It’s always the first three quarters of the year entirely where I just do not care for its holidays. They’re all boring and forgettable to me. Which is why I love the last quarter of the year where Halloween, X-Mas and X-Mas Part II reside.
New Year’s Day - Wooo…just watching a ball drop and people just drinking or going to NY just to kiss on camera.
Valentine’s Day - Awesome…just to be reminded how single some of us are so all of the mush of couples being shoved in our faces.
St. Patrick’s Day - Just another excuse to go out drinking to most, not as if drinkers turn every other day into drinking.
Easter - Nobody can agree as to the true meaning of this holiday. It’s just seen as yet another excuse to consume candy and go on dinners, kinda what Halloween and Thanksgiving both became more about. Non-religious people think it’s bunny related, religious people believe it belongs to Jesus and whatever. Conflicted holiday, can’t care.
4th of July - America’s Birthday, yeah I’ve not have had a single solitary reason to celebrate America’s birthday at all given the reputation it has gathered as of late and for a while. This is the period of the month where people annoy everyone with their big shopping sprees on fireworks.
My favorite french nonsense is "je suis une fermier des paumplemousses et j’aime faire de l’alpinisme“ because it was all on the same vocabulary page and that sentence was how I could remember it.
Not much opportunity to work “I am a grapefruit farmer and I like mountaneering” into casual conversation. Not very handy when traveling, either. Just generally not useful. But fun!
Hah, that is a delightful one!
There’s a joke I’d tried off and on to make happen over the past 25 years. My stepmother (mom died after I was an adult, dad remarried) is a delightful half-Swedish half-Norwegian - who married a Hispanic the first time around, so to hear her speak Spanish with a Swedish accent is quite hilarious. But thanks to her, I somehow learned that “absolut hinte” (I think I misspelled that) means “absolutely not”. So I was trying to work on a pun about absolute hentai and never could get a good setup. The only joke I could ever get working was something about someone offering someone else a glass of vodka, and the other person saying “absolut hinte”, being a teetotaller - to pun on the vodka brand Absolut. lol. Ah, well.
But if you’re not already a fan of Suzy (preivously Eddie) Izzard, oh boy do I have a video for you. Including one of my favorite jokes in a foreign language, which I believe is something like he goes into a hotel and asks, “Do you have any rooms?” and the clerk says “Of course we do. We’re a hotel.” lol. It’s something like that, anyway. I do not speak French, although that reminds me of my favorite French joke outside the hotel one, which is:
Q: How do you pick up old French ladies?
A: “Voul et vous crochet avec moi?”
hehe
Anyway, the standup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY