Christmas is Coming Open Thread

A walking tour of a Christmas village in Colmar, France.

Another Christmas market walking tour, this one in Nuremberg.

Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE ALL THE WAY TO ...

FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 28, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 01:22 PM (NcvvS)

3 I neve much cared for the Nuremberg Christkindlmarkt. It was always wall-to-wall people.

The one in Bayreuth was smaller, but much more fun.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 01:22 PM (IBQGV)

4 A walking tour of a Christmas village in Colmar, France.

Where are the sabots and concrete barriers?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 28, 2025 01:23 PM (wCGGz)

5 One thing about Europe is how beautiful the towns are during winter. Especially at Christmas. Lovely videos.... Thanks ace!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 28, 2025 01:25 PM (2J/Lj)

6 “Jingle Bells” was written as a Thanksgiving song.

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

7 In fourth grade, I was in Germany, in a school annex building that was close to downtown. So we went on a school field trip to the Christmas market - on foot. Good times.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 01:26 PM (xqIAL)

8 4 A walking tour of a Christmas village in Colmar, France.

Where are the sabots and concrete barriers?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 28, 2025 01:23 PM (wCGGz)

Go a little outside Bitche and you will see preserved sections of Ligne Maginot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 01:27 PM (xqIAL)

9 You left out the Muslim Swinging Scimitars freestyle dance group.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 01:28 PM (uWKK8)

10 How long before all that lovely Christmas stuff is gone, replaced by the call to prayer from the minarets?

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

11 These are so lovely.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 01:30 PM (QsMb/)

12 That's why we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute
Candles in the windows and
Carols on the spinet.

We need a little Christmas now.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 28, 2025 01:31 PM (2J/Lj)

13 Better keep your head on a swivel at a Christmas village in Europe these days.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2025 01:31 PM (viF8m)

14 "
When they gain power again, The Left is going to come after all of us with a vengeance. Mark my words"
J.J. Sefton.

You mean they will RESUME coming after us with a vengence.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 28, 2025 01:31 PM (j9Ocd)

15 Afternoon Ace.
The traditional sign of Christmas season: Hans Gruber plummeting from the Nakatomi Tower

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 01:32 PM (bfwj/)

16 Nuremberg? Is Mark Kelly there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 01:32 PM (pkeXY)

17 We have Advent in our church . I don't want to bounce into Christmas quite yet , but the Christmas Markets are lovely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 01:32 PM (iWbgM)

18 I never much cared for the Nuremberg Christkindlmarkt. It was always wall-to-wall people.

The one in Bayreuth was smaller, but much more fun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 01:22 PM (IBQGV)

Sorta like that big party in 1946?

Posted by: The Allies at November 28, 2025 01:33 PM (uQesX)

19 Also, watch out for those swivelheads. They’ll walk right into you.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 28, 2025 01:33 PM (b4o9z)

20
I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 28, 2025 01:33 PM (HLgI3)

21 “Jingle Bells” was written as a Thanksgiving song.
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

It's no more a Christmas song than Favorite Things is a Christmas song.*

*Happy Christmas/War Is Over ain't one neither.

Posted by: The Allies at November 28, 2025 01:34 PM (uQesX)

22 I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.

Nahhh, go to Epcot at Disney World. It's just like you're there!

Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2025 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

23 Bulg, about your comment last thread...

I can fully admit Vertigo is a masterpiece.
No argument there. But if I feel like popping in a Hitchcock movie for fun to pass an evening, it's pretty much always Rear Window! Perfect blend of comedy and suspense. Adore that film so much.

I have to be in the right mindset for Vertigo. While Rear Window I can see anytime.

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 01:34 PM (gWBY1)

24 23 Bulg, about your comment last thread...

I can fully admit Vertigo is a masterpiece.
No argument there. But if I feel like popping in a Hitchcock movie for fun to pass an evening, it's pretty much always Rear Window! Perfect blend of comedy and suspense. Adore that film so much.

I have to be in the right mindset for Vertigo. While Rear Window I can see anytime.

