What the fuck is Boxing Day? It sounds like some English thing where they very properly box up all their trash and take it to the dump and then have tea with the family. If it was an Irish holiday, the name would make sense. Day 3 with your family and holiday drinking? “Get in the ring ye fookin’ cuntes!”
From Wikipedia: “Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor, today Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday.”
That is pretty much the template for how the 20th Century evolved.
Now get in the ring, Glibs, its a Boxing Day free-for-all
The day that you box up for return all of the presents that you got and don’t want
I have a high success rate on presents I like. I don’t return stuff.
Those you don’t like re-gift. I’m not much on returns either or sending stuff back to Amazon and waiting, waiting for the credit.
Mrs. Hobbit takes care of all gift-buying for everyone else. Around Dec 1st I ask her what she wants and then I buy it, and buy something for myself. She got 3 bottles of Chanel Parfum and I got a $100 bottle of scotch. Works for us.
Brett,
SugarFree’s bio of you still cracks me up after all this time.
Now there’s a thought – secret Santa rewrites of everyones’ bios.
Am I going to have start posting quotations again?
I can’t believe everyone is watching the Chargers-Colts game. [I hear the Wizard of Oz in the other room.]
I’m watching Lift Arc Studios. And drinking. And making CAD drawrings.
And watching a “new” CPRM video that is not new. False advertising!
Downvote it. You know you want to.
That game does not hold enough interest to make me change the channel from this Law and Order marathon.
I thought it was to give the servants a day off after Christmas and let them celebrate the holiday.
So did you cancel the servant’s holiday then?
Boxing Day music
I thought it would be the music that boxers chose when they dance down the aisle in advance of getting beat up.
Won’t lWhy can’t we be friends?et me post.
Dammit.
MikeS, Machine shop porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6xovvpuMQo
I’ve seen some of his videos before. He knows his shit and makes absolutely beautiful stuff. I wish I possessed a quarter of his machining knowledge.
I just found him today, loving it. And yeah, he knows what he is doing. I don’t have any interest in horology, but the small side of what he does is really cool.
Boxing Day boobs.
https://archive.ph/GV6Fs/6f0cbc8ae3eb3985a468c8a952da55332a9f08e3.png
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/eaNd1/df9fc40bb9ec47ded24f8e947c23c19f4003ede4.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/uRno7/6d659fa1d2f3149ce7ae6e2128db1be48ee7182e.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/zLXoe/b4fabb5d6bdba7bfac066eefb50e105df958f05c.webp
NSFW.
Carved up the left over prime rib, got some nice rolls and made up a mushroom jus. Impromptu French dips and I am stuffed
We also made prime rib today. Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder. Rub the meat with olive oil. Pat on the spice mixture. 500 deg F for 15 minutes, then at 325 degF for 15 minutes per pound. It turned out great. Homemade au jus: Meat drippings with fat skimmed off, red wine, Worcestershire, and beef broth. So easy, so good.
It’s a tragedy her bits from the old Current website have been nearly scrubbed from the internet
https://youtu.be/dTVnAFA_u8M
Tua put himself in the concussion protocol again after his disastrous fourth quarter. Is he looking for excuses?
I don’t give a fuck. The day of guys self-reporting concussion symptoms to miss games aint for me. Firsters aren’t scared of brain trauma.
It’s like a tee-ball game here.
Firsting is a full contact sport when done right. The most violent and glorious combat of physical skill known to man. I can barely lift my arms by the end of most days. Not to mention the damage to my back from carrying the weight of the world on it.
Always lift with your legs.
You don’t know even the most rudimentary things about being First. The First starts in the pelvis. It requires full body engagement. Every muscle, every tendon working in unison.
I use my fourth eye to read GlibFit. There I’ve learned good exercises to keep my Firsting muscles in shape so I don’t get sore.
There’s no such thing as a fourth eye. That doesn’t even make sense.
psah!
I see all with my 5th eye and my 19th chakra.
Are you sure? Four-eyes are common.
19 Chakras!? So greedy!
Firstism and Hinduism have nothing in common. Fuck your chakras.
Firsting is a celebration of meat eating, prom queen fucking, testosterone fueled Firsters.
Firsting is about conquest.
And when there are no more conquests? What does a “firster” do?
He conquers some more. A Firster never runs out of conquests, even when every inch of land belongs to the Firsters there will always be conquests to be had. It is the pillar of the Seven Virtues of Firsting.
Seven Virtues? Do tell!
I have found my 7th eye and my 51st chakra.
The race is on…
So, Nick has transformed into an eldrich abomination.
Who loaned him the wrong book?
I.E. “LOOK OVER THERE!” instead on here.
Come on, Bro.
🤔
Nick is lost in the sauce. I wouldn’t risk bruising my Firsting hand dealing with this.
