ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS HAVE BEEN RECRUITING – AND ZARDOZ WOULD HAVE THE OPINION OF THE CHOSEN ONES, ON A NEW RECRUIT…APPARENTLY ANYONE WHO CROSSES THIS PERSON ENDS UP CLEANSED.
PLEASE INFORM ZARDOZ OF YOUR COGITATIONS ON THIS IN THE COMMENTS. AS A REWARD FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE….ZARDOZ GIVES THE DUAL GIFT OF LINKS AND ADVICE! GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
- IF ZARDOZ COULD WEEP…OR WAS SO INCLINED, EVER… THE TRAVAILS OF THIS POOR BRUTAL WOULD BRING A LITHOID TEAR TO ZARDOZ’S CHEEK.
- ZARDOZ WISHES HIS CIRCUITS WOULD ALLOW FOR LAUGHTER. THIS INSPIRES THE DESIRE FOR MIRTH CIRCUITRY.
- YOU MAY ASK WHY ZARDOZ WISHES THE FILTH OF BRUTALITY CLEANSED FROM THE EARTH? OBSERVE THIS.
AND NOW THE CHOSEN ONES RECEIVE ADVICE ON MANNERS. GO FORTH AND ETIQUETTE!
Q: I host all holiday celebrations. This is because I have the space and the cooking skills, and for the most part, I enjoy spending time with family and friends and preparing a huge, elegant meal for them. With one exception, the crowd seated around the table always seems to enjoy the feast very much.
However, we have one family member, an older woman, who acts like a spoiled toddler at the table: making faces, gagging and spitting out any food that is not to her taste, then loudly announcing the specific reasons she does not care for the food, and what I should have made instead. She has even gone as far as to remove family favorites from the table, throwing plates full of food in the trash, yelling that she is protecting everybody else from being made ill by that horrible slop!
What she does like are instant foods and canned goods that are doctored up with sugar, garlic, prepackaged seasoning mixes and sometimes bacon. I cook from scratch and have a lighter hand with the seasonings. I try to make sure there are things on the table that she will eat, but she is the only one who wants that stuff, which also makes her very angry. Otherwise, I do my best to ignore the insulting and childish behavior.
My immediate family and I have had a terrible year, full of grief, stress, physical pain and illness, with more troubles on the horizon. I am having difficulty dealing with this extended family member’s outspokenness at times that are not so emotionally loaded as holiday celebrations, and have, on a couple occasions, snapped at her. If it were possible to be out of town for the holidays to avoid the unpleasantness, that is exactly what we would do, but we have obligations at home.
How do I keep my temper in check and create some boundaries while still being a good hostess? Do I somehow find the energy to cook her a big, separate meal in an attempt to keep the peace? Do I do it her way to shut her up, and let everybody else complain? Do I suggest that she go to the Asian restaurant down the road, the only business open over the holidays, if she cannot eat what is on my table? Do I confront her about her behavior? If so, how do I do it in a way that does not make others uncomfortable?
I need a plan, or I am afraid I will be unable to keep from sharing a few honest opinions of my own, and things will get ugly!
A: ZARDOZ SAYS, IF GREEN BREAD AND GOBLETS OF WATER ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE ETERNALS, THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR WHINY, DRAMATIC AND SENILE RELATIVE.
UPON FURTHER COGITATION, PERHAPS SHE SUFFERS FROM IGNORANCE OF HOW MUCH WORK GOES INTO THE PREPARATION OF SUCH FOOD. ZARDOZ CAN HAVE HER EDUCATED FROM FARM…
TO TABLE…
SO A GOOD ROUND OF GRAIN, BAKERY AND DELIVERY SLAVERY WILL SHUT GRANNY UP.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
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499 responses to “ZARDOZ FRIDAY EVENING LINKS AND ADVICE”
“What she does like are instant foods and canned goods that are doctored up with sugar, garlic, prepackaged seasoning mixes”
She should be cleansed.
I think Zardoz should have at least tasted the food first before condemning auntie to the fields. Maybe she’s the only one brave enough to stand up to the bland righteous cook?
Dear Z-Dawg
Every year I have to go to this cunte relative’s house for the holidays. She serves up slop not fit for Gitmo. To lighten up the mood, I barf up on the plate, tell everyone they’re gonna die and heave plates of mashed taters at the wall. The others hide their true feelings behind disapproving grimaces. That prim and proper bitch has had a stick up her bum for as long as I can remember. Should I keep trying to pull it out, or kick it the rest of the way in.
Sincerely,
Sick-o-This-Shit
I was taught that you weren’t allowed to complain when you were eating at someone else’s table. The only time you were allowed to say you couldn’t eat something was if you had a genuine food allergy; otherwise you ate what you could, were polite to the cook, and then remembered that their food sucked, the next time you were invited over and planned accordingly. That said, I have this relative, too. My mother in law used to pull this shit all the time until I squashed it with, “there’s bread on the counter and peanut butter in the cupboard. If you can’t eat this, you can fix yourself a sandwich.” She stopped pulling that crap after that.
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I was taught the same. I can’t imagine behaving so rudely to someone who invited me and cooked for me.
And why did none of the other guests speak up to point out old auntie was being rude? If I were trying to keep the peace, I might have offered to make her a sandwich, too, but I certainly would have said something like, “It’s not polite to complain about your meal, please stop.”
The thing about these letters is you only know half the story. IOW, we really don’t know any of the story.
Certainly, but if the scenario as presented above is as written, I would have shut old auntie down. The detail about the old lady going so far as to throw away entire dishes strikes me as unlikely, though. Now that I think of it, my sister in law is a *terrible* cook, and has told similar stories about our mother in law to me. So it’s just as possible that the OP is an awful cook at the same time that her old relative is awfully rude.
Grew up watching 3’s Company and learned that Jack’s story doesn’t always match Janet’s. And yes, eating people’s terrible cooking can be torture.
/flashes back to childhood
There’s a reason me and my sister both learned how to cook.
Yeah, I’m guessing there is a bit more to this story. The first two sentences might just provide a little insight.
This, so much this. Every Sunday during football season me and a bunch of other miserable people hang out in my fathers garage and watch the Browns lose, we trade off on who makes the main food stuff (served at halftime) and no matter how shitty the ‘Chili’ or ‘BBQ burgers’ everyone always praises the ‘chef’. Fuck that, unless you tell Weeber that he put to much sugar in the coney sauce he’s never going to learn. I now shamelessly tell people exactly how they fucked up, someone has to or they’ll keep bringing that shit year after year.Also when it’s your turn to feed the crowd, make an effort. Lets see last week Big Tom brought Carnitas with fresh tomatillo salsa and handmade tortillas with elote on the side , a pack of Johnsonville brats and some Amish pepper mustard aint doing the trick, Frank.
And yet you wash it all down with fucking Strohs? SMDH
Strohs is my everyday beer, for important events like Browns games or presidential impeachments I’ll buy Schneider Weisse or maybe Hacker- Pschorr
All right then. Carry on.
One does not complain about the food at fish camp, unless one is prepared to do the cooking. We had few complaints and mostly compliments, even if the food didn’t match the expectations or hopes. I was assistant cook, among other chores, because I didn’t like washing dishes. I’d rather clean fish, etc.
It’s constructive criticism.
Yup.
RIP, a criminal who made the world a worse place by his actions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHASE_2
OFFS.
