Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving folks! Today’s post is postponed due to laziness and family related activities. Also, I need a better Thanksgiving meme to post here. In the meantime here is the good old Sesame Street one:
Happy shopping tomorrow! I’m sleeping in - fuck Black Friday.
Hmm… I guess I owe a word of explanation to my international viewers. You probably know what Thanksgiving is, but if you didn’t I just linked to a wiki entry that should explain it. Black Friday on the other hand is the traditional first day of the Christmas shopping season and most US stores like to do major promotional sales to attract shoppers. A lot of people get up at 4AM or earlier hunt for best deals and beat the crowds. In other word madness!
Madness? This is Spartaaaa!
That’s why I’m sleeping in - I don’t want to get kicked in the chest by a sales hungry housewife.
Anyways, we shall return to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!
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November 27th, 2008 at 3:25 pm (10825) [Quote]
Cool picture. Spartaaa
Posted usingNovember 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am (10827) [Quote]
By the way, happy Thanksgiving to you Luke, a bit late, I know. We Europeans don’t realize sometimes how important it is for you guys…
Posted usingDecember 4th, 2008 at 12:15 am (10873) [Quote]
@Alphast: Well, it’s a nice family holiday. Also it is the only holiday that is observed by ALL US residents. Christmas is big, but you have to keep in mind that non-Christians don’t observe it. So Thanksgiving is something we all share.
In my family Christmas is still a bigger deal - but we are all immigrants. It’s much more important for people who were born here and grew up with it.
Oh, and we get the day off - or two. Can’t argue with that!
Posted usingDecember 4th, 2008 at 2:45 am (10874) [Quote]
Well, it all makes sense indeed…
I had forgotten the secularism aspect of it of course. It’s a shame we don’t have a day like that here. I mean Christians and Jewish have Christmas and Hanoeka about at the same time, but Muslims have a moving calendar and the (more) numerous atheists have nothing at all. Maybe we should propose some European wide religious independent holiday.
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