Thanksgiving

cena

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans on boards. Hope ye have a good day.

I wish I was with the family state side. I would be lining up for the parade

Nodin

STOP THE TURKAY GEONCIDE!!!!!!!!!!

Plazaman

Nodin wrote: »

STOP THE TURKAY GEONCIDE!!!!!!!!!!

♫ It's Istanbul not Constantinople, it's Istanbul not Constantinople.... ♫

Hmmmm, sweet potatoes, pecan pie and several litres of Michelobe.

Banjo String

Thanks for giving me herpes yo. :mad:

The Master

Happy Hanukkah

Nodin

Plazaman wrote: »

♫ It's Istanbul not Constantinople, it's Istanbul not Constantinople.... ♫

Hmmmm, sweet potatoes, pecan pie and several litres of Michelobe.

I had to look up what Michelobe was.


I'm old, old and grey......

MonstaMash

Nodin wrote: »

I had to look up what Michelobe was.

Horribly bland faux beer :eek:

murphym7

I love Thanksgiving, my boss and all my team live in the states so I won't hear from them until Monday Afternoon. Yipeee!!:D

Duckworth_Luas

It seems to get earlier and earlier each year!

The_Valeyard

Remember once you are happily fed, go out and massacre some natives!

MadsL

Why, thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes. I'm thankful I'm spending it with friends and not family

The Master wrote: »

Happy Hanukkah

This particular Thanksgiving/Hannakah mashup will not take place again for 79,000 years.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Remember once you are happily fed, go out and massacre some natives!

Ah here, our native friends did actually wish us happy thanksgiving this year, some people can actually build bridges.

Some Native Americans celebrate thanksgiving, whilst others in fairness do call it the "Day of Lies".

WilyCoyote

MadsL wrote: »

Why, thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes. I'm thankful I'm spending it with friends and not family




This particular Thanksgiving/Hannakah mashup will not take place again for 79,000 years.



Ah here, our native friends did actually wish us happy thanksgiving this year, some people can actually build bridges.

Some Native Americans celebrate thanksgiving, whilst others in fairness do call it the "Day of Lies".

So I'd better say it now: HAPPY THANKSGIVNUKKAH! to everyone everywhere.

We're having a few snifters (9.45am) while die Yiddische Mamaleh is poring over the hot stove.
Gesundheit!

MJ23

Yall have a great now, ye hear.

Pherekydes

Plazaman wrote: »

♫ It's Istanbul not Constantinople, it's Istanbul not Constantinople.... ♫

Hmmmm, sweet potatoes, pecan pie and several litres of Michelobe.

It'll always be Byzantium to me.

BillyMitchel

You mean happy kill the Native American day?!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

We need more public holidays here for **** sake, anything, Michael D's birthday, Pat Kenny appreciation day, Battle of something or other Day, River Dancing Day, Leitrim Day, anything, more holidays, more meat, more beer and more meat and most importantly more meat and beer and meat.

WoollyRedHat

http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/1248069318731/critics-picks-the-ice-storm.html

Wendy Hood:Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands. And stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being napalmed.
Ben Hood: Jesus! Enough, alright? Paul… roll?

Killer Wench

Many, many Natives celebrate Thanksgiving. What the hell?

Thanksgiving coincides with many of our traditional feasting days. The Mashpee Wampanoag, the tribe known to help the pilgrims on Thanksgiving, still celebrate their traditional feasting day.

P_1

Thousands of US retail workers are presumably shítting/steeling themselves for tomorrow's manifestation of the ugly side of consumerism though

The_Valeyard

P_1 wrote: »

Thousands of US retail workers are presumably shítting/steeling themselves for tomorrow's manifestation of the ugly side of consumerism though

Have you been watching South Park?

thee glitz

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

We need more public holidays here for **** sake, anything, Michael D's birthday, Pat Kenny appreciation day, Battle of something or other Day, River Dancing Day, Leitrim Day, anything, more holidays, more meat, more beer and more meat and most importantly more meat and beer and meat.

We sure do. They use any excuse for a bank holiday in Asia
eg. Respect the Elderly day in Japan

kneemos

What's the word from Punxsutawney?

DEFTLEFTHAND

kneemos wrote: »

What's the word from Punxsutawney?

Phil doesn't come out until February 2nd.

I am pie

pew pew pew pumpkins and turkeys. Yeeehaww.

BillyMitchel

P_1 wrote: »

Thousands of US retail workers are presumably shítting/steeling themselves for tomorrow's manifestation of the ugly side of consumerism though

Is tomorrow Black Friday?!

Jump over to reddit they have a section on it this time of year. It's makes the January sales here laughable. Holy crap I've never seen so many people trying to buy stuff. It's like Armageddon!

Killer Wench

Hell. Stores are open today.

CaliforniaDream

P_1 wrote: »

Thousands of US retail workers are presumably shítting/steeling themselves for tomorrow's manifestation of the ugly side of consumerism though

Tomorrow? Don't you know Black Friday is on a Thursday now.
Shops open at 6pm today.

P_1

CaliforniaDream wrote: »

Tomorrow? Don't you know Black Friday is on a Thursday now.
Shops open at 6pm today.

Really? That is rediculous, guess retail workers in the States don't get a Thanksgiving so nowadays

clairefontaine

BillyMitchel wrote: »

You mean happy kill the Native American day?!

Yeah, I have a sweet potato marshmallow pie in the oven, and arrows from the local tribes shooting through my window and I'm just about to pull out my pilgrim hat and grab my rifle. Because you know, it's still 300 years ago.

Karl Stein

P_1 wrote: »

the ugly side of consumerism

Racking my brains here to conjure an image of the pretty side...

.... nope.

clairefontaine

Tomorrow is Native American Heritage Day.

I worked in retail back in high school and was happy to work on Black Friday as I got paid double time and they had hours for me to work. It meant more money for Christmas.

Black Friday is a magic card trick by retailers, this is actually not when the best deals are to be had.

Vincent Vega

Thanksgiving
cena

'cena' is Italian for dinner.
Well played!

BillyMitchel

clairefontaine wrote: »

Yeah, I have a sweet potato marshmallow pie in the oven, and arrows from the local tribes shooting through my window and I'm just about to pull out my pilgrim hat and grab my rifle. Because you know, it's still 300 years ago.

Firstly, that pie sounds disgusting and secondly WTF you doing on the interweb if there are arrows coming through your window. Get under your bed.

Duckworth_Luas

clairefontaine wrote: »

Yeah, I have a sweet potato marshmallow pie in the oven, and arrows from the local tribes shooting through my window and I'm just about to pull out my pilgrim hat and grab my rifle. Because you know, it's still 300 years ago.

I declare shenanigans! 300 years ago they would have use muskets, not rifles. You probably don't even have a pie in your oven and your statement is as worthless as a peace treaty with Native Americans!

Killer Wench

clairefontaine wrote: »

Tomorrow is Native American Heritage Day.

I worked in retail back in high school and was happy to work on Black Friday as I got paid double time and they had hours for me to work. It meant more money for Christmas.

Black Friday is a magic card trick by retailers, this is actually not when the best deals are to be had.

All of November is Native American Heritage Month. It is declared by the President on the first of the month. Does your state celebrate something different?

clairefontaine

Killer Wench wrote: »

All of November is Native American Heritage Month. It is declared by the President on the first of the month. Does your state celebrate something different?

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

There is a day and there is a month.

Killer Wench

I wonder if they were trying to push for a second holiday so that people can get the Thursday and Friday off.

General General

I often wondered, do the Sith Lords have a public holiday in the days of the Galactic Empire?

meoklmrk91

At some stage I def want to go to American and have thanksgiving, the food tbf sounds amazing.

December2012

clairefontaine wrote: »

Yeah, I have a sweet potato marshmallow pie.

Is that a dessert or a side dish?

Rho b

Many, many years ago when I was in secondary school I had a brilliant History teacher. She made History interesting, anyway, she told us stories of indigenous American's who sent aid to Ireland during the Great Famine 1845 +.
I loved History but due to the selection process in my school after the Inter Cert I had a choice between Physics or Economics.
I choose Economics - feck all good it did me.

kneemos

Killer Wench wrote: »

All of November is Native American Heritage Month. It is declared by the President on the first of the month. Does your state celebrate something different?

That's nice of them.They get a whole month.

[-0-]

Yanksgiving, aka The US Nazi invasion.

Gobble gobble!

clairefontaine

Killer Wench wrote: »

I wonder if they were trying to push for a second holiday so that people can get the Thursday and Friday off.

Don't people already have Friday off?

Except in retail obviously.

Killer Wench

clairefontaine wrote: »

Don't people already have Friday off?

Except in retail obviously.

Mostly government jobs, it seems. My old corporate office was open on the Friday after, but most everyone took the day off (a vacation day).