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    To non-Americans - do you have a national holiday?

    Posts: 77 Member
    edited February 26 in Chit-Chat
    Was discussing with my daughter about tomorrow being the Fourth of July, Independence Day here in the USA, and we figured that our British friends wouldn't be having the holiday with fireworks like we do. So, we wondered, what is the national holiday in other countries?

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    • Posts: 2,537 Member
      Get over it it was over 300 years ago but I suppose it was the only war you have won. lol. Only kidding have a great day and Happy 4th of June, sorry July. :wink:
    • Posts: 914 Member
      They have Australia Day and I'm not sure about fireworks but it's a day of BBQing and drinking and partying on the beach.
    • Posts: 541 Member
      14 of July :)
    • Posts: 271 Member
      I'm Canadian and we just had it on Tuesday - July 1 is Canada Day.
    • Posts: 8,927 Member
      I'm Canadian and we just had it on Tuesday - July 1 is Canada Day.

      And they give out free slices of cake at the mall because it's "Canada's birthday".
    • Posts: 2,037 Member
      Pretty sure most countries have a day.

      A good lesson for your daughter, and you, would be to google and find the names of all the national holidays for all the countries.
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
      I'm not with him. I swear.
    • Posts: 2,159 Member
      I'm Canadian and we just had it on Tuesday - July 1 is Canada Day.

      So sad that you even have to post this.
    • Posts: 4,710 Member
      England doesn't need a day, they're the reason so many other countries have one.
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
      England doesn't need a day, they're the reason so many other countries have one.

      I think June 15 would be fitting. That was a gift to English law and the law of many other countries.
    • Posts: 4,317 Member
      Bastille Day is coming up in France!
    • Posts: 4,553 Member
      Bastille Day is coming up in France!

      Let them eat cake.
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
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      Let them eat cake.

      Apres moi, le deluge
    • Posts: 2,037 Member
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      Let them eat cake.

      Vive la Revelution!
    • Posts: 18,890 Member
      Ah, Australia Day. A stinking hot summers day where you get drunk, eat lamb of the barbie, stick Australian flag temporary tattoos to your face which will take 3 days to fade and end up sunburnt as a *****.
    • Posts: 4,317 Member
      Last year, one of my best friends, who was in French class with my in high school, sent me an e-card that said, "Happy Bastille Day to someone else who is pretentious enough to know what Bastille Day is. " lol, I loved it.
    • Posts: 117 Member
      We have ours on july first in canada
    • Posts: 422 Member
      Guy Fawkes Day I expect for the Brits, although they are all a bit different.
    • Posts: 1,254 Member
      Ah, Australia Day. A stinking hot summers day where you get drunk, eat lamb of the barbie, stick Australian flag temporary tattoos to your face which will take 3 days to fade and end up sunburnt as a *****.

      Love Australia day (26 January), this year I was on the news proudly wearing my Australia Day t-shirt and flashing bunny Flag ears. hehe.. And yes we were at the concert at the park on the beach, plenty of wine and nibbles, sunscreen and 9pm fireworks. Always a good day!
    • Posts: 156 Member
      Guy Fawkes Day I expect for the Brits, although they are all a bit different.

      It's a day they celebrate an historical event but it's not a public holiday, more like Halloween or Valentine's Day.
    • Posts: 547 Member
      England doesn't need a day, they're the reason so many other countries have one.

      That's pretty much what I was going to say. :laugh:
    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      Canada Day

      and im half Danish so i can tell you Denmark has Grundlovsdag (constitution day) which I have always celebrated with my dane people
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
      Canada Day

      and im half Danish so i can tell you Denmark has Grundlovsdag (constitution day) which I have always celebrated with my dane people

      Mmmmmmm. Danish!

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      Mmmmmmm. Danish!

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      you mean wienerbrod
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      you mean wienerbrod

      Wiener Bread?

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    • Posts: 105 Member
      Does 23rd April, St George's day in England count? Don't think it's a national holiday there, but it is for me, I always buy my single rose on that day.
    • Posts: 9,834 Member
      Yep, Australia Day is pretty much the biggest party of the year.

      They also have the hottest 100 songs voted for by people on the national radio station. So crank that up, get some drinks and dance the day/night away is how we typically do it.

      And then somehow go to work the next day.

      I may or may not have been asked by the cops to put some more clothes on as I was walking home in my Australia Flag undies last year. :blushing:
    • Posts: 351 Member
      Here in Ireland we have St. Patrick's day - but you probably already knew that, lol. We also have Easter Sunday as well to an extent (in commemoration of the rising). Things get SUPER patriotic on both those days. Of course there's the obligatory bountiful amounts of alcohol on St. Patrick's. Easter is a lot more solemn.
    • Posts: 359 Member
      In New Zealand its Waitangi Day on the 6th February.

      There is a list of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day#N
    • Posts: 2,537 Member
      England doesn't need a day, they're the reason so many other countries have one.

      Whats St Georges day then? We Don't celebrate it like we should. And then people whine that we are losing our identity, Fecking idiots. We celebrate St Paddy's day cause we are that fecking dumb.
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