It's been nearly four hours. I don't know whether to be disappointed that nobody made a "@Crown Royal must have had a sore jaw after figuring that out" joke, or proud because none of you went for the easy joke because we're above it.
I don't know if we're above it, but I do know that Crown Royal is below it with his mouth open and his tongue out.
I love how this guy is so crazy smart he could be making millions a year at a company doing crazy shit, but instead he's producing content we get to see for free on youtube.
I truly do get that you think that this narrative and stereotype is funny to share. I really do. Maybe it even actually is funny to many people. Maybe your statement is indeed true. I really don't know. For me, it's lame. I'll call you out on it. My dad passed away last month after a battle with cancer. He was a mathematics professor at Auburn University (one of the schools involved in The Iron Bowl) for 47 years. 47 years! He was born in Rome, Italy, and received his Ph.D from The University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Interesting, because I know we have many Canadians here on this board. Hearing his colleagues at Auburn speak at his reception, he did incredible, unbelievable things to advance thinking, education, mathematics, and humanity. He worked closely with some famous mathematicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős My best guess is that you have never been to Alabama, nor witnessed the Iron Bowl. But, continue with your jokes about "bombing" the place, if you think they are funny. I really don't care. I have a pork butt I need to smoke, ya'll.
Fair enough. It's funny to you. I wasn't going to get in to politics, because I know nothing about politics.
Apologies to the board for my thin-skinned, off-topic rant stemming from a joke. My fault. Truly. I still do take slight exception to anyone advocating the idea, even in a joke, of bombing a public, American, University's campus, during a time at which it is known that the maximum amount of civilians would be killed, with the reasoning being that it would better the nation, as a whole. Especially, if that University is my family's. I just didn't take the joke well. You know another reason why? I have attended many big-time, sold-out, slobber knocker SEC football games at Auburn. Many Iron Bowls. Just packed. 90,000 people crammed in to an older, classic SEC stadium. A mass of drunken humanity with no way to get out in an orderly fashion. Security guards in chartreuse vests that are likely undertrained and underpaid. A military jet flyover that screams above your head as the Star Spangled Banner ends. And as I have gotten older, it isn't something that keeps me awake at night, or keeps me from going to the games, I just seem to always have it in the back of my mind, what if something like a bomb was actually dropped here? So, @Aetius I only have three things to say. Have a great rest of the week, a terrific weekend, and a wonderful Holliday season! As far as the 2022 Holiday Revelry Thread, we are discussing Christmas dinner here already, and we have come to the consensus that a really nice, local ham will be involved. We want to do it on the Big Green Egg, too. There are hundreds of YouTube videos, but any advice on the ham, and side dishes would really be appreciated.
Of all the Christmas movies my daughter could have picked for family movie night, she picks, Ernest Saves Christmas. Glad I got a 6-pack of Winter Ale.
She could've picked Love Actually, and you'd have to sit through the Martin Freeman/Joanna Page porn scenes with her. The first couple times I saw that, it was the TV version. I mentioned liking it and recommended to my sister that my mom might like it. She had only seen the the R-rated version, and she kinda looked at me sideways and said, "I don't think she'd like the porno scenes." I had no idea what she was talking about, or that those two characters were even in the movie, lol.
It’s an awful movie about just plain awful people, I don’t know why anybody would watch it more than once. It’s about cheating, awkward sex and stabbing your best friend in the back. At Christmas. If you don’t want to put your foot through the TV during the “cue cards” scene then there’s no hope for you.
Used to be Die Hard, Bad Santa, The Ref, etc….. Now for me it’s all the Home Alone movies, The Descendants (All of them), Elf on the shelf movies and finally for random entertainment - tween Roblox streamers. Which is on a level of torture that should be added to crimes that get you locked in The Hague. Also my daughter has discovered Justin fucking Bieber - so that shit is on repeat all day too. And here I wanted a little girl - a six pack just doesn’t get it anymore, I’m glad I can buy IPA in 12 packs now.
I disagree. Sam & Joanna aren't awful, and neither are the Prime Minister & Plumpy, and Jamie & Aurelia. The cast is absolutely stacked with talent. (Even little Joanna who goes on to voice Vanessa in Phineas & Ferb and Marceline in Adventure Time) Alan Rickman frustrated at Rowan Atkinson's gift wrapping is hilarious, even if he's playing a cad. (Some people cheat in real life - it's called Love Actually not Love Fantasy) Plus, there's Laura Linney's boobs, and the ridiculous Collin Frissel storyline scoring with all the American chicks. It's very re-watchable.
Anyone ever watch Prep and Landing? The first one is an excellent little holiday special. The second is fine, just not as good as the first one. Highly recommend it for kids and adults.
As far as fun romantic Christmas comedies are concerned? Just Friends is where it’s at. “YOU’LL ALWAYS BE FAT TO ME!!!!”
My Xmas rotation used to be Emmett Otter’s jugband Christmas, Die Hard and the Rankin/Bass stop motion movies. I was never really into A Christmas Story, Home Alone or any of the more recent Christmas movies. My daughter is currently out of the Christmas movie phase ( nostalgia will bring her back at some point), so it’s pretty much me and the Mrsanthropic watching Emmet Otter and maybe Die Hard. And the last 6 or 7 years I watch a Very Murray Christmas at least once while drinking bourbon in the man cave.