Topic: Let's talk about Christmas, Thanksgiving be damned (Read 29422 times)

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #151 on:** 22 Dec 2013, 18:27 »

I find it implausible that the shaken condition would only last a day.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #152 on:** 22 Dec 2013, 18:35 »

It doesn't say it only lasted a day, only that he checked in the next day

Masterpiece · « **Reply #153 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 03:15 »

He must be a zombie.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #154 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 07:22 »

That song always makes me wonder about the mechanics of giving someone's heart away to a third party. Like, who did she give it to? Is he obligated to love that person now? How and when did he get it back?

Kugai · « **Reply #155 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 15:07 »

He sent 'The Boys' round for it.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #156 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 17:28 »

Your reference has been lost in inter-temporal shipping.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #157 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 20:12 »

celticgeek · « **Reply #158 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 07:55 »

My daughter and son-in-law are here for the holidays. We are eating well, drinking well, and enjoying pictures and stories from their recent trip to Key West.

For those of you who missed it, Happy Solstice!

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #159 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 08:57 »

Have a nice Christmas you Merry Bastards

cesium133 · « **Reply #160 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 09:03 »

Ah, local TV news...

"It was a fun, enjoyable day for the kids until Santa was shot."

Skewbrow · « **Reply #161 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 10:15 »

Merry Christmas from rainy Turku, Finland.

This is the official city Xmas tree standing in front of the cathedral. Going a bit further away from the equator does not guarantee a White Christmas (about 40 degrees Fahrenheit now).

Kugai · « **Reply #162 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 10:33 »

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #163 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 11:09 »

Woo hoo, ill for Christmas. I'll be curled up in the corner until its all over.

Akima · « **Reply #164 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 14:08 »

圣诞快乐!
Merry Christmas!

RedWolf4 · « **Reply #165 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 14:11 »

Merry Christmas and a happy new year folks!!

Schmee · « **Reply #166 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 15:11 »

BAH, HUMBUG

pwhodges · « **Reply #167 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 16:02 »

Quote from: Skewbrow on 24 Dec 2013, 10:15

Merry Christmas from rainy Turku, Finland.

This is the official city Xmas tree standing in front of the cathedral. Going a bit further away from the equator does not guarantee a White Christmas (about 40 degrees Fahrenheit now).

Hang on, what looks like a river in front of the tree is not:

My oldest friend had his third wedding there a few years ago (they haven't stayed together, though):

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Seasonal Comment And now the clock has struck, so Merry Christmas to you all!

LeeC · « **Reply #168 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 22:39 »

gifts I got from my sister

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #169 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 23:49 »

http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson821.html

Skewbrow · « **Reply #170 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 05:23 »

That was a bit of a coincidence, Paul. Not too much of one in the sense that if your friend was to marry a woman from these parts, then it is relatively likely that they would pick the cathedral for their wedding.

Anyway, I didn't think that wet cobblestone could be mistaken for the surface of the river, but yeah, I can now see the possibility (the river was 150 ft or thereabouts behind my back when I took the photo). The city is built to an uncomfortable degree on clay, so if the cathedral were that close to the river, it would have come stumbling down ages ago.

Lines · « **Reply #171 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 07:10 »

Merry Christmas everyone!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #172 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 09:07 »

~~Valdís~~ · « **Reply #173 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 19:10 »

GarandMarine got me a gift! Europa Universalis IV on Steam (more convenient than dealing with meatspace hassles). It's been on my wishlist, as I was way too poor to spend money on it when new, and I'm a big ol' dork for Paradoxian-type Grand Strategy stuff, so yay!

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Thank you, handsome! <3

LeeC · « **Reply #174 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 20:11 »

huh, Ive heard of that game but I've never played it. I generally like paradox games. Is this the one where you kind of make your own civ and they randomly put you anywhere on the map?

Kugai · « **Reply #175 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 20:42 »

And always remember

A paradox can always be paradoctored.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #176 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 21:13 »

EU is taking control of an existing world power (or power of the day) and guiding it to dominance.

I was always a Hearts of Iron III kinda guy (to absolutely no one's surprise) but I like to get my bunny presents she'll enjoy ^_^

LeeC · « **Reply #177 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 21:20 »

I always liked the original, 3 was too...different. Victoria 2 is a ton of fun.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #178 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 01:02 »

Well enough to crawl out of bed for more than an hour but no one wants to have a full fledged do over. Miserable basards.

Fuck it, I'm having Christmas dinner for breakfast.

94ssd · « **Reply #179 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 02:24 »

All I asked for this Christmas was Grand Theft Auto V and cash to help me go on a trip to NYC over the summer. I got the game, but unfortunately my family went into "it is Christmas must give gift cards and useless kitsch" mode.

