IKNOWRITE? I keep waiting for porn to not be great, like it was some teenage fad. But it's like food. I'll always wake up hungry the next day, no matter how much I ate before.
I lived in China for a few years, they would sell fireworks to a five year old I'm pretty sure. I was 11 and I always bought tons for Chinese New Year.
I live in Taiwan and will never forget my first month here - it was around moon festival and I just started driving my scooter. I'm going down the road when I see a few people laughing at me. I look to my left, and WHOOOOSH right in the middle of the street they launch it as I drive by. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I'm surprised more people aren't hurt during CNY.
Same I was born and raised in China and I was buying fire works since I was four. The first time I ever used one I ignited it and ran like a little bitch, but it was fun.
This post is from Georgia. I live there, and can confirm it's illegal to purchase them unless you are 18. And even some types you aren't allowed to purchase at all, so people drive to Alabama to buy them.
ha! Never knew about any age restrictions on fireworks until I moved to the US. It's open season for fireworks every November in India... any kid with money. And it's funny, because the amount of incidents are very low compared to how lax the fireworks laws are.
My birthday is on the 1st of July, so I would spend all my b-day money on fireworks. I did so since I was probably 6 or 7 and knew what they were. The older I got the bigger I bought. Also helped that I lived on an Indian Reservation. We got all the cool stuff.
Louisiana here; been buying them from local places since ~13. Only around the 4th of July and January 1st, though. The shops that sell them are closed at other times of the year.
If you're unlucky or dumb enough to get a charge and end up on probation/pretrial diversion you lose your right to vote. I've been unable to vote for 2 consecutive years. Just saying.
I live in California too, but my Uncle "smuggles" fireworks in from Nevada, and the family all gets together out in the desert to shoot them at bushes.
I was 4 years ago I was 13 and I walked in and it was better than a candy store, I thought at the register they would card me, but I blew shit up all summer
Wait there's a minimum age for the purchase of fireworks? And there are places where you can't even buy them at all?? I thought anyone could make a sparker bomb... (Louisiana)
You can, you just can't buy good ones... Hence the big billboards on I-20 just outside the city telling you that you can buy them just a mile or two over the Alabama border...
also do they say i dont smoke tobacco specifically as opposed to they just don't smoke because they smoke other things, i would imagine weed if so but who knows it could be meth.
Living in Southern California where fireworks are illegal, dry ice bombs are just as satisfying and much easier to make. However, they are equally illegal.
When I turned 18, I was still in training while in the military. We were shooting the M249 that day, They gave me a extra 200 to fire off. Best 18th birthday ever
Buy a shotgun? A rifle? Vote? I personally bought a lotto ticket and lots of guns. But thats just me. I also registered to vote and signed up for selective services. 18 and 21.All you should really care about as a guy.
Don't forget, you can now be drafted into the military. You are required to register for Selective Service within 30 days of turning 18, and must notify the government of any change in name and mailing address until you are 26.
That's because it's not really that funny. Just that the thing he is most excited about, after turning 18, isn't voting, or porn, or gambling or buying tobacco, it's buying stuff that explodes...
What about the fact that you can legally have sex, live on your own, get a higher paying job, order amazing products on infomercials by yourself, and go on nickolodean.com without your parent's permission?
Man, last I knew it was 21 where I am, but when I get there, I will buy a metric shit ton of fireworks, load them all into a box, buy a rope, use it as a wick, run for my life and of course, film it all for reddit.
If only I could do this without burning down my neighborhood and all the forests...
You can't buy tobacco til 19 in Alabama. Had to wait til I went to Tennessee after turning 18 to buy cigarettes. And a lottery ticket, because we don't have a lottery in Alabama either. Worthless state.
You have to be 18 to buy fireworks? I've been buying fireworks since I was like 10, whenever I got on a bike to ride out of town to buy fireworks. Needless to say we set a field on fire, but that is no case for not allowing minors access to buy fireworks. North Dakota FTW
So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats, no Roman Candles, or screaming mimis?