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 01:34 PM (gWBY1)

====

Notorious will always be my favorite Hitchcock.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

25 We only have 'Holiday' decorations in my progressive burg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2025 01:36 PM (XeU6L)

26 25 We only have 'Holiday' decorations in my progressive burg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2025 01:36 PM (XeU6L)

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Big Madonna fans, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

27 Die Hard and Gremlins are actually Thanksgiving films

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 01:36 PM (rbvCR)

28 I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 28, 2025 01:33 PM (HLgI3)

Maybe Eastern Europe? Miklos can offer tours....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:37 PM (uQesX)

29 20
I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 28, 2025 01:33 PM (HLgI3)

The closest I'm going to get is Solvang, it's good enough for me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 01:37 PM (QsMb/)

30 My grandpa was with the 100th Infantry when they liberated Bitche. They became known as the "Sons of Bitche"

Posted by: MsJonesJones at November 28, 2025 01:37 PM (vFG9F)

31 27 Die Hard and Gremlins are actually Thanksgiving films

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 01:36 PM (rbvCR)

====

Gremlins 2 is an April Fools' Day movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

32 Notorious will always be my favorite Hitchcock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

Hitchcock's best Hitchcock movie was High Anxiety.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:38 PM (uQesX)

33 32 Notorious will always be my favorite Hitchcock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

Hitchcock's best Hitchcock movie was High Anxiety.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:38 PM (uQesX)

===

Mel Brooks loves Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has no actual understanding of Hitchcock. High Anxiety is...not good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

34 >>I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.

Switzerland is pretty safe. Good Christmas markets too.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2025 01:39 PM (viF8m)

35
A walking tour of a Christmas village in Colmar, France.

Where are the sabots and concrete barriers?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 28, 2025 01:23 PM (wCGGz)

Check behind the line of white flags

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 28, 2025 01:39 PM (iWDZY)

36 I drove by not one, but two Wally World Super Duper Centers and the parking lots were packed. Traffic was heavy, but polite, Arkansas being a Constitutional Carry State.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 01:40 PM (gm9Sb)

37 Mel Brooks loves Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has no actual understanding of Hitchcock. High Anxiety is...not good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

Well, I liked it. :-|

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:40 PM (uQesX)

38 37 Mel Brooks loves Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has no actual understanding of Hitchcock. High Anxiety is...not good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

Well, I liked it. :-|

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:40 PM (uQesX)

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A lot of people do.

But I find it...frustrating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

39 Bah Humbug!
It's all a sales gimmick.
Silver and gold.....

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 01:41 PM (5Je/N)

40 A lot of people do.

But I find it...frustrating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

Sounds like an idea for a vid....

I'd be interested in knowing why you think that. Maybe others would too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:42 PM (uQesX)

41 Bamberg Germany was quite the sight at Christmas time. I spent two seasons there. Left 5 days before Christmas in 91.
Santa in Green was a bit weird to me though.

Posted by: Rerorger at November 28, 2025 01:42 PM (lROFx)

42 Christmas is Coming

And now it's rolled over and gone to sleep.

Posted by: No cuddling, no nothing at November 28, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

43 10 How long before all that lovely Christmas stuff is gone, replaced by the call to prayer from the minarets?
Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

Drop you bombs between the minarets!

Posted by: The Clash at November 28, 2025 01:43 PM (xqIAL)

44 No argument there. But if I feel like popping in a Hitchcock movie for fun to pass an evening, it's pretty much always Rear Window!
Posted by: LizLem

I mean Raymond Burr as the gay murder and Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) as the piano player - what could be better!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 01:44 PM (cYBz/)

45 Santa in Green was a bit weird to me though.
Posted by: Rerorger at November 28, 2025 01:42 PM (lROFx)

Remember the Seven-Up Santa in the early 70s?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:44 PM (uQesX)

46 Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman

"We have the right to deny visas before entry and revoke them AFTER entry if someone’s presence undermines our national security or interests. That’s exactly what we intend to do!" - Marco Rubio

Revoke them all and deport them all!

