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u/AJ_Deadshow
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I hate when the time zone next to me is an 11 hours difference, makes going to work really confusing
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u/zuzg Jul 05 '22
Tbf my internal clock certainly has a 12 hour difference to the time zone I'm living in, haha
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u/Chavarlison Jul 05 '22
Sounds like you need to move. Live in the time zone you really belong.
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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck Jul 05 '22
I know that's a joke, but it doesn't work. You'll just end up having the same issue in the new time zone.
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u/TheBirminghamBear Jul 05 '22
Well, that can be a bit tricky.
For example if he's on the East Coast of the US, 12 hours would put him smack in the middle of China.
If he's on the Pacific Coast, it would put him in either Iran, Russia, or another country along their longitude.
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u/leftysarepeople2 Jul 05 '22
China officially only has one time zone
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u/TheBirminghamBear Jul 05 '22
Yes yes, I'm quite familiar with ChinaTime, I've seen all the propaganda commercials they forced MC Hammer to make for them.
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u/Kendertas Jul 05 '22
I was curious so looked it up. Biggest timezone jump you can experience is crossing the Chinese Afghanistan border with a difference of 3.5 hours. Across the dateline in the Pacific there are also some islands relatively close together that are by a weird quirk 26 hours apart time wise
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u/507t04 Jul 05 '22
26 hours apart time wise
Won't it make you 'feel' only 2 hours off? The date would be different sure but as for the day cycle it's a smaller difference
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u/Kendertas Jul 05 '22
Correct. Just found it interesting you could be 26 hours seperated when a day is only 24 hours
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u/RHeegaard Jul 05 '22
It's due to trading. If a country trades more with countries in America, they often try to have their workdays have as much overlap with those countries as possible, and decide to be on the American side of the date-line.
If they trade more with Oceanic countries, they often decide to be on the other side of the date-line instead. Hence why UTC+14 and UTC-10 is the same time but on different days, one overlaps best for American trading, the other overlaps best for Oceanic trading.
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u/insanitybit Jul 05 '22
I really wish timezones didn't exist. I'd much prefer just saying "well 9pm is really light here" or whatever.
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u/HowManyBatteries Jul 05 '22
You would still have to remember that you can't call Aunt Joan in Germany at 9am because their 9am is in the middle of the night. I'd rather just count how many hours ahead of them I am.
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u/i_miss_arrow Jul 05 '22
I feel like that would make it difficult to effectively communicate experiences with time across long distances.
Like, anywhere in the world we can understand what 9 am means, 5 pm, 3 am, and so forth, regardless of where you are.
But how do you communicate 9 am in words in a way that everybody will instantly understand in context of the rest of the day? Mid morning could be a range of hours depending on who you ask. It could vary culturally depending on region.
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u/robthelobster Jul 05 '22
I can't even memorize which direction the one hour difference between Finland (my home country) and the Netherlands (where I've lived for 4 years) goes
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u/fartboxco Jul 05 '22
As soon as I cross the time zone boarder I'm 11 hours late to work, fucking bullshit!!!
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u/beesvw Jul 05 '22
Imagine hearing fireworks from the other side of the planet. Thats insane bro
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u/Youcancuntonme Jul 05 '22
especially when its 5-6th july in other parts of the world where nobody else celebrates 4th of july
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 05 '22
It was three days around here. The entire weekend and Monday night people were celebrating, it's pretty hectic.
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u/Black-Mettle Jul 05 '22
There were people lighting fireworks from the 1st to 4am this morning.
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u/druman22 Jul 05 '22
I just heard fireworks going off 20 mins ago. It's 2pm here on the 5th
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u/Vhadka Jul 05 '22
Was going to say, I just walked out of work and heard fireworks, it's 1:30 central time. Of course, where I'm at, could have easily been gunshots too.
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u/jef_ Jul 05 '22
that’s my favorite part of the american south, it can be any time of day at any time of year and you can never really know for sure if that distant pop was a firework or a gunshot
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u/Vhadka Jul 05 '22
Midwest and it wasn't that distant, right down the street. I just happen to be in a precarious part of the city, or bordering it anyway.
During the day is usually fine though.
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u/jef_ Jul 05 '22
yeah that’s fair, i live in a fairly rural area so sometimes you’ll have rednecks shooting a deer and sometimes you’ll have rednecks shooting off fireworks at 3pm on a January Wednesday
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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Jul 05 '22
When the fuck did the 4th of July become "The first week of July."
