Now go blow shit up, America!!
My evening plans: Team America: World Police
The only other Americans I know here had a baby this morning, so I don't think they're up for blowing things up with me.
I have to work. :(
And it's not like I'm working during the day, no. I'm working 6pm to 2am. :cry:
The first year in which fireworks are finally legal in RI, and I can't show of my mad Florida pyrotechnic skills. Ugh.
My family celebrated yesterday cause people worked today
it was amusing
there was a large bowl of bugle snacks
(http://nikkigsblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/bugles-orig.jpg)
Uncle: Raises bugle to lips
Fred: Raises bugle to lips
Cousins 1-4: raise bugles to lips
BRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
HAHA!! That's cute
Quote from: Suu on July 04, 2010, 03:58:43 PM
Now go blow shit up, America!!
Yes. Oh yes.
Illegal as fuck in Tucson. Can't even buy them in Arizona.
If I had the gas, I'd go over to New Mexico and get some, like everyone else.
we buy ours in indiana and then explode them on my aunts farm where theres no police ANYWHERE EVER
They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.
So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.
We have you surrounded, Massachusetts. ASSIMILATE.
Happy explosions day!
Today's experiment is to see how much fun (in the form of booze and explosives) can be got with 20 bucks.
I project that the difficulty will be in deciding on the optimal ratio of beer to explosives. How much explosives will I need? How drunk do I want to be while handling them?
This will require some serious thought.
Quote from: FredleySneijder on July 04, 2010, 04:45:42 PM
My family celebrated yesterday cause people worked today
it was amusing
there was a large bowl of bugle snacks
(http://nikkigsblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/bugles-orig.jpg)
Uncle: Raises bugle to lips
Fred: Raises bugle to lips
Cousins 1-4: raise bugles to lips
BRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
:lulz:
Quote from: NWC on July 04, 2010, 04:33:14 PM
My evening plans: Team America: World Police
The only other Americans I know here had a baby this morning, so I don't think they're up for blowing things up with me.
Strap an M-80 to the placenta like a good American!!!
:amurrica:
Quote from: Suu on July 04, 2010, 04:36:27 PM
I have to work. :(
And it's not like I'm working during the day, no. I'm working 6pm to 2am. :cry:
The first year in which fireworks are finally legal in RI, and I can't show of my mad Florida pyrotechnic skills. Ugh.
D'aww. Oh well, the 5th is blow shit up day, anyhoo. Around here, at least.
The fireworks vendors mark all their leftover shit down to half price or less to get rid of it. Tennessee has to have some of the most liberal fireworks laws in the country. We have 6" wide mortars, M-80's, you name it. As far as I know, you don't even have to be 18 to buy it.
We had two year-round stores here in town that sold just fireworks, but a couple of years ago, one of them 'sploded.
I am working, so happy Independence Day from the INS Immigration Detention Center.
PATRIOTISMS. I HAS THEM.
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OFUK BRONZER FAIL.
AAGH Hahaha!! :lulz:
The second photo snuck up on me.
I am spending the evening, alone, boozeless, vehicle-less, and out of view of any fireworks. :kingmeh:
at least there's some chocolate in the fridge. Wheeee...
Some lunatic has armed the populace. AS we speak the three deckers and the windowless bario house are alight with the wasted thermal glow of a few hundred rounds of mild explosive. MY apartment is being shelled.
Thankfully, my father and my fathers father were of the Brit, and so I know what to do. I will draw the shades, kill the lights, and die a horrible, stoic death.
Failing that, I have my projectiles and my axe. I will lure them in with cunning long range affronts, spill their blood, and take skulls for khorne.
Herbert had counter munitions, but they seem to have all been hidden.
every so often the fireworks will make it above the treeline. Am watching ghost hunters backwards in my bed so I can look out the window.
Also, I'd like to point out that I mistakenly put on earrings that are fashioned after british coins today, now I realize the irony and don't want to take them off. :lulz:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/us/05parade.html?src=me
QuoteA Fourth of July parade in eastern Iowa turned to mayhem on Sunday when a pair of runaway horses barged into the crowd and trampled 24 people, many of them children. At least one person was killed, and several others were seriously injured.
The chaos took place when two horses pulling a buggy got spooked and charged into the crowd at the Heritage Day Parade, a decades-old tradition that attracts thousands to Bellevue, a town of 2,300 people nestled along the Mississippi River. Bellevue's fire chief, Chris Roling, said the two horses, both at the rear of the parade, bumped into one another, knocking one horse's bridle off and causing it to bolt, followed by the second horse.
