Yes, you’re right. It’s Memorial Day; not national BBQ day. But that holiday you appear to be celebrating is Veteran’s Day. Remember the fallen on Memorial Day. Celebrate veterans in November.
My Dad, a WWII navy veteran always BBQ’d on Memorial Day. Are you telling me my Dad, an actual veteran was somehow wrong for that? You can just stfu now @JerseyFrank
@therealjrn Well that escalated quickly. Yes, I missed that thread. No, you and Dad can enjoy/honor/celebrate any holiday, any way you please. I was kvetching about friends who get self-righteous about people celebrating Memorial Day with a BBQ and then following it up with some pic or quote celebrating veterans.
/giphy pfffft
Nothing says freedom and celebrating the memory of fallen heros like a BBQ with friends and family! What are ya, a commie? You think those fallen soldiers would want us moping about in some cemetery all day? Nah, man. Nah.
@jbartus Yeah, I finally figured out that I had an extension loaded that was disallowing (because it intercepted) that slash command. Moreover, that extension accesses the same collection of gifs, but it allows me to choose from sometimes multiple pages of them. I think it’s much better. I see that there’s a place for the ostentatiously-self-announced random gif selection, and I can easily enough disable the extension and reload the page to do that, but I’m sticking with the other way for now. I tagged you over there (unless I misspelled your name).
I’m probably a curmudgeon, though I’m not nearly as old as Clint Eastwood (our patron saint). Given that:
I know a whopping 3 veterans well (includes a family member, but still a trivial sample size); they prefer Memorial Day at least includes a thoughtful remembrance of their fallen or deceased comrades rather than just a ‘feel-good’ group hug for the military. Their real pain, from often intense personal loss, is a bit too trivialized for comfort with the emphasis on appliance sales and bbq
@mfladd I appreciate your sentiment, but respectfully disagree. Without directly invoking Godwin’s Law, there are at least some veterans who I would refuse to honor.
@JerseyFrank I also respect your thoughts on this matter. But I do not think Godwin’s Law applies here. I also should have included “Now everyone” Get Off My Lawn. Because it was not targeted to you, but to the thread in general and where it was headed. But I will say that your distinction between the two holidays is gray at best.
As far as some veterans go - the military is made up of every type of individual, from every aspect of our country. Not all are good. I get it. But I tend to only think of the many who deserve our respect.
@mfladd The whole thread was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I should’ve foreseen that it was a little too close to the mark. BBQs on Memorial Day don’t truly upset me, nor does honoring vets on the “wrong” day. The grain of truth in my post is about the human tendency to preen one’s self-righteousness and the great platform social media provides to encourage it.
I’m going to answer this with a quote from a friend who has served in 2 branches of the military:
To all you fuckers out there who are going to try and guilt trip people this weekend for enjoying it step back for a second and think about this all those who never returned what would they want you to do sure as fuck ain’t actin like a guilt trippin douche nozzle fuck no all of my brothers and sisters who died in defense of this country they would want us to take a moment of silence to pay our respect then fire up the grill and get shitty in there honor just like they would have.
Did you miss this?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/may-we-never-forget-some-gave-all
My Dad, a WWII navy veteran always BBQ’d on Memorial Day. Are you telling me my Dad, an actual veteran was somehow wrong for that? You can just stfu now @JerseyFrank
/giphy stfu
@therealjrn Well that escalated quickly. Yes, I missed that thread. No, you and Dad can enjoy/honor/celebrate any holiday, any way you please. I was kvetching about friends who get self-righteous about people celebrating Memorial Day with a BBQ and then following it up with some pic or quote celebrating veterans.
/giphy chillpill
/giphy pfffft
Nothing says freedom and celebrating the memory of fallen heros like a BBQ with friends and family! What are ya, a commie? You think those fallen soldiers would want us moping about in some cemetery all day? Nah, man. Nah.
A little harsh, guys.
And you’re doing the giphy wrong. Or is that supposed to be some sort of inside joke whose roots I don’t have the time to trace?
LMEGTFY (let me embedded giphy that for you.)
My concern is more that EVERYONE is making a big deal out of there being no cross-contamination among holidays this year. What-the-fuck-ever.
@joelmw psst…
@jbartus TGDMFL;WR (cf., TL;DR).
Anyway, it works for me. I’ve been using the giphy lookup for a while. I’m not sure what all of the noise is about. People around here are noisy.
@joelmw O__o
They added a /giphy command that automatically pulls in a random GIF from giphy by searching the terms that come after /giphy
@jbartus Yeah, I finally figured out that I had an extension loaded that was disallowing (because it intercepted) that slash command. Moreover, that extension accesses the same collection of gifs, but it allows me to choose from sometimes multiple pages of them. I think it’s much better. I see that there’s a place for the ostentatiously-self-announced random gif selection, and I can easily enough disable the extension and reload the page to do that, but I’m sticking with the other way for now. I tagged you over there (unless I misspelled your name).
I hope this all makes sense.
/giphy makes sense [a gif on the third page]@joelmw I saw it after I replied.
I’m probably a curmudgeon, though I’m not nearly as old as Clint Eastwood (our patron saint). Given that:
I know a whopping 3 veterans well (includes a family member, but still a trivial sample size); they prefer Memorial Day at least includes a thoughtful remembrance of their fallen or deceased comrades rather than just a ‘feel-good’ group hug for the military. Their real pain, from often intense personal loss, is a bit too trivialized for comfort with the emphasis on appliance sales and bbq
@compunaut Thank you for your thoughtful reply to this. Truly.
@compunaut we ignore all “Memorial Day” sales labels. If we need something we buy it. But using the tag trivializes the real purpose of the day.
I did not get a good giphy for curmudgeon
@compunaut here ya go. your patron saint nonetheless.
All veterans and fallen deserve respect no matter what day it is. It should be everyday. Now…
@mfladd I appreciate your sentiment, but respectfully disagree. Without directly invoking Godwin’s Law, there are at least some veterans who I would refuse to honor.
@JerseyFrank Timothy McVeigh, Nidal Hasan , Wade Michael Page, Eric Rudolph - just off the top of my head.
@JerseyFrank I also respect your thoughts on this matter. But I do not think Godwin’s Law applies here. I also should have included “Now everyone” Get Off My Lawn. Because it was not targeted to you, but to the thread in general and where it was headed. But I will say that your distinction between the two holidays is gray at best.
As far as some veterans go - the military is made up of every type of individual, from every aspect of our country. Not all are good. I get it. But I tend to only think of the many who deserve our respect.
But we agree to disagree, my friend.
@mfladd The whole thread was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I should’ve foreseen that it was a little too close to the mark. BBQs on Memorial Day don’t truly upset me, nor does honoring vets on the “wrong” day. The grain of truth in my post is about the human tendency to preen one’s self-righteousness and the great platform social media provides to encourage it.
See also: Harambe the Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
pass the sauerkraut
I’m going to answer this with a quote from a friend who has served in 2 branches of the military:
Point taken, up to a degree. Always understood Memorial Day as a day for remembrance of sacrifice, personally.
I’m pondering that this thread seems quite more active than the actual “forget” thread honoring those who sacrificed.
Do we all just love to argue that much? Or is it “the internet”?
In terms of doing the right thing, I can get careless, forget what matters. Which I regret.
Memorial Day it the beginning of BarBQue season, live with it.
What irks me the most is all the “Happy Memorial Day” signs.