Just to be a cosmic-scale buzzkill, I’ll point out that Jesus, assuming he was a real person and the accounts are accurate, would have been born in the spring. Not in December.
Nephilium
So we should celebrate Jesus’ birthday on the day he was crucified?
Not a religious person, but I enjoy that for at least a couple of days, people are generally nice to each other.
dbleagle
Christmas is were it is so the first Xtians could blend in with all the surrounding pagans celebrating Saturnalia.
Besides if you celebrated birth and death in a matter of a few weeks what would you do to get them kneeling in church for the rest of the year?
Heroic Mulatto
what would you do to get them kneeling in church
E usually works for me.
Nephilium
Same reason there were so many saints that were pagan gods at one point. I’ve done more then enough Catholic calisthenics in my early years.
And again, I enjoy that for about 7 days every year, people are generally nice to each other.
dbleagle
In Syracuse Sicily the cathedral is just a pagan temple bricked in. The original pillars are still clearly visible. Kinda cool to see.
I like that too. Atheist I am and atheist I will remain, but Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. And yes, I always say “Merry Christmas” because that’s the name of the holiday.
It’s a time when we get as much of our family together as we can manage, share good food and drink, watch the little ones open presents and play, reminisce on the year and years past and talk about plans for years to come. It’s a great way to close out the year and, yes, it’s nice to watch folks be decent to one another for a while.
Waterfall Insurance
My mother in law just heard the first verse guess I didn’t have the volume low enough.
Heroic Mulatto
Glibertarians.com: Bringing families together since 2017.
Raphael
I’m stuck in the open office this Christmas while working on my resume. I am afraid to play this video.
You abuse the anonymity the internet so graciously provides.
dbleagle
Fifty years ago mankind took the first picture of home from another body in the Solar System. In some ways the human condition has not changed, in others we crossed a divide for the better.
Only in Japan would a white chocolate bar be named “Ghana”.
straffinrun
How did I never notice that? When Japan needed Ghana to win their World Cup match to advance, we managed to get a group of girls sitting next us at the izakaya to start cheering, “We love Ghanaria!”
Heroic Mulatto
*sensible chuckle*
Raphael
That’s pretty friggin hilarious. Those poor girls never stood a chance.
SugarFree confirmed as the the modern day Nostradamus.
Brochettaward
…and the Syrian Democratic Forces “don’t believe this is happening,” the official said.
I can’t imagine the complete lack of shame needed to make this statement unironically.
Count Potato
“While many Americans gathered with their families and with his vacation to the “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago iced by the shutdown, the President spent the day at the White House blasting critics — including Democrats who have refused his demands for $5 billion in funding for his border wall in a standoff that shuttered the government at midnight on Friday.
“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security,” Trump wrote in what may have been a tongue in cheek tone in his 10th tweet of the day.
Trump was due to be rejoined for Christmas Day by first lady Melania Trump, who had already decamped to Florida before the shutdown took hold.”
How would a “government shutdown” keep a billionaire’s family from traveling? I also doubt that the Secret Service and Air Force One are considered “non-essential”.
straffinrun
TAs you know the markets are getting hammered. Dubya’s and Greenspan’s foolishness gave us Obama. I cringe thinking about what another Lehman shock could give us in 2020. Trump should not have claimed ownership of this looming disaster. Maybe it’s just a correction, maybe not.
I like to buy things at a lower price. Correction was needed but I think we’re in bargain territory now. I’ll keep buying for my 401K because my company matches. Now I’m buying at bargain prices so I’m getting more.
Fourscore
Oh, its a correction alright. Unquestionably.
straffinrun
Given every recession starts with a correction, you’re right. Wondering where the bottom is.
creech
I’m down a couple hundred thousand $$ already, so the bottom better be near. I’m guessing Dow will hold at 20,000 but if it doesn’t, well shit I got a $60 per month s.s. raise.
Count Potato
If you lost a couple hundred thousand over the past week, glass half-full you were quite well off to start.
Spudalicious
Welcome AI trading. 80% of trading is done by algorithms. Stocks are dropping for no other reason than stocks are dropping and computer programs continue selling. There’s been no change in fundamentals to explain this.
Merry Christmas to you too, Yusef! Hope you’re having a great one.
Nephilium
Yusef, hope to talk to you soon, and hope it all is going well for you in the house hunt.
BakedPenguin
Merry Christmas, everyone
Raphael
Merry Christmas to ya too, BP. Thanks again for the coffee recommendations!
Sean
Good night y’all and Merry Christmas too.
