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Posted December 21, 2012
Are you going to use fireworks this New Year's Eve? When I was a kid, one of my friends got his whole palm burned and lost half of his pinky finger while I was present, since then my parents got paranoid and didn't let to play with pyrotechnics. When I became of the legal age to buy fireworks myself I've started playing with them every year. Hell yeah! People say that buying fireworks is a waste of money, but so is the alcohol and gaming in my opinion. They simply don't understand the thrill of lighting up the firework rocket, running away and waiting something to happen, it's not the same as watching fireworks from the balcony.
Posted December 21, 2012
Buy them if you want, might be pretty watching your money go up in smoke
Posted December 25, 2012
Why so grumpy?
Posted December 25, 2012
Im not grumpy, just honest.
Posted December 25, 2012
Sacri... Oh wait, wrong thread.
Posted December 25, 2012
I used to burn something massive, was always the one on the block getting things started, keeping it going, and ending with a ridiculous bang.

But the novelty eventually wore and I just stopped. As reaver said it just feels like a waste.
Rather spend it on...those two items you called a waste of money.
Posted December 25, 2012
I'm a pyromaniac myself but this year I'm actually enjoying watching everyone else's fireworks instead of getting minors burns from my own.
More than 15 years ago I remember having some massive flashbangs from a friend who had a friend who knew someone who worked at a weapons dealer. No rockets, no effect, just a massive, deafning bang. I got 100 pieces back then and kept them. You aren't legally allowed to use or sell them after New Years Eve.

That was fun, never got the same fun from the supermarket fireworks since that time.
Posted December 25, 2012
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.
Posted December 25, 2012
Here fireworks on christmas are like a tradition, everyone sets up flaming volcanoes, spinning buzzers, flying rockets, whistling rockets, screaming rockets, mini missile batteries, and an endless list. What I dislike completely are the hand-thrown flashbangs, so loud they make you deaf and I think they´re the most dangerous either by bad handling or defective.
I´m okay with the fireworks flashbangs and the hand-artillery ones though. My ears tend to be quite sensitive though :P
So here on december 25th at 00:00 the sky is a fireworks frenzy and the ground is a volcano, artillery, battery, spinning, whizzing.....frenzy :P
Post edited December 25, 2012 by LoboBlanco
Posted December 25, 2012
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LoboBlanco: Here fireworks on christmas are like a tradition, everyone sets up flaming volcanoes, spinning buzzers, flying rockets, whistling rockets, screaming rockets, mini missile batteries, and an endless list. What I dislike completely are the hand-thrown flashbangs, so loud they make you deaf and I think they´re the most dangerous either by bad handling or defective.
I´m okay with the fireworks flashbangs and the hand-artillery ones though. My ears tend to be quite sensitive though :P
So here on december 25th at 00:00 the sky is a fireworks frenzy and the ground is a volcano, artillery, battery, spinning, whizzing.....frenzy :P
*High Fives Lobo Blanco* (Or more like... 'Choca las cinco!')

We do that as well. It doesn't mean we don't have them for new years as well, because we do.
Posted December 26, 2012
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LoboBlanco: Here fireworks on christmas are like a tradition, everyone sets up flaming volcanoes, spinning buzzers, flying rockets, whistling rockets, screaming rockets, mini missile batteries, and an endless list. What I dislike completely are the hand-thrown flashbangs, so loud they make you deaf and I think they´re the most dangerous either by bad handling or defective.
I´m okay with the fireworks flashbangs and the hand-artillery ones though. My ears tend to be quite sensitive though :P
So here on december 25th at 00:00 the sky is a fireworks frenzy and the ground is a volcano, artillery, battery, spinning, whizzing.....frenzy :P
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El_Caz: *High Fives Lobo Blanco* (Or more like... 'Choca las cinco!')

We do that as well. It doesn't mean we don't have them for new years as well, because we do.
;P Yeah, it just sounds boring "no fireworks on christmas" and yes, here we also stock up for new year´s eve :P
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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.
It´d be weird if they didn´t allow them, since they discovered explosive powder :P
Post edited December 26, 2012 by LoboBlanco
Posted December 26, 2012
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LoboBlanco: It´d be weird if they didn´t allow them, since they discovered explosive powder :P
I respect the government's right to legislate the country, it just seems to me to be a very strange decision for them to make. Especially when you are driving down the road and see shops with the casings of hundreds and thousands of firecrackers on the ground where they've disassembled them for recycling.

I'm sure there's an aspect to it that I'm not aware of, but it just seems very strange.
Posted December 26, 2012
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aivadroid: Are you going to use fireworks this New Year's Eve? When I was a kid, one of my friends got his whole palm burned and lost half of his pinky finger while I was present, since then my parents got paranoid and didn't let to play with pyrotechnics. When I became of the legal age to buy fireworks myself I've started playing with them every year. Hell yeah! People say that buying fireworks is a waste of money, but so is the alcohol and gaming in my opinion. They simply don't understand the thrill of lighting up the firework rocket, running away and waiting something to happen, it's not the same as watching fireworks from the balcony.
People say a lot of shit. Gaming is not a waste of money. Alcohol is not a waste of money. Fireworks is not a waste of money.
Posted December 26, 2012
While fireworks are illegal here, people do buy the in markets (under the counter).

I dont use them and would never let my kids anywhere near them.

I do remember one halloween night, I was out walking my dogs and I heard this firework go off and it was followed by the most unmerciful scream from a child, I dont know what the extent of the injuries were as I only heard the screaming, but, it certainly put paid to any desire I had to mess with them.

Because they are bought illegally, there are no safety or quality controls on many of these products, so I tend to steer clear.
Posted December 26, 2012
Unfortunately any fireworks worth getting are illegal here.
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