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Thanksgiving is full of comedy material. There's the signature American gluttony, the widespread ignorance of its dark history, and, of course, coping with being around your family.
But whether you're spending the holiday at your relatives', hosting a Friendsgiving, or just hanging out by yourself with takeout at home, chances are, you'll need a little break to recover from the food coma at some point during the day. Don't worry. Bored Panda has you covered.
We've put together a list of funny Thanksgiving memes that perfectly capture the essence of Turkey Day, so put on your stretchiest sweatpants, pour yourself a drink, and get ready for some giggles!
Oh, and if you forgot how everyone celebrated Thanksgiving last year, fire up our post from 2020.
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Kai David 4 years ago
The best thing about black friday is waking up at 9am, having coffee while watching YouTube vids of chaotic black friday shoppers from the safety and warmth of my couch.
Rissie 4 years ago (edited)
The best thing is to go out in the following days and get the actual deals because stores bought too much to sell. All from the comfort of your couch.
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
You would think that by now our phones manufacturers would have figured out a mode to record landscape when holding the phone in portrait mode. They keep adding lesnes, but not this simple mode? WHat's wrong with them?
Eve Roling 4 years ago
Sadly, some parts of Germany now have Black Friday, too. My In-Laws pressured me to give them my children's christmas wishlists, because "today it's so much cheaper" and ordered an item online, that I saw much cheaper in our toyshop in town. I don't t get it. Why rushing and stressing yourself out, only to buy stuff you (mostly) don't need?
elysse 4 years ago
In Berlin we have Black week, basically Black Friday for a whole week.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
One of my friends once asked "Have you guys ever elbowed an old lady on black Friday?" He then said that he had once.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
I refuse to go out in that madness. I'll wait patiently for Cyber Monday though.
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Kai David 4 years ago
After the inlaws were exposed to covid on friday, all plans cancelled. Thats exactly what we are doing today. After two years of cancelled Thanksgiving, it may become our new tradition.
Debra McGeorge 4 years ago
That’s what I did, and it was wonderful! I just got dressed long enough to walk my dog. Came back and got comfy again. I’m sticking to this routine. I eat what I want, when I want, and dress how I want!
Robert Thompson 4 years ago
Sounds so Awesome. Usually when my ex would say that we are going to have an unplanned day, it means that I was not allowed to make plans.
Larry Thompson 4 years ago
Yeah. Wait until he does this more than twice a year. Cue - "the passion is go e speech"....
One of the first Thanksgiving celebrations was in 1621, when the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast.
Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to commemorate the end of a long drought that had threatened the year's harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well.
For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states, and it wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
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ƒιѕн 4 years ago
So now your sisters husband is your stepson. And your dad is now mowing both your yards.
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
Her sisters husband would be both her stepson and brother in law. Where as the dad would be her sister's brother in law and father in law. WRONG!!!!
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
33/2 + 7 = 23. The younger sister was within her range! So awkward but nobody has done anything wrong or even weird.
Jason Alexander 4 years ago
To me, if you aren't old enough to be their parent, and they are at least 21, it is acceptable.
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Rissy cake 4 years ago
If married is the 45 dad a dad of his wife's sister or brother in law..hmmm this messes up my mind 🤔🤔
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deathrose 4 years ago
"Damn Hippies" is a running joke in my family. I don't know where it started but anytime someone does something that annoys us or we don't agree with we say "damn hippie", doesn't matter if they are liberal or conservative (we're a moderate family with no strong affiliation to either) Its our way of just brushing things off. I even call one of my cats a "damn hippie" when he does something stupid like run across my stomach lol
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yes. They are. My three worst uncles on my dad's side (big fam, just don't ask).... If we got through two hours without them using racial slurs? It was b/c they were calling women nasty things. And they wonder why I don't stay in touch?!?!
John Dough 4 years ago
Racist people never think they are racist though. That's the whole problem.
Stijn Kraft 4 years ago
Haha, I'm pretty sure racist people won't invite me, shitstirrer extraordinaire :D
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Walter Stutheit 4 years ago
I’ve had my grandmas fight over who got to cook the turkey turns out they are both s**t at cooking turkey and no one ate either of the turkeys
In many American households, Thanksgiving has lost much of its original religious significance; it now centers mostly on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. When it comes to turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become an essential part of the holiday, we aren't sure if it was or wasn't served when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621.
