Those are the two stupidest holidays possible, and the worst part of it is that when you actually have children, you get screwed again by them and have to go out and help your kid buy something (or buy something for them) for your spouse's "day", and then you keep trying to limit the needless spending and get them to agree not to get you anything, only to get something that is worth than getting nothing (i.e., a waste of $40-$50).
Not only that, but both my own mother and my wife have birthdays in May. Also, I always hated Mothers' Day because my birthday falls on it in some years and when it does I can't even go to a restaurant on my birthday because of all the stupid fucking mothers.
My dad has always, with full knowledge of the political incorrectness, called both holidays "Zionist conspiracies" (by which he really just means greeting card companies and other consumer groups whipped up the holiday - he doesn't really believe it).
Not only that, but both my own mother and my wife have birthdays in May. Also, I always hated Mothers' Day because my birthday falls on it in some years and when it does I can't even go to a restaurant on my birthday because of all the stupid fucking mothers.
My dad has always, with full knowledge of the political incorrectness, called both holidays "Zionist conspiracies" (by which he really just means greeting card companies and other consumer groups whipped up the holiday - he doesn't really believe it).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Well, ironically enough, we are having a White Kwanzaa!
- 27/12/2012 12:39:32 AM
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Quit making up holidays that don't exist. *NM*
- 27/12/2012 03:31:27 PM
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What are some other holidays that don't exist? *NM*
- 27/12/2012 07:29:46 PM
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Well, make up a name and you have made up a holiday.
- 27/12/2012 08:05:38 PM
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Wait, I thought Kwanzaa WAS Festivus. 
- 28/12/2012 01:12:22 AM
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- 28/12/2012 01:12:22 AM
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I would wager more people celebrate Festivus than celebrate Kwanzaa.
- 28/12/2012 01:30:38 AM
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Hmm.
- 28/12/2012 11:58:42 AM
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Seriously? Columbus Day?
- 28/12/2012 01:18:50 PM
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Columbus Day was only invented by Big Business to sell... um... what IS the Columbus Day gift?
- 28/12/2012 02:22:59 PM
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- 28/12/2012 02:22:59 PM
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Smallpox. Share it with your American Indian friends. They'll give you syphilis in return.
- 28/12/2012 02:45:09 PM
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Amazingly none, except Tom's, and that's not viable with modern medicine... start a petition? *NM*
- 28/12/2012 03:02:41 PM
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Hey, both can still be given, though the former is more of a challenge than the latter.
- 28/12/2012 05:31:30 PM
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Apparently 'Globes' is the suggested gift, which makes sense but like smallpox is likely outdated *NM*
- 28/12/2012 03:14:28 PM
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Genocide Day would be a more appropriate name. Or Imperialism Day, I guess. *NM*
- 29/12/2012 12:54:06 AM
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Too many other Genocides or Imperial expansions, it would be Amerocentric to pick that as focus *NM*
- 29/12/2012 01:10:23 AM
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Don't get me started on Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day
- 28/12/2012 02:43:42 PM
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