December Banter 2025

[mappy]

On 12/14/2025 at 3:21 PM, pazzo83 said:

honestly if they can't win this game the entire coaching staff should be canned by the time the night game airs.

Seriously thought they were going to lose at the end. 

[H2O]

3 hours ago, mappy said:

Seriously thought they were going to lose at the end. 

They did all they could to let the giants win but got the W

[pazzo83]

they need some serious soul searching in the off season.

[Jebman]

MASSIVE PATTERN CHANGE in the west including Texas and the Californian Sierran Cordillera means well above normal in Austin alongside increased storm chances in the Californian and Navadan Cordillera in the coming days. It would be nice to see a record Atmospheric River smash without mercy right into Mammoth Mountain, dumping meters upon meters of snow upon Mammoth. Palisades Tahoe has yet to open!!! They may not manage that until early 2026 lmao! This ski season may indeed turn out to be the latest seasonal opening ever experienced in Palisades since the resort opened up 75 years ago!

We shall see.

Meanwhile in the East, continued serious Arctic conditions persist for the Mid Atlantic with a brief mildup and beneficial rains Thursday BUT more cold air and more snow chances continue.

[wxdude64]

Although I'd prefer for this pattern to stick around, I have zero complaints for the first half of this month. Running a -8 on temps, had 11.1 inches of snow and measurable snow OTG for 9 days and a T for three more. 

[Lucketts]

28 minutes ago, wxdude64 said:

Although I'd prefer for this pattern to stick around, I have zero complaints for the first half of this month. Running a -8 on temps, had 11.1 inches of snow and measurable snow OTG for 9 days and a T for three more. 

100%

-8 for the month is bonkers.

 

[GramaxRefugee]

19 minutes ago, Lucketts said:

100%

-8 for the month is bonkers.

 

1962 was -7.7.  1989 was -13.3.  Both also bonkers, by my memory 

[mappy]

2 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

they need some serious soul searching in the off season.

Ha, need fewer injuries, new plays teams don’t have on video to study Daniels, a slightly easier schedule, better defense, healthy star qb. Last year was a bit fluke-ish with a lot of luck for some of those wins. 

[wxdude64]

26 minutes ago, GramaxRefugee said:

1962 was -7.7.  1989 was -13.3.  Both also bonkers, by my memory 

I didn't start keeping records until 1979, but 12/89 was awesome here. -10.8 and 17.1 inches of snow with 25 days of snow OTG!

[pazzo83]

8 minutes ago, mappy said:

Ha, need fewer injuries, new plays teams don’t have on video to study Daniels, a slightly easier schedule, better defense, healthy star qb. Last year was a bit fluke-ish with a lot of luck for some of those wins. 

that's true - there were easily 4 or 5 games last season that could've gone the other way.  But the blow outs this year, just total lack of defense.  All the mistakes.  Hopefully they can sort it out, because outside of the Caps and the Spirit, DC sports is struggling right now.

[nw baltimore wx]

As unlikely as it is, if the Ravens win out, would they win the tiebreaker over the Steelers?

[ravensrule]

21 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

As unlikely as it is, if the Ravens win out, would they win the tiebreaker over the Steelers?

If they win out they win the division. 

[CAPE]

It was pretty unlikely that they would start off 1-5, but they did. The OL is what it is but if Lamar is getting back to full health he can mask some of that mess, and if the defense continues to play respectable or better, they can win the next 3. Packers on the road is the toughest one on paper, but they are a bit beat up and can be inconsistent.

[Maestrobjwa]

Uh-oh...guess what day it is? Guess what day. It. IS? Man this oughta be a global holiday

On this day 255 years ago, the most consequential figure in the classical-romantic era was born in Bonn, Germany. The great Ludwing Van Beethoven...one of the greatest composers that ever lived. No composer singlehandedly brought about a new era of music quite the way he did.

Beethoven was always a fiercely independent and determined man, and burst forth onto the music scene first in Bonn, and then in Vienna. He was a brilliant virtuoso whose talent quickly reached wide accalim. The musical world increasingly at his feet. 

But then...the malady that was so crushing hit him. BUT...after a near-death struggle coming to terms with his incurable deafness, Beethoven came out with a new determination: To express all the music that was within him. And he was determined to make music on his own terms.

Because of the crushing affliction of gradually increasing deafness, among other trials, struggle and triumph permeate his music. And perhaps it is for this reason that his music still resonates so much today. His music was the raw expression of the human soul; all of it! And could this expression be fit into a musical box? It could not! Someone had to come along and open the door; and Beethoven not only opened it, he broke the whole wall down. No longer confined within certain walls, classical music was expanded to fully express what's in the soul. But in order for this to happen, somebody had to

It is almost as if his struggle with deafness and a couple other physical afflictions. was the very thing that helped create the revolutionary music; that, combined with his sheer determination and fire, created music that forced the door open. As one documdrama ("The Genius of Beethoven") put it: With Beethoven, "music grew up". Everything Beethoven did tested the limits of instruments, musical form, and the very performers themselves. How things were done before could not contain Beethoven's music! His "new way", as he termed it coming out of his battle with accepting deafness, continued for the rest of his life...and gave birth to an entirely new era of music known as the Romantic Era.

I could say so much more, but...his music touches me in a way nobody else's does. My soul identifies with Beethoven, and his music gives me thrills so much that anyone that knows me knows how I move when I hear any Beethoven work! He is the composer I revere the most--and I thank God for him!

Happy Birthday, LVB!