Being able to run out and get an ingredient you missed may be the difference between a successful holiday meal and none at all.
Newsflash: you don't need a special day to purposely spend it with family - unless you're that close to extended family which you only see this one time a year.
Do we need more sad events or natural disasters to remind us that we should cherish the time we have together?
Keep moving the goalposts if that makes you feel better about yourself, tool.
I didn't realize this, but apparently Christ died and came back as a turkey for us all to enjoy his bounty...or something.........
That is what I was told in another thread anyway. I just want to eat and drink too much and say things I shouldn't to family I see once a year.
I just want to eat and drink too much and say things I shouldn't to family I see once a year.
Then do that on the day expressly founded for it, AssholeLushGlutton Day.
What the hell are you talking about? The goal posts are in the same location as when I started posting in this thread clearly evidenced by my remark concerning average total hours worked by the employee groups concerned starting on the 25th. Just because your argument falls flat that doesn't mean the goal posts have been moved.
Seems like that kind of overlaps with a couple other days, but we can always use one more:
Cinco De Mayo
St. Patricks Day
New Year's Eve
New Year's Day
Super Bowl Sunday
Valentines Day
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.[2] This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow)[3] and 53 Pilgrims.[4] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.[5]
So, you have all those other special days to freely indulge your inner AssholeLushGlutton and yet you're here whining that you have to endure 20 seconds of someone giving thanks on, um Thanksgiving Day -- even though that's the exact foundational history of the damn day -- before the drunken insults, nasty wet burps and flecks of uneaten turkey come flying out of your mouth?
I'm really not a fan of "exact foundational history"...seeing how most modern traditions were founded in a time when basic hygiene was considered sorcery.
How many times do you have a moment of silence before you have a green beer? St. Patricks Day's "foundational history" is about some nutter bringing Xtianity to Ireland in order to force native Irish to convert from polytheism, but that just doesn't sound good in a toast......
The exact analogy would be if a poster came in here and bitterly complained and whined that some Irish guy toasted St. Patrick on St. Patrick's day because those 10 seconds took away from him getting shitfaced and insulting people, or, since you were likely (somewhat) joshing about that, offended his historically ignorant sensibilities.
You catching on yet?
Hey, maybe you have close family that are Holy Roller blowhards and tease out the simple saying of grace into an opportunity to proselytize.
I don't. So the simple saying of grace, this simple giving of thanks, is not something that bothers me on Thanksgiving Day, even though I don't personally believe in the Great Bearded Sky Fairy.
It's a diverse world. Take a trip outside your own insular, generational ghetto now and then and experience some of the rest of it without having to stamp your little feat in a stupid bitch post. Iow, get your head out of your ass.
You only use such language to convey your frustration when intellectually stimulated....so technically I will count this as a win for me.
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You only use such language to convey your frustration when intellectually stimulated....so technically I will count this as a win for me.
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No one seemed to care about this when I worked at Blockbuster every holiday. No riots. No boycotts. Just masses of people flocking to rent multiple movies at a time.
What do group averages mean to the individual? If someone works on a holiday, the group's fate doesn't mean shit to them.