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I've just spent the past month and a bit living in England with family, and as with all the other times I've done so, I noted that nobody actually uses Sunday a

I've just spent the past month and a bit living in England with family, and as with all the other times I've done so, I noted that nobody actually uses Sunday as a day of rest. It mostly serves to irritate people. The only argument I can see for it is that it allows retail workers a day off when they would otherwise not have the power to demand one.

petercooper 12y ago
That was one of the rationales for keeping it so long. Maggie Thatcher was not a fan of such reasoning, hence the change ;-) But, well, locations and families vary. I've lived here over 30 years and Sunday has a distinctly restful vibe for most groups of people I know. I imagine people down in the Home Counties are more rush-rush-busy-busy nowadays than we country folk.