Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. Gathering for the day with my large extended family at my paternal grandparents’ home was always one of the best days of the year for me while growing up. And I wish it were still possible.
I realize that I–unlike many–won the parent and family lottery. There was, and is, no acrimony in my family, no factions setting up against each other. No history of abuse or addiction. I had adult role models that I grew to respect and love even more as I matured. I know this is all too rare, and I am filled with gratitude that I had such a happy and solid start in life.
Because of this, holidays without my grandparents and my Mom are always bittersweet. Today, while my heart aches for my departed loved ones and for those among the living with whom I can’t spend the day, I feel immensely grateful to have had so many people in my life worth missing.
Nobody can replace those I cherish who have moved on in one way or another, but I’m thankful for the new friends I’ve found here among the Founders and the Glibertariat.
Now, enjoy yourselves (yes, I am the boss of you!) in this Thanksgiving Night Open Post.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I made dinner and crawled into bed ,I’m really sick. Hope everyone has fun.
Feel better!
OT: do you by chance still have that link from the other day? I forgot to bookmark it and I think it may have been in the great database meltdown.
Misa?
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBSyd8tXJoEJKIXfrwkPdbA
Enjoy!
Yes, that’s the one! Saved it this time.
Feel better Yusef! My wife is making jello shot paraits
Get well soon.
Happy Thanksgiving to Wendy!
Same. Woke up with upper respiratory crud. Seems like my body always waits for a holiday to shut down the old immune system. Feel better Yusef!
That used to happen to me around Christmas time. Thankfully, it doesn’t happen quite so often anymore.
It used to hit me every year just before Halloween – missed a bunch of them when I was little.
Take care of yourself, Yusef.
Sorry, I hope you feel better soon.
I’m sure there have been more articles today than most…
At my wife’s hankering, I will be writing an article on the position of a free thinker working for the evil FedGov. I am grateful this space exist so we can espouse our views and get ridiculed and not feel butthurt
Can’t wait to read.
/In the same boat
I had turkey. I had carbs. I had sex. God bless America.
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USA! USA! USA!
Realdoll or tube sock?
Genius of the “and” rather than the tyranny of the “or,” d00d.
So you’re saying he had sex with the turkey?
Well, it’s still better than this.
As I recall from OMWC’s recent post, that’s not kosher.
You just had sex?
I am about to head out to Thanksgiving Dinner with some of the people I sail with. The hostess just informed us that there is rum in every course and almost every dish. The last time I had some of her Rum Pie I got buzzed. I’ve cued up Lyft so I can get home.
I’ve had sugar pie. You’re telling me that there’s a distilled version?
Sounds like a good night.
Happy Thanksgiving, American Glibs!
Arrived too late to comment on the earlier threads, glad this one showed up.
Many, many thanks to be spread around
– to the admins and founders who set this place up
– to the glibs who make this place a home away from home
I always say that I’m too anti-social for social networking but this is a group of malcontents that I can relate to. We are almost an extended family, sharing life experiences, asking each other for advice. Even if I can’t always participate in the conversation I can follow along later.
This year I had an opportunity to visit with a few of you folks and I look forward to opportunities for more visits in the future.
And, like SP, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I know that our family has widely divergent political views but we love each other enough to put it aside for one day.
Best wishes to all.
… Hobbit
Good on ya Hobbit it is a nice place to be……
Been looking for an excuse to visit the AZ glibs. Let me know when you’re settled in and I stop by and buy you a beer!
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Yo, Tucson represents.
And ditto on your post.
This is a holiday I enjoy. It involves cooking, eating, and hanging out with family. I’ve got left overs queued up for the next several days, and far too much dessert in the house. Thanks for putting up with me all of you.
Thanks for BIF.
All I do is organize it. It’s up to the participants to send things out. So far, only one missed shipment out of three BIF’s. I’m thankful for that.
All I do is organize it.
I’ve run projects before. “All I do is organize” is dirt simple, yet so few people do it well.
It’s not like I’m talking about running UAT here, that was always a huge project and hassle.
Or you could say “you’re welcome”. 😉
kinnath, thank you. I appreciate the fact you think I do it well. 🙂
I’ve run projects before. “All I do is organize” is dirt simple, yet so few people do it well.
Yes. Seconded. Organizing is rarely done well. Nephilium, you did the BIF well.
:O
Someone didn’t ship?
Once. In the first BIF I ran here, the past two BIFs have had everyone ship.
It was Mike S. wasn’t it, I never trusted that guy.
