Sally Fourth

[Left]

Since I live in a special neighborhood the fireworks started last night until 4am and will continue on for about a week or whenever they run out.

Yeah. Portland is obsessed with fireworks, and they're ceaseless. It's kind of awful. They sort of gradually ramp up starting a couple weeks before the 4th and then gradually taper off again.

Then there are all the other holidays where for some reason there are fireworks. Why. Just why.

To fuck with my precious cats!

On New Year's eve here, the prudent person stays indoors from 2345 to 015.
Somehow, people don't expect the laws of physics to affect bullets fired into the air.
Houstonians don't believe in physics, that's not God's plan.

Kittehs love valiums, btw.  We had a cat get a UTI, the vet prescribed valium...Jeebus, that was a HAPPY cat for a few days...suddenly not able to jump very well and fell off the table a time or two, but happy kitteh.

[Suu]

Watching Independence Day...then we're pulling out the stash. 

Suu
-Is a fucking pyro. Grew up in the South, fuck ya'll.

[AFK]

Actually, they're not legal in Maine either (aside from sparklers and the like) unless they've changed the law in the last few years.

They did pass a law in the previous legislative session, they've been legal for over a year now, though some municipalities have banned them locally.

[Trivial]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Noooooooo whyyyyy??? 

[Left]

I can't believe it either!
Troll or are they just that derpy?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, it's a meme.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Either way I laughed my ass off.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's totally funny. Gives me an idea for a Twitter troll, too.

[Suu]

My wine is gone, my thumb is burned, and I smell like sulfur.

America!

[Salty]

It is really all about vodka and beef franks.

I want a beef frank. I accidentally the vodka, now beef.

[East Coast Hustle]

I thought they were? I know airborne fireworks aren't permitted in CT and RI (loloops....) I know NH and VT are like, "WHAT LAWS?!" Sorry to hear that Maine is a shithead. At least not as shitty as Mass.

Well yeah. But if they're not airborne then they're not really fireworks.

And I don't care what anyone else says or thinks, fireworks are fucking AMAZINGLY AWESOME. They are, in fact, the only really good thing about the 4th. Or possibly about the fact that America exists at all.

[East Coast Hustle]

It's difficult, sometimes, for me not to reach back and unload a full-swing face slap on anyone who wishes me a "happy independence day!"

however, I find that "Oh, did you jackoffs decide to stop colonizing my country?" generally produces the desired effect.

[LMNO]

Routinely around the first of July, I have to keep reminding myself what a gunshot actually sounds like, and that what I heard was a firecracker.

[Suu]

I thought they were? I know airborne fireworks aren't permitted in CT and RI (loloops....) I know NH and VT are like, "WHAT LAWS?!" Sorry to hear that Maine is a shithead. At least not as shitty as Mass.

Well yeah. But if they're not airborne then they're not really fireworks.

And I don't care what anyone else says or thinks, fireworks are fucking AMAZINGLY AWESOME. They are, in fact, the only really good thing about the 4th. Or possibly about the fact that America exists at all.

I think airbornes may be legal in RI now, because everyone and their fucking grandmothers had mortars last night. I've never SEEN so many mortars since I lived in FL. That, or everyone has been making the trips to NH to stock up.