Happy 4th of July to all my fellow Americans!


Canada just had their day. How about you good people from other countries? What national holiday do you have?

Happy Independence Day! 240 years old, is the good ol' US of A

So what is the word for 250 years (in 10 more years)? 150 is sesquicentennial, I think

Bbq, brews, and fireworks! Good times!

Actually, that's what I had today. And 90 minutes in the gym after that lol.

Happy belated 4th of July to my neighbours in the south.

Sestercentinnial

From wikipedia: To express 2? in Latin it would be expressed as "half-three". The term relates to being halfway [from the second] to the third integer. In Latin this is "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestertius" which is a contraction of semis (halfway) tertius (third)—hence Sestercentennial

Now I wanted to say a quarter-millennial, but I didn't know if that was right. Wikipedia says it is an acceptable term....6 one way, half dozen the other as they say.

Also could say semiquincentennial - which would be half of 500 years.


And lastly: Bicenquinquagenary - meaning, and I'm a little lost on this, but from what I understand it is based off of 10,000 years....


Base Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary

Gunshots or fireworks? This is the question I ask myself on days surrounding holidays....

Live in the city? Gunshots.


Live in the suburbs? Fireworks.


Live in the countryside? Yes.

I remember when I was a teenager in Louisiana me and some friend bought a bunch of bottle rockets on the 4th of July. Being the intelligent and safety minded young men that we were that were poster children for OSHA, we each grabbed a fistful of bottlerockets and lit them while in our fists. We threw them up expecting to see a fireworks show. What happened instead was us diving underneath our front porch to escape the bombardment. I tell you, the Japanese could have taken a lesson from us at Pearl Harbor....

I once had the bright idea to put an M-80 in a glass bottle when I was young and stupider. That was a bad idea. Luckily no one was hurt.

bloody hell you made a shrapnel firework.

Thanks! That was really informative

OK. Let's hear some "stupidity stories" from our youth and revel that we're still here

In high school, my D&D friends and I would have "bottle rocket wars." We'd go to a store that sold golf clubs and acquire the plastic tubes they sat in. Then, taping off one end, we'd drop lit bottlerockets and aim. In the three years we did this, only one person ever got hit

The first year, though, some bright idiot (not me) brought a roman candle to the fight and that got outlawed right away, after everyone changed their underwear

Also, I saw on the http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/ER-Doctor-in-MN-learns-tough-lesson-about-firework-safety-385377951.html (local NBC news page link) that an ER doctor tried lighting 4 sparklers at once and ended up in the ER as a patient. I never knew that that many sparklers could explode like that, and neither did he, apparently.

Only 4 sparklers? Saw an article today that some 15 year old kid put many more than that together. Lost a leg for it and possibly his eyesight.


That said, I enjoyed the 4th, went over to my parents house, they, and my brother who lives at home going through the aftermath of leukemia, adopted a 7 month old puppy this weekend. My 10 year old dog is not a fan. My aunt and uncle, as well as one of my cousins, his wife and 3 kids were also there. Good times has by all.

Yeah that's true about the sparklers. I uh... had a friend... yeah a friend, who used to do that when we were younger.

Some kids set a local landmark on fire with bottle rockets a few days ago. You'd think living in the middle of a semi-arid desert would inspire some kids to think twice about lighting fireworks in some dead brush, apparently not, burned over 2500 acres. Other than that it was a pretty good Fourth, went mountain biking and swimming, then followed it up with fireworks at a friends house.