But today, 85 to 90 percent of Americans prepare the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.
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Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
LOL! At my house it is customary for you to return to yours as soon as possible....
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Otter 4 years ago
If anyone is wondering to do with themselves on Thanksgiving, you could be performing paid public services!
Izzabelle Mendiola 4 years ago
Or volunteering. I did that with my mom one year, helping serve food 😊
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Demon Girl 3 years ago
can I just spend 1050 and have him for thanksgiving, x-mas and my b-day?
Printerman 4 years ago
Is there a copper package where they just send someone to do the dishes? I'll still give 'em a plate.
Valerie G. 4 years ago
Unfortunately the ad featured Patrick from 90 Day Fiance. No joke, ah, well Patrick is a joke, well.....
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
With the right scheduling, I'd squeeze in several Silvers. No way I'm hanging with one family all day.
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Jason Alexander 4 years ago
Or any birthday, holiday, or event where people have to come over, lol.
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Although the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, you could theoretically trace its roots back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays—a time of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty.
Imagine the memes they'd share!
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Scagsy 4 years ago (edited)
It's weird but growing up we always seemed to tolerate racism or sexism from Grandpa because of his age. There really is no excuse for it however old you are. Just because you're old it doesn't give you a free pass to be an a$$hole.
J.A. Rogers 4 years ago
Or homophobia/transphobia. Let's all spare a moment's thought for LGBTQ+ folk, for many of whom this is one of the most stressful days of the year.
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Jessica N 4 years ago
My grandparents, my parents and i grew up in a small town that was 100% white. Im 35. It wasn't exactly racism but all we knew was second hand or from tv. just saying when that is all you know that you don't know there is a different world out there, especially before the internet. I moved to a larger town at 18 and met people with different skin tones for the first time, realized we are all just people. 10 years later? Facebook and internet were more attainable. My grandpa met an african american in his wood working group and i remember at Christmas he said "this Black guy i met? Great with wood. Next time he's in the area we are going for lunch." I enjoyed visiting my family more after this. There's no excuse for racism but lack of exposure prejudice IS a thing.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
In my dad's fam, it was "racist uncles", and my mom came up with excuses to keep us away. Thank you, Mom! :-)
Sky Render 4 years ago
Let's not forget the homophobic grandfather who spouts religious dogma every 2 seconds!
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Thank goodness we don't see the racist side of my family at Thankful. We see them at Christmas for one day.
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LoveAllOfYou 4 years ago
This is SO my dad :D!! Every single time I visit he goes a huntin' for it.
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
Our wifi can be chosen to connect automatically when in range so you only have put the password in once
Monica Rogers 4 years ago
Or, be a good kid and pay for your parents wifi like my kids do. Then you have the password.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Haha, my mom got tired of all of us asking, she put it in a post it and put xtra tape on it in side of fridge
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Since half the country has gone mental, I'd be afraid that violence would ensue.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
One thing everyone, from both political parties, can agree on, in the UK and the US, is that half the country is batshit insane.
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funny, but I am "blessed" (TM). Our bunch have two strict divisions. We have the right wing racists and the left wing atheists. We simply refuse to socialise or ever meet for any reason. Problem solved.
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Robert Thompson 4 years ago
Doesn't work in my family. We were all raised "right", as a result, we all agree on what is best for America.
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KiwiBubbles 4 years ago
Hey guys I would like to announce that I'm an idiot. I only just realized that when my various family members say grace and say something like "thank you for this food and the hands that prepared it" they're probably not just talking about the one or two people who cooked/prepped the meal. They probably mean to thank the farmers and all kinds of people. Better late than never, I guess 🤦♀
BorPand8 4 years ago
It's implying that the farmer's name is Jesus, which is a fairly common Mexican name. Although the plight of Mexican migrant farm workers is dire, I don't think this meme was trying to be racist.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Let's see, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, um, yams...? Cranberry sauce...? pumpkin pie...? WHAT THE HECK 8 items you putting gravy on?!?
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Don't forget the green bean casserole and broccoli slaw
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Trust me, you don't want to participate in the conversation that would follow this comment. !!!
A sorta blue grey 4 years ago
True, but I would want to grab a bowl of popcorn and watch. Lol
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tw 72 4 years ago
...and they displayed equal amounts of disappointment and disgust.
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GadgetGirl 4 years ago
And not the way you wanted. MiL whispers to your significant other, just that little bit too loudly; "I thought you said they knew how to cook now!"
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John Topper 4 years ago
I mean the pilgrims committed mass genocide soooo ... Maybe don't aspire to that?
MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
Actually, the first Thanksgiving was not celebrated by the Pilgrims. It was celebrated by the Spanish in St. Augustine, Florida, which is also the oldest city in the US.
PurpleDoople 4 years ago
The pilgrims didn’t eat mashed potatoes, either. Took until 1719 for potatoes to be brought to North America, so…
Joanna Jamil 4 years ago
I would have looked that child in the eye and said, "Get momma her phone, Baby!"
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sage lyOn 4 years ago
My aunt made orange jello with shredded carrot in it 🥲
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Kar Red Roses 4 years ago
I hated thanksgiving as a kid because my mother (bless her heart may she RIP) was a lousy cook. I’d awaken in the morning to the sounds of cans being opened and veggie chopping, watch the Macys parade on TV while the house slowly became rank with boiling cabbage and turnips - and the noxious aromas from the greasy, gristley roasts in the oven spilled out from kitchen into the den. Because she didn’t like to use seasonings it was not a pleasant smell, like you get in a restaurant, this was more like a road accident with birds in the back seat.
Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
My SIL makes that. Every year. And yes, it is the nastiest daMn thing ever.
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Aitsuki Kitsune 4 years ago
TWO aunts in my family who do this.... One makes candied yams with marshmallows that only she eats, the other brings gloppy green bean casserole made the cheap way with Campbell's cream of mushroom, canned green beans, and boxed fried onions. It smells awful and tastes worse. Because of that casserole, I've hated green bean casserole since I was five and just SEEING it makes me angry. Just give them up, Aunts Carla and Christina!!!
Rebekah Krause 4 years ago
This weird stuff with chopped up raw cranberries, orange zest, tons of gritty sugar, and walnuts. I don’t even know what it’s supposed to be,- a relish? A side? A dessert?I love all of those things and I cannot handle more than a small spoonful to make her happy.
ReaderSope 3 years ago
We have a family friend that always brings onion and mustard sandwiches 🤢
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Zedrapazia 4 years ago
My boyfriend is venezuelan and my family is a bunch of racists - so they pretend he doesn't exist and still ask me at every family reunion why I'm "still single". Well, f**k you, we'll stay at home and eat a turkey all by ourselves.
Ann Coffman 4 years ago
Considering that I was up since 4 am prepping and washing and baking and cleaning... Yes, I will (and I was!) start drinking at whatever time I damn well please!! Lol! I took a nap while the turkey was roasting and when I woke up I started drinking again, YAY ME!!!!
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Mallory m. Brewer 4 years ago
“Are you sure you’re not a lesbian?” My friend: **with girlfriend** “um, of course I’m sure! I just have my gf over for thanksgiving but ya know we’re just good friends”
Ann Coffman 4 years ago
And yet they'd be shocked if we inquired about their sex life!!!
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
nice that will confuse the living sh-one-tee out of them.
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
All the more reason to celebrate "Thanksliving" with friends instead. NEVER let those orcs blackmail you into attending a family dinner. Let them figure out what to do without their favorite punching pillow around for abuse.
Isabel Care 4 years ago
"You have all failed in your duty as elders of this family. None of you has found me a suitable victim, I mean husband. So I will continue to be happily single and childless."
ZAPanda 4 years ago
My answers top-to-bottom, left-to-right: "more than you." ; "never again" ; "yes, but still half your weight"; "no I just pay for s3x now, much simpler" ; "oh only? I usually start when I wake up."' ; "no actually I am thinking of getting a gender change op". Result: stunned silence, shock, and never get invited again. Thank darwin.
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ƒιѕн 4 years ago
I don't get stuck there, I choose to go there. No one ever said I had to grow up.