X video: https://bit.ly/4pCi8PI

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (P5BPp)

47 Are those images from France and Germany before the Mooslims descended on the scene and disrupted it with calls to prayers or cars going through spectators?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (Oq/TM)

48 Remember the Seven-Up Santa in the early 70s?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

YES! And also the Norelco Santa gliding over the snow drifts too!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (cYBz/)

49 High Anxiety had a couple of funny bits. Ron Carey with "I got it, I got it , I don't got it" was good but the movie was not Brooks at the top of his game

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)

50 It's so beautiful, especially with its well-preserved architecture.

Distant relatives who left Yugoslavia during the 1990's war and bombings managed to land first in Germany. They loved the country but it offered very few visas and little aid. (It also made religious education (Christianity ) mandatory at that time.)

To the U.S. they came and they also love it here but still talk fondly about the wonderful Christmas villages, education, and hospitals of Germany.

They travel back to the old country on some occasion, often stopping in Germany during their travels.

Unfortunately, I've never visited the country and have always related it to the Nuremberg Trials. Once it was a mandatory watch in high school and with my family during the rare times it was shown on TV.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 01:46 PM (NFX2v)

51 30 My grandpa was with the 100th Infantry when they liberated Bitche. They became known as the "Sons of Bitche"
Posted by: MsJonesJones at November 28, 2025 01:37 PM (vFG9F)

Awesome. Did they head north to Pirmasens?

The kaserne HQ in the 1980s was The Banana Building (shaped like a banana). That kaserne was captured intact from the Wehrmacht.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 01:46 PM (xqIAL)

52 Remember the Seven-Up Santa in the early 70s?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

YES! And also the Norelco Santa gliding over the snow drifts too!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (cYBz/)

Some people don't believe me about the green suited Santa. Can't seem to find much online evidence of it, but I know it happened.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:47 PM (uQesX)

53 Mel Brooks loves Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has no actual understanding of Hitchcock. High Anxiety is...not good. - The James Madison

High Anxiety is probably the only Mel Brooks movie I've seen where I found myself getting truly bored less than halfway through.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 01:47 PM (mADJX)

54 Up above, going to Europe. I have never been, having served in the Corps (back then State Dept duty was about it for Europe). Now I can just go to Dearborn or Minneapolis. I did cook up a plan before I got married. I was going to take a hop out of Andrews to Rhein Main and take a Sabena to Finland, see the country of my ancestors. Dad put the kibosh on that. "Why do you want to go there. We left when I was five and I still remember cold and dark, cold and dark".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 01:47 PM (gm9Sb)

55 >>> I've never been to Europe. I guess maybe I missed my chance.

I've been a few times, and there's countries I've always planned to go to I have to realize I may never make it to. Health, life, and finances get in the way. It is what it is.

But a reminder....Europeans and others flock here for our outdoor beauty. There are few countries in the world that can beat us for the scope and depth of our natural landscapes. If you've traveled around America seeing it, you're still incredibly, incredibly blessed.

Also, one of the perks of traveling abroad is just realizing how good we have it at home. Car culture, AC, peanut butter, down home diners, American holidays like the 4th and Halloween...so many things I take for granted as part of my daily life that I realize I'd never want to live without! I am always grateful to get back home after. Anyone who appreciates those things without having to leave the US is way ahead of the game.

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 01:47 PM (gWBY1)

56 And then there's this "diverse" Nativity Scene in Brussels this year.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4rIPrTh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2025 01:48 PM (P5BPp)

57 Remember the Seven-Up Santa in the early 70s?

No.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 01:48 PM (5Je/N)

58 Remember Santa on a gift carton of Winstons?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 01:49 PM (gm9Sb)

59 "Awesome. Did they head north to Pirmasens?

The kaserne HQ in the 1980s was The Banana Building (shaped like a banana). That kaserne was captured intact from the Wehrmacht.
Posted by: Cow Demon"

He was wounded shortly after and was in a hospital at the end of the war.

Posted by: MsJonesJones at November 28, 2025 01:50 PM (vFG9F)

60 >>> High Anxiety is probably the only Mel Brooks movie I've seen where I found myself getting truly bored less than halfway through.

