Blog 110: Good Friday, Bad Google.

It's Good Friday as I write this. For anyone that doesn't realise, Good Friday is the day which we remember Jesus dying on the cross. (Easter is for when he rose from the dead two days later.) Now obviously, there's some debate over wether he rose from the dead, or was the son of God, and although I believe that, I'm not here to drum that into your skulls (although obviously, I'd recommend it). BUT nobody in their right minds denies that there was a man called Jesus who taught us some really sound stuff and was then crucified. And Good Friday is when we remember this.

Now it's easy enough to remember when Good Friday is. You know Easter is always on a Sunday right? Well, go two days before that, and that's ALWAYS Good Friday. So it's not like you're gonna forget.

But guess who's just invented a groovy holiday and decided to plonk it right where Good Friday is this year. That's right, Google have invented a holiday.

WELL ok, it's been around since 1970, but still. Nobody knows or cares about Earth Day, it's a ridiculous idea and is fundamentally pointless. But if you MUST have Earth Day, why don't you whack it somewhere around, I dunno, June, July, August, September, early October, late November time? Heck, shove it on the 23rd of December, it won't ever accidentally clash with Christmas will it. BUT HERE'S AN IDEA! Don't whack it right where there's already a more prominent holiday. It's like standing next to Martin Luther King and trying to get praise for how you went back to the shop and gave them the 30p for the biscuit which they forgot to scan through. Nobody cares, you're not a hero, and if anything, you're an idiot for throwing away 30p.

But you know what's even worse? So it accidentally clashes with Good Friday. Not the best planning, but hey ho, people make mistakes. But on the google homepage, don't pretend like Earth Day is a bigger deal than Good Friday?! Whether you're a massive church goer who never leaves a pew except to make a PPEEE-EEWWW (see what I did there?) or basically a satanist who never leaves his or her pentagram, Good Friday has become a fundamental day which is engrained into our culture in all country's with a Christian foundation and history, so I dunno where Google gets off pretending like Earth Day is the best thing ever. I don't know what Earth Day is, I dunno what it's for. Oh if I don't remember to celebrate EARTH DAY I'm gonna forget what the EARTH is, OH BLOODY HELL what's this massive sphere I'm treading all over, oh golly gosh, oh wait, Earth Day's here OH I REMEMBER, it's the Earth. This literally never happens. So go away Earth Day, get off google's little picture version of it's logo and let's have some recognition for someone. You're probably thinking, well this is an overreaction, it's not like anyone died, but 1) my URL says about me ranting, so you had a warning and 2) SOMEONE DID DIE. And we're too busy celebrating Earth Day to care about it. Let's reconsider Earth Day, please, we're coming off as idiots.

Although, to be honest, soon as we find martians we'll get rid of Earth Day due to it being politically incorrect.