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DemeaninDemon posted:Halloween's losing ground so it's not long. I think it was this thread that discussed the larger population share of non-religious people in the US. If we take modern Japan as the end point of that movement, then Halloween has nothing to fear. Thanksgiving will wind up being a casualty of secular Santa creep, but Halloween remains whatever the non-religious version of sacrosanct would be.
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Thanksgiving is way better than Christmas, gently caress this poo poo
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Thanksgiving is way better than Christmas, gently caress this poo poo New Years is pretty cool though, also St. Nicholas day
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Grundulum posted:I think it was this thread that discussed the larger population share of non-religious people in the US. If we take modern Japan as the end point of that movement, then Halloween has nothing to fear. Thanksgiving will wind up being a casualty of secular Santa creep, but Halloween remains whatever the non-religious version of sacrosanct would be. They may take our pumpkin pie! They may take our turkey! But they will never take our drunken costume party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 27, 2015 02:50
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A mosque in Austin is increasing its security after a Muslim student at UT-Austin was assaulted for "taking instructions from ISIS" (wearing headphones).
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Nov 27, 2015 03:02
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DemeaninDemon posted:Halloween's losing ground so it's not long. Halloween involves candy, heavy drinking, skimpy clothing, and casual sex. It is going nowhere
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Nov 27, 2015 03:03
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Thanksgiving is way better than Christmas Extremely true. Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday: all it requires is that you sit around and eat a lot of food. Also, it's always on a Thursday so you get at least a four day weekend every year.
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Nov 27, 2015 03:05
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Fried Chicken posted:Halloween involves candy, heavy drinking, skimpy clothing, and casual sex. It is going nowhere Clearly we are doing Thanksgiving wrong as a country, then. 
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Putin joins US-led coalition who's the cuck now
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Nov 27, 2015 03:17
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roast beef >>>> turkey deal with it
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Nov 27, 2015 03:18
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Grundulum posted:I think it was this thread that discussed the larger population share of non-religious people in the US. If we take modern Japan as the end point of that movement, then Halloween has nothing to fear. Thanksgiving will wind up being a casualty of secular Santa creep, but Halloween remains whatever the non-religious version of sacrosanct would be. Halloween did not exist in Japan until about 2008 or so, so it's not a great example. One year if you were in a costume on Halloween it was because you were some weird foreigner who probably dresses like that every day, and then the next year every dork from Keio to Waseda crowded into Shibuya wearing a slutty _____ costume and a new holiday was born. Cultural appropriation is a real thing guys don't let anyone tell you different 
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JT Jag posted:At this rate it won't be long before we start seeing Christmas decorations, fixtures and sales after Labor Day
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Kilroy posted:Halloween did not exist in Japan until about 2008 or so, so it's not a great example. Yeah, a real awesome thing. Drive German Wear Italian Drink Scotch Kiss French
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He looks absolutely ripped at all times e: That's his son next to him isn't it? How do they always looks perpetually stoned but in different ways
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Nov 27, 2015 03:38
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Fried Chicken posted:Halloween involves candy, heavy drinking, skimpy clothing, and casual sex. It is going nowhere Ever heard of a harvest festival? 
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Vice's online tech publication celebrates Thanksgiving weekend the way only Vice would. Noice.
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Octatonic posted:If it was even threatened to begin with Christmas was threatened back in the 17th century when Puritans opposed celebration of it due to its pagan, secular and supposedly anti-Christian nature, and closed the churches to prevent people from celebrating it. In fact New England Puritans used to jail and fine people for celebrating Christmas throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Fortunately the cultural power of Christmas - which has a beloved and multi-layered heritage that goes back to Roman times - prevailed. The modern day "War on Christmas" cultural warriors are just religiously and historically illiterate. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/the-puritan-war-on-christmas.html http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2013/12/supplemental-the-war-on-christmas.html Kaal fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 04:20
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:roast beef >>>> turkey Agreed. Also peppermint is the bomb and is everywhere during Christmas which makes it a better holiday. Joementum's point regarding the superior timing of Thanksgiving always resulting in a 4 day weekend is a valid point however.
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Nov 27, 2015 04:28
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Riptor posted:For anyone in the Boston area: Michael Dukakis wants your turkey carcass to make soup with, and he includes his home address in Brookline to drop them off this is a real feel good story and i wish i didn't read this until after i left dinner cause that carcass is trashed
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Nov 27, 2015 04:55
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DemeaninDemon posted:Halloween's losing ground so it's not long. My brother works in the studio at HSN, and they started their Christmas graphics on October 1st.
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Nov 27, 2015 04:55
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God, my brother just declared that he doesn't know who to vote for because he wanted to vote for Bernie, but then found out that Bernie wants to raise the minimum wage and he doesn't agree with that. Because he worked hard to become a manager making $16 an hour and the people below him don't deserve that. I don't even know where he gets his news from, he just likes to occasionally burst out with some lovely right-wing talking point.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:In my experience, pacific north west Norwegian diaspora. I was confused about Mac and Cheese being a Thanksgiving food as well, for the record I am from the Pacific Northwest and I didn't know people made that until I went to college. Our families weird thing has been Spam and Yams in addition to Turkey... Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 05:13
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Well, there's only one candidate who's promised to lower wages.
