Fireworks

jambutty said:
For heaven’s sake!

We get the same old boring rhetoric year after year at around this time.

Were none of your whingers kids? Did you not let off fireworks?

You didn’t think about dogs and cats then did you? Well its pay back time.

Live with it.
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Isn't that a case of pot - kettle - black, calling others whingers? It's ok for you to complain about things but just because you don't agree with this post the person must be whinging???
And yes, as has already been said most of us did enjoy bonfire night as kids, but it was just that - one night - if it was still like that it'd be ok but it's not. For one night you can 'live with it' as you say and ensure your pets are ok but when it goes on for weeks on end the poor things are nervous wrecks. A lady I know had to have her dog put to sleep a couple of years ago because because of the effects of the relentless bangs from fireworks, harmless fun eh?
Whinge over!
 
jambutty said:
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.

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.
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As has been said, if it was just the one night we could live with it......it's when it goes on for weeks that it gets out of hand.

I don't like walking down the street at night during the firework season as there are always groups of idiots throwing them around so I have to scuttle past, hoping they won't throw one at me. :eek:
 
jambutty said:
For heaven’s sake!

We get the same old boring rhetoric year after year at around this time.

Were none of your whingers kids? Did you not let off fireworks?

You didn’t think about dogs and cats then did you? Well its pay back time.

Live with it.
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I demand you return our venerable Jambutty immediately as you are clearly some alien lifeform. We all know OUR Jambutty would never ever back up rabble rousing antisocial behaviour like this when its an almost pefect opportunity to winge about something!!!!!!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
AccyMad said:
Isn't that a case of pot - kettle - black, calling others whingers? It's ok for you to complain about things but just because you don't agree with this post the person must be whinging???
And yes, as has already been said most of us did enjoy bonfire night as kids, but it was just that - one night - if it was still like that it'd be ok but it's not. For one night you can 'live with it' as you say and ensure your pets are ok but when it goes on for weeks on end the poor things are nervous wrecks. A lady I know had to have her dog put to sleep a couple of years ago because because of the effects of the relentless bangs from fireworks, harmless fun eh?
Whinge over!
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Now where did I ever state that it was harmless fun?

I do believe that I never even called it just fun.

But then as is the norm on this forum, just chuck in something that I didn’t say.

And I know one old lady who didn’t have her dog put down because of bangs from fireworks. So what? In fact I now several pet owners whose pets survived Bonfire time.

My several trumps your single.:tongueout
 
jambutty said:
For heaven’s sake!

We get the same old boring rhetoric year after year at around this time.

Were none of your whingers kids? Did you not let off fireworks?

You didn’t think about dogs and cats then did you? Well its pay back time.

Live with it.
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LOL........:D:D:D:D:D
 
Iv heard fireworks go off, but only the odd one and im in ossy, give it time!!
 
Its the start of Diwali, an Indian festival 5 Days of celebration. New years day tomorrow.
So it looks like we will be stuck with 2 weeks of fireworks
 
jambutty said:
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.
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Oh Jambutty, you call me a "know-it-all". That's really very funny. ;)
 
i was walking through blackburn town last night around 7.00 pm and i could hear a group of people discussing weather or notto through a firwork at us or not...



i had my daughter in her pram at the time.



i feel sick thinking about the sick teenagers these days
 
kathleen_firth said:
i was walking through blackburn town last night around 7.00 pm and i could hear a group of people discussing weather or notto through a firwork at us or not...



i had my daughter in her pram at the time.



i feel sick thinking about the sick teenagers these days
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I know exactly how you feel, Kathleen.

That's happened to me. :(
 
Well I spoke to soon, one went of near my place last night, just one mind you, but its only 8 days to go to Bonfire Night so I don't think that's bad for change, its usually been every night for a month before in the past
 
jambutty said:
For heaven’s sake!


Were none of your whingers kids? Did you not let off fireworks?

No, only ever saw 1/2 dozen fireworks, were'nt allowed bonfires either.
There were'nt any fireworks until around till 1946/47.
Consider yourself lucky, you were able to annoy peope.
Retlaw.
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Well from the fireworks I've seen tonight the people of Accrington aren't feeling the "credit crunch" there was plenty of money burnt round here
 
The more I read of the whining on here ,the more I am convinced that our great British sense of humour and our sense of fun took a hike a long while back .
I spent Sat Nov 1st at an organised bonfire and then had around 15 people, mainly adults of respectable professions back to my humble abode where we ate hotdogs and blackpeas, and set off many , many fireworks in my tiny backyard. Did anyone complain..... NO. We drank and laughed and even taped some rockets together, we had a riot, no one died , it was a great night. We have done the same for the last 8 or 9 years; it's called FUN.:mosher:
Try it, you might enjoy it !
 
lindsay ormerod said:
The more I read of the whining on here ,the more I am convinced that our great British sense of humour and our sense of fun took a hike a long while back .
I spent Sat Nov 1st at an organised bonfire and then had around 15 people, mainly adults of respectable professions back to my humble abode where we ate hotdogs and blackpeas, and set off many , many fireworks in my tiny backyard. Did anyone complain..... NO. We drank and laughed and even taped some rockets together, we had a riot, no one died , it was a great night. We have done the same for the last 8 or 9 years; it's called FUN.:mosher:
Try it, you might enjoy it !
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I have CFS - sleep is a medical need - if it was one of the rare days when I was capable of 'having fun' I would have done so:rolleyes:
 
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