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  • Опубликовано: 29 дек 2023
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  • @filmcat_youtube
    @filmcat_youtube 6 месяцев назад +1932

    Only Posy could use that footage we all have of fireworks that we never look at again.

    • @andrewevenson2657
      @andrewevenson2657 6 месяцев назад +39

      Idk what you are talking about, anytime I’ve filmed fireworks it’s way over exposed, my footage hasn’t ever looked as good as his lol.

    • @M-Soares
      @M-Soares 6 месяцев назад +32

      ​@@andrewevenson2657Yep, all of my fireworks footage consists of thin streaks of light going up followed by seizure inducing flashing colours and blown out audio.

    • @Postbus22
      @Postbus22 6 месяцев назад +14

      maybe he will make a video of a concert and uses footage from a concert that nobody looks at

    • @hassybassy
      @hassybassy 6 месяцев назад +1

      Loool so accurate

    • @ErikPelyukhno
      @ErikPelyukhno 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Postbus22haha to be fair I capture good footage at concerts and usually find a way to integrate it with a recap video

  • @TeamIFDVideos
    @TeamIFDVideos 6 месяцев назад +16

    The fact that guns/firearms are sometimes easier/cheaper to get than fireworks in the USA is wild. Legally that is.

  • @MaggieKeizai
    @MaggieKeizai 6 месяцев назад +993

    The most wildly unsafe fireworks display I ever saw was in Amsterdam for new year's 1999. MASSIVE rockets and shells being propped up against the memorial in the middle of the town square, and they'd shoot in random directions, bounce off of buildings, and back into the crowd where they'd explode. People didn't care. At one point, someone lit off a string of firecrackers that seemed like it went off for five minutes straight... everyone fell silent and stopped firing anything off until it finally ran its course, at which point the crowd ROARED with cheers and went back to being incredibly unsafe. People were just lighting things off in the sea of humanity, tossing explosives around willy nilly, doing everything completely wrong. Paramedics kept coming in to the square area and treating people who got hurt.
    It was the most life-affirming display of irresponsibility and drunken disregard for safety I've ever seen.

    • @IntegerOfDoom
      @IntegerOfDoom 6 месяцев назад +53

      Life is a risk. Get over it. It what makes existing interesting.

    • @familiarbit5319
      @familiarbit5319 6 месяцев назад +163

      @@IntegerOfDoom Tell that to the people you've injured when it happens

    • @usbhub95
      @usbhub95 6 месяцев назад +100

      @@IntegerOfDoom lol this is extremely reductive

    • @JaccoSW
      @JaccoSW 6 месяцев назад +29

      As a Dutchman I am used to Dutch people and fireworks. While I don't like it, most people seem to at least put things like rockets into bottles nowadays. Decades of public education seem to have worked.
      My worst experience was Berlin in 2015/2016. People lighting fireworks and then tossing them into the air above crowds so that they explode above other people or people shooting rockets from balconies... only for them to explode when they hit the building on the other side of the street. All while being drunk out of their minds.
      There is a reason why my friends from Berlin told me they all flee Berlin during NYE.

    • @lemone12
      @lemone12 6 месяцев назад +17

      ​@@IntegerOfDoom theres a point where the excitement turns into fear and if we can prevent that we should

  • @rm_steele
    @rm_steele 6 месяцев назад +302

    such a heinous crime, not standing next to tubes designed to shoot fire and explode

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 6 месяцев назад +21

      I suppose in the minds of the lawmakers it prevents people making remote control bombs. If that were the case, a better law would be to allow remote igniters that are wired only, no radio, infrared, or the like that could allow a bad actor to strap an explosive to a car, for example.
      A similar line of thinking exists in UK knife law, which prohibits folding knives that can be deployed quickly with a flick or a spring mechanism, or knives disguised as other objects (the example given is disguised as a mobile phone). The line of thinking is to make it hard not to telegraph that you are drawing a weapon.

    • @gilles111
      @gilles111 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@jameswalker199 In Dutch law, these kind of knives are prohibited too. The remote controls are technically not illegal but only legal to used by fireworks companies doing professional shows. One of the reasons for that is because they are regular used to fire shells and shells are illegal for private use too. If these controls were legal to use by public, the chance of people building too large packages of fireworks because they don't know/understand the dangers of large quantities of explosives together or firing professional fireworks (i.e. shells) in too dense areas is foreseen.

  • @Jay-ln1co
    @Jay-ln1co 6 месяцев назад +30

    Was selling fireworks this year. Some old guy came with a bag of fireworks asking if he can give them to us for disposal. As we do take in unused or faulty units, we took the bag. It contained fireworks that haven't been even made in 15 years. One of the guys decided to have a little fun this new years and took the bag home.

