One Christmas, I took my girlfriend to the movies, and we made out during Schindler’s List.
Well, Thanks-fucking-giving ain’t a goddamned Christian fucking holiday, dickheads. New Years Day? Nope. Independence Day? Not even. Easter? It falls on fucking Sunday by default. Where I used to work, we got Good Friday off. Not because the boss was some “fundy Xian” :rolleyes: , but because he figured there weren’t any holidays between New Years and Memorial Day. I worked seven days a week for years (not in a service industry where you had to see people who were off, we were isolated) and I would have liked to have had some days off and let somebody else work. Didn’t work out that way. You know what I did? Got a different job.
All right fine. I want Diwali off. And fuck everybody who thinks I shouldn’t. BECAUSE I WANT A DAY OFF TO SPEND WITH My FAMILY, GODDAMNIT.
I’m pretty p.o.'ed at the enormous self-centeredness displayed by a couple people in this thread too. I’m going to walk away and not say anymore except - Christmas is just a day to a significant percentage of us, a day we’re forced to do nothing at all because it’s the majority religion. We don’t complain about that, so can you stop complaining about us finding some entertainment?
Yeesh.
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My family tried to pull this crap this year, and I put a halt to it. Christmas (and to a lesser extent, Thanksgiving) should be the one day of the year that everyone is allowed to just fucking relax and spend with their families.
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In summary, don’t be a fucking asshole, and go to the movies on one of the other 364 days of the year.
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How about the internet? All those NOC teams that have to go to work because you have to post on a messageboard on Christmas Day? You can log off for ONE FUCKING DAY right?
Anyone who feels the need to use the Internets on Christmas is a piece of shit, asshat, family hating, Santa raping, Baby Jesus touching, Virgin Mary cherry-popping, son of a crap on a stick, cock smoker.
NOC team members have a family too you know.
What about the television crews so you can watch TV shows? Geeez all you fucking assholes who want to watch TV instead of spending it with your family. You Christmas Day, Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo loving, tv show watching fucks.
Gas service, electric service, police, fire crews,… come on. Get real. It’s only one day. You spooge-drinking-ass-fucks don’t need this shit on Christmas. I mean… it’s fucking Christmas. Christmas is all about getting together with your family in the dark and huddling together for heat.
With The The’s excellent rant against rude holiday fucks, and taking into consideration most of the rest of the posts, I’m loving this thread now. I haven’t had this much fun watching a pile-on of a stupid OP for ages.
What’s Diwali? Maybe I should be demanding everyone stay the fuck home on that day too. We’ll start a movement.
Puh-lease. I’m a single person, I live alone. I try to spend Christmas day with my family. But bro’s got to go to his fiancee’s mom’s house. Then her dad’s house. Grandma and grandpa have to hang out at church. Mom’s family’s got to snooze. Dad’s family’s got to be with their other families.
So they’re busy hangin’ out with their families most of the day and not me. Wish I could be making some $$ instead. But since my office is closed Christmas day I just sit around and wait for my family.
When I was in the restaurant biz I used to beg to work New Years eve parties. I had a MUCH better time at work than I did sitting at home alone.
[QUOTE=Equipoise]
With The The’s excellent rant against rude holiday fucks, and taking into consideration most of the rest of the posts, I’m loving this thread now. I haven’t had this much fun watching a pile-on of a stupid OP for ages.
What’s Diwali? Maybe I should be demanding everyone stay the fuck home on that day too. We’ll start a movement.
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Become Catholic, you can demand all the holy days of obligation off. Then if that is not enough start working on the days of the saints.
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At the very least, all those big fans of the Ten Commandments ought to sympathize. From my reading of the Old Testament, it seems to me that the essence of the Sabbath commandment is that, on that day of rest, you don’t do any work and you don’t make anyone else work either. In biblical times, this would have been servants/slaves/members of ones household. Today, it would be employees, service personnel (like waiters, cashiers, delivery people), etc.
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Sweet, let’s shut the country down every Saturday.
GOD ABOVE this shit pisses me off. Every damn Christmas we have the same collection of dumbass ‘You Jews should just get with the program and celebrate Christmas/it’s secular/what the hell is wrong with you/get with the program and conform’ threads.
Well fuck you. Fuck you hard, assholes.
Lemme give you a fucking clue: Movies are Chinese are pretty sincerely set in American Jewish culture for Christmas day. Hell, it’s to the point where, even in my isolated little small town (jew population: six, no foolin’) the Chinese places advertise that they’re open on Christmas day.
I married a shikse, sure, and we do Christmas because she wants to and I love her. But you, limp dick, who tells me I have to because it offends your sensitivities, can blow me.
I need to go kick over a Christmas tree or something.
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Well, I work retail, and I JUST FUCKING HATE PPL
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Spare us your redundancies, you stuporous funker!
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Why should I care because of how it used to be?
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For the sake of perspective, I think it helps to take a look at how things are/were done in other times and places, and why.
In this case, my personal opinion is that the way things are now is indeed better, but there’s a trade-off. I think we’ve lost some good things, even if we had to lose them in order to get better things.
My heart goes out to the OP, because at least he’s thinking of someone besides himself. He’s thinking of how his actions affect other people, especially the low people on the totem pole. Again, I’m not saying I agree with him. If he could convince me that there were substantial numbers of people who are forced to work in the theaters on Christmas when they would far rather be spending the special day with their families, then I would concede that going to the movies on Christmas is Perhaps The Wrong Thing To Do. And if he could further convince me that everybody was well aware of this, then and only then would I consider buying into his accusation that people who, even knowing this, go to the movies on Christmas are selfish assholes engaging in an act of class warfare.
