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.

Oh, I think ive heard of like chemistry demonstrations that do a trick like that but ive never heard of it as like a fireworks thing. I've seen enough people refer to black ratsnakes as just "black snake" that that was where my brain immediately jumped for some reason, like someone taking their pet snakes out to a homemade fireworks show for some reason, which would seem inadvisable.

I agree. There's a time and place. It's the 4th, and maybe new years

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.

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.

My argument is what the fuck are you celebrating?
Did you get enough of your freedums this year?

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?

k ratsnakes as just “black snake” that that was where my brain immediately jumped f

Glad you cleared that up, I was pretty sure you were just being funny :)

Black snake firework

I had them go off 9 30 pm last night for no reason. Not too crazy but close to our house and the baby was already sleeping.

recognize that part of living in society is that it's not always about you?

Yeah that's the whole point of not wanting fireworks going off constantly and at wild times close to where you're living. Like, recognizing they can be traumatic to soldiers with PTSD, disruptive to wildlife and pets (my dog, rip, hated them he used to get inside the couch on July 4th basically all day), and just overall a noise pollution nuisance is the whole "living in a society" thing.

Now, having said that, I fucking love me some good fireworks, blowing shit up and doing all that jazz but I don't really do it much anymore because I live in suburbia.

It's just that I value the other stuff I said above more than my own giddiness derived from lighting my money on fire in fun ways. I don't mind so much when it's one day a couple hours, hell I'll blow off some stuff myself, but that's not really what this post is complaining about.

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 🤷

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.

Yeah caring about the environment is nimbyism...

Oh, trust me, I know. Especially republicans...

Yeah, those are cool, and they aren't noisy or explosive. I am annoyed that the snakes on the box are green, though.

Where do you live where it's only two hours?!?

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.

Large town in Sweden. I'd say 95% is within the legal time span in our neighborhood and from what I've seen elsewhere it's fairly similar.

This is excepting no-go zones & rougher neighborhoods, but in some of these areas they literally attack first responders with fireworks so I'm not counting them.

As a white property owning male it's my day of freedom 🦅🦅🦅

The one thing that it's ok to blame China for.

Okay, now say that about literally any holiday aside from the one you personally dislike and see how it holds up.

We used to hide in the basement with our pup and watch a movie. She could still hear the fireworks, but it seemed to take the edge off.

Current pup has gone deaf in his old age. Before then, he'd growl and bark at both thunder and fireworks. Now he just sleeps through it.

This is actually happening in my community and we're trying to get the guy to leave. He's a part of a PMC and they are doing drills and testing. The howitzer is very loud and disruptive. I could probably find the New York Times article on if if people are interested

Not so much illegal as commercial. For professional use only.

Nothing to celebrate anymore.

Especially barking dogs.

All of whose owners, who let them bark 24/7 the other 364 days a year, go into full meltdown mode on social media over their poor pupper's right to be catered to every 4th of July.

Yes, fireworks are exactly like blackface.

🙄

Halloween. Celebrating recruitment into the skeleton army. Duh?
What an insane take. My valid criticisms are invalid since other holidays exist.

There's some really good fireworks to celebrate America's 250th anniversary and the improvements Trump has made to society

Blowing up drones is cooler than blowing up fireworks depending on the drone

have a hound that couldn't give two fucks about the cacophony. also have a staffie that will try to dig through the linoleum in the basement trying to get away from the cacophony. fucking bullshit rah rah patriotism, and some poor kid is gonna get third degree burns or lose most of a hand, whoopee 'merika

quit having your fun at the expense of your neighbors, prick.

and lighting up the neighborhood, during a fucking heat wave.... gee let's see how many fires we can start this year!

two hours

if the idiots would actually do that, it wouldn't be a problem. instead it's a two week window of booms and flaming bullshit DURING A HEATWAVE IN WILDFIRE SEASON.

how fucking dumb do they have to be, that this needs to be explained?

Fireworks are generally not allowed near airports, so getting a room at an airport hotel might be a good way to g give you and your pup some peace and quiet. Just a tip.

Celebrate the fourth by blowing up a piece of it with fireworks

haha I live miles from Boeing field and SeaTac. Nope.

Where I am from, civilian fireworks are pretty much happening only during NYE. It is roughly 2 hours. The rest of the year fireworks are pretty much happening on some special shows or celebrations. You almost never hear fireworks the rest of the year.

Where I live now people like to shoot fireworks at random. I used to live near private small garden area and fireworks would fire on weekly basis all year long. It is even forbidden to do it at random, but that is not stopping people for some reason.

Wanted to add also that in my homeland fireworks are sold typically in hunting shops and I guess are strictly regulated while at the country I am at right now you can buy loads if fireworks in a grocery store if some sort of a festive celebration is around the corner.

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.

Yeah, just look at how well the Dutch firework ban works. Or how well the German one during covid lock downs worked.

Although in those cases the fireworks were only imported illegally from other EU countries, and not homemade, so it's not a perfect comparison

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.

Yeah the free sale of blackpowder is the issue, and that is tied to our general gun control issues. Our Supreme Court has been taking a hard stance on pro-gun rights

Where I am from, civilian fireworks are pretty much happening only during NYE. It is roughly 2 hours. The rest of the year fireworks are pretty much happening on some special shows or celebrations. You almost never hear fireworks the rest of the year.

oof sounds lovely.

Where I live now people like to shoot fireworks at random. I used to live near private small garden area and fireworks would fire on weekly basis all year long. It is even forbidden to do it at random, but that is not stopping people for some reason.

in past years it's been like this. I think that they tightened some of the sales because the world cup is in town, but we still have mortars and other shit going off two weeks before the 4th :|

there's too few consequences for irresponsible assholes.

Fireworks apparently cancelled at SeaTac?

https://jetmagazine.co.uk/seatac-fourth-of-july-celebrations-canceled-what-happened/

Is this seriously the level of reading comprehension we're working right now for real?

I'm a lot less irritated by the pro displays because they happen on the holiday.

It's the endless boom of assholes setting off mortars that shake the windows for weeks before and weeks after.

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.

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

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.