I wonder if the “artist” was ever motivated to pay for cleanup of his markings for those who didn’t appreciate that shit on their property.
Still more of an artist than that hack Banksy.
I remain convinced Banksy is a collective
My eyes!!! My eyes!!!
Defend your scrotum:
“Cops Break Into Innocent Sleeping Woman’s Home, Shoot Her—Now She Faces Life in Prison
Winter Park, FL — Bobbie Sapp, 49, is a registered nurse, who has no criminal past. Despite never having committed a crime, because of the backward justice system in America, coupled with violent police welfare checks, Sapp is now facing the possibility of life behind bars.
On the night in question, Sapp had done nothing wrong, had committed no crime, and harmed no one—yet police broke into her home, raided her bedroom as she slept, and shot her. Then, they had the audacity to arrest her and charge her with multiple felonies.
Sapp’s nightmare began in September of 2017 as she slept comfortably in her own bed in her own home. Instead of waking up to her alarm that fateful morning, Sapp would wake up to multiple shadowy figures surrounding her in her bedroom, pulling off her covers, yelling at her, tasering her, and eventually, shooting her.
Sapp is so confident that she did nothing wrong that she went on camera recently with News 6 Orlando to tell her side of the story. It is nothing short of shocking. She says the entire incident began because her disgruntled ex-boyfriend used a police welfare check to deliberately harm her. It worked.
Despite the fact that not a single cop was injured, and the fact that Sapp never fired of a round, and the fact that she was the one who was shot, this woman was arrested and charged with the following felonies:
Att. First Degree Murder Of Leo W/firearm
Att. First Degree Murder Of Leo W/firearm
Agg. Assault On A Leo (w/ A Deadly Weapon)
Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon
Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon
Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon
Resisting Officer With Violence”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-break-into-innocent-womans-home-bobbie-sapp/
Thin blue line!
Every one of them involved in that should be headed for prison for attempted murder and a rash of other charges. Fuck it. Let em swing from the gallows pour encourager les autres.
Shoot them low in the belly and leave them in the street to squeal as a lesson to others. If this transpired as described charging this woman merits a death sentence to anyone involved.
I read that as beheaded and agreed
Is this what it was like for a feminist reading Jackie’s story in Rolling Stone? All of the worst elements stacked into one story told flattering one sided.
Don’t get me wrong there aren’t the more incredulous claims here to push it to fantasy so I can believe all the elements with dozens of examples for corroboration. The problem is it seems like the perfect composite of all the stereotypes I want to believe.
That was my first impression too. The article had more details that made it more plausible.
Re Greta needing a break: certainly life for a teenager not going to school and traveling the world is so hard
If I could tolerate more than five seconds of her schtick, I’d watch closely to see if she’s blinking anything in Morse code to suggest she wants to be released from her handlers.
She’d need eyelids to do that.
She’s going on tour singing Death Metal to relax.
https://youtu.be/1kD1zubg3cA
That never isn’t LMAO.
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1205173013467082752
Wow
Wow is right. That Corbyn holds any elected office much less Labour leader is a sad condemnation of modern England.
He is everything Labour loves. An anti-semitic socialist who wants Britain under Germany’s boot.
I like Babylon Bee comments:)
Jeebus. I didn’t know the IRA were still a thing. I thought they’d become to the ‘Real’ and the ‘Provisional’ IRA and kind of faded to obscurity.
ZARDOZ is the master of the alt text.
That is all.
Somebody is getting rewarded with a gun.
*Please pick me*
*Please pick me*
*Please pick me*
https://thechickenwire.chick-fil-a.com/inside-chick-fil-a/what-happens-when-a-chick-fil-a-is-closed-for-remodeling
The gutting of Chik Fil A continues. This isn’t just a handful, but pretty much all of them over the next few years.
I participated in a door decorating contest at work last week. I didn’t win, but I think it looks good.
There’s not really a door there, is there? Not falling for that again this year.
When is the challenge expected to end? I’m going out of town and won’t be on internet much, so want to know when to check.
It was posted on November 25th, so I’ll send in the time’s up post next week. Of course, it’s up to TPTB as to if/when it gets posted. I’m half regretting it because it was a lot harder than I thought. Then again, maybe that’s what makes it worth it.
It has been hard and frustrating, but I think it’s been worth it.
Please wait until the 25th so I have time to redo my originals
The 24th~26th was the plan. Also, if anyone has an idea for another one month challenge, lemme know. I’m thinking a baking challenge, photography, haiku, calligraphy or maybe even origami. Something that can be posted with pics or GTFO.
Oooo that might be fun. Those of us who are left-handed might face some challenges, though.
Origami sounds fun, but I will probably participate in anything
You can’t let straff in on that one. Japanese calligraphy is all about “feel” and many forms are fucking unreadable!
Go on…
I’m assuming it would be in English.
It’s not my fault you’re wrong-handed.
Calligraphy in English. Shodo is a pain in the ass for us lefties.
I had thought since most shodo is vertical it would be easier than English. I hadn’t considered that many characters still start left to right.
They mostly make lefties use their right hands. You can’t be pushing the brush when you’re supposed to be pulling it.
Euphemisms…
CALLIGRAPHY!!!!
YES!!!
I think it looks good, too. Professionally done, even.
Thanks! That’s the kind of compliment I was fishing for.
‘at work’ Fucking Millennials.
I am a proud member of GenX, thank you very much.
I refuse to believe that any self described Gen X’er would participate in a ‘door decorating contest’ at work.
What can I say? I’m getting to that stage where I’m entering a second childhood. Also, might change your perspective if you realize that I am now working at a school, and my office door is in the 1st through 3rd grade hallway.
Eh, better than doing work.
Sure but instead of wasting the afternoon decorating the door you just staple a bow on it and go home.
Someone’s heart is 3 sizes too small.
Come on man, take some pride in your avoidance of doing any actual work.
That photo. What even in the fuck is that thing? It’s not even human. It’s like some sort of mad scientist experiment gone totally wrong. I’ve actually been laughing uncontrollably for the past several minutes. My wife was like ‘What is wrong with you, I thought you were tired?’. LOL, run Hillary, run! Don’t forget to fuck up your face some more, first, so that it matches your personality.
She looks like a female Charlie McCarthy.
Wasn’t Charlie McCarthy was Murphy Brown’s dad?
Um… sort of.
And his brother was ‘special’, a player at the Olympics maybe. Those guys could talk, though.
No, I think it was the guy who kept accusing people of being Russian agents.
I’m remembering that ST:TNG episode where everyone ‘devolved’ because of some virus and Worf developed venom sacks associated with primitive Klingon physiology.
She looks like an old set of saggy balls with a nose for a dick. But Dave Chapelle-esque smooth balls.
I’m mildly annoyed that Chapelle announced a show in Cleveland yesterday, and I didn’t hear about it until it was sold out today.
When did you see Dave Chapelle’s balls?
“UK’s first gender neutral penguin thinks Jeremy Corbyn will win the election”
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/11/uks-first-gender-neutral-penguin-thinks-jeremy-corbyn-will-win-election-11705157/
Birds only tell the future when they’re eviscerated.
Read the entrails. It is known.
No guts, no glory
I told xe, I told xe, but xe wouldn’t listen.
Also, I read your future, Not Adahn, and it sucks. So there!
