Holy cow! Thanks for putting that together.
I was worried about this 4th of July with people coming out of quarantine. It looks like I wasn’t wrong.
What the fuck is the difference to his dogs if Zeus sets off the boom or his neighbors? And for that matter what the fuck is the difference is your religious beliefs to his dogs? They hear a boom, they hunker down, that’s what the fuck they do. Dogs have been doing that to Zeus’s booms for centuries and wolves much longer and they most likely don’t give a flying fuck who sets off the boom and they definitely don’t care about if you believe if some entity cause it.
You seem to have some difficulty with this; I’ll reiterate: Zeus is a fantasy. He does not exist.
Let’s see if I can get everyone to hate me… I live on a cul de sac, on which it seems 90% of the neighbors own multiple dogs. It seems they all walk their dogs up and down the cul de sac each morning starting at 6 a.m. Across the street is a really nice couple with an entirely fenced in backyard in which lives three golden retriever dogs who are apparently driven mad by the passing parade of dogs whom they cannot get to, whether they want to happily greet them or drive them from existence. So they bark. And bark. And bark. Damn near continuously from 6 a.m. to about 8:30 a.m. because that really nice couple is friends with every single one of the dog owners, who each will pause and chat with the nice neighbors for a couple of minutes. Of course this means the native dogs see the ‘intruding’ dogs and go berserk barking. And the intruding dogs of course back back. On and on and on.
And what really kills me is that neither the neighbors or the dog walkers seem to react to this horrible racket their dogs are making. No one makes any effort to silence their dogs at all! It’s like they cannot even hear the barking! They just smile and chat for a while while the storm of noise goes on and then they eventually continue their strolling. And before one dog is out of sight, the next is visible and the goldies continue barking, barking, barking!
Every damn morning it goes on, for about 2 1/2 hours.
So you know what? If all those damn dogs spend a few hours cowering under your beds, good! At least they’ve shut up. I wish they set off a few fireworks every morning!
My dog was terrified. Neighbors on both sides of us were shooting off M80s or whatever loud-ass crackers that sounded like they were immediately outside the walls of our house. This morning? He’s NOT fine. Husband had to take him to the emergency vet this morning with what looked like stroke symptoms. So thanks for your absolute lack of compassion and empathy. Back atcha.
And you seem to have difficulty in understanding that the dog doesn’t give a flying fuck what you or I believe. To the dog a boom is a fucking boom - case closed. Doesn’t matter one hell of a shitfuck what or who caused it. No religion is needed to understand that.
Our night was the 3rd, professional display with a neighbor trying to match it at same followed by a furious hour of explosions than at 11:30 all was quiet. I was surprised. I don’t mind a lil snap, crackle, pop!
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You seem to be having quite a bit of difficulty making a coherent point.
Let’s start with some basics and see if we agree.
Do you agree that Zeus is a fantasy and is not real?
You seem to be the one missing the point. He was comparing fireworks (which are real) to thunder (which is real). He dragged in a metaphorical god to MAKE THE POINT that dogs freak out from loud noises even when there’s no human agent involved in making the noise.
Our neighbors were going at it furiously for only about two or three hours, but the one guy who is a tad closer than I would prefer was shooting loud mortars until past midnight. There probably are people here who have to work this morning, so I hope they had really good earplugs or something (more likely just using meth to get through the day).
I mean, I am failing to get it. At what point does a person get bored with it? Is there a defect in my personality that I lost interest by age 30? I swear, just this small area must have burned $100K last night, and the air will smell sulphrous for a couple days. Or maybe I just need to be more “Patriotic”.
Anyway, I love fireworks. I have the luxury of living in a place where they are illegal, so there aren’t a ton of randomly-set-off home fireworks around me. I know that the guy I bought this house from used to set off little fireworks for Hindu holidays, and the lady across the street always called the cops, and they always came and made him stop.
I did hear some decently loud booms last night, but only for a few minutes.
Maybe if I lived someplace where there were a lot more booms it would bother me. But like @StarvingButStrong , I have a lot more noise issues from neighbor’s dogs than from fireworks. I don’t call the police about either.
(I DID call the police when the developer across the street used a giant jackhammer thing from 7am until 4pm every day for weeks to excavate a foundation. Sadly, they told me his activity was legal. I wore noise cancelling headsets all day in my home, and still cursed the noise.)
I’m almost 40 and blowing shit up is still a blast. It nothing to do with patriotism except for that’s when I’m allowed to spend a day doing it. But yes, I think this message board is high in the number of old fuddy duddies so you’ll find lots of support for saying it’s not fun unless you’re a kid.
Most fireworks accidents do not make the news and are not instantly googleable while eating breakfast on July 5th.
While I do not play with fireworks myself, I love hanging out on the stoop with my young kids watching the technicolor show. I have a dog that luckily has gotten used to it (though he hasn’t always been good with them.) I wish they wouldn’t do it for weeks before the fourth and only confined it to the day itself. It’s just a summer tradition to me and, yea, I understand it’s hard on pets. But I can’t change what others do and I really can’t see them as somehow bad people for wanting to blow some shit up.
As someone else posted earlier, I have fond memories of setting off fireworks at dusk on July 1-4. I used to love bottle rockets. But I can see why people hate them, especially if you have pets. As an adult, I don’t mind it for a day or two, but anything outside that window is annoying.
Another preventable death due to fireworks mishandling/ they say malfunctioned.
Same here in Brooklyn. Strangely quiet. I have no idea why.
Bottle rockets? In my neighborhood, no one would even notice bottle rockets. The guy two houses down must have shot off nearly a hundred mortars last night. You know, the things that sound like “thump …… pow”, creating a colorful burst about 70 feet in the air. Ten or twenty of those things might be ok, but that would have been about five minutes worth – he went on for three hours, and when I thought he was done, he shot some more. This in addition to at least 30 other houses in the area.
I can see a 20 or 30 minute show, but hours on end? It goes from amusing to tedious to aggravating, made worse by the utter randomness of it. Never mind the fact that we have a lot of 60 foot trees around here, and the bursts are right amongst them.
The display-grade stuff should not be legal in the hands of ordinary folk.
Nothing is illegal in this part of the county.