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Originally posted by Draal:

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I enjoy them a lot but never go. I hate crowds and heat.

^^^This^^^

This!!!!!!!!!

Massive traffic, heat, getting stuck around people for hours, then driving home in traffic, with a bunch of drunks on the road, no thanks. I just stay home and enjoy the day off.

I dont like people. And there tend to be a lot of them at these events.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I hate crowds and heat.

^^^ This. X3.

Meh...I never understood the need for them.

Even as a kid, I wondered was the attraction was to making noise?

My Dad blew off part of his thumb with an M80...idiot.

The larger professional ones are Ok I guess...but idiots just making noise...meh, drones.

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Originally posted by jerkyjer:
It not the 4th if something isn't blowing up. And better yet, when everyone on your street is doing them too.

This. I travel to family in st louis every year to light off dozens of shells and try to think about the battles that made this country.

Im doing it now

Happy 4th!

Another vote for take em or leave them. I usually end up going to watch them but this year our daughter and granddaughter made plans with friends. The wife and I stayed home and we're just fine with that.

Our state is battling numerous forest fires. We don't need to encourage stupidity; It usually happens naturally.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I enjoy them a lot but never go. I hate crowds and heat.

This - until a couple of years ago.

Four years ago, the Mrs and I downsized. We moved to a house down the street from a fancy country club.

Turns out every year the country club has a big summer party for the members the weekend before the 4th of July, and the day is capped off with a huge fireworks display. Now we just walk to the end of our driveway, set out a couple of lawn chairs and enjoy a great show without having to leave home. I love it!!

I've been to downtown Baton Rouge one time to see them on the river. Now I sit at home and hear them I'm 21 air miles from where they do it on the river

Love them. Took the fam to a big show last night and another one tonight. Wish I could see a show every week.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Love them. Took the fam to a big show last night and another one tonight. Wish I could see a show every week.

I agree. We love them. I find a parking garage nearby and we drive to the top, where we tailgate. We setup some games, cook some dogs and have fun then just enjoy the show.

I love em but don't love crowds as alot of other people bought up so I watch a pretty good show off my deck rather than go to a show.

I like looking at professional shows and some of the stuff the neighbor bring home but ever since I was a young boy I've been crazy for anything that blows up. I'm talking fire crackers and M-80's, silver salutes, quarter pounders, cherry bombs, etc. They must be able to do work! Geen apples, ant hills, wasp nests, fence posts, ground hog holes, rotten melons, coffee cans full of tomatoe worms. BOOM.

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Originally posted by duke762:
I like looking at professional shows and some of the stuff the neighbor bring home but ever since I was a young boy I've been crazy for anything that blows up. I'm talking fire crackers and M-80's, silver salutes, quarter pounders, cherry bombs, etc. They must be able to do work! Geen apples, ant hills, wasp nests, fence posts, ground hog holes, rotten melons, coffee cans full of tomatoe worms. BOOM.

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whistlin' bungholes
spleen splitters
whisker biscuits
honkey lighters
hoosker doos
hoosker don'ts
cherry bombs
Nippy daisers with or without the scooter stick
Whistling' kitty chaser

At my age they interupt my sleep upset two of my dogs.
Now for the idiots last night with the sks and ak I wished for a kaboon on them
Multi 30 round dumps

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Originally posted by Patriot:

You must also like:

whistlin' bungholes
spleen splitters
whisker biscuits
honkey lighters
hoosker doos
hoosker don'ts
cherry bombs
Nippy daisers with or without the scooter stick
Whistling' kitty chaser

Go, Joe Dirt!

A couple years ago, the wife and I went on an impromptu road trip over the Fourth and ended up watching the fireworks while sitting on Bethany Beach, Delaware. The fireworks over the ocean were beautiful, but what set this apart was when the display was over.
As the crowd filed off the beach, everyone, and I mean everyone in the crowd, thousands of people, started singing the Star Spangled Banner. It brought tears to my eyes. Best Fourth of July ever for me.

 
The last one I attended was 1976-07-04, on the Mall in DC. I watched for a few years from "the Point" at St. Elizabeths Hospital, when I worked there, from 1970-1973. The Point is at good elevation, overlooking Bolling Air Force Base, the Naval Air Station, and Anacostia River. It offers a perfect view of the Mall. Haven't been to one since, as generally the heat and crowds are too much for me. I believe smaller towns would do well to spend that money elsewhere.
 

Here we have Pops on the River playing patriotic music early in the evening followed by fire works in the local park. Large attendance. Free for all. Problem with heat and bugs.