Isn't Good Friday a bigger deal for Protestants than it is for Catholics?
I'm asking because Good Friday is a statutory holiday in Canada everywhere except in ex-Catholic Quebec, which privileges Easter Monday.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
Is it just because it has the word Good in? Even though the "good" in Good Friday is a euphemism for Actually Pretty Bad Thanks.
Got to have different names for everything though, use the names other people use to mean only two thirds of the thing, etc.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAG4msX4AE9ISb?format=jpg&name=medium lolGood Friday was, until very recently, one of the two days in the whole year when pubs would close in Ireland - the other being Christmas Day.
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, Good Friday is a bank rather than a public holiday in Ireland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
I'm not sure I grasp the distinction, though. Bank holidays are exotic to me.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
Closing pubs is indefensible, no matter the excuse given.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
otm
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
Something something Lent imo - Easter Monday is a bank holiday. Idk how Protestants see Easter but it is the most important feast in Catholicism & we also have Lent leading up to it as well.
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
Wikipedia says Easter Monday is a public holiday. Once again, I don't get how that differs from a bank holiday but whatevs.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
Depends on the Church but I'm sure the DUP are all of joyless grim-faced Presbyterian or worse variety.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Good Friday is a bank holiday in NI (and the whole of the UK) but not in Ireland. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidaysIt’s not a holiday at all in Ireland.
There are 9 public holidays in Ireland each year. Public holidays may commemorate a special day or other event, for example, St Patrick's Day (17 March) or Christmas Day (25 December). On a public holiday, sometimes called a bank holiday, most businesses and schools close. Other services, for example, public transport still operate but often with restricted schedules. Public holidays are:New Year's Day (1 January)St. Patrick's Day (17 March)Easter MondayFirst Monday in May, June, AugustLast Monday in OctoberChristmas Day (25 December)St. Stephen's Day (26 December)Good Friday is not a public holiday. While some schools and businesses close on that day, you have no automatic entitlement to time off work on that day.
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
"the DUP are all of joyless grim-faced Presbyterian or worse variety"
the worse variety ones idea of progressive is making their kids kneel on hard rice grains on a stone cellar floor rather than broken glass.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
Gotcha. So this confirms my suspicion that Good Friday matters to Protestants more.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
(xp)
Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement? Can’t be because Good Friday is one of the holiest days of the Catholic Church or anything...
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Haha Mark Francois having an absolute shocker on Brexflix right now. pic.twitter.com/3WJ4wL8Hhn— Sooz Halloween Kempner (@SoozUK) October 16, 2019
lmao, some lungs on that fella
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement?
Is Fintan O'Toole's use of the term loaded? Genuinely curious:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-the-belfast-agreement-is-flawed-but-not-in-the-way-brexiteers-think-1.3400311
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
the only one that matters is shrove tuesday aka pancake day
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
martinmas is also good foodwise mind you
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agreementhttps://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item105778.html
looks as though the belfast agreement was its original nickname
― conrad, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-50057673
The government said name suggestions should "embrace the history and culture of Wellingborough".The names will be narrowed down to a shortlist of potential options, with a panel of local representatives deciding on the final winner.The name must then be formally agreed by The Queen, the Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.
The names will be narrowed down to a shortlist of potential options, with a panel of local representatives deciding on the final winner.
The name must then be formally agreed by The Queen, the Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.
The G4S Shithole Dungeon of Interminable Suffering and Doom? I've never really thought about naming a prison before, might pass on this one.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Chokey McChokeface
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
_Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement?_Is Fintan O'Toole's use of the term loaded? Genuinely curious:https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-the-belfast-agreement-is-flawed-but-not-in-the-way-brexiteers-think-1.3400311🕸
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
my earliest Good Friday memory is hearing my dad saying "well we've cooked the meat now" but he pronounced it coooked, but of course it's a strong catholic thing, unless I'm misunderstanding the argument here!
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
I'm no expert but it seems as though Good Friday is indeed more significant to Catholics than it is to Anglicans overall, but it's a bank holiday only on Anglican territory (so to speak), which strikes me as odd.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
I hope you are not referring to Protestants in Scotland and NI as belonging to Anglican territory.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
I think there's been a few wars over that.
