Thread: Tell me about thanksgiving.

When the first pilgrims came over to America in the 1600's they held a feast out of gratitude for the indians who helped them survive their first year. Supposedly it lasted three days and there was a ton of partying and dancing and good times all around! Of course now it's a bit toned down but we still get to have a super awesome dinner the 4th Thursday in Novemeber.

Yep, Qwin pretty much covered the basics. Now it's about family getting together and celebrating what they are thankful for in life. It's also about eating as much good food as possible and watching football

Dp you guys get like holidays from work and stuff or just have the 4th Thursday and have dinner with family?

It's a national holiday. Pretty much everyone has work off that Thursday, and also the Friday after Thanksgiving. Unless you're me, and you still have to go to work to give all the boarding cats their medications.

Is it still a big celebration over there then I take it?

oh yeah, it certainly is. The biggest bar night of the entire year is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. They say its so everyone can get drunk before having to deal with their crazy families for the rest of the holidays, LOL

Thanksgiving is a day off in October here, that's as far as I care to know about it ...

You get out of school (HECK YES!!!)
Go with your family to see more family and/or friends
Eat lots and lots of food (Some of it is...interesting)
Eat more desserts than you had food
Get all sleepy from the turkey
Play board games (the adults are funny because they are tipsy/drunk)
Leave early and camp out in front of your store for Black Friday
Stay up all night in the freezing weather, outside
Stand in line at six AM and force your way into the store to purchase gifts
Go home
Sleep all day

Well everyone basically covered it up, but I must emphasize FOOD.

Originally Posted by BiVixen

Leave early and camp out in front of your store for Black Friday
Stay up all night in the freezing weather, outside
Stand in line at six AM and force your way into the store to purchase gifts
Go home
Sleep all day

oh hell no My mother-in-law and sister-in-law do the same thing and I always refuse to get up that early if I don't have to and deal with those crowds of rude people! I click to buy for most of my Christmas shopping
and get to sleep in

Tell me about thanksgiving.

it's delicious.

it's thanking the indians for giving us all their land or maybe
english settlers were having a terrible time in the new world and the indians showed them how to grow indigenous crops, make lots of use of corn, squash, etc

Thanksgiving is TOMORROW!!!

thought this felt familiar

Same thing popped up last year
http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?p=338498

Originally Posted by Ynot

thought this felt familiar

Same thing popped up last year
http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?p=338498

believe it or not, thanksgiving comes exactly once a year! dare we make a topic about it... once a year? no. that wouldn't be proper forum decorum.

You Americans and other persons of various nationality are lazy.

We English have virtually nil public holidays. We have three bank holidays (which more and more commonly you work anyhow), Christmas, Boxing day (that is, the day after Christmas), New Years, and a 4-day weekend at Easter.

No arbitrary giving of thanks, not anything. Since the Romans at least, we were never really dependent so no Independance Day either.

>_<

Turkey!! That's all you need to know!

It's today, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Identity X

You Americans and other persons of various nationality are lazy.

We English have virtually nil public holidays. We have three bank holidays (which more and more commonly you work anyhow), Christmas, Boxing day (that is, the day after Christmas), New Years, and a 4-day weekend at Easter.

No arbitrary giving of thanks, not anything. Since the Romans at least, we were never really dependent so no Independance Day either.

>_<

Wow, you guys don`t have some form of a "Rememberance Day"? I would think the UK is the country that needs it the most...


And yes, it`s today.

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Wow, you guys don`t have some form of a "Rememberance Day"? I would think the UK is the country that needs it the most...


And yes, it`s today.

Yeah, we do. Not a public holiday though.

Originally Posted by Identity X

You Americans and other persons of various nationality are lazy.

We English have virtually nil public holidays. We have three bank holidays (which more and more commonly you work anyhow), Christmas, Boxing day (that is, the day after Christmas), New Years, and a 4-day weekend at Easter.

No arbitrary giving of thanks, not anything. Since the Romans at least, we were never really dependent so no Independance Day either.

>_<

but does it leave a bad taste in your mouth when you bow down and kiss that queens ass? if that doesn't do it i bet your food will.

booyah!

yeah, thanksgiving in the US is so huge...its, like bigger than christmas. In canada we have it in October, and it isnt to celebrate that whole pilgrim indian story. for us, it really isnt as big. we get the day off, eat thanksgiving dinner with our families, then go to school and work on the following thursday. its more like a meal to look forward to than a holiday.

Originally Posted by jacobo

but does it leave a bad taste in your mouth when you bow down and kiss that queens ass? if that doesn't do it i bet your food will.

booyah!

wow, whats your deal? you know America has a lot of really pointless holidays, like, what the hell is with arbor day? celebrate trees? give me a break, stop acting like youre so much better.

Originally Posted by WinryRockbell

yeah, thanksgiving in the US is so huge...its, like bigger than christmas.

hmm I don't know about that. Christmas is pretty huge. Thanksgiving is like the kickoff to the entire holiday season which is preparing for and buying gifts for Christmas, and the holidays wind down through the New Year. Then its back to work for the year to come! (to pay off the Christmas debt)

It seems like Christmas gets more commercialized every year. I'm not going overboard this year... it's the thought that counts, right?

Originally Posted by Burns

It's a national holiday. Pretty much everyone has work off that Thursday, and also the Friday after Thanksgiving. Unless you're me, and you still have to go to work to give all the boarding cats their medications.

But its sooo worth it =)

im planning to become a vet