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Palate Cleanser: Melania Trump Shows Off Her Very Beautiful (and Classy) Christmas Decorations

Very nice.

Here's a question: Were you white lights people or colored lights people?

I think colored lights are favored by blue collar/working class people and white lights are favored by wealthier people.

I grew up a colored lights kid, but when I saw the white lights at my wealthier friends' house, i became a White Lights Aspirant.

Remember Jill Biden's Trans Christmas horror shows?

Posted by: Ace at 04:45 PM




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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:45 PM (kgE5c)

2 this is better. Nicer. Pleasanter if that is a word

Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2025 04:45 PM (rbvCR)

3 And I read the content!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:45 PM (kgE5c)

4 Style changes. When I was a kid it was always multicolored lights. Later it was solid lights and now I think the multi are coming back.

Posted by: steevy at December 04, 2025 04:46 PM (YwEeS)

5 So weird .what does any of that second video have to do with Christmas?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2025 04:46 PM (ZeH0U)

6 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:46 PM (kgE5c)

7 "The Slavic Face of White Christmas Supremacy! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 04, 2025 04:47 PM (pG0Ez)

8 Our church had blue lights, so we did too.

Posted by: night lifted at December 04, 2025 04:47 PM (/YboP)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

10 So weird .what does any of that second video have to do with Christmas?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2025 04:46 PM

Nothing, Fen. It was an in-your-face perversion of the holiday. The left hates it and the reason for it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (kgE5c)

11 Here's a palate cleanser...

Also, here's a hideous piece of shit from years past.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: Croaker at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (+BcZI)

12 I have to give credit to my town as they do a really great job of decorating for Christmas.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (sDNVV)

13 Nice to have class back in the White House.

I'm a white lights person, but there are currently colored lights on my house, so make of that what you will.

(Also, I'm colorblind, so that might be why I prefer the white lights. Or I'm a racist. Either one.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (zjgNU)

14 I laughed at the Trump mug shot being displayed.

Posted by: WisRich at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (G0vdT)

15 I grew up a colored lights kid, but when I saw the white lights at my wealthier friends' house, i became a White Lights Aspirant.

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I wanna see the Venn Diagram of colored lights kids and Kaboom cereal kids.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (pG0Ez)

16 Christmas Decorations? Is that what we're calling them now?

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (v0R5T)

17 I wonder if those trees inside the WH are natural or artificial.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

18 Sounds like an instrumental of "Free Falling"!

Posted by: m at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (RuTUS)

19 And I thought the music in the Trump WH video was quite soothing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (ZeH0U)

20 Did the Jaguar guy help Jill with her decorations?

Also, wasn't it the Clintons who decorated a tree with condoms?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (bNf8H)

21 We were multi-colored Christmas folk. Definitely working/middle class.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (W7XSX)

22 Colored lights. One year MamaWayne did white lights we still talk about it to this day the year she ruined Christmas.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (MGB5H)

23 Willowed:

Rep. Shri Thanedar


Every time I see that name I think of-

that famous short story of Saki's "Sredni Vashtar".

Ol' Shri looks looks like a ferret, so he should just make it official and take the name.

Let's see how it improves the News:

Uncommonly large ferret, or perhaps weasel, Rep. Sredni Vashtar, to introduce articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.


See? Much better!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG)

24 Palate Cleanser: Melania Trump Shows Off Her Very Beautiful (and Classy) Christmas Decorations
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I'm expecting the words "trailer trash" from the media that thinks of Michelle Obama as compensatorially "beautiful".

Posted by: Axeman at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (krQz2)

25 Since we've been in this house, it's been solid lights on the house, whether they be white, red, blue, whatever, and colored lights around it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

26 "The Slavic Face of White Christmas Supremacy! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 04, 2025 04:47 PM

The Slavic Face of White Christmas Supremacy? Got it right here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQKUFWzmwo

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (kgE5c)

27 OK, where were the Kwanzaa decorations?

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

28 I prefer color lights. I like the variety but honestly, I think it's the presentation more than the light color selection.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (8yx7s)

29 I'm a white lights person but growing up the tree had colored lights.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (Cg3Gl)

30 Colored versus white?
I'm staying out of this.

Posted by: Case at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (5Je/N)

31 So weird .what does any of that second video have to do with Christmas?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2025 04:46 PM (ZeH0U)


Democrats booed God at their convention.

Therefore, nothing. They don't believe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

32
I used to mix white lights with coloreds.

It diluted the coloreds enough to make a Bright & Sparkly display.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (UQlqo)

33 I laughed at the Trump mug shot being displayed.
Posted by: WisRich

That was a nice touch wasn't it.

Posted by: Tuna at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (lJ0H4)

34 I was a colored lights kid. But I like the white lights. Seems cleaner, somehow.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (DRSnL)

35
Also, here's a hideous piece of shit from years past.

=============

Inspired by that Jaguar guy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (cjpWA)

36 And for what it's worth, when I was little I liked colored lights. These days I prefer simple white.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (kgE5c)

37 Is Melania beautiful? Yes. Better than any First Lady since Dolly Madison? Yes. My type? No.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (jV8WQ)

38
Now? I don't even put up lights. I don't care if the neigbors think I'm a jew.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (UQlqo)

39 White lights on the tree because it highlights the ornaments and crochet snowflakes better.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (sDNVV)

40 Grew up with colored lights. The big ol' C5 ones. All of the people we knew had them too.

Wasn't until I left the one-horse town I grew up in that I realized that tiny white lights were what the rich folk did.

Seemed boring.

Posted by: ballistic at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (5aZAZ)

41 Here's a question: Were you white lights people or colored lights people?

'70s, colored lights - the 15W bulbs that with enough strings, the circuit breaker would blow.

80's, white bulbs, by the thousands thrown up into the very large live oak trees

90's-'10's, nothing.

15'-'20, laser light show

'21-∞, nothing

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (xE0sV)

42 I grew up a colored lights kid, but when I saw the white lights at my wealthier friends' house, i became a White Lights Aspirant.

--

From Kaboom! Kid to White Lights Aspirant. The American Dream, baby!

Hey, I can rib Ace. I was a Kaboom! Kid. Oh, yes. I was a kid with the gallon bucket of cheap peanut butter. And I've become a White Lights Participant.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (qBdHI)

43 Watching the video of Melania I could here AWFLs grinding their teeth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (bfwj/)

44 Oh! Also, the tree my wife decorated is all white lights, but when I decorate the tree it's usually colored or a mix.


So I guess I'm low class and my wife is high class.

I can accept that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (zjgNU)

45 It's not complete until you hang the Chairman Mao bulb on the tree.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (XTlsM)

46 I visited my son some time around Christmas and he wanted to stop at a friends house. It was the only house on the block without Christmas lights. I said "The neighbors will think they are Jewish."

He said nothing. Lovely couple. Beautiful daughter. Jewish.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (W7XSX)

47 Remember Jill Biden's Trans Christmas horror shows?
......

The Jaguar of Xmas commercials.

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (v0R5T)

48 Colored lights as a kid.
White lights now.

One Melania >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ten Jill Biden Dancers

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (3I53N)

49
I laughed at the Trump mug shot being displayed.
Posted by: WisRich

=============

Fun fact, that and the George Washington portrait are fully assembled puzzles.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (cjpWA)

50 was a colored lights kid. But I like the white lights. Seems cleaner, somehow.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (DRSnL)

🤔

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM (MGB5H)

51 Ha! She snuck the scowly Donald pic in there!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (ncfGW)

52 37 Is Melania beautiful? Yes. Better than any First Lady since Dolly Madison? Yes. My type? No.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 04:51 PM (jV8WQ)
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Could not agree more.

Posted by: ballistic at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (5aZAZ)

53 >>> Here's a question: Were you white lights people or colored lights people?

=====

Was a colored lights as a kid. But now that I’m "29", I’m a wight lights guy. But my wife is colored lights, so that's what we have.

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (hKc1X)

54 Now? I don't even put up lights. I don't care if the neigbors think I'm a jew.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 04, 2025 04:52 PM

I don't know why but this made me laugh like a hyena.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (jV8WQ)

55 Finally got my solar outdoor lights on my bush today - gonna find out tonight if I get year #11 out of them, or if I finally have to replace them.

I have no outlet outside the front of my townhome and I love Christmas lights, so it was a happy day when I found these 90% off now 11 years ago after Christmas. Before I was stuck with door wreaths (which are fine, but not lights - I am a sucker for lights!)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (tOcjL)

56 Colored versus white?
I'm staying out of this.
Posted by: Case

Right up there with the age-old debate about crossbow Christmas ornaments v. longbow Christmas ornaments.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

57 I liked Melania's video, but the "grumpy Trump" portrait does take something away from it. I would have preferred a smiling Trump portrait.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (ESVrU)

58 Jill Biden was a horror show. Fishnet stockings for fuck sake on the first lady of the US. Fuck that entire degenerate family except for the stripper spawn in Arkansas. Hope she turns out ok.

Posted by: Not confused male at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (IADF6)

59
The lights I really liked when a wee tad were the strings of lights that had glass tubes shaped like candles that were filled with colorful liquids which bubbled when the lights were on.

A marvel of American science!

I wonder if they make them anymore?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

60
m,

I left a link to that tweet at the bottom of last thread.

confused,
Raymond Ibrahim's latest book - The Two Swords of Christianity.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (EJwCJ)

61 color lights prole. And from the days when one bad bulb meant an entire search operation to fix.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (8avO+)

62 I laughed at the Trump mug shot being displayed.

Posted by: WisRich at December 04, 2025 04:49 PM (G0vdT)

------------

If you don't know, his official 2.0 photo mimics the mug shot one (you can tell they're different owing to different colored ties) and hangs in all the VA Medical Centers and Clinics in which I work.

Another interesting aspect: in the past, only two photos were displayed: the POTUS and the Secretary of the VA (presently Doug Collins). However, they've now included a third photo -- of the Vice President.