“Taylor Swift renewed her criticism of private equity, calling out the Carlyle Group and the Soros family for helping her nemesis Scooter Braun purchase the rights to her old music.
In a speech at a Billboard Women in Music event Thursday night, she called the increasing presence of private equity in the music industry a “potentially harmful force,” decrying that the firms are unregulated and “buying up our music as if it is real estate.”
Swift took direct shots at Soros, Carlyle and the sports and media-focused investment firm 23 Capital for helping music manager Braun’s Ithaca Holdings purchase of her old catalog. She claimed none of them contacted her or her team to perform “due diligence” before the sale. And none has contacted her since, she said.
Swift has been publicly complaining for months about Braun, who manages the careers of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, claiming he bullied her in the past.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/taylor-swift-calls-out-soros-family-in-fight-with-private-equity
https://twitter.com/NewsyNick/status/1205607636823093248
Wait, they bought the rights? Fuck off Taylor.
***cough, cough***Northern Songs***cough, cough***
Apropos of nothing but the whole area of music publishing rights, one of my favorite things about Dolly Parton is that she never gave up rights to the songs she wrote – not even when Elvis was all set to record “I Will Always Love You” and Col. Tom insisted Elvis get a piece of the publishing – because, IIRC, Dolly used the money from the publishing for her nieces’ and nephews’ educations. (I also have it on good authority that she’s a genuinely kind person.)
I’ve always heard that she was all business. Mad props.
I think this helps prove the good person.
Also, Nikki Sixx didn’t give theirs up, either.
So that’s how you get me to root for Soros and the Carlyle Group.
Sorry honey but you sold your music. It can be be bought and sold like real estate. If you don’t like it then ask your manager (mommy?) why it was sold and what you got in return.
Pretty much this.
I wish I could give any fucks about Taylor Swift.
Who am I kidding, no, I don’t wish that.
You wouldn’t bang Taylor Swift?
She seems like a bit of a cold fish.
I wondered about that when the guy who got her first dumped her right after.
Meh. She’s pretty far down the list.
You’re on a desert island with Taylor Swift, and she’s coming on to you?
Is Wilson there?
That’s a dumb question. Desert island; wait long enough and I’ll bang Rosie O’Donnell.
WILSON!! Get mister K.Y.!!
Friday=martinis. Especially since it is evaluation time. All day I got automated emails about having to complete project leader evaluations. FML.
And right around the holidays, too!
Do you get to pick who you evaluate? I would pick either Cincinnatus, or Vlad Tepes, depending on whether my Libertarian or Defender of the West side was dominant.
No. I have to evaluate everyone that worked more than 100 hours on one of my projects, or anyone that says they did something significant on one of my projects. I was up to 15 people as of 4:30
+1 Defender of the West
Second Friday of the month = Tremont Walkabout. Drink and food specials all through the Tremont neighborhood, as well as art shows, entertainment, and pop up stores.
Howdy.
I scored some Founder’s porter today. Haven’t had any in years. If dark beers are your thing, I highly recommend it.
That Hillary pic made me [Hank Hill BWAA] for real.Change the color scheme, and that could be a Tim Burton movie poster.
Here’s the most interesting thing I saw this week: great white shark charges cage, gets stuck, cuts itself while trying to break free, bleeds out, sinks to the deep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XCl-Pw__8
I like sharks and whales. That video made reconsider going shark cage diving. When I was a wee lad, I had a set of Cousteau documentaries VHS. It was an birthday present. I think I had a set of a dozen or so. My favorite was The Warm-Blooded Sea, which is on youtube for free now.
Clearly you’ve never seen the greatest movie ever.
I suppose if I had been in that cage, I’d probably be thinking “smile you son of a bitch” as I watched it sink.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou?
Orca.
I like both those movies. I watched Orca for free on youtube a while back. Same for that other Jaws knock-off, Grizzly.
Jaws 2 scared the crap out of me when I was a wee lad – that scene with divers at the wreck of the Orca.
I have the novelization of Jaws 2 frome Reader’s Digest somewhere. It has a sex scene from the shark’s perspective. Sugarfree would like it.
The Jaws 2 Polish movie poster is the knees.
“shuh-chen-kee” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…
Germans be like: we love consonant clusters, ja!
Poles: Hold my beer.
I found this one somewhere when I was a kid:
Strč prst skrz krk.
Stick your finger through your throat.
(Czech tongue-twister)
sounds like “sturch purst skurz kirk” I guess. Some languages don’t write short vowels like “uh” (looking in *your* direction, Georgian).
Salish has the record for longest consonant clusters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09norcOxUD4
The Taa language of Botswana has about 80 phonemes, along with several tones.
It probably has more sounds then any other language.
I would have loved to be a fur trapper in the early 1800s – hunt, fish, learn Indian languages…
Be like John Carter of Mars, basically.
Wow. I thought Welsh was vowel-phobic
They were a fruitful source of examples in my linguistics classes. Just craziness.
than any other language, is what I meant
damn, this porter is good!
fun Indian language fact: Lakota grammar is differs according the gender of the speaker and the listener.
During the filming of Dances with Wolves, the Lakota voice coach, being a woman, taught Costner just the female grammar to save time.
When real Lakota watched the movie, they laughed whenever Costner spoke, because he was talking like a Lakota woman.
Derp: the old Guinness Book of World Records used to have listings for shit like “most phonemes in a language” and tons of other language stuff. I don’t remember the answer from my 1979 copy.
Sometime in the 80s they dumbed it way down and all the esoteric (i.e. interesting) stuff was gone.
Spoken Japanese has feminine and masculine forms, but not normal written Japanese.
I’ve always thought it a bit apocryphal that males that learn Japanese from women (i.e girlfriends) will pick up feminine usage. It’s pretty well issue known for students.
However, our very own Texicano confirmed this to me and added it was quite humorous when it was being done by a burly Marine.
Not just girlfriends. Try to find a male native Japanese teacher. Even on YouTube it’s mostly women.
I’ve been taught by 2 women and 2 men.
Since they are teaching out a textbook it hasn’t been an issue at all. During “free talk” you can notice a slight difference, but that similar to English. It’s about tone and not actual different words.
None of my female teachers has ever uttered a “kashira” (a feminine “kana”) while one of my female friends uses it fairly frequently. OTH, my kansai-ben speaking friend would never utter a “kashira” as that’s not used in her dialect or when speaking “standard” Japanese.
If you’re into Kansai-ben, George Trombley is supposed to be releasing a Kansai Dialect from Zero soon.
And thanks for the reassurance on teaching from textbooks. I hear the difference in pitch but I can’t perceive accents really yet.
I enjoy Kansai-ben
This site is actually the best one I’ve found on it.
http://www.kansaiben.com/
Specifically here is Kyoto-ben.
I love the pitch accent – it’s completely different from standard Japanese.
If you watch the video I’ll give you two bits that will help – “hen” is the same as “nai” in standard and the first person “uchi” is used frequently by women think “atashi” or “watashi”.
京都市交通局アニメ「地下鉄に乗るっ」
Thanks. The uchi usage sounds familiar. I think I’ve come across it before.
fun fact: the Guinness book was sponsored by the brewery way back when to settle arguments in pubs
Yeah, stuff like that is why the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica has a cult following.
Also, I’m clearly buzzed, so if you see more typos than usual, that’s why. I’m not fixing them anymore.
