Hey all, as some of you know, we do the “Little Drummer Boy” challenge each year. It’s really simple, if you hear the “Little Drummer Boy” song between Black Friday (Nov 24 at 12:01 AM in whatever time zone your in) and Christmas Eve ( Dec 24 at 12:01 AM) your OUT. Also, for those playing “The Game”, you’re out too. haha. One does not need to hear the full song to be out, as long as one recognizes it as the song, your done. This includes samples and remixes and whatever else you want to call it, if it’s the LDB, you’re out. Nor does it matter where you hear the song, at home, in a store (ha like any of us go out), driving or whatever, it all counts. Now, if someone tries to trick you or RickRoll you into hearing it, you are safe and they are out. The full challenge rules can be found here.
I have a ligit chance at making it this year. Both kids are away at school, so no more random concerts to hear it, and will do as much shopping online as I can to stay out of stores.
I’ll post on the sidebar and we can update the post as we fail in the challenge.
Good luck everyone.
Dead.
Fucking bar trivia.
Well fuck. I’m out early this year. Trip to the PX did me in.
More horror stories from steerage:
1) I had to pay $12 for a chicken salad sandwich. In first class, champagne, caviar, and truffle omelettes are free, man.
2) I had to pay $30 for flight duration wi-fi that has only worked sporadically for about 20 minutes. In first class, wi-fi is free, man.
Good points:
1) I’m in Delta Comfort+ which has pretty good legroom and with no one in the middle seat is quite tolerable. It costs about halfway between coach and first, and if you’re medallion (as I’m shooting for) you can buy this and have a good chance at bumping up). But I still miss my fucking window.
2) My aisle seat row mate is an off-duty Delta pilot who’s a pretty good guy. He saw me taking some OxyContin and he offered to buy some (at a great price) for his next flight; I just gave them to him. We exchanged numbers but totally not in a gay way.
3) I had no wi-fi mostly so I watched Pulp Fiction. That is still a great movie.
Currently over the Appalachian Mountains entering VA from WV, 36 minutes to DCA, total estimated flight time 4 hours 20 minutes in a Boeing 757-200 at 530mph, 2146.2 miles coast-to-coast.
John Lennon’s Christmas carol, whatever it’s caused, sends me into a black rage. Fucking loathe that song.
Happy Christmas John…
Blow it out of yer ass Yoko…
Yeah, but Lennon wasn’t the best human beating, what with the spousal and child abuse. Fuck him too.
The Kinks do the best Christmas song “Father Christmas”
Father Christmas is very good, but the best Christmas song is The Pogues ‘Fairytale of New York.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
RIP Kristy MacColl
I heard that Shane MacGowan’s dentist died when Shane was only eleven years old and the boy was so heartbroken that he never visited another one ever again.
+1 cheap lousy faggot.
I need a Steam sale challenge, to not spend $100 on games that sound great, but will probably never play.
i would need this too, but needing to have Steam on a PC to play kinda killed the whole idea for me. While technically possible to remote into the PC on a mobile device ( in my case Andriod), that seems like too much work to setup and keep going but also be secure.
I have to say, I do love my Steam Deck. And the compatibility is getting better and better.
Yeah, I don’t want to dual-boot on my MacBook. Yet.
Which sucks, because I have a Humble Bundle my friend sent me a while back with Burnout Paradise.
You know who doesn’t care about the LDBC? Jack Del Rio.
https://www.tsn.ca/nfl/washington-commanders-fire-defensive-coordinator-jack-del-rio-1.2040151
All that Capitol Insurrection footage gets released and a day later Jack Del Rio gets fired? CONNECT THE DOTS, PEOPLE.
Flying from LAX to DCA this morning.
1) I’m flying coach one time so I can make Delta Medallion level before 12/31/23. I figured I could survive 4 hours non stop in steerage.
So far:
1) I had to walk ten miles to the gate;
2) I lost my driver’s license in LAX. They called and said they found it but I was already on the plane so I don’t have it. I don’t know if I can rent a car at DCA;
3) This is my beloved window seat:
4) But SCORE! Nobody sat in the middle seat and they just locked the door. I’ll always have that.
I got lucky on the flight to Honolulu. Nobody sat in the seat next to me in the middle. So I split the extra tray table space with the person in the other middle seat and had double arm rest use for the entire flight.
Careful you don’t catch rickets in steerage. And feel free to hit any small crying children-they probably don’t have any mothers nearby anyway.
Next year in Detroit, keeping in theme of being in touch with the crowd, the NFL will have Michael Richards screaming at an effigy of Kwame Kilpatrick
I still don’t know why Madre Weaselo likes this song.
On an unrelated note, the MST3K marathon is still on the Youtubes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY
I already triple checked my spotify christmas playlist to make sure I removed all versions of this song.
thanks for the reminder
i shoulda checked it, like, fucking YESTERDAY, so if I did hear it, it wouldn’t count. So, so, so dumb to have written the post and not checked my playlist until after posting
I was just explaining this to my niece last night, trying to get her into the challenge. The younger generations need to know how bad LDB is.
Due to the parent’s bad planning, they are staying in a barn, with all the animals with a new born. And animals are sooo quiet. So you’re solution is to bang on a fucking drum while the new born is trying to sleep?
Whatever is the cruelest way that you can think to kill someone is nawt enough for the LDB
Happy Afrikan-American Friday to all who celebrate.
Not rickrolling. Nooooooooo!!
Wifey is going to a Christmas Bazaar tomorrow-she’s out.
Game face on
Face?
It’s up there buster…
Or…
IMPOSTER!!! Here’s the real one