[Closed] FFS - Fireworks

I'd be in favour of fireworks being banned except on the 5th of November and new years eve. But your neighbour isn't breaking the law, and you getting in his face might make every night firework night 🙁

Thought the law was none after 2300hrs apart from certain occasions... 31 October not being one of them?

I would ban them except for official displays

I guess others have got a bit p'd off too....my walk to have that chat has been halted by sight of a Police car outside said new neighbours house.....leave them to it.

It's taken me an hour each night to get limbojr off to sleep for the last week. He's two and a half and generally freaked by the banging and neighbours dog going mental. We have it nightly from Diwali to bonfire night and it's been enhanced tonight by teenagers we don't know banging on the door demanding confectionary.

please stop whining it`s not at all attractive 🙄

Pitduck - the case for banning fireworks apart form licenced and organised displays is very strong. Primarily the safety aspect of giving idiots explosives. Furthermore a significant proportion of the population find these 2 weeks very antisocial. I personally can't stand garden fireworks as my dogs are terrified.

Ah yes, idiots and fireworks

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TiIdhEdwaeo

Hopefully one day they will be banned. I would much rather see a proper organised display with good fireworks. Danger and lack of consideration aside they do pollute and the spent rockets can be a danger to animals and livestock. Like those stupid flying lanterns. (I'm in a cheery mood today!)

One day people will look back and wonder why we let people buy explosives in their corner shop or buy litres and litres of highly flammable fuel at petrol stations.

Great things banning for a few irresponsible people isn't right.

Or laptop chargers/e-cigarette chargers, hair straighteners, cookers, saucepans, electrical equipment, matches, cigarettes, all of which cause far more property fires than "litres and litres of fuel..."

I'm glad we can buy fuel, my chainsaw and lawnmower don't work without it!

Why are mountainbikers such H&S obsessed nanny state fans? Ban everything...

I don't think the grumps on here represent all mountainbikers.

One of our neighbours had his usual "any excuse for a few pretty fireworks" show about 7.30 last night, which was fine.

Then another one started with some "see how loud I managed to find in the shops" willy waving display at 10.15 - about half an hour after our over excited post-halloween kids had got to sleep.

Dickhead.

Need some sort of limit on the noise for publicly available fireworks to use at home, and a 9.00pm ban except Nov 5th and New Year

idiots and fireworks?

fireworks ftw

but I'd definitely ban those chinese lantern jobbies

Grumpy? Probably. Lack of sleep will do that to you. Nanny state banning everything? Not at all. I just wish people would be a bit more considerate than to let fireworks off in a built up area at 11.30 at night. 🙄

Grumpy? Probably. Lack of sleep will do that to you. Nanny state banning everything? Not at all. I just wish people would be a bit more considerate than to let fireworks off in a built up area at 11.30 at night.

That's not the fireworks fault, tho. That's just people being nobs.

It does get tiresome having fireworks thrown at you whilst doing your job. If that makes me a killjoy so be it.

I'd still ban the sale of them to the general public.

Round here, Halloween is the night for fireworks. November 5th is just another day. Also, until recently you could only have licensed displays, but that didn't stop people from getting them from over the border.

I just wish people would be a bit more considerate than to let fireworks off in a built up area at 11.30 at night.

I wouldn't mind them being restricted to organised displays

If it wasn't for the fact that the bloody organised displays seem to be arranged over nearly two weeks now

Remember remember the first to the tenth of November 👿

Edit, I tell a lie: due to weather forecast the 'Rushmoor fireworks spectacular' is now on the fifteenth of November 😡

Yup, ban all but organised displays

Maybe you guys could tie some to your panties and they'd pull them out your ass cracks?
Never come across such a bunch of passive aggressive whiners in my life.

BUT I DON'T LIKE IT!

Bloody pain. I love the things, the bigger, louder and fancier the better. Unfortunately the dog hates them. Currently behind the sofa with a pile of toys. He's got better though, his Thundercoat helps.
Next weekend's mission is to find a campsite that is still open as far as possible away from population but still reasonable distance from Portsmouth to get away from the local blitz reenactment.