Dandelion Patch 4 years ago
Well at least there won't be politics or religion!
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Kai David 4 years ago
My youngest cousin, 2 years my junior, was always set at the kids table well into adult hood. Then one year, she was finally able to sit at the adult table. I raised a toast to her for that honor. The following year, she was regulated back to the kids table after she had her first child.
Frank Hayes 2 years ago
Even when I was in my mid 30s I sat with the kids. The conversations are so fun!
alice in nowhereland 3 years ago
Hey, my family puts a coloring tablecloth at the kids table. I'm staying there, mind you
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Evie Grove 4 years ago
We have like, four loaves of bread, 4 pies, and a turkey. We don’t invite people over and there is only four people in the family (that lives in the same house as me). I like to call it, breadsgiving.
Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
Laura, could you be a dear and fetch that grabby thingy we use to pick up trash in the yard? Thanks, hon.
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Robert A Reider Jr 4 years ago (edited)
I'll tell you a secret. Mom doesn't just do this to be "motherly" and knock your socks off with her spread. There is a plan for every morsel of leftovers. From pot pies to pea soup, mom just stocked her freezer with enough prepped ingredients to keep her eatimg hearty with a few key presses for months, at bargain prices no less. And it's easy. Once you get the recepies and shopping down, you can do it in your sleep... Come to think of it, we do. (I'm a grandpa not a mom, but my wife was disgusted by raw turkey. Been laying out a spread for 30 years.)
Valerie G. 4 years ago
She got pissed that she was the only one that cooked and told everyone else to get out of the picture. She didn't want anyone else getting any credit.
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Mer☕️🧭☕️ 4 years ago
Was I the only kid in the history of ever who just ate what they were given? I'm sure I was well-loved and pandered to in other areas, but food was food so we ate it.
ReaderSope 3 years ago
My twins are picky eaters and this has only happened like once. Maybe you're just not a good cook?
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Yeah, then someone rolls out the homemade lemon pound cake and the German chocolate cake(what I experienced today).
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Poultry Geist 4 years ago
My cat started freaking out last night and staring at the door and making crazy noises! I opened the door and a very skinny fuzzy gray and white cat ran in! He’s so sweet if we keep him we’re naming him Turkey cause he found us on Thanksgiving eve!
Melissa Rodriguez 4 years ago
That's beautiful, we'll be needing updates!
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Auntriarch 4 years ago
That's because there is a separate dessert stomach, this has been discovered by tummyologists
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Yort 4 years ago
I’ve gone Black Friday shopping a lot, and let me tell you, it entirely depends on what time of day you go. 9 am at Walmart on Black Friday? Ghost town. 3 other shoppers in the store. 12 employees. Eerily quiet. Great time to buy groceries.
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Terry Tobias 4 years ago
I worked Black Fridays for a number of years in various retail stores. It would always be so busy everywhere that you couldn't leave the store to eat. One place that I worked would bring in trays of cold cuts and employees would bring a dish to share, so everyone had a good meal during their break. It made a crazy day a little nicer.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Never. No deal is worth me going out into that chaos. i feel for anyone working these stores.
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Yort 4 years ago
I’m not a vegetarian but I saw how many turkeys they still had in the store on Wednesday and I just felt awful for all those turkeys who are probably not going to be eaten after being killed. I hope they donate as many of those leftover turkeys as possible, but even still there’s only so many needy families who actually have an oven to cook a turkey in.
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Moose Gomer 4 years ago
The dad gets praised because he was able to get the knife away from mom after cooking and dealing with family all day
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Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
Only 15? My mom has 10-11 siblings (I can’t remember exactly) and my dad has 9. Only 1 on each side aren’t married, and the majority have kids. There is not a single only child so far, and I have 7 siblings. Thanksgiving is chaotic.
Jack 4 years ago
hi I hope that this helps my name is Jack I'm 15 I have austim and adhd A haunted house but instead of scary monsters its 15 people asking you what you are doing with your life and who you are marrying oh wait thats Thanksgiving
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Auntriarch 4 years ago
Is that before or after your sit the turkey upright put a paper hat on it and take photos to put amusing captions to?
