Yeah, I’m known to use alphabets. More than one, even.
私は変質者ではありません！
Stop hexing me…stoppppppp!
UK Bank Holidays always perplexed me. I remember listening to Radio One on the internet, and they’d go on and on about the upcoming bank holiday. It’s such a generic term, and even googling it didn’t yield me much. Ok, there was a bank holiday that day, but why? My google-fu was weak, but still, it’s 15 years later now, and the internet now has more answers for me, but not a satisfying one, alas.
It’s a holiday when government institutions and banks have to close. What more is there?
They should at least make up some tradition to go with it. Like decorating a little Bank Holiday tree.
That’s not an alphabet though, it’s a syllabary.
Nothing more to it, which is strange, IMO. In the U.S., there’s a reason for every federal holiday. There’s no such holiday where they just shut down for the day, just because.
Edit:
Holidays for Federal Employees
New Year’s Day (January 1).
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Third Monday in January).
Washington’s Birthday (Third Monday in February).
Memorial Day (Last Monday in May).
Independence Day (July 4).
Labor Day (First Monday in September).
Columbus Day (Second Monday in October).
Veterans Day (November 11).
Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November).
Christmas Day (December 25).
Exactly
“Early May Bank Holiday”? What the fuck is that shit. Y’know what? Today is National Tourism Day. Everyone take the day off and go visit somewhere cool! Okay, almost holiday territory.
Now, in order to go there, you’ll need to buy an expensive Tourist Tchotchke and also for some reason you have to go on the trip with only the family members you really try to avoid discussing politics with.
There. Now it’s a fucking holiday.
Alphabets are cool and all, but can someone let me know when I will be lured into free sex and/or drug parties? That might convince me to worship the dark one or maybe even listen to the Heavy Metal.
I can’t help you there, pal. I’ve never been invited to one myself.
My favorite public holidays around here are Knabenschiessen (the day of a shooting competition for kids at the nearby mountain, with Swiss Army rifles) and Sechseläuten (apparently the day of year that the guilds moved from winter to summer working hours in the medieval times).
It’s a good thing we have public holidays with a reason behind them, rather than just something totally arbitrary!
Actually that does sound great. Even weird historical reasons are more fun. I like @ArmandoPenblade’s idea for a holiday too.
The general rule in the UK is you never ask “why?” you are getting a day off work. :)
Gawd, look at that list of resource groups. Parents Music Resource Center was the organization that tried to censor music back in the '80s. Remember those parental advisory labels? Yeah, fuck that.
Imagine how that group in the 80’s would have been with modern rap and hip hop. :)
Eh, pretty tame stuff. ;)
PMRC were still active in the early 90s during Cannibal Corpse’s heyday. In particular their third album Tomb of the Mutilated (1992) caused a bit of a furor, and in the late 90s all their albums up until that point were banned here for about 10 years.
Let us not forget the glory of 2 Live Crew
Does the name Tipper Gore ring a bell? She did for NWA what the Legion Of Decency did for Jane Russell. Make them super rich and popular.
Well it should be May Day like everywhere else in Europe, except that would be too socialist for our lords and masters.
There’s a semi-official reason for pretty much all of them except the one in August, which is just there because there’s nothing else until Christmas. Also the dates get messed up by the fact that bank holidays always have to be on a Monday (except boxing day, because that’s the second in a row)
IIRC the U.S. had some bank holidays in the beginning the Great Depression to halt bank runs. So, yeah, a bad thing here.