Why I won't be reading posts about Thanksgiving today
By Boingboing
@boiboing (13153)
Northampton, England
November 26, 2015 12:55am CST
Most of the world is not giving thanks today at least not in any different way than they do on any of the other 364 days of the year. For all of the world's population bar the 300 million or so US inhabitants, it's just another Thursday.
Picking up on a post I just read by @valmnz who urges our US members to turn off their laptops and talk to their families, I've decided that I'm going to just avoid all posts on the subject today in order to do my own little one-cat protest to encourage those people to leave us virtual buddies alone and go back to their real-world loved ones.
Happy to keep reading on any other topics but Thanksgiving is out for me. It's on the verge of breaking both the rule about posts that apply to only a part of the membership and the one about 'anniversaries and birthdays'.
So have a great day if you're doing your Thanksgiving thing and see you again when the world is back to normal again - whatever normal looks like.
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13 responses
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Nov 15
@PhredWreck Yes we tried hard to start indoctrinating people.
@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
27 Nov 15
I didn't have time to be online yesterday, but even still some people eat earlier than others, so they may done with their family get together and just relaxing after. I occasionally do that, but not when I'm actually with my family. My family ate at like 2 pm so we were all done and ready to go by the time most families were getting together. We got home around 6 PM and then went and did some shopping, other wise I may have gotten online I don't know. I've been busy in general lately, but like I said some people may not be with their families. Maybe some of them were writing about it after the fact.
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@LadyDuck (459538)
• Switzerland
26 Nov 15
I have not yet read your discussion Val, but I agree. Celebrations are personal and we have to dedicate all our time to our family. How can people prepare the lunch, spend time with their family and interact here. I know that I will not be online the day of Christmas.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
26 Nov 15
@LadyDuck You have to remember that some of us are alone, just the two of us. Since we are together 24/7 for the last 14 years I think we spend enough time together! I see nothing wrong with me being on the computer during the day. I don't get on the computer between courses on a normal day so I certainly wouldn't do that today either. My dinner is part ready so I see noting wrong with dropping in here.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Nov 15
@AbbyGreenhill I see nothing wrong with that either. The day I first registered for my first review site was 26th December. It was a year when all my family came, I spent all my time cooking, doing dishes and getting crazy and I ran away and locked myself in the study with my computer. So I do understand.
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
26 Nov 15
There was I thinking, thanksgiving has pagan roots! It comes from harvest festivals and used to be celebrated by Britons closest to the autumn equinox (typically in third week of September). Just remember to start flooding myLot with post of "thanksgiving" next year around this time.
@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
26 Nov 15
@boiboing That works.. something close to the autumn equinox. The Chinese Lunar festival is also a harvest festival and it's also close to the autumn equinox. So thanksgiving is not an invention of USA "unfortunately".
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Nov 15
no family nearby, would be on the phone, so kinda pointless.
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
26 Nov 15
Thanks but I'm not American so your wishes are rather wasted on me. But have a good day.
