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Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day?

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  • 12-11-2007 3:47pm
    #1
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭


    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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    Boxing Day or St Stephens' Day 177 votes

    St Stephens Day of course!
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    Boxing Day my good man!
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    StephenmeglomeFunkyChickenazezilSangrenesfMossy Monkmike65StarkgurramokkaimeradazberryShamoCreaturestarman100Chad ghostaljustsomeblokevorbiswilliambRobertFoster 151 votes
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    _Kaiser_chumpjimmycrackcormPonsterFwaggleziggyrobinphxabidirtydressPaul TergatMarksieOverhealFratton FredwatnatimmywexbuilttospillTheB 17 votes
    Meh! Atari Jaguar.
    5%
    PropellerheadJackzPythiaTrojan911demandobsdave[Deleted User]Gran Hermanokeefg 9 votes


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    mike65
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    St stephens day.

    Mike.


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    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Boxing Day my good man!
    mike65 wrote: »
    St stephens day.

    Mike.

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


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    leninbenjamin
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    St. Stephens day. boxing day sounds wrong to me...


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    star-pants
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    St. Stephens Day for me too


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    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?


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    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭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...


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    projectmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 9,481 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Boxing Day my good man!
    i was brought up calling it st. stephens' day so that'll be how i refer to it...


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    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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    _blank_
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    Stephenseseses Day.


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    mike65
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

    Mike.


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    The Hill Billy
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    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! :D


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    bloody prods


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    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


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    monkeyfudge
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    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.


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    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!


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    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭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! :D

    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! :D

    <-<
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    #18
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭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 :D






    *I stand corrected


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    vektarman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭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.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    I call it St. Stephen's Day. Saying Boxing Day just sounds a bit weird to me.


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    #21
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,417 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    mike65
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    Definition wiki style

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

    Mike.


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    Dizzyblonde
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    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.


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    kevmy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭kevmy


    Boxing Day my good man!
    mike65 wrote: »
    Oh yeah, its Nov 12th.

    Mike.

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


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    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


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


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    justsomebloke
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    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


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    ScumLord
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    Boxing Day my good man!
    I call it the same thing me father and his father before him called it.. "Dec 26th"


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    l3LoWnA
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    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....


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    #29
    stakey
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    hangover day


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    [Deleted User]
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    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. 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.


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    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 ..


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