It was inevitable we would come to this particular Xmas movie. Well…lets make sure we have an appropriate beer for something as ridiculous as this one.
This is my review of Prairie Artisan Ales Rainbow Sherbet:
Since I know how much you all love Will Ferrel…Elf begins with Santa Claus coming across a lost human infant and instead of doing the sensible thing and taking the kid to a hospital or some sort of government approved human trafficking outfit, he takes the kid to his sweatshop on the North Pole. This kid is named Buddy, adopted, and raised as an elf by an older elf played by the most understated comedian of all time, Bob Newhart.
The fun part is Santa actually does vaguely know who his parents are which makes the whole thing suspect. Given that Santa also knows the entire Xmas celebrating world on an intimate enough level to determine if they are naughty or nice, this decision points to how utterly despicable Buddy’s parents must be. Are they crackheads? Terrorists? Marxists? Do they drive slow in the left lane and/or reheat salmon in a microwave?
No. Mom is dead and dad is a publishing executive, played by America’s favorite asshole, James Caan. Anyone that considers themselves a writer knows exactly how despicable publishing executives are, and anyone that’s seen the Godfather knows Sonny had it coming.
This is the plot device that leads to the classic buffoon discovers New York story where he sets out to meet his father upon figuring out he’s human, and not a 6’3” elf. Along the way Buddy meets a 23 year old manic pixie dream girl singing in the shower. Who is one of many characters he must help find Xmas spirit which is so dangerously low Santa’s sleigh cannot fly. The same guy goes around spreading cheer to everyone he meets, including Peter Dinklage. Eventually, even his asshole father gets cheerful enough to help Buddy save Xmas and getting all the assholes in New York on Xmas Eve to sing Santa Claus is coming to town.
#metoo
Can it be made again today? Its possible, but I don’t want it to happen. Like the movie from last week a significant part of the plot takes place at a department store, and nobody shops there anymore, nor do parents want to put their kids on that groomer’s lap. Its not that the story is bad, its just how many things that were previously acceptable were suddenly made unacceptable after this movie came out. For example, the shower duet where Buddy and Jovie sing Baby its Cold Outside. I never heard the song before this movie came out, and the cultural backlash to this song is a holiday twist on the war on women. Did the guy drug his wife and #metoo her into singing a duet? I don’t know and I don’t care, but whoever let John Legend and Kelly Clarkson create a “modernized” version needs to waterboarded to the point they beg for their execution. Another example is this was one of the first movies Will Ferrel was the headliner. Quite frankly, Will Ferrel movies and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Finally, this movie has a significant number of elves as characters played by normal sized people made to appear small with clever camera tricks. Peter Dinklage would never allow such a cast be played by anyone that isn’t a dwarf, nor will he allow a dwarf be played by anyone but him…oh wait, that skidmark is in this movie. In short, this is an Xmas movie made for Millennials but Millennials instead of loving everything about it and reminiscing on their posh childhood decided everything in this movie that makes it enjoyable is literally Nazi propaganda, because being figurative is Nazi propaganda, and will ruin everything about it by saturating it with Communist propaganda. Please for the love of all that is holy, do not touch this movie.
About this beer. When I was a kid there was a store called Thrifty. They still had a ice cream bar within the store and one of the draws to the store was rainbow sherbet. Was it any good? I honestly don’t remember. This beer as far as sour ales go isn’t bad though. Its not sour like a Saison because there are sweet elements as well, but its not so overdone to the point where you want to light the brewery on fire in the dry season. Pretty good if sour is your thing. Prairie Artisan Ales Rainbow Sherbet: 2.2/5
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Firster.
Firsting.
Firstest?
Bro the Firstarian
“This is my review of Prairie Artisan Ales Rainbow Sherbet”
I already don’t like it.
The can screams young white girl.
You are both right. And still, MS stepped and took one for the team.
Maybe MS is really a young white girl.
