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Father's Day. Not even an acknowledgement....

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  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    Father's Day was invented by the Greetings Card industry, and taken up by the purveyors of tat ....why should you think of your father on one day only? Personally, I think of mine every day - and I know that my offspring think of their dad every day!
  • Torry_Quine
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    thorsoak wrote: »
    Father's Day was invented by the Greetings Card industry, and taken up by the purveyors of tat ....why should you think of your father on one day only? Personally, I think of mine every day - and I know that my offspring think of their dad every day!
    You may find this interesting showing that it wasn't the card industry which started the idea of Fathers Day at all.

    http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/father-day
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  • thorsoak
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    You may find this interesting showing that it wasn't the card industry which started the idea of Fathers Day at all.

    http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/father-day

    Interesting - I'd never heard that before! I knew that we'd adopted it from the USA but not that!
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