Mayday Mayday

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Sun May 01, 2005 4:54 pm

Happy Mayday to everyone. I can't believe we had snow flurries on the first day of May. Why do I live in Minnesota?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:13 pm

We just had a bit of hail, very small though.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:48 pm

And why is the word Mayday used as a distress call?

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:00 pm

Sources indicate that it comes from the French word m'aidez which means help me.

Anywho, I hate #May Day for 2 reasons.

1) Its summer, I hate Summer its too hot. Even though we dont get "real" hot over here thank God.

2) May day or around it is when a whole heap of commies and hippys take to the streets about anti globalisation and all they do is get in peoples way. Nothing gave me more satisfaction than seeing a police man beating a hippy with a stick 2 years ago.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:23 pm

My sixth grader is having "hippy day" at his school. They are going to be tie-dying t-shirts, then having a "protest." I am not at all comfortable with having hippies presented as people for my kid to imitate.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:36 pm

If that happend at my school I think I'd dress up as a capitalist Fatcat complete with cigar.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sun May 01, 2005 8:45 pm

I think hippies are funny.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:13 pm

Yes they are funny to laugh at. I'm not sure of their sense of humour though.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:41 pm

Peace man, yo! (Gangsta hippy)

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Brooklynite · Post by **Brooklynite** » Mon May 02, 2005 12:25 am

Yeah that's crazy. The winters in Minnesota are brutal. The tempuratures average in the lower teens.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:50 am

Brooklynite wrote: Yeah that's crazy. The winters in Minnesota are brutal. The tempuratures average in the lower teens.

It's actually not quite that bad in the Minneapolis area. The coldest average temperature here in the dead of winter is 21.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon May 02, 2005 12:54 pm

+21? Or -21?

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:02 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: +21? Or -21?

+21F
I'm not sure what that is in that silly metric system.

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ana · Post by **ana** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:14 pm

-5 or so.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:43 pm

Yeah it's -6.111. The snow starts getting sticky at that temp, usually great for snowball fights. But any hoter then it gets all slushy and crap.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:54 pm

Bookworm wrote: My sixth grader is having "hippy day" at his school. They are going to be tie-dying t-shirts, then having a "protest." I am not at all comfortable with having hippies presented as people for my kid to imitate.

What were they supposed to 'protest'? Hippies are disgusting, in more ways than one. I'm glad none of my schools ever tried to get me to emulate tuned-out dope smoking know-it-alls that had less to do with social change than some people would like everyone to believe.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:01 pm

Stasi wrote:
Bookworm wrote: My sixth grader is having "hippy day" at his school. They are going to be tie-dying t-shirts, then having a "protest." I am not at all comfortable with having hippies presented as people for my kid to imitate.

What were they supposed to 'protest'? Hippies are disgusting, in more ways than one. I'm glad none of my schools ever tried to get me to emulate tuned-out dope smoking know-it-alls that had less to do with social change than some people would like everyone to believe.

The note I got from the teacher didn't say, but the kids were each supposed to give a minute-long speech protesting it, whatever "it" was.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:28 pm

That gives me memories of school days. Any type of activity different then normal school day involved having to get a letter signed by the parants. It was like this huge thing lol.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:02 pm

Stasi wrote: Hippies are disgusting, in more ways than one.

True hippies are disgusting, but what society deems a hippie is not a true hippie, rather true hippies are few and far between, like true punks. (like society in general; it is always a minority that understands how they really feel and understand why down to the root issues)

Come on people, society falls along the bell curve.

Oh, and I don't care about what I'm talking about anymore either.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:08 pm

I class as a hippy anyone who protests against pretty much anything. I really really really dont like protesting or protesters, which is strange because one of my best friends fits into that catogory (how the hell is that spelled). Anyway, yeah.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:39 pm

MrSelf wrote:
Stasi wrote: Hippies are disgusting, in more ways than one.

True hippies are disgusting, but what society deems a hippie is not a true hippie, rather true hippies are few and far between, like true punks. (like society in general; it is always a minority that understands how they really feel and understand why down to the root issues)

I remember getting into long discussions about 'true punk' and so on back on the SuicideGirls forum. Personally, I don't give a **** about the labels people like to place on themselves. In my opinion, a 'true punk' cares neither for the label nor the fashion and are their own person through and through. With that said, I think 'true punk' does little to explain anything and leaves the word 'punk' to exist as a superficial label for fashion and music and a particular lifestyle driven by the two. This parallels my thoughts on the notion of 'true hippy'.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:52 pm

Cicero wrote: I really really really dont like protesting or protesters,

I gotta say, that's not really a good attitude

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:20 am

There's nothing wrong with prostesting for a good cause, but protesting for the sake of protesting is worthless.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:47 am

Hmm just got disconnected in middle of battle, server went down or something. not exactly the most pleasent thing to log on dead with body decayed. Shesh why do I carry so many magic weapons on me anyway.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:28 am

sintekk wrote:
Cicero wrote: I really really really dont like protesting or protesters,

I gotta say, that's not really a good attitude

Meh, I just think protests/ers just get in the way of people who just want to get on with their lives.

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