So don't forget to stuff your fucking feed bag full of Turduken before stapling it on your face, you fucked up colostomy bag-huffing meatsacks. Don't forget to thank God for all the other shit on your table, while people everywhere else starve to death. Don't forget to stuff yourself to the bursting point BEFORE eating all kinds of desert and shit, pretending that this is GOD'S BOUNTY given unto you for doing unto the Native Americans. And remember that eating until you actually have to UNDO YOUR PANTS is OKAY, so long as you're AMERICAN and of the ELECT.
Oh, and the fucktards at the drugstore and at least one radio channel started 24/7 Christmas music on November 1st. How I hate you all. You and your Fat City. Could have gone to the stars, ate everything instead, brb lol.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 20, 2012, 05:13:19 PM
So don't forget to stuff your fucking feed bag full of Turduken before stapling it on your face, you fucked up colostomy bag-huffing meatsacks. Don't forget to thank God for all the other shit on your table, while people everywhere else starve to death. Don't forget to stuff yourself to the bursting point BEFORE eating all kinds of desert and shit, pretending that this is GOD'S BOUNTY given unto you for doing unto the Native Americans. And remember that eating until you actually have to UNDO YOUR PANTS is OKAY, so long as you're AMERICAN and of the ELECT.
Oh, and the fucktards at the drugstore and at least one radio channel started 24/7 Christmas music on November 1st. How I hate you all. You and your Fat City. Could have gone to the stars, ate everything instead, brb lol.
:lulz:
Quote from: FROTISTED FUDGE CAK on November 20, 2012, 05:16:33 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 20, 2012, 05:13:19 PM
So don't forget to stuff your fucking feed bag full of Turduken before stapling it on your face, you fucked up colostomy bag-huffing meatsacks. Don't forget to thank God for all the other shit on your table, while people everywhere else starve to death. Don't forget to stuff yourself to the bursting point BEFORE eating all kinds of desert and shit, pretending that this is GOD'S BOUNTY given unto you for doing unto the Native Americans. And remember that eating until you actually have to UNDO YOUR PANTS is OKAY, so long as you're AMERICAN and of the ELECT.
Oh, and the fucktards at the drugstore and at least one radio channel started 24/7 Christmas music on November 1st. How I hate you all. You and your Fat City. Could have gone to the stars, ate everything instead, brb lol.
:lulz:
My rage gland is acting up.
haha! good stuff.
and remember, once you've got your thankfulness out of the fucking way, get some good steel toed boots on.
you don't want to be under equipped when you head out the next day to trample the weak in pursuit of the SALE!
Christmas music already blasting.
There are at least 5 houses that I can specifically think of that already have Christmas lights and decorations up.
I've been hearing about "Pre-Black Friday" and "Super Early Black Friday" deals since about Halloween - it's a wonder I haven't strangled anyone or put my fist through a TV yet.
And every year people complain - but at this point I'm sure they're hoping that if they complain loud enough about how stupid all this "early Christmas stuff" is, they'll be able to trick people into staying home so they can have ALL THE SALES TO THEMSELVES. Because there's certianly no shortage of people running out to trample each other to death at 4am just to get that new TV. Obviously these "PreBlack Friday" sales are catering to someone. Seriously WTF is a PRE BLACK FRIDAY sale!?!
Brought a few bags of food to the donation box I'd seen in a store for a few weeks and was shocked (and a bit appalled) when they told me that I was the first one to bring anything in. So doing my shopping next door I bought a little extra to give. I don't have a lot to spare and I'm not going to save the world with my few bags of groceries, but I can at least feel a bit better putting my money towards that than going out and buying a bunch of *things* no-one really wants or needs.