Sadly that movie fell flat. Mel is like Babe Ruth for me... he swung for the fences. Some misses, but his home runs are timeless classics!

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 01:50 PM (gWBY1)

61 I've seen pictures the last few days of various barriers deployed to protect Christmas markets from vehicles going astray ...
one on Germany had big concrete tetras that look like they got them from the Fulda Gap but I bet they do a hella good job

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 28, 2025 01:50 PM (Cjt/F)

62 Remember Santa on a gift carton of Winstons?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 01:49 PM (gm9Sb)

And the ones with Santa holding a cigarette. Used to buy cartons for Dad in the late 60s. Of course, Mom had to buy them....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:51 PM (uQesX)

63 Remember the Seven-Up Santa in the early 70s?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:44 PM (uQesX)

I had seen those but still, I didn't know it was a thing beyond an add for that crap my mom made me drink when I was sick.
Early 70's for me was Sears catalog dreaming days. I was born in 70.

Posted by: Reforger at November 28, 2025 01:51 PM (lROFx)

64 "Also, one of the perks of traveling abroad is just realizing how good we have it at home. "

This has been very much my experience.

Although Europe has it own admirable qualities.

The one thing that sticks with me is Italians and their food.

Posted by: pawn at November 28, 2025 01:51 PM (sPsWv)

65 15 Afternoon Ace.
The traditional sign of Christmas season: Hans Gruber plummeting from the Nakatomi Tower

I have a Tshirt with that scene on it; I call it my Christmas shirt.

Posted by: Nelly at November 28, 2025 01:52 PM (ALN08)

66 Bah, Humbug.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (mP0Kj)

67 Google Surges Past OpenAI and AI Faces a Bigger Crisis That Could Break the Boom

Steve Eisman ("Mark Baum" in The Big Short) on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4opaAPl

On this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman breaks down a wild week in the market as Google's Gemini 3 passes OpenAI. Steve discusses how the AI battle compares to the railroad revolution, Dell's earnings, Michael Burry's warnings, and the emerging power crisis that could break the AI boom.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (P5BPp)

68 Sadly that movie fell flat. Mel is like Babe Ruth for me... he swung for the fences. Some misses, but his home runs are timeless classics!
Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 01:50 PM (gWBY1)

And even with that there were parts that were brilliant - Cloris Leachman as Nurse Diesel, for example.

And Harvey Korman pretending to be a werewolf makes me bust out laughing every time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (uWKK8)

69 And then there's this "diverse" Nativity Scene in Brussels this year.

—

More than 50% of schoolAge kids in Brussels are Muslim. Give it another 20 years and there will be no nativity scenes. And most likely it will be illegal to say merry Christmas.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (uDDWT)

70 I haven't seen the devilish Krampus in the videos yet.

Philly had Krampus visit its Christmas village a few years back and I almost had a heart attack when I found it was behind me. Wtf!? was actually my 1st thought and then hearty laughter - probably because I didn't drop over.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (NFX2v)

71 He was wounded shortly after and was in a hospital at the end of the war.
Posted by: MsJonesJones at November 28, 2025 01:50 PM (vFG9F)

Because of what he and his unit accomplished…I toured the citadel in the center of Bitche some 40 years later as an elementary school student on a school field trip. That was one of Those Moments to which I referred to earlier.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 01:54 PM (xqIAL)

72 And Harvey Korman pretending to be a werewolf makes me bust out laughing every time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 01:53 PM (uWKK

How about the boxing scene?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:54 PM (uQesX)

73 This has been very much my experience.

Although Europe has it own admirable qualities.

The one thing that sticks with me is Italians and their food.
Posted by: pawn at November 28, 2025 01:51 PM (sPsWv)

The funniest thing about Europe is the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there they do here but there, it’s just a little different.

Posted by: Vincent Vega at November 28, 2025 01:56 PM (xqIAL)

74 15 Afternoon Ace.
The traditional sign of Christmas season: Hans Gruber plummeting from the Nakatomi Tower
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 01:32 PM (bfwj/)

I have, in fact, seen a Nakatomi Tower Advent calendar out there on the webz. One floor lower for each day.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 01:56 PM (LxER7)

75 32 Notorious will always be my favorite Hitchcock. - The James Madison

I second that. Great casting, direction, and performances.