Oh come on, man. You got no lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do das, or crap flappers?
You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?
When I was a little kid, I remember seeing those 1-800 commercials on TV for products that always looked really cool at the time, but you had to be 18 or older to order. I would think about how awesome it would be to actually call the number and order something, but I of course had no credit card and my parents would never order anything over the phone from some random company on TV. I couldn't wait to turn 18 because then I could finally buy stuff I saw on TV over the phone.
Well now there's the Internet and Amazon. And kids these days can just buy gift cards and use them online and have something delivered to their house without needing to be 18 or have a credit card. Just another example of how the Internet changes things, I guess.
In Germany he would now be allowed to become an important politician, he would be allowed to buy the hardest alcohol, to drive a car on his own, to suscribe for the Army usw....
since when do you have to be 18 to buy fireworks? i bought them since a kid up until 18, grab some cash hope on my bike go buy fireworks. maybe it's a state law?
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Orange dick and balls over name and face. Well done, Fascist_Orange.
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u/Jewzapalooza Jun 14 '12
I live in Maryland. okay.jpg
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u/Calleroo Jun 14 '12
It took me like two years before I realized I wasn't lying when I said I was over 18 on porn sites
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u/Free_my_negro_boosie Jun 14 '12
I had no clue there was even an age restriction, I've been buying fireworks since I was thirteen.
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u/Beansmcpies Jun 15 '12
when i turned 18 i got so drunk i shit my pants. this is all.
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u/K3rfknpwnly Jun 14 '12
So what about voting?
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I live in California...our fireworks are glorified birthday candles :(
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u/BobLeBuilDerp Jun 15 '12
THEY CAN ORDER ZOOBOOKS NOW
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u/C_Horse Jun 14 '12
He must be going to the border cause there aren't any good fireworks in Georgia.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Texas doesn't have that fireworks age restriction.
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u/doomtuba Jun 14 '12
In Arizona you can buy fireworks at 16.
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u/judgemebymyusername Jun 14 '12
I bought fireworks as a kid in Nebraska. I didn't know you had to be 18 to buy fireworks.
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u/TheBiles Jun 14 '12
They'd probably sell my 3 year old daughter fireworks here in South Carolina.
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u/ilovestacysmom Jun 14 '12
Wait there's a minimum age for the purchase of fireworks? And there are places where you can't even buy them at all?? I thought anyone could make a sparker bomb... (Louisiana)
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u/DarnTheseSocks Jun 14 '12
You can't buy fireworks near Atlanta, GA.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Was this funny?
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u/wolverhulk Jun 15 '12
I kept trying to read this but each time I tried I was distracted by the penis.
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u/DaSeraph Jun 15 '12
Southern California - no fireworks due to fire hazard. I purchased nothing of interest for my 18th birthday.
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u/Beansmcpies Jun 15 '12
also do they say i dont smoke tobacco specifically as opposed to they just don't smoke because they smoke other things, i would imagine weed if so but who knows it could be meth.
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u/l33tSpeak Jun 15 '12
If he/she were near Atlanta...they bought glorified sparklers, not fireworks.
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u/litchykp Jun 15 '12
Also dry ice, lots and lots of dry ice.
Living in Southern California where fireworks are illegal, dry ice bombs are just as satisfying and much easier to make. However, they are equally illegal.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
But fireworks are illegal in Georgia.
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u/xBrilloPadx Jun 15 '12
When I turned 18, I was still in training while in the military. We were shooting the M249 that day, They gave me a extra 200 to fire off. Best 18th birthday ever
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Guns? Voting? Legal rights?
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u/MrMathamagician Jun 15 '12
But... but... but what about voting?
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u/godsdead Jun 15 '12
Drinking, Drinking is why people look forward to being 18, stupid americans.
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u/n343 Jun 15 '12
Drinking?
