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It was a relatively quiet day but now it's getting dark and my neighborhood started going off all at once lol. I did get annoyed earlier b/c some ~12 year old kid across the street was lighting off a bunch of those little popper firecrackers one at a time over & over while I was trying to do some work on my computer, it was like how is this entertaining beyond the 20th time wtf. Then his friend came by and they started chucking them at each other and I can respect that
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I had a dog that legitimately loved fireworks. He’d go wild for them and needed to be penned up in the yard to prevent him from rushing directly at the fireworks. If you left him in the house while someone was shooting fireworks outside, he’d bark and whine until you let him out somewhere where he could see them go off. He liked vacuums too, he liked being vacuumed with the hose extension when he was shedding. This same dog was terrified of thunder though. I think maybe because my family and I would set off fireworks that he learned early on that the bangs from fireworks are something people make happen and thus isn’t scary, while thunder is some mysterious terrifying force of nature.
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Jul 5, 2023 04:44
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Why not firework ammunition for guns? That way good americans can just shoot their guns up in the air with like bottle rockets rounds and asplodey things?
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Jul 5, 2023 04:47
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Jul 5, 2023 05:05
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Fireworks in city, illegal. Everyone outside my apartment until 3am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWULCfJ2PGA
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Jul 5, 2023 06:34
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Jul 5, 2023 06:37
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Fireworks are fun and cool but also try spending chinese new year in Beijing and having to hear them non-stop every few seconds for an entire week, it really starts to get a bit annoying
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Jul 5, 2023 06:41
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I enjoy sleep so I'm going to not do thet gently caress
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Jul 5, 2023 07:04
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Last year I gave my father in law a seizure by lighting a brush fire with a bottle rocket. I still maintain fireworks are dope as hell.
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Jul 5, 2023 14:05
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Sucrose posted:I had a dog that legitimately loved fireworks. He’d go wild for them and needed to be penned up in the yard to prevent him from rushing directly at the fireworks. If you left him in the house while someone was shooting fireworks outside, he’d bark and whine until you let him out somewhere where he could see them go off. This is my buddy's bird dogs. They think it's hunting time
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Jul 5, 2023 14:38
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the coordinated drone aerial shows are pretty neat.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:57
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blight rhino posted:the coordinated drone aerial shows are pretty neat. I've never been to one but I'd like it more than fireworks. Fireworks wish they could draw a detailed penis over your city like drones could.
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Jul 5, 2023 17:18
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I'm imagining the Kenny Roger's Roasters episode of Seinfeld, but the red light in Kramer's apartment is from a giant drone display of Goatse's rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 5, 2023 17:21
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Fireworks are great. Anyone who complains about them I basically mentally see this video. There's some kind of dark irony when veterans have the same kind of freakouts due to PTSD. Like, how do you think all those people you tried to blow up in Iraq felt? And then they complain about trigger warnings 
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Jul 5, 2023 17:32
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UKJeff posted:Fireworks are bad because they scare dogs and cats and probably other wildlife Don't forget the fact that firework dust, which lingers in the air for quite a while, has carcinogens & lung irritants in it 
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Jul 5, 2023 19:13
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I worked as a pyro-technician for a fireworks company (UK based) for 3 or 4 years a while back. I think fireworks are rad as hell, especially the CAT4 stuff we got to use that the general public can't buy. You can still get some good CAT3 stuff but having worked around fireworks and done loads of shows from small weddings to guy fawkes night displays, I don't know if I trust the general public with them tbh. I used to spend a lot of time wiring electronic fuses to the cakes and mortars and stuff as we very rarely did lighting by hand. The cool bit was that you controlled the show from a system like this:  where you open the armoured suitcase and get to turn a key to arm the system for live firing and I used to pretend I was doing james bond poo poo when really I was hunched behind some bushes in a muddy field on some posh scottish estate waiting for go time lol.
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Jul 5, 2023 19:30
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I like to look at them. I like them when they're so far away their reports arre like distant thunder. I hate them near me. I have a dog that was shot twice (!) In the head (!!) Before I adopted her, and seeing her particular brand of anxiety breaks my god drat heart. Also an errant aerial firework landed in my yard as it exploded last night, igniting a big, terrifying fire. So there's that.
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Jul 5, 2023 20:30
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he's not even doing the shocker
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i usually dont give a gently caress at all but last night my neighbor was doing the lamest fuckin firework. no pretty colors just the least-satisfying THWACK report I've ever heard. wasnt m80 or firecrackers, idk just a really lame fuckin firework sound, poo poo sucked. and then my cat started kind of twitching and doing that leg kick thing they do when you scratch em in the right place, we thought he was having a stroke and it was a horrifying 2 minutes but then he went back to normal. i think that was firework related
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Jul 5, 2023 21:09
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Droogie posted:I like to look at them. I like them when they're so far away their reports arre like distant thunder. Cheese and rice 
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Smugworth posted:Cheese and rice My wife snapped this from last night while I was recombobulating our hose. We were inside playing Zelda when this poo poo happened. The tree behind the fire is about 25 feet tall for scale. 
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Jul 6, 2023 02:57
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My brother’s girlfriend worked as a manager at a fireworks store last year, and she was given a choice of a $500 bonus, or $500 worth of fireworks. She chose the latter so last night was awesome.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:There's some kind of dark irony when veterans have the same kind of freakouts due to PTSD. Like, how do you think all those people you tried to blow up in Iraq felt? And then they complain about trigger warnings this is hosed up and ghoulish, don't revel in people's trauma
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Jul 6, 2023 03:28
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Apparently my sister-in-law's baby daddy tried to light a bunch of sparklers or something at once and now has a date with the state burn unit. Idk the deets but fuckin lol
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Treecko posted:Apparently my sister-in-law's baby daddy tried to light a bunch of sparklers or something at once and now has a date with the state burn unit. 3rd degree burns? A trifle!
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Jul 6, 2023 03:32
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All the fireworks last night bumped the AQI in Western Washington from like 16 to 150.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:My brother’s girlfriend worked as a manager at a fireworks store last year, and she was given a choice of a $500 bonus, or $500 worth of fireworks. She chose the latter so last night was awesome. why didn't she buy fireworks with her $500 bonus and employee discount
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Jul 6, 2023 03:34
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BoosterDuck posted:why didn't she buy fireworks with her $500 bonus and employee discount I assume it was $500 worth of fireworks at wholesale cost.
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Jul 6, 2023 03:37
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You can buy and fire a gun any day or time of the day and buy fireworks most days of the year but you can only explode fireworks on a few specific days of the year
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Jul 6, 2023 03:38
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satanic splash-back posted:You can buy and fire a gun any day or time of the day and buy fireworks most days of the year but you can only explode fireworks on a few specific days of the year this might be fine depending on what state you live in and what color people live on your street
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Literally A Person posted:3rd degree burns? A trifle! Pfft.
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Jul 6, 2023 03:40
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Jelly posted:go out into your street and shoot 20 rounds up into the air and report back and let us know how that went for you this is how we keep rent down around here
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surc posted:this is hosed up and ghoulish, don't revel in people's trauma I'm hardly reveling in it, why do you think I called it "dark irony". it's upsetting, sad, and frustrating.
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Jul 6, 2023 20:46
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Shameful be the man who shot they own crotch off this year
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Win. Evidence: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuV46IYAEXw/
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