True. I've find the Easter Bunny in the wild, last spring .
Best free chocolate ever.
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True. I've find the Easter Bunny in the wild, last spring .
Best free chocolate ever.
If green you can actually eat them as a survival tactic.
They are all dumb made up holidays to make you spend money you don’t have to buy shit you don’t need for people you hate in the name of equally dumb and made up traditions that people keep following because they are sheep and don’t question anything. It was never about family or love or whatever argument the rich use these days to convince you to give them your hard earned money so they can buy the 10th yacht of the week.
It's legit. I get depression and chest pain every Valentine's Day.
I mean the astrological holidays are just kinda there
Everybody celebrates the trisolar syzygy, whether they want to or not.
My grandpa used to break up with my grandma to avoid having to buy gifts for her, then get back together after lol
You sure he was actually your grandpa? Cause if I go back nine months from your parent's birthday...
Smart guy.
Everyone should get a day off just to eat chocolate and fuck.
During summer festivals couples used to go to search for a mythical fern flower, that was only flowering during the summer solstice. Of course they went searching at night. If you found one, it was supposed to make you rich and successful. So in reality, it was just an excuse for couples / young people to go into the woods and fuck all night.
The celebrations also included: bathing, dancing, decorating with flowers, lighting fires, jumping through the fire and chasing away witches. People also got married. Sometimes they plowed the village roads, so a dude could find a "match" (i.e. get to plow someone else). They'd also figuratively roast people for being dicks / immoral.
Sounds like a good time!
I got to fuck chocolate and eat.
Naturally occurring holidays like the equinoxes and solstices?
And in temperate climates, the first day of spring and Harvest feasts, marked in different cultures in different natural ways.
The first day of spring is the equinox.
Au contraire, nature is quite ignorant of the astronomical equinox.
For nature, things like the Cherry blossoms, the blooming of the magnolia tree and the awakening of the Bumble bee are the ways nature indicates when Spring has started.
Harvest season and autumn are more typically defined by brown leaves, ripe pumpkins and ripe cider apples.
The first day of the naturally occuring spring, occuring naturally at a set number of days after the solstice.
You can recognize it from the skybox changing color.
: looks out the window in the upper Midwest:
Darn. My version must be glitched.
You have a divide by cucumber error. Reinstall your universe and exerting should sort itself out.
No, I just don't like holidays that are being abused by companies to make a buck. That goes for Christmas as well.
The Summer Holidays don't have that issue.
Easy as is.
Also, Valentine's Day is not even a holiday, idiot 😂
What holiday isn't abused by capitalism?
Mayday!
Worker climbs to the top of the may pole and yells, "I'm going down!"
I do call all holidays dumb but I'll still use it as an excuse to take a day off or do something. I teach at an all girls university and they are 100% on board having Friday off in the name of Valentine's Day. Lol
(Oh and before you say "everyone would say yes to that" you haven't met the kids who take college seriously)
The solstices would like a word.
Lunar New Year too.
Happy Ishtar !
I mean happy Easter not the pagan orgy holiday represented by eggs and rabbits etc that we all participate in for some reason
February 14th is my birthday so of course I hate Valentine's Day, I can't hang out with my friends 'cause they're hanging with their girlfriends, and if I'm in a relationship I have to go buy flowers and stuff the day of my birthday instead of just chilling and playing videogames which I honestly prefer. And don't get me started on people assuming I like everything heart shaped and stuff...
If these two events were a separate thing I'd probably be OK with Valentine's Day TBH.
I just decided your birthday is June 5, if you want to use it
I refer to it as Singles Awareness Day. For the obvious reason.
Too late, Corporate China reserved November 11 (because it's all 1s) for that, and western corporations are starting to follow it too.
Back in college it used to be "go to the Olive Garden alone and make the waitress uncomfortable" day.
Ah, the ol' 'Just how endless are the salad and bread https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/are-olive-garden-breadsticks-really-unlimited?' trick .
To be fair, I find all of them equally stupid. Only ones I like are those that give a free day at work, and only for that reason.
What if they come with blowing shit up? (we Statesians love our holidays)
Heh yea same, I don't really care if it's Leif Erikson Day or Give Mr. Krabs All Your Money Day, I just need to know if it's a day off or not LMAO
Though some are fun, like Valentine's Day often serves as a perfect excuse to have a date night with my SO (though we often tend to actually do it a couple days after or before to avoid everyone else doing Valentine's Day date nights lolol (unless there's a good deal ofc))
Here we see the spawning grounds of the Pagan holidays, where a young holiday is learning to walk. But wait, in comes it's natural predator the Christian holiday. The Holiday struggles for a bit, but it is in vain...
Made up CORPORATE holiday, just like Sweetest Day. We don't even get it off!
You don't need a day to tell that special someone how you feel, just do it!
I love you, @fartswithanaccent, ever since I saw you call out Sweetest Day
Aw shucks lol
What do you mean, it's right there in the wild.