    • @Gravy_Master
      @Gravy_Master 4 месяца назад +2

      Wow Jay, what an incredibly riveting story 🙄

    • @LongFry
      @LongFry 2 месяца назад

      @@Gravy_Masterwow what an incredibly riveting reply 🙄

  • @milesedgeworth132
    @milesedgeworth132 6 месяцев назад +170

    Posy has every hobby on the planet.

    • @TheBcoolGuy
      @TheBcoolGuy 6 месяцев назад +3

      Is he a bodybuilder?

    • @lennartjuhh
      @lennartjuhh 6 месяцев назад +1

      That's a bit odd to conclude. Literally every boy had his own fireworks stash.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 6 месяцев назад +7

      @lennartjuhh
      I didn't.

    • @05degrees
      @05degrees 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@TheBcoolGuy --Just you wait!--

    • @darxoonwasser
      @darxoonwasser 6 месяцев назад

      omg miles edgeworth is a posy fan? cool

  • @ma_er233
    @ma_er233 6 месяцев назад +192

    I'm from China, had so much fun growing up playing fireworks during the Spring Festival. In recent years however, the city where I lived regulated against fireworks in densely populated area. I totally understand that, and you can still have as much fun as you want in suburbs. But the whole festival just feels a bit empty without the cathartic fun and stunning visuals of fireworks. Man, I miss those days in middle school when I could gather my friends and collect our pocket money to do a big firework "show" in the street.

    • @nemtudom5074
      @nemtudom5074 6 месяцев назад +6

      Im confident that they'll return in some years because everyone likes them, we as a species just need to figure out how to make them safe

    • @TheBcoolGuy
      @TheBcoolGuy 6 месяцев назад +1

      Nothing in life is safe. Maybe the safety can be improved, but I think people are irrationally afraid of fireworks. If you're sober and sane and able to run away from the fireworks, they're not very dangerous. Certainly a lot less dangerous than they could be. And if remote-controlled fireworks were legal, that'd make it way safer. @@nemtudom5074

    • @taisato2091
      @taisato2091 6 месяцев назад

      Continental China?

    • @ma_er233
      @ma_er233 6 месяцев назад

      @@taisato2091 yep

    • @taisato2091
      @taisato2091 6 месяцев назад

      oh okay! Isn't there a firewall that blocks people from continental china from accesing the rest of the World wide web or is that just a myth? Or are u a VPN kind of person@@ma_er233

  • @infestus5657
    @infestus5657 6 месяцев назад +27

    This shot from 2016 with the moon is just beautiful.

  • @pmstuff8420
    @pmstuff8420 6 месяцев назад +115

    I think we have similar weird regulations here in Norway, the only smaller fireworks you can see here are sticks that kids hold and they spark downwards slowly. Rockets are completely banned and you usually only see large boxes of fireworks, nothing small and fun anymore. Really good video as always! You’re the only channel that makes me turn on my tv and sound system specifically for your videos! ❤

    • @wydua2049
      @wydua2049 6 месяцев назад +4

      I tihnk it is because big fireworks are just less affordable and it is less likely for someone to buy a ton of them and then annoy ppl throughought long times.
      You can launch the big ones once and then wel... you do not have more.
      Instead you could have ppl buy more of the small ones and shoot at random time of the month and make noise.
      Generally i think it is quite a good law.

    • @BlackM3sh
      @BlackM3sh 6 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@wydua2049 Another Norwegian here, and some arguments that are used towards banning single rockets is that they are more likely to fall over and hit someone compared to a big box with a huge flat base. They are also a lot easier to willingly aim towards someone as they can be easily held with one arm (though possibly burning yourself in the progress).

    • @victorkreig6089
      @victorkreig6089 6 месяцев назад

      ​@BlackM3sh so in other words the safety blackshirts once again ruining things for everyone because they want to control everything?
      Typical

    • @fleetlmysneetl
      @fleetlmysneetl 6 месяцев назад +1

      så mange nordmenn her!

    • @samik83
      @samik83 6 месяцев назад +2

      They actually banned rockets? Here in Finland you can still get them, but the trend is that the "boxes" are taking over. People just like them more.

  • @mushroomcrepes4780
    @mushroomcrepes4780 6 месяцев назад +231

    I'm glad my neighbors put so much money into fireworks cause I sure as hell wouldn't pay thousands for a few seconds of fun

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 6 месяцев назад +8

      If you're paying thousands of dollars for a few seconds of enjoyment with fireworks, you've bought a single firework that you are not qualified to use. That or you don't know that you're not supposed to use gasoline to light your fireworks. That's the only way you're setting off that many fireworks in a few seconds. I recommend you don't go around fireworks at all, until you understand them better.

