<rant> And what do we, the neighbours, get from these maddening and ill-thought out, mindless back-garden, beer-fuelled touch-paper firework frenzies?
Let me tell you: we get an incoherent blazing and glittering chorus of fizz-bangs, whizzeees, thundering Gatling gun booms and thumping explosions rattling around the houses. It causes a load of nuisance, interruption and unnecessary noise just when we’ve settled down to watch a film or, the hot blanket has just reached optimum temperature for a good, hard reading session.
Racks me off.
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Don't forget picking empty rocket casings off the roof of your car in the morning.
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Should be 5th November only.
Or better still, they should only be sold to people who can demonstrate a thorough understanding of what they're actually celebrating.
There's a 21:53 watershed now?
I remember living in a liverpool suburb, this time of year the tv had a Gulf War docco on, when it ended we realised it wasn't the docco that had the bangs, I reckon it was 2 weeks of shit.
I'm missing the words "Total Fire Ban" keeps it much more quiet
Miserable Buggers
Miserable Buggers
Tell me how you would feel about 2 weeks of fireworks?
These outrageous American customs must stop.
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Or better still, they should only be sold to people who can demonstrate a thorough understanding of what they’re actually celebrating.
For me it's all about glorifying my hatred of catholics.
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the hot blanket
Your life is over, don't spoil other people's.
I like fireworks but there's no need to set them off at 10pm when it's dark at 5, is there?
Hate them, hate the people that are so inconsiderate that they let them off in suburban areas.
Go to a display, eat candy floss, hot dogs, let your kids run around like banshees, argue with the wife, get pissed, go home, fall asleep like the rest of humanity.
I like fireworks but there’s no need to set them off at 10pm when it’s dark at 5, is there?
then you'd have to start drinking at 2 instead.
Anyone know the op's address? Got a few fireworks sat in the garage I need to put to good use...
the hot blanket has just reached optimum temperature for a good, hard reading session.
Living life on the edge there, right on the edge 😉
Surprised we still celebrate this aspect of religious intolerance
Its spelt potpourri
The annual STW uber-atheist celebration of sectarian violence and bigotry.
Go to a display, eat candy floss, hot dogs, let your kids run around like banshees, argue with the wife, get pissed, go home, fall asleep like the rest of humanity.
I hate candy floss, hot dogs, and children. I love fireworks though.
We were woken up by some at 3am...
And what do we, the neighbours, get from these maddening and ill-thought out, mindless back-garden, beer-fuelled touch-paper firework frenzies?
The chance to post overwrought bollocks on a cycling website? 🙂
You'd love it where I live then...they set fire to barrels full of tar and run at each other. Home made mortars too that get set off from 6am on the 5th, on the hour every hour.
Plenty of fireworks too, and a bonfire that can be seen from space*
*probably.
I'm all for banning them from sale to all but licensed firework display operatives.
Surprised that fireworks annoy people so much. But the inner city druggies and rubbish, antisocial behaviour and mentally ill people and traffic are all ok the other 364 days.
Apparently we don't see those other things though so they aren't issues!
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The annual STW uber-atheist celebration of sectarian violence and bigotry.
Seriously though, how many people think this way? What percentage of people having a fireworks/guy fawkes night are thinking Death To Popery! And how many catholics will be setting off fireworks? Few and lots is the answer.
It's really just like an opposite christmas.
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People who buy fireworks for use in a residential area are selfish ****s. The sale of fireworks to the general public should be banned. Maybe they could use the anti-terrorism law for it or something.
Surprised that fireworks annoy people so much. But the inner city druggies and rubbish, antisocial behaviour and mentally ill people and traffic are all ok the other 364 days.
Would it surprise you to know, that most people probably don’t think any of those things are “ok”
In a thread about inner city drug addicts, it would be really weird for someone to moan that nobody seems to care about misuse of fireworks. How does it make any more sense the other way around ?
Round here, there were quite a few going off early evening last night, but none I was aware of later. Probably a few tonight, although it’s a damp evening so maybe not, and the church across the way will have theirs about 5.30-6.00 tomorrow. There doesn’t seem to be as many leading up to the actual date as there was a few years ago.
I'm a pretty tolerant bloke (I'm not really but hey). However people setting off fireworks after 10pm in a residential area should be put in the stocks the following day.
I wouldn’t bother with home fireworks at all, but they don’t bother me. I can imagine some people set them off just to mess with the miserable neighbourhood cocks, like those on this thread 😜.
Would people feel different if they were for Diwali?
I’m all for banning them from sale to all but licensed firework display operatives.
Good luck.
There is no licence to use fireworks, and it's curious that you would restrict sales to presumably only the biggest, loudest, most dangerous fireworks available.
