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Unless you're in the UK in which case it was the 15th March and you've already done it (or already missed it)
by codeulike 5mo ago
Unless you're in the UK in which case it was the 15th March and you've already done it (or already missed it)
- pmg101 5mo agoFourth Sunday in Lent or something, very easy to forget it!
- beardyw 5mo agoYes, it pre-dates the gift card (and gift) industry. I seem to recall being told it was to allow servants to go home to see their mothers. See how vaguely I framed that.
- pmg101 5mo agoNothing to do with mothers, wasn't it something to do with visiting your "mother church", the church where you were baptised?
- pluc 5mo agoYeah I learned that today! I wonder what's the reason behind the difference.
- nickt 5mo agoIn the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday
- pluc 5mo agoWell that just seems like a completely different thing that share a few letters
- codeulike 5mo agoI'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton
- disgruntledphd2 5mo agoThat's how the date is determined, it's the third Sunday of Lent, "mothering sunday". Hence why the date changes every year (as the dates of Lent move because Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox).
- Biganon 5mo agoAdd a few more letters and you get my favorite day of the year
- nip 5mo agoAnd if you’re French, don’t worry, you didn’t miss it. It’s the 31st of May
- user_7832 5mo agoOr you're in any timezone significantly ahead of the US (so like over 40% of the world's population). It's already 11.35pm here in India, and most moms (and reasonable adults) are already asleep. China/SE Asia/Jp etc are even further ahead. Better luck next year... I guess?
- chatmasta 5mo agoIf you’re American living in the UK you get double the number of weekends freaking out thinking you missed it. Those signs go up in February…
- therepanic 5mo agoIf you are Russian, then you celebrated this in November.