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одна озадаченная гражданка- у этой сын в четырнадцать лет оказался... вейпером: курил это дело прямо в школе и был заснят на видео завистливым одноклассником, передавшим видеоматериалы руководству учебного учреждения. А те в свою очередь- в ПДН. С другой стороны, мамаша призналась, что ни она с супружником, ни школа никак не могут повлиять на
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Do you know how it was supposed to be with the general "parents day"? What date it should have been?
(In the case of Ascension Day, I would have thought it has to do with Christ returning to his Father...)
On another note... Ha, I don't know when they changed that, but in East Germany this Father's Day plays no real role. Barely you know it under that name.
Instead they do a general holiday for males, called "Herrentag" (I don't know how to translate this really properly... "Men's day" maybe?).
This must be specific for East Germany because, I think, lautenist once was here somewhere in the North on vacation around that time of the year when the date is, he caught the term from reklama or so, but to him it was totally unknown. He didn't know what to do with it and only knew it as Father's Day.
(It was me who told him the background to it and made him realize "aha, this is that".)
"Herrentag" isn't really a virtuous holiday because the tradition is that the males go out with each other and do pub tours or get drunk otherwise, as a way of celebrating the day. (Of course, not all do that, and don't do that anymore today.)
But, as my translation shall indicate how it is, the term "Herrentag" addresses all males and not just the fathers. Taking the holiday away from the context of being only "worth" celebrating if you have sired at least once child.
It's supposed to be there for all grown up males, regardless of whether they're a father already, yet or ever want to become one.
I think, similarly, here the International Women's Day also was more emphasized than the Mother's Day. But, I guess, this was because the Nazis made such a dogma out of it and reduced women so strongly to their physical ability to bear children.
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Well, thanks for sharing about the Herrentag, sounds interesting. But the drinking part tells me it was kind of commercial too, I mean who would be interested in many males gathering and drinking a lot?
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Probably the original purpose they wanted to shift this to - from this Father's Day and the religious Ascension Day - was different, but doing drinking tours is what people turned it into.
Say... just a day over the year where you can go hog wild, and take your time off from the everyday hard work - and for men in former times this usually meant something like "drink 'til you drop", taking your handcart ("Bollerwagen") with the "provisions" with you, trek through the town and do nonsense. Just letting yourself go.
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In the US and general in the anglo-american sphere it is the 3rd sunday of June. An official holiday since 1974 and meant to celebrate fathers as part of the family (with no relation to religion)
Herrentag is just another name - the GDR avoided the religious reference
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