    • @mushroomcrepes4780
      @mushroomcrepes4780 6 месяцев назад

      @@northernsnow6982 tru

    • @aferlez
      @aferlez 6 месяцев назад

      he probably doesnt mean seconds literally. probably minutes @@northernsnow6982

    • @ser_igel
      @ser_igel 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@northernsnow6982 my guess is it's not thousands of dollars, but thousands of chech korunas, rubles or forints (but it's like everything costs thousands in hungary) or any other country besides ones in eu or na
      also OP might not know the cost of fireworks cuz they never bought one

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@ser_igel when you're talking about currencies where it costs $200-2500 of their local money, just to buy a meal at McDonald's, a few thousand on some small fireworks isn't crazy. I imagine if they were talking about these places, with these currencies, the number they said wouldn't have only been "thousands". That or their neighbours only buy one small firework, or a pack of firecrackers.
      This is obviously a case of this person doesn't understand anything at all, about fireworks. It's a good thing they don't buy the smallest of fireworks. Not until they get educated on them enough to understand even more than just the price.

  • @CobraTheSpacePirate
    @CobraTheSpacePirate 6 месяцев назад +24

    It is basically the same thing here in Japan. I once looked into getting a license way back in 2000 and the hoops that you have to jump through was just ridiculous.

    • @CarpetHater
      @CarpetHater 6 месяцев назад +2

      Really? I thought fireworks was sold almost year round in Convience stores, atleast F2 type. Correct me if i'm wrong

    • @СНІМР
      @СНІМР 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@CarpetHatermight be talking about licenses to make them or light some types off year round. could be wrong though

    • @AllenKnutson
      @AllenKnutson 6 месяцев назад +2

      Huh! I was astonished in Kyoto at what people were setting off in the street, nothing like I'd ever seen in the US (but maybe just haven't lived in the right parts).

    • @queenkurumi8504
      @queenkurumi8504 4 месяца назад +2

      it's not the same thing in japan in japan even the one shoot aerial firewors are alowed to the publick best part themulti shoot cakes are illegal how ironic :D even the rockets and smaller firecrackers are still legal in japan there are lot of fireworks shops in Tokyo to..

    • @CobraTheSpacePirate
      @CobraTheSpacePirate 4 месяца назад +3

      @@queenkurumi8504I was talking about license for storage, transportation and handling, manufacture, sale and operation of rocket engines, chrysanthemums etc, not senko hanabi, roman candles, bakuchiku or other consumer fireworks. In the U.S. you can manufacture fireworks or build model rocket engines or what ever. Also, in the U.S. at least in my state they made mortars, chrysanthemums etc. all legal now!

  • @pakhyeoncheol
    @pakhyeoncheol 6 месяцев назад +21

    I love seeing people's random side passions it's so interesting

  • @tbuk8350
    @tbuk8350 6 месяцев назад +45

    Here in Minnesota (US), all large fireworks are banned. The only ones we are legally allowed to purchase are small snap-its and fountains and stuff.
    However, as far as I'm aware, the law only disallows the selling of large fireworks, so everyone drives the short drive to Hudson, Wisconsin and purchases massive fireworks displays there. Fireworks are obviously a huge thing in the US, so for the 4th of July, practically everyone does this.

    • @djornvanduuren657
      @djornvanduuren657 6 месяцев назад +3

      31 december is our day, we get our biggest fireworks in belgium or germany, thats a 1 hour drive for us

    • @Vacated204
      @Vacated204 6 месяцев назад +1

      I’ve been down to the Roseau Independence Day fair from Canada multiple times, you Americans really know how to put on a fireworks show.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 6 месяцев назад +6

      It always strikes me as weird how laws in the US can usually be circumvented by just going to a neighbouring state and committing the crime in a place where it's legal. For anyone else that would be like going to another country to buy something illegal and then trying to smuggle it past customs.

    • @the_expidition427
      @the_expidition427 6 месяцев назад

      Explains the trajectory of Minnesota and what is currently happening to it

    • @Atomicketchup
      @Atomicketchup 6 месяцев назад

      Georgia where I live used to be like that when I was a kid, we would all go to south or north Carolina and get the good stuff. Thankfully nowadays we can get it all down here.

  • @HenrikMyrhaug
    @HenrikMyrhaug 6 месяцев назад +47

    The reason big boxes aren't banned is because they are so much easier to operate safely, and because they go so high, there is little risk of hitting houses and trees. Just put them on the ground, light the fuse and run a safe distance away. Handheld fireworks and fireworks that look like they are hand held are much easier for people to hurt themselves with, which is why even the smaller ones are sometimes banned.
    In general, there will be a lot of drunk people lighting these things, so it's all about minimizing the odds of user error.

    • @TheCraterGames
      @TheCraterGames 6 месяцев назад +3

      And 10x more expensive aren't they?

    • @D3nn1s
      @D3nn1s 6 месяцев назад +3

      Exactly what i was thinking. However ive seen a tipped over box and then it gets quite bad pretty quickly, however i also believe that single rockets are more dangerous to the average dumb and drunk silvester guy

    • @noahgeerdink5144
      @noahgeerdink5144 6 месяцев назад +5

      The trash is also a big problem, smaller fire works are mostly made of paper, But in bigger fireworks it is easier to make the the stars and shells with plastic, thus making the trash problem much worse as all of this plastic gets shredded to small pieces that we can't clean up.

    • @aferlez
      @aferlez 6 месяцев назад

      its made from concrete or cartboard@@noahgeerdink5144

    • @aferlez
      @aferlez 6 месяцев назад

      a box is pretty mutch impossible to tip after being lit@@D3nn1s

  • @qrs_malte
    @qrs_malte 6 месяцев назад +14

    I live in germany close to the dutch border, it's crazy how many dutch people come here at 6 or 7 in the morning just to buy fireworks for new years xD

    • @jasoneleftheriou8261
      @jasoneleftheriou8261 6 месяцев назад

      I working Hamburg on a ship and I am thinking to go to Germany for the holidays, but if I stay in Germany is it legal to have fireworks in a house that I can rend for the holiday's?

    • @qrs_malte
      @qrs_malte 6 месяцев назад

      @@jasoneleftheriou8261 it's not illegal to own fireworks, you're just not allowed to set them off outside of new years (eve)

  • @MQWalkman
    @MQWalkman 6 месяцев назад +70

    Your argument about larger fireworks being intrinsically dangerous (because of physics) while smaller ones are extrinsically dangerous (because people are foolish and bad-natured) is interesting. We were talking about similar restrictions in other parts of the world this morning. Happy New Year to you!

    • @deesh6378
      @deesh6378 6 месяцев назад +2

      Except that people can still misuse the large fireworks, a 2KG NEM compound is gonna do many times more damage than a tiny firecracker or baby rocket.

  • @human_being99_3
    @human_being99_3 6 месяцев назад +2

    bigger fireworks = more expensive = more taxes

  • @SpiritmanProductions
    @SpiritmanProductions 6 месяцев назад +3

    I still remember setting off 'muggescheetjes' in the 70s. ;-)

  • @Greedy-Allay
    @Greedy-Allay 6 месяцев назад +4

    Always so fun to see another Nederlander on RUclips! I'm Dutch as well!

  • @lolxnn
    @lolxnn 6 месяцев назад +40

    I was in Amsterdam in 2022 on new year eve.
    Well i think those laws were not followed that that night.

    • @Get_yotted
      @Get_yotted 6 месяцев назад +1

      Fireworks are also illegal in many cities in the US. Nobody cares and it’s not really enforced, especially on 4th of July

    • @LOOKATMYUSERNAM
      @LOOKATMYUSERNAM 6 месяцев назад +1

      They don’t check it so ima go boom like crazy

    • @thunderkinginkwark271
      @thunderkinginkwark271 6 месяцев назад

      Boeie

  • @BluishGreenPro
    @BluishGreenPro 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for an incredible year of videos! So glad to have discovered your channel. Looking forward to next year.

  • @BongoOG
    @BongoOG 6 месяцев назад +3

    That was a great year, Posy
    The way you've made the last video on your channel this year was also clever!
    Keep it up!

  • @opoxious1592
    @opoxious1592 6 месяцев назад +1

    Well, i will never end this hobby.
    And i have been doing it for 40 years.
    And i havent's even started yet

  • @koenvdv30
    @koenvdv30 6 месяцев назад +3

    Gelukkig nieuwjaar! Bedankt voor alle inspirerende videos! :)

  • @free_spirit1
    @free_spirit1 6 месяцев назад +3

    Fireworks WERE my childhood, and new year's eve was the most important day of the year.

  • @WafflesOWNz
    @WafflesOWNz 6 месяцев назад +17

    I have fond memories of small fireworks like firecrackers, fountains, and those spinning ones on the ground being lit in my grandma's patio in Mexico when I was a kid. Small fireworks that you watch from much closer were more fun to me than seeing large fireworks at a distance.

  • @brianhernandez8625
    @brianhernandez8625 6 месяцев назад

    Very happy to say that I was smiling wide by the end of the video. Really captured the magic of them and one can really feel your passion for them!
    Happy New Year!

  • @WDC_OSA
    @WDC_OSA 6 месяцев назад

    Happy new year Posy!

  • @Stoobers
    @Stoobers 6 месяцев назад +1

    Happy new year Posy! :)

  • @wizewizard1840
    @wizewizard1840 6 месяцев назад +8

    Just yesterday I was thinking to myself: I wonder when Posy will release his next video. It's been a while since I enjoyed a new video from him.
    And so here we are now.

  • @Shineyongs.
    @Shineyongs. 6 месяцев назад +2

    Even 20 years ago, I remember seeing an individual in Korea set off fireworks at a park near his apartment.
    Seeing it again, it feels like a festival to start the new year!
    Happy New Year~

    • @lennartjuhh
      @lennartjuhh 6 месяцев назад +1

      You only once saw someone light fireworks? And that was 20 years ago and has since sticked with you? That's a bit sad tbh 😢

    • @PrinssiFO
      @PrinssiFO 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@lennartjuhhThat guy lighting up is most likely still in prison.

