Thanks, I’m familiar with vacation, I just couldn’t think of what else holiday might mean.
If that photo does the lake justice, I can see why the question. Talk about blue.
I liked the “20 Stupid Questions Asked By Tourists”:
Is Wales closed in the winter?
What time of night does the Loch Ness monster surface and who feeds it?
Can I wear high heels in Australia?
It can also refer to a day celebrated by a particular religion or ethnic group, even if it’s not a day off on the secular calendar. There are Jewish holidays such as Passover and Chinese holidays such as Chinese New Year.
You do something special to celebrate a holiday, which may or may not include taking time off from work. I celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim recently by going to the synagogue for a special service, but I didn’t take any time off work to do it. You aren’t necessarily celebrating a holiday if you don’t go to work that day. I get time off at Christmas, because it’s a work holiday, but I don’t celebrate Christmas- I treat it as just a regular non-work day.
I’d be more likely to say “You are on vacation” instead of either of those, or maybe “You are a tourist” instead of the latter.
Yes, “holiday” is derived from “holy day.”
" . . .make a drink of vodka and refreshers. . ."
What are refreshers?!?
Well, the Brits themselves confuse the issue with Bank Holidays–days when the banks are closed (which do not follow a system like ours of federal holidays being days to recognize national figures etc).
Well, round here, they’re fruit-flavoured fizzy sweets. What are you quoting?
I believe it’s this sort of fruit-flavoured candy. I can imagine how that could go horribly wrong.
A cheese, Richard, a cheese.
(ETA: WotNot, it’s in reference to the hilarious complaint letter to Richard Branson.)
Oh, I see. Ta.
I especially liked the one about gravy. It reminded me of a story that someone posted a year or two back.
Apparently a woman from some major Aussie city was on holiday in the Outback. She went to use the bathroom at some restaurant or hotel, and was shocked – SHOCKED – that the backwards natives didn’t even have toilets in the stalls. She had to squat over a little hole in the floor like some animal.
As it turns out, she had shit in a shower stall.
That was me. It was in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
:smack:
Cinte! LOL!
That looks like a serous retouch/photoshop. The white water streaks in the lower left corner do not look like real rough water, not does it look like white sand beaches or white sand bars … and generally the shallow lakes that are doing serious reflection of teh sky will actually be more or less teh color of the sky and that is seriously turquoise …
Unless of course it is washings and tailings from heavy copper and manganese salts and ores…
“I swear the sponge shafts moved at one point.” 
The origin of the name is to do with giving bank employees certain days off, but it’s got nothing to do with bank opening hours now, they’re free to operate whenever they want. However, there’s still a relevant connection, in that they are days where there is a statutory entitlement to defer certain financial transactions, on the principle that one cannot be expected to make payments on a day when it is not possible to do so.
There are similar lakes in New Zealand. It depends on the light but they can look just as blue as that picture. The colour is from minerals in the glacier runoff I believe.
