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I'm all for people having a good time and enjoying themselves; what else is life for? But why do some people never seem to be able to grasp the idea that 'enough is as good as a feast'?

I came home from work early today so that I could be around to keep an eye on Acrylic-biff, the terrier with attitude, who gets a bit lively when there are fireworks going off and can cause a bit of a nuisance by commenting on each explosion with a bark. I should hate to be the cause of any inconvenience to my neighbours. Acrylic-biff has been a little vexed since last Saturday by the antics of a family of Pyrophiles who live up on Burnley Road. Every evening since last weekend they have been sending up large, expensive rockets; two or three dozen an evening! I suppose that serious fun requires practice - lots of it.

However, they have certainly put their practice to good use, it is now twenty past nine in the evening and they have been at it since I got home at quarter past five and show little inclination towards calling it a day!
It sort of makes you wonder how much money they have spent on fireworks and where they get it from. Their house must be stuffed to the rafters with the damned things. Come New Years Eve, they will be at it again, well into the small hours of New Years Day. It's amazing what you can do on benefits these days.

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i was behind a lady at a checkout at asda yesterday, she only had fireworks for her little girl nothing else,the cost £67-odd so the answer to your question is obviously YES. lol

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Sixty seven quid!!!!!!! On Fireworks! Are people mad?????

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obviosly mad in my opinion.lol

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Ok they are very pretty, especially the really big ones, but surely the novelty must wear off after a while? I am begining to have very serious doubts about the sanity of my profligate neighbours.

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what i thought was what if she had 2 or 3 kids,you would need a mortgage.

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Madness, utter madness. I don't have that kind of money to burn, but if I HAD......I don't think I would. Too parsimonious by far......I think I am in practice to be a Scottish Jew! (with sincere apologies to both Scots and Jews)

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There was a chap on the BBC Breakfast News this morning questioning why, four hundred years later, we still feel the need to commemorate the horrific execution of human being. I must admit his comments gave me pause for thought, Especially as a lapsed Catholic, If the Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill gets through Parliament and is enacted, will this mean that a case could be brought in law to have bonfire night banned?

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They're still at it round our way. The people on the estate opposite must all club together every year because they don't have the cheapo ones. It's been going on most of the evening so I reckon they've burned about £500 easy between them.

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Wont hold it againgst you.

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You may not like fireworks, but you can't dictate what people spend their money on.

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I spent £200 on fireworks last year and had a real lot of fun @ my mums house... This year not spent a penny....weather has just put me off....

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Yep we blew up about £200 of fireworks tonight and it was great fun! Not actually as much fun as someone (who will remain nameless) putting lino on the fire which smoked the whole street out ......... I can't tell if the tears streaming down my face are from laughing or the acrid smoke!!

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Go on give us a clue?

Is it a blood relative?

Is it a man?

You know you want to.:)

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Where did you have it? was it a big one, and is there any pics.

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As usual, if you take the trouble to read the whole thread you would see that I in no way disapprove of fireworks nor am I attempting to "dictate" to anyone.

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I went to my sister's for fireworks last night. My brother in law and his friend had procured a few rockets and a couple of display fireworks for about £30 from their local pub. We all clubbed together and got a curry and had the meal. We had saved 2 of the rockets until after the meal. One of them went up and was lovely. The last one exploded at ground level and made a hell of a racket. It never even left the launcher and we were so relieved that the kids were inside watching through the conservatory window. Bits of combustible material from the rocket burnt the kitchen flooring... We were really lucky as somebody could have been seriously injured. The few rockets that we had let off earlier went up a treat, so we reckon that we had got a dud one. The display fireworks were lovely, like a multi-coloured fountain in the garden, not too noisy but pretty to look at.

All in all we had a good night. It was more of a social get together than anything else. It could have been tragic with that damn rocket though..

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i had a lovely night last night .had a chinese meal (at home) then watched the fireworks off my back step it was a lovely display from town centre accy, i saw them in gt harwood, rishton, & ossy too.........& all for free.

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Well i sat in with my 4 cats who sat in the windows watching the fireworks. They didnt seem to mind them at all. One of the cats was itching to get out for a better view but no way !

Watched my neighbours set off their fireworks in their garden and to be honest the ones they set off was a waste of money ! They fizzed for about 5 seconds and that was it. I think they had bought the legal safe ones and was a real let-down. Makes you wonder why so many people buy the boot-leg ones, at least you can see your money going up in smoke. ...and no i am not saying its ok to buy the boot-leg ones !

Chrissie

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At 2.30am this morning I was woken up by the sound of yet more fireworks, this went on intermittently until 3.00am - that is taking the proverbial!

