boxing day....

[InnocentAngel81]

what exactly is it, i'm from buffalo ny, since i'm so close to the border i hear about it often, but what is it?

 

[Phoenyx]

The day they sell the shit the could sell before christmas on special.

 

[Phoenyx]

In England a long time ago…

Servants were required to work on Christmas. They were responsible for making the holiday run smoothly for wealthy landowners. They were allowed to take leave on December 26th and visit their families. The employers gave each servant a box containing gifts and bonuses. In addition, around the 800s' churches opened their alms boxes (boxes where people place monetary donations) and distributed the contents to poor.

In England today…

Few people have servants but the custom of giving gifts or money to those who provide service continues. It is also popular to visit grandparents and shop (the after Christmas discounts begin). Many people get the day off from work. Boxing Day is also celebrated in places where the English have settled: Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Our friends in Scotland tell us it is also celebrate there! Some places observe Boxing Day on December 26th and some celebrate it on the first weekday following Christmas, so, if Christmas falls on Friday or Saturday Boxing Day would be on the following Monday.

Now, the actual origin of this holiday is debatable and has been debated, one idea being more popular than the other at a given time

 

[InnocentAngel81]

thanks for clearing that up for me

 

[DevilBoy79]

sounds cool to me, oh wait i work at a dept store GACK! glad we dont celebrate it now, oh the horror

 

[Freya]

sounds cool to me, oh wait i work at a dept store GACK! glad we dont celebrate it now, oh the horror

It's a stat holiday - you'd get paid time and a half if you worked in Canada.

 

[DevilBoy79]

It's a stat holiday - you'd get paid time and a half if you worked in Canada.

so do we for holidays, but still its horrid workin in a dept store with sales up the butt, rude people multiply like gremlins i swear it!

 

[p_p_man]

It can also be attributed to...

the day after Christmas being a main sporting day and that a few hundred years ago the most populay spectator sport was boxing...

ppman

 

[Guest]

And now it's futbal.

Evening spent with Des and Ally...

Ahaaa......

 

[kotori]

It's also a national holiday in Ireland, although they call it St. Stephen's Day. You know, like in the song? "Good King Wencelas went out / on the Feast of Stephen." The main public park in the center of Dublin is St. Stephen's Green.

 

[QuickDuck]

Boxing day here too... but that probably has more to do with our English heritage, more than anything else.

no idea what its all about.. its just another day off

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

FYI: Boxing Day is on the same day as the feast of St. Steven.

When I was a child, growing in on the Canadian border, nothing could legally be open in Windsor Ontario on Boxing day. They've since relaxed that rule.

 

[Guest]

Why do they call it the Canadian border? Is it like the Percian/Arabian Gulf thing?

Just wondered.

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

I have no idea what 'the Percian/Arabian Gulf thing' is. I mentioned that I grew up on the border because Boxing day is a holiday in Canada and not in the U.S. Had I not lived on the border and spent a lot of time in Canada, then I'd never have heard of it.

 

[Guest]

Speaking of the Canadian border, Sean Penn was brilliant in the remake of a movie about two escaped convicts.

Bobby D was great as usual.

Demi Moore was a whore with plastic tits.

 

[teddybear4play]

The day they sell the shit the could sell before christmas on special.

No, it's the day you beat up all your relatives who gave you shitty gifts.

If it's a Chia Pet, it goes from Boxing Day to Bludgeoning Day.

TB4p

 

[InnocentAngel81]

Speaking of the Canadian border, Sean Penn was brilliant in the remake of a movie about two escaped convicts.

Bobby D was great as usual.

Demi Moore was a whore with plastic tits.

i remember that movie "we're no angels"

 

[Guest]

I cried when Sean made that speech. LOL