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They are all dumb made up holidays to make you spend money you don’t have to buy shit you don’t need for people you hate in the name of equally dumb and made up traditions that people keep following because they are sheep and don’t question anything. It was never about family or love or whatever argument the rich use these days to convince you to give them your hard earned money so they can buy the 10th yacht of the week.
Yeah but that's also why nobody likes you so you've got to decide if this is really a hill worth dying on. Ya Scrooge
True. I've find the Easter Bunny in the wild, last spring .
Best free chocolate ever.
If green you can actually eat them as a survival tactic.
It's legit. I get depression and chest pain every Valentine's Day.
No, I just don't like holidays that are being abused by companies to make a buck. That goes for Christmas as well.
The Summer Holidays don't have that issue.
Easy as is.
Also, Valentine's Day is not even a holiday, idiot 😂
What holiday isn't abused by capitalism?
Mayday!
Worker climbs to the top of the may pole and yells, "I'm going down!"
I mean the astrological holidays are just kinda there
Everybody celebrates the trisolar syzygy, whether they want to or not.
My grandpa used to break up with my grandma to avoid having to buy gifts for her, then get back together after lol
You sure he was actually your grandpa? Cause if I go back nine months from your parent's birthday...
Smart guy.
Everyone should get a day off just to eat chocolate and fuck.
During summer festivals couples used to go to search for a mythical fern flower, that was only flowering during the summer solstice. Of course they went searching at night. If you found one, it was supposed to make you rich and successful. So in reality, it was just an excuse for couples / young people to go into the woods and fuck all night.
The celebrations also included: bathing, dancing, decorating with flowers, lighting fires, jumping through the fire and chasing away witches. People also got married. Sometimes they plowed the village roads, so a dude could find a "match" (i.e. get to plow someone else). They'd also figuratively roast people for being dicks / immoral.
Sounds like a good time!
I got to fuck chocolate and eat.
I do call all holidays dumb but I'll still use it as an excuse to take a day off or do something. I teach at an all girls university and they are 100% on board having Friday off in the name of Valentine's Day. Lol
(Oh and before you say "everyone would say yes to that" you haven't met the kids who take college seriously)
Happy Ishtar !
I mean happy Easter not the pagan orgy holiday represented by eggs and rabbits etc that we all participate in for some reason
The solstices would like a word.
Lunar New Year too.
I refer to it as Singles Awareness Day. For the obvious reason.
Too late, Corporate China reserved November 11 (because it's all 1s) for that, and western corporations are starting to follow it too.
Back in college it used to be "go to the Olive Garden alone and make the waitress uncomfortable" day.
Ah, the ol' 'Just how endless are the salad and bread https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/are-olive-garden-breadsticks-really-unlimited?' trick .
Awareness is why I'm drinking...
I gave up on holidays when they started celebrating them when most convenient for capitalism. If you can’t celebrate Saint Paddy’s on a Tuesday go fuck yourselves, you don’t get a Saint Paddy’s.
Here we see the spawning grounds of the Pagan holidays, where a young holiday is learning to walk. But wait, in comes it's natural predator the Christian holiday. The Holiday struggles for a bit, but it is in vain...