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Okay, so every year around the time of Independence Day, we keep hearing about how to celebrate the occasion safely and sanely. And I have no qualms about that. We hear about which fireworks are legal and which aren't. They always tell you to keep some water sources handy, like a hose or a water bucket or both. Again, there are no qualms of that. However, there is one qualm of this day that I do have: namely, some people suggest not celebrating using fireworks at all. I feel, however, that you can't celebrate this event without fireworks. So what can be done to celebrate the event if you want to celebrate it with fireworks but don't want to have to use them yourself?

I tried to ask my parents that question, but they just give me the runaround because we're going to be out of town then, so we should not worry about that, but I can't help but wonder for the people who are celebrating Independence Day closer to home. So if they can't celebrate the day with their own fireworks displays, how can they celebrate it with fireworks?

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They go watch a fireworks display.

I don't even do that anymore, all it is is sitting on a blanket for three hours watching lights crackle in the sky. I recommend seeing a movie or something.

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This kinda stuff doesn't need a thread, by the way, this could have easily gone in random thoughts.

Not that anybody would have cared anyway.

I tend to disagree, I think knowing how other people might celebrate the 4th without the use of fireworks is something worth not losing in the 1000 pages of randomness... Especially since where I live we often end up unable to use any personal fireworks (state/county/city/whatever wide ban because of the fire hazard they pose).

As was previously mentioned going to see larger displays of fireworks can be fun. I am a big fan of the getting together to have a barbecue followed by the trip out to the nearest city park.

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It's better to make new threads instead of cramming everything into Random Thoughts. (EDIT: Stu beat me)

I've only seen one public fireworks display years ago, but it'd be awesome entertainment if one of the fireworks backfired and exploded in front of everybody, causing massive burns, temporary deafness, and blindness. It'd be much more exciting than a movie.

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That happened once. Ambulances and stuff. Took an hour before they announced "hey guys we screwed up PLZ COME BACK NEXT WEEK"

That might be the last tiem I went.

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Stare at this for three hours.

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Yeah, go to a fireworks show, dude. Unless there's a really serious accident, you've nothing to worry about. Except possibly losing your hearing if you get too close.

Me and my friends are doing Virtual fireworks. Virtual in the sense that we're logging on to a 2fort server and all playing pyro.

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Crits would add to the fireworks.

Luckily, I literally live just outside of city limits. No joke. Our driveway is right next to the sign. We use fireworks all the time. However, before we moved, it was not so. We just learned to watch TV specials on the 4th. Those were simpler times.

I thought fireworks were first

But what do public firework shows have that private ones don't? I mean, what's the difference between them?

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They have huge cluster works that set off designs in the sky. Private ones, like what you do at home with them, are all just Tanks, little Airplanes, sprouting flowers, and M-80s.

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No
Fireworks ban in my city
No fireworks shows for at least 50 miles
Deal with it
I was like 8

Well, aren't they both equally entertaining, or are the big clusters in the sky more fun? I never knew that fireworks would look like tanks and airplanes.



What did you do to get your fill?

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Facepalm.

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You guys should be happy that private ownership fireworks is legal at all. It isn't over here.

Of course it's not exactly difficult to get them. A few kids at my church manage to bring them almost every time we go out to the bush or something.

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Fireworks are illegal here in Georgia, and have been as long as I can remember. But recently they changed the law so that anything that doesn't explode is classified as a "sparkler" and can be sold. But even then, no one really cares about that law and we can just pop over to Alabama or South Carolina some time in June to buy stuff and set things off without anyone complaining. We even did it once when a police officer was living across the street from us and never heard anything from him.

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Cuz' that's how we Georgians roll

I don't always celebrate with fireworks. I live in a city, so people are all scared and you're not allowed to shoot any ("that's why we have a show in the city", they say).

If I go to my dad's house, we usually celebrate the independence of our country by turning part of it into a small, blackened, smoldering crater.

This year, I am running a race in the morning (either Buffalo Trace 5K or Bluegrass 10K, probably the 5K because I probably wouldn't finish the 10K), so I might not make it back to eastern KY.
If Holly and I don't go, we're going to a Lexington Legends (baseball) game. I figure there's nothing more American than eating a hot dog and drinking a Budweiser at a baseball game on the 4th of July. (For those under 21, a Coca-Cola will also suffice, since it was created here. In fact, it might be better than the Budweiser, since it's an American product based on a Bavarian recipe.)

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Every year on the 1st, I go to a big cattered BBQ on a hill overlooking a lake. Lasts all day and we eat, drink, laugh, talk, swim, listen to the radio, play games, and eventually watch the fireworks from the town across the lake. Good times.

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That's not on the 4th, though.

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--Strong Bad, about Homestar

What I wish I could do:
Buy a couple (hundred) boxes of sparklers and those poppers.
Use a few for their intended use.
Take a whole buncha sparklers and tie them together
Make a sparkler fuse (or a real one out of string)
Connect fuse
???
Boom
???
Profit

After that:
Take about 50-100 poppers
Unravel the tin foily crap
Throw them from the highest point in your house
See above

Then:
Sparkler + Gasoline
Sparkler + Poppers
Sparkler + Poppers ^76

That's what I do in my dreams.

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When your Canadian you tend to celebrate on the first.

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Fixed.

Seriously, try this. A sparkler bomb inside a bottle works much better than a bunch just tied together, it pressurises and explodes really big.

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If you are also a prankster:
Buy Mentos
Buy Diet Coke
Tie string to a Mento
Put almost all of the string into the bottle (with the Mento)
Put the cap on
Cut off the excess string
Ask someone to get you a Diet Coke.
???
???
Profit!

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In San Diego, you aren't allowed to have private firework shows. Which is probably for a good reason, considering how bad our fires are.
They don't sell them here, because you're not supposed to get them. Everyone gets them from Mexico.

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What do you do, though, if you do want to see fireworks in San Diego?

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--Strong Bad, about Homestar