HyperionHyperbole is racist against moonanites!Nah. MikeS just shipped late, but it was to me, so I was fine with it. The non-shipper hasn’t commented here in quite some time, and never responded to e-mails, so I’m assuming something came up in real life, and they’re more then welcome to participate in the future if they ship a batch before it.
Just came back from my friend’s T’giving dinner with an invitation to return on Saturday to help eat the leftovers. My friend has no family and mine is faraway or gone so we had to adopt each other. We pretty much share everything except wives. He’s coming tomorrow to pick up some of my homegrown taters for Saturday’s dinner.
Hard to beat old friends and now more new friends on the Glibertariate beat.
We pretty much share everything except wives.
Why not? :-p
“The plural of spouse is spice” -St. Heinlein
Because, we promised.
Yeah, I take sworn oaths and duties seriously, myself.
Sometimes, duty is heavier than a mountain. . . .
2010 Bourgueil pairs very nicely with with chocolate cream pie. Just saying.
Gasp! I love Cabernet Franc!
Not one of my normal picks. But I have half a dozen bottles from two different wineries. I remember them having strong chocolate aromas. And I knew there was chocolate pie in fridge. It worked perfectly.
STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE OPEN THINGS OF ALL KINDS.
I’m grateful for this island of sanity in a roiling sea of unrelenting stupidity.
Cheers to the Founders!
Also greatful for the Amari Cooper trade. How ‘bout them Cowboys!
For a first round pick? Ya’ll better hope that this guy suddenly develops the ability to actually catch the ball on a consistent basis. Elite athlete, but has frequent spells of not being able to catch the ball.
He didn’t have one of those spells today though.
My Boise boys Lawrence and Vander Esch represented for the defense.
Happy Han..wait that’s not right..Thanksgiving. I hope at least some of you enjoyed the cartoon. Today once again proved that I’m way better with kids than their parents are, of course I only have to do it a few days a year. Turkey, ham and funeral potatoes (the mormon contingent knows what I mean) much enjoyed today.
Funeral Chicken
Just got back from across the street. I’m stuffed. Good times and good people.
A glass of rye and the Cowboys on TiVo. A good day.
Give ‘er!
From the previous (now corpsicled) post. You won’t regret it.
thanks
Well, because I’m a Canuck, I’m not celebrating U.S. Thanksgiving (though some of my family in the Bothell/Seattle area are), so for me it’s coconut rice and Thai Coconut Chicken on the grill. There might also be some vegetables involved, although I wouldn’t count on it. (The spousal unit will still have something to say about that, of course . . . )
But I hope you’re all having a good one.
Not Kraft Dinner while watching an episode of “Curling for Toonies” from the chesterfield?
That was last night. Get with the program, wouldya?
It actually was last night. (Although it was President’s Choice Mac ‘n Cheese, which makes KD taste like garbage boiled in swill . . . )
But Canada doesn’t have a president!
Ah, but they do have The Twink In The North.
Classy. I remember Wegman’s selling all the PC stuff a few decades ago.
Yeah, Fred Meyer had it here before they were bought out by Kroger.
One of my nephews asked if the mac and cheese I had as a side today was “regular mac and cheese”. My sister kindly informed him that I don’t do anything in a “regular way”.
For the record, it was Pancetta Alfredo Mac and Cheese.
from the chesterfield
the Captain Chesterfield
Happy Turkey Day to all. Food was good. Beer was/is good. No drama at the big family dinner, not that it was expected. My sportsball team lost earlier. I expect my other sportsball team (I have two) to lose as well. It is currently within one score, but I expect it to go south in a big way. Low expectations will ensure I am not disappointed. And on that note, and for this year in sportsball, I just don’t want to see the Patriots at another Super Bowl.
Thanks and gratitude to the founders. I was so happy to find this place.
Thanks and gratitude to the glibertariat. You folks are awesome.
SoCon Dad is subjecting me to “Chicago PD”….
Evidentally this show is Law & Order with more cop sucking?
Yes.
More like a cop bukkake.
I despise that show. It’s spawned a whole bunch of “Chicago” clones, all of which have been shat out directly from the anus of Satan.
I thought American TV was banned north of the border.
If we get Red Green, they get our shit.
I was on a business trip — stuck outside London — mid-week without a rental car.
I turned on the television and found some police procedural on. But it wasn’t an English show. It looked like an English producer trying to replicate and American show. But it just wasn’t right.
Then I figured out it was a Canadian show.
The Red Green Show is good.
