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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2552 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 18, 2023

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What’s your favorite holiday? I’m especially curious about non American ones. Doesn’t even have to be an extant holiday.

Saturnalia is mine, for instance. Having servants and masters switch place for a day is just such a wild concept, sounds like a blast.

I think it's interesting that the UK still celebrates burning Catholics at the stake once a year. Guy Fawkes Night is pretty fun actually, and I like the ritual of it - starting with the bonfire in the late afternoon/early evening as it's getting dark, watching the effigy burn, warming up by the fire, then watching the fireworks. I'm always surprised at just how warm it is, even when it's cold out, near the fire. I guess that sounds stupid, but it still feels a little like magic. That it takes place during what is probably the UK's rainiest, most depressing month (yes, even over January) in terms of weather is also nice, and it seems to be the main holiday (other than New Year's Eve) where people throw big parties, like the 4th of July in the US.

It isn't a public holiday though, which is a shame. Instead, the UK stacks up almost all its public holidays between April and May (two for Easter, two in May), with one extra one in late August. Thanksgiving is really situated perfectly as a holiday IMHO, late November demands it.

I've been considering attempting to start a ritual centered around burning the effigy of the head of the EC to remind ourselves of the liberties and independence we foolishly gave away in our swinish interested in material well-being so now we are subjects to dictates from an idiotic, unaccountable bureaucratic shoggoth festering in Brussels.

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