pentecost 's monday in your country?

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Posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l on May-16-2005 18:53:

pentecost 's monday in your country?

hi everyone
so i was wondering if today monday was a holiday since in france since this year this day which was usually a holiday became after a decision of our government a normal day where people had to work for the solidarity towards the seniors
of course as most of the time in my country everyone was striking bus airport post and a lot of compagnies so i was wondering if this monday was a holiday too or a normal day?
here most of the people don't accept to work for a so called solidarity towards the seniors because we know all this money collected won't be used for them but for something different
but maybe we should stop complaining or?
discuss !

Posted by malek on May-17-2005 03:10:

heard about it on the radio. And I think its stupid, solidarity with the elderly? Forcing people to work for no pay (which sounds communist and out of this world), does not make any sense in 2005.

By the way, in Canada it was not a holiday today.

We have a holiday on next monday though, in Canada its the Victoria day, in Quebec its Dollard's day (not the money, the guy, read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dollard-des-Ormeaux).

Posted by fastmp3 on May-17-2005 03:44:

deux francophones qui se parlent en anglais, non mais c'est bon la

Posted by malek on May-17-2005 04:07:

This is an english forum by default.

Posted by St_Andrew on May-17-2005 21:44:

the idea sounds kinda cool, but not really... hehe... anyway what i find funny is that its always strikes going on in france if they didnt do this, then ppl would strike because they did it, now when they did, they striked cause they did... if they raised taxes because you wanted to give money to the eldery, then they would strike, if they didnt raise taxes you would strike because you didnt give the eldery enough money etc

Posted by trancaholic on May-17-2005 22:02:

Forced solidarity is pretty much an oxymoron. Stupid idea.

Yesterday (monday) was a holiday in Denmark. Something to do with Christ.

Posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l on May-18-2005 06:06:

lol @t erik

Posted by jdat on May-20-2005 11:47:

quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
the idea sounds kinda cool, but not really... hehe... anyway what i find funny is that its always strikes going on in france if they didnt do this, then ppl would strike because they did it, now when they did, they striked cause they did... if they raised taxes because you wanted to give money to the eldery, then they would strike, if they didnt raise taxes you would strike because you didnt give the eldery enough money etc

Striking = Main reason why I hate this country and it's peoples negative state of mind. I truly hate it to bits. They are destroying themselves but too blind and selfish to realize it.
It's like people complaining because we have to pay 1 Euro for a doctors appointment now .... 1 EURO???!???? That's like the cheapest in the whole world.

Posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l on May-20-2005 19:10:

yeah i agree with you jdat too much complaining in this country but well sometimes it's for good reason i admit but sometimes damn that's scandalous ....people want always more

Posted by George Smiley on May-20-2005 19:39:

quote:
Originally posted by jdat
Striking = Main reason why I hate this country and it's peoples negative state of mind. I truly hate it to bits. They are destroying themselves but too blind and selfish to realize it.
It's like people complaining because we have to pay 1 Euro for a doctors appointment now .... 1 EURO???!???? That's like the cheapest in the whole world.

Nah Britain is cheaper...

Posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l on May-20-2005 19:43:

u sure?

Posted by George Smiley on May-20-2005 20:32:

quote:
Originally posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l
u sure?

Well if it costs 1 euro in France, and it costs 0 euro/dollar/pound/yen/etc/etc in the UK...you do the math!

Posted by zig on May-22-2005 01:27:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
Well if it costs 1 euro in France, and it costs 0 euro/dollar/pound/yen/etc/etc in the UK...you do the math!

Do you mean to see a GP it costs nothing......

Or do you mean to go to a hospital?

Over here its really expensive to see a GP about 40 or 50 Euro although for over seventies its free.

Posted by malek on May-22-2005 02:12:

Posted by George Smiley on May-22-2005 13:55:

quote:
Originally posted by zig
Do you mean to see a GP it costs nothing......

Or do you mean to go to a hospital?

Over here its really expensive to see a GP about 40 or 50 Euro although for over seventies its free.

yep nothing squat sqiddly do! (for GP and hospital)

Posted by zig on May-22-2005 17:49:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
yep nothing squat sqiddly do! (for GP and hospital)

Yeah cant argue with that......"nothing" is very cheap.....