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Where is the annual Good Friday thread?

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    #32
    c_man
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    It's only 7th April and good Friday this year is 18th April?

    Today is "Bankholiday minus 9 work days" in my head.


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    #33
    Not G.R
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Not G.R


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    All steak is beef, but not all beef is steak.

    Tuna steak...

    shotsfired


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    #34
    Lapin
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    I blame the bankers.


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    #35
    El_Dangeroso
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    I get the day off because it's a privilage day in my cushy public service job!

    \o/


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    #36
    bumper234
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    Can't wait for good Friday!

    Have the day off and me and my son are going to rip up the town and have a mad one!!!!

    Except for the hours of 12:00 - 1:30 as he will be having his nap then and gets cranky if he doesn't sleep. Two year olds, just can't hack the pace :D


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    #37
    Fred Swanson
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    #38
    Holsten
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    4 Day weekend hell yeahhhhhhhhhhh!


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    #39
    GenieOz
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    Good Friday does wonders for the off licenses in fairness. I say keep it.


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    #40
    evolving_doors
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    Do ya know the secret knock?


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    #41
    orangesoda
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    Christ the mass schedule over Easter is hectic


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    #42
    catallus
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    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

    You can't beat a nice Angelus

    I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

    You, sir, are a heathen.

    The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

    So it goes:

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

    Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.


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    #43
    Martina82
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    I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.


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    #44
    [Deleted User]
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    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .
    Bong . . . bong . . . bong . . .

    You can't beat a nice Angelus

    Or a decent Bong


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    #45
    delw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    catallus wrote: »
    I note, with some disdain, that your version (and god help us in this day and age when individuals think it's all about themselves and try to mangle tradition to fit into their own deleteriously unimaginative dreams of themselves) has only 12 bongs.

    You, sir, are a heathen.

    The number of bongs is 18. 3 sets of 3 bongs, followed by a rapture of 9 bongs.

    So it goes:

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    Bong........Bong.........Bong

    And then BongBongBongBongBongBongBongBongBong.

    Now, I'm all for re-mixes, but your 12 bong version sucks.

    Excellent :)


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    #46
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    I like to sit sipping a coffee in Temple Bar and watch all the bewildered tourists wandering around from pub to pub wondering what in the name of Thor is going on.


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    #47
    Bootsy.
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    This year we've organised a massive Pagan orgy in the woods, it'll be way more flippin' craic than the pub.


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    #48
    catallus
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    An orgy? In the woods? In April? You're a nutter. Having rotten branches and moss in one's ass-crack does not sound like "flippin' craic" to me. But I never did understand pagans.


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    #49
    Lapin
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    Martina82 wrote: »
    I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.

    I know.

    We should really spread it out over Holy Wednesday and maybe even Holy Tuesday too.

    Lighten the load a bit like.

    Every year we say we'll do that but we never do.


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    #50
    Super-Rush
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    I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

    The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.


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    #51
    Lapin
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    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I could never figure out which was was more pathetic.

    The fact that the fcuking church still dictates what goes on in this country or people not being able to survive one day without alcohol.

    Thats easy.

    It's the churchy bit.


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    #52
    catallus
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    It's for the good of the people that they observe at least one day of abstention from the buying of alcohol. Such wilful blindness to the majesty of religious diktat is abominable.


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    #53
    Jamsiek
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    Martina82 wrote: »
    I find extremely depressing to see people lining up to buy drink on Holy Thursday.

    Why?


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    #54
    Jamsiek
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    catallus wrote: »
    It's for the good of the people that they observe at least one day of abstention from the buying of alcohol. Such wilful blindness to the majesty of religious diktat is abominable.

    I agree but people should be able to choose what day to abstain, not have it imposed by a nanny state law


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    #55
    Makaveli
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    Chill bro, we heard you the first 4 times.


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    #56
    jester77
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    I'm glad I live somewhere where religious nonsense does not dictate how I spend my day.


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    #57
    rainbow kirby
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    jester77 wrote: »
    I'm glad I live somewhere where religious nonsense does not dictate how I spend my day.

    Ditto. Bank holiday and pubs open, best of both worlds. :cool:


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    #58
    Davarus Walrus
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    jester77 wrote: »
    I'm glad I live somewhere where religious nonsense does not dictate how I spend my day.

    If you live in Hamburg then the shops don't open on a Sunday do they? Might have something to do with laws passed for religious purposes. ;)


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    #59
    jester77
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    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    If you live in Hamburg then the shops don't open on a Sunday do they? Might have something to do with laws passed for religious purposes. ;)

    Shops closed on Sunday has nothing to do with religion. It is a federal law that recognises Sunday as a day of rest so that families get to spend 1 day of the week together. Lots of shops are opened anyway, so it is not a very strict law.


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    #60
    Plazaman
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    cson wrote: »
    [A] "Can ye not stay off it for one day of the year"

    "The State is supposed to be secular; its absolute bullshít this is still a rule"

    [C] "Sure just stock up on cans and have a house party"

    [D] "Atari Shaguar"

    **********************

    Every reply to this thread will invariably be a derivative of one of the above.

    Except this post; which is all of the above. :pac:

    Jinx.

    You missed out on the whole athiest angle there OP. Usually good for 3 pages of back and forth
    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I get the day off because it's a privilage day in my cushy public service job!

    \o/

    Marty Mc Fly, come back to the future, priviledge days were done away with 3 years ago.


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    #61
    El_Dangeroso
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    Plazaman wrote: »
    You missed out on the whole athiest angle there OP. Usually good for 3 pages of back and forth



    Marty Mc Fly, come back to the future, priviledge days were done away with 3 years ago.

    Well whatever they're called, it's an extra day off!


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