Personally I kind of dislike how they’re used in the west. Peak individualism. Everyone goes out and wastes a bunch of money so they can compare economical dick sized with their neighbours in a pointless competition. The novelty is gone after the third boom, and it looks like shit, because nothing is coordinated.

I wish fireworks were only allowed to be used by professionals, and there was a tradition that each neighbourhood pooled its’ money together in order to hire someone to come and do a cool show instead. And then give the kids some tiny bombs so they can run off and have fun with that. But none of the rockets or anything.

How about you?

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I used to like fireworks but now it’s just every major holiday I go “welp, I wonder if they’re going to shoot off fireworks and scare the shit out of my cat tonight”

    My little cat gets SO scared. She hears a boom and even if it’s not audible to me, she’s alert and agitated. She hears a second one and she gets low to the ground and starts to army crawl around, tail down, looking for a place to hide. She’ll get under the sink, or in a corner behind the trashcan, or between an open door and the wall, and just press her face into the corner as hard as she can, like she’s trying to phase into the wall.

    Nothing I do comforts her. Honestly it probably just scares her more. I’ll try to sit in there with her and make soothing noises and pet her and just generally show her that Im there and she’s safe and I’m not scared. But it doesn’t matter, she’ll squirm away from me and back into her corner or wherever.

    So yeah I fucking hate that. I’m never going to buy fireworks again because I know she’s not the only animal who gets so scared from it and they don’t deserve this shit. I sit around scared of nuclear war but every time some asshole shoots off fireworks for all they know the bombs really are dropping.

    Also last night a fucking cop parked in front of our house from like 12:12-12:30 and it’s like, the fireworks were clearly being shot up on the next street over, why the fuck are you sitting in front of our house? I wanted to go out there and be like yeah, can i ffucking help you? but obviously don’t want to start shit with a cop

    P.s. my fat cat doesn’t give a single SHIT about fireworks. While i was trying to comfort the little one, she immediately jumped up from her nap to steal the other cats food >:[