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How much $ will you spend on fireworks this 4th?
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For those of you celebrating Independence Day with your own fireworks, how much will you spend on them?
I'm spending about $300. The person hosting the party I'm attending will probably spend another $500 to $600. There will be others that will bring some too. Yeah, I know it's a bunch of money to litterally burn away but damn it's fun.
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$0. I'd rather watch other people's fireworks.
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today my wife and i went and spent $1.50 for some snaps and some snakes...pretty sweet huh..fireworks party at my house!
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"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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Being british i don't celebrate american independance day. Strange that.
I will be celebrating my mothers and my sisters birthday. Yes, they were born on the same day. Different years, obviously
I was born on the same date as my Aunty.
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0$ better to let others waste their money, doesn't mean i won't use any though
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I like those jumping jacks, they're pretty cool. They're shaped like a firecracker and have a little hole on the side. You light'em and they spin like hell and fly up into the air. They make a funny sound. This is a sentence.
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Lysdexics have more fnu.
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Fireworks are for November 5th and Hogmanay.
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Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
or am I wrog? Why can't I sig?
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Nope - don't celebrate American National Holidays - my boss won't give me the time off.
Amazed you can still buy fireworks - they were banned in Australia over 10 years ago. You can only buy them if you have a special permit.
Anyways - we get so many of the large professional events in Sydney that they have become very ho-hum.
The Millenium fireworks were great - I loved what the French did with the Eiffel Tower.
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Originally posted by simonjames:
Amazed you can still buy fireworks - they were banned in Australia over 10 years ago. You can only buy them if you have a special permit.
Those permits are easy to get. Or you can drive to the ACT and stock up on fireworks in Fyshwick.
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Awww Guy Fawkes night. That's another thing I miss about the UK. Pretending to burn people alive... Neighbours self-immolating with cheap fireworks...
Good times.
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[Indian accent]
"Celebrate your nations independance by blowing up a small part of it!"
[/Indian accent]
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Originally posted by Teronzhul:
[Indian accent]
"Celebrate your nations independance by blowing up a small part of it!"
[/Indian accent]
Good ole Apu.
Originally posted by Face Ache:
Those permits are easy to get. Or you can drive to the ACT and stock up on fireworks in Fyshwick.
I like in2fireworks myself
It's totally worth the drive to get 'em.
Ahh, Fyshwicke... Australian capital of porn and pyrotechnics.
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I'll probably just be going to watch my towns fireworks display at the local High School Stadium.
Here's an interresting question; are there specific holidays in other countries where fireworks are used?
It'd be interresting to know.
MikeM
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Originally posted by MikeM33:
I'll probably just be going to watch my towns fireworks display at the local High School Stadium.
Here's an interresting question; are there specific holidays in other countries where fireworks are used?
It'd be interresting to know.
MikeM
My town also does fireworks on Labor Day, because that's when the town festival carnival thingie is. Fireworks are illegal in Illinois though, and it's real tough to smuggle them in. For the most part, only the fire depts. are able to set off fireworks. A few years ago a fireman in my town was injured by one that exploded on the ground, actually. Not a fun show.
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Originally posted by simonjames:
Amazed you can still buy fireworks - they were banned in Australia over 10 years ago. You can only buy them if you have a special permit.
I am too.
A local paper ran a campaign to get air weapons banned. Yet, I could go into a shop, buy fireworks and do a lot more damage by lighting and throwing one at a person. Or into a building. Stupid.
If they made grenades explode with pretty colours and wooshing sounds, do you think they'd be legal to buy?
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Originally posted by :XI::
If they made grenades explode with pretty colours and wooshing sounds, do you think they'd be legal to buy?
They already have grenades fireworks I thought?
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Originally posted by MikeM33:
Here's an interresting question; are there specific holidays in other countries where fireworks are used?
It'd be interresting to know.
MikeM
I don't know but maybe this episode of NOVA on PBS about the history of fireworks will have some more info.
I know Mexicans like to use fireworks in some of thier celebrations. Some of the Vietnamese guys I work with are really into them. They do crazy stuff like lighting long strings of firecrackers and running up and down the street swinging them around their head.
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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Originally posted by philzilla:
Price: $299.99
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$0, have no interest in purchasing fireworks. I much prefer to watch them on TV. CBS will be carrying the POP's concert from the Esplande in Boston, 1812 Overture accomanied with church bells and military cannons, and a finale of fireworks from the Charles.
I do remember living in Nebraska, it was legal to purchase certain kinds of fireworks. A neighbor kid of ours set them off, he was 18 at the time.
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Zippo. I'll be watching the fireworks on the national mall from a balcony overlooking the Old Executive Office Building and the White House.
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