Actually, it's an ancient Celtic fertility festival. But not like anyone cares about that any more. It's not like I'll get laid tonight.

URBAN MORRIS KRU COMIN' ATCHA 2003! BLINGIN'!!!!!

Ahem. Sorry about that.

"And on that tree there was a limb,
And on that limb there was a branch," etc etc

also we have very thick walls and doors ;)

may day means wedding anniversary for me, and i even remembered last night and bought a card and everything (well, actually just a card). well done me.

also also HI JILL

yup, that's certainly one way of looking at it.

Our searchroom's very quiet at the minute, family and postal historians have hopefully decided that they don't want to come into central london today, yay!

Heightened security round at my multinational oil company today - and I don't know who the security guards are trying to kid by wearing civvies - they still look like failed policemen

Workers of the world? they look pretty f@cking middle class to me. And they are *preventing* this worker from getting to and from work. I'm not sure what it's all about. I'm not sure what it's supposed to accomplish.

Anyone? Bueller???

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

Last year there was an ETA stall, staffed by two very dodgy types who were selling the Spanish, sorry Basque, drink Pacharan, which tastes great in the sunshine and is very very strong. We ended up buying every bottle they had with them, paying slightly over the odds, which made me feel more than a little responsible when I saw the news of a bomb they'd set off when I finally got home.

And they made a right mess of Clerkenwell Green. This is what *really* bothers me about these protests - for supposedly left wing, eco-friendly anarcho-socialists or whatever they are supposed to be, they WASTE SO MUCH PAPER and they LEAVE SO MUCH LITTER. That rather invalidates their message, for me.

But people who whinge about trees being cut down, but then leave REAMS of paper in the forms of handbills and posters and bits of wood and just random LITTER all over my neighbourhood... that's just SUCH bloody hypocrisy.

People who litter should just be shot. I believe so strongly on this I'd probably vote for a Tory if they'd make Littering a capital offense.

This statement needs some clarification. I mean, it appears to be just complete bollocks, but maybe the person who wrote it has the slightest idea what they are talking about.

but no i have not read 'Das Capital' so fire when ready...

In their world, the litter would stay in my freaking street until it rotted!

i wasn't really suggesting the protesters are hypocrites but its always difficult to guage these things when all you've got to go on is 'fuck capitalism' banners, smashed windows, litter everywhere...these are the stereotypes the media highlight - and kate's confirming their existence has some justifiction at least. i know many protest for modified solutions based on 'ethical capitalism' i.e. prioritising environment, no sweatshops, slave labour etc. which is all well and good, tho i've never been convinced demos on the streets are an effective way of initiating changes (but then again i was one of the 1.5 million who trudged to Hyde Park a few months back...)

do bananas really cause as many problems as illegal drugs, or rather, the illegalness of drugs? i'll never smoke another one again...

i don't know what i'm talking about tho.

my point was moot i suppose...but you can imagine people like Millar's 'objections' to the anti-war protests based on the fact that people (like me) don't really have enough of an idea about whats going on and there's a certain herd mentality there - which also applies to a quantity of the 'anti-capitalists' surely.

maybe i should be out there with them i dunno...picking up all the rubbish perhaps.

"don't we all sympathise with the protesters" - apparently not - see Dave's post above. Or read the Daily Mail tomorrow.

I certainly don't disagree with your last two posts. Any herd will include people who want to be told to follow. But that people's leisure choices somehow immediately invalidate their commitment - I'm not so sure about that, which is what you seemed to imply. Besides, it appeared as a flippant stereotype to me, along with the SWP stuff.

my breath is fucking baited

BLESSED BE HAPPY BELTANE

PUT A CLOTH OUT ON YOUR LAWN AND BATHE IN THE MORNING DEW TOMORROW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R92IsdDTfU

happy May Day!

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2010/06/30/bmx2_big.jpg

More like YAY DAY amirite?! Felicidades a todos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDrGZMTZC1c

I like May Day.

Happy Birthday to Nicky D and the Vicar.

I love May Day!! Happy May Day 2021 !!!

Happy May Day!

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https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dailynebraskan.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/28/52859700-0c1f-11e6-bb7d-8f74d04eec10/57202335239eb.image.jpg

Cause of labor hope of the world etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIn3KcCiJg

Been working like a dog and not enjoying the eight hour work day and i still love to celebrate May Day

💐🌹🎉Happy May Day!!! 💐🌹💪

may day broadcast stream from blank forms:

https://vimeo.com/event/2070781/videos/704278790/

Celebrating the 50th anniversaries of both Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues and Frederic Rzewski’s compositions “Attica” and “Coming Together,” we will play key compositions and political recordings from the 1970s, including a rare concert of Rzewski’s Attica works featuring Julius Eastman as the reciter and Sonia Sanchez reading at the prison accompanied by incarcerated poets and musicians.

It's raining and I think I might deep clean the bathroom on this fantastic International Workers' Day

Happy May Day!!!

I am not cleaning the bathroom today but it is a truly beautiful sunny 70 degree May Day

Still here for this fantastic multivalent holiday <3

this is a fun list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_labor_slogans?wprov=sfti1#Glossary_of_labor_slogans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9PMky7Fj0

Happy may day one and all!