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Holiday Open Thread

by thebesig••53

Merry Christmas! Here’s hoping for everyone’s having a great day today including their fill of Christmas dinner. With the changes we will see starting next month, next Christmas could very well be bigger. As usual, leftover warming tip: spraying water on leftovers before microwaving them increases the chances that the food will taste just like it just came from the oven.

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53 thoughts on “Holiday Open Thread”

  1. FIRST…to wish ALL of The Adorable Deploreables a Most Merry Christmas!…(and the miscreanted d’weeded ones, too)

      1. Congratz KoB (I thought you were travelling today, and we’d be safe from your jumping on this thread FIRST thing)

        1. Pure evil luck, Fry. I am rolling thru the country side with my driver (RHIP). Took a chance and used my fone to check the site and WHOMP there was an Orphaned HOT begging to be taken. Took a bit bit to type it out and wasn’t sure if I could be FIRST! Another 20 miles to the big road and driver can nail the Prime Mover on 79 mph and get really moving. Life is good!

      2. “dammit”
        Ha! That’s my dog’s name but I call him Mitt for short in
        mixed company. Named after my dad’s dog that flew with
        his B-17 crew in WW2. Have a photo of him in the nose
        sitting next to my dad looking into the bombsight.

        Merry Christmas to everyone. And their dog too!

        1. That’s an interesting name. When I was in Jr. High, our neighbor had an Irish setter named “Red Sonofabitch”, and my dad usually called mom’s Samoyed “white bitch”.

    3. Present and accounted for.
      Busy day…kids and dogs and then the Ex visiting and having her turn with the kids and dogs and then it;s quiet.
      Snacking and hosting the online leg of a Bill Meeting. First tiem I thing I’ve done one on Christmas but hey, when doesn’t someone really need a meeting?
      People kinda are annoying and can be triggars this time of year, or any time for that matter LOL.
      Cheers you tards and I hope all of you have had a lovely day.
      Jesus and I both love you all but I won’t admit it in public, I’ll just keep talking the best of shit about you all….cause you know, that’s how we show it, XOXOXO.
      Smooches, you buncha goons.
      Ho Ho Fuck You 😀
      Chimpy

  2. Well, now that I’m officially 1st loser on this thread, time to start a fire in the woodstove, and get working on breakfast. Son and his GF should be up soon (just me and the dogs at this point) Hopefully wife will call soon, and we’ll all enjoy the fact that we have each other. Christmas is quite a bit leaner this year than usual, but we have each other, a roof over our head, and food on the table, so we are blessed.

    Merry Christmas all!

  3. I demand hassenfefer and dancing women for today’s festivities ( turkey and a pic of Loni Anderson will do though ).

    1. Aaaand hopefully you bought the ‘shrooms at the local grocery store, and didn’t pick them yourself from some cow patties in an open field?

    2. Magic 8-Ball says…

      Those are supposed to be a bunch of grapes, not a representation of Psul’s ballsack.

  11. Merry Christmas from the GB Compound.

    Last night we did our 50th annual Christmas Eve celebration – started when Mrs. GB and I were just newlywed kids with not much in the way of financial resources – though now we are a “seasoned” married couple with not much in the way of financial resources.

    Last night we had everyone over – our three kids and their spouses (and an Aunt for one set of grands) with all eleven grandchildren, from 23 years to 3 months old).
    I read the Christmas Story from Matthew and Luke, we sing and pray. The youngest grandkids who can read then pass out presents. We start at one end of the family circle and take turns opening and commenting upon our presents, then repeat until all are done (two laps this year).
    Much of our gifts are home-made things – sweets, cakes, crocheted animals, novelty socks from Dollar Tree, etc. We found out that we can find just as much joy in little, inexpensive gifts as anything – sometimes much more than in expensive things.

    And, then Food! AB Son’s wife does her traditional Norwegian pastries and everyone else joins in with various contributions. Spiced cider, Sweet Tea, eggnog, summer sausage cheese & crackers….
    Eat, sing some more, talk a lot, hug a lot.

