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> Australians celebrate Christmas by going to the beach, and July 4th with sledding and patriotic snowball fights. It may surprise you to learn that Australian

by moorow 2y ago

> Australians celebrate Christmas by going to the beach, and July 4th with sledding and patriotic snowball fights. It may surprise you to learn that Australians don't celebrate the American day of independence lol

slyall 2y ago
Not to mention that snow isn't very common in Australia.
- YugyDugan 2y ago
  Beat me to it. I was going to point out that there's a ye olde black and white photo in my town's information centre of that one time we had snow here!
- bittumenEntity 2y ago
  Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July
  - slyall 2y ago
    So soon the world forgets the words of President Thomas Whitmore: We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
    - defrost 2y ago
      > the day the world declared in one voice: Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles. The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.
      - kibibu 2y ago
        It's a quote from the movie Independence Day, about an alien invasion. There was no President Thomas Whitmore.
        defrost 2y ago
        ~ " You can't be anal rententive if you don't have an anus " It's a quote from the movie Dogma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005
kibibu 2y ago
The weirdest thing to me is that Americans observe ANZAC day in Spring. Weird.

by moorow 2y ago

slyall 2y ago

Not to mention that snow isn't very common in Australia.

YugyDugan 2y ago
Beat me to it. I was going to point out that there's a ye olde black and white photo in my town's information centre of that one time we had snow here!
bittumenEntity 2y ago
Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July
- slyall 2y ago
  So soon the world forgets the words of President Thomas Whitmore: We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
  - defrost 2y ago
    > the day the world declared in one voice: Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles. The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.
    - kibibu 2y ago
      It's a quote from the movie Independence Day, about an alien invasion. There was no President Thomas Whitmore.
      - defrost 2y ago
        ~ " You can't be anal rententive if you don't have an anus " It's a quote from the movie Dogma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005

kibibu 2y ago

The weirdest thing to me is that Americans observe ANZAC day in Spring. Weird.