Favorite- Christmas and My Birthday

Least Favorite- Thanksgiving- I don't get the point of it and it is so boring

i agree with you on thanksgiving
mother's day- pointless
father's day- pointless

you should respect your parents everyday, i don't get why they have a special day for it.

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No biggie for Thanksgiving, only to celebrate the PIlgrims coming over and breaking bread with the Indians.

No Biggie for Father's Day and Mother's Day since we take them for granted, right?

I guess you could say the same thing for Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Independance Day. It certainly follows the lack of explanations you two gave.

So if I said anyone else's birthday is a pointless holiday, but mine is, would you disagree?

New Year's Day is just another day right? First of the month. We don't celebrate the first of June, March, or many other months like the first of January.

Or how about Chirstmas? Not everyone celebrates Christmas, plus it is overdone and over-commercialized.

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passover is my favorite. my least favorite?? umm.....yom kippur!!!!! screw yom kippur!!!!!!!!!1

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Hey, we just wiped the slate clean a week ago from tomorrow. Show some respect. And how can Pesach be your favorite? No grain for 8 days?

Personally, my favorite is either Succos (which we're currently in) or Chanukah. As for my least favorite, I don't really have one, but Pesach (Passover) ranks pretty low on the list because grain makes up a huge part of my diet, meaning I have no energy so I'm very lethargic and extremely tempermental for eight days, and all the people I hate at school who know I'm Jewish taunt me with bread products.

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Least Fav: Labor Day
Always started school the day after.

Fav: Christ-mas. Thanksgiving comes in second with all the good food and watchin the Detriot Lions that day. They re not my team but its still great to watch em every Thanksgiving.

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My ultimate favorite is Halloween because I love scurry stuff...but I also LOVE the fall so they go hand in hand.

I HATE Easter...Easter gives me a headache. It's another holiday where I'm subjected to eating with my entire family and listening to boring stories.

Next on the list, Christmas. I hate shopping, I hate spending money for a ton of people, and I hate shopping. Did I mention I hate shopping?

Oh, and btw, rct: your birthday is not considered an official holiday. I don't see it marked on my calendar

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My favorites include Kwanza, Boxing Day, Victoria Day, Yom Kippur, Flag Day, Dia del Muerto and Ramadan, and my least favorites are Christmas, Little Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines Day, Independence Day, and I hate days off of school which result from any holiday.

Wait, scratch all that, and reverse it.

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Thanksgiving rules, it's by far the best holiday. Food, good weather, food, sex, four day weekend, and food.

Easter is god awful though, I hate all of those stupid pictures of bunnies and the gayness of the whole thing.

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Favorite: Christmas
Least: Any holiday where we dont get off of school

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CedarPoint_Mark [/i]
[B]No biggie for Thanksgiving, only to celebrate the PIlgrims coming over and breaking bread with the Indians.

No Biggie for Father's Day and Mother's Day since we take them for granted, right?

I guess you could say the same thing for Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Independance Day. It certainly follows the lack of explanations you two gave.

So if I said anyone else's birthday is a pointless holiday, but mine is, would you disagree?

New Year's Day is just another day right? First of the month. We don't celebrate the first of June, March, or many other months like the first of January.

Or how about Chirstmas? Not everyone celebrates Christmas, plus it is overdone and over-commercialized. [/B][/QUOTE]

Wow, you don't sound very happy. Do you get excited about anything?

My definition of an official holiday means a day that people take off from work/school.

My favorite is Christmas because of the atmosphere and family.

Least favorite could possibly be Easter (but not the reason we celebrate it). It's too big of a day to just treat it like any other vacation day, but it's not big enough to draw the family together. I often get lost in limbo on this day trying to figure out something to do. The lonliness takes over pretty strong on this day since everyone else is spending it with family.

Another not so favorite is ML King Day. It's too politically correct for me. The media pushes it too much. I guess it serves a reason to remember, but I don't think people should be able take off work for it. I think what ML King did was great for the country, but I don't think it deserves a national holiday...same with Columbus Day.

I will now sit and wait for people to jump all over me for the statements I just made about ML King [B]DAY[/B] not ML King himself.

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Favorite - Halloween
Least favorite - Easter because im now 20 and dont get an easter basket anymore!

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My favorite is Christmas, and my least favorite is Colombus Day. I don't get off for school on it anymore, so its of no use to me.

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Favorite- Halloween , least favorite- Thanksgiving, every year I get stuck at some stupid family reunion, which I plan on getting scheduled to work to get out of doing that this year.

