Not all Americans are Wankers (screw the fourth of july)

mattyg · Post by **mattyg** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:33 am

It's 9:30pm, and I just got off of a 12 hour shift of work helping adults with developmental disabilities (that's what I do). I live in a "tourist" ocean town, and in the worst spot possible. My house is stuck between the two worst streets during traffic. I already knew it was gonna be a bitch to get home, until I saw they had the road to get to my house blocked off and officers were directing traffic. I said screw it, and went around. The officer asked what the hell I was doing...and drawing upon the east coast portuguese blood I inherited, I yelled I was trying to get to my house which was a block away. After he asked me where I lived, he still directed me away, as I yelled something about working a twelve hour day and f@#! the tourists. Now, fireworks are illegal, which doesn't stop thousands of people from mass-migrating to our beaches and littering them with the remains of their explosive delights. Now, this cop sure chose his battle...he chose to deter someone from trying to get home from work, while thousands blatantly broke the law as police stood by and watched the show. This damn holiday makes me sick. Granted, if the British had one, it would still have been wrong, since we're living on stolen land, but the thing that makes me sick is the way we celebrate it. Sure, fireworks are all good and fun, but when there has been a war going on for longer than I can remember, simulating warfare doesn't seem like an honorable way to celebrate an already shitty holiday. Outside my room, it sounds like a goddamn warzone. You got the little pops of machinegun fire, you got the loud bangs and whistles of incoming mortars...the whole shabang. I can only imagine what the victims of our military exploits would think if they could see us this way...having a celebration that mocks the horror of their everyday reality, and reveling in it. Since no one is home to blow steam off on, I thought I'd share my thoughts with y'all. There's a lot more I could write, but I'll just sit back and drink myself stupid in an effort to forget this is going on...kinda like the real war.

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:47 am

cheers!!! i have felt somewhat the same way today.

hell, in my neighborhood we play the guns or fireworks guessing game.

i am becoming an expert at separating the sound of a string of firecrackers from semi-automatic gunfire...

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:15 am

We seem to get fireworks every week from the pier, but thankfully no gunfire - lucky we have gun control I guess.

Got a little confused the other year, where I thought that Guy Fawke's night was celebrated for somebody trying to blow up Parliament rather than the plotters being caught - wasn't sure why that was worth a party

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:49 am

It should be a national holiday in the UK as well. The day we cast aside the Americans.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:03 am

Mr Hyde wrote:
Shonky wrote:
Got a little confused the other year, where I thought that Guy Fawke's night was celebrated for somebody trying to blow up Parliament rather than the plotters being caught - wasn't sure why that was worth a party
Yeah- we celebrate the fact that the Catholic terrorists were caught before they could blow up Parliament (which is why that V for Vendetta film is a bit messed up), in the begining Efforgies of the Pope were burnt on fires and then that gradually changed to be of Guy and you don't even see that much any more.- All goes back to the whole Catholic-Protestant type beef.

They still burn the Pope in Lewes from what I hear, mind you they're strange round that way

adruu · Post by **adruu** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:17 pm

Montreal gets fireworks two times a week for like three months straight...its like a shroom-heads dream come true.

Leaving the states isn't a bad idea if possible.

kozee · Post by **kozee** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:48 pm

Yep. U hate the 4th? i hate Cinco de mayo.... it's an excuse for every cacuasian to go to chevys, drink corona, and act like a retard..... what are they really celebrating? they don't know and don't care!

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:58 pm

kozee wrote:Yep. U hate the 4th? i hate Cinco de mayo.... it's an excuse for every cacuasian to go to chevys, drink corona, and act like a retard..... what are they really celebrating? they don't know and don't care!

If Chevys is a mexican food joint, who ever named it is going straight to PC hell.

Not all Americans are Wankers (screw the fourth of july)

Not all Americans are Wankers (screw the fourth of july)

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