July 4th celebration

@saragoodtimes they didn't start the smoking elsewhere? How is your hip?

@samueltyler2 brought the truck in last night. hip is doing better PT says we'll put weight on it again this week and start to walk.

@saragoodtimes the aroma of the cooler is almost orgasms

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters they were sent to both...

@BridgeOvertroubledWaters Georgia was a prison colony 🤷‍♂

I never knew that @Zaphod42 , thanks 👍🏻

@braveheart21 Ity wasn't - but the case of the Tolpuddle Martyrs transported for an illegal oath of mutual support (not as you sometimes read or hear, for forming a trade-union) may have been one of the catalysts for that penalty being abolished.

@ArishMell possibly or just the time and costs involved made it too difficult.. .you know UK gov doesn't like to spend money lol

@braveheart21 Oh, I don't think it cost the country much money.

Their custody suite until a transprt-ship was available, was usually a semi-derelict hulk, and once there the convicts were sort of self-sufficient.

@JesseInTX Ha ha.... says you lol...

@JesseInTX very true

@JesseInTX there is a similar quote in Shogun. At least in the TV series, Im not sure about the book.