K. 1st may is workers day, when everyone has day off. At least here in Romania.
Poll: Do u celebrate 1st may ? (Vote): Yep. (Vote): Of course....NOT! (Vote): What\\\\\\\'s a Romania ?
K. So me and my friends celebrated 1st may a little early. Like yesterday. We went camping and bought a lot of beer. There were some girls with us and started bithcing cuz we\'ll get drunk and they don\'t like drunk ppl. But we tricked them into playing a game and the loser had to drink some beer.So everyone drank beer and it was very fun. Then we made a huge fire and started playing \"who-screams-louder-\"I AM REACH\"-in-the-middle-of-the-camping-area\". I barely lost to Massive.Attack.
hm my parents walk in parade and stuff I've never felt like doing that but I try to enjoy myself if I had hash or beer i'd get drunk and high for sure.
The point of 1st of May is, even though it is not in the middle of any holiday/break, the day is OFF to everyone in the country. Not anything religious to it, too. The general habit is to go somewhere in nature, and have fun while cooking something on a fire and just chilling. 90% of the population tends to get drunk as fuck (at least in my school).. It is really fun, especially if you don't live in a very large city and nature is just at your doorstep. If 1st of May happens to be near a week-end (Friday-Monday) then usually you will go to stay over the night, with tents - assuming it doesn't rain.
No Uno de Mayo here. In Mexico and the US there is a similar holiday for Mexico called Cinco de Mayo. IT IS NOT MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, which is a common misconception. July 4th to the US, is another similar holiday.
I don't if it's payd but it is a national holliday, just like any other. To bad there's no workers left in norway.. Kind of pisses me off you know, labor unions fought like hell to get workers rights established properly. Dangerous stuff too sometimes. One of these rights are limiting over time work and proper compensation when it does occur, now people are trying to roll back on these restrictions cus it's so lucrative! (too lucrative?)
Mayday is a very old tradition, at least 100 years old. It's the day in which socialists campaign for their beliefs collectively. Think of Martin Luther King day for civil rights, this is the same for social justice. Fringe groups in the UK have some marches but the vast majority continue as normal. We spent the day in the lying around on grass in the sun, then went and got water pistols and had a melee.
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..
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?
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.
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
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