Fireworks
- Thread starter jaysay
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Is it me or has anybody else notice that, with about 9 days to go to Bonfire Night, I haven't heard any fireworks being set of every night like usually happens, must be the credit crunch is striking the kids as well
That's jinxed it, probably hear them all night long now.
i've heard loads over here, have been in Darwen for the last 3 days and they where even setting them off during the day over there...go figure \....../
I was at a `DO` in Darwen on saturday, i`ve heard stories and the wife works there but did`nt expect it to be as bad as it was.......
and yes , fireworks were going off all day
I was at a `DO` in Darwen on saturday, i`ve heard stories and the wife works there but did`nt expect it to be as bad as it was.......
lol awful isnt it
lol awful isnt it
I never thought as myself as a snob but after saturday.............
There haven't been any here but next week will be chaotic. As the 5th is on Wednesday, various firework-displayers will have their parties any time between this coming Saturday and 2 weeks later. The big "official" display, by the Round Table - at the rugby club, is on Saturday the 9th but a lot of householders around the village like to show off what big fireworks they've got and, as I said, they'll do it on any night they please, which means every night. Drives me up the wall. 
There haven't been any here but next week will be chaotic. As the 5th is on Wednesday, various firework-displayers will have their parties any time between this coming Saturday and 2 weeks later. The big "official" display, by the Round Table - at the rugby club, is on Saturday the 9th but a lot of householders around the village like to show off what big fireworks they've got and, as I said, they'll do it on any night they please, which means every night. Drives me up the wall.
Me too.
Some folk have more money than sense.....some of these big bang fireworks that have you jumping out of your skin and cause the dog to have a heart attack cost £50.
Who's got £50 to set fire to?
Well, yes, as a child I did think about cats and dogs, actually, even though I had a Cocker Spaniel with the "gun dog" trait in her character that made her impervious to bangers. I always had cats, too, and they were cosseted on November 5th. I used to let off fireworks on Bonfire Night, not the night before or the week after.
It's pretty obvious, from your post, that you were one of those kids who went around letting off bangers all the time they were on sale, just to annoy/frighten everyone else. I wouldn't boast about it if I were you.
It comes as no surprise that the first “holier than thou denial” comes from you West Ender. It was expected.
It also comes as no surprise that you had the auuuuuudacity to make a definitive statement about my childhood/fireworks experience, with nothing more than an uneducated supposition. But then that is what know-it-alls do. Maybe you should take to heart the following:
The older I grow,
The more I recall,
How little I knew,
When I knew it all.
-- Anon
I guess that your crystal ball let you down or did your familiar get in the way of your viewing?
To set the record straight – I didn’t have the money to buy fireworks until I started work and by then I had better things to spend it on. However that doesn’t mean to say that I wasn’t around when fireworks were being let off, I was. But I didn’t give a thought to the effect on animals and old and nervous people.
Finally, I would be interested to be shown just where there was a boast in my post.
Oh! Silly me! I forgot. It is your forte to comment on something that was not written just so that you can make an infantile point.
I wouldn't call it the same old boring rhetoric.....more like genuine concern and yes we do have it every year because it happens every year.
When the government see sense and ban the sale of fireworks to the general public we won't have these concerns.
When I was young my dad bought a box of standard fireworks on Nov 5th and we set them off that evening in the back yard. They were not bangers, they were more about the colours than the bangs....now I do the same with my children although too many people do not use them in this way.
There are some very irresponsible people out there who mis-use fireworks and serious incidents are happening every year. In my opinion it is about time they were stopped.
When some idiot shoves one through your letterbox and your flat sets on fire you may change your mind.
Just because some people misuse fireworks they should be banned, should they? First of all that will put the sale of fireworks underground and thus unregulated and that will most likely lead to badly made fireworks being imported and causing much more mayhem.I wouldn't call it the same old boring rhetoric.....more like genuine concern and yes we do have it every year because it happens every year.
When the government see sense and ban the sale of fireworks to the general public we won't have these concerns.
When I was young my dad bought a box of standard fireworks on Nov 5th and we set them off that evening in the back yard. They were not bangers, they were more about the colours than the bangs....now I do the same with my children although too many people do not use them in this way.
There are some very irresponsible people out there who mis-use fireworks and serious incidents are happening every year. In my opinion it is about time they were stopped.
When some idiot shoves one through your letterbox and your flat sets on fire you may change your mind.
So let’s put this issue into context. In 2005 there were two deaths and under 1,000 injuries from the sale and use or misuse of millions of fireworks. If that and the irresponsible use of fireworks is enough to be calling for a ban then the same principle should be applied to the sale and use of alcohol and not forgetting the ubiquitous motor vehicle on the grounds of causing deaths and injuries.
Ah! But you must use some form of motorised transport to get around and probably like a drink so there is no chance of you campaigning for them to be banned is there?
It all smacks of a case of, if you don’t like something and don’t use that something, get it banned with scant consideration of other people’s views.
As for some idiot pushing a firework through my letterbox – I will tackle that problem if and when it arises. But I have more chance of being killed or injured by some idiot road user.
As I stated earlier – fireworks - live with them. Its not as if they are let off every day of the year.