Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Takhisis]

No work or school

This year it coincided with another holiday, but usually it's not a big thing in Argentina.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Scandinavians don't do this?

There you foreigners go again, assuming "Scandinavia" is a useful term for anything

 

[Gori the Grey]

In the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie, when Stan Lee makes his cameo, he's saying something like "Back then I was a Fed-Ex delivery guy."

Is that an in joke? Not his cameo, but that particular line he speaks?

 

[Camikaze]

I actually thought this was a general German thing until I moved to West Germany and realized - no one there does it. Was quit strange.

I saw this quite a bit on Father's Day in Munich, and naturally assumed it was Bavarians being Bavarian.

I grew up in a church-going household, and I've never heard of Ascension Day.

 

[metatron]

I saw this quite a bit on Father's Day in Munich, and naturally assumed it was Bavarians being Bavarian.

Ah, thanks for confirming that i'm not high.
I suppose we'll just file southwesterners as weird (big news).

I grew up in a church-going household, and I've never heard of Ascension Day.

Assumption? Epiphany? Corpus Christi? All Saints? Repentance and Prayer?
Nothin?
*lookingitup*
Nothing.
Ok. But you do St. Stephen's, so you're not complete heathens.
Wait, what? Australians can't agree on a Labor day?

And once again it occurs to me, that we have to liquidate a holiday, so that we can give it to the Muslims, so that we can be, you know, not jerks.

 

[Arakhor]

Epiphany is 6th Jan, St Stephen's is 26th December (Boxing Day) and All Saints is 1st Nov (I think). Ascension Day was just not a thing for us either.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Epiphany is 6th Jan, St Stephen's is 26th December (Boxing Day) and All Saints is 1st Nov (I think). Ascension Day was just not a thing for us either.

Epiphany: A character on General Hospital

December 26: The Canadian equivalent of Black Friday

November 1: The day people recover from eating too much chocolate the night before

 

[Arakhor]

You're clearly not the target market for such observances, Valka.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm just mentioning what those particular dates mean to me. I don't think anyone should have expected them to be related to anything to do with the church.

non-answer

I'm sure that means something to you, but it's clear as mud to me. I'm asking an honest question, and it would be courteous to give an honest answer.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm just mentioning what those particular dates mean to me. I don't think anyone should have expected them to be related to anything to do with the church.

Right... Given that those festivals were mentioned and I put dates to them, pointing out that you don't do Christian things on them seems, well, rather pointless, given that (as noted) we shouldn't expect you to do anything vaguely religious on any given day of the year.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to post anything "pointless."

 

[Arakhor]

Moderator Action: I've moved the Scandinavian discussion into a separate thread.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I saw this quite a bit on Father's Day in Munich, and naturally assumed it was Bavarians being Bavarian.

Hm, I guess I learned something.

 

[warpus]

In East Germany, Ascencion day is a beast of its very own. It is celebrated as "Men's day" and the tradition is to get together with a lot of other men early in the morning, roam through the streets on foot and drink beer all-through day. You may also want to dress like an idiot and carry a walking stick with a little bell attached to it, as well as pulling a card carrying all the beer you will drink through-out the day.

That sounds AMAZING

except for the "early morning" part.

I would try to get this tradition started here in Canada, but I think feminists would shut me down right away and I would be labelled as a sexist, fired from my job, and have my beer confiscated

 

[Terxpahseyton]

It can be a lot of fun
But I think North-Americans aren't that comfortable with publicly getting crap-faced?
Reminds me of when we had American exchange students at my school and they witnessed the graduation celebration. Graduation celebrations can be kinda similar to Men's day. Including the booz. Apparently the exchange students were in shock and in the following years henceforth were asked to stay home on graduation day.
Your feminist-remark makes me want to rename it Patriarchy day And the drunken roaming could be sold as symbolic man-spreading. Loud drunk men literally spreading through the streets.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Alternatively, specifically more seasoned men my simply do some kind tour together. My father goes on a boat tour. Others do bicycle tours or go hiking.
.

Oh, I've seen some bicycle tours in Cologne.

 

[Takhisis]

There appears to be a person of the female persuasion in on that vehicle.

 

[metatron]

There appears to be a person of the female persuasion in on that vehicle.

Well, if you do it the old school way (actual nature, small group, multi-generation, largely family, father, grandfather, brother, son, son-in-law) there's typically a hard rule on no women.
If the group is larger, urban, one-generation and young (any of these factors helps), some women are allowed.
Some women. You have to be deemed very cool.
Things that generally help:

• You're untypically ungroomed
• You're a "slut" (i.e. like-a-man)
• You open beer with your teeth
• You swear
• You broke some hussy's wrist in a dive bar restroom fight

 

[Takhisis]

Ah! So the concept of honorary males exists in Germany as well.

 

[Traitorfish]

I would try to get this tradition started here in Canada, but I think feminists would shut me down right away and I would be labelled as a sexist, fired from my job, and have my beer confiscated

I mean, you'd probably fall foul of public drinking laws first.