I haven't celebrated a holiday in 7 fucking years. I work on them all. Give me socks for Christmas, fucking elves are stealing them anyway. Thankgiving? Fuck you, I like Hot Dogs. Easter Bunny can go take a shit in someone elses house this year. :argh!:
Quote from: Chaorem on November 20, 2012, 11:15:43 PM
I haven't celebrated a holiday in 7 fucking years. I work on them all. Give me socks for Christmas, fucking elves are stealing them anyway. Thankgiving? Fuck you, I like Hot Dogs. Easter Bunny can go take a shit in someone elses house this year. :argh!:
The Easter Bunny shits jelly beans, he's cool by me. :p
I, for one, intend to enjoy the holiday by cooking too much food, collapsing after dinner on the couch while somebody else does the gorram dishes, watching some Dr. Who, and taking Friday to recover before spending Saturday brewing awesome new booze.
Quote from: Luna on November 20, 2012, 11:19:04 PM
Quote from: Chaorem on November 20, 2012, 11:15:43 PM
I haven't celebrated a holiday in 7 fucking years. I work on them all. Give me socks for Christmas, fucking elves are stealing them anyway. Thankgiving? Fuck you, I like Hot Dogs. Easter Bunny can go take a shit in someone elses house this year. :argh!:
The Easter Bunny shits jelly beans, he's cool by me. :p
I, for one, intend to enjoy the holiday by cooking too much food, collapsing after dinner on the couch while somebody else does the gorram dishes, watching some Dr. Who, and taking Friday to recover before spending Saturday brewing awesome new booze.
You, I like you.
On the other hand, being a Dane and all, I never really understood Thanksgiving. 'Let's set a date where we have to say thanks and pretend to be happy and thankful because that's what we're supposed to be today! Aren't we just all having a blast!' - but on the other hand, it's lots of food. Which is never a bad thing. Especially if other people make it for you.
I see my family, and my girlfriend's family, and her brothers family(ies)* so much I need the Holidays when they all get together and I go to work to get away from them. So I guess I lied, I do celebrate Holidays.
*Manwhore.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 20, 2012, 05:13:19 PM
So don't forget to stuff your fucking feed bag full of Turduken before stapling it on your face, you fucked up colostomy bag-huffing meatsacks. Don't forget to thank God for all the other shit on your table, while people everywhere else starve to death. Don't forget to stuff yourself to the bursting point BEFORE eating all kinds of desert and shit, pretending that this is GOD'S BOUNTY given unto you for doing unto the Native Americans. And remember that eating until you actually have to UNDO YOUR PANTS is OKAY, so long as you're AMERICAN and of the ELECT.
Oh, and the fucktards at the drugstore and at least one radio channel started 24/7 Christmas music on November 1st. How I hate you all. You and your Fat City. Could have gone to the stars, ate everything instead, brb lol.
I fucking HATE
HATE HATE Thanksgiving. It's not fun. It isn't full of Family Happy Together Time
TM. It's a fucking vile day, and I intend to spend at least part of it somewhere where I am grateful that the people around me exist and I know them.
Thanksgiving was the one holiday everyone in my family liked. Dad would get a whole bunch of different people to come over, from SoHo artists to Korean physicists, and we'd all sit around, get drunk, eat amazing food, and talk. It's what I imagined one of the old salons would have been like.
To me it's not about family. No, that's not quite right. For me, it's about family, because those are the people who are meaningful to me. It's also about my closest friends, because they're also meaningful to me. If you don't like your family, then abandon them, and go find the people who make your life FUN and worth living, and have Thanksgiving with them.
This year, I'm going to cook for my mom, Mrs LMNO, and three of my closest friends. We're going to have brisket, spiced winter squash with pomagranite, and a kale and brussels sprout salad. There will be NO shopping on Friday.
This... I'm not spending it with blood relations, I'm CERTAINLY not spending it with the legal relation.
I'm spending it with the family I choose.
And I'll take a bullet to the knee before I'll shop on Black Friday.
I'm doing nothing tomorrow. My history professors have given me pretty difficult papers to get done, so I'm waiving my right to be American and skipping Thanksgiving this year for academia. I will be baking a lot of cookies and brownies and bringing them up to the girls at my local Walgreens, and then to Old Navy and Gap at the mall, because I know how much it sucks to work retail hell on Thanksgiving, so I can at least do something nice and offer them some goodies. Even if they may not personally celebrate Thanksgiving, everybody likes baked goods.
-Suu
No really, sometimes I'm a nice person.
