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Pretty chill Thanksgiving this year now that we live in Ohio. No in laws visiting and I haven’t associated with my side of the family in years. All the doc students had places to go this year, so it is just the 4 of us. Without those interactions the level of drama/chaos has dropped to convincing the 6 year old to finish his meal before he could have pie and scolding the 18 month old for trying to color on the wall because she couldn’t find her coloring book.

Biggest thing that happened today that could remotely be considered a serious problem was that we found out that one of my grad students tested positive for COVID Monday and so we had to bring him a care package of Thanksgiving leftovers, assorted beer, and some other snacks to get him through the next few days.

God speed gentlemen. I hope you all realize that as fucked up as today is, there is always the shitshow of the Christmas/New Years combo just on the horizon.

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13 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Oh man I'd say something about that even if I wasn't drinking. 

He’s been that way all his life.  Honestly it showed some progress that he brought more than one bottle and they weren’t already open.  At some point you  learn to laugh and say “There he goes again” and just post it on the bitching page for a chuckle.  

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On 11/24/2021 at 11:42 AM, Lobo said:

I've hired two lesbian attorneys over the years, one of whom is making more than everybody in our stories combined.  Tell her parents not to be ashamed that she's a lesbian, they should be ashamed she's gonna be a lawyer.  

And just think, she could have raised her stock in life and been a piano player in a whore house.

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9 minutes ago, Bill Brasky said:

there were some odd fillings in the kolaches today.   cranberry, pear, and some kind of poppy seed that had raisins in it.   at least the pineapple and cream cheese ones were solid 

Cranberry sounds kinda good

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22 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

So far so good, I guess. They only clogged up the bathrooms 3x, got into an argument with the backyard neighbor 1x and lost my dog. I just leave the garage cracked and he will come back on his own time.

I'm taking their ass to the country Friday morning. Growing, the kids would stay outside all day until we were ready for bed. That's essentially my plan.

The black Clampetts are going to smoke a hog and fry some fish.

Hopefully nobody gets shot.
 

Sounds like the dog was the smart one of the bunch.

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58 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

Pretty chill Thanksgiving this year now that we live in Ohio. No in laws visiting and I haven’t associated with my side of the family in years. All the doc students had places to go this year, so it is just the 4 of us. Without those interactions the level of drama/chaos has dropped to convincing the 6 year old to finish his meal before he could have pie and scolding the 18 month old for trying to color on the wall because she couldn’t find her coloring book.

Biggest thing that happened today that could remotely be considered a serious problem was that we found out that one of my grad students tested positive for COVID Monday and so we had to bring him a care package of Thanksgiving leftovers, assorted beer, and some other snacks to get him through the next few days.

God speed gentlemen. I hope you all realize that as fucked up as today is, there is always the shitshow of the Christmas/New Years combo just on the horizon.

Nice of you to drop off the care package 🤘

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Late to the game with this.

Daughter in NC declares that we are going to have brisket for Thanksgiving. She then proceeds to ask me to pick one out in Texas because she cannot find one in Chapel Hill nor has she or her husband ever done one before. She also tells me that they have bought an electric smoker a couple of weeks ago and want to do the brisket on it. No problem...but there is.

So now I am trying to find a decent brisket in East Texas at the last minute before heading out on the road trip. Not feeling good about this. I pack it heavily in ice because we are first driving to WV for the Texas game and then after the Texas game are driving to DC for a few days. All the while keeping the meat on ice.

Now mind you I have only done brisket on a wood smoker. Never used an electric smoker before. Get to my daughter’s house Wednesday around 5:00pm. Once settled in I ask where the smoker is. 
Daughter: oh it’s in the garage.

me: great, let’s go have a look.

Daughter: it is still in the box. It needs to be put together.

me: what? Hasn’t even been opened and seasoned?

son in law: yeah, we have been busy.

So I put the thing together Wednesday night. Get up early thanksgiving day to “season it”. And finally put the meat on.

SIL thought the brisket turned out great. I was embarrassed with the product. Daughter knew it was not my best effort but appreciated it anyway.