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u/hard-enough Jul 05 '22
The 4th saw Christmas winning the “war on Christmas” and decided to attack the summer
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 05 '22
At this point Christmas has illegally occupied October and November, fcking consumerism.
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u/blankwillow_ Jul 05 '22
My neighbors have 4th of July in July, November, April, February, it doesn't matter. August 12th at 7 pm ? Boom! March 23 at 2 am? Boom, with sparklers!
Asshole had random ass fireworks all weekend, no matter what time. Lit one off this morning at 315, sounded like it blew up his house.
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u/jef_ Jul 05 '22
you’d be alarmed at how many people would buy fireworks for birthdays… worked at a fireworks store last summer and it was astonishing the things people would say. “do you guys have red snaps? i want to keep them in my car to throw at people”
he was mad that we didn’t sell them to him
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u/Horskr Jul 05 '22
I'm in a rural area that loves their fireworks.. 9am like OP said isn't bad, but being woke up at 3am by my neighbor's finale this morning was a bit less fun.
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u/knife-kitty Jul 05 '22
Laughs in Florida. Try all week, here.
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u/cowboys70 Jul 05 '22
Yeah, I'll hear them in my neighborhood till the end of the month at least. No toddler and my dog is chill so it doesn't really bother me
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u/9035768555 Jul 05 '22
They're technically banned around me, but there were so damn many. Some of them I'm not convinced weren't just straight up bombs.
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 05 '22
They were banned where I grew up but everyone had a cool uncle that would bring a trunk load. That was his one day of the year to truly shine :)
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u/Spencer1K Jul 05 '22
Same. My neighborgood was also a giant cloud of smoke all night last night. And this will likly continue tonight as well.
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u/paulxombie1331 Jul 05 '22
3 days! You're lucky SE Iowa and it's been going on for atleast a week now, last nights last boom went off around 3am I couldn't sleep have really bad ptsd and it's been a rough week. I really hope they're done tonight
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 05 '22
Spoiler: they aren't, someone has fireworks left somewhere near you
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u/arty4572 Jul 05 '22
We have a field behind our house that people were shooting off fireworks all night waking my toddler. I imagine whoever shot off fireworks at 9am was living my dream revenge scenario
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 05 '22
No doubt, no doubt, those people were not waking up to a single firework at 9am though. I imagine someone was cleaning up and found an unlaunched mortar or something like that. Probably one of the ones that went to bed early and thought the exact same thing you did.
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u/Tangled2 Jul 05 '22
Or they partied so hard they passed out before it got dark, woke up from their coma 14 hours later and were like "awww, I missed the fireworks! I know! I'll have fireball and fireworks right now!"
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u/KingApologist Jul 05 '22
I have what I believe to be three or four neighbors who maintain a stash of them, setting them off randomly in the middle of the night about once a week for the next 4 to 6 months when they run out
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u/IlikeVidyagame Jul 05 '22
I love any BBQ holiday but I'm pretty sick of the full on two weeks of fireworks. Every single year some jerk off in my neighborhood fucks up someone else's house or property with fireworks. One guy lit his shed on fire which melted the siding off the two houses closest to it. Wouldn't you fucking know he's lighting off fireworks like it didn't happen...
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u/cromulent_pseudonym Jul 05 '22
Yeah same. I was actually glad they were doing it on the weekend because I thought that meant they would be over with when I had to go to sleep Monday night. Nope. Monday night was the crescendo.
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u/djanulis Jul 05 '22
Fireworks are basically randomly shot off around where I live from July 4th until like the end of August.
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u/Practical-Jelly-5320
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Was a really really loud firework from another timezone
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u/SpaceJackRabbit Jul 05 '22
That fuzzy timezone logic would explain the 72-hour gap between Canadian and American fireworks.
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u/Fragholio Jul 06 '22
It was so loud that the sound had to take the long way around the world and just got there at 9am the next day.
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u/bluekomodo01 Jul 05 '22
People on Twitter really have transcended to higher planes of intelligence
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u/jiblit Jul 05 '22
Dude just hasn't been off the internet in 4 years, he forgot the real world existed
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u/unclejarjarbinks Jul 05 '22
If anyone thinks the firework season is over, you're in for a real treat. (Guarantee my hillbilly neighbors will be blowing shit up until July 18th.)
