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yeah they're for adults to use for igniting thermite lol

I've always hated sparklers. Even as a kid, I thought they were too volatile to hold. Plus I needed my hands to cover my ears from all the other screeching fire toys.

The eyes should melt. Make the eyes melt.

Next thing you'll probably say it was bad that our parents let us play with mercury

We used a blowtorch to light the sparklers

And, just a thought, we never hear stories about the "let kids be kids!" people walking around emergency rooms offering to pay for treatments. It's easy to have a carefree take on safety when you're not sitting in the ER.

Late Boomer here, we always had a bucket of water to douse them. They make quite the sizzling sound.

Ha ha ha, no. Pretty sure they were TRYING to kill us

To keep the sparklers cooler we’d sit on the hood of dad’s car while he drove on the freeway

It’s good to have a garden hose near fireworks, and gen x will probably drink from it

*pshaw* You think my parents gave me those sparklers? My uncle John was *right there* ...

I'm a boomer. When I was a kid, a neighbor kid's nightgown caught fire from a sparkler. Fortunately the parents got it out quickly and she was not hurt (that I recall).

Hot enough to cauterize the cuts from playing barefoot in a backyard full of broken beer bottles. Win win!

Gen X? I'm a millennial and my parents did that lmao. Anyway if I had a kid I wouldn't personally hand them anything that's burning as a toy more or less. It just sends a pretty bad message to them about touching things that are smoldering.

My dad sent an entire package of sparklers on fire one year. Spent the night sleeping with his hand in a frying pan of water because of the burn.

Handsome Ron would let us have sparklers 😠

I suppose bottle rocket wars and Roman Candle Duels didn’t make the safe list either?

It used to be my job to hold the M80 (in the middle of our street) while my dad lit the fuse.

Bringing back childhood memories of my annual sparkler second-degree burns 🔥 🙃 No need to ban the 🎇 as long as the parents remain sober long enough to ensure the safety of their children and fully extinguishing the glowing metal stick so no one steps on it and then doesn't get to go swimming 😬🙄🤭

uh … fairin … fehring … phere … dammit Kelvin.

Another good argument for switching to centigrade then...

And be sure to call them "appetizers" and not "hors d'oeuvres" That's a killer.

Go metric. Celsius is easier to spell, and 1100 degrees is still a lot.

no one pays attention after the first three or so letters, you're fine

Sparkler burns hurt like hell. No joke detected. Do not recommend experiencing.

Oh, damn, we always had them as kids. I think once or twice we got a whole box each. I guess in retrospect that was dumb...

In the 90's we used to get em from PA or SC Bottle rocket fights in the street M80s in sewers and hear the pop on the drain cover. Still have all my fingers thankfully

They're probably safer just because they can't wave them around like I did as a kid, thinking I was on the Disney Channel or something.

Hey that was me at my last BBQ

My parents gave me sparklers when i was a kid and i am still on fire.

So shooting bottle rockets at each other probably isn’t safe either? Who would have known?

Never let presidents with the maturity of a toddler sell weapons to Israel

I hope y'all are posting this on facebook too, because my kid's grandparents aren't seeing it here 🙃

Of course that happened- kid didn’t stop drop n roll

Māra's incense

Place it in a metal container/pot then light to burn off the thermite. Safe to discard once spent.

I have a scar on the palm of my hand from the early 70s from a sparkler. I remember how much it hurt.

Or, here's a nice concept. Pay attention to and teach your kids how to properly handle and respect things that can hurt them. I grew up with them in my hands every year of my life and never even been burned. This is why ppl talk about us getting soft on everything... be responsible ffs

Sometime in the 1960s my mother was badly burned by a sparkler, so she never let me have one. She had to find out the hard way, but now we have CPSC Bluesky👍

200 degrees kevin

Happy 4th of July!

yah same

I was a toys r us kid which legally binds me to be a kid forever since I don't want to grow up. Am I still not allowed to use these?

Oh, nooo, sparklers! Kinder eggs! The kids might burn themselves! Oh, no! The little dummies might choke on plastic! But let them choke on their own blood when someone guns them down because the fragile idiots in this country need to feel like real ones with their big gun hobby.

Sparklers are the Hershey’s Special Dark of the candy bar bag.

Certainly the science is solid. The question that I’d ask then: If they are dangerous why should it be legal to sell/market them as “toys”?

I support adults blowing themselves up with fireworks though - because they suck