My Fellow Americans.....

Clutch9800 · Post by **Clutch9800** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:42 pm

Remember how lucky we are on this Independence Day, the 234th year of the independence of the United States of America.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:13 pm

Lucky enough to be able to move to Denmark.

Nicklance · Post by **Nicklance** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:16 pm

Lucky enough to...not be an American.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:19 pm

I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).

Clutch9800 · Post by **Clutch9800** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:35 pm

Lucky enough to be able to move to Denmark.

I grew up with a guy who moved to Denmark. Remind me to tell you the story some time. It involves Murder, a B&D dungeon, and an AXE murder.

It's really fucked up, but more so cause it's true.

Clutch

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:20 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).

I was about to flip out until I read that caveat. Anyway, fireworks are fuckin' awesome, and they make the 4th awesome. I can't expect somebody living in a foreign country without million dollar pyrotechnic displays on the 4th to understand.

Clutch9800 · Post by **Clutch9800** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:01 pm

CatharzGodfoot wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).
I was about to flip out until I read that caveat. Anyway, fireworks are fuckin' awesome, and they make the 4th awesome. I can't expect somebody living in a foreign country without million dollar pyrotechnic displays on the 4th to understand.

Eh,

Most countries that cross us get a fireworks display every day.

America! Fuck Yeah!

Clutch

P.S. Your tax dollars at work.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:02 pm

Catharz wrote:I can't expect somebody living in a foreign country without million dollar pyrotechnic displays on the 4th to understand.

So if they're on the 5th, it's just not the same?

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:23 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).

Your hallowe'en is very different from mine. Mine seems to have less explosives and more girls in slutty animal outfits. In any case, I think you have it reversed. Hallowe'en is the best holiday. October is by extension the best month.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:05 pm

In before everyone complains about how shitty America is.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:52 pm

Pfft, Diwali in India has me ho-humming at july 4th fireworks.

I've been setting off flowerpots, sparklers, rockets, bombs, crackers, and every thing in the middle since i was 4.

It just washes watching some fireworks being sent into the air by others out of hte water.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:35 am

ubernoob wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).
Your hallowe'en is very different from mine. Mine seems to have less explosives and more girls in slutty animal outfits. In any case, I think you have it reversed. Hallowe'en is the best holiday. October is by extension the best month.

No, I don't have it reversed. Independance day is second to hallowe'en.

And I see women dressed in slutty outfits every day. However, I work in a box store so most of those women I wish I could un-see

I tend to throw my own party during Hallowe'en, because I was always told that if you want to be invited to parties, you should host them. It hasn't worked yet, but I've had a heluva party every year four years running (except the last one. Invited a friend that ended up killing the party. About the time he demanded we turn down the movie we were all giving drunk critique of so he could watch some video on WWE.com was the time that the guests left, then contacted me to meet up with them at the local gay bar for the rest of the evening. Which was pretty enjoyable.)

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:47 am

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:
ubernoob wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know what you people are bitching about, American Independence day is the second best holiday celebrated in America! It's a day of booze and playing with explosives, what's not to love? (Second to Hallowe'en, but not by much, and only because you can get drunk and blow shit up then too).
Your hallowe'en is very different from mine. Mine seems to have less explosives and more girls in slutty animal outfits. In any case, I think you have it reversed. Hallowe'en is the best holiday. October is by extension the best month.
No, I don't have it reversed. Independance day is second to hallowe'en.

And I see women dressed in slutty outfits every day. However, I work in a box store so most of those women I wish I could un-see

I tend to throw my own party during Hallowe'en, because I was always told that if you want to be invited to parties, you should host them. It hasn't worked yet, but I've had a heluva party every year four years running (except the last one. Invited a friend that ended up killing the party. About the time he demanded we turn down the movie we were all giving drunk critique of so he could watch some video on WWE.com was the time that the guests left, then contacted me to meet up with them at the local gay bar for the rest of the evening. Which was pretty enjoyable.)

I blame this on differences of age. Last I checked, you're about a decade older than me so have a different social circle.

