Happy Thanksgiving!
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SaiyanHajime
CF Legend
I'm an 8th French. Stop being racist. I'm offended.SnooSnoo said:
LiveForTheLaunch
CF Legend
Why would I be mad? It's one more time that we get to have family gatherings and family dinners a year than you do. And I happen to like Thanksgiving quite a bit.. Sucks for you that you don't have it.
Snoo
The Legend
tks said:SnooSnoo said:
Why do you need an entire holiday to give thanks for what you have? It REALLY is just an excuse to cook loads of food and pile on the pounds.
Because spreading out thanks is a waste of time. That would be almost religion, which is a giant crock of **** as is.
And I run, I don't pile on pounds son.
divvie_dave
Mega Poster
You need a calender excuse to have a family gathering?
Also, I haven't a clue about thanksgiving, but we have a "harvest " thing where we celebrate the harvest around this time of year. Its normally forgotten about after primary school.... well, my primary school used to make a big deal of it... then i never heard anything about it for a while. And now, since I've moved house, they celebrate it here :S
divvie_dave
Mega Poster
Still.... one day
Was just trying to say.... from what i understand about thanksgiving... we have a day to give "thanks" kinda too....
Was just trying to say.... from what i understand about thanksgiving... we have a day to give "thanks" kinda too....
divvie_dave
Mega Poster
We always had to go to old peoples houses and give them ****tty tinned food.... I kinda felt sorry for em, im sure they loooooooove tinned food.
Where i live now, its all farmers and that, so we (they.. i only turned up after the meal for the drink) had a massive village meal, auction and a damn god time.
Where i live now, its all farmers and that, so we (they.. i only turned up after the meal for the drink) had a massive village meal, auction and a damn god time.
I thought for a moment that this was going to turn into yet another "English people jealous because we do bugger all to celebrate anything and then deride other nations for doing it while quietly muttering about how nobody even knows when St. George's day is" thread.
Quick question. Do any descendants of the native American people have a "burn the ****ers day celebration"?
I do understand the ideal that's behind Thanksgiving, and I do actually think that it's a good idea. It's a catch hold of a tradition and community spirit that we lost in the UK (certainly mainland Britain) a long time ago. It's a good thing (if a little over the top and American, but what can you do).
However, I think that the founding principles (from one still smarting from the loss of the colonies, clearly ) are a bit dubious. I don't know how much is taught of the death, torture and genocide that accompanies the same thing that is given thanks for? I really don't know. I also don't know if what we're taught is skewed too because we're still bitter because we had a sausage munching hatstand for a King in 1781
Anyway, hope you have a good one
Quick question. Do any descendants of the native American people have a "burn the ****ers day celebration"?
I do understand the ideal that's behind Thanksgiving, and I do actually think that it's a good idea. It's a catch hold of a tradition and community spirit that we lost in the UK (certainly mainland Britain) a long time ago. It's a good thing (if a little over the top and American, but what can you do).
However, I think that the founding principles (from one still smarting from the loss of the colonies, clearly
) are a bit dubious. I don't know how much is taught of the death, torture and genocide that accompanies the same thing that is given thanks for? I really don't know. I also don't know if what we're taught is skewed too because we're still bitter because we had a sausage munching hatstand for a King in 1781 Anyway, hope you have a good one