I thought it screamed hippie, but I guess you’re right,
“by the most understated comedian of all time, Bob Newhart”
His albums, although old, are still funny.
“Quite frankly, Will Ferrel movies and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”
Just don’t start mailing bombs.
Talladega Nights and Anchorman were both funny.
You’re entitled to your opinion — but I had to stop halfway through Talladega Nights… it was just too stupid and unfunny to me. Never tried Anchorman as I pretty much never seem to find Will Ferrel funny, it seems.
The out-takes at the end of Talladega Nights rival those of Being There. Worth suffering through the whole damn movie.
I may need to look for that.
I liked Anchorman and The Landlord. Anchorman was much more of an ensemble. The fight scene was * chef’s kiss *
The fight scene was * chef’s kiss *
^this. Worth watching just for that.
I thought funny meant ‘things that make you laugh’.
Oh, I get it. It’s a double entendre.
It took me a few tries to get through Anchorman and ai contend the only reason Talladega Nights is funny is because it is culturally acceptable to make fun of southerners.
So they did.
I agree.
I quit trying to get rid of my accent years ago when I figured out that it would make no difference. A little of it always sneaks in and I am presumed to be an ignoramus.
Lots of conversations I have had distilled to two lines – Them, dripping with sarcasm: “And which grade did you get up to?”. Me, flat voice: “Which time?”
Not a Ferrel fan, but I did enjoy Talladega Nights.
I have played up my Texas upbringing to advantage on occasion. Let the Yankees think you’re a rube, just to see them backstroke when they figure out you’re smarter, faster and meaner than their lawyer. Not to mention better credentialed.
I use that all of the time. I speak a little and just sit back.
They cant shut up and I find out all kinds of things about them before I decide what I want them to know about me.
No references to Step Brothers or any other flicks?
The only Ferrel movie I could tolerate was Megamind.
“Gun owners have rejoiced after the federal appeals court shot down parts of New York’s strict concealed carry laws.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of appeals blocked aspects of the state’s ‘Concealed Carry Improvement Act’ in a 261-page decision.
The bill was passed by Democrats last year in response to a Supreme Court ruling which declared its previous concealed carry permitting requirements unconstitutional.
But the federal appeals court has struck down parts including a ban on people bringing firearms into houses of worship.
The court also rejected a requirement that applicants for a handgun license turn over a list of social media accounts they maintained over the past three years, citing free speech concerns.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12844905/Gun-owners-new-york-concealed-federal-appeals-court.html
Step in the right direction, but they didn’t go far enough.
So… New York will just continue to appeal it to the Supremes and have a slightly modified bill ready to go for the next round when the current bill is struck down, I assume.
That would be unsurprising but also stupid given the current majority.
unsurprising but also stupid
Briefest and yet most accurate description of the New York Legislative branch ever made.
*takes a bow*
Why stupid? It’ll take years to relititgate with friendly judges before it ends up at scotus again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Meanwhile, FYTW gun owners. The process is the law.
While this is true, NY is begging scotus to do a Bruen analysis on carrying in public and private places. It is likely to allow carrying in far more places than the 2nd circuit protected.
My numerology needs some work. I was positive that I had the measurements set up for buying a new rug at Ikea – get it home and its just not a great fit for under the bed. May be workable by turning it sideways – I don’t really need 360 coverage, but just irritating. (also noticed that between checking length measurements for whether something would or wouldn’t fit in my car…I think I can definitely handle something closer to 10ft (given how much space I had after putting the 8ft length rug in), but first look with the measuring tape sure didn’t give that impression.
A buddy of mine bought a lathe. The dials were set in inches but the threads on the adjustment were metric.
Hilarity ensued.
That was someone’s idea of a practical joke?
Was it German?
Vat Ze Vuck did you do, Hans?
Sell it to ze Americans, zey won’t know better.
Chinese.
You have to ask?
https://nypost.com/2023/12/08/news/rep-nancy-mace-splits-with-fiance-discussed-her-sex-life-in-office-report/
Is she wearing a scarlet letter?
