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1 May 2006, 21:58
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Happy 1. May!
Hooray! Good vibes, streetparty and lots of black flags in Oslo
Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
[Chorus:]
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birthThough we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?
[Chorus x3]
All of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
And always expected to carry the can
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1 May 2006, 22:00
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I am.
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Re: Happy 1. May!
when the **** did communists steal may-day?
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1 May 2006, 22:03
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Bored
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Re: Happy 1. May!
at least the christians aren't pretending it's something to do with Jesus
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1 May 2006, 22:28
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Damn Dog
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
when the **** did communists steal may-day?
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19th century?
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1 May 2006, 23:27
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Clerk
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Snurx is no dirty commie.
Also, happy May Day everybody.
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2 May 2006, 00:29
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: Happy 1. May!
In the US it was national "We're Taking Over You Better Get Used To It Day" with millions of Mexicans swarming in the streets.
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2 May 2006, 00:42
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
JJ Rousseau - Origin of Inequality part 2
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I demand the 1st of may be changed to an "insult rousseau" day.
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2 May 2006, 01:37
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Arise you starvelings from yours slumbers!
Arise you prisoners of want!
For reason in revolt now thunders,
And a better age shall dawn
Now away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses arise! arise!
We`ll change forthwith the old conditions
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
etc.
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2 May 2006, 07:30
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Re: Happy 1. May!
I am most distressed by this attempted communist appropriation of may day.
where will it end???
fascists stealing pancake day?
Liberals stealing mothers day???
UKIP painting father christmas purple???
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2 May 2006, 07:37
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1up on you
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Re: Happy 1. May!
i thought on may day you go dancing around the may pole
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2 May 2006, 07:38
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by pig
i thought on may day you go dancing around the may pole
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you do (or you ought to) the communists are just trying to nick the day.
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2 May 2006, 08:03
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1up on you
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Is communism even cool anymore?
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2 May 2006, 09:48
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Clerk
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by pig
Is communism even cool anymore?
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Yes.
Hope that clears things up.
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2 May 2006, 11:19
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Gone
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by pig
Is communism even cool anymore?
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You're cool if you say you're a Marxist.
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2 May 2006, 11:24
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Lonely analytic
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Re: Happy 1. May!
If you are a dead marxist you are even more cool.
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2 May 2006, 12:20
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I am.
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Yes.
Hope that clears things up.
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so cool that you compete for attention with morris dancers ...
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2 May 2006, 12:24
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Insanely Insignificant
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Does this mean all the crazy scandies will be up to god-knows-what tomfoolery again today?
When's your 'lets all wear our red boiler suits that we wore at highschool and have dunked in fish guts at some strange viking initiation and never washed since'-day?
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2 May 2006, 12:50
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Drink is Good
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Re: Happy 1. May!
im a day late
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2 May 2006, 14:03
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Alki
im a day late
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Don't worry, if you're still 'late' in a week then maybe time to take a test.
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2 May 2006, 14:40
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Gone
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Alki
im a day late
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You didn't come to see me. :crymeariver:
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2 May 2006, 15:26
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WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
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Re: Happy 1. May!
Here in this part of Ireland we have bonfires on the eve of May the 1st, harks back to ye 'ol pagan times. Unlike the anglecized Dubliners who have bonfires when the English do.
Ahh there's nothing quite like walking through the city, ash and smoke everywhere, the smell of burn in your nostrels, the smug satisfaction of knowing it's not your car...
Kids hawling away all your waste wood, doing things their parents wouldn't allow them any other night of the year.
Hiding spray cans in the center of the fire, walking on the ashes the next morning and melting the sole of your shoes.
Those were the days
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2 May 2006, 15:28
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Gone
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Re: Happy 1. May!
What are you burning on the bonfire this year? Protestants or Jews?
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2 May 2006, 15:46
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WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
What are you burning on the bonfire this year? Protestants or Jews?
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Unlike you barbaric little so and so's, we don't burn effigies of people.
May Day heralds the Celtic summer. Back in the day it celebrated the festival of Beltaine, which was like a giant hippy love fest. If you English hadn't come and ruined it all, I could have been up all night shagging the crap out of various Celtic maidens...
*shakes fist*
Actually maybe we should start burning effigies...
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2 May 2006, 15:56
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Gone
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by IncubusGod
Unlike you barbaric little so and so's, we don't burn effigies of people.
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I wasn't talking about effigies.
Quote:
Originally Posted by IncubusGod
May Day heralds the Celtic summer. Back in the day it celebrated the festival of Beltaine, which was like a giant hippy love fest. If you English hadn't come and ruined it all, I could have been up all night shagging the crap out of various Celtic maidens...
*shakes fist*
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I feel your pain, truly, I do.
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Originally Posted by IncubusGod
Actually maybe we should start burning effigies...
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If you want to re-start the whole Pagan love-in business, then how about hoisting Trevler onto your bonfire? Or, better yet, shove him in a giant Wicker man?
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2 May 2006, 16:02
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WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
If you want to re-start the whole Pagan love-in business, then how about hoisting Trevler onto your bonfire? Or, better yet, shove him in a giant Wicker man?
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This isn't a bad idea actually. Let's get him a policemans uniform...
Where's Britt Ekland when you need her?
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2 May 2006, 19:02
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1up on you
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Re: Happy 1. May!
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Yes.
Hope that clears things up.
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phew, certainly does!
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3 May 2006, 07:36
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Insanely Insignificant
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Re: Happy 1. May!
They did it last year and doubtless they'll do it again.
At least now i can tell them they're pathetic
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