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Thanksgiving

  • 28-11-2013 02:16PM
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,396 ✭✭✭✭


    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


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Comments

  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


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


  • #3
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Thanks for giving me herpes yo. :mad:


  • #5
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    Happy Hanukkah


  • #6
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭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......


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  • #7
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Nodin wrote: »
    I had to look up what Michelobe was.
    Horribly bland faux beer :eek:


  • #8
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭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


  • #9
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    It seems to get earlier and earlier each year!


  • #10
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


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


  • #11
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭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".


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  • #12
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭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!


  • #13
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Yall have a great now, ye hear.


  • #14
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    You mean happy kill the Native American day?!


  • #16
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭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. :)


  • #17
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #18
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


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


  • #20
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭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? ;)


  • #21
    thee glitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭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


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  • #22
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    What's the word from Punxsutawney?


  • #23
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    kneemos wrote: »
    What's the word from Punxsutawney?

    Phil doesn't come out until February 2nd.


  • #24
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    pew pew pew pumpkins and turkeys. Yeeehaww.


  • #25
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭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!


  • #26
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Hell. Stores are open today.


  • #27
    CaliforniaDream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #29
    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    P_1 wrote: »
    the ugly side of consumerism

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

    .... nope.


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  • #31
    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭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.


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