Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Well you need it in recently-formed artificial countries like Canada. A national day is like a slap of wet clay on a crumbling adobe wall for the Canadian nation state.
Goodbye Mayday, hello UK day.
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Well you need it in recently-formed artificial countries like Canada. A national day is like a slap of wet clay on a crumbling adobe wall for the Canadian nation state.
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
Well, that was random!!!
Out of curiousity, why are we crumbling? Right now, national pride is at an all time high.
Yeah I've heard of this. Same with the USA, they take their cultural heritage quite seriously and really go for st andrews day, as well as st patricks day etc.
Like Random says, it's because they are quite young countries. I saw this thing on tv about a celebration in scotland and it was mostly american tourists who went. They were saying they like to celebrate their heritage but scots generally take it for granted so don't make a big deal.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Don't worry, mud houses are perfectly good dwellings, they just need a bit of upkeep.
Shame to hear about the national pride, though. When Canada grows out of national adolescence hopefully that will clear up, like acne.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
anybody who already gives a shit about mayday will continue to hail it in the manner they see fit. Those who don't give a fuck either way will continue to not give a fuck. Vapid nonsense.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Yeah, but us there any reason we can't have an extra one in October and keep Mayday as well? IIRC most EU countries have way more bank holidays than us anyway.
And given that everyone will be unemployed by next May does it really make any difference?
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
We live in igloos, you twit!!!
Thanks for your concern, but Canada is doing quite fine.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Unless you live in the bit with oil in it, then you're fucked.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
I'm not concerned, I'm quietly confident.
They can do/say/rebrand/redesignate or whatever they feicin' well like to 1st May, it is, and always fecin' will be
International Workers' Day
It will always be may day to me e.g. Morris dancing, may queen, beltane, e.g. the actual folk tradition
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Moon23 in "fuck the working-class" shocker!
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Moon23 likes the working class as long as the behave like merrie england hobbits.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Most Morris dancing was a working-class culture originally. A lot of it still is, although I fully appreciate there are a load of stuck up freemasons in a lot of the cots world sides. I just don't drabe my working class folk tradition in the ideology of Marxism.
And you like your working classes marching around with red flags.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
I expected a better come back from you moon. Shame on you.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I fucking hate morris dancers. They turn up, uninvited, at your local pub then make a fucking racket and dance around in a manner entirely befitting a shower of total cunts. Then they demand money from the unsupecting punters and proceed to spend that money getting heinously pissed as if they needed the help of booze to act like wankers.
They'll most likely spend their time in the pub inflicting themselves noisily upon the locals who would altogether prefer that they dropped dead of syphillis at the earliest conveniance.
They'll then, and this is my favourite bit, drive home. Cunts.
They'll most likely spend their time in the pub inflicting themselves noisily upon the locals who would altogether prefer that they dropped dead of syphillis at the earliest conveniance.
They'll then, and this is my favourite bit, drive home. Cunts.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Have you recently been troubled or handled in an inappropriate fashion by a Morris dancer recently, Spooky?
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
No, you'd rather it be seduced and then fucked over by neo-liberalism instead.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
nope, friedmanism's more your style
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Their continued insistence on inhabiting the same planet as me constitutes, in my view, the most heinous physical and psychological cruelty. A cruelty which would stand unmatched even if I were to hunt down and violently murder all of their extended families.
Have you seen morris dancing? It's just so shit.
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
do you know the origin of May 1st being international worker's day?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
then your cup of freedom is filled with ashes and the meal you set before me is another choice-to-chains.
Costswold, btw.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I used to watch Goodness Gracious me but never saw that one. Thanks for sharing. Very funny.
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
Proves conclusively that morris the dancer walleh are evil cunts.
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
Plans unveiled:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12640636
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
perhgaps this will silence the whining ED, EDL, BNP,UKIP and other rent-a-moaners who claim st george is not venerated enough (was a turk anyway)
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