Holiday Open Thread
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.
Category: Open thread
FIRST…to wish ALL of The Adorable Deploreables a Most Merry Christmas!…(and the miscreanted d’weeded ones, too)
2nd.. dammit, that’s what I get for posting on the Christmas in War thread
Congratz KoB (I thought you were travelling today, and we’d be safe from your jumping on this thread FIRST thing)
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!
Well, congratz again, and a Very Merry Christmas to you and yours sir!
“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!
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”.
KoB is rolling and yet still manages to snag a FIRST.
Somebody has way to much screen time.
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
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!
I demand hassenfefer and dancing women for today’s festivities ( turkey and a pic of Loni Anderson will do though ).
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka and a happy New Year to all.
Wishing all y’all a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (6th) lol
Hack Stone bringing up there. This Christmas the Stone Family will be guests. Hack Stone has been tasked the the Green Bean Mushroom Casserole, and trying something new with this one he found on line a few weeks back.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/245731/baked-stuffed-brie-with-cranberries-walnuts/?
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?
Magic 8-Ball says…
Those are supposed to be a bunch of grapes, not a representation of Psul’s ballsack.
Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas thebesig.
FIRST SIXTEENTH
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!
https://youtu.be/aKEUlJRQVbA?si=2b6eQjkPEJe29ACd
Enjoy
Merry Christmas, TAH.
And Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls.
Merry Christmas to each of you here. God bless you and your families.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
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):
Someday I’m gonna have to figure out how to embed the videos.
It took me some doing, but I figured it out. Do you usually use a PC or a phone to post?
A PC.
Do we get to code HTML here? I vaguely remember something about that some time back…
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.
I’ll give it a shot. Thanks, AH!
Meh.
For a retired programmer I have a lot of problems with these things. 🙂
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).
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.
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.
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
Precisely what I did (above?)
Because if you use the Youtube app on your phone, press the share button on the video you want to embed and it’ll give you a slew of options. Don’t press the copy link button or you’ll get this:
https://youtu.be/Knc80_MQORU?si=-3DHFAIcgqUL_9We
And here’s a topic on whether or not God is evil and if it is better to be an atheist (atheist vs theist argument):
Trying to share:
Ah, well. I guess y’gotta click through. Sorry
Hey, it worked! Thanks, AH!
You’re welcome! I like the song!
Nice!