It's like saying you can't have an air pistol but get your ticket and you can have your RPG.
I’m a pretty tolerant bloke (I’m not really but hey). However people setting off fireworks after 10pm in a residential area should be put in the stocks the following day.
Current curfew is 11pm normally, midnight for Guy Fawkes and 1am for New Year, Chinese New Year and Diwali.
I suffer much greater disturbance by people doing DIY in the morning, shall we ban that as well?
I was about to say, Diwali is the festival of light, not light and loud bangs.
Then the thought struck me, how about you keep the fireworks, just leave the loud bangs out of it - that's the bit that bothers people.
Quick Google and it appears that they're a "thing". So how about a compromise? Don't ban firework, just make them the quiet/low noise type.
After all, Guy Fawkes didn't, and couldn't have made a noise, his gunpowder was decayed.
But the inner city druggies and rubbish, antisocial behaviour and mentally ill people and traffic are all ok the other 364 days.
Its ****ing annoying when they start exploding too
It’s brilliant when your neighbours have fireworks displays. You can sit your toddler on the windowsill in the dark and tell him that you’ve arranged it just for him.
and it’s curious that you would restrict sales to presumably only the biggest, loudest, most dangerous fireworks available.
Disney get through tons of fireworks, really big ones, but they buy 'low noise' versions.
In this country the bang is the point, not the visuals. Bonkers
In a thread about inner city drug addicts, it would be really weird for someone to moan that nobody seems to care about misuse of fireworks.
I was expecting the coffin of Brexit to be dragged out again.
I think people with annoying yelling / crying out of control kids are far more annoying than fireworks.
Also middle age men on Harley Davidsons with diabetes. They annoy me massively more than fireworks.
oh. Also people who leave the trolly in everyone’s way in supermarkets. Give me fireworks for two weeks a year and Ban these annoying plebs.
I love fireworks, the haters should be given a free trip to Holland for New Year - the noise dies down somewhat after about 3 am. Millions are spent, some bike shops are converted to firework shops for the month of December.
From my 12th floor apartment you have an almost 360 deg wall of fireworks.
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I love fireworks, the haters should be given a free trip to Holland for New Year – the noise dies down somewhat after about 3 am.
Well you pay for it then....
Currently into the 7th hour of fireworks going off here in Manchester for the 4th night in a row. Somebody certainly has got some spare cash, feel sorry for those with pets and people trying to sleep really. It's almost as if they could have a day for it rather than a week or fortnight, perhaps we could have a tradition or something.
It’s almost as if they could have a day for it rather than a week or fortnight, perhaps we could have a tradition or something.
Yawn, traditionally, fireworks have been used for all sorts of celebrations, not just November 5th. My family have been involved in their manufacture for centuries.
feel sorry for those with pets
I feel sorry for pets that have been taught to fear fireworks by their owners. Gun dogs don't seem to have a problem and it's not like all the wildlife collectively shits a brick every time there is thunder and lightning.
I feel sorry for pets that have been taught to fear fireworks by their owners
FFS, in a thread full of dumbness, that's the dumbest comment yet.
FFS, in a thread full of dumbness, that’s the dumbest comment yet.
Do you fit your gun dog with ear defenders?
We have 2 dogs, an eleven year old lab who at the slightest rumble of fireworks or thunder starts barking. The other is a two year old Airedale who sits in the garden watching fireworks.
So you can’t say they’ve been taught to fear fireworks or thunder.
I recall years ago, some absolutely top drawer subtle trolling on one of these threads, I'm sure he'll remember it when he sees it....
'In the future, we'll look back and wonder what was the most insane, selling incendiary devices to idiots or keeping animals in our homes'..
Was a classic.
The level of misery caused by the fireworks on here is almost as entertaining as watching them. I don't know which makes me happier.
. I don’t know which makes me happier.
Misery? Just getting on to annoying really, assume tonight will be the annual what we got left over 4hr special....
Seriously though, how many people think this way? What percentage of people having a fireworks/guy fawkes night are thinking Death To Popery! And how many catholics will be setting off fireworks? Few and lots is the answer.
Absolutely.
I was brought up on a council estate in the West of Scotland, pretty exposed to all things bigoted as you can imagine. The first time I'd ever heard of these supposed anti-catholic displays were, yes you guessed it, right here on STW.
Our Springer x Lab has been terrified of fireworks for years despite being quite happy around shotguns.
Our new addition Pomeranian is completely nonplussed by them and interestingly enough her lack of fear seems to have rubbed off to some extent on him. In previous years at the first sign of a firework he’s been behind the sofa shaking and panting & visibly diistressed but this year he has been a little more relaxed. I wouldn’t say he is ‘over’ them but we’ve not had to break out the Adaptil and Thundercoat.