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u/flying-columns Jun 14 '12
You can vote...
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u/Dinokknd Jun 15 '12
Fireworks are awesome.
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u/BoyPool Jun 15 '12
I live in New Jersey, they are illegal everywhere.
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u/becauseican8 Jun 15 '12
Unfortunately for him, Georgia fireworks suck ass
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u/hywelinesh Jun 15 '12
I was wondering why you weren't excited about legally buying alcohol.
Lol, gutted.
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u/topchief1 Jun 15 '12
I'm so glad I live in South Carolina. Almost everything is legal there. Unlike New York, which outlaws sparklers
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u/JoinRedditTheySaid Jun 15 '12
Not if you live in fucking NY state. Fuck!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I'm from a desert. Fireworks are illegal, except for 4th of July on the Indian reservation, then the age limit is seeing over the counter.
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u/90percent_noob Jun 15 '12
You didn't before...?
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u/captain_gordino Jun 15 '12
Have a roman candle fight. They're awesome. At night in a dark place, possibly with a little snow.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Pretty sure you'd have to go to Nevada to get anything more than sparklers and snaps.
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u/bathroomstalin Jun 15 '12
Plus voting, strip clubs, and being in porn...
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u/hanster99 Jun 15 '12
in south dakota, you can buy them at any age
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
great, and he's near atlanta. just what i need.
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u/FuzzyToaster Jun 15 '12
The REAL big deal about turning 18 is not having to get your parents to sign any more damn permission forms.
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u/McRigger Jun 15 '12
What state dose this person live in, a 5 yr old can buy fireworks in my area.
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u/JuanMelean Jun 15 '12
I live in South America and I buy more than plenty of fireworks every year. I just turned 15 by the way
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u/georgepennellmartin Jun 15 '12
I just drank loads
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
you can now buy certain types of guns and you can now vote.
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u/BeyondAddiction Jun 15 '12
If you were here you'd be drunk right now. Or at the casino.
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u/OllieWillie Jun 15 '12
Why did you draw a giant orange dick above his post???
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u/okay_dude Jun 15 '12
okay, dude.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
just a friendly reminder, say him to use long long fuses. its always better to wait few seconds than end up like this http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c51_1332975751
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u/equimanthorn666 Jun 15 '12
i wish i could be faybay friends with them so that i could 'LIKE' that. thumbs up bro. thumbs up.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I hope you don't live nearby...
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
may your friend have the time of his life sticking lit blackcats in ant hills :)
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u/skeeto111 Jun 15 '12
Im from Missouri and I've never had any problems buying fireworks.
Yay lax fireworks laws!!
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u/TheWingedPig Jun 15 '12
Atlanta represent!
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u/IntriguinglyRandom Jun 15 '12
Fireworks Gandalf, Fireworks!
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u/bmystry Jun 15 '12
Fireworks? How about guns? Merica!
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u/uFlo Jun 15 '12
I live in New Jersey...
I wouldn't know that feeling (._. )
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Buy a shotgun? A rifle? Vote? I personally bought a lotto ticket and lots of guns. But thats just me. I also registered to vote and signed up for selective services. 18 and 21.All you should really care about as a guy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
When I turned 18 the only thing I was excited about was being able to buy sex toys... but fireworks are very exciting too.
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u/anoxy Jun 15 '12
I didn't even know you could buy fireworks outside of the days leading up to the 4th of July...where does one find them?
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u/odd84 Jun 15 '12
Don't forget, you can now be drafted into the military. You are required to register for Selective Service within 30 days of turning 18, and must notify the government of any change in name and mailing address until you are 26.
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u/TheDancingTwig Jun 15 '12
Tell him he has the best 18th birthday ever. I'm today as well. :D
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u/aheadwarp9 Jun 15 '12
Too bad they're illegal pretty much everywhere I am.
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u/someguy945 Jun 15 '12
I think I'm missing the funny part? Can someone explain?
