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Old 07-08-2011, 01:09 AM
 
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You ain't in London
I just do not get it. It is such a nice summer night, and instead of making grilled stuff and have some vine or beer and just talking to you family, they hang around garbage cans.. get ecstatic about the sound of explosions. I understand how it could be fun for kids under 13, but for their parents...
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Old 07-08-2011, 01:11 AM
 
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Stop whining about fireworks! It's the 4th! I got the pleasure of spending it in DC. It was fantastic. And the best part? Nearly everyone (including my boss) was either hungover or working on little to no sleep. We got to cut out pretty early that day.
Good for you, but what has that got anything to do with the subject of the thread?
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Old 07-08-2011, 07:22 AM
 
Location: Jefferson Park Chicago, IL
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M80s = dumb, big colorful aerials = great
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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I just do not get it. It is such a nice summer night, and instead of making grilled stuff and have some vine or beer and just talking to you family, they hang around garbage cans.. get ecstatic about the sound of explosions. I understand how it could be fun for kids under 13, but for their parents...
You can do that anyday. Not this.
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Old 07-08-2011, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Cleveland
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My neighbors across the alley were exploding something in the alley next to the dumpsters on the 4th. I came out and asked them to be careful with my new vinil garage siding. The woman (mother of the three kids that hang around) ran at me like crazy saying that her brother is in Iraq fighting for me and that I should keep smiling, since it is the forth of July and she has the right to do that. Gosh. for "her biggest holiday of the year" she goes the garbage dumpsters and hangs out there with explosives and all her family, and they claim their constitutional right to do that. how pathetic and depressing. We made some grill and laid a table outside but it turned out to be a really upsetting evening for me and my husband. I hate these "alley" fireworks. So barbaric.
That's lovely.

I'll be in my hometown next Fourth, which has plenty of lower-class people like this idiot, but where this isn't this informal community agreement where they're allowed -- dare I say encouraged -- to be aggressively obnoxious and disrespectful of others in the name of their country.
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