OT: 108th Obsequious Banter Thread: Nine dozen eggs and not one broken

[BernieParent]

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the forums
Not a poster was stirring, not even a Thatcher Venmo;
The posts were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Appleyard soon would be there;
The HiveMind were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of Giroux and Ghost danced in their heads;
And BernieParent in his goalie mask, and MSE in his ten gallon hat,
Had just settled our Starat Jr. and GapToothWanderer Jr. for a long winter's nap,
When out on the HF Boards there arose such a chatter,
BigToe sprang from his bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the PC he flew like The Flash,
Clicked open the browser and his mouse he mashed.
The Cap'n Dave stood on the beast of the hockey guy glow,
Gave a lustre of hope to HF Flyers below,
When what to Toe's wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature supercomputer and eight advanced hockey metricians,
With a young driver so smart and quick,
Toe knew in a moment he must be St. Appleyard.
More rapid than autoclick his mouse cursor came,
And Applyard whistled, and shouted, and cheered them by name:
"Now, Jojo! now, Magua! now FLYguy and DancingPanther!
On, pit! on, LegionOfDoom91! on, kudymen and KermitTheProg!
To the top of the forum! to the top of HF Flyers!
Now post away! meme away! keyboard noise away all!"
As likes that after the rush of posts fly,
When they meet with an Anti HiveMinder, meme'd to the sky;
So up to the top of the total like records they flew
With the supercomputer full of stats, and St. Appleyard too—
And then, in a twinkling, Toe heard on the roof
The calculating and number crunching of each little click.
As Toe drew in his head, and was turning around,
Down the forums St. Appleyard came with a bound.
He was dressed all in plad, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all filled with formulas and stats;
A bundle of scouting reports he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a smart guy just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a berry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pen he held tight in his teeth,
And all the stats, it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a slender face and a little taut belly
That shook when he laughed, like a Snorlax made of jelly.
He was tall and thin, a right jolly old nerd,
And Toe laughed when he saw him, in spite of himself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave Toe to know he had nothing to dread;
Appleyard spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the prospect reports; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his pen aside of his ear,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his supercomputer, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to HF Flyers and SurroundedByAhos, and to all a good night!”


Merry Christmas ladies and gents! We survived another year of this accursed franchise. Hope y'all have lots of laughter and fun with your loved ones creating special memories.

 

[DancingPanther]

Shoresy > Letterkenny

It's f***ing close for me. Shoresy was so good

 

[DancingPanther]

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the forums
Not a poster was stirring, not even a Thatcher Venmo;
The posts were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Appleyard soon would be there;
The HiveMind were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of Giroux and Ghost danced in their heads;
And BernieParent in his goalie mask, and MSE in his ten gallon hat,
Had just settled our Starat Jr. and GapToothWanderer Jr. for a long winter's nap,
When out on the HF Boards there arose such a chatter,
BigToe sprang from his bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the PC he flew like The Flash,
Clicked open the browser and his mouse he mashed.
The Cap'n Dave stood on the beast of the hockey guy glow,
Gave a lustre of hope to HF Flyers below,
When what to Toe's wondering eyes did appear,
But a miniature supercomputer and eight advanced hockey metricians,
With a young driver so smart and quick,
Toe knew in a moment he must be St. Appleyard.
More rapid than autoclick his mouse cursor came,
And Applyard whistled, and shouted, and cheered them by name:
"Now, Jojo! now, Magua! now FLYguy and DancingPanther!
On, pit! on, LegionOfDoom91! on, kudymen and KermitTheProg!
To the top of the forum! to the top of HF Flyers!
Now post away! meme away! keyboard noise away all!"
As likes that after the rush of posts fly,
When they meet with an Anti HiveMinder, meme'd to the sky;
So up to the top of the total like records they flew
With the supercomputer full of stats, and St. Appleyard too—
And then, in a twinkling, Toe heard on the roof
The calculating and number crunching of each little click.
As Toe drew in his head, and was turning around,
Down the forums St. Appleyard came with a bound.
He was dressed all in plad, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all filled with formulas and stats;
A bundle of scouting reports he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a smart guy just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a berry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pen he held tight in his teeth,
And all the stats, it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a slender face and a little taut belly
That shook when he laughed, like a Snorlax made of jelly.
He was tall and thin, a right jolly old nerd,
And Toe laughed when he saw him, in spite of himself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave Toe to know he had nothing to dread;
Appleyard spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the prospect reports; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his pen aside of his ear,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his supercomputer, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to HF Flyers and SurroundedByAhos, and to all a good night!”