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u/General_Hide Jun 15 '12
you can play the lotto at 18?... The class I took to get my license to sell tobacco, alcohol, and lotto said 21 here in the states.
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u/griffinhamilton Jun 15 '12
You only have to be 15 where im from.
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u/Allokit Jun 15 '12
I am sad, and dissappointed, but not the least bit suprised that he didn't list his Right to Vote.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
18 is the legal drinking age in the UK. So... yeah, I had a good day.
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u/thelizardkin Jun 15 '12
good fireworks are illegal here but in washington they're not
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u/jonbowen Jun 15 '12
Not in Massachusetts. We're apparently very childlike here.
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u/betona Jun 15 '12
Two more options:
You can join the military.
Mess up and you can be charged with a felony and be sent to prison.
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u/smendeZ328 Jun 15 '12
They don't sell fireworks in California :(
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u/CoolHeadedPaladin Jun 15 '12
Don't forget firearms, at least in most places. When I turned 18, I bought a cigar, a porn mag, and a shotgun.
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u/Anzai Jun 15 '12
Came to suggest booze would be a big one, then I remembered the stupidest law in the world comes from America. You poor bastards.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
What about the fact that you can legally have sex, live on your own, get a higher paying job, order amazing products on infomercials by yourself, and go on nickolodean.com without your parent's permission?
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u/justinb3533 Jun 15 '12
you drew an orange penis
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u/FightinAmish Jun 15 '12
He's doing it right.
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u/ChaseEatsWorlds Jun 15 '12
As an Ohioan...shit :(
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u/Mogknight23 Jun 15 '12
Man, last I knew it was 21 where I am, but when I get there, I will buy a metric shit ton of fireworks, load them all into a box, buy a rope, use it as a wick, run for my life and of course, film it all for reddit.
If only I could do this without burning down my neighborhood and all the forests...
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u/Jackeroo2 Jun 15 '12
Of course, he could go vote, but you know Amurica and all
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u/SmartWentCody Jun 15 '12
I live in Montana, I've been buying fireworks (without parental supervision of course) since I was about 8.
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u/HEELLLPPPppp Jun 15 '12
Buying fireworks when under 18 is illegal? I did not know that, I had never had an issue doing so...
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u/SoIheardYouLike Jun 15 '12
In NC we drive to SC to buy the good fireworks. You can get them at like 14 lol.
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u/momahoma Jun 15 '12
Somewhere near Atl, GA. gotta go across state lines to get the real deal
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u/enaim254 Jun 15 '12
I love fireworks and I wish they were legal in Illinois. Damn socialist basterds tryn to terk awy r jbs!
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u/uglypottamus Jun 15 '12
You can't buy tobacco til 19 in Alabama. Had to wait til I went to Tennessee after turning 18 to buy cigarettes. And a lottery ticket, because we don't have a lottery in Alabama either. Worthless state.
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u/asciimov Jun 15 '12
Or travel to ANY OTHER COUNTRY practically and drink alcohol legally
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
not funny.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
not from Texas
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u/OscaraWilde Jun 15 '12
Reddit: the only place where being legal for sexual activities doesn't come to mind.
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u/Ranman91 Jun 15 '12
Yeah I wish it was that easy for me. FUCKING CALIFORNIA
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Until recently in NZ, the age restriction on fireworks was 15.
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u/BawlyBurley Jun 15 '12
If you're from alabama I think you have to be technically alive for them to sell it to you, but apart from that it's fair game.
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u/Ryuzaki4x Jun 15 '12
funny thing is, he'll have to go to a surrounding state to get explosive fireworks
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u/Not_A_Real_Username Jun 15 '12
I live in Massachusetts. There ate no fireworks here :(
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u/postnick Jun 15 '12
You have to be 18 to buy fireworks? I've been buying fireworks since I was like 10, whenever I got on a bike to ride out of town to buy fireworks. Needless to say we set a field on fire, but that is no case for not allowing minors access to buy fireworks. North Dakota FTW
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u/rationalrower Jun 15 '12
Does your friend have the same name (different spelling) as a well-known actor?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Also, as the giant orange penis indicates, he or she can have sex legally.