I wasn't asking for cash just to be difficult (which admittedly my grandfather does every year, but I explained why I wasn't asking for anything else) so I'm just slightly less grateful for the other gifts I got.

jwhouk · « **Reply #180 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 06:49 »

I got the gift of the stomach flu. Lost a lot of fluids and ended up in the emergency room, where they pumped me full of two whole bags of IV and anti-nausea meds. Now I've exchanged constant puking with the runs, and I'm at like 1 HP (or at least that's what I feel like).

Merry Christmas.

Lines · « **Reply #181 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 06:57 »

Eek, I hope you feel better soon. The stomach flu is NOT fun.

valley_parade · « **Reply #182 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 09:03 »

I spent a very solid 4 days with stomach flu once. Honestly thought I was going to die at a few points.

Thrillho · « **Reply #183 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 09:29 »

My Christmas haul. Probably the best I've ever got!

94ssd · « **Reply #184 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 19:33 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 26 Dec 2013, 09:03

I spent a very solid 4 days with stomach flu once. Honestly thought I was going to die at a few points.

I had swine flu back when that was a big deal in 2009 and was bedridden for almost a week. I wished I would die at a few points. The worst part was that in ten minute spans I would go from feeling like I'm about to freeze to death to feeling unbearably hot.

jwhouk · « **Reply #185 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 01:53 »

What's been horrible is those brief moments when I am asleep, I've had weird and disturbing dreams.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #186 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 04:44 »

Gareth, you didn't have the Abbey Road album before?

Thrillho · « **Reply #187 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 04:45 »

Not legally, no. And I deleted all my illegal stuff a few years back. Been slowly buying up the remastered Beatles stuff ever since.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #188 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 06:24 »

Someone gave my dad a set of slang flashcards in his stocking and we got a video of him trying to guess what the words were before (trying) to read the definitions. Unfortunately the video is posted on my sister's facebook so I have no idea how to share it here...
In other, shocking, news, my father does not know how to say the word "spizzot".

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #189 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 07:33 »

More Miles!

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #190 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 09:57 »

Gareth, I'm doing something similar with all the RHCP albums. Nick got me their self titled and Uplift Mofo Party Plan this year for Christmas.

I want to post a photo of my loot too! Boo to being at work.

Thrillho · « **Reply #191 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 12:42 »

RHCP have one hell of a patchy catalogue.

Post away when you get home!

94ssd · « **Reply #192 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 13:46 »

So the ancient GPS in my car was completely fucked when I tried to use it this morning. I used my Best Buy gift card (which I was initially unhappy about because I thought I'd never use it) to partially cover the cost of a new one because I like road tripping but suck at remembering directions.

calenlass · « **Reply #193 on:** 28 Dec 2013, 02:57 »

Woo Christmas! I am excited for parties now that my stupid parents' christmas day thing is over and they can stop shouting about everything and stressing about absolutely nothing. Dinner and gifts at my sister's tomorrow, hangin' out with friends party sunday, whisky party monday, NYE party tuesday, brunchy fry-up and movie-fest wednesday, dinner party at my granddad's friday, and then Twelfth Night party + gift swap on sunday. Shit yeah Christmas!

I have so many gifts left to wrap auaauauauaughaughaldjhgldfkjhglnb

Aimless · « **Reply #194 on:** 04 Jan 2014, 16:45 »

I am, as always, late to the party, but I just had to share a Christmas-related insight: it can be pretty awesome to work on Christmas. In Sweden, most of the fun takes place on Christmas eve. This Christmas, for the first time ever, I worked that day. The hospital was at peace, everyone was in a good mood, there were Christmassy decorations and food and treats everywhere, there was a reasonable patient load (on the wards, in the ER and coming in from nearby hospitals) leaving plenty of time to make good decisions, do the right things and then to relax and hang out with wonderful people. And, best of all, I then got to go off and eat just the best Christmas dinner ever--without having to help make it--and have a really nice time with the ginger's family. The next day I started working at 6 PM, so I could have a nice long lie-in for once and start my shift very well-rested. I think I'm hooked and will always try to get these shifts from now on

Oh yeah, another first: we decided to have some sort of secret santa thing where everyone would buy a gift for just one person, with a reasonable cap on how much it could cost. I got my mother-in-law a Clever coffee-dripper and my father-in-law got me a couple of paintbrushes and a roller (because I've been going on about wanting to renovate the kitchen). I think this may become a new family tradition, because it really cuts down on the pressure and the expense while also being pretty fun and personal. All in all a very good Christmas for this infidel

Masterpiece · « **Reply #195 on:** 04 Jan 2014, 17:57 »

You call your wife the ginger? Cute.

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