I agree Valentine's day is way overdone. But it always feels nice to do something special for someone you care about...
Then do it. Why the hell do we feel a day is necessitated where buying useless **** for people is the norm?
What holiday do you like?
WELLLLLLL, since you asked....
I'd like Labor Day if I wasn't in this profession and actually got it off.
I like June 20th. True ****in' rebels.
I don't like my birthday. It just reminds me that I'm one year closer to death. Which sucks. Same with New Years' Day.
Thanksgiving sucks. WTF is with stuffing yourself with turkey. It probably causes thousands of heart attacks annually. Meanwhile, millions in Africa are starving.
Christmas is the most irritating holiday there is. Spending untold sums on useless bull****....the country is $9 trillion in debt...oh well, **** it, little Jimmy needs a ****ing 42" plasma TV.
Veteran's Day is ok. Respect.
Memorial Day is lame, too. It allows people to have an excuse to only remember the dead once a year. Mothers'/Fathers' Day are along the same lines. Let's go give grandpa the annual visit in his retirement home cubicle. It's June. (Sadly, I know multiple people like this...)
Valentine's Day is, again, lame. Just another manufactured holiday where you are expected to buy bull**** for people while kids in Africa starve.
Independence Day is alright in concept, but lame in delivery. There were a group of crazy sons of bitches that had a good 80%+ chance of dying at the hands of an overwhelming force of *******s from across an ocean that just said "**** it" and beat the **** out of said *******s until they were their own country. They deserve more than some lame *** fireworks. But who am I.
Columbus Day is lame. The dude was a murderous ******* that popped the cap on centuries of racial genocide against the native peoples'. But, hey, he's a good white European Christian, let's give him a ****ing holiday. Manifest Destiny and ****.
What the hell else is there?
Hanukkah is lame. Being married to a Jew, it's kinda new to me. I forget to light the stupid candles after day 4 or so. She's not a religious Jew though...one of those "they my peeps" types of Hebrews, so I can excuse it, I suppose. But you have to give a minimum amount of gifts. What kind of gangster **** is that? The dradle game is weird, too. I just remember that the characters look like a phone, Italy, Pi, and a W. When I'm in Philly for the holiday, I just sit there and spin the thing yelling "Italy" and her grandpa looks at me all pissed off.
Flag Day is lame. It's like a baby Independence Day. Who gives a **** about a lame *** flag. It's a piece of cloth. Why isn't there a "constitution" day. The flag doesn't give me **** for rights. That piece of paper signed by the aforementioned crazy sons of bitches does.
Halloween is lame. It's a freakin' religious holiday that is made into a mockery (like Christmas) with kids running around in ridiculous costumes and going door to door demanding candy from people. I'll never forget the African dude that lived next to me in my first apartment in Morgantown. He comes running to my door, "Mike, Mike, why are their children roaming the streets dressed as demons!! What is going on!!!" Dude had no concept of WTF Haloween was. He's from Africa, c'mon. Thought he walked into some Children of the Corn type ****. Haha. Anyway, the only redeeming quality is that girls aged 17-30 dress up in slutty outfits. ALL OF THEM. You appreciate it when that deeply religious girl who is kinda hot but refuses to even wear shorts or a knee high skirt to class shows up at Bent Wiley's wearing a dominatrix outfit that rides up 95% of the way up her thighs. They need to be more honest though. If it was "Give Children Candy and Dress like a Slut Day", I'd have no problem AT ALL with Haloween. But as is, it still falls into the "lame" category.
Groundhog Day is lame. It happens like, 70 miles North of me, too. Any holiday that is founded upon the concept of a giant hamster predicting the weather is automatically useless.
Martin Luther King day is ok. It's one of the few Holidays I celebrate. I have a soft spot for the man though. I cried at his grave in Atlanta when I was there for the Sugar Bowl a few years ago. I've cried about 3 times in my life since I was 12, too....so uh....yeah.....take that for what it's worth.
Easter is lame, too. WTF does a stupid rabbit and giving kids baskets of chocolate have to do with the sacrifice of a random religion's mangod? What the hell kind of ******ed tradition is that? Not to mention it originated as a Pagan holiday revolving around the Spring equinox (ever wonder why it's celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox?) It was just celebrated in Christian Rome to synthesize Pagan and the (then) neochristian celebrations in an attempt to get some sort of continuity going.
Did I miss any? Clearly, most holidays suck, nonetheless.....