Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day?

r3nu4l

Just wondering how most of you refer to the day after Christmas Day? As with most Irish people (I assume), I refer to it as St Stephen's Day but I do have a friend in Cork who insists on calling it Boxing Day. He's not English or anything he just calls it Boxing day...what about you?

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mike65

Boxing Day my good man!

St stephens day.

Mike.

r3nu4l

Boxing Day my good man!

mike65 wrote: »

St stephens day.

Mike.

That was quick! In before the poll! :eek:

leninbenjamin

Boxing Day my good man!

St. Stephens day. boxing day sounds wrong to me...

star-pants

Boxing Day my good man!

St. Stephens Day for me too

watna

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I say boxing day, and before you all have a go at me, my dad is Welsh. I went to Wales every Christmas for as long as I remember, they don't know what St. Stephen's day is there, I got used to calling it boxing day. This girl I know used to always go on and on and on about me calling it that. She decided that because I'm a protestant (again, Welsh father) that it was a "proddy thing" and proceeded to give me a lot of ignorant abuse about it. Therefore, it's a touchy subject. Really, who cares what you call it?

monkeyfudge

Boxing Day my good man!

I don't particularly like the class connotations of boxing day... so St. Stephen's day for me please...

projectmayhem

Boxing Day my good man!

i was brought up calling it st. stephens' day so that'll be how i refer to it...

Fratton Fred

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

I don't particularly like the class connotations of boxing day... so St. Stephen's day for me please...

Boxing day, because 35 years of calling it that is hard to change.

Not sure it is anything to get wound up about though, they are the same thing

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Stephenseseses Day.

mike65

Boxing Day my good man!

Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

Mike.

The Hill Billy

Boxing Day my good man!

mike65 wrote: »

Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

Mike.

St Stephen's Day.

In before lock.

r3nu4l - There's a ban a-coming!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

bloody prods

r3nu4l

Boxing Day my good man!

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Not sure it is anything to get wound up about though

Definitely not something to get wound up about but as I'm now living in England and am staying here this Christmas I get a lot of blank looks when I mention to friends that we might visit them on St Stephen's Day

Growing up in Ireland I always heard people on BBC and ITV referring to 'Boxing Day' and thought it was strange...I guess I'm the strange one now

monkeyfudge

Boxing Day my good man!

watna wrote: »

I say boxing day, and before you all have a go at me, my dad is Welsh. I went to Wales every Christmas for as long as I remember, they don't know what St. Stephen's day is there, I got used to calling it boxing day. This girl I know used to always go on and on and on about me calling it that. She decided that because I'm a protestant (again, Welsh father) that it was a "proddy thing" and proceeded to give me a lot of ignorant abuse about it. Therefore, it's a touchy subject. Really, who cares what you call it?

You may call it Boxing day... but you're the only other person in the thread to type St. Stephen's Day correctly... well done.

EDIT: Well done as too, Hilly Billy.

watna

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

You may call it Boxing day... but you're the only other person in the thread to type St. Stephen's Day correctly... well done.

EDIT: Well done as too, Hilly Billy.

Thanks, I am also a fan of apostrophes in the correct place!

r3nu4l

Boxing Day my good man!

mike65 wrote: »

Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

Mike.

Hill Billy wrote:

In before lock.

r3nu4l - There's a ban a-coming!

This thread won't be locked...it's not a Christmas thread in any way shape or form, this thread is about December 26th, not Christmas. It's just a day that happens to fall near to Christmas. Terry said he would lock threads about Christmas, therefore this one is safe!

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r3nu4l

Boxing Day my good man!

monkeyfudge wrote: »

You may call it Boxing day... but you're the only other person in the thread to type St. Stephen's Day correctly... well done.

EDIT: Well done as too, Hilly Billy.

watna wrote: »

Thanks, I am also a fan of apostrophes in the correct place!

I'm like a guy with an orthopedic shoe!*

Corrected for both of you wonderful luvvies






*I stand corrected

vektarman

Boxing Day my good man!

Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeyfudge
You may call it Boxing day... but you're the only other person in the thread to type St. Stephen's Day correctly... well done.

EDIT: Well done as too, Hilly Billy.

Thanks, I am also a fan of apostrophes in the correct place!

Not quite correct for Hilly Billy I'm afraid, he left the full stop out after St.

AlmightyCushion

Boxing Day my good man!

I call it St. Stephen's Day. Saying Boxing Day just sounds a bit weird to me.

cson

Stephenszzzzzzz Day. My most hated day of the year. A mountain of food + cupla gallons alcohol + scatter of sweets the day before= Not fun when you have to work Stephenszzz Day.

mike65

Boxing Day my good man!

Definition wiki style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

Mike.

Dizzyblonde

Boxing Day my good man!

It's St. Stephen's Day of course, because it's the Feast of St. Stephen.
What does Boxing Day mean? It must be a cultural thing in Britain but it has no real meaning for us here - maybe it would if we knew what it's about.

I just saw the Wikipedia explanation for Boxing Day, it still means nothing to me.

kevmy

Boxing Day my good man!

mike65 wrote: »

Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

Mike.

Surely it's the 26th of Dec:rolleyes:

Xavi6

Boxing Day my good man!

Called Boxing Day over here thanks to all the bloody Poms. Stephen's Day it is for me.

justsomebloke

Boxing Day my good man!

watna wrote: »

Thanks, I am also a fan of apostrophes in the correct place!

a proddy and a grammar nazi, I'm starting to see why your friend gives you abuse:D

me, as I have the day off work don't really give a flying feck what it is called once I don't have to get out of bed

ScumLord

Boxing Day my good man!