It seems shitty. Not only because they glorify flagrant violations of constitutional rights but it’s just sucks. Corny dialogue, stupid storyline. Makes me remember why I decided to deep 6 cable.
The thing that’s more Law and Order than the copsucking is that there are like 3 shows. Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. (never watched any of them)
Dick Wolf is behind both franchises.
I liked L&O back in the day, and Criminal Intent, but SVU has been dreck since the start.
Based on commercials I have assumed 9-1-1 is the same thing except for being all first responders*. I am glad people are willing to do such jobs, but I am not going to fellate you just because.
*really first responders are the people already at the scene of any given event.
A Canadian does 911
Brittany Brees a smokeshow.
More smokeshows here.
http://archive.is/04bcf
#1 is my new mascot.
Is Brittany married to Drew? You’re confusing me.
1 and 2 have something special going on.
I’ll stick this right here. How about some dessert to go with that Thanksgiving dinner?
https://youtu.be/Sew_Twv-LXo
I honestly thought this would be a shit Thanksgiving, as far as Thanksgivings go. We were going to travel but couldn’t make up our mind. So we decided to postpone for now. Then wife decided she did not want to cook. So I said ‘Well, there are some nice restaurants close that are open and so I’ll just make a reservation’. Then wife didn’t want to do that either. That was last night, so I went to thinking, well, maybe it somehow works out.
I woke up feeling restless this morning about 5am and just got up and was sitting at my desk staring at a black screen. Then I heard wife milling around back in the bedroom and thought ‘Well, her too, I’ll just go back there’. Those situations often lead to sex and it did, thankfully. After that, everything changed. We got up and then the conversation turned to which groceries are open so that we can get food to cook. I liked the way things were going. She cooked lots of good food, I had a few beers, she had some wine. It was a good day. It may seem selfish, but just her and I, I feel that’s just enough many days, perfect actually.
Eww, don’t tell me about your old people sex.
His wife is a hot Brazilian.
If you live the American dream — get married, buy a house, live a long happy life — you will find yourself fucking a grandmother.
Deal with it.
Well, I’m not on track for any of those things, so keep the gilfing to yourselves.
The hat and the hair takes a heavy toll.
“Well, I’m not on track for any of those things, so keep the gilfing to yourselves.”
If fat sweating bald men who sit around all day in their off white underwear start looking better to you than 50 something year old women, we may have to stage an intervention in your behalf.
Hey, leave me out of this.
Hawt.
Why do you hate MILF’s?
If I manage to survive another 10-20 years I might be fucking a great-grandmother.
I have a grandson that turns 21 in January. That is becoming a far too realistic scenario.
Oh, you may survive another 10-20 years and the Mrs may be a great grannie but the other activity may be more of an reminiscence than an actuality. Ain’t nuthin wrong with memories though.
Hey, a guy can dream!
You organisms always shooting DNA at each other and making babies! I FIND IT OFFENSIVE
Are you secretly ZARDOZ?
I have not had any children. So I’ve got a while to go before I’m sleeping with a mother, let alone a grandmother.
I have no children but I have hooked up and dated with MILFs. As far as I know, none of them were grandmothers.
Thinking back through my history, I don’t even think there’s a MILF in there.
Unless your kid doesn’t have children.
Get off my lawn?
No, you get off MY LAWN!
Yeah, right, snapper.
Hey, have actually called the cops for kids being on my lawn! Have you? (Granted to be on my lawn you have trespass quite a bit)
No, I just shot them.
I live on top of a hill with state forest in back of me, so nobody shows up here.
‘State Forrest’ sounds like some commie bullshit to me, and you speak ROOSHUN!
I think I’m looking at Ted’s house right now.
https://m.imgur.com/a/sY7tkFt
So what did you cook? And does she like turkey?
I didn’t cook anything. She made a couple different types of fish, including some sort of fried fish balls which were really good, shrimp, some sort of artisanal potato salad, it was a lot of stuff. And no, we have never had turkey for turkey day. Neither of us like it. We’ve had chicken, game hens, duck…
Please tell me they went Peruvian, and it was roasted guinea pig.
Don’t be silly, Peruvians only eat potato soup or llama soup. Potato soup is made with potatoes and llama and llama is made with llama and potatoes.
I missed out on cuy when I was in Ecuador, though I had roasted pig. Pig roasts were pretty common in the part of Ecuador I was in.
I have a Peruvian Mauser. Modelo 1909.
Sounds like a good day.
From my very wise 16 year old, “when are people leaving?”