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l0b0t
Wifey and kids are off at the in-law’s, I’m enjoying a stupendous milkshake – Carnation Instant Breakfast, Ovaltine Original Malt, chocolate ice cream, and chocolate milk from Jersey cows it’s VERY rich and chocolatey – and a bacon sandwich then heading in to work (those groceries don’t jump on the shelves by themselves ya know) at my union mandated double overtime holiday rate. I love you all and wish you all a wonderful Christmas.
Playa Manhattan
Merry Christmas to you too.
You have to restock on the night before the 25th? Are you guys open tomorrow?
l0b0t
Of course we are open tomorrow; Dame Commerce cares not for the birthday of The Prince Of Peace. Our neighborhood biddies need their pet food and sundries.
Playa Manhattan
IIRC, Christmas Day is the only day that Ralph’s is closed.
If people are shopping tomorrow, that’s some poor planning. I felt bad going into the store today.
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
My Wal-Mart is closed now
l0b0t
I grew up in a rather rural environment where we went to a grocer perhaps once or twice per month and provisioned accordingly. Here in NYC an overwhelming number of people seem to do their shopping for a day or two at a time. I see the exact same shoppers every single day, paying higher prices to purchase smaller sized items more frequently. I can’t quite wrap my head around the concept.
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
Every single day? Shop much? Kettle, black?
l0b0t
The same 4 customers EVERY SINGLE NIGHT buying cat and dog food 5 or 6 cans at a time. Just buy the damn case already! 24 cans in a case for the same price as 18 individual cans. The profit margin keeps me employed but the mindset drives me batty.
Rhywun
I probably shop two or three times a week. Not having to pay for a car probably makes up for any price difference.
I dunno where your store is but if people are driving there every day to shop… well, that’s nuts.
l0b0t
We’re in Rockaway Beach at one of NYC’s many, many failed grocers (Waldbaums, Pathmark, etc.) taken over by a Dutch conglomerate and rebranded as Pause & Buy. Most of our customers drive but from less than 2 miles away as we have another location 3 miles down the beach.
Rhywun
I didn’t know those two were gone.
Bay Ridge is allergic to real supermarkets but a Key Food here just expanded and changed its name to SuperFresh. It’s about a tenth the size of every Wegman’s I grew up shopping in but it’s huge for here.
l0b0t
Retail grocery, particularly in NYC, is a very competitive market with very thin margins and I find it fascinating how the market branches out into niches. Some places fight to be more upscale (Thank you Fairway and Stew Leonards for driving that) while some (Aldi) slash staff, floor space, merchandising, and cleanliness. Also, being a Floridian, I miss Publix.
The grocery store is on the way home from work, so I could stop every day to pick something up if I wanted to spend the time waiting at the checkout.
Toward the end, Dad took Mom out to the grocery store every day. Couldn’t have her out long enough to do a week’s shopping, and couldn’t go out without her pest she get violently angry.
Rhywun
Yeah, it’s a crazy business for sure. Here in Bay Ridge it’s like a thousand “ethnic” stores and maybe three very generously-considered “supermarkets” which do a pretty decent job offering a selection of basics and gourmet stuff given the tiny space.
Astoria where I lived for a long time when I first moved to NYC had more and bigger supermarkets but they were all dirty and had terrible selection.
Gustave Lytton
I went to a couple of Albert Heijn (Ahold’s namesake flagship chain) in Amsterdam. Maybe it was the location, but all were tiny compared to supermarkets back home.
Count Potato
Waldbaums had great ice cream.
Playa Manhattan
I buy produce almost every single day. Different items, in small quantities. It keeps the colon healthy.
Evan from Evansville
I live a 30 second walk to a local mart that’s open til midnight. I live a minute’s walk from a 24/7 convenience store. My supermarket is a five minute walk. I live in a shoebox with a very tiny fridge.
I go to them about three times a day, with only non-perishables being bought in any size/bulk.
It’s glorious. I haven’t lived farther than a few hundred yards from a grocery store for a decade. It is now one of my requirements for choosing apartments. I live alone and don’t have the culinary discipline to eat the same thing over and over again so as not to waste the food. This was decidedly not so much of a problem when I lived with the ex. It’s a hidden cost of being single/living alone.
Count Potato
I many countries, people food shop every day.
Playa Manhattan
About to start Home Alone for the kids. And then… Die Hard in 1080P.
l0b0t
+ “We’re gonna need some new FBI guys.”
Gustave Lytton
Weird comment eating.
Buddy brought in a bottle of Bushmills and Die Hard Xmas edition for me today. Only watched Die Hard three times this season.
Gave him a bottle of Suntory Kakubin and he thinks he got the better end of it.
If they were my neighbors they’ll be hearing this tonight
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
Merry Cbristmas eat well and have beer
Rebel Scum
Just got back from dinner at the gf’s parents place. Twas a classy spread of crab cakes, crab caserole, oyster stew, and some fixins. On the way back I either saw a meteor or Santa’s sleigh went down.
