For those of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope it was a good one. For those of you who don’t, I hope you had a good regular day like any other. (Except you are here!)
As OMWC mentioned this morning while playing Noel Hebe, it was an exceedingly quiet day. With the impending relocation, I didn’t even put any lights up or have a tree.
Oh, ok, go ahead and open your Christmas Night Open Post.
(I hope it fits…I just had to get it for you, it’s so you.)
Merry Christmas to everyone.
Seconded
^3
That looks gay or I look gay for noticing.
Yes
I vote gay cause Japan and stuff
Not having sex is Japan.
Then how did they get all those people?
They never die.
Japanese are vampires? Does Pie know?
Fourthed.
( V ) th’d.
Merry Christmas!
First?
Nope
You tried your hardest, that’s what really matters
Welcome, Tulpa.
I has been here like 2 years. I just doesn’t post alot cause i does busy with working. You know, Ted’s?
Fuck off!!!!!
Boom
Welcome!
Needz moar posts!!!
OK
You were this close.
I know I told you to fuck off,merry Christmas Raphael
A very Merry Christmas to you too, good sir. I offer you a fuck off in turn as my present to you.
First loser.
Bummer, my Stout has way too much alcohol in the back, but it gets you drunk I guess
It’s called Stout because it will either get you drunk or make you fat.
I’m going to regret my 4th glass of wine coming up but I need to polish off this box. It’s wayyyy past the “fresh for 30 days!” date.
Finally.
Sigh. https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1077708104328986624
You SFed the link by putting an extra quotation mark at the end.
And I could feed three people for less than ¥3100, although it wouldn’t be taking them out for lunch. (I’m a fucking cheapskate.)
At home? Gawd, I hope so.
Spelling pedant and code writer! Go Ted!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas
I really should use monocle on my phone.
Well…….
Ditto. I tried it the other day and it told me I needed some plug in that wasent available or not compatible or something.
He did the same thing twice already.
I’m not sure it’s just straff. I think it’s WordPress mangling the input. I’ve seen it happen to several posts of mine when trying to add a link thru a href.
I wonder if the trains will take off back in the States as well as they did in Japan. I for one would greatly enjoy that system. Also think of all the new train otakus it’ll make.
No, and no
The boondoggle to the boondocks.
FTFY:
https://imgur.com/a/hZwUytb
The little girl looks thirsty.
So, we had my mom, dad, & bro over from my side. Her side was her sis, bil, and their three of the greatest kids on this planet. I dont like kids, but I make an exception for these. They are the sweetest kids I’ve ever met.
It warms my heart to bring them all together. My mom lost her dad on Christmas some years back. My grandfather was a great guy and I miss him greatly. I know my mom suffers pain of loss around this holiday and finds some relief in distracting herself from those thoughts.
Yeah…I’m a bit into my bourbon. Cheers y’all.
Remember the good times brother
As if the holidays don’t fuck with people’s emotions enough and she has to deal with that too? Rough stuff.
Sorry about the grandfather, but glad you and the family had a pleasant Christmas. Cheers to you and to yours as well.
Sorry about your grandfather. I’m happy you and yours had a good time. Enjoy that bourbon!
Thanks guys
Sorry about your Grandpa. I lost mine years ago and still miss him. It’s great you could all get together and make new, happy memories! Merry Christmas.
Raises glass of rye; To grandpa’s everywhere, both here and gone.
Cheers to grandpas. Jack Kelly was a hell of a man.
Taught me how to swear, like an adult.
Sorry about your grandfather.
Today was going over to the sister’s place where the two boys were happy for once. Gave them several presents that were entertaining (including two games that were hits with the parents as well), saw a cousin I haven’t seen in several years, and then went to ((hell)) waiting 30 minutes for a table in a Chinese restaurant that had a limited menu, ran out of several of those menu items, had no clean silverware, and gave us frozen pot stickers (as in they were still frozen in the middle).
No Peking duck?
Not even on the limited menu. If it was, it would have probably been a hate bird (the bird that hates) and just let loose in the restaurant. I was already feeling singled out as one of the only people wearing a Christmas sweater there… although there was a guy wearing a Make Hanukkah Great again sweater with a picture of Trump on it.
