fipindustries:

st-just:

My actual sincere hot take is that if The Left or whoever is invested in delegitimatizing patriotic celebrations and big monuments to slavers and whatever, we really do need to come up with some replacement stuff for people to uncomplicatedly feel good and dance and get drunk about.

Like unironically people like excuses to party and some sort of mythology to tie it into. As far as holidays go Juneteenth is a good start. But, like, fewer educational infographics, more barbecues.

I still cant believe the moonlanding is not an actual holyday in the united states, is one of the few uncomplicatedly incredible things that country achieved

themathmusician:

just-shower-thoughts:

When Americans talk about the day they declared independence from Great Britain, the don’t say the actual date the American way (July 4th), they say it the British way (4th of July)

WHAT THE

Suddenly realized that at some level I registered “putting a flag up” as the point I fully established residence

contemporarytrash:

Happy 4th of July

jellyfishdirigible:

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mysharona1987:

evilmario666:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

“The Golden State Warriors championship parade is underway—” triumph. It’s a triumph.

I grew up with the WW2 vets getting together and driving their halftracks through the center of town every year and didn’t really think about that

Thinking about how the holidays of Memorial Day (1968, originally the Civil War triumph holiday “Decoration Day”) and Veterans Day (originally the WWI triumph holiday “Armstice Day”) defined summer in the last third of the American 20th century

prinxe-with-no-crown:

celceta:

I love seasonal fruits they’re like girl we’re back lol

happy pride month

radiofreederry:

I love capitalism

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chillgamesh-the-swing:

hymnsofheresy:

why is no one talking about the pagan origins of toyotathon???

@soul-hammer

Prisus is the Reason for the Season you worldly freaks

And I find the Hondaday decorations perfunctorily shoved in with the Toyotathon stuff to be patronizing. Just because they happen around the same time doesn’t mean they’re similar!

Plus Hondadays isn’t even a big holiday, we just made it that way so kids from Honda families wouldn’t feel left out/would feel more American.

Cinco de Mayo’s weird because it’s like… is this the “ethnic drinking holiday” replacement for St. Patrick’s Day from a later immigration wave? But it doesn’t really seem to be about being Mexican, or have any shamrock/leprechaun/green-type stuff to latch on to

Well I appreciate the lead time to get a card off, but I feel like I was seeing Mother’s Day hype more than twice as far out this year.

flapjacques:

emotional-support-bottom:

uk-trash-queen:

uk-trash-queen:

uk-trash-queen:

tomdoesntmindbeinghere:

uk-trash-queen:

Wait…

Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up?

ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE 

What’s Ed Balls day?

Omg, okay explanation time. 

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day. 

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html 

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

IT’S HERE

icarus-suraki:

hiamigoman:

Happy Easter.

megapope-deactivated20220531:

max1461:

So FDR said “this is a date that will live in infamy” but then, well, 75 years on and I had to google what day it even was (12/7/1941, by the way). I wonder how 9/11 will fare nearly a century on…

Well, using the date as the name will probably help. Did for the Fourth of July.

birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv:

love too be alone in a room coughing up my guts from covid, only to have my suffering upstaged by an omnipotent guy who chooses to get executed for unclear reasons

This is what it is to be an omnipotent guy, all you can do is get executed, and then everyone gets to feel sorry for you and go on a long, pointless journey to get your job back

you understand the easter story, frank

paxamericana:

tockthewatchdog:

mattheuphonium:

kim-jong-chill:

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a g**damn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

fabulous 

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

happy good friday