  • @deadreaver666
    @deadreaver666 6 месяцев назад

    Happy New Year Posy!

  • @SW7.62
    @SW7.62 6 месяцев назад +3

    Fireworks that should be legal:
    Rockets (small and big)
    Firecrackers with up to 3 grams of flashpowder
    Salute/ noise fireworks
    Cakes F2-F4
    Single shots up to 3”
    Shells up to1,75”
    Smoke bombs
    Fountains
    Roman candles
    Fireworks that should be illegal:
    Round/ triangular cakes
    Firecrackers like the cobra 8 or profi big boy

  • @lasinhouseinthetrees1928
    @lasinhouseinthetrees1928 6 месяцев назад

    Happy new year posy :) all the best

  • @gtbkts
    @gtbkts 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks for all the amazing content and great videos!!!

  • @Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head
    @Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for being one of the most interesting channels on RUclips. I never know what you're going to make a video on next, and you have a presentation style that I could watch for hours. Here's to whatever comes next in 2024!

  • @fsaido
    @fsaido 6 месяцев назад +1

    Happy new year 🥳

  • @thisislilraskal
    @thisislilraskal 6 месяцев назад

    Bless you Posy, love your sense of humor and I always learn something.

  • @phillies4eva
    @phillies4eva 6 месяцев назад +2

    I got to experience new year’s fireworks in Germany years ago. It was amazing and I’m thankful I had that experience

  • @imagiro1
    @imagiro1 6 месяцев назад

    All the best for 2024 to you Posy, and thanks for all the -fish- videos!

  • @littlefellahardcore
    @littlefellahardcore 6 месяцев назад +2

    Same story in the UK. Small, cheap fireworks like bangers and mini rockets were banned in the 90s because of misuse. But we can buy F3 shot tube barrage with 1kg of powder. I still miss the bangers .

    • @queenkurumi8504
      @queenkurumi8504 4 месяца назад +1

      Bangers illegal in Hungary to but we always get them and using them 😁

    • @littlefellahardcore
      @littlefellahardcore 4 месяца назад

      @queenkurumi8504 yes ,we could buy from Europe when we was part of the union. From bomba shop from pyro market .not any more 😔

  • @Warrigt
    @Warrigt 6 месяцев назад +1

    I now understand why the Austin Powers movies make fun of the freaky deaky Dutch

  • @llMarvelous
    @llMarvelous 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you dear Posy, you are doing wonderful beautiful things, and from young age too!
    Please don’t stop!
    And all the best to you, my friend 🎉 🍾🥂🎊🪄💥💥💥

  • @WoopyLoops
    @WoopyLoops 6 месяцев назад +2

    People misused the old smaller fireworks due to people being drunk and irresponsible, now they all have been banned and you can only buy heavy grade (legal) fireworks that can cause instant death or even maiming somebody if misused, i miss the firecrackers and the small whistle rockets from back in the day, its sad that so many good things get ruined by people misusing them.
    I now mainly just buy fountains or the small crackling balls for the new years, happy new year to you!

    • @queenkurumi8504
      @queenkurumi8504 4 месяца назад

      nothing is ruined my god man stupid laws don't need to be enforced we buy firecrackers illegally and use them the same way :) the government don't limit me with ridiculous prohibitions ...

  • @mfbfreak
    @mfbfreak 6 месяцев назад +29

    It's never been so quiet in the days leading up to new year's eve. In my city, it used to be really excessive in the whole of december. Fire crackers being set off any day of the month, scaring our indoor cats, and the dogs of people walking their dogs outside. Couple dozen street signs blown up with bundled together fireworks or illegally imported ones too each time. A square near our local shopping centre now has huge lighting and camera towers, because of the destruction caused in the previous years to the asphalt and to the windows of the nearby sports centre.
    Although the current legal fireworks are still loud as hell, at least the intermittent bangs of the firecrackers are now almost totally gone, and replaced by maybe one or two people in my area setting off a big multishot box somewhere in the evening - after which peace returns again. So far, it's a huge improvement.
    I'm so happy, it's genuinely a huge quality of life improvement. I hope people don't ruin the rest of the fireworks by doing things in excess.
    I'm celebrating with some little fountains and what's called in perfect chinglish 'ground bloom flowers'. I'm against a blanket ban, but very happy about the ban on firecrackers. In a country with 18 million people on an area the size of a postage stamp, your personal freedom to do things ends, where the freedom of others to not be too heavily bothered by something starts.

    • @ligametis
      @ligametis 6 месяцев назад +8

      Sad days now. It used to be way more interesting and exciting. People could just not own dogs if they are worried about scaring them. The noisier like a bomb, the nicer, I don't even care about colours. 😊

    • @swedneck
      @swedneck 6 месяцев назад +15

      @@ligametis are you really saying that only people who don't care about their dogs feelings should own dogs?

