I don't know too much about this particular cuisine but I'm pretty sure I recognize chumchum on the left (that's what I call my youngest daughter - she's a sweety), tandoori naan bread in the center and various meat and rice dishes that would probably be waaaaaay too spicy for my liking.

edit: too many a's not enough o's (fixing a spelling mistake) 

 Privacy? One of the criminals was an acquaintance of the victim.

"One of the kidnappers knew the victim personally. Each of them already has a criminal record, including under articles of robbery and extortion."
*translated from: https://ren.tv/news/v-rossii/1176251-banda-pokhitila-mainera-v-izhevske-i-potrebovala-15-mln-vykupa

 I think Robert A. Heinlein said it best, "Destination Moon"... oops I meant, “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

 

 ...and a lot of paternity suits

 Well... it's only 100k 

 ...and possibly a third and fourth eye.

edit: just to shrink the image above

 Please, call me pm homer as I'm not much of a morning person.  
I saw "Roger that" and I did compare it with the handle "Roggeredek" and since I couldn't find any other reference looking back, I assumed Roggeredek was referring to that as the punch but I've never seen the term "punching" used in that way before - "paging" maybe?  Anyway,  I was stuck in my computer room because my youngest daughter had some friends over making a video for a school presentation and I was supposed to stay out of the way and yet be available to shuttle everyone home so I made a loosely related graphic.  Sad but true.  I did manage to get a cameo in the video though - I even got to say two words and I managed to do it in one take... which sucks when you're paid hourly.

 I didn't understand either and I didn't see any punching but just to reiterate the gentleman's rules of engagement here on the WO (in universally-understandable graphic format):

 

 I mean... the guy inadvertently coined a meme during a drunken rant.  He might have a decent intellect yet be lacking in the area of impulse control.  Pretty sure we have (had) a few of those in here 

Since we're on the topic of supplements, has anyone used NMN?  

 That is brilliant!  Congratulations to both of you.  This will come in handy in the years to come

Confession time.  Some time ago when I was playing around with Walmart and McDonalds hat avatars because we were all poor again, somebody came up with the brilliant idea to rotate the Mcdonalds logo and make it look like a stylized bitcoin symbol.  Bitebits liked it and asked me to make him a hat with that logo on it and laser eyes.  I think I may have cheated and only altered a small hat... maybe I thought he would switch back to his original hat or maybe I was being lazy... memory fails me and I have no copy of a large version on my computer so I don't believe I started that one from scratch.  Who could have know some creative individual was going to come along and make some really cool bitcoin collectibles that would require a full-sized png version?  Anyway, I consider this redemption:

full-sized
 

avatar-sized
 

 Also, I guess I'm a liar (thanks for pointing that out @JimboToronto) because I always said the first hat was free and it came with a money-back guarantee.  I will ask your forgiveness.  Second hats are free for the good guys and I'm the arbiter of good in this case 
Oh, and second hats also come with a money back guarantee.

I was expecting Arriemoller to poke his head in here today - I was looking forward to some of his family Christmas photos. Hope he's doing well. 

 For sure.  Certainly our mental constructs always match our physical reality - especially after an evening of wrapping and stuffing (stockings!) while our senses are attuned to shades of green.



 How many shades of green in reality? Just one. 
 I know right?!

 Santa needs to get back to work.
 Merry Christmas everyone.

 I don't know why but words seem to trigger my music memory quite often

 Aldo Nova-Fantasy 2021 Smokin" Hot Version

 I'm no producer but it feels like he added distortion to everything - including the title! (Smokin" rather than Smokin')  Still a good tune after all these years.

I'm not looking for merits; I just want you guys to know there are many good posts and never enough merits to go around.

 Haha!
I'm going to wrap Christmas gifts to that one tomorrow

 Stop it, man.  You look silly.

^That was my favourite!

 It was definitely VB1001 and this is the last of his updates I could find (from 2021)-

https://imgur.com/QAuHAJv - it's too large to upload to talkimg but it looks like this: