As a European it’s now 4th July, so felt it was the right time to post
IF WHAT?!?
Poor op… Blew the last part of his title off with that M80 😞
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.
Americans going for that microwaved frankfurter look for their fingers.
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.
He opened, combined the material from multiple fireworks, and then died from the explosion? Yikes. That’s terrible.
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.
This 100%. So glad my country does not do this madness and sticks to professionals
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.
Burninating all the people!
in their THATCHED-ROOF COTTAGES!!
Yes but burning mansions to the ground is also an American tradition.
Or maybe fireworks were invented by people who hate their neighbors’ pets.
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.
Just so you know op, on lemmy you can edit your title
He lost a finger while typing it out.
Specifically the left thumb.
I can’t believe this still isn’t an option on Reddit
Reddit
Never heard of it.
Reddif Never heard of if
FTFY
That’s how you get people changing titles after something hits the front page.
Yep, then bad faith actors will sell accounts that have recent top posts so they can be changed into advertisements, or could just end up trolling the fuck out of everyone who engaged.
What’s that?
Thanks, I’ve given it a shot but didn’t seem like the update is going through
WE ONLY NEED ONE TO TELL YOU OUR OPINION!!! AROOOOOO!!!
Jk, you’re not wrong. I used to hate being on call over the holiday weekend — even as an IT guy, more patients meant more users active on the servers.
To be fair, that’s everyday. People don’t limit their firework usage to the Fourth.
Always some going off in early July and late June.
Don’t you have laws? Fireworks are only legal to the public for the new year in most of France.
Those laws are handled by individual states, and all states’ laws are not equally sane.
And even within those states, different cities have different rules
As a kid my state didn’t permit or sell projectile type fireworks to the public. Just fountain, snakes, sparklers, etc. But that didn’t stop us, or anyone, from just driving into the next state over to get the good stuff then come on back to where they were illegal to fire them off.
Some places, despite any potential law, don’t care one way or another. Where I grew up no one cared so long as you didn’t cause a fire. That was rural though. In general those areas operate differently.
Where I live now is a suburb. I could get away with doing some fireworks on a non-holiday but doing too much of a display or too frequently and I would likely run into issues. Though doesn’t stop some people.
I hate the 4th of July. It sends my dog into anxiety attack spirals or something. She freaks out and nothing can calm her.
I am in this same boat. What’s worse is people in my neighborhood are lighting off fireworks all week, so I can kiss sleep goodbye until about Wednesday next week.
I’d be shocked if people haven’t already lost fingers this weekend. I just read an article that listed off a few incidents including a guy who took a mortar to the face, and two people being rushed to the hospital after causing a large enough explosion that their house was condemned.
I remember when I had all ten fingers… and both eyes. And both testicles. Be careful with bottle rockets kids.
I remember having both balls too. I still have them, so it’s easy to remember.
Sounds like a kickass bottle rocket.
I know of someone who peaked over the mortar because it didn’t appear to go off … then boooom… his head exploded because it shot out right as he peaked over it … the neighbors were finding skull and brain matter for days. Also the wife and kids were present. I’m fairly certain the 4th of July is traumatizing for them.
Jesus… that’s horrific… at least he didn’t suffer
I feel for the illiterate minorty of Americans (according to another post) that will be limited to counting to lower numbers than 10.
This mf said minorty
Just a minort typo.
That’s ok, they can still get there if they’re barefoot. That is of course until the diabeetus sets in…
Fuck every one of you motherfuckers who traumatize my dogs every year.
I fucking hate fireworks. That’s stupidly expensive and even more stupidly dangerous. It’s ugly, noisy and terrifies the animals miles away.
Fuck it.
Very hard time of year for pets and warzone survivors (civilians and veterans)
Definitely. I’m afraid my dog’s going to have a heart attack one of these times.
My neighbors set off tons of fireworks every year. They’ve been going at it for a few hours tonight already. Its great, I get a free fireworks show and don’t risk losing fingers!
This is the way. Fireworks should be about losing digits COMMUNALLY.
It’s not just fingers! My brother nearly lost an eye from a bottle rocket. Damn thing landed right in his socket and he had to pull it out before it exploded. He still has that eye, but I don’t think it works quite as well as it once did.