Not soon enough honey. Not soon enough.
At your house this year?
Yes. I let out a long bitch earlier today. Thirty people, except for parents, they are all my wife’s extended family. It’s the fifth year in a row we have hosted.
There are times I’m thankful that the girlfriend’s family is small (grandmother and aunt at this point). Most of the drama at my place is dealing with two pre-teen boys. I’ve got my limits as to when I’ll speak up to them, which is a higher limit then their dad has. There was some fun as they got to learn a new game, and tried to figure out a way to pilfer my game collection, until I pointed out to them that I had not yet purchased their Christmas gifts. They believe that I would give them a gift wrapped pile of dog poo.
I consider this being a good uncle.
You are a good uncle. Was the new game a drinking game?
Gosh. It’s too bad that next year you are already committed to a trip to Chicagoland for Thanksgiving.
That, madam, is an excellent idea.
I love your daughter.
Thanks SP. Me too. She has definitely gotten my sarcasm and disdain for idiots.
If I ever start pushing around a small dog in a baby carriage, just neuter me. Stupid lady has to sit next to me on the bench.
https://m.imgur.com/a/CgugukX
If you start doing that, you’ve already been neutered.
Let me make it better…
https://youtu.be/iResPN9z9U0
That is sooo very Japanese.
There were no tentacles to be seen! Japan is lying to us!
I don’t know which is more silly, American image of Japan or vice versa.
There is an article for you.
I am dissapoint there wasn’t a picture of the lady.
Got part of her leg. Unless straffinrun wears hipster tight jeans.
Well, I’m not Amish, so that doesn’t quite do it for me. And I like to imagine Straff running around the whole country buck naked, and freaking out that the people won’t accept him. That’s just my head cannon.
https://youtu.be/LI6jZTpgjLc?t=4m14s
Quite the festive sweater.
Whole new meaning to sweater puppies.
Hook up a Youtube enabled device to your TV and start playing Hat and Hair cartoons, that should clear the house. And those that remain should be good enough to drink with. Also, you’re the one who mentioned earlier your MIL giving you ‘She Persisted’ mugs, right? So order her a Hat and Hair mug for Christmas!
dagummit, was sposed to be response to Chafed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rosGkTHUcE
Dadgummit Who is he, and what is he to you?
I got it. No metch purchase today but I did subscribe (sponsor?) you on Patreon today.
Metch=merch.
Thanks.
Someone, a few weeks ago, recommended Michael Jones’ “The Retreat -Hitler’s First Defeat.” Very good read and very thankful to not have been born in Germany or the Soviet Union, circa 1922, and spending a nice winter on the Eastern Front. Their own peoples’ lives were certainly cheap to Mr. Stalin and Mr. Hitler. Let’s continue to stand up and speak out against any “leader” who starts waving his (or her) war boner.
That certainly is something to be thankful for.
Always love when media, usually cartoons, has that one guy in the army who is all ‘Why are we doing this?’
I’m glad you enjoyed it – his Stalingrad book is top notch and Total War is…well, it was a really, really shit war.
Mazdaspeed – Everything You Need to Know
I liked the Mazdaspeed 6. Too bad they dropped it when they changed the design philosophy (originally targeting the BMW 3-series) for the car after the first generation.
Glibs radio is on the air!
*ahem*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07P538K83iU
Party all the time is just a suggestion, not a challenge.
Olight PL-2 Valkyrie | BLACK FRIDAY DEAL
I wish I could afford neat guns and gun accessories.
Like this one?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-uzi-meet-israels-deadly-tavor-assault-rifle-36837
I have a Tavor x95. It’s nice.
How does the bullpup design affect accuracy? I’m trying to figure out if it is good for home defense.
Mine is in 5.56 NATO. I’m a bit leery of using that for home defense.
I have not bought optics for it. I use the iron sights.
I’m embarrassed to admit, but I’ve only had it out to the range once.
The iron sight adjustment did not go as smoothly as I thought it would, but easier than on my bolt action military surplus rifles. The Tavor ships with a tool for adjusting the sights, but I suspect the adjustment mechanism might be off on mine. I remember adjusting the sights according to the manual, and point of impact did not change as much as it should have. Compare that with the military surplus rifles which need adjustment, where I’m banging away at the front sight with a brass punch and getting nowhere. With the Tavor, despite the adjustment apparently being off, I got pretty close to where I want it. Unfortunately, I ran out of ammo as I expected the adjustment to go smoother than it did. I expect next time I take it to the range I will get it right and the total time spent on adjusting the sights will be less on any of my military surplus rifles whose sights needed adjustment.