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Each Christmas my brother (great cook) says "Your turn next year" I ask how much he wants food poisoning. I cook to survive, I loathe cooking even just for myself (hate the stench of fast food even more).
Kristof De Smet 4 years ago
If you stick your head in it, nobody will ever visit you again either
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Mike Morton 4 years ago
No idea who said it's from wizards, this is from a manga called Berserk by the late Kentaro Miura
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Isabel Care 4 years ago
I do the diabetic food maths. No I won't have cake or biscuits or chocolates, I can buy those myself. I will devote my plate to the stuff I can only have when my brother cooks. Roast potatoes to die for and other roast veg, gravy, mash, more veg and roast potatoes
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
That's Thanksgiving in a nutshell. The men stuff themselves, and plopped down on the couch and watch football until they doze off.
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Isabel Care 4 years ago
Why do people go for a walk on "Family gathering holidays"? So they don't kill their family
Beth Newby 2 years ago
Yes, to smoke & chill so they don't hurt anyone lol
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Sky Render 4 years ago
Turkey's great if you season it right! We used 99-X seasoning in the herb butter this year, it was truly amazing.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
THIS. Except the green bean creamo-crap soup casserole. That's just.... wrong.
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago
I'm in the UK so genuinely puzzled... what, bar green beans, is in the green bean creamo-crap soup casserole?
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Replace it with smoked brisket. Though i don't eat fried foods much, I do like fried turkey.
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Trying to talk everyone into taking some food home, so you have less to deal with.
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Isabel Care 4 years ago
I have managed about 3 hours (a lot for me) with just parents and 2 siblings. Add a couple more people I know and then the recovery time goes from days to weeks
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Yep, every place I've worked gives you Thanksgiving and the day after off, so a nice little 4 days away from work. I'd have no issues skipping Thanksgiving and hoping on a plane to Vegas Wednesday night, lol.
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Elise Hansen 4 years ago
i feel sooo sorry for my gma i ate close to nothing since I had a cold
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MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
Tbh when I’m an adult I’m going to put up my decorations before Halloween. Sue me but I hate Halloween because I have Samhainophobia and I have a tiny family so Thanksgiving isn’t really special for me.
Yort 4 years ago
People start celebrating Halloween in like August now, idgaf if people put up Christmas stuff before thanksgiving. I have a Christmas tree in my room all year!
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Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago
Unless we have American family there are very few Canadians that 'celebrate two thanksgivings'
Shmairbear 4 years ago
Yes, being a Canadian, having 2 Thanksgivings, and bragging to everyone about it. Sounds like a typical day in my life.
Shika Louis 4 years ago
In Canada, they celebrate Thanksgiving in October, whilst Americans celebrate in November. Source: How I Met Your Mother
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Kate Johnson 4 years ago
Kinda would've like to see the whole thing instead of the beginning being cut off.
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
"It was Johnny Hopkins, and Sloan Kettering. And they were blazin' that s**t up every day."
Shelli PL 4 years ago
You keep your liver-spotted hands off my beautiful mother! She’s a saint!
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advice5cents 4 years ago
That's not how you say German in German either, but we can still have a nice time
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Dani Alexander 4 years ago
Ok, so I live in Australia so we don’t celebrate thanksgiving. So I have a confession….I have never eaten pie before. Never ever. Other than a meat pie but that doesn’t really count does it? Ahaha literally no one makes pies here
Callie Dryer 4 years ago
I did hood this year! I helped cook and ate small amounts of everything. Now, I have room for cake and ice cream! Happy thanksgiving all!!
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I don't understand... If you don't like that day, just don't don't go. Tell your family "f**k off I won't come" and chill at home.
Dani Alexander 4 years ago
Ok, so I live in Australia so we don’t celebrate thanksgiving. So I have a confession….I have never eaten pie before. Never ever. Other than a meat pie but that doesn’t really count does it? Ahaha literally no one makes pies here
Callie Dryer 4 years ago
I did hood this year! I helped cook and ate small amounts of everything. Now, I have room for cake and ice cream! Happy thanksgiving all!!
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I don't understand... If you don't like that day, just don't don't go. Tell your family "f**k off I won't come" and chill at home.
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