knobbysideup, LRTI surgery.
swordgeek, Mom went into the hospital days two days we were supposed to come up. Spent much of the holidays around the smell of hospitals.
Itrytoblenderrender,
FlyingSquid, Congratulat- oh, that’s not a pregnancy test. :(
FatTony, Tbf, it would be more depressing if a positive pregnancy test was the reason christmas was ruined.
FlyingSquid, True. COVID doesn’t last 9 months.
Perhapsjustsniffit, deleted_by_author
FlyingSquid, Sure. Plus 9 months.
Goferking0, All depends on their location
paddirn, COVID usually only lasts maybe two weeks vs a pregnancy/child lasting 18 years. This is definitely the better deal.
Wodge, 18 years… that’s optimistic in this economy…
hydrospanner, For some people, covid lasts the rest of their life…
gregorum, Mosel cough
andxz, Covid with a side order of severe pancreatitis.
Almost checked out permanently just in time for Christmas.
tamal3, I’m glad you didn’t! Feel better.
andxz, Thanks. These nurses are lovely at least.
ma11en, Pancreatitis was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced, I had my gall bladder out about 6 years ago and been fantastic since.
andxz, Agreed, I’ve had two major surgeries and neither came anywhere close to that level of pain afterwards. At least they gave me so much pain medication I kinda lost two days in a haze. It just happened to be Christmas evening and day that I missed completely, lol.
TheDoctorDonna, I truly thought we were going to get through Christmas with zero racism. Then grandma and grandpa came over. Luckily I was able to steer the conversation away pretty quickly, but it always puts a damper on things.
I_Fart_Glitter, We just had some mild racism too: “There’s just too many ethnic restaurants in this town. Why can’t we just have American food?!” “There’s a Denny’s down the street…”
FlyingSquid, Wait until they find out that Denny’s serves crepes.
dumpsterlid, (edited ) This makes my head want to explode. I grew up in a white ass family of wealthy-ish English descent and nobody knew what the hell good food was unless it was an expensive steak or fancy seafood which don’t really need much cooking skill to be yummy, it is inherently yummy you just eat it. Ughhh the food I grew up on was tasteless, soulless crap and every time I have good Mexican, Thai, Indian or some other type of food I am deeply thankful I don’t live in a barren wasteland of uninspired shit food. The fact that people actively desire that blows my mind.
White american food is fucking trash, I mean Italian food is good but Italians weren’t even let into the white people club until very recently so that barely even counts. England should just have their cooking license revoked. Choose the type of boiled mush you want and either add salt or pepper but not both because that would be too spicey! Don’t even get me started on the inability of white American cuisine to comprehend the concept of a meal without meat.
I_Fart_Glitter, Yeah… English desserts can be pretty nice though. I grew up much the same and the only cherished family recipes we have are desserts: Trifle, bannoffee pie, persimmon pudding, cherries jubilee, custard pie with lemon curd, summer berry fool, toffee cake, hard sauce. Yorkshire pudding made with beef drippings is a delightful savory dish.
Assman, My truck was stolen, suspiciously right around the time Santa should have been there 🧐
SantaClaus, It wasn’t me, I swear!
Cynicivity, A rectal prolapse, a vaginal prolapse, and a blocked goat
Gimpydude, I think we need to know more about this, especially the goat.
S_204, And a Partridge in a pear tree.
NotSpez, Yes, this warrants a standalone post!
vortexal, (edited ) I wouldn’t say that anything ruined Christmas for me this year but there was some unfortunate circumstances with some of my gifts.
For example, I asked for an original Xbox controller with a USB adapter. I got them and they work perfectly fine in Linux but they don’t work at all in Windows, which potentially limits how much usage I can get out of them. Apparently, Windows 10 blocks the drivers required to use the adapter, which if I had known I probably would’ve just asked for a generic USB Xbox controller instead (if they exist).
Shialac, Covid
daemon93, Same. Tested positive the 23rd and was supposed to be hosting both days. Still isolated and my kids couldn’t go see family. Sucks.
deezbutts, Same man. We couldn’t see family because we’re responsible. They get it but it sucks, people traveled from thousands of miles and we can’t see them.
They get it, but these days we could’ve used a win.
thorbot, You did with this post, fart boy.
I read your username as fart boy at first so that’s what I’m calling you.
Nothing ruined Christmas, it was great.
FatTony, I guess that would make me Fart Tony.
thorbot, Yeah, fart boy Tony
RagingRobot, Christmas was good but things costing more now had me stressing all month. It’s harder to budget now than it used to be.
VintageTech, I’m gonna go with the Romans?
FlyingSquid, What have the Romans ever done for us?
mossy_, (edited ) The aqueduct!
gac11, And the vomitorium
Jakdracula, Ok, sure, fine, the aqueducts, but what else have the Romans ever done for us?
squidman, I fucked up with a woman I really like, so, I did :'(
greencactus, That sucks, dude - you get a hug, if you want one hug
squidman, Thanks, friend.
victorz, What happened, buddy? 🙁
squidman, Miscommunication and mismatched expectations. Wish I had brought it up earlier.
victorz, Sorry to hear that. Sending you friendly vibes! 💛💚💙
ArcticAmphibian, Nasty virus with secondary strep infection
Dettweiler42, Being sick AF. People came into work sick because of our asinine sick policy, and now they’re better while I’ve been bed ridden for 3 days.
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