Why Do I Have To Work Today Day
Another work day that I don’t get off.
No Mail Monday, but I won’t remember until I check it anyways.
Leif Erikson Day - Hinga dinga durgen!
Curiously, Google Calendar calls it both!
My family celebrates Columbo Day by watching murder mysteries.
normal day i ain’t american
celebrate Thanksgiving with Canadians
Way more sensible day for a harvest festival
I don’t celebrate it at all so I just call it Monday.
I call it Cumulonimbus day. Clouds are cool
October 9th. Seemingly nothing really closes for that day, I know it’s technically a banking holiday but that doesn’t ever seem to matter to me.
Banking, school, government holiday but I rarely get it off (I do this year). I rarely go to a bank, so not likely to affect me (does anyone else remember when banks would close web sites for holidays?)
I got my kid home from school, which is nice, but his coach just called for an extra practice so we can’t do anything
Culumbus Day. It doesn’t sit right with me that they took an existing holiday when August doesn’t have one.
Columbus really wasn’t someone worth celebrating
He told Europe that America existed. Thats a massive turning point in history.
Someone can have a big impact on history and not be worth celebrating.
The thing I think about all the time is that I think our holidays should have a point. Labor day celebrates the accomplishments of workers and encourages us to adopt their best traits: industriousness, teamwork, determination.
Independence Day is supposed to inspire us to be grateful for the courage showed by the founders who seceded from Great Britain, and model their (supposed) virtues, such as liberty.
Thanksgiving is supposed to celebrate harvests, gratitude, the kindness of strangers, etc. There are certainly problems with the history it exhalts, but it makes sense.
Juneteenth is a celebration of diversity, the achievements of black Americans and of abolitionists, Memorial day is about military valor and sacrifice, etc.
Columbus Day just makes no sense. Even if we ignore that Columbus was a monstrous person hated even by his peers,… what exactly is the point of the holiday? Columbus isn’t known for any particular virtue at all, and the discovery of inhabited Caribbean islands by a Spanish-financed Italian explorer has no clear meaning for us as Americans. It barely has anything to do with us.
He told Europe that he had found a route to India, but something seemed off….
Amerigo Vespucci told Europe it was a new continent.
They already knew. The Norse found it 500 years before Columbus.
Norse may have been there, but there was no lasting impact. No permanent settlement, no trade, no records other than logs/journals, no memory, no further exploration …. Compare that with the impact of Columbus’ voyage
We actually don’t know how much the Norse may have explored: we have very few records and I believe only one settlement for a couple years.
I find this idea fascinating - they could have ….
So was Hitler starting WW2, but no one celebrates “Hitler Day”
We knew the Americas existed long before Hitler told anyone about it.
I thought that was the primary advantage the British gained from cracking enigma- they learned FDR’s phone number from a cracked German transmission.
They took a holiday about an Italian who had nothing to do with the US much like that man took indigenous people prisoners? That’s what didn’t sit right with you? So weird to think an Italian funded by the Spanish was somehow important enough to a country that didn’t exist for another 300 years that the government made it a federal holiday.
More time passed between him erroneously finding the Americas and the signing of the Declaration of Independence than the US has even been around.
Where I live, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.
