<![CDATA[If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole.]]>If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole.

You’re also an asshole if you do it at night.

You’re also an asshole if you do it *on* Independence Day.

Basically, fuck off with your fireworks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/2ffd20e8-faff-4f12-b9da-849c0a33a9b0/if-you-detonate-big-illegal-fireworks-in-a-residential-neighborhood-in-the-middle-of-the-day-the-day-before-independence-day-you-are-an-asshole.RSS for NodeMon, 27 Jul 2026 04:10:41 GMTFri, 03 Jul 2026 16:12:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:02:10 GMT]]>@tayfonay @maxleibman oh FFS. It just barely stopped raining and here go the fireworks at 5PM. You can't see them that well before 8 or 9 at night. Fools.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116858062807051426https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116858062807051426Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:02:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:01:57 GMT]]>@maxleibman Including if you're Trump, who plans to set off 880,000 fireworks shells tomorrow, causing so much pollution that authorities predict it will exceed the API scale at approximately double severe wildfire smoke (which I've experienced, and profoundly sucks). https://meidasnews.com/news/emergency-bulletin-warns-nations-250th-anniversary-fireworks-could-produce-unprecedented-air-pollution

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116858061930224760https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/116858061930224760Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:01:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:50:19 GMT]]>@tayfonay @maxleibman aw, I'm sorry. Thinking about giving Miles Tramadol for his anxiety, like he gets when he has his nails trimmed. There's really no "one neat trick" for this. Bax couldn't handle thunderstorms, let alone fireworks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116858016219479822https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116858016219479822Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:50:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:46:30 GMT]]>@kimlockhartga @maxleibman One of our dogs gets scared out of her mind and the other is like wut? It’s going to be a long weekend for Annabelle

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/tayfonay/statuses/116858001217495573https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/tayfonay/statuses/116858001217495573Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:46:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:42:22 GMT]]>@maxleibman
Last year I was out of town for the fourth (same as this year)

When I returned home, one of the adult kids found a spent round on the ground next to the house, possibly 9mm

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/DelilahTech/statuses/116857749016817119https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/DelilahTech/statuses/116857749016817119Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:42:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:51:07 GMT]]>@maxleibman Let's celebrate veterans by triggering their PTSD with sudden loud noises.
I don't care if they're legal shit I hate the noise, the smell and the haze. My poor pets hate it too. Around here folks like shooting off their guns too so we got all that going on with the fireworks
They're gonna start shooting shit here in a couple hours probably, no one waits for night time

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/HappyCrow13/statuses/116857547497111227https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/HappyCrow13/statuses/116857547497111227Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:51:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:40:03 GMT]]>@maxleibman

We have a cops and cocks contingent that all live around the nearby park and school like gators at a watering hole, and they blast that shit all week.
Couldn't walk the dogs at 7 last night with the sun still up, because dickless daddy's boys had to make boom-boom and it absolutely pancakes Daphne.

Explosions are not expressions of freedom. They're abusive Nazi pedo alerts by fuckups who demand atttention. I don't give a shit who that may splatter on.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.plus/users/GGMcBG/statuses/116857268068637840https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.plus/users/GGMcBG/statuses/116857268068637840Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:40:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:34:44 GMT]]>@maxleibman I feel this, and I also plan to ignore anyone who wants to argue that they are fun.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/photovotary/statuses/116857247151055495https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/photovotary/statuses/116857247151055495Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:34:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:11 GMT]]>@maxleibman So. I had a friend who went to the US for a year to study. One of the times that he phoned me, I commented on the bangs I could hear in the background, and asked (naively) if there were fireworks where he was. He informed me that fireworks were illegal "for reasons of public safety" in that part of the US, and what I could hear was gunfire. Not close enough to his flat to be concerning, apparently.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/daburudar/statuses/116857154554325469https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/daburudar/statuses/116857154554325469Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:01:22 GMT]]>@maxleibman I'm a little surprised that the usual neighborhood fireworkers have not already been testing out their (assumed) purchases.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://deacon.social/users/Bodling/statuses/116857115940607533https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://deacon.social/users/Bodling/statuses/116857115940607533Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:01:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:52:35 GMT]]>@maxleibman I think they are dangerous and largely unnecessary. We can do digital or drone displays. Every year, growing up, some kid stepped on a sparkler. None of them are safe.

I fully expect having to play music for the dogs, and wearing headphones myself, because this being the 250th, I expect a lot of participation, even though no one was buying them at either store I went to of late. 🤔

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116857081367181632https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116857081367181632Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:52:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:33:31 GMT]]>@kimlockhartga I don't believe all are, although I'm not 100% on what's what (not being interested in the purchase or setting off of fireworks myself). Some of what we've heard today would be obviously illegal anywhere I've ever been, though.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/maxleibman/statuses/116857006416324997https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/maxleibman/statuses/116857006416324997Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:33:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:31:41 GMT]]>@maxleibman I second this very nuanced approach to fireworks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/sanpan/statuses/116856999206116902https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/sanpan/statuses/116856999206116902Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:31:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:23:58 GMT]]>@maxleibman are all fireworks for personal use illegal where you reside? They were illegal here, then made legal. It's confusing.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116856968900535375https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/kimlockhartga/statuses/116856968900535375Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:23:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole. on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:23:55 GMT]]>@maxleibman fuck fireworks, honestly.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116856968662787536https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kamu.social/users/Linza/statuses/116856968662787536Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:23:55 GMT