Message From UK To USA

[Hades]

Yeah...all I had last thanksgiving was a turkey sandwhich.

 

[Fading]

This world isn't getting any nicer is it? So thinking that, I thought it would be nice for me being English just to take time to wish all you guys over the pond in America a happy Thanksgiving.
I know it isn't much, and to be honest I know very little about that particular tradition . . . but I know it's around the right time of year for it, so i just thought I'd say to all my American friends on the hype, have a good one.

Thnx, appreciated.

A holiday of getting stuffed til u can't move then passing out wherever you happened to be when you ate...love this holiday . Not to count I get to see family members I usually don't get to see until the holidays usually.

 

[Protest the Hero]

Food, football and family.

I f**king hate this 'holiday'.

 

[Eggyman]

Just come back to check the thread, to all that have thanked me for the sentiment, again no problem. You guys have made me hungry talking about turkey lol -- I have just over a month to wait before I can get any turkey to gobble

 

[jaguarr]

Nice sentiment, eggyman. We don't get many genuinely positive and uplifting posts around here. Nice work!

jag

 

[Matt]

Happy Native American Oppression Day!

Meh, what are you guys *****ing about? You got the casinos...all we got is the religious nut jobs who don't let us have casinos

 

[Eggyman]

Nice sentiment, eggyman. We don't get many genuinely positive and uplifting posts around here. Nice work!

jag

Really nice of you to say so mate, and it seems like you have understood the real reason for me doing this thread -- like I've said i know little about thanksgiving, but what i do know is that sometimes it's just nice to be nice. If I can sit here making this thread with a smile on my face, then maybe when people read it the smile will pass to them . . . in turn they could pass the smile along to someone else, and i'm sure that it WOULD be a nicer world if more people had an excuse to smile.

So if I do manage to crack those lips into a smile, be sure to try and pay it forward.

 

[November Rain]

before i second this....why was thanksgiving only ever mentioned in one simpsons episode and a few freinds eps??

if it's that important then why not make it bigger

the same reason why bank holidays, Carnival or Guy Fawkes days are never really mentioned in British programmes (especially comedies).

national holidays don't have worldwide selling appeal, you realise when they make shows these days (especially sitcoms), they are made for an international audience so the more things in common the better.

That's why new years, halloween and christmas are the big hollyday selling points.

oh and valentine's day.

 

[chamber-music]

how do native americans feel about thanks giving?

 

[Prognosticator]

Happy Native American Oppression Day!

BOOOO!

That's a LAME thing to say about Thanksgiving!

As if they the Paganistic Primitive Indians didn't have it coming???

Sure the 'white man' was relentlessly brutal on many occasions.

But I'm sure the "World-Uniting Romans" were far worse...wait a second, according to historical texts they were.

The Conquistadors were also FAR MORE brutal to the Central Americans than 'pilgrims' were to Indians.

It's stupid to say bad things about 'Thankgiving'. It celebrates the fact that you live in a free country where you can practice about anything you can think of, good or bad.

 

[Prognosticator]

Really nice of you to say so mate, and it seems like you have understood the real reason for me doing this thread -- like I've said i know little about thanksgiving, but what i do know is that sometimes it's just nice to be nice. If I can sit here making this thread with a smile on my face, then maybe when people read it the smile will pass to them . . . in turn they could pass the smile along to someone else, and i'm sure that it WOULD be a nicer world if more people had an excuse to smile.

So if I do manage to crack those lips into a smile, be sure to try and pay it forward.

You're totally practicing the 'meaning of thanksgiving' on the hype. Thanks, Eggy!

Thanksgiving is a reflectory period that isn't properly used anymore. It is supposed to be a chance to reunite with family and be thankful for the blessings in life, but it's dominated by ''supporting ideas of American culture'' now.

I love Football! I love Christmas or "holiday season". Black Friday is a Crazy experience. The "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" is a neat tradition.

But the gathering of family and the breaking of bread is about as traditionally purposeful as you can get.

And when people start losing sight of that, it's a shame.

It is easy to begin criticizing everything when you are completely ungrateful for everything in your life.

I'm humbled by everything I have been afforded in my short life! It's a true blessing. So thanks for the warm salutations this Thanksgiving week!

 

[Eggyman]

You're totally practicing the 'meaning of thanksgiving' on the hype. Thanks, Eggy!

Thanksgiving is a reflectory period that isn't properly used anymore. It is supposed to be a chance to reunite with family and be thankful for the blessings in life, but it's dominated by ''supporting ideas of American culture'' now.

I love Football! I love Christmas or "holiday season". Black Friday is a Crazy experience. The "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" is a neat tradition.

But the gathering of family and the breaking of bread is about as traditionally purposeful as you can get.

And when people start losing sight of that, it's a shame.

It is easy to begin criticizing everything when you are completely ungrateful for everything in your life.

I'm humbled by everything I have been afforded in my short life! It's a true blessing. So thanks for the warm salutations this Thanksgiving week!

Great post mate, and you are more than welcome

 

[comicgirl]

before i second this....why was thanksgiving only ever mentioned in one simpsons episode and a few freinds eps??

if it's that important then why not make it bigger

Watch TVland on cable, man. Every oldtime sitcom would do a special Thanksgiving episode every year.

Maybe, its because we americans are supposedly all fat, network tv is shying away from the "lets sit and stuff ourselves" holiday?

 

[Prognosticator]

Watch TVland on cable, man. Every oldtime sitcom would do a special Thanksgiving episode every year.

Maybe, its because we americans are supposedly all fat, network tv is shying away from the "lets sit and stuff ourselves" holiday?

Before shows like Friends/The Simpsons, there was no "modern" way to reflect Thanksgiving on TV without the episode feeling forced or dull.

...Actually, the more I think about it, "Home Improvement" had a thanksgiving episode every year. And I remember thanksgiving episodes of "Rosanne", "Family Guy", "Futurama", "Cheers", "Cosby Show", and surely there are many more.

 

[Eggyman]

how do native americans feel about thanks giving?

I have no idea friend, but if any native americans are reading they are more than welcome to post away. Thanks for your time

 

[raziel1919]

Meh, what are you guys *****ing about? You got the casinos...all we got is the religious nut jobs who don't let us have casinos

Not all Native Americans have Casinos.

 

[raziel1919]

I have no idea friend, but if any native americans are reading they are more than welcome to post away. Thanks for your time

I'm Native American and I like Thanksgiving, but I don't like Columbus Day.

 

[Crowforge]

I don't celebrate thanks giving, my ancestors either had nothing to do with it or get screwed shortly after.

 

[Eggyman]

I'm Native American and I like Thanksgiving, but I don't like Columbus Day.

What's Columbus Day, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Crowforge]

The day some idiot discovers an already discovered place and ruins it

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

how do native americans feel about thanks giving?

probably the same as the rest of us being that they weren't around with the Pilgrims

 

[Prognosticator]

probably the same as the rest of us being that they weren't around with the Pilgrims

LOL!!!

I find it so funny that SOOO many people want to complain about their "heritage" from 300-400 years ago, when they don't even give a damn about their parents/siblings/etc...

 

[Eggyman]

please tell me that is a day full of fighting.

LOL, sorry mate it's the day you put all the crap presents you got back in their boxes and then exchange them for something cool

 

[Eggyman]

The day some idiot discovers an already discovered place and ruins it

Oh, erm . . . sorry about that -- I take it you were refering to me asking what Columbus Day was. Anyway, chin up and look to the future, not what our ancestors have done in the past eh?

 

[Eggyman]

Yeah...all I had last thanksgiving was a turkey sandwhich.

It sounds like a hard life being a turd on the run lol