I checked my pockets. Fucks to give, don’t have ’em.
My favorite record was “fastest time to eat a bicycle” with a note indicating they wouldn’t be accepting any more entries for that category.
I’ll never unsee the largest twins on motorcycles
LOL I remember when they were minor celebs.
“That’s Incredible!”
“Staying Alive?”
Sharknado?
Geez, sure are a lot of typos in that comment of mine. Must be the porter…
speaking of porter, some fun beer facts:
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The history and development of stout and porter beer types are intertwined.[4] The name “stout”, used for a dark beer, is believed to have come about because strong porters were marketed under such names as “extra porter”, “double porter”, and “stout porter”. The term stout porter would later be shortened to just stout. For example, Guinness Extra Stout was originally called “Extra Superior Porter” and was only given the name “Extra Stout” in 1840.[5]
***
In the current brewing world, the real difference between porters and stouts are what the brewery wants to call it, and if there’s unmalted roasted barley in the mash bill or not (generally unmalted barley = stout, malted barley = porter). But they’re more of guidelines then rules.
Related Founder’s Porter is a gold standard porter. If you can get it, I’d recommend trying the Edmund Fitzgerald from Great Lakes as well.
Founder’s Porter is a gold standard porter
no doubt
I like the Poet as often as I find it down here, which is never
Poor thing.
Had Founder’s lager and wasn’t impressed.
Watching Shark Lake. Dolph Lundgren is fun, but Sara Malakul Lane…. oh good lord.
“How do I keep my temper in check and create some boundaries while still being a good hostess?”
It’s called Xanax. Spike the cunte’s pre-dinner cocktail with a couple of milligrams and Bob’s your uncle.
I’m assuming this is actually code for “I invited my family over for Thanksgiving and served them my wonderful Kale and Wheat Grass Tofurkey Surprise, and Grandma was a total bitch just because she is all old and thinks you should eat the flesh of murdered living things!
Then I’ll take the Xanax before dinner.
Never invite Rashomon to Thanksgiving dinner.
You’ll never know what happened.
My only criticism of that movie is at the beginning, when the two townies are talking about how horrible it is. That could have been cut down by a few minutes.
Love it. On the other hand, not sure how being a ‘good hostess’ requires taking outright insults and bullying from your guests. I know other rules, like ‘make sure there’s toilet paper and hand towels in the bathroom’, and ‘offer everyone drinks’, and ‘don’t go through your guests coat pockets’, though.
‘don’t go through your guests coat pockets’
Whoops.
Right? Like I’m going to pay for dinner by myself.
What if I just hold them upside down and shake?
Said I knew them, not that I necessarily followed them.
^—————- this guy: it he gets
I picked up a new shottie, and when lifting it out of the box, the bolt fell out. Of course, the manual doesn’t cover how to fix common mishaps. I had a similar issue with the CZ 1012, where the manual said “do not let the bolt slide forward when the barrel is removed” but doesn’t tell you how to remedy the situation when that inevitably happens. Fortunately, the internet knows everything.
I initially read that as shortie, which made the rest of the post quite dirty.
This is why I’m willing to work on Skynet, to prevent such things from happening.
By killing all of us? 10 minutes later Skynet would be groping an underage pleasure bot.
I picked up a new shottie, and when lifting it out of the box, the bolt fell out.
This is what happens when one posts the same story over and over.
Drugs fell out of his ass. It’s still fresh.
“However, we have one family member, an older woman, who acts like a spoiled toddler at the table: making faces, gagging and spitting out any food that is not to her taste, then loudly announcing the specific reasons she does not care for the food, ”
Put her at the kids table. That’s what we do to my sister in law.
“So I need a new/custom corset for my Fiber Optic Implant Translumination wearable in order to accommodate my new implants- but the same style. Has anyone ever gotten a decent corset with cups customs made via mail order? If so, where?”
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1205498300549328900
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a929IRtg4YU
I love science!
Naomi Wu vs. Thomas Massie
My brain says one thing and my dick another. I am so confused.
You don’t fuck her brain.
Depends on the jurisdiction.
There are some places in rural Cambodia…
Spoiler: the dick wins.
F*ck her until she mellows out, HM.
Sadly, she doesn’t prefer the be-penised.
Wha? That’s disappointing but I’ll just assume we will get a lipstick lesbian video at some point.
I’d pasteurize her milk, IYKWIM.
I don’t think silicone requires pasteurization.
Greta needs to go home, clean her fucking room and get back to school.
Greta needs a boyfriend. Some 17 year old with a hotrod and a leather jacket would fix what ails her.
Get with the times old man, a scooter and a hoodie with skinny jeans is what the chicks dig these days.
I think that switch may be part of the problem. Today’s bad boys are just too wimpy to satisfy today’s girls.
Yes. I had such a crush on a guy that was a total mountain man. He dropped out of high school and the last I heard he had moved to Alaska. Would still do him.
She can always take herself to the prom. Dance with some her female friends
Yeah, not like those boys back in the day.
She’s going to rebel and hook up with some redneck rolling coal in his lifted pickup.
How dare you insinuate that Grettel is not non-binary! How dare you, you shitlord!
She needs to realize her country was under continental glaciers until a few thousand years ago.
But one would have to have to most basic education in natural history. She should thank the bejeesus out of global warming because otherwise her region of the world would be a fucking ice cube
Speaking of some asshole ruining mealtime.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-50751898/octopus-and-eagle-square-off-at-canadian-fish-farm
That wasn’t fighting. The eagle was getting his ass kicked.
The ref should have raised one of the octopus’s tentacles. TKO for the cephalopod.
If I could find it, I would. There was a romance novel long ago where the hero was a were-octopus.
I supposed this was a hearkening back to Japanese tentacle erotica, but were-cephalopods are not my thing.
Several years ago I was fishing for halibut in Alaska. We cut one open to see what was in it’s stomach and found an octopus tentacle as big around as my wrist. We put it on the hook and caught a couple more halibut with it.
That looks delicious.
I agree. Also, the octopus might be edible, too.
“What does Spotted owl taste like?”
“Oh, kind of a cross between Bald Eagle and Condor.”
Properly prepared octopus is delightful. Not properly prepared octopus is an abomination.
Wish I could find the video. Years ago, a TV station showed a group of elementary school kids on school trip to the ocean. They were spearing octopus (octopi?) with sticks. One of the kids got one and pulled it out the water. His buddy grabbed a tentacle of the still squirming octopus and took a big ol’ bite out of it.
No mention of Japan and octopi is complete without this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apYDe082qMw
“octopodes”
I can relate. I once popped a scallop off a rock at 50′, popped it open and ate it. Delightful.
One of my favorite preparations is Italian. Properly roasted octopus and new potatoes in olive oil. One of the best seafood dishes I’ve have. Properly prepared Taku is also delicious. I ordered grilled octopus from one of the “top” local restaurants, and it still had a sticky membrane on it. Yuck.
Octopus, properly prepared, is food of the gods.
What’s Taku?
Sorry, Tako.
Oh. Thought there was some Italian or Spanish dish.
Ask straff about takoyaki. Well done it’s awesome. Badly done it’s either gooey or tough or both.
“The balls are brushed with takoyaki sauce (similar to Worcestershire sauce) and mayonnaise”
Kinky.
My first day in Japan in 95 my Japanese friend asked me, “You want to eat octopus balls?” Don’t translate food or place names, please.
