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"