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u/BennySmudge Jul 05 '22
Where I live (rural MO) it’s really toned down a lot. It used to be all of June and July. Nowadays, the fireworks vendors don’t open up till later in June, so we are down to about a week before the 4th and a week or two after.
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u/unclejarjarbinks Jul 05 '22
Oh, wow. That's crazy about how it used to be. I live in a rural county where fireworks are supposed to be illegal, but it doesn't stop anyone.
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u/votebot9817 Jul 05 '22
I'm from Knoxville where fireworks are illegal. Just pick a direction, any direction, and you will find a store called County Line Fireworks. Promise.
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u/midnight_raven68 Jul 05 '22
It’s illegal here in Cali too (at least where I’m at) and the firefighters have a unspoken agreement that they never saw anything… when they’re actually watching the illegal firework show on the boardwalk lmao
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u/Sypike Jul 05 '22
I read that fireworks were pretty expensive this year, too. I know my neighbors (in a city) that usually celebrate for 3 weeks, only shot off fireworks for three days.
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u/Whind_Soull Jul 05 '22
It's not really the Fourth of July unless someone fills a broken dishwasher with tannerite and shoots it with a .30-06.
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u/fatBreadonToast Jul 05 '22
Technically true, yes time zones exist.
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u/Corrix33 Jul 05 '22
Nice sir, but i highly recommend you consider the existence of time zones.
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u/wuchta Jul 05 '22
Won't somebody please think of the timezones??!?!
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u/Myonenonpornacc Jul 05 '22
Everybody is always asking where is timezones, but no one is ever asking... How is timezones?
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u/Possums1 Jul 05 '22
gee, it sure is annoying when i want to visit my neighbor, but i can't because it's night for him
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u/theealtacount Jul 05 '22
there was 1 (one) firework that was launched in the 4th of july, at 1am
i’m guessing they wanted to be the first person to launch a firework in the 4th of july, and then quickly when to bed after lol.
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u/dethmstr Jul 05 '22
Maybe it wasn't a firework. Maybe it was a gunshot.
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u/TheFuckerNugger Jul 05 '22
There's ways to tell the difference between fireworks and gunshots. Typically, fireworks have more of a pop sound, apposed to a gunshots cracking sound. Gunshots sounds also tend not to echo, but travel farther than fireworks. Fireworks echo a bit and the sound quickly fades even at shorter distances. It does take a bit of paying attention to the difference in the sounds to notice a lot of the differences, but you can pick up on it with close observation.
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u/DerpMcGuirk Jul 06 '22
I heard a variation of that from a coworker who was in the Army. If you hear pops, it's firecrackers. If you hear the sound of air whizzing by, it's bullets (kiss the ground).
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u/hhh_hhhhh1111 Jul 05 '22
True, the amount of shootings goes up around 4th of July because fireworks are a great cover for gunshots
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u/LordPennybags Jul 05 '22
The amount of shootings also goes up around midnight because it's another day in America.
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u/Intrepid00 Jul 05 '22
I mean, red line guy is still right. Time zones do exist, he technically didn’t say it was why.
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u/AgtSquirtle007 Jul 05 '22
oh we’re just naming things that exist. Um, badgers. Badgers exist.
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Jul 06 '22
Chinchillas exist. They're apparently the fluffiest animal in the world.
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u/ElectRaptor Jul 05 '22
Imagine if the first guy was right and it turned out Dream just has inhumane hearing abilities and heard it from Europe
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u/MamasGottaDance Jul 05 '22
Why the fuck would we be celebrating fourth of july tho LMAO
Jokes aside I'd believe it, he's from florida and you never know with these people
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u/mateogg Jul 05 '22
Are there even two technically American places that are so far apart that there's a 9-hour time difference? My gut says no but idk with those not-colonies they have.
Anyway point is, even with time zones it wouldn't work because the rest of the world doesn't celebrate the 4th of July.
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u/DisdunDroid Jul 05 '22
I think the max is 6 hours difference, from Hawaii to the east coast.
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u/RomanTea1 Jul 05 '22
Wake Island is in UTC+12:00, while Baker Island is in UTC-12:00.
So the maximum difference is theoretically 24 hours.