I prefer aebleskiver.
Yum, apples in batter cooked in butter.
Pulpo has to be just barely cooked, or way overcooked.
What crap,should have let the octopus eat it, then fed themselves to it too for shooting a stupid looking video. Christ.
“i know jesus christ had a thicc, uncut and girthy man dick. i know that when he was piping magdelene, her ancestors felt that bi-deity, human-god cock smacking the bottom of their spiritual pussies. you know ms. mary had the gawk gawk 5000. the macaroni noises…a crumb. a crumb.”
https://twitter.com/knaverologist/status/1205254728671625216
AC?
I thought maybe he just doxxed HM.
#MeToo
Intactivists are crazy.
Right? Gross.
I thought that was funny.
#HellBoundAndDown
“I was told that the Center for Diseas Control has issued a warning for all people who have frequent sex with animals. Unclear about what “frequent” may mean. I’m concerned.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1205490390062784513
Speaking of vermin with smug expressions, check out this creep at the 37s mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XoF5Cxdsis
tl;dr – bad things happened under capitalism, therefore it’s just as bad as socialism
Wow, what a smarmy little shit.
I thought she was cute. .. *turns volume on* oh, it’s a dude?
Gay.
He does look a little fruity.
That’s a Minnesota lesbian right?
Ugh. You can’t fix stupid.
The fellow holding the mic seems to be doing his level best not to slap the kid.
That’s what he’s being taught in college. He has no fundamental understanding of what he is saying. He’s a parrot who thinks he’s smart because he unquestionably accepts whatever his professors tell him as fact. Then he goes around repeating derp like he’s the smartest guy in the room.
AKA the four food groups.
What’s her problem with garlic though? Racist against dagos? Is she a vampire?
It was the garlic comment that made me skeptical. If you are mocking someone for being unwilling to eat anything flavorful, garlic is an odd seasoning to fix on.
So the “good cook” said she had a light hand on the seasonings.
That might be a problem. At least, I’m told this is a problem white people have. I’m a white people. I have it. So I believe it.
I’ve always considered an Irish Coffee to be a balanced meal because it contains all four food groups. Alcohol, sugar, fat and caffeine.
And when well made, they are truly delicious. When made poorly, they are an abomination.
There should be no whipped cream nor Bailey’s near one.
At the Buena Vista in San Francisco, where the drink supposedly originated, they could get the cream to whip, but they could get it to thicken. The local spot I occasionally have one at, doesn’t whip the cream to peaks.
And Bailey’s in coffee is a Bailey’s and coffee.
*Couldn’t*
Been there, tried that. Another origin story has it being made as a drink to be handed to pilots as they landed in Ireland.
In my mind, the best is brown sugar simple syrup (or stirring the brown sugar into the coffee enough so it’s fully dissolved), a shot of Tullamore Dew, and heavy whipping cream whipped until it’s the consistency of honey. I have had several truly decadent ones back in the day that used Middleton Very Rare and Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (back when it was only ~$20/lb).
I remember risking an Irish Coffee at a new place with a group of friends, as the waitress walked away, I commented about the things that would indicate a bad one. The top ones being whipped cream and creme de menthe. This location added a third and even more evil thing to the list of bad Irish Coffees… a gods damned cherry on top.
” I have had several truly decadent ones back in the day that used Middleton Very Rare and Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (back when it was only ~$20/lb)”
Daaaamn.
Yeah… it was between a wedding and a reception for friends of ours. My traditional wedding gift is a bottle of Middleton Very Rare and a bottle of a good quality mead.
I’ve priced out the Blue Mountain recently, and the unroasted is going for ~$30/lb. This was also with a friend of mine who I won a bar bet with. We were at a place with Irish Coffee, and we both ordered one, with Tully. The bartender said that the whiskey didn’t matter, since no one could tell the difference between Tully, Jameson, and Bushmills. We… disagreed, and if he poured one of each offered a bet. If we both could identify all three correctly, they were free. If we were wrong with even one, we’d pay double. The bartender even mixed up the order between the two of us, and we walked away having consumed six free Irish Coffees.
I can’t believe that it originated in Ireland as coffee (especially back in the day) is just not something the Irish tend to have around. It’s black tea with milk or nothing. My parents had one lonely jar of instant Tasters Choice in the back of the cupboard my entire childhood. It was given to insurance agents and the odd Yank that requested coffee over the years.
There are some sources that identify it as coming from Ireland. Regardless of the fact the recipes don’t even match between those related stories, it’s a delicious drink that should be celebrated.
One problem with the internet, when a site goes dark it’s gone. There was a great website I followed ~15 years ago called the Alchemist. He did different old school classic cocktails every week, including the (purported) history behind them, the recipe (and any variants), and an idea for a party themed around it. It was the website that taught me a lot of old cocktails, and I haven’t been able to find it for over 10 years.
I love the stories, in the end it doesn’t matter where it came from, it just tastes damn fine. I like your story, I don’t know if I could differentiate when the whiskey is not on its own. But that first link had this quote:
Cream – Rich as an Irish Brogue
Coffee – Strong as a Friendly Hand
Sugar – Sweet as the tongue of a Rogue
Whiskey – Smooth as the Wit of the Land
My grandma had a little plate above her kitchen table with that “Irish coffee recipe” on it. Good memories. Thanks and cheers ?!
KSuellington:
Slainte.
/raises glass
Is there anything more fitting for an Irish drink then a tall tale to tell with it?
I like unsweetened whipped cream in coffee. Whipped until it’s thick starting towards butter.
Mmm, yes
I found this sub thread very triggering. Thanks to youse I’m having my second Irish coffee of the night.
Prime has the Amazing Race. I quit watching around season 10, so this is fun. Wholesome entertainment.
#metoo
It was fun for awhile but eventually I couldn’t get past the giant gaping hole in the game’s logic that meant you really only had to watch the last episode.
I love the silly things they make them do, like herd ducks. I usually skip the final, because I don’t care who wins. I just want to watch them do dumb things
Yeah, I’ve skipped a few reality finals lately – Top Chef, Project Runway, et al.
I realized I didn’t care who won.
They lost me when they had families compete. Boring. But the jig was up with season 2. The first season the winning team won by something like a day. They didn’t have the bullshit that keeps evening the field. The first season was great.
cats vs invisible mazes of water bottles and saran wrap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRZVQVUO4PU
So who is surprised?
Not this person with two cats.
OMG cute overload
Those are cute cats. They seem to all be a similar breed. No idea what it is.
I noticed that. Like squashed-face bulldog kitties.
They look like Persian kittens.
Exotic shorthair breed.
Personally not a huge fan of smooshed nose cats. Proabably leftover ire from encounters with Persians.
Fuck you, hooman. I’m not playing your stupid games.
I kept visualizing rats acing that maze. Cats just can’t be bothered.
I love that they just say ‘fuck your maze’ and do their own thing. Cats
This gave me a sensible chuckle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ75FnvubEY
Featuring Larry the Cable Guy and Yukon Cornelius’s strip club
meanwhile at Yale, a former university
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYMF06qIJJE
Harvard Student Combines Gender Studies and Jazz Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAlFeZuQqQ
Needs more Steel Panther.
That goes without saying.
If I take her piffle seriously then she should be examining Twisted Sister, Cinderella, Poison, Steel Panther, and certainly the New York Dolls. But she won’t because they exist outside her world view. And she’s just bloviating.
