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Friday 5...New Holidays

23/3/2012

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What? Never seen a Cheese Day bonnet before?
As mentioned before on Squeamish, this month has seen Mother’s Day and International Women’s Day. We didn’t mention that steak and Blowjob day had somehow passed us by. Or rather we’d ignored it. It turns out you can just make these days up! All it takes is a mass of retweets and you, sir, have got yourself a trend or possibly a day. We put our heads together at Squeamish Bikini and came up with some suggested days of celebration…

1. Cheese Day. This shouldn’t need too much explaining, a day you could eat all kinds of cheese, create cheese sculptures and experimental recipes. It would be like Pancake Day but without the backstory.  You can thank Squeamish Louise for that one.

2. There’s a little celebrated day called Secretary Day, celebrated (ish) in Europe on the third Thursday of April. We propose the third Thursday of May is dedicated to another group of hard workers, Healthcare professionals.  Come the 17th of May be ready to give a passing paramedic or nurse a bunch of flowers. 

3. This one is rather topical judging by the sun streaming through the window. Gareth suggests Me Day. There is no date for this, a floating spare bank holiday if you like. On a particularly glorious sunny day you’d be able to phone in work and says you were using it and automatically get the day off hassle and guilt free, rather than just having to stare out of the window while pretending to work.

4. Perhaps Squeamish Louise and Squeamish Sue can co-ordinate on this one; Sue’s suggesting a new version of POETS Day, Please Only Eat Triangular Shapes Day. Cheese can be cut into triangles can’t it?

5. F1 Kate urgently wants a date to draw your attention to Apathy Awaren... whatever.
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Glen
22/3/2012 07:31:45 pm

Russia has something called 'Heroes Day' on which people celebrate individuals they think have contributed or performed above ans beyond in service of the common good of the nation or community in some respect.

What I've always liked about it is that it is necessarily public or directed, it is supposed to be a private moment for people to show their gratitude and admiration. While public figures such as astronauts were widely recognised and publicised as 'worthy' figures people are encouraged to choose their own figure. They might send a card or small token, contribute something to public displays commemorating the various heroes being or schools have a kind of bring and tell where students make posters or presentations highlighting why they are recognising a particular person this year.

Despite the name heroes day is not actually intentionally gendered and women's contibutions are supposed to be recognised alongside men's.

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Squeamish Kate link
25/3/2012 04:13:13 pm

I think the word hero has joined actor and covers men and women now. That's a really good day! We should make it international!

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Ellie
23/3/2012 12:52:02 am

some companies have Me Days. They call them Duvet Days and they are in the contract and everything. or so wikipedia says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvet_day, which is not saying much, but I knew someone who had them so I know they are real...
oh, apparently they were one of the first thing axed in the recession. dammit.

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Squeamish Kate link
25/3/2012 04:15:02 pm

Yikes! I recall Zoe Williams writing about them, about how they were good because they stopped the spread of germs reaching the entire office and helped efficiency.

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