2026 Off-Topic Chat Thread

[My Tilly]

Be funny if he wasn't already a millionaire

 

[cats_09]

 

[cats_09]

 

[winty]

 

[Spearman]

 

[Spearman]

kind of makes me think of when the AFL decides to change something without thinking through the consequences


OTOH I'd like to know where they got those works. I used to drive out to a tribal reservation where they were regulated for fireworks. I usually got one that was a 2 inch diameter cylinder with ten mortar bombs. They would go up quite high and make a display worthy pattern in different colors. Of course on the side of the cylinder it said "Safe and Sane" lol

 

[Braklet]

OTOH I'd like to know where they got those works.

Mexico is my guess. Synopsis of the various US rules: Looking for Fourth of July fireworks? Make sure you know these state laws

 

[Spearman]

Mexico is my guess. Synopsis of the various US rules: Looking for Fourth of July fireworks? Make sure you know these state laws

Might be, probably get good stuff over the border.
In Washington state, where I grew up, the regular fireworks were very tame. Bottle rockets and whizzers being the most extreme. But Indian reservations are exempt from a lot of local statutes, fireworks, gambling, taxes, salmon fishing to name a few. Oh yeah, we knew where to get the good stuff.
Looking at that link, bottle rockets are not allowed anymore. I've been gone 30 years from WA so things have changed a bit. We used to have bottle rocket wars as teenagers.
In Taiwan, where I am now, they've cracked down on them a lot. Too many idiots that caused fires, injuries, and damage. They have even less common sense than Americans.
But they do know how to party with bottle rockets - I give you the Beehive Festival
fun really starts at 1:00

 

[cats_09]

 

[Braklet]

In Washington state, where I grew up, the regular fireworks were very tame. Bottle rockets and whizzers being the most extreme. But Indian reservations are exempt from a lot of local statutes, fireworks, gambling, taxes, salmon fishing to name a few. Oh yeah, we knew where to get the good stuff.

In Taiwan, where I am now, they've cracked down on them a lot. Too many idiots that caused fires, injuries, and damage. They have even less common sense than Americans.

Minneapolis is apparently having some fireworks problems... (warning, bad language)



I grew up in California, consumer fireworks there are very limited and in many locales, completely illegal. But there is a steady stream of stuff coming up from Mexico.

Interestingly enough, the large and longstanding Chinese-American community across the US West Coast seems to get some leeway regarding local fireworks regulations, as they blow off literally millions of otherwise illegal firecrackers every Lunar New Year.

In college, we'd occasionally travel to South Carolina, where firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles and bigger stick rockets were legal (not any more though). Our subsequent bottle rocket and Roman candle wars were epic.

 

[Braklet]

Denise 🤌🐾🙏🏼🎶👩🏻‍🌾🧑🏻‍🍳🎣 (@NoDMsPerfavore)

What’s going on here?

nitter.net

 

[Spearman]

Minneapolis is apparently having some fireworks problems... (warning, bad language)



I grew up in California, consumer fireworks there are very limited and in many locales, completely illegal. But there is a steady stream of stuff coming up from Mexico.

Interestingly enough, the large and longstanding Chinese-American community across the US West Coast seems to get some leeway regarding local fireworks regulations, as they blow off literally millions of otherwise illegal firecrackers every Lunar New Year.

In college, we'd occasionally travel to South Carolina, where firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles and bigger stick rockets were legal (not any more though). Our subsequent bottle rocket and Roman candle wars were epic.

that video looks like an outtake from Black Hawk Down
that was an amazing shooter he had in the car, never saw one like that.

 

[winty]

that video looks like an outtake from Black Hawk Down
that was an amazing shooter he had in the car, never saw one like that.

I thought it looked more like an outtake from The Purge.

 

[winty]

Who's cutting onions?

 

[winty]

 

[cats_09]

And now Coles is defending Woolies

 

[cats_09]

Not sure what's better - this account or those freaking out in response to this account

 

[cats_09]

 

[FredLeDeux]

It's not infinite

 

[cats_09]

 

[winty]

 

[GeelongFTW]

On r/pics they posted that JWT image but marked it with [OC] for original content.I was about to clown them when I noticed it was the official NASA reddit account. Biggest flex of all time.

 

[winty]

Wow.

 

[Kram]

Like how despite all the magnificent tech advances we have had in the last 20 years any 'UFO' pic/video is still the same fuzzy crap.

 

[cats_09]