I’m not religious personally but TGI Fridays is a very popular after-church spot (according to all of the religious/former religious people I asked). Why are none of them mad about this?
How could they actively support a restaurant so sinful it includes a sin in the title?
Didn’t Friday’s shut down over a decade ago? Chili’s and Applebee’s are all that’s left, and the latter is barely clinging on.
You’re thinking of Chotchkie’s and Flingers.
Those were real? I thought they were just made up places from Office Space.
No, they’re made up places. I was having fun, but the fun police saw I already had warrants.
No, there are still plenty around. I drive past one often enough to know they have decent drink specials.
Looked into it; looks like they simply decided to flee my state. The closest Friday’s location to me is 300+ miles away in California.
Thank Goodness Its Friday?
TGIF stands for Thank God it’s Friday according their own FAQ:
Thank you! I was only finding “TGIF” sources, which wasa Friday night line up.
Is it me or are people thinking more about religion lately? I know I am so I might be biased but some friends and family have brought it up as well despite none of us being religious.
My fiancé was raised extremely religious and managed to escape that life. The childhood teaching and consequences of said upbringing are always prevalent for us.
As for everyone else… The religious far-right has been growing rapidly across the entire globe so I imagine that has at least a part in it.
I reconnected with some old colleagues recently and they’re both turned religious. One of them already was but it seemed much more intense now, the other seems surprising to me. Very unusual in my circles, I basically never interact with religious people or if I do it’s so superficial it doesn’t come up.
Might have something to with the easter season, oh and something about a dead Pope? Don’t worry it’ll die down once beach season starts up.
Because it’s “Thank God It’s Friday,” not “God Dammit It’s Friday.”
Well now I want to open a bar called “God Dammit It’s Monday”. With the gimmick being that it’s the bar for people who want to get blackout drunk.
“God dammit, it’s Monday…I need a drink…”
GDI Mondays
Of all the gods that people have ever believed in, ones that are currently believe in and any future gods, I wonder which god they meant? ;)
Since Friday is literally Freya’s day, I’d assume they were thanking her.
They’re too busy being mad about the service and quality of food.
supply side jesus has different rules
Do they actually say what “TGI” stands for? Is there some legal document that says its full name is “Thank God It’s Friday’s”? Maybe it actually stands for “The Grumpy Intestine Friday’s”.
Thank Greg it’s Friday
Which Greg?
They spell it out under their FAQ but I doubt that’s legally binding
Oooo, good find! Busted.
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can’t even decide if “Friday(s)” is singular or plural.
It’s singular, but (strangely) possessive. Like, O’Malley’s implies O’Malley’s Bar, this would be the restaurant that belongs to TGIF.
It’s not possessive without an apostrophe.
Why are none of them mad about this?
Because most people are colossal hypocrites.
Especially the religious
It’s one of the traits all religions share
Taking the lord’s name in vain isn’t swearing or saying thank God, it’s doing stuff “in the name of the Lord.” Ergo, most so-called Christians in the US take the Lord’s name in vain on a daily basis.
Because religion is a set of rules for hypocrites to bind people they don’t like and suggestions for behavior for themselves which can be discarded, as they are only superstitions, not actual laws.
Other people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I’ve learned that it’s “Thank God” rather than “Thank Goodness”. It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would occasionally take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, amlnd they called it “Thank Goodness It’s Friday” when they had cause to use the long version
Not an answer to your question but in looking it up this killed me…
“In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues,[11] in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women.”
Imagine being like “I need to meet women, I’ll open a business.” Lol
He paid $5000, or $50k in today’s money in Manhattan. JFC… I can’t even imagine what that would actually cost today.
Imagine being like “I need to meet women, I’ll open a business.” Lol
Like Facebook? Lol.
I always assumed it stood for “thank goodness it’s fridays” honestly.
It’s not uncommon for some sects to write G-d instead of God as a handy workaround, and even then “God” is already a euphemism for the Tetragrammaton rather than His actual name. So in that vein using “G” on its own is probably safe.
That’s actually an unholey workaround!
ocontains 100% more hole than-.
