Would it be so nice
A public holidayer asks
Do public holidays make sense ? Surely it makes more sense to do as you please,
rather than have the days that you can take off work dictated by some antiquates
social reason. I would rather holidays on days when it is sunny, and there is no
one else in the hills. If we did away with centrally organised holidays we would
be able to go to the bank and go shopping on days when they are not closed too.
Thus, why do we have public and bank holidays ?
October 31st, 2006 at 5:03 pm
it makes much more sense to do as you please which is why being self employed is soooooo great! But do shops really ever close these days? Banks do, but they is terrible institutions anyway, and are probably cause less frustration when they are closed!
October 31st, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Public Holidays are great because you can choose not to take them and take them at a later date when other folk are not holidaying. On the other hand I do go with the crowd and do take New Year and Christmas and it is good for that. Yes we should have choice as to whether we take these days or not but it is no bad thing to be forced to take a day off!
October 31st, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Ah, but we never have a day off as common sense consultants. We always need to be finding common sense solutions.
November 1st, 2006 at 12:25 am
As a self-employed individual I do not benefit from any paid hoildays, public or otherwise. However, the flip side is that I am able to take days of leisure on which ever days I please.
This November I shall be celebrating the 7th, which is the day of the last public hanging in England. The 12th, which I’m sure you all know as the day that Robert Scott’s remains were discovered in Antartica. The 17th, the day in 1970 when the first page 3 girl appeared in The Sun. And of course how could I not celebrate the 19th, the day in 1969 that Pele scored his 1000th goal.
December hold’s such personal holidays as First Lethal Injection In The USA Day on the 8th, Sound Barrier Broken Day on the 18th, and of course the 25th, Gorbachev Resigns Day.
A fairly arbitrary choice of hoildays, admittedly, Yet perhaps no more so than the ones our government decides for us. And, besides, we’ll get some interesting google ads now.
November 1st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
How do you know it was Pele’s 1000th goal? I must be close to 1000 goals now and I am a Dodo. Please be more specific!
November 1st, 2006 at 7:36 pm
On the 19th of November 1969, Pele scored his 1000th professional goal. Afterwards he probably said “Woo Hoo, 1000 goals in the bag. Mine’s a pint!”
If you are indeed a dodo I can appreciate how you find this a difficult fact to grasp. If you are not then I’m uncertain how much clarity you need to absorb this rather straightforward statement.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Common sense suggests that this is not actually a dodo.
Firstly dodos are apparently extinct thus unable to be present in modern times to contribute to internet blogs.
Secondly, dodos lived on the island of Mauritius. They would have originally spoken some local language, graduating to French Creole following colonisation. The chance of a dodo being able to type in fluent English is clearly absurd.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
look! All I was doing is pointing out that you had not put the world “professional” into the first version of 1000th goal.
Anyway, who is to say what language I can type, speak or whatever. Also extinct is no longer for ever. My mate the woolly mammoth will be back with us in the next 20yrs and I doubt I will be far behind.