I hope everyone here on assembler has a fine thanksgiving. To meet the purpose of thanksgiving tell us something your grateful/thankful for! Enjoy~
Eventhough here in Uruguay we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I wish all of you a great day with your families or whoever makes you happy! I am grateful for the perspective I gained on life, for having found love in the most unexpected person and for being able to laugh at myself for mistakes I've made in the past.
im grateful for all the dead and impoverished native americans, without whose suffering i wouldnt be able to maintain such a nice standard of living.
i wouldnt know about that. is the u.s.a. a great nation? sure why not. but that cant really be a statement of its moral standing, only an indication of its size and power. reminding yourself of reality once in awhile cant be a villification can it? i love the u.s. and the thanksgiving tradition. i mean i like eating turkey, clean water, and ice in my soda...but theres no reason to keep up the shared delusion that the u.s. is a 'good' nation. that thanksgiving is about being thankfull, that the pilgrams had a feast with the indians and everything was peachy. thanksgiving is about stuffing your face, spending time with family, drinking beer and watching football...no one honestly gives a shit about the rest of it. the mythology that surrounds thanksgiving is patently offensive to anyone with empathy and a fundamental understanding of u.s. history. we really dont need to marginalize genocide and slavery everytime we want to celebrate something. we should have renamed removed and replaced the holiday with something else a long time ago. i dont know how to make this simple enough for you to understand... if the germans had created a holiday on giving thanks about how the schutzstaffel had a large feast with jews on the onset of the holocaust...im sure you would understand some might ruffle at the thought. sorry for the rant, but the constant barrage of god, thanks, and bullshit this time of year makes me cranky.
If you ask me, the whole concept of GOOD NATION is BS. Countries are like people, in most cases it's really hard to point out whether a person is 100% good. Perfection as well as perfect kindness is an impossible concept. Great in theory, inexistent in practice.
haters gonna hate. ANYWAYS, I am thankful for my aunt and uncle. They're letting me live with them here in California. I was able to escape Washington and move on from my family situation. They have blessed me so much!
So? Mine's also "Day of the Headache". (Funny thing is, it actually reminds people of my bday when they hear about DotH on TV :033 Happy Thanksbirthgivingday.
Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for the things I have that I love most in life, and I try to share them as often as I can with as many people as possible.
Its more of a holiday of being thanksful in my house. Rather then having a bad connotation to it, why not reflect on what you have and can be grateful for. Not the negatives of "our country" or killing natives. :c
There's nothing like Thanksgiving here and nothing that would replace it at some other date. All it means to me are certain episodes on cartoons that feature it and how all the Thanksgiving turkeys suddenly became "christmas gooses" in the Duck comics. What a perverted mind must have created those comics... if you consider that Gladstone Gander and Gus Goose were actually looking forward to a Christmas goose. Yummy...
I'm thankful for my family, despite being...not balanced - they've done a lot for me and believe in me. I'm thankful for my friends, for being there when I need'em. And for my fiance, who despite all my flaws, and quirks - loves me.
Unfortunately we don't have Thanksgiving in the Scotland - we don't like being happy over here! But we do have Hogmanay. It's just a reason to get absolutely pished the day before New Year. Therefore - I'm thankful to Mr Smirnoff :thumbsup:
Two words: "Turkey Tacos!" Most amazing item you can have for a Thanksgiving dinner. Things were quite a bit smaller this year since everyone in the family has disowned my father's mother and her husband (which is really upsetting my great grandmother), but overall I had a good time, and I hope everyone else did too!
