okmatewanker @feddit.uk ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Finally we have something in common with the Yanks

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You can definitely borrow some of our 4th of July. We have way too much as it is.
- Do they even have fireworks in the UK? I feel like you'd have some ridiculous restrictions.
  
  Then again, I'm sure Mexicans would feel that way about the US.
  
  I live in an area with a lot of Americans, so I heard fireworks on the fourth, but I also hear them for no reason on plenty of other dayd
  
  Do they even have fireworks in the UK?
  
  We do but we save them for Bonfire Night (and the weeks before and after) to commemorate the time someone nearly blew up Parliament.
  
  For normal-sized fireworks, you've just got to be at least 18 years old to buy them and not set them off between the hours of 11pm and 7am. There are much tighter restrictions for anything bigger. There's typically a lot of them set off on the 5th of November, but otherwise it's rare to see them
  
  Yes we do, mostly for Guy Fawks night. Remember remember the 5th of November.
  
  "You can only buy fireworks (including sparklers) from registered sellers for private use on these dates:
  
  15 October to 10 November
  
  26 to 31 December
  
  3 days before Diwali and Chinese New Year
  
  At other times you can only buy fireworks from licensed shops."
  
  Can't be more ridiculous than it is here in Australia. Can't buy or set off fireworks without the relevant permit/license full stop (generally limited to public events and film production), but if you purchase an adapter for your 12 gauge, along with a pack of primers, you can legally fire them from your shotgun on private property... but you'd obviously need a firearms license first.
  
  I have a shotgun. I have the fireworks, primers, and adapter. I have never had a chance to use them.
  
  Australia is such a fucking boring country to live in. No wonder we all drink so much.
Remember, Remember that the US election is on November 4th. Hopefully, no religious nutbags try to emulate Guido Fawkes because they don’t like the electoral outcome.
I don't share your confidence
- I mean, the Tories are getting binned.
  
  Like I said I don't share your confidence. Labour have this uncanny knack of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
  
  They own the media, the billionaires are all on their side, they've packed out the Lords, they've gutted and hamstrung the electoral commission and have started the gerrymandering already.
  
  I hope you're right but I feel that, somehow, they'll live on like voldermot.
  
  I understand Labor isn't meaningfully better these days.
  
  What's the chance it doesn't fail to do anything to help its constituents and then calls an election and loses in like 2 years?

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