If you could make a mandatory Holiday, what would it be?

[OddBeMe]

I would have National Monocle Day. And if you don’t comply, you’re pinched to death.

[WhiteSteve]

Post-Super Bowl Monday. Everyone’s watching the game, crushing beers, eating heavy, maybe traveling home late night…. we need a day after that to get our bearings here in America, haha

[WhiteSteve]

All-in on Nat’l Monocle Day, by the way. I propose the day be spent eating Planter’s peanuts while playing Monopoly.

[OddBeMe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9CQVal3kE

[WhiteSteve]

Lmao

[purplepoppy]

Monocles died out because of the Nazis. The fashion among nazis for wearing them destroyed the monocle's reputation.

I'd go for National Speak a Foreign Language Day, where you have to go the whole day speaking a randomly assigned language.

[OddBeMe]

That and a monocle?

[Juxtapose]

A holiday of education on how people can protect themselves against the government and organize. In spirit of the revolution and all, costumes of founding fathers and so on included.

[OddBeMe]

Buzzkill

[goaded]

Bet you can't find a scholarly source for that "quote".

[OddBeMe]

@goaded I see many sites showing that quote but I do believe lots of “legendary quotes” are bullshit. “Print the legend”, as Mark Twain said. I actually don’t remember who said that. Lol. That’s how it starts.

I did find this interesting article about a “standing army” argument that is well documented between the founders. We need to keep pushing militia=local cops. Not Joe-Bob and how buddies.

www.forbes.com/.../

[Juxtapose]

I literally already provided the source for this before when you guys questioned me on this lol.

[goaded]

Exactly, the militia are supposed to be under the command of the local civilian government.

[OddBeMe]

AZ quotes isn't an accredited historical source. This relates to our argument previously of shit YouTubers, dude.

[goaded]

I saw that they have a button to cite themselves, but no citation about where the quotes actually came from. I don't think Madison was a blogger, so it would have to come from a letter or the transcript or newspaper report of a speech he gave.

[OddBeMe]

@goaded which I’ll grant Jux as many websites have different citations, tho really it could be apocryphal.

But it’s still an argument from authority. James Madison has no bearing on assault rifles.

[Juxtapose]

No I mean I literally showed you the source and now you have forgotten about it and expect me to go through the trouble of looking it up AGAIN. We have had this same conversation dude.

[goaded]

I'm pretty sure I'd have bookmarked something like that.

[goaded]

Gentleman's Single-use, Unlubricated, Monocles

[OddBeMe]

Single use. I just got that.

[goaded]

Unlubricated, too!

[OddBeMe]

Eeesh. My glasses already hurt the bridge of my nose over time.

[msc545]

I would have national cat appreciation Day since cats are the most civilized beings I know.

[OddBeMe]

And so under appreciated online.

[DarkLegacy]

I would bring back the Gunpowder Act in the UK which would make Bonfire Night compulsory so as to stop the under 40s traitors replacing it with Trashoween.

[OddBeMe]

I googled the “act” but only got the plot, lol. What was the Act?

[DarkLegacy]

It made it a requirement to celebrate Bonfire Night and for churches to ring their bells. For some reason you can't find anything about it on the internet

[OddBeMe]

Interesting. Bonfire and celebration of the Gunpowder Plot?

[DarkLegacy]

Yes of course

[OddBeMe]

Wasn’t it just because Fawkes hated Catholics? Or Protestants?

[DarkLegacy]

He hated Protestants and wanted to replace the Protestant King with a Catholic one. Most people in the UK get it wrong, he did not target politicians, he choose Parliament, because that was the most easiest way to get at the King.

[OddBeMe]

Was the king in the parliament building then? Again like Columbus we always celebrate the legend which is cool.

[DarkLegacy]

It was foiled by chance hence why we celebrate it. It was planted so that when the King came to Parliament for the state opening it was to be exploded. It would have destroyed the entire building and most probably killed everybody in it.

[OddBeMe]

That would be like the US celebrating yearly the day Reagan was shot. Wouldn’t it? Lol

[DarkLegacy]

Not really because he was not a terrorist

[OddBeMe]

How do you know what mood he wanted?

[DarkLegacy]

It was a terrorist attack

[OddBeMe]

So you’re celebrating terrorism. Ok.

[DarkLegacy]

No celebrating the foiling of terrorism.

[OddBeMe]

Aren’t you celebrating the terrorist tho? Guy Fawkes night?

[DarkLegacy]

Us Brits that are patriotic are celebrating the foiling of the terrorist plot

[OddBeMe]

Ahh. I do see some dualism every holiday season.