Getting people used to the idea of Vance 2028?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (pG0Ez)

63 The most elegant First Lady...perhaps ever!

Garrett is the only other person who can rock 5" heels!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (Zv8bq)

64
I'm serious about mixing all-white strings with colored strings. I loved the end result -- just enough color to make it look "festive" but not too gaudy or gauche.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (UQlqo)

65 We were colored lights. Brothers made their own choices, and...by the time I wanted in the game, I was locked out of it. Been a rough few years.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (OUMaO)

66 The Biden video is like a drug-fueled nightmare, where everyone in the nightmare is also on drugs. Melania's is SO. MUCH. BETTER. Very beautiful and calming.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (efuu+)

67 OK, where were the Kwanzaa decorations?
Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM

One December weekend, mumblemumble years ago, my friend in the Foreign Service was showing me around DC. We stopped in front of the White House to admire the decorations, and I just shook my head and said "what...nothing for Kwanzaa?" I thought she was going to wet herself laughing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (kgE5c)

68 PS - My lights are colored all the way. Then again, I never made it above townhome, so...not the rich aspirant...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (tOcjL)

69 Nutcracker Suite

Posted by: m at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (RuTUS)

70 I like the colored lights. I have fond memories of spending Christmas break at my grandparents house and they had colored lights around the window in my room.

Those colored lights always helped me fall asleep.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2025 04:54 PM (ESVrU)

71 I can change the lights on my pre-lit tree from white to colored, or a mode where it switches back and forth in a pattern.

Posted by: ballistic at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (5aZAZ)

72 Sorta reminds me of that insipid "The Residence" miniseries, where there's a murder in the White House.

I couldn't stand the magical perfect black detective, or the gay President with his First "Lady."

But a lot of the other characters were interesting enough, and regardless of whether it was entirely fictional or not, I liked watching them show how the White House runs.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (F5Pkl)

73 Garrett is the only other person who can rock 5" heels!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM

Which is tough with the lack of ankle support in Crocs!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (kgE5c)

74 this year I'm doing a combo of warm white and pale blue lights

it looks really pretty I think?

I got new Moravian stars (in the warm white) as well - I really needed new ones.

outdoor lights are one of those things that does seem to get better instead of worse (recently)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (emBoF)

75 We need the old post by Dave in Texas (RIP) about his personal Christmas tree with all the kitschy ornaments on it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

76 60
m,

I left a link to that tweet at the bottom of last thread.

confused,
Raymond Ibrahim's latest book - The Two Swords of Christianity.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (EJwCJ)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (RuTUS)

77 Trump White House at Christmas: America


Biden White House at Christmas: Bud Light

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

78 I like both types of lights. We have white, because I have fake trees, and the brand I bought back in the day only came with white ones. They are certainly very tasteful. The next tree I get will have both options. Sometimes you want that festive look. And yes, grew up working class, if not actually poor by some standards. Didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing til I was 10, in 73. Didn't feel poor at all.

I'd love to find some of the big, old school lights. You can buy newer versions, but t g e old ones look better, if you can find them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (Vvh2V)

79 I think colored lights are favored by blue collar/working class people and white lights are favored by wealthier people.

i prefer colored lights, but not the ones so blue that i can't focus on them.

Posted by: anachronda at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (v3pYe)

80 I'm serious about mixing all-white strings with colored strings. I loved the end result -- just enough color to make it look "festive" but not too gaudy or gauche.


yes

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (emBoF)

81 The lights I really liked when a wee tad were the strings of lights that had glass tubes shaped like candles that were filled with colorful liquids which bubbled when the lights were on.

A marvel of American science!

I wonder if they make them anymore?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

Saw a string of 7 for 57 dollars online just now.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

82 Lights? You had lights?

Posted by: Weasel at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (G2REX)

83
Which is tough with the lack of ankle support in Crocs!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (kgE5c)


Being light in the loafers makes it a snap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

84 You'll spend the rest of your life,
Down at the House of Blue Lights...

Posted by: Commander Cody at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (oftw2)

85 The first lady is on a one woman deforesting spree!

Posted by: MS NOW at December 04, 2025 04:57 PM (v0R5T)

86 78 I'd love to find some of the big, old school lights.

the fun came from putting the flasher in the night light in the bathroom.

Posted by: anachronda at December 04, 2025 04:57 PM (v3pYe)

87 Our wonderful neighbors signal the beginning of the Christmas season by turning on their lights. They split the difference...a cute little fir tree festooned with colored lights, and a large tree with beautiful white lights.

This Jew approves!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 04, 2025 04:57 PM (Zv8bq)

88 Colored versus white?
I'm staying out of this.
Posted by: Case at December 04, 2025 04:50 PM (5Je/N)

When I was a kid we used the colored ones.

Now I'm supposed to prefer whites only?

I'm so confused.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 04:57 PM (nQFwF)

89 53 - "Don't follow the lights, or hobbits will go down and make little lights of their own." - Gollum

Posted by: Croaker at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (+BcZI)

90
In the Colonial days, they put out candles in their windows so the neighbors didn't think they were Catholics [Papists!]

Or so the neighbors didn't think they Protestants. I forget which.

But that's true. THAT's where the Candle In The Window at Christmas tradition came from.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (UQlqo)

91 Colored are OK,

But, no Yellow!

Posted by: Hunter at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (XTlsM)

92 We need the old post by Dave in Texas (RIP) about his personal Christmas tree with all the kitschy ornaments on it.

Posted by: Bulg

Your wish, my command: The Crap Tree.
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/
2020/12/04/the-crap-tree-2020/

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)

93 75 We need the old post by Dave in Texas (RIP) about his personal Christmas tree with all the kitschy ornaments on it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

I have a one eyed Rudolf clothespin ornament from my spouse's youth on my tree...is that the kitsch a tree needs, b/c I have a ton of my kid's baby crafts, too, although I guess all that is less kitsch and more sentimental (we keep asking if Rudolf will go blind soon, but every year, his one eye keeps keeping on)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (tOcjL)

94 I think the second one was supposed to be an ultracool knockoff/updated/DEI Nutcracker thing done tap instead of ballet.
I used to teach dance, and I enjoyed the tapping of especially the main black woman, but kept getting weird vibes of the party hallucinations in The Shining with mouseman and flowerhead.
Not my idea of Christmas, but some good tapping.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (enw9G)

95 The lights I really liked when a wee tad were the strings of lights that had glass tubes shaped like candles that were filled with colorful liquids which bubbled when the lights were on.

A marvel of American science!

I wonder if they make them anymore?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

Saw a string of 7 for 57 dollars online just now.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

Holy Cow!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (iJfKG)

96 I revamped my outdoor Christmas lights to 99% blue this year. Growing up we had the multi-color lights and my gram had white on her tree.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (6qf1m)

97 Colored lights.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (NS9kB)

98 " Lights? You had lights?

Posted by: Weasel"

We had to set our earwax on fire!

Posted by: fd at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

99
outdoor lights are one of those things that does seem to get better instead of worse (recently)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 04, 2025 04:55 PM (emBoF)


That all sounds very pretty.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (Cg3Gl)

100 Jill Biden was a horror show. Fishnet stockings for fuck sake on the first lady of the US. Fuck that entire degenerate family except for the stripper spawn in Arkansas. Hope she turns out ok.
Posted by: Not confused male at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (IADF6)

That her father is uninvolved in her life is likely her saving grace.

(Funny how in this case, the father NOT being involved greatly increases the chances she won't be a stripper when she grows up.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (zjgNU)

101 Lights? You had lights?

Posted by: Weasel

The neighbors objected to the more traditional candles on the tree. Something something fire hazard...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (OUMaO)

102 "“The mistake that you made is you let us in in the first place.”

link? source? Posted by: m

https://tinyurl.com/3cshz6ac

He goes on to explain how any billions of browns there are in the world, and that they have babies.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (vbXSk)

103 Colored versus white?
==
Rayciss!!!!!

Posted by: Black elf at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (IADF6)

104 Colored versus white?
I'm staying out of this.
Posted by: Case

Right up there with the age-old debate about crossbow Christmas ornaments v. longbow Christmas ornaments.

Those are warm ups to re-litigating the U.S. Civil War/War Between the States/War of Northern Aggression/War of 1861-1865.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (8yx7s)

105 Back when I was 13, (1968 )I babysat for a family down the block. I think that was the first time I saw a Christmas tree with just white ornaments (globes).

Lovely couple. Beautiful children.



Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (W7XSX)

106 It's not complete until you hang the Chairman Mao bulb on the tree.

I'm sure that we can come up with a list of things that should be hanged from trees.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (nCgQz)

107 >>I have to give credit to my town as they do a really great job of decorating for Christmas.

On Saturday Santa and Mrs Claus come to town with a Coast Guard escort. They are met at the town harbor by a horde of kids and then the Claus' hop on an antique fire engine and drive around town and all the shops all done up for Christmas and return for the lighting of the Christmas tree and Christmas carols sung by the school choir.

Small town America is the best.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

108 Melania looks the epitome of resplendent. A shining, glowing beauty. Sure, it helps being a billionaire, but she has perfect refined taste in decor, dress and manner. She's almost ethereal.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (qBdHI)

109 Jill Biden was a horror show. Fishnet stockings for fuck sake on the first lady of the US. Fuck that entire degenerate family except for the stripper spawn in Arkansas. Hope she turns out ok.
Posted by: Not confused male at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM (IADF6)


She was recently seen buying a negligee while out with Sleepy Joe.

I naturally assumed that she and Hunter settled their differences.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Lights of color.

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (v0R5T)

111 I thought this was going to be a boobs thread.

Posted by: Max Power at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (Hucnr)

112 I don't mind a bit of dancing during the Christmas season if it's Vera-Ellen doing the dancing.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (2ap+5)

113 If they blink I prefer white. If still, I can handle multi-color.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (lFFaq)

114 53 Was a colored lights as a kid. But now that I’m "29", I’m a wight lights guy.

the fun thing about wights is that they sometimes leave old swords just lying around.

