So, What Do The Unemployed Celebrate....

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    ...on Labor Day?

    For that matter, just what IS Labor Day??
     
  2. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    probably the same thing non veterans do on veterans day.
     
  3. Wheels

    Wheels Is That A Challenge?!?!1! Staff Member Global Moderator

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  4. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    College hasn't started up again yet?
     
  5. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I knew there was a good answer in there............................somewhere. :)
     
  6. Rodolfo

    Rodolfo Double Stamp>Triple Stamp

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    It really should be Labor WEEK, not one measly day. :)
     
  7. BTOWN_HUSTLA

    BTOWN_HUSTLA NOW BUZZ KILLINGTON

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    Taking Wednesday off to go to Disneyland! woot!
     
  8. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Nonsense. Let's hold out for Labor Month.

    barfo
     
  9. Rodolfo

    Rodolfo Double Stamp>Triple Stamp

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    Then we can say things to eachother like, "Where do you summer?"
     
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    I'm not sure. I didn't really celebrate anything. Being unemployed after 15 years in the workforce sucks.

    Best of luck to you all in the future.
     
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    PapaG Banned User BANNED

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    Veterans Day isn't a private workforce holiday. :dunno:
     
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    BTOWN_HUSTLA NOW BUZZ KILLINGTON

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    I spent the morning sleeping in, then went to get Dim Sum with family, who is visiting LA. Then took a nap. Then hit up Hermosa Beach to chill at www.fiestahermosa.com then walked around Manhattan Beach, then grabbed burgers at http://www.thecounterburger.com/

    then went home to surf the net and prep for the week ahead!

    :cheers:
     
  13. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    can't be a coincidence!?
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    I don't know what they celebrate, but they should spend the time looking for a job. :D
     
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    Colonel Ronan Continue...?

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    I went to work on Labor Day!
     
  16. mook

    mook The 2018-19 season was the best I've seen

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    Originally it was intended to have parades celebrating "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." And we got the idea from CANADA! Does it get more socialist than that?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

    Kind of hard to imagine "Labor Day" ever passing through congress in the past 25 years. "Tax Cut Day" or "Conservative Day" or "Get Rich Doing As Little As Possible Day," but actually celebrating people working and organizing? Seems antiquated.

    I'd like to live to see a day when the biggest holidays were Earth Day, New Year's Eve and Veteran's Day. Those have always struck me as the ones that stand on their own merits and represent bigger ideas everyone can get behind--earth, rebirth and sacrifice. And it's pretty hard to turn any of those into consumerist extravaganzas (aka, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day....)
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    Umm I think you forgot "Girls dress up in ridiculously slutty outfits" day aka Halloween!:pimp:
     
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  19. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Whahappen? Is he okay?
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    I close my eyes when I pee, because I feel guilty for looking down on the unemployed.
     

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