Unless your goal is to set off car alarms, scare people’s pets, and upset veterans who have ptsd. Then, they are amazing. Equally amazing for signalling you are an inconsiderate dick. Other people don’t want to see or listen to your display of insecurity and lack of self satisfaction. Want to see the flashy boom boom in the sky? Go to fucking disney world. Otherwise, leave the other 99% of us alone.

  • @RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    I miss when fireworks were illegal here (well, for civilians, there were still planned shows occasionally). They were made legal and people went nuts and my poor cat was plastered to me the entire time, just shaking.

  • @coyootje@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    When I grew up I used to love fireworks at new years here in the Netherlands. However, now that I’m older and more importantly, no longer live in the same neighborhood, I’ve grown a big dislike of them.

    A big part of this is the vandalism and carelessness that people have. I literally have to move my car elsewhere to prevent it from potentially getting set on fire by some of our neighbors, who get super drunk and then set off fireworks and don’t take care of the leftovers, which often catch fire. They also moved fireworks to a patch of shrubs and trees before and if it wasn’t for me calling the cops and the weather being somewhat wet they could’ve set a whole area on fire. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Fortunately, there seems to be more and more support for a ban here. The only problem is that it’ll be very hard to uphold it after such a long tradition of having fireworks. They already banned some of the heavier stuff before and it never worked, people still had it. Hopefully it’ll be different this time.

  • FingolfinzEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    I fucking hate them. I have ptsd and it fucks me up and scares my dog

  • @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    Most places will have loud thunderstorms at least a few times a year. They scare pets, trigger PTSD, and can cause a hell of a lot more damage than fireworks. We also only know about them a few days in advance, and have to deal with additional problems like rain and high winds. But we don’t get mad at the thunderstorms, and most of us aren’t filled with hatred and dread while we wait them out, they are just something that happens.

    So considering mother nature will out-do fireworks multiple times a year without any sort of schedule, I really don’t see the issue with people using fireworks to celebrate two times a year on dates and times that everyone should know well in advance.

    Do they have to happen? No, but enough people want them to happen that you should maybe just learn to put up with it. That’s part of living in a society.

    • @4am@lemm.eeEnglish
      8•1 month ago

      Oh you sweet summer child, where people only light off fireworks twice a year at expected times.

      Motherfuckers set em off at 3am multiple times a month around here, and it’s not just like one problematic house or something

      • @shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        And what kinda shithole is this? We’re redneck as fuck, and on the bleeding edge of town. I hear nothing but the occasional gun pop from the woods, and you can barely hear that if you’re outside and paying attention.

  • @dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    Forgot I was on lemmy for a sec and thought this was about the band Fireworks. I was ready to throw hands.

  • @Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    I always thought it was a major fuck you to veterans that the big state funded fireworks display where I live is launched like 10 feet from the veterans hospital where they have people living there and being treated for PTSD.

    Also I worked second shift so driving home through low visibility “fog” a few hours after everyone stops shooting them off feels eerie when you live in a city that doesn’t get fog. That’s probably not good for breathing, but I don’t really know about just kind of being anecdotal