Merry Christmas ladies and gents! We survived another year of this accursed franchise. Hope y'all have lots of laughter and fun with your loved ones creating special memories.

I'm proud to be an Appleyard minion

 

[mja]

I can pretty much guarantee I will since I listen to some of everything. I've only gotten to one so far, but I'm adding them all to a giant Tidal playlist and letting it rip. I'm just busy with family stuff for the next couple of days. We also have a recovering friend over for the holidays since the dipshit laid his bike down doing 85 leaving our house, so it's more busy than usual.

So far I've only gotten to the first suggestion of "The Raven That Refused To Sing" from @Kermit the Prog and it's nutty in a good way. The album went right onto the "I need to pull my head out of my ass" work playlist.

Give this one a spin:

I haven't heard much of it at all, but I haven't heard anything by them that I didn't like. I would be pretty into them if I still listened to much music, the same way I was into Velocity Girl in days of yore.

You'd be into it. I sure am right now.

 

[sabremike]

 

[Asnito]

Question for the board.

I was out in West Chester today and I came across a couple of dogs running around like they were in the middle of the park on a semi busy street.

After tracking them for 3 blocks I managed to corral them and get them in my car. Luckily they had the owners number on their collars and I got them back home.

The dilemma I'm facing is the lady that owns the dogs wants to pay me (Venmo). She said I 'Saved Christmas' and judging by the crying kids I heard in the background when I called her it would have certainly put a damper on things.

I'm kinda of struggling with this. I did it because it was the right thing to do not for a reward. Do I accept the money?

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Question for the board.

I was out in West Chester today and I came across a couple of dogs running around like they were in the middle of the park on a semi busy street.

After tracking them for 3 blocks I managed to corral them and get them in my car. Luckily they had the owners number on their collars and I got them back home.

The dilemma I'm facing is the lady that owns the dogs wants to pay me (Venmo). She said I 'Saved Christmas' and judging by the crying kids I heard in the background when I called her it would have certainly put a damper on things.

I'm kinda of struggling with this. I did it because it was the right thing to do not for a reward. Do I accept the money?

If she absolutely insists on paying you, you could always just donate the money to the Red Cross, or an animal shelter or something.

 

[Tripod]

Question for the board.

I was out in West Chester today and I came across a couple of dogs running around like they were in the middle of the park on a semi busy street.

After tracking them for 3 blocks I managed to corral them and get them in my car. Luckily they had the owners number on their collars and I got them back home.

The dilemma I'm facing is the lady that owns the dogs wants to pay me (Venmo). She said I 'Saved Christmas' and judging by the crying kids I heard in the background when I called her it would have certainly put a damper on things.

I'm kinda of struggling with this. I did it because it was the right thing to do not for a reward. Do I accept the money?

It's OK to accept it because for her, rewarding you is the right thing to do for your selfless act of kindness.

Well done.

 

[Asnito]

If she absolutely insists on paying you, you could always just donate the money to the Red Cross, or an animal shelter or something.

Hadn't thought of that, good idea

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Hadn't thought of that, good idea

Yeah, you don't have any reason to feel bad - quite the contrary. Great f***ing job, dude

 

[Lord Defect]

Question for the board.

I was out in West Chester today and I came across a couple of dogs running around like they were in the middle of the park on a semi busy street.

After tracking them for 3 blocks I managed to corral them and get them in my car. Luckily they had the owners number on their collars and I got them back home.

The dilemma I'm facing is the lady that owns the dogs wants to pay me (Venmo). She said I 'Saved Christmas' and judging by the crying kids I heard in the background when I called her it would have certainly put a damper on things.

