We danes love it - another occasion to get good and drunk..

... which is kinda sad when you think about it. 1st of May should be used to fight for your rights as a worker, develop worker union programs and look back at what workers throughout history has achived. It somewhat saddens me to see that every time 1st of May is celebrated in Randers it always ends up in a fight.
A girl of mine is the leader of Social Democrats youth party in my town, and she held a speech today where she addresed these issues. Supposedly some of the old guys at the meeting were offended, which was what she wanted.

Yeah I did it again. I'm so good at turning potentially good topics into utter shite..

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

May 01 2007 05:17 GMT

#24

I was also oblivious to such an observed holiday.

ManaBlue

Canada10458 Posts

May 01 2007 05:21 GMT

#25

I never knew there was a meaning to May 1st. Cute.

CubEdIn

Romania5359 Posts

May 01 2007 05:27 GMT

#26

Just got back from all that. Love 1st of May.

It's kind of a spring break. People here go to the sea-side or some other place and just get wasted. Well, teenagers at least. Kind of sux sleeping on the beach when there are 4ºC outside though.

Also, does Cinco de Mayo have ANYTHING to do with getting girls pregnant?

Sorry if this sounds ignorant, but I've heard several references to this from Carlos Mencia. Is it like a fertility thing? Or just a result of people getting drunk?

Me liked.

Edit: btw, I voted "what's a Romania" (duh)

Xeofreestyler

Belgium6774 Posts

May 01 2007 05:47 GMT

#27

On May 01 2007 11:35 mdb wrote:
I think its only a former-socialist country holiday?

Nope, mdb is wrong

Unless belgium used to be a communistic country? You tell me.

PanoRaMa

United States5069 Posts

May 01 2007 05:56 GMT

#28

Learned about it in Soc class today. Was half asleep so I could be wrong. In fact, the answer is prolly on Wikipedia but too lazy to check it up.

Mayday is not celebrated in the US/Canada. Our equivalent is Labor Day, which we made out of absolutely no historical relevance whatsoever. We created labor day sometime in the 2nd half of the 20th century because we didn't want to associate ourselves with a holiday that was also predominantly celebrated by Russians, etc. (further evidencing mdb's explanation) Though I'm sure it wasn't a Russian holiday, and is in fact celebrated widely around the world.

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

May 01 2007 06:03 GMT

#29

I took a final. And then will have study for more. Some day off.

TS-Rupbar

Sweden1089 Posts

May 01 2007 06:07 GMT

#30

I had an awesome 1st of May. Me and like 8 of my friends went down to the supermarket to get some meat and marinade at 4 pm. Then we all went home and prepared ourselves (prepare meat/marinade, shower, get dressed) for the night.

At 6 pm, we regathered for the greatest recipe to make a superb evening - steak, beer and cool music

My classmate had set up an intern party for our class, so we packed our beer and headed over there at around 9 pm. I met some really cool people and just had a great time overall

TheTyranid

Russian Federation4333 Posts

May 01 2007 06:12 GMT

#31

YES SIR!!!! I DO!

Workers FTW beeeeeeeeeotch!

WTF is up with whats a Romania lol???

TheTyranid

Russian Federation4333 Posts

May 01 2007 06:16 GMT

#32

On May 01 2007 14:17 Myrmidon wrote:
I was also oblivious to such an observed holiday.

Its ok, lol i bet like 95% of Americans dont know about May 1 because its a socialist holiday.

TheTyranid