Fireworks/Bonfire night.

Blue Maverick said:
You’ll not convince me, zero need for them to make a noise, I bet if you asked most wouldn’t even know what bonfire night was about, unfortunately if you can them for bonfire the rest of the festivals etc would just have to accept it as well.
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Part of their appeal is the resounding noise as well as spectacular sight. I love em, even as an adult who should have grown out of enjoying fireworks by now.

But I do think the big ones should be confined to organised displays in public parks and not sold to the public.

The Council need to stop spending money on putting big ghosts and aliens on buildings on Hallowe’en (what have aliens got to do with Hallowe’en for fuck’s sake?!) and put the firework and bonfire displays back on Heaton and Wythenshawe Park.

I’d even be happy to pay an entrance fee if they are bothered about them being too expensive.
 
An interesting documentary on how much damage the Gunpowder Plot would have done if it wasn’t thwarted.



I think it’s safe to say that every single Member of Parliament would have been killed that day with an explosion that big.
 
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When my kids were young we’d spend around £50 on fireworks. That’s around 2002-2006 when they started to get bored.

Was just out then and I was just thinking how much fucking money being shot uo into the air for a bang and a fizz.

The definition of looking at it through the eyes of a mid-50s person.
 
Our dogs are relatively quiet tonight. They usually go mental at every bang.

And we just had our own bonfire night meal - Chilli Shepherd pie with a spicy chilli topped with sweet potato mash. Then cornflake cake but with treacle. Lovely.

Dont do fireworks anymore, they are way too expensive as said aboove. And the dogs go mental at them
 
I hate it. If I wanted non stop bangs and explosions, I would go and live in the Gaza strip. I feel sympathy for ex soldiers with PTSD, like one I met who served in Kosovo, and after that hated fireworks because they would be triggers.
 
Shouldn't be on sale to the general public, is the truth. Organised displays fine, even if it is an exceptionally weird way to celebrate an attempted mass murder / challenge to the governance of the realm. I quite like them, can be extremely impressive and a great way to celebrate, but my Kids aren't arsed nowadays thankfully, saves me a few quid.

Issue is more that it goes on for weeks. I think that makes them less special, and we've just had Diwali (which I've seen celebrated amazingly in Sri Lanka without a single firework) and that means the past couple of weeks round here have been noisy. People hoard them for birthdays, Christmas, new year, day of mind melding with the all powerful spaghetti god. But it's the special cases who let them off in the daylight that get me, clearly so desperate for a xtasy super 100 multi shot that they exchanged their brains for it.

Neighbours lost their cat last night, bolted out the door when they headed out. Not seen since despite us all out with torches. I'll stop short of turning this into a local Facebook group, but if you have spare dosh to literally watch it disappearing with a bang, you can't also be moaning about the cost of food or the next tax hike.
 
I’ve never really been interested but organised displays can be good, I was at Mayfield Depot last year(or maybe the year before) and that was top

I see them as a waste of money but each to their own on that front. I don’t have a pet but I can imagine the problems fireworks cause them.

I have an 8 year old who hates them. Hopefully that continues as it will save me a few bob in the coming years
 
bluetonium said:
Shouldn't be on sale to the general public, is the truth. Organised displays fine, even if it is an exceptionally weird way to celebrate an attempted mass murder / challenge to the governance of the realm. I quite like them, can be extremely impressive and a great way to celebrate, but my Kids aren't arsed nowadays thankfully, saves me a few quid.

Issue is more that it goes on for weeks. I think that makes them less special, and we've just had Diwali (which I've seen celebrated amazingly in Sri Lanka without a single firework) and that means the past couple of weeks round here have been noisy. People hoard them for birthdays, Christmas, new year, day of mind melding with the all powerful spaghetti god. But it's the special cases who let them off in the daylight that get me, clearly so desperate for a xtasy super 100 multi shot that they exchanged their brains for it.

