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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on July 06, 2003, 12:55:05 AM
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Safe and sane... pfffttt.
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Oh but sandy, you KNOW we don't want to offend anyone by celebrating this country! That would be so un PC!! :eek:
:p :p :p :D
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I think my point wasn't clear enough... "safe and sane" applies to the lame bellybutton fireworks.
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Your post was perfectly clear. Fireworks = enthusiasm. Now we don't want to offend by being enthusiastic about this country do we???? :p
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Nope... you're still not getting it... It's okay... I'm guessing that you're too young to remember how "enthusiastic" fireworks were thirty years ago.
EDIT: Of course... you may also not live in California where the restrictions are far more severe than most states (other than Minnesota).
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Sandy,
I got it. You aren't getting it. and BTW I was 20 thirty years ago and I remember them just fine. We also didn't have folks whining about being offended by others being proud of this country and complaining about flags being displayed. Hence the "new PC" stuff we see and hear about now.
That make it clearer????
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Originally posted by Maverick
We also didn't have folks whining about being offended by others being proud of this country and complaining about flags being displayed. Hence the "new PC" stuff we see and hear about now.
That make it clearer????
Perfectly clear... has absolutely nothing to do with my post.
I don't know anyone complaining about flag displays.
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Go sleep it off sandy. :rolleyes:
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Sleep what off? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Lol....
Obviously someones graduated from the Grunhurz school of Putting Words Into Someone's Mouth Then Proceeding to Argue Against Them.
..with honors.
geez... :)
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Hey Nash... you're obviously tired as well. :D
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Geez, Sandman, I'm not that smart, but even I can see that Maverick was agreeing with you. Or at least trying to agree with you before you started arguing with him (and by extension, yourself).
I sure hope you treat your friends & allies better in real life...
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After reading this (http://216.91.192.19/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90640), I don't think so. Two different topics... both happen to involve fireworks.
It's not a rule, but generally, it's not agreement when the reply contains: :p
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I really miss the big fireworks we had when I was a kid. we could get anything in Missouri. if you had property you could even get m-80's from the state (for the exclusive use of keeping deer and such out of your crops I assure you ;) )
but the best where our homemade versions. unloading rockets and reloading the display. or modifying 'd' engine model rockets and replacing the recovery system with assorted fireworks and enough loose powder to make sure they where all lit by the chute charge. or just a big powder charge buried out in the field with an electric detonator so you could set it off at the stroke of midnight. handled safely (more or less) and set off well away from people or property, it was a lot of fun.
those days have been gone for awhile. and I know exactly when it changed for me. the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. I went to the basement and destroyed all my homemade fireworks that day and haven't even made a small firecracker since. the rules had changed.
the rules had changed forever. no longer where you patriotic when you set-off 1/2 a pound of 'red-dot' in a PVC pipe. now you'd go on a list of suspected terrorists. it ruined the whole thing for me, I don't even bother with any fireworks at all anymore. it's just not the same.
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(Insert a reason)
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you'll put your eye out.
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Safe and Sane in no way applies to what goes on on the rez's up here in WA on the fourth.
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Sandtard if we didn't live in a socialist dystopia we could have normal fireworks like all the other states. It's time to emigrate to the USA.
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the way i see it is if your over 18 you should be able to buy any fireworks you want. So every year more and more idiots will continue to prove darwin correct.
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Originally posted by TW9
Make it a point to come to boston on the 4th of july and watch the fireworks on the charles river from the eplenad atleast once in your life.. or u can also get a nice view of them from where the USS Constitution is docked but u'll need a radio so u can hear the Boston Pops if u do that...
(http://a1636.g.akamai.net/7/1636/797/3e2af5d73c6cdc/graphics.boston.com/globe/images/daily/05/4thfront.jpg)
Although the heat was on yesterday, an estimated 700,000 people turned out for Boston's celebration, capped by a Boston Pops concert and fireworks.
This years Boston celebration was definately the best I've seen in awhile.
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Fireworks cause terrorism.
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Terrorism causes fireworks.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Geez, Sandman, I'm not that smart, but even I can see that Maverick was agreeing with you. Or at least trying to agree with you before you started arguing with him (and by extension, yourself).
I sure hope you treat your friends & allies better in real life...
Thanks Chairboy, you had it right on the nose. The other post sandy refered to was done after I was here. The 4th and the celebration of this country are larger than the tragedies that sometimes befall our nation and populace. You simply can't stop living and enjoying life just because "someone might be offended". Those who are offended because the people who like this nation want to celebrate it need to find somewhere else that would be more to their liking. And yep I was agreeing with sandy.
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I think my point wasn't clear enough... "safe and sane" applies to the lame bellybutton fireworks.
Ahhhh, those green wool socks and sandals rubbing your footsies wrong after the anti-war demonstration?
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Did I miss a war? ****!
:p
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Sandman - Bummer that we can't use those cool fireworks like we used to...
Mav - I agree, that PC crowd has killed flag waving!
sandman - No I was talking about fireworks
Mav - Yea, and that whole PC crowd is killin patriotism too.
sandman - FIREWORKS !!!
Mav - And those stinkin libs are behind the whole thing!
sandman - AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
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we can buy just about anything down here - just have to sign a paper stating you are buying them to scare birds off your crops ... :)
ppl must have dropped a ton of cash on them as they started at dark and didnt let up past midnight
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Nice one Midnight... was starting to think Sand and I were alone in the reading of it. :)
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Damnit MT you had to go and explain the whole thing. Now Sandy will understand it all....... )*&%*#&)&^(&^$&^$(*^O^%(*!!!!!!!!
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need BBQ guys?
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Had a couple of neighbors catch the woods on fire with a roman candle over the weekend. They got it under control within 5 minutes, but it ALMOST got out of control. I'll still enjoy watching the fireworks next year, but I'll go wet the area down across the street before the neighbors start lighting fireworks. Just in case the idiot factor raises it's ugly head again. I'm assuming the mass consumption of beer had something to do with it.
BTW Sandy, sadly two trees were lost. :)