Didn't help my dog but this thing really worked for my mothers Labrador. Went from shaking in fear at every bang to sleeping peacefully, it can work wonders. They are worth a try
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Can people shove up fireworks up their ass?
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Didn't help my dog but this thing really worked for my mothers Labrador. Went from shaking in fear at every bang to sleeping peacefully, it can work wonders. They are worth a try
There are people saying that other's lighting off fireworks at 2-3 am are fine and you should just accept it. Well, that is illegal in almost every major city. I apologize if we were in agreement and you think that is also unacceptable. It might be we were just talking past eachother.
I hate hate fireworks. I've always hated fireworks. I literally have panic attacks when I hear them, without fail even when I'm wearing earplugs. I used to get dragged to firework shows as a kid, I would clamp my hands on my ears sit with my head between my legs to minimize the effect it had on me, but it never really worked well. Also when I was a kid there are hella pictures of me with my hands clamped over my ears because I was terrified of all flashes of light.
Street fireworks are cool if they aim it right and done before midnight. Like watching them from my window.
Because our tax dollars are wasted on these elaborate fireworks displays that are completely forgotten the very next day.
I feel bad for people who live in countries where fireworks are legal and have to put up with people setting them off in the streets. Thank god they're banned in Australia.
I'm 33 and still like fireworks. The stuff they sell these days is for babies anyway. In the early 90s we had huge bombs and shit, then they banned them in Finland sigh..
Who doesn't like fireworks?
But to be fair, it's more fun to light them off than to watch them in a show.
But to be fair, it's more fun to light them off than to watch them in a show.
Me likey big boom, it loud and flashy! I've seen assholes throw these "huge bombs" at stray cats for fun, so fuck that shit.
Are those hats in-game? Lol
Also, that sticker placement on demoman...
I am well past the age of liking it as well, but with no recourse from it.
Holiday vacation are really expensive for a reason, I guess.
Holiday vacation are really expensive for a reason, I guess.
Missing the giveaway line "Were Catholic' that makes it more flippant. Cut that way just seems like someone took the picture seriously, but didn't like to look like they were celebrating 16th century Catholicism.
One of my cats has been hiding under the couch for the past hour and the other spend fifteen minutes running from one side of the apartment to the other, unable to find a comfortable safe space since the banging is on both sides. I couldn't do anything to calm her, I felt so bad for the little thing.
On a personal level I don't think I've ever really enjoyed fireworks, even as a kid they were only mildly interesting to me. By the time I was a teenager I had already started hating the month of December being filled with my peers setting off heavy fireworks they purchased in Belgium that were long banned in The Netherlands. It went bang, big whoop. Seemed like a waste of money to me. Destroying property was -and remains ever more so- the secondary use and that is pretty much the reason I feel fireworks for consumer use should be a thing of the past soon. If not for that, then at the very least to stop the many deaths and (self-inflicted) injuries they cause each year.
I'm all for a big fireworks show to replace the current system, cheaper, prettier, and above all, much safer.
On a personal level I don't think I've ever really enjoyed fireworks, even as a kid they were only mildly interesting to me. By the time I was a teenager I had already started hating the month of December being filled with my peers setting off heavy fireworks they purchased in Belgium that were long banned in The Netherlands. It went bang, big whoop. Seemed like a waste of money to me. Destroying property was -and remains ever more so- the secondary use and that is pretty much the reason I feel fireworks for consumer use should be a thing of the past soon. If not for that, then at the very least to stop the many deaths and (self-inflicted) injuries they cause each year.
I'm all for a big fireworks show to replace the current system, cheaper, prettier, and above all, much safer.
I'm with the OP. My sleeping one year old has just been woken up to a gang of fuckwits setting off fireworks in the street between parked cars. It looks and sounds like a war zone here (town in the south east, UK). Had to call the police it was getting that bad.
Great start to the new year. :-/ So yeah, fuck fireworks if they're not properly organised public displays and even then, would be more than happy to go without.
Great start to the new year. :-/ So yeah, fuck fireworks if they're not properly organised public displays and even then, would be more than happy to go without.
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Jesus fucking christ. Never thought I'd see the day where people think they're above everyone because they don't like fireworks and that anyone that does is a caveman.
Get the fuck off your high horse.
