I lost my love of fireworks after moving to LA. People fire them at the most random times, and after big holidays like Fourth of July you can literally measure the decline in air quality. It's the equivalent of a nearby forest fire.
I have to admit they're a lot less fun when you're sober, but my kids still love to do them so we always pop off smaller stuff on new years' and the 4th if we're in town for that -- if we're at the lake, they don't allow them and give out crazy expensive tickets I just wish people would do them all at once and not keep doing them every night for the following week. Maybe them getting more expensive will price some people out of that crap? The dude in front of me decided against the big roll of black cats when he found out it was over $100. Ammo is literally cheaper per shot now than most fireworks like bottle rockets, even those tiny ones.
If it's anything like San Francisco... It is freaking AWESOME. You can almost see the entire city from the inlaw's house and the NYE "show" started around dusk and went well into the night. I fell asleep around 1:30am and it was still going strong.
I flew into LAX on July 4th once, and I do admit it was pretty cool feeling like you were dodging AA fire on a bombing run over Dresden.
A few years ago we were in LA on the 4th. We went to a Dodgers game with fireworks afterward. Walking back to the car the view of all of the fireworks displays across the city, public and private, was incredible.
Out in the country around this time we play a fun game called “is that fireworks or is that someone shooting?” after a while you get pretty good at identifying distance and caliber just by sound, but the hills can distort it a bit
I missed it if anybody posted it here already, but the latest Waffle House fight features Waffle House Girl, with people urging Dana White to sign her up for a UFC match. She took on 5 people at one point, threw some tasty punches, and deflected/caught a metal chair like no big deal. Video, if you haven't seen it: https://twitter.com/rbaylor_74/status/1606059774130278400?s=20&t=hxdSasIo3MITM9l2FkGEBA And, the remix: https://twitter.com/TonyPeric/status/1607831972209983490?s=20&t=hxdSasIo3MITM9l2FkGEBA
I just heard someone in this pub say "drink my dick off." Has anyone here ever drank their dick off? How'd that go?
So, this is fucking hilarious... almost worthy of a Darwin award. Andrew Tate... I don't know who the fuck he is, but he seems to be everywhere the last few days, in all the feeds. He's an annoying piece of shit. He tried talking shit to Greta, and failed. Hell, he more than failed... he doxxed himself. Apparently the dude has been in semi-hiding in Romania to try and stay away from some human trafficking shit, but nobody really knew where he was. Until he talked shit to Greta... and the video he posted had a pizza box in it.... that showed the Romanian police exactly where he was. So they just arrested him. Fucking loser. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...w_tate_getting_arrested_in_human_trafficking/
he became "famous" for being on Big Brother, then subsequently kicked off, when a video surfaced of him beating the shit out of a woman. Since then he's become an "influencer" who's basically one of those far-right assholes who just talks shit about women and says things to get a rise out of people. It gets him views which makes him money, but it's also gotten him kicked off platforms for periods of time. I could be slightly off about a few things, but that's the gist of it
Just in case any of y'all were wondering, Andrew Tate's whole persona is EXACTLY like a bunch of guys I met in prison.
Who he is, is someone who figured out the algorithm and became famous by saying the same things Patrice O’Neill said fifteen years ago, but not in a funny or charismatic way.