Happy birthday USA

Well you might be an uncouth bunch of loonies with a penchant for fatness, thickness and bombing people (sometimes an enemy, though far from always).

Buuuuut, with Canada seeing men, and Australia's record with the law, well, you're still the UK's fave offspring, even if we don't always show it.

So....

Up the Rebels and Down with the Brittish!!!

(american of course, sigh)

PS...in the spirit of the day I will admit that you've done some imporant space work (not the moonshot....WVB has a decidely unamerican accent along with most of his staff) And some computer advances (Again Von Neuman doesn't count, but you can have Gates and Jobs)

Happy Birthday Wankers!

Let's get a load of bentois down our necks and drive around in a pick up truck, waving a rifle out of the window and shouting WOOOO-WEEEEE!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: OOOH...

how should we celebrate???

Jesus has spoken to me in a vision, and he says you should all jump in the sea or off tall buildings if you love him.

There, it's not even 9am BST and I've saved the world and made the USA a nicer place for "the readers" among them.

(Jeff, once they've gone you can celebrate however the fuck you want mate....running arse naked through Austin yelling "Bush is a banana" while snorting vodka and smokingn nought but the finest herb...if you like.

BIGINOIL wrote: Let's get a load of bentois down our necks and drive around in a pick up truck, waving a rifle out of the window and shouting WOOOO-WEEEEE!

I'll get me banjo.

PS Benoit is that wrestler geezer, who after spending his life hitting large men with fake chairs and comedy benches, decided to maul and kill a defenseless woman and chlid.

Yup...good name for beer then ;)

(thing is, anyone from blighty would die of overhydration by the time they'd consumed enough of that yanky horse runnoff to get tipsy)

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, ....."

I just wish more people would read this.

I believe beer and fireworks are appropriate forms of celebration.

Enjoy.

Damned right Ronno!

If only the USA acted up to their own standards, we'd all fookin love em.

BIGINOIL wrote: Let's get a load of bentois down our necks and drive around in a pick up truck, waving a rifle out of the window and shouting WOOOO-WEEEEE!

Said like you've been here before....:D

Yeah or whatever... Just don't expect a present...

Snorri xxx

The Founding Fathers were an amazing demonstration of what humans are capable of. Such a risk taken, to which they signed their own death warrant with the Declaration. An amazing group of men they were......

Happy birthday, you poor sods

is this the day the yanks give thanks to each other and all eat pancakes and hot dogs together in back yards.

can't remember.

The answer to that is in the question John. No, Thanksgiving day isn't Independence Day. Which isn't exactly a birthday either is it?

Uncle Beavis says: "Bow down to the almighty bunghole!"

They'll bomb another country no doubt to celebrate

Spotnick wrote: Did anyone do a thread like this 3 days ago for Canada?

Though I was in the US at the time

Actually, yes, but they only said nice things on that one

Sub-Cultured wrote: Uncle Beavis says: "Bow down to the almighty bunghole!"

Crew Member of Space Ship Earth wrote: They'll bomb another country no doubt to celebrate

It's OK, they'll miss.

BTW, Steve....course it's the Cuntry's birthday. July 3rd, no USA, July 5th, whole fuckin country there. Kinda narrows it down to the 4th ;)

GO ON GEORGE,KICK ASS!!!!

i hope it rains like a bastard here to cover up any celebration...party spoiler..i know....

where the fuck's my poem???

I wanted to see Bonzo get his liberty medal or whatever at indpendence hall.. but it was raining and i didn't think heckling him was worth standing in the rain. I swear the next time Bono is within 10 minutes of my house again I WILL YELL THINGS

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: you want a poem...

fine...

Roses are red Pickles are green Kershaw loves your legs and what's in between

Chrissy,Chrissy don't be a wuss Get on it,and you may lick,swear and cuss There a window seat waiting on the spastic bus!

*Animadversion* wrote: i hope it rains like a bastard here to cover up any celebration...party spoiler..i know....

Oy, it rained for most of the day yesterday. Luckily it stopped just in time for the fireworks.

Stood in one part of the neighborhood, and there were fireworks just goin' on EVERYWHERE! ;) That's probably the only good reason for celebrating 7/4.

Oh, and I'm a day late--happy birthday to my home country.

Boatraceface wrote: Chrissy,Chrissy don't be a wuss Get on it,and you may lick,swear and cuss There a window seat waiting on the spastic bus!

ftw!!!!!!

Sadly I don't know what ftw ?? means CM I'll just take it that you like the ickle poem then

With chronological perversity Radio Four had a program on about the meaning of thanksgiving day yesterday.
Quite interesting, never previously understood what the 'pilgrim fathers' thing was all about and all I knew of Thanksgiving I learned from that Addams Family movie.

They had a Brit historian on who rather peevishly suggested the US probably owes more of its heritage to the earlier settlement of Jamestown (with its high levels of violence, massacres of the Indians and fondness for slavery) than to the Puritans of Plymouth Rock (with their amiable relations with the Indians, dislike of slavery and relative peace and tranqulity).

Also kind of interesting the way the Mayflower settlers came up with a 'compact' that was a model of tolerant democracy for its time, and supposedly the origin of the US style of government, while at the same time being the most intolerant bunch of ban-everything puritans you could hope to meet.

I've been to Jamestown.

NOOLigan wrote: I've been to Jamestown.

Did you submerge yourself in the culture and tradition by joining in the massacre of the natives Ron ? Be rude not to..When in Rome....

Franklin my dear...I don't give a damn

Shame about the natives mind,seriously. :( Murdering scumbag yank policy,as per :\ohwell:

in honor of U.S. of A's 231st birthday, we shall invade the U.K. and bring them toothbrushes...as for australia, we shall train your koala bears to act like the Energizer battery guy to over throw your government...canada, well, keep being canada... we love the 51st state, ay...

I know what you mean Jeff,but we did'nt make Tonto the Lone Ranger's bitch,did we....

So readily taking the moral high ground,this makes us Engerlish the lesser of two evils..ask anyone

..and much worse still,Yanks say Awwwwesome,where it is neither appropriate or applicable...

How do you tolerate living amongst that Jeff ?

Deepest sympathy...chin up mucker

Boatraceface wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: I've been to Jamestown.

Did you submerge yourself in the culture and tradition by joining in the massacre of the natives Ron ? Be rude not to..When in Rome....

Yeh, but I had no ends of trouble getting my replica pistol on the plane.

As I understand it the Jamestown of today that anyone has been to is really a different place from the original, as the original Jamestown settlement pretty much died out after a few decades becuase it was full of young blokes (with very few women) who spent all their time getting drunk and fighting and forgot to grow any food to eat.

Hmmmnn...

This month, first, it was Canada, then the United States. What's next???

Indeed!