In Europe, that’s July and/or August, depending on the country
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Lining up perfectly with June being pride month and July being wrath month!
Sloth month would be cool, but I was thinking you meant a celebration of the tree-dwelling animal.
Yeah, but why not both?
psst, some cultures kinda do this.
Montreal is basically on vacation in August, for example
I wish we didn't live in a culture that celebrates the exact opposite of sloth month, every month.
Diligence? Yeah, I'd say we are demanded diligence for the sake of other's greed.
Lust month would be wild.
I thought you were suggesting a month to celebrate sloths.
Yeah well fuck that. When's the flying squid month, I ask you? When do we get a break? Oh sure, it's all "wow, look at the squid soaring over the waves" and then back to the shore for some calamari.
Shameful.
And you know FlyingSquid has emotional problems!
You mean--beyond pacifism?
He's fragile, man! He's very fragile!
Yeah, even a week would be nice
I'd settle for a day. How about a Monday in September?
Every city should have a Sloth Parade. It's only 1 block and takes 5 hours.
My work closes the last two weeks of the year for the holidays and we get paid during our time off (If You're not in a union, get one) and a lot of us save up some vacation and take an extra week on top, so December counts as Sloth Month for me.
Civilized countries do exactly this. Workers in non-failed states take 1-3 months of paid time off a year.
It’s a uniquely American perspective to be squeezed year round just for the bourgeois to deal all the value you created.
I read Romans had this during the monarchy and the early days of the republic. The calendar was so fucked up that they had to add a few "festival weeks" to compensate and catch up with the solar period.