Posted by: aragorn from the movies at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (v3pYe)

115 Sun's peeking out, finally.

Think I'll take a bit of a drive this afternoon. Hope the sky is clear tonight, enough to see the stars.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (rlR9Y)

116 He goes on to explain how any billions of browns there are in the world, and that they have babies.

Rage bait for pumping up the engagement numbers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (nCgQz)

117 " Lights? You had lights?

Posted by: Weasel"

We had to set our earwax on fire!
Posted by: fd at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM

You had fire? Luxury!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (kgE5c)

118 Neighbors down the road do a hologram lighting display.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (sDNVV)

119 Lights? You had lights?

Posted by: Weasel
......

Don't you need e-lek-tricity for that?

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (v0R5T)

120 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 04, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)

Thank you, Sir. Hope you're doing well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

121 When I grew up, real lights were colored. They required work to maintain and clip to tree (they were heavier)

The white lights came when the cheap LED came out. Because they were cheap people could buy and use more, and they looked "elegant" but they were a convenience and not a luxury.

Ace may see them as "upper class," but they were for people who didn't want to spend the time and effort, so they were fake and cheap. You could wrap them around a tree in minutes without clipping.

It is like saying "do you like crocs or handmade leather shoes?"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 04, 2025 05:02 PM (EJwCJ)

122 Amazon has the bubble lights in white or colored.

Choose your favorite!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 05:02 PM (iJfKG)

123 I'm a white lights person, but there are currently colored lights on my house, so make of that what you will.

(Also, I'm colorblind, so that might be why I prefer the white lights. Or I'm a racist. Either one.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 04, 2025 04:48 PM (zjgNU)

if you get black lights, everyone thinks you are a stoner.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

124 We grew up a poor colored lights family where if your drunk grandad wasn’t on the verge of burning down the house with his cigarette, you were going to burn down the house with too many connected light strings.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:03 PM (XV/Pl)

125 I like to use both types at the same time, wrapped together so they're all mixed up.

Posted by: Bitblt at December 04, 2025 05:03 PM (11pZm)

126 40 Grew up with colored lights. The big ol' C5 ones.

c4 > c5

Posted by: front towards carolers at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (v3pYe)

127 Oh yeah, remember hunting for the one bad light that was keeping the string from working ? I remember fights between my parents every year over the tree😆

Posted by: steevy at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (YwEeS)

128 Okay, Christmas tree lights. Long ago (galaxy far far away), my aunt would do a beautifully decorated tree with mostly white lights, and a few blue lights to accent. Some evil nephew (I assure you that it couldn't POSSIBLY be myself) would surreptiously install "one red light" amongst the otherwise "perfect" tree lighting.

OH THE HORROR (*snicker*).....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (e/Osv)

129 First Lady Melania's displays brought tears to my eyes. First Tramp Jill's display literally turned my stomach. Who the fuck were all the freaks she had dancing. And the only white person I saw looked like a fag. Everyone else was black. Fuck the Biden's and may their names go down in infamy, along with Barry's.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (BFff5)

130 It is like saying "do you like crocs or handmade leather shoes?"

Posted by: bob
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You going to go after artificial trees next, aren't you.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)

131 Vera-Ellen wore a choker collar because she was a bilumiac.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (W7XSX)

132 I have a fake tree with built-in lights. You can pick colored, white, or alternating. Right now it's alternating because I'm too lazy to figure out how to make it stay on white.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (DRSnL)

133 In particular, mad props for the express inclusion of the Nativity in this video rather than trying to make this some secular dodge about the "season".

Posted by: DPICM at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (zweKz)

134 you were going to burn down the house with too many connected light strings.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:03 PM

The key is to use a penny in the fusebox, otherwise you will be burning them out twice a day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (jV8WQ)

135 It is like saying "do you like crocs or handmade leather shoes?"

Slopping around in the garden or attending church?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (PVBkQ)

136 Vera-Ellen doing the dancing.
Posted by: Oglebay


Mmmmmm...what a lovely lady.

Cyd Charisse and Leslie Caron are also acceptable.

And the ginger ballerina from The Red Shoes.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

137 I'm surprised that Jill Biden's Christmas dance thingy didn't bring charges of racism. Is that how she sees black people? Then there's the gay guy with a giant flower on his head.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (0Htd1)

138 That photo of Pres Trump is made of legos.

Posted by: ConservativeInAZ at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (i1CUc)

139
People ruined it -- with their stupid store-bought lighted decorations.

You know what really ruined Christmas lights?
Those damn lighted "icicle" decorations.

Looks cheap, btw. Don't do it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (UQlqo)

140 Definitely colored lights.

Posted by: Dad of Six at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (+OGAU)

141 Dr. Jack Kervorkian > Dr. Jill Biden.

Posted by: Eromero at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (i+bC1)

142 Those are warm ups to re-litigating the U.S. Civil War/War Between the States/War of Northern Aggression/War of 1861-1865.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (8yx7s)

You mean the War of F-ing around and Findin' Out?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (8avO+)

143 if you get black lights, everyone thinks you are a stoner.
Posted by: Oldcat

Considering more people are now doing cannabis than probably drink, that is probably the future of the season along with festive Christmas lava lamps.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (WDjG6)

144 112 I don't mind a bit of dancing during the Christmas season if it's Vera-Ellen doing the dancing.
Posted by: Oglebay
.................................
I think I'll watch White Christmas later.

I got my living & dining room decorated. Looks festive.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (sAmhv)

145 The Bidens are the epitome of white trash and proof that money and power can't buy class.

Posted by: ballistic at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (5aZAZ)

146 If they blink I prefer white. If still, I can handle multi-color.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 04, 2025 05:00 PM (lFFaq)

I do prefer colored lights, and while I would rather they don't blink at all, if they must blink, I don't want them to do so in unison. One bulb here and there, going in and out at random.

Also, bigger bulbs. Not the little mosquito lights. Hate those! If you can find textured bulbs, even better!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (3dasX)

147 Speaking of Christmas, Princess Sparkles is getting eviscerated over her Netflix Christmas special.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (DRSnL)

148 ...When I grew up, real lights were colored. They required work to maintain and clip to tree (they were heavier)...


Oh no, oh no you don't! They were Lights of Color, you racist!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:05 PM (BFff5)

149 On Saturday Santa and Mrs Claus come to town with a Coast Guard escort. They are met at the town harbor by a horde of kids and then the Claus' hop on an antique fire engine and drive around town and all the shops all done up for Christmas and return for the lighting of the Christmas tree and Christmas carols sung by the school choir.

Small town America is the best.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)
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Yep. We're having a Christkindlmarkt downtown on Saturday. Decent German(ish) food plus live musical performances and local craft vendors.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2025 05:06 PM (ESVrU)

150 if you get black lights, everyone thinks you are a stoner Satanist..

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:06 PM (W7XSX)

151 When the tap dancer in the blue dress smiled, I could see her uvula.

Posted by: huerfano at December 04, 2025 05:06 PM (98kQX)

152 The key is to use a penny in the fusebox, otherwise you will be burning them out twice a day.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (jV8WQ)

They don't even make pennies anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:06 PM (8avO+)

153 If Kamala had won, the White House would now be festooned with traditional Hindu and Jamaican Kwanzaa decorations.

Posted by: Gref at December 04, 2025 05:07 PM (5rh/l)

154
Fake icicles, the lighted wire reindeer, etc. All that Home Depot shit.

We used to throw some light strings over a few bushes and we'd be happy. But that isn't good enough now!!

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:07 PM (UQlqo)

155 My parents in their old age bought a new decorated Christmas Tree every year at the charity auction. There are dozen in their outbuilding that I am going to have to carry to the dump.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:07 PM (jV8WQ)

156 JackStraw, that sounds amazing.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:07 PM (sDNVV)

157 The fancy room had the artificial tree with the white lights. The porch had the real tree with colored lights and home made decorations

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (/6GbT)

158 Colored lights always, but the wife wants white, so we compromise and do both

Posted by: Corona_Exile at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (IhCfh)

159 150 if you get black lights, everyone thinks you are a stoner Satanist..
Posted by: no one
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No love for Pink Floyd's "The Wall"? It is the modern day Christmas Album I tell ya. Nothing like " Comfortably Numb" to get you into the proper Christmas spirit.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

160 Got a new neighbor.
Custom house the size of a strip mall.

Lit up like Rachael's Steakhouse

Posted by: Hunter at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (XTlsM)

161 naturalfake, Vermont Country Store, 29.95:

https://tinyurl.com/yysf562u

Lots of fun stuff there!

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (enw9G)

162 40 Grew up with colored lights. The big ol' C5 ones.

c4 > c5
Posted by: front towards carolers at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (v3pYe)
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C4...C5...whatever it takes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (ESVrU)

163
Also: Wreaths

How Many Fucking Wreaths Do You Need?

Every Fucking Window? Really?

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (UQlqo)

164 I prefer white light but hubby likes colored and he puts them up so
Actually he hates putting up lights so he put in ground lights pointed at the house that can do different colors do our house goes thru a changing color scheme
I actually don't like it

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (tcsrY)

165 The wealthy people I knew had more than one tree and each tree had a different theme. They had like 6 or 7 trees and the florist would decorate them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (Cg3Gl)

166 And speaking of Crocs, Garrett *needs* these.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mlRKxp3rpBY

Assuming he doesn't already have them, that is.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (Wnv9h)

167 137 I'm surprised that Jill Biden's Christmas dance thingy didn't bring charges of racism. Is that how she sees black people? Then there's the gay guy with a giant flower on his head.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (0Htd1)

Nutcracker Suite

Posted by: m at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (RuTUS)

168 If Trump had made a black person tap-dance in the White House Christmas video, it would be a national scandal.

Posted by: The Nicholas Brothers at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (oftw2)

169 @153

>> Jamaican Kwanzaa decorations.

Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

They celebrate Christmas like normal people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)

170 For me it isn't white lights versus colored lights. It's small sparkly lights versus the colored lights with those larger bulbs. I like the small sparkly light. I also like some gold or silver garland.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (0Htd1)

171 Can drop some serious coin on artificial trees..yowza!

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (/6GbT)

172 I have a fake tree with built-in lights. You can pick colored, white, or alternating. Right now it's alternating because I'm too lazy to figure out how to make it stay on white.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:04 PM (DRSnL)

Sounds like too much intelligence in a tree. It might take over and open all your doors and steal the presents.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (8avO+)

173 I prefer colored lights for most things. White lights make a nice accent in or about the colored lights. Please do not go all-blue.

One place you can do all white is if you put up a star. Or if you like the idea of candles on your tree.

Posted by: GWB at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (teSFe)

174 White debbils! Where be de George Floyd angel bro on tops of de tree?

De Congressional Black Caucus

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (gm9Sb)

175 When the tap dancer in the blue dress smiled, I could see her uvula.
Posted by: huerfano at December 04, 2025 05:06 PM (98kQX)

You misspelled penis.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (GgaPN)

176 > I grew up a colored lights kid, but when I saw the white lights at my wealthier friends' house, i became a White Lights Aspirant.
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Everbody knows... White is Right!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (NwnyJ)

177 147 Speaking of Christmas, Princess Sparkles is getting eviscerated over her Netflix Christmas special.
Posted by: Jordan61

Brady Bunch Christmas Special > Star Wars Christmas Special > Princess Sparkle's Christmas Special. And that includes the Brady Bunch kids singing.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (WDjG6)

178
The key is to use a penny in the fusebox, otherwise you will be burning them out twice a day.
Posted by: toby928

lolol, you shoulda been in that A Christmas Story movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (UQlqo)

179 It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (jV8WQ)

180 We were pretty much blue lights people.

Oh, you mean the Christmas tree! Yeah, colored lights, all the way.

Posted by: Paco at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (mADJX)

181 I don't gaf what color they are. I just want them to keep working when one bulb burns out. Why is that so much to ask?

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (sLLbN)

182 White lights on the tree, colored lights outdoors.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (kz78D)

183 Can drop some serious coin on artificial trees..yowza!
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (/6GbT)

The idea is to reuse em. And I saw a streamer spend 600 on a real tree .... it was a large one.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

184 I use colored lights mostly. I do have a few strands of white lights hanging though. My Christmas 🎄 are small and decorated with leftover decorations. Bachelor Christmas trees! 😀

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (sAmhv)

185
We need the old post by Dave in Texas (RIP) about his personal Christmas tree with all the kitschy ornaments on it.
Posted by: Bulg

Really wish wordpress hadn't behaved like an asshoe his last few years. I feel like we were robbed of his intellect and humor too early.

Gonna go kick some fucking pigons now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (QVmho)

186 OH, also growing up, we had some shaped glass lights. Santa, Rudolph, Stocking, Christmas House, that were all hand painted. Just a few of them that gradually burned out throug my childhood. I think the last was the house. So sad!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (e/Osv)

187 You know what Sauron, The Dark Lord, decorates his house with?


Wraiths.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (BFff5)

188 @179

>> It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

Might as well go for sit down Chinese, this way you can get a big pot of tea.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

189 165 The wealthy people I knew had more than one tree and each tree had a different theme. They had like 6 or 7 trees and the florist would decorate them.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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If it is worth one ostentatious display, it is so much better with six or seven.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (WDjG6)

190 I don't gaf what color they are. I just want them to keep working when one bulb burns out. Why is that so much to ask?
Posted by: spongeworthy at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (sLLbN)

And destroy a hallowed xmas tradition?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)

191 Michelle Obama's Christmas message.

Listen, fool!
You haven't been respecting me enough! I'm like Jesus, persecuted for being perfect. And you bastards better be better or I'm gonna be all up in your grill. Particularly you crackers.

Happy Holidays, fool!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)

192 Lovely!! So nice to have classy people back in the White House. I especially love the needlepoint pictures of President Trump and Washington. So fun!!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (k9OZB)

193 I have a fake tree with built-in lights. You can pick colored, white, or alternating. Right now it's alternating because I'm too lazy to figure out how to make it stay on white.

While mother was in the assisted living center and not ambulatory, she was wanting those four foot high bogus trees that adorned the front porch of her former home. Had all the lights and a timer built-in, but the cats pissed them all up and there was no way I was going to store them or bring them in.

Off to Wallymart where in the Trailer Trash section of the store, were these light fiber really bogus looking three foot tall "trees" that were constantly changing in colors in the hundreds of strands. Absolutely hideous and a mockery of Christmas decorations - so I bought three of them.

Day 1: "Are you kidding?"
Day 3: The cares love them - I love them too.
Jan 2nd: She gives them to the cares.
Shortly thereafter, joined the Eternal Choir.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (PVBkQ)

194 When I was a kid, we had spruce tree that straddled the lot that our house was on and the neighboring lot, where a sweet old lady lived. Every Christmas my Dad would put colored lights on it. I think the old lady and he went halvesies on the cost.

It's a very nice memory.

Posted by: Bulg at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

195 Colored lights 100%. White lights are for people who no longer profess to be Christians or who are embarrassed by their Christianity, or afraid to proclaim it loudly.

When you go from colors to white, the next step is no lights; in other words, the erasure of the holiday.

Posted by: CloseTheFed at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (lZILf)

196 Colored lughts when I was a kid.

White lights now. With a sweet kitty cat napping on her heated bed under the tree.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (W2Pud)

197 Every time I think about the idea that we have a super model as first lady, I smile.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (0U5gm)

198 It's lots of fun, Ben Had. The kids get so excited for Santa and the tree lighting and carol singing is really nice.

It doesn't hurt that there's a liquor store just off the square serving spiked egg nog, etc.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

199 Heh, colored lights.
The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?

I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Hkcdp)

200 It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

—

You have heard of food delivery, yes?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (kz78D)

201 Anybody else hoping for Melania's decorations to be body paint?

I am just glad we didn't have another Jill Biden horrorshow this year.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (wpS+i)

202 If Trump had made a black person tap-dance in the White House Christmas video, it would be a national scandal.
Posted by: The Nicholas Brothers at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (oftw2)

Of course, if Trump brought gay tranny homosexual dancers to prance around the White House, some people would suddenly be making the case for why having gay tranny homosexuals prancing around the White House is indeed, MAGA.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (F5Pkl)

203 Every time she orders from the China Chef they say 15-20 minutes. It is never 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it is 10, sometimes 30. Never 15-20.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (jV8WQ)

204 White twinkle lights when I was a kid.. We now have lights that change 7 different ways from white to colored , from still to blinking...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (VE6XX)

205 The very last time I went to the Symphony, they had a yute breakdance to the Sugar Plum Fairy thing. It was pretty cringy bad, but the 99% liberal white audience gave him a standing ovation. My wife and I were the only ones seated.

Posted by: Not Down With it at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (oftw2)

206 BTW, I’m a lawyer so we’re not talking blue collar here.

Posted by: CloseTheFed at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (lZILf)

207 Didn't Archie Bunker use a cent instead of a fuse and cause a fire?

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (W7XSX)

208 Nowadays, one color lights and candy canes!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (Hkcdp)

209 You know what Sauron, The Dark Lord, decorates his house with?


Wraiths.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM (BFff5)
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Only if they've failed him...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (ESVrU)

210 Gonna go kick some fucking pigons now.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:10 PM

Sir, you need to up your game.

Posted by: Tom Lehrer at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (Wnv9h)

211 I vaguely remember tinsel from my youth. It must have been such a mess though. No wonder it’s no longer a thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (kz78D)

212 You have heard of food delivery, yes?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM

Not gonna happen.

*shakes fist at clouds*

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (jV8WQ)

213 the two inch long candelabra based colored lights wired in series so they all went out if one burned out accompanied by what my folks called "italian lights," also multi colored. the big ones were kind of pastelish and the little ones a bit sparklier.

Posted by: cmeat at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (R11M+)

214 =======
If it is worth one ostentatious display, it is so much better with six or seven.
Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (WDjG6)

It bothered me the one in the children's playroom with the train going around it we weren't allowed to touch the train or the decorations. That just seems silly.
Why would you put that in a room with children, unsupervised?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (Cg3Gl)

215 Oh yeah. I remember. Dr. Jill's Cabaret of Gay. Ghastly stuff.

Posted by: Paco at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (mADJX)

216 93 I have a one eyed Rudolf clothespin ornament

with a pegleg, a hook, and a parrot?

Posted by: anachronda at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (v3pYe)

217
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Thank you.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (QVmho)

218 In the Biden video, does the woman in blue actually get smacked in the face right at timestamp 1:29 ?

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (EYvpB)

219 naturalfake, Vermont Country Store, 29.95:

https://tinyurl.com/yysf562u

Lots of fun stuff there!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (enw9G)

Thanks!

This summer we were in Germany. Even in the summer they had these insane Christmass stores stacked to the gills with goodies.

The lovely and normally thrifty Mrs naturalfake could hardly control her excitement.

Felt like Christmas even in July.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (iJfKG)

220
btw, it went by so fast you probably missed it, but last week all the Tik Tok goblins pretended to be economic "experts" and predicted Black Friday sales would be lowest ever because Trump.

