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Posted December 26, 2012
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hedwards: Back home it's completely illegal to set off anything worth setting off. I think you can have punks, snakes and sparklers, and that's about it.

Around here, you can have pretty much anything you want. Which makes no sense to me, considering how concerned the government is with insurrection. People can't have firearms but they can have seemingly unlimited amounts of fireworks.

Some things about this country will never make sense to me.
Doesn't China have a very long history and tradition with Fireworks?
Posted December 26, 2012
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hedwards: Back home it's completely illegal to set off anything worth setting off. I think you can have punks, snakes and sparklers, and that's about it.

Around here, you can have pretty much anything you want. Which makes no sense to me, considering how concerned the government is with insurrection. People can't have firearms but they can have seemingly unlimited amounts of fireworks.

Some things about this country will never make sense to me.
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Roman5: Doesn't China have a very long history and tradition with Fireworks?
I'm not really sure what history would have to do with it.
Posted December 26, 2012
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Roman5: Doesn't China have a very long history and tradition with Fireworks?
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hedwards: I'm not really sure what history would have to do with it.
Well, I think Roman5 just means they're more culturally important to the Chinese than they are to you or I (or anyone else for that matter). Fireworks have been used to celebrate in China for hundreds of years.
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aivadroid: Are you going to use fireworks this New Year's Eve?
Nah, not me. It's not uncommon to let off fireworks on New Years Eve here, but the 'traditional' time to let them off is Bonfire night (a.k.a. Guy Fawkes Night, but bonfire night is much older really).
I'm probably just going to drink and play music.
Post edited December 26, 2012 by SirPrimalform
Posted December 26, 2012
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hedwards: I'm not really sure what history would have to do with it.
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SirPrimalform: Well, I think Roman5 just means they're more culturally important to the Chinese than they are to you or I (or anyone else for that matter). Fireworks have been used to celebrate in China for hundreds of years.
Yeah well, Americans used to have freedom, but now the US government has to be compared with police states to come off as OK.
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