I would totally work at a theater for free on Christmas day if the theater would give me a bunch of free movie tickets for the rest of the year.
Let’s face it. Working at a theater isn’t very hard. “Second door to your right.”
Even if you fucked that up, does anyone ever complain? “Hey, you said second door to my right but it was the third door to my right, you pimply faced little cretin! Now you’ve ruined my holiday, Jesus-hating punk!”
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Why should I care because of how it used to be?
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Well, because of the reflections of the love
you took
[sub] from me?[/sub]
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to go to the movies on one of those days - and especially to make a cutesy “tradition” out of it - is such an active act of class warfare that you might as well go stomp some bums on the way home. It’s a tradition!
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Well, I go to the movies on Christmas, but I only stomp bums on Thanksgiving. There’s no reason a class war has to be a slash-and-burn operation.
Oh, also, I only pee on ghetto children at Easter.
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Oh, also, I only pee on ghetto children at Easter.
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On Easter, my family flings poo on them. Must be a German thing.
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You say too.may.toe…
Preorder now your copy of Wholecloth Publishing’s latest self-help guide, Tell me when you go to the movies, and I’ll tell you what you are.
(Selected Highlights):
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Christmas – asshole.
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Thanksgiving – jerkface.
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Arbor Day – lowlife muthahumpin’ scum-suckin’ reptile-man.
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Groundhog Day – Dipshit.
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New Year’s Day – Teetotaling mama’s boy.
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August 17th – Hitler clone.
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Valentine’s Day – Bob.
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Mothers’ Day – Depends. With Mom or without?
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Armistice Day – Lousy liberal lesbian lepidopterist.
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Secretaries’ Day – Boss.
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Columbus Day – Pinko creep.
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Bastille Day – French-fried freaky f***!
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National Cucumber Appreciation Day – Congressman smelly.
Thudlow Boink, the OP may seem kind and caring about the poor folk who have to work on Christmas, but to me it’s a misplaced caring. The single mother had all morning to spend with her kids. It’s not like movie theaters open at 8:00am. She must have known when she took the job that she might have to work holidays. I guess I salute his standing up for Those Who Have To Work On Holidays, but it is how it is. He’s calling a lot of people, of other religions and no religion, assholes, and demanding that we play by his “put a halt to it” rules, which takes away from his caring points.
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I would totally work at a theater for free on Christmas day if the theater would give me a bunch of free movie tickets for the rest of the year.
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Wow, me too! Any theater owners in Chicago up for the barter system?
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Let’s face it. Working at a theater isn’t very hard. “Second door to your right.”
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Well, they do have to breathe in all that rancid, delicious, “butter-flavored” gunk. And, as The The so colorfully pointed out, put up with dickheads.
Bryan, I’m not getting the reference, but it was cute.
I only fling poo on Good Friday. Easter’s reserved for murder, mayhem and pillaging. Oh, and going to the movies.
King of Soup, don’t you mean “Freedom-fried freaky f***!”?
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I sympathize with the OP. I’m not sure I go so far as to agree with it, but it’s definitely not a dumb thread.
As The The has pointed out, in earlier generations no one would have taken offense at having one day out of 365, or even one day out of 7, when pretty much everything was closed so that people could have a day off.
At the very least, all those big fans of the Ten Commandments ought to sympathize. From my reading of the Old Testament, it seems to me that the essence of the Sabbath commandment is that, on that day of rest, you don’t do any work and you don’t make anyone else work either. In biblical times, this would have been servants/slaves/members of ones household. Today, it would be employees, service personnel (like waiters, cashiers, delivery people), etc.
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Yeah, but my day of rest is Saturday… so if I wanted to be an observant Jew (Old Testament and ll that) and stay home on Saturday, and everyone else should be closed on Sunday (that magical one day out of seven), well I’m pretty much screwed then to try to get any errands done.
It’s not always so black and white-- hmmm?
[QUOTE=Equipoise]
King of Soup, don’t you mean “Freedom-fried freaky f***!”?
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Nah. In a pejorative phrase, it’s okay to say “French.”
You bring up a good point, though. Had the OP come across as a “Be nicer to people who work on Christmas (and other holidays)” – type thread, I’d have regarded it as unnecessarily provincial but been all for him nonetheless. But that’s not the way it came across.
I also don’t get how having low-wage businesses be open less helps poor people, either those that work there, or those that rely on handouts from the passersby who wouldn’t be there if the theatre or restaurant or store were closed.
What a bunch of stupid fucking responses to this thread, and few of the ones I expected!
The taint-worshiping motherfucking OP has nothing to do with religion. There’s a big, fat, cockgobbling OR OTHER BIG HOLIDAYS there after CHRIST(died for you)MAS and THANKS(for the genocide)GIVING - so feel free to fucking substitute Diwali or Chinese New Year or fucking Yom Kippur or anything else. The point is that on those two major holidays - Christmas and Thanksgiving - the vast majority of the country closes down because the vast majority of people celebrate those holidays, therefore it’s shitty of people to willfully make people work on those days. The end.
And by the way, the whole stupid fucking “those peepal are happy to get their time and a half!” argument is for gibbons. Lose it. It’s inherently unfair, unequal, and predatory that those people find themselves making such a sub-living wage in the first place that the idea that time and a half - a whopping $9 an hour or so - is a “bonus” is completely absurd. You have no platform, so embrace silence and rhetorical defeat.