Well, they were so close. It was the highest $$ spent BF ever.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (UQlqo)

221 Colored lights. Got a deal on an artificial tree after last Christmas, clear lights only. Added colored lights as well, already owned the strings so I used them. The tree is incandescent clear with LED colored. Just finished the lights on the tree, ornaments tomorrow due to having a fractured foot. Just couldn't complete it all today.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (2NHgQ)

222 Heh, colored lights.
The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?

I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Hkcdp)

Tinsel is fine, if you own a maid and don't have to clean it up yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (r/nnx)

223 The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?

I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Hkcdp)

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LOL. My family stopped doing tinsel when I was about 5.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (DRSnL)

224 Michelle Obama's Christmas message.

Who could forget Joe Biden's Christmas message of looking forward to a Winter of Sickness And Death?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (+4Cf6)

225 211 I vaguely remember tinsel from my youth. It must have been such a mess though. No wonder it’s no longer a thing.

it's all cheerful and merry until some of it gets sucked up into your laptop.

Posted by: anachronda at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (v3pYe)

226 Heh, colored lights.
The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?

I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Hkcdp)

concerning when the cats eat it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (8avO+)

227 De Congressional Black Caucus
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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They believe in Green all right for the season just like the other Congress critters.

Important tip though, you gotta keep the Green in the Refrigerator though in order to keep it cold, hard, cash. Crisper drawer if you want the bundles of Franklins to stay crisp.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

228 Willowed from previous thread (sorry, but I had to be on business conference call. The nerve of some people!): Folks driving by Tampon Tim's home and shouting "Retard!" may be the most Minnesota form of terrorism imaginable.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (sFNX2)

229
" Lights? You had lights?
Posted by: Weasel"
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We had to set our earwax on fire!
Posted by: fd

Fiona? Is that you?
- Shrek

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (QVmho)

230 I was thinking that I have never gone to a ballet and I want to. But if they are going pull that shit, no thank you.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (W7XSX)

231 Ahem...I'm sorry, but we don't say "colored lights" anymore. We say "African American lights".

Posted by: Orson at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (dIske)

232 I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. My Jewish friends called our Christmas tree a Hanukkah Bush. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (BFff5)

233 >> It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

Iffin' it were me, I'd tell her to drive safely.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (Y1sOo)

234 Of course, if Trump brought gay tranny homosexual dancers to prance around the White House, some people would suddenly be making the case for why having gay tranny homosexuals prancing around the White House is indeed, MAGA.
Posted by: BurtTC

The conservative case for gay Christmas!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (kz78D)

235 I am definitely a colored lights guy. If a bulb goes out, I claim it is fine, it's just ultraviolet.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (wpS+i)

236 Colored lights. Got a deal on an artificial tree after last Christmas, clear lights only. Added colored lights as well, already owned the strings so I used them. The tree is incandescent clear with LED colored. Just finished the lights on the tree, ornaments tomorrow due to having a fractured foot. Just couldn't complete it all today.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 04, 2025 05:13 PM (2NHgQ)

hope your poor foot recovers well, neverenoughcaffeine!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:15 PM (8avO+)

237 And, in follow up, "black lights" are still a thing when looking for bodily fluids on a bed spread.

Posted by: Orson at December 04, 2025 05:15 PM (dIske)

238 199 Heh, colored lights.
The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?

I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Hkcdp)

I bought some cheap pine cone picks and they had glitter on them and I don't like glitter. Tinsel was fun when I was a kid but I don't want to clean that up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 05:15 PM (Cg3Gl)

239 I feel bad about my Target decorated stairway, but it's hard for me to part with $25 per foot for a natural looking garland.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 04, 2025 05:15 PM (2ap+5)

240 Next light question-- should the be blinking?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (wpS+i)

241 I remember seeing the blue butterflies the other night. Melania knows her way around beauty!

Posted by: t-bird at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (hLZfT)

242 203 Every time she orders from the China Chef they say 15-20 minutes. It is never 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it is 10, sometimes 30. Never 15-20.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (jV8WQ)

Bwahahahahah,....our local place says 30-45 minutes and show up in like 15-20. We ALSO cut their delivery time in half. in our heads And THAT is called "customer service"!!!!!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (e/Osv)

243 I vaguely remember tinsel from my youth. It must have been such a mess though. No wonder it’s no longer a thing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (kz78D)

Plus I think they tried to claim it was made of asbestos or ebola virus or something horrible.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (YpWtw)

244 >> It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

Iffin' it were me, I'd tell her to drive safely.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM

I have to sleep sometime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (jV8WQ)

245 Small town America is the best.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

Do I sound overly bitchy if I ask when the Quahog festival is held?

In contrast, my small town used to hold celebrations of the Winter Olympics on fourth of July because the weather was nicer in the Summer

Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (rbvCR)

246 Colored lights 100%. White lights are for people who no longer profess to be Christians or who are embarrassed by their Christianity, or afraid to proclaim it loudly.

When you go from colors to white, the next step is no lights; in other words, the erasure of the holiday.

Posted by: CloseTheFed



Say what? White lights all the way, more specifically, clear lights, that illuminate the ornaments far better than colored lights.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (0U5gm)

247 It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

Iffin' it were me, I'd tell her to drive safely.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (Y1sOo)


call it trauma bonding and pick up some beer on the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (8avO+)

248 Plenty of tinsel when I was a kid. And Ma Paco would do elaborate wrapping of the presents; was a shame to have to open them (but I persevered; greed almost always wins out over sentimentality).

Posted by: Paco at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (mADJX)

249 Oh, and at Chez Tell, we have real candles on our Christmas tree - tradition I picked up in Denmark. It almost gave a fireman friend a coronary.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (sFNX2)

250 Um, you know don't you that Hobby Lobby has Christmas stuff for sale all year long?

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (W7XSX)

251 Decorations aside, I think I would enjoy a conversation with Melania Trump who seems like a very nice and interesting woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (looXz)

252
LOL. My family stopped doing tinsel when I was about 5.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (DRSnL)

If I think about it I think our parents only let us use it once, I'm sure that stuff was found forever in the horrible shag carpet.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (Cg3Gl)

253 When you go from colors to white, the next step is no lights; in other words, the erasure of the holiday.

Posted by: CloseTheFed

in Physics, white is all the colors. Diversity!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (8avO+)

254 Oh geez, forgot about the pets eating tinsel!
Tinsel puke was gross, but better than a dead kitty.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (Hkcdp)

255 It bothered me the one in the children's playroom with the train going around it we weren't allowed to touch the train or the decorations. That just seems silly.
Why would you put that in a room with children, unsupervised?
Posted by: CaliGirl
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For appearances is my guess. Nowadays it would be to have perfect social media pix to post.

Personally, I always liked people that did homemade decorations whether nativity scenes, giant painted plywood Santas, etc.

Way back in the day, I worked in an adjacent department next to the Sears Christmas Shop. To this day, I will buy no decorations that make any kind of obnoxious noises.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

256 Every time she orders from the China Chef they say 15-20 minutes. It is never 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it is 10, sometimes 30. Never 15-20.
Posted by: toby928(c)



I just hate their drive through:

"Annnnnd, then?"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (0U5gm)

257 I go back and forth. White lights look striking and elegant, but they can also look cold. I am doing multi-colored lights this year.
I think there is a cheeriness and warmth to them.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (5WRNg)

258 Lizzy, I love old fashioned tinsel too! yes, messy, but a big childhood memory.

I have tinsel now, but really REALLY old fashioned--thin tin strip icicles about 4-5" long, that are spiral-twisted and formed into a hook on the end. Come in a tube/tin with a cork stopper, and there are enough to do a good sized tree, and catch the light well with the twist design.

Another Vermont Country Store goodie.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (enw9G)

259 Oh, and at Chez Tell, we have real candles on our Christmas tree - tradition I picked up in Denmark. It almost gave a fireman friend a coronary.
Posted by: Martin Tell at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (sFNX2)

tell him you are using blowtorches this year.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)

260 Next light question-- should the be blinking?
Posted by: tankdemon
......

I think that means the battery is low.

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (v0R5T)

261 248 Plenty of tinsel when I was a kid. And Ma Paco would do elaborate wrapping of the presents; was a shame to have to open them (but I persevered; greed almost always wins out over sentimentality).
Posted by: Paco at December 04, 2025 05:16 PM (mADJX)

My father was the MASTER of tape,....felt like I had to use the "jaws of life" to open something he had wrapped....

_SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (e/Osv)

262 246:Thomas Paine

I honestly can't tell if that's satire or not.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (sAmhv)

263 Ahh..the silver tinsel went on the real tree and the rope style went on the artificial. Mom also had a mini hand painted village that would be spread out with white linen and cotton ball snow hills

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (/6GbT)

264 A group in my old town used to put out luminaries along the roads in various neighborhoods around town. Everyone along the routes would turn off their house lights other than Christmas decorations on Christmas Eve and everyone would drive around, slowly with headlights off, and check out all the decorations. It was especially pretty when we had a white Christmas.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (viF8m)

265 I bought new bubble lights about four years ago. They may still make them

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 04, 2025 05:18 PM (+mUZM)

266 Movie "The Thin Man". Nora gives Nick an air gun and he's picking off decorations on the tree, Christmas Morning, still drunk. Puts one through the window.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 04, 2025 05:19 PM (gm9Sb)

267 Haven't seen a flocked Christmas tree in ages.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:19 PM (sDNVV)

268 Way back in the day, I worked in an adjacent department next to the Sears Christmas Shop. To this day, I will buy no decorations that make any kind of obnoxious noises.
Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

so no cats?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

269 White lights now. With a sweet kitty cat napping on her heated bed under the tree.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 04, 2025 05:11 PM

My sister's cats love to just sit and stare at the lighted tree. It's apparently mesmerizing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 04, 2025 05:19 PM (kgE5c)

270 If I think about it I think our parents only let us use it once, I'm sure that stuff was found forever in the horrible shag carpet.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (Cg3Gl)

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Ha! I think it was probably the same year I wasn't allowed to have Play-Doh anymore.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 04, 2025 05:19 PM (DRSnL)

271 254 Oh geez, forgot about the pets eating tinsel!
Tinsel puke was gross, but better than a dead kitty.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM
Or seeing tinsel hanging out the dog’s butt. Ho ho ho!