I had to go pick up my daughter who spent a few hours at the mall (the 13th largest in Canada. Func fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_centres_in_Canadawith a friend.
Took me 20 minutes to exit the bloody place.
They didn’t even buy anything as they gave up because the line-ups to get into places were too long.
Thus describes why I will probably never enter into popular places.
When the sign at Disneyland said, “Wait time 90 minutes” I said, “Oh, hell no.” Haven’t been back since.
My wife set us up for fast passes when we went in 2013. Worked like a charm. Plus it was November and ‘off-season’ so that helped.
Election day was my favorite time to go.
I’m comforted that even today, kids hang out in malls.
They seems to be acting a little differently these days, though.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/rtMR524m0BM
The Civil Rights Lawyer posted a video of police murdering some old man who may or may not have been completely confused and suffering from dementia. He claims that there were 12,000 old people who ended up in hospitals or seeking medical treatment as a result of injuries suffered from police.
But he never stops to ask if those police officers made it home safely or if they suffered scratches and tore a shirt while tackling Grandpa Joe to the ground. And using that name, I am saddened by the fact that Biden ruined a classic American name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4rmsFXGX4
Not the best camera footage as it was taken by a cop arriving at the scene in the middle of it from another department. He at least expresses his own discomfort at what he just witnessed which seems to be a rarity among those on the other side of the fat blue line.
Speaking of a good cop:
Relieved of supervisory duties, not arrested.
Someone with arm tatts like those has zero business as a cop period. Fired on the spot.
“the fat blue line” ftw, Bro.
Awesome.
It seemed like he was about to say “that’s gonna be a lawsuit” just before remembering his camera was still on.
He is likely very well aware that he is being recorded and may just be covering his ass.
That thought crossed my mind, too. Too scared of the fat blue line (nice one, BTW) to do anything on scene, but he’ll righteously bitch about it after the fact…but not in court or anywhere it will matter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/netflix-customers-could-face-criminal-charges-sharing-their-password
I really wonder how they will enforce. If I go on vacation there are hotels now offering smart tvs and you can log into your account, if you are a friends house and you log into your account…
Shared porn. 1970’s key parties for the digital age!
Of course. It couldn’t possibly be their programming choices.
Between the Obamas, the Markles, and the groomers what’s not to like?
I have never used Netflix but something is not clear here.
If it was “never allowed”, then why didn’t they put a stop to it years ago? It’s trivially easy to limit logins to a single machine.
I’m pretty sure the paying user is allowed to login from multiple devices, and they didn’t enforce that rule because they were rolling in cash and antagonizing their user base isn’t going to increase cashflow. But someone now thinks that being broke and antagonizing their user base is going to increase cashflow instead of piracy.
Yeah, that’s my guess.
And yeah, I’m seeing a LOT of this in recent years.
Like any marketing scheme. The first hit is free!
Whatever they do, it’s going to create massive backlash. And let them try to get criminal charges against people for sharing a Netflix account. See how that goes for them. Really great look for your brand at the end of the day. Worked so well to prevent file sharing back in the day.
Fucking clowns.
I refuse to give any of these tech giants any revenue when it is avoidable. They hate me and I’m perfectly fine hating them back.
Fuck the so called adults mooching off their parents’ subscriptions as well.
We need a Federal law that kids can stay on their parents’ Netflix plans until age 26.
Followed by federal subsidy of streaming services. The FCC’s universal service slush fund can be expanded!
I want my Obama
phoneHulu!Watch this. https://youtu.be/VMS_4k8DBqA She is amazingly beautiful and as smart as a whip. A bit much of a God-botherer for my taste but very sensible, nonetheless.
Wow, with that name, she could just call herself Ms. Dutchy Dutch.
Cute though.
At the risk of cat-butt, I finally tried some Raclette. It smelled and tasted like toe jam. Swiss cheese is worse than head cheese. So pungent.
Au contraire! Swiss cheese is awesome! My favorite burger at our regional Big Boy chain was always the Swiss Miss – a burger with Swiss cheese, lettuce, and, of course, their signature tartar sauce. I haz a sad because they’ve discontinued it. 😢
I tried five times to respond to this. I wonder what the Glibbot finds so objectionable sometimes.
OMG! How did you try it…worries about the Canadian Race.
Melted Raclette over par-boiled broccoli and cauliflower (or tradicianalany, over potatoes) is near nirvana.
Granted, it was raw in a chicuterie. Melted probably works better.
TOS is running a story on the Star Wars prequels being good.
You mean Reason?
Tahoe Ornithological Society
I sort of understood the childish “TOS” stuff early on, but I think enough time has gone by we can all grow up and call Reason by it’s name. I mean, it’s like if Christians referred to Judaism as The Other Religion.