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Jack2142 posted:I was confused about Mac and Cheese being a Thanksgiving food as well, for the record I am from the Pacific Northwest and I didn't know people made that until I went to college. You should try fried spam with your mac and cheese. It's the bees knees.
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Nov 27, 2015 05:16
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Thump! posted:You should try fried spam with your mac and cheese. It's the bees knees. Interesting I assume the only viable type of Mac is Kraft in this scenario.
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catlord posted:God, my brother just declared that he doesn't know who to vote for because he wanted to vote for Bernie, but then found out that Bernie wants to raise the minimum wage and he doesn't agree with that. Because he worked hard to become a manager making $16 an hour and the people below him don't deserve that. I don't even know where he gets his news from, he just likes to occasionally burst out with some lovely right-wing talking point. My mother un ironically and not "lol he is destroying the gop" supports Trump. Her ambivalence about voting for him is thinking other leaders are too "touchy-feely" and "won't let him do what needs to be done" I made a beeline for the liquor cabinet at that point. Situations like this are why whisky sours exist
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Fried Chicken posted:My mother un ironically and not "lol he is destroying the gop" supports Trump. Her ambivalence about voting for him is thinking other leaders are too "touchy-feely" and "won't let him do what needs to be done" I hope you make sours like my mom does....half a bottle of sour and full bottle of whiskey (if you don't make them from scratch obviously).
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catlord posted:God, my brother just declared that he doesn't know who to vote for because he wanted to vote for Bernie, but then found out that Bernie wants to raise the minimum wage and he doesn't agree with that. Because he worked hard to become a manager making $16 an hour and the people below him don't deserve that. I don't even know where he gets his news from, he just likes to occasionally burst out with some lovely right-wing talking point. I worked with a number of people who were sympathetic to the idea of needing to make sure everyone was able to get healthcare but saw their job based healthcare benefits as something that set them apart and above other people less deserving so were reluctant to support the ACA. "What was the point of me working so hard to get a job with benefits if everyone gets it" sort of thing. Mind you I work in a hospital.
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Joementum posted:Extremely true. Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday: all it requires is that you sit around and eat a lot of food. Also, it's always on a Thursday so you get at least a four day weekend every year. I work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Although I do have Thanksgiving off and paid every year, so I still consider myself ahead of my poor retail brothers and sisters.
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Never change, Matt.
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Joementum posted:Never change, Matt. Do you think Matt Drudge jacks off when he posts a witty, racist-as-all-hell headline? I mean, gently caress, it can't be good for the psyche to hate everything all day all the time, so there's no way he could be doing this poo poo for like 10+ years or whatever. I bet he posts up a racist meme and grabs the bottle of Jergens for an all-night masturbatathon. This is the only way he can survive with his mind this hosed up.
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Ripoff posted:Do you think Matt Drudge jacks off when he posts a witty, racist-as-all-hell headline? I mean, gently caress, it can't be good for the psyche to hate everything all day all the time, so there's no way he could be doing this poo poo for like 10+ years or whatever. Know those stories of people who can't get it up for real women due to watching too much porn? Racist poo poo is his porn.
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"Obama’s favorite desert, pie, will once again be a prominent fixture at the holiday meal. The same six pies as last year – apple, banana cream, cherry, coconut, pecan and pumpkin – will be served, down from nine varieties two years ago." http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/261378-six-types-of-pie-on-the-white-house-thanksgiving-menu Pffft, we had seven types of pie and only ten guests. (I don't even eat pie, or any sweets for that matter).
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SavageBastard posted:I worked with a number of people who were sympathetic to the idea of needing to make sure everyone was able to get healthcare but saw their job based healthcare benefits as something that set them apart and above other people less deserving so were reluctant to support the ACA. "What was the point of me working so hard to get a job with benefits if everyone gets it" sort of thing. Mind you I work in a hospital. This is a pretty standard human reaction. It's also the reason that, that Seattle credit service company owner who raised the minimum salary for all employees faced such a backlash. Understanding that mindset and finding ways to either: a) Work within it b) Force change without consequence Is how you're going to drive an agenda with popular support
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usbombshell posted:I don't even eat pie This is an objectively poor decision.
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Ripoff posted:Do you think Matt Drudge jacks off when he posts a witty, racist-as-all-hell headline? Also when he posts about Martin O'Malley
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Fried Chicken posted:My mother un ironically and not "lol he is destroying the gop" supports Trump. Her ambivalence about voting for him is thinking other leaders are too "touchy-feely" and "won't let him do what needs to be done" I was literally the only person drinking at my family's Thanksgiving, but by and large we're a bunch of dirty libs (except my dad, who is both slowly losing his mental facilities and knows that I will just talk at him until he goes away, as I do with everyone, about everything, all the time, because I'm really annoying).
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Combed Thunderclap posted:Yep. Happy Thanksgiving, this is a hell of a good post.
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