I think you have the crux of it, it's normal 364 days of the year. Lots of folks like fireworks and they mostly limit it to one day annually.

Honestly at this point in my life when I think about fireworks I mostly just have a hard time getting over how expensive they are. But also, they are noisy and sometimes I get dragged out in crap weather to not enjoy them. I'm not a huge fan.

I also was also a kid once though and remember a time when they were the coolest shit on earth.

I can put up with the rare day and let others have their fun 🤷 just my take.

As I was reading this I thought it was going to be about Gaza.

If you take into account how much it freaks out animals to the point of heart attacks it might as wel be to them.

it's the 4th of July weekend my dude.

also, it was just Juneteenth

and in the UK they have the 5th of November

I really want more drone light shows instead.

If I punch you in the face once a year for my own amusement, you wouldn't be saying "it's ok because he doesn't punches me in the face 364 days a year"

I love fireworks shows done responsibly, our local show is on a beach away from most of civilization and wild life.

That said I think a drone show is cooler, better for the environment, and would love to see densely populated towns replace them with drones.

apologies, your post read as a rhetorical question- but also, Diwali, Eid... there are plenty of celebrations around the globe throughout the year

In my area it's multiple days before and after most holidays, at times ranging from 6pm to 2am. Hell, this past year someone set off fireworks at midnight Christmas eve.

Okay then let’s do it only in winter when it gets dark early enough.

For some reason all the holidays happen when the day is long except new years which for has fireworks happening at midnight.

The laws are not made to minimize the downsides.

I generally like them, except those really loud ones that barely look like anything. After I got my dog who is terrified of them I'd happily never seen fireworks again.

It depends on enforcement. Where I live it's pretty strictly enforced. I do wish the big fireworks show was on the edge of town rather than in the middle of it but I still want the show. Just as responsibly as possible.

On a beach... Away from wild life? What?

Beaches around here are out in the open with a treeline that isn't close to shore, most animals aren't going to be around due to the threat of predators, with the exceptions of insects.

The area is similar to Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, though not as far removed from everything and on a lake, rather than on an ocean.

Yeah, I would never expect wildlife to be around a lake, probably no impact at all

It's like if a dog was a human.

Just doing his part for the environment.

I spend much of my year in a country where fireworks start in early December and go until mid January. Random pops at 3am on any given day of the week are entirely normal. I’m convinced that people who can seemingly be perpetually amused by “haha it go boom!” again and again and again are fucking simpletons.

I hate it, but I do enjoy the resulting exploding hands videos

Every cloud has a silver lining

I swear, I thought they were talking about internal combustion engines until the last line.

Living around other people also involves a certain level of respect for them and their presence. This goes both ways. If you want to lit up bombs you are free to go out deep in the woods for it (..well, except you'll also freak put the poor wildlife there)

Oh noooo, you don't like fireworks? Maybe fuck off somewhere else for that one day then? It's not like it comes unexpectedly. For fuck sakes, they even made it a holiday so you CAN go somewhere if you choose to. Don't want to go somewhere? Get some fucking headphones then.

People have fun setting off fireworks, it's part of a celebration. You might as well be complaining about kids playing in front of your house. Maybe recognize that part of living in society is that it's not always about you?

No you don't understand, they simply moved outside of the environment.

well, should it come up again for some reason, talk to the vet about xanax. And either way it's just part of the whole package, which also includes sound isolation and comforting peoples around, as you were already doing. (In case anyone is reading this like a pill will fix it - not as such, no)

I'm sorry, but are you trying to compare the sound of fireworks to getting punched in the face?

it was nice for a few years. i'm not sure whether it was better enforcement or mass trauma after the town nearly burned down, but all the nighttime fireworks just didn't happen for a couple years.

"I hate when people have fun but I love when they get seriously injured trying to have fun" - Psychos

I just want some bottle rockets, maybe a couple of small crackers, couple of fountains and some blacksnakes.

The big stuff isn't all that amazing if you're not right under it. Watching a show from a mile away is FAR less than then screwing around with a handfull of fairly safe rockets in your backyard

They're recording a memory

This but instead of playing video games they're standing outside his door blowing up bombs

Bottle rockets, firecrackers, fountains, snakes, rad as hell. Love em. Mortar shells that release a concussive blast that makes the dishes in my cabinet rattle? I wish harm

Why don't you fuck off and set off your bombs in an unpopulated area? You're the one shelling my house, you fuck off

I’ve been having to deal with fireworks since Friday and it won’t stop until after next weekend with the most absurd taking place Friday and Saturday this week. I don’t bitch but it does kind of suck I can’t just sit out on my front porch in the evenings/night with my dog throwing him his ball for a couple weeks every summer. He seems accustomed to the smaller stuff but I’m not going to risk him running off so our routine just has to shift a little but it’s too hot to be doing that with him before it gets late right now. I guess I feel like it would be entitled behavior to expect so many other people to behave differently just because it’s not something I really care about anymore. I used to think they were cool as a kid.

Many regions in America do have those kinds of laws, but the cops are too busy shooting our dogs and pulling over minorities to enforce them

You have fun with explosives, you know you can blow your hand off, and you still blow your hand off.

That's funny, you are a Debbie Downer

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 suspect the point they were trying to make is that "only one day a year" doesn't automatically excuse behavior. They used a rhetorical device to help illustrate that point by highlighting a scenario that is clearly not acceptable even one day a year.

I don’t like fireworks because the mortars used to launch them sound identical to the mortars lobbed at me with the intent to kill me while overseas. Plus, it freaks out my dog

Once we actually get rid of slavery and stop lynching black people I'll set off a firework or two

Lol "That one day". They've been going off nightly for at least three weeks now and it's only going to get worse after the 4th.

Snakes? Wouldn't the rockets and fire crackers stress them out? Ive never heard involving snakes in a celebration, except maybe in some religious ceremonies from some niche christian groups, but even there I think they use venomous ones.

I don't know, maybe because we live in a society that has chosen to have a couple days of celebration where it's 100% ok to do so? Rather than the entire population having to go somewhere else so that your precious little ears don't hear fireworks, maybe you could just stop being such a whiney bitch about it?

A wave? In the OCEAN? Chance in a million.

Maybe you could stop shelling my house

Ah yea, because loud noises are the exact same as actually blowing up your house. Quit being such a fucking baby.

(Not sure if sarcasm or ernest) Blacksnakes are a small pellet that grows into a long tube when set of fire.

Then we'll all celebrate together.

I have fun memories of my country's major holiday blackface character, and yet somehow I don't feel the need to pass that tradition on.

The nice thing about fun is that you need almost nothing other than other people's company to have fun. You can play with sticks or pebbles or flowers or snow or lines in the sand or with just your body. If you're feeling fancy, get a ball or some instruments or a deck of cards or pen and paper. All you need to do is coordinate with your community to go outside together (and prevent any roaming murder machines from murdering people).