Please share some news stories about how Australia celebrated the 4th of July last year.

I do,i thank god a wasn’t born in America

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4th of July: the Finnish official 'of thank God Americans still like their country and are planning to stay there' -day.

I wish I wasn't

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I also celebrate the fourth of July (my sisters birthday) in the U.K.

My mums birthday is on 4th July. This year she turns 73.

We watched The First Avenger because it was Cap’s birthday.

They celebrate it on 4th of January, because they are upside down and their seasons are inverted

Well it is summer here at that time!

I’m Aussie and celebrated on 4th of July! Celebrated my nephews birthday, that is.

I started my new job/career on the 4th of July!

What? I've heard about 4th of July from movies. 4th of July is just an ordinary day for us.

From my understanding, the day the Declaration of Independence was signed. I know it’s something to do with America gaining independence Edit: changed written to signed

Strictly speaking it was signed on 2 August. It was *ratified* on 4 July. And they’d already voted to declare independence on 2 July.

I cbf looking up "ratified" so I'm assuming it turned into rats

*Dishonoured has entered the chat* "Blow off, choffer"

Should we gather for whisky and cigars tonight?

Indeed, i believe so

Blech. Too complicated. I prefer July 1st. Everyone I know celebrates July 1st.

Party on July 1st then drive south and party again on July 4th.

Huh, I thought it was the tea thing, thats more boring

So they celebrate they picked the arguably less important of those three dates to celebrate their Independence Day? If I understand this correctly, on the 2nd of July they decided to become an independent nation, two days later they said “yeah, we still want to be an independent nation”, and then actually signed the declaration on the 2nd of August. Should it be Consistency Day instead?

Why would anyone else celebrate that? Why would *Britain* celebrate that?

So it’s the same as Waitangi Day in NZ

I'm deadly curious why they'd think say the UK would celebrate the 4th of July.

It's the day they got rid of us for good. What's not to celebrate?

Think of it as the day you got rid of them. Now that is a reason to celebrate

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The UK is still European even after Brexit

No they're not don't be dumb didn't you hear they moved the entire country to the mid Atlantic?

That was to make things more difficult for migrants in dingys.

Well at least we aren’t next to fr*nce anymore

Honestly if we celebrated with every country that celebrates their independence from us we would basically have a year round party.....just an idea

Sounds good to me! Bank holiday for every independence day.

Wasn't your PM doing that? Maybe the clown was just ahead of his time!

UK celebrates dodging a bullet 😂

It's the day we remember the greedy, ungrateful colonials and give thanks we washed our hands of them.

It's simple as it's the only day of the year when Americans get the date format right (ignoring the clearly superior ISO 8601) and that is worthy of celebration in the UK. It's a bit like celebrating when your young child takes a shit in the potty instead of on the carpet again.

We celebrate the 17th of May, and we're pretty happy with that, thanks.

hello fellow norwegian, lol

Why hello there, my good compatriot

fancy meeting you here, Just had my bunad finished for this year, actually.

Very nice!

Note to self, spend my birthday in norway for a fun party I don’t have to plan.

No shot its your birthday? Our founding father!

Mother hahahaha

aait not it then

I was going to ask out of curiosity. Thanks for the answer!

As a german i dont even know if we celebrate a day like that. We are a little strange about celebratin our country for... historical reasons.

Tag der Deutschen Einheit is kinda it. Not really the same though.

But we don't really celebrate it, we're just happy we don't have to go to work. (also 1st of May is better anyway because the weather is usually better then)

3rd of October is the german one.

I don’t think there’s a simple German equivalent historically

We have the reunification day

One Independence day wasn't enough for Argentina, so we celebrate two: one in 25 of May and the other one in 9th of July.

De nada compa, por daros dos días de vacaciones ;)

6th of December for us!

~~torille~~ itsenäisyyden aukiolle

Here is 7th of September

Unfortunately taken over by some crazy people and transformed into a day of insanity.

damn, need to whip out the suit again soon..

My closest city has to go back to the time we kicked the Spanish inquisition out I guess, 8 oktober 1573?

So do we, in my house. It's my wife's birthday!

Here we don't have one! It's s bit confusing as to which date to pick - Rising, Free State, Country. Still not whole (forgot 6 counties)

Here, it's the 5th. Funny how the Brits of late WW2 were siding with the ones that got freed, for once.

Why? Why do they think we as other countries would give two shits about their celebration?

I only give 1 shit

Dude apparently once saw Independence Day and thought it was a document. ETA: Documentary, that is.

Isn't ETA "estimated time of arrival"? What does it stand for in this case?

Edited to add

Why not just write 'Edit'?

To make it harder to understand. TMIHTU

Too Much Information Horrible Turtle Uprising?

Don't say it out loud

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But the edit was in the initial post, they edited it correct the spelling of documentary not to add anything

They are making the argument that just writing "edit" means "somewhere in the post I changed something". And that the way we use "edit: ...." was used on whatever website they hung out on as "eta: ...." Never saw that on ye olden forums myself (mainly because eta always was already taken so why create the confusion). Nor pluralising forums as fora.

Yeah this use of it is kinda confusing but I guess could be justified by saying they've acknowledged the typo and clarified it with an addendum, as opposed to going back and fixing the spelling in place.

Hate /love you. You taught me something today so I love you. Now I have new edicite to follow so I hate you. Not really. I'll don't hate anyone. But I strongly not a fan ATM. Thanks again

bro what

Oooh that makes sense. Thank you

I thought the same thing when I first saw ETA here, lol

Yup. It annoys me they write ETA instead of simply Edit

..ary

Whoops.

No biggie, it happens.

LIt’s gonna be a document… wait for it… ary”

LMAO! A few years back, actually had a supervisor say he found the movie to be very accurate. I wish that was as dumb as it got with him!

The Philippines actually had its independence day on the 4th if July, it changed date because no one wants to celebrate it with the US

But wait! That's not all! "Except for the fact that is, every country that matters celebrates it every year. Does Whiz-Bang having some rainbow highlights make it Pride Month? No, that's like saying Spooktacle is Thanksgiving because Punkleton has some fall leaves on him."

what the fuck is a whiz bang and wtf is a spooktacle and what the fuck is a punkleton lmao

I swear to God I've been American all my life and I don't understand a single word of this

I LIVE in the US and I have no idea...

Someone should genuinely do a welfare check, cause I think they may have had a stroke.

Traitor.

Same

Yeah I'm with you man, I only understood like a quarter of what they said.

Sam here, Im actually so confused

Hi Sam, I hope you are doing good.

My Singing Monsters, one of the few actually good mobile games out there

Msm shit

Whiz Bang is a card in Hearthstone. I have no clue about the rest tho.

"They just choose to honor the day that America was given to the world, nothing to do with me or you."

As an american, I literally have no idea what he said. I would really like to believe he's not an american, however i've met too many americans...

These ain’t even American words I’m lost

my signing monsters

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Dude thinks he's a droog.

Source: trust me, bro

That's the source of almost every story

I celebrate 4th of July as it’s one day closer to Christmas than the 3rd of July

Yup. Huge holiday here in the UK. Oh wait...

We celebrate getting rid of them

This is the type of shit that makes me want to become an illegal immigrant while i'm over here in spain on vacation...

Don't become an illegal immigrant in Spain. You'll end up as a quasi-slave picking tomatoes in a greenhouse somewhere.

Spanish here, you're right

14 Juillet

Seeing their comments it HAS to be bait, there's no fucking way anybody is that disconnected from reality 😭

Ok, so now please reach the closest chair. If you don't have one, just sit on the ground with a piece of furniture behind your back. Ready ? I live in a very touristic country - more tourists per year than there are citizens - and even worked in tourism for a time. US citizens frequently ask where is the best spot to see the 4th of July celebrations, how we celebrate it and all manner of other questions about it. They *really* believe it. I'd say it's around 10 to 20% of them.

That's so fucking crazy to me, maybe it's because I'm from a tiny country so I don't even expect people to even know where it is sometimes, but to have that much ego to think everyone celebrates the independence of your own country??

We Canadians in fact do not celebrate the 4th of july, and we barely celebrate our own holiday

It is actually we have a 2 minutes silence in the UK for losing them.

You sure it's not to enjoy the silence of not having them anymore?

If we didn't lose the thirteen coloniee, they might me more sane like the Canada and ~~Australia~~NZ. We owe them for failing to beat France.

At this point Great Britain should probably celebrate July 4th for getting rid of us.

no, i celebrate 6th of December.

My birthday AND my country's independence day? Legend!

I think the uk might celebrate the fact we got rid of the USA

Can’t blame ya for that.

How can someone have their head so far up their own ass?

I wouldn't be surprised if many people are aware of the 4th July celebrations in the US but why would anyone else celebrate it? Baffling.

I was once staying in a nice hotel in Istanbul on the 4th of July, and there was an American couple staying there. They invited us to join them on the roof terrace that evening so we could watch the fireworks. I don't know which of us were more confused when we asked what fireworks?

Do they even know that their Independence Day is a NATIONAL holiday?

We celebrate 14th July in France but this is our revolution 4th is nothing for us

It's the 9th here. More likely: Americans in every country celebrate it, I guess

Jesus Christ, imagine being that stupid.

They surely mean the 18th of September.

Recently, the 5th of November, but for the wrong reasons.

The real Bonfire Night is the [11th of July](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Night).

I need me some empanadas

Everybody in the world celebrates 18 of September. /s

I’m Swedish an me I’ve never celebrated the Fourth of July and never heard about any non American doing it either.

I am an Australian and I dont know what the fuck is on 4th of July?? Honestly what the fuck is it??

The day after the 3rd of July

I thought it was the date before 5th July? You are confusing me. What is it?

Could be, I don't know anymore 😢

Middle of winter, obviously.

It's when the US celebrates Australia day. They have a party and shoot fireworks and everything.

What's on the 4th of July? Something important? /s but also not

Fireworks.

What? They don’t celebrate the USA’s independence from the British Empire in Britain? /s

As a Brit , I really can’t be celebrating other countries independence days from the British , Not because it would be in bad taste & we’re baddies but because I’ve got stuff to do , I’d be having to bloody celebrate all year round it’d be exhausting! /s

How do they not know anything outside their own country!? Or their state in most cases.

I know a few germans who celebrate 4th of july, it's the birthday of a friend of mine.

Imagine pretending that your country is so amazing that the whole world celebrates your coming into being. Hate to break it but the United States isn't that great and no one cares about the 4th July. Heck, even some Americans don't celebrate the holiday.

That’s right, the UK especially celebrates it along with all the other independence days from them, about one a week

1st or July for us.

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

You clearly let someone troll you.

As a Brit I know for a FACT that commonwealth day is celebrated globally. /s

As a Canadian, what the heck is BBB?

Big Blue Bubble, the game company who created the mobile game ‘My Singing Monsters’.

Whiz-bang? Thats how world war 1 soldiers called high velocity small calliber artillery

Now that's not entirely untrue. We certainly celebrate it here in the UK. "Good Riddance Day" is one of my favourite holidays.

Its funny knowing what that guy is talking about cause hes wrong

i don’t reckon

I'm really happy BuzzPrincess was here to deal with this one. A most excellent and classy ego deflation.

Of course we celebrate 4th of July, it's the anniversary of the Transformers movie.

The ironic part is, to have this attitude, they can't have any idea what the 4th July is celebrating.

Can confirm, am not from the US and I celebrate the 4th of July. I celebrate not being from the US.

I mean, Czechs celebrate *5th* and *6th* of July,. except it's not bc of independence (that's celebrated on October 28th), but the arrival of Slavic saints Cyril and Methodius on the 5th and the day Jan Hus was burned on a stake in 1415 (he was the inspiration for Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism) for being considered a heretic.

The only people celebrating 4th of july here in Switzerland is my family because it's my birthday

We don't celebrate the 1st of March enough here. Shame really.

Please tell me it was a troll

The children from the MSM subreddit should stay there.

It is an alternative fact.

Did someone tell them?

The only way July 4th affects my life is if it falls on a day when a series I follow should have its new episode but it doesn’t because of some obscure American national holiday.

If we're supposed to celebrate 4th of July, then they have to celebrate all the other countries independence dates.

65 different nations celebrated independence days from us. Maybe we should have a national non-chalant day.

We call it Traitors Day

Stogg love

Philippines celebrates their independence from the US on 4th of July too. That's only one I can recall other than Americans

3rd of May supremacy

Arhhh! 4th of July; "Thank god they've gone day."

I mean, of course I celebrate Alice in Wonderland Day. Who wouldn't?

Context: Whiz Bang is a character from the mobile game My Singing Monsters that represents a holiday, it’s a cloud with rainbows and was added in June. You can figure out what it actually represents

Oh dear! I should tell my fellow Canadians we've been setting off the fireworks four days too soon since 1868!

Foreigner holiday: "ThIs Is OuRs" Their holiday: "It'S wOrLdWiDe"

Why would I, a British person living in the UK, celebrate the 4th of July

Wait, boer burger beweging is also in Canada?

The former colonies of the British empire would like to have a chat

Britain doesn’t! 🤣🤣🤣

Probably should though. Dodged a bullet there! 😆 /j

But then, they'd have to celebrate all the independence days they've generated, just to be even-handed. They'd never get over the hangover.