Happy May Day...

[Devastatin Dave]

Just thought I'd supply a spot for your thoughts... I'll keep my comments to myself.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

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]

And you, Dave Reminds me I should be home burning virgins and fondling a red flag.... Merry Beltaine!

[Lemur]

Today is my little girl lemur's first birthday, so it's a good one all around.

[Blodrast]

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 ?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Hurrah! Go international solidarity of workers!

*Heads to an anti-globalisation protest*

[HoreTore]

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!

[Ronin]

Is it even a holiday?

it is over here

[Crazed Rabbit]

Huzzah, May Day!

*dances on the grave of communism*

[Don Corleone]

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]

it is over here

And here (although my colleagues in China even have a full week off )

[Ice]

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*

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Why red and blue vans? Surely you could mix it up a bit? What's wrong with the traditional white Transit?

[The_Mark]

Happy hangovers!

[HoreTore]

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]

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]

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]

Sounds like you need to get yourselves a civil rights movement. For shame, Norway.

Haha! Not skin colour, clothing colour

The reason, is that the "black russ" are usually one year younger... And you beat people younger than yourself...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

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.

[HoreTore]

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.

I fully support that. I you put the locals there, that is.

[Whacker]

Is it even a holiday?

According to Lemur, tomorrow is going to be at his house.

[Incongruous]

What is this day of may which you speak?

[Beirut]

Workers of the World Unite!

Socialism lives.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Workers of the World Unite!

Socialism lives.

Wow....a genuine Wobbly...right here in the .org....we should call for some kind of museum curator or someone no?

[Papewaio]

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]

Ah a day too late, the joys of getting drunk on a sunny afternoon in the middle of the week

Long live socialism !

[Andres]

Long live any holiday !

[cegorach]

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 !

[macsen rufus]

Speaking as one who usually ends up working on Bank Holidays (dratted retail sector ), I think I'm moving to Poland

We have a little song about the First of May:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Hurray, Hurray!
The First of May!
Outdoor sex
begins today!

[Seamus Fermanagh]

We have a little song about the First of May:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Hurray, Hurray!
The First of May!
Outdoor sex
begins today!

Toughen up lad! Think of all the joyous snow-romps you've been missing!


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.