Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday

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Post by phlowbieuq » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday
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Post by itcmcgrath » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:33 PM UTC

It was 2015 when I first encountered this while working with Andrew and James. I couldn't find any online info on the origin, and the few Firebasers I asked couldn't tell me. I feel like I have closure now that it really wasn't a thing. Or, I guess it was and it really is now.

It's funny how little things can snowball.

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Post by maximente » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:36 PM UTC

pineapples are pretty ecologically destructive, workers are treated horribly, mondo pesticides, etc. it's an unfortunate thing to celebrate without raising awareness of this side of the story.

https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/exploring-green/the-sour-sid...

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Post by throwaway66666 » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:37 PM UTC

Cool! Did you have fun and learn a lot? Nice, thanks for sharing.

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Post by zamadatix » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:46 PM UTC

maximente wrote: post #3

pineapples are pretty ecologically destructive, workers are treated horribly, mondo pesticides, etc. it's an unfortunate thing to celebrate without raising awareness of this side of the story. https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/exploring-green/the-sour-sid...

Something worth a million of these types of comments would be a single comment finding a topic nobody could make such a comment on. These things pretty much boil down to "don't celebrate because nothing is pure good".

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Post by lyttlerock » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:48 PM UTC

It's crazy how these things tend to snowball.

In some ways isn't this how cults get started? Someone picks some arbitrary and weird thing that "initiates" an individual into an exclusive club. Then you get that first follower and you're off to the races.

Personally, I'm excited for the cult of the pineapple. It's my favorite fruit.

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Post by paublyrne » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 8:58 PM UTC

I haven't heard of this day, but having worked in at least one startup with a marketing department, I know that people in marketing just like people in software development love things that make their job easier on any given day, and this is more or less what pineapple day is.

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Post by crispinb » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #5

maximente wrote: post #3

pineapples are pretty ecologically destructive, workers are treated horribly, mondo pesticides, etc. it's an unfortunate thing to celebrate without raising awareness of this side of the story. https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/exploring-green/the-sour-sid...

Something worth a million of these types of comments would be a single comment finding a topic nobody could make such a comment on. These things pretty much boil down to "don't celebrate because nothing is pure good".

Whereas your response pretty much boils down to "don't worry about physical reality, just lap up the self-promoting feels of the megaconsuming 1%"

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Post by skunkworker » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

Reminds me of the other fake-but-now real holidays made up by tv shows and other groups. One example that comes to mind is Parks and Recreation making up "Galentines" day, and it's pretty much a real holiday by now.

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Post by mayop100 » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

(Pineapple Day founder here :-P)

Thanks for the love HN! Don't forget to set that calendar reminder for yourself for next June 27th! (and set to repeat annually, of course)!