> With all respect for foreign traditions but..
> this sounds stupid :))
> Sounds to me like they're just using every available cheap excuse to
> keep a party and get drunk :)
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> With all respect for foreign traditions but..
> this sounds stupid :))
> Sounds to me like they're just using every available cheap excuse to
> keep a party and get drunk :)
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> >> Happy 17th of May, lads!
> >I'm not Norwegian, but I celebrate May 17th because it is my dog, Doodles,
> >birthday.
> >http://www.snakefoot.com/doodles.htm
> Ow what a sweety :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOODLES!
> The 'Doodles Ultimate Online Photo Gallery' does not work btw..
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> >> What kind of day is 17th of May in Norway then?
> >They're :-) celebrating that in 1814 Norway went from being ruled
> >by the danes to being ruled by the swedes...
> With all respect for foreign traditions but..
> this sounds stupid :))
> Sounds to me like they're just using every available cheap excuse to
> keep a party and get drunk :)
> >Usually celebrated by drinking lots of Carlsberg, wearing traditional
> >costumes from the time period when they were ruled by the danes and
> >parading in front of and waving and cheering to descendants of the
> >danish royal family.
> So Olav, Ed, Stian, Matt and all other Norwegian GPL'ers are now
> walking around totally drunk in weird costumes..
> I wish I never asked :)
As Ed said, 17th of May 1814 our constitution was signed and sealed, and
someone told me that it is the second oldest constitution in the world
(after USA).
The way we celebrate it is that half the population walk in parades (usually
three, one in the morning for all the childre, one for all the organisations
and one for the high school graduates (damned drunk kids:). All the marching
bands are also playing and most of them sound crap. The second half of the
population watch. After all this parading stuff we eat and drink a lot, but
the drinking part is mostly the night before because we all have to go to
work tomorrow.
We are not wearing costumes as such, but more our traditional national
clothing, where each county got their own uniqe design. Every european
country got something similar, so don't laugh. And I tell you, the girls
usually look very nice wearing one. For those of us not fortunate to own one
(95 % of the girls and around 10 % of the boys got one) we only wear a suit
or something other nice.
And of course there are a lot of people who don't give a shit. Mostly
students who have exams tomorrow or in the coming days and left wing
radicals who think the whole deal is a bit nationalistic.
All spelling and gramatical errors are because of a few beers earlier.
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You're sitting there - in the land of _real_ beer - drinking *that* piss???
Shame on you Colin!
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