Brochettaward
What kind of heathen eats seafood on Christmas Eve?
Tres Cool
Me ?
Brochettaward
People like you make me want to surrender to Al Qaeada and ISIS and just let them have their way.
Tres Cool
Well, I think they have issues with not Christmas, but shellfish.
straffinrun
We’re off to kaiten sushi as we speak. At least it’s not KFC.
Gustave Lytton
Picking up a Christmas cake on the way home?
Gustave Lytton
Sorry, Christmas cake-y.
straffinrun
Indeed. Wait until 5pm and get one at a discount.
Gustave Lytton
Doubles as dating advice too?
straffinrun
You mean 5am.
Count Potato
“What kind of heathen eats seafood on Christmas Eve?:
1.3 Billion Catholics?
Count Potato
I did tuna in a red sauce over linguini, if anyone cares.
I’ve never gotten a decent explanation for why the salt crust supposedly “works”.
I got a 7 bone today, and I’m probably going to portion it out into thirds. It’s playtime.
Spudalicious
The hard crust keeps all the moisture and flavor in, while at the same time slowly seasoning the meat through the cooking process. That’s the best I can tell you. I’ve had it several times now and it continues to be the best.
If you’re playing look up rotisseried prime rib as well.
Count Potato
“I’ve never gotten a decent explanation for why the salt crust supposedly “works”.”
Pellicle
Count Potato
Merry Christmas!
commodious spittoon
Tonight I learned grandmom and granddad didn’t get along with their neighbors.
Me, an idiot: Because you’re so gringo?
Her, a saint: They hated Bill because he worked on the bomb.
Playa Manhattan
Who is Bill, and why do hispanics hate the bomb?
commodious spittoon
Granddad estimated bomb yields. The Hispanics didn’t hate him more or less than they did anyone else white. But the white yuppies living here hated him because of his work.
Mojeaux
Hey, I know I missed wchipperdove’s ‘Twas the Night Before Glib-mas because I didn’t see the arrow for a new post. Anybody else miss it? There are only 6 comments and it’s hilarious. Needz moar applause.
Gustave Lytton
#metoo
thank you for the link back to it.
Mojeaux
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Frosty
Yeah it was indeed comical! I rarely if ever comment but lurk religiously… Merry Glibmas to all
Tundra
Merry Christmas, Tulpa.
Gustave Lytton
/cue Frosty the commenter parody “he’ll be back to comment again someday”
Seriously, don’t be stranger! The water’s fine!
Gustave Lytton
Also, what Tundra said.
Mojeaux
Merry Christmas!
Count Potato
Merry Christmas!
straffinrun
That was odd. Just one comment when the new links went up. Site crash after it got posted?
Akira
I received a large cash gift from a relative for Christmas, and I want to donate part of it to charity (seeing as how I’m in acceptable financial shape anyway and this was a pure windfall).
What’s a good one where I can make donations online? I’m not too picky; just looking for one that gets the most benefit for the money. I was thinking about The Doe Fund; does anyone have an opinion on that one? Or have any other recommendations?
From what I’ve read from ENB and others, most “sex trafficking” is voluntary prostitution.
Old Man With Candy
Favorites of the Candy household: IJ, of course. St. Jude’s. Kiva.
LJW
Merry Glibmas! Currently leading in a fantasy football championship game 148.12 to 148.06. Both of us have 1 player playing tonight. His player was knocked out for the night. So barring a fumble or loss of yards I’m in the money!
FOS
Merry Christmas …..
and put your bail bondsman’s phone number in your wallet before you leave the house.
Gustave Lytton
Squirrels are staging a takeover under the cover of eggnog.
Lady hath arriven. Party at a lovely Scot/Korean’s place in a couple of hours. Should prove to be quite revelrous. Out contribution is a bottle of Moscato that work gave Lady. Supposed to be nice. Wine is gross, and sweet wine grosser.
I anticipate quite the smorgasbord.
Enjoy the holiday ladies and gents. Best to all of you and yours.
Just got back from the parents house. Crab cakes, ham, and fresh and smoked Kilbasa. Oh and wine, Spanish Rioja. The nutty ness was flying as usual. My dad and FIL were arguing about Trump.
Count Potato
I just spent an hour and a half cleaning the refrigerator. The packaging for this beef I was was defrosting for Christmas dinner leaked blood all over the place. It was like that scene from The Godfather. Not that is particularly interesting. I just felt like complaining about it.
LJW
You’re having horse head for dinner? I believe the proper storage for that is in your bed. Oh wait wrong scene…
Count Potato
Oh, that was the scene I meant. Although fricando is beef, not horse.
Playa Manhattan
If this is the first time this has happened, my sympathies. If this has happened before, you already know what you did wrong.
Count Potato
I hasn’t happened before, not sure why it leaked. It was still in the supermarket packaging. In retrospect, I should have put in in a tray anyway.
Playa Manhattan
I’ve watched a few 80’s movies today. Other than the lack of cell phones, what really jumps out at me: DC-10s.
Gustave Lytton
I always liked watching trijets as a kid. I miss the variety of aircraft at airports these days. Mostly twin jets of either Boeing or Airbus now.
Playa Manhattan
We get a lot of 4 engines here in the morning. 2 A380s from Korea, 2 747s from China, Air Tahiti’s A340….
If you want to see the trijets, you have to get up really early. All cargo, and almost all of them MD11s.
blackjack
I work at LAX, lotta a380’s there. Especially on the western side where my yard is.
Playa Manhattan
Our preferred watching spot is Sepulveda and Lincoln. Sometimes Asiana and Korean Air come back to back.
If they’re late enough, it involves cheeseburgers.
blackjack
Yeah, that’s a cool little park there with close access to In-n-Out.
blackjack
Parade just left. We had the fire pit in the drive way, smores, kid’s friend over to watch, about 5 adult friends (one of which put a huge dent in my 18 y/o scotch, dammit!) it was fun. I’m a bit buzzed. Merry Mas everyone.
I always mess up hyperlinks. Afternoon drinking, though. Banzai!
Gustave Lytton
Mmmm…. Premium Malt’s….
Count Potato
Looks low in sugar.
l0b0t
Vaping some yummy indica and stocking feminine hygiene products. Sigh… I get particularly incensed when I discover evidence of shoplifting. This time it’s gross – feminine wipes “My ladyparts stink but I’m not gonna pay a few dollars or take a proper bath.”
straffinrun
New meaning to five finger discount.
Festus
Day drunk. Watched some Holomador documenteries. Left-over soup for dinner and rewash/repeat for tomorrow. Compelled merriment just ain’t my bag. Back to work on the 26th. Merry Glibmas, though!
KSuellington
Happy Christmas to all you glibs out there. Live this place. I look forward to the next year of posts and incredibly witful, poignant, silly, informative and asinine commentary.
KSuellington
Love this place. Live works as well.
l0b0t
Using Plex to stream video from media center at home to phone at work. Amazing world. Binge watching SNL. They were full on warmongers for the 1st Gulf War. It doesn’t age well at all.
l0b0t
Prime rib is on sale for $4.77 per lb. I’ve filled our chest freezer with 3 bone and have 3 2 bone sitting in the fridge that I will start playing with after work. Sous vide ahoy!
Tejicano
X-X-mas in Japan. Lucky to get (most of) the day off. Has more to do with my industry than geography but whatever.
X-mas dinner will be grilled dry-rub baby backs, lamb chops, and steak (thank you commissary) with vegetation-based accompanient provided by the wife.
Standing by the webber with beer in hand. Waiting for the green light to start grilling flesh.
They couldn’t put it on a fucking dusk-to-dawn timer?
Waterfall Insurance
Glibs always looking for automation to remove an honest 100k a year job.
MikeS
What a bunch of lying bullshit. Right after this:
The National Park Foundation, a charity that supports the park service, was providing materials and labor to get the lights working, a park service spokeswoman told WTOP. The lights flickered on and off Sunday as workers assessed the damage.
They say this:
President Calvin Coolidge began the National Christmas Tree tradition in 1923…ninety-five years later, the prospects appear dim that the tree will be relighted in time for Christmas.
Talk about a dark moment in history.
IF it doesn’t get lit, it will be because a crazy man climbed it on Friday and messed it all up.
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203 responses to “The Reason for the Season”
Just to be a cosmic-scale buzzkill, I’ll point out that Jesus, assuming he was a real person and the accounts are accurate, would have been born in the spring. Not in December.
So we should celebrate Jesus’ birthday on the day he was crucified?
Not a religious person, but I enjoy that for at least a couple of days, people are generally nice to each other.
Christmas is were it is so the first Xtians could blend in with all the surrounding pagans celebrating Saturnalia.
Besides if you celebrated birth and death in a matter of a few weeks what would you do to get them kneeling in church for the rest of the year?
E usually works for me.
Same reason there were so many saints that were pagan gods at one point. I’ve done more then enough Catholic calisthenics in my early years.
And again, I enjoy that for about 7 days every year, people are generally nice to each other.
In Syracuse Sicily the cathedral is just a pagan temple bricked in. The original pillars are still clearly visible. Kinda cool to see.
