[Misc] Gotta Love The Sydney Fireworks

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Always a worldie show of stunning pyrotechnics and somewhat less than stunning soundtrack. Gawd bless ya Stralia. Never change.

 

[Arkwright]

Been lucky to have seen them twice, once from the Rocks area and from The Lord Nelson pub / Observatory.

A brilliant night out.

 

[Gazwag]

I wonder if those stuck on the beach at Mallacoota appreciated them and all those dollars exploded to make that pretty fire in the sky

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I wonder if those stuck on the beach at Mallacoota appreciated them and all those dollars exploded to make that pretty fire in the sky

I'd like to think they'd be straight headed Aussie enough to realise that the two things are in no way connected other than for the purpose of political cheap shots. Nature's gonna do what nature's gonna do. Loving the positivity of the Sydney fireworks

 

[Billy the Fish]

I wonder if those stuck on the beach at Mallacoota appreciated them and all those dollars exploded to make that pretty fire in the sky

I reckon 100% of Aussies on that beach would say something like "don't be a sook" or "soft c**t" to anyone even making the connection.

 

[beorhthelm]

I wonder if those stuck on the beach at Mallacoota appreciated them and all those dollars exploded to make that pretty fire in the sky

pointed out in news over weekend that the display has been payed for months ago.

 

[Arkwright]

Good on the Aussies, the show goes on.

 

[Weststander]

You gotta welcome in an even hotter decade with some razzamatazz.

 

[Superphil]

I reckon 100% of Aussies on that beach would say something like "don't be a sook" or "soft c**t" to anyone even making the connection.

250,000 signed a petition asking for the fireworks to be scrapped. regardless of what had already been spent on the display, there would have been huge costs incurred on the night with stewarding and emergency services, all could have been put to better use maybe?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

250,000 signed a petition asking for the fireworks to be scrapped. regardless of what had already been spent on the display, there would have been huge costs incurred on the night with stewarding and emergency services, all could have been put to better use maybe?

250,000 in any worldie city will always virtue signal something they don't like. Probably now factored into any equation and duly disregarded

 

[Pavilionaire]

You could argue that with the devastation caused by the fires and the potential impact on tourism Australia needs this big firework show more than ever.

 

[Mr Putdown]

Been lucky to have seen them twice, once from the Rocks area and from The Lord Nelson pub / Observatory.

A brilliant night out.

I’m sure I'm misreading this as the last time I was there the Lord Nelson was in the Rocks precinct.

 

[Gazwag]

all could have been put to better use maybe?

Like possibly hundreds of firemen doing nothing on standby in Sydney because of a massive event when a few 100 miles away their colleagues are the last line of defense protecting people in huge danger.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

250,000 signed a petition asking for the fireworks to be scrapped. regardless of what had already been spent on the display, there would have been huge costs incurred on the night with stewarding and emergency services, all could have been put to better use maybe?

At best it seems a bit uncomfortable to be having a firework display when the nation is literally burning away in the background.

 

[Bozza]

At best it seems a bit uncomfortable to be having a firework display when the nation is literally burning away in the background.

Agreed - I really don't think the economic argument stacks up. It's not like some Sydney city officials were going to pop down to the local newsagent today to pick up some rockets and Catherine wheels for the display, and many of the staff rostered on would likely be deployed throughout the city if the display hadn't gone ahead as the city would still be busy with revellers.

But it doesn't feel quite right to have gone ahead with the display when so many are in perilous positions right now.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Agreed - I really don't think the economic argument stacks up. It's not like some Sydney city officials were going to pop down to the local newsagent today to pick up some rockets and Catherine wheels for the display, and many of the staff rostered on would likely be deployed throughout the city if the display hadn't gone ahead as the city would still be busy with revellers.

But it doesn't feel quite right to have gone ahead with the display when so many are in perilous positions right now.

With the advancement of laser technology, you'd think in hindsight, it would've been a cleaner and more earth friendly option!

 

[Weststander]

The arrogant Australian PM has a Trump take on the planet. Let’s massively hike coal production, there’s no evidence that mankind is polluting or heating our atmosphere.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

At best it seems a bit uncomfortable to be having a firework display when the nation is literally burning away in the background.

Disagree. Australia has always been a positive outward-looking country, bless em. Cancelling the fireworks would have been bowing down to lazy social media outrage. Enough of that already

 

[blue-shifted]

The arrogant Australian PM has a Trump take on the planet. Let’s massively hike coal production, there’s no evidence that mankind is polluting or heating our atmosphere.

Hopefully what's happening will at least mean he gets voted out. That's if electoral accountability for anything populist leaders say or do is still a thing in the coming decade

 

[blue-shifted]

I don't disagree with the decision to not to cancel necessarily.

But to me these fires and the timing of them at the start of a new decade serve as a grim portent of what is to come.

Australia now. But the climate disaster will reach everywhere in some form or other.