Happy 4th to you and yours, Grieve, and to all my fellow commentators - you enrich the site, even if I don't agree with your opinions, or you with mine! Be safe, and have a great day -
July 4, 2016 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Why continue a tradition that openly terrifies members of the family and causes many to run away? :(
"I'm really going to enjoy looking at these fireworks videos that I took on my smartphone last year," said no one ever.
Happy 4th of July to EV Grieve, Gojira and to the EV Grieve Nation. Now go put away those pesky phones for a day and try to enjoy the best virtual reality experience ever created. It's called life.
July 4, 2016 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous said...
The headline should read: "Today we celebrate our Independence!"
We're not celebrating our independence day.
July 4, 2016 at 11:28 AM
cmarrtyy said...
"Today we celebrate our Independence!" from Britain only to be enslaved by the real estate industry... y'know. Well, happy 4th anyway.
The headline is the last line of President Whitmore's pre-alien fight speech in the 1996 film Independence Day.
July 4, 2016 at 2:10 PM
Anonymous said...
I accept that there will be fireworks at the East River once a year -- it's easily enough avoided -- but every year about an hour after the main celebration, some yahoo sets his own fireworks off on the roof of a building that neighbors mine. It freaks me the fuck out because I never know when it's going to start (until I jump out of my skin at the first explosion), it is SO LOUD and I'm on a low floor! I can't even imagine what this must be like for animals on top floors, older people with heart conditions, parents with sleeping children, anyone suffering from PTSD especially veterans ...
And that's not even to mention all of the horrific accidents caused by these amateur fireworks artists -- a kid had his foot blown off in Central Park yesterday when he stepped on some abandoned homemade explosive that cops say are common to find this time of year. Not only did he lose his foot, the explosion was loud enough to seriously alarm everyone at the Elie Weisel memorial many blocks away, who probably thought it was the start of a terrorist attack.
I don't want to be a fuddy duddy or rain on people's fun, but there's a time and place for public explosives and it's not on a tenement roof or in the middle of a public park FFS.
July 4, 2016 at 10:24 PM
Anonymous said...
10:27 AM: Hear Hear. This little corner of the internet where people feel free to express their opinions even if most of them are anonymous does remind me of what it means to be free.
July 5, 2016 at 5:55 AM
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[Photo on East 3rd Street from last night]
As you know the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks are on the East River this year/tonight...
Be mindful of Parking Restrictions for the 4TH, No Parking both sides of E 14 from 1 Ave to Ave C, Sun & Mon #NYPDpic.twitter.com/l5SI7lr4aJ— NYPD 9th Precinct (@NYPD9Pct) July 2, 2016
...and the 9th Precinct offers this...
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Close this window Jump to comment formHappy 4th to you and yours, Grieve, and to all my fellow commentators - you enrich the site, even if I don't agree with your opinions, or you with mine! Be safe, and have a great day -
July 4, 2016 at 10:27 AM
Why continue a tradition that openly terrifies members of the family and causes many to run away? :(
Cats hate fireworks too btw
July 4, 2016 at 11:03 AM
"I'm really going to enjoy looking at these fireworks videos that I took on my smartphone last year," said no one ever.
Happy 4th of July to EV Grieve, Gojira and to the EV Grieve Nation. Now go put away those pesky phones for a day and try to enjoy the best virtual reality experience ever created. It's called life.
July 4, 2016 at 11:18 AM
The headline should read: "Today we celebrate our Independence!"
We're not celebrating our independence day.
July 4, 2016 at 11:28 AM
"Today we celebrate our Independence!" from Britain only to be enslaved by the real estate industry... y'know. Well, happy 4th anyway.
July 4, 2016 at 12:52 PM
The headline is the last line of President Whitmore's pre-alien fight speech in the 1996 film Independence Day.
July 4, 2016 at 2:10 PM
I accept that there will be fireworks at the East River once a year -- it's easily enough avoided -- but every year about an hour after the main celebration, some yahoo sets his own fireworks off on the roof of a building that neighbors mine. It freaks me the fuck out because I never know when it's going to start (until I jump out of my skin at the first explosion), it is SO LOUD and I'm on a low floor! I can't even imagine what this must be like for animals on top floors, older people with heart conditions, parents with sleeping children, anyone suffering from PTSD especially veterans ...
And that's not even to mention all of the horrific accidents caused by these amateur fireworks artists -- a kid had his foot blown off in Central Park yesterday when he stepped on some abandoned homemade explosive that cops say are common to find this time of year. Not only did he lose his foot, the explosion was loud enough to seriously alarm everyone at the Elie Weisel memorial many blocks away, who probably thought it was the start of a terrorist attack.
I don't want to be a fuddy duddy or rain on people's fun, but there's a time and place for public explosives and it's not on a tenement roof or in the middle of a public park FFS.
July 4, 2016 at 10:24 PM
10:27 AM: Hear Hear. This little corner of the internet where people feel free to express their opinions even if most of them are anonymous does remind me of what it means to be free.
July 5, 2016 at 5:55 AM