Stay safe mALX! Hopefully those storms subside soon...

Keep you and your kin safe, mALX!!

On an unrelated note...wow. second day and I'm getting compliments on how fast I am and how I keep busy. I mentioned I know how to put up schematics and the girl (we actually share a name) looked shocked.

Here's a little fact.

The US didn't get their independence on July 4th they got it onJuly 2nd.

Washington(I think) said in a letter that July 2nd will be a day that'll be never forgotten as a monumental day in American history.

Stay safe mALX, no need to apologize for something like that.

Good job Elisabeth, sounds like you've found a much better work environment.

We declared independence that day. The King got the letter the following October.

250 years later, we are the most Orwellian nation on Earth.

And spreading, as it happens...

Why don´t they ever learn? Dictatorships will! Not! Last!

*turns on Gamma Ray - No World Order*

YOU WANT A NEW WORLD ORDER?

HAVE THIS nWo!

In a way perhaps, but not their idea of it

Well, I don't know about New World Orders or Orwellian Societies, but Mother Nature has effectively put the kabosh on our 4th of July festivities today. 100% chance of rain and thunderstorms...all...day...long...
No beach...no fireworks...nothing to do but sit around and drink beer all day

Happy Independence Day everyone!

There's a burn ban in certain areas of Texas. Like in my area... No fireworks.

Mother Nature... or Brother Technology?

Anyway, happy Independence Day to all you Americanos!

In other parts of the world, the independence stuff is shrinking: Thanks alot, EU

I'm not allowed to play with large fireworks anymore....

It was like that for me too... but then I got older and started making my own decisions!

I get too carried away. My neighbors threatened to call the cops if I play with large fireworks....oh well. I can still play with them at my sister's house

I can imagine!

Yeah, you don't give fire to a pyromaniac....


But it's the Fourth of July. FIREWORKS

Hey! Why can´t I have some!??


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-Don´t feed the Yao guai the Kobby! That is all

Let me think about it...





Don't listen to mirocu. Feed Kobby. And lets move to the everything thread so we don't clutter this one with our nonsense.

Happy Independence Day to the USA!

Thanks for your ongoing cheerful and insightful cooperation, as well as your leadership in helping to keep both the Coffee Shoppe and Everything threads on track. I know the distinction between the two can be subtle sometimes, but your gentle and timely words are very helpful. As the host of the Everything thread, you’re doing a great job at providing a delightful place to just chatter away and freely indulge tangents.

Sounds like an acceptable alternative.

Happy 4th!

In Ireland we can't really celebrate an Independence day because of controvesy.

I think,I may be wrong.

To those of us who celebrate on July 4th...


Happy Independence Day!


Our plans have also been cancelled due to storms. However we are pretty good at entertaining ourselves, so we now have enough to keep us busy for the rest of the summer.


mALX, I hope you made it through OK!

Apparently we don't celebrate Irish Indepence Day for some reason.

But it would be April 24th.

Weird.

You mean you don't want to be ruled by Hulk Hogan?

Suit yourself.

I very much will not be ruled by an Illuminati henchman, no.

Moving on.

HULK HOGAN'S IN THE ILLUMINATI?!

I have seen him.

"NWO! It´s the only way to go! Now, what are you going to do!?"

Heard the words from his own mouth. Of course he´s not "in" it. They are just using him. Like they use alotta people.

Anyways, I´m heading over to Kobby´s thread

but....but....it's....it;s just a wrestling storyline...A REALLY GOOD ONE TOO!

THAT LASTED YEARS!

THEN IT CAME BACK AND was really bad.

Yeah, you like wrestling, don´t you? Seen any good matches lately?

Yeah.

Kevin Steen vs El Generico Final Battle 2010.

Yes the Illuminati are real and they control every single thing that happens ever.

Actors? Illuminati.

Politicians? Illuminati.

Wars? Illuminati.

Hurricanes? Illuminati x2.

Everything is secretly illuminati. Except for the internet. And ponies.

