I bet Nuklear Man could woop Goku's ass.....

I'd just like to point out the cultural superiority of your country. You have vodka in glass skulls, we have whisky in glass shoes. Sigh.

Being mostly German, I look forward to the day when I take a trip there, spend my entire time drinking from shoes, and being a stereotypical American tourist. Month after that I'll hit up the ol' Emerald Isle and then Mexico.

And its not funny to make fun of what people drink cause it ain't easy for some people to get drinks, not that I know what thats like. Except for wine coolers though, there's no excuse for drinking those.

You can take your pick from the aforementioned whisky shoe and, slightly more traditional, the Stiefel.

Just so this thread isn't entirely about drinking let's hear what your country does with Thanksgiving. Germany doesn't have it. Or much rather, we do, but it's a lot more traditional-minded and especially low-profile than I understand American Thanksgiving is. In fact I had to look it up on Wikipedia to get any details. Pretty much it's a Sunday in late September or early October where there's a special service at the church and that's it. No big family get-togethers or consumption of large roasted fowl is involved (your mileage may vary and other input is welcome, my family was never all that big on holidays so it's entirely possible everyone here eats a big stuffed ostrich for Thanksgiving and I just always missed out).

God bless you crazy Germans! What other country country would have the balls to create, let alone use, the stiefel?

I think our Thanksgiving is the celebration of us making peace with the Native Americans and embarking on a rich history of peace and cooperation. And that honestly worked out well for everyone involved and didn't leave anyone feeling repressed or with a bad taste in their mouth. No sirey, not in America!

DAS BOOOOOOOT!
Lately Thanksgiving in America (or at least my neck of the woods) has become a three way split between traditionally celebrating Thanksgiving, trying to get people to buy stuff the day after Thanksgiving, and reminding everyone that Thanksgiving was the day we came to America and killed everyone, claiming it to be ours.

That's the worst thing about Thanksgiving, excluding my mother's yams. Why do we have to feel shame for something that happened so long ago? My ancestors weren't settlers! The Irish side came across the ocean with the other immigrants, Germans showed up before and/or during WWII, not sure about the Mexican side but I'm willing to bet that they didn't give Indians small pox.

I shouldn't feel ashamed when I didn't do anything but they always get me.

Well really I just prefer to hate on Columbus day, because it's mostly all the trouble without forgoing any kind of traditions, and Colombus wasn't the greatest of people anyway.

Plus we aren't even really celebrating 'Killed Injans Day', which is why lots of people have dubbed it 'Turkey Day.' Sort of how some atheists and the devout anti-religious dubbed Christmas "Winter Solstice," a sentiment I can't really find any fault with.

Though I'm wondering if there's going to be much life left in the Thanksgiving day thread in November...

No thanksgiving day anywhere I'm from. We don't have a day for giving thanks but do have the race-relations history day being "Waitangi Day" to celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi between the natives and the British which is a day of huge Maori protests and marches usually.
By historical standards they were treated very very well as the British trialled a new system of trying to cooperative with the natives and they get comparatively large reparations from the goverment nowadays. Still feel slighted, though, and our national day is when a convienient time to air it.
Everyone else pretty much just goes to the beach and has a bbq.

As a descendant of the Choctaw Nation, I forgive you for stealing my land and raping our women and breaking the spirit of my people. Now where is my minority scholarship!? (If you aren't part of a tribe, you don't get a scholarship. Which is hard cause they moved to Oklahoma. I descend from the group who chose to Westernize instead of being forced off.)