Happy Thanksgiving?

[Undecided]

Is it all that happy? Do you have those all too hated family reunions? Its Thanksgiving here in Canada tommorow, and just wondering how's your take on this halmark holiday?

P.S does anyone remember that SNL song about the "Turkey Genocide"? OMG that the funniest shit I heard in a long while.

[Athelwulf]

Well, happy Thanksgiving, Undecided. I'm a lame American who has his Thanksgiving Day on the 18th of November.

I don't have family reunions at Thanksgiving. It's just me and my mom. Well, I live in a relatively small town in southern Oregon. The only family I have here is a grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-aunt. My dad, sister, and brother are in Anchorage. A couple uncles live in Kenai and Soldatna. In Portland live an aunt, an uncle, and a grandmother. Across the river, in Vancouver, lives my other grandmother. In Gresham live two aunts. In Sandy lives another aunt. And that's pretty much all the family I'm in regular contact with.

I don't know, maybe this is better . . . Though I don't get to see my sister and brother (I miss them so much!), I guess I wouldn't wanna hafta deal with my other family . . . except my grandpa, cuz he's the koolest.

Well, Undecided, I hope yer Thanksgiving doesn't bite.

[one_raven]

I wrote this before Thankgiving 2001.
It pretty much sums up how I feel...

Terrorists are horrible bad people.
All Terrorists should be eradicated, the people who support them should be punished, those who profit from their atrocities should suffer.
Really.
Think about it.
Let's look at the facts:

Terrorists invade lands that do not belong to them.
They storm the shores and cross the borders of other people's countries.
They often come in the guise of friendship, shake your hand calling you "friend" while thrusting a dull blade into your back.
They attempt to topple your government, change the way you do things, trample on your value system & beliefs and control your land and your people.
They have no respect for the way you and your people govern themselves and want to force you to conform to their way of thinking.
They kill, rape and maim those who do not succumb to their pressure.
The surviving discontents are oppressed, stifled, imprisoned and banished.
They silence all those who would speak out against the atrocious injustices they have performed.
Their goal is total assimilation.
Their weapon is brutality.
Their ammunition is greed and ignorance.
Their respect is non-existant.
They have no sense of dignity.
They have no understanding of tolerance.
They steal into our homes under the darkness and quiet of night to ambush us.
They threaten our way of life.
They want to completely abolish our religious views.
They are bent on conquering people, governments, land and property.
They will stop at nothing, including genocide.

They need to pay for their sins and transgressions, don't you agree?
Americans need to stop Terrorists.
There is NO ROOM for forgiveness.

Oh.
By the way.
Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away.
Did you buy your celebratory Turkey yet?

[A Canadian]

We speak of CANADIAN thanksgiving you fool

[one_raven]

And I was replying to Athelwulf you fool.

[Athelwulf]

We have not bought our celebratory turkey yet . . . if that was a question to me and not a line in yer little writing thingy, cuz I notice "turkey" is capitalized.

[one_raven]

It was both, I guess.
A question to whoever reads it.

[Athelwulf]

And does yer little writing thingy contain irony, cuz I couldn't help thinking that maybe the US government does that too.

[one_raven]

Yeah.
That was the point of it.
The US Government has a long history of doing it.

[Athelwulf]

"Aha!" exclaims Âðelwulf, triumphantly.

[one_raven]

It's about the hipocricy of celebrating Thanksgiving while decrying the evils of Terrorists.
Next to the Roman Catholic Church, the US Government is perhaps the most "successful" terrorist organization in recent (500 years or so) history.

[Athelwulf]

Ye'r very insightful.

[Dreamwalker]

Ha, no thanksgiving celebrated in Germany, so I do not have a problem with it.

[Closet Philosopher]

I'm glad that i don't mind my family. My cousins came here from Ottawa and we all had dinner at my aunt's house. We had good food and enjoyable discussion. My family is going to our friends' house tonight.

THanksgiving is a time for gathering. It's unfortunate that many people hate their families. My family always manages to have a good time together. We also climbed the mountain in front of my house. http://www.sciforums.com/showthread....649#post644649

[cosmictraveler]

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[vslayer]

thats such a stupid american tradition, but on another hand, i say we move guy fawkes day to sept 11. that way we wont be mocking a failed attempt to blow up british parliament. we will be celebrating al-qaeda giving those yanks what they deserve

[TruthSeeker]

My family is more then 11,000 miles away.

I got a good friend that I even call "Gramdpa" and we had dinner, but still....

It kinda suck, cause I'm always trying to solve my problems and live my life and I'm always confronted with stupid futile work, specially school work. I hate college. I'm forbidden to think by myself, here...

[certified psycho]

I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but the only good thing that came out of Thanksgiving was 4 days of from school.

[Athelwulf]

Ya know what . . . I hate my dad's side of the family, except one of my aunts, another aunt's wife (not a typo), my siblings, and my grandpa. Isn't that sad? I would gladly have any Thanksgiving dinner without some of the people from my dad's side of the family.