In defense of my SIL, he did not grow up having a father in his life so there are a lot of things that he is still learning.

They will be moving back to Texas after the first of the year. The electric smoker is going back to Texas with me so that I can put it to use.

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4 hours ago, Reagan1k said:

Wife’s uncle volunteered to bring the wine.  Brought three bottles of Barefoot something or other - one white & two different reds. Took everyone’s request -  Poured each person a glass, recorked the bottles and put them back in his wine tote and put it by the door….. later left taking his partial bottles back home. 

Bear in mind this isn’t someone who is into the temperance movement.  He spent plenty of time at the bar pre and post meal drinking other peoples’ liquor.

To say he’s cheap is a massive understatement.  Has plenty of money and two nice homes.  Just bizarrely lacks any self awareness or doesn’t give a shit. 

 


hes fully aware 

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3 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Sister just left with cyber boyfriend and his daughter that my wife and I (with no parental experience) entertained for the entire 2nd half and OT of the Cowboys game.

Her dad ignore her. I put her on my shoulders for pony rides around the backyard. Showed her the power of the remote control for the LED patio lights. She was a giggling, happy girl.

He bitched about the officiating, play calling, execution, etc. A minute after the Raiders won they were out the door. I asked Mrs GOTJ what she thought of him and her response was "I hope she moves on to her next mistake before the 4rh of July. "


lot of surly virgins here to set her up with

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8 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

Late to the game with this.

Daughter in NC declares that we are going to have brisket for Thanksgiving. She then proceeds to ask me to pick one out in Texas because she cannot find one in Chapel Hill nor has she or her husband ever done one before. She also tells me that they have bought an electric smoker a couple of weeks ago and want to do the brisket on it. No problem...but there is.

So now I am trying to find a decent brisket in East Texas at the last minute before heading out on the road trip. Not feeling good about this. I pack it heavily in ice because we are first driving to WV for the Texas game and then after the Texas game are driving to DC for a few days. All the while keeping the meat on ice.

Now mind you I have only done brisket on a wood smoker. Never used an electric smoker before. Get to my daughter’s house Wednesday around 5:00pm. Once settled in I ask where the smoker is. 
Daughter: oh it’s in the garage.

me: great, let’s go have a look.

Daughter: it is still in the box. It needs to be put together.

me: what? Hasn’t even been opened and seasoned?

son in law: yeah, we have been busy.

So I put the thing together Wednesday night. Get up early thanksgiving day to “season it”. And finally put the meat on.

SIL thought the brisket turned out great. I was embarrassed with the product. Daughter knew it was not my best effort but appreciated it anyway.

In defense of my SIL, he did not grow up having a father in his life so there are a lot of things that he is still learning.

They will be moving back to Texas after the first of the year. The electric smoker is going back to Texas with me so that I can put it to use.

Seems you didn't raise her well.

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Worked in the office yesterday morning. One of my coworkers brought pumpkin pie so that was a nice breakfast. Went to see my uncle at the hospital yesterday afternoon. He's has been transferred to the rehab center upstairs and is getting settled in. Found a tray in the tv area with fruit cups and snacks with a sign that said "visitors help yourselves" so while visiting my uncle, Thanksgiving lunch for me consisted of iced tea with cups of diced peaches and pears. Went to another uncle's house that evening to finish watching the cowboys game and they had a plate of ham, smoked turkey and spicy fried chicken waiting for me. Sadly my brother's idiot cunt half sister and her bad ass kids didn't show up so I don't have any drama to contribute to this thread. However, with her not there it saved all of us the headaches and kept everything stress free.  

