Chinese Firework Etiquette
After months of study, I’ve formulated the following list of events, situations, and times of the day in which is inappropriate to set off fireworks in China:

Let me know if I included anything I shouldn’t have.
UPDATE: I’ve clarified my sarcasm with the inclusion of the above image.
I cannot see the list, i don’t know if there is sometime wrong on my side, or you didn’t post it in a right way.
↓ Quote | Posted October 29, 2006, 2:53 am…or to play horrible sounding recordings of fireworks at extremely high volumes over and over, making sure the volume is up loud enough to ruin the speakers on the audio device.
Or maybe that just happens in Chinatown (NYC) around New Years.
↓ Quote | Posted October 29, 2006, 12:07 pmThere are certainly plenty of blown-out public speaker systems here, but I’ve never heard firework sounds being played over them.
↓ Quote | Posted October 29, 2006, 3:16 pmDude, that is so funny.
We used to joke about this in Shanghai. You’d hear fireworks go off and say, ‘Damn, its 830am on a Thursday, lets celebrate…’
↓ Quote | Posted November 3, 2006, 6:19 amDogs bark, babies cry (including my own) children scream, and grown men get their fingers burnt (to say the least) Yes Fireworks are a idiots way of expressing themselves -
Yes they continue to “go off” after 11pm - !!! No you haven’t left anything off the list - A. Its lunchtime - lets set off some fireworks (No we wont see them, explode in the air, B. They will make a loud noise - Maybe it is the Chinese equivalent of Ive got a bigger dick than you sensibility - For anyone reading this who hasn’t experienced it - You really are lucky
↓ Quote | Posted February 15, 2007, 2:19 am