Amazon.co.uk is sending me "Black Friday" special deals.
I'm not going to argue with cheaper stuff, but I think they do not understand of what they speak. Especially since we have the "Boxing Day Sales" phenomenom where, after spending ridiculous amounts of money for Christmas, we are encouraged to spend even more because "you wouldn't want to miss out on a good deal".
i have noticed a trend this year, that i haven't seen heretofore where advertisements announce that so-and-so company is 'celebrating' black friday. so far, i've heard adds for three separate stores using these terms. anybody else noticed this?
that's an interesting twist, making it a holiday in its own right....
I'm still tickled that 10 years ago, we called it Black Friday out of contempt while working in the industry. Now it's capitalist vernacular, and I have Steely Dan stuck in my head all day.
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 21, 2012, 04:12:15 PM
i have noticed a trend this year, that i haven't seen heretofore where advertisements announce that so-and-so company is 'celebrating' black friday. so far, i've heard adds for three separate stores using these terms. anybody else noticed this?
that's an interesting twist, making it a holiday in its own right....
I have noticed that. I think that's why I've been more inclined to stab someone in the eye each time I hear one.
I'll probably go to Walmart early early early Friday morning to buy a potato or something.
That always fucks with them.
The store was insane this past weekend when we went for groceries. I sure as hell am not going out on Friday. Wouldn't make it back alive.
I'm always broke on holidays anyway, people spend their money on holiday crap, not calling me.
It wasn't any different when I worked retail, they'd cut our hours in the weeks leading up to the time they got busy so everything would average out. The last place I worked retail was a supermarket. Motherfuckers wouldn't even give us a fucking turkey.
I wouldn't participate if I had the money to burn, but the bank holidays holding up my direct deposits, general scarcity and people asking "What are you doing for thanksgiving?" and "How was your Christmas" are annoying as fuck.
I went to Michael's today, and found out they're open tomorrow. That fucking sucks. National holiday, and more and more stores are too obsessed with money to even give their employees time off for actual family crap (if they want to do that kind of thing).
Also, what the fuck are people so desperate for at Michael's on Thanksgiving?
ETA: Oh wait. Davis Monthan. Military without families nearby. Okay, sort of legit for any business to be open. But still shitty.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 21, 2012, 12:53:21 PM
Thanksgiving was the one holiday everyone in my family liked. Dad would get a whole bunch of different people to come over, from SoHo artists to Korean physicists, and we'd all sit around, get drunk, eat amazing food, and talk. It's what I imagined one of the old salons would have been like.
To me it's not about family. No, that's not quite right. For me, it's about family, because those are the people who are meaningful to me. It's also about my closest friends, because they're also meaningful to me. If you don't like your family, then abandon them, and go find the people who make your life FUN and worth living, and have Thanksgiving with them.
This year, I'm going to cook for my mom, Mrs LMNO, and three of my closest friends. We're going to have brisket, spiced winter squash with pomagranite, and a kale and brussels sprout salad. There will be NO shopping on Friday.
I used to host Thanksgiving for all my orphaned friends, until my divorce. I could not fucking handle it that year, and I didn't even have the kids, and Mr. Vintage invited me to his legendary Thanksgiving dinner. That night, I got wasted and fell asleep curled up on the coat pile. I have gone there every year since; Mr. Vintage's Thanksgiving has seen me through three heartbreaks and one divorce. In some way that house is more "home" to me than my own house.
I really enjoy Thanksgiving now, because all I have to do is make a big dish of rutabagas and drive out to the Vintage home in St. Johns, where my every whim will be pandered to and I am treated like a god for my ability to make decent gravy. It's curious that after all these years the only time I have gone with a partner was the year I was dating Space Cowboy, who is also there every year.
Quote from: Suu on November 21, 2012, 04:26:55 PM
I'm still tickled that 10 years ago, we called it Black Friday out of contempt while working in the industry. Now it's capitalist vernacular, and I have Steely Dan stuck in my head all day.
Yeah, I think it dates back to the sixties in the derogatory sense. I'm not sure when it got co-opted by the corporations and re-framed as a GOOD thing. :lol: