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The forgotten holiday

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This is a super meh format for the meme but it's the same text so you get the idea
- If Toyotathon and Shark Week were made holidays I certainly wouldn't complain.
  
  I want some Shark Week carols, and not that fog machine evangelical grade stuff. Something epic like "O Holy Sharks of the Dark Night Sea" or something lol
  
  Ew an ad
  
  What's toyotathon? A sale on Toyota?
This day is not July 1st.
Numbers is part of the old testament, before the calendar counting the days since Christ. It's referring to the Jewish calendar instead.
In Judaism, the year starts on Rosh Hashanah, which usually occurs around mid-September. The first day of the 7th month would be somewhere in March.
Still doesn't seem like Easter.
- I don't care. I will take any excuse to listen to some Madness or the mighty mighty bosstones (ska fanatics please spare me i know the specials and selector exist...)
  
  Ska fanatics would probably listen to Desmond Dekker or Justin Hinds that day.
- Actually this is about Rosh Hashanah, which is the first day of the seventh month despite being the beginning of the year. Calendars are fun.
  
  How is the first day of the seventh month also the beginning of the year on the same calendar?
- Christians should do a ska assembly on Rosh Hashanah!
- Just tell me what day kashrut law permits me to listen to Sublime, and I’ll do it… I have no desire to offend the old gods or the new.
- Ironically that's close to Labor Day, at least in the US.
Sounds like something we should pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!
- I think we should take it one step beyond.
  
  I think I'll have myself a beer instead.
No regular work. Sounds great
- Only irregular work. Forbidden work.
- It does, until you read the rest of the chapter, and realise you have to sacrifice a whole load of livestock and flour for a month, because god likes the smell.
I had to look it up. It's referring to Rosh Hashanah. It's based on the Jewish Calendar.
- Rosh Hashanah
  I don't know them. I haven't followed Ska since the 90s.
  
  You haven’t? That’s madness!
It's the perfect day to bid people welcome to (god's) tragic kingdom!
- You came in with the breeze on Sunday morning...
  
  It really is one of those rare flawless albums where not only is there no bad or even mediocre songs, but every single one is an absolute banger!
Anybody else got Reel Big Fish bouncing around their head right now?
- RBF, Jeff Rosenstock, and Streetlight Manifesto. 24/7.
Wouldn't it technically be the first of September? The actual 7th month?
- If we’re going by the Hebrew calendar it would be Rosh Hashanah, which starts on the first of the seventh month, which this year is on September 22
  
  Duh, right. L'shahnah tova!
This tracks because the only good modern Christian band I can think of is Five Iron Frenzy
Looks like Canadians are the true followers of Christ.
But there’s just so many…!
Mandatory white towelling socks and porkpie hats day.

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