Moral of the story: I'm in college, and slutty college girls during halloween are AWESOME.

koz · Post by **koz** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:52 am

ubernoob wrote:Moral of the story: I'm in college, and slutty college girls during halloween are AWESOME.

Slutty college undergrads, to be precise. Or maybe I'm just in the wrong grad school, to be honest.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:18 am

It's the 4th of July... IN AMERICA!

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:00 pm

ubernoob wrote:I blame this on differences of age. Last I checked, you're about a decade older than me so have a different social circle.

Moral of the story: I'm in college, and slutty college girls during halloween are AWESOME.

Indeed. If I was smart, I would have gone to college right after high school. In all honesty, I would like to slap most of the traditional college students of both genders.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:05 pm

Only thing I regret about living in California is aerials. I totally love lobbing some huge explosives up in the sky to light it up.

I think one of my favorite memories is riding in a bus across town on the 4th and seeing the neighborhoods sparkle and crack with glowing trees of different people doing their things and having fun. Second to getting off the bus as the largest fireworks show west of the Mississippi started its first explosions a few hundred yards away, setting off all the car alarms in the park-n-ride.

There's just nothing like seeing fireworks from the air. Except maybe lighting up the sky from horizon to horizon yourself.

God shove the King, it's time for some representational democracy.

-Crissa

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:05 pm

Well I dunno about you, but my 4th rocked hardcore.

I grilled like a fiend, drank like a fish and boardgamed into the wee hours - having today off to recuperate.

And I find this morning that I wake up with More Beer and More Food than I started with yesterday.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:04 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:Well I dunno about you, but my 4th rocked hardcore.

Mine was spent recovering from a sunburn and pulled muscles acquired the previous day. Video games were involved--entertainment that didn't require moving much.

The sunburn's actually worse than the whole broken-nose thing.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:36 pm

I ate pancakes at the town firehouse and then built deer fencing around our greens.

Then I barbequed veggies and smores and so, was really just a normal weekend.

-Crissa

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:46 pm

I nursed a hangover, made gumbo, and skipped out on the party. Feels bad, man. Except the gumbo--that turned out great.

K · Post by K » Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:14 am

Mister_Sinister wrote:
ubernoob wrote:Moral of the story: I'm in college, and slutty college girls during halloween are AWESOME.
Slutty college undergrads, to be precise. Or maybe I'm just in the wrong grad school, to be honest.

Seriously the wrong grad school. I once went to a Pirates vs Ninjas Party with grad students at Berkeley. Slutty costumes galore.

Wasn't even Halloween.

Heck, I was once in a bar in Berkeley and hung out with some prospective grad students who were being given free drink tickets after their tour.

koz · Post by **koz** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:31 am

K wrote:
Mister_Sinister wrote:
ubernoob wrote:Moral of the story: I'm in college, and slutty college girls during halloween are AWESOME.
Slutty college undergrads, to be precise. Or maybe I'm just in the wrong grad school, to be honest.
Seriously the wrong grad school. I once went to a Pirates vs Ninjas Party with grad students at Berkeley. Slutty costumes galore.

Wasn't even Halloween.

Heck, I was once in a bar in Berkeley and hung out with some prospective grad students who were being given free drink tickets after their tour.

Wish I'd gone to a more well-known uni right now. Sadly, Auckland isn't nearly as awesome as this.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:38 am

Cynic wrote:Pfft, Diwali in India has me ho-humming at july 4th fireworks.

I've been setting off flowerpots, sparklers, rockets, bombs, crackers, and every thing in the middle since i was 4.

It just washes watching some fireworks being sent into the air by others out of hte water.

No one under the age of 90 watches fireworks in America. You can get fireworks, but they're not technically legal. And if anyone is known for blowing shit up even when they're not supposed to...

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:47 am

My brothers and I pooled a bunch of fireworks together and set them off for the family at my old school, which is just around the corner from my house.

Of course, this was for Canada Day not July 4th. Between us and random people the show went on for about two hours. Haven't watched a show in years, so it was fun.