Haha! No shit? That is…I don’t know what that is other than hilarious.
No shit. I did a triple take, especially as it’s in a leftist suburb of Cleveland. Blue and silver. If it wasn’t this one it was close to it.
You can get ready for next year…
Which town?
When I was a kid, we’d go to a Chinese joint in Cleveland every Christmas season. It was called Chung Wah. I think it’s closed now. But it was literally the place from “A Christmas Story”.
Oh right the house is there. I’ve never seen the movie.
Beachwood on the East side. The restaurant I had to go to today was Ho Wah, and it appears that the place from the movie was not in Cleveland.
Whatever channel that is that plays A Christmas Story nonstop around this time, my dad leaves it on all day long. He cracks up especially hard at the part where the Chinese guys try to sing Christmas carols. And he’s Japanese.
My parents and brother just left a few minutes ago. I had a good time with them. I don’t know why but I’ve all of sudden got a bunch of anxiety over . . nothing really. Just a small bout of anxiety for no reason over nothing. Oh well, i should pass fast.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Mah dude, just listen to this and chill.
You too blc, chill with a beer in the fog, it might rUn again,
Or rain
beer is the proper answer
It’s all good man. Probably just a little pang of anxiety from missing them already. Think happy thoughts. Go watch a lifetime movie.
Merry Christmas!
I don’t know about a lifetime movie, but I agree with the rest of MikeS’s comment.
Lifetime movies are only when I’m hungover
Ahhh. Good, you have standards. ?
I do , but they aren’t really that high, Have you seen who I associate with on the internet?
Touché!
Glad to hear you had a good time with the family. Like the others said, enjoy a good beer. Cheers and thanks!
A lot of links to good Christmas music here the past week or two; including Pie’s nice Romanian tunes post.
So, how about a subthread for your most hated Christmas songs? I’m thinking of the ones that get a lot of play for some %^&$% reason and make your skin crawl everytime you hear even a few seconds of them. I can only think of two (thankfully) right now. They are:
1. Wonderful Christmastime – Paul McCartney
2. Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano
(I included the links in case you want to abandon the NAP and use them to torture people.)
Easy. John Lennon’s “So this is Christmas.” Yoko’s Voice in that…*shudder*
Yoko’s voice in anything . . . shudder
Nails on a chalkboard level stuff.
John did a couple albums with Yoko in the late 60s they are for people who thought that Revolution 9 needed to be longer with more Yoko. strangely the cds have long been out of print.
If you wanted to get a successful interrogation session out of me in Guantanamo, this is how you would do it.
What do you mean? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swG6Rry9Tss
That’s just evil. What did I ever do to you?
For Waterfall.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kgu71d81U
I bet that was exactly how a teenage John dreamed playing with his hero would go.
Holy shit, I don’t know if that was called for.
*shudders*
Straff nailed it.
Handel’s Messiah. Too fucking many covers.
Point of order- only Part 1 is meant to represent the birth the Christ. The other 2 parts are the crucifixion and ascension.
Those 2 fit my list, god I hate them
Merry Christmas
I2nd wonderful Christmas time. I’m a big Paul McCartney fan but that song is the essence of why there are people who hate him.
Local radio decided to play the more depressing songs from The Carpenters on Christmas night. I almost wanted to throw my radio out the window. As for Christmas songs, I don’t like Happy Xmas (War is Over) but tbf that was because the local radio played that every night since last week. Fitting as all hell, but please pick some other song.
I second “Feliz Navidad” with violent agreement.
Also, Straff’s pick, “So This is Christmas”
Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”
Off the top of my head.
That avatar. ?.
It’s way outdated. I’mma change back to my 50yo face tomorrow.
Gentlemen prefer blondes.
*lights the Ted signal*
I’ve been a strawberry blonde most of my life. My hair in that pic was wet. Now it’s going white and in the right light, it just looks like blonde highlights.
“I’ve been a strawberry blonde most of my life.”
HAWT
I like your other, more current avatar.
What the dear Count said.
Better? 🙂
?
“I’ve been a strawberry blonde most of my life.”
HAWT
Agreed on the Hawt. Not only is my wife of 23 years a strawberry blonde, so were the great majority of girls I dated in my life. I guess it’s my biologically programmed phenotype 🙂
But gentlemen marry brunettes.