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u/SaylorBear Jul 05 '22
And the first tweet is from 11:31 PM today (July 5, 2022) according to the time stamp, so I’m ultimately confused as to where the tweet came from and why there were 4th of July fireworks there.
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u/ClicksAndASmell Jul 05 '22 edited Jul 05 '22
The timestamp is from whoever took the screenshot's device.
Twitter shows you your own local time, no matter whose account your looking at.
Whoever took the screenshot is probably from Australia.
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u/GIBBEEEHHH Jul 05 '22
Man whenever you see a dream tweet outside of a Minecraft subreddit you expect it to be something dissing him, this post is refreshing
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u/McRobloxArchitecture Jul 05 '22
There's a tradition in my country to throw fireworks on the night of the 23rd June to commemorate the longest day of the year.
It's July. People are still lighting fireworks
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u/My_Space_page Jul 05 '22
Yep time zones do exist. It might have been Miller time and coke time, which leads to fireworks at 9am time. Sarcasm inteneded
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u/BriefCheetah4136 Jul 05 '22
Same, a light spattering for a week previous, heavy duty on the entire holiday weekend with the occasional dumbass at 2am,
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u/jamiethejoker26 Jul 05 '22
And there's always that one asshole that waits til 2am on the 5th to start lighting their mortars off
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u/CringeName Jul 05 '22
Where I live, fireworks persist for like a week or 2 afterwards. It's fucking annoying.
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u/garden_bug Jul 05 '22
I lived in Europe for a few years and had a friend in the US who didn't understand time zones. A football game (maybe the Superbowl? Can't remember) was going on. She told me "Oh. It's probably over for you already." I had to gently inform her that while I was ahead of her on the clock, I didn't live in the future. We were in our 20s.
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u/Cashew-Gesundheit Jul 05 '22
Turn off the internet so those time zone fireworks won't bother you 😁
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u/_Lostinmythoughts_ Jul 05 '22
For once I agree with dream. Stop lighting of fireworks. You has a whole damn day to let them off.
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u/TheEnd0fAll Jul 05 '22
It’s raining cats and dogs here with massive thunder and flash flooding, no one is setting off fireworks. Thank goodness I don’t have a dog.
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u/8instuntcock Jul 05 '22
Some asshole in my neighborhood lit off a pretty big one at 5:30am on July 5
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u/LargeTomato77 Jul 05 '22
If there is one thing the Japanese are known for, it's loudly celebrating the 4th of July...
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u/Tempest305 Jul 05 '22
Your lucky if they’re just they day after for you. I’m my neighborhood they start a week before the fourth and last a week after. And they consistently go to 1:00 AM.
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u/heylmjuanito Jul 05 '22 edited Jul 05 '22
I heard it all weekend and well through the night. Growing up the city I lived in MN allowed fireworks for 2 weeks after the 4th. It's just part of living the US of A
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u/Toxic_Waste_306 Jul 05 '22
Chronically online mf who forgot that real life doest work like the internet
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u/theundercoverpapist Jul 05 '22
If the firecracker in question was a 500 gigaton nuclear bomb, then it's possible that the dude heard it from a distant timezone.
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u/magoo_d_oz Jul 05 '22
my first thought is that they're a sovereign citizen and have decided that their house is in whatever timezone where it's still the fourth.
but then again, if they've declared independence from the US, why are they celebrating the fourth?
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u/ThomasTheTankBuilder Jul 05 '22
Does the earth spin?
Yes, very slowly.
Now as fast as this guys Jenius.
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u/bopeepsheep Jul 05 '22
Maybe the existence of timezones explains why someone here (southern England) was setting off fireworks last night around 10pm...
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u/YeetMeister146 Jul 05 '22
Ah yes, because how can your neighbors be in another timezone then you (It took me a second to get this)
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u/MechAegis Jul 05 '22
Our local firework event was usually happened yesterday July 4th. Seems like they had a vendor issue or supplies idk. They will do the fireworks tonight July 5th.
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u/ThriceDamnedSandwich Jul 05 '22
Yesterday? Bitch, we get to hear fireworks all fucking month around here (or at least for 2 and a half weeks).
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u/bednap Jul 05 '22
Something tells me this guy spends too much time online, automatically thinks people are in a different timezone.
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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor Jul 05 '22
What are you saying obviously those fireworks were heard from europe!