When did Christmas become a fireworks holiday?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - When did Christmas become a fireworks holiday?

Posted: 12/27/2008 9:55:53 AM EDT

Wife and I spent Christmas night at her parents house in Tampa.

There were fireworks going off all over the neighborhood until at least midnight.

Posted: 12/27/2008 9:56:59 AM EDT

[#1]

when you moved to america...what kind of dumb question is this?

Posted: 12/27/2008 9:58:23 AM EDT

[#2]

Because there is nothing more fun than lighting twenty dollars and watching it explode. You're into guns, you should know how fun the money to noise conversion is.

Posted: 12/27/2008 9:59:01 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
when you moved to america...what kind of dumb question is this?

I don't recall fireworks during Christmas growing up, now it seems to becoming a regular thing.

Posted: 12/27/2008 9:59:35 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Quoted:
when you moved to america...what kind of dumb question is this?

I don't recall fireworks during Christmas growing up, now it seems to becoming a regular thing.

it was a joke dude...

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:46:31 AM EDT

[#5]

Fireworks are always fun.

why do you care when other people use them?

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:47:16 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Fireworks are always fun.

why do you care when other people use them?

Did I say I care?

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:54:05 AM EDT

[#7]

when it became my job to pick up the mess they made

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:57:27 AM EDT

[#8]

We have a lot of Japanese guys in town for a big project my company is doing for a Japanese car maker.

One of our engineers asked them if they were planning to celebrate over the Christmas/New-Years holiday by drinking sake and shooting fireworks. Mr. Suave, there.

They said no, they would be praying and going to temple.

I didn't even know the Japanese were Jewish. Go figure.

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:58:53 AM EDT

[#9]

I cleaned up a large fireworks mess at my public shooting range (down at the river) on the 26th.

I usually just have to pick up boxes.

I always pick up the brass

Posted: 12/27/2008 11:59:57 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Fireworks are always fun.

why do you care when other people use them?

Did I say I care?

My bad.

The post made it seem like it bothered you

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:00:50 PM EDT

[#11]

As long as they celebrate the holiday, who gives a shit? (not implying the OP does)

The celebration of Christmas has evolved over the years. If it now includes fireworks, more power to them.

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:02:05 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
We have a lot of Japanese guys in town for a big project my company is doing for a Japanese car maker.

One of our engineers asked them if they were planning to celebrate over the Christmas/New-Years holiday by drinking sake and shooting fireworks. Mr. Suave, there.

They said no, they would be praying and going to temple.

I didn't even know the Japanese were Jewish. Go figure.

i lol'd.

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:06:51 PM EDT

[#13]

Pagans. Think the world is ending because the days are getting shorter.

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:49:41 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Pagans. Think the world is ending because the days are getting shorter.

I am not very religious, but I guess Easter and Mothers Day will be a fireworks day soon too.

Time to invest in a fireworks retailer.

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:50:29 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Pagans. Think the world is ending because the days are getting shorter.

I am not very religious, but I guess Easter and Mothers Day will be a fireworks day soon too.

You gonna howl at every full moon?

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:51:42 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Pagans. Think the world is ending because the days are getting shorter.

I am not very religious, but I guess Easter and Mothers Day will be a fireworks day soon too.

You gonna howl at every full moon?

No, I know from your posts you are religious, I respect that.

Posted: 12/27/2008 12:52:29 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
when you moved to america...what kind of dumb question is this?

I don't recall fireworks during Christmas growing up, now it seems to becoming a regular thing.

Same over here…

Posted: 12/27/2008 1:15:03 PM EDT

[#18]

When I lived in Tampa I had a neighbor that would dump his mortgage payment into fireworks a couple of times a year.

I usually ran the sprinklers a couple of hours beforehand just to keep from going up in smoke.

I think the last time he did this he & his wife ended up on Judge Judy. Apparently their rockets shot across the back yards into the screened patio of a neighbor and scared the shit out of the wife & her little doggie.

Funniest Judge Judy I've ever been forced to watch. And yes, he lost the case

Posted: 12/27/2008 2:09:25 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
When I lived in Tampa I had a neighbor that would dump his mortgage payment into fireworks a couple of times a year.

I usually ran the sprinklers a couple of hours beforehand just to keep from going up in smoke.

I think the last time he did this he & his wife ended up on Judge Judy. Apparently their rockets shot across the back yards into the screened patio of a neighbor and scared the shit out of the wife & her little doggie.

Funniest Judge Judy I've ever been forced to watch. And yes, he lost the case

I remember that episode, FIL watches the judge shows all afternoon when we are there.

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