Neighbours lost their cat last night, bolted out the door when they headed out. Not seen since despite us all out with torches. I'll stop short of turning this into a local Facebook group, but if you have spare dosh to literally watch it disappearing with a bang, you can't also be moaning about the cost of food or the next tax hike.
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Ye funny that most of the problems we had in the service were in the poor areas where supposedly no fucker has any money and are scrapping by, spend £100 on fireworks but won’t get home insurance then when it all goes up start crying on Facebook
 
bluetonium said:
Shouldn't be on sale to the general public, is the truth. Organised displays fine, even if it is an exceptionally weird way to celebrate an attempted mass murder / challenge to the governance of the realm. I quite like them, can be extremely impressive and a great way to celebrate, but my Kids aren't arsed nowadays thankfully, saves me a few quid.

Issue is more that it goes on for weeks. I think that makes them less special, and we've just had Diwali (which I've seen celebrated amazingly in Sri Lanka without a single firework) and that means the past couple of weeks round here have been noisy. People hoard them for birthdays, Christmas, new year, day of mind melding with the all powerful spaghetti god. But it's the special cases who let them off in the daylight that get me, clearly so desperate for a xtasy super 100 multi shot that they exchanged their brains for it.

Neighbours lost their cat last night, bolted out the door when they headed out. Not seen since despite us all out with torches. I'll stop short of turning this into a local Facebook group, but if you have spare dosh to literally watch it disappearing with a bang, you can't also be moaning about the cost of food or the next tax hike.
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It is a celebration that the terrorists failed to enact their plan of mass murder, not a celebration that they plotted it. Catesby, Fawkes and the others were the Thomas Mair and Salman Abedi of their day, but were all stopped before they managed to accomplish their aims and punished by death for them.

Here’s what was thwarted:



There were going to be around 300 people in just that building, and it’s unknown how many outside and in neighbouring buildings and streets would have been killed.

And it could be said to still be relevant today due to all the terrorist plots that MI5 thwart now:



Unfortunately, like those mentioned above and some more recent ones that we’ve seen this year (which add to that number of 43 from the video) that do manage to get through and are enacted, injuring and sadly killing people.

That’s just the number of late stage plots MI5 have taken down, not even including those in their earlier stages which number many more than 43.
 
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My dog goes ballistic at them, I have genuinely feared she's going to have a heartattack in the past because of them. she's unfortunately gone almost deaf now in her old age so she didn't hear most of them and the ones she did hear didnt cause her much distress, had a relatively quiet night with her for once, one of the few perks of her hearing going. we've got patio doors in her room as well as skylights in the kitchen though so she still went mental when she saw them.
 
ninjamonkey said:
My dog goes ballistic at them, I have genuinely feared she's going to have a heartattack in the past because of them. she's unfortunately gone almost deaf now in her old age so she didn't hear most of them and the ones she did hear didnt cause her much distress, had a relatively quiet night with her for once, one of the few perks of her hearing going. we've got patio doors in her room as well as skylights in the kitchen though so she still went mental when she saw them.
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In his first year our cat cowered under the table and wailed when fireworks went off. He grew into watching them from the kitchen and now barely wakes up for them.
 
bluetonium said:
Shouldn't be on sale to the general public, is the truth. Organised displays fine, even if it is an exceptionally weird way to celebrate an attempted mass murder / challenge to the governance of the realm. I quite like them, can be extremely impressive and a great way to celebrate, but my Kids aren't arsed nowadays thankfully, saves me a few quid.

Issue is more that it goes on for weeks. I think that makes them less special, and we've just had Diwali (which I've seen celebrated amazingly in Sri Lanka without a single firework) and that means the past couple of weeks round here have been noisy. People hoard them for birthdays, Christmas, new year, day of mind melding with the all powerful spaghetti god. But it's the special cases who let them off in the daylight that get me, clearly so desperate for a xtasy super 100 multi shot that they exchanged their brains for it.

Neighbours lost their cat last night, bolted out the door when they headed out. Not seen since despite us all out with torches. I'll stop short of turning this into a local Facebook group, but if you have spare dosh to literally watch it disappearing with a bang, you can't also be moaning about the cost of food or the next tax hike.
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To be fair we celebrate the actual failure of it and the consequent burning of Guy Fawkes, even that was symbolic because the fucknut was hung drawn and quartered.
 
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