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Devastatin Dave
05-01-2007, 17:29
Just thought I'd supply a spot for your thoughts... I'll keep my comments to myself.:beam:
Sasaki Kojiro
05-01-2007, 17:31
Is it even a holiday? I thought it was just what you screamed into the radio after your plane got hit by AA fire or whatever.
macsen rufus
05-01-2007, 17:50
And you, Dave :2thumbsup: Reminds me I should be home burning virgins and fondling a red flag.... Merry Beltaine!
Today is my little girl lemur's first birthday, so it's a good one all around.
Blodrast
05-01-2007, 18:00
Sweet! I knew I could count on you, Dave - wanna meet up after work and down a few shots of vodka in the health of our comrades ?:2thumbsup:
Big King Sanctaphrax
05-01-2007, 18:02
Hurrah! Go international solidarity of workers!
*Heads to an anti-globalisation protest*
HoreTore
05-01-2007, 18:11
Is it even a holiday? I thought it was just what you screamed into the radio after your plane got hit by AA fire or whatever.
It's more than a holiday! It's the first day of the Norwegian Drunken Teens period! Lasting until the 17th of may, 19-year olds around the country are getting hammered nearly every day, and spending the sober hours driving around in red or blue vans playing loud music, doing pranks and having unprotected sex!
Is it even a holiday?
it is over here :2thumbsup:
Crazed Rabbit
05-01-2007, 19:06
Huzzah, May Day!
*dances on the grave of communism*
Don Corleone
05-01-2007, 19:21
Huzzah, May Day!
*dances on the grave of communism*
Compare life under the Bolsheveks to the NEA and their hijacking of the American educational system, then ask yourself why you're dancing again.
True to form, Chavez had a big celebration today. He nationalized all foreign interests in the Orocono basin, refused to guarantee repayment of capital investments of said foreign interests, and officially withdrew from the World Bank and the IMF, though he's effectively been out of that for months now.
Simple question: If you ask somebody to come build a shop on your vacant lot and split the profits with you, do you have the right to seize all the equipment out of their store any time you so desire and run the store yourself? Pretty good deal for the landlord, except maybe getting future tenants will be a little tough...
Ser Clegane
05-01-2007, 19:24
it is over here
And here :beam: (although my colleagues in China even have a full week off :stare:)
It's more than a holiday! It's the first day of the Norwegian Drunken Teens period! Lasting until the 17th of may, 19-year olds around the country are getting hammered nearly every day, and spending the sober hours driving around in red or blue vans playing loud music, doing pranks and having unprotected sex!
*Ice wishes he could be in Norway until the 17th of May* :yes:
Big King Sanctaphrax
05-01-2007, 19:37
Why red and blue vans? Surely you could mix it up a bit? What's wrong with the traditional white Transit?
The_Mark
05-01-2007, 19:40
Happy hangovers! :beam:
HoreTore
05-01-2007, 19:53
Why red and blue vans? Surely you could mix it up a bit? What's wrong with the traditional white Transit?
because you're either a red or a blue "russ"... And thus your van has that colour... There are a few people who are black though. But they tend to have their ass beaten...
Big King Sanctaphrax
05-01-2007, 20:04
There are a few people who are black though. But they tend to have their ass beaten...
Sounds like you need to get yourselves a civil rights movement. For shame, Norway.
Seamus Fermanagh
05-01-2007, 20:11
May Day -- a.k.a. Beltaine or Labor (Labour) Day:
Pretty popular holiday, though the Chinese get the most time off and the Nazis enacted theirs with the greatest possible irony. As is true of the USA, many countries celebrate labor by not working.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
Have fun singing "The Internationale" my pinko friends.
HoreTore
05-01-2007, 20:13
Sounds like you need to get yourselves a civil rights movement. For shame, Norway.
Haha! Not skin colour, clothing colour :laugh4:
The reason, is that the "black russ" are usually one year younger... And you beat people younger than yourself...
Seamus Fermanagh
05-01-2007, 20:16
The reason, is that the "black russ" are usually one year younger... And you beat people younger than yourself...
Hmmm. Maybe we should set up the new "Gitmo" on the outskirts of Narvik. Sounds like the locals would get into the spirit of things. :devilish:
HoreTore
05-01-2007, 20:22
Hmmm. Maybe we should set up the new "Gitmo" on the outskirts of Narvik. Sounds like the locals would get into the spirit of things. :devilish:
I fully support that. I you put the locals there, that is.
Is it even a holiday?
According to Lemur, tomorrow is going to be at his house.
:happybirthday3: :cake: :birthday2:
Incongruous
05-01-2007, 22:37
What is this day of may which you speak?:inquisitive:
Workers of the World Unite!