Posted by: Eromero at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (i+bC1)

272 169 @153

>> Jamaican Kwanzaa decorations.

Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

They celebrate Christmas like normal people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)


I know best about the worldwide holiday celebration traditions of people celebrating holidays using traditional holiday decorations, enabling them to faithfully celebrate holidays in their countries using the traditional decorations for each holiday. So you are wrong! /cackle-cackle-cackle/

Posted by: Kamala '107 Days of Kwanzaa' Harris at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (5rh/l)

273 We have a family story, Grandpa said that when he was very young they were still using candles on the tree, and one year the tree caught fire and was put out by dousing it with the dishwater. With candles, you lit them, stood back and said, "awww," and then put them out.
They got Electric in the town about 1910

Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (rbvCR)

274 I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. My Jewish friends called our Christmas tree a Hanukkah Bush. Heh.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:14 PM (BFff5)

I dated a gal named Gail Silverman [Not her real last name, but similar enough].

Cute as could be, but she was not pleased when I referred to her patch as her Hanukkah bush.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (Md1Bq)

275 Thanks oldcat.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (2NHgQ)

276 Coloured lights can hypnotize, sparkle someone else's eyes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (L/fGl)

277 I vaguely remember tinsel from my youth. It must have been such a mess though. No wonder it’s no longer a thing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald


It was conductive. Somebody says they aren't going to pick up that mess by hand, breaks out the vacuum cleaner, and shorts it out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (0U5gm)

278 Oh, and the fake snow in the spray cans.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (sDNVV)

279 Nice to have a First Lady with some taste and class.

Posted by: And who's actually female at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (TbWk/)

280 Melania has made the WH beautiful again.

Posted by: Jmel at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (bVhJi)

281 It's pouring down rain and Mrs928 has decided she wants takeout Chinese.

This is why a couple of Hungry Man dinners in the freezer are a good thing.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (W7XSX)

282 >>Do I sound overly bitchy if I ask when the Quahog festival is held?

The seafood festival is in August.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (viF8m)

283 Decorations aside, I think I would enjoy a conversation with Melania Trump who seems like a very nice and interesting woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
......

She replied to my Mom with a wonderful letter and autographed letter during her husband's first term.
My Mom had written concerned about her health.

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

284
But, really, do you know what ruined Christmas decorations.

LED lights.

The warm incandescent glow is GONE.

Nothing says "Baby Jesus" like 6,000 Kelvin temperature illumination.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (UQlqo)

285 Tinsel is good if you own cats. You can floss their entire digestive system stem to stern with it.

Posted by: Little Friskies at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (oftw2)

286 242 203 Every time she orders from the China Chef they say 15-20 minutes. It is never 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it is 10, sometimes 30. Never 15-20.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 04, 2025 05:12 PM (jV8WQ)

Bwahahahahah,....our local place says 30-45 minutes and show up in like 15-20. We ALSO cut their delivery time in half. in our heads And THAT is called "customer service"!!!!!

-SLV

Our local place says. "You no call no more. You clazy. We no deliver that far."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (vd6bO)

287 I've got two of the three trees decorated, the kiddie tree in the family room and the one on the small balcony in the back. Little old lady who lives a few doors down loves to see that one from her kitchen window.

The main tree has lighting issues. Grrrrrrr. Don't get me started on Balsam Hill. Bookoo bucks and they're made in China and customer service is in India. Waiting on a new one that's not coming until the 8th.

I used to do lights outside on the house and bushes, but now I put live wreaths with red bows and white lights on each of the windows and doors. Much easier and I think it looks better too. Win-win.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (3ImbR)

288 autographed picture
sheesh

Posted by: wth at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

289 Aren't African-Americans dressed as porters and tap-dancing sort of racist?

Posted by: Socratease at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (YgfoU)

290 In a bureau drawer of my Grand parent's house were a cunch of clip on small 3/8tg inch width maybe candle holders for the Christmas tree.
Brave people in the twenties/thirties.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (sl73Y)

291 I like multi-colored lights.

My Dad, though, loved blue and green. He had strings of the old timey bulbs, and took the time to make sure they were blue, green, etc.

Mom had a ton of very old ornaments, many of them works of art. Not sure who get those now that she has passed away.

We always got a real tree. Dad was like Clark Griswold without the malignant narcissism. I actually loved traipsing around the North Fork of the Shoshone in deep snow, looking for the right tree. I am weird that way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (0aYVJ)

292 Yeah but, Dr. Jill Biden's Christmas was LGBTQ friendly. (Straights friendly not so much.)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (Dv3i1)

293 "Movie "The Thin Man". Nora gives Nick an air gun and he's picking off decorations on the tree, Christmas Morning, still drunk. Puts one through the window."

That was when America was still free.

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (sFNX2)

294 I prefer colored lights.

On this day, December 4 1981, President Reagan signs executive order No. 12333 that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence. (According to 'onthisday dot com')

Posted by: Glenn at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (nvKZ7)

295
You drive by Christmas lights and it's like getting an X-Ray.

LED lights are the Devil's dingleberries.

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (UQlqo)

296 No love for Pink Floyd's "The Wall"? It is the modern day Christmas Album I tell ya. Nothing like " Comfortably Numb" to get you into the proper Christmas spirit.
Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

I had years like that. I am glad they are past.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (rbvCR)

297
Heh, colored lights.
The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?
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I loooooved tinsel but we only did it a few times. Messy!
Posted by: Lizzy
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Tinsel is fine, if you own a maid and don't have to clean it up yourself.
Posted by: BurtTC

My olde Siamese would eat tinsel. Chased him down trying to outrun a 6" tinsel berry is how we learned that.

No more tinsel.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (QVmho)

298 Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

They celebrate Christmas like normal people.

-
Except for the ganja trees.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)

299 It bothered me the one in the children's playroom with the train going around it we weren't allowed to touch the train or the decorations. That just seems silly.
Why would you put that in a room with children, unsupervised?
Posted by: CaliGirl

I was visiting my sister and they had a train set for their son. We soon were driving the child mad by arranging train collisions. Finally he ordered us not to touch his train.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)

300 Back in the day we had those large multi colored lights that had bulbs you could replace. Yard was 200' wide and I'd light up from one end to the other. Gate on driveway got some detail and of course the house had a lot of lights. You could tell what day of the year consumed the most electricity because DanMa'am kept the lights on all night so Santa Claus could find the house.

Posted by: DanMan at December 04, 2025 05:23 PM (8uzBS)

301 Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

They celebrate Christmas like normal people.

-
Except for the ganja trees.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)

i doubt anyone ever celebrated Kwanza.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)

302 Oh geez, forgot about the pets eating tinsel!
Tinsel puke was gross, but better than a dead kitty.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:17 PM (Hkcdp)

Could be worse, could be doggie doo with tinsel, where the string doesn't come out all the way.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:23 PM (Vvecv)

303 so no cats?
Posted by: Oldcat

Heh. We had a Siamese mix for a long time which provided more than enough noise. Now we have one dog that talks like Scooby Doo and the other one thinks he is a Siamese Cat/Hound mix.

No silent nights around here if they see or hear people are on the street or they see other dogs/deer/other animals.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

304 Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

--

Does anyone actually celebrate Kwanzaa?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 04, 2025 05:24 PM (gDlxJ)

305
What a beautiful video.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:24 PM (xacU7)

306 But, really, do you know what ruined Christmas decorations.

LED lights.

The warm incandescent glow is GONE.

Nothing says "Baby Jesus" like 6,000 Kelvin temperature illumination.

Posted by: Soothsayer



One should be able to come in from the yard with a fresh pile of firewood, and warm their hands on the tree.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:24 PM (0U5gm)

307 Again the big decision is whether to put up the small Lionel O scale layout around the tree (locomotive and a few cars repaired 10 years ago, transformer original still working). Mostly do it if we're going to have guests but recent years ends up we don't have many guests during "the season". So indolence has a strong argument to pass on it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (U/Byj)

308 When they did candles on the tree, the tree was cut right before Christmas. It didn't get a chance to dry out. One year, we did candles on a little tree in the front yard. That was fun. It was raining a bit, so we didn't even have to worry about fire.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (+mUZM)

309 Michelle had to put Donald on a leash to keep the gold out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (xacU7)

310 Barbarausa, those sound like cook ornaments!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (Hkcdp)

311 Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

They celebrate Christmas like normal people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 04, 2025 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)

Nobody celebrates it. They announce it. And what's with the math, Mr. Roman 15/π?

Posted by: t-bird at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (hLZfT)

312 I prefer colored lights.
________

LIGHTS OF COLOR!

Posted by: Speech Police Cat Lady at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (Dv3i1)

313 "We didn't come to New York to stay sober."

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (W7XSX)

314 304 Jamaicans don’t celebrate Kwanza.

--

Does anyone actually celebrate Kwanzaa?
Prolly Nancy "Take a knee" Pelosi

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (vd6bO)

315 CRS moment. Who was the commenter that had a Jamaican wife that was such a good cook?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (sDNVV)

316 I had years like that. I am glad they are past.
Posted by: Kindltot
=========
Like Satchell Paige said, "Don't look behind ya, something might be gaining on ya."

