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[sugoku]

[She's sitting on what looks like her couch with her head in her hand. Her eyes are away from the screen or the camera in thought]

It's really weird for Thanksgiving to be around now. We celebrated it last month and completely forgot that the American's do it so close to the other holidays. What's the point in even doing it now other than using it as a countdown to Christmas? Are you negating the point of this holiday?

[Cain steps into frame, working idly in a notebook. A rare video appearance from the elder Hashimoto twin! Looks like he was hanging around. He sits next to Calista, focusing primarily on what he's working on as he speaks.]

Not even to mention Black Friday, of course. I remembered, only because I've been putting up with the American idea of the holiday for longer. Honestly, it's beyond me. Isn't the autumn harvest typically over by this point? One would think you would all survive a month without fresh obligations, non?

[he shakes his head, muttering a few Quebecois curses--whether over the current topic or the other task at hand is unclear.]

A Thanksgiving feast and then all of the fattening sweets of the Christmas holidays, no wonder they have all of these health problems.

[Calista leans back, eyeing her brother and then back to the camera, reaching over and turning off.]

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[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

... I kind of like the canadian timing better, yeah, but you know?

Turkey day's still turkey day.

[sugoku]

Someone with sense.

I'm just choosing to enjoy the time off.

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Good way to do it in my book.

[sugoku]

Two more days off than usual because of strangely placed holidays are fine by me.

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[wonk]

oh good its not just me

still i cant complain about more days off

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[sugoku]

I've come to appreciate that aspect of this holiday as well.

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[wonk]

also 2 b fair i think american health problems r bc they dont have health care

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[sugoku]

Is there anything Americans do right at all?

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[destinedforrock]

You'll have to fill me in, too. ...Keeps the Bells terribly busy for a holiday season.

[Perfectly quick, glib, and conversational.]

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[sugoku]

[This is the first time she's encountering a talking horse]

... excuse me?

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[destinedforrock]

[She's... not sure that's the cause for the reaction.

Voice a little tight.]

The Bells. My masters. Why, I seldom get to enjoy any of the holidays, myself, but I do pick up on all the runaround they seem to involve...

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[sugoku]

Ah... well.

It's suppose to be a feat of thanks. In America it's based off of something with the Native Americans, I think. You get a turkey and a bunch of other food and eat it with a lot of people.

Hanukkah is also happening today, and that's a Jewish holiday having to do with the miracle of oil burning for eight days? I'm not really sure about that either.

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[wannabered]

It's tradition and once it became a profitable tradition there wasn't really a way to change it. Like stock plot elements in sitcoms, or villains in fiction backstabbing eachother.

Traditions are just hard to break ... wait, you two are Canadian?

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[sugoku]

I guess you aren't as vapid as I thought you were. Yes, we're Canadian. What else would Cain be?

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[wannabered]

French? Evil? Smug? I hadn't really put much thought into where he was from.

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[sugoku]

I can't deny that he's something of a smug bastard.

[Eying over to where he's sitting]

[lackinginfaith]

You invented poutine. You have no right to talk.

[sugoku]

I'll never understand what you people have against poutine.

[lackinginfaith]

The fact that you point at the Bacon Explosion as a reason we get fat, but nobody actually eats that, whereas you have poutine on the menu at Burger King.

[ursoreckless]

Americans are just weird.

[sugoku]

That I whole-heartedly agree with.

[ursoreckless]

I never understood Thanksgiving, even though my uncle tried explaining it to me. It's too much like Christmas for me.

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[earnedmystripes]

Eeehhh, but Thanksgiving's supposed to be about family and togetherness and being grateful for stuff! It doesn't really matter when it is, right? Being so close to Christmas just makes it more festive!!

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[sugoku]

It makes it more commercial, you mean. It's just as my brother said, only America would erect a day of shopping and buying anything you have the cash for directly after a day for being thankful for what you have.

[earnedmystripes]

Black Friday’s different! And besides, most of the stuff’s for giving to other people for Christmas! C’mon, where’s your holiday spirit???

[He actually kind of hates Black Friday because people are reckless and stupid and it generally leads to very long days full of unnecessary incident report-filing, but who cares about details when there’s a point to be stubbornly made....]