So, you've signed up for the War Against Christmas?
I still await an opportunity to disabuse a child of Santa. I feel like it should be an initiation-type thing.
One of the most glorious moments in the War on Christmas thanks to ajay. (From the very, very different world of exactly four years ago today.)
Tears running down Scrooge's face, he realises: "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Christmas."
I took the kids to see Trolls on Saturday. The premise is that the Trolls are always happy, and the Bergen are always mad and cranky. The only way for a Bergen to be happy is to eat a Troll. I got lost in a reverie about how the Bergen were Republicans who were only happy when they could eat Democrats. The Trolls had some in-fighting which mapped sort of onto Democrat in-fighting.
I wouldn't say that I want to walk around during Advent chucking paperback New Testaments at the hunched, skulking, red-faced braggarts who populate our media streams, but I wouldn't call it a bad way to spend an Advent Sunday afternoon, either.
3: Thanks! I had forgotten that that thread also included the line "Show me your gaping chest cavity of loving compassion, Radioactive Jesus!" which is only ruined by knowledge of the context.
And as long as we are reveling in past, more pleasant Christmas seasons. I was stupidly proud of this one.
7: Also from that thread, my personal counter-Narnian nightmare: "Always Christmas, never winter."
Santa/Trump.
Lives in an inaccessible places.
Brings gifts to the good children.
Revitalizes the coal in the stocking industry.
Odd coloring.
Corpulence.
Appeal to childish minds.
Small hands.
Inspires stupid attempts at humor when I should be writing two last emails and getting ready to drive across state to a ghastly two-day business meeting.
When my sister-in-law's kids had elves on shelves, I was quietly pushing the "normalizes surveillance" line, and now, no foolin', each of the kids wants their own Amazon Echo.
10: Hates aliens from places beginning with M
Took the kids to Trolls also, and 100% couldn't help viewing it as a Democrats/Republican allegory. A depressing one with a fantasy ending where everyone decides to be nice. Which just made reality even more depressing.
It sets up a rather nice tension at the beginning - it's not that Bergren are bad, they just want to be happy! By eating you! Just depressingly familiar.
14: The Carnivore's Dilemma.
That issue came up in Madagascar also.
Can I totally hijack this thread to ask the commenters who are or are going to be in Dublin soon to let me know if they are free some evening to meet for a drink? I have a thing this Friday but otherwise not too bad.
Can I totally hijack this thread to ask the commenters who are or are going to be in Dublin soon to let me know if they are free some evening to meet for a drink? I have a thing this Friday but otherwise not too bad.
17: We'll be there 19-25, so not for a bit. We'll know more about our schedule soon...
17: My wife and I are here now, until the 12th; I sent you an email last after the last thread but maybe it got spam filtered? Anyway, we're just being (incredibly low-energy, somehow still jet-lagged) tourists and can fit into your (scarily high-energy) schedule however.
If it helps, we're in Temple Bar. People party hard here, and we've only been here since Sunday. I can't imagine what a Saturday is like.
21: similarly, there are as the name suggests three Tripolis.
24: In the Levant, in Libya, and New Tripoli in Lehigh County, presumably.
Her name articulates for itself.
Sure, but who is dichotomizing whom? And why?
And your input may be needed in the Political Rhetoric thread. For no particular reason that I'm willing to state explicitly.
Erm, maybe I should have checked that email address properly? It's one I set up mainly for unfogged and other places I want deniability (my handle used to be "emr" before amending it in the Great LizardBreathian Handle Shift). Will reply.
Temple Bar is the party/tourist part of the city so pretty exuberant. My "high-energy" lifestyle has left me sniffly and grumpy. I'm looking forward to the Christmas holidays which will be a decent break as the office will be closed until 3rd January - except I have so much to do between now and the 23rd.
|| Dublin mini-meetup! Emir, my wife and I are in a pub. She's delightful and funny and knowledgable!
I assume that's why you married her.
I'm all chuffed and sheepish now. Dalriata and spouse (*) are totally charming and great company. I've been really enjoying the evening.
* much discussion failed to come up with a pseud.
Dalriata's spouse should obviously be named fakestzitzaki.
36: the Plain People of Ireland have no idea what you're talking about.
Neb, you're too clever for our collective brain trust. I was thinking to stay on theme "alt clut" but that's a shit name. Strather use, mebbe.
So "dalriata" is not named after a lentil dish and a yogurt dish with a single vowel transposition?
As for "alt clut", I have no idea what's going on there but it doesn't sound good.
Over now. Apologies to emir for keeping her out too late on a school night, and thanks to her for the good fun.
My arm didn't need twisting. Home now zzz zzz zz