[zamalek]

I loved playing with fireworks as a kid, and surprisingly have all appendages and senses intact, I even considered pyro as a job - so I definitely get the appeal.

I just think it's time that we left it to the professionals. Unless you are engaging in science or physics, I don't see the value in letting them off yourself.

~~It's also weird that America's birthday is celebrated using a Chinese invention.~~ Edit: bad point, I stand corrected.

[afavour]

> It's also weird that America's birthday is celebrated using a Chinese invention.

Not really. America is an amalgamation of all the countries and cultures that emigrated to it. It’s one of the best things about it.

[dullcrisp]

That’s such a strange thing to say. Should we only use things invented in the last 300 years on the 4th of July?

[netsharc]

Now I wonder who invented wheat, or sugar (used to make cake)?

Also hotdogs are made with Wiener sausages, which are from...

[craftkiller]

> Now I wonder who invented [...] sugar (used to make cake)?

If you're talking about the refined product, then India. If you're talking about the plant, then New Guinea and Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar

[onionisafruit]

beef or pork if you’re lucky

[dh2022]

In the production of these hotdogs no animals were harmed!

[Isamu]

I tried tofu dogs for the first time on the grill, they were pretty good.

[RALaBarge]

I highly recommend the ground tofu for taco's, you would never know they are meatless.

[davrosthedalek]

Das Auge ist (man) mit.

[dnautics]

Austria! nothing bad came from Austria

[hi_hi]

The people of Frankfurt would like to have a word!

[echelon]

No more using the English language, either.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

You mean since it was invented by Indians, Germans and the French?

[tmtvl]

And introduced by the English, instead of being properly American like Navajo or Lakota or such.

[stevage]

You literally just explained the value.

[buu700]

https://youtu.be/YPX__g3LpUY?t=9

[consensus1]

Fell free to leave it to the professionals then. That has always been your right.

[lotu]

Maybe leaving it to professionals would make more sense, but the majority of people aren’t in favor of it. I’m not even in favor of it and I had a couple fireworks bursting right outside my balcony last night. I was on the balcony and a ducked, though I would have been fine if I didn’t. Maybe require a brief safety training before purchasing? I’m not sure exactly what is going to reduce stupid behavior with explosives.

[greenavocado]

> I just think it's time that we left it to the professionals.

Pulling up the ladder behind you, eh? So nice of you to think of the children.

[zamalek]

Yes, because what I was doing was objectively dangerous. Dueling used to be a commonly accepted practice, yes even killing - pity that ladder was pulled up! What about the children's chemistry sets that included uranium, mercury, and cyanide?

[antonvs]

The uranium wasn’t really dangerous, unless you swallowed it. Common U-238 has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, so it’s not actually very radioactive. The most dangerous thing about it is its toxicity as a heavy metal, but plenty of other elements of a chemistry set are at least as dangerous.

[greenavocado]

Yeah I played with those sets with my dad.

[AngryData]

I think consensual duels should still be legal. Numerous states have laws about mutual combat where it is perfectly legal to beat the fuck out of each other.

[cgyvbunji]

Fireworks for me, but not for thee.