bro will never be complete again.
Can’t fool me, that’s the plot to Silent Night, Deadly Night.
IT’S FIRSTING DAY
A Firster never loses their sense of humor, even if they do not laugh. Not even in a moment of such tragedy as losing countless versions of himself to brutal hand-to-hand combat.
Never trust a man who responds to themselves more than a clarifying remark.
Merry Christmas!
Yesss!
Violent Night was perfect for Christmas Eve
“A rectangle of rice with a slice of MARINATED and cooked spam…”
Wait- you can marinate SPAM?
Mind. Blown.
Marinate to balance thre salt or soak in water to draw out some of the salt
Since I have a refined & cultured palate, Ive looked more often to Armor Treet® when pan-frying my canned meat.
It tends to be sweeter, but with a higher fat content, seems better for achieving that important outer-crust which is the perfect surface to deliver melty velveeta.
Pan fried spam is a regular in the Rat house.
https://youtu.be/BpfHSqLXePI
https://youtu.be/IJPc7esgvsA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tpfOhYRYv80
Isnt this the final night of Hanukkah ?
NYC firefighter Marty Party peed on Jewish sukkah: cops
I hope you get the good drugs falling out of your ass for Christmas.
What, you expect me to read all the comments and links?
I’m not some sort of…how do you people say….Übermensch
You’re a bottom?
And Merry Christmas’s Teds’s
A Christmas classic from Spinal Tap.
Q: Why is Santa Claus such a pimp daddy?
A: Because he’s full of ho ho ho.
Why dont chinese kids believe in Santa?
Cause they make all the toys.
Hahaha, but they don’t look like elves. Have you ever seen an Asian elf? Because I’ve never seen one.
‘Tis Christmas morning and the kids are still sleeping. Enjoying the peace while I can. Merry Christmas.
Anne Arundel Co. wastewater testing reveals rise in COVID cases
A rise in COVID correlates to a rise in tyranny. Somebody should study the link.
In MD, there are only a few real people, the rest are some sort of undead just milling around in their 3 cotton masks trying to figure out if they will vote D forever for prez or if that George Bush might really make a comeback some day. But Kammie has strong leadership skills, so don’t forget to notice and say thank you to Santa for our next great comrade leader, Kammie.
I hear Hogan is considering a presidential run.
Morning.
Merry Christmas!!! 🎄⛄🎁🎀
May God bless you all, including our FBI lurkers.
And Merry Christmas Tulpas!
Good morning and happy Glibxmas… is that a thing? Happy Christmas, it’s OK to say that in my house, no one will get triggered. So merrry Christmas, you wokesters and don’t forget to vote Biden for senile liar in chief, or maybe Kammie if he can’t get 90 million vote next time. Kammie is super strong leader, did you not notice?
Speaking of CommieLa, https://nypost.com/2022/12/25/migrant-busloads-dropped-at-kamala-harris-dc-home-report/
No photo op of dear next leader and the poor cherished immigrants next to the fireplace singing carols? I’m not sure what our media’s priorities even are any more, If not to exalt the next great dear cherished strong leader.
The media’s priorities are whatever the administrative state and/or the FBI says their priorities are.
Christmas Day at the beach anyone?
It will be a balmy 32 here.
Pie thinks 32 is hot.
temp or size?
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/surfing-santas-hit-the-waves-at-cocoa-beach-amid-florida-freeze
Way too cold for that nonsense.
I seem to be perma-cold if that is a thing. After going outside yesterday and that wind, I seem to be chilled to the bone and cannot take off my warmest most fuzziest bathrobe. I’m going to make some coffee…
As I get older I find myself liking the cold less and less. Thank God I live in the South, at least usually but it’s freaking freezing right now.
Same here. SC or FL is starting to look a lot better right now.
I must still be young. Hot still bothers me more than cold.
You can always put more clothes on if it’s cold. You can only take so many clothes off if it’s hot.
Sonny wanted to go out around 4:45, which is unsurprising since that’s part of his normal daily schedule with me working 6-2:30. But he claimed he wanted to go outside again a little after 6, and then spent another ten minutes outside just now.
I may have to take him for a walk and not just put him out on his run.
Minorities hardest hit
Blacks more likely than whites to invest in crypto?
Bull.
Shit.
Sports ball players?