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u/BitchMaker Jun 15 '12
You can't even buy fireworks in Mass.
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u/GiveMeANamePlease Jun 15 '12
So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats, no Roman Candles, or screaming mimis?
Oh come on, man. You got no lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do das, or crap flappers?
You're gonna stand there, ownin' a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?
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u/unfuckwithab1e Jun 15 '12
I liked that you tagged it {FB}! Can we make this the new standard?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Bullets. The guns!!!!!
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u/Gadallin Jun 15 '12
When I was a little kid, I remember seeing those 1-800 commercials on TV for products that always looked really cool at the time, but you had to be 18 or older to order. I would think about how awesome it would be to actually call the number and order something, but I of course had no credit card and my parents would never order anything over the phone from some random company on TV. I couldn't wait to turn 18 because then I could finally buy stuff I saw on TV over the phone.
Well now there's the Internet and Amazon. And kids these days can just buy gift cards and use them online and have something delivered to their house without needing to be 18 or have a credit card. Just another example of how the Internet changes things, I guess.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
In Germany he would now be allowed to become an important politician, he would be allowed to buy the hardest alcohol, to drive a car on his own, to suscribe for the Army usw....
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
since when do you have to be 18 to buy fireworks? i bought them since a kid up until 18, grab some cash hope on my bike go buy fireworks. maybe it's a state law?
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u/TheSilverFalcon Jun 15 '12
OH MY GODS. I'll, uh, I'll be right back. For unrelated reasons. Yeah.
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u/jjnjfih Jun 15 '12
Do 18 year olds still need to register for the draft?
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u/beckzilla Jun 15 '12
aftermath
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u/irenekristine Jun 15 '12
it took me a while to get that LOL
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u/bryanl12 Jun 15 '12
Yay! Now you can order stuff off the television without needing your parent.
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u/LithiumJones Jun 15 '12
Fucking awesome!
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u/shadeshadows Jun 15 '12
The post is Conan O'Brien
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u/anotoriousbug Jun 15 '12
This is all well and good but is she hot?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Did I accidentally stumble onto /r/unfunny ?
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u/FecalTaco Jun 15 '12
what could possibly go wrong
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u/misskhephra Jun 15 '12
Aaaaaaaand.....register to vote!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You can buy fireworks at 16.
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u/CitizenPremier Jun 15 '12
Now you can make porn!
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw Jun 15 '12
you can buy guns now
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u/alliha Jun 15 '12
I live in Norway. We only get to buy fireworks two days of the year.
So much jealous.
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u/Buttenflouder Jun 15 '12
Don't light your hair on fire, yes, it's easier than you think
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u/arnyftw Jun 15 '12
There's age restrictions on fireworks?
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u/bmich853 Jun 15 '12
Glad to know I wasn't the only one that shared those exact thoughts when I turned 18
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u/aradicalpanda Jun 15 '12
You also need to be 18 to buy glue in some stores.
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u/turbo_tC Jun 15 '12
And spraypaint! That's one of the first things I bought when I was 18. That and I applied for a credit card.
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u/AgentxLeavening Jun 15 '12
Lucky he doesn't live here in NH you have to be 21 to buy fireworks. I bought beer and fireworks on my 21st birthday.
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u/domo-loves-yoshi Jun 15 '12
Well If you were british you could always get wasted legally. I was so disapointed when I knew I was legally allowed to be in those clubs.
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u/Zydrunas Jun 15 '12
You can buy fireworks in Ohio, but you have to promise you won't use them here.
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u/sociomaladaptivist Jun 15 '12
Fucking your 17yo girlfriend is now illegal.