Happy Fourth o' Gee-Lie
 

Yes, it's very late, but I might as well make this.

Happy Fourth of July to all the other Americans here at OWF!

Hooray! I celebrated with a barbecue as some annoying guy was using a nail gun!

Hm... You get a day off just for being Americans. That's made my liking for you guys even lower. :)

Summer vacation. Already off. :D

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A foreigner sends his goodwill.

God Bless North Korea!

You mean theres no 'Britain Day' or anything?

Happy Independance Day... I guess...

No, we're not cool enough.

Ah, Patrick Vykkers on his annoying rampage in another thread...

Ontopic:
Goooood for you...
Independence day ain't even close to as being a big thing here as in America.

Happy Independance day! We celebrated with some fountain fireworks and butt-loads of sparklers! W00t!!

Fireworks are the shit. BLEED RED WHITE BLUE

For a second there I forgot why there was a fourth of July...oh yeah...

Well, I guess congratulations to all you Americans for your (unless I'm much mistaken) 231st year of not being British. Wooh.
Gawd, the stupid fireworks kept me up all night. Why does my town have to be so patriotic?

That's what I have to say about it!

YEAH! GO AMERICA!

Thank God I moved to America for a few months to catch it!
It was truly a great day.

Pfft, independance day. America is too patriotic.

Now that we are 5 days later can I say I find Independance Day the most arogant holiday I have ever heard off?

Why are you asking? You just did.

Now explain your opinion...

Here in Britain we have our own national holiday, it's called the 'Bank Holiday' in celebration of a great institution. Only we get six or so of them a year.

God, those parties.

z0mg, I saw the best Cuatro de Julio show ever last night. My friend put something together that involved the big kind of fireworks mixed in with musical clips of the Lion King. Best show I've seen in a while.

Seems like a pretty good reason for a holiday to me. Much better than Australia Day, which pretty much celebrates the arrival of white people and syphilus to wipe out the Aborigines.

Tony Blair actually said a few months ago that Britain needs a national holiday similar to Australia Day. We all found that most amusing as it's generally regarded as the second-most pointless public holiday ever, after The Queen's Birthday (which occurs two months after her actual birthday, at a more convenient date).

errr... isn't that the same thing that happened in USA? Except that the natives were took as slaves.

Yes, but Independance Day marks the declaration of independance from Britain, not white settlement.

Australia would mark Federation day if that wasn't January 1st. We'd hate to lose a public holiday just because two fall on the same date.

Independance Day has become just as useless if you look at it like that. Australia Day was probably a very meaningfull holiday back then but now it doesn't make any sense. Same with America and Britain for this simple reason; America IS dependant on Britain!!!! Heck America is and always has been dependant of the rest of the world to survive, the entire Declaration is, and always has been, the most arogant and childish piece of paper ever to see the light of day.

Doesn't Britain have Bonfire Night or something? Or shouldn't they have a holiday to celebrate their hold out and integrity through the WWII bombings?

I think Britain should have a 'Good Riddance' day on the fourth of July :).

The very idea of British people celebrating anything is ludicrous. We hate success, we hate people who are wonderful. We like gloom and unhappiness.

Hence the burning pyres all about a bunch of Catholic terrorists.

I wonder what's the point in independence days anyway...

All you celebrate is how some guys made your country independent, while it actually isn't.

But then again, I don't see the point in celebrating victory in football games made by SOMEONE ELSE.

LOL!!!

Fortesque13: You wounder why all countries other than the USA have PAL dvd format? The US wants their own :D You wounder why British tapes won't fit in US VCR's? They want something different :D
If it wasn't for Britain, Spain, Ireland, France etc there wouldn't be an "America"

Well, it usually starts by people wanting something different. Then it's better than other people's. Then they start fighting. Eventually a war breaks out. So it ain't much point wanting something unique so much to that extend of detail.

And no country is independent completely. People's lives depend on decisions of some clown on the top and his goons.

My thoughts exactly.

Good lord, July 4th is highly overrated nowadays, much like Christmas and the majority of holidays, for that matter. Most people I know don't really care that it's the day we became "independent", they're all "OMFG WE GET A DAY OFF WORK LOLZ FIREWURKZ". Because of my location, it's going to sound like there's a fucking war going on outside all damn month.

I just realised. You got no one to be independent from which means no Independence day. Suckers :p

Please name one independend country...

No point asking, he isn't going to return with a sutiable answer.

I was in Kansas city, so I went to the top and 20th floor of the hotel I was in and looked at all the fireworks across the horizon

It was pretty cool

Wow, be more literal, why don't you? No really, try to be more literal, because I don't think it's humanly possible, and I would like to see otherwise.

Because, you know, "Huzzah Now We Aren't Ruled by Another Country Day" just rolls right off the tongue. I mean, I'm not going to argue for or against the validity of the holiday, but god-fucking-damn.

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I spent my 4th of July getting ready to move and being annoyed by children with firecrackers.

Now what the hell are you doing? Argueing with me while saying I'm right? O.o

Yea I think it's a childish thing. 'We can take care of ourselfs, we are so great, we are so big, we own all of you and we don't need you!' is all the Declaration stands for, end of story.

And if you want me to not be literal about it then I'll just say... I realy don't like cows... that cryptic enough for ya?

I'm not arguing for or against the holiday itself, nor am I talking about the Declaration and what it means or doesn't mean. I don't care about your opinion on the Declaration, and I'm not going to (and so far, haven't attempted to) argue about it with you.

I meant what I said (although I said it sarcastically): it's called "Independence Day" because nobody is going to be so ridiculously over-literal (like you're being) that they would construe that America's celebration of the independent governing of itself is somehow related to America's (or ANY other country's) current economic or social dependence on other countries.

Don't take it personally, let me just put it this way: one of my biggest pet peeves is people taking a single goddamn word and over-extrapolating it way past its limits based on a narrow definition. That's all there is to it.

I get the same way when people on this forum get called a racist for being blatantly discriminatory about a certain religion or something, but the get their panties in a wad because "racist" isn't the right word to them. The end result is the same... they're still a fucking intolerant ass.

Europe as a whole is dependent on America for saving it's ass in WW2. Civilized America (north and south) is dependent on Europe from exporting it's culture there.