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.
Naturally occurring holidays like the equinoxes and solstices?
Get out of here with your science!
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.
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.
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.
In the civilised world, it's not called a holiday unless you get a day off work
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.
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
Where in the world is Valentine’s Day a holiday?
What do you mean?
Holiday implies a public holiday, as in people get the day off from work and school. Otherwise I wouldn’t call it a holiday.
Woildn't the fact that the phrase "public holiday" is widely used imply the exact opposite of what you said?
What does holiday mean if not to take a break?
Okay, I looked this up. It’s mostly used in Australia and UK to mean a day off from work. In America you use it to mean celebration.
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.
Yeah but that's also why nobody likes you so you've got to decide if this is really a hill worth dying on. Ya Scrooge
What do you mean, it's right there in the wild.
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