Anyone here will/have done this? ( I did in Hawaii many years ago, and ) . I have not done this recently but expect hear something in 15 minutes or so.
Have never done it and probably never will, but some of them are going off around Danshui right now. But is it particularly a midnight thing? I thought, unlike January 1, any time of night was fine.
You didnât happen to be doing this in Hawaii new yearâs, oh, 1978 or so? My parents would like a word with whoever kept their children awake and scared all night, to the extent that the hotel balcony was covered with the little red explosive leftovers the next morning. Weâve always thought it was the entire city of Honolulu, but if we can blame one person, we will.
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fireworks going crazy. I have nothing to set off so I canât join in the fun.
Usually if I hear this my counter is set off bigger stuff. 4" shells, huge cakes, etc. (which is not legal in Taiwan but people who knows people somehow manage to get them). Penalty is probably light because police canât do anything about fireworks. Itâs fire department who deals with it.
Itâs not fun when you have young children trying to sleep, dogs who canât handle the loudness and neighbors who think they are starting WWIII.
The crazy loud m9s have been going off non stop for an hour now.
Combined with bottle rockets every minute.
I hate this holiday.
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Same here. The cats are going nuts.
There was karaoke mixed with some kind of opera/gospel singing/yodeling going on too.
At least the bang bang noises here are fireworks/firecrackers, not gun shots.
Oh and I forgot the smell: I am traumatized by fire and there is this burning stench all over. Dunno if it is from midnight baibai or the friggin explosives.
I always find them quite moderate here. I can hear a few going off (Gongguan/Hakka Park area) but nothing too troublesome.
I remember my first CNY in China though, that sounded like a movie about the first world war.
They were letting off heaps here at 01:30 yesterday in the pouring rain. Last night seemed to have less - maybe they had run out.
It stopped at about 2am where I am.
Now morning m9s are being set off. That started at about 6am.
I was at my boyfriendâs house Tuesday and Wednesday and we heard firecrackers/fireworks through the day and night. Occasionally he counted off âä¸çžăĺ Šçžăä¸çžâŚâ with each explosion. I asked him what that was for, expecting some deep meaning. He sighed and rolled his eyes, âThatâs how much money theyâre blowing with each explosion.â Haha, I love his practicality.
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In the elite Minsheng community there were zero fire crackers. Kinda disappointing.
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Fireworks or firecrackers?
I donât mind fireworks. At least you can enjoy watching those light up the sky.
But firecrackers are just annoyingly loud explosions.
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My cats donât mind the big ones that go BOOM. What freaks them out it the little ones that go rat-a-tat and the cheap bottle rockets that scream like the undead on crack.
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Any nice homes for rent nearby?
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Yeah, there arenât many pretty ones. Just loud.
When I watch people setting them off they donât seem to be enjoying themselves either. They just look blank and going through the motions like burning ghost money.
Yeah, I was in a high-rise in Nanjing in 1967- good view of the whole city. Youâd have thought there was an invasion.
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Why Mid-Autumn Festival is the only holiday I enjoy- no firecrackers!
Nothing cheap 
1967? 54 years ago wow, a really long time ago.
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the_bear has come out of hibernation! 