To think tomorrow should be father's day

[WashedupTroll]

March is shit, clocks changing is even shitterer (note hospitality is mainly run by women) we don't even get a full 24 hours as mothers day.

I propose swapping with June father's day, football and rugby are over, weather is better and they get the full fucking 24 hours.

@WashedupTroll

March is shit, clocks changing is even shitterer (note hospitality is mainly run by women) we don't even get a full 24 hours as mothers day.

I propose swapping with June father's day, football and rugby are over, weather is better and they get the full fucking 24 hours.

Oh my goodness! Does that happen every year? Is it always short by an hour. I thought you were ridiculous but no, one day a year, I want my full 24 hours.

The trouble is, you're talking about two separate things. Mothering Sunday was the day you returned to your mother parish. Mother's day is an American import. You could actually have both - keep the mothering Sunday and adopt mother's day, rather than try to turn mothering Sunday into Mother's day.

But it's a pile of commercial tat anyway. You should be treated with respect 365 days a year, not one.

And as someone who follows lent every year, I tend to give up chocolate and/or alcohol, which means I can't have chocolate or a glass of wine on Mother's Day! I'd definitely be up for swapping with the dads!

I agree! My birthday is this time of the month and it sometimes coincides with Mother's Day (or Easter, that's a joy). That's ONE OF MY TWO DAYS A YEAR knocked out! Bloody annoying!

Excellent idea
I have to be up mega early to drop my daughter at work. With the clocks changing that means getting up at 6am really.
Happy Mothers' Day :)
I would much prefer it in June - cracking suggestion.

@Birkenshock

And as someone who follows lent every year, I tend to give up chocolate and/or alcohol, which means I can't have chocolate or a glass of wine on Mother's Day! I'd definitely be up for swapping with the dads!

Proof then, men planned for us to have mother's day during lent.

Most countries have Mother's Day in May.

Mongolia, Luxembourg and Afghanistan have it in June.

It's the 4th Sunday after Lent in the UK, because that's when servants got a day off to go home to their mothers apparently.

@Birkenshock

And as someone who follows lent every year, I tend to give up chocolate and/or alcohol, which means I can't have chocolate or a glass of wine on Mother's Day! I'd definitely be up for swapping with the dads!

Sundays in Lent are not technically part of Lent, as it's actually 47 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. So, although the Church doesn't really acknowledge the days as "cheat days", you can discount Sundays from your 40 days of doing without.

Could be worse, Russia and North Korea have it in November.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day

Why does it matter that it’s not a full 24 hours? 23 or 24 hours is irrelevant, I’ll still be working regardless. Are some of y’all expecting to get a day off parenting and do nothing?!

@Cameliah

Because y'all lose an hour of precious sleep.

It's the 4th Sunday after Lent in the UK, because that's when servants got a day off to go home to their mothers apparently.

The fourth Sunday after Lent is Mothering Sunday. It has nothing to do with Mothers, but it's been co-opted to do dual-purpose as Mothers' Day. It's the Sunday you'd go back to your Mother Church (where you were baptised).

One of the few things I remember from forced attendance at Sunday School.

I celebrate Mother’s Day in May, it’s much more civilised.

@sophienelisse

I bet a man decided on the dates.

June has better weather.

Sort of but maybe not in way you think. It does back to at least 16th century in England It additionally meant as much about returning to your “mother” church originally. When all families dispersed across parishes came togther in their church of baptism,. It was always 3 weeks before Easter,( 4th Sunday of lent) as part of Lent, and focused on the Virgin Mary as mother of Christ. Gradually it became more focused on all mothers . But it was still Mothering Sunday where most people returned to their family churches. Particularly it was a rare day that servants were allowed to return to their families- and that is the origin of Simple cake. A cake baked in the “big” houses for each servant girl to take back to their mother.

Father’s Day is not historical in uk. Didn’t start until someone dreamed up in 1910 in USA. I believe didn’t even start to spread into uk until post ww2. I don’t remember it being a thing in uk until at least the 70s and then it was still pretty niche.

So, not really a bloke as such. Probably the 4th Sunday the church chose was linked to pagen festivals- as most of our religious celebration dates seem to be,

Simnel cake not simple cake 😡

It’s all bollocks anyway though TBF.

We have people explaining the origin of Mothering Sunday every year, as if it’s somehow important, and actually it’s still all bollocks.

Every Sunday I do whatever the fuck I want. Every Sunday. So every Sunday is Mother's day for the Mother in this house. I will be buggering off out of the house from dawn until dusk, dc are welcome to come or not as always.

I have the USA Mother's Day instead because my DD was born there and all my American friends text me to say happy mother's day and acknowledge the role I play as a mum and I feel special. When I was actually there my DD was due on American mother's day and it was such a lovely day of everyone giving out flowers and teddies to mums and everyone wishing one another a happy day. No one gives a shit about me here ha. I hadn't even realised it was Mother's Day weekend! I will get my mum a card but she never wants to go out and do anything or come to my house (and hers is too full of cigarette smoke for me) so we won't do anything to celebrate unfortunately.

I love the football but applause to many shops supermarkets agencies have given an opt out of receiving mothers day emails adverts etc as we all had a mother but many have lost them let's see if they do the same for fathers day as now I am officially an orphan

Mother’s Day originally had nothing to do with mother’s

Servants and others went home to “their mother church” for the service 3 weeks before Easter

Commercially it was viable to add cards and flowers and make some dosh

In US & Australia Mother’s Day isn’t the same date as U.K.

I can’t believe you’re complaining about the weather!

Why do mothers only get a day?

Mothers should get a month, 31 days.

In my entire life with my dad, I never saw him do a dish, wash a shirt, vacuum, dust or do any sort of housework.
But my mum taught school all day, then went home and did the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing and everything else domestic.
Hardly seems equitable.

One month — 31 days of appreciation & celebration.

@Cameliah

Why does it matter that it’s not a full 24 hours? 23 or 24 hours is irrelevant, I’ll still be working regardless. Are some of y’all expecting to get a day off parenting and do nothing?!

Because all the fuckers still expect us to do shit and deliver kids. Like a pp, I now have to be somewhere at 9 instead of 10. Fuckers.

I'd like mother's Day to be a Saturday so we're not having to think about school and work the next day.