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Boxing Day
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Most Americans will spend that day returning gifts, Buying more crap and recovering from the Christmas Day banquet.
runninmac said:... what is boxing day?
I feel so sheltered
People go out, shop, return gifts etc. It's the day right after Christmas, usually quite a few sales going on.
iNeedtoSwitch said:And then give them to someone else that you did not see on Christmas Day.
Yeah, nice.
Will my mum want that leather whip and mask set though...
mad jew said:At the beach getting a golden tan with my girl, probably.
You've never told us about any girl.
mad jew said:You've never asked.
Well, there goes all hope that you might hit for the other team.
I wish I could go lay on a beach...without getting rolled back into the sea.
iGary said:Well, there goes all hope that you might hit for the other team.
Sorry, never any hope there. I love my lady.
iGary said:I wish I could go lay on a beach...without getting roled back into the sea.
Okay, that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
You know it's unwarranted though.
Boxing Day
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients.
Nowadays, we often see, in certain families, gifts (boxes) given to those who provide services throughout the year.
"Boxing Day" is listed in the Canada Labour Code as a holiday.
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients.
Nowadays, we often see, in certain families, gifts (boxes) given to those who provide services throughout the year.
"Boxing Day" is listed in the Canada Labour Code as a holiday.
mad jew said:Okay, that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
You know it's unwarranted though.
Well unless they get my back fixed proper.
I'll just have to hit the tanning bed at the gym...after I do my pansie excercises that I am limited to.
Blah.
Boxing Day - In Australia, too?
yellow said:I thought that was any day with beer in it..
Not far from the truth. Apparently we have the most public holidays in the world. I love a sunburnt country...
I have to go to my sister's in-laws for dinner. Apparently I'm to provide moral support in case they take over trying to plan her wedding...
I have nothing in common with them and it's going to be awful... perhaps I'll take a hipflask and keep drinking to get through it. It's really not fair when you have to put up with someone else's inlaws; I thought not having them was a perk of being single!
I have nothing in common with them and it's going to be awful... perhaps I'll take a hipflask and keep drinking to get through it.
It's really not fair when you have to put up with someone else's inlaws; I thought not having them was a perk of being single!
According to this site its in 8th place Austria first Britland 7th:mad jew said:
Not far from the truth. Apparently we have the most public holidays in the world. I love a sunburnt country...
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/article73.html
even just public hols its not top.