by blowing up a small piece of it every five minutes for three hours.
Yeah, it’s the fourth. I can deal with the people who like to set off totally illegal “BANG” things once a year. But please, please, just set them off and get it over with!!! Someone has been over in the park ever since it stopped raining setting off one firework at a time.
Are they so drunk that it takes them five minutes each time to remember how to light a Bic? So stupid that they have to read the individual instructions each time? Do I need to walk over there and help out by tossing a match into your box of illegal fireworks just to end the suspense?
Just set them off in a timely manner so that we can all get some sleep tonight. Asshole.
And is it wrong of me to think that midnight would be a good time to quit? I haven’t been able to sleep because every time I’m almost asleep some asshole lets off another series of bangs loud enough to wake me up. Seriously, why the fuck are you up at 3 AM setting off fireworks?
Lots of loud bangs late into the night has always been the case in my neighborhood as well (which is a very thickly settled and fairly well-treed narrow street, not exactly ideal for setting off explosives). But I’m guessing those people moved this year, because while a few of the neighbors set off a bunch of actual ('splodey, colorful, as opposed to just loud) fireworks on the evening of the third, last night was virtually silent!
I’m up for work and I can hear lots of fireworks still going off outside. I’m pretty sure the orchestrators haven’t gone to bed yet. In their defense, (I guess), fireworks are legal here. (Oregon).
We used to do that here, but it wasn’t really the birth of this country, but another one slightly to the south. And it wasn’t really the birthday either, but an event prior to it.
In less than a fortnight we’ll be burning vast chunks of it to celebrate the birth of a new administration from a few centuries ago, if that helps?
Hearing fireworks go off all night would be a small price to pay if that used them up, and dimwits didn’t gradually explode the rest of their stash for weeks to come.
There’s a drought here. If your armament starts any grass fires, hopefully it’s your house that goes up in flames.
Personally, I think you represent what is best about America. It isn’t just the fact that you hate it so. It’s the fact that the people you condemn defend your right to express your hatred of them and their country. Without people like you, their courage wouldn’t be quite so extraordinary. I can only aspire to your level. While I think the American government sucks, I’m still weighted down with a naive admiration of her people.
I got a little pissy at the people setting off fireworks at 11:30 PM across the street (the town fireworks were down the street from us, so cars were lined up down our street until then to leave the area) - mainly because earlier this week, two houses in an adjoining neighborhood burnt down due to amateur fireworks, and we live in a neighborhood filled with old, old houses built in the 1920s and 1930s. Setting off fireworks in that kind of neighborhood right next to a whole line of cars just doesn’t strike me as very smart.
And at midnight, they should’ve been done. But we heard them off and on until 2 AM :rolleyes: . Getting up for work this morning was fun.
Er…right. Liberal, may I ask you a favor? Can you stop using this shitty font? It really distracts the eyes and makes me not want to read your posts at all.
Back to the OP…
I actually don’t mind fireworks, I just protest that midnight is late enough. I don’t even mind if they use them for the next three weeks. I like them, myself*. Just remember it’s a weekday!
But then we live in hicksville. Yesterday some 20-some odds were playing with an ATV in the street, driving it up and down and doing wheelies on it. I was just waiting to have to call 911.
*Except M80s which I don’t think should be allowed at all. But that’s more because of some personal history.
I hate this fucking holiday. I hate this fucking state that lets people blow shit up to celebrate this stupid holiday. And I hate my troglodyte neighbors that think it’s a great idea to set off fireworks at two-fucking-A.M. in the morning. For an hour. Goddamn crackers.
This is the one and only time of the year that I have a burning desire to exercise my all-American right to go out and buy a mean-ass looking shotgun.
Frankly, I’d rather just chase them off with my three big dogs, but my canine attack force was cowering in the basement. Big wusses.
You guys obviously didn’t drink enough yesterday. If you had, you’d be able to sleep through this even if someone was setting off firecrackers in your bedroom.
Tuesday night I had people blowing stuff up until at least 1 am. I had to be at work at 8 am. My dog feels the need to bark everytime fireworks go off so if the fireworks don’t keep me awake, the dog does. Last night however the usual fireworks noise was going on until about 11:30pm, then I heard sirens and then I heard no more fireworks. So I had to wonder if the fireworks idiots blew themselves up or if someone else complained to the police (finally). Then again I was so exhausted and painful after a 10 hour non-stop workday that I may not have heard any more noise once I dropped off to sleep.
I just don’t get the need to make loud noises and risk blowing off your fingers.
