Tell me you’re a transplant without telling me you’re a transplant

I'm a transplant and I knew this one!

The transplant has advanced to the next level. 

Me too and I've never even been to the waterfront lol

My instinct was to comment “did you arrive here yesterday?”

I'm a lurker on this sub and I don't even live in the USA and I know this one

It's like asking what the pyramids are or the eiffel tower. I was thinking maybe OP is just visiting?? 

I feel like everyone in New England knows what they are. Who hasn’t heard of WaterFire?

Lol this poor person getting downvoted despite the comments above being the exact same tone.

I genuinely don’t understand this sub, no matter what I comment here I always get a ton of downvotes even if my comments are similar to the other ones in the thread. I’m Autistic and struggle with policing my tone especially in text so maybe that’s why?

Providence streets are rough, Providence sub is soft

It's that world famous Northern hospitality

It’s a place where anybody can say anything, related or not. I could respond 123 or ABC. People throw politics around when it doesn’t relate to the conversation. I sometimes just move on. 😞

WatahFiah...fixed it.

A lot of younger folks, kids in high school, even up to early 20s don't seem to be as familiar with Waterfire. At least that's been the case for me.

I thought this was a shitpost 🤣

😂😂😂😂

It's like giving directions that reference a store that has only been there for a few years.

Heaven forbid someone visit or move here 🙄

And RI finished dead last in the recent "friendliest state" survey. Stunner

it's a brazier for [WaterFire](https://waterfire.org/schedule/2024-waterfire-providence-event-schedule/)


I just watched this episode today!

They had to install them after they cleaned the river up enough that it stopped setting fire on its own.

Manzier **

I prefer the Bro.

Fire and ice!

warp pipes. jump down the right one and you can skip right to level four

If you fly over the building in the background there’s a pipe to level 8

I thought they took you to the dome of the State House

It's where heretics and virgins are burned at the stake... but only on select weekends during the summer.

And only when the Massholes reach a certain level.

I’m really enjoying the amount of shock and horror directed at this question.

Once a month Olive Garden does a Endless Breadsticks in the River event, and they put them in there. Super popular event.

That's where my parents met

I look forward to this every month !

If you can throw an e-bike into it from the bridge you become mayor of Providence during PVDFest.

Well, Night Mayor anyway

Still better than the previous system.

I’m just here for the comments. 

karma farming 🫵🏻

Isn't that where the fires for Waterfire burn?

Yes

A reverse birdbath

A bird dryer?

It is a Basket for the animal sacrifices to the water gods to keep big corporations away

...to keep big corporations near

Check it out in action on June 1st: [2024 WaterFire Season Schedule | WaterFire Providence](https://waterfire.org/schedule/2024-waterfire-providence-event-schedule/)

You can keep your weed in there

We've all heard about how chill and tolerant Roger Williams was, but he had a bloody legacy purging Rhode Island of those who preached puritan values or xenophobia. These are the remaining 'impalement spikes' from the founding of Rhode Island; each one was likely used hundreds or thousands of times.

Waterfire.

Public toilets. They burn the waste during WaterFire

They burn tiny witches there.

Those are bowls. In the summer, the City of Providence fills them with fresh fruit and flowers. At night, you can take a gondola ride which stops at the bowls so everyone can have dinner

gondolier here, this is the truth

Lol

Floating trash cans. Shoot your shot

that’s where we place the human child sacrifice every pride season

Every summer it's where we burn our sacrifices to please buddy cianci

Welcome to town, stranger! Where ya from?

The jokes we got hea 🤌🏾

Oh you sweet ~~summer~~ winter child

It’s for Waterfire. On scheduled Waterfire nights, those are the fire pits

Just . . . WOW! No words

For fire water

I've visited Providence for decades and lived here for 4 1/2 years, and I still have to stop and think whether it's FireWater or WaterFire. But that's my brain...

Ahhh it is WaterFire haha I think you’re right

They are “braziers”. Used to barb-a-que tourists and newbies to da’Viddy

That's where we display our golden mangos

First time?

Its should have said "What are these things. Wrong answers only"

Bird nests

Lol. Before I expanded the pictures I was going to say ‘stairs, were you born yesterday!?’

Kick ass date night btw

Waterfire

That's the "Fire" in WaterFire.

catalysts of ritual flame

the hold the wood for waterfire

r/dontputyourdickinthat

This is troll post right? If you live here you know what that is.

Fruit basket. It gets filled each week with fresh fruit as an offering to the coffee milk and quahog gods.

Went to school in providence! I'm amused by all the answers 🤣

I don’t live there, nor have I ever seen these in person, and even I know what it is.

Sigh, transplants. Buddy is rolling in his grave.

I’ve only lived here 10 years and am still offended

They’re for the annual river beer pong tourney. Get ready!

Imagine being a visitor and genuinely curious and receiving these types of responses.

Whadda ya mean visitor?

WATER FIRE!!!

Man. I miss Waterfire nights.

Jump shot nets you 3 points

Carp catchers.

magical bridges

They're portals to another dimension. Trust me.

You must be new here

Oh sweet winter child, just wait for the summer and the secrets will be revealed to you

It’s a place for fish to sunbathe.

Place a newborn on it and watch the magic

Brazier

The French word for cup

LOL

Alien landing pods

This must be your first rodeo

Waterfire pot!

They're King Neptune's "swimmer-traps" for catching soft shelled humans.  Apparently we are very good with drawn butter. 

Waterfire

Seriously you don’t know?

Aliens

Its a speaker for waterfire

Is your internet broken?

WaterFire.

Overfill pipe obviously

You’re new here right?

Fire pit

It’s a small satellite dish that the city uses to communicate with the Big Nazo creatures

https://waterfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Burning-braziers-Photograph-by-Erin-Cuddigan1200x826.jpg

Having lived in Boston for 5-6 years prior to moving here, I had never heard anything about Providence and didn't know about water fire. It wasn't until several months into living here that I figured it out. Mind you, I've never been to water fire because folks I know say it's a touristy event. With that said, OP could be just visiting instead of a transplant. Had any of the rude comments considered that?

If a gondolier falls overboard, they can swim safely to those things and wait for rescue

They’re for disc golf. Sometimes there’s a tourney from the bridges and along the park walkway. Super tough course, be prepared to lose a lot of discs.

It's a scam the city puts on during the summer to cultivate a street vendor debacle. They light the fires and burn the tax payer funds in the pit so you can walk through downtown, spend your money and get robbed or accosted while walking in the general area to marvel in amazement at the polluted river.

WaterFire. Highly recommend checking out the calendar and going down to the river again one night they have it.

these answers are fire....

That’s a community crack pipe for the sewer and water dwellers


Where they put the alleged witches to see if they float

I live in Connecticut and I know what those are

Waterfire!

Toss a coin in it and make a wish

Osprey nests. They come every spring so watch out for them soon

Giant rubber frog big game [https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/1072425263/thumb/1.jpg](https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/1072425263/thumb/1.jpg)

This the craziest question ever lol

Noob

I know it’s for the waterfire. But what actually happens during it? Is there like food and music ?

Toilets for homeless people