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  1. He’s the worst human being on earth.
    22 points
  2. My 2nd Christmas now off the mainland. With any luck next year will be the final Christmas I spend on American soil. For this year I’ll work, maybe go see a movie and get my fishing gear together to go early next week for a couple of days of fishing and swimming. Today I am just going to remember that my Oma, all of 18 years old was spending her first year since she was 5 without having the Nazis in power in Germany. She was pregnant with my dad. She had a sister that survived the war, but she lost her brother at Stalingrad. She would turn 19 on January 24, 1946 and my dad was born the next day. He was one of the 250,000 German children who were born with American GI’s for dads at the end of the war. My dad never met his real father. I do kinda wonder what Christmas was like for my Oma in 1945 in her hometown in Eschwege. I’ll think of her today and how much I still miss her 35 years after she passed away from Ovarian cancer. So many good memories with her at Christmas. I’ll call my mom and talk to my niece and nephew to see what Santa brought them as well. They’re 6 and 3 so it should be fun to listen to them.
    15 points
  3. There is literally nobody who loved Christmas more than my late father. His 9th Armor unit defended the crossroads town of St. Vith during the Bulge from 16 December until Christmas Eve, when Monty told them to find their way west to the 82nd airborne, who were creating an escape pocket. Staying inside a Sherman for eight or nine days in that cold was not pleasant according to dad. Something about conduction. But finally arriving safe behind Allied lines on Christmas Eve - and enjoying a hot Christmas dinner the next day when you’ve been convinced for a week you had to hold on until you died - made an indelible mark on his appreciation of Christmas. Merry Christmas to all. My Christmas miracle was I woke up in a soaking wet bed with no fever or blinding headache for the first time in four days. My dog had been staring at me, wondering why I suddenly hated him and refused to walk him. *not my dad‘s tank, but 7th armored Shermans at St. Vith. The seventh was at the northern end of the fortified goose egg, the 9th defended the southern end. Something about that photo relays just how cold it was.
    13 points
  4. Merry Christmas to all my Surly sisters and brothers. Refuse to believe anything that bloviating ass says, tweets, or publishes. We will get through this and t’row ALL da bums out. The masses are waking up to what we knew all along. Never give up or give in o ye enlightened.
    13 points
  5. Making final preparations. Not too much left to do. Wife is helping preside at the 4:00 service, we’re all attending the 6:00 service tonight, I’ll be the reader for the passage from Matthew. Both kids are here. They couldn’t come home last year; the boy was stuck in Germany with visa challenges due to the backlog of applicants from the war. Yeah, our kid couldn’t come home “because of the war.” Odd phrase to be saying, but there we are. And it turned out to be our last Christmas with my father, who was gone a month later. So, we’re still digging through generations worth of their stuff. 1944. Probably somewhere in France. My grandfather spent a very cold Christmas tending to the P-47s of his unit, hoping they could get in the air to provide some much-needed air support to the troops on the ground holding off the German counteroffensive at the Bulge. A ranching man from deep South Texas, at war in Europe. A few months later, he would cross the Rhine at Worms. Today, his great-grand daughter lives and studies near the banks of the Rhine, downstream at Bonn. The world keeps turning, taking us to places, then back again. Some Christmases are peaceful reveries with family. Some are bitterly cold, in a tent (or worse), unsure of how a war will end. I’m not sure what to do with that truth. I’m glad grandpa Ted came home, and raised my mother, who had just been born in January of that year. I’m glad that our family has gone back to Germany, making friends, and a future. I don’t know what next Christmas will be like. But we have this one, right in front of us. I hope you can spend it with people you love. I hope your tent is warm, wherever it may be.
    10 points
  6. This thread exists to make fun of them.
    10 points
  7. On two separate occasions in a discussion with an aggie, I have heard with my own ears the claim that they would have won every game against Texas from 2012-2023. I had one guy start to get both vehement and visibly angry when I mocked his nonsense with “yeah, I know, you guys are undefeated in all of the games you never played. The aggies are absolute badasses in alternate universes that only you can conjure. “ They fervently believe that nonsense. It’s something to behold.
    9 points
  8. Wordle 1,650 2/6 🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  9. And it is so god damn easy.
    9 points
  10. A “hate UT” store or boutique would probably do booming business in Collie Station. If I had some spare change I might try it during a football season by opening a pop up store during game weekends . I’d sell every thing with “Saw’em off” and “Horns down” with some t.u and damn ‘sips sprinkled in. I’d name it “Saw’em Off” just to get the foot traffic in the store. And on the back of the receipt in very small print would be all proceeds go to UT athletics and NIL activities to see if these Goobers would catch on that they’ve been had.
