r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 19h ago

Discussion She almost ruined a proposal.

This was at Crescent Bay Point Park, which allows people to book it special occasions.

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u/m0mbi 19h ago

I will never get tired of watching the absolute dregs of Western Europe in the Americas telling other people to "go back to wherever".

Bitch there's a hovel in the Scottish Highlands with a you-shaped-hole in it. Lead by example.

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u/Key-Performance-9021 18h ago edited 16h ago

We basically kicked them out after they tried to forbid others from practicing their religion. They literally banned Christmas. America started as a refuge for extremists and control freaks. What else do you expect?

In 1647, the Puritan-led English Parliament banned the celebration of Christmas. Protests followed, and pro-Christmas riots broke out in several cities. For weeks, Canterbury was effectively controlled by the pro-Christmas rioters, who decorated the city with holly.
The Puritans later fled to the Netherlands, but even there, they were confronted with religious freedom, and feared that their children might become Dutch and “drawn away by evil examples into extravagance and dangerous courses.” They therefore decided to try their luck in the New World.
In 1659, the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a law called Penalty for Keeping Christmas: “Festivals as were superstitiously kept in other countries are a great dishonor of God and offence of others. Anyone found celebrating Christmas by failing to work, feasting, or any other way shall pay for every such offence five shillings.”
Non-Puritans in New England lamented the loss of the holiday traditions enjoyed by the working classes in England. The Puritan ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Edmund Andros. Nevertheless, it was not until the mid-19th century that Christmas celebrations became fashionable in the Boston area. Before the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Christmas was not widely celebrated in the American colonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversies#17th_and_18th_centuries

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u/justforsomelulz 16h ago

My favorite part is that I was taught that our origin of "seeking refuge from persecution" meant that we we somehow better than everyone else and it was beginning of America Being The Best No Exceptions America Is The Best.

Now I just roll my eyes and think "wow, some attitudes really don't fade..."

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u/BeeSpibbleBlop 8h ago

To follow-on to the ideas expressed above, the irony then became that we somewhat gave Christmas back to them. Washington Irving specifically. He wrote a story called Bracebridge Hall talking about Old Christmas. I forgot the particulars. Basically followed a group of Holiday goers traveling into the country to a hall to celebrate old Christmas traditions. Dickens was here in the Americas and took back the idea and ethos to help with A Christmas Carol.

Book: The Battle for Christmas