What a bogus holiday...can we get rid of this one yet? I know it's nice to have another bank/postal holiday, and for some govt employees having a day off was nice....but does anyone even "celebrate" Columbus day anymore? Did we ever celebrate it?
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| Author: | LadyKate [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Columbus Day |
What a bogus holiday...can we get rid of this one yet? I know it's nice to have another bank/postal holiday, and for some govt employees having a day off was nice....but does anyone even "celebrate" Columbus day anymore? Did we ever celebrate it?
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| Author: | Talya [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:19 am ] |
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Never get rid of a holiday. Always make more of them. A day off work is sufficient reason for celebration. For the record, yesterday was Thanksgiving here. I love working statutory holidays...regular pay and 12 hours off for sitting here doing nothing for 8 hours. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
LadyKate wrote: What a bogus holiday...can we get rid of this one yet? I know it's nice to have another bank/postal holiday, and for some govt employees having a day off was nice....but does anyone even "celebrate" Columbus day anymore? Did we ever celebrate it? The Italians around here go bonkers for Columbus day. Parades, feasts, etc. |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Columbus Day |
Columbus is rather barbaric compared to the metrics of the modern day. He lived in a different time though. I'm not saying only good things came out of his work. Most nations going back that far have some skeletons in their closets. |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
Columbus is a major part of the reason why all of us except pureblood American Indians are here. As far as national holidays go, that's actually a rock solid holiday. Christmas and Easter are fancy, so are Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, but none of those are American holidays. St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day - these are not American holidays. Columbus Day commemorates the Europeans discovering the Western Hemisphere. Like Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Presidents' Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it actually is an American holiday. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:48 pm ] |
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You forgot Thanksgiving Coro. |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:52 pm ] |
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Thanks. I meant to include that first. |
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:13 pm ] |
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And here I thought you were all happy I got to stay home with you. |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:14 pm ] |
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Yup. Just because the guy was a Euro-centric ******* doesn't lessen his contributions to what made this country (you know, coming back and telling the world "Hey, there's some nice stuff over there, and lots of space"). And, there's a lot to be said for the notion that *everybody* in Europe was Euro-centric at the time, because they were pretty sure that there wasn't much else out there. |
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| Author: | LadyKate [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:37 pm ] |
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Nitefox wrote: And here I thought you were all happy I got to stay home with you. I was, but you chasing me around the house in that Christopher Columbus outfit yelling something about claiming me for Spain got kinda old after the first 6 hours.... 
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| Author: | Taamar [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:09 pm ] |
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LadyKate wrote: Nitefox wrote: And here I thought you were all happy I got to stay home with you. I was, but you chasing me around the house in that Christopher Columbus outfit yelling something about claiming me for Spain got kinda old after the first 6 hours.... *snerk* |
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:13 pm ] |
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LadyKate wrote: Nitefox wrote: And here I thought you were all happy I got to stay home with you. I was, but you chasing me around the house in that Christopher Columbus outfit yelling something about claiming me for Spain got kinda old after the first 6 hours.... Well if you had given me 4 minutes and 38 seconds to plant my flag, I wouldn't have bothered you the rest of the day! |
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| Author: | LadyKate [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:14 pm ] |
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ROFL!!!  This is why I love you. Hurry up and get home, the kids are gone for the evening.
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
FOR SPAIN!!! |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
Nitefox wrote: FOR SPAIN!!! Uh, TMI, dude. |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
Nitefox wrote: FOR SPAIN!!!  but 
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| Author: | Oonagh [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
Columbus was a douche |
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| Author: | Numbuk [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Columbus Day |
Not only do you walk into their house and tell them they no longer live there, but you insist that they be called an indigenous name from a country they aren't really from: "I don't care how much you protest, yes you are a Nigerian." |
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