Happy Thanksgiving!

[+ quoththeraven]

I'm posting this separately from other Thanksgiving posts because I want to link a post I just made in the Politics forum on the truth about Thanksgiving's origins. It's a little sad that the facts about Thanksgiving can't be posted here because they're too political, or likely to cause political strife, but it is what it is.

 

Hope you all have a good day!

[+ easygoingpal]

Happy Thanksgiving to all...!

[+ quoththeraven]

Also kpop group NCT 127 is appearing and performing as part of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. They're on a new float sponsored by LEGO.

 

I haven't been watching until now but based on quickly looking for video and internet posts I don't think they've appeared yet. While NCT 127 isn't one of my top favorites - I like some of their songs and don't like others - it's still an accomplishment for a group from outside the US that mostly sings in a language other than English to be part of an American tradition like this.

 

With two kpop groups placing albums at the top of the Billboard 200 chart in the last two years - one of them had three number one albums in the space of 11 months, preceded by a #7 in 2017, as well as appearances on SNL and Stephen Colbert - and another kpop group performing at Coachella 2019, the South Korean pop music industry has become an integral part of mainstream US pop.

[+ WilliamM]

@quoththeraven happy Thanksgiving and great happiness and good health.

[rvwnsd]

...it's still an accomplishment for a group from outside the US that mostly sings in a language other than English to be part of an American tradition like this...

It's an accomplishment for both the group and for the Macy's parade.

 

Happy Thanksgiving, @quoththeraven.

[KeepItReal]

It took me a good half hour to find something to post that is related to Thanksgiving but won't offend somebody's PC sensibilities... What do you think? (Evil grin)

 

[+ Pensant]

I'm posting this separately from other Thanksgiving posts because I want to link a post I just made in the Politics forum on the truth about Thanksgiving's origins. It's a little sad that the facts about Thanksgiving can't be posted here because they're too political, or likely to cause political strife, but it is what it is.

 

Hope you all have a good day!

We are aware of the day’s dubious origins but, living in a highly aggressive consumer capitalist society, the holiday, like so many others, has been co-opted as another spending spectacle accompanied by forced jollity.

[+ tassojunior]

Happy Black Friday and Cyber Monday

[samhexum]

I'm going to my sister's house. Just her and my brother-in-law and my niece and nephew and me. She's not cooking this year; they ordered from somewhere.

 

[Danny-Darko]

Happy Thanksgiving! ?

 

 

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[+ poolboy48220]

My older sister's normally-big Thanksgiving has been scaling down for months. First her in-laws were told 'no', with the exception of her mother-in-law; then MIL decided not to, and finally Dad decided he's staying home too. So just her and her husband and two kids, and the older kid's girlfriend. I'm staying home, I picked up sliced turkey from the deli counter yesterday.

[CatDaddy]

Happy Thanksgiving friends! Staying home for a low key festival of three in Big D.

[+ easygoingpal]

Happy Thanksgiving guys...! ?

[samhexum]

A pair of Texas grandparents found a creative way to appear with their loved ones during the holidays — by sending cardboard cutouts of themselves.

 

Missy and Barry Buchanan told “Good Morning America” they sent two of the massive 6-foot self replicas to their grandchildren in Texas and California for Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.

 

The Buchanans’ daughter in California, Mindy Whittington, told “GMA” she burst out laughing when she received the package.

 

“My mom had told me that she was sending a large package for the Thanksgiving table,” Whittington said.

 

“We were just in stitches, we could not stop laughing. We were not expecting 6-foot cutouts of my parents.”

 

Missy Buchanan said of the cutouts: “It’s a reminder that there’s still something to laugh about.”

 

Admin Note: Image showing children removed.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Cooper

[Eggman]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING BOYS. NEXT YEAR WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER.

[samhexum]

 

 

 

[samhexum]

South Carolina store sells $350K lottery ticket, uses prize to fund community Thanksgiving

 

A South Carolina convenience store got $3,500 after a local woman beat odds of one to 857,142.86 and won $350,000 off a scratch-off lottery ticket – now the store is using its earnings from selling the winning $10 Mighty Jumbo Bucks ticket to provide Thanksgiving meals for its community.

 

“We’re going to have a Thanksgiving dinner for all of my walk-in traffic and homeless people around here,” said Aggi Tarnowski, store manager of KP Food Mart in Anderson, South Carolina. “We’re cooking all the sides, turkeys, everything, the whole nine yards. The food is going to be free for all who need it.”

 

She and store supervisor Melissa Grimmette have divvied up the meal prep: Tarnowski is making macaroni and cheese, dressing, green bean casserole, and rolls, and Grimmette is going to fry turkeys.

 

“It started because Aggi wanted to (feed the community),” Grimmette said. “She has a lot of traffic and people coming in who need food. She gives away the biscuits and things after a certain time, so she already wanted to do this. Of course, having the extra funds, (the owners) figured they’d help out and match whatever we get. They’re really good about that.”

 

The store is new – and it’s a hope to use the meals to bond with the local residents.

 

“We have been open only like two-and-half months, and this is a big thing for us to bring some positive vibes in Anderson as a new store,” Tarnowski said in a Polish accent. “It also shows the people us, as foreigners, can have good input in the community.”

 

The women hope to feed up to 30 people. But no one will be turned away.

 

“We’re not going to judge anyone, we’re all humans and nobody is perfect,” Tarnowski said. “I might not have much, but whatever I have, I’d give it all away. I will get it back tenfold and I will be blessed for it.”

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2020 by samhexum