Christians spent centuries upon centuries launching pogroms against Jews and forcing them to live in ghettos and limiting their occupations and depicting them as rat-like.
I use TOS more out of mockery at this stage. The only reason I see their stories is because they show up on my Facebook feed. The place has gone even further down hill over time and the only content worth anything seems to be the spoof videos and Remy who inexplicably still associates himself with them.
Robbie sold out!
Fruit sushi has a short shelf life.
Robbie was always a clown to me. He tip-toed around calling out the bullshit when he was covering the campus rape nonsense. It was the commenting section who completely called out the UVA rape story being bullshit, and then he slowly started to go down that road. It was a rare instance where I think the comment section at a site led the reporting even though Reason writers, especially the modern group, seem to do nothing but denigrate that comment section.
What were we called again? The idiot peanut gallery? I think that was Pope Hat BEFORE he went totally fucking insane with Trump.
Postrel was embarrassed by the commentariat years before TDS.
I sometimes wonder if the same hasn’t happened here.
I don’t think the people who started this site actively hate the regular commenters, though a few of them do seem to have a special hatred for Firsters. I just think it’s more appealing sometimes to form a clique within a clique. They have their private little chatroom apparently. It’s also possible some of them simply joined to keep the relationships they had with that small circle of people.
But it is strange that a couple of them were very active when they used to post on Reason, but they only make a rare appearance in their own morning links or…never.
According to Swiss, there was a 7-6 vote on whether to ban me with the neighs winning out. Because I made one post saying I’m an asshole.
I’d love to see the tally on that one.
*nays
Yeah, their little clubhouse chatroom is interesting. I used to think that some of the Founders completely bailed, but then one of the few that bothers to post/comment will write something that makes it clear they’ve all been conversing all along in their safe space.
And yes, I get it…they’re all close friends and they now have enough friends and don’t need any more. But you’d think they could make the occasional comment on the website they were instrumental in starting. There are many commenters here who make more comments in a week than all the Founders combined. Beginning (or middle) of the end?
I think this place has a dedicate core group that won’t go anywhere for a while. Over time as life happens, maybe people start leaving and this isn’t the sort of place that really pushes to bring in new users.
If you could just get the morning people to post more throughout the day, I don’t think we’d really be questioning the strength of the community.
But there are some interesting founders who I’d like to hear more from. There’s one or two who…I don’t like those people. Thinking of one in particular who, while not having done it in a while, he was just a raging asshole in a way that would get any other poster banned but it was perfectly acceptable when he did it.
Re: the absences: I think some of those, if they hadn’t been TPTB, would have moved on entirely. Just like some ordinary Glibs. Life happens. Auld lane syne.
Absolutely. I don’t blame anyone for that. Life happens.
But…I wonder how much of their private chat could happen on the main site, thereby adding more value for all of us. Often you’ll see one of them Hat Tip a Founder who hasn’t commented in months/years. Why couldn’t that person come here and share it with everyone?
You apparently read way to much into my analogy. And if you really want to ironically mock “Reason”, call them by their name.
TOS is ezr 2 rt. Fuck, don’t tell me what to do!
It’s easier to spell (and type) TOS than Reason, Mike.
I don’t do it often, because I feel betrayed. They dove so deep for no rational purpose. TOS works for me.
You managed to spell and type words like “betrayed” and “rational”. “Reason” shouldn’t be any more difficult.
But, I’m willing to admit that I’m being irrational with my hatred of “TOS”. I also hate “TPTB” and “SWMBO”. And I’m a Pisces.
I don’t recall ever seeing SWMBO around here. I do hate TPTB. While I’m grateful to the people who started this site and the effort it takes to keep it running with constant content, it strikes the wrong cord with me.
Yeah, I ran across SWMBO years ago in homebrewing forums: “She Who Must Be Obeyed”. I don’t recall seeing it here, it’s just came to mind.
Agree 100% on both counts.
I don’t recall that acronym but instantly reminded me of Rumpole. Probably the second best thing to spring from John Mortimer.
Reason Reason Reason; happy now, Mike? It’s not an irrational hate when you are betrayed.
Fuck them and their cocktail parties. I gave them a large donation in 2012, they’re still sending me magazines.
Gotta have something to read on the pooper. If you need something to listen to, here’s some UFO.
BTW, the song title was not a coincidence…
Not sure if you’re going to see this Penguin, but I wasn’t calling your hate irrational. Just mine.
Star Trek?
Now they are just fucking with you. The old ones were lame enough. Reason has lost all reason.
Last night I had a dream within a dream. I was able to shed my sins by putting my soul into a tiny lock-box built into the wall. The portion of my sin was a human fetus about six months old, wrapped up. Then the next part happened. I was happy as a clam until I noticed that some of the people around me were eating the special food that those of us (ME) were only supposed to eat. I look up and the wall has millions of niches.
