Happy Columbus Day! Things to do if you are off
 

Happy Columbus day all. Since we are celebrating the guy that sailed out from Spain, looking for India and China, and landed in the Bahamas, where he introduced smallpox, used slavery on the natives, and then took some of them home as slaves along with some of their gold, what are you going to do to celebrate?

I thought I'd roam around the neighborhood up the road from me. Stop at the first house I see. Take a shit in their yard. Give them my chest cold. Help myself to a beer in the garage. Bring their kids back to my place and have them rake up my leaves. That should about to do it.

Happy Columbus Day

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The only people who have off on Columbus Day are lazy government workers and school teachers.

My company is referring to it and indigenous peoples day.

Well, if it's going to be a holiday and named after the first European to set foot in N. America, it should be named after Leif Erikson. Viking Day! Much better sounding and way cooler hats to wear to celebrate

Ahem. You’re forgetting the lazy military too. :D

People: Migration to the US is a human right!
Also People: Columbus should have stayed in his own country.

Don't forget Bankers!

Columbus was a real piece of shit. This **** shouldn’t be celebrated.

Anal sex.

Funny I went into the Navy on Tuesday October 14th 1980. I was officially counted as starting on October 13th. But since it was a holiday I went in the next day. So technically my first day was a holiday.

BTW October 13th is the Navy's Birthday.

Take a boat ride.
Discover something.
Deal fiercely with any mutinies that may crop up.

FAX

Spent the morning cleaning the gunk out of the carburetor on my pressure washer (**** ethanol) and then pressure washing my patio and shed. I'll spend the rest of the week cleaning the mile (exaggerated) of pvc fence. Good times...

If not for Columbus I'd have a delightful English accent and a family chimney sweep business.

It's a truly wonderful Columbus day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I built a shed. My back is killing me.

if you have today off you are a ****ing asshole anyway

fitting holiday

Sail across Longview Lake for some ol' rape and plunder. Declare ownership...

Try to discover a run defense.

If you have time go down to the border and say your are sorry to all that are looking in

a.k.a. the hidden hand

Practice your tomahawk chop form.

Perfect day for genocide...amirite..

Wait what? Today is my normal day off. Gotta work the next 7 days before I get another.

Or offense.

I've always been curious what the alternative to Columbus and western exploration is. I can come up with three scenarios.

1. China or some Asian country eventually explores and colonizes. (Outcomes: same as today, but with Asians.)

2. Somehow everyone leaves the natives alone as sovereign nations and trades with them. (Outcome: same outbreak of massive disease and we likely end up with either an Africa-style third world in North America, or the natives adopt technology and eventually become a sparsely populated Finland-type country. I guess the natives would be rich, right? Actually, now that I think about it, the natives would be the equivalent of Saudi Arabia because they'd sell resources to Europe in massive quantities.)

3. Everyone treats the western hemisphere like a big national park or like the Sentinel Islands? No contact, no use of resources, etc., and the Natives continue to build wigwams and hunt buffalo, and maybe discover iron at some point. (Outcomes: Yeah, I guess it would be cool, but I don't see it happening. We do it with Antarctica, but Antarctica is not exactly colonization-ready.)

If you don't like Columbus, what do you think would've happened if he had not shown up, or if Isabella had not wanted gold or ginger or more catholics? I think our timeline was more or less inevitable. And I also think we should've done the same thing to Saudi Arabia.

Offense hasn't bene great because of injuries.

Defense just sucks.

I don't get the day off however, I'm always a little off anyways...

Another Columbus Day....same story.

He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in my house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.

I gotta go get an MRI on my foot later, yippeee!

"Discovered" lol. I mean it's cool if you want to celebrate him but he mutilated the natives that didn't meet gold quotas and put kids as young as 9 into sex trafficking. Cool hero.

Pretty sure he's quoting Tony Soprano there