I just wanted to tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving and see how many badminton fanatics there are out there. After your Thanksgiving festivities, who's going to the gym today to play badminton? I know I am! My family doesn't wholeheartedly agree with my decision to play on this day, but I don't go until we've already finished celebrating. Who else is with me?
I wish I could too Happy Thanksgiving all ... also thanks again Kwun for BadmintonCentral/Forum ... truly an invaluable resource to anyone moderately interested at all in badminton, to diehard fanatics. -dave
Hi all, Can somebody in US tell the rest of the world exactly what's Thanks giving? We Brits certainly don't celebrate it, I believe judging by eating turkey is equivilent to our Xmas. I will be playing a league match tonight so be thinking of you people in the US. Happy thanks giving! Robbie
its exactly like Xmas in that the day after.. there are crazy sales too. We call it boxing day in Canada but they get black friday. Its to celebrate pilgrims taking over the land of aboriginals i think
I believe thanksgiving in the States is when christopher columbus landed in north america.. not sure though since i am from canada not the states
If those of you from the UK are not quite sure what Thanksgiving in the US means, most Asians in our part of the world are even at a loss! Going by the simple meaning of the word, it is "giving thanks" to something for some form of benefit it seems. My dictionary says it is "an annual national holiday marked by religious observances and a traditional meal held in the US on the 4th Thursday in November and in Canada usually on the second Monday in October". So the religious Canadians must have celebrated theirs already! The key word here appears to be "religious" and as BRL has suggested, it could have started with the Pilgrims making their sea journey from England to North America to begin a new life and as an expression of gratitude to God for their safe passage, they had chosen a day to remember the occasion and that is Thanksgiving Day! But why turkey as the most common and favourite dish? Probably, when the pilgrims arrived there, turkeys abound and they were the easiest bird to catch because they were big and could not fly! The contradiction in terms became interesting as although the turkey seems fit as a meal with religious connotations, whereas if you called somebody a turkey, you are asking for trouble as you are calling him "stupid". I think the word is an American invention as well. In Singapore, some older folks still pray to the Gods for the safe sea journeys of their forefathers who landed here long time ago from as far as China and India. But most modern Singaporeans have done away with such religious practices as they have adopted different faiths more suited to their time and circumstances.
thanksgiving is a holiday because it celebrates how the native americans helped the people who landed on Plymouth Rock survive during the harsh winters. pretty much if the native americans didnt help the people, then there wouldn't be the america we have today.
LOL, thanks for the information. I always thought it meant 'giving thanks'. For what I didn't know. I just assumed it was for the succesful completion of the harvesting of crops before winter!!
Thanks for the infor'. This morning I've noticed on one of our national newspaper a picture of President Bush holding a turkey or there again was it the other way round.... Enjoy.. Robbie
the irony is that we give thanks to ourselves by having a big feast and a holiday while the aboriginal peoples live in squalor...
It is in celebration of the Indians helping the Pilgrims. But it's also a reminder for us to be thankful for what we have. So you weren't totally off base. It has both religious and non-religious sentiment to it
I doubt it, they are lots of coast line to land your ships If the first voyage fails, i'm sure many other explorers will follow.
