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Happy New Year to Everyone Down Under

12/31/2016 11:43 AM

7 tonnes of fireworks in Sydney Harbour. Display included tributes to Prince and David Bowie.
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12/31/2016 12:10 PM

Disney Christmas party

New Years

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12/31/2016 1:18 PM

Our future mother country was celebrating at about the same time. Wait, do they celebrate New Years in Vladland?
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12/31/2016 1:31 PM

Evidently his repertoire is a bit limited...

Not exactly 'Presidential' material by any measure. This is something I might expect from a spoilt schoolboy, but not from a national leader.

At the very least, proof that money can't buy class?
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12/31/2016 3:58 PM

On 9/11/2001 this lowlife bragged that, after the Twin Towers fell, his building was the tallest in Lower Manhattan, again.
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12/31/2016 5:06 PM

Hard to say whether he was bragging or not. It could be taken either way. His actual comment is here:

http://www.snopes.com/trump-bragged-tallest-building/
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12/31/2016 1:20 PM

There goes my council tax up in smoke again!

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12/31/2016 1:51 PM

lol - Hythe spends as humungous ammount on flowers. The elderly and poor must love it. New Years eve. best to just try laugh it off.

Happy new year to all.

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12/31/2016 3:50 PM

Have a display to do tonight for the UK New Year, I think our budget is a bit smaller.

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12/31/2016 5:10 PM

Be careful tonight. You don't want this happening:

Notice they count down, then nothing happens for awhile (something is amiss?) and then ...
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01/01/2017 10:23 AM

Wow, looks like the lifting charge failed but still ignited the time fuse which is meant to light the shell at the right height, hence the delay after the countdown. My display was OK but a bit waterlogged. It was on the beach & the tide came in harder than expected, at one point a wave broke over the shell racks.

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01/01/2017 1:33 PM

That delay makes sense. Glad your display worked out. I guess they're somewhat waterproof, at least for awhile.

Just curious, what do those really big shells cost?

Happy New Year, btw!

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01/01/2017 1:59 PM

Well they are made from scratch and the materials bought in bulk, so not that much, but the retail is another story and the cost can vary greatly from shell to shell...

http://www.made-in-china.com/multi-search/Fireworks/F2--PP_artillery%2Bshell%2Bfirework/1.html

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01/01/2017 5:58 PM

We rarely use anything bigger than 6" because of the cost, they are around £10 each trade retail. 12" are about £250 each, anything bigger is special order (in the UK), in years gone by we have used bigger.

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01/01/2017 6:03 PM

That's a good size. Bet those are fun to light off!

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01/01/2017 9:30 PM

Directions....Light it and run like hell...

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01/01/2017 10:26 PM

WTF???

Is there still time to edit your comment? Please delete this image or I'm hitting the Report button.
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01/01/2017 10:30 PM

Seriously, dogs usually have nervous breakdowns during these events. Nah, it used to be a joke. Just kidding you.
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01/01/2017 10:32 PM

You've got two minutes.
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01/01/2017 10:35 PM

I think you should with your face on your icon. Is it really you or some bugger idol of yours?

Crabtree is more handsome than that!

Are those scars from fire cracker? I guess so.

There's always some part of your skin to get a decent tattoo, why put a shitty ones on your face. (sarcasm)
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01/01/2017 10:38 PM

Reported, troll.
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01/01/2017 10:45 PM

You might want to change your pseudo name, yours sounds odd "Andrew Westman"

This is my idol
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01/01/2017 10:55 PM

Andrew, meet gutmonarch, the resident troll.

He's had other identities, none redeeming.
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01/01/2017 10:58 PM

Happy new year, Lyn!=)
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01/01/2017 11:05 PM

So it would seem. Ah, well, I'll let the mods deal with it.
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01/02/2017 8:47 PM

Let's set that big boy off....

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01/02/2017 9:46 PM

Awesome! That'd be pretty cool job actually.

Building the two biggest (48") didn't go quite so well for these guys. The second one worked:
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01/01/2017 11:25 PM

Now this is a fail I would like to have seen:

https://youtu.be/vp-JxUOhkN4?t=132
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01/02/2017 6:20 AM

Short but spectacular.

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01/05/2017 3:16 AM

Nothing will beat Chelyabinsk 2014!

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01/13/2017 9:58 PM

Russia has all the fun!

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