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First you attack Spain, now National Slacker Day??

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Well,
The UK and Spain have been attacking each other (both physically and verbally) for centuries, so any recent developments here are simply ongoing skirmishes in the much larger battlefront.

Re: National Slacker day, well apart from the fact that slacker is an American term, one could say that the English probably raised slacker-dom to a fine art form even before the 13 original colonies in North America were formed.

And recent innovations in the last 100 years included the Trade Union movement and feather-bedding practices.

However, that would be a little unkind to point this out :-)

The average British worker generally does not need any externally imposed reasons from some [presumably American companies] 'marketing' department to stay at home from work.
A bit of snow can do that without needing to pre-arrange it in advance [especiallty if the workers concerned work for the UK Railways or any UK public transport].

Still I am sure the hard working Cambridge based employees of SB did not slack any more or less than they usually would last Friday :-)))