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Remind HN: Father's Day
At least, it is in the US. Go, do something special!
- fallentimes 17y agoOr even a phone call...just do something.
- spicyj 17y agoPhone calls are special, unless you talk to him every day on the phone.
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- ansin 17y agoAn email is the best I can do. I don't like talking to my father.
- fallentimes 17y agoThat falls into the "something" category :).
- ansin 17y agoI know. Makes me a little sad though.
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- sho 17y agoNot in Australia. September 6th here.
- TweedHeads 17y ago"A father knows when to be a kid, specially when he needs to be a man" Play with your kids, if you have them. Hug your father, while you have him.
- ciupicri 17y agoNot in Romania. We don't even celebrate this.
- russell 17y agoHN remembered. I wonder if my kids will. :-) (Actually we never paid that much attention to greeting card holidays. So if they dont call, it's my fault in raising them to be all around skeptics.)
- russell 17y agoHey, they called. (I knew the suspense was killing you guys. :) They are good people. I love them.
- ensignavenger 17y agoIf I knew where my father was or how to contact him, I would! Alas, I will pay homage to the Great Father of us all, and pray for my mortal father, wherever he is.
- geuis 17y agoSadly, Dad's been gone for 18 years and my last grandfather passed away last year and I'm only 29. I'll be raising a beer to their memory though.
- edw519 17y agoMe too. I'll join you. Here's to our fathers and grandfathers. And to their sons. I'm glad you brought up your grandfathers. Both of mine led very difficult lives and made great sacrifices so that their children and grandchildren could have a better chance than they did. Whenever I have doubts about my project (which isn't often), I remind myself that they came here so that I could do this. Kinda puts things in perspective.
- quickpost 17y agoRight there with you guys... I lost my Dad about three months ago... he was my best friend. I'm with you on the grandfathers too... It makes me proud to think of all the ancestry behind me - behind everyone really. All the people who have worked so hard to get us and the rest of humanity to this magical time. Sometimes when I'm feeling down, I watch this little clip on youtube - I don't have an ounce of Viking ancestry, but I like the message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN-no1Ka7yU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN-no1Ka7yU Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother. And my sister and my brother Lo, there do I see the line of my people Back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla Where the brave may live forever.
- amichail 17y agoWhat is the point of celebrating something at time intervals that correspond to one rotation of the earth around the sun? Isn't that completely arbitrary?
- die_sekte 17y agoWell, lots of things in life are completely arbitrary. Just do what works for you.
- aswanson 17y agoClassic. Absolutely classic.
- blogimus 17y agoBecause we get a lot more done that way than if we packed all those celebrations into one earth's rotation about it's own axis.
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- die_sekte 17y agoWe could pack them into one rotation of the sun around the galactic center and get a lot more done, but then lots of lifes would be without a single celebration.
- sown 17y agoBecause you're surrounded by people with emotions and feelings and one of those feelings is to be made feeling extra-extra-special and an anniversary day naturally slips into that.
- Disparity 17y agoDoes that line of thought inevitably lead to nihilism? I mean, isn't life just as arbitrary?
- colins_pride 17y ago
- rewind 17y agoRemind HN: Tuesday is June 23rd and the Monday after that is June 29th.
- zimbabwe 17y agoRemind HN: Meaningless sniping may be useful on other sites, but here we all try and contribute to the discussion.
- rewind 17y agoWhat discussion? You know, when I told my dad how you guys took my karma away from me for making a joke about a post about something I should have as a reminder in the calendar on my phone, it really ruined his Father's Day. I think I might even have seen the beginning of a tear, but he manned-up and held it back.
- zimbabwe 17y agoI might forgive you for being an asshole if you were particularly witty about it, but you're not. You're sniping for no reason.
- rewind 17y agoI'm poking a little fun at these types of threads because let's face it, they have nothing to do with this site. And anyone who needs a Hacker News post to remind them when Fathers Day is and what its purpose is... is clearly missing the point of Fathers Day. Bottom line, I'm kidding around. You can give me the benefit of the doubt of making a little joke with no ill-intent... or you can call me an asshole. I'll leave it up to you to decide which is worse.
- zimbabwe 17y agoHeh. I called you an asshole in regard to your second post, not that original one. I actually agree with its intent: These posts are rather silly. But snarking about it wasn't the right thing to do, IMHO.