Despite having lived here for 11 years now ...

Jul 04, 2010 23:07

... I simply have not adapted to living in a state where home fireworks are not only legal, they're completely pervasive. I have, at least, stopped freaking out at the huge tents selling them in various parking lots, not to mention the bleeping wall of them one encounters upon walking into WalMart. I have not, however, become blase enough not to ( Read more... )

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quietann July 5 2010, 04:38:11 UTC
They are still not legal in MA, and that's unlikely to change, but with NH right next door, and the big billboards that go up near the border every summer, it's not like MA residents don't know how to get ahold of fireworks.

I of course grew up in Southern California, where fireworks were banned except for professional displays, and there were a few years where the drought was so bad that the professionals were not allowed to have them, either.

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firefly124 July 5 2010, 17:19:03 UTC
Well, yeah, I remember there were always a few idiots who went up to NH for them. But damn, they're just everywhere here!

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kudilu July 5 2010, 04:53:07 UTC
no comment on the fireworks themselves (other than we've got the tents and such, but don't have them IN Walmart or gas stations), but OMG icon love!

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firefly124 July 5 2010, 17:19:33 UTC
Thanks!

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firefly124 July 5 2010, 17:21:12 UTC
Something my sister said had me wondering if they'd caved and legalized them. Huh. But yeah, that never stops the determined folk, especially considering how easy it is to go to NH, CT, or RI for them.

I'm appalled (though I shouldn't be surprised) that people could be that stupid in SoCal, given how often there are horrible fires.

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persevero July 5 2010, 07:28:41 UTC
I love them. Britain wouldn't be Britain without fireworks on Bonfire Night (however objectionable its origins) and New Year's Eve, but I completely support a ban on fireworks outside those dates, except where people have made an application to the local council in advance, for a wedding or something. We've just had the 'May Ball' season at the Cambridge colleges (inverted commas because May Balls are held in June); the balls end with fireworks in the small hours, and some people who live closer always grumble, but the colleges have permission and that is the price of living in a city whose entire history and prosperity is centred on a university. There were a good few 4th July barbecues yesterday (we even had a slightly cynical one with our Canadian best friends) but I was quite sorry not to see any fireworks.

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firefly124 July 5 2010, 17:23:44 UTC
Now see, when we were over in 2002, Bonfire Night was our first day there. I went driving around to see what fireworks there might be, but clearly I had no idea where I ought to be looking. (A sensible thing to do might've been to ask the hotel staff. *facepalm*) So I came away very confused about how much actual firework-lighting-off really happens then.

It's all what you're used to, I guess.

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firefly124 July 5 2010, 17:25:29 UTC
I didn't say it was a rational freak-out. But it definitely does still creep me out, mostly because of having grown up in a state where they are completely illegal and all you ever hear about the folks who go to neighboring states to get them is how they've blown a thumb off or something.

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