The Coalition to disband Thanksgiving

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Should Thanksgiving remain a holiday?

  • It's already dying, get it outta here

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • No, Christmas season should start on November 1st

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Waah...Buck up DA and get a life

    Votes: 13 59.1%

  • Yes, Thanksgiving is the most important family holiday of the year

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • Total voters
    22
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Is it me or has the christmas spirit come early this year? Like the day after Halloween?

I'm a bit bent because the consumerism has reached a fever pitch and the maniacal coporations that run this company have finally pushed the wrong button. Christmas season used to be from the day after Thanksgiving, until Christmas day.

Now it starts the day after Halloween, and will carry over until after New years day.

My thoughts are that Thanksgiving is becoming a past time. I'll figure that in a few years, someone in the US will move to have Thanksgiving transition to a Saturday, and turn September 11th into a holiday. Because after all, Thanksgiving is a shopping day where the only people making money are the ones selling turkey and cranberry sauce or Fuel.

We have Valentines day, which is a consumer induced holiday, Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a day for reflection, but noone makes money off it. It's also a US holiday that no other country celebrates.

So screw it.

I'm starting a grassroots movement to get Thanksgiving bumped to the last Saturday in November, and September 11th instituted as a new holiday. We'll celebrate it the same way we do independence day.

Actually this is just a rant because I heard a christmas carol on the radio today.

AO
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
BUt you'll get September 11th in trade off.

AO
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Probably not - if September 11 became a nationally recognized holiday, they'd simply move the beginning of school back a week and start after September 11.
 
The holiday is pure hypocrisy anyway. Celebrating a dinner with the natives before meddiling with their religion & ultimately decimating the population & running them out of town! (So to speak.)
The shopping frenzy is rediculous too. I'll never forget opening the hardware store I managed at 5:30 on the morning of "Black Friday" & seeing the Wal-Mart parking lot JAM-PACKED! What is wrong with these people? If I had my choice, I would have been HOME, sleeping off all that turkey!
 
Happy Holidays (pc) DA!
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Sorry for the Horrible Kwanzaa.
 
I don't like Thanksgiving. The only good thing about it is the football, and I don't like football. Well, not anymore, that is. It's just such a pain in the ass to me. We stuff our faces, yeah great, just what an overweight country needs, right? A holiday to stuff our already fat faces.

We have my wife's family coming over this year. I don't like them either. They just want to come here to see all the fire damage. Her dad is just gonna bug me why I haven't legally married his daughter yet, and her mom will bug me about not making enough money. She married for money, but her daughter didn't.

And I have to do all the cooking, too. My wife is a lousy cook, plus I make one hell of a gravy, so I'll have to do it. I don't want to cook for these.... Never mind...

I'm going to buy some new video games, so me and my boys can spend some time together, and have fun in my room, alone. No guests allowed.
 
I didn't figure I would.

Although Solid lifters and Rat Bastid back up my theory. It's becoming a second rate holiday. It's becoming a pause before the Shopping season initiates. As the Corporations desire a longer shopping season, they'll start christmas season earlier.

You've all seen it. Christmas paraphenilia arriving on November 1st. At some point in the near future, Black Friday will simply be a serious sale day, and the greediest people will attempt to transform Nov 1 into the Biggest shopping day of the year. That way they can boost heir profits by force feeding us the "Shop till you drop" atmosphere for a month longer in hopes of reaping bigger rewards.

Maybe Scrooge was right. I've got the christmas spirit. It's right friggin here.

AO
 
I know it has a lot of consumorism stuff going on, But if Thanksgiving was gone, Families wouldn't meet, Traditions will be broken, no Cowboys Thanksgiving game(:() that would be sad
 
I'm not saying get rid of Thanksgiving, I'm saying bump it out of the weekday, and into the weekend. Forget traditions, those come and go with time. If it were really tradition, we'd eat Lobster instead of turkey, and we'd invite the nearest downtrodden family in to share with us.

And the Cowboys haven't given me a reason to cheer in a long time. They can play any day they want.

AO
 
I like Thanksgiving... it usually means a 4-day weekend and a good meal. I do my Christmas shopping year-round and I do 85% of it via the 'net anyway, so Black Friday is a nice day to stay home and light a fire.

It does bug me to see Christmas decorations up after Hallowe'en. But that's not Thanksgiving's fault. In fact, I call for reinforcing Thanksgiving as a holiday presence. Lets stick it to gross commercialism. I personally do so by refusing to get into the Christmas Spirit until December 1st.
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
I'm a bit bent because the consumerism has reached a fever pitch and the maniacal coporations that run this company have finally pushed the wrong button.
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Then don't buy things.

I don't see an issue...
 
I'm not American so I don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

But pretty much everything else.

"What religion were your parents?"

"Seventh day advent-hoppists. They believed every Sunday should be spent hopping. Hop to Church, hop through the service then hop back home again."

"Why?"

