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The late-middlish part even. Pulled up his proclamation earlier today in part due to this thread.

Speaking for myself - no, I’m English and I don’t observe Thanksgiving. But we live in Vancouver now and so we’ve had turkey the last...

I celebrate Thanksgiving as Abraham Lincoln intended, in honor of the defeat of those traitorous Confederate rebels at Gettysburg and...

It would be much better if US Thanksgiving was associated with the end of the Civil War than with the Pilgrims.

The comical thing about anti-colonial backlash aimed at Thanksgiving is that the annual holiday in the United States was actually...

Well, for urban folks. It started off with Jewish Americans, looking for something that was open to do on Christmas, which turned out...

Yum, sign me up. I lived in the UK for a bit and moved back, and my British girlfriend came with, we went to a Thanksgiving party and...

The one that always seems weird to me as a Brit is Bonfire Night. On the one hand we're making a family event out of symbolically...

Agreed. Otherwise they are just resource drains.

Tangent from another thread. Simple question. Should traps have tells?

I think they’re more fun if they can be spotted, figured out, and circumvented by clever thinking rather than ability checks. The...

Cool, I didn't know there was a third film. The first is fantastic, I enjoyed the second, and I'm very much looking forward to spending...

Loved the first one. Second one was OK. Looking forward to the third. I'd still rather he'd made another Bond film though... ah well!

“Gay southern weirdo”?

Yeah, that's a pretty apt description honestly