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Overnight Open Thread [02/23/2026]

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

-- Dylan Thomas

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

-- Aristotle

Yeah, that's a classical quotation because I couldn't find one about a snow hat!

Winter is a grand season, and the inconvenience of a foot or so of snow on the ground is dwarfed by its beauty. Yes, it's my favorite season, and why I will never live in the south, no matter how wonderful a place it is!

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The purpose of an objective scoring system is to eliminate exactly the kind of whining and whinging and loser-talk that is on full display by one of the stars of the Canadian Men's Olympic hockey team.

Bitter Canadian star Nathan MacKinnon shades US after Olympic loss: 'You be the judge'

"You be the judge of who was the better team today," MacKinnon said after the game, according to the Canadian Press.

"Just finishing. That's it," MacKinnon added when asked what more Canada could have done. "The looks we had, we would've taken any day. I missed an open net myself, and I really wish I could have that one back."

I AM the judge.

Well...I and the scorers, who seem to have decided that contrary to what the entitled little bitch McKinnon thinks, the United States of America won the game.

By scoring more goals than their opponents.

Funny how that works!

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This is why cats are not good pets. This is why cats should be kept in cages. This is why dogs are the only animals that should be free to roam our homes.

I'm lucky to be alive after sustaining 'car crash injuries' tripping over my cat

A UK man miraculously survived after sustaining a broken neck, fractured spine, smashed ribs, blood in his lungs and other “car crash”-evoking injuries from — wait for it — tripping over his cat.

“I can’t remember much, just falling fast — it was quick and it was over within seconds, then I was at the bottom,” victim Chris Rowley, 59, told the Mirror.

The freak “Apocalypse Meow” accident reportedly occurred on the evening of Oct. 23 while the Leicestershire-based professional musician was home alone with his hairless Egyptian sphinx kitten, Eric Morecambe.

Although...maybe the cat was just getting back at its owner for the asshole name he gave him!
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No need to tag. pic.twitter.com/X7rN4yiVug

— BC (@BrCo1981) February 17, 2026

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They don't belong in this country if they aren't at least nominally proud of it.

Leave. Just leave! There are wonderful places in Canada and Europe where there is no patriotism, where people are completely invested in themselves, and care nothing for their country or any concept of shared culture.

So have at it!

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