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Brussels under lockdown, now Turkey shoots down a plane. Christmas Dinner is going to be really violent this year.
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It is forbidden to talk about Christmas until after Thanksgiving.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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My missus, on July the 25th, stated "well, Christmas is near!".
I love her, but sometimes I really wonder why 
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den2k88 wrote: I love her, but sometimes I really wonder why
I was just thinking the same thing! 
My wife and I spent the weekend sphlepping furniture halfway across the state of Florida, 763 miles to be exact, and towing a U-Haul trailer on the way back. The furniture is being transferred from one step-child to another, and is currently taking up half of my garage. That's not why I'm aggravated though...
Last Thursday, the wife calls to tell me that the 28 y/o step-son that will be needing the furniture will be at our house for the weekend...as she says, it works out perfect as he can watch the dog. 
That doesn't sit well with me since I have cancelled my weekend plans (to make $) to move furniture while he relaxes on my sofa, bonding with my dog, eating my food, and watching my TV! Apparently he had an awesome relaxing weekend hanging out with his girlfriend and getting in a round of golf on Saturday. We returned home on Sunday to find lights and tvs on all over the house, garbage can overflowing with beer bottles, and bed sheets in the washer!  I finally unloaded the trailer by myself yesterday afternoon and turned it in this morning.
Now, I have thanksgiving to look forward to since we will be hosting 25 or so of her family members. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have a problem with the entire concept of that weekend, he is 28, he is the recipient of the furniture largess and he gets to goof off over the weekend while YOU drive and hump his furniture. There has got to be more to it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: There has got to be more to it!
There was...his mother volunteered us for the whole operation. As she said, he didn't come home to move furniture, he came home to celebrate his promotion which is the reason he will be needing the furniture. Also, in his mind, we are helping his sister more than him since she would have to put the furniture in storage or sell it...he's getting second-hand furniture and not real thrilled about it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: his mother volunteered us for the whole operation.
that explains everything, the rest is only justification
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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 I'm speechless. I'm 27 and my parents helped me a lot with the furniture - all the kitchen was mounted by them (they have a large experience in that and are a perfectly synergic couple); on my defense in the meantime I was fighting with the furniture shop because they made me pay for a piece they did not deliver and did not have in storage (and was out of production as well), and when I finally came back as winner in a couple of hours they already had finished.
kmoorevs wrote: 25 or so of her family members.
For elephants' sake you're in a really tight position. Here a virtual ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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What's Thanksgiving? It's not on my calendar... 
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Canada and the U.S. both celebrate a holiday called Thanksgiving. Canada has theirs in October, the U.S. in November. For more detail see:
Thanksgiving (Canada)[^]
Thanksgiving (U.S.)[^]
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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BillW33 wrote: Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
True, but it's of prime importance to even be considered "good code". So called "good code" that doesn't work, doesn't matter.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: BillW33 wrote: Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
True, but it's of prime importance to even be considered "good code". So called "good code" that doesn't work, doesn't matter.
Agreed, code that doesn't work is not good code, no matter how good it looks and how well organized it is.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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If there's anything called Thanks-taking, I'm on that side 
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Avijnata wrote: If there's anything called Thanks-taking, I'm on that side
I never really gave it much thought, but I suppose the other side should actually be called "You're welcome-taking".
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Thanksgiving was over a month ago.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Yah, you Canucks are weird.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'm thankful for not living in the part of the world where they celebrate Thanksgiving 
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That's news from 2010. I've never heard anyone about Thanksgiving and I live in the Netherlands.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet 
Although I wouldn't be surprised if it became a celebration here too.
People have been celebrating Halloween for the last couple of years too.
And even St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in the cities... 
People like parties and Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and Thanksgiving are just (really very lame) excuses to partAAAY!!!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've never heard anyone about Thanksgiving
Sander Rossel wrote: Don't believe everything you read on the internet
Check.  
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You must be a city boy then if you've never heard of an 'Oogstdankfeest'. Granted they've become less and less. But when I was a kid we had a 3 day celebration in our city town village. Oh heck, it was just a couple of streets in the middle of nowhere.
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LilyWasHere wrote: You must be a city boy
Nope, countryside, Goeree-Overflakkee
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Where did that Mayflower sail to? The Netherlands? 
The party is modelled to a party in Leiden, making it special for that specific city.
--edit
Assumed that the topic would be about dinner. Kinda dissapointing.
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