Is it always May 10 in the countries where it's now? In Spain is the first Sunday of the month.
Second Sunday of May in the US
Why do they do this? Why not just have a fixed date for these things? Is it so people can use the weekend to celebrate?
Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
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#62How is it mother day isn't that 8 march
March 8 is international women’s day. The most ignored of all holidays by US culture. To an almost hilarious degree. My partner frequently brags that she’s the only of her friends and coworkers, in 10+ years, who has ever gotten flowers for women’s day. Meanwhile even Uber drivers have wished her a happy women’s day in various heavy foreign accents.
I wouldn’t say that. I don’t believe a men’s day even exists.
Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
#63Is it always May 10 in the countries where it's now? In Spain is the first Sunday of the month.
In Poland it's on 26th of May.
Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
#64She despises me for being gay. Not a chance I'm calling her.
You should call her
Hard disagree.
Maybe there is a time for difficult outreach, but recommending someone to celebrate a person (and one of the most significant people in their life) whose primary emotion is disgust in response to unchosen personal attributes is remarkably insensitive. No need to salt those wounds.
Let's hope things get better for anyone in this circumstance, but IMO it is the parent's job to make an attempt.
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Nobody wants to or tries to be this kind of person, so here is my shout out today to the moms who DID find a way to work through the challenge of accepting a child whose sexuality, spirituality, politics, etc. are different than they hoped for.
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#65(in the US)
(and The Netherlands)
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Just a phone-call, it's not hard. Don't need to buy anything.
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#67I have just come to HN from I was actually helping my mother in pressing legs as her legs sometimes hurt from pain :-( Gonna go help my mom again in massaging her legs, Okay shes asking me to help now, bye!
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
March 8 is international women’s day. The most ignored of all holidays by US culture. To an almost hilarious degree. My partner frequently brags that she’s the only of her friends and coworkers, in 10+ years, who has ever gotten flowers for women’s day. Meanwhile even Uber drivers have wished her a happy women’s day in various heavy foreign accents.
I wouldn’t say that. I don’t believe a men’s day even exists.