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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.

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> 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.

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

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

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

> 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

beef or pork if you’re lucky

In the production of these hotdogs no animals were harmed!

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

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

Das Auge ist (man) mit.

Austria! nothing bad came from Austria

The people of Frankfurt would like to have a word!

No more using the English language, either.

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

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

You literally just explained the value.

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

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

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.

> 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.

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?

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.

Yeah I played with those sets with my dad.

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.

Fireworks for me, but not for thee.

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