Admittedly he turned into a political shithead, but Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” is a great cover.
I have a fabulous stuffed teddy bear wearing a Santa hat and scarf that is meant to play Feliz Navidad when his foot is squeezed.
I use him to illustrate how terrible Chinese circuit design is by rubbing a plastic hotel key card on my hair and placing it by his foot.
He immediately sings Feliz Navidad.
Students, colleagues remember that way longer than they remember the equations and theory.
I’ll admit, that’d definitely make me remember those concepts a lot more effectively.
Even better is when I invite a kid to do it at a STEM outreach event.
Oh fuck.
I actually care about people.
(Hands in gun, badge, and Glibs card)
For shame, absolutely for shame. For real though, that’s pretty cool. I didn’t get to experience many STEM outreach events growing up, so stuff like that has gotta be cool and fun for the kids.
Madonna’s version of Santa baby. Thankfully it isn’t as popular where I live now as where I grew up.
Well, Madonna can’t sing.
I do like the Eartha Kitt Santa Baby, though. No reason to ever cover it after that version, plus the lyrics made more sense for the time she recorded it (eg asking for a ’54 convertible).
I like Feliz Navidad. It’s not great, but it certainly isn’t the worse.
As far as the old stuff, I thought Neil Diamond’s Christmas music was pretty bad.
Mele Kalikimaka — ugh
Agreed.
Damn, yes that is correct. Between that and Iz singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” you can’t go to a store in this state after Halloween. Fuck both those screeds.
lol. My husband and I have heard that Iz cover so many times as relative’s funerals of late, I now tease him that I’m playing it at his funeral (he despises it).
His retaliation is that our son will play “feliz navidad” at mine So you know where i stand on that song, too (this is what happens when you grow up in NM)
On Eagle’s Wings.
spent the last two months doing christmas music, I hate it all now.
Polished off a nice Hess Select Cab, prime rib, stuffed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, creamed spinach and pineapple cheesecake for dessert.
Now going to watch Marilyn Monroe falling out of her dress in “Some Like It Hot” on TCM. Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight.
Ooh enjoy, Marilyn Monroe was a total knockout there. Feast well and Merry Christmas to you too.
I love that movie.
Nobody’s perfect.
Hopefully Trump will come to his senses in 2019 and the US will go back to arming ISIS.
The Ghosts of Warboners Past, Present, and Future wish the same.
Tough call does that make McCain or HW Jacob Marley.
You have some reading to do. See Sugar Free’s 5 part Christmas story last week.
I must have missed that when I was at work
Terrible excuse. When you get a moment, go back and read them all from Mon thru Fri. Really excellent.
I found them.
Merry Christmas to all you Glibs! Thanks for another year of great articles, comments, and links.
Merry Christmas!
Welcome back Smilin’ Joe! Haven’t seen you around recently. Hope things are going well for you.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too. Hope you’re having a great one.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas
You ain’t kidding.
Best internet space evah.
Greetings fellow travelers. I hope the day has treated you well.
Greetings Kinnath, hope you have feasted and that the day has been good to you as well.
And you!
I’m dropping off for the night. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, deg.
Now I say I say, a very Merry Christmas to you too.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
As my daughter has been saying all day:
Meeeee mismas!!
Merry Christmas, Deg!
Watched two comedy specials today on netflix. First was Ellen DeGeneres, second was Steve Martin and Martin Short.
If that wasn’t a clear cut example of old school comedy versus modern “comedy”, I don’t know what is.
Ellen had a couple of funny lines, but mostly it was a circle jerk for fangirls with a topping of preachiness. The biggest cheers came during the preaching, and so much was about how she was a victim.
Steve Martin and Martin Short were a polished duo who had me laughing from start to finish. Mostly avoided social issues, and where they didn’t, it wasn’t preachy. Genuinely funny.
Way to embrace the toxic masculinity, shitlord.
*directs Twitter mob to Trashy*
I always enjoyed stuff with Steve Martin and Martin Short.
*unashamedly loved The Three Amigos*
Ellen DeGeneres stand up used to be good.
There were a couple of hints of comedic timing. It felt like a panel at a sci-fi convention more than a stand up act.
