On 11/2/2011 11:09 AM, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> Doesn't Finland have a harvest celebration, tho? Like Thanksgiving and
>> Mid-Autumn Festival and stuff like that? That's really all Halloween is,
>> except some Christians went and dressed it up in evil icons because it was
>> the pagan version of the holiday.
>
>    Btw, now that you mention it and I looked it up, All Saints Day actually
> *is* an official holiday in Finland. De jure, at least. It's in the saturday
> between october 31 and november 6.
>
>    However, it's a purely Christian holiday with its origin in Catholicism,
> rather than being a traditional harvest festival.
>
>    In practice nobody celebrates this. Not that I know of. (Perhaps some
> churches might.) IIRC you don't even get a day off work (iow. it's not
> *that* official).
>
Don't get off work for Halloween here either. Not sure of government 
workers though, those lazy asses seem to get everything off, which makes 
using public transport, in places where its government run, pretty damn 
useless on nearly every "holiday". I am sometimes surprised their isn't 
a government, "We just don't feel like working today.", holiday. lol

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