If local communities can't even afford to pay for a once a year fireworks display, you know it's just plain bad news all over the country. that's why I think we're in serious economic trouble. it's getting to the point where we can no longer even pretend that we're out of the woods yet.

I don't know, why don't you axe my butt? On second thought, no don't do that.

As long as Newport doesn't axe them this year, I'm good. It's my sister's wedding, we've been told where to watch the fireworks from at the reception.

\of course, my town's fireworks usually end up being in the middle of august sometime because of weather....

I'm going to stand on my porch and yell BOOM and blink my flashlight every so often.

As a Loyalist, I celebrate Independence Day by reading aloud key moments from Parliament discussions regarding the colonists' repeated incursions against Indians and the French, causing His Majesty to deploy ever more sentries to keep the peace, all at the expense of the average Londoner. All this "taxation without representation" bosh would have been unnecessary had the colonies simply abided by His Majesty's request to stop the expansive incursions into new territory. But no. Instead, we Loyalists had to stand by while the rebels continued their pillage of His Majesty's purse.

This July 4, I will wear my red coat and tri-corner hat, wave the Union Jack and denounce all those ersatz patriots as they drink awful beer and set off playtime explosives like unmanaged children.

/bloody Yanks!

I got my own.

CitizenTed
As a Loyalist, I celebrate Independence Day by reading aloud key moments from Parliament discussions regarding the colonists' repeated incursions against Indians and the French, causing His Majesty to deploy ever more sentries to keep the peace, all at the expense of the average Londoner.

+1

Geez, I look around and think to myself, "We Americans really are the uncouth sons and daughters of Europe's debtors, religious nuts, ideologues, second sons, bastard sons, criminals, opportunists, etc."

And then I think I should immigrate to Europe. Then I remember my swank lake house and the Battle of the Somme and Auschwitz and all the Muslims in Europe and all the taxes there and think, . . . I really shouldn't drink beer and post on Fark.

Headline :... you should axe them yourself

Subby... You're German. Right?

glenlivid: Vancouver, WA couldn't get a corporate sponsor this year. They normally put on the biggest show west of the Mississippi every year. Despite the grand public show, the whole town normally sets off enough personal fireworks to blow up a medium-sized nation...so this year they're probably going to "up the ante" on the personal fireworks to a dangerous new level.

I don't think I've ever seen an entire city of pyromaniacs before. These people are frightening.

Behold:


40,000 people what like to play with fire making a temporary city in the only place int he US where there's no danger of burning anything down but themselves

Sure, now that my dog, who spent every 4th of July cowering under a bed is gone, they cancel the fireworks.

/110 pound GSD.
//Biggest lap dog ever.