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First Grievance
It's December 23rd, the day of Festivus, and not one thread before this!:mad:
Alas, I have come to the rescue. It's a Festivus miracle!
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First Grievance
It's December 23rd, the day of Festivus, and not one thread before this!:mad:
Alas, I have come to the rescue. It's a Festivus miracle!
I find tinsel distracting.
The girl in the cubical next to me. Just went on a soapbox about how she doesn't eat refined flour, but has been eating xmas cookies all fucking morning. Want. To. Face punch.
I love lamp
I know what Ice is gonna be upset about...Quote:
Originally Posted by soups818
Are you just looking at things and saying you love them or do you really love lamp?Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows down upon him, I realized there had to be another way...
"You, Kruger. My son tells me your company stinks! You couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe.. I lost my train of thought."
You people remind me of highschool sometimes.
Wait, did I miss the feats of strength?
Yeah, get all of this other bullshit out of here, this is the Festivus thread. The feats of strength are scheduled for tonight in Silver Fork, BCC, Ice. The maul is ready and waiting.
Could wemove feats of strength to my backyard? I've got a pile of wood needs split and stacked.
Yeah, me too, and a driveway with a foot of graupel on it that needs to be shoveled. The winner gets to ignite the gasoline doused bonfire with a roman candle.
Bump for Festivus miracles and grievances. 2016 grievances should start early but I haven't even got my aluminum pole up yet. I guess that's my feat of strength; lucky it's light.
Old grievance, Pio:
Not an actual native Idahoan, but tried to assimilate by dropping "to be" from the language. Couldn't even be bothered to say "needs stacking" Pio? I can't member, do they skip Hamlet in Boise or does he just say "Or not? That is the question."?Quote:
I've got a pile of wood needs split and stacked.
And don't act like you aren't reading this while you sit around thinking how many Republicans you could fit in a lightly totaled Pilot to go sign up for a special election.
Also cancer. Fuck that fucking shit. Seriously messes with the ability to sort grievances.
Not only is aluminum light, it's also strong!Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
And on the way Idahoans speak, I think the sort of phrase you mean is "needs stacked". I wonder if the people who do this realize how absurd it sounds? Of course, I live in a place within this great state whose primary source of civic pride comes from the pronunciation of the name. Fortunately, much like aluminum's fabled strength to weight ratio, Idaho has a favorable empty land to humans ratio.
That's an Idaho thing? I thought it was from somewhere on the east coast
Grievance: this suggestion is crazy. There may be dumb accents, but we use all the words.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Additional grievance: why drive a giant RWD pickup in the winter in Alaska? I got a lot of problems with you.
Yinz up in Pittsburgh don't use all the words (I guess you're not in Pittsburgh, so it must be other yinz). I hear it from friends from Buffalo, too, and a few other places.Quote:
Originally Posted by flyman683
(I'm not sure if, technically, Pittsburgh counts as East Coast, since Pennsylvania doesn't have any Atlantic coastline, but it's definitely an eastern state)
Here's an article from the Boston Globe that discusses the weird "x needs blank" construction: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglob...awn_needs_cut/
Further grievance: the Boston Globe's standards need raising. (And something about my lawn.)
Solid observation. I have no grievances with Idaho.Quote:
Originally Posted by idahospud
Eastern Pennsylvania counts as east coast. Western Pennsyltucky, fuck no.
I left pennsyltucky out of my original post actually, because they do leave words out, but as you say - that is a whole different place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
New grievance: Yinzers, sixburgh, steel city beer (or whatever the swill is), etc. Also, the equating of the western frontier of pennsyltucky with Pennsylvania proper.
Grievance: people who pick and choose what counts as "part of their state".
Anything outside LA is not California. Same for San Francisco too.
Oregon is Portland and the rest is a bunch of backwoods cousin lovers.
New York is the city and that's it. The rest of it is Canada for all they know.
Anything south of the Dan Ryan is not Illinois. That's Kentucky or something.
No, no, that's the catch: people here tend not to use some of the words!Quote:
Originally Posted by flyman683
I think abraham is right, though, it's an everywhere thing. But, I'm a nerd and have looked into it, and SW Idaho is actually a notable pocket of people who do this.
edit: somehow missed Captain Awesome's post. Still sounds strange to my Vermonter ears. They must need fixed.
Where me fookin gifts?
I want those things
Santa knows who was naughty and who was nice. Nice people get presents. Apparently you were naughty.Quote:
Originally Posted by digitaldeath
Wow. You were fighting the good fight almost four years before Concrete Jungle threw down the gauntlet to start the upstate thread. Thank you for your support, sirQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Happy Festivus! Some unadorned strength to weight ratio to brighten your holiday spirit.
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The pole usually goes somewhere central, but I didn't want to mount the clock in a new spot. Apparently we've been negligent in not bagging it up in past years, for which I expect a grievance. Maybe for the bag pattern, too. And I'm already aggrieved about it.
Ullr! My son tells me your snow making stinks! You couldn't lay down a blanket if you had a hot date with a babe.
I lost my train of thought.
Happy Festivus! May your miracles be ironic, your strength adequate, your clocks forgotten, and your grievances petty.
We were tidying my Moms apartment last week and putting up her X-Mas tree as a surprise before my Mom came home after 3 weeks in a rehab center. My wife found a list of petty grievances my mom wrote about my wife on the kitchen counter. Hilarity did not ensue afterwards.
Is your Mom cleared for Feats of Strength ? It’s the only way to settle this.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
If your mom wrote down the grievances as a way to vent instead of sharing them with your wife, I'd call that a win.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Writing down our grievances instead of airing them to the person you're complaining about sounds like something I should try. Actually, we have a thread for that, actually a whole forum, don't we.
No she isn't so these grievances will have to be settled next X-mas. Thats a long time of unsettledness.Quote:
Originally Posted by singlecross
I do not feel this a win in any remote, hopeful kind of way. And the wife pocketed the list and won't tell me what she is going to do with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Probably a tech/developer type and talking about- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python)Quote:
Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn
Have you thought about live streaming your xmas dinner?