Puts us right in line with… the equinox. Lol. Pennsylvania is so fucking dumb and this uniquely PA holiday proves just how much.

“Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.”

This groundhog needs to go, he’s too powerful

A groundhog LORD?!

If what you've told me is true, you'll have earned my trust.

So yeah, stupid. Lol

Join me and together we will control the weather

Yeah and people need to stop putting up christmas trees too cause SANTA ISN'T REAL!!!!!! People are so dumb to believe these things! /s

STOP HAVING FUN!!!!

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Lol. Point proven.

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What winter?

Phil has a 40% accuracy rating in the last decade

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/groundhog-day-forecasts-and-climate-history

Bro we all know a rodent doesn’t have psychic powers or can affect the weather. It’s just a fun, silly, tradition. It isn’t even just a PA thing the entire country knows about Groundhog Day.

Holidays aren’t supposed to be useless.

What winter?

Name a holiday that isn’t pointless? They are all made up. It’s not like it is an actual holiday either. Again, fun, silly, tradition.

That’s my point. Almost all of the US holidays are valid af and mined for profit. No substance or real reason to have them.

It's just silly fun. We know the prediction is BS.

I look at this this way, just because I’m a wet blanket I try not to shit on others for having fun.

Has winter even started yet?

He says 6 weeks of winter, but how many weeks of false springs and late frosts?

I look at it this way, the dumbing down of America has been happening for a long fucking time and one of the ways that has happened is by stripping meaning from the meaningful and replacing it with vapid consumer bullshit. The fall of society is precisely because of holidays like this and the mechanisms which support them.

Whats fun about it?

You picked a strange hill to die on. If it was Christmas maybe you would have a point but with this being PA half the people in that crowd are likely hung over. The other half is still drunk.

This isn’t a hill to die on, it’s a symptom of a larger ill.

I’ve mentioned it elsewhere today, but according to the Groundhog Day folks, whenever the weather and Phil don’t agree, it isn’t Phil that’s wrong that year, it’s the weather that’s wrong.

are you ok? I didn't realize everything in life had to be so serious, I guess fun isn't allowed anymore. you've never done a dumb or silly thing in life? that sounds boring tbh

“uniquely PA holiday”

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Nothing wrong with doing dumb things, but unifying around them is another story.

but how is a group of people coming together for a holiday that everyone knows doesn't make an impact on anything (other than bringing people together, as communities and society should do) hurt anything? Like why is that a big deal? It's not negatively impacting literally anything. It's just a fun/goofy thing to do to bring people together and lighten the mood lol

Or you know we could come together to address the hurt our vapidness and obsession with entertainment causes. But nah, that wouldn’t be fun.

you're avoiding the question, what is a few hours once a year hurting? what do you suggest we do for fun aside from entertainment? We all need escapes from the world, and this is one of them. stop trying to be so philosophical and just enjoy life lol

Ah, yes. The uselessness of an examined life. I bet you enjoy network TV.

again, avoiding the question, what is Groundhog Day hurting? Please answer, because you're avoiding the question, which I wouldn't consider very useful to the examination of this thread. And I don't watch network TV but thanks for assuming!

If you don’t understand by now, nothing I say will help.

What is Groundhog Day hurting? It's a simple question. If you can't answer that, I don't know what your point to this entire post even was, which is clear by the enormous amount of downvotes you've received lol. Nobody knows what you're talking about

Well, yeah. You’re a bunch of morons.

That high?

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I don’t think you know what irony is.

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Based on the opinion of morons.

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Not triggered in the least. Just pointing out how utterly stupid this country and its people are.

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Lol - did you just learn pseudo?

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When does winter start?

right? we've had like 10 cold days