Can we be done with fireworks yet?

[Exterous]

Apparently the 4th of July falling on a Wednesday means a week of fireworks

 

[Ken g6]

Live in an area with high fire danger and you can avoid fireworks completely. It's a blessing and a curse.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

After having a kid I finally realize that people who do fireworks are all thoughtless dicks.

Also, I never really understood the fascination with fireworks... OOOOHHHHHH light stem, PERTY COLORS! Let's spend $400 for one night of stupid colors in the sky. that is sooooo amazing. I'm sure we will remember this forever.

 

[Iron Woode]

They are still setting off fireworks here and Canada Day was a week ago.

 

[shortylickens]

WOOT!

 

[destrekor]

A week? You kidding? I say do it every weekend! Let me light a few while we're at it.

But then I think about dogs. And that makes me sad. Knowing how many are terrified of fireworks including my parents' last dog, I agree in the end that it should just be a week.of getting it all out of our system. Do it for our best friends.

Indeed, with it falling on a Wednesday, it was certainly going to be a weeks worth. It's always the whole weekend no matter what day of the week it falls on, and pretty much always the whole week in general.

 

[Chaotic42]

Being a quiet freak, I of course hate fireworks. I'd love to see a complete ban, but it will never happen.

 

[Cyco]

Live in an area with high fire danger and you can avoid fireworks completely. It's a blessing and a curse.

I mean sure, if they follow the law. Prohibited in my area but they've been set off every night since the 4th. Muh freedoms though. Yeah, pound sand, I hope you get arrested and I also hope you don't set anything on fire besides your house.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I wish fireworks were legal here. I could set them off right in front of my house, there's a school yard field so it's relatively safe if any come back down. Just need to have a fire extinguisher handy in case it catches the grass on fire.

Our firewroks ended up being pretty late, since Canada Day is always crappy weather. Rain, or too much wind etc. Almost every year they have to be postponed. This year they were cut short half way through. They tried to do it the day before Canada Day since the weather was ok but then there was an incident that caused them to have to stop. Always something lol.

 

[lxskllr]

When I was a kid, I got little toy fireworks from the German festival. I think they were technically illegal, but they flew under the radar. My favorite was the tank. It would roll forward, stop, then fire three guns. I'm not a big fan of wasting money on fireworks, but I'd buy a box of them if I had the chance.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I bought a box when I was down south for vacation with family. They were for sale everywhere and I figured my nephews would love it. Figured if they were selling them they must be legal. I figured wrong... about near the end of the box some guy on a bike shows up and starts giving us hell and telling us that it's illegal etc. We looked into it and sure enough it was illegal there. Oops. Thankfully we managed to leave the area before the cops showed up and there was lot of other people setting some off. Damn tourists not finding out the rules. IMO at very least they should have designated areas that are legal. This was a beach and we were shooting them over the water and it was perfectly safe.

We also figured Chinese lanterns were legal but those are illegal too. We set one off in honour of my great grandma when she passed away. I'm sure we made her proud by doing something illegal in her honour lol.

 

[Darwin333]

Oh come on you old fogies, the day AFTER the 4th of July was my favorite day of the year. You could get fireworks for like 80% off and what boy doesn't like blowing shit up?

 

[pete6032]

Definitely saw some last night I think people are just lighting off the last of their supply for the year.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Out come the boring fun haters. Of course these days I skip fireworks and just light canons off.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Out come the boring fun haters. Of course these days I skip fireworks and just light canons off.

Out come the people who outgrew fireworks shortly after they outgrew Lite Brite. Fireworks are what is boring, seen one seen them all. I enjoy the ritual of going to fireworks far more than the fireworks themselves. Gather your friends, pack a cooler with beer, grab some snacks, get a good spot on the beach, play some Frisbee, it's a great way to spend a warm summer evening. But things that go boom in the sky? *yawn*. I don't hate fun, I just don't find fireworks to be all that much fun. It's the same shells set off to the same Sousa music year after year, it gets old.

 

[destrekor]

Out come the people who outgrew fireworks shortly after they outgrew Lite Brite. Fireworks are what is boring, seen one seen them all. I enjoy the ritual of going to fireworks far more than the fireworks themselves. Gather your friends, pack a cooler with beer, grab some snacks, get a good spot on the beach, play some Frisbee, it's a great way to spend a warm summer evening. But things that go boom in the sky? *yawn*. I don't hate fun, I just don't find fireworks to be all that much fun. It's the same shells set off to the same Sousa music year after year, it gets old.

Gets old? Says you.

 

[OutHouse]

my thunder mug will be delivered soon. was suppose to have it before the 4th but production issues delayed delivery.

 

[Exterous]

Gets old? Says you.

I can kinda see it. We've been to some pretty large fireworks displays (Boston, Phily and DC for the 4th, Various places for NYE). We can also walk to the 30 min fireworks show that our area puts on at the end of June. Its larger than a fair number of the NYE fireworks we've seen (New Orleans. Queenstown NZ, Vienna). So the high pitched ones that fly about 50' in the air and give a tiny pop hold little appeal for us despite the apparent mass local appeal.

 

[lxskllr]

So the high pitched ones that fly about 50' in the air and give a tiny pop hold little appeal for us despite the apparent mass local appeal.

But you can stick the little ones in your ass!

 

[Jeeebus]

Out come the boring fun haters. Of course these days I skip fireworks and just light canons off.

Not sure if you're blowing up camera equipment or just espousing fundamental principles.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Fireworks are big business in the South. Quite a few people blow fingers off and do stupid stuff with them. I typically stuck with bottle rockets. They're actually pretty safe if you don't do something stupid with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7ajsKmbd4

 

[local]

To quote The Simpsons, "Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it." So far this is the first time in 30 years I have not set off any fireworks. Our county declared a state of emergency to stop people setting them off, didn't work, and now the state has approved the ban until the 13th. As soon as the ban is lifted I will be blowing something up, it is the American way.

 

[Pulsar]

I bought a box when I was down south for vacation with family. They were for sale everywhere and I figured my nephews would love it. Figured if they were selling them they must be legal. I figured wrong... about near the end of the box some guy on a bike shows up and starts giving us hell and telling us that it's illegal etc. We looked into it and sure enough it was illegal there. Oops. Thankfully we managed to leave the area before the cops showed up and there was lot of other people setting some off. Damn tourists not finding out the rules. IMO at very least they should have designated areas that are legal. This was a beach and we were shooting them over the water and it was perfectly safe.

We also figured Chinese lanterns were legal but those are illegal too. We set one off in honour of my great grandma when she passed away. I'm sure we made her proud by doing something illegal in her honour lol.

Why does every ignorant SOB on the planet think that things magically dispose of themselves when you throw them in a body of water?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

But you can stick the little ones in your ass!

I want to see somebody man up and do that with the business end in.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Why does every ignorant SOB on the planet think that things magically dispose of themselves when you throw them in a body of water?

You don't launch them in the water you launch them over. Idealy they explode properly and that's that. But if they fail they will fall in the water instead of in the forest or people's houses, causing a fire. Up until a few years ago our official fireworks were always over a lake but now they launch them from the open pit mine over the crowd.