As for accuracy, I haven’t shot it enough to be certain. Here’s what The Trught About Guns has to say about the x95. I went with a XM855 5.56 NATO round as the manual includes ballistic data for that round. Judging by what I saw on the target while trying to sight it in, I am not expecting a super accurate rifle.
One thing I was concerned about when I bought it was the trigger. I read the x95 improved the Tavor’s trigger. The x95’s trigger isn’t bad. It isn’t great, but it’s far from the worse.
The ergonomics are pretty good.
Thanks. Since home defense is out, what do you use it for?
My plan is just to use it for recreational shooting.
Thanks.
“Israel’s Deadly Assault Rifle”
I like the implication that previous assault rifles were not deadly.
Rifles aren’t deadly unless they can assault, it’s anti-gun 101.
It’s a sexier headline than Everyday Assault Rifle.
My submission for (subtly) thicc Thanksgiving Thursday.
I liked the Google image search results for her. I also like that she gets history right.
She has a really interesting look. Kind of goth almost.
I know it is just the dumbest most self destructive part of my brain, but my goodness, to be single again. Yeah, she has some curves, even in that big frumpy kind of dress.
From a different video of her:
“Men are stupid and women are crazy”… she’s not wrong. lol.
“Looking like you’re going to the gym 20 hours a day isn’t that attractive ot me”
Hear that glibs, ya’ll got a chance!
Finally made it home, so I could wish happy Thanksgiving all you American glibs. May sad cries of a thousand delicious turkeys lay you to your rest tonight!
Did you get to watch your first credit on the cartoon yet?
I did, it was lovely! Thank you for associating me with Douglas Adams, too 🙂
I knew you’d like Tha Hat being there to 😉
Stuffed, Drunk, and listening to the Smashing Live soundtrack. I love lurking on glibs in this state of blissful inebriation. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Don’t be a stranger, tulpa!
Good morning drunk glibs. Hope you still kept a calorie deficit on this difficult day
I am strangely sober as I head to bed. I am not sure if that is a good idea or not. I’ll let you know tomorrow.
Good morning! Or Good night…. heading to bed
I weighed in today at the same as yesterday – 149.8 lbs.
I think my skeleton weighs more than that.
Well, no chance to check in earlier than this, so I’ll just duck in to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all the American Glibs, and to express my gratitude to all you strange, wonderful people. From the folks running the site who sweat when a database connection goes to poo and who keep this thing going, to the people offering up links on the regular for folks to bypass and/or snark at, to the brave souls willing to write original content, to the unusual tribe of commenters who join rapier wits and eviscerating shit-talking with genuine concern, valuable insight, and humility, I appreciate you all and thank you for doing what you do here.
Right back at you Bill.
Happy Thanksgiving from wet Washington state. Thanks to all y’all (especially the admins) for a place to hide.
Having a great time visiting family out here. We managed to get all four siblings together under one roof for the first time in five years.
Happy thanksgiving! Thank you guys for operating and contributing to the site’
Thank you guy – singular. This site is created and entirely operated by Tulpa as his final great troll of the commentariat.
There is a wine festival in Bucharest, I am going tomorrow with some friends but am thinking of chicken it out today by myself. Is it sad to go alone and taste a bunch of wines?
Not sad if you manage to pick up a chick.
I will not. I know myself well enough
Then it is sad.
Well I am going anyway so there!
It is less sad the closer it is to your home. The further your have to travel the less you can say you are just checking it out.
My home is about 25 minutes by public transport
I think our very own Emerson Biggins got a callout on Twitchy replying to a James Woods tweet, about 10 posts (? I lurk on Twitter like I mostly lurk here) in:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/11/21/james-woods-invites-you-to-watch-obama-dismiss-every-political-figure-hes-dealt-with-in-the-entire-world/
Slightly weirder Thanksgiving this year – but still good so far. My mom had to go to the hospital last week – no long term issues but she wasn’t up for cooking a lot. We worked some things out so my dad could pick up some BBQ on wed for dinner and then we kept it simple yesterday. My folks are driving up to OH (from NC) this morning to see my brother and his family, while I go down to visit another aunt and her partner for another dinner ( she was on call for her vet practice all day yesterday). Should be some great food and company all weekend.
And I got started early with my black Friday online impulse shopping so I think I’ve got it all outta my system now.
I will try and stop at Apocalypse Ale Works on the drive home tomorrow – packed a couple growlers as previously suggested.