"They took the Bible very literally. Word for word. Except their version had a misprint. It was all down to one passage which read 'Faith, Hop and Charity, and the strongest of these is hop'."
 
i like thanksgiving because its on my birthday sometimes and its a chance to get together with alot of people and have a good time. plus you get lots of food.
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Is it me or has the christmas spirit come early this year? Like the day after Halloween?

I'm a bit bent because the consumerism has reached a fever pitch and the maniacal coporations that run this company have finally pushed the wrong button. Christmas season used to be from the day after Thanksgiving, until Christmas day.

Now it starts the day after Halloween, and will carry over until after New years day.

My thoughts are that Thanksgiving is becoming a past time. I'll figure that in a few years, someone in the US will move to have Thanksgiving transition to a Saturday, and turn September 11th into a holiday. Because after all, Thanksgiving is a shopping day where the only people making money are the ones selling turkey and cranberry sauce or Fuel.

We have Valentines day, which is a consumer induced holiday, Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a day for reflection, but noone makes money off it. It's also a US holiday that no other country celebrates.

So screw it.

I'm starting a grassroots movement to get Thanksgiving bumped to the last Saturday in November, and September 11th instituted as a new holiday. We'll celebrate it the same way we do independence day.

Actually this is just a rant because I heard a christmas carol on the radio today.
AO
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I feel your pain. :ouch:
 
OH GOD NO! then I'd have to listen to christmas music for an extra month! who wants to hear the same 10 songs over and over for 8 hours a day for 2 months? not me. We should just make a new holiday to repace it. But I still want to eat turkey....mmmmm..turkey...
 
Thanksgiving is the gateway to the holiday season, which ends on January first. It irks me the way Christmans is pushed earlier every year. I ignore it until after Thanksgiving, though, and insist on doing all my shopping from December 10th - 24th; it wouldn't feel "right" to do it any other way. I have never shopped on Black Friday, and never will.

I don't even like Turkey much. I move that the new Thanksgiving meal be pizza or Thai food or something. But the significance of the day in the cycle of the year and what it signifies are just right to me.
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Is it me or has the christmas spirit come early this year? Like the day after Halloween?

I'm a bit bent because the consumerism has reached a fever pitch and the maniacal coporations that run this company have finally pushed the wrong button. Christmas season used to be from the day after Thanksgiving, until Christmas day.

Now it starts the day after Halloween, and will carry over until after New years day.

My thoughts are that Thanksgiving is becoming a past time. I'll figure that in a few years, someone in the US will move to have Thanksgiving transition to a Saturday, and turn September 11th into a holiday. Because after all, Thanksgiving is a shopping day where the only people making money are the ones selling turkey and cranberry sauce or Fuel.

We have Valentines day, which is a consumer induced holiday, Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a day for reflection, but noone makes money off it. It's also a US holiday that no other country celebrates.

So screw it.

I'm starting a grassroots movement to get Thanksgiving bumped to the last Saturday in November, and September 11th instituted as a new holiday. We'll celebrate it the same way we do independence day.

Actually this is just a rant because I heard a christmas carol on the radio today.

AO
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Well, your neighbours to the north also celebrate Thanksgiving, though it's not such a big deal here as it is to you guys... Also, it's on a different date. Still and all, we do the bone-dry turkey with the aluminum-scented cranberry sauce and all that.

Frankly, this rant seems directed more at Christmas, which I would agree is the real culprit. If it blots out the sun, and every other holiday, then it's the one that needs to go... and not a moment too soon! This year, some stores here had Christmas decorations up BEFORE Halloween. That means that, come Halloween, they had BOTH up simultaneously.

Point your disbanding missile at Dec.25th, and people will join. Thanksgiving might be hypocritical to a certain extent, but it's still a lot more honest, down-to-earth, and, above all, decent.
 
Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
OH GOD NO! then I'd have to listen to christmas music for an extra month! who wants to hear the same 10 songs over and over for 8 hours a day for 2 months?
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that's what I'm talking about. You're already hearing the songs, so why not cook a turkey for Halloween and Christmas?

I like Milefile's suggestion of pizza.

AO
 
Pizza wouldn't be bad. Some new songs wouldn't hurt either. I say we petition our favorite bands to write new christmas music, I'm sick of listening to songs that came out before I was born.
 
It's not Christmas until I hear "Christmas In Hollis" by Run DMC.
 
It's so paradoxically American do have a holiday which is both home-grown and not involve a great deal of consumerism. after all, what a terrible holiday! We don't dress up, decorate a house, buy gifts and cards for people we don't like, and we all get the following day (Friday) off from work/school.

I, for one, would be quite happy to keep a holiday that makes everyone thankful, from fanatically-religous to athiest, about whatever they enjoy.

My only complaint is that the Dallas Cowboys play football every year.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
It's not Christmas until I hear "Christmas In Hollis" by Run DMC.
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Well, south of the World's Largest Theme Park, it's not Christmastime until you get your first Canadian quarter as change!
 

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