The kirk is v serious business
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Anything that isn't Eastern Orthodoxy is a schismatic heresy anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
RIP Adonis
EXC: full Labour longlist for Vauxhall: Ibrahim Dogus, Katy Clark, Lucy Caldicott (Lambeth councillor), Maurice Macleod (Wandswoth councillor), Florence Eshalomi, Stephen Beer (former CLP chair) Claire Holland (deputy leader of Lambeth Council)— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) October 16, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Government scraps online 'porn block' plans after law hits kinks https://t.co/R17unx623h— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 16, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
b-b-but what about the will of the people
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
law hits kinks
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
joke’s on them, the kinks are intobeing hit
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
ray davies consulting his lawyers
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has claimed that MPs will not get to vote on post-Brexit trade deals, despite their potential impact on the future of the country.Speaking to the International Trade Committee this morning, Truss was asked by Labour MP Owen Smith whether she will provide Parliament with a yes/no vote on future trade agreements.However, Truss flatly rejected this idea, saying that international treaties are an “executive prerogative” (i.e. they are negotiated and approved by the government alone).This would essentially mean that the Prime Minister and a small group of Cabinet ministers would be free to fundamentally restructure Britain’s economy, without asking for Parliament’s consent.
Speaking to the International Trade Committee this morning, Truss was asked by Labour MP Owen Smith whether she will provide Parliament with a yes/no vote on future trade agreements.
However, Truss flatly rejected this idea, saying that international treaties are an “executive prerogative” (i.e. they are negotiated and approved by the government alone).
This would essentially mean that the Prime Minister and a small group of Cabinet ministers would be free to fundamentally restructure Britain’s economy, without asking for Parliament’s consent.
that's alright, who could possibly harbour any worries about Truss and some of her deranged Britannia Unchained buddies having executive prerogative over the future of the UK's economy, the very meaning of safe hands!
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
"The real reason Parliament was prorogued for a second time was to scrap the Trade Bill with amendments which would have given Parliament a say over future trade deals."
I'm the quoting proverbial comments section that you should never read here, but this sounds about right.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
couple of recent political things worth catching on iplayer: timex documentary & loki series on scotland has some interesting stuff too on impacts of austerity etc
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
JC you’re killing me
Always happy to meet and discuss our plans to end rip-off privatisation.— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 16, 2019
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
I feel like I keep asking this but how under the Westminster system can anyone argue with a straight face that anything is an executive prerogative? Shouldn't it be axiomatic that the executive is delegated powers from Parliament and that it can withhold those powers whenever it likes?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
The executive is delegated power by the queen.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
oh lol I forgot about that part, I guess I meant under the assumption that the queen is a legal fiction
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
I mean she’s been dead years tbh
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
The right to sign treaties has never sat with Parliament since the restoration of the monarchy aiui, it has always been with the monarch or their delegated representative. There is no principle that says the legislature should have a say. The legislature can change the law to bring more stuff within its scope (including the power to go to war, recently) though.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
I don’t * have* an ‘ID’ . Nor do I intend to have one. A licence says you are qualified to drive. It is not an identity document. Millions have neither a driving licence or passport. Please go away now. Your complacent gullibility is annoying. https://t.co/GY7I0mfF5o— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 16, 2019
P Hitchens otm!
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
Oh get a room you two.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I'm just a closet small c conservative reactionary cunt, don't tell anyone!
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
lmao how did I miss this at the time (JC was talking about it in his interview w/ash sarkar today)
Jeremy Corbyn killed my sister's baby rabbit! Only in @thesundaysport tomorrow pic.twitter.com/quvbG78mpz— Sunday Sport (@thesundaysport) May 13, 2017
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
Louise Ellman quits Labour.
I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997. pic.twitter.com/3BTzUacZvo— Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) October 16, 2019
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Her CLP voted to trigger reselection a few weeks ago and she’s making it an antisemitism issue. Is it? I don’t know much about her CLP.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link