I don't think empathy needs to go "both ways". It's literally 2 or 3 nights in an entire year. You have 362 days of peace otherwise, so complaining about it seems really short-sighted.
dont worry nothing will get resolved out of this and we will have the same thread next year lmao
My dad had a lunatic friend in the 70's who used to drive around on a motorcycle lighting firecrackers off his joint, and he straight blew his fingers off. I also know a kid who accidentally set a decent-sized forest fire with a bottle rocket.
Big professional shows can be cool enough to offset how obnoxious fireworks are, but I never want to be around some rando lighting off cheap fireworks again. I can't count how many times I've watched someone light one and immediately panic and point it at people, or knock it over trying to get away. My own uncle got drunk and shot a decent-sized rocket between me and my cousin, and I felt that motherfucker graze my hair on the way by.
I also think amateur fireworks are probably the biggest hassle to animals because you end up with people randomly blowing them up for like a month after the holiday, depending on where you live.
Big professional shows can be cool enough to offset how obnoxious fireworks are, but I never want to be around some rando lighting off cheap fireworks again. I can't count how many times I've watched someone light one and immediately panic and point it at people, or knock it over trying to get away. My own uncle got drunk and shot a decent-sized rocket between me and my cousin, and I felt that motherfucker graze my hair on the way by.
I also think amateur fireworks are probably the biggest hassle to animals because you end up with people randomly blowing them up for like a month after the holiday, depending on where you live.
I mean empathy as in when you engage a poster in this forum when replying / responding.
Theoretically, the Purge is also a single night of a year. That would theoretically suck for anyone that got murdered on that day.
Annoyances being shush-material just because they only exist on a few days is some stupid shit.
Also, nobody looks at fireworks on NYE and says "Oh God, this is the rest of my life now. What hath god wrought? How can I repent!?" It's not short-sighted, it's very specifically sighted. The people's reactions aren't the problem; the pets' reactions are.
Super edit because I missed the OP amongst everything else: this is the most Darwinian shit. If you want to light fireworks near to and possibly partially within your body, have fun with whatever stupid injury you inflict upon yourself, dipshit.
It doesn't matter what time of the year it is, sticking explosives of any size up your ass is something doctors look down on.
But then, medical professionals also would recommend against firing metal off into each others' bodies, but America gonna America. Y'all can't be expected to make smart decisions on your own.
Nice stealth bash America comment. And I feel that you and I are talking about two separate things. But carry on I look forward to lighting fireworks with my family shortly.
Okay, have fun. Just make sure that anyone who lights them moves away before they go off. Those mofos blow the eff up immediately sometimes.
And don't put them in your butt. Hopefully that should be self-evident.
(The America bash wasn't stealth)
Thank you for your concern. I don't let my kids light them as you're right, they can be very dangerous. And like you said they can go off immediately sometimes, that's why right when I light them I run away.
Combination freezing cold and heavy winds mean no one is lighting any fireworks off! 2018 off to a great start!
No, I compared sticking fireworks up one own's ass to the Purge. If that isn't self-enforced Purgism, I don't fucking know what is, you know, aside from darwinism. I did that mostly because the idea that I got from the timing of previous posts could be summarized as "lol fuck your pets its only a couple nights a year" as though only a couple nights of the year presenting weird terror to an animal that doesn't understand is okay just because it's only a couple. (Also there was a not subtle undercurrent of attacking previously-presented American exceptionalism which the Purge also does [in its own kinda bad way], so I was doing a silly thing two-fold there).
Fireworks themselves are fine. If you want to attempt to blow them up as relatively safely as you can away from pets and small children that may not understand what the fuck the loud bangs are, be my guest. Have fun. Happy New Year
Edit: ^^ Those are very good/bad gifs. Never saw the one of the Arrested Dog before. Saving that shit
Some jerks around here start doing fireworks in June and don't stop until August. Randomly throughout the day and night. One of my sister's neighbors lost their house and cats last summer because of a stray firework from some assholes across the street from them. I wish they were regulated. It's after 1am and I just heard some more. My dog is a wreck. Ugh.
If people did it on New Years and July 4th exclusively, it wouldn't be a problem. The real issue is that these assholes start on Christmas and shoot them off until February, and then they start again in June through August. As it stands, I can't sleep with my windows open during the coolest week of the year, and that's fucked.