That sounds very trippy.
A scream within a dream. I need to start listening to more wholesome tales when I don the night cap.
Saucerful of Secrets.
I could play that on guitar when I was just a wisp of a boy.
Great song.
Oops, sorry, that’s just “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” from Saucerful.
Also, Echoes.
How long before the Casting Society of America changes their name because of the problematic lettering and re-edits screen credits to remove them?
^ I seen that.
Good night and good day to all of you Glibertarians! Thanks for yet another year of snark and actual feelings. I love you all!
https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/26/democrats-feeling-new-strength-plan-to-go-on-offense-on-voting-rights/
Only thing that is positive is stop treating felons as outcasts if they are no longer on probation and have served their time.
Unless it’s restoration of their gun rights.
That would require some actual principles and a belief in that old document written by white slavers like a hundred years ago.
Not even one sentence in, a lie.
Pass.
Mornin.
Do you First, Sean?
I First. I First hard.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/12/christmas-day-shooting-leads-to-arrest-of-victims-wife-in-mays-landing.html
Gift receipts, people.
She’s not what I expected with a name like Marylue Wigglesworth.
https://www.wfmz.com/health/health-beat/health-beat-world-s-first-4d-scan-of-long-covid-lungs/article_e6337f94-8585-11ed-8780-0388dcf69216.html
Heh. 69 News.
Giggity.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/woman-attacks-hubby-at-airport-after-finding-indecent-images-on-phone-cops/
😲
How bad could they have been?
Jesus, dumbass (not talking to you, Sean), download them to a computer in a secret file. How hard is that?
Although yeah, if he wasn’t in them, she overreacted. But whaddaya want? It’s Joisey/Philly!
Im certainly no therapist, but Im going to guess that they had other issues at work, too.
Or the pics were her sister. Or mom. Or best-friend. Hell, why not all three ?
Her Mom is her Sister?
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/southwest-airlines-will-operate-one-third-of-scheduled-flights-for-several-days/3459601/
I’d be mad.
suh’ fam
whats goody
This morning I get to see how bad the damage is from the burst (sprinkler?) pipe (again!) at our office. According to my boss, it was (again) near my office, but not affecting it directly this time. 🙄
again?
Good Morning.
Yeah – a few years ago during the first weekend in January, we had a cold snap and a sprinkler head burst in the hallway right outside my office. I had to move all my stuff into another office for several weeks during my busiest time of the year. I didn’t recover from that disruption for months.
The thermostat wasn’t even on “Don’t freeze the pipes” temperature?
Our building was extensively remodeled some years back, and I think the HVAC system has been screwy ever since. If it was, as I suspect, part of the sprinkler system that burst like last time, I’m not even sure that’s in operation. We should just get the damn pipes taken out.
At my firs “real” job after college, The water still for the labs was located above the boss’s office. It made use of glass piping. There were a couple of thermal shock incidents.
“Hey, hey, new guy…c’mere, touch this,”
Not Not Adahn, ever.
Why glass pipes?
Oh, joy.. Nice way to return from the holiday.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Nuke the Commies from orbit
Don’t go if you don’t want to be part of the event.
You get the trademark before you enforce it.
Prior use by somebody else can block somebody from registering a trademark.
Good for them, I say. Fuck the Commies.
Which reminds me: Anybody know how much the Guardians had to pay that rollerball team?
The one James Caan was on?
Nah. The one that held the trademark for “Guardians”.
The last one I read mentioned “an amiable amount”.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/11/16/cleveland-guardians-settle-lawsuit-roller-derby-team-nickname/
I wrote up the story of Boxing Day at that part of the Sunday Column that people skip over. There were some particularly good Lily vids in that one.
Sunday was an inopportune time for Glibbing.
I’m assuming her True Fans go back and watch the vids on their own time.
I thought it was just a device or network issue, but it’s looking more likely that I actually only received one (1) email yesterday. I don’t think that happened at any point in my career before. They didn’t fire me, my badge still works.
They fired everyone else?
The SMTP daemons failed?
Forget Trump 2024, Elon Musk is going to win. (Russian)
It could happen?
Quite the eclectic collection. Reunification of Tejas and Mexico would solve the border issues, for sure.
And all in one year, too.
My prediction: Only the first one has the slightest chance of happening next year. Some kind of transition to digital currency (hint: 90+% is already digital) someday, but collapse of the euro and the dollar? Next year?
Hey! He mentioned l0b0t!
Seriously, though some of those are a lot more plausible than others. A Fourth Reich? Yeah, believe it when I see it. Transition to digital fiat currencies? Surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Morning all