Yes, Ellen DeGeneres was actually a good standup comic in the 1980s. She was even rather cute back then, long before there was any hint of her sexual preference.
I never saw her stuff from the 80s, but I watched her show in 90s, and when they did the whole ‘reveal’ that her character (her) was gay it was like ‘no shit.’ Then the show went downhill because everything was about how gay she was. I mean it annoys me to when shows are only focused on who straight people are fucking, life is more than sex; and sitcom life should be more wacky shenanigans than anything else.
Been a good day. Built legos with the boy this morning and spent the afternoon fine tuning a water rocket.
Merry Christmas https://imgur.com/a/JTcQROl
What a beautiful family.
Thanks. I’m proud of em.
Darn good looking family you have there, Lach. Merry Christmas!
Nice beautiful family, man. Merry Christmas and good health to you and the kin.
wait till you step on them in the middle of the night…..
Looking good! Merry Christmas!!
So who unwrapped the baby?
Merry Christmas man.
Your daughter is adorable.
Kids https://imgur.com/gallery/qFXlYK7
I like her
I think I said it before, but I dont even like kids. You managed to put together a decent set.
#MeltShopLyfe
I dont much care for other people’s kids. Mine are great, other people’s…
^^^^This.
I don’t mind holding a random baby for about 5 minutes every so often.
Merry Christmas!
I know it’s Christmas but has everyone forgotten the 30th anniversary of the Nakatomi Plaza bombing?
https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/joblo-celebrates-die-hard-s-30th-anniversary-at-nakatomi-plaza-129
Yippee kai yay, motherfucker
You know that’s right.
/psych Buster
Never Forget. Also God Bless John McClane.
Hey Mojeaux, I was just catching up and reading about your daughter/guitar situation. Instead of all the positive comments, I’ll just mention that some people never grow out of the ungratefulness. Today, My 37 year old brother got a package of socks for Christmas. His only reaction was “I asked for 12 pairs, not six.” This happens every year over something. No tact, no class, but at least you know if he likes it or not. My poor parents try so hard to.
That is what we are trying to avoid with her, to teach her to appreciate what she’s got and be gracious about what she’s given. I am terrified the lessons will never take.
At 17 our son gave no indication whatever that he would become a useful human being. We figured we’d failed as parents. At around 18 or 19 there was a complete change. Turns out there was a responsible adult in there waiting to get out. We couldn’t tell, but he was watching and learning from us the whole time. Damned if he’d admit it though.
One day you will be talking to a teacher and the teacher will remark “what a thoughtful and well mannered daughter you have”. Today, maybe things are a little rough but today I got a great email thank you from my son. I remember teachers/neighbors/friends saying nice things about this kid even as he was being suspended from school for streaking bareass down the hall a week before graduation.
Our kids will surprise us, they are learning from us, just as we have learned from our parents. .I know its hard not to worry but one day you will be beaming with pride and your daughter will give you a quick smile, as to say “I told you so”
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” MARK TWAIN
My daughter didn’t turn into a real person until she was about 24 and had a pair of her own kids.
15 yo sons are hard. 15 yo daughters are a nightmare. It gets better.
Squirrels may cause a repost, but anyways: Seconded this. My dearest sister and mother fought each other from when she was 13-14 all the way till she was in her mid twenties with 2 kids in tow. I hope and pray for Mrs. Mojeaux and her daughter it won’t take that long/be that brutal, but people can change. God bless the both of them and her family.
Thank you, mikey, Fourscore, and kinnath. That does make me have some hope.
Keep in mind what is important. A healthy, educated, relatively well-adjusted young adult that will leave you and never come back because he/she succeeds in life. You cannot win every argument with a teenager. Pick the ones that are important. Compromise on the ones that aren’t. That’s actually an important lesson to teach them.
Imho, the important thing it isn’t a terrible buzzy guitar that no one could play right, and that the action and intonation are good enough for a beginner.
OMG. Is he mentally “normal”? I have a brother who isn’t so while he has had difficulty “getting” emotions even he wouldn’t be so crass.
While he has only been diagnosed with ADHD, not he really isn’t normal. Something doesn’t click right in his head. I would guess he’s on the spectrum somewhere.
