Happy 4th of July !
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crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
moonblinked
10,000 yrs
Most of my grand parents are in this ground
I love this land
Great story
But
Sounds a tad embellished
Love the song
Love it's origins
Bellowed, not sung as a child
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Tis a time for unity
Tis a time to come together
Most of my grand parents are in this ground
I love this land
Great story
But
Sounds a tad embellished
Love the song
Love it's origins
Bellowed, not sung as a child
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Tis a time for unity
Tis a time to come together
And that flag STILL exists to this day. Though not flying after serving our nation, it is in preservation at the Smithsonian.
Fort McHenry is an interesting visit.
Fort McHenry is an interesting visit.
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FunGhoul
Strat-Talk Member
Happy 246th to us all.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
How are owl ailments relevant?
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
A couple explanations could apply. But I’ll let it lie and people can/should enjoy festivities. A paid holiday is a paid holiday, after all.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
Coy, eh?
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
Well, if it was as simple as the four owls returning to drop pamphlets over St. Aggies, the story wouldn’t be quite as compelling, would it?
Crowd theory dictates that the crowd is by nature hostile toward anyone who questions the prestige of the crowd’s leader(s). So yeah, I’ll take coy over suicidal.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
Ever heard of 'gaslighting'?Well, if it was as simple as the four owls returning to drop pamphlets over St. Aggies, the story wouldn’t be quite as compelling, would it?
Crowd theory dictates that the crowd is by nature hostile toward anyone who questions the prestige of the crowd’s leader(s). So yeah, I’ll take coy over suicidal.
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
Yes. I was raised by and have worked for gaslighters.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
So you've been gaslighted your whole life?
That can't be good.
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
Not my whole life. But much of it. Gaslighting, Munchausen by proxy, general physical abuse, etc. College and grad school were free, though. And I married into a wonderfully free family. Took me a while to properly see my past for what it was — basically I saw the word “gaslighting” on a book cover or something, had to look it up, and then went “holy ****.” Also when I read Erich Fromm’s “The Authoritarian Personality” and learned about “kick the dog syndrome”, I was like “oh, yeah, that’s my parents . . . except we didn’t have a dog.”
So now my radar is always on. Collective gaslighting is everywhere. Like, “it’s political to say that my political thread is political.” Or “no spin zone.” Or something my eldest does to my youngest that drives me mad: “she’s being mean when she says that I’m being mean.”
It’s pernicious in its effects, but even more so in how shifty and unaddressable it is at its source.
ThreeChordWonder
Senior Stratmaster
My first as a US Citizen, still a Btitish Citizen as well.
Perhaps I'll just throw a teabag in the birdbath...
Perhaps I'll just throw a teabag in the birdbath...
Ya hadda go there?
The bicentennial was only a couple years ago...and I'm stickin' to that story
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
crankmeister
Most Honored Senior Member
Great song. I definitely didn’t understand it when it came out.
This is the first song that I remember hearing where I both listened to and understood the lyrics pertaining to similar themes.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
Oldboy
Senior Stratmaster
ThreeChordWonder
Senior Stratmaster
I was going to say that if you lot asked very VERY nicely, we might let you back into The Empire. But after you posted that...
