I mean, at this point St. Patrick’s Day is barely about the Irish, Christmas is barely about Jesus and Halloween isn’t about the dead at all, if Pride becomes a whole month on the civic festival calendar where we get drunk and try to scandalize the public with our sexuality while Chase Bank runs a street fair selling rainbow churros like, okay?
Admittedly, I’m a fan of “Stop burning down America” day, but literally calling it Loyalty Day is a bit on the nose, don’t you think?
Does anyone else remember that September 11 is now officially “Patriot Day”?
i hereby declare july 4th “unions and socialised healthcare day”
Note also that we celebrate May 1 as Loyalty Day for the same reason we have Labor Day in September and played up the volksy “dancing around the Maypole” angle in the 20th century, to distance from May Day as labor-leftist holiday
wow you guys have Patriot Day for September 11 and Patriots’ Day on the third Monday in April to celebrate the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy.
Meanwhile you guys’ big nation-defining military holiday is somehow about fighting the Ottoman Empire
Admittedly, I’m a fan of “Stop burning down America” day, but literally calling it Loyalty Day is a bit on the nose, don’t you think?
Does anyone else remember that September 11 is now officially “Patriot Day”?
i hereby declare july 4th “unions and socialised healthcare day”
Note also that we celebrate May 1 as Loyalty Day for the same reason we have Labor Day in September and played up the volksy “dancing around the Maypole” angle in the 20th century, to distance from May Day as labor-leftist holiday
Admittedly, I’m a fan of “Stop burning down America” day, but literally calling it Loyalty Day is a bit on the nose, don’t you think?
Does anyone else remember that September 11 is now officially “Patriot Day”?
if they want us to remember they can give us rum and fireworks abt it.
I got my college’s conservative newspaper to scorn me one year for holding a Jenga tournament cause like, how the fuck else am I supposed to celebrate Patriot Day
Someone I know celebrating Hanukkah now mentioned latkes used to be cheese before the introduction of the potato to Europe
And I mentioned this to another friend and she pointed out how weird it was to substitute potatoes for cheese, which got us into arguing about their exact relationship, like you wouldn’t put nacho cheese on mashed potatoes like you would gravy, BUT cheesy potatoes exist and you might put cheese OR gravy on roast beef (this was my position)
And I appreciated how it was so in the Spirit of Hanukkah, The One Jewish Thing the Rest of America Vaguely Gets, that our appreciation of cultural tradition had turned into an argument by increasingly ridiculous hair-splitting analogy
Was just reminded Sarah McLachlan’s “We Three Kings” was part of a medley with a Barenaked Ladies “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” off their Christmas album
That was 2004! That’s what I mean when I say it was still the late 90s then.