Drama drama drama drama drama
So much this. Team Red would be wise to primary her out of Congress.
Team E is undoubtedly unhappy with her since the McCarthy debacle.
That is a great 46.
*scrolls down*
Oh, her. “DC hot”.
I sometimes wonder if the GOP looked at AOC and said to themselves “Let’s get us a couple of chicks who are over the line on the hot/crazy matrix and put them on Capitol Hill.” It would explain Boebert and Mace.
I have a newish, youngish congresschick in my district, but she’s not a publicity whore (and she looks like a more matronly Katie Porter) so no one outside of FL-3 has ever heard of her.
My Ma got Bob Newhart to do a voiceover for a TV commercial for the local (Essex Jct., VT) museum for kids.
Nice!
Bob always was one of “God’s frozen people.”. He started out as an accountant.
Now I have a vague inclination to watch “Under the Rainbow”.
Please for the love of all that is holy, do not touch this movie.
Not even with a ten foot pole.
How about a remake of Santa Claus vs. the Martians with Keanu Reeves as Santa Claus?
Maybe when he gets done hunting down the people who robbed his house (but as noted were smart enough to not kill his dog).
Lol. There is a job in Hollywood waiting for you.
I turned it down to be with you guys.
I love you, man.
Was it any good? I honestly don’t remember.
A ringing endorsement. I think I’ll stay away from it.
I discovered that I can now get Samichlaus Klassiker in NH. No more scouring other states’ booze stores for it.
I was referring to the Thrifty product.
“…spreading cheer to everyone he meets, including Peter Dinklage.”
Now see, that is where I stop suspending my disbelief. You can just go so far, ya’ know.
Or do you mean you can only stoop so low?
I remember Thrifty! Haven’t thought about that place for a long time. I remember single scoops were 25 cents. That would have been very early 80’s. They definitely had rainbow sherbert, but I didn’t dig that flavor.
They closed down in the early 90’s here.
Our local one was bought out by a larger chain. But they still serve ice cream.
One of my most favoritest Christmas movies: We’re No Angels
Exceptional dialogue. “He’s liable to be disagreeably surprised.”
Unfortunately it has Peter Ustinov, who is the weak link of so many of the films i which he appears.
OT to answer a question from prev thread
” UnCivilServant on December 9, 2023 at 10:56 am
Are they at least grown there?
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yes the grapes are grown in romania.
Accidentally posted this in AM links late:
Dremel?
What, I’m invisible???
I use a cattail style baby bottle brush. Poke it in the corner and twist.
Good idea. I was going to suggest industrial solvemts.
I have a vinegar/water solution (and a bleach/water solution) – just figuring out how to do the extra scrubbing after spraying and letting it sit. I’ll take a look for that type of brush.
Baby supply section in Way-Mart.
just dont look at the dirty corners
This guy gets it.
👍🏼
Bingo!
A drill with a brush attachment. I have all sorts of brush attachments for mine. Makes quick work of soap scum. That, and scrubbing bubbles.
Drill with brush is the best. Here is an actual product which I own and use. Ten bucks.
Drill Brush – The Original Drillbrush Power Scrubber – Bathroom Accessories – Shower Cleaner – Scrub Brush – Bath Mat – Shower Curtain – Bathtub – Sink – Toilet – Bidet – Flooring – Grout Cleaner https://a.co/d/9olwABQ
Thanks. I really do need to get a battery drill – the plug-in one is just a hassle.
Ryobi is recommended. Very, very tough tools. Home Depot runs specials a lot.
I’m a Dewalt man.
Barkeepers Friend, particularly the one with mineral/hard water deposits. And clean more frequently will reduce buildup and uncleanable areas.
I do have a lot of mineral deposits in mine….
Ore you going to try extracting them?
“Honey, you did a crap job of cleaning the shower. Do better.”
