Author Topic: May 1. (Read 1129 times)

Nilsen · « **on:** May 01, 2004, 03:35:16 AM »

Is this day celebrated by the working class on the entire planet?

lada · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:15:53 AM »

lol Nilsen

1. According to our poetist, its time for Love (lovers)

2. According to former communist party, its holy day for all workers

3. For Eu, its day, when size of Eu become double (aprox.)

Im not sure but since today Eu should have about 450 mil. people, coz 10 new countries did join Eu on 00:00 / 1.5.2004

Nilsen · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:20:15 AM »

hehe...you are a EU citizen too now lada

, do you like it?

i was wondering how many countries celebrate this day aorund the globe every year

lada · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:25:44 AM »

yup im new Eu citizen....

well let me put it this way.

We have strong corruption here and most currupted departments are those who work with Eu....

im lucky that i do not need passport to travell around and i dont need horde of permtions to work around Eu...

But i do not see so many things, whitch could make me proud to be part of Eu

let give it time and see what happen.

anyway we has learned that one who doesnt rob the goverment, rob the family, so we will survive somehow

Nilsen · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:28:43 AM »

lada · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:41:57 AM »

well Nilsen you probably didnt hear what average Czech do.

When goverment preparing some new Law, average czech working hard on methods, "how to go around". So most of our laws are only for bellow average people.

When czech bussiness man sell his company you can bet, it will go bankrupt in few months, because some horrible obligation will appear.

When police stop you coz of speed, he will ask for 50 € fine. You only said .. ohhh thaaatt muuuchhh ??? ... uhhhh ... ahhh ..
could we sort it some other way ?
and police will tell you. What do you mean and its right moment to say may be you could lower this fine, its toooo hiiigh and he agree, so you give hime for example 20€ and when he is about to give you a confirmation about payment, you only say, thanks i dont need it

=> bribe

When average czech shall pay someone 2 hours of his work, he rather do it himself, no matter that he will make it 10 hours.

you are lucky to live so far away

NUKE · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2004, 06:20:37 AM »

I heard that the first May Day was in America in the 1800's.......

funny how we don't celebrate it and even more strange that most Americans don't even know what May Day is or about.

The USSR used to have nice military parades on May Day... that's what I remember most about May Day when I was a kid

storch · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2004, 07:29:30 AM »

Labor day is celebrated in September in the United States. September 6 is the day to celebrate labor day. can't the europeans get anything right? as far as a day of celebration, you must first put in a year of appreciable labor in order to be able to celebrate your labor day even though you are celebrating it on the wrong day. sheesh, we will have to invade you. you guys do everything wrong.

straffo · « **Reply #8 on:** May 01, 2004, 07:52:12 AM »

My god Storch do you ignore your own history ?

I'll give you the year as you already have the day and the month : 1886

It's not related to the 1894 events.

Nilsen · « **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2004, 07:58:57 AM »

storch..
The man or woman speaking infront of the class is called a teacher. His or her job is to tell you things that you as a student should try to remember.
The books they gave you are not for resting your forehead on, nor is the pile of books there to block the teachers view.....they are for reading.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2004, 10:33:45 AM »

Mayday may be the most ancient religious festival in the Northern Hemisphere. Ritual human sacrifice to a death/fertility/nature goddess was practiced until the 1st Century BC.

The observation of Labor Day on the first Monday in September is usually attributed to the Knights of Labor who held their first parade on September 5, 1882. But more important is the Haymarket Riot of 1886.

There are several interpretations of what occurred, and monuments have been constructed to both the demonstrators and the police. A reasonable summary is that the labor organizers were peacefully demonstrating for an eight hour day, an anarchist threw a bomb in to the crowd, which killed a policeman, the police killed several demonstrators and some policemen, the powers that be arrested the labor leaders.

Curval · « **Reply #11 on:** May 01, 2004, 10:43:54 AM »

Nilsen...that baby still hasn't come?

That would be awesome if it arrived on May day....you being a Euro commie and all.

straffo · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2004, 10:43:58 AM »

I thought Labor Day was because of president Cleveland incompetence and not because of the Chicago killing.

I'm wrong so ?

In France it's both the Haymarket and Fourmies event who are celebred

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2004, 10:57:27 AM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Nilsen...that baby still hasn't come?

That would be awesome if it arrived on May day....you being a Euro commie and all.

hehehehehe.....Eurocommie

Im actually fairly far to the right when it comes to politics and May 1. belongs to the working class.....i do not

Dinger · « **Reply #14 on:** May 01, 2004, 11:11:13 AM »

We only stopped celebrating mayday during the heyday of anticommunism.

debout les damnes de la terre!