When did Diwali become a national British day of celebration with fireworks? I must have missed the memo.
And I'm all in favour of a total ban on the sale and use of fire lanterns, unless a way can be found of making them that doesn't use any material that could possibly cause dreadful injuries to livestock. Thin wire and bamboo are totally unacceptable materials.
Anyone asking what harm the could possibly do should be fed a meal full of chopped up fragments to find out.

Grumpy yes, h&s obsessed no. I just don't think quite a lot of the public can be trusted with such things and I especially don't like it when people think its funny setting off the loudest rockets they can find in the field next to my sheep. Never really found publicly available fireworks to be very impressive anyway. Much rather go we a proper professional display where I can see some properly impressive fireworks.

Ban fireworks? But it makes for such entertaining viewing watching the silly humans blowing their own limbs off.

When did Diwali become a national British day of celebration with fireworks? I must have missed the memo.

I like fireworks, but there is really no need to do them late at night. People are trying to out kids to sleep ffs.

7pm, great. 12am not.

Fireworks in 1st week of November shocka 😆

I just don't think quite a lot of the public can be trusted with such things

Still baffles me why you would spend 50 quid or more on crappy garden fireworks. Then light one at a time over the space of half an hour. Organised displays everytime.

Chill out by watching this

Guessing the OP doesn't live in East Sussex.

We [i]really[/i] do fireworks down here. 🙂

With any luck we'll have torrential rain from now till the 15th Nov, that'll put the dampners on it.

tomkerton - Member

Pitduck - the case for banning fireworks apart form licenced and organised displays is very strong. Primarily the safety aspect of giving idiots explosives

You are spectacularly wrong.

Most injuries occur at organised displays.

The toilet brush causes more injuries each year than fireworks.
Dogs, of course, cause far more injury than fireworks.

MoreCashThanDash - Member

Need some sort of limit on the noise for publicly available fireworks to use at home

There already is.

andytherocketeer - Member

after 11pm is not inconsiderate, it is illegal (except on the nights of Nov 5th, Diwali, and New Year)

Chinese New Year also.

Could say the same thing about dogs and kids. Ban those then we can all have firework fun.

I'm all for compulsory dog licenses and sterilisation of people who shouldn't reproduce!

I like a good organised display..

You are spectacularly wrong.

Most injuries occur at organised displays.

The toilet brush causes more injuries each year than fireworks.
Dogs, of course, cause far more injury than fireworks.

Care to show your workings or are you just making it up?

I really want to make a girandola:

It's a good job the scrotes can't get their hands on one of these (2/3 the way into the vid)

I think we should ban dogs.

They leave poo on the pavement
They bite
They bark all night
But worst of all, they don't like fireworks!

bruneep - Member

Care to show your workings or are you just making it up?

I believe the done thing would be for tomkerton to provide evidence for his initial assertion, before I rebuked it with my superior knowledge gained over years of working professionally with H&S and fireworks.

However, as it appears that you are happy to lap up tomkerton's cow-poop with zero evidence, and I am in an especially good mood, I can tell you that all the information I used; accident rates of organised vs amateur displays, and injuries caused by fireworks vs toilet brushes and dogs, can be freely garnered by those lovely people at [url= http://www.rospa.com/ ]RoSPA[/url].

Fill your boots. 🙂

please please think of the middle class over privileged whiners and stop this unlicensed fun now,you know it makes sense 😯

[quote=sbob ] bruneep - Member
Care to show your workings or are you just making it up?
I believe the done thing would be for tomkerton to provide evidence for his initial assertion, before I rebuked it with my superior knowledge gained over years of working professionally with H&S and fireworks.
However, as it appears that you are happy to lap up tomkerton's cow-poop with zero evidence, and I am in an especially good mood, I can tell you that all the information I used; accident rates of organised vs amateur displays, and injuries caused by fireworks vs toilet brushes and dogs, can be freely garnered by those lovely people at RoSPA.
Fill your boots.

providing a lazy link to a site is not the same as showing your workings. 🙄

'kin great chav's across the street have had a 20 min display ongoing dog is a wreck 😈