Begging bowl
“I left with the cold reality that help is not on the way in the immediate future,” Adams said after an unrelated press conference in City Hall on Friday. “We did not walk out from D.C. with any level of optimism that anything is going to drastically change. It is clear that for the time being, this crisis is going to be carried by the cities.”
Adams met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, FEMA administrators and Tom Perez, senior adviser to President Joe Biden. He also said he attended the National Menorah-lighting ceremony, and hobnobbed at a White House holiday party with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
The trip marked his tenth to the capital to discuss — and lobby for — migrant funding since taking office, City Hall reps said.
Maybe he should have offered to clean their windshields.
Wait a minute. Policies have consequences?
Consequences are white supremacy.
Now it makes sense.
On this week’s trip, Adams didn’t get any commitments of federal reimbursements for asylum-seeker care, allowance for more migrants to legally work, or a plan to enact a “decompression strategy” to divert migrants from New York — requests he is making as he grapples with an influx of more than 150,000 people seeking asylum since last spring. He readily describes it as a crisis that he predicts will cost the city $12 billion over three years.
How do they come up with these numbers? I realize it’s government math and all, but give me a fucking break.
“I have no choice but to cut half the police force and close all the libraries and hm… let’s see what else is visible…”
DSNY…
They’re going to spend 27k per person per year? what the fuck?
There are few people who make me leap to the remote faster than that inbred-looking weirdo John “Legend”. My god he is so loathsome.
As for Peter Dinklage, well… he will always be Tito to me and for that reason alone has lots of good will left to burn.
It’s his wife who does it for me. You ain’t that hot, lady. And you definitely aren’t smart.
If he’s Tito, who is Michael Jackson?
I’ll take a look for that type of brush.
If you really want to go nuts, cut the handle off and stick it in your drill.
I don’t want to know what that is a euphemism for.
Dudley Moore and John Lithgow tell the story of an Elf entering the corporate world better.
For example, the shower duet where Buddy and Jovie sing Baby its Cold Outside. I never heard the song before this movie came out, and the cultural backlash to this song is a holiday twist on the war on women.
The song first became prominent in a late 1940s movie which just happens to be on TCM tomorrow: Neptune’s Daughter (8:00 AM ET). In the movie the song is done *twice*: the first time, Esther Williams can’t stay, and Ricardo Montalbán tells her it’s cold outside (presumably cold enough that all the swimming pools have frozen over). The second time, there’s a role reversal: it’s Red Skelton who can’t stay, and Betty Garrett who informs him of the weather.
So if anybody tries to tell you “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is sexist, give them this information and tell them to fuck right off. (Not that they will fuck off or stop arguing that the song is sexist, of course.)
Already posted this week, but worth the re-post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHDeVmjRb0E
Red Skelton’s coquettish faux reluctance is just window dressing. The patriarchy is forcing Betty Garret to submit to his base animal urges. She is helpless to resist.
“Baby, it’s Cold Outside” is the perfect romance novel song. At least, romance novels of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. By about 2000s, they got milquetoast and the “steamy” stuff got relegated to erotica.
Anyway, I haven’t heard Kelly Clarkson/Legend version, which I will not now listen to. However, I commented on Twitter the other day that while I like Idina Menzel and I like Michael Buble, their rendition is cold. It’s skillful and talented and all that. But it has no heart, no soul, and no warmth. This is a song that MUST be sung with genuine warmth because, well, it’s about staying warm. And getting warmer.
Re Dinklage shitstain character, I was expecting this one.
Yes! He was good as a shitstain in that movie. I don’t know how many people have seen that.
You like Michael Bubble? I thought you had taste.
/shakes head dolefully
Not as much as Harry Connick Jr. When I was a kid I loved Sinatra (in spite of what my dad thought about it, bit he comoared all the crooners to Nat King Cole and they all came up wanting), but the last few years I’ve realized he just wasn’t that good of a singer. I really like Tony Bennett and Mel Torme, but HCJr is my fave.
