if we go out somewhere, mum and dad argue about trivial stuff, they call it part of marriage, when me and my sister argue about trivial stuff, they come down on us like a ton of bricks.

My plans? I'm working the holiday weekend. Except for Sunday, when Wendy's is closed.

Ah! the fast food business. After leaving it, I swore, never again. Pizza Inn, back in the early 80's before it went under.

Got the whole weekend and monday off now. But it will be busy when I get back.

Edited by - Finalday on 7/2/2004 7:57:44 PM

I think there's a need to narrow down this thread a teensy bit if possible. The point would be that this weekend is, politically speaking, the most important national holiday in the US. Traditionally, it has meant cook-outs / barbe-a-queues
and early evening fireworks.

Does anyone else have a summertime (or at least warm weather) National Holiday and what do you do to celebrate it?

As for myself, the wifey has twisted my arm and we are going out to visit the outlaws tomorrow for a big shindig. Yay.

Actually, I was more referring to summer time holidays, just the 4th being the most current. Memorial day, 4th, and labor day. Any holiday will do for a gathering.

nope, other than christmas and new years, there's no national holidays that people go out and celebrate (that i can recall anyway). The whole british way of just getting the hell on with life is what its all about. plus its too hot.

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ooh, also, i got handed a flyer by someone in town advertising a 4th july party in a local bar, she was all dressed up in rather gay looking clothes made out of a star spangled banner and i was wondering why the hell many bars in britain would celebrate the loosing of america after the war of independence? In fact even if the whole thing had nothing to do with us, why in gods name are WE celebrating it? I tried shouting at the girl but she wondered off.

Edited by - Arcon on 7/3/2004 11:05:52 AM

there's always our painful Bank Holiday tradition when those of us in the Midlands queue up for several hours with every other Midlander on coned-off motorways in a mass exodus to a dirty piece of shingle by the sea where we stump up our cash to gyppos and the like for over-priced funfair rides and "food"

i ****ing love aberdovey!

I do the ususal. Cookouts, pool parties, followed by fireworks.

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@Archie,

That's very funny. Maybe the idea is to have a counter-festive celebration? Or perhaps it is a reverse revelry... sort of a good riddance party? :O)

actually i think it's just a desperate attempt to cash in on our creeping americanism. I'm sad to admit that my daughter, who i consider to be fairly intelligent, once asked me why we don't celebrate Independence Day...

well, after me and Mrs Taw had a/ stopped laughing, and b/ picked our jaws up off the floor, and c/ stopped calling her a traitor, it was explained at some length exactly why Great Britain would be the LAST country on earth to celebrate American independence. She was only 10 at the time.

oddly enough we don't like being reminded of the only major war we ever lost.

Ah, you never thuoght that the kids could sink so low, eh Taw?

and she's supposed to be the intelligent one. The other one doesn't even know what country he lives in.

..She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love...

yes i do its england and if "the other one" is so clever why do you have to do her homework for her asll the times?