    • @JaccoSW
      @JaccoSW 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@ligametis I remember riding to and from work on my bicycle while being attacked by people tossing firecrackers at my feet.
      I am NOT sad that those days are over.

    • @mrtoxic6196
      @mrtoxic6196 6 месяцев назад +3

      The problem isnt the "firecrackers" you are talking about. The problem are the illigal bangers like a cobra6/8 and stuff like that... sadly enough people still think these big bangs are firecrackers.. All because they get misinfo from the interent

    • @sweetsunnyvibes
      @sweetsunnyvibes 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ligametisdumbest self-centered comment I ever read...

  • @omayoperations8423
    @omayoperations8423 6 месяцев назад

    Oh hey new posy upload. Epic.

  • @konvitalik
    @konvitalik 6 месяцев назад +2

    i really like your vids posy keep it up :)

  • @amber.mp4
    @amber.mp4 6 месяцев назад

    amazing quality as always. i love the old footage

  • @Microtonal_Cats
    @Microtonal_Cats 6 месяцев назад +1

    That legal one with 60 rockets needs The 1812 Overture playing over it.

  • @daanbondt3167
    @daanbondt3167 6 месяцев назад +2

    I do have to say, I think roman candles where used more as a handheld firework launcher then something you put into the ground. but even with those people around the fireballs from a roman candle couldn't do anything dangerous unless u where to fire it directly into someones naked eye.

  • @werk62
    @werk62 5 месяцев назад +1

    Most fireworks are illegal where I live but on the 4th of July the cops disappear so everyone does them and it's a great time.

  • @belstar1128
    @belstar1128 6 месяцев назад +1

    In Belgium we used to get our fireworks in the Netherlands but now the Dutch come here to get fireworks

  • @LeoMkII
    @LeoMkII 5 месяцев назад +1

    You HAVE to go to Japan then Posy, they have the best fireworks shows!

  • @belg4mit
    @belg4mit 4 месяца назад

    That multi-color fountain was pretty sweet.

  • @askjacob
    @askjacob 6 месяцев назад

    Finally, a video of fireworks that actually gets watched. So many get filmed to never be seen again

  • @RoterFruchtZwerg
    @RoterFruchtZwerg 6 месяцев назад

    Happy New Year 😊 🎆

  • @irbahmarwa4625
    @irbahmarwa4625 6 месяцев назад +1

    So amazing watching every posy's video on my oled screen 🤤

  • @Psycandy
    @Psycandy 6 месяцев назад +1

    growing up i learned a language that i never use... but realized recently i can understand videos in dutch, which is the most random thing ever but fantastically useful, suddenly.

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 6 месяцев назад +3

    There is a pretty damn clear difference. One of these would be nearly impossible to ignite while holding and the other would be ridiculously easy. Just because they have a big shower of sparks doesn’t mean it isn’t going to actually hurt more people

  • @PochuiChristian
    @PochuiChristian 6 месяцев назад

    i love the last shot, its like a wallpaper

  • @PrincessRinsicles
    @PrincessRinsicles 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the nice video Posy. Gelukkig Nieuwjaar alvast.

  • @kaitoplak4359
    @kaitoplak4359 6 месяцев назад +1

    strange laws here in Slovenia too!
    The country has a ban on firecrackers no matter how big or how small whilst still allowing giant firework batteries. And a lot of fireworks companies bypass this ban by marking them as scaring devices for hunters!

    • @queenkurumi8504
      @queenkurumi8504 4 месяца назад

      Same in Hungary firecrackers banned sinc 2005 but we not care so every year many hungarians using them now they lagalized p1 category firecrackers for publick

  • @darwiniandude
    @darwiniandude 6 месяцев назад +3

    In my lifetime (born early 80's) domestic fireworks have been entirely illegal here. But this is Australia - around this time of year it's often 40ºC here! Bushfires! So it's fair enough, I understand. It would be lovely to experience them in a cold snowy place though. There are still free to view large public fireworks displays however. And there are occasionally naughty people who manage to set off some smaller illegally imported ones from time to time.

