Fireworks

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:22 pm

Just want to see what everyone things on this one.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:27 pm

This morning I come out to my car to see the remains of a massive rocket 1 metre from my car :evil:

IMO if you want to see a good display, go to an organised one, it is cheaper and more impressive!

What is the point in setting off a rocket in your back garden, which people will see miles away a lot better than you will right underneath it! Add to that the fact that certain people enjoy throwing the things about the streets when they get their mits on them....BAN 'EM!!!

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:44 pm

I think they should be licensed products, they're boring anyway. If you wanna see real fireworks come to my house when my mrs is on one :lol:

daffy · Post by **daffy** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:08 pm

Fireworks should be banned for the general public.

Anyone who uses them are just idiots, making a noise and wasting money.

Why waste Â£100's on crappy fireworks in the back garden when you can pay Â£2.00 to see a show, with proper fireworks.

Down here Fireworks have been going off for almost a month now, November the 5th has passed but cod and chips twice please around here haven;t noticed that.

BAN THEM!

Daffy

sysdump · Post by **sysdump** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:31 pm

You're not the only one to find the remains of fireworks this morning.

I came out today to find a 1 metre length of wood half buried in my front garden from my neighbours display last night that lasted over 2 hours - grrrr!

Another 2 metres and it probably would have gone through my turbo windscreen!

Chris

Steve220 · Post by **Steve220** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:59 pm

there's been fireworks let off around here for the past 2 weeks. it takes the tripe n onions now. I'm furious that it should go on THIS long!! I've had enough of little celebrations where people waste their money - bonfire night, halloween, valentines day.
Just my little rant.
Steve

Jonny 5 · Post by **Jonny 5** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 8:14 pm

Ste wrote:I've had enough of little celebrations where people waste their money - bonfire night, halloween, valentines day.

Steve

I take it your single

sharky · Post by **sharky** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 8:21 pm

and 'grandparents day' ??????
what idiot thought of that??
surley they get stuff on mothers and fathers day???

grrrrrr, i hate cards... i think cards should be banned! (unless they have money in)

Steve220 · Post by **Steve220** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 8:27 pm

Jonny 5 wrote:
Ste wrote:I've had enough of little celebrations where people waste their money - bonfire night, halloween, valentines day.

Steve

I take it your single

Funny you should say that, for valentines day this year i was 11 months into a relationship with a girl from work. i don't celebrate halloween as its an american tradition, and bonfire night i only go to the local schools display. Just think its gone a bit out of proportion.

sharky · Post by **sharky** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 8:37 pm

and... if you think about it, guy fawkes (sp) was a terrorist... why the hell are we cellebrating about a terrorist?... just an excuse for people to play with fire!

daffy · Post by **daffy** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:14 pm

I think all celebrations are blown way out of proportion, even Christmas, what a load of old cobblers that is. No one believes in God or practices Christianity on a daily basis, yet they celebrate Christmas, how pathetic! All because they get a presant!

Pffffff .... all celebrations are money making schemes for sheep.

You know when I was a lad, I had a wooden train given to me for Christmas, and each year an extra bit would be carved out. It started off as a small log. Then the next year my dad carved the general shape of the train and I got that for the next Christmas, the next years xmas present was the same train, but extra carved out, like the wheels and so on. After 10 years it was finally finished, and on the year it was finished, my Dad used it as fire wood in the great winter of 88, the same year of the black firewood famine. I was gutted.

Bloody kids these days, they don't know what Christmas is.

Daffy

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 12:24 am

Generally I don't have a problem with fireworks, BUT what really gets my somebody that I used to know is the ******* that let them off at midnight and beyond :evil:

I'd rather pay a couple of quid each and go to a display than buy them now as 30-40 quid for a box that contains about 20 'things' that may or may not work seems like a complete waste of money to me!
Mind you, best display?? World Banger Finals at Wimbledon! Always pull all the stops out, and I'm sure the Chelsea Pensioners think WW2 still going there THAT LOUD!!!!!!!

marko · Post by **marko** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:07 am

Bonfires rock as they happily go on to the next morning and cause nobody grief. Fireworks? Yeah, no problem, we used to make a single bonfire for the whole estate and set off the whole estate's fireworks in one go, good larf. Over last 5 years or so though bonfire night seems to have turned to bonfire week; taking the tripe n onions somewhat and kinda defeats the point.

DanK · Post by **DanK** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:59 am

Fireworks scare the sh*t out of my dog! Poor thing just sits there just shaking, running from room to room everytime one goes off trying to escape them

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:00 pm

daffy wrote:You know when I was a lad, I had a wooden train given to me for Christmas, and each year an extra bit would be carved out. It started off as a small log. Then the next year my dad carved the general shape of the train and I got that for the next Christmas, the next years xmas present was the same train, but extra carved out, like the wheels and so on. After 10 years it was finally finished, and on the year it was finished, my Dad used it as fire wood in the great winter of 88, the same year of the black firewood famine. I was gutted.

Are you 103 years old?? :wink:

That made me laugh :lol:

roverspeed · Post by **roverspeed** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:07 am

em i think they are celebrating the fact that they stopped guy fawkes from blowing up the houses of parliment, not celebrating directly because of him. :roll:

Why you think they burn him on a bonfire?
:