I like that too. Atheist I am and atheist I will remain, but Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. And yes, I always say “Merry Christmas” because that’s the name of the holiday.
It’s a time when we get as much of our family together as we can manage, share good food and drink, watch the little ones open presents and play, reminisce on the year and years past and talk about plans for years to come. It’s a great way to close out the year and, yes, it’s nice to watch folks be decent to one another for a while.
My mother in law just heard the first verse guess I didn’t have the volume low enough.
Glibertarians.com: Bringing families together since 2017.
I’m stuck in the open office this Christmas while working on my resume. I am afraid to play this video.
Play this one instead.
*concern intensifies*
You coming to Tokyo for New Years?
Yesiree, I’ll be heading down there on the 30th.
Let me know if you guys are out and about.
You got it, my dude.
What the hell is going on with the comments?
It’s Christmas. A lot of people are away.
Or is something else happening to the comments?
They are disappearing (for me, at least). Page says “8 comments” yet this reply is #5. Other threads display 0 comments.
Now my original post is showing up as #1 and this reply is the fourth on the page.
Are you running monocle?
It’s a Christmas miracle!
What browser and add-ons are you using?
I’m using Firefox with monocle. I’m now logged on with Chrome and all the comments are coming up.
You probably accidentally hit “Hide old threads”. I do it all the time.
Something’s making my page jump after a few seconds. I suspect the video cuz it doesn’t happen on other threads.
Hello Ted
HM confirmed as 13 years old.
I’ve always been described as precocious.
Do you hear what I hear? *Slurp, Slurp*
Tonight marks only 5 more days left before the most popular day to eat ass.
You abuse the anonymity the internet so graciously provides.
Fifty years ago mankind took the first picture of home from another body in the Solar System. In some ways the human condition has not changed, in others we crossed a divide for the better.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
In a few days one of our robots visits Ultima Thule, a body of the Solar System whose’s existence was unknown until 2014.
I wish everybody here a great next lap around the Sun! (Except Tulpa.)
And excluding the people who torture apostrophes.
That wa’s my Xmas gift to you’se
[gives dbleagle lump of coal]
For you Ted. Meli Kalikimaka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM
Actually mahalo for catching that. I should always read before posting. Cheers.
That sounds like an apology. Never apologize to Ted.
Life would be so much easier if everyone admitted I’m always right.
(Note that it doesn’t matter whether or not I’m right, just that people act that way.)
Make your gal some pasta.
Only in Japan would a white chocolate bar be named “Ghana”.
How did I never notice that? When Japan needed Ghana to win their World Cup match to advance, we managed to get a group of girls sitting next us at the izakaya to start cheering, “We love Ghanaria!”
*sensible chuckle*
That’s pretty friggin hilarious. Those poor girls never stood a chance.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/24/politics/trump-christmas-chaos/index.html
Confirmed… Trump reads hat and hair. We know who is coming to visit him tonight.
Poor guy is all by himself. In the past he’d take any port in a stormy.
Poor him? It’s chaos here! Be glad you’re over there.
Melania is with him. He might at least get a hand job.
I doubt that.
A hand job will occur.
If personal experience provides any illumination, Eastern European women like it in the butt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvC2TkB-7BU
SugarFree confirmed as the the modern day Nostradamus.
I can’t imagine the complete lack of shame needed to make this statement unironically.
“While many Americans gathered with their families and with his vacation to the “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago iced by the shutdown, the President spent the day at the White House blasting critics — including Democrats who have refused his demands for $5 billion in funding for his border wall in a standoff that shuttered the government at midnight on Friday.
“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security,” Trump wrote in what may have been a tongue in cheek tone in his 10th tweet of the day.
Trump was due to be rejoined for Christmas Day by first lady Melania Trump, who had already decamped to Florida before the shutdown took hold.”
How would a “government shutdown” keep a billionaire’s family from traveling? I also doubt that the Secret Service and Air Force One are considered “non-essential”.
TAs you know the markets are getting hammered. Dubya’s and Greenspan’s foolishness gave us Obama. I cringe thinking about what another Lehman shock could give us in 2020. Trump should not have claimed ownership of this looming disaster. Maybe it’s just a correction, maybe not.
What comes next? The new face of socialism is already here.
I hope it keeps dropping.
Why?
I like to buy things at a lower price. Correction was needed but I think we’re in bargain territory now. I’ll keep buying for my 401K because my company matches. Now I’m buying at bargain prices so I’m getting more.
Oh, its a correction alright. Unquestionably.
Given every recession starts with a correction, you’re right. Wondering where the bottom is.
I’m down a couple hundred thousand $$ already, so the bottom better be near. I’m guessing Dow will hold at 20,000 but if it doesn’t, well shit I got a $60 per month s.s. raise.