  • @romyaz1713
    @romyaz1713 6 месяцев назад +2

    i was in berlin for a ney years celebration around ten years ago. it was a crazy hell of unregulated fireworks on the streets. i thought half of the city would go up in flames and hospitals would be overrun by burn victims with perforated ears. i served as a combat engineer in the army and heard my share of explosions and i did not feel safe for myself or my girlfriend on those streets. i saw people getting shot by fireworks that stuck in clothing or hair and then explode. problem is you can't really tell who is shooting them. most of the time its kids who run away into the crowd

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 6 месяцев назад +3

      In the mid '90s my uncle lost all his windows because of that. He had an illegal roll (wheel barrow sized) but just after he put them outside, drunken fools began firing small fireworks randomly. We were pushed away from the windows and that was a wise policy, because it ignited the roll and blew up everything.
      Then in my first bought house, we had similar kids in the area around my house. In 2019 they threw a Cobra (mainly from Italy or Germany, Italy happily deals in them. Criminals strap them together for bombings too) on my balcony and blew out two of my windows. The curtains caught the flying glass, but otherwise... Our baby's crib was in that room.
      And police do nothing at all about such bombings because 'We can't chase every bang, there's so many'. So being terrified by weekly bombings at night from roughly august to april kept up. I started to learn a pattern and that they liked to move between the two areas of social housing where they and their friends live and wake up everybody twice.
      So in 2020 when one first detonated around 1AM, I went outside and lay in wait. The idiot came back for round 2 at roughly 3 AM and he detonated a cobra 12, he was jumped by a masked man and savagely beaten with a large stick, basically crippling him. Guy took half an hour to pick himself up and stumble away. Still blood on the ground the next day. 😆
      Anyway, it isn't right or ideal, but necessary. That worked a lot better than completely impotent police and weak courts that let even murderers off with a warning, and after crippled man had told his dumb thug-friends his story it was mostly quiet nights ever since.
      I moved out of the area and it's been much better ever since. Sure this area also has idiots, but posh idiots tend to be mostly a danger to themselves and seem aware that neighbours won't stand for any nonsense towards them.

  • @Evercreeper
    @Evercreeper 6 месяцев назад

    HAPPY NEW YEAR

  • @TrasherBiner
    @TrasherBiner 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you Posy. Sounds like we are about the same age. Thanks for uploading nostalgic and slightly nerdy content that I relate with very much.

  • @bridgersilk
    @bridgersilk 6 месяцев назад

    These firework collection pictures with bottle rockets, roman candles and old firecrackers make me remember my childhood so much. Back then the local store in our village always had a closet with some small fireworks like fountains, bottle rocket bundles and fountains, even in the summer. I remember almost every time when my dad and I went to that store, he let me get a bundle with 50 bottle rockets for like 50 cents. I used to be so fascinated about these small rockets, even if they had no effects. 😊

  • @alfonzo_
    @alfonzo_ 6 месяцев назад +5

    how the heck do you have a tiny little rocket from 30 years ago? I'm so jealous when people have all that old thingamajigs laying around full of memories. my mom would've thrown it away so many times.

  • @RMcarphotography
    @RMcarphotography 6 месяцев назад

    Zit zeer netjes in elkaar, dank !

  • @scotts918
    @scotts918 6 месяцев назад

    The Dutch: No small booms 😤
    Also The Dutch: Only big booms 👀

  • @miguelnascimento2847
    @miguelnascimento2847 6 месяцев назад

    I was in Amsterdam for this new year celebration and it was crazy, I arrived 1 week prior and every day all day there would be fireworks every now and then, lots of kids playing with firecrackers too. At midnight it was crazy to stand on a tall rooftop in the center of Amsterdam and anywhere I looked it was all fireworks. Best new year celebration so far, will for sure go there again if I can

  • @zakyzigzag
    @zakyzigzag 6 месяцев назад +2

    The takeaway? Do things that you want NOW before the are illegal lol

    • @sweetsunnyvibes
      @sweetsunnyvibes 6 месяцев назад +1

      That OBVIOUSLY excludes criminal acts, for the rebellious among us

  • @XxfortprosYTxX2
    @XxfortprosYTxX2 5 месяцев назад

    I really think that fireworks are a world of art especially firework shows and also that one time I made a 5 second short of a small firework doing so much

  • @lyrimetacurl0
    @lyrimetacurl0 6 месяцев назад

    Happy New Year!

  • @BoserPSN
    @BoserPSN 6 месяцев назад

    Im so glad that I found this channel.

  • @c4rma776
    @c4rma776 6 месяцев назад +1

    Firework laws in Malta are strange, too. Purchase and possession of ALL fireworks is illegal, from tiny bangers to rockets. However, you can get a fireworks license (which is a hard and lengthy process) and you can manufacture your own fireworks with basically no limitations. This leads to enormous mortars which range from a few centi-meters to almost a meter in diameter. There are still a lot of regulations on when and where you can light them, and you can't sell them to anyone else, but the fact that these huge, self-made fireworks are legal but small firecrackers aren't is a mystery.

    • @the11382
      @the11382 6 месяцев назад +1

      That sounds messy and dangerous.

  • @karmasong74
    @karmasong74 6 месяцев назад

    THAT MOON!!! AMAZING!!

