@serpent It’s the day before Lent. Lent lasts 40 days before Easter. Fat Tuesday is really supposed to be a big feast eating up all the good food in the house before the Lent sobriety and food restrictions kick in. In the old days most food wouldn’t keep through Lent so it was eat it or toss it. But for those of us who don’t observe Lent it’s a good excuse for a party. I don’t know how you can say a holiday sucks when it’s expressly intended for eating all the foods you love, with no other hidden agenda or expectations.
@f00l I had originally included alcohol, but since I was talking about intent rather than actuality I left it off, as alcohol keeps fine and I don’t think disposing of the booze was part of the original intent. It’s quite a lot like Thanksgiving (feast on fresh surplus harvest) and midwinter feast/ Yule/ Christmas/ Saturnalia (finish off the last of most fresh foods before they spoil, fatten up to face the long lean months till spring). These holidays once served a meaningful purpose, but in our time of plenty they are mostly excuses to party.
The current holiday purpose is also meaningful - to me.
And the holidays are one of the few times I actually see certain people of whom I am very fond. In fact, that’s the point of them, from my perspective. The consumables are incidental.
Much of the rest of the year we just harass each other by text message.
@mfladd
Guess which one is @narfcake
Laissez les bons temps rouler!!!
@thismyusername @ELUNO looks good in th purple boa
@CaptAmehrican That is MY purple boa! @ELUNO, you got some ‘splainin’ to do.
@Barney I stole it, but you gotta blame @mikibell for that!
@ELUNO It bothers me that you look better in it than I ever did.
Isn’t it like in May, or is it singo the gallo or something? Anyway, holidays suck. Except festivus, for the rest of us.
@serpent
This holiday does not suck. Well, it’s doesn’t suck of you happen to be in southern Louisiana.
@serpent Holidays only suck if you have to work on them.
@Epinardian Workdays only suck if you have to work on them too.
@serpent May is Cinco de Mayo. (5th of May.)
@serpent It’s the day before Lent. Lent lasts 40 days before Easter. Fat Tuesday is really supposed to be a big feast eating up all the good food in the house before the Lent sobriety and food restrictions kick in. In the old days most food wouldn’t keep through Lent so it was eat it or toss it. But for those of us who don’t observe Lent it’s a good excuse for a party. I don’t know how you can say a holiday sucks when it’s expressly intended for eating all the foods you love, with no other hidden agenda or expectations.
@moondrake
Don’t forgot drinking enough to feel just really perfect and getting some serious music going.
@f00l I had originally included alcohol, but since I was talking about intent rather than actuality I left it off, as alcohol keeps fine and I don’t think disposing of the booze was part of the original intent. It’s quite a lot like Thanksgiving (feast on fresh surplus harvest) and midwinter feast/ Yule/ Christmas/ Saturnalia (finish off the last of most fresh foods before they spoil, fatten up to face the long lean months till spring). These holidays once served a meaningful purpose, but in our time of plenty they are mostly excuses to party.
@moondrake
The current holiday purpose is also meaningful - to me.
And the holidays are one of the few times I actually see certain people of whom I am very fond. In fact, that’s the point of them, from my perspective. The consumables are incidental.
Much of the rest of the year we just harass each other by text message.
/giphy shake em
@medz
