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Super Bad is definately on my list of movies.

nurul, you want some cheese with that whine? I personally love my wife and kids and wouldn't want to take out my frustrations on them when there are perfectly good people such as you to take it out on.

I don't drink. Go and bash another middle eastern country in the name of freedom (oh and oil). See you, wouldn't wanna be yer!!

Okay, this question is really just to bump the thread...we can't let it die!!!

Topic for discussion: who is currently dreading their Thanksgiving plans?? As in who has to visit (or be visited by) the most dysfunctional family members?

(I realize this is an American holiday only, but perhaps some of you in other countries are already cringing whilst thinking of Christmas.... and before anyone calls me intolerant or insensitive or something, you can pick any winter holiday of your choosing)

I, for one, have to attend the Dysfunctional Family Redneck Extraganza which will require copious amounts of alcohol to endure (consumed on the one hour drive there -- pretending we don't drink is all part of the holiday fun ;) ). My only comfort is that these people are not related to me by blood....

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends...enjoy ponying up for gas this week!

Okay, this question is really just to bump the thread...we can't let it die!!!

Topic for discussion: who is currently dreading their Thanksgiving plans?? As in who has to visit (or be visited by) the most dysfunctional family members?

(I realize this is an American holiday only, but perhaps some of you in other countries are already cringing whilst thinking of Christmas.... and before anyone calls me intolerant or insensitive or something, you can pick any winter holiday of your choosing)

I, for one, have to attend the Dysfunctional Family Redneck Extraganza which will require copious amounts of alcohol to endure (consumed on the one hour drive there -- pretending we don't drink is all part of the holiday fun ;) ). My only comfort is that these people are not related to me by blood....

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends...enjoy ponying up for gas this week!I think its possible you may be in denial about being a redneck. It s very common for rednecks to think they're the only ones who are not a redneck amongst their redneck friends. Jeff Foxworthy of course has come up with a long self-questionaire that can help anyone determine their redneckedness.

According to him, you might be a redneck if:

> You mowed the front lawn and found three cars
> You think safe sex is a padded headboard
> Your huntin dawg had a litter of puupies in the living room and nobody noticed
> Your house still has the "WIDE LOAD" sign on the back
> Your sister is the third generation of women in your family to conceive as a result of an alien abduction
> You think Genitalia is an Italian airline
> If you can burp and say your name at the same time
> You think the last words to the Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines"
> You've got more than one relative named Darryl.
> If you've ever had to scratch your sister's name out of a message that begins "For a good time call...."
> You take a load to the dump and bring back more than you took.
> That billboard that says "Say No To Crack" reminds you to pull up your jeans
> You go to your family reunions looking for a date
> Your senior prom had a daycare
> You've got more than three cousins named "Bubba"
> You've ever come home and found crime scene tape across your front porch

And there are many more here:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~tzuleger/webjokes/red/rednecks.shtml

Though they seem to be focussed entirely/predominately on male rednecks.

As for Thanksgiving, I'm lucky to be able to spend it with friends rather than family.

Topic for discussion: who is currently dreading their Thanksgiving plans?? As in who has to visit (or be visited by) the most dysfunctional family members?

Half my extended family is currently at war with the other half. The end result is that get togethers are small and not much of a problem.

What I am dreading is the time between Thanksgiving and X-mas. It is the worst time of the year. Traffic is a joke. Every grandma and grandpa that never drives drives at any other time of tthe year is out on the roads. You cannot go into any store without being assaulted by sicky sweet X-mas music. Even gas stations play that crap on their outdoor speakers. The crass consumeriasm is depressing. The only good thing is that It's a Wonderful Life is now old enough that every TV station is not playing it all the time.

Half my extended family is currently at war with the other half. The end result is that get togethers are small and not much of a problem.

What I am dreading is the time between Thanksgiving and X-mas. It is the worst time of the year. Traffic is a joke. Every grandma and grandpa that never drives drives at any other time of tthe year is out on the roads. You cannot go into any store without being assaulted by sicky sweet X-mas music. Even gas stations play that crap on their outdoor speakers. The crass consumeriasm is depressing. The only good thing is that It's a Wonderful Life is now old enough that every TV station is not playing it all the time.


My guess,you are not gonna be ringing a bell outside a department store and don't worry about sending me a card your joyous spirit has already enveloped and filled me. :)

I think its possible you may be in denial about being a redneck. It s very common for rednecks to think they're the only ones who are not a redneck amongst their redneck friends. .
LOL...I use three and four-syllable words...like ubiquitous, for instance...not that anyone understands me. And I haven't had my driver's license suspended yet, so I think I'm okay. :p

As for female rednecks...if your work uniform doesn't have a top....you might be a redneck :D .

Half my extended family is currently at war with the other half. The end result is that get togethers are small and not much of a problem.

