FabSwingers.com forum: What's Easter to you

By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Just a 4 day weekend or do you work on Good Friday.

Do you work weekends anyway

Its the second most religious event of the year and yet its not as celebrated as Christmas

Is it just Eggs

What does it mean to you

Thoughts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Friday is not a public holiday but I'm taking the day off, so for me it's a long weekend.

Get Easter eggs for the "kids", otherwise it means absolutely nothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not a weekend I would consider going anywhere as everywhere is overpriced and full of families

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By *iscuits8Man
over a year ago

Meath / Dublin / Birmingham

I'll work good Friday and take the Monday off

It's just a standard bank holiday really for me, I don't do anything special for it

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

Means eff all to us apart other than ive spent a fortune on chocolate. Well celebrate sigrblot on friday and thatll be the extent of "easter" for us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doesn't really mean much to us. Be both working Friday and Dee is off Monday. Could take Monday off but extra cash is always a winner.

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By *ohng69Man
over a year ago

athenry

I'm off Friday to Monday, I use it as a weekend to get stuff done around the house that I've been putting off for a while. Possibly going to a football match Friday night and Monday afternoon.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Means absolutely nothing. Haven't had an Easter egg in 10 years and haven't bought one in even longer. Off all next week but that has nothing to do with Easter and that will probably be the first ever bank holiday I've had off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long weekend for me, off to Belfast on Friday to catch up with some sexy fabbers. Rest of weekend will be a quiet one.

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By *oxic1998Woman
over a year ago

Belfast

Working most of it.....some idiot is getting married on Easter Sunday but do have friday and monday off

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

It doesn't "mean" anything in the sense of it being a religious holiday but having grown up on the continent, it was nearly as big an event for us as children as Christmas would have been.

I have carried on that tradition with my children, either by having had family gatherings/egg hunts but also by attending other family members' gatherings and Easter egg hunts.

The Easter bunny and egg hunt was a big thing in my day with an unusually large family (where I come from anyway - in Ireland that's peanuts

My son can't wait for Sunday after the 2 year break with Covid and it just being immediate family. This weekend there'll probably be 30 of us from 3 different countries with oodles of chocolates and toys to search for, with "rewards" for the last 3 eggs/toys to be found in the most ridiculous places

And that's what it's all about - family gathering and spreading joy (and chocolate

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Just a 4 day weekend or do you work on Good Friday.

Do you work weekends anyway

Its the second most religious event of the year and yet its not as celebrated as Christmas

Is it just Eggs

What does it mean to you

Thoughts "

Actually, I'm pretty sure Easter is higher up the list than Christmas in terms of importance within Christianity.

Why is it not as big a party session? Maybe people enjoy celebrating a birth more than a gruesome death? There's a shitload of penance around the whole Easter thing that probably puts people off?

It means more to me politically than anything else if I'm honest.

It also reminds me of the glory days of the circuit of Ireland rally as it used to come around our way on either good Friday or the following day.

I usually work on the Friday, depending on the weather and the humour, and whether I'm busy or not.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

It will always mean an egg on a mug to me,like when I were lad.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

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By *exy Ruby 100 300Couple
over a year ago

unknown

Love Easter time, it's a happy time of d year winter over summer on d way lots of Easter eggs,tho this yr we both working d bank holiday Monday, so not too happy lol x

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By *asterandhissparklesCouple
over a year ago

tipperary

A 4 day paid weekend

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By *ottie00Woman
over a year ago

Dublin

Nice long weekend (on call but will be quiet? Spend with family and friends.

I'm saving my egg until Sunday, he's eaten his already

My Mum would always give us an "Easter Bonnet" (new outfit) when we were kids and I still carry it on...at least one of us is dressed

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Anyone remember the Easter Parade in Dublin....just the Army from what I remember

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

It means it's the first full moon after the spring equinox and that Jesus dies and resurrects every year on a different date. No wonder the poor fecker finds no rest and spooked in my kitchen last weekend.

