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Why is a long weekend called Bank Holiday Monday? Who cares if the banks are on holiday. Lazy fu-cks

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  • 06-06-2022 1:46pm
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    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,710 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    Why can they not just call it a Holiday weekend or Holiday Monday. Its not just the lazy fu-cking bankers that are on holidays and yes I am angry at the banks.

    I say we should protest and get it changed to just a Holiday weekend. Who is with me?



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    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Every weekend is a bank holiday weekend.



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    erlichbachman
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭erlichbachman


    How do we protest? Plackards, sit ins, block traffic, chain ourselves to railings?

    I mean this is bank holiday Monday so it’s me day off



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    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,710 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119165268#Comment_119165268

    We protest in front of the banks well the ones that are left anyway that it should no longer be called a bank Holiday unless you like the fact that it basically means banks control you and that's why it is called a bank Holiday. It has to stop. The banks can still have there Holiday on the same days but it will just be a Holiday. Besides its not like they over do it during the full weeks they are open most do not open on Saturdays or Sundays and some even close early on Fridays.

    Maybe the retail sector should have a bank Holiday to in there name and the Constuction sector and maybe even the IT Sector. They all work harder than the banking sector does and yet it has bank holidays named after them. It makes no sense.



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    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I was saying Boo-urns



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    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,480 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    The correct term for today is public holiday anyway, but by all means continue to waste your energy being annoyed over absolutely nothing.



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    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Initially, the idea was that only banks and financial institutions would close on these particular days.

    As time passed on everyone got in on the act.

    They were intriduced in the U.k by a guy called John Lubbock in the 1870's and he was a banker as you may have guessed.



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    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,147 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058249036/why-is-a-long-weekend-called-bank-holiday-monday-who-cares-if-the-banks-are-on-holiday-lazy-fu-cks

    It is a public holiday.

    There are nine public holidays.

    There are two extra bank holidays, on top of the nine public holidays.



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