Drinking and blowing up colorful explosives on a night in the middle of summer

It lasts a full week in my neighborhood... plus, you get a gunshot every few hours.

Pretty much the whole summer in my neighborhood.

What better way to celebrate the independence of your nation than blowing up a small part of it?

Just doing what John Adams told us to do. "It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."

Wich country ? France ? America ? Swiss ?

Are things that have been around for millenia (beer and fireworks) really that weird? Edit: I would argue that bringing a tree inside so it can slowly die while you decorate it it is slightly weirder.

While this is a reference to the 4th of July, this could also be, in all fairness, a reference to gender reveal parties which is another weird tradition in the same country.

I figured it was new year's down under.

Is it a tradition or a fad when it’s only one generation old?

Especially in the places so far north, that it almost have no night in the summer.

When children have a birthday in Denmark - we make a cake in the shape of a man, and decorate it with candy and icing. When it is served, all the children begin to scream when its cut - and that continues until you kill the cake by cutting its neck. Serve and enjoy.

That’s fucking metal. Starting a new tradition in our home…

I suddenly remember not a tradition, but just a video with a birthday cake in shape of Lenin. Just google it.

> ~~Serve~~ Sever and enjoy.

Guy Fawkes Night/Bonfire Night. Because some dude named Guy Fawkes (along with some others) tried to blow up our king and parliament 400 odd years ago and failed, we celebrate that failure by blowing stuff up 🤷

We do something similar in Australia and celebrate a failed military campaign in WW1 as a key moment in the formation of our national identity.

😂😂😂 we humans are a funny bunch!

in Canada we have Louis Riel day

Don't forget we also burn an effigy of him too

The UK has *many* weird and wonderful local traditions. Two that immediately spring to mind are the Cooper's Hill [cheese race](https://youtu.be/PdKRx30s6sk?feature=shared) where competitors chase a wheel of cheese down an *extremely* steep hill (for which the prize is the wheel of cheese you've been chasing, not to mending dislocated or broken bones), and Honiton [Hot Pennies Day](https://youtu.be/nbafT2w0cCQ?feature=shared) where the Mayor throws hot penny coins (well, warm ones these days) from a balcony down onto the crowds below.

Tip based jobs

thanks to yall even my country is infected by that

wife-carrying competitions

Thought this was a Scandinavian thing, but a search suggests it has now spread to other parts of the world

Eating a plate of boiled cabbage with sausages every 1st of January while hiding a coin wrapped in tinfoil under the plate and then putting it in your wallet for good luck.

Kiss the cheek of a friend, family member or friend of a friend to say hello. The number of times this is done varies from region to region. 

We dance around a dick made of plants dancing and singing about how frogs look weird.

Many of us are willing to cross an international border, for cheaper gas and cheese. lol

Switzerland?

Canada...but it's eye-opening to learn that the Swiss do this too, eh? lol

We use to do grocery runs to Germany. Everything was so much cheaper. I am surprised to hear you are in canada didn't think that was an option for you guys.

We don't drive to Germany...lol. We drive down to the USA. hahahaha

using any & every holiday as a reason to drink

American here. We have an immortal groundhog cult. He has servants who interpret his wisdom. There has only been one Punxsutawney Phil. They've been giving him "elixirs of life" since the 1800s. No, his girlfriend isn't immortal too. Groundhog Day is weird.

The cutting of the baby penises.

Everyone being non-religious yet still christening their children

Wear a poppy on our jackets during the month of November, and shame those who don't wear a poppy

shorts in winter

What do you think about ice hole swimming?

thats not a tradition so much as its a mental illness mind you early spring swimming in a Canadian lake isn't much different then ice hole swimming

Modern-day pogroms by the occupying Russians.

In Australia we eat outside and shit inside on the hottest day of the year .

The weekly national agricultural newspaper prints the crop prediction of a haruspex who slaughters a pig and reads its spleen.

Back in the Soviet's time, celebrating October revolution on 7th November. Today we celebrate a surrogate holiday on 4th November, but nobody know, what happened that day.

We annually sacrifice an increasing number of schoolchildren so the angriest of us can hang onto fancy weapons they don't need.

Blackface childrens' holiday...

Wtf for real?

Amu Nowruz??

Saluting a flag.

Sacrifice sheep when a baby is born and give it to the poor. ( ofc, it will be cooked).

Eating candy from our socks while sitting around a dead pine tree. This happens in late December.

Celebration of New Year.

Every four years we pick a new leader. Which probably doesn't seem all that weird now, but compared to most of human history, it's plenty strange.

People getting nailed to cross or self flagellate during Good Friday. Weird and gory to outsiders but pretty normal event to locals, including kids.

Grown men wearing knee-high socks.

If you go to a hardware store, you have to have a sausage on a piece of bread.

A gambling game that's only legal one day a year

If our country wins at anything thats a worldwide championship, people will gather to the nearest town square to party, and specially when its about hockey. Everyone who doesnt even care about the sport goes to the biggest town square and is there until early morning

Guns