I can hear it now..”oh, we only celebrate Saturnalia for the children, you know”.
I don’t mind Christmas,the celebration of the newborn Christ,goodwill to men,peace on Earth etc. spending time with family and friends.
It’s all the commercial crap that’s out of hand.Just because I bought something from a company five years ago doesn’t mean I need a sale flier from them in my inbox every five minutes for six weeks
“It’s all the commercial crap that’s out of hand.”
And that’s what gets to me.
I just enjoy the time off…BBQs, river swimming, afternoon sleeps, reading anything at hand etc…and (almost forgot) drinking at whatever time of the day I wish.
Traffic. Endless bloody Christmas carols in the stores….and skoolkids on holiday, driving the burglary and vandalism rates through the roof.
Am I turning into a grumpy old bastard?
I can’t handle too many Christmas carols either,I much prefer Handel’s Messiah.
An old one but a good one,I would go to the mall more often if I could count on this
I am already there. I stay at home at Christmas/New Year and seldom venture out…to the liquor store and occasionally to buy food. I have an enormous cache of fireworks to add to my home-bound fun. The time passes only too quickly.
If you hear Ebenezer..Ebenezer… and chains rattling you might want to slack off the triple malt a bit,seems Dickens warned us bout that.
I follow the same pattern Cadwallader.
I have a month-long break around Christmas and New Year and the only social interaction I’ll have is a couple of days visiting the rest of the family over Christmas itself. That’s *more* than enough.
We don’t go for the massive spendup thing at all – just a small get-together with good food and drink.
I’m completely happy to “veg out” alone at home – no TV, no nothing – just poking around the ‘net when and where I want to. Bliss!
Yes,but you are right.Join the club….
Beautiful, Darin! Magnificent.
There was a time capitalism was done right,back in the days of Tiffany and Macy’s.
Mr Macy wanted his stores to be an experience bar none,so much so he insisted on customer service as a religion and each store included a Wannamaker pipe organ.It wasn’t enough to have music,he wanted music as good as any Cathedral in Europe.It was a much different time than today’s “pop open the next Conex from China and stuff the isles” version we have now.
Take my parents, for example, who were the Greatest Generation of WW II fame – They did Christmas for my brother and me in grand style
However, living alone as I do now, Christmas is just another day.
Ronbo,
I too am living alone but Christmas is in your heart not in a store. For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
I miss my wife more than I can say, but the true story of Christmas will never fade.
According to Ralph Epperson, Christ came around April. So I celebrate Christ’s birth on Easter. And any day is what you want it to be.
Well, tradition says we celebrate the birth of Christ in December, and changing that would be kinda pointless, Warren.
Kg, if I’m not mistaken their are people on this string saying, they don’t think very highly of Christmas. So I’m just pointing out, that if they really don’t like the hustle and bustle of Christmas, Easter is closer to Jesus’ birth according to Ralph Epperson.
Anyhow, their are a few people who are starting to realise Dec 25 is not Christ’s birth.
I hope he is either attorney general or a supreme court justice someday.
A man with balls v a shit eating left-winger making an insincere apology. The killer line has to be from Issa – “I guess what you said was popular in that community”.
I’m utterly baffled that so many people can spend time in the office on facebook and generally cruising the ‘net and not one I’ve spoken to about it views it as theft from their employer. They’re paid to do work for the employer, so spending paid time on their own private pursuits is simply theft.
This is my first Christmas without Oma. (mum/grandma) She died in July aged 92. The thing that makes this hard is that she LOVED Christmas. Even when she was very old, she always had the biggest and brightest tree in the old folks’ home. The old chap and I have decided to go to Aussie for Xmas this year. Mental cowardice.
Not cowardice at all, Mara. To do otherwise would be to inflict pain on yourselves unnecessarily, and surely that’s something she wouldn’t have wished.
Thank you KG. The old chap has nothing to say about this. He just looks after me. As always.
Having once seen an innocent suffer the same fate, this is a terrible, terrible thing…
Apparently she survived long enough to be transported to a trauma center in Memphis about 40 miles north.
Google “black men setting white women on fire” there has been a well document rash of that in the past year.More no good niggers at work.At least we do have the death penalty and we do use it.
I wonder how the media will play this one? And perhaps Al Sharpton would like to put in an appearance, eh?
Unions siding with the Nazis during ww2 in Australia, costing Australian and American lives. Bastards.