    God has blessed us richly.

    I pray you find joy in Him and the simple pleasures of family and friends today, and every day.

    Merry Christmas!

  16. Right. Well, I’ve finally woken up. Gonna have a good Christmas meal today: crab n’ scrambled eggs (don’t judge me!). I wish all of you a final Merry Christmas until next year (funny story: went to the King Soopers (Kroger) a couple days ago and I didn’t hear “Happy Holidays” once. Brought a smile to my face.). Well, here’s another version of Carol of the Bells brought to you by Lindsey Stirling (violinist):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKkzbbLYPuI

      1. It took me some doing, but I figured it out. Do you usually use a PC or a phone to post?

          1. Ok. Then all you you have to do is copy and paste the URL of the video you want to embed. If you include text, make sure you keep a space inbetween the URL and what your writing. And don’t try to embed more than one video in one post. It’s never worked out for me.

                1. I’m a millennial and we’re supposed to be whizzes at tech. Took me a week of trial and error before figuring it out (I post with my phone, which involves more extra steps. I got to hit share on the app, go to more options, select Google Chrome (which opens a new tab in Chrome), copy the URL in the tabbed video, paste and replace m.youtube.com with http://www.youtube.com. Then I’m done).

                  1. I literally grew up around computers. Dad, an EE, worked with DEC PDP-11s and PASCAL. When I took computer programming in college I had use of one of his PDP-11s in which he’d installed a huge 1Mb hard drive. Still had to boot off of 8″ floppies, though. I was playing with DOS long before Windows came along, then IBM System-38s and mainframes along with sundry Unix-flavors on PC networks.
                    But I didn’t do too much with HTML, CSS, etc.

                    1. My dad is better at computers than I am. He used to be an telecommunications engineer at Avaya before it became defunct. I don’t really have the aptitude to know how to program. Though, what I do know is enough for troubleshooting to figure out what works and what doesn’t work. But, in time, I’ll likely need to learn programming because manufacturers keep putting more and more electronics into cars. Especially if I plan to work for Tesla when I get done with school.

            2. No prob.Here’s an example, if that helps (I put a period after ‘www’ to keep it from embedding):

              (Random paragraph here‐—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————)

              https://www..youtube.com/watch?v=Knc80_MQORU

  19. May Christmas bring joy to each of you and yours, or Hanukkah, or Toyota-thon. Whatever it is you celebrate, make sure you leave people missing you.

    And if they don’t, that’s probably cool too.

    Appreciate every single one of you. Yep, even you…

  22. Psul of The Ballsack asked Hack to pass along his gratitude to whoever sent him the $10 gift certificate for Goodwill. He had his eye on that lime green leisure suit for the longest time, and he will even have enough left over to buy a pair of crotchless boxer shorts. It’s a Festivus Miracle!

  23. I entertained in-laws; watched a Christmas Story and Gremlins; and, ate too much. I even remembered to give my good wife a gift. Looking back at the holiday I must admit to one disappointment. No one showed Gremlins II; am I the only one who likes it?

  24. ‘Twas a nice, quiet easy-going Christmas at A Proud Infidel®™ Manor, we exchanged gifts, relaxed, had dinner, a very nice Prime Rib expertly cooked by Mrs. A Proud Infidel®™, then called other family members and wished them well. Too much crazy out there on the highways during the Christmas and New Year Holidays for me to want to road trip during those times, I’ve witnessed more people getting killed on Interstate highways than I have in Combat Zones, so to everyone traveling out there, keep yourselves safe!

  25. Hack Stone is disappointed that those in charge did not drop a Boxing Day Open Thread. This year, Boxing Day for the employee (note singular) of the proud but humble woman owned business that sells outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software, formerly located on Wilson Lane and more recently formerly located on Lonesome, helped senior management box up his meager possessions since the rental company takes a dim view of renters not paying their $6500 a month rent for six months. Psul tried to remit payment with some Y3K software, but they said “”No dice!”

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