A small point: I was a cigar smoker when I first saw the movie - something of a connoisseur, as a matter of fact - and when Claude Rains mentioned that he was expecting a delivery of cigars at his tobacconist - "should be about a thousand" - I shook my head in awe and envy.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 01:56 PM (mADJX)

76 I think Rear Window is still my fav Hitchcock.
Although I like North By Northwest and 39 Steps a lot too.
I like all of Hitchcock's films, and I think I've seen them all at least once.

Watched your Welles vid, TJM.
Enjoyed it.
You make a lot of good points.

Welles lost steam with the Shakespeare obsession, no doubt.
I'll have to watch Chimes at Midnight if I ever get a chance.

What's that, about 1500 movies on the shelf behind you?
I have to be close.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 01:58 PM (6ydKt)

77
How about the boxing scene?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:54 PM (uQesX)

Or Madeline Kahn and the "dirty" phone call.

Any of the scenes with Cloris Leachman, Harvey Kormann, and Madeline Kahn are great. It's a shame that the majority of the movie doesn't feature any of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 01:59 PM (uWKK8)

78 Some people don't believe me about the green suited Santa. Can't seem to find much online evidence of it, but I know it happened.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 01:47 PM (uQesX)

There were doll stores full of them. Every size up to life size. I seem to recall some were hand made and quite in demand by the artists name.
Also Nutcrackers were everywhere during the season because nothing says "Christmas" like soldiers at attention.

Posted by: Reforger at November 28, 2025 01:59 PM (lROFx)

79 76 What's that, about 1500 movies on the shelf behind you?
I have to be close.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 01:58 PM (6ydKt)

=======

According to Blu-ray.com, my collection is:

1493 movies, 40 TV seasons, 1166 SKUs

On the nose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

80 [R]ising global temperatures in recent decades are threatening to change that [year round snow capped mountains], not only by accelerating ice decline, but also by altering the elevations of major mountains, including the popular hiking and tourist destination Mount Rainier.

Everybody panic.

https://is.gd/wt0Zy5

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at November 28, 2025 02:00 PM (uv8gn)

81
I had seen those but still, I didn't know it was a thing beyond an add for that crap my mom made me drink when I was sick.
Early 70's for me was Sears catalog dreaming days. I was born in 70.
Posted by: Reforger at November 28, 2025 01:51 PM (lROFx)

Fist bump in Gen X

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 02:01 PM (QsMb/)

82 80 [R]ising global temperatures in recent decades are threatening to change that [year round snow capped mountains], not only by accelerating ice decline, but also by altering the elevations of major mountains, including the popular hiking and tourist destination Mount Rainier.

Everybody panic.

https://is.gd/wt0Zy5
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at November 28, 2025 02:00 PM (uv8gn)

Sounds more to me like Rainier is getting ready to blow its stack. The thing's still active, after all.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:02 PM (LxER7)

83 How about the boxing scene?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots!!

Wait that's not it.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 02:02 PM (cYBz/)

84 "We have the right to deny visas before entry and revoke them AFTER entry if someone’s presence undermines our national security or interests. That’s exactly what we intend to do!" - Marco Rubio

Revoke them all and deport them all!

X video: https://bit.ly/4pCi8PI
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2025 01:45 PM (P5BPp)

Time for some to grasp the truth.

No one has a right to visit this country or to immigrate here, the same as every other country in the world. The Left, which aches for America to be like Europe, apparently forgot about the part where Europe wants to know when you are coming AND going. They check your passport entering AND leaving.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 02:02 PM (xqIAL)

85 According to Blu-ray.com, my collection is:

1493 movies, 40 TV seasons, 1166 SKUs

On the nose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

Quite the collection.
I hope you don't move too often.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:04 PM (6ydKt)

86 I gotta fetish for long-form articles about our fd-up infrastructure, and there's a doozy about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at NYT. Credit where credit is due: good detailed article, lotsa links:
https://tinyurl.com/yztfx33c

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:04 PM (4kcNT)

87 85 Quite the collection.
I hope you don't move too often.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:04 PM (6ydKt)

======

Heh.