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Went to the folks home with brother and sister and their significant others and kids. My brother in-law last minute invites his sister and her husband - no big deal, our family doesn’t care. First time meeting them. White Trash. Husband was wearing a Cowboys jersey and had a Dallas Star tattooed on the back of his head. They come in with a fucking  tool box, apparently they said they were making something for the kids, who knows lol. Anyways, they go straight to the back porch barely introducing themselves where my dad has a TV set up with the Cowboys on. Everyone else is inside. I go to the porch for a drink like 30 mins later, and the guy has disappeared. She’s watching the game in a daze. 2 hours later she comes in and joins everyone and is rambling and annoyingly social. Everyone asks where her husband and she said he’s been sleeping in the car for the last few hours. Long story short, they def had drugs in the tool box and got strung out on my parents porch. But all in all, a great day. Luckily my family all gets along; really feel for some of you poor bastards. 

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22 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

The NFL once again trying to add to our misery with the Lions v Bears game and another shitshow of a halftime performance.

We watched Top Gun during the Lions-Bears game.  Wished we would have saved it for the Cowboy debacle.

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19 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

Surprisingly this has been a good Thanksgiving so far. One of the old uncles came in wearing a MAGA hat but hasn't brought up politics for the most part but did say I'm lucky to live in Texas with a real governor. Just smiled and kept drinking but other than that he seems to think I'm from Mexico and I have to keep telling him my family came to Texas in the 20's and settled in Abilene area. He wants to know what life was like in Mexico so I keep telling I have no idea. Then 5 minutes later is a question about Mexico. Took some solid edibles earlier so it's all good over here 

so within the past year or so?

 

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Update: Weekend started off great. Deer lease with my 5 year old and FIL. Killed a nice 12 point and a doe. Came back Tuesday and processed the deer and froze about 60 pounds of venison.

Lunch on thanksgiving at my folks house was surprisingly uneventful. My mom was a neurotic mess the whole fucking day which was par for the course. Things at my in laws started going south on Tuesday night though. My SILs husband (well both of them) has a drinking problem and is literally always drinking. My in laws hate him and he hates being here. I get here today after hitting the gym and start to help with the food. My wife comes to me and tells me that if I’m going back to Houston tomorrow (I have some work to take care of), that I’ll need to give my SIL a ride back to their house as she told her husband to “just fucking leave”. I said sure, no problem. Apparently there was yelling and screaming last night coming from their room. And I fucking missed it. Damn.

On the other hand, my mom is so fucking sensitive to everything regarding being a grandparent that if I say one thing wrong, she gets her feelings hurt. I walk in to their house this AM after working out and she’s crying over something I said last night. I can’t win.

Best part about it? I get to do it all again next month. And there’s presents involved.

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Today should be more eventful with the brother in laws family coming over. They are morons and very loud. During the Texas game this morning I got an earful of how the family doesn't watch football because of Kaepernick. Ok shut up please I'm watching the game. 

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21 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

If you’re dad is like mine then 13 months ago we were living in an American utopia the likes of which had never been seen. Now we’re in a apocalyptic shithole where the entire world is on the verge of collapse. It’s wild. 

Brother?

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2 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

Today should be more eventful with the brother in laws family coming over. They are morons and very loud. During the Texas game this morning I got an earful of how the family doesn't watch football because of Kaepernick. Ok shut up please I'm watching the game. 

sounds worse that a vegan crossfitter.  no one fucking cares.  

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Yep it was just like that, I was just sitting there chilling and then I hear that shit. Alao the parents got divorced earlier this year but are both coming over today. My gf told me it should be interesting and that they both lie about everything to try to one up each other. Ready to drink heavily 

 

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22 hours ago, Reagan1k said:

Wife’s uncle volunteered to bring the wine.  Brought three bottles of Barefoot something or other - one white & two different reds. Took everyone’s request -  Poured each person a glass, recorked the bottles and put them back in his wine tote and put it by the door….. later left taking his partial bottles back home. 

Bear in mind this isn’t someone who is into the temperance movement.  He spent plenty of time at the bar pre and post meal drinking other peoples’ liquor.

To say he’s cheap is a massive understatement.  Has plenty of money and two nice homes.  Just bizarrely lacks any self awareness or doesn’t give a shit. 

 

You know pouring those glasses was absolutely killing him.  And to see not all the glasses drained at end of night...what a waste!