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Favorite: Christmas! I celebrate my birthday on the 26th, so, yay! Two days of presents and family fun. I also love the electricity that buzzes through the air when the holidays arrive, and eggnog, and food, and fun holiday movies, and The Cat In The Hat coming! Yay!
Least favorite: Columbus Day. It's barely a holiday. I drag through school, anticipating stopping at the post office on the way home and picking up the NetFlix stuff... we get there, and- WTF!? It's closed? Damn. No War Of The Roses for me. If the P.O. and the workers get the holiday off, why don't students? Grrrr. And, of course, my arsewipe of an AB teacher (who thinks she's, like, the only person who gives out homework) piled on the homework. Must...go...do...yoga...and...relax...Stress..
..overbearing...must....get....A's....all....work....and....no...play....ow...

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[B]Favorites[/B]

Christmas
Easter (although everyone thinks it's about Bunny Rabbits, it's not.)
Thanksgiving (Yes we actually do something besides eat. We thank God for all this blessings over the past year)
Any bank holiday!!! (I work for a bank, and we get off more holidays than most people do!!!) (example, we had Columbus Day off yesterday, woo hoo!!!)

[B]Those I like the least[/B]

Halloween

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worse, halloween, it pathectic here. don't really like xmas any more , it so comercial, its like you just have to buy stuff and do things because you feel you have to not cause you really want. It gets worse as you get older as well. It becomes something else to think about - and takes up 2 months of the year.

New year is good if you can find a party. But summer holidays are the best.

Stevetothekizzo...the reason for my response is that the responses I saw looked quite self-centered. Any holiday where they get presents is good, but where they have to give is bad. That's why I retorted like that.

However, I can get into the Christmas spirit, especially when snow falls. I generally like Thanksgiving because that is the one time of the year I get to see my relatives. I guess family doesn't mean too much to people, as I have read. New Years...only good if you find a good party, otherwise, I treat it like any other day (just like I did last year).

Least favorite...St. Patrick's Day. More drunks on the roads than any other time of year.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CedarPoint_Mark [/i]
[B]Stevetothekizzo...the reason for my response is that the responses I saw looked quite self-centered. Any holiday where they get presents is good, but where they have to give is bad. That's why I retorted like that. [/B][/QUOTE]

Hey no biggie, it's just that you said something negative about every single holiday. Your right though, presents isn't a reason to like a holiday. Considering your birthday as a holiday is dumb...and self-centered.

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Favorites-

Thanksgiving- The three F's- Family, Food, Football.
Halloween- A good excuse to turn out all the lights, and make people in the next county deaf with some death metal.

Least favorite-

Christmas- This holiday needs to die. All it is is a bunch of crap you have to put up with; the deluge of having to go out and buy gifts, christmas cards, and all of the other crap, and then living in a christian family when you're an athiest yourself makes this quite hellish.

Easter- Not quite as bad. There is one benefit to this one- marshmallow peeps are very easily avaliable. I love those things. However, it is a religious holiday, and living in a christian family makes that really suck.

Bummer leeloo. I always try to help my mom That's no fun for you for sure

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Yay, I'm all better. I hate bad days. Ugh.
Holidays are fun!
But suddenly, WHOOSH! They're done!
On Easter you hunt for eggs in the hot sun!
But the holidays have just begun!
On Fourth of July you see baseball players get a home run!
Then fireworks go off with the crack like a gun!
On Labor Day you eat hamburgers overdone!
At the golf gourse you try and get a hole-in-one!
On Halloween you get candy from everyone!
And eat it all! Call 9-1-1!
Thanksgiving you eat and have fun!
You eat and munch (and gain a ton!)
On Christmas you open presents by pulling the ribbon undone!
Then snuggle in front of the fire with your honeybun!
On New Year's, the year over and done.
But look, here comes another one!

I am the god of rhymes. Whee. I'm ecstatic.

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The good for me, is Christmas. I love Christmas. No school for like two weeks, and you gotta love loads of snowboarding (for me!). Going up with all your friends, sitting by a warm fire and gettin roasty toasty. Then go home and open some presents. Yeah, it's good

The Ugly: VALENTINES DAY. I HATE valentines day. It's the dumbest thing ever. Wow, LOVE someone today! You should love your girlfriend/boyfriend everyday. It's just some stupid market scam to make you run out and get craptastic things for your "Valentine".