  • @grindfi
    @grindfi 6 месяцев назад

    i really like that you made a video about it

  • @Busterblade20
    @Busterblade20 6 месяцев назад +1

    So that's where the funny accent came from

  • @noahclaycameron
    @noahclaycameron 6 месяцев назад +1

    Gandalf would be disappointed in the regulations, but proud of Posy

  • @omayoperations8423
    @omayoperations8423 6 месяцев назад

    Where I live, there's always a pretty good show over a lake, and the cardboard from the fireworks has landed on me numerous times.

  • @modalmixture
    @modalmixture 6 месяцев назад +2

    Used on one day of the year at public shows, they are charming. But I live in East Los Angeles, and by the time July is over I never want to see or hear another firework ever again.

  • @Aukejorrit
    @Aukejorrit 6 месяцев назад

    I walked all day every year, with a big bag full of rotjes and tollen. Magical!

  • @shrekenthusiast8703
    @shrekenthusiast8703 6 месяцев назад +2

    in germany, these big fireworks are legal, but people still buy suff from polamd or czechia. yesterday, i saw someone light 50 giant firecrackers tied. together! Btw, they were bought like that, from czechia. afterwards, 4 still exploded, when someone lighted them.

  • @____________________K
    @____________________K 6 месяцев назад

    thank you for making such a great content in 2023

  • @Krudterino
    @Krudterino 6 месяцев назад +1

    You make a good point. All the unique items are being banned, so we end up just going for the biggest of the legal ones. You could once fill your room with plenty of different articles and it would be just the legal storage limit. Now you can get a bunch of cakes and too easily go way beyond what should be in a home.

  • @hhleap
    @hhleap 6 месяцев назад

    Only now I understood how much I miss seeing fireworks in Kyiv 😢
    Incredible video as always!

  • @boazadventures
    @boazadventures 6 месяцев назад

    Zo zonde dat ze oudjaarsdag hebben afgeschaft. Het was altijd mijn favoriete dag van het jaar.

  • @vinkniv
    @vinkniv 6 месяцев назад +2

    The remote you used is the cheapest brand available. It isn't safer than lighting by hand. The reason being that they all operate on the same frequency so if your neighbor would have the same system you would have a big problem.

  • @BobderBenchpresser
    @BobderBenchpresser 6 месяцев назад +1

    You could build damn good traps with remote controls

  • @Gin-toki
    @Gin-toki 5 дней назад

    We have similar fireworks rules in denmark. Regarding roman candles, the issue with them is that many people use them handheld and shoots towards other people with them.

  • @3ccdmike
    @3ccdmike Месяц назад

    Really nice !

  • @ilovecats_og
    @ilovecats_og 6 месяцев назад +1

    "From when i was 13 years old" 1:42
    That means that Posy is either 43 or 44 years old.

  • @changein3d
    @changein3d 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks for bringing some silvester vibes into my feed! beautiful footage, and the mist filter makes it even more magical. Here in duitsland, the biggest problem are illegal bombs that get imported from poland. They will damage your eardrum permanently if they explode next to you, and they are mostly around circles of young, poor boys who challenge each other. As a musician I only go outside with earplugs during the whole pre-new years days.

  • @pavlomakarchuk
    @pavlomakarchuk 6 месяцев назад +90

    I'm from Ukraine, and i remember in 2013 at New Year night fireworks were exploding for like an hour. And now there are real explosions, and I think I will not see fireworks as an art form any time soon. But I glad you guys do, shoot some fireworks for me:)

    • @Rem_NL
      @Rem_NL 6 месяцев назад +8

      On the bright side, the US military makes a lot of money. So at least there is always 1 winner

    • @raven75257
      @raven75257 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, this video made me realise how much I miss fireworks. Since, they're all illegal now technically, I'm not sure when will be the next time we see them

    • @RobotronSage
      @RobotronSage 6 месяцев назад +4

      Hoping 2024 will be good for you all

    • @Ten_Thousand_Locusts
      @Ten_Thousand_Locusts 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@Rem_NLlmao

    • @lennartjuhh
      @lennartjuhh 6 месяцев назад

      @@RobotronSageI really doubt it. More and more politicians are turning their backs on Ukraine. Most are starting to lean to "give Russia the part they've captured"

  • @AlbertoSartori
    @AlbertoSartori 6 месяцев назад +1

    01:55 Whistling Moon Travellers (with report) !!!

  • @tychovw
    @tychovw 6 месяцев назад

    3:20 fireworks never go off without igniting them. You have nothing to worry about.

  • @felixml919
    @felixml919 6 месяцев назад

    It's really funny how you listed the plastic shells dropping as your reasoning behind stopping fireworks (on a big scale) but underlaid footage of a whistle cake, which is exactly what produces said shells, while taking about "good small fireworks".
    But yeah I also hate those small whistle cakes with a passion

  • @basbroo1
    @basbroo1 6 месяцев назад

    Jeez still remember playing with all that when i was young shooting roman candles at each other

  • @VLena_art
    @VLena_art 6 месяцев назад

    Gelukkig nieuwjaar!!