What I am dreading is the time between Thanksgiving and X-mas. It is the worst time of the year. Traffic is a joke. Every grandma and grandpa that never drives drives at any other time of tthe year is out on the roads. You cannot go into any store without being assaulted by sicky sweet X-mas music. Even gas stations play that crap on their outdoor speakers. The crass consumeriasm is depressing. The only good thing is that It's a Wonderful Life is now old enough that every TV station is not playing it all the time.
Wow, Bro, I'm all choked up....I never knew you were so sentimental. Now whenever I hear the song "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" I will think of you...:p

No, they don't play It's A Wonderful Life nonstop, they've moved on to A Christmas Story, that hilarious movie about Ralphie and his BB gun. But it's on so much it's kinda ruining it now.

Hey, I have an idea...if crass consumerism depresses you, maybe you could try celebrating Christmas this year....at....church! :eek: :D

The depressing thing - and it is depressing - is going in to a shopping centre (mall).
Practically every shop is playing Christmas music........christmas decorations are all up........and it's 20th November!
Worse still, it's been this way since 25th October!

And you've got some bollocks like Andy Williams warbling on about how it's a wonderful time of the year!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people celebrating Christmas....just not in October or November.

Rant over.

I've been too busy working and training to notice any of this stuff. :)

When my wife shops I am usually cycling on a rural road with no shopping centers remotely close. Just like I will hopefully be doing this "black friday." When all the nutcakes are working their way into the metro area I will be going away from it and looking for a nice quiet place to bike with my friends.

Wonder what I should tell my wife to get for my gift?
Maybe some winter bib tights and a wool baselayer shirt. :)

The depressing thing - and it is depressing - is going in to a shopping centre (mall).
Practically every shop is playing Christmas music........christmas decorations are all up........and it's 20th November!
Worse still, it's been this way since 25th October!

And you've got some bollocks like Andy Williams warbling on about how it's a wonderful time of the year!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people celebrating Christmas....just not in October or November.

Rant over.There is no greater torture than rushing around at the last minute to complete procrastinated Christmas shopping and having to listen to Andy Williams, or the like, crooning in your eardrums (It's a Jolly-Wolly Christmas.....). Its no wonder the suicide rate peaks around December 25th.

I think, three days of shopping before Christmas, they should switch the mall soundtrack to Led Zeppelin, Midnight Oil, ACDC, or something else to bang your head against.

Hey, I have an idea...if crass consumerism depresses you, maybe you could try celebrating Christmas this year....at....church! :eek: :D
The churchgoers are the worst of the lot. Let's celebrate the birth of Jesus by buying lots of crap made in China? I don't get it. If I could finda church that swore off buying anything in December, I might join. If nothing else it would be fun picketing stores and calling for boycotts of retailers that dared advertise during Jesus month. If the religion grew large enough, we could put Hickory Farms out of business.

The depressing thing - and it is depressing - is going in to a shopping centre (mall).
Practically every shop is playing Christmas music........christmas decorations are all up........and it's 20th November!
Worse still, it's been this way since 25th October!
I think it starts earlier every year. And this year retailers are scared the housing collapse will dampen sales, so they are pimping their goods even harder than usual. It seems like half the online stores I have ever bought from are sending me spam at two or three day intervals.

It is like half the economy is built on holidays that were created with the express purpose of convincing people to buy gifts. There is now a solid block of retail advertising from Halloween to Thanksgiving to X-mas to Valentines Day. Gve it another decade or so and society will be in a permanent state of holiday buying.

There is no greater torture than...having to listen to Andy Williams, or the like, crooning in your eardrums (It's a Jolly-Wolly Christmas.....). Its no wonder the suicide rate peaks around December 25th.
I once made a mistake of taking a cruise during X-mas. There was X-mas music played in hallways and other public areas of the ship twenty-four hours a day for the whole week. I spent most of the time wishing we would hit an iceberg.

The depressing thing - and it is depressing - is going in to a shopping centre (mall).
Practically every shop is playing Christmas music........christmas decorations are all up........and it's 20th November!
Worse still, it's been this way since 25th October!

And you've got some bollocks like Andy Williams warbling on about how it's a wonderful time of the year!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people celebrating Christmas....just not in October or November.

Rant over.Lim, relax...I was being sarcastic about the Andy Williams song...I rank it with It's A Small World After All. Once I hear it I am STUCK with it in my head forever...

And NONE of you people got nothin' on me! You're MEN!!!! Most of you get to do a quickie shopping trip a day or two before Christmas...cry me a river! :rolleyes: Try being both Santa and Mrs. Claus responsible for 90% of gift giving, wrapping, decorating, tradition keeping, cooking, baking, sending Christmas cards, throwing parties, driving drunks home from parties, blah, blah, blah....