I call it the same thing me father and his father before him called it.. "Dec 26th"

l3LoWnA

Boxing Day my good man!

I've always called it "St. Stephens' Day"! I've always had the (probably wrong) view that only the English called it "Boxing Day". what I find amusing though, is that my EXTREMELY catholic and republican friends from the North of Ireland always call it Boxing Day. I would've thought they'd call it St. Stephens' Day like us Republic of Ireland dwellers seeing as they're so Irish. Oh well....

stakey

hangover day

Meh! Atari Jaguar.

Just for the (wiki) record, who calls it what elsewhere in the world.

Holidays and observances
December 26 is a public holiday in most Christian countries of Protestantism tradition but is not in many Roman Catholic countries. It is not a public holiday in the United States unless Christmas Day falls on a Sunday like it did in 2005 and will again in 2011, in which it is the observed federal holiday. In Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Suriname and Scandinavia, Christmas Day and the following day are called First and Second Christmas Day.

• St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Ireland.
• Synaxis of Theotokos and feast of St. Joseph,King and Prophet David and St. James the Just (Orthodox Christianity)
• The first day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
• Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations.
• Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
• Australia - Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia on December 28, 1836 but commemorated on this day.
• South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday
• First day of Kwanzaa
• Abadiu of Antinoe is commemorated in the Coptic Church on this date.
• First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas (the second day is on the New Year's Day)

In Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, the 26th is known as the Second day of Christmas: Stefanitag in Austria, der zweite Weihnachtsfeiertag in Germany; Δεύτερη μέρα των Χριστουγέννων in Greece; Annandag Jul in Sweden; Anden Juledag in Denmark; Antroji Kalėdų diena in Lithuania; Andre Juledag in Norway; Tweede Kerstdag in Belgium and in the Netherlands; Annar dagur jóla in Iceland; Tapaninpäivä (St. Stephen's Day) in Finland; Karácsony másnapja in Hungary; drugi dzień Świąt Bożego Narodzenia in Poland. In some of these countries it is also a public holiday. This day is also known in Spain as San Esteban, and in Italy as Santo Stefano.

TheB

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I am Irish but it's Boxing Day to me.. but I read no race/religion/any other signals into it.. it's just what I grew up with ..

Fratton Fred

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That article at least explains why there were a group of kids walking around Ballyconnell with a dead bird on a stick last time I was up there. Good bit of tradition and nice to see. (Unless you're a wren of course).

keefg

Meh! Atari Jaguar.

Depends on who I am talking to I suppose.

If I was to mention St. Stephen's Day to any of my English friends they won't know what the hell I am talking about (fcuking heathens :mad: ).

WindSock

Boxing Stephenses day, My cousin Steven likes to hide on this day when I am around

ziggy

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keen

Boxing Day my good man!

St. Stephens Day of course!

Poppy Cock

Boxing Day my good man!

DesF wrote: »

Stephenseseses Day.

x 2.

St. Stephen's day is too much of a mouthful! Boxing day? Isn't that just the UK?

Ruu_Old

Always been St.Stephens Day

englander

Depends who i am talking to :

Irish people or people living in Ireland -> St. Stephen's Day
English people -> Boxing Day

Irish people with serious chip on shoulder -> Boxing Day !

Quite touching that work colleagues will say Boxing Day so that I know what they are talking about.

Creature

Boxing Day my good man!

St. Boxing's Day ftw!

AlmightyCushion

Boxing Day my good man!

Does any one call it Steve's Day? Kinda like how people call St. Patrick's Day, Paddy's Day.

Stephen

Boxing Day my good man!

Creature wrote: »

St. Boxing's Day ftw!

We have a winner! Why do I find the notion of St. Boxing's Day so funny?

Ponster

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I call it 'back-to-work' as it isn't a public holiday here in France.

philstar

Boxing Day my good man!

excuse my ignorance....but who was st stephen anyway??...was he irish??

godtabh

I've an English girlfirend. When I talk about St Stephen's Day she doesnt know what I'm talking about. When she talkes about Boxing day I know what she is talking about. Its a cultural thing and I dont really care

Fratton Fred

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kearnsr wrote: »

I've an English girlfirend. When I talk about St Stephen's Day she doesnt know what I'm talking about. When she talkes about Boxing day I know what she is talking about. Its a cultural thing and I dont really care

People in England don't know who Podge and Rodge are either. I have, however, made it my duty to enlighten the ignorant

Poppy Cock

Boxing Day my good man!

Stephen wrote: »

We have a winner! Why do I find the notion of St. Boxing's Day so funny?

Because you laugh at unfunny jokes?

Gran Hermano

Meh! Atari Jaguar.

Bleeeeedin' foreigners coming in here and taking our St Stephen's Day
and what do they give us back I ask - poxy Boxing Day
Tis Dec 26th to me, just another day off work.

randylonghorn

St. Stephen's Day (or verbally Stephen's's Day, as someone pointed out! )

I certainly wouldn't get all uppity about it though, or give someone grief for calling it anything else ... who cares?!

Thirdfox

December 26th to me.

Dizzyblonde

Boxing Day my good man!

To me it's the nicest day of all at Christmas because the pressure is off and there's lots of leftovers so I don't have to cook. I stay in my pyjamas unless I fancy going for a walk at the sea. Bliss.