4Hayden Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Hope you all have a great holiday season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Yes, wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving... Enjoy being with friends and family, every minute of it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riptide Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! :) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A special one, to our troops, away from home, family, and friends! God Bless You, and God Bless America! And, the rest of the Free World! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you living in the USA. I heard in the radio that the winter came to the USA as well as it did here. So I wish you to have a safe journey through the rain and snow, and to be back again healthy and in good order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemarie Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Everyone drive safe! I have to drive from Chicago to Detroit through some nasty lake-effect snow off Lake Michigan and I know the east coast is having some nasty weather as well. Have a safe and happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 yes indeed, happy thanksgiving to all the USA forum members. Love this time of year,, don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Never been sure about this.... What are you giving thanks for? What ever it is, I hope you have a good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Never been sure about this.... What are you giving thanks for? What ever it is, I hope you have a good one! We are giving thanks for finally being out from beneath the YOKE OF TYRANNY that we SUFFERED at the hands of THE BRITISH and their ABOMINABLE TAXES and their SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE and their BAD HAMBURGERS and their LIFT instead of ELEVATOR and their insistence that they DRIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD. Happy Thanksgiving to all here, and an early Happy Boxing Day to you! rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving too everyone. Stay reasonably safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 We are giving thanks for finally being out from beneath the YOKE OF TYRANNY that we SUFFERED at the hands of THE BRITISH and their ABOMINABLE TAXES and their SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE and their BAD HAMBURGERS and their LIFT instead of ELEVATOR and their insistence that they DRIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD. Happy Thanksgiving to all here, and an early Happy Boxing Day to you! rct Whoa there Leslie! I decided to Google it before your answer and saw that is what we call harvest festival.I know how you like to poke fun at us Brits though RTC. It's OK, we can take it... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Never been sure about this.... What are you giving thanks for? What ever it is, I hope you have a good one! I try to take a few minutes to reflect on all the good things that have happened over the last year. It's all too easy to get caught up in the day-to-day drama that accompanies our everyday lives, so it's nice to have a chance to take a different perspective and look at the positives :D. Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and Happy Hannuka to those who celebrate The Festival of Lights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Whoa there Leslie! I decided to Google it before your answer and saw that is what we call harvest festival.I know how you like to poke fun at us Brits though RTC. It's OK, we can take it... :P I don't recall ever hearing of harveset festival. When is that? Do you have Boxing Day, 26th of December? Or do I miss remember that? rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I don't recall ever hearing of harveset festival. When is that? Do you have Boxing Day, 26th of December? Or do I miss remember that? rct mis remember. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 mis remember. rct mis-remember. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 mis-remember. rct not correctly remember. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 My second Lol of the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Recollect erroneously. Happy Thaksgiving (to all those so inclined from someone else who doesn't understand your quaint Colonial ways)! P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I don't recall ever hearing of harveset festival. When is that? Do you have Boxing Day, 26th of December? Or do I miss remember that? rct mis remember. rct mis-remember. rct not correctly remember. rct We do have boxing day, yes. Harvest festival is just a giving of thanks for the harvest. Not being religious I don't celebrate it. It's less about a big roast dinner and more about a morning in church. We also give food for those worse off. Being that Christianity is far less prevolent over here most people remember harvest festival as something we did at school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammin' Joe Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving and be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Farns essentially is correct on "Thanksgiving," a holiday begun almost certainly in New England prior to 1700 one way or another. Our Canadian neighbors have a similar observance albeit on a different day. But the thing is, my concern is that Thanksgiving today in the US is so much a matter of a startup for Christmas sales, and that especially in more urban areas food is seen as simply appearing from nowhere on supermarket shelves, that the realities of "harvest" are lost in the shuffle. Today we as a culture tend to be increasingly urban and our connection to agriculture long lost. It's to me part of the mind set of a blast-off of Christmas sales in stores, etc. Even U.S. politics reflects this with a strange concept of a "right" to food for everyone, all sorts of food in all seasons and regardless of the realities that farmers and ranchers encounter daily. Whether one is "religious" or not, the near-miracle of food production for our ever-increasing populations is increasingly ignored. Personally I figure there's going to be a wake-up at some point, but it'll end up being "political" in solution as opposed to recognition of reality that we are fed everywhere by those to tend to the earth and are always dependent also on weather and other factors beyond their direct control. So... for Americans, think of those who grew your food, those who harvested it, those who ensured the logistics of bringing it to the stores and then those who ensure the stores have it in quantity, quality and at a price reasonable given the overall economy. You Brits may indeed have yet more reason to consider such factors regardless that the holiday itself isn't observed there. Who grows your food, transports it, etc. The lesson of WWI and WWII and food shortages seems to have been forgotten not only on that sceptred isle, but by those in all our nations where large population concentrations bring increasing separation from the facts of food production and the hands that feed us. Farns... note I didn't make any mention of "religion." m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 You didn't. I'm intrigued by the specific pointing out of that. Is it because I have completely misunderstood and it isn't a religious holiday/festival or was that something you consciously avoided? I was simply trying to clarify that while we have our equivalent, most people (unless they have kids at school), are not even conscious of it while thanks giving, on your side of the pond, seems to be a big deal. Nothing more. I certainly meant no offence and hope non of my esteemed American friends are offended by my apparent faux pas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 No way, no fo pa at all. Thanksgiving, nothing more than the settlers that lived through a pretty bad boat ride, sitting down with the representatives of the new nation that the settlers had found, and contributing what each could to a meal. Not particularly religious, more "American" than anything else. And then, like good Americans, we stole all of their resources and killed their womens and chillens. The end. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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