Gay. And boring. Mostly boring.
I don’t know…mostly gay is fair, too.
I’m unconcerned by gay. I’m offended by boring.
Good point. Boring is just below preachy on the offensive scale.
*Checks out FB for work purposes* My sister and her friends have been OUTRAGED ever since Trump’s Greta tweet. *Closes FB* Gee, that wasn’t so tough.
Strange. I thought I saw that Gretta played along. Seemed fun for both parties.
It’s been a constant staggering from outrage to outrage for the past 3 years for them.
The endurance is impressive.
I went to the company holiday party. I said hello to the only people I regularly talk to, then made like I was going to the bar but walked out the door and just kept walking till I was at my car. I’d been there all of about twenty minutes. These things are excruciating.
Lol.
I went to a company Christmas party during the Reagan administration
In Langley? Or somewhere more exotic?
I remember some that got pretty wild. But less and less so lately.
I got a baked ham as an xmas present from my company 2 weeks before the fired me.
At another company thanksgiving dinner, the boss chewed out one of the hardest working maintenance guys before all the workers. And on that happy note, let’s eat!
Can we please just bring back dueling already? This guy somehow survived 100 sword and pistol duels, along with 2 shipwrecks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Martin_(Irish_politician)
His nickname was Humanity Dick, because he tried to help the poor.
Highlander confirmed?
How did they get the pig to inhale?
I had to think for a moment, then I larfed.
THC infused bacon would piss off so many people… and make so many others blissfully chill.
I want to know what was sort of cruelty did cattle suffer that he pioneered legislation to address it ten years before they abolished slavery.
I mean, I could have scrolled down before posting, but I’m not made of reading
“2 weeks before the fired me.”
Mine just gave the whole company an extra paid Vaca day for Xmas Eve. I hope nothing like this is about to go down.
Read that “as baked as a ham”.
We had our department outing this afternoon. I took the day off instead.
7 comments that begin with “I” in this thread.
Finally bought a bottle of Larceny Bourbon. I give it a solid rating of: adequate.
In that price range, it’s not bad. But you can drink it neat and use it for a mixer. I don’t normally recommend whiskeys that are much higher priced here.
Yeah, I was a being a bit glib. I don’t mean to say it’s bad or anything; I’d certainly recommend it to someone looking for a good bourbon.
I fear I’ve found a new addiction and am chasing the next high looking for a bourbon or rye that surprises me. Since I’ve worked through many of the low to mid range whiskeys, this could get expensive.
I think it’s a great entry level bourbon, and I drink it neat when I want something on the lighter side. It’s a great mixer. See if you can find a bottle of McKenna 10yo BIB. It should be about $35. Let me know when the bug has taken over and we can go higher in price.
*added to shopping list*
If my local has it, I’ll buy a bottle and report back.
I’ll say that the bug has bitten deep and it’s been fighting my frugal side. The bug is winning…as my Rendezvous Rye (3rd bottle in the last 3-ish years) purchase last week proves.
Oxymoron.
What the fuck did you call me?!
?
I like it. But I am a Buffalo Trace and Four Roses guy, too.
Over Thanksgiving we bought a bottle and the two other dudes who helped me kill it really dug it.
Luckily there are plenty to choose from!
^This!^
I’m not a big Buffalo Trace fan. But maybe it’s because rye has ruined me for secondary whiskies like bourbon and scotch.
*blink*
I thought I knew you Mike.
Every whisk(e)y has its place.
/hides the fifteen or so bottles on his shelf
? I was trolling.
The 31 (and growing) bottles of whisk(e)y in my cabinet speak to my commitment to the goodness of brown liquor. The only big style I’m missing is a good Japanese whisky.
Hating Rush is one thing. Crapping on scotch is over the line. ?
4 of those 31 bottles are delicious scotch.
Good boy. We’re friends again. Have some libertarian rock.
https://youtu.be/D-k8zBWLQFM
Wait, Mike S. hates Rush?
I thought he was a good person (meeting him in meatspace)?
Chafed, that link was a dirty trick.
Nick, yes. I’m [not] sorry, but it’s true.
Also Steely Dan, if you can believe.
Mo’, I’ve been coming around on SD. I’m not willing to say I like them yet, but…
Wait, what? You’ve been trying? Awwwww, how sweet!
Well, he’s stuck at home until the oxen team can clear him out in the spring, he’s got nothing better to do.
Mike,
I got this album for my birthday.
From my uncle when I was pretty young.
It was my Steely Dan gateway drug.
“Also Steely Dan, if you can believe.”
OMG, he might be the devil!
@Mo’: Yes. In the course of playing them for you, they’ve grown on me.
Except for Cousin Dupree. That nonsense will always annoy me.
OMG I LOVE that song!
However, I’m old enough that I had a strong background in Steely Dan before it did so.
Blueprint blue
Oh c’mon. That really is a libertarian song off their most libertarian album.
But here’s a peace offering for you my NoDak metal brother.
https://youtu.be/_xFc86tzFG4
Hey Nineteen.
*thank the sweet baby Jesus for getting my buddy Chaffed to play some good music to wash Donald Faggen’s voice from my head*
??
I have Buffalo Trace souvenirs from our aborted distillery tour. The Old Fashioned glass and muddler I got could go to a good home.
“cats vs invisible mazes of water bottles and saran wrap”
These days it is cats vs my Christmas tree. (The cats are winning…)
Our cat seems to like our tree.
http://imgur.com/a/ivwJlb8
Beautiful pic!
Seconded.
I wish I weren’t allergic and that cats weren’t such assholes.
^this^
Awwwwww, that’s sweet!
You may have a no knock SWAT raid coming. Kitty has a laser point on its back.
Aww
How about this for the next challenge?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzpJ3evwJDA
Eeek!
No shit.
Hello, nightmares.
Oh yeah. Total nightmare fuel.
Pass
Nah. Gonna go with calligraphy and I’m even worse at that (I’m assuming since I’ve never tried it) than I am at drawin’.
That must be Buffalo Bill’s handle.
Is that an excerpt from 100 ways to prepare horse?
When I chose to take the head off the body, it’s easier for me to work that way
Xmas music
https://youtu.be/O3TXwWANFbM
Excellent.
I’ll see you and raise you this!
YES!!!! Thank you!!
Anytime.
For you.
Well, you just sold me that whole fucking album I did not know existed and now NEED.
Glad to help!
I was so bummed when he cancelled his tour this year. If he’s back next year I’m taking the whole family!
So, marginally related. I happened to get into electroswing right as I was working on my Prohibition book.
I thought it was something you might like. https://youtu.be/FALYmqt-7TQ
I am dissapoint.
For instrumental, check out Los Straitjackets. For vocals, check out this.
/goes back to his Punk/Rockabilly/Comedy Christmas station
I don’t care for Los Straitjackets.
I LOVE Big Bad VooDoo Daddy no matter what they do.
Mojeaux: I have some personal issues with BBVD from personal encounters in the past, but nothing that I would publicly condemn them for.
So how do you feel about Bad Religion or the Vandals?
I’m not crazy about either of those, but outside of Brian Setzer, I don’t know much rockabilly and I don’t know electroswing all that well, either.
I have to be in the mood for such specific genres. I usually play Setzer and electroswing while I’m DIYing outside and I haven’t done that in a long time.
