So what's December 26th mean to you?

Red Sleeping Beauty

Thread in Rantin'&Ravin' about people who call it Boxing Day are spas.
St. Stephen's Day is a bit sectarian. I think most people will just call it Stephens' Day and it's just a repeat of the previous day sans presents and you eat more and get pissed again and meet the less important relatives. Wikipedia makes Boxing Day sound not half bad.

The law of the land says today is a public holiday "St. Stephen's Day"

Does it mean anything to anyone here or is it just another day off to extend the festival celebrations of the previous day? Is it also a petty war/attack on religion and some kind of atheist analism to avoid calling the day by its legal title?

GLaDOS

Means leftover turkey sandwiches and some serious playstation playing for me

Red Sleeping Beauty

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Means leftover turkey sandwiches and some serious playstation playing for me

Worshiping the god of Sony eh?

fitz0

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Means leftover turkey sandwiches and some serious playstation playing for me

Heathen. Today is a day to do your duty to the great Microsoft through the ritual of Xbox marathons.

Galvasean

Hooray, football's back.
Those were a scary couple of days.

A big game of civilisation.

ShooterSF

The hardest nights work in the year (Bar work)

Dades

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II for me, followed by The Premiership.

Saint who?!

Helix

loads of football

Zillah

Forget the turkey, there's a kilo of Marks and Spencer's ham with my name on it.

Coriolanus

Rugby, damned dirty heathens, RUGBY is the sport of the true atheist. #

Leinster v Ulster, 5:30 free to air on sky this afternoon.

Anyway, today used to be quite meaningful for me, since I was named for it. Used to be somewhat enamoured with the cult of martyrdom as a young un.

Dave!

Chelsea being held to a draw

And leftover turkey and ham !

jmccoy

ShooterSF wrote: »

The hardest nights work in the year (Bar work)

Yep, I'm on at 7.

rainbow kirby

December 26th this year meant shopping and slowly waking up from the food coma I put myself into yesterday...

toiletduck

Means I have to work in about an hour :mad:

WooPeeA

So what's December 26th mean to you?

Hangover recovery day.

bnt

One word: Leopardstown. :pac:

Myksyk

Nevore wrote: »

Anyway, today used to be quite meaningful for me, since I was named for it.

Boxer Nevore? Dodgy name to be fair!

Coriolanus

Myksyk wrote: »

Boxer Nevore? Dodgy name to be fair!

I know, it's my cross to bear.

Corkfeen

A bloated feeling, sleeping in and eating loads of ****e. T'is a good season.

Rb

This year it meant work for me. Never, ever again though.

MetalDawg

Means xmas is over thank f**k.

liamw

MetalDawg wrote: »

I hate puppies.

Harsh

Handsome Bob

Red Sleeping Beauty wrote: »

Thread in Rantin'&Ravin' about people who call it Boxing Day are spas.

You should have started a counter rant thread.

Undergod

I prefer "Stephen's Day" to "Boxing Day", for no good reason.

krudler

Its Christmas 2:Christmas Harder

branie

Years ago, it meant going to the pub with my father

Ickle Magoo

I call it boxing day because I'm not Irish & I don't know anyone bar the Irish that call it St Stephens day, nothing to do with

a petty war/attack on religion and some kind of atheist analism to avoid calling the day by its legal title

In Scotland we call New Years eve Hogmany. It's a national holiday for no particular reason other than it always has been and if anyone comes to Scotland and fails to call it Hogmany, we don't have a hairy fit about it and start wailing and gnashing (saw the other thread), we just accept there's a bigger world out there and people have different names for the same thing. :cool:

Daftendirekt

I normally call it Stephen's Day, simply because it sounds better than Boxing Day.

Sometimes I use the latter title if I'm in the company of people who're easily wound up, though.

HalloweenJack

I call it Stephen's or St. Stephen's Day.

It doesn't mean anything to me. It's just an extra day off as far as I'm concerned and I won't turn my nose up at it just because it's named after a saint.

After all, all religious feast days in Ireland have grown beyond their intial religious meaning: Christmas = presents, food and family; Paddy's Day = celebrate being Irish and drinking; Good Friday = biggest drinking day of the year, ironically; Easter Sunday = stuffing your face with chocolate.

Antbert

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Sometimes I use the latter title if I'm in the company of people who're easily wound up, though.

Precisely this.