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Total and utter bollocks days
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1. Valentines Day - what a con.
2. Father's Day - yeah right, what a load of shite.
3. Halloween - sod off and leave me alone.
4. Grandparent's Day - drop dead, please.
5. National Boss Day - why celebrate these bastards?
6. Nurse's Day - yeah, hmm.... no teacher's day, doctor's day, bus driver's day, little git weatherman day....
Somebody please shoot the bright sparks at Hallmark.
2. Father's Day - yeah right, what a load of shite.
3. Halloween - sod off and leave me alone.
4. Grandparent's Day - drop dead, please.
5. National Boss Day - why celebrate these bastards?
6. Nurse's Day - yeah, hmm.... no teacher's day, doctor's day, bus driver's day, little git weatherman day....
Somebody please shoot the bright sparks at Hallmark.
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Mother's Day, at least in this country, is an age-old tradition dating back hundreds of years, and is based on the concepts of Mothering Sunday. Father's Day was proclaimed as a national day in America in 1972 by Richard Nixon, and filtered across the continent. Mother's Day at least has some basis in tradition, whereas Father's Day is a manifestation of the greed of card manufacturers who have to wait sooooo long between Easter and Christmas to see profits.
Please, aimz - womb..... stomach..... not the same! Unless your parent was called Cronus.
that was in Kill Bill. i want to wach Kill Bill now
I love that song, it's so full of emotion.
I don't think it is, adding it to Kill Bill MADE it full of emotion.
On its own, before Kill Bill was about, it was mince.
Perhaps, it's still Nancy Sinatra though.
Oh HAEL YEAH! :hyper:
She is the bee's knees.
Who, me?
No, I just object in the strongest possible terms to the way that everyone seems to have been conditioned into buying cards, especially for Valentine's Day. I hate this day with a burning passion, and would quite cheerfully set a bonfire for the entire stock of those poxy bloody buggery red envelopes if i could.
Did you make those up??
Fortunately I know no one who "celebrates" them so it's hardly something to moan about.
halloween is older, i bet. and valentine's day, or at least the feast of st. valentine.
Of similar age probably.
I think Halloween is a good laugh...
Bonfire night is bollocks.
Bonfire night hasn't been unnecessarily commercialised.
mother's day - dates back to about the 19th century - "In Victorian times, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family."
valentine's day - back to the third century - "St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. "
halloween - pre-dates christianity - "In ancient Britain this date was the pre-Christian eve of the New Year and Celtic Harvest Festival, when the souls of the dead were thought to revisit their homes to eat and drink. People left refreshments on the table and unlocked their doors before retiring for the night, then bells were rung, fires lit to guide the returning souls back to earth and animals were brought in for the winter."
Not only that but people actually used to give Valentines cards in Victorian times, so I don't think you can claim THAT'S an invention of the card moguls.
All Hallows Eve is excusable. The next kid to say "trick or treat" is going to get a treat of my size 10 boots in its bollocks though.
Valentine's Day is the feast day of the patron saint of love; again hijacked.
Mothering Sunday is the Christian tradition of celebrating all mothers, starting with Our Lady. Father's day is made up shit.
But yes, card company manufacturers, and their ad execs, should be spit roasted in the most literal sense.
If you think this counmtry is bad, apparently it's just been "sweetness day" in the US. I mean, what the fuck?
Precisely why should be commemorate a day on which a great man died for his religion by giving flowers and stupid hearty cards to one another? I have no objection to the feast day, just what it has become.
because he was the patron saint of love, genius.
Halloween is not excusable in it's current form. It revolves entirely around the 'trick or treat' concept, and therefore is a dead commercialised holiday, and should result in all children being caged up for the evening to stop them menacing peace-loving citizens.
Valentine's Day is the day that someone who some idiot has declared as the patron saint of love, died as a martyr. Personally, i'd prefer to go to church and declare my love for Christ. It's a lot more meaningful and relevant, and a hell of a lot less expensive.
I'm losing my faith in Christmas and Easter too. How many people know that Santa was not traditionally dressed in red and white, and this only came about after Coca Cola created a poster with him represented in their company colours? Bloody marketing departments.
Not true I'm afraid. That's an urban myth.
it's not.
santa used to wear green - representing the coming of the new year, spring, etc.
coca cola invented the santa we know.
He married couples in secret because Emperor Claudius II banned weddings in Rome. He was a Christian who allowed people who were truly in love to bind themselves together forever. I don't see why this has become an opportunity to send massive cards in red envelopes to people you won't care about in a few weeks time, and not even bother saying who it's from! Why the fuck would any normal person spend so much on a card, especially from Hallmark, and then not want the person to know who sent it?!?
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp
Santa was a drug addict. He was based on the Inuit Shaman, or medicine man, who would smoke stuff, then see things and have knowledge and answers. When they wanted him to cure them, they would leave food to entice him in at the bottom of the ladder into their domed houses (chimmney) and he would come down at the dead of night, leave his gifts and take their food. He wore green. This developed into the idea of a jolly green-wearing St. Nicholas leaving presents, and Coca Cola put him in red and white.
^
which btw confused the living hell out of a lot of wakey children last year.
Touche.