I Give Thanks That None Of You Guys Are At My Thanksgiving Table
 

Otherwise half of us would be passed out from the liquor, the other half would devolve into petty squabbles - "Cloud could totally whoop Goku's ass!" - but we would all go home fat.

So since I work early Monday, the parents have decided to get me back home and have an early Thanksgiving tonight. I get to meet my sisters new boyfriend - oh boy - and generally drink a whole lot before tomorrow. So is anyone else enjoying turkey a day early? Or is America waiting for another month or so?

Where do you live again?

Mo' like drink two shots of shitty vodka and go all OHEMGEE GUYS IM SOOOOOOOO WASTED.

...Did I wake up in the wrong month?

Seil is from the magical and incredibly cold land of Canada, where the people are so thankful they can't wait for the real day to roll around and always celebrate early. :p

Seil, do you have a thing against people who post here drunk or something? That's mean.

Also, yeah, USA Thanksgiving is delayed for next month, as it always is, given that it's a November holiday.

Man I don't know about Seil but I totally got a thing against alla y'all who post here "drunk" and the thing I got against y'all is that you are so very very bad at it.

Yeah I was drunk last night and decided against posting here for the fact that I feel like I would be fairly bad at it.

Why don't you show us how its done then?

Oh and Canada Thanksgiving kickass! Mainly because it is usually around my birthday time so I get turkey for my birthday :D

Oh and Goku would completely destroy Cloud.

Arguing Goku would destroy Cloud is like arguing God could destroy an ant. Goku is so ridiculously overpowered that he really should be banned from versus discussions. His entire function is to constantly grow in power by a magnitude of whatever he fights, and given that he's fought and won against enemies who can destroy planets with a point of a finger, methinks putting him against anything outside of his own series fails to offer a fair balance.

I'm glad I have an aussie at my table. Shenanigans are ensuing. That is all.

Perhaps Goku could fairly fight Simon in Gurran Lagann, but few other characters have found a loophole they can exploit as thoroughly as "beatdowns make me stronger the harder they are (Saiyan blood), and I can heal completely from anything (Sensu bean) and even come back to life. Though, "the universe runs on manliness, hot blood, and doing everything as hard as possible ignoring the possibility that that may not actually be possible" might compete.

I don't do "OMG, I'm so drunk" posts because they're annoying. Sorry to disappoint you.

The issue is if Goku dies and is brought back, he's then automatically stronger by a magnitude of whatever configuration they used against him, which is pretty cheap, indeed.

Yah. He should be doomed to be locked in a struggle against Chuck Norris for all of eternity. Get both of them out of our hair.

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And nooow I will hit myself over the head with a hammer for saying "hair" in this context.

Hel, you should kick your own ass over bringing up he-who-shall-not-be-named.

Man, you know Phil has never posted sober, right? At least not for like a year.

We make an exception to the general awfulness of drunk posts for Phil.

Also: Seil, it's not even Halloween yet, what the hell is wrong with you canucks and your holidays?

My mom called everyone up a few days ago and decided to have thanksgiving on Sunday(4 minutes from now), the one day where everyone is free... Except me.

Yay..

The statement stands.

We figured having thanksgiving 2 and a half months before christmas would help keep the corporate claws from turning the festivities into who can sell their shit cheaper.

you lucky People whom live north of the land of 10000 lakes. you've found a loophole now if only here it didn't cost 7$ for a can of soda...

Hey when I'm drunk I'm exactly the same, I just can't spell for shit.

On the bright side I don't go making topics in said state.

Yeah, good luck. Halloween isn't here and already the Christmas stuff is getting room made for it.

Before long, we will celebrate New Years, then go Christmas shopping. Nevermind, I forgot we already do that

Holy fuck, it's October already!?

Yeah I saw that too, but the good thing is there are no real thanksgiving day sales. Was really funny to see christmas stuff right no top of Halloween stuff. Some even decorated a tree at the store with Halloween items.


Also wight, were the hell would you be going to pay $7 dollars for a soda? I've never paid more then $2 for a 2L bottle in my life.

Absolut isn't thaaaaat shitty. :(

It's a "I'm a 16 year old boy and this is all I could get my brother to buy for me" level of shitty.

Agreed. If you're going to drink Vodka there's a much superior way to do it.

http://www.crystalskulls.com/images-.../0609--016.jpg

Thank you Brian. I'd have never known the joys of this stuff if you hadn't brought it to my attention.

It looks as though my local liquor store does not sell this wonderful looking skull vodka.

To be perfectly accurate though, Absolut is a "this one gave me the most bonus Air Miles at time of purchase" level of shitty.

Were you drinking in an airport? Cause anything is classy if you drink it in the airport and with oil sheiks.
Stupid Brunei and its no alcohol airports :(

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.)

IIRC it's more that Christians dubbed the pre-existing Winter Solstice "Christmas".

...and then moved the "new year" to a week later on the ass-end of winter, which just makes no fucking sense.

Maybe that last one wasn't the Christians, someone else could've come up with that.

Fun fact, they did that the year George Washington was born. Scholars still apparently debate his actual "birth year."

George Washington was born in 1582?
The calender was actually proposed in 1582, accepted in 1583 it just took a long while for Britain to change it.
And we know when he was born, there are just two ways to record it- one is how they recorded it at the time (Old style) or one where it is adjusted (New Style). This puts the date in different "years" but we know the moment in time when he was born, just it a matter of labelling it.

Yup. He was actually a cyborg created by the Illuminati to found America, so they could use it's wealth to fund the LHC and open a portal to Hell, but they were thwarted when John Wilkes Booth murdered Washington v.2, and it was only recently that they had the technology to launch a missile at the moon, knocking it out of orbit so it will tear a hole in the Van Allen belt so the demons can come through that. This is also how we know the moon landing is a fake, because you can't go through the Van Allen belt because it will kill you.

Oh, I wish. I live in Georgia now and it's still March or so before it really warms up. In the upper midwest, I knew the months of January-March as the season of Fuck You, because there's no pretty lights to distract me and I hate cold like a vampire hates sunlight.

Eh, I was close. My bad. ;)


Edit: To address the Christmas thing, yeah, the date was put there to coincide with the solstice. Early Christianity faced a lot of persecution, so a lot of religious holidays were put on days everyone was already celebrating to keep from sticking out like a sore thumb. Technically, Christmas should be sometime in spring, given the conditions described.