Cantr II Discussion Forum

ok, in thes thread, we are all going to post a picture of our thanksgiving food that we will eat. i don't know why... but it sounded like a good idea when i got it.

Well Pie a good idea ,but I hope you remember only 20% of players come from a country which celebrates Thanksgiving this weekend

Have a good celebration anyway and the same to all our American Players

If I am lucky enough..

http://theimaginaryworld.com/tvdin02.jpg

It's my tenth wedding anniversary today so I get to pig out tonight!

A) Not American
B) Am outrageously against thanksgiving - Yay, let's celebrate the date we stole America off some Indians and then ended up almost wiping out their race!

... slight change in food... Hospital turkey instead of TV dinner....

and in response... Thanksgiving is NOT the celebration of stealing America... it was actually 1 year after the landing, there was peace between the pilgrims and Indians... it was a celebration of a plentiful first harvest... because some buttheads added reasons afterward, it means nothing to those who believe in the original intent of thanksgiving.. It is like adding Santa to Christmas, and the Bunny to Easter... neither are the true meaning for the holiday.

Many use the day to celebrate the fact that they do have enough to eat..to be thankful for their families..and give generously to those who don't.... There are others today who see it only as a day to eat well and watch football, take naps.... but that doesn't change the true intent of the holiday..

Probably

Well I celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with one side of my family and we had the whole traditional meal(turkey, ham, dressing, cranberry sauce, corn, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and tons of other vegetables ect...) and then today I celebrated it with the other side of my family as well as some friends. We had to huge meals in the last two days, and we all had a great time getting together and being thankful for how blessed we are to live in the best country in the world *winks at deadboy* and to have been blessed with so much.

However I just wanted to say to you Deadboy, that it suprises me how ignorant some people can be. If what you stated above is what you think the American Thanksgiving Day is about then you are very mistaken. You really need to read or learn some more about american culture and holidays before you start critisizing them.

Elros wrote:However I just wanted to say to you Deadboy, that it suprises me how ignorant some people can be. If what you stated above is what you think the American Thanksgiving Day is about then you are very mistaken. You really need to read or learn some more about american culture and holidays before you start critisizing them.

I live in America, but as I am not actually American (in most interpretations of the word), I don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Though I suspect that has more to do with my intense dislike for "traditional" Thanksgiving food more than anything else. Turkey, cranberries, and gravy just aren't appetizing. Especially not turkey.

(I did have Thanksgiving dinner nonetheless -- salmon. And pickles.)

no turkey?

I personally love thanksgiving because I love turkey. Gravy not so much though...

Turkey's a pretty boring meal.

But aside to that, what annoys me about thanksgiving/christmas is the blatant hypocrisy.

Let's be thankful, let's think about other people, let's give and be genrous. Yada yada.

1) Why is generosity, caring, charity only worthy 1/2 days a year?
2) Is giving your spoilt & bratty son/daughter/niece/nephew/cousin a new toy really a worthy generosity?
3) Considering the starvation and perpetual poverty that millions of people live in. (That's 365 days a year mind you - they don't go hungry just on Christmas). Isn't it a tad hypocritical to get all 'charitable spirited' and then get stuffed stupid, wasting 30% of what is cooked?


Edit:
Meh

I don't like christmas. A surpsisingly late bitch from me this year. Probably because my partner's been bearing the brunt of it.

Christmas cards, crackers, presents. AND IT WAS ONLY BLOODY SEPTEMBER.

Well, if you think september is too early...
We have a set of christmass decorations which never go down anymore...

Anyone here ever heard of Department 56 houses? Yeah, we got to the point that it took a week to set them up, so I decided to never take them down. Been 3 years now...

But I have to rearrange it! We just bought the Tower of London, so I gotta get that in the middle of town...

deadboy wrote:A) Not American
B) Am outrageously against thanksgiving - Yay, let's celebrate the date we stole America off some Indians and then ended up almost wiping out their race!

Pie wrote:

Elros wrote:However I just wanted to say to you Deadboy, that it suprises me how ignorant some people can be. If what you stated above is what you think the American Thanksgiving Day is about then you are very mistaken. You really need to read or learn some more about american culture and holidays before you start critisizing them.

First of all... xDDDDDD Pie! xDDDDDDDD

Second... I know that Elros and the most of the people from USA don't celebrate the Thanksgiving as Deadboy stated, but... well, to give thanks to who?
I'm sure that to give thanks to an almost obliterated race for the lands and goods you stole them (after or before to kill them) is not a logical action.

And I know that to say that USA is the best country in the world is as ignorant as arrogant. The best country in the world CAN NOT be one with the highest rate of deads by guns.



HF... AMÉN!

I feel as if I should comment.

the U.S. is the best country, in it's ability to roket people to the top, to make people rich, in its job oprotunaties, and it's freedome and stuff that it has. I mean heck, any old imigrant can just walk in, and get a job and mcdonalds that is 10 times better than any old low intelegance needed job you can get in mexico. heck, depending on the office, some secretaries earn more than the public school teachers, wich is like, 30 thousand.

it's not the best in it's echinomical standpoint thingy as a whole, caus i think the place with the best echonimy is like, sweeden, caus of all those banks. I know for sure that japan is the secont best.

and, the U.S.? the highest death by gun?

pfft. The person who said that sertainly hasn't heard of all of them genosides in africa, the taliban, al quida, or any other dictatorship in the poorer countries.