
فك يو
it's so funny when people are like "happy fourth of july!!! are you going to watch fireworks?"

فك يو
people have been setting off fireworks here for a week straight

bluecanary
ikr

فك يو
i straight-up forgot it was the fourth, i've just started to register fireworks as normal 10pm behavior

فك يو
though i am at a house with a great view tonight and it's been fun watching them go off across the gay

فك يو
...... bay

فك يو
happy belated pride

kates!!
the ground here is soggy and soaked from a week of rain that could easily start up any moment and yet people are still shooting off fireworks

Murder moogle
soggy soaked ground is the best condition for fireworks, tbh

Murder moogle
sure beats what we've got going on here, where one stray firework could easily set off a wildfire.

فك يو
yeahhhhhhh things have been incredibly dry here lately too

kates!!
yeah see the thing though is that the ground is soaked from, like I said, a week of rain that can start up any moment. like, it was actively raining 30 min ago. but that ain't gonna stop the fireworks.

kates!!
I wish I could send y'all my rain, lmao

Murder moogle
I'd take it.

c_for_characters
I'm honestly just like "Do you think the Americans have anything to celebrate this year?"

c_for_characters
I've had that question today and maaay be out of fucks enough to have said that


c_for_characters
We're border Canadians, so we usually join in and make it one long holiday from the 1st, but there's a note of unease that I apparently added to.

Murder moogle
Americans will always accept a reason to set off small explosions.

فك يو
absolutely

فك يو
here's a map of my state marked to show which towns allow personal/unregulated fireworks use


فك يو
green means "permissible with no restrictions"

فك يو
forcing the high school kids to drive 3 miles in order to go nuts


batsquatch
It's raining where I am. heh

Ptriciadactyl
they're illegal in MA and my neighborhood of Boston is especially fond of illegal fireworks

Ptriciadactyl
my mom was driving me home one night and somebody set one off on a street corner 10 feet from her car and scared her, and I was just calmly, "welcome to Dorchester."

Ptriciadactyl
I am not sorry to be in South Carolina tonight, one year the illegal fireworks went on till 3AM

Ptriciadactyl
it's quieter in my grandma's neighborhood

فك يو
damnnnnnn

فك يو
i like fireworks fine on a personal level, but on a street corner, in a city? bad bad bad idea, just get some quiet sparklers, ffs

bluecanary
every fireworks display

bluecanary
looks exactly the same

bluecanary
if you have seen one

bluecanary
you understand the concept

bluecanary
it will always pretty much be that

ɢʟᴀᴍ★sᴛᴀʀ
damn do they not do fireworks where you're at in sc, everybody around here GOES to SC to get their fireworks

Ptriciadactyl
my grandmother lives in an over 55 community with a fairly strict HOA, so it's pretty quiet here

Ptriciadactyl
I'm curious what it's like in Mom's neighborhood (I'm down here helping Mom move), but her furniture doesn't arrive till tomorrow so we're sleeping at Grandma's.

ɢʟᴀᴍ★sᴛᴀʀ
oh well I'm glad people respect that then! I guess I'm surrounded by hooligans