Hopefully not again for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

88 What's an SKU?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:05 PM (LxER7)

89 “But a reminder....Europeans and others flock here for our outdoor beauty. There are few countries in the world that can beat us for the scope and depth of our natural landscapes. If you've traveled around America seeing it, you're still incredibly, incredibly blessed.“

My first time at Palo Duro, when checking in at the front gate, I went inside and was surprised to see the first half dozen or so people in front of me were Dutch.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 02:06 PM (xqIAL)

90 SKU stock keeping unit. An ID for stocked goods within an org.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:06 PM (4kcNT)

91 Worst Hitchcock is Vertigo. Oh people say they like it because it's got Kim Novak looking dreamy, lots of style, slick filming - but it is a stupid, stupid story about a man and a woman who both act extremely stupidly.

When you think about the aftermath, Jimmy Stewart's character is obviously going to prison for life for murdering Kim Novak's character, because no one is going to believe that he dressed her up like a woman he was obsessed with, took her to the place where this woman died, and then she just jumped off without him having anything to do with it.

And he'd already admitted that the only witness who could verify his story was the woman he looks like he just killed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 02:06 PM (uWKK8)

92 88 What's an SKU?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:05 PM (LxER7)

A unit delineated by a UPC symbol IIRC.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 02:07 PM (xqIAL)

93
88 What's an SKU?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:05 PM (LxER7)

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Stock Keeping Unit.

Essentially, the barcode.

So, my Ingmar Bergman set is 1 SKU but 39 movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

94 *twitches remembering SKUs from working at Staples .... 26(?) years ago*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 02:08 PM (bss/y)

95 Down in Baton Rouge many years ago, went through a new (and empty) mall where life-size, standing upright alligators were attired in Santa outfits. Now that was different.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

96 Ah.

*Nods with sense of having been put some knowledge*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:09 PM (LxER7)

97 What's an SKU?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

$20. Same as in town.

C'mon people!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 02:10 PM (cYBz/)

98 86 I gotta fetish for long-form articles about our fd-up infrastructure, and there's a doozy about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at NYT. Credit where credit is due: good detailed article, lotsa links:
https://tinyurl.com/yztfx33c
Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:04 PM (4kcNT)

With the money we spend on infrastructure the streets should be made of gold with diamonds as lane markers. Few, if any, want to go into localities, because people are desperate to believe that the United States features a unitary government.

TX has the best roads, period, because people here and its government demand it. In NY no one apparently cares. The worst airports I have been in are in places like BOS and SFO.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 28, 2025 02:11 PM (xqIAL)

99 More infrastructure porn: There was one recent airborne Pu-239 detection above 'Action Level' at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in SF. Here are two official Navy rpts. tl;dr: nothing to see here:
https://tinyurl.com/39nvsd3s

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:11 PM (4kcNT)

100 [R]ising global temperatures in recent decades are threatening to change that [year round snow capped mountains], not only by accelerating ice decline, but also by altering the elevations of major mountains, including the popular hiking and tourist destination Mount Rainier.

Everybody panic.

https://is.gd/wt0Zy5
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at November 28, 2025 02:00 PM (uv8gn)

Sounds more to me like Rainier is getting ready to blow its stack. The thing's still active, after all.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

Heretic and general all-round bad sport.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at November 28, 2025 02:11 PM (uv8gn)

101 I really liked Shadow of a Doubt. James Cotton's performance as the killer was outstanding.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 02:14 PM (mADJX)

102 Heretic and general all-round bad sport.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at November 28, 2025 02:11 PM (uv8gn)

Heh. When one of my kid's college prof tried to scare her into believing that rising sea-levels were impacting the Hampton Roads area, I pointed out that the coastline there was/is, in fact, still sliding into the impact crater left by an ancient asteroid strike at the mouth of the Chesapeake.

She said he was pretty shirty when she brought this up.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:15 PM (LxER7)

103 What's an SKU?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

$20. Same as in town.

