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Post by Terra Incognita on Jun 27, 2020 1:33:42 GMT
You should have given thanks for that at the time.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jun 27, 2020 2:33:26 GMT
I was supposed to predict, as a kid, that commerciality would completely destroy our holidays? I'm not that fucking prescient.
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Post by Mare on Jun 27, 2020 6:15:41 GMT
I figure with the mail-in ballots, we may not even know who won the election by Thanksgiving, but I sincerely hope the orange clown is unceremoniously kicked out on his ass. An insightful woman I know and respect calls him the Orange Cheeto. I am sad for the Cheetos.
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Post by Mare on Jun 27, 2020 6:17:38 GMT
The trouble, Don, is that with the corporate whoredom that we live in, Thanksgiving has pretty much become pre-Christmas. I liked it better when the two holidays were distinct. And neither was spoken of until after Halloween. Halloween got its own space to be the Bawdy Free-For-All With Gusto Holiday that is can be.
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Post by donavan on Jul 3, 2020 18:57:20 GMT
I hate Halloween. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 8, 2020 3:17:27 GMT
Halloween in college was a lot of fun. That is because Ohio University has a famous Halloween weekend party, where the drinking begins Thursday afternoon and tapers off somewhere around 8 p.m. Sunday. I killed a lot of brain cells every Samhain.
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Post by Mare on Jul 8, 2020 3:53:57 GMT
I just like making my kids costumes. And the pie made from all the murdered pumpkins. Nommy nom nom.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 8, 2020 3:56:36 GMT
Those pumpkins weren't murdered. They were simply killed extrajudicially.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 30, 2020 1:40:00 GMT
As someone who works in retail, I can't wait for Thanksgiving to be here and gone. Black Plague Friday does not sound enticing.
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Post by Mare on Aug 30, 2020 18:11:22 GMT
I wonder if the CoVID-19 GPS patrol will be able to call all the people waiting in line with who ever brings the virus to the overnight lineup tent parties.
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Post by miles on Aug 30, 2020 18:58:37 GMT
I have a feeling that the state of the economy by then, will keep more people out of the mad rush. But never underestimate greed.
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Post by Mare on Sept 1, 2020 23:56:38 GMT
Those pumpkins weren't murdered. They were simply killed extrajudicially. Alright, how about raised specifically to be sacrificed?
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Post by Mare on Oct 24, 2020 19:30:22 GMT
I am waiting to hear from the local Sprouts Freezer Case Manager to see if my case of Tofurky Vegan Gravy has come in, yet. (I mean right here, right now waiting for his call.) It isn't as bad as it sounds-there are only eight 14 oz containers in a case and it is also non-GMO-It can live in the freezer until I need it as it had a distant expiration date last year on the one I got to try. It is on sale, too. When I went into the store earlier this week, I saw the fake turkey stuff freezer case and it was covered with sale tags and pretty cleaned out. I have hopes, but they aren't very big ones. I guess everyone is planning ahead for a stay at home dinner. Introvertigroo , you mentioned you might try to cook your own Turkey dinner...are you going to attempt that? I am thinking about your upcoming Black Friday experience-I would be terrified. I hope that your retail employer is sensible and outfits employees with medical grade protection and limits the amount of customers who enter. And provides vats of hand sanitizer, or even better-gloves. Thinking about preparing my first Turkey Day Dinner pretty much helped me make up my mind to be a Vegetarian long ago.
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Post by Mare on Oct 29, 2020 3:16:03 GMT
Still no sign of Vegan Gravy. My strength is waning...
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Post by donavan on Oct 29, 2020 7:05:21 GMT
Why do they make non meat products in the shape of meat products? If you don't want to eat meat then all good and well. So why would you want to pretend to eat it? Isn't not eating meat all about getting away from the whole meat eating culture?
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