It's rediculous.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Raptordude [/i]
[B]
The Ugly: VALENTINES DAY. I HATE valentines day. It's the dumbest thing ever. Wow, LOVE someone today! You should love your girlfriend/boyfriend everyday. It's just some stupid market scam to make you run out and get craptastic things for your "Valentine".

It's rediculous. [/B][/QUOTE]

Well most holidays (at least in the US) have changed meanings completley.

I believe that the original reason to celebrate Valentine's day, was to remember the Priest (St. Valentine) that was killed because he married two lovers, despite the fact he wasn't supposed to.

Halloween - was the day before the Catholic church celebrated "All Saint's Day" where you dressed up as your "favorite desciple/saint/etc." It was called All Hallows Eve.

St. Patrick's Day - was not about getting drunk, again it was a Catholic holiday to celebrate St. Patrick bringing Christianity to Ireland.

Most of our holidays are completley changed. And I hate the fact that retail exploits what used to be sacred (and I don't just mean religiously). I don't celebrate any holidays except for Christmas , as far as buying or decorating. The others are so commercialized (and of course Christmas is too). It's just crazy.

I try now to remember our Veteran's more on days like Memorial day and Veteran's Day. I think of it a lot more since 9/11 and I think that's a good thing (that we not take them for granted)

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OOH man i almost forgot about Valentines day!! The most expensive day ever if you have a g/f.

and CPM, the reasons i don't like Thanksgiving-
-it's stupid, celebrating some pilgrams having supper with indians, when after that we just slaughter most of them to get their land.
-our family always gets mad at each other since my family is very very weird, you wouldn't understand how psycho some of my reletives are
-I don't like turkey
-For some reason, i've lost the taste for pumpkin pie
-I don't really give a crap about football
-I don't get to drink wine
-We almost NEVER get to have it at our house
-parent teacher conferences are during Thanksgiving break
-i always have to cook the green bean cassarole since i'm the only one who can do it right


That's why i don't like Thanksgiving.

And Calvin, if you ever rhyme again, we'll jump you in a dark parking lot and beat you with some blunt instruments.

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RCT LOSER...Christmas needs to go back a few thousand years before stores and commercialization. That, Easter and Thanksgiving is about Family.

Wow, Lance...Thanksgiving is about Football. Of all the people at Thanksgiving dinner last year, I'd say 3 really gave a **** about the games on. We are too busy catching up with the rest of the family since we see each other once or twice a year. Sometimes it has become the LAST time a lot of us see one another. I don't know if my sister will be home this year. She's only in Jersey, short flight away, but who knows if she'll be able to get a ticket. Thanksgiving the last few years in our family is the last time we saw relatives in good health. We have had far too many funerals in the last few years. I'm sick of crying (and I don't cry unless soemthing REALLY bothers me) every year. I'd like to be able to see the same family year after year because Thanksgiving IS the ONLY time I get to see everyone.

I guess seperation is needed in most lives here in order to see why Holidays are so important. leeLoo...I can understand where you are coming from though I am so "young". My own immedaite family is going like that. You never know when family will reunite though, I'm thankful my family is all close, location-wise.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CedarPoint_Mark [/i]
[B]RCT LOSER...Christmas needs to go back a few thousand years before stores and commercialization. [/B][/QUOTE]

Well commercialization has been around for at least that long though I've been to Israel (in 1998) and I bet it was the same back 2000 years ago. The marketplace was probably as bad as our local malls back then (just not for Christmas, just in general).

But I do agree that I wish that the retail market wouldn't hype up the holidays. They try to make us feel guilty because they tell us that they make up the biggest amount of sales in that portion of the year. Is that my problem? I don't think so. If they can't survive the rest of the year (like Wal-Mart, Target) then get into another type of business!

Even if people don't believe in the meanings behind the holidays, and would just go back to being close to their families/friends I would be happy. Family is one of the most important things in this world, but our society has been trashing it and trying to throw it away for years. I just wish we would get back to the basics. I thought after 9/11 people would have changed, although they did for a short period. But it seems that we've slid back to the way things were before.

Sorry for going on forever Just got on my soapbox. lol

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Face it, Christmas just isnt about the holiday anymore. Its about getting stuff....I didnt even know that Christmas was jesus' birthday (if you believe that stuff) until I was 15. But I celebrate getting stuff...one thing, can someone explain to me how jesus and the easter bunny are linked?

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Jesus and the Easter bunny are not linked.

Bunnies and spring type stuff some how got associated with Easter for some reason. It's the "secular" version of Easter. Kind of like you have Santa Claus at Christmas. It really doesn't have anything to do with the religious/Christian view of the holiday.

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