All that being said, he actually has a heart of gold and is an amazing human in other ways . . just not tact.
FWIW. I was an absolutely terrible teenager. Drugs, crime, violent, jail, prison, etc. Just about as bad as one can get.
A few years on my own after I turned 18 and I straightened myself out and have been doing well with a good relationship with the parents ever since.
Aimed at mojeaux
Thanks. She’s a really good girl, but her constant “I want”s combined with her ingratitude is wearing.
Shipping myself off to Europe for a year at 16 did wonders for me. I got in a bit of trouble in my earlier teens (theft, mostly) and while I can’t say getting away changed me I can’t disprove it either.
her constant “I want”s combined with her ingratitude
Yeah, that’s hard.
I grew up in a tough love environment, so most of the entitlement was beaten out of me fairly early. My parents’ divorce took care of the rest of it.
Often the entitlement comes out of ignorance. If you don’t know the true value of money, you can’t understand the decisions your parents make. Even simple things like starting small and investing more as skills develop and time passes doesn’t make sense to a kid who is used to working on a 9 month school cycle and doesn’t know how to carry something (like a hobby) through for years at a time.
37… that’s sad.
Merry Christmas, shitlords! A quiet day here. Picked up the SIL from the airport this afternoon, pounded a couple of homemade pizzas with a bottle of old Cornas, and now…bourbon.
With the SIL here for several days, there will be day drinking on my part to get through it. Wish me luck!
Best of luck to ya! Getting my hubs and my wonderful brother together is the analogy to you and your SIL, sounds like!!
*clinks glasses with Hayek*
But am totally clinking glasses with you!
No wait—just re read that. First pass I thought you were saying you and your SIL were gonna tear it up and have a bunch o laughs.
Second read, sounds like you have to drink to cope with her visits.
Condolences.
Lol! She can try my patience. I tend to stay in the background, do the cooking, etc.
Everything is open tomorrow. Be sure to resupply. Good luck.
Best of luck to you and hope your liver forgives you.
Well, I’m supposed to work tomorrow (although I’m not quite sure how that will go without the work laptop), so I’m tapping out. Merry Christmas all of you magnificent bastards, and all of you Tulpas as well.
#metoo
Merry Christmas to all you wonderful people.
Night, Tulpa.
Ha!
Merry Christmas to you too, good night and good luck with work tomorrow.
Merry Christmas and have a good day tomorrow!
For those who might be curious, I have updated my Imgur album.
Same link.
I love effing with the Imgur Nazis.
I still like boobs
“I still like boobs”
Well, have some !
https://imgur.com/a/u8StyM0
Limited time only; I’ll delete the post when I’m completely sober 😉
Oh my God.
I surprised you clicked. Seeing how the other half lives? Lol.
Merry Christmas, Rhy
Of course I clicked. For research purposes, only.
Merry Xmas to you too!
Merry Christmas to you too.
The goddess lives! Merry Xmas to you as well Hayek. I am raising a glass of aged nog to you! SKOL!
Tonight’s line up will be “The Dude” followed by the Battle of the Bulge episodes from “Band of Brothers”
Here at Casa di Splosives, we’ve been watching a bunch of war machine documentaries (my influence) and listening to Steely Dan / Donald Fagan (the Mr).
Life is good.
Last night was sitting in the dark with a cognac listening to this on the stereo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8M8R835Ck4
All the best to you and Mr. di Splosives.
Yep, whiskey on the screen.
Na Zdorovie !
Sorry about the whiskey screen. 😉
Proof there is at least one libertarian woman.
Nice boobs, ma’am.
I see you too remember that Kavanaugh gem.
Look, I figure I’m 45. Not ever gonna get younger and prettier, and only one man is ever going to plant his face (or other appendages) between em, so I’ll share my endowments with you lot.
There are no complaints from here at all, ma’am. As I learned from The Producers, “If you got it, flaunt it.” As others have said, you are blessed and Mr. Hayeksplosives is a lucky man.
Yowza!
That’ll fuck with them, alright!
Excellent, thank you!
Merry Christmas! A bottle of cabernet and about half of a beef tenderloin later, my in-laws have left and I’ve switched to whisky.
