I love fireworks. I like exploding things. But seriously, 8 in the morning is a dumb time to do fireworks. It’s not even dark out. If I didn’t have a baby, I would still be sleeping, and if I didn’t have an industrial fan in my room to drown out all noise, I would be pissed off. Let’s just wait a bit, okay?
No one is allowed to sleep this week.
sleep is for the weak 😎💪
The British sleep. Look what happened.
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It seems like the Ann Morrison display started later than usual this year, which I'm glad to see. I thought it started way too early in the past. A pretty good show this year.
Then again, the private party fireworks are getting on my nerves, and the nerves of my pets, too. They handled Annie's display just fine, but now there's random booms coming from every which way, and it's getting OLD already!
You just have to invest in an industrial fan and a lot of trazodone. Me and my dogs are super relaxed rn.
Neither your baby nor a desire for peace and quiet will come between me and my freedum!
Nothing is more 'markin than shooting fireworks made in communist China!
Yes, this is sarcasm, and yes, I do enjoy fireworks. I just don't understand how people can be so disrespectful to others.
Yeah, I love fireworks in general, but my neighbors who apparently have no empathy for other people's peace and sleep have made me resentful of them.
Enough for this year, thank you.
Animal lover here.
I will never understand the obsession with fireworks
Seems like such an enormous waste of money, especially when one can just watch a far better fireworks show put on by a local town.
I totally understand it, but I spent my childhood in North Dakota where there was nothing better to do other than go fishing. We loved bottle rocket and Roman candle wars, I’ve still got a few burn scars around my wrists and a dent in the top of my hand 15 years later.
Having said that, nothing pisses me off more than irresponsible fireworks use (I know, ironic considering I used to shoot them at friends). Light them off away from densely populated areas, around here that might mean a big parking lot in a commercial area. Never light them near fine fuels (dry grasses), or where sparks could land on fine fuels.
I used to do those, but my favorite was putting a can inside of another, putting a hole in the top, filling it with water and dropping in firecrackers. You could get a little can to shoot like 30-40 feet into the air.
I never learned that trick! Only sticking a handful of firecrackers into a pop can and overturning it. If you timed it well, and the first firecracker didn’t rip the fuse off the others, sometimes subsequent explosions would lift it higher when it was already in the air. Wrapping a few in tape, and wrapping the can in tape, increased the chances of that.
I was a little shit and dug a huge hole in our garden with a post hole digger until I got past the clay layer, then proceeded to stick firecrackers into the clay and pretend I was mining, blasting a tunnel into the clay. Boy I miss that, thanks for making me think of good memories :) If my dog were more of a hunting dog than a herding dog I’d go find a fireworks stand and a gravel pit to have some fun.
Is it ironic, or is it you learning from experience?
Ironic more so than anything. As a kid I had lessons of eye protection and fire safety drilled into me, from shooting and having native friends who knew not to let the red buffalo roam uncontrolled on our lands (e.g. don’t set fire to dry range, whether it’s fireworks, bonfires, or dragging chains).
I would be okay with a kid of mine engaging in a Roman candle war if they did it in a safe place to do so, say along the shelter belt of a watered field. Learning from experience, I’d give them paintball masks instead of shooting glasses and some leather forestry gloves.
Well, it makes pretty colors and sounds, and it is made of fire. There is a time and place though.
I don’t get the obsession with knitting. But 🤷🏻♀️takes all kinds of people to make this world go round! 😂
Yes, people are really inconsiderate this time of year.
I love setting off fireworks on July Fourth… when other people share their fireworks with me. But since it’s just me at home, I’m not buying this year. City fireworks show for me!
Woke me up cause the dogs hate them
I feel terrible for the pups on the 4th (and the surrounding days as it seems to spill over)
Yeah, I thought I’d be able to take my dog out and get her to eat something, maybe get some fetch in before needing to feed her another trazodone… but she’s back under the kitchen table 🙄
I’m almost out of trazodone. My dog likes to hide under the deck and get covered in leaves and spiderwebs
A state that preaches the importance of Law N’ Order often sees those who preach it frequently breaking the law when it’s in their interest. I’m waiting for one of these urban sprawl neighborhoods with 400, 500… 600 stick-built homes to go up in flames.
"Rules for thee, but not for me" should be the official motto of Idaho.
"Someone complained about fireworks on the 4th, so I stopped setting them off." - No one
People are just complainers on Reddit.
People are just complainers online
Onliners are just redditors who are people
People complain about Karen.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors were also firing shots into the air at 2AM. Fuck them.
As long as nobody burns down my house, and as long as they keep the fireworks out of the goddam dry as fuck foothills (already a bad start with that one) I can get through it.
Unfortunately the odds them burning down someone's house, and a few hundred acres of wildlife habitat in the foothills are significantly above zero.
i always wonder what the point of these posts are. do you think that the people shooting them off rn are checking this reddit and being like aw yeah he’s right let’s wrap it up guys.
Every year someone posts to complain about the fireworks and I wanted to be the one to do it this time.
i can respect that 🫡
I had to hold my dog under blankets and cover her ears all night while she shook and freaked out. Tonight I’m putting sound proof foam on her kennel and putting her in a windowless room with movies playing. Hopefully that works🤞
Get anxiety meds for her.
Aw, poor baby! Fireworks are hell for some animals.
This post has some real Red Coat energy
I've been hearing fireworks in Wyoming since May lol
Right, i work graves and 3 times had a jump out of bed wake-up call from explosion in the middle of the morning or 1 am!
Freedom of religion. This is how we worship ourselves.
Nuh uh
Neighbors kids started them at (July5th) 8am and then stopped at 9am! Lol
My super power of sleeping through anything really shines on the week of the 4th!
Preach! I wanted to kill a mf'r yesterday who shot a huge mortar at 0930. I almost sh*t myself.
I loved the person who randomly set off on that shook my house at 1 am 3 nights ago. Literally just doing it to be a jerk at that point.
America. 🇺🇸
Chinese invented fireworks. I wonder where they're made today!
Out here in Meridian we get random fireworks throughout the whole year, outside of the 4th and New Years late at night. We also get guns poppin off randomly too, usually around 4-6 am.
Real Nextdoor App energy happening here.
It's probably on there too.
Oh it sure is.
relax everyone don’t be lame
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As an OG east coaster, it is so weird to me (even after years of being here) that they’re legally sold here! It definitely perpetuates everything… there should be a curfew or something 😂 anyone past midnight apparently does not have to wake up for a toddler or dog or job…
Trade unionists who get a 4 day weekend, rubbing your face in their Freedom. Once a year, we shuffle your pets.
Shut up communist. Listen to the sound of my freedom
Are we truly free though, if we can’t sleep in on our day off?
Ear plugs?
Not in America on independence day it's not. TF wrong with you? Telling people what time and where they can blow stuff up on the one day you can blow stuff up. OK MOM THANKS GOSH.
IT’S TOO EARLY!
I don't even have any fireworks right now but if I did, I'd light them off in your neighborhood.
You don’t need to because people are already doing it.
That's because my boys STAY standing on business.
I don’t know what that means but there are probably girls doing it too.
I hope so, lol happy fourth lady.
This sounds like a "Proud Boys" statement...
Since your new comment isn't popping up, I'll just tack on to this one again.
Never said it WAS one, just SOUNDS like one. You can't deny, that with zero context, that doesn't look like a proud boys statement ya knob. 😂
And you're right. I don't listen to rap. Because it's all the same bullshit anymore. Same with pop. All with the same fake drum kit beat because it sells. Rap and pop stopped being about music and started being 100% money about 15-ish years ago.
But, that's an elder millennial's take for ya. I still got my 90's and 00's rap, hip hop and pop mixed in with my metal lol
Hope you have a good holiday!
Jeez, talk about a long walk for a short drink. Happy fourth weirdo
It's okay to not understand humor. A give and take. You call me a bellend, I call you a knob. You jab me for not knowing rap. I jab rap...
You know, like humans do when playfully ribbing each other in good fun. :)
Happy 4th cRap enjoyer!