I like the crooners. Sue me.
*clicks*
I was hoping it was that one. 😂
Bad reviews
What they’re saying: Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.), a progressive who is one of a handful of Jewish lawmakers who has endorsed a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, told Axios she found the testimony “shocking.”
“These presidents, I think, came prepared to talk about these issues in a legal sense,” Balint said. “They weren’t speaking as people who were thinking about … the students who would be on the receiving end of atrocious harassment.”
“They showed no emotion, they showed no angst, and they just gave their answers like it was a math test,” said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), another Jewish progressive, told Axios.
Cohen said the testimony made him want to look into “other Ivy [League] colleges as well,” because “those were the three the committee chose to bring … but no [college] that I know has done a great job of responding.”
Where is the performative anguish? We demand performative anguish. Tears of remorse and self flagellation are required; repentance and self abasement before our mighty outrage. Bow to our moral superiority.
The struggle session loses its impact without the anguished confession.
They do know that MIT is not an Ivy, right? And that there are lots of non-Ivies that are just as bad. Like, almost all of them.
The bottom line: Even some lawmakers inclined to take a charitable interpretation of the presidents’ comments feel they fell short in framing their duty of care.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a Jewish progressive who works as a constitutional law professor, said that he believes the presidents were trying to say that the chants don’t represent “incitement to imminent lawless action” under the legal standard.
“I think that’s what the college presidents were struggling to say when they were fumbling around …. but that’s not what a campus community is,” he said, arguing that the colleges should “proactively determine” whether the demonstrators represent a violent threats to students.
Fuck your feelz. Fuck your nursery school “duty of care”.
Grow a spine.
If by “grow a spine”, you mean allow every student and staff member equal free speech, I agree.
If you mean*, put your steel toed jackboots on for your selective enforcement, I have to say, pass.
I vigorously support punishing as much as possible everybody involved in selective enforcement, though. Which beyond question includes these three mediocrities.
*and I don’t think you do
I just want to remind all of you that mexi drinks this garbage for your benefit. He does it for you.
He’s like Jesús.
As far as I know, my landscaper is not a craft beer aficionado.
That’s why I thank him week after week.
I like Elf. It’s one of my annual rewatches. Black Christmas was last night.
Saw Violent Night this week and was surprisingly entertained by it.
Violent Night is adorable.
I will rewatch The Hebrew Hammer and Scrooged for the holidays. Nothing else
Reminds me I should rewatch “Fatman” this month.
If you can find Hebrew Hammer. It got blacked out across almost all services Thursday night in the middle of Glibflicks.
I own copies of both. It does seem odd that HH got blacked out during the time of the year it is watched. I wonder if something is happening somewhere in the world that could have influenced that decision.
🤷♀️
Two ringing endorsements. I shall rent, if for no other reason than annoy my wife.
I was disappointed to see Tuberville drop his promotion hild earlier this week, but this article has some great coverage of his policy and actions.
https://thespectator.com/topic/tommy-tuberville-lonely-stand-rocked-washington-abortion-alabama/
Is this where MikeS went?
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/bigfoot-bandit-snatches-sasquatch-statue-in-ohio-leaves-behind-bizarre-clue/
Saute onion, finely chopped. Toss in ground beef stir until cooked. Drain. Put in a pack of taco seasoning, mix well. Dump a hefty dose of shredded sharp cheddar, stir until melted.
Wrap a couple of teaspoons in a wonton wrapper. Fry in deep oil about 3 minutes.
Dip in sour cream and/or salsa and eat.
I just made about 100 of them. Taking half to the neighbors.
Needs jalapenos.
Good point. Most premade taco seasoning mixes don’t have enough heat.
Premade taco seasoning? Make your own. Or in my case, have your spouse.
If you can find Hebrew Hammer. It got blacked out across almost all services Thursday night in the middle of Glibflicks.
Banned by the ADL?
