[moorow]

> Australians celebrate Christmas by going to the beach, and July 4th with sledding and patriotic snowball fights.

It may surprise you to learn that Australians don't celebrate the American day of independence lol

[kibibu]

The weirdest thing to me is that Americans observe ANZAC day in Spring. Weird.

[slyall]

Not to mention that snow isn't very common in Australia.

[bittumenEntity]

Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July

[slyall]

So soon the world forgets the words of President Thomas Whitmore:

We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

[defrost]

> the day the world declared in one voice:

Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles.

The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.

[kibibu]

It's a quote from the movie Independence Day, about an alien invasion. There was no President Thomas Whitmore.

[defrost]

~ " You can't be anal rententive if you don't have an anus "

It's a quote from the movie Dogma.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005

[YugyDugan]

Beat me to it. I was going to point out that there's a ye olde black and white photo in my town's information centre of that one time we had snow here!