Unless your goal is to set off car alarms, scare people’s pets, and upset veterans who have ptsd. Then, they are amazing. Equally amazing for signalling you are an inconsiderate dick. Other people don’t want to see or listen to your display of insecurity and lack of self satisfaction. Want to see the flashy boom boom in the sky? Go to fucking disney world. Otherwise, leave the other 99% of us alone.
Do you live somewhere where fireworks are only set off on specific days? I had asshole launching fireworks in NYC all the time
Someone launched fireworks a week ago in our neighbourhood. Why? A birthday? Who knows. It wasn’t any holiday nor a weekend. How exactly does one plan for that? And it wasn’t a single bear bang, it went on for 10-15mins. Nor was it that unusual. People seem to have fireworks displays at random throughout the year - any month, any day of the week. Some are even too early for it to be dark enough out to see them well so they are just a bunch of noise. I don’t mind the scripted displays on Halloween night, NYE, and July 1st but we don’t need all the amateur in between ones.
Exactly, there are tons of people whojust set fireworks off at different times. This isn’t something you can plan for.
I live in DFW, in Texas. They’re pretty big on fireworks here. I live about a mile from the city limits of my suburb. Once you’re in the county people are able to set them off all they want. I also have two dogs. When I hear people whining about this, it really makes me chuckle.
4th of July is on the 4th of July every year. You have about 3 months from right now to figure it out. Go get ear plugs, medicine from your vet, a weighted blanket, or whatever right now.
I don’t tend to get very many random fireworks, or I don’t notice them. I am able to hear the local gun ranges though when the wind is blowing the right direction. It’s just not a big deal, regardless. It’s just noise.
It wasn’t just noise to my buddy Christian who did two tours in Iraq. He slept outside the last liquor store I managed because while he could live in his sister’s house his PTSD almost caused him to harm a neighbor’s kid when they set off an M-80.
You think it’s just noise because to you it is. To the guy with PTSD it’s not noise it puts them back into the war.
You find it a habit to use your buddy’s problems for your benefit?
My parents are both Air Force vets, my brother in law and cousin are both combat marines deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Cousin was a Purple Heart recipient who was caught up in an IED attack. Another cousin is army. My best bud is currently a marine pilot. Another best friend of mine is a marine reservist. They all enjoy fireworks.
PTSD sucks. Your friend needs treatment. If he’s set off by noise, the fix isn’t to ban noise. That’s never going to happen. Cars will backfire, Champaign corks will pop, TVs will play gun noises, and fireworks will continue.
What is your problem? How dod you think that was an appropriate response in any way?
I provided an example of my friend to demonstrate how fireworks can negatively impact people in ways you might not have seen.
Setting aside you are doing the sane thing you accused me of you don’t mention anyone having PTSD from airstrikes. Maybe they like fireworks because they don’t have PTSD.
I thought I was pretty clear. I think calling out your friend by name as an anecdote to back some point in an internet argument is a shitty thing to do. PTSD was already brought up in this thread, but for some reason you felt the need to pull Christian into it? Gross.
Yes, I did the exact same thing to show how fucking stupid this line of reasoning is. There are so many vets who love fireworks, why does Christian get to keep them from that? Stop using veterans as pawns in your arguments, it’s disgusting.
If you think the needs of veterans with PTSD are worth banning all fireworks, just say that and be done with it.
Which wasn’t what I was doing. I was trying to provide a real world example of what PTSD looks like since you don’t seem to get it. I was trying o humanize the problem and you seem to lack the empathy and compassion to understand this.
The fact you brought up your supposed connections to service members to “score a point” when they don’t have PTSD is weird, hypocritical, and gross.
You need to work on your compassion because you clearly lack it.
No, you’re doing this bullshit where either I agree with you or I don’t “support the vets”, straight out of the Republican playbook. It’s a gross tactic to use. Make your argument without bringing someone else’s personal struggles into this. If you think your vet buddy is more important than mine, say that with your chest.
No, again I was trying to provide a real example of how PTSD impacts people. You seem to not get how PTSD works. I was trying to show you an example if what that looked like unfortunately you decided that this was a moral pissing match which it wasn’t.
Your reaction was immature and inappropriate.