Some people from the metal trades local were confused once and thought I was in support of unions.I quickly corrected them and told them I was in fact a supporter of proper trade guilds,not the leftist mafia ran national unions which are nothing but corrupt leftist shill groups who should be broken up and the leadership jailed.They were not to happy about it,but I don’t give a rats ass what they think because they don’t represent me.
There was a story in American Machinist magazine out of Canada during WWII about a man who had a small home machine shop in his basement.He was too old to enlist,but wanting to do his part he pursued and got war contracts to rough out fuse housings in his basement shop.
He knew several other retired and disabled Machinists in his area,so he hired them on to boost production.Pretty soon he had his whole basement and garage stuffed with lathes running parts.His neighbor being a prick,started complaining to the city about the shop next door and all the men and material coming and going constantly keeping him awake at night.He kept complaining and the shop owner kept ignoring him,finally he got loud enough though that the shop owner told his war contract agent about the issue.A few days later an Army officer and a RCMP member showed up as his neighbor’s door.The shop owner was standing close by and overheard the conversation that went something like this-
“Are you the one who has been complaining about the shop next door? Well look bud,in case you haven’t noticed there is a war on.Your neighbor is busy helping win the fight,if you don’t shut your trap we’ll assume you’re in league with the enemy and you’ll spend the rest of the war in an internment camp,get the picture?”
He never heard a peep from the neighbor again.
For once, a proper use of State power!
*Wow*…… that is *really* eye-opening stuff there.
I had no idea that happened there in WWII KG.
Yes! Bring back Saturnalia!
I don’t mind Christmas,the celebration of the newborn Christ,goodwill to men,peace on Earth etc. spending time with family and friends.
It’s all the commercial crap that’s out of hand.Just because I bought something from a company five years ago doesn’t mean I need a sale flier from them in my inbox every five minutes for six weeks
“It’s all the commercial crap that’s out of hand.”
And that’s what gets to me.
I just enjoy the time off…BBQs, river swimming, afternoon sleeps, reading anything at hand etc…and (almost forgot) drinking at whatever time of the day I wish.
Traffic. Endless bloody Christmas carols in the stores….and skoolkids on holiday, driving the burglary and vandalism rates through the roof.
Am I turning into a grumpy old bastard?
I can’t handle too many Christmas carols either,I much prefer Handel’s Messiah.
An old one but a good one,I would go to the mall more often if I could count on this
http://youtu.be/SXh7JR9oKVE
I am already there. I stay at home at Christmas/New Year and seldom venture out…to the liquor store and occasionally to buy food. I have an enormous cache of fireworks to add to my home-bound fun. The time passes only too quickly.
If you hear Ebenezer..Ebenezer… and chains rattling you might want to slack off the triple malt a bit,seems Dickens warned us bout that.
I follow the same pattern Cadwallader.
I have a month-long break around Christmas and New Year and the only social interaction I’ll have is a couple of days visiting the rest of the family over Christmas itself. That’s *more* than enough.
We don’t go for the massive spendup thing at all – just a small get-together with good food and drink.
I’m completely happy to “veg out” alone at home – no TV, no nothing – just poking around the ‘net when and where I want to. Bliss!
Yes,but you are right.Join the club….
Beautiful, Darin! Magnificent.
There was a time capitalism was done right,back in the days of Tiffany and Macy’s.
Mr Macy wanted his stores to be an experience bar none,so much so he insisted on customer service as a religion and each store included a Wannamaker pipe organ.It wasn’t enough to have music,he wanted music as good as any Cathedral in Europe.It was a much different time than today’s “pop open the next Conex from China and stuff the isles” version we have now.
Still some reminders do happen-
http://youtu.be/5S0dn7tqkBg
Honouring the fallen. I dare you to stay dry-eyed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSSMl8uJ11Q
Christmas is for the kids….for the family.
Take my parents, for example, who were the Greatest Generation of WW II fame – They did Christmas for my brother and me in grand style
However, living alone as I do now, Christmas is just another day.
Ronbo,
I too am living alone but Christmas is in your heart not in a store. For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
I miss my wife more than I can say, but the true story of Christmas will never fade.
Scratch one Harrier
http://youtu.be/k_nfjx0vnos?list=UU6xBhF4QYIPPF2_-ExZzd2w
Claymore logic
http://youtu.be/iypRShb64cg?list=UU6xBhF4QYIPPF2_-ExZzd2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKE8pyfcZc-
CHRISTmas w/ the military and PLANES!!!
C-CS
Yes,excellent performance!
Verdi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdAERH_XkCQ
Verdi,isn’t he the one that corrodes Bronze?
Nah, that’s Mr. Verdi Gris, another guy entirely.
http://youtu.be/sVMoOLh92S4
She can rack my slide anytime
Oh yes!
According to Ralph Epperson, Christ came around April. So I celebrate Christ’s birth on Easter. And any day is what you want it to be.
Well, tradition says we celebrate the birth of Christ in December, and changing that would be kinda pointless, Warren.
Kg, if I’m not mistaken their are people on this string saying, they don’t think very highly of Christmas. So I’m just pointing out, that if they really don’t like the hustle and bustle of Christmas, Easter is closer to Jesus’ birth according to Ralph Epperson.
Anyhow, their are a few people who are starting to realise Dec 25 is not Christ’s birth.
Trey Gowdy:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/video_of_trey_gowdys_questioning_of_jonathan_gruber_today.html
Go get him Trey!
I hope he is either attorney general or a supreme court justice someday.
A man with balls v a shit eating left-winger making an insincere apology. The killer line has to be from Issa – “I guess what you said was popular in that community”.
Lovely , wasn’t it?
What a joke! I hope she never finds another job, the bloody thief.
‘Woman’s dismissal over internet use ‘flawed’..’
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/better-business/64007243/Womans-dismissal-over-internet-use-flawed
I’m utterly baffled that so many people can spend time in the office on facebook and generally cruising the ‘net and not one I’ve spoken to about it views it as theft from their employer. They’re paid to do work for the employer, so spending paid time on their own private pursuits is simply theft.
Lindsey Stirling and Kuhao Case -“Crystallize”
http://youtu.be/l_6J39c1ycU
This is my first Christmas without Oma. (mum/grandma) She died in July aged 92. The thing that makes this hard is that she LOVED Christmas. Even when she was very old, she always had the biggest and brightest tree in the old folks’ home. The old chap and I have decided to go to Aussie for Xmas this year. Mental cowardice.
Not cowardice at all, Mara. To do otherwise would be to inflict pain on yourselves unnecessarily, and surely that’s something she wouldn’t have wished.
Thank you KG. The old chap has nothing to say about this. He just looks after me. As always.
Having once seen an innocent suffer the same fate, this is a terrible, terrible thing…
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/who_killed_jessica_chambers_witnesses_questioned_after_mississippi_woman_19_set_on_fire.html
(No bets that the zero in DC will pick up the phone to the parents.)
That’s just bloody awful.
It’s much worse
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/08/mississippi-burning-jessica-chambers-murder-they-squirted-lighter-fluid-down-her-throat-and-in-her-nose-then-set-her-on-fire-in-her-car/
Apparently she survived long enough to be transported to a trauma center in Memphis about 40 miles north.
Google “black men setting white women on fire” there has been a well document rash of that in the past year.More no good niggers at work.At least we do have the death penalty and we do use it.
I wonder how the media will play this one? And perhaps Al Sharpton would like to put in an appearance, eh?
The evil wrought by the Left is no new thing:
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/12/prize-case-candour/
Unions siding with the Nazis during ww2 in Australia, costing Australian and American lives. Bastards.
Some people from the metal trades local were confused once and thought I was in support of unions.I quickly corrected them and told them I was in fact a supporter of proper trade guilds,not the leftist mafia ran national unions which are nothing but corrupt leftist shill groups who should be broken up and the leadership jailed.They were not to happy about it,but I don’t give a rats ass what they think because they don’t represent me.
There was a story in American Machinist magazine out of Canada during WWII about a man who had a small home machine shop in his basement.He was too old to enlist,but wanting to do his part he pursued and got war contracts to rough out fuse housings in his basement shop.
He knew several other retired and disabled Machinists in his area,so he hired them on to boost production.Pretty soon he had his whole basement and garage stuffed with lathes running parts.His neighbor being a prick,started complaining to the city about the shop next door and all the men and material coming and going constantly keeping him awake at night.He kept complaining and the shop owner kept ignoring him,finally he got loud enough though that the shop owner told his war contract agent about the issue.A few days later an Army officer and a RCMP member showed up as his neighbor’s door.The shop owner was standing close by and overheard the conversation that went something like this-
“Are you the one who has been complaining about the shop next door? Well look bud,in case you haven’t noticed there is a war on.Your neighbor is busy helping win the fight,if you don’t shut your trap we’ll assume you’re in league with the enemy and you’ll spend the rest of the war in an internment camp,get the picture?”
He never heard a peep from the neighbor again.
*Wow*…… that is *really* eye-opening stuff there.
I had no idea that happened there in WWII KG.