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Q: When fireworks go off at 4am, what do you think they're celebrating?

a pretty regular occurrence where I live

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superstition, unlike back home where the correct answer would be "drunken stupidity" 

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When it's done at six in the morning here it means someone has died.

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ding dong the witch is dead

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Maybe they are celebrating that they woke you up>? 

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Or that they're still alive.

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could also be;

a baby birth

100 days old anniversary

wedding in another time zone

or maybe someone just got laid

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No those are muskets.  They're preparing for the nippon invasion.

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for me, it wasn't the fireworks that woke me up early in the morning - it was a neighbours cock crowing at 5.00 am. Every night i hoped they had decided to eat it. Thankfully one day they did enlightened

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It's an alarm clock.

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Its the ancient Chinese "Leftover Fireworks Festival".

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Have you checked for a lot of ribbons, red paper and stuff? Sometimes someone died.

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In the words of the sgt.....hahaha....I"m still Alive! They are happy they are still alive and they are celebrating their lives with others..

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There are cookies, bookies and too many rookies for me to sit here trying to be a hooky! Looky Looky don't call me a wooky. Touchy Touchy Feely Feely Spicy Spicy Nicey Nicey & that's what the doctor Ordered!!

 
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4AM fireworks means someone is cooking live duck by an old Chinese method.

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Aye....... Some people simply have no consideration others. You would think they were Chinese, the way that they carry on.

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It's a superstition, It is believed that fireworks at late night can bring good luck to the new home you are about to move in.

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I like Beijing kaoya

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