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:26 PM (WDjG6)

317 >>>The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?
~~~~~

We did tinsel--the aluminum (?) kind, not the plastic stuff they have nowadays.

Always thought people who used garland were rich.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:26 PM (3ImbR)

318
They tore down the East Wing where baby Jesus was born!

Posted by: Lib Historian at December 04, 2025 05:26 PM (IifOV)

319 My olde Siamese would eat tinsel. Chased him down trying to outrun a 6" tinsel berry is how we learned that.

No more tinsel.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (QVmho)

Tinsel berry...

I'm still larfing.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (d9xWE)

320 "Movie "The Thin Man". Nora gives Nick an air gun and he's picking off decorations on the tree, Christmas Morning, still drunk. Puts one through the window."

where was Skippy?

Thin Man movies were cool. I'd like to be able to speed talk the way they did.

Posted by: DanMan at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (8uzBS)

321 I used to have those plastic follicles you attach over the light so the light displays at their very tips. I probably still have them in some box in the attic. They were very 1970's. So there are likely tiny disco balls in that box as well. I can recall a Santa Claus ornament where he's wearing sunglasses as well.

I'm classy.

Posted by: Orson at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (dIske)

322 Tinsel is good if you own cats. You can floss their entire digestive system stem to stern with it.
Posted by: Little Friskies at December 04, 2025 05:21 PM (oftw2)

My cats eat long pine needles from a tree in the sideyard that blow about my tiny yard. they are 6 inches long or more but somehow they can get them digested without dying.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (8avO+)

323 I used to do lights outside on the house and bushes, but now I put live wreaths with red bows and white lights on each of the windows and doors. Much easier and I think it looks better too. Win-win.
Posted by: IrishEi

Nope, looks cheapskate. People with old houses that stick a lone candle in each window think it looks historic and upscale, phooey! We want glitz, lights, the more the better!

Posted by: We Want The Airwaves! at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (oftw2)

324 >>Always thought people who used garland were rich.

Says the woman with 3 Christmas trees.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (viF8m)

325
What happened to Michelle's butt buggers?
Not one I tell you.
And that Nativity scene, I'm calling the ACLU, right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (xacU7)

326 Nutcracker Suite
Posted by: m

In every Nutcracker Suite rendition I've ever seen, Clara didn't run around with her mouth hanging open like that. They have her looking like an imbecile.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (0Htd1)

327 308 When they did candles on the tree, the tree was cut right before Christmas. It didn't get a chance to dry out. One year, we did candles on a little tree in the front yard. That was fun. It was raining a bit, so we didn't even have to worry about fire.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 04, 2025 05:25 PM (+mUZM)

+++++

Yes, and I think back in the day they didn't even cut down a tree until Christmas Eve, so there was a very low chance of a fire erupting with the candles.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 04, 2025 05:28 PM (5WRNg)

328 Nothing says "Baby Jesus" like 6,000 Kelvin temperature illumination.

I wonder why no one ever made a large six pointed star internally illuminated helium gas balloon on 300 yards of 100# fishing line moored over the home.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 04, 2025 05:28 PM (nAS9C)

329 off sock

Posted by: Gref at December 04, 2025 05:28 PM (5rh/l)

330 ...Cute as could be, but she was not pleased when I referred to her patch as her Hanukkah bush.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:20 PM (Md1Bq)


Heh. That's a good one!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 04, 2025 05:28 PM (BFff5)

331 73 Garrett is the only other person who can rock 5" heels!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 04, 2025 04:53 PM

Which is tough with the lack of ankle support in Crocs!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---------

5" Crocs, a dreamers dream.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:28 PM (xacU7)

332 317 >>>The other question is: did you do tinsel or not?
~~~~~

We did tinsel--the aluminum (?) kind, not the plastic stuff they have nowadays.

Always thought people who used garland were rich.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:26 PM (3ImbR)

__________________________

That individual string tinsel is not recommended if you own a cat. You'll have shiny surprises every time you clean out the cat box.

Posted by: Orson at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (dIske)

333 The most 2A friendly DOJ and Administration just kicked gun owners in the junk again.

https://tinyurl.com/4jepxktm

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)

334 Nothing says "Baby Jesus" like 6,000 Kelvin temperature illumination.

Posted by: Soothsayer


also kept all the cats sleeping under it like furry ornaments .

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+)

335 Jill Biden must be a fan of Minstrel shows.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (0Htd1)

336 Only politicians pretend to celebrate Kwanzaa.

Let’s all make Sandra Lee’s Kwanzaa cake!!!
(Bing the video. You’re welcome 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (Hkcdp)

337 White lights on a small artificial tree but the real tree is still multicolored. I am old enough I vaguely remember the aluminum trees with spotlight finally losing out. Those were nice in outside displays but not inside. I do miss the old tinsel, it was made of lead and was banned by the early 70's I think.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (ky7/T)

338 I used to just toss the tinsel onto the tree. Then I saw my mother patiently putting on one strand at a time.

OMG it took her so long. She didn't care. She knew what she was doing and was happy doing it.

It looked amazing.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (W7XSX)

339 Thin Man movies were cool. I'd like to be able to speed talk the way they did.
Posted by: DanMan
======
Lot of those movies had fast dialogue but TV channel execs often speed the movies up the channel is ad supported. They can fit more ads in them.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)

340 As a kid we did tinsel. We had a cat, but he never seemed interested.

As a dad, we never did tinsel. We had a clutch of rilly dumb cats, so we just avoided the whole thing altogether.

I always liked tinsel.

As an aside, Mom and Dad recycled tinsel. Put it back in flat boxes for next Christmas. The Silent Generation in action.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (0aYVJ)

341 Does anyone actually celebrate Kwanzaa?

Posted by: vmom


Yes, some 70 year old hippie in Oakland, along with about seven of his friends. The news crews trying to make it look genuine outnumber the participants.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (0U5gm)

