4th of July

[Shaka Khan]

Whatcha guys up to?

[G The Resurrected]

Happy freedom day! I've got no plans as of now but that can change.

[ZephyrFate]

Got smoked out by an adam4adam hookup. Still up tho, 5am. Need to zzz soon dammit.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sit back and contemplate just how good it is to be Canadian. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

 

[Great Rumbler]

Gonna cook some shish kabobs on the grill and then make things explode really nice.

[Eel O'Brian]

Our power didn't go out, so I'm celebrating not having to sit in 90 degree heat without A/C. 

[Squiddy]

God bless America!

I might give murricans flack at times because of their terrible healthcare system, the "fuck you, got mine"-mentality, and the belief that you guys are at the top of the world, but truth is - you guys are fucking awesome and an example to the rest of us freedom haters 

[Human Snorenado]

Going to a party that features a pie baking contest. GONNA SAMPLE ALL DEM PIES, BREHS.

[CatsCatsCats]

Made sangria last night for the wife and I to get hedonistic on today

[TVC15]

I haaaaaaaate America.

[Eel O'Brian]

Going to a party that features a pie baking contest. GONNA SAMPLE ALL DEM PIES, BREHS.

need detailed after-pie report

[king of the internet]

Recovering from last night. Then drinking myself into oblivion again. Holiday weekends.

[Atramental]

Working today, tomorrow, & Sunday like a TRUE AMERICAN™. 

[TVC15]

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I think I saw him in the Denny's by my psychiatrist's office last week. Except he had a pistol on his belt, too.

[Phoenix Dark]

USA USA USA

[Kara]

Working like the god damn Founding Fathers were on the first Fourth. 

I did get roped into going to a family friend's barbecue tonight doe. 

Which means I'm going to have to come in on Saturday to make up the work I promised to have done by Sunday.

[Shaka Khan]

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind.

Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it's fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist and should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!

Today we celebrate our independence day!

[Great Rumbler]

[Trent Dole]

[Positive Touch]

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I read the first line like "SHAKA NOOO- o wait"

[Human Snorenado]

 

[Joe Molotov]

On the Fourth of July, citizens across the country will gather with friends and family to celebrate the United States of America and the Founding Fathers who established our democracy. Here are some facts you may not know about the founders of our country:

• While drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers roasted and ate one bald eagle every night
• Many of the original Founding Fathers toured the world after 1776 to found several other countries besides the United States, including Thailand, Lichtenstein, and Uruguay
• Many of the Founding Fathers opposed slavery, but, you know, not really enough to do anything about it
• All of them were Caucasian
• The Founding Fathers’ average net worth, when not adjusted for inflation, would make them among the poorest Americans in the modern U.S.
• The Founding Fathers were all villainous traitors to the glorious British Empire
• One of the fondest memories many of the Founding Fathers wrote of was when Benjamin Franklin said, “John, can you hand me that pen?” and then both John Jay and John Adams looked up
• Though he didn’t tell anyone, Thomas Jefferson secretly hated liberty
• In today’s dollars, the Founding Fathers owe more than $25.8 million in back child support
• There were no Founding Fathers named Kevin
• After briefly questioning whether such a stipulation could open the door to widespread violence among American citizens, the Founding Fathers decided to leave the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, as it seemed pretty clear that it pertained solely to regulated military units
• The Founding Fathers have never once rolled over in their graves

[Kara]

*Liechtenstein

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Handy mnemonic device, just remember its existence is kind of a lie. (It basically exists because it was far away when the Holy Roman Empire was reconstituted as a client state of the First French Empire.

[close]

[Phoenix Dark]

GOAT version

[Shadow Mod]

Bitch you know i"m ready.

[Human Snorenado]

GOAT version

[Joe Molotov]

*Liechtenstein

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Handy mnemonic device, just remember its existence is kind of a lie. (It basically exists because it was far away when the Holy Roman Empire was reconstituted as a client state of the First French Empire.

[close]

That seems like way too much work for a country that's the size of a small county in Rhode Island.

[benjipwns]

It's hard to love America when our weak leadership doesn't and we're still in the dark about Benghazi. Maybe in two and a half years we'll have healed as a country.

[Kara]

That seems like way too much work for a country that's the size of a small county in Rhode Island.

Well like any not-really-viable nation-state in the 21st century, it's a tax haven, so knowing how to spell its name correctly is an occupational hazard given my line of work. You don't want someone to make a quip about hiding their money in Roy Lichtenstein paintings at your expense, it'd be devastatingly embarrassing.

Also there's the fact that I'm a repository of useless information. The more useless the better.

[benjipwns]

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Coolidge on the 150th anniversary: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/

 

[Squiddy]

I want to have sex with america.
Fuck yeah, USA!

[benjipwns]

[Madrun Badrun]

[Atramental]

[chronovore]

Played a non-metric ton of GTA Online in a patriotic Event-provided outfit, launched fireworks at other players, and nearly reached the penultimate goal; I'm level 98 now, nearly 99, and my final Achievement is for level 100.

Made tacos to spiritually and digestively support immigration reform and fed the family. Oddly enough there are no other Americans in my tiny burg, at least none I know, so it's not really a thing.

[Joe Molotov]

Sitting in the parking lot of Taco Bell, watching the city's fireworks show. #freedom #GodBlessAmerica

[benjipwns]

[Kara]

The party I went to was pretty shitty, but some folks invited me into their home and gave me free food so I'm not going to rant about how shitty it was.

I should have stayed at work doe.

[Human Snorenado]

Going to a party that features a pie baking contest. GONNA SAMPLE ALL DEM PIES, BREHS.

need detailed after-pie report

There were like 9 entries and I sampled all of them, because I'm fat and shit.

Bourbon Peach Ginger- this one was really good, although slightly undercooked and mushy in the middle.

Banana Toffee- also really good dessert pie.

Strawberry rhubarb- this was the general consensus "worst in show" and it really wasn't BAD per se, just too tart. A little more sugar would have helped it out.

Apple curry- a late entrant and served in individual little muffin tart things. Pretty good but not as good as...

Apple chorizo- fuck yeah, this was really good. Would eat again, etc etc.

Ham peach onion- a weird but strangely good savory pie

Tomato and cheese- this had like five different kinds of tomato and three different kinds of cheese in it. It was fucking awesome and in my opinion the best pie.

Blueberry cheesecake pie, garnished with strawberries and whipped cream because America- also really good.

Bourbon Peach Ginger won, Tomato came in second, and Blueberry cheesecake pie came in third.

[Great Rumbler]

This is what it's like to fly through a fireworks show:

[Shadow Mod]

Timedog wore a skirt and some dude yelled "what the fuck" while we passed by like he was sincerely mad.

I hope we ruined his 4th of July.

[Shaka Khan]

Timedog wore a skirt

Is it because you're wearing the pants?

[chronovore]

Timedog wore a skirt

Is it because you're wearing the penis?

FTFY

[Shadow Mod]

Timedog wore a skirt

Is it because you're wearing the pants?

He's been spoiled by how much cooler it is for his balls.

[Mr. Gundam]

I was at a cabin near Mt. Rainier without phone/internet service. It was really nice to be disconnected and just hang out with my wife, daughter and our best friends. Lots of good food, good beer, good friends and board games.

[Van Cruncheon]

i had an excellent 4th.

drank beer, blew shit up, did a 300 mile ride with my brother, drank more, watched "the conjuring" on a projector setup and screamed drunkenly at the screen, watched my other brother drunk-crash my mom's vespa into the parents' shed, wandered around the beach swearing drunkenly. it was SRS CAC BUSINESS.    :lenowned

[Shaka Khan]

I was at a cabin near Mt. Rainier without phone/internet service. It was really nice to be disconnected and just hang out with my wife, daughter and our best friends. Lots of good food, good beer, good friends and board games.

Mad jealous.

[benjipwns]

I was at a cabin near Mt. Rainier without phone/internet service. It was really nice to be disconnected and just hang out with my wife, daughter and our best friends. Lots of good food, good beer, good friends and board games.

This sounds like a coordinated alibi.

[Van Cruncheon]

I was at a cabin near Mt. Rainier without phone/internet service. It was really nice to be disconnected and just hang out with my wife, daughter and our best friends. Lots of good food, good beer, good friends and board games.

This sounds like a coordinated orgy.

ftfy

[demi]

I'd definitely try to fuck my friends if we were all alone in a cabin in the forest, for sure.

[Mr. Gundam]

I was at a cabin near Mt. Rainier without phone/internet service. It was really nice to be disconnected and just hang out with my wife, daughter and our best friends. Lots of good food, good beer, good friends and board games.

This sounds like a coordinated alibi.

Everyone now has small children, no more sex.





 

[Human Snorenado]

Ew, breeders. 

[Mr. Gundam]

Ew, breeders. 

Ew, creepy old guys who like to act self important by making snide comments about breeders.

[Phoenix Dark]

Ew, breeders. 

Ew, creepy old guys who like to act self important by making snide comments about breeders.

Gundam are you familiar with Atwater Brewery? I had their Vanilla Java Porter during the holiday weekend, it was pretty good. Porters are definitely my favorite beer.

[Mr. Gundam]

Ew, breeders. 

Ew, creepy old guys who like to act self important by making snide comments about breeders.

Gundam are you familiar with Atwater Brewery? I had their Vanilla Java Porter during the holiday weekend, it was pretty good. Porters are definitely my favorite beer.

Nope, I haven't. I'm guessing they're a smaller brewery with little distribution outside Michigan. I'll be in Ann Arbor over Labor Day, so I'll be up for some recommendations.

Really hoping I can sneak away to Kuhnhenn in Warren for an hour or two. Their beers are amazing.

[tiesto]

Was at my gfs aunt's house on a lake in southern New Hampshire for the past few days... it rained like mad all over the northeast on the 4th so the fireworks celebration had to be put off until Saturday night. The rest of the weekend was spent checking out an amazing arcade/pinball place nearby, a bit of fishing, lots of eating and drinking, going to the shadiest flea market I've ever been to, getting asked really inappropriate questions by my gfs 14 year old cousin, and then stopping by Mohegan Sun on the way home and winning some money. All in all, a great way to spend the weekend of the 4th.