Editor’s note: this is a post about American Independence Day celebrations
existentialmemes
Alright, I’m going to launch explosives around your house. For several hours. Yes it is dangerous and terrible for wildlife and the environment. And yes your pets will get sick from eating the debris and you will feel terrorized inside your own home.
No you can’t opt out of it. Everyone is doing it and frankly it’s weird that you don’t want to.
No you can’t be the one launching the explosives you need a license for that. You can however launch these marginally smaller ones though. Yeah just whenever you want. 2am sounds great.
So anyway, fireworks were a mistake and it’s never too early to start reminding you of that.
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What if it was in the rainy season instead
I’m more down for burning in effigy
I got temporarily banned from Reddit for saying that people who blow their own limbs off with fireworks had it coming, so here I’ll post my actual opinion: if you set off explosives in the middle of my neighborhood, I hope those explosives take both of your hands so you can never set off fireworks again.
If I get banned from here for expressing this opinion, I don’t know what the fuck I’ll do
stupidity based injuries are consequences. the fuck did they expect?
got banned for something similar.
funny how advocating safety and common sense is a bad thing on Reddit.
You wish grievous, life-altering injury on people who… irritate you once a year? Girlypop you got some issues to sort out
Of course not. I wish they wouldn’t detonate bombs in the first place.
irritate you once a year?
Were im from, its a month long event. And then a week for new years, and then throughout the year just for the hell of it.
I’ve already been hearing them go off all month long in my neighborhood. Still another month to go.
There is a family several miles away that loves to blow up shit at random times periodically. The police know who they are. Most of the town knows who they are. The police do nothing, and it just goes on.
The one thing that it’s ok to blame China for.
I love how often they’re being replaced by drone shows! If they fail, all the do is drop to the ground, not explode peoples hands off. I was at a fireworks show where the tube stand holding some fireworks fell flat and launched fireworks at the crowd, luckily they were on water, on a barge far enough away and it dropped downwards enough to just go into the water. I was in the trajectory with two small kids. I don’t think I’ve been to another show since then.
As a professional, that’s wild.
We are seeing a lot of drone shows. But nothing truly replaces the experience of fireworks.
When we set up, we anticipate an issue where a shell detonates in the mortar. The more experienced among us know how to lay out the hundreds of mortars so if the support fails the tubes fall and point to the side and not toward the audience.
But where I am, I carry a license to run these shows. Some states don’t have license requirements. I have a lot of permitting and meetings with AHJs to ensure we’re safe and prepared.
Y’all are why the right thinks the left is full of whining pussies.
Why should I care what they think?
Hey guys, caring about how other people feel about traumatic experiences makes you a pussy.
Call me a pussy then.
If caution, awareness, and altruism makes me a whining pussy, then I boldly accept it as my moniker.
These idiots keep me up all night, but at least I’m super tired when I get called in to check out what’s left of their hands or face. Great situation all around, so fun, every single year.
meanwhile the right has a lock on stumpy claw hands, emergency room visits and hearing damage.
oof, those silly libs afraid to live a little
No, they think that because they’re morons
Two things can be true
Celebrating america’s freedom by triggering all of our traumatized veterans with inescapable rapid-fire explosions for three weeks straight!
Who the fuck even thought of this?
It makes more sense when you realize that Americans don’t actually give a shit about their veterans, they just like virtue signalling like they do. The VA would be in much better shape if they actually cared.
Oh, trust me, I know. Especially republicans…
This is america, everyone here either doesn’t care about or actively hates our own veterans. You got the right (red) who only likes them while they’re overseas killing middle easterners, you got the right (blue) who doesn’t think about them at all, and you have the left who think we’re the villains in every armed conflict since WWII (“Kuwait? What’s that?”)
Caring about veterans makes you a tiny minority in this country
Who the fuck even thought of this?
No one has ever accused Americans of being smart.
My first dog was so chill that he didn’t give a single fuck about fireworks or thunder. He’d sleep right through it. Even before he went deaf. I swear he was just a dude who got turned into a dog or something because nothing about the human world seemed to bother him.
Usually agreed, but July 5th I’ll be shopping for some discounted boomies.
They will be on stand by to celebrate a long overdue deposition when the day finally fucking comes.