    8 points
  11. Merry Christmas! I'm enjoying this thread and the one right below it called Slutcon. A very Surly Christmas.
    8 points
  12. Merry Christmas to a special group of people here that make me laugh, teach me a few new things and makes me scratch my head in wonderment at times! Hookem Horns!!!
    8 points
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    8 points
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    8 points
  15. Wordle 1,650 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #928 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 meh Merry Christmas to all y’all in the thread
    8 points
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    8 points
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    8 points
  18. Yes And also yes. Fuck I can’t wait until he’s dead.
    8 points
  19. Wordle 1,650 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1431 6️⃣5️⃣ 9️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
    8 points
  20. 7 points
  21. Well fuck, now what will I wear to Christmas at the grandparents' later today? All of my clothes and hats are grossly covered by Clinton's face. And how in the hell will I even get there? I can't drive my Clinton-wrapped truck now!
    7 points
  22. No because Flood had to help out with the defensive backs and couldn't spend his full time with the Oline. Now that Akina is gone, he can again devote his time to the Oline. - Sark, probably.
    7 points
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    7 points
  24. Russia didn't lose Kupiansk. They just ran out of time.
    7 points
  25. Wordle 1,650 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    7 points
  26. Merry Christmas, y’all!
    7 points
  27. More on the Ukrainians retaking it. Putin was trying to use it as background leverage in the peace talks, like “you better give us what we want because we continue taking your land” and if this holds up, it’s going to be fucking huge in the coming weeks and months. Russian sources are widely confirming the loss of the terrorist army’s control over the city of Kupiansk a month after Putin claimed it was taken. A lengthy analytical piece was published by Rybar, awkwardly titled “Problems near Kupiansk”. The layout can be seen in the screenshot. Some Russian sources are even more blunt, while security-service-curated million-subscriber channels, on the contrary, are trying to tone down the negativity.
    7 points
  28. "Russia and we are like two boxers in the 12th round." - Biletskyi, commander of the 3rd Army Corps. He notes that for the first time, the Russian army is failing to replenish its losses - more soldiers are being knocked out than new ones are arriving. Furthermore, they face a catastrophic situation regarding weaponry, including armored vehicles, artillery systems, and other equipment. Footage of the destruction of a Russian assault column near Dobropillia by the 1st Separate Assault Regiment. The state of the equipment is worth noting: these no longer even resemble tanks - they are true Frankensteins, crudely welded together by their crews, only to be dismantled piece by piece by FPV drones. A genuinely desperate army.
    7 points
  29. Our daughter and son-in-law flew down from Oregon Monday, and our son and daughter-in-law drove down from Waco today. This is our first Christmas with both kids here in four or five years, so it is wonderful to have the six of us under one roof, even if only for about 24 hours. Today my son-in-law and I smoked a brisket that's resting in the smoker right now. My daughter-in-law baked some cookies, made some treats, and brought potato salad. Tomorrow we guys will smoke some sausage and pork belly burnt ends, and we'll feast for lunch. I can't wait to eat! It's also the first Christmas since my dad died. It's really tough on my brothers and me, especially my youngest brother. We're getting through, but damn I miss that old fart. So this Christmas is a strange mixed feelings. Merry Christmas you wonderful assholes. I wish you all the very best.
    7 points
  30. Guess it’s a good thing we didn’t even try.
    7 points
  31. I didn't realize we'd finally tilted the modern W/L back in our favor. Satya giving the board a fun positive fact is the real Christmas miracle!
    6 points
  32. It’s my favorite time of year as a Cowboys fan. The time where we are eliminated from the playoffs and then win several in a row to completely fuck our draft position.