If you lost a couple hundred thousand over the past week, glass half-full you were quite well off to start.
Welcome AI trading. 80% of trading is done by algorithms. Stocks are dropping for no other reason than stocks are dropping and computer programs continue selling. There’s been no change in fundamentals to explain this.
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Bless these thots, every one.
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year
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Merry Christmas to you too, Yusef! Hope you’re having a great one.
Yusef, hope to talk to you soon, and hope it all is going well for you in the house hunt.
Merry Christmas, everyone
Merry Christmas to ya too, BP. Thanks again for the coffee recommendations!
Good night y’all and Merry Christmas too.
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Wifey and kids are off at the in-law’s, I’m enjoying a stupendous milkshake – Carnation Instant Breakfast, Ovaltine Original Malt, chocolate ice cream, and chocolate milk from Jersey cows it’s VERY rich and chocolatey – and a bacon sandwich then heading in to work (those groceries don’t jump on the shelves by themselves ya know) at my union mandated double overtime holiday rate. I love you all and wish you all a wonderful Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too.
You have to restock on the night before the 25th? Are you guys open tomorrow?
Of course we are open tomorrow; Dame Commerce cares not for the birthday of The Prince Of Peace. Our neighborhood biddies need their pet food and sundries.
IIRC, Christmas Day is the only day that Ralph’s is closed.
If people are shopping tomorrow, that’s some poor planning. I felt bad going into the store today.
My Wal-Mart is closed now
I grew up in a rather rural environment where we went to a grocer perhaps once or twice per month and provisioned accordingly. Here in NYC an overwhelming number of people seem to do their shopping for a day or two at a time. I see the exact same shoppers every single day, paying higher prices to purchase smaller sized items more frequently. I can’t quite wrap my head around the concept.
Every single day? Shop much? Kettle, black?
The same 4 customers EVERY SINGLE NIGHT buying cat and dog food 5 or 6 cans at a time. Just buy the damn case already! 24 cans in a case for the same price as 18 individual cans. The profit margin keeps me employed but the mindset drives me batty.
I probably shop two or three times a week. Not having to pay for a car probably makes up for any price difference.
I dunno where your store is but if people are driving there every day to shop… well, that’s nuts.
We’re in Rockaway Beach at one of NYC’s many, many failed grocers (Waldbaums, Pathmark, etc.) taken over by a Dutch conglomerate and rebranded as Pause & Buy. Most of our customers drive but from less than 2 miles away as we have another location 3 miles down the beach.
I didn’t know those two were gone.
Bay Ridge is allergic to real supermarkets but a Key Food here just expanded and changed its name to SuperFresh. It’s about a tenth the size of every Wegman’s I grew up shopping in but it’s huge for here.
Retail grocery, particularly in NYC, is a very competitive market with very thin margins and I find it fascinating how the market branches out into niches. Some places fight to be more upscale (Thank you Fairway and Stew Leonards for driving that) while some (Aldi) slash staff, floor space, merchandising, and cleanliness. Also, being a Floridian, I miss Publix.
The grocery store is on the way home from work, so I could stop every day to pick something up if I wanted to spend the time waiting at the checkout.
Toward the end, Dad took Mom out to the grocery store every day. Couldn’t have her out long enough to do a week’s shopping, and couldn’t go out without her pest she get violently angry.
Yeah, it’s a crazy business for sure. Here in Bay Ridge it’s like a thousand “ethnic” stores and maybe three very generously-considered “supermarkets” which do a pretty decent job offering a selection of basics and gourmet stuff given the tiny space.
Astoria where I lived for a long time when I first moved to NYC had more and bigger supermarkets but they were all dirty and had terrible selection.
I went to a couple of Albert Heijn (Ahold’s namesake flagship chain) in Amsterdam. Maybe it was the location, but all were tiny compared to supermarkets back home.
Waldbaums had great ice cream.
I buy produce almost every single day. Different items, in small quantities. It keeps the colon healthy.
I live a 30 second walk to a local mart that’s open til midnight. I live a minute’s walk from a 24/7 convenience store. My supermarket is a five minute walk. I live in a shoebox with a very tiny fridge.
I go to them about three times a day, with only non-perishables being bought in any size/bulk.
It’s glorious. I haven’t lived farther than a few hundred yards from a grocery store for a decade. It is now one of my requirements for choosing apartments. I live alone and don’t have the culinary discipline to eat the same thing over and over again so as not to waste the food. This was decidedly not so much of a problem when I lived with the ex. It’s a hidden cost of being single/living alone.
I many countries, people food shop every day.
About to start Home Alone for the kids. And then… Die Hard in 1080P.
+ “We’re gonna need some new FBI guys.”
