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What is December 26th called ?

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  • #32
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    brummytom wrote: »
    Nope, I'm the foreigner
    Ya hear that fellas? Git 'im!


  • #33
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Davidius wrote: »
    Ya hear that fellas? Git 'im!

    I'll organise a Boxing match for sometime soon...... ;)


  • #34
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Well hells bells we got us a foreigner round these parts. I'll git the rope! :D


  • #35
    JerryHandbag
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    "2nd most boring day of the year"
    After the one before it...


  • #36
    Sulmac
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    [Saint] Stephen's Day, even though I was raised in the North surrounded by people who called it Boxing Day. Parents and extended family (south of the border) always called it Stephen's Day though.


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  • #37
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Technically, Stephen's day, Saint Stephen's day for the more pedantic. But it's always pronounced "Stephenses Day".


  • #38
    Overheal
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    For Catholics, Stephens Day.

    For Consumerists, Boxing day.

    For people who dont give a ****, Saturday.


  • #39
    InKonspikuou2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭InKonspikuou2


    Unlike St. Stephen's Day, Boxing Day is a secular holiday and is not always on 26 December: the public holiday is generally moved to the following Monday if 26 December is a Saturday. If 25 December is a Saturday then both the Monday and Tuesday may be public holidays. However the date of observance of Boxing Day varies between countries.


  • #40
    chocgirl
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    I call it Boxing Day, really must stop watching so much English telly!


  • #41
    Davei141
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    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    "2nd most boring day of the year"
    After the one before it...

    Wow, depressed much... don't worry though im sure santy will leave you a hoover to clean the sand out of your vagina.


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  • #42
    Osgoodisgood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Osgoodisgood


    Aodan83 wrote: »
    Technically, Stephen's day, Saint Stephen's day for the more pedantic. But it's always pronounced "Stephenses Day".

    Yes, it is.................why?


  • #43
    orourkeda
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    turkey sandwich day


  • #44
    ScumLord
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Saturday
    My god your right, do you have any more predictions? In particular I'm looking for the optimum day to go out and burn the retinas out of my eye socket.


  • #45
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Scoff fest, day 2.

    Scoff fest lasts about 5 days untill all the goodies run out/i start feeling sick.


  • #46
    laugh
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    I don't believe in saints.


  • #47
    Mad_Max
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    laugh wrote: »
    I don't believe in saints.

    Not even St.Nick? :eek:


  • #48
    Iron Hide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭Iron Hide


    ............twas the day after christmas.........


  • #49
    Rabies
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    When I'm talking to Irish people, its St Stephens Day. If I'm with Kiwis or other internationals, then its Boxing Day


  • #50
    ScumLord
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    Rabies wrote: »
    When I'm talking to Irish people, its St Stephens Day. If I'm with Kiwis or other internationals, then its Boxing Day
    Is boxing day the norm across the world? I thought boxing day was a uniquely British/protestant holiday. I can understand how AUS and KIWI ended up calling it that but is boxing day the norm outside the Catholic faith?


  • #51
    Rabies
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    Its what we all commonly call it over here.


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  • #52
    chrisc1966
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    what in the hell do you want to get me up at this time for day:eek:


  • #53
    Soby
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    My Day:D


  • #54
    ScumLord
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    Rabies wrote: »
    Its what we all commonly call it over here.
    Is boxing day what it's called internationally though, serious question, seriously.

    It just never occurred to me what the day might be called outside of Ireland and the UK.


  • #55
    Rabies
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    Not sure, but did a quick google

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


  • #56
    ScumLord
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    The name derives from the English tradition giving seasonal gifts (in the form of a "Christmas box") to less wealthy people and slaves. In the United Kingdom this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers, servants, tradespeople and postal workers.
    But I don't have any slaves. :(


  • #57
    Rebelheart
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Is boxing day what it's called internationally though, serious question, seriously.

    It just never occurred to me what the day might be called outside of Ireland and the UK.

    It's not. St Stephen's Day is the commonly accepted name for 26 December across Europe (in the respective languages, of course)

    I have yet to find any evidence for "Boxing Day" existing in British society prior to the 19th century. Throughout the medieval period it was known in England as the Feast of St Stephen or St Stephen's Day - of that I am certain. Boxing Day is very much a neologism from Victorian Britain.


  • #58
    stovelid
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    My birthday.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Session day


  • #60
    robby^5
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    I know it as St. Stephens Day as it's never been shortened in my household to Stephens Day. That said Christmas is purely a secular holiday for me.

    Might as well rename it to staying in bed watching films and drinking beer followed by left-over Christmas dinner...day.


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  • #61
    Up de Barrs
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    Stephens Day, only Irish people with an inferiority complex would call it boxing day.


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