    6 points
  33. I know a real story close to this a guy that lived in the independent living place my mom lived in for a few months stopped and talked to me one day and was telling me about storming the beach at Normandy and some other things a few days later the maintenance guy was securing a new shelving unit to the wall that I had bought for my mom and it was near the end of the day so we were BSing for a bit and I was saying I need to talk to the one guy more and hear about things from him he told me that after landing at Normandy that guy's unit went all the way through France and into Germany and one day when pretty much everyone on both sides knew the war was over and that Germany was going to lose he that guy was in a trench with the Germans about 20 yards or less in their trench and something happened and he popped up out of the trench just as a German did both holding their rifles at the ready......and after a second or two the guy dropped his.....then the German guy dropped his and they both stared at each other for a few seconds then slowly climbed back down into their trenches and pulled their rifles back to them and went on about their day and the war ended not long after that I said to the maintenance guy you would have to have a really strong mindset after seeing the things at Normandy happening to those around you, then going through France, and here you are facing one of the ones on the other side of all that and you just decide "not today" and "no need for another senseless killing" when the war was all but done he said after the war the guy became a driver for a general that was high up in the reconstruction of Europe and he drove all around Europe in a Jeep and saw a ton of historical stuff and places most people hardly know of I always remembered him too because he was 94 and pretty much all still there and about once a month a whole gaggle of hot women that were daughters (probably a tad bit older than me) and grand daughters (a little younger than me) would come in to visit him and a few great grand daughters would roll in too and occasionally a great grandson.....hell I think there might have even been some great great grand kids too....I thought that guy has lived a hell of a life
    6 points
  34. Fuck Merrick Garland that fascist enabling bag of dicks. He's like the Greg Davis of AG's, only lateral plays that go nowhere
    6 points
  35. 71 years ago when my family was stationed at Fort Brooke in San Juan, Puerto Rico, my brother & I served as altar boys for the Catholic chaplain in the military hospital chapel. Lots of recovering wounded from the Korean War attended the Mass services, some of them pretty bad off but came in wheelchairs and even on gurneys. Lots of emotions were on display from the soldiers - no telling what horrors many of them experienced while serving in that far away combat. My last Midnight Mass serving there was a bit difficult ……..I was very tired and not feeling too good. When the chaplain priest lit my incense burner and I started swinging it back & forth, the smoke overwhelmed me and I fainted. Lol Caused quite a stir. I don’t remember if I recovered enough to finish serving the Mass that night.
    6 points
  36. ET was such a bad ass. Completely robbed of the Thorpe.
    5 points
  37. I hope history treats him like an epic spineless bitch.
    5 points
  38. Anytime you see him try to talk to a kid you can tell immediately he never once talked to his own, which is why they’re all shitty assholes as well.
    5 points
  39. NEW YORK (AP) — A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. As of last Friday, the building's facade reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. According to the White House, the president's handpicked board approved the decision, which scholars have said violates the law. Trump had been suggesting for months he was open to changing the center's name. WATCH: Kennedy Center renaming highlights Trump's reshaping of Washington in his image "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert," Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player who has toured with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Brown, has been presiding over holiday "Jazz Jams" at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William "Keter" Betts. The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to email seeking comment. The center's website lists the show as canceled. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to him. Kennedy niece Kerry Kennedy has vowed to remove Trump's name from the building once he leaves office and former House historian Ray Smock is among those who say any changes would have to be approved by Congress. The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person's name on the building's exterior. Trump, a Republican, has been deeply involved with the center named for an iconic Democrat after mostly ignoring it during his first term. He has forced out its leadership, overhauled the board while arranging for himself to head it, and personally hosted this year's Kennedy Center honors, breaking a long tradition of presidents mostly serving as spectators. The changes at the Kennedy Center are part of the president's larger mission to fight "woke" culture at federal cultural institutions. Numerous artists have called off Kennedy Center performances since Trump returned to office, including Issa Rae and Peter Wolf. Lin-Manuel Miranda canceled a planned production of "Hamilton."
    5 points
  40. This is the first Christmas at least some of us have gotten together since my dad passed 2 years ago. He was HUGE into Christmas (HE made the magic, not our mom), and the last time we were all together was the Christmas before he died. It's weird....his presence looms while we don't know how to relate to our mom, who completely disassociated afterwards. But - she's our only remaining parent. So we have to try. Older sister and her family didn't come, but it's okay. Christmas isn't the same. But my godpup is cute. 💙
    5 points
  41. Spending Christmas at home alone this year, by choice; first time since Mom passed a decade ago that I've not traveled to London to spend it with my sister and her family, except Covid year, but I'll be over there in February. We'll do a video call present opening at some unholy hour of the morning here, my sister and niece will get mad at each other over some trifle, and my brother-in-law and I will pour ourselves some more nog, boosted with extra festivity. So, pretty much like being there! Following that, will be making Christmas breakfast/brunch, or at least some of it, as is family tradition, then watching football, perhaps with more festive nog. Cannot complain. To all of you strangers from a strange land that I still somehow feel I know in a way - Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
    5 points
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