I promise you that I hate Christmas more than all of you rolled together! :p

(Great Christmas movie for this group: About A Boy with Hugh Grant where his torture is that his dad wrote a famous song like Holly Jolly Christmas)

I've been too busy working and training to notice any of this stuff. :)

When my wife shops I am usually cycling on a rural road with no shopping centers remotely close. Just like I will hopefully be doing this "black friday." When all the nutcakes are working their way into the metro area I will be going away from it and looking for a nice quiet place to bike with my friends.

Wonder what I should tell my wife to get for my gift?
Maybe some winter bib tights and a wool baselayer shirt. :)
I rest my case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The churchgoers are the worst of the lot. Let's celebrate the birth of Jesus by buying lots of crap made in China? I don't get it. If I could finda church that swore off buying anything in December, I might join. If nothing else it would be fun picketing stores and calling for boycotts of retailers that dared advertise during Jesus month. If the religion grew large enough, we could put Hickory Farms out of business.
You know, I'm starting to think you're just cheap...:p

Lim, relax...I was being sarcastic about the Andy Williams song...I rank it with It's A Small World After All. Once I hear it I am STUCK with it in my head forever...

And NONE of you people got nothin' on me! You're MEN!!!! Most of you get to do a quickie shopping trip a day or two before Christmas...cry me a river! :rolleyes: Try being both Santa and Mrs. Claus responsible for 90% of gift giving, wrapping, decorating, tradition keeping, cooking, baking, sending Christmas cards, throwing parties, driving drunks home from parties, blah, blah, blah....

I promise you that I hate Christmas more than all of you rolled together! :p

(Great Christmas movie for this group: About A Boy with Hugh Grant where his torture is that his dad wrote a famous song like Holly Jolly Christmas)

Hey, I like Andy Williams.
He's got a nice voice and he's easy to listen to.

What I can't stand is having to listen to AW from October - December.

Speaking of music : over here we had a TV programme in the 1980's called MT (Music Television) USA.
Starting in 1982, this programme was way before it's time and it featured an Irish DJ in New York introducing US video music over here.
It was ahead of it's time - predated MTV.

We were fed a diet of ZZ Top, Dennis D Young (Desert Moon!), Foreigner,
Toto, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael McDonald, Jacko, Prince, Kim Carnes,
Whitney, Pat bennatar, van Halen, Pointer Sisters, Chicago etc.
fair bit of dead wood in there - but some good stuff as well.
Great programme - 4 hours every Sunday.
Programme finished 1987/88 time, as MTV etc started to make inroads over here.

This month : they're releasing a CD/DVD of all that music and I'm told it's going straight to No 1 over here.
They're playing all that music now (nice break from Andy and Perry and all their X-Mas songs).

And as for X-Mas, I do enjoy it : the St.Stephens Day (26th Dec) spin with my old clubmates is always good fun.
50 mile spin - then it's off to the pub for a few swift ones and to slag each other off.

I've been too busy working and training to notice any of this stuff. :)

When my wife shops I am usually cycling on a rural road with no shopping centers remotely close. Just like I will hopefully be doing this "black friday." When all the nutcakes are working their way into the metro area I will be going away from it and looking for a nice quiet place to bike with my friends.

Wonder what I should tell my wife to get for my gift?
Maybe some winter bib tights and a wool baselayer shirt. :)

Sensible man - getting the miles in when everyone else is bumper to bumper, with their bp rising by the minute.

I actaully like X-Mas.
Over here we go on holiday for the best part of two weeks.
Plenty of time for getting a spin in.

Enjoyt those miles FR.

Speaking of music : over here we had a TV programme in the 1980's called MT (Music Television) USA.
Starting in 1982, this programme was way before it's time and it featured an Irish DJ in New York introducing US video music over here.
It was ahead of it's time - predated MTV.

We were fed a diet of ZZ Top, Dennis D Young (Desert Moon!), Foreigner,
Toto, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael McDonald, Jacko, Prince, Kim Carnes,
Whitney, Pat bennatar, van Halen, Pointer Sisters, Chicago etc.
fair bit of dead wood in there - but some good stuff as well.
Great programme - 4 hours every Sunday.
Programme finished 1987/88 time, as MTV etc started to make inroads over here.

This month : they're releasing a CD/DVD of all that music and I'm told it's going straight to No 1 over here.
They're playing all that music now (nice break from Andy and Perry and all their X-Mas songs).
Uh-oh. That just reminded me of something I hate even more than traditional X-mas music: rock bands that do X-mas covers. I guess the temptation is too great. They know the song will get guaranteed radio time (and money) every December for years to come.

It's bad enough when some radio stations switch to an all X-mas music format during December, but when you are listening to your normal radio stations and suddenly you have to deal with a band of sellouts singing about reindeer with red noses, it is almost too much to take.