Bloody Holiday weekends

[HairyArsedBloke]

Whitsun (whatever that is) in the UK; Memorial in the US.

No Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi channel last night; no Doctor Who on the BBC tonight.

[scooterscot]

Calm down... here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

[HairyArsedBloke]

MC Esher

27 Million views

[NickFitz]

Calm down... here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

"I'm fluent in JavaScript and Kilngon"

[tim123]

Whitsun was two weeks ago.

The UK stopped celebrating the religious festival (which is a fixed time period after Easter) some time in the 70s and made the holiday always the last Monday in May.

It is called the "Spring Bank Holiday".

(and no, I don't know what Whitsun actually is for)

tim

[NickFitz]

Whitsun, an abbreviation of White Sunday, is the Christian celebration of Pentecost, that being the occasion when the Holy Spirit descended into the mortal forms of the Apostles after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

I'm surprised that the Daily Mail readers who are so prevalent here haven't offered this information already... after all, given their exhaustive knowledge of reasons that Islam is a Bad Thing, one would expect them to be experts in the Christian faith that they regard as the right and proper English system of belief.

They could be a bunch of hypocrites who constantly trumpet the virtues of something they have no knowledge of for the sake of justifying petty hatred of things they don't understand, I suppose... but surely not - after all, if they're posting on here, they're presumably intelligent people who would never think of denigrating the beliefs of others from a position of ignorance.

[Churchill]

Whitsun, an abbreviation of White Sunday, is the Christian celebration of Pentecost, that being the occasion when the Holy Spirit descended into the mortal forms of the Apostles after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

I'm surprised that the Daily Mail readers who are so prevalent here haven't offered this information already... after all, given their exhaustive knowledge of reasons that Islam is a Bad Thing, one would expect them to be experts in the Christian faith that they regard as the right and proper English system of belief.

They could be a bunch of hypocrites who constantly trumpet the virtues of something they have no knowledge of for the sake of justifying petty hatred of things they don't understand, I suppose... but surely not - after all, if they're posting on here, they're presumably intelligent people who would never think of denigrating the beliefs of others from a position of ignorance.

Shavuot

The Jews had it first, but then again, they would...

[HairyArsedBloke]

Christianity, Islam, Jewish; I can’t be having it with any of that middle-eastern, mono-god nonsense. Not that I have much time for anything, but the traditional Pagan beliefs appeal to me. It makes far more sense with its respect for the cycles of nature. It’s on its way back to the big time. You read it here first.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Dunno, depends on your definition of defloration is. Some have never take it up the, .....

Others, like Atw, are at it all the time.

[NickFitz]

Christianity, Islam, Jewish; I can’t be having it with any of that middle-eastern, mono-god nonsense. Not that I have much time for anything, but the traditional Pagan beliefs appeal to me. It makes far more sense with its respect for the cycles of nature. It’s on its way back to the big time. You read it here first.