July 4th celebrates the French monarchy bankrupting itself by using the American colonies to fight a proxy war against the British, opening the door for the French Revolution. History's greatest two-for-one deal.
We traditionally commemorate it by polluting lakes, gorging on cheap junk food, imbibing alcohol, and making big explosions. How are you planning to celebrate?
I'm celebrating by enjoying my last full week of deployment in a sandy, dusty craphole of a country which also happens to be about five miles from the sun.
Woo, fireworks! Haven't seen DC fireworks before, but I figure they'll compare well to the crazy fireworks back home.
Also, speaking of explosions, there was a crazy thunderstorm overhead at 5:30 this morning. Woke me up, I was like, "Hmm, maybe I should unplug my laptop." And then tried falling back asleep while considering the wisdom of having my bed right next to the window, only to decide "eh, there are lightning rods around."
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
edited July 2011
Gonna throw on the american flag speedo, maybe a hat if it's sunny. Drink beer and sit on a lawn chair in my front lawn making all my neighbors feel vaguely uncomfortable.
It's my sister's birthday tomorrow so we're doing dinner for that tonight and then probably some sort of activity tomorrow. Also probably go somewhere the fireworks are visible tmrw. night, it's NYC so the big macy's ones are always nice.
RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
edited July 2011
so for my birthday, one of my oldest friends came down for a bbq yesterday and we got to spend the day
he brought me this thing he made at work
it's this fiberglass box, about three feet tall and about a foot or so wide, with a one-inch circle cut into the front
out the top, it has these two steel pipes sticking up. Fairly narrow bore in them, about the size of your index finger
so what you do is you load the pipes with a black powder charge, pack it down with some wadding, then you step back a bunch and shoot the circle at the front with a slingshot
inside the hole is a switch taken from an airliner toilet handle. You hit the target, BOOM, it triggers the black powder charge
I'm going to be shooting at that thing all fucking day tomorrow
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I BECAME a citizen of the US by CHOICE
was not born here
I might be the MOST patriotic person EVER
COFFEE AND BEER
4th of july
HOO AH
Does bourbon count?
Three beers/person that night, though.
time to break that shit in
oh, and jerk off now that i took a new picture of myself
motherfucker that's my thing
You only have the one?
Are you gonna hide it inside your internal genitalia?
I will be drinking quite a bit afterwards though.
you cannot get ye flask
Also, speaking of explosions, there was a crazy thunderstorm overhead at 5:30 this morning. Woke me up, I was like, "Hmm, maybe I should unplug my laptop." And then tried falling back asleep while considering the wisdom of having my bed right next to the window, only to decide "eh, there are lightning rods around."
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How about you finish the thing I won for the SE++ Child's Play auction. That would be cool being it's July.
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Buuuut it rained all day and I have a giant project due tomorrow, so there went that.
We did hear the fireworks going off on the U.S. base on Saturday night, though. So I mean... that sort of counts!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Hopefully she's not jet lagged into oblivion.
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We are doing to have a bugers and watching movies
It's also my day off and I will get paid for it!
what, jerking off
are you kidding me
i'm pretty sure i'm jerking off right now
I did it twice allready and I am not feeling like a third
Tomorrow, probably bbq a steak or something.
I have to work but then I work overnights and I get paid twice for it!
I am going to punch a british
I've got some muskets. Let's do this like our founding fathers intended. Drunken, armed, and violent.
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he brought me this thing he made at work
it's this fiberglass box, about three feet tall and about a foot or so wide, with a one-inch circle cut into the front
out the top, it has these two steel pipes sticking up. Fairly narrow bore in them, about the size of your index finger
so what you do is you load the pipes with a black powder charge, pack it down with some wadding, then you step back a bunch and shoot the circle at the front with a slingshot
inside the hole is a switch taken from an airliner toilet handle. You hit the target, BOOM, it triggers the black powder charge
I'm going to be shooting at that thing all fucking day tomorrow
One of my friends asked me to go out on his boat and drink and stuff. I told him "Ah damn that sounds awesome but I'm going to be working."
He was all "Damn that sucks, but at least you get some holiday pay!"
I laughed in his face.
we old and boring