I hate the 4th of July

[Griff]

I have zero interest in fireworks, but I do like some white hots.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Griff

. . . I do like some white hots.

Whut dem?

[breakingnews]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

And you know what? Hot dogs are gross.

Bah humbug.

You need to eat a Boars' Head all-beef franks with natural casings. Fuckin amazing - they *snap* when you bite into 'em.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I like the fwish-boom-"Aaaahhhhh" more than the hotdogs. A dry evening air is also the way to have it. Fobble, I suspect you live in too humid a place. [Well, Texas, yeah. Steamy air and those clumsy-flying kamikaze June bugs still hanging around in early July.] Come to Nevada. Come to California -- we're having a drought, so humidity's well down. Come to the high plains states, come to the mountains.

There you will have a happy Fourth and minimum bugslapping owing to a minimum of bugs.

[Cloud]

lotta hot dog lovers here!

I almost never do anything for 4th. Too hot. Although I lived in Park City, Utah, for a while, and they had a consciously quaint celebration, including a flapjack breakfast, parade, activities, and then--yeah, fireworks over the golf course.

Fireworks at a distance are very cool. Fireworks up close, in kid's hands, in backyard, are NOT COOL! As I can personally attest to.

[DanaC]

I hate fireworks. Every November we have Guy Falkes Night and there're are big firework displays everywhere.....and little displays in peoples' gardens....and kids letting fireworks off at night for about a fortnight either side. Drives my dog demented.

[Aliantha]

I hate hotdogs.

[DucksNuts]

I like hotdogs and fireworks

The beauty of most of Australia is that fireworks are illegal (except in the ACT) unless you have a special permit.....so its usually a special event and very well supervised....of course, you will get some yobbos letting them off willy nilly....but its never been bad where I have lived.

Saturday I am taking the boys to the Monster Truck Bonanza...they will have a HUGE fireworks display and I will enjoy it...I would enjoy it more from the distance of my house....but will enjoy it anyways

[Aliantha]

One of my cousins got some fireworks for new years 2000. Only two of the blokes managed to get burned that night. That was mostly thanks to the fact that they were pissed at the time.

[Sundae]

Ah Dana you old misery - you don't even have a sleeping baby to back you up, unlike Clod. Although if they upset Pilau I spose it counts.

I'm not sure how I would feel about summer fireworks - it would probably be raining if we had a July display here. But winter fireworks are the dogs'.

Nothing like a village firework display, with a huge bonfire on the village green. All the pubs selling pints in plastic cups outside, and unidentifiable charred things in buns that you buy just because you can (and your Mum always made you bring your own when you were a kid). Face roasting and back freezing, everyone trying to work out which way the wind is blowing so you can stand out of the smoke, but it seems to come from every direction at once. Numb feet in boots, sparklers held in gloves, a freezing fog coming down, half the residents complaining that the other half probably didn't even contribute in the door-to-door collection for the event, and look - I know for a fact those people have come over from [insert next village]

And then the display - a couple dozen individual fireworks, that somehow, in that setting, seem to beat the professional displays hands down. All the adults saying OOOH and AAAAH in a tongue in cheek way, some poor little jessie of a boy crying and annoying his Dad. And the chance that at any point a firework could shoot off sideways into the crowd. Or under a car - which made me laugh both pairs of socks off - residents had all been asked to move their cars by the police, so it was ILLEGALLY parked. It wasn't damaged though.

I love it.

Happy 4th to you all anyway.

[elSicomoro]

I was going to bbq today, but my mother-in-law is saving me the work...she's bbq'ing at her house.

Fireworks are illegal for you and me in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. So people just go to Jefferson County and St. Charles County to buy them, and as long as you don't cause any trouble, the City cops at least will look the other way.

[TheMercenary]

I am at work but I am eating 2 brauts with kruat for lunch today.

[monster]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am at work but I am eating 2 brats with kraut for lunch today.

[Clodfobble]

Are those your little sausages, monster? They're adorable!

[warch]

I have come to hate fireworks.
My neighborhood has been under siege every night since Memorial Day. Dogs going crazy. Not just firecrackers, and the jolting M80s, I can take that in moderation, man. This year we have the full on rocket launched, raining down of shrapnel. Into the wee hours, 2- 3 AM. And its way dry.

I've asked one house of lads to stop, at least after 10 PM on a Monday night. They waited until I went back inside, then resumed. Ive called the cops on a few really bad overnights, but they have bigger fish. We've found canisters and debris from them in our yard- hello mower! chunk!

I have a feeling its going to take a major accident for anything to change. Maybe I should hose down the garage?

Meanwhile, we did get a nice slab of salmon grilled up last night! yum!