| Fireworks 18:16 - Nov 5 with 1495 views | Oldsmoker |
I'd forgotten it was Guy Fawkes night.
Lot's of bangs here.
It could be gunshot and the start of English civil war 2 in protest at the lockdown....but then again it probably isn't. |  |
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| Fireworks on 18:18 - Nov 5 with 1324 views | SpruceMoose |
My hot take is that I'd ban fireworks for personal use. Only official licensed public displays only. |  |
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| Fireworks on 18:29 - Nov 5 with 1286 views | Ace_High1 |
| Fireworks on 18:18 - Nov 5 by SpruceMoose |
My hot take is that I'd ban fireworks for personal use. Only official licensed public displays only. |
Yes no need for people to have them in their own gardens, pointless. |  | | |
| Fireworks on 18:30 - Nov 5 with 1292 views | BlueBadger |
| Fireworks on 18:18 - Nov 5 by SpruceMoose |
My hot take is that I'd ban fireworks for personal use. Only official licensed public displays only. |
Used to know a pyrotechnic engineer who was sacked for f*cking up a public fireworks display.
He was bang out of order. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 18:33]
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| Fireworks on 18:35 - Nov 5 with 1263 views | IpswichBoyBlue |
My dog is behind my chair. He hates them. Don't mind myself, but my little mate is scared stiff. |  | | |
| Fireworks on 18:36 - Nov 5 with 1263 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:29 - Nov 5 by Ace_High1 |
Yes no need for people to have them in their own gardens, pointless. |
It's all about a bit of responsibility.
I did an excellent show one year but planned it all and everyone had a great time.
I posted a note to all the neighbours in advance and invited those closest.
I had a big garden at the time and spent days setting it up. I had piles of the things and around 30 people over. Fenced off an area to keep the kids behind, bain marie and slow cookers full of hot food and French sticks piled up on the worktops.
It was brilliant fun. |  |
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| Fireworks on 18:37 - Nov 5 with 1256 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:35 - Nov 5 by IpswichBoyBlue |
My dog is behind my chair. He hates them. Don't mind myself, but my little mate is scared stiff. |
It's when people let the things off away from the date it's a big problem.
You can plan for the one night, but anything random catches you out. | |
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| Fireworks on 18:38 - Nov 5 with 1257 views | SpruceMoose |
| Fireworks on 18:36 - Nov 5 by jeera |
It's all about a bit of responsibility.
I did an excellent show one year but planned it all and everyone had a great time.
I posted a note to all the neighbours in advance and invited those closest.
I had a big garden at the time and spent days setting it up. I had piles of the things and around 30 people over. Fenced off an area to keep the kids behind, bain marie and slow cookers full of hot food and French sticks piled up on the worktops.
It was brilliant fun. |
My hatred of fireworks comes from my sheer terror every 5th November when my old man would return to every firework that hadn't gone off/had fallen over it, fag in mouth, to bend over and give it a good eyeball from 6 inches away. | |
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| Fireworks on 18:41 - Nov 5 with 1245 views | solomon |
| Fireworks on 18:35 - Nov 5 by IpswichBoyBlue |
My dog is behind my chair. He hates them. Don't mind myself, but my little mate is scared stiff. |
Mine too, it’s heartbreaking to watch, why on earth we still allow this sort of nonsense is beyond me, I wouldn’t trust half of these mouth breathers with stapler let alone household grade pyrotechnics. |  | | |
| Fireworks on 18:41 - Nov 5 with 1245 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:38 - Nov 5 by SpruceMoose |
My hatred of fireworks comes from my sheer terror every 5th November when my old man would return to every firework that hadn't gone off/had fallen over it, fag in mouth, to bend over and give it a good eyeball from 6 inches away. |
Ha, things have changed since those days.
I went to a place in Cambridge and bought a kit so I could let off the rockets by remote.
The big blocks had long fuses etc.
I went to a carpet shop and got a load of inner tubes that I placed in lines in the ground for the rockets and went along and reloaded them when they were done.
For the blocks I'd got some patio slabs so everything was nice and flat with no room for error. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 18:43]
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| Fireworks on 18:46 - Nov 5 with 1233 views | IpswichBoyBlue |
| Fireworks on 18:37 - Nov 5 by jeera |
It's when people let the things off away from the date it's a big problem.
You can plan for the one night, but anything random catches you out. |
I have no problem with it. Would prefer organized displays only, but it ain't ever going to happen, so just go with it. My dog is terrified of them, always has been. All the stuff vets have given us down the years never work. He is a pampered pooch, so our fault really. Only a few days a year, so no biggy. | | | |
| Fireworks on 18:49 - Nov 5 with 1226 views | Oldsmoker |
| Fireworks on 18:35 - Nov 5 by IpswichBoyBlue |
My dog is behind my chair. He hates them. Don't mind myself, but my little mate is scared stiff. |
That is definitely a euphemism. | |
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| Fireworks on 18:49 - Nov 5 with 1224 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:46 - Nov 5 by IpswichBoyBlue |
I have no problem with it. Would prefer organized displays only, but it ain't ever going to happen, so just go with it. My dog is terrified of them, always has been. All the stuff vets have given us down the years never work. He is a pampered pooch, so our fault really. Only a few days a year, so no biggy. |
I fully understand and I had 2 dogs at the time, one of whom hated any loud noise, including storms.
They were in the living room away from it all with some some music on low and weren't bothered at all.
Like I say, if you have the space and time to plan it's not a problem.
