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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jun 18th at 3:18pm 2005

I don't know whether Europeans celebrate Father's Day, but it's tomorrow here in the U.S.

I just found this on the internet. There is a T-shirt with the same slogan around, but it's sold out everywhere I looked.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/wickedcoolstuff/stwawhyodasq.html

Happy Father's Day to all the gaming dads out there. Hopefully, I will be one of you guys in the next five years.



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jun 18th at 3:21pm 2005

I think it's only you americans who celebrate Father's Day.




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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jun 18th at 3:35pm 2005

Lol actually most the world do I think... It's only those crazy countries no one cares about with evil names that don't, such as Romania :P

We have it in UK, its just not so much of a big deal tbh.




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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jun 18th at 7:05pm 2005

My ignorance is indeed great, then. And I know you people like to use this celebration as a pretext for getting drunk.



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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jun 18th at 8:02pm 2005

...or to indulge ourselves with fancy and expensive gifts. Ahh, the joy of capitalism.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Jun 18th at 10:28pm 2005

Father's day isn't such a big deal here-- in my family at least. My dad thinks its just a fabricated holiday like so many others. We're going out to dinner as a family, but he made us promise not to buy him anything...




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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jun 18th at 11:03pm 2005

That's nice of your dad. My dad said the same, but we treat him and buy him presents anyways.


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jun 18th at 11:49pm 2005

All holidays are fabricated. There are just certain holidays that were made to show due respect or something as such. But most of them have lost their meaning. Oh well. GO PRESENTS!


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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jun 19th at 2:14am 2005

Only 1 "L" in holiday Crono <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> Most of the time my dad is away during father's day since he works away from home, so he tends to just find himself a few presents on his return home. We don't make a big deal out of it, but we don't ignore the holiday either. Most people I know don't make a huge issue out of it to be honest - a CD or something as a gift, or perhaps taking them for a meal, is about the most anybody around here seems to do.




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Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 2:21am 2005

I know. Sometimes I put doubles of characters in words when I type. I'm not sure why.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by $loth on Sun Jun 19th at 6:46am 2005

Ann Summers (it's a lingerie/sex toy shop) has this thing in thier window saying "Sex not Socks". That made me laugh.




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Posted by Hugh on Sun Jun 19th at 9:00am 2005

I'm not having sex with my dad regardless of the day.

Instead, he's treated to working late and paying for me to have dinner with my brothers, and that is a happy Father's Day when you have kids like me. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by $loth on Sun Jun 19th at 9:13am 2005

awwwwww, won't he be dissapointed




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Posted by Leperous on Mon Jun 20th at 11:06am 2005

? quoting Crono
All holidays are fabricated.

NO WAY DUDE I THOUGHT THEY WERE PLUCKED OUT OF THE ETHER BY CTHULHU AND HIS PIXIES!!!!2@

Who cares about meaning in a holiday, you can't force someone to believe in the true meaning Disney-style - let people make of them what they will.





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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jun 20th at 11:26am 2005

The only holiday that really gets to me is Valentines Day. That's Hallmark at work and I just don't want to go spend my money like that.




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Posted by Andrei on Mon Jun 20th at 11:57am 2005

I hate Valentine's Day and the morons here who celebrate it. Many cultures have at least one traditional holiday that is an equivalent of Valentine's Day yet isn't being celebrated. It's a shame to see how thousand-year-old traditions get stamped-out by this CRAP (case of the Dragobete, which is a Dacian inheritance thus 2000 years old. People have been celebrating it until about 10 years ago when Valentine's Day started to attract attention). And there are some other morons here who party every 4th of July yet aren't Americans (not even Anglo-saxon) and don't know when their own national day is. Pathetic.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Jun 20th at 8:18pm 2005

I celebrate Christmas, my birthday, mothers/fathers day, and only Valentines day when my girlfriend makes me.




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Posted by Kain on Tue Jun 21st at 5:31am 2005

June 21 is the "F?te de la musique" in here, but we probably copied that from France. What's the relation between father's day , music day and the summer solstice??



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Posted by Windows 98 on Tue Jun 21st at 2:30pm 2005

I think Father's Day is a lowsy idea, that is until I have kids. So far my fathers days are usually me waiting on my father, and him just being lazy (like usual).

When I have kids, Father's Day shall be a feared day.



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