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23 hours ago, Reagan1k said:

Wife’s uncle volunteered to bring the wine.  Brought three bottles of Barefoot something or other - one white & two different reds. Took everyone’s request -  Poured each person a glass, recorked the bottles and put them back in his wine tote and put it by the door….. later left taking his partial bottles back home. 

Bear in mind this isn’t someone who is into the temperance movement.  He spent plenty of time at the bar pre and post meal drinking other peoples’ liquor.

To say he’s cheap is a massive understatement.  Has plenty of money and two nice homes.  Just bizarrely lacks any self awareness or doesn’t give a shit. 

 

Consider yourself fortunate -- all of those Barefoot wines are swill.  Wife's Uncle is not only cheap.  He has very poor taste in wines.

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Sister's cyber boyfriend shows up to make that first impression....in a Cowboys jersey. We're pretty casual on Thanksgiving but that's pretty low rent.


Several years ago my sister’s baby daddy showed up at my parents’ house for Christmas in a shirt he got at a strip club. I immediately drug him back to my dad’s closet and made him change into a different shirt. Apparently he was offended and left shortly thereafter.
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44 minutes ago, luke duke said:

 


Several years ago my sister’s baby daddy showed up at my parents’ house for Christmas in a shirt he got at a strip club. I immediately drug him back to my dad’s closet and made him change into a different shirt. Apparently he was offended and left shortly thereafter.

 

Why do you care so much how he was dressed to cause a scene about it? Not judging just curious. 

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36 minutes ago, Covri said:

Why do you care so much how he was dressed to cause a scene about it? Not judging just curious. 

I mean if a guy walks in with a “support your local stripper” tshirt with said local strip club name on it and the parents are very conservative, maybe he just wanted to eat thanksgiving dinner in peace without a total blowup happening.  Bad for this thread but better for his situation.  

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Why do you care so much how he was dressed to cause a scene about it? Not judging just curious. 

I didn’t make a scene about it. I opened the door, saw it and got him a shirt before anyone realized he was there.

I guess I have more respect for my parents’ home than you do.
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Thanksgiving ended up pretty good, actually.  Typhoon Mary wasn't drinking for the first time ever so no hijinks there. The obese girlfriend was actually sweet to everyone. The suicidal niece got sick and stayed home with her father. Food was pretty good. The other sil cleaned up everything while the rest of us drank and watched the cowboys. IMG_20211125_135335858.thumb.jpg.addfd431ba396273700909f64679564c.jpg

You guys asked about the decor. All I know is that I took a piss and found myself snout to snout with this ugly motherfucker mounted right above the commode. 

Weather got better on Friday and caught a bunch of catfish and hung out with the kids. Built a fire at night, made s'mores with the kids. Shot some pool, drank some beer, listened to classic country music and watched a bunch of football. My wife was acting like a drunk psychopath and I almost killed her / divorced her, but other than that it was all pretty good.

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1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Thanksgiving ended up pretty good, actually.  Typhoon Mary wasn't drinking for the first time ever so no hijinks there. The obese girlfriend was actually sweet to everyone. The suicidal niece got sick and stayed home with her father. Food was pretty good. The other sil cleaned up everything while the rest of us drank and watched the cowboys. IMG_20211125_135335858.thumb.jpg.addfd431ba396273700909f64679564c.jpg

You guys asked about the decor. All I know is that I took a piss and found myself snout to snout with this ugly motherfucker mounted right above the commode. 

Weather got better on Friday and caught a bunch of catfish and hung out with the kids. Built a fire at night, made s'mores with the kids. Shot some pool, drank some beer, listened to classic country music and watched a bunch of football. My wife was acting like a drunk psychopath and I almost killed her / divorced her, but other than that it was all pretty good.

Gonna need details on the wife tantrum.

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On 11/25/2021 at 8:12 PM, Bill Brasky said:

there were some odd fillings in the kolaches today.   cranberry, pear, and some kind of poppy seed that had raisins in it.   at least the pineapple and cream cheese ones were solid 

Pineapple is my favorite...cream cheese is my 2nd favorite.  Who cares about the rest?

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