This was a stressful visit (looooong story that involves my wife cutting all contact with her parents for several years after realizing how manipulative they were) but less so than expected. Overall, a good Christmas, hope everyone else had a good Christmas as well.
Oh my. Well, I hope all involved people adopt the Fuck off, Slaver mentality and enjoy/influence their own lives from now on.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and the missus. Cheers and I’ll have a glass of whiskey at the work party this Friday for you and everyone else here. Cheers, fellow Glib.
Merry Christmas!
Cutting off toxic relatives is incredibly freeing.
I like my family individually, but in a group I hate them. I’m on my second glass of wine (for the day and the visit). This makes me an alcoholic apparently. I get to go home tomorrow.
Half my face is still swollen and black, blue, yellow, and green. I’m a pill because I don’t want to go to the mall.
Oh FFS.
Hope the rest of your Christmas goes better and yeesh, why would anyone want to go to the mall on Christmas.
The mall is still a thing?
Beats me, I haven’t seen one in 3 years.
No.
We usually go day after Christmas. One time I refuse to go and it’s just a disaster – so selfish, blah blah blah. I haven’t suggested anyone else stay home. Just that I’m not going to go.
I’m ready to go home.
Patience. This will be over, and you will be free to live your life again.
It’ll be over soon, good luck and hang in there. I still wish and hope the best for you.
“Half my face is still swollen and black, blue, yellow, and green.”
Yikes, sorry 🙁
Second glass of wine?
*hugs Bota box*
Second glass of wine…for the trip…
I guess I am truly blessed. My family gets along famously and everyone who joins the family from the outside is welcomed with open arms. As for the booze, they all wait in anticipation to see what I’ve pulled from the cellar.
Good luck, Tulip! Next year, Florida.
Happy birthday, everybody!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday to you too!
Happy Birthday!
I get to “work” from home tomorrow. So does my wife. So, I’m thinking go for a run, run some errands, and then a nice stew with lamb shanks. Mostly pajamas and Netflix. Work from home, hehehehe…
Enjoy and have a great “work” from home day with the missus.
Fixed my 3rd annual Standing Rib Roast today. It is an official family tradition now.
Ooo sounds good.
I am simmering the last bit of extra juice off some Kashmiri Red Beef Stew right now.
Merry…Diwali??
Ha not with beef. That reminds me I miss the annual holiday office pot-luck. I work in IT so it was a sea of delicious chicken curries…
Hold on, that can’t be right.. I’ve read in some very reputable sources that the IT field is exclusively for white men.
The classic dish is Kashmiri Rogan Josh = Red Lamb Stew.
Not a big fan of lamb that hasn’t just been slaughtered in front of me (gets games), so I use beef.
I went to a cookout with some friends who are Indians from Fiji. They were grillings steaks. My wife was bold enough to ask about why they were eating steak, and they said “We’re not Indian. We’re Fiji Indians. Besides, we converted to Christianity long ago.”
I had no idea there were Indians in Fiji. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I expect to be vomiting by midnight. Stomach bug is going around my wife’s family and for some reason all the sick relatives felt it was important that they show up. Merry Christmas!
It’s one thing if you have a cold, but a stomach bug is an “all stop, no plans until healthy” situation, imo.
Yup especially when there are 3 new borns in the family.
OH god, those people are evil.
Sorry 🙁
Get well soon
Hope it doesn’t bite you too badly, and if it does may it be quick and gentle. Merry Christmas to you too, LJW.
Happy puking!
Seriously, norovirus is a nasty bug. I hope you get all get past it, especially the newborns.
My condolences. Keep the trash can close.
And stay hydrated.
With the birth of (a) lord, and after my three year old opens his dinosaurs and matchbox cars, my thoughts turn to firearms. I’ve been thinking about a decent .22 rifle and the Ruger 10/22 comes to mind. Is this the right thought? Synthetic or wood? And to complicate the matter I was told get a 20 gauge. A Remington 870? Where do I purchase said product? I know the Glibertariat is well versed in these ways. Please direct a low IQ glib in the right direction
I like my Marlin Model 60, but it’s old and I’ve heard they don’t make them with the same quality as they did.