342 >>>Says the woman with 3 Christmas trees.
~~~~~

I was born a poor white child.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (3ImbR)

343 Candles on a Christmas tree are great the day after Christmas. Like Mission Impossible, this tree will self destruct in 5 seconds.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (sDNVV)

344 Put a can of water under the open end of the tree.
You will find it necessary to fill the can daily or more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:31 PM (xacU7)

345 Late to the thread:

Besides the decor looking very tasteful, it warms the cockles of my heart to know that the Lefties are seething that there are no weirdos of indefinite sex mincing about the White House.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 04, 2025 05:31 PM (pJWtt)

346 Please, I beg you people to never send a holiday/birthday/made up crap greeting card with f*cking sparkes on them. Sparkles/glitter is the Devil's ejaculation.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (abIsI)

347
Does anyone actually celebrate Kwanzaa?

Hallmark

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (pkeXY)

348 Lizzy, not familiar with cook ornaments--these are called Victorian tinsel, I think. Tinsel made of...tin, lol.
They are light enough that they quiver a bit when the heat cuts on/off, and sparkle very nicely in the lights.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (enw9G)

349 Is it time for the yearly Crap Tree post?

Posted by: InZona at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (ycr1e)

350 319 My olde Siamese would eat tinsel. Chased him down trying to outrun a 6" tinsel berry is how we learned that.

No more tinsel.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:22 PM (QVmho)

Tinsel berry...

I'm still larfing.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2025 05:27 PM (d9xWE)

OMG, my sides hurt, we had an old tomcat that would have a silver "string" trailing behind him EVERY Christmas...

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (e/Osv)

351 I do miss the old tinsel, it was made of lead and was banned by the early 70's I think.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 04, 2025 05:30 PM (ky7/T)

Really? Lead is a flat grey color and its toxic effects have been known for 2000+ years.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

352 333 The most 2A friendly DOJ and Administration just kicked gun owners in the junk again.

https://tinyurl.com/4jepxktm

Posted by: Maj. Healey

Hate to tell you but part of that law was unconstitutional. States and localities cannot ban police etc from cooperating with the police and making it a criminal action. If you notice, that particular provision has applications to immigration and sanctuary city bullshit.

States and localities cannot be commanded to do federal regulatory action (Clinton v. NY and Printz v. US) but neither states nor localities can legally prevent individual state or local officials from doing so. Old settled law going back to well before the ACW.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)

353
Besides the decor looking very tasteful, it warms the cockles of my heart to know that the Lefties are seething that there are no weirdos of indefinite sex mincing about the White House.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

Looked like beings from the Jaguar galaxy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (pkeXY)

354 5 inch crocs and tinsel?

This thread is ghey

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (z3/Ck)

355 My stress level went down 10000 bilifarbs watching that video.

I laughed at the Trump mug also. The contrast is fitting. Showcases the differences in personalities of the First Couple.

Posted by: Mogsmash at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (JKcHy)

356 We used to buy our Christmas tree on Broadway on Christmas eve. Slim pickings at that time, but the price was right. One year we had to buy two trees and tie them together because they were so scrawny.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (3ImbR)

357 Weirdos of indefinite sex mincing about built this country!

Posted by: Not Your Father's Democrat at December 04, 2025 05:34 PM (Dv3i1)

358 Cook —> cool 😎
Can’t type on phone

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:34 PM (Hkcdp)

359 Is it time for the yearly Crap Tree post?
Posted by: InZona at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (ycr1e)

Alas.

No.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 04, 2025 05:34 PM (0aYVJ)

360 Shawn Ryan interview with CWO4 (ret) Michael Durant, pilot of Super Six Four, of Black Hawk Down fame. Good interview:

https://tinyurl.com/Ryan-Durant

Posted by: Sharkman at December 04, 2025 05:34 PM (/RHNq)

361 I see it's already been linked. I love the Crap Tree post.

Posted by: InZona at December 04, 2025 05:34 PM (ycr1e)

362 OMG, my sides hurt, we had an old tomcat that would have a silver "string" trailing behind him EVERY Christmas...

-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 04, 2025 05:33 PM (e/Osv)

I had a kitten that did the string thing with a newspaper's rubber band. She'd run off with it and hide behind the stove to eat it in peace after i pulled one out of her throat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

363 white light is for reading, and working. Christmas is for COLOR ...

I have a couple multi-color strings up in my kitchen basically as a night light, but they have been on 24/7 for like 12 years now. About 15 watts per string I think. It's really dark out here in the woods, so the color at night is nice.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (vbXSk)

364 Two years ago I started the lights by circling around the trunks of two huge oaks in the front yard.

I had tossed the big multi colored lights and had new strings of white lights and others of blue lights to start with. I had twice as many whites as blues. Each tree had a 2' of white, 2' of blue and another 2' of white.

New neighbors thought I must be a Hebe. Last year I added colored ones on the house too.

Posted by: DanMan at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (8uzBS)

365
Well slap my ass and call me "Sally", but I'm starting to think that J'Blowme and pals may have been pulling our legs about "fully vetting" Afghanis who slithered into our country.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (xG4kz)

366
Please, I beg you people to never send a holiday/birthday/made up crap greeting card with f*cking sparkes on them. Sparkles/glitter is the Devil's ejaculation.

Posted by: Maj. Healey


Why are you flinching? Don't you want a glitter and perfume bomb lap dance?

Posted by: Biden Stripper - at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (QVmho)

367 Lee Tracy had the fast patter talk down perfectly. He was a pretty big star in the 30s that had his career trajectory deflated by an incident in Mexico he may or may not have done.

Posted by: The Front Page at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (oftw2)

368 >>>As an aside, Mom and Dad recycled tinsel. Put it back in flat boxes for next Christmas. The Silent Generation in action.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
---

We did that. Called them Icicles. They were expensive and full of lead. One would toss them onto the tree giving them a natural look. Try tossing tinsel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (xacU7)

369 Palate Cleanser:

===

Yes, finally! We've suffered enough!

Posted by: runner at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (g47mK)

370 ABC’s Martha Raddatz on Wednesday’s ‘World News Tonight’ about drug boat-gate: “And tonight, new information: According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back on to the boat after the initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication with others, and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets. A JAG officer was also giving legal advice. So, again, David, that video will be key and Admiral Bradley will be on the Hill tomorrow behind closed doors.”

-
So the entire story was Bidenshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

371 335 Jill Biden must be a fan of Minstrel shows.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (0Htd1)


The Christmas minstrel shows in Scranton were the best I ever saw, man! Not joking! Not hyperbole! My word as a, as a, hey Jill! What's my last name?

Posted by: Joe ? at December 04, 2025 05:36 PM (5rh/l)

372 I had a kitten that...

Don't let the cat in the house.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (EkAsj)

373 ThEy ArE nOt CoLoReD lIgHtS!! tHeY aRe NoN-wHiTe LiGhTs!

Posted by: ClOwN wOrLd at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (qUkBO)

374 So the entire story was Bidenshit.
____

A transfact!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (Dv3i1)

375 Colored lights only for me!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (uWKK8)

376 >>We used to buy our Christmas tree on Broadway on Christmas eve.

We always put our tree up on Christmas Eve. When my sister and I were kids my parents would send us to bed early and then put up and decorate the tree and the rest of the house and put out the presents. Santa brought everything.

I always wondered why dad was so tired on Christmas morning.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (viF8m)

377 373 ThEy ArE nOt CoLoReD lIgHtS!! tHeY aRe NoN-wHiTe LiGhTs!

Lights OF color

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (EkAsj)

378 So the entire story was Bidenshit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
=======
More generic DemShit. Orangeman is so bad that the Dems have to makeup shit to even claim he acted untowardly as president.

It is because the Media and the Oligarchs funding them are the real Democrat Party intellect, not its hum drum tedious politicians.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (WDjG6)

379 So the entire story was

===

Fake but fake!

Posted by: runner at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (g47mK)

380 oh hecks...Thin Man's dog was Asta, not Skippy

Posted by: DanMan at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (8uzBS)

381 The most 2A friendly DOJ and Administration just kicked gun owners in the junk again.

https://tinyurl.com/4jepxktm

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)

Dude, you are a broken record: you don't like President Trump, and everybody he picks is betraying him.

I listened briefly to the video, the commentator conflates the Dept. of Justice with the Judiciary. The U.S. Supreme Court is not the same thing as the DOJ.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (pJWtt)

382 Lizzy, for you:

https://tinyurl.com/46b36e8c

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (enw9G)

383 About 5 years ago my dad had to pick up new lights for the tree. He got an outdoor set designed for bushes - it’s not a string, it’s a lattice. Takes about 5 seconds to wrap that sucker around the tree - voila! When you’re in your 80’s no time for that sh$t, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (Hkcdp)

384 367 Lee Tracy had the fast patter talk down perfectly. He was a pretty big star in the 30s that had his career trajectory deflated by an incident in Mexico he may or may not have done.
Posted by: The Front Page
=====
Please don't tell me donkeys or Tijuana were involved.

Posted by: whig at December 04, 2025 05:38 PM (WDjG6)

385 The daily mail is flipping out because Noem wore a sombrero at a Mexican restaurant.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 04, 2025 05:39 PM (z3/Ck)

386 Going to grandson's school Christmas program tonight. The entire 4th grade is doing a Nutcracker theme. Grandson is in the Russian dance group. He's been practicing all week. Can't wait to see it.

Posted by: Tuna at December 04, 2025 05:39 PM (lJ0H4)

387 I had a kitten that...

Don't let the cat in the house.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (EkAsj)

how do you think I got the paper in?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 04, 2025 05:39 PM (8avO+)

388
Admiral Bradley will be on the Hill tomorrow behind closed doors.

He let his hair hang down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 04, 2025 05:39 PM (pkeXY)

389 JackStraw, my parents had Santa bring everything too.
My husband and I did it when our kids were little.

(the old ways are best <3 )

Posted by: barbarausa at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (enw9G)

390 The daily mail is flipping out because Noem wore a sombrero at a Mexican restaurant.

Posted by: AlaBAMA



It may very well have been her birthday.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (0U5gm)

391 I remember tinsel being of aluminum.

Posted by: no one at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (W7XSX)

392 I've owned my 07 Caravan for 14 years. It was owned by a family with small children first. I still vacuum glitter out of carpet and upholstery, when cleaning it up.

Posted by: Gary Glitter at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (oftw2)

393 390 The daily mail is flipping out because Noem wore a sombrero at a Mexican restaurant.

Posted by: AlaBAMA



It may very well have been her birthday.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (0U5gm)

Very racist birthday. How dare she!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 04, 2025 05:40 PM (z3/Ck)

394 Have to watch Rudolph tonight. Annual birthday tradition.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (0U5gm)

395
Off tiddy bar sock.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (QVmho)

396 The most 2A friendly DOJ and Administration just kicked gun owners in the junk again.

https://tinyurl.com/4jepxktm

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 04, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)

I gave the guy 90 seconds to get to the meat of the matter, which he didn't do, so I clicked off.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (Y1sOo)

397 I didn't mind the Biden-era Christmas at the White House. The Nutcracker tap-dancers were better than seeing Mrs. Doctor toddling around in fishnet stockings and a dress made out of Christmas-themed upholstery.

I really enjoyed when HGTV or the like used to do "Christmas at the White House" but I'm not sure they still do it. Even Mrs. Obama was relaxed and charming, especially the last one when her little nephew joined her and was sooo excited about the team of horses bringing the tree.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (fxCK2)

398
Today certainly ought to be remembered as a day of video cruelty by Ace.

First the Juguaren't abomination, and now this throwback to "Doctor" Jill's questionable tastes in entertainment.

And to think the good "Doctor" was all agog at being able to surpass whatever in hell Paris did for their Summer Olympics shows. One can only imagine the visual and audio horrors that we dodged.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (xG4kz)

399 There was a video during late Biden Junta years with people of indeterminate sex, dancing or zooming through the White House which was startling and disturbing.

Posted by: Baldy at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (4/qdm)

400 376. Jackstraw-

Same here. One Christmas Eve / Christmas morning my Dad was up to 0400 assembling a toy washer and dryer set for one of my sisters. He took a long nap at my grandparents that Christmas afternoon.

Posted by: Dad of Six at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (+OGAU)

401 387 I had a kitten that...

Don't let the cat in the house.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (EkAsj)

how do you think I got the paper in?

I guess everybody's gotta earn a living...ours does it by dropping dead rats on the doorstep - good kitty, here's some tuna for ya...now go get another one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 04, 2025 05:41 PM (EkAsj)

402 >>JackStraw, my parents had Santa bring everything too.
My husband and I did it when our kids were little.

It was magic. I will never forget how exciting it was to come downstairs on Christmas morning and see everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:42 PM (viF8m)

403 I now have to put up our lights.

Might just toss the strings up on the roof and call it good.

To be honest... our first Christmas here was... bleak. A strand of green lights on the stoop and my wife's grape vine deer with a red nose.

Sad

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 04, 2025 05:42 PM (NwnyJ)

404 Did no one ever tell the Bidens that having colored folk do the ol' soft-shoe to entertain massa went out of fashion along with minstrel shows, and is now considered RAYCISS?

Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2025 05:42 PM (oraVG)

405 Please, I beg you people to never send a holiday/birthday/made up crap greeting card with f*cking sparkes on them. Sparkles/glitter is the Devil's ejaculation.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 04, 2025 05:32 PM (abIsI)

Got some of the gift label stickers with glitter on them one year.

I advise everybody not to do that unless you want to still see glitter in the carpet out of the corner of your eye as you walk by in February.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 04, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

406 I always wondered why dad was so tired on Christmas morning.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2025 05:37 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~

Your parents were saints to do all that. I hope smart aleck little Jack appreciated it.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 04, 2025 05:42 PM (3ImbR)

407 Oh wow, those are lovely ornaments!! And the aren’t fragile, a major plus.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2025 05:43 PM (Hkcdp)

408 Superman bitch slaps Jessica Tarlov with a single Superword.

Jessica Tarlov
@JessicaTarlov
Shifting the blame onto Admiral Bradley doesn’t change the facts. It’s a crime to kill the shipwrecked.


Dean Cain
@RealDeanCain
“shipwrecked”???

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 04, 2025 05:43 PM (L/fGl)

409
I remember my mom getting her vaccuum brush bar clogged with tinsel and I'd have to take it off, and cut it all off with a steak knife, reassemble it and 3 minutes later have to do it all over again.

Christmas in the 80's.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 04, 2025 05:43 PM (IifOV)

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Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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