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

It means nothing to me really it never really has .I will be working all weekend that's about as exciting as it will get for me.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Anyone remember the Easter Parade in Dublin....just the Army from what I remember "

There is an Easter commemoration in every county in the country, every year, held by either the National Graves Association or various republican groups.

The government in Dublin abandoned theirs back in the late 60s/early 70s but then resurrected them a decade ago. A cynic might think that was an effort to reclaim some lost ground from SF and ensure that they didn't look like hypocrites when the hundredth anniversary rolled around.

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Don't mean anything daughters birthday falls over it this year so celebrating that

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Don't mean anything daughters birthday falls over it this year so celebrating that "

Where are we partying?

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

Working Friday, off Monday. It’s a family occasion for me, like a mini christmas with some extended family in my parents house for dinner. I’m really looking forward to it after not being able to do it for the last 2 years.

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By *ungry CatCouple
over a year ago

Belfast

Up until few years ago Easter used to mean extra mega stress in work with no extra benefits.

Now it means absolutely nothing.

Just another day in the calendar. If the date would be set - I would probably know what exact day of the year it is, but due to it changing all the time - I don't even know when is it until people start talking about it.

Missus

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Never even heard of Easter egg hunts until about 7 or 8 years when an English friend was talking about them and she was surprised I had no idea what she was on about.

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"Never even heard of Easter egg hunts until about 7 or 8 years when an English friend was talking about them and she was surprised I had no idea what she was on about. "

Same with The Easter bunny....

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Never even heard of Easter egg hunts until about 7 or 8 years when an English friend was talking about them and she was surprised I had no idea what she was on about.

Same with The Easter bunny...."

I read about the Easter bunny as a child and it fucked me up completely as I ended up thinking rabbit's eggs tasted better than hen's eggs.

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By *merald Eyes XWoman
over a year ago

Can you find me….

I feel if you take part in it, your celebrating a religious holiday..

And the eggs are so yummy ! But too many to choose from lol

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By *r_mrs_studmuffinCouple
over a year ago

narnia

Means nothing to be honest.

I’m working Friday and then off for 4 days. Heading to Dublin for the weekend and because it’s Easter prices for hotels have gone through the roof.

Could of got a week in Spain for what I paid for 2 nights up there

Hopefully it will have all been worth it by the end of it all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another weekend of work (retail) and dealing with stressed parents who have overdosed the kids with sugar……..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyone remember the Easter Parade in Dublin....just the Army from what I remember

There is an Easter commemoration in every county in the country, every year, held by either the National Graves Association or various republican groups.

I will go to Ballykissane, scene of the first casualties of the 1916 rising and remember

Otherwise a normal weekend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chocolate egg day

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By *ai18Man
over a year ago

Templemore

Working most of it, either in my job, organising a hill race on Sunday and volunteer on Monday with Red Cross

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remembering lent for a split second and scoffing a couple of chocolate eggs with coffee

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

10 days off baby

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"10 days off baby

10 ya greedy fecker.....enjoy

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Easter Sunday, in a trad religious context has had no relevance for me for years, but, although not a political person, Easter Sunday does resonate with me because 1916 kicked off the most significant push to kick off the colonial shackles and establish an independent Ireland.

The forest parks in the north on ES are bunged to capacity when the weather is good, and at Tollymore near Newcastle there is a massive boiled egg event; I have have never seen it myself, just the aftermath

A great family day!

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By *humper22Woman
over a year ago

waterford

"It will always mean an egg on a mug to me,like when I were lad.

The good old days

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By *lassy lady 216Woman
over a year ago

Craigavon

Yoser is beat you i have 15days off going to enjoy every single one of them

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By *olouWoman
over a year ago

Swords

Never buy enough eggs,lol and probably working some of weekend, I don't really think much of Easter tbh.....bar over time on Monday

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Almost 6 days off and trialling new BBQ. Having family round and kids hunting eggs for probably the last time, because of their age.

Hoping weather is agreeable and everyone enjoys it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Doesn't really mean much to us. Be both working Friday and Dee is off Monday. Could take Monday off but extra cash is always a winner."

Do yourself a huge favour and take Monday off and spend it with Dee ..money is not everything my friend .. believe me

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