Not sure if it was here or on another sub about people doing stupid things, but I once came across a video of a pedestrian getting ran over by a semi. Right under the wheels...
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Not saying you are! But i do find it a little bit detached to call the things you see here lighthearted. I mean even the accepted stuff is often people getting hurt or in great chance of getting hurt.
I saw a video from last week of a dude with some sort of firework. It was a tube open at both ends and youāre supposed to put one end on the ground to block it and give the payload something to push against to get in the air.
The guy decided it needed another 7 feet of altitude, so he holds it above his head and covers the end of the firework with his hand. The only words spoken in the video were in the last 3 seconds as the screen is completely filled with smoke: āMY HAND IS GONEā.
Cut to a photo of the aftermath and the stuff that used to be his hand looks like someone tried to mash a bunch of half chewed twizzlers into a tailpipe
I think she had the firework upside-down. It looks like its one of those tubes that fires out three or four small rockets and she set it up like it was a bottle rocket.
Could be worse. Had one go off in my minivan full of people back in the day. There was unfortunately a true jackass with us that set it off thinking it would be funny. Itās a miracle the firecracker found the open window and no one got hurt.
Firecrackers are a specific and very common kind of firework. I had the same confusion as the other guy. Firecrackers are those stupid little red ones that just make loud noises... And that's about it lol
They look like these, though usually they're smaller and you light it once and a whole bunch of them go off. They're the most basic of fireworks
I expected them to touch it and explode while repositioning it, if it was a firecracker. If it was what could go wrong while lighting a roman candle /firework I 100% would have expected it to be pointed in the wrong direction.
I mean no disrespect here, but have you not been on the internet before? People not understanding fireworks is just a thing.
I get how it's not entirely her fault... But... You don't just guess with explosives. As someone that is American that had a lot of fun with fireworks and using them in ways they weren't intended. Fun fact: if you do it right, they look so cool if you time it right and make it explode in a shallow creek...
Considering the post is titled firecracker I would expect then to be lighting something similar to a firecracker that explodes, as the viewer we don't see it's not a firecracker until the final frame when it's revealed it's a firework. That's why I'm saying it's unexpected.
I mean, I guess that's fair...but... Again, I'm not trying to be mean here. The OP explained the reason already. It's a translation issue. We solved that already in this thread.
I was also confused and I explained to OP that fireworks have different names.
Again though, I'm still curious if other languages have different names for fireworks. I 100% expect that to be a thing in every single dialect of Chinese though TBH
Back in the 80s/90s you could get m-80s and they did not just go āpopā. They were basically little sticks of dynamite and you could blow shit up with them for real. Super dangerous, but yeah, that is what a firecracker is to me. Fireworks are pretty and sparkly, not just āthing goes bangā Ā
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I put the stick end of bottle rockets in my mouth after I light them like a cigarette and then launch them off of my face. Literally nothing bad happens. This girl's kinda dumb like me but what she's doing here is nowhere near as dangerous as what some here seem to believe.
This reminds me of the year we had a Dutch guy visiting for July 4th and he LOVED fireworks. Everyone was drunker than Cooter Brown that night and I am still very grateful that none of us needed to go to the ER.
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