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Forgive me Acidic-bab, but on reading this again I'm still under the illusion that you and the pampered pooch,are not too happy with the fireworks your neighbours have been letting off. A Fact made perfectly clear from the comment about the forthcoming New Year as well.

So it's quite clear I can read, and quite clear that you aren't too keen on fireworks.

No need to appologise, but a comment on my remark about that it is up to the individual what they spend their money on, no matter where that money came from, would be more interesting, rather than being snidey pants.:)

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A little while ago, there was a thread which asked whether the sale of fireworks should be banned. I contributed my opinion to that thread and said that although I recognised that they could be a nuisance at times I was very firmly in favour of the continued sale of fireworks to the general public.

Nothing in my opening post of this thread could possibly be construed as being contrary to that position.

The observations on the behaviour of my neighbour are no more than any other householder would make when faced with the sort of excessive indulgence in any activity we have witnessed for the last week, if anything and on reflection, I think I was being a little too kind.

Acrylic-biff would be the first to tell you, if he could talk, that he is anything but pampered! Like many other pet owners I am concerned at the effect that fireworks have on a valued member of my family who cannot understand why his home appears to be under attack. I can, and do, cope with the noise, he cannot and so most of my time on bonfire night and again on New Years Eve will be spent reassuring him so that he is not tempted into harming himself - which is quite possible.

Of course, it should go without saying that I forgive you for misunderstanding,
and I am sorry that you appear to have gotten out of bed on the wrong side again this morning, why don't you try moving it dear. It always works for me

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i think he should move his bed next to the window , that way if he gets out of bed on the wrong side again he wont be in any condition to bother us :D

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I was going to put in a line of big grins here but the damn thing won't let me. Can we take it as read that I am now laughing myself sick?

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Have you thought of buying your dog a pair of ear muffs?

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I have to say that I seriously considered doping the dog up this year. She barks herself demented at the fireworks. Unfortunately I didn't have any sedatives in the house and am unsure about who my local drug dealer is. I couldn't find any rescue remedy or night nurse, but I did find a tub of Paracetamol which expired in 1998. Not really wanting to do the dog any harm, I went out instead and left her to it....

I may have to get something from the vet next year...:)

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Not sure were the pets in my block went but boy was it quite without them howling.

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It's November 6th now - no longer bonfire night - and they're doing it again. I'm with A-B on this, some people have way too much money to burn.

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Thank you Gayle, And I have to note that here in the more salubrious end of Huncoat things are not as loud as they were last night but neighbour money-bags is still at it!

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The noise here is worse than last night and lastnight was bonfire night. Some of the bangs are that loud I thought something had happened at the refinery of chemical plant. I could think of better things to spend money on than all this noise.

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I wondered who had redecorated my bedroom and moved my bed. The new drapes are simply fabulous, as are all the soft furnishings, thank you.:)

Thank you also claryifying that you DO indeed like fireworks, but only on November the fifth at a reasonable hour, and are in favour of people being allowed to purchase as many as they like, unless they are benefits.

I think it's sad Bif isn't pampered. I thank you.:)

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Some prat is still letting fireworks of up here and the police are nowhere to be found thats typical. The place sounds like a warzone and some poor moterist will be getting it in the neck.

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Well, last night was the seventh of November, and they were still at it!

When I was a little 'un, Bonfire night was just that; one night a year. Which is what made it so special and exciting. Dragging it on for three months takes all the fun out of it and makes it tedious and annoying, a bit like shops putting up Christmas decorations in September.

Re: the interior decoration, think nothing of it chuck, always glad to help the design challenged.

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No thank you.

Don't be suprised if I start calling you A-b L-B though for short, as Acidic-babs Llewelyn-Bowen is a bit of a mouthfull.:)

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So I've heard, but I didn't think the rumours were true.;) Still, never mind just remember the old advice, "Red and green should not be seen, except on the shoulders of a raging Q.... oh, errrm perhaps not.:o

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Any more cattiness from you and there'll be feathers flying, as well as fireworks going off up your end.;)

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if we were playing guess the celebrity i would say boy george ..

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Hello?

It's not word association.

You say Boy George.

I'll say........sell by date.

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Oh, Swan Lake and Fireworks, My but you certainly know the way to a boys heart, you silver-tongued charmer you. :p

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which incidently you are past :p

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LMFAO!! Yes of course it was a man ...... women wouldn't be so silly as to put an oil based material onto a bonfire and then try to put it out with WATER, it needed foam to extinguish it! Watching a group of blokes, one an ex-fireman, trying to put it out was one of the funniest things I've seen this year!! Not being able to run a pi.. up in a brewery springs to mind :D