What if it happens on the 4th? America 250 indeed.
Fireworks start early then I guess
Then we’ll all celebrate together.
Heh, I live in a racially mixed neighborhood where the Mexicans help the rest of the us find the “good stuff”. I have been in an actual war zone but my neighborhood is at WW1 level amounts of black powder and badly made improvised explosives with copper, magnesium, and titanium sprinkled in for seasoning. Last year there were teenagers with eight inch mortars which I cannot convey how insanely illegal those are.
Kind of amazing we haven’t set the neighborhood or even a single house on fire now that I think about it.
PSA do not mess with additives other than Titanium for salutes. Ideally do not mess with improvised explosives at all but if you really are hell-bent on upping the noise, a string-bound blackpowder maroon is the way to go. Hello interpol my old friend.
The real way to get on the list is to give advice on how to acquire salt peter or acquiring in bulk precursors like ammonium nitrate (or is it nitrite, not going to look that up)
Not so much illegal as commercial. For professional use only.
14th of July is the day in France for fireworks, there’s the fireworks set by the city for 30min and after that everyone goes back home, dont have people setting them off all night 🤷
A few winters ago, I took a trip to Iceland, specifically Reykjavik. I learned that, for new year’s, there is an organized party well outside the city limits with no fireworks. This was for folks that didn’t want to participate in the usual celebrations that take place in town. They noted that it was quite popular with the Syrian refugees on the island. I think about that a lot.
I’ll add that NYE Fireworks in Iceland make American Independence Day celebrations look like a solemn funeral in comparison. I’ve never been anywhere that has been shelled, but I now have a really good idea what that would look and sound like.
I like fireworks. I don’t like when people continue to set them off at odd hours weeks after the 4th.
I think complaining about fireworks on a day of celebration is some grumpy old NIMBY shit.
Yeah caring about the environment is nimbyism…
You ever taken a look at your local level politics? It’s mostly NIMBYs trying to use environmental law not to protect the environment, but to protect their property value and keep out “undesirables.”
They’re also trying to shut down night clubs, roadblock any method of transportation that isn’t car-oriented, enact curfews, and generally just suck all the joy out of life like these no-fireworks having fun police.
The primary perpetrators of environmental law in my city are people who genuinely care about it.
Fire works are not the same as the other things you have listed(well, not the car part); as they do actually have a substantiable effect on the environment and local air quality.
My argument is what the fuck are you celebrating? Did you get enough of your freedums this year?
As a white property owning male it’s my day of freedom 🦅🦅🦅
Okay, now say that about literally any holiday aside from the one you personally dislike and see how it holds up.
Halloween. Celebrating recruitment into the skeleton army. Duh? What an insane take. My valid criticisms are invalid since other holidays exist.
You used a bullshit apples to oranges comparison for your bullshit criticism. You didn’t say New Years or Juneteenth, actual fireworks holidays, because it highlights how stupid your “get over it” argument is.
I’m just going to chalk this up to either you misreading, misunderstanding, or just being a fucking idiot.
My argument is what the fuck are you celebrating? Did you get enough of your freedums this year?
I really have no idea what you were saying then. Are you saying people shouldn’t celebrate the 4th because a rapist is currently in charge? Or that doing it every year ad infinitum is too much?
Either way I stand by what I said. Let people have their fireworks and stop being a grumpy old fuck about it.
Sure buddy.
I agree. There’s a time and place. It’s the 4th, and maybe new years
Honest question: What the fuck do American’s have to celebrate?
Not being British. It’s all we got left
Thank you. Fuck fireworks and the apes who enjoy them.
That aside, what do you even have to celebrate? Fuck you if you’re proud of any of this.
I’ve never thought about the country when lighting off fireworks. It is just the time of year to do it.
All of the points OP put down to not light off fireworks I completely agree with. Maybe “apes” is the correct description because that boom boom sparkle really fires off the seratonin in me.
I’ve never thought about the country when lighting off fireworks. It is just the time of year to do it.
So you’re a mindless sheep with lack of critical thinking skills?
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You’re a very charming person with rational, valid takes all over this thread.
Once we actually get rid of slavery and stop lynching black people I’ll set off a firework or two