Weird comment eating.
Buddy brought in a bottle of Bushmills and Die Hard Xmas edition for me today. Only watched Die Hard three times this season.
Gave him a bottle of Suntory Kakubin and he thinks he got the better end of it.
For relaxing time, make it Suntory time.
メリー クリスマス Ted S.!
Поздравляю Тебя с Рождеством!
Just got back from Tres Sr’s crib, when I likely ate a pound and a half of oysters.
Merry Christmas.
Jugsy coming over? What my neighbors thought they heard last night.
If they were my neighbors they’ll be hearing this tonight
Merry Cbristmas eat well and have beer
Just got back from dinner at the gf’s parents place. Twas a classy spread of crab cakes, crab caserole, oyster stew, and some fixins. On the way back I either saw a meteor or Santa’s sleigh went down.
What kind of heathen eats seafood on Christmas Eve?
Me ?
People like you make me want to surrender to Al Qaeada and ISIS and just let them have their way.
Well, I think they have issues with not Christmas, but shellfish.
We’re off to kaiten sushi as we speak. At least it’s not KFC.
Picking up a Christmas cake on the way home?
Sorry, Christmas cake-y.
Indeed. Wait until 5pm and get one at a discount.
Doubles as dating advice too?
You mean 5am.
“What kind of heathen eats seafood on Christmas Eve?:
1.3 Billion Catholics?
I did tuna in a red sauce over linguini, if anyone cares.
Sounds tasty.
It was! It’s also pretty easy.
Lindsey Sterling: Sexy Violinist
Its like Poppy was getting music lessons!
Just got back from a marvelous prime rib dinner with good friends. Much fun, food and wine.
Merry Christmas, Glibbies!
Describe the prime rib please. As much information as you have.
USDA Prime rib roasted under a salt crust. Probably one of the best I’ve had. Very juicy and tender.
Here’s a decent recipe. They’re all pretty similar. You can also use a thermometer and cook to an internal temperature of your liking.
https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/chuck-hughes/salt-roasted-prime-ribs-of-beef-1959093
I’ve never gotten a decent explanation for why the salt crust supposedly “works”.
I got a 7 bone today, and I’m probably going to portion it out into thirds. It’s playtime.
The hard crust keeps all the moisture and flavor in, while at the same time slowly seasoning the meat through the cooking process. That’s the best I can tell you. I’ve had it several times now and it continues to be the best.
If you’re playing look up rotisseried prime rib as well.
“I’ve never gotten a decent explanation for why the salt crust supposedly “works”.”
Pellicle
Merry Christmas!
Tonight I learned grandmom and granddad didn’t get along with their neighbors.
Me, an idiot: Because you’re so gringo?
Her, a saint: They hated Bill because he worked on the bomb.
Who is Bill, and why do hispanics hate the bomb?
Granddad estimated bomb yields. The Hispanics didn’t hate him more or less than they did anyone else white. But the white yuppies living here hated him because of his work.
Hey, I know I missed wchipperdove’s ‘Twas the Night Before Glib-mas because I didn’t see the arrow for a new post. Anybody else miss it? There are only 6 comments and it’s hilarious. Needz moar applause.
#metoo
thank you for the link back to it.
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Yeah it was indeed comical! I rarely if ever comment but lurk religiously… Merry Glibmas to all
Merry Christmas, Tulpa.
/cue Frosty the commenter parody “he’ll be back to comment again someday”
Seriously, don’t be stranger! The water’s fine!
Also, what Tundra said.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
That was odd. Just one comment when the new links went up. Site crash after it got posted?
I received a large cash gift from a relative for Christmas, and I want to donate part of it to charity (seeing as how I’m in acceptable financial shape anyway and this was a pure windfall).
What’s a good one where I can make donations online? I’m not too picky; just looking for one that gets the most benefit for the money. I was thinking about The Doe Fund; does anyone have an opinion on that one? Or have any other recommendations?
Thanks!
Institute for Justice is my fave.
Can’t read because you already told them twice?
How did this end up up here?
It’s a job for the IJ!
Feel free to donate to me.
Playa Manhattan’s Institute for kids who can’t read good.
Gotta build that center for ants amirite?
At least 3 times that big.
Can’t read because you already told them twice?
A run a charity called The Human Fund. It’s money for people. I can send you the info.
Cash gift as a Christmas present? How old are you?
Take a look at this one and see what you think.
http://ourrescue.org
From what I’ve read from ENB and others, most “sex trafficking” is voluntary prostitution.
Favorites of the Candy household: IJ, of course. St. Jude’s. Kiva.
Merry Glibmas! Currently leading in a fantasy football championship game 148.12 to 148.06. Both of us have 1 player playing tonight. His player was knocked out for the night. So barring a fumble or loss of yards I’m in the money!