A 22 LR is going to have almost no recoil. So the weight of having wood won’t make any difference. Although I find many synthetic stocks noisy. If I were to buy another Marlin, I would get it in laminated wood, which is the best of both — weather resistant with no annoying vibrations.
Why do you want a 20 gauge? What are you planning on shooting? A 20 gauge is easier to swing around for small birds or competitive trap/skeet. Although, a 12-gauge is way more versatile.
Remington 870 is a very popular gun, so almost any gun shop would carry it. You also might want to consider a Mossberg 500.
On the shotgun front, I bought a Mossberg 590. I love it. Any gun store will stock it or order it for you.
So I want a gun for small game hunting. Squirrels and rabbits. I also don’t have a ton of money to spend on a rifle. I want a middle of the road rifle or shotgun that will be the Ford F-150 of guns.
For squirrels and rabbits any decent 22 LR will be fine.
What? No, for squirrels he surely needs a 12g with deer slugs!
Start him out on a .22. Ruger 10/22 is a solid choice. CRZ and Henry also make some great entry level .22 rifles. I learned how to shoot on a Mossberg .22 bolt action single shot.
870, but get it in 12gauge, unless recoil makes your vagina bleed. 12 gauge is always available and has more potential on the higher end for killing much larger game.
For a 22., I have a savage bolt gun that I love. FSVR.
The ruger is great if you want to shoot a ton of ammo in a hurry, but a good bolt gun is the way to go if you want accuracy, dependability, and longevity.
All this is just IMHO.
I’m such a newbie it’s kind of embarrassing, what makes the bolt action better?
Simplicity, accuracy, reliability, safety, longevity, cost.
If you dont have a need to fire rapidly, there is no downside.
^This^
It also allows you to take your time and focus on the fundamentals of shooting. Get comfortable handling a firearm, and then you can branch out.
I agree with assembled multitudes. If you are learning marksmanship and want a workable .22LR for target practice and small game go with a bolt action, With proper care it will last multiple generations.
I own 12, 16 and 20 gauge shotguns. Only the 20 is a pump, they other are double barrel side by side. Like said above with modern ammunition a 12 can do it all. I still try to hunt at least once a season with the 16 since it was my great grandfather’s and he gave to me when I was in grade school.
My fave thing about my 870 is the interchangeable shotgun barrel and rifled barrel. You screw the rifled barrel in and pack in a few Hornady slugs In there and you can have some FUN!!
A little late to the party….
I have a 10/22. I like it. I have the takedown version which comes with a synthetic stock.
I wanted a synthetic stock because humidity changes can affect wood stocks. I’ve seen with some of military surplus rifles some changes in point of impact due to humidity changes.
OK 🙂 I’m going to go watch Die Hard. Which I planned on doing and hour and a half ago, before I got distracted.
Jr. And I are watching Tommy Boy. Nkt really a Christmas movie, but he’s never seen it.
Farley just did his fat guy in a little coat scene and my boy is cracking up.
My nephew is just now getting to the point of watching things that aren’t cartoons. When he’s old enough to sit through it I think he will find ‘fat guy in a little coat’ hilarious.
Yippie kiy yay mfer!
Very off topic: I think that I have convinced my 16 year-old grandson to open a New Mexican food truck in the middle of Michigan. Anyone know of a used food truck for sale that he and I could turn into a business? Breakfast burritos, tacos, beans chile and maybe sopaillas. Kid needs to start somewhere and this looks like a good, ol, capitalist try. I think he’ll knock em’ dead. Anyone want some New Mexico posole?
I want New Mexico posole! But, I live in Virginia.
Sloopy may have a lead on some sort of used food truck.
Good point. I might hit him up. My guess is that I will be moving for Michigan for a few moths to get him going.
My friend’s wife is from Detroit suburbs, and they met and married in New Mexico.
Can a 16 year old even legally work enough hours to run a food truck?
Don’t know. This would be part-time (at first) so it may fall under different rules/
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G’night and Merry Christmas.
This one works for me. Nice curating, Q
They’re all so young with perfect skin. I wish them the best and hope they learn marketable skills.
And not in the Elizabeth Nolan Brown sense of marketabke skills.
She knows how to make sammiches, doesn’t she?
Well hot damn am I glad I check this thread.