ITV are re-running Bond movies, it must be nearly Christmas.

>>10719
That, and that coke advert with the lorries. The two Harbingers of Holiday Cheer.

Don't they know it's Hanukkah

Where are the Mel Brooks movies guys c'mon

Well, I'm going to go on up to my place in the mountains, at least for a little bit, since there's no such thing as a white Christmas down here in the valley. Of course, up there there isn't any electricity or plumbing or things like that, so I am unlikely to spend too long of a time up there.

Celebrating Christmas as Yule on the 20th on behalf of my wiccan sister (our family's athiest so whatever). I need to get the decorations up so I'm going to be cleaning like hell today... My mother would like her old friend/old guy she has sex with to come visit but he's something of a hermit so it's probably not happening.

I had a December one-shot planned but hahaha nooooo. I get to spend the grey-and-unsafe-to-drive period preparing my defence for a PhD viva.

Spah sappin' mah thesis!

My plans are to go home and not think about school stuff at all for a couple of weeks.

And then near the end there is THE TRIP or whatever.

You guys decorating already? o_O
But December barely started...

Gonna go on a road trip with my dad right after New Year. Probably to some nearby city within 400-500 km or something. You know, sight-seeing, visiting places, all that stuff.

And then the thesis madness. God, there's so little time left.

And Christmas happens on Jan 7 here, so no holidays until New Year, so yeah.

Bob 2010/12/02(Thu)13:39 No. 10746 ID: f5e4b4
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This is what I believe in.

First after military return must very drinking for day and other of minimal.

Two must drinking that elf doesn't taking booze. Elf is enemy.

Three will staring blue light and nasal insertion glow stick.

Four must Arm Assault Twice and then huge science escapade!

Addition must timing of finish book Adventure of Valentine Smith on Earth, Mind Children and always swarming of fictional science army, of sample RNC, Harrington Honor and Slammers of Hammer.

Then eating size of horse and half while drink size of small lake.

Fortune having helmet and mask of gas, these great protection!

>>10746
i am the saddest little jew

>>10735
oh you poor naive little foreigner. Christmas is the driving force behind the economy, so decorations have been up for a month in the retail outlets that were dragging their feet. The ones that were following the curve were pulling them out of storage in September.

>>10746
the nativity straw made of sauerkraut is a nice touch

>>10752
Oh, don't even get me started on this. All the stores and malls whipped out their decorations already (as they always do), it's ridiculous. The fact that they're doing this solely to get the customer worked up about buying their own shit makes me not want to buy anything at all.

I'm not even mad.

>>10752
I work at a party supply and costume store.

Literally /the day/ after Halloween, we began putting up Christmas stuff. It's crazy.

Bah! Screw this Christmas decoration nonsense, I think I'll paint the kitchen instead.

>>10759
I know a store that changed out the back half to christmas the day before halloween. Left the cheapass costumes and candy out, along with some of the varied stuffs.

>>10735
I put my lights up like two weeks before thanksgiving. The middle of November. That was more because I had a good opportunity when it wasn't raining, and I was cleaning the gutters anyway, but it's not uncommon for folks to do things like that.

>>10761
Why not paint it in holiday colors~

>>10763
>Why not paint it in holiday colors~
Fuck that, dark blue. Plus some LEDs under the cabinets so you can finally see what you're bloody doing in there.

Cleaning off what's probably at least a decade's worth of congealed grease evaporate off the top of the cupboards: NOT FUN. And whoever last wallpapered the place was massively incompetent.

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>>10780
>And whoever last wallpapered the place was massively incompetent.
I mean, who honestly looks at this and thinks "yeah, this is fine, I'll just slap some paper on"?

>>10782
I thought it was a pretty wall painting by the thumbnail. A rocky landscape with waterfalls and trees...

>>10885
Truly, all of God's creations are beautiful.

>>10913
But only in thumbnail.

>>10782
What is that? Plaster or concrete? In my professional opinion, rip the whole wall down.

Just gonna stay home and steel myself for the inevitable awkward family get togethers. I think this year my girlfriends' parents should be incredibly less awkward than my own, so I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

My office Xmas party is on Dec. 18, fun drunken times. I work at a radio station and we're all poor, so the boss buys all the booze and we get loaded.

>>10988
From what I could tell:
Brick wall|concrete|plaster(flaking)|paint
Brick wall|concrete|plaster(flaking)|paper|paint
Brick wall|concrete|paint
Depending on which part of the wall you looked at.
There was some mould under the plaster too.
>>10988
Probably the best option, which also goes for two of the other walls of the room (a redundant chimney, and a window that ends about half a meter under the height of the countertop, with the counter butted and glued to the window). Such is the case with houses built a century and a half ago and 'renovated' multiple times by window-licking morons.

But being On the Cheap, the solution was instead CHIP AWAY WITH A SCRAPER LIKE THE FIST OF THE NORTHSTAR, some fresh plaster, lining paper, a good coat of paint and copious quantities of whiskey to forget about what lurks behind the rest of the wall.

>>11036
Sounds like you done good enough on that wall. But you shouldn't forget about the other ones. Get that shit done! Otherwise the denizens of your plaster may achieve sentience and destroy you, or at the very least, serve as a persistent hazard to your respiratory health.

>>11051
Nah, luckily the mould was long dead. It was likely due to leakage from the (long disconnected) lead water tank in the ceiling. Which means the beams were probably water damaged at some point, but I'm hoping that not looking at them will allow them to continue to hold up given how they've survived thus far. Couldn't afford to replace the roof if I wanted to, so it's pretty much moot.