(The explanation was because I'm autistic and don't like gray area left open for interpretation)
Here's your upvote lol
Lol I like you. You don't take shit too seriously and understand it's in good fun. :)
If I may, what song was that earlier quote from?
It’s one day of the year, I think you’ll be ok
Except it's not. It's literally 2 weeks (one before, one after the 4th) of people lighting them off at random and at almost all hours of the night (and day right around the 4th). I love fireworks too. I got prolly around $300 to light off this year. But I'm not doing it first thing in the morning or late at night.
My dog has refused to go outside for potty before bed the past three days. We have to wait for her to calm down after fireworks die down and then take her out. I haven’t slept before 1am this whole week.
That does suck. It is also just one day. I hope you catch up on your sleep this weekend.
It is also just one day
What part of, “this whole week” did you not understand?
Oops sorry.
I was trying to be understanding.
We also have dogs that don’t love fireworks.
GET OVER IT
The Darren and Karen posts about fireworks are annoying AF.
The Darren and Karen posts about fireworks are annoying AF.
Well, you can always take your own advice and “GET OVER IT”.
I am.
I’m fine.
Not as annoying as vets or animals, or autistic people with sensory issues, all just trying to get through to morning. It's unreasonable to expect people won't light off fireworks on the 4th during normal noise hours, sure.
But when y'all are lighting them off ALL FUCKING WEEK and likely ask fucking next week, too? It IS reasonable to call those people inconsiderate assholes.
It's also reasonable to file noise ordinance complaints against every single one of you after 10:00pm and before 8am.
"GET OVER IT"
Jesus Christ when will these fireworks end.
Less annoying than fireworks at fucking midnight. One you can avoid by not reading, the other you have zero choice. Veterans with PTSD? Fuck em. Pets? Fuck them too.
National forests have a complete ban.
Those that I know with those issues go camping.
This is literally something that happens every year and is completely predictable.
Or people can be respectful of others. The ones that don't like it can show compassion and tolerate those that do want to blow things up by letting them have the One day. Those that like to blow things up can try to show compassion by not doing it for a whole week and maybe starting and stopping at a reasonable hour.
Mortars are ILLEGAL. Maybe you could be a considerate person and take you loud noise makers to a place where they wont bug babies, pets, and war vets. Stop saying selfishness is okay if you were just intending to have fun.
This would be ideal.
Nothing is more American than not caring about your neighbors
Haha sure .
Sorry you’re expecting to much from people enjoy SKY BOOMS!
I do enjoy it. Just not at ungodly early hours.
Or late
Mad Karen energy coming from this one
1:30 AM is also too early for fireworks. I never wanted to shame a person so badly. Luckily for them, tonight is my dog's last night with us, and I wasn't about to abandon him to shame some retards. I just feel horrible he had such a hellish last night, besides our best efforts. People are more inconsiderate and rude here than they ever have been before.
Probably the people who moved from California who are doing it.
Go complain on Nextdoor with the dog poop Karen's.
I did but they can barely right a coherent sentence on there.
Ironic haha write*
Yeah haha I did that on purpose…
….wriiiight….. ;)
people whine over everything and anything i swear
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You’re not the boss of me. ,!,, 😘
Yeah, but noice ordinance ends at 7...
There's no reason to be doing fireworks during the day, but if they want to blow their money they can.
Noise ordnance ends at 8am just fyi.
Are you sure it wasn't just something blowing up? Because Boise is having a really weird week. 😅
That's fair
I'd think the act of just burning a $100 bill would be more exciting than gunpowder exploding. I've seen and heard aot of gunpowder exploding in my time, folks burning stacks of money would actually be new. Same thing either way.
Cry us a river and try and use those tears to put out the fireworks... not gonna happen.
You can't even take your toys to a private area where babies, pets, and war vets won't be disturbed by it? Stop acting like you own your suburb and grow some manners.
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I was dog sitting in north end earlier and heard fireworks all week. thought coming back to my apartment would be fine, and heard fireworks through 3 am 😭 glad I don’t work today, I have a chance for a nap before the rest of the explosives go off