I thought it was something you might like.
And you thought right!
I love appropriation!
HA! I’ve seen The Vandals 6 times between 1988 – 1993 and they had completely different lineups 5 of those appearances.
Fresno, ’91 – My big skinhead barracks mate and I go see them at a club called One Step Beyond. Mike’s favorite song at the time is Long Haired Queer. We spend most of the show SCREAMING the song title to encourage the band to play it. Finally, some fellow standing in front of us (we honestly never noticed him before he spoke up), with very long hair, whips around and yells – “What? What the fuck do you want from me?” Laughs were had, apologies were made, beers were consumed, it was a great night.
I gripe constantly about certain male singers’ voices I just can’t stand, and never really can think of the ones I do love.
Brian Setzer is one I love.
I saw him when I was like 15 and have been a fan ever since.
*does math*
Holy shit am I old!!
So… is this when I point out that I got to see Setzer with the Stray Cats on stage a couple years ago? And have seen Setzer play with four different bands?
/buffs nails
April though, I get to see RCR again.
Dude, I saw the Stray Cats on March 16, 1983 at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis.
Who opened, you ask?
Why, it was these gentlemen!
But yeah, I wish I would have been out in Vegas for those shows!
I’ll refrain from mentioning how old I was in ’83. 🙂
But the first concert I paid for was Morbid Angel, Motorhead, and Black Sabbath (with Iomi IIRC).
You struck gold Neph.
Yes. Me too.
Let’s join together in our love of Brian’s voice. ?
I will be playing this one for my nieces and nephews on Christmas.
Excellent. This subthread is really getting me into the season.
I like the Carol of the Bells, but I’m gonna have to go with this version for the other
https://youtu.be/CreWsnhQwzY
My eyes get misty by the end.
^^^THIS!!!^^^ In the context of the movie, more moving than any “freestanding” rendition could be.
So…about the mansion in Meet Me In St. Louis.
In 1520 Main, check the address Trey writes on the Christmas card he sends to Marina.
Searching through Nook & found passage about Christmas card but no mention of address. Late edit? Either way, may I assume it’s the lovely domicile linked? Clever!
Dammit! I was SURE I had put the address in there. Crap, crap, crap.
Damn.
You win.
That was very sad. I’ve never seen the movie, but I will now.
Now, for something from my childhood…
There was a interview or snippet on TCM several years ago where Liza Minnelli is talking about her mom. She got kind of quieter and said something like ‘Everyone hears Judy Garland singing, but for me, that’s my momma singing”.
I think it was Over the Rainbow, but anytime I hear Judy Garland, I always think about Liza and damn there’s that dust again.
I read this book years ago. From the blurb:
Shortly after I read that chapter in the book, I watched Wizard of Oz. Damn, when Judy sang Over the Rainbow, that hit hard.
Propably couldn’t do this again.
https://youtu.be/xOMmSbxB_Sg
Was going to post that in a couple days. Love Catwoman’s voice on that song. It’s purrfect.
You’re welcome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkSy6ElNIY
Whoa. Plot bunny.
When I was a little girl, my mom took me to Winnipeg to see the Canadian ballet do the Nutcracker. It was magical
I saw it many times here, too.
Amazing.
When my mom was here last year, we went to see the Nutcracker by the Washington ballet. Awesome
Here.
Just the Suite freaks me out.
My favorite comment:
M
In college we had a (white) playwright come speak to us. He wrote a play called ‘The Dance of the Sugar Plumb Fairy’, except it was all an allegory for the problems going on in South Africa (after apartheid) His lecture was boring, kind of racist, but also informative on the state of SA at that point.
Poppy has really grown as an artist.
this video explains why the recent UK election turned out as it did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyAwCJaC2uY
I hate constant jump cuts.
Votes Yay to this resolution!
Liberty Doll talks about VA gun rights.
I can do kind of a Mark Strong gangster type British accent, or a kind of Stephen Merchant had he grown up on the wrong side of the tracks type British accent; but I’m not sure if I can do an uppercrust British accent. Not sure which type I want anyhow…
1. Thanks to my buddy Tundra for turning me on to Brian Setzer Christmas tunes.
B. I think a good post topic would be suggestions for Christmas tunes. Maybe even a series; one for rock fans, one for (obviously retarded) country fans, one for jazz/swing people, one for classical fans, and one for…other people.
Yeah! You should do that
Wait…no not me. I meant someone else!
It’s too big of a topic. I’m now listening to Tchaikovsky and marveling.
It’s pretty amazing that the birth of a true libertarian generated such a huge volume of incredible music.
Messiah.
The alpha and omega of classical music, and as free-spirited as the God he worshipped.
I have 5 or 6 different performances of this in my music collection.
Obligatory
Also my one and only favorite Christmas Song.
Or people hopelessly stuck in their childhoods and wanting to go home again…
There are a few songs I have not had a chance to put up yet, and there is one song on that list I was tempted to leave off because I hate it so much (country, Tammy Wynette, gag), but it’s part of the rotation so it hurts like a bad tooth if it’s not there.
Hey Mo, not Xmas music, but since I know you love the Getz/Gilberto album do you know the Getz/Byrd album from the same era? I have this going right now on vinyl, this is my favorite track from it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0l1wS6VbA
BEAUTIFUL!
I did not know of its existence. Thank you!
For years our tree decorating song.
https://youtu.be/8MX43ynMvm0
To really jump in the wayback machine, my sister put me on to this album of Renaissance Christmas music. It’s still one of my favorites.
Bought! (Um, as soon as I have some spare cash.)
This link (I hope) should take you to the whole thing, track by track.
you need more medieval hardcore party mix in your life – featuring the best comment section on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRNvJLKP1E
That’s great! I listen to “Millennium of Music” every Sunday morning (11 a.m. EST) on SiriusXM’s main classical channel – all pre-Bach stuff, which is my favorite period of “serious” music.
And you’re right – the comments on this vid are hilarious!
Those comments are gold.
Okay, I need that in the Cods & Cuntes playlist.
The Director’s name is ironic for Medieval Christmas music.
Matisyahu’s complete catalog?
“for (obviously retarded) country fans,”
OMG, how can one man be sooooooooooooooooo wrong?
I like airplanes. Does that make us square?
Pistoffnick is secretly Kibbled Kristen?
pistoffnick works for an airplane manufacturer
KK must be jealous.
smol airplane manufacturer
I think KK likes the wide girth fuselages
Phrasing!!!
You have damaged my honor!
Pistols at 30 paces?
I mean, once it warm up a bit.
Fuck. I’m not sure I can walk 30 paces, what with all this Carhartt and thinsulate
Look, I like country music, but Christmas music done by country artists just doesn’t work well.
One reason I’m glad I lost my job. I got fired the day they switch over to all Christmas (as a Classic Country station, there are a lot of country versions mixed in. I didn’t have to listen to that this year). No one likes it, it’s a mystery why they do it.
It could always be worse.
/fuck that station and your old station.
Oh fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7d7i-tT5o
Not that I’m a Toby Keith fan….nor a Sammy Hagar fan.
From someone who loves Toby Keith and likes Sammy Hagar well enough–
No.
Also, I do not want to see palm trees at Christmas time.
Fine. Don’t come to my house.
https://youtu.be/kPhdKAmFgfM
Robert Earl Keene, ’nuff said.