I tried looking for clips of it a couple weeks back. I could only dig up the scene in the Nazi bar.
Keeping the educators down
In an unexpected move Saturday, the board overseeing state public universities narrowly rejected a deal University of Wisconsin System leaders brokered with the state’s top Republican over campus diversity efforts.
The UW Board of Regents voted down a resolution “reimagining” campus diversity efforts, which many saw as selling out students of color in exchange for $800 million in employee pay raises and building projects.
The deal would have restructured dozens of diversity staff into positions serving all students and froze the total number of diversity positions for the next three years.
“The Legislature has made decisions over the years that have proved to have a negative lingering effect on our public universities,” Regent Angela Adams said during the hastily-called special meeting. “But to finally and begrudgingly propose to start funding the universities in exchange for insulting people historically excluded and underrepresented in higher education is a nonstarter for me. It’s divisive, it’s polarizing, and will ultimately lead to even more negative effects on the university system for decades to come.”
Legislative oversight? What the hell are you talking about? That’s just code for slavery.
You know what is “divisive” and “polarizing”? Continuing to pander to “people historically excluded and underrepresented in higher education” for no other reason that patting each on the back.
Grow a pair and eliminate all of that shit. It’s toxic. Everybody knows it’s toxic.
If by “grow a spine”, you mean allow every student and staff member equal free speech, I agree.
Yes. And stop pretending every stupid insensitive thing is a mortal wound.
And your view on viciously punishing anyone involved in (selective) enforcement of the current speech regime?
On-topic (ahem):
I’d try this beer. I like sour beers, to a point, and I think the sweet and sour combo could be really interesting.
ditto if I ever saw it
And your view on viciously punishing anyone involved in (selective) enforcement of the current speech regime?
Selective enforcement- I’m agin it.
Unless there is a clear and clearly defined set of institutional principles, agreed in advance by all parties. The problem is everybody wants o make up the rules as they go along.
I’m not clear on how selective enforcement is a principle, really, and I can’t imagine that the targeted parties would agree to it in advance.
“Sure, wreck our lives for something everybody is doing and some people are getting rewarded for. We agree with that!” Said nobody, ever.
Ah, I see one of the Speech Karens exposed earlier this week has resigned.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/penn-president-elizabeth-magill-resigns-after-a-week-of-intense-backlash/ar-AA1lfZo6
I am amused.
Penn was in an especially bad position considering they’re forcing out Amy Wax for speech they don’t like.
Dig ding ding!
No idea who that is but a web search makes her seem like the second coming of Hitler so… she is the second coming of Hitler, right?
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half. I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half of my required first-year course.”
Worse than Hitler.
I’d like to see her publicly shamed and rendered unhireable, but she’ll be made partner at a white-shoe law firm (K Street or NYC would be my guess) before the end of the month. Might even get a raise out of the whole deal.
Elon’s AI is amazing
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1733485669639455121
I like it just for the name.
I LOL’d and immediately had my wife read this one:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pop
And this is hilariously dark
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ugly-2
SMBC is one of the things I’m grateful to folks on this site exposing me to.
It’s now a daily read. I also LOL)d at the first one,
I’m not clear on how selective enforcement is a principle, really, and I can’t imagine that the targeted parties would agree to it in advance.
“Sure, wreck our lives for something everybody is doing and some people are getting rewarded for. We agree with that!” Said nobody, ever.
I don’t have the secret decoder ring for this conversation.
Been cooking for three hours for a party. One more hour to go. All fajitas for an ugly sweater party. I had to bring out my OSHA pad for my feet. Listening to Quadrophenia, having a cigar and cognac. Party guests are showing up, papped and ready. I am beat.
Sounds wonderful!! Have a fantastic time.
Nice to have a holiday party not time clustered so closely to the actual holiday, so that there are fewer schedule conflicts with family/church events.
My workplace is doing our optional Christmas things like cookie bake contest, secret Santa, etc. next week 👍