"They took off down the street uncontrollably," Chief Roling said in a telephone interview. "They went about six blocks — the horses and the carriages behind them, running over children and adults along the parade route."
"I've been doing this 35 years and I've never seen anything like it," he added.
A spokesman for the Bellevue Police department said a 60-year-old woman was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Iowa City after she was taken there with injuries from the accident. He said her identity was being withheld until her family has been notified.
About 10,000 people were lined up along the parade route when the horses made their dash just after 11 a.m. As the runaway horses galloped through the crowd, a passenger on the buggy was thrown into the air. Parents grabbed their children and ran, and throngs of parade-goers screamed and scrambled for cover.
The horses charged ahead for more than a quarter mile until a man at the front of the parade on a haybine — an antique farm machine used to gather hay — tried to stop them.
"He turned around and saw the horses coming toward him and he pulled his unit in front of the horses to slow them down," Chief Roling said. "After running into his unit, they ran into a road sign and then there was a van that got hit. They ran into the side of the van and finally there were enough bystanders there to help out."
In addition to the woman who died, another 23 people were injured, all but two of whom were taken to local hospitals by ambulance. Among the injured were at least four people in critical condition — including at least two children - and another five with "major injuries," like broken bones, collapsed lungs and head injuries, Chief Roling said.
:horrormirth:
just saw that on my other forum. :sad: I'm curious how the entire bridle just came off when they rubbed heads though...I could see "came loose" or something like that if it were properly adjusted, buckled, etc etc etc. Must not have been put on right, or have been a little loose.
:x
At the Bristol parade. Oldest one in the country at 225 years. I'm so fucking tired.
I sat about with 4 boys in a back yard in SE Portland, watching illegal aerial fireworks (I don't know why they bother making them illegal; all we have to do is buy them off the indians) and getting drinked up.
At in-laws place. Get call from friend, her parents are in the area, at a lake, 5 minutes from NH. So we went, and got in a flat-bottom canoe, and paddled into the middle of the lake.
Then, all the docks that surrounded the lake began the firework assault. These fuckers spend serious money on the good stuff, and it was all exploding only a few dozen feet over our heads, for almost half an hour.
That had to have been one of the best 4ths I've had in a hell of a long time.
Was also at the in-laws, but all we had were some dollar store sparklers. The twin-cities did put on a fireworks show but it was a bit too late for the kiddos. But it was an interesting evening. My mother-in-law's, husband's lesbian daughter and her SO were visiting for the weekend. They brought their two Yorkies and their chihuahua. My mom-in-law has two yorkies as well. So their were little dogs running around, my daughter running around hootin and hollerin, the two chain-smoking lesbians, and the rest of us.
Quote from: BLARFINGARF on July 05, 2010, 05:25:54 AM
every so often the fireworks will make it above the treeline. Am watching ghost hunters backwards in my bed so I can look out the window.
Also, I'd like to point out that I mistakenly put on earrings that are fashioned after british coins today, now I realize the irony and don't want to take them off. :lulz:
:lulz:
Quote from: Suu on July 04, 2010, 05:09:55 PM
They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.
So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.
So I wonder, in America you can buy bullets at the supermarket, yeah?
Can't you explode stuff with the gunpowder in those, anyway?
Or are bullets too expensive to get some serious bang for your buck? [I have no idea how much they cost]
(I just see them do it in all sorts of TV series, so it might be a very stupid suggestion)
We had a pretty awesome fireworks display here. At least on par with a good Guy Fawkes display I went to a few years ago, only this was better because, well, scenery.
There was also, allegedly, a fantastic after-fireworks party, only I wouldn't know, since I was on duty and so had to hang around in the dorms until 6am.
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 07, 2010, 09:55:40 AM
Quote from: Suu on July 04, 2010, 05:09:55 PM
They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.
So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.
So I wonder, in America you can buy bullets at the supermarket, yeah?
Can't you explode stuff with the gunpowder in those, anyway?
Or are bullets too expensive to get some serious bang for your buck? [I have no idea how much they cost]
(I just see them do it in all sorts of TV series, so it might be a very stupid suggestion)
Bullets you can only purchase in a firearms store. Funny, huh?
You can get bullets at Walmart dude
You can't buy them in general stores anymore?
It's been a long time since I bought bullets.
Yep, Walmart. Get your Guns AND Butter.
Also, while you may not be able to get them at the General Store, sometimes the gun shop is right next to the general store, like it is here.
