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Should we celebrate Thanksgiving in Ireland

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  • 21-11-2018 10:41am
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    incentsitive
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    Given Black Friday has been taken on in Ireland in a similar way to Love Day in The Simpsons, should we celebrate Thanksgiving too?

    It could be a day to give thanks for the fruits of the earth, and our wonderful indigenous farming community who contribute so much to our economy and to ensure our shelves are stocked with meat, fruit and veg produced with a level of care to the end consumer that the yanks can but dream of as they fatten their cattle and poultry with hormones, antibiotocs, etc........


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    lawred2
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    What?


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    bodice ripper
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    It'd force Christmas out of November...


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    Jerichoholic
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    Only complete **** celebrate Thanksgiving in Ireland who aren't American.


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    coffee_cake
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    No thanks


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    seamus
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    Why would we celebrate a romanticised version of an event that happened in another country hundreds of years ago? It makes no sense.

    Why would we celebrate Thanksgiving, but not Cinco de Mayo, or Bastille Day, or El Salvador's Independence Day?


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Only complete **** celebrate Thanksgiving in Ireland who aren't American.
    And even then... :pac:


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    neris
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    only if we get a day off


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    cormie
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    It's enough we've already adopted the new materialistic tradition.

    The less archaic animal slaughtering rituals the better and even though Irish produced flesh and secretions may not have the same hormones and antibiotics, you won't be able to avoid animal proteins and fats consuming them :o


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    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    Lets celebrate Diwali too while we are at it ;)

    OP, I understand the sentiment but thanksgiving doesn't really have a place in our culture.


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    frag420
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    Sure lets invade some brown countries and live on Twinkies and Mountain Dew aswell!

    When is Independence Day, lets do that too!


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    TheValeyard
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    Wibbs
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Only complete **** celebrate Thanksgiving in Ireland who aren't American.
    There are enough Irish people with mid Atlantic accents going with their "mom" to the "store" about the place without going full Yank and celebrating thanksgiving. As it is we do halloween, one of our own actual festivities, with an increasingly American flavour. Or should that be "flavor"? Nope.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    Wibbs
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    incentsitive wrote: »
    It could be a day to give thanks for the fruits of the earth,
    We have, or had one already. Lughnasadh(in August/September IIRC). Though not exactly widely celebrated.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    We have imported enough American customs.


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    TomSweeney
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    When did all this Black Friday shyte start ?
    In Ireland at least ?


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    godtabh
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    seamus wrote: »
    Why would we celebrate a romanticised version of an event that happened in another country hundreds of years ago? It makes no sense.

    Why would we celebrate Thanksgiving, but not Cinco de Mayo, or Bastille Day, or El Salvador's Independence Day?

    I was in Guatemala for their Independence day. That was great craic.


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    whisky_galore
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    Black Friday here is aping the US so shops can sell on the otherwise unsellable. Barefaced commercialism that's all.

    No cultural attachment to Thanksgiving but I see the odd event here aimed at homesick Yanks no doubt.


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    xi5yvm0owc1s2b
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    Thanksgiving is celebrated in other countries as well. Canadians celebrate their own version of Thanksgiving. Freed slaves returned from the United States to Liberia in the early 1800s, bringing the tradition with them, and Thanksgiving is now a national holiday in Liberia. The Netherlands holds a Thanksgiving celebration of the Dutch who helped settle the American colonies. So it's not an exclusively American thing by any means.


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    vicwatson
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    TomSweeney wrote: »
    When did all this Black Friday shyte start ?
    In Ireland at least ?

    Only in recent years, no stampedes recorded as yet.


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    xi5yvm0owc1s2b
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    seamus wrote: »
    Why would we celebrate a romanticised version of an event that happened in another country hundreds of years ago?

    Like Christmas and Easter?


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    OU812
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    seamus wrote: »
    Why would we celebrate a romanticised version of an event that happened in another country hundreds of years ago? It makes no sense.

    Why would we celebrate Thanksgiving, but not Cinco de Mayo, or Bastille Day, or El Salvador's Independence Day?


    I’ll happily celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Margaritas & Enchalidas??? Where do I sign up?


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    whisky_galore
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    bodice ripper wrote: »
    It'd force Christmas out of November...

    Too late, that's already happened.


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    darlett
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    TomSweeney wrote: »
    When did all this Black Friday shyte start ?
    In Ireland at least ?

    It seems only in the last 5 years we were first staring with disgust at clips of Americans trampling over each other to get into shops to get the mystery items on sale. Thankfully we ve not yet reached that level of hysteria or at least the scenes of brutality where shoppers are left injured and crying on the ground, but-in a typical no such thing as bad advertising moment; it seemed to introduce the whole Black Friday online shopping to us. That which then became extended to the Monday after and the Thursday before...and now comes with weeks of preview sales. A phenomenal rise.


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    realitykeeper
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    incentsitive wrote: »
    Given Black Friday has been taken on in Ireland in a similar way to Love Day in The Simpsons, should we celebrate Thanksgiving too?

    It could be a day to give thanks for the fruits of the earth, and our wonderful indigenous farming community who contribute so much to our economy and to ensure our shelves are stocked with meat, fruit and veg produced with a level of care to the end consumer that the yanks can but dream of as they fatten their cattle and poultry with hormones, antibiotocs, etc........

    I am certainly very grateful to the Dutch farmers who supply things like tomatoes and the farmers in others countries that send us food that we could produce ourselves. I am grateful to the EU for granting us the money we needed to build motorways. Above all, I am grateful to the Almighty for the annual harvest and for these reasons, I think thanksgiving should be done in a prayerful way in honour of our God and also by paying down our debts in a timely manner, which is a way of thanking those who were good enough to lend to us in the first place, like the banks for instance.

    I think with a little more gratitude and a lot less entitlement, we Irish would be a better people.


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    seamus
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    Anya Round Theater wrote: »
    Like Christmas and Easter?
    Yep, just like them.

    Oh no wait, they've been celebrated for millenia across large swathes of the world. Both predate all of the major religions.

    I'm all for partying. Can't get enough of them national holidays.

    But I don't see any reason to inherit some random feast day from some random other country.

    If we were going to have a new feast day, I'd rather we invented our own.


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    Ten of Swords
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    We should also celebrate a 2nd Christmas too (Julian calendar). Double the consumerism, double the fun

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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    TomSweeney wrote: »
    When did all this Black Friday shyte start ?
    In Ireland at least ?

    About 2011 or 12 at a guess.

    Advertisers just start pushing it on us all of a sudden.


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    Ten of Swords
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    seamus wrote: »
    If we were going to have a new feast day, I'd rather we invented our own.


    Happy bailout day?

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    jimgoose
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    No, for the love of God no. Why do some people do that?


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