As a European it’s now 4th July, so felt it was the right time to post
IF WHAT?!?
I’m going to invent a phone that instead of autocorrect, it just blows off a finger when you misspell a word. You’ll learn your lesson real quick.
Last Christmas one of my office coworkers brother died from a fireworks explosion. It was tragic. Aparently, they had made a bigger firework by combining the powder of smaller ones. He had in his hand when it went off. He spent about 10 days in the hospital before succumbing to his injuries near his abdomen and hands. RIP.
Firecrackers are fun but they are no joke.
A long while ago when I was a dumb teenager one of my buddies lit a firework and then just stood there holding it like a dumbfuck. Finally he threw it, it went off about half a second after leaving his hand, which he drew back IN MY FACE to throw. Less than a second from being blind. No more firecrackers after that.
I really like 4th of July. But I wish fireworks were illegal. Why can’t everyone just buy a cake or have a house party and watch a movie or 2 and call it a night.
Seeing an actual professional pyrotechnics show = awesome. I have great memories of going down to the civic park and just laying back in the grass and watching the show. So much fun.
Listening to dipshits and kids in my neighborhood fuck around with illegal fireworks and maybe start a fire or hurt themselves, while my dog cowers and whines = fuck that shit.
It’s actually growing more and more popular to ban fireworks in cities and counties.
There are always people that bitch about their right to set off uncontrolled explosives during the height of fire season in residential areas, but overall, it’s truly growing more common to see them banned.
My city is one, for example. And while it’s awesome to know that you can’t set them off inside the city limits, that doesn’t stop people from crossing the city line and setting shit off in that grocery store parking lot.
I’ve always thought that we do it because it’s safer than firing guns into the air.
And to be fair, both options are safer than just walking around with a torch igniting buildings and people.
Fuck every one of you motherfuckers who traumatize my dogs every year.
Very hard time of year for pets and warzone survivors (civilians and veterans)
Just so you know op, on lemmy you can edit your title
I remember hearing it was some failed precursor to Fediverse content aggregation.
That’s how you get people changing titles after something hits the front page.
