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  • 26-12-2015 12:16PM
    #1
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,617 ✭✭✭


    Been listening to RTE Radio 1 from afar and can't get over the number of people on there referring to today as "Stephen's Day". :eek:


















    Do they not know it's Stephenssesssss Day? Feckin' returned emigrants. :mad:


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    One of the many reason Boxing Day is a much more suitable moniker for the day at hand, less syllable confusion


  • #3
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Do they not know he was a saint? :eek:


  • #4
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    I hate "Boxing day" , Stephensons day all the way ...


  • #5
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,229 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    One of the many reason Boxing Day is a much more suitable moniker for the day at hand, less syllable confusion

    Eh, what are the other reasons?


  • #6
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    In our house we always said St Stephen's day.


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  • #7
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I like to call it Boxing Day, just to see if people are petty enough to contradict me.


  • #8
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    As an Aussie I call it Boxing Day. I've been living here for 13 years and I will FOREVER CALL IT BOXING DAY!!!!!!!!


  • #9
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,807 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Boxing day.. Was always boxing day growing up as my Mam was from close to the border so it's what they always called it.. Plus that's what it said in the TVTimes :)


  • #10
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    It's Saturday.


  • #11
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As an Aussie I call it Boxing Day. I've been living here for 13 years and I will FOREVER CALL IT BOXING DAY!!!!!!!!

    Probably the same type of person who calls it 'Pattys day' in March.


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  • #12
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    One of the many reason Boxing Day is a much more suitable moniker for the day at hand, less syllable confusion

    Today isn't Boxing Day though. It's a Saturday. Boxing Day is traditionally the next working day after Xmas.


  • #13
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Probably the same type of person who calls it 'Pattys day' in March.

    Paddys day. Only the yanks call it Pattys day.


  • #14
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Never understood why people can't call it Stephen's Day. There's no confusion when you say that. Why Stephensensensensensens's? Because its idiotic that's why.


  • #15
    Championship Vinyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Championship Vinyl


    If I was living in a country that called it Boxing day, I'd probably refer to it as that out convenience and courtesy.

    Otherwise it's St. Stephens' day and should be referred to as such in Ireland.

    But I really don't have any strong feelings on it!


  • #16
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Probably the same type of person who calls it 'Pattys day' in March.

    Everyone knows it's 'Patrickseses Day'.


  • #17
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,000 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I've lived here most o' me life and never seen any boxing. All horse-racing round these parts.
    On Stephens Day, I mean.


  • #18
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,617 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Do they not know he was a saint? :eek:

    Funny you should mention that. Along the line of the northern Alps, and especially in Austria, it's known as Stephanstag, no mention of poor Stephen's saintliness. Those areas were Christianised by our own Columbanus who must have passed on bad Irish habits. :pac:


  • #19
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    katemarch wrote: »
    I've lived here most o' me life and never seen any boxing. All horse-racing round these parts.
    On Stephens Day, I mean.

    Maybe we should call it horse-racing day so?


  • #20
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    RobertKK wrote: »
    In our house we always said St Stephen's day.

    Educated people call it Stephen's day, the uneducated call it stephensusseess.


  • #21
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    katemarch wrote: »
    I've lived here most o' me life and never seen any boxing. All horse-racing round these parts.
    On Stephens Day, I mean.

    Tis great, isn't it :D


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  • #22
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Berserker wrote: »
    Maybe we should call it horse-racing day so?

    Except when its "Water logged course" day.


  • #23
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Berserker wrote: »
    Maybe we should call it horse-racing day so?

    That's the first day of the Cheltenham Festival....


  • #24
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Eh, what are the other reasons?

    It winds people up

    If you're printing out poster you use less ink.

    Doesn't confuse the thousands of visitors that cross the water at this time of year.

    List is endless.


  • #25
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Ah, St Stephen's Day. A day where we celebrate a man so intolerant of other religions that he was sentenced to death for blasphemy.

    I celebrate it annually by getting absolutely off my face.


  • #26
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    mad muffin wrote: »
    As an Aussie I call it Boxing Day. I've been living here for 13 years and I will FOREVER CALL IT BOXING DAY!!!!!!!!

    I've set up the deport mad muffin campaign.

    http://deportmadmuffinbecausehesaysboxingday


  • #27
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Stevens' Day.


  • #28
    ejabrod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭ejabrod


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    I've set up the deport mad muffin campaign.

    http://deportmadmuffinbecausehesaysboxingday

    Link broken :P


  • #29
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    Ah, St Stephen's Day. A day where we celebrate a man so intolerant of other religions that he was sentenced to death for blasphemy.

    I celebrate it annually by getting absolutely off my face.

    Or maybe the other faith was the intolerant one in this case.


  • #30
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Nodin wrote: »
    Except when its "Water logged course" day.

    Ah poor ould Limerick!


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  • #31
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    CelticRambler wrote: »



    Do they not know it's Stephenssesssss Day? Feckin' returned emigrants. :mad:

    There was more than one St. Stephen...? :confused:

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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