Socialism lives. :sunny: :canada:
Seamus Fermanagh
05-02-2007, 04:32
Workers of the World Unite!
Socialism lives. :sunny: :canada:
Wow....a genuine Wobbly...right here in the .org....we should call for some kind of museum curator or someone no?
Papewaio
05-02-2007, 05:21
Bit of a blinkered world view.
There are plenty of socialistic countries around the world... some of them have longer living citizens, more noble prises per capita and quite a few other benchmarks above and beyond capitalist countries.
The blended variants of the two are the best IMDHO... much like blends of coffee, you can get the best of both.
doc_bean
05-02-2007, 08:18
Ah a day too late, the joys of getting drunk on a sunny afternoon in the middle of the week :2thumbsup:
Long live socialism !
cegorach
05-02-2007, 10:44
He, he.
Here in Poland if you get Monday, Wednesday and Friday as your holidays you will get some NINE days FREE ( 1st May is free, so is the 3rd May our National Holiday) - long live the longest weekend of the modern world !:balloon2: :balloon2:
macsen rufus
05-02-2007, 12:18
Speaking as one who usually ends up working on Bank Holidays (dratted retail sector :no: ), I think I'm moving to Poland :2thumbsup:
We have a little song about the First of May:
Hurray, Hurray!
The First of May!
Outdoor sex
begins today!
Seamus Fermanagh
05-02-2007, 13:08
We have a little song about the First of May:
Hurray, Hurray!
The First of May!
Outdoor sex
begins today!
Toughen up lad! Think of all the joyous snow-romps you've been missing! :devilish:
Pappy:
You are injecting far too much thought and reasonableness into this thread. Let me have a laugh at the expense of the Wobblies bemoaning their lack of success and cursing the success of Franco -- hasn't been an extant concern in that format for more than 6 decades anyway -- no harm done. I am well aware that the hybrid "socialist-democracatic republic" is the most popular form of government on the planet.
Adrian II
05-02-2007, 13:28
Bit of a blinkered world view.
There are plenty of socialistic countries around the world... some of them have longer living citizens, more noble prises per capita and quite a few other benchmarks above and beyond capitalist countries.
The blended variants of the two are the best IMDHO... much like blends of coffee, you can get the best of both.A solid view, methinks. :bow:
All societies in human history have been capitalist in the sense that their production and reproduction were determined by scarcity and market forces. The trick of creating a humane society is in regulating these forces and harnessing them toward the common good. There will always be a residu that can not be regulated, though, because in the end human nature can never be controlled or regulated. Or at least not without rendering it unproductive or selfdestructive.
Don Corleone
05-02-2007, 14:22
Oy, Pape. I wasn't besmirching Socialism at large, I just thought it was funny that Chavez decided to celebrate MayDay by doing exactly that which Capitalists always accuse Socialists of doing, stealing private property. Typically, and correctly, Socialists argue that it's an unfair slur... As far as I know, the French, the Swedes and the Dutch haven't nationalized anything.
In fact, with Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare... you could make the argument that the USA is a Socialist system. The questions isn't 'are you', it's 'how much'. Socialism versus capitalism is a spectrum, not a finite element choice. Each society has to make the choice where on the spectrum they wish to reside for themselves.
Does anybody know why in the USA we celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday in September instead of May 1st? I could have used a holiday yesterday.
HoreTore
05-02-2007, 16:56
The Swedish, Norwegians and Danes have a substantial part of our infrastructure nationalized, or at least only partly privatized. Electricity, health services, schools, communications, water, transportation, pensions, and in the case of Norway, the oil, are all areas that are more or less nationalized.
Probably a few more areas too, but I can't think of them atm.
Don Corleone
05-02-2007, 17:01
Erh, I misspoke HoreTore. You didn't seize private property without compensating its owner. I meant nationalized in the verb sense, for the government to seize, not in the adjective sense (owned by the government).
HoreTore
05-02-2007, 17:22
Aha. Well, no, we haven't done that. We have screwed private owners when buying stuff from them though, but that's capitalism I suppose...
Everything I mentioned, have either always been state property, or it has been bought from private owners.
I do support Chavez when he screws our state-owned oil company, Statoil, though. They've been screwing people all over the world, it's about time they get some back...
Tribesman
05-02-2007, 22:17
I just thought it was funny that Chavez decided to celebrate MayDay by doing exactly that which Capitalists always accuse Socialists of doing, stealing private property.
How did he steal private property Don ?
All the oil companies are still there and they are all still pumping oil :inquisitive:
Since all the ventures were joint partnerships already and are remaining joint partnerships whats the big deal ?
Anyhow , back to topic . We don't get the holiday till Monday .
Here is celebrated too.
Anyway, a day I dont go to school.
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