Thanksgiving

Cypress said:
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

It is simple and pure. Just sharing a meal with family and friends.

And I like to pig out!

It never fell victim to the consumerism and commercialism of other holidays, there is no pressure to buy anything, and the only expectation is to cook, eat, talk, and visit.
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Mine too. It was a chance to catch up with extended family I don’t get to see often enough.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Mott, it's always hard when someone passes.
My wife's mother was the Matriarch of our family and when she passed, the holidays that came always seemed empty.

My wife and I have kind of taken over the Patriarch and Matriarch roles and we work at making sure the family spends time together during birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

I'm really big on familia.
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Yea me too and I would probably be in that role too but just wasn’t lucky enough to be blessed with kids.
 
$3/hour bonus for work. I'm in.
then if my sister can still stand and cook off to her and mom's house. If not we'll wind up at some restaurant.
No politics allowed for holiday meals
 
Jack said:
hahahahahahahahahaha ......

Thanks! :)

I've been at Thanksgivings all my life. It's nice, it was fun. Me and my wife would always host the Thanksgivings for the kids and their wives/girlfriends. Then my wife died a number of years ago, and they would all come over to my house. The women would cook and the guys would sit around play chess, play football, drink, watch TV, and find other thing to do to 'stay out of the Kitchen'. They're all getting married off and starting families of their own. One of the kids invited me over to his house (he bought an old 'fixer-upper' and I helped him fix it up) and I told him I had other Plans, but thanks. The REAL reason I declined, ... his wife's Dad is a fucking Jesus Freak that can't talk about ANYTHING except Jesus. He's fat, so he can't play football, doesn't know how to play chess, and if the TV is on, he just keeps talking about Jesus. Let me ask you something, Mott. Do you want to sit at a Thanksgiving Table and have to listen to some fat guy with his mouth full of turkey and mashed potatoes talk about Jesus ?

Fuck That!
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LOL No, not at all. In fact I have a very similar problem.
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
'Thanksgiving' referred, I believe, to the thanks offered to God by the Pilgrim Fathers after surviving their first year in Massachusetts.

The interesting thing is the contrasting motivations. The Pilgrim Fathers wanted to practice "purified" religion, shining city on a hill, and so forth. The Virginians went for free land.

You might say these are two dominant strands in Americans, or at least WASPs, ever since.
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Yeah, Massachusetts was founded for religious freedom and Jamestown was a purely commercial venture.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
The kind of religious fweedumb that birthed the Salem Witch Trials and subsequent murders.
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Well, Marxists like to kill people who practice religious freedom. Actually, the first generation was pretty good about practicing their heresies. They didn't even believe in proselytizing to their new neighbors. It was subsequent generations who devolved into busybodies.
 
Threedee said:
Well, Marxists like to kill people who practice religious freedom. Actually, the first generation was pretty good about practicing their heresies. They didn't even believe in proselytizing to their new neighbors. It was subsequent generations who devolved into busybodies.
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Ah, the Marxists murdered them.
 
domer76 said:
Sucks to be you. Thanksgiving is the best holiday. It's Christmas that sucks ass.
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i used to like christmas but im starting to dislike it the older I get. mostly because no one is ever surprised by gifts anymore.. (why take chances?) so everyone basically know what they are getting, and it seems easier if everyone just bought themselves gifts and opened their self bought gifts together.
 
tsuke said:
dont think of it so negatively. Think of it like securing living space for future americans of all colors.
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No thank you, we can talk about that once a securing living space for future americans of all colors occurs. I don't think that was ever the aim, still isn't.
 
BLUE D R E A M said:
i used to like christmas but im starting to dislike it the older I get. mostly because no one is ever surprised by gifts anymore.. (why take chances?) so everyone basically know what they are getting, and it seems easier if everyone just bought themselves gifts and opened their self bought gifts together.
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It should never have been attempted to be tied to Jeebus, fuck retailers.
 
BLUE D R E A M said:
i used to like christmas but im starting to dislike it the older I get. mostly because no one is ever surprised by gifts anymore.. (why take chances?) so everyone basically know what they are getting, and it seems easier if everyone just bought themselves gifts and opened their self bought gifts together.
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Santa is mean to you in other words.
 
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