Dreadnought
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It's a reason to party why you hatin
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Why do we celebrate cinco de mayo?
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BLOODED_hands
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It just gives me another reason to drink :/
Atomic Playboy
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I celebrate it because it's my birthday. I tend to celebrate it with tequila and Corona because that's what's on sale around then.
Dude Abides
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Because we love the Hispanics and we make the best Taco Bowls!
I mean, thanks
But we Mexicans don't celebrate it, lol, our actual independence day is September 16th. Not that I think celebrating Cinco de Mayo is wrong or anything.Steeped in a Sea of Games
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Valentine's day for people who need an excuse to drink to excess and feel justified for doing so. Manufactured holiday that also just happens to be sort of racist as well.
EchoChamber
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You get the day off? You fucker I don't get I day of
( maybe because I don't live in the north)Auron_Kale
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I actually saw that same commercial (was during the Pacers-Cavs game) and was thinking the exact same thing.
That said, it's just like St. Patrick's Day in the US: just another day to justify getting piss drunk.
That said, it's just like St. Patrick's Day in the US: just another day to justify getting piss drunk.
The history of St. Patrick's day is much more complicated, and actually heavily driven by the Irish themselves. I don't think that's true for Cinco at all.
I mean, thanks
I don't care though. ;-)
What I care about is food, music and booze. As long as it's not offensive, I want to continue to enjoy 'em. I have a huge table booked at a fantastic Mexican restaurant for this fifth. Because I freakin' love it.
Christmas doesn't even make much sense when you do a deep dive into the history. Thanksgiving is super DARK when examined. But nobody's better get between me and my presents and my turkey.
CarpeDeezNutz
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I think I am going to get some street tacos or hit up a carnicería after work thanks to this thread.
LegalEagleMike
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because i need an excuse to eat fried ice cream.
Glass Shark
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how did it take so long for this to get posted?
Bruce Springsteen
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Just another day to drink and eat
sixteen-bit
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Corona has to put in work after missing the F8 of the Furious marketing opportunity
44 posts late. Tsk.
Blue Geezer
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ThatStupidLion
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involuntarily the corporations forced it on the public for the money - there was too big of a lull between st. pattys and memorial day
voluntarily - people love to party, drink, and eat mexican/AmeriMex food
voluntarily - people love to party, drink, and eat mexican/AmeriMex food
capitalCORN
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I don't even know why the Irish celebrate St. Patrick. It was a moment of subjugation, not victory.
Keyser Soze
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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Blue Geezer
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Guinness needed the punts?
CaviarMeths
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The answer to most "why do we celebrate ______" questions is because some company wanted you to spend lucrative amounts of money on their shit and realized that a great way to do it was to either commandeer an existing holiday or make up their own.
Don't know how it is in other places either, but in Canada, we like to just make up fake holidays to give ourselves a paid day off. That's why we have "Family Day" and "Civic Holiday," where we couldn't even be bothered to come up with cool names for them. We just wanted to go fishing, man.
Don't know how it is in other places either, but in Canada, we like to just make up fake holidays to give ourselves a paid day off. That's why we have "Family Day" and "Civic Holiday," where we couldn't even be bothered to come up with cool names for them. We just wanted to go fishing, man.
PjotrStroganov
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Because it's the day the Netherlands got liberated of course.
White people gonna White people ¯_(ツ
Ding ding ding. Girlfriend was upset when I told her my best friend's wedding was on May 5th, meaning she couldn't go get white girl wasted until afterwards. I love her to death but sometimes she's so incredibly white.
capitalCORN
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Time to open another Irish 'nacho' joint.
Mossybrew
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Yeah. I don't mind having a day a year where we celebrate our southern neighbor.
Alex_Mexico
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Yeah I never understood why if they were going to appropriate a Mexican day why not September 16 (Independence Day and our biggest holiday)? It's a better choice already and doesnt clash with any other celebration in the US!
Cinco de Mayo is so pathetic we even go to work on that day! It's so small it isnt even an official work holiday!
Cinco de Mayo is so pathetic we even go to work on that day! It's so small it isnt even an official work holiday!
ghostofsparta
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I see it as another St. Pattys day.
I have no problem with people drinking, eating, being jolly on May 5th. But I do have a problem with people wearing stereotypical Mexican outfits while yelling things like "arrrrrriba!"
just cut that out, dress like you always do and get drunk
I have no problem with people drinking, eating, being jolly on May 5th. But I do have a problem with people wearing stereotypical Mexican outfits while yelling things like "arrrrrriba!"
just cut that out, dress like you always do and get drunk
Alex_Mexico
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If this is true then consider my mind blown!
Still: Sept 16 > May 5
Princess Viola
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Cinco de Mayo is the one day of the year when white people pretend they care about Mexicans.
As a Mexican, I support this post.
Alex_Mexico
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Well of course! Did you know that Los Angeles is second only to Mexico City as the city with the largest Mexican population? Also California is one of the more inclusive and progressive states in the US. I'd like to see if that love was equally seen in, say, Mississippi.
Mossybrew
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No doubt, as a San Diego native I can agree.
Yeah and the french put Emperor Maximilian in place. He didn't last long, though. The US backed the republic and the french retreated.
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