Thanksgiving in the UK
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According to a few articles I've read online, the UK has started to adopt Thanksgiving. Not just in terms of Black Friday, but people going as far as to have the big turkey dinner.
I am very bemused by this. What people want to do with their time and money is up to them but Thanksgiving really doesn't have any meaning to anyone who isn't American does it? I just can't think why anyone British born living in the UK would even want to acknowledge the day unless prehaps they have American friends/relatives.
I'm not posting this to stir an argument or to look down upon anyone, I just want to see if anyone else is as baffled as I am that we are importing this holiday.
Thoughts?
I am very bemused by this. What people want to do with their time and money is up to them but Thanksgiving really doesn't have any meaning to anyone who isn't American does it? I just can't think why anyone British born living in the UK would even want to acknowledge the day unless prehaps they have American friends/relatives.
I'm not posting this to stir an argument or to look down upon anyone, I just want to see if anyone else is as baffled as I am that we are importing this holiday.
Thoughts?
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However, I always love Thanksgiving. I work for an American company so everyone in the US office are on holiday today (and most are tomorrow). It means all meetings are cancelled and we can have a nice quiet day without head office annoying us. It's effectively a day off here too.
As things are, I can't fathom to consider ever celebrating it. To each their own.
Aha. So it's just the press being their usual deceitful, shit stirring selves? That makes more sense than the possibility of Thanksgiving coming to the UK,
Thanksgiving is one too far. Way too far.
Likewise. I am getting a lot of work done today with few system issues due to lower server loads, and less interruptions. It's brilliant.
You like the idea of celebrating the annihilation of an entire population of native people?
Doesn't sound like something worth celebrating to me.
Football is our sport
Not the American version it's not. Even my American friends think it's the most ludicrous "sport" ever invented. It's why one is a manic Liverpool supporter!
Santa Claus replaced Father Christmas
Halloween is now about dressing up and trick or treat and pumpkins
Children now have an American-style prom when they leave school
Flipping the bird replaced flicking the Vs
Disney's Pooh replaced E. H. Shepard's drawings
We have ass for arse; gridlock for traffic jam; power outage for power cut; wintry mix for sleet
Any more?
That's not football
I'm looking forward to knocking off early today as my regular Thursday 3-5pm conference call with the team in the US is cancelled. I'll be celebrating Thanksgiving by having an early pint or two.
Never has a song been so appropriate to the topic than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg
If it's about turkey purchases, as Porcupine suggested upthread, people certainly start Christmas food shopping early so that there isn't a fist-fight over the last multi-bird roast in Waitrose. We've had Heston's mulled cider from there already and gone back for more.
Seriously? That's the first time I've ever heard that term.
None of those apply for me, Father Christmas is still Father Christmas, I don't do Hallowe'en,my child will never attend a prom,I always use the v sign, the original drawings will always be the best,and arse is arse
Not quite because there are a many people with Irish Heritage in the US.
Yes, I noticed it because I'd never heard it before. Though to be fair I think it was given a trial run by an ITV weather man and quickly retired as a weather front too far.
Yes. I love me some native american slaughter!
Of course not, I like the modern day interpretation of it. And considering other countries have celebrated it for hundreds of years for a variety of reasons, I think you are being overly picky.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around 'lake effect snow' which was new to me until recently. But at least that one has a point. 'Wintry mix' doesn't describe sleet better than 'sleet' does, unless your weather man was going for that combination of snow, sleet and rain.