Goodbye Mayday, hello UK day.

[fredfelt]

Morris dancing is English a bit crap weird and fun nobody really takes it seriously
apart from the Dark morris of course

Middle aged men dancing with bells on fuelled by lots of free beer leads to a heady mix of those who dance the Morris being able to laugh at their-selves while still being passionate about tradition.

With half our employees being Morris dancers we shut our office on May day and generally find ourselves meeting at sunrise with a breakfast pint in hand. This tradition will continue regardless of any 'official' changes in holidays.

Anyone who cannot see the joy of Morris takes themselves far too seriously!

 

[gosub]

prefer Dan Rogerson's idea, county-based public holidays

 

[kabbes]

Surrey Day!

Any suggestions for a suitable hook to hang it on? The celebration of really good organic butchers with a deli counter, possibly?

 

[The Black Hand]

Middle aged men dancing with bells on fuelled by lots of free beer leads to a heady mix of those who dance the Morris being able to laugh at their-selves while still being passionate about tradition.

With half our employees being Morris dancers we shut our office on May day and generally find ourselves meeting at sunrise with a breakfast pint in hand. This tradition will continue regardless of any 'official' changes in holidays.

Anyone who cannot see the joy of Morris takes themselves far too seriously!

Completely.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Surrey Day!

Any suggestions for a suitable hook to hang it on? The celebration of really good organic butchers with a deli counter, possibly?

Sussex day!

Afternoon spent drinking real ale and cider and playing stoolball. The evening spent drinking real ale and cider and sloe gin and burning stuff.

Louis MacNeice

 

[sim667]

St Murdoch day?

 

[kyser_soze]

While I think this whole process is bollocks (there's been a May day since before Sass was born), if I was in government, I'd spin it like this:

Holiday to celebrate dragon-slaying or death of 2,000 Frenchmen


Putting it like that...

 

[SpookyFrank]

before Sass was born

Does not compute...

 

[kyser_soze]

I know. It's practically geological time.

 

[DotCommunist]

yerk, reading that reminds me of how I felt sorry for napolean (after reading a sympathetic bio) ending his days on a shit rock inventing power games in his head where he waged a small battle against his captors. Like a french Fletch from Porridge. Cunt or no, that irrelevance and small rages of a man who once scared the shit out of most of western europe..its tragic and filled with pathos.

 

[Blagsta]

Wasn't the mayday bank holiday introduced by Callaghan?

 

[kyser_soze]

Having spent the weekend cunted on beak & weed watching Sharpe, I can only agree with that. Incredible time, that someone could rise to become that powerful, lose it, and then stage a magnificent comeback only to lose their nerve & tactical nous at the time when they most needed to hold it.

Yes - all 14 eps of Sharpe in a weekend. It was fucking great. It's the male equivalent of that Bronté thing with Firth in it.

 

[Streathamite]

Costswold, btw.

or even,"cotswolds"

 

[DotCommunist]

Having spent the weekend cunted on beak & weed watching Sharpe, I can only agree with that. Incredible time, that someone could rise to become that powerful, lose it, and then stage a magnificent comeback only to lose their nerve & tactical nous at the time when they most needed to hold it.

Yes - all 14 eps of Sharpe in a weekend. It was fucking great. It's the male equivalent of that Bronté thing with Firth in it.

I will never tire watching sean bean take the eagle at talevara

 

[rover07]

yerk, reading that reminds me of how I felt sorry for napolean (after reading a sympathetic bio) ending his days on a shit rock inventing power games in his head where he waged a small battle against his captors. Like a french Fletch from Porridge. Cunt or no, that irrelevance and small rages of a man who once scared the shit out of most of western europe..its tragic and filled with pathos.

He was a hero of the French Revolution and ultimately saved it.

He helped awaken Equality, Freedom and Liberty across Europe. Ok he went a bit power mad but no-ones perfect.

He's the man who stands behind MayDay.

Long may he reign!

 

[kyser_soze]

If we adopt Trafalger day, it'll turn that part of the year into a celebration of hate & death, what with Guy Fawkes night and all.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm no expert on the french revol;ution but didn't he cement the bourgois nature of the revolution by eventually declaring himself emporer of france- thusly putting the whole top down hierarchy back into place?

 

[Flanflinger]

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

Like anyone gives a shit what day it's called.

 

[Citizen66]

The existing bank holiday calendar is a bit unbalanced, to be fair.

So let's cancel good fucking friday or easter.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

We don't deserve bank holidays, scrap 'em all.

Work Work Work Work Work Work Retire Die

 

[DotCommunist]

hold the fuck on, I like good friday and the whole weekend is probably just shined up eostre worship and though believing in things that cannot be empirically proven is a bit that is no reason to kill off the weekend in favour of Camerons Shiny Bellend day. Get rid of something really crap like april fools day. Or christmas.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

So let's cancel good fucking friday or easter.

Easter especially, when bastarding DIY shops go all observant on us. Weirdly, they deploy staff sometimes, whose job is to chat about your failed project and then to tell you about the moneylenders in the temple and Jesus's complicity in the Gethsemnane kiss. But they aren't allowed to sell you so much as a rawl plug.

 

[MooChild]

They cant cancel it, its my birthday and i like having a free bank holiday to recover

 

[starfish]

Fuck UK day. It dont rhyme.