C'mon people!!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 02:10 PM (cYBz/)

What's SKU with you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 28, 2025 02:17 PM (uQesX)

104 Two other ongoing juicy infrastructure fuckups are SF's Millennium Tower, and NYC's 432 Park Ave. Not going to look up the links, but very tasty if you go in for this kind of timewasting deep diving.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:17 PM (4kcNT)

105 The Birds is my favorite Hitchcock movie based on it being the most memorable as a kid.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 02:19 PM (KDPiq)

106 104 Two other ongoing juicy infrastructure fuckups are SF's Millennium Tower, and NYC's 432 Park Ave. Not going to look up the links, but very tasty if you go in for this kind of timewasting deep diving.
Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:17 PM (4kcNT)

Is that the tower Alexandra Daddario is in when the Big One hits?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:19 PM (LxER7)

107 Mel Brooks's two best films, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, were in his two favourite genres from his childhood. He tried twice to do Robin Hood, once on TV (which was cancelled in short order) and once on film, which did rather better.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:20 PM (NcvvS)

108 Happy Black Friday, morons

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 02:20 PM (xcxpd)

109 Isn't Europe the place where mad Muslims drive their cars into crowds of Christmas shoppers, trying to kill as many as they can? What's so great about that? "Well, other than my two broken legs, I had a great time!" Yeah, good for you bro.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 02:20 PM (5Je/N)

110 I'll also rank The Birds as no. 1 Hitch. Enigmatic and deeply psychological.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:20 PM (4kcNT)

111 "Is that the tower Alexandra Daddario is in when the Big One hits?"

The tops of those buildings have massive sway dampers. So natch, Daddario is sitting up there. Quote from AD: "Eh, it's a living."

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 02:21 PM (4kcNT)

112 Down in Baton Rouge many years ago, went through a new (and empty) mall where life-size, standing upright alligators were attired in Santa outfits. Now that was different.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

Lafayette,LA had the best sports name ever for their minor league hockey team.

Ice Gators

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 02:21 PM (KDPiq)

113 North by Northwest is my favorite Hitch, in part because I love the theme music.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (LxER7)

114 Mel Brooks's only two great films, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, .....

FIFY

Posted by: Fart Sparkler at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (mDKvs)

115 altering the elevations of major mountains

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Old and busted: Rocky Mountains

New and cool: Rocky Meadows

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (L/fGl)

116 Hitchcock made the one film where he got out of his zone that I recall. The Wrong Man with Henry Fonda as a jazz musician who's picked up by the cops for a crime he didn't commit.

It was kinda meh, but for whatever reason Hitchcock wanted to make a film based on a true story and this is it.

I also forgot the excellent Lifeboat, Dial M For Murder, and Foreign Correspondent.Those are all in my top Hitchcock film list.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

117

The Ukrainian President's chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who was also part of Ukraine's peace deal negotiations with the U.S., has resigned after his home was raided in a major investigation into corruption in the country.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 02:23 PM (pkeXY)

118 Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

Lifeboat is my second favorite Hitchcock movie.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 02:24 PM (KDPiq)

119 Posted by: Fart Sparkler at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (mDKvs)

Not going to get an argument from me, FS.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:24 PM (NcvvS)

120 Popular tourist city eyes new tax on overnight travelers to help boost local economy - that's FOX's lede.

If it's popular that means many people are coming there and spending money. But Fox says they need money for the economy.

Indicating, either fewer people are coming to London than before or they don't have enough money to support the growing Free Shit Army.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz+7G)

121 113 North by Northwest is my favorite Hitch, in part because I love the theme music.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:22 PM (LxER7)

Same here, that's one of the best openings ever!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 02:26 PM (uWKK8)

122 >>>Lifeboat is my second favorite Hitchcock movie.
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It certainly vies for his most depressing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz+7G)

123 Two environmental stories at Apple News have an interesting connection. One is about the "galloping Gertie" bridge by Tacoma that collapsed. It's now an artificial reef they are trying to protect from overfishing.

The other was a story on how the great pacific garbage patch is so large, animals species are now making it their home.

