OT: Thread About Nothing (part # who cares)

[njdevils1982]

Orson Welles agrees.

 

[Saugus]

So you want everyone to smell?

Nothing wrong with garlic, it’s one of my favorite seasonings.

Anyway, the Wellington got demolished, it was a huge hit. And mashed potatoes are always a crowd pleaser.

All in all, a successful Friendsgiving.

 

[My3Sons]

It’s December 8. We lost John at around 11 pm in 1980 on this date. Strawberry Fields Forever.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

My wife and I are Jewish, but because we have foster kids and we don't want to deny them a life that other kids have, we added Christmas stuff to go alongside our Hanukkah stuff, including a tree. I gotta say, Christmas has undeniable swag. It's no wonder why all the great Christmas songs were written by Jews: we see it from an outsider's perspective and it looks like the coolest thing ever to us.

 

[njdevils1982]

My wife and I are Jewish, but because we have foster kids and we don't want to deny them a life that other kids have, we added Christmas stuff to go alongside our Hanukkah stuff, including a tree. I gotta say, Christmas has undeniable swag. It's no wonder why all the great Christmas songs were written by Jews: we see it from an outsider's perspective and it looks like the coolest thing ever to us.

what? no kwanza?! no festivus?!

 

[Bleedred]

My wife and I are Jewish, but because we have foster kids and we don't want to deny them a life that other kids have, we added Christmas stuff to go alongside our Hanukkah stuff, including a tree. I gotta say, Christmas has undeniable swag. It's no wonder why all the great Christmas songs were written by Jews: we see it from an outsider's perspective and it looks like the coolest thing ever to us.

My longtime girlfriend when I was young was Jewish on her dad's side, but they also celebrated Christmas because her mom grew up Catholic and celebrated Christmas. It was a fun few years celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas. I never celebrated Hanukkah after we split, but I always kept track of when it was and what days it fell on every year after that. Hanukkah is like Easter in that it falls on a different week every year. I believe the first day of Hanukkah this year is actually Christmas Day if I'm not mistaken? I looked it up a while ago. Most years I think we're already in the middle of Hanukkah right now.

I'm sure I've told this story before, but back in Kindergarten I remember the teacher describing Hanukkah. It almost sounded like Christmas to me, other than the part about 8 days which I obviously didn't catch that part when she was describing it. She then asked how many of us celebrated Hanukkah, and I was one of the kids who raised their hand.

The teacher remembered this and when she had a teacher/parent phone conference later in the year she told my mom ''Ohhh, your son tells me you're Jewish and celebrate Hanukkah!''. So my mom asks me after I get home from school that day ''Why did you tell your teacher your Jewish and celebrate Hanukkah?''. And I explained to her that when she explained Hanukkah it sounded to me like Christmas with presents and all that. So I thought I did celebrate that lol.

I have a kind of Jewish sounding last name. Many people with my last name are Jewish and people have asked me if I was Jewish because of that, but my dad's family was actually not Jewish. My mom never had my last name, but she also has a German surname that could be a Jewish surname, though I believe the Jewish spelling of it is a bit different.

So yeah, at 5-6 years old I did not know that Hanukkah was a thing and I thought the teacher was describing Christmas!

 

[Satans Hockey]

Never even knew they had a ticketing platform..."Sports Illustrated Tickets will become the Red Bulls’ Official Ticketing Partner for all events at the stadium, including Gotham FC matches, beginning in 2026 once the company takes over from Ticketmaster."

Sports Illustrated Tickets inks stadium naming deal with Red Bulls

Sports Illustrated Tickets has inked a 13-year deal with the Red Bulls to put SI’s brand on what was heretofore known as Red Bull Arena.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Man. Now I'm depressed. SI got absolutely gutted by its private equity(?) owners in the last couple of years. Do they even do print anymore? This seems like this is a case of an old brand's skin being worn over something else like a costume in order to get eyeballs and sales. It's kind of like how in video games, the publisher THQ Nordic bought the rights to the name THQ after the original company went under, and officially there is no continuity between the old company and its skin walker.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Are you guys in NJ still seeing big drones?

 

[Andre Palot]

Are you guys in NJ still seeing big drones?

Saw one last night over casa de palot.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Saw one last night over casa de palot.

Any officials telling you anything?

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Any relation to black helicopters?

 

[britdevil]

All of you right now

 

[guitarguyvic]

Every dot in the sky is a drone now

 

[Satans Hockey]

Any officials telling you anything?

It's definitely our governments drones and that's why they don't want to tell us for whatever reason.

If you or me go fly our personal drones where they have been flying these we would be arrested or get someone knocking on our doors pretty quickly lol

 

[guitarguyvic]

It's definitely our governments drones and that's why they don't want to tell us for whatever reason.

If you or me go fly our personal drones where they have been flying these we would be arrested or get someone knocking on our doors pretty quickly lol

Why would the government have drones flying around that are super obvious to everyone…if they don’t want the public to know they have plenty of ways of going about this without attracting this kind of attention

 

[Satans Hockey]

Why would the government have drones flying around that are super obvious to everyone…if they don’t want the public to know they have plenty of ways of going about this without attracting this kind of attention

Who knows, I don't think they care that we know but they are doing something that they don't want to tell us about. What that is? Maybe some sort of military exercise? I have no idea but that's certainly more believable than pretending that the US military has no idea what these drones are actually about.

 

[guitarguyvic]

Who knows, I don't think they care that we know but they are doing something that they don't want to tell us about. What that is? Maybe some sort of military exercise? I have no idea but that's certainly more believable than pretending that the US military has no idea what these drones are actually about.

If that were the case they’d just tell the public they are running some exercises so as not to have this kind of situation where the paranoia is being driven and they are tying up law enforcement lines with unnecessary calls/reports. Likewise, the fbi isn’t wasting their time to create flyers or media releases advising the public how to report these incidents for something that isn’t a real concern.

The more likely thing that is happening is that there were a few legit suspicious sightings that they haven’t been able to figure out and the vast majority of everything else is legal aircraft of whatever sort.

 

[britdevil]

Drones are the new crop circles.

Probably just hobbyists jumping on a bandwagon.

 

[Bleedred]

 

[Satans Hockey]

If that were the case they’d just tell the public they are running some exercises so as not to have this kind of situation where the paranoia is being driven and they are tying up law enforcement lines with unnecessary calls/reports. Likewise, the fbi isn’t wasting their time to create flyers or media releases advising the public how to report these incidents for something that isn’t a real concern.

The more likely thing that is happening is that there were a few legit suspicious sightings that they haven’t been able to figure out and the vast majority of everything else is legal aircraft of whatever sort.

A lot of the reports have been around Trumps golf course where he spends a ton of time so they could be easily running security drills with the drones and they simply don't want people to know that.

I don't think it's anything nefarious and I don't get the hysteria about it.

I wish this many people were crazy and pissed off about the rising tolls on the turnpike and parkway and congestion pricing.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

Saw one today on the parkway.... but off to the side... by exit 109 / Middletown. If you're gonne probe me just get it over with.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

I'm so invested in these drones over the last few days. Especially seeing in here first hand reports.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

This is the War of the Worlds radio broadcast all over again, just with a different cast of characters for the 21st century.