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Gnat the Beggar
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:03 am

I completely understand fireworks restrictions in towns and cities.
TOO many Folks are simply too stupid to trust not to hurt themselves or others.
And at least here, the ground cover is almost always too dry at this time of year.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:10 am

The fact that others are stupid should have no bearing on my own ability to choose to be stupid. That is control. And, quite the opposite of the point of celebration.

Those who can, don't. Those who should not, do.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:41 am

FormCritic wrote:
That's the main problem with weather in the Pacific Northwest...

We have mild winters and moderate summers, but all of the military activity makes the zombie problem a real bother.

In King County, they're even allowed to vote!

The term "Zombie" is so crass and politically incorrect! They prefer to be called "Undead Americans" now. Hmmph! Pretty soon, they'll want their own schools...

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:44 am

Agent Cooper wrote:
The term "Zombie" is so crass and politically incorrect! They prefer to be called "Undead Americans" now. Hmmph! Pretty soon, they'll want their own schools...

Zombie Stores are common in the UK now.

(its a term used when a store is losing money, but is still tied into a lease agreement, so onlt stays open to help pay the rent).

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:06 pm

Heh! One of my local gaming stores-

http://www.zombie-planet.com/

The irony!

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:00 pm

lawrenson wrote:
Zombie Stores are common in the UK now.

(its a term used when a store is losing money, but is still tied into a lease agreement, so onlt stays open to help pay the rent).

I prefer to call them Wal-Marts, due to the gloosy-eyed, drooling mass of brain-dead 'sure we'll sell our personal info/lose our jobs for the freedom of low prices' fools that I see go there.

Maybe that's just in my area, though. :wink:

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:19 pm

SimperingToad wrote:
I prefer to call them Wal-Marts, due to the gloosy-eyed, drooling mass of brain-dead 'sure we'll sell our personal info/lose our jobs for the freedom of low prices' fools that I see go there.

Maybe that's just in my area, though.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:27 pm

Randomness..
I've just found we now have ESPN sports channel on our satellite channels, seemingly appearing after Setanta went bust last week and NASN was removed!
Lots of baseball to watch now, but could anyone tell me if they cover the NBA as well? I'd love to get watching that again, but the UK coverage is usually really poor...

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:58 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:Speaking of zombies....anyone in the U.K. make it to the Glastonbury Festival? Looks like quite the gathering.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... .html?fark

Sadly not this year. Some friends of mine just back and they rated it well this year. I am planning to head to a few festivals this summer with some friends, at the moment, probably Lovebox, Bestival and maybe Camp Bestival...

http://www.campbestival.co.uk/#

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:05 pm

red_bus wrote:
Sadly not this year. Some friends of mine just back and they rated it well this year. I am planning to head to a few festivals this summer with some friends, at the moment, probably Lovebox, Bestival and maybe Camp Bestival...

http://www.campbestival.co.uk/#

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looks fun!

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:20 pm

Agent Cooper wrote:
The term "Zombie" is so crass and politically incorrect! They prefer to be called "Undead Americans" now. Hmmph! Pretty soon, they'll want their own schools...

In King County, Washington they'd actually take that seriously too.

"Undead" might be too crass. "Differently Alive" or "Alternative Non-Lifestyle" might be better.

This comes up a lot in special education, where one group or other doesn't like the name of any given disability category.

Thing is...words like "retarded" were invented in order to avoid using other terms that people found offensive.

Undead Americans sounds like a song title by David Bowie.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:30 pm

serleran wrote:The fact that others are stupid should have no bearing on my own ability to choose to be stupid. That is control. And, quite the opposite of the point of celebration.

Citizen! Unhappiness is treason, citizen!

If you owned a house with a wood-shingle roof, then you would live in dread every Fourth of July weekend and water your roof before leaving the house for any length of time. The stupidity of one person often causes problems for other people.

OTOH, when I lived in the country, huge fireworks were going off everywhere and not fires. People did not have to sneak around illegally shooting off fireworks because, well, they were legal.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:03 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:Citizen! Unhappiness is treason, citizen!

If you owned a house with a wood-shingle roof, then you would live in dread every Fourth of July weekend and water your roof before leaving the house for any length of time. The stupidity of one person often causes problems for other people.

OTOH, when I lived in the country, huge fireworks were going off everywhere and not fires. People did not have to sneak around illegally shooting off fireworks because, well, they were legal.

We go to a friends' house every 4th and he puts on a big show (everyone chips in for the exploding bits and adds to the BBQ spread). A couple of years ago, someone in the same town started his own tradition, now they compete to see how can blow the most stuff up. One day it will end badly but until then, it's all fun.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:37 pm

SoulCatcher78 wrote:One day it will end badly but until then, it's all fun.

You know people are having fun when they have Roman Candle fights.

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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:48 pm

More Zombie fun. I think this might have been posted here before, in fact this site could be where I first heard of this, if that is the case, sorry for the repeat. Pranksters change construction signs to warn of zombies.

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/Road_signs_warn_of_zombies

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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:47 am

Zombieland

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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:11 am

i was in las vegas once on the 4th of july...that was rather fun

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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:26 am

When I was a kid, my cousins would go over the border to Canada and buy shopping bags full of fireworks and smuggle them back into NY. I'm not talking about little firecrackers or roman candles either. This stuff was like one step below what the pros have. I'm talking about giant bottle rockets about 2 feet long and 3 inches thick that would go up a mile with a sound burst that sounded like a military test; and chinese fountains that would send up 50 fireballs at a time that would explode into flower shapes. You know, mondo pyrotechnics. I don't know how they got this stuff, just remember that it was from Canada and I remember it all had chinese lettering on the packages.

We'd take that stuff up to my dad's campsite in the Adirondacks on the 4th and put on a show for the whole campground. It was really something. Everybody had a great time. Good memories.

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