They call me backdoor Santa…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NoalRsk5w
Checks calendar. *2019*
Cringe.
“…don’t come but once a year…”
*considers sex life*
*hangs head in shame*
I was expecting some sort of The Doors mash up.
Since yall are sharing music, here’s the track that brought common ground between OMWC and myself.
That’s Cher in the slide show. Was that song referencing her?
I didn’t actually watch the accompanying video. The official music video on YT cuts off the song.
Here’s another from the old days.
Karen Carpenter has the most perfect voice that ever was or ever will be.
Fight me.
You will lose.
GT in HS choir: “Yay! For once we altos get to sing the melody!” (Not a Christmas song)
my favorite choir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMJtA8vfpw
fun fact: in Swahili, church music is called kwaya, from choir. A Tanzanian once asked me “how the hell do you get *this* (points to “kwaya”) from *this*?! (points to “choir”)
I’ll fight you.
Annie Haslam. I rest my case.
I prefer metal. This is a song about metal, featuring a gal with great pipes. Eh, close enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UlRIbpYTwk
Oh god, that awful current trend of females singing like they’re stroke victims.
maybe this gal is more your thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G4O2a8T8s0
I’m guessing more like this.
https://youtu.be/DHsVUWCUlrY
a heavy metal song with female vocals based on a quote from Jurassic Park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0VfnqLUs8M
epic!
Was expecting
https://youtu.be/RfiQYRn7fBg
Samuel L Jackson cast as a computer programmer is Nikola Tesla level genius,
I saw a youtube channel about teaching some programming language. The name was: Learn to Code, Motherfucker!
Something for everyone.
Another of my favorites.
I wish you all a very metal Christmas
That’s a Christmas wish I can support.
I was expecting this.
The girlfriend didn’t believe this was a real song for over a year… even after I played it for her.
As one who is aware that AC/DC is the greatest rock band ever, and that Mistress for Christmas is the best Christmas carol in the history of all humanity, I appreciate your expectation and I apologize for letting you down.
/sets a whisky down in front of Mike
/raises his own glass
/raises own glass of whiskey
/looks for go-cup for Neph’s whisky offering
the greatest rock song ever from the greatest rock band ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGeujU6iK0
The Beatles are pop, not rock.
While those of us with impeccable musical tastes agree that AC/DC is the greatest rock band ever, there is room to discuss which of their songs is the greatest rock song ever.
My pick (although I reserve the right to reevaluate and change my mind at any time)
There are many correct answers. Here’s mine: https://youtu.be/-sUXMzkh-jI
It’s got so much in addition to great music. Autobiography, work ethic, Phil Rudd on drums, and bagpipes.
I don’t want any idiot posts of the lady bagpipes (is that a word?) play rock covers on bagpipes. Any instrument can be used to cover someone else’s work. This is the only rock song (to my knowledge) that uses bagpipes as part of the musical mix. It’s intrinsic to the song. Those aussies are geniuses.
That’s a serious contender. It’s way up on my favorites list. And yeah, the bagpipe is there because Bon knew how to play it and enjoyed playing it. It works in a way that would be impossible in almost any other song. Many since have tried to hard too force it.
Another of my top 10-ish favs.
Fun, fun song with a horrible video.
It’s from a “movie” of the entire Fly on the Wall album. Cringey fun with an awesome soundtrack.
The end of the grand finale has an interesting back-drop.
Yeah, even (((I))) knew the answer. But I really wanted you to provide it.
I have to ask. Why didn’t she believe it after you played it?
Here’s one for Q.
Or one for SF.
Bah humbug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuUE89UgYM
Back when I was a better bassist, I could do a version of ‘Carol of the Bells’ by using “hammer-ons”. My favorite carol.
The song is kind of metal, too.
How does this work for you?
That was AWESOME!
It’s an amazing introduction to a horror anthology movie from Canada (they even have the Shat in it!). Four stories and a framing story to tie them all together. A Christmas Horror Story… I’ve recommended it to horror movie fans before. I’d link the Community Carol of the Bells, but it’s something that would require you to know the characters to appreciate it.
I put it on my watchlist.
Neph: it sounds better than what I could play at my best. Not going to see the movie, though.
Also, this is the kind of version of the song I really like. Spare, straightforward, but with all the beautiful complexity.
Ugh. I am a spoiled brat. I’m moving files from my external hard drive to my family’s cloud server and it is taking forfuckingever. It should not take 3 hours to move 140 GB. It should not!!!
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a car full of backup tapes going down the highway.
LOL.
First time hearing that?
/was wearing a DKM Christmas Sweater tonight
Yep. Honestly, I am not as learned with the tunes as the rest of you are. I find too many things YEARS later.
Sorry, been following the Dropkicks since they were an opening act. My favorite shirt from them was the 2001 tour (they called it the American Pride tour, it started in October). It’s got an American flag cut into a shamrock on the front, and the tag “Try Burning This One” on the back. They made it a point to ask how many people were Irish, and how many people were English, and how many people were Scottish. Then told everyone, “Fuck off! You’re all fucking Americans!”
I don’t agree with their union love, but can understand it. They also have one of the most civilized mosh pits I’ve ever been in.
Labor union or political union with UK?
She apparently stores the testicles of the vanquished in her cheek pouches. I’m going to have even more nightmares now, aren’t I?
Yes. Yes you are.
Well, this has been fun, but I’ve finished that pesky leftover half-bottle of wine (got a full bottle of my favorite for tomorrow!!!) and I should probably head for bed.
Nighty night, all! Something something visions of sugar plums…
G’night, Sweet Princess! May dreams of goateed excellence dance in your slumber…
Ok, gonna go down a rabbit hole here. Starting off slow and classical…
https://youtu.be/MgIwLeASnkw
https://youtu.be/VPtefCrMSAs
https://youtu.be/5Tz-9hVgIwQ
Nsfw
Squirrels aren’t cooperating
https://youtu.be/n4VsfRc2IjE
Nsfw
*sensible chuckles*
Aaarggh! Wifey has two shows tomorrow. I’m running about like a head-less chicken while she’s finishing up her craft for display. You couldn’t have told me about this two days ago?
That would have ruined the surprise.
That’s a fair cop.
Someone doesn’t know when to let it go.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/12/spare-a-throuple-of-dollars-ex-rep-katie-hill-is-pimping-a-gofundme-to-help-her-get-legal-revenge-on-those-responsible-for-her-cyber-exploitation/
“gape or go home” Katie.
I’ll donate to her GoFuckayerself.
She’s not even that attractive. Like raking the yard and seeing the nice neighbor lady shepard some kids to the KIA and wondering hot.
Step-girl #3 calls me “Fishing Dad”. When she got married she actually wanted me to walk her down the aisle. I knew it was for the best that her biological dad did the deed and bowed out. I cried like a baby watching the closest I’ll ever have to a daughter get hitched.
https://youtu.be/Swx0dJTzE68
Ignore the lyrics. Ignore the instruments used. Please focus on the rhythm and chord structure. I posit, that FEAR could have been pop powerhouse had they chosen such a path.
Ain’t no way no how I’m opening that. I haven’t had my breakfast yet
Good morning you wonderful fellow. Speaking of breakfast, I just made a grilled-cheese w/bacon, employing two egg-in-the-holes (one-eyed-jacks, etc.) as the bread. Yummy.