Also, I apologize in advance for this discussion being in the Coffee Shop. I didn't notice where I was when I was creating this particularly random post.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

It's not Illuminati. It's Sam Gold. He's behind all the pain there ever was.

WHaaaa??!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5CbuDIa6I

Mister Clandestine.

Mister Mystery.

No one sees Gold, but Gold sees everything. Everyone is in his game, and noone knows it

The bigger the trick and older the trick - the easier it is to pull. Based on two principles : They think it can't be that old, or they think it can't be that big for so many people to have fallen for it.

It's the Ego. Fear, doubt and disbelief.

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Not being entirely serious, but Human Nature is very much based on fear and survival. It influences our thoughts, our actions, our society. You will know the tree by it's fruits. Plant seeds of fear, of desire to control, and you get all this.

Control does not equal freedom. Control is an illusion. Chaos theory basically states this, the deeper you are invested in the illusion, the greater your despair when it is revealed. We all know that loss is inevitable, and that bad things can and do happen whether we want them too or not.

So why do we despair when they do?

Because the illusion that we own anything precipitates our thoughts. Good things are not guaranteed. They never were.

So what is a more realistic reaction?

Gratitude.

Be grateful for each meal, each moment, as the next isn't guaranteed, nor is the fear that your current one is possibly your last in any way constructive.

Freedom is letting go, and controlling the one thing you can. Yourself.
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Cognitive Dissonance is a possible side effect of listening to Black Hand, and isn't for everyone. Ask your doctor if freethinking is right for you, or if BH is just a self-absorbed ninny who thinks he has all the answers by just raising more questions that he probably stole from a hippie in a coffee shop on the intersection of Haight and Ashbury.

It turned out to be a sunny day in Grits world after all. Spent a few hours by someone else’s pool, grilled burgers, caught some fireworks on the way home. Then watched more fireworks from the driveway for about half an hour since it seems that all of our neighbors are pyromaniacs.

I got some more details about the cancelled party. These folks have a blowout every year in their gigantic yard. They live way out in the country next to what used to be a crayfish farm. Or crawfish depending on your origin. (I’ve noticed all of the ponds but never knew their original purpose.) Well anyway it seems that when the crayfish farmer moved on he left the critters behind or maybe they escaped. How they got loose is a matter of speculation. The point is that under pretty much the friends’ entire property are thousands and thousands of crayfish burrows.

This is not usually a problem. I mean, I’ve spent many happy hours there (some sprawled in the grass) and never noticed a thing. But there’s been a lot of rain lately, and a lot of flooding. I guess the little guys climb out and go looking for love when their burrows flood. That would be something to see.

Thanks for the update from Gritsworld! I'll be looking forward to the photos of those sparkler weilding crawdads!

I figured that would be painfully obvious.

There is a difference between sheep and sheep; the ones that follows the herd and the ones stepping out from it.

Now I'm confused.

Now I have this image in my mind of the dark ground alive with a crawdad army lit from above by the occasional sparkler. My neck has been prickling since last night!!

Just go harvest them bad boys...we'll have us a crawfish boil!

So someone didn't log out of their work computer when they left. They have a new background waiting for them on Monday.

That's a random image...much nicer than what I woulda put there XD

I would've gone with a troll face picture.

I woulda put something inappropriate and weird..something with anime.

You can't get much worse than Nicolas Cage. What is with you people.

Gary Busey, lol

Gahhhhh!

[Gandalf]Name him not![/gandalf]

@Grits- I see a straight to video movie in the making, "The Secret of Gumbo Landing"

[Creepy Announcer Voice]They thought it was a simple July 4th picnic. But they did not realize that they would be on the menu.... It was Independence Day- for the hidden denizens of.... (dramatic organ music)... GUMBO LANDING!"

*shiver*

I wonder how many times I’ve coached children through a bug scare by reminding them how much bigger they are than the bug. I guess that only works when the crawbugs don’t outnumber Team Human!

KC, I LOLed at that picture. Hopefully you will be able to witness the discovery.