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Sep 21, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

I've always thought that there was a paucity of public holidays in the second half of the year, so I'm in favour. Especially ones that can be turned into a long weekend. Guess we'll have to find someone else to bury for next year's slot, to keep it going. Melbourne get Grand Final and Melbourne Cup holidays, so they probably don't feel it quite as much.

As someone who also mostly works from home these days (yay Covid!) a public holiday or long weekend amounts to making sure not to do work for the day. Actually making something of it requires planning, and they do tend to sneak up on you when you're not paying attention.

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Pretty hard to complain about a public holiday that creates a 4 day weekend here in Melbourne.

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It's a public holiday on Monday in the Independent Sovereign Nation of Westralia, so for 1 annual leave day I get a 5 day weekend.

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I just work from home, do fuck all, save an annual leave day and get paid.

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Same here in Queensland; Queen's Birthday holiday (or perhaps hastily renamed King's or Sovereign's or whatever).

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Yeah, been wondering about the name change.

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Interestingly down here in Victoria every shop I usually get stuff from, local bagel shop at the station, Woolworths, the bakery, the muffin shop - all were open. Some with reduced hours. The bagel employee confirmed they were being paid holiday penalty rates (they had the usual holiday surcharge). My sort of dead monarch holiday.

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i will never sneeze in the face of a public holiday - but i was thinking about it the other day and i don't actually subscribe to any of the reasons we have days off. I stick a finger up to a ruling "class", same goes for those religious dudes and that one guy who we have days off for his birth and death and rebirth (if you believe the hype). I guess a day to celebrate wins for the working chumps? I'd do the same if i was from VIC - don't enjoy a horse race and don't follow the footy. Jeezus, what do i believe in? Thanks Birmingham existential crisis incoming :)

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Considering how much traffic was headed up the Bruce highway Wednesday night, I'm thinking there will be a lot of people either taking Friday off or suddenly sick

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So which one is Cersei ?

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