just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving and dont get too full to not work on any openGL haha i know i probably will.
so if you could pick one thing to have for Christmas, something techie(computers, graphics etc etc) what would you choose? for me it would be a new system of course
Originally posted by Ostsol: I thought that most countries were founded by genocidal maniacs. . . O_o
Yes, but not every country dedicates an annual public holiday in praise of them.
I’m also not in favour of people here in the UK celebrating (and re-enacting) the execution of a catholic ‘terrorist’, but there you go.
Just stuff yourself with turkey and try and forget about the details of what you’re giving thanks for.
Originally posted by cschueler: And I’m sure every culture has something like Thanksgiving. Basically you thank your whatever supernatural entity you have for the crops this summer.
Err, no that’s not what thanks giving in the good old US of A is about mate - nout to do with crops, for sure. Unless you consider native americans as crops…?
We’d be giving thanks for d-day if things had gone the other way - thank you to Adolf, our founding father.
Originally posted by cschueler:
And I’m sure every culture has something like Thanksgiving. Basically you thank your whatever supernatural entity you have for the crops this summer.
I’m not aware of such a holiday in the Ukraine… Althought we have the independence day…
Originally posted by knackered: Err, no that’s not what thanks giving in the good old US of A is about mate - nout to do with crops, for sure. Unless you consider native americans as crops…?
Hmmm… my dictionary says, Thanksgiving = Erntedankfest. This seems to be a false friend though, because different instantations of harvest celebrations are out there, as explained here: