Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I don't where the local cities get fireworks. I'm in NC and anyone can by fireworks legally. At the NC coast Saturday night a neighborhood across the water from where I was staying had better fireworks than any city fireworks in the past five years. I didn't plan on going to the local fireworks. Monday night we driving back from a family bday/4th party and for some reason my husband came home a different way. I saw cars on the side of the streets and thought what's going on, light bulb went off & I realized fireworks so we went down a back road and watched. I was surprised they lasted at least twenty minutes. I grew up in the 70s and none are as good as they were back then.
The fireworks were better than I expected from this liberal town. The city gov is very corrupt and don't care if gangs rule. Over twenty years ago I struck up a conversation with a young lady in the doctors office. Her husband was a cop in the gang division. Her husband and others working to take down gangs got a letter in mail saying they knew where the wife worked and kids went to school/daycare. Soon after this he transferred to FL and they moved. Everything thing this city does is catered to the lower class (or non working) black community. It's terrible these corrupt politicians only care about money. They don't give a damn about the poor! If they did they would be teaching them a skill to learn an honest wage.
Local cities around here did it all on the 3rd, any that were scheduled for last night were washed out, we had storms and hail and tropical downpours every half hour. We were gonna have a cookout, but the weather came.