I'm kinda of struggling with this. I did it because it was the right thing to do not for a reward. Do I accept the money?

Tell her you appreciate the gesture, but no thank you. If she insists, ask her to use the money to buy something nice for the dog(s).
If she insists still, graciously accept it and spend the money on the quackverse store.

I know it’s going to merge, so I’ll say auto merge sucks dick and get that out of the way.
The wife, amazing as always, got me a gaming laptop for Christmas. It’s a Razor 14 or something along the lines.
I need a new game that this thing can be pushed to the limits as I haven’t had a laptop that’s been able to play any major games without needing the settings turned way down before.
Any suggestions?

 

[Lord Defect]

Merry Christmas everyone!
Happy Hanukkah for those that celebrate.

 

[VladDrag]

Merry Xmas to all!!

Heating oil ran out at 2:30am today. So that’s going to make for a wonderful Xmas for the family. I just put 10 gal of diesel fuel in the tank to get thru today/tomorrow.

 

[Chinatown88]

 

[gertbfrobe16]

Getting Knee Surgery January 5th, Need recommendations on stuff to watch.

Already watched this year: Peaky Blinders, 1883, Abbott Elementary, The Old Man, Better Call Saul, House of Dragon, Underground Railroad, White Lotus, Raised by Wolves, Squid Game, Barry, The Flight Attendant, Mando, Mayor of Kingstown, Deadwood, Z Nation....

Babylon Berlin.

 

[gertbfrobe16]

At this joyous time of year, I wish you loads of xmas cheer. Happy Holidays Gang.

 

[ajgoal]

Merry Christmas all.

May you and your families have a wonderful day.

 

[BernieParent]

Question for the board.

I was out in West Chester today and I came across a couple of dogs running around like they were in the middle of the park on a semi busy street.

After tracking them for 3 blocks I managed to corral them and get them in my car. Luckily they had the owners number on their collars and I got them back home.

The dilemma I'm facing is the lady that owns the dogs wants to pay me (Venmo). She said I 'Saved Christmas' and judging by the crying kids I heard in the background when I called her it would have certainly put a damper on things.

I'm kinda of struggling with this. I did it because it was the right thing to do not for a reward. Do I accept the money?

My two cents would be no, but there is no shame in accepting. Great of you to have done this!

Getting Knee Surgery January 5th, Need recommendations on stuff to watch.

Already watched this year: Peaky Blinders, 1883, Abbott Elementary, The Old Man, Better Call Saul, House of Dragon, Underground Railroad, White Lotus, Raised by Wolves, Squid Game, Barry, The Flight Attendant, Mando, Mayor of Kingstown, Deadwood, Z Nation....

1899

 

[Beef Invictus]

If she absolutely insists on paying you, you could always just donate the money to the Red Cross, or an animal shelter or something.

Or the Beef Invictus Survival Fund

 

[Beef Invictus]

Merry Christmas all! Or Happy Ongoing Hanukkah as the case may be

 

[Beef Invictus]

Tell her you appreciate the gesture, but no thank you. If she insists, ask her to use the money to buy something nice for the dog(s).
If she insists still, graciously accept it and spend the money on the quackverse store.

I know it’s going to merge, so I’ll say auto merge sucks dick and get that out of the way.
The wife, amazing as always, got me a gaming laptop for Christmas. It’s a Razor 14 or something along the lines.
I need a new game that this thing can be pushed to the limits as I haven’t had a laptop that’s been able to play any major games without needing the settings turned way down before.
Any suggestions?
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Cyberpunk 2077 max settings

 

[Beef Invictus]

(Arrogant Brag about mods not getting automerged)

 

[TB87]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everybody!

 

[VladDrag]

Merry Xmas to all!!

Heating oil ran out at 2:30am today. So that’s going to make for a wonderful Xmas for the family. I just put 10 gal of diesel fuel in the tank to get thru today/tomorrow.

Update here - I called and left a few VMs at some heating oil places, not expecting a call back until tomorrow, but I got a call today at 8:30! Scheduled for delivery tomorrow. Xmas miracle.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Or the Beef Invictus Survival Fund

Being alive is quite expensive. Especially with lil bef running around.