Simply put, that year I did it because where I lived I could. I certainly wouldn't have considered it if I couldn't do things right to the letter. | |
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| Fireworks on 18:51 - Nov 5 with 1221 views | SpruceMoose |
| Fireworks on 18:41 - Nov 5 by jeera |
Ha, things have changed since those days.
I went to a place in Cambridge and bought a kit so I could let off the rockets by remote.
The big blocks had long fuses etc.
I went to a carpet shop and got a load of inner tubes that I placed in lines in the ground for the rockets and went along and reloaded them when they were done.
For the blocks I'd got some patio slabs so everything was nice and flat with no room for error. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 18:43]
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A remote set up would not have pleased my father. 5th of November was the one night in the year he got to taste a little danger away from the factory floor!
I don't know if you saw any of the video clips online but there was a firework craze here over the summer which was blamed on lockdown craziness. You can't buy fireworks in NY, but you can drive over to Pennsylvania and buy whatever you like and mate, some of the fireworks people were letting off in the street sounded like bombs.
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| Fireworks on 18:54 - Nov 5 with 1216 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:51 - Nov 5 by SpruceMoose |
A remote set up would not have pleased my father. 5th of November was the one night in the year he got to taste a little danger away from the factory floor!
I don't know if you saw any of the video clips online but there was a firework craze here over the summer which was blamed on lockdown craziness. You can't buy fireworks in NY, but you can drive over to Pennsylvania and buy whatever you like and mate, some of the fireworks people were letting off in the street sounded like bombs.
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Yeah there's a hell of a difference between those oiks setting the things off anywhere and a controlled environment!
I wouldn't consider doing a display when I was on a housing estate either.
Maybe the answer would be for people to have to purchase licences. That would at least solve a chunk of impulse buying maybe.
Edit: and just to add, those flares are display stuff aren't they? It's insane that anyone unlicensed can just lay their hands on those. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 19:02]
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| Fireworks on 18:54 - Nov 5 with 1217 views | DanTheMan |
| Fireworks on 18:18 - Nov 5 by SpruceMoose |
My hot take is that I'd ban fireworks for personal use. Only official licensed public displays only. |
Currently sat next to a terrified dog, trying to keep her calm.
The week either side of fireworks nights is shÃt. I wouldn't mind if they were the silent ones. |  |
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| Fireworks on 18:59 - Nov 5 with 1197 views | solomon |
They should be saved until it’s declared that Trump is done and gone. | | | |
| Fireworks on 19:00 - Nov 5 with 1192 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 18:59 - Nov 5 by solomon |
They should be saved until it’s declared that Trump is done and gone. |
If there could ever be a just cause then that's a fair shout. | |
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| Fireworks on 19:19 - Nov 5 with 1156 views | factual_blue |
Rather than set off fireworks, we should execute a couple of Catholics.
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| Fireworks on 19:31 - Nov 5 with 1120 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Fireworks on 18:35 - Nov 5 by IpswichBoyBlue |
My dog is behind my chair. He hates them. Don't mind myself, but my little mate is scared stiff. |
My dog is scared stiff of them and is currently in a state of distress. One specified night a year and only organised displays. |  |
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It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Fireworks on 19:32 - Nov 5 with 1116 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 19:31 - Nov 5 by StochesStotasBlewe |
My dog is scared stiff of them and is currently in a state of distress. One specified night a year and only organised displays. |
What if the person with the fireworks lives in the middle of nowhere and is upsetting no one?
Asking for a friend. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 19:38]
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| Fireworks on 19:38 - Nov 5 with 1097 views | DanTheMan |
| Fireworks on 19:32 - Nov 5 by jeera |
What if the person with the fireworks lives in the middle of nowhere and is upsetting no one?
Asking for a friend. [Post edited 5 Nov 2020 19:38]
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I think most people would be fine with people doing it in the countryside, or fields etc.
But when you're on a housing estate it's a good two weeks every single night.
I'll be honest though, I don't really enjoy fireworks outside of the large displays so I'm biased anyway. I do know that people enjoy then and don't want to take away that enjoyment. Just wish people were more considerate of others when deciding where and when they should do it. | |
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| Fireworks on 19:42 - Nov 5 with 1088 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 19:38 - Nov 5 by DanTheMan |
I think most people would be fine with people doing it in the countryside, or fields etc.
But when you're on a housing estate it's a good two weeks every single night.
I'll be honest though, I don't really enjoy fireworks outside of the large displays so I'm biased anyway. I do know that people enjoy then and don't want to take away that enjoyment. Just wish people were more considerate of others when deciding where and when they should do it. |
I hate it when the things are going off randomly around me all week as some of the tw*ts seem to where I live right now.
Only reason they haven't this year is because of the obvious, so it's been reserved for just a few tonight.
I suppose I've stated my case because I feel it's unfair to assume everyone approaches them in the same way. I couldn't agree more about the built-up area argument.
Like I say, l'd have no issue with licencing, which I'm sure would cut out a lot of the nuisance. | |
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| Fireworks on 19:43 - Nov 5 with 1084 views | jeera |
| Fireworks on 19:39 - Nov 5 by StochesStotasBlewe |
You have a friend 
Seriously though, no, personally think there should be only organised displays.
Just hope the dog manages to go through the rest of this evening without sh1tting in the house. |
Someone in the middle of nowhere wouldn't be upsetting your dog!
That aside, I hope he's ok. I love dogs so you know. | |
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