In both stories, “It’s good to remember…that the ocean makes everything that ends up in it, its own." And it turns from garbage to a protected area. How soon will the garbage patch be declared a protected wildlife area?

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 02:27 PM (gWBY1)

124 107 Mel Brooks's two best films, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, were in his two favourite genres from his childhood. He tried twice to do Robin Hood, once on TV (which was cancelled in short order) and once on film, which did rather better.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:20 PM (NcvvS)

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They were also co-written by Gene Wilder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

125 IMHO, Young Frankenstein is Brooks' only really good movie AS a movie. The others are just extremely funny sets of gags strung together.

IIRC, Gene Wilder co-wrote YK, prolly why it was so much better.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2025 02:27 PM (LxER7)

126 91 When you think about the aftermath, Jimmy Stewart's character is obviously going to prison for life for murdering Kim Novak's character, because no one is going to believe that he dressed her up like a woman he was obsessed with, took her to the place where this woman died, and then she just jumped off without him having anything to do with it.
- Tom Servo

I don't disagree with you about the underlying unbelievability of the story, but would Stewart's character have been accused of her murder? Novak's character didn't just jump, she was spooked by a nun who materialized out of the darkness, lost her balance and fell. I would imagine the nun would have been able to confirm that. Of course, Stewart would have been faced with a very awkward situation, explaining everything to the cops who would have been called to investigate the scene.

Posted by: Paco at November 28, 2025 02:27 PM (mADJX)

127 Not a Mel Brooks movie fan at all but will concede each of his movies have a couple of lines me and my buddies have and continue to quote .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 02:27 PM (KDPiq)

128 122 >>>Lifeboat is my second favorite Hitchcock movie.
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It certainly vies for his most depressing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz+7G)

Yeah, but to make an entire suspense-filled movie in one set piece and actors and make it work like he did.

It's an awesome little film.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

129 Fa ra ra ra ra….

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2025 02:28 PM (i+bC1)

130 Re weather/climate/temps, it appears that despite how Idiocratic (?) society is in numerous ways, we ain't buying any portion of the scam from any angle. They can crank out as many hysterical articles of doom but virtually no one cares but those still wearing masks.

Posted by: Porter at November 28, 2025 02:28 PM (mDKvs)

131 This will be an odd question: does anyone else remember the alternate ending to The Producers that NBC used for their first showing of it (would have been around 1971 - yeah, I'm really 29)?

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:30 PM (NcvvS)

132 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:31 PM (NcvvS)

133 This will be an odd question: does anyone else remember the alternate ending to The Producers that NBC used for their first showing of it (would have been around 1971 - yeah, I'm really 29)?
Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:30 PM (NcvvS)
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No, but I remember the "happy ending" version of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 28, 2025 02:32 PM (0cOaq)

134 Somebody up above mentioned Joseph Cotten and also Orson Welles. After Cotten had a really bad stroke, Welles would phone him daily, staying on the line for hours helping him to get his speech back. Now there's a friend.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 02:32 PM (gm9Sb)

135 >>No, but I remember the "happy ending" version of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Good grief, that's straight-up sabotage. Never saw that one, TBTG.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 28, 2025 02:34 PM (NcvvS)

136 Stage Fright has a soft spot in my heart as an early Hitchcock film. The salty dad is a treasure. And Marlene Dietrich's role is random fun...that extended musical number of her being the laziest girl in town! It definitely inspired the Madeline Kahn stage number in Blazing Saddles. Love all the British wit.

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 02:35 PM (gWBY1)

137 Vertigo isn't terrible but the plot is more strange than interesting with the kooky lady who think she's her dead grandmother.

Everybody's motivations seem off or contrived.

I'm rooting for Jimmy to run away with Barbara Bel Geddes to Dallas the entire time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 02:35 PM (6ydKt)

138 Black Friday is also the beginning of the SOROS offensive in The War Against Christmas as Sharia law in NYC forbids it

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 28, 2025 02:36 PM (9jCtT)

139 Psycho

Posted by: Norman Bates at November 28, 2025 02:36 PM (XeU6L)

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