Thankgiving?

[Garthilk]

Or Guy Fawkes day? Not that I know what the latter is. Perhaps someone can share. As for thanksgiving, for some reason we're still celebrating this holiday even though it's very likely Columbus didn't even land in the place we now know as the USA. Again it's also likely that Vikings landed here first. But hey, who am I to complain about a reason to drink and eat free food.

[lagmachine]

You get free food on Thanksgiving? We should have Thanks-For-Supressing-Us-Again-And-Again in Belgium.

[Sovereign]

Well we celebrate Fireworks night 'cus ol' Guy a few hundred years ago failed to blow up parliament.

Bit Ironic, that.

[GuddZilla]

I thought the reason the US celebrated thanksgiving was due to some English colonists having a meal with some native indian dudes because of a good harvest or something.

I could be wrong not to good on US history i leart this at primary school some 16-17 years ago so the infomation could be a figment of my imagination or have mutated in to some combination of storys.

[lagmachine]

Not to mention the free drinks rising to your head.

[Gamut]

As always, wikipedia to the rescue:

Guy Fawkes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes)

Thanksgiving (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving)

Basicly Thanksgiving is getting together and eating turkey, Guy Fawkes Night is getting together and watching fireworks ^^

[Lord_Inquisitor]

Bahahaha! We in Canada have already supped on turkey! We laugh at your tardiness!

[Igfig]

Yep. I ate all the good ones already. You southern pansys have none of the real stuff left.

Garthilk, I think you're confusing Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. And the Vikings landed in Canada first. We should all celebrate Viking Day.

[Corellion]

Columbus Day? How many bloody special days do you Americans have?

[Garthilk]

I think we just started making up holidays a few years ago. We don't have enough history so we just make a big deal out of smaller things.

[lagmachine]

Aah, I get it. Like us Belgians could have Child-Molesting-Day.

[Rabbitman]

Well, as always, Australia just chills out on it's lonesome. We have plenty of holidays, but for no particular reason. Usually sport.
The Melbourne Cup horse race is a holiday, hehehe... and the Queen's Birthday... the only reason we don't want a republic is because we appreciate the holiday.

[Sircyn]

Aah, I get it. Like us Belgians could have Child-Molesting-Day


Isn't that every day?


I've been interested in the USA frantically trying to create its own national identity and language. The problem arises for me when it starts altering other peoples histories. Meh. The winner writes it I suppose.

Kudos to any nation that finds an excuse to have another Turkey dinner in the year or any holidays for that matter. I wouldn't mind my country becoming Catholic again if we could have all the saints days off.

Rabbitman, if I know anything of the law of sods, the future Kings birthday will land on an existing day reserved for a sporting event. This will give the republican movement the momentum it needs to leave the commonwealth on a day that can be celebrated without coinciding with another holiday that robbed you of a day off a year.

Oh and on November 5th I celebrate that someone nearly blew up Parliament containing a considerable portion of the upper class and the King. If the French could get it right why couldn't we?