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    Easter Sucks

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    1 hour ago, Mark Vader said:

    @Johnny Hammersticks at least Easter is an actual holiday that you get off from school/work, that is until schools changed Easter vacation to Spring break.

     

    Unlike fake holidays like St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo or Halloween(which I love).

     

    I think Easter is a very good holiday, but if it isn't your thing, so be it.


    Easter is just a pain in my ass.  I’m not religious at all, so take that out of the equation.  Have to wake up early on a Sunday which stinks.  With the exception of deviled eggs, I don’t like any of the food.  I also am not a big sweets guy.  It also doesn’t help that I live in Vermont and it’s still cold here.  Easter is an all-around loser holiday for me, but I can understand why some really get into it.

     

    I do really enjoy Halloween, but they make a really big deal about it in my town.  Huge parade with a big block party.  We have friends over for trick or treating.  Drink some choice beers while the kids are running around the neighborhood.  Valentines Day is sometimes nice depending on which day it falls.  The wife and I usually plan a small trip or go out to a nice restaurant.  Cinco de Mayo hasn’t really been a “thing” since my younger days.

    Easter Sucks

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    54 minutes ago, Logic said:

    I think your post is generally right on the money.

    Except for where you said that brunch sucks. That's simply a wrong opinion. Usually, opinions can't be wrong, but you found an exception to the rule. Congratulations.

    Otherwise, Easter is weird. Amalgamation of Christian ghost story and pagan springtime celebration. Zombie carpenter on the one hand, bunny laying pink eggs full of pennies all over the yard on the other. And what's up with the bare jellybeans in synthetic easter grass? Who likes that? Ditto Peeps, ditto Cadbury Eggs with the bizarre candy yolk. Yuck.

    Third rate weirdness masquerading as a premiere holiday. Load it into a cannon and fire it into the sun.

     


    Come on, man!  No one wants to binge eat at 10am on a Sunday unless you can take a long nap afterwards.  Most overrated meal ever.  👎 

    Easter Sucks

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    Just now, ExiledInIllinois said:

    This really should be a public poll Mr.Hammerstix.😏


    Your snide comment is not really in the spirit of Easter.  That’s 10 Our Fathers and 5 Hail Marys for you, old man. 😘 

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    Easter Sucks

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    22 minutes ago, muppy said:

    it is not a secular occasion so no hoopla is not that hard to understand if you don't believe in the gospel message.

     

    I live in a part of the country where Easter can be some of the most beautiful perfect weather conditions of 70's bright sunny skies and flowers are blooming everywhere

     

    so that and the smell of Easter lilies are divine . For me. But I do believe in Jesus too. Hard core Christian here. AND Bills fan.


    I get it.  If Jesus is the reason for the season for you, then get your gospel on.  It’s probably much more meaningful and enjoyable for you.  

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    Easter Sucks

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    6 minutes ago, Process said:

    Christmas i'd agree with you. It's the gifting with adults that stresses me the **** out.

     

    I really can't find any reason to hate on Easter. 


    Do you have children?  I wouldn’t mind Easter either if I could just skip it.  Maybe just exchange a small amount of candy with the wife and be happy.

     

    Christmas is fun.  Usually good food…especially on Xmas eve.  Christmas parties with tasty drinks.  Presents.  What’s not to like?

    Easter Sucks

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    Obviously if you’re super Christian people I guess it’s a big deal, but everything about Easter makes it the crappiest holiday ever.

     

    Nothing but work for the parents having to buy candy and hide eggs in the back yard the night before.  Then you gotta wake up early so the kids can find their Easter baskets at 7am on a Sunday.  Then out to freeze your nuts off watching the kids look for eggs.  Except one is 15 so he hates everything and ***** the whole time.  Then the kids argue because one found more eggs than the other.

     

    I get the Easter brunch people, but brunch sucks and you gotta go through all the effort of putting on dress clothes.  And I don’t know about you all, but my wife insists on making ham for dinner every year bc that’s just what we eat on Easter.  But the only one in my house who likes ham is my 11 year old daughter, and she only eats 2-3 tiny pieces and the rest gets put in the refrigerator only to get thrown out after a few days.

     

    I hate Easter.  Can the Supreme Court vote to get rid of it?  Stupid, dumb holiday.  Please discuss.

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    Any euchre players here? Is it a regional game?

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    20 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

    Yep. Definitely have to bid to win points. Pure. 
     

    Shoot the moon if you bid 4 also can be played if you win every trick and every hand (no one scores any hands) you can double points if spades (eg. I have A, K, J, 10, 2etc of spades). Fun variation. 


    I love pitch because it’s such a “cerebral” game.  It’s also amazing how you can have a teammate that you just mesh with.  If I had to play a game of pitch for my life and I get to pick my partner, it’s my boy Fitzy.  We are able to communicate telepathically.

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    Any euchre players here? Is it a regional game?

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    Posted · Edited by Johnny Hammersticks
    Re-thought the rules.

    20 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

    High, low, jack and game. Only question is if you bet 3, and lose, you lose 3, but do the non-betting hands get points they won? And do you allow “farmer hands” (if dealt only 2-9 cards, can you turn them in)?


    If you bid 3 and don’t get it you get “set” and have 3 points deducted.  The opposing team can earn up to 4 points.


    We call them “pitch hands,” but yes, 2-9 hands can be re-drawn.  You can’t bid if you get a pitch hand though.

     

    In your games can a team choose to “shoot the moon” during the bidding process?

    Any euchre players here? Is it a regional game?

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    2 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

    Pitch


    Yeah, I play pitch which is a very similar game to my knowledge.  I was born in Rochester and lived there until I was 5 years old.  My father always played Euchre with his friends.  
     

    I grew up in Auburn in CNY, and we all played pitch and spades all the time.  No one played euchre.

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    Was there ever a sport you tried you weren’t good at?

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    I was pretty good at most sports growing up.  Ended up focusing on lacrosse in 9th grade and playing in college, but I played football, baseball, some soccer when I was really young, and CYO basketball.  I was never very good at basketball.  I don’t know what it is, but I just couldn’t get the hang of it.  I stopped playing in like 7th or 8th grade bc it was just embarrassing.  😂 

    Notable Nexflix / Amazon / Premium Channel Series & Movies

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    Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke on Hulu.  3 episode docu-series.  Crazy Mormon wife/mother, but so much more interesting than that.  Highly recommend, but it’s a tough watch if you are super sensitive around child abuse kinda stuff.  Especially E3 had me a bit choked up.  Interested to hear others’ opinions.

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