wispfox

In Australia, I used to get Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off for Easter.

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Wow. That's just... strange.

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Christians of my acquaintance there would often refer to Easter as being far more important than Christmas to them. I have not heard the same said here so much. Interesting.

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...and more places are shut on Good Friday than on Christmas day!

reminds self to remember this

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Well, _logically_, Easter should be more important. Birth vs. surviving death. Silly people...

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Huh! Wow.

Interestingly, I think there are more places shut in the US on Thanksgiving than any other holiday.

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Maybe it's the stronger influence of Mary worship here. She has little to do with Easter and everything to do with Christmas.

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Hmm. We don't do Thanksgiving!

Easter can be quite a drag as it's necessary to remember to stock up for a Friday and then a Monday (at least), and the banks are shut for like, *ages*. With ATMs there's less of a prob, of course.

The traffic is truly horrible!

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We don't do Thanksgiving!

I think I knew that! :)

It does, however, still seem strange to me that there is basically nothing open here on that day (and must confuse non-USians completely).

Easter can be quite a drag as it's necessary to remember to stock up for a Friday and then a Monday (at least), and the banks are shut for like, *ages*.

Huh! Yeah, I don't think there are _any_ federal holidays that last multiple days (well, unless you count weekends) here.

(also. Why the hell are you awake? :)

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Mmm. Maybe, but I thought it was just the Catholics who were more Mary-centric...

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There's an awful lot of them in NY and Boston and LA...

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Oh. :)

(I'm a recovering Roman Catholic, myself. ;)

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dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com

I was raised by atheist parents who make only the most casual of popular-culture swipes at Easter, and didn't discover Holy Week until I started playing at church services in high school, so I stared at your entry for a good thirty seconds before figuring out why! *amused*

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Heh! See, I was raised Roman Catholic, and I'm _not_ the one who figured out why Friday was a work holiday.

But then, I'm horrible with calendar dates. :)

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echospiralheart.livejournal.com

I'm with dancing wolf girl ... I stared at your post trying to figure out why?

got my clue by four. :)

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*grins* I didn't know, either. Don't feel too bad about it. ;)

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echospiralheart.livejournal.com

My brain has been fried this past weekend. I don't feel too bad about not knowing ... but it is good to be reminded because that means next gaming is at our place. Hooray! I don't have to be out of the house all day. :)

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The US is famous for having hardly any annual leave and few federal holidays!

Other Westerners are probably not confused by anything Murrican, you're ubiquitous, though we may be nonplussed.

(also. Why the hell are you awake? :)

Lonely night owl's internal clock thinks it's an hour earlier ;-)

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The US is famous for having hardly any annual leave and few federal holidays!

I _know_! It makes it difficult to travel very far, too - which probably contributes to the US-centrism rampant throughout the US.

Other Westerners are probably not confused by anything Murrican, you're ubiquitous, though we may be nonplussed.

'Murrican'?

And yes, nonplussed is a better word than confused. :)

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"Murrican" coz y'all seem to be missing a number of vowels!

And even though we have four weeks leave here, they've six in continental Western Europe. One does not observe them in droves outside the West, though.

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"Murrican" coz y'all seem to be missing a number of vowels!

Aaaaah... See, the word 'American', even though I sometimes use it, annoys me. Because we're _not_ the only country in North American, and certainly not the only one in the Americas.

And even though we have four weeks leave here, they've six in continental Western Europe. One does not observe them in droves outside the West, though.

Hmm. Yeah, that's a point. And the US is big enough that, even if we _did_ have more vacation, people would likely still not leave the country much. But then, traveling at _all_ would be good. I know too many people who've never left their home state.

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Aaaaah... See, the word 'American', even though I sometimes use it, annoys me.

Ah shoot, I've aggravated you in a gauche attempt at fun.

Sorry.

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Ah shoot, I've aggravated you in a gauche attempt at fun.

Heh, no. I annoyed myself, if anything, and it was brief.

No worries. :)

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Cool!

I guess you could wrench out, rip, crush and mulch a weed resembling me if necessary.

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*laughs* If I _ever_ saw a weed resembling a person, I might have to be worried. :)

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Okay, now I'm worried. People seem like weeds to me, fairly often, especially noisy SWM on the TV. And so on!

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Now, I'm curious. How do people seem like weeds? Looks? Behavior? Something else entirely?

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I react viscerally to them* the way I do to blackberries snaking their spiked tendrils out of the camelias, dandelions infesting my pot plants (if I let them), and scotch thistles that grab at my trousers up the back.

Get rid of them!!!

It's good that I'm not a god controlling a delete button.

*slimy politicians, sleazy suits and so on

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Ah... it's your reaction to them, and not so much them actually seeming like them. That confuses me much less. :)

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Well, yeah. To me, my reactions are distinct from Out There.

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*blinks* Yes...

That's not my confusion.

I was having trouble determining what was causing the seeming like reaction - if it was actually a physical attribute thing (ie, visual appearance, movement types, etc), or if it was because of an 'ick' reaction. The former idea confused me. :)

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