Our gun shops are spread out in such a fashion that you're never really more than 6 miles away from one.
or make your own bullets in your basement bullet lab like my grandpa :x
FOR WHEN THE GOVT MAKE THEM ILLEGAL
I think the Dok would be interested in that. More Mad Science!
Quote from: Suu on July 07, 2010, 02:07:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 07, 2010, 09:55:40 AM
Quote from: Suu on July 04, 2010, 05:09:55 PM
They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.
So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.
So I wonder, in America you can buy bullets at the supermarket, yeah?
Can't you explode stuff with the gunpowder in those, anyway?
Or are bullets too expensive to get some serious bang for your buck? [I have no idea how much they cost]
(I just see them do it in all sorts of TV series, so it might be a very stupid suggestion)
Bullets you can only purchase in a firearms store. Funny, huh?
No, I've seen them at walmart. But not the grocery store,no.
You can buy shot for the hunting rifles they sell at Walmart, but I can't get bullets for my 9mm there.
Quote from: Suu on July 07, 2010, 05:31:47 PM
You can buy shot for the hunting rifles they sell at Walmart, but I can't get bullets for my 9mm there.
truefact:
I have bought these at Walmart
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$8.99
Laws are different here. :(
The shit in cap gun...caps and/or toy rocket engines work as well and are more widely available, though it takes time. Or just buy gunpowder. Not that I condone making illegal fireworks or explosives, of course. Just a bit of knowledge.
Of course, my preferred method is to drive over the NH border and buy fireworks (get with the times Massachusetts!).
Re: Wal-Mart...I guess it may depend on the location? I know the ones in NH (at least southern NH maybe) don't sell guns anymore. Can still get gunpowder, and maybe shotgun shot, though I haven't looked lately based upon the fact that I don't have a gun.
Went to go see fireworks Sat. Then got to see a lot of fireworks real up close in a town where one wouldn't think it's a good idea to shoot off shitloads of fireworks. But up until recently, the street our friend lives on was private and the cops have never bothered them and still didn't this year thankfully despite the barrage that lasted quite a while. One of his neighbors had some pretty damn good ones too.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on July 07, 2010, 04:28:12 PM
No, I've seen them at walmart. But not the grocery store,no.
your walmarts don't have groceries there?
also.... Tannerite (http://www.tannerite.com/)is the proper way to celebrate the fourth.
i'm still pentioning walmart to carry it, though, to no avail.
:cry:
i still have to buy through the mail...
Quote from: Iptuous on July 07, 2010, 07:51:25 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on July 07, 2010, 04:28:12 PM
No, I've seen them at walmart. But not the grocery store,no.
your walmarts don't have groceries there?
also.... Tannerite (http://www.tannerite.com/)is the proper way to celebrate the fourth.
i'm still pentioning walmart to carry it, though, to no avail.
:cry:
i still have to buy through the mail...
Have you ever tried making your own?
nope.
although i understand it isn't terribly complicated.
have you?
They used to have ammo at Fred Meyer, which is a grocery/general store. Dunno if they still do though.
They should. I mean, this is Oregon.
Quote from: Iptuous on July 07, 2010, 08:42:28 PM
nope.
although i understand it isn't terribly complicated.
have you?
Nope. This thread is the first I've even heard of it.
Found the website and the page that says "Don't make homemade Tannerite". So, of course, I immediately Googled "homemade Tannerite".
It really is Fantastic Shit©.
very patriotic.
put some in an old piece of junk, like a crapped out car, or a washing machine or something, and make it fly.
involuntary redneck whoops and hollars will spill out of your mouth like you never expected.
the only thing more patriotic than shooting things is shooting things that explode.
kinda brings a tear to your eye...
July 4th marked our tenth anniversary. We went to a most excellent party out in South Seattle, didn't get past Round 1 of the Spank Your Tank competition :argh!:, hung out with a lot of good friends :mrgreen:, drank and smoked way too much :horrormirth:, watched lots of stuff going FOOM :D, watched the debut performance of SkankBurgers :fap:, and then I got a pinball machine for an anniversary present :lulz:. It rained during the day but cleared up enough at night to do the fireworks.
Moved my mom on the 3rd to her new apartment, then had bbq with burgs, dogs, beers, and illegal fireworks (thank you, Cousin!). The kids LOVED the sparklers, though it was cute how afraid of them they were the whole time--but they were fascinated enough with them to get over it and have fun.
On the 4th itself went to an Afghan wedding in L.A. Middle of my palm is still henna'd nice and orange from it...