Why #ItIsMoreFunInThePhilippines ? #NewYear 's eve is still a few more days away and your neighbours are already firing up fireworks and firexrackers. 🧨🧨🧨

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@youronlyone A lot of people in the US disapprove of fireworks, because they frighten animals, but I will never be one of those people. I regard fireworks as an important part of my cultural heritage.

I guess you've never had to get a rampaging bull back in the paddock after he's trashed all the fences. Great fun. We literally sedate our livestock on New Years -- as does everybody in these parts. It's to keep the damages and liability costs within reason.

@mikedev Yeah, it would be really weird to be keeping a bull anywhere near the Manhattan fireworks displays.

I didn't know that the US only has fireworks in large cities now and there are no longer any drunk yayhoos in the country shooting off fully-automatic firearms and throwing cherry bombs and 1/4 sticks of dynamite around to celebrate. It's been a few years since I left and I guess things have changed.

To be fair, I do watch the Sydney fireworks on TV. They're spectacular, but I'll still sedate the livestock. Our yayhoos aren't quite as well armed, but they can still make a fair bit of noise.