Merry Christmas …..
and put your bail bondsman’s phone number in your wallet before you leave the house.
Squirrels are staging a takeover under the cover of eggnog.
2nd Annual Glibertarians.com Christmas Party Livestream!
Lady hath arriven. Party at a lovely Scot/Korean’s place in a couple of hours. Should prove to be quite revelrous. Out contribution is a bottle of Moscato that work gave Lady. Supposed to be nice. Wine is gross, and sweet wine grosser.
I anticipate quite the smorgasbord.
Enjoy the holiday ladies and gents. Best to all of you and yours.
You too, Evan.
Merry Xmas. HoHo Haaa!
Merry Christmas!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxXNaWcvZY
Just got back from the parents house. Crab cakes, ham, and fresh and smoked Kilbasa. Oh and wine, Spanish Rioja. The nutty ness was flying as usual. My dad and FIL were arguing about Trump.
I just spent an hour and a half cleaning the refrigerator. The packaging for this beef I was was defrosting for Christmas dinner leaked blood all over the place. It was like that scene from The Godfather. Not that is particularly interesting. I just felt like complaining about it.
You’re having horse head for dinner? I believe the proper storage for that is in your bed. Oh wait wrong scene…
Oh, that was the scene I meant. Although fricando is beef, not horse.
If this is the first time this has happened, my sympathies. If this has happened before, you already know what you did wrong.
I hasn’t happened before, not sure why it leaked. It was still in the supermarket packaging. In retrospect, I should have put in in a tray anyway.
I’ve watched a few 80’s movies today. Other than the lack of cell phones, what really jumps out at me: DC-10s.
I always liked watching trijets as a kid. I miss the variety of aircraft at airports these days. Mostly twin jets of either Boeing or Airbus now.
We get a lot of 4 engines here in the morning. 2 A380s from Korea, 2 747s from China, Air Tahiti’s A340….
If you want to see the trijets, you have to get up really early. All cargo, and almost all of them MD11s.
I work at LAX, lotta a380’s there. Especially on the western side where my yard is.
Our preferred watching spot is Sepulveda and Lincoln. Sometimes Asiana and Korean Air come back to back.
If they’re late enough, it involves cheeseburgers.
Yeah, that’s a cool little park there with close access to In-n-Out.
Parade just left. We had the fire pit in the drive way, smores, kid’s friend over to watch, about 5 adult friends (one of which put a huge dent in my 18 y/o scotch, dammit!) it was fun. I’m a bit buzzed. Merry Mas everyone.
Cheap sushi lunch for Christmas.
Hmmm. https://m.imgur.com/a/hZwUytb
https://imgur.com/a/hZwUytb
I always mess up hyperlinks. Afternoon drinking, though. Banzai!
Mmmm…. Premium Malt’s….
Looks low in sugar.
Vaping some yummy indica and stocking feminine hygiene products. Sigh… I get particularly incensed when I discover evidence of shoplifting. This time it’s gross – feminine wipes “My ladyparts stink but I’m not gonna pay a few dollars or take a proper bath.”
New meaning to five finger discount.
Day drunk. Watched some Holomador documenteries. Left-over soup for dinner and rewash/repeat for tomorrow. Compelled merriment just ain’t my bag. Back to work on the 26th. Merry Glibmas, though!
Happy Christmas to all you glibs out there. Live this place. I look forward to the next year of posts and incredibly witful, poignant, silly, informative and asinine commentary.
Love this place. Live works as well.
Using Plex to stream video from media center at home to phone at work. Amazing world. Binge watching SNL. They were full on warmongers for the 1st Gulf War. It doesn’t age well at all.
Prime rib is on sale for $4.77 per lb. I’ve filled our chest freezer with 3 bone and have 3 2 bone sitting in the fridge that I will start playing with after work. Sous vide ahoy!
X-X-mas in Japan. Lucky to get (most of) the day off. Has more to do with my industry than geography but whatever.
X-mas dinner will be grilled dry-rub baby backs, lamb chops, and steak (thank you commissary) with vegetation-based accompanient provided by the wife.
Standing by the webber with beer in hand. Waiting for the green light to start grilling flesh.
Good morning and Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas Glibs. Dark times https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-christmas-tree-dark-shutdown_us_5c20c286e4b0407e907d3b90?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=main_fb&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
They couldn’t put it on a fucking dusk-to-dawn timer?
Glibs always looking for automation to remove an honest 100k a year job.
What a bunch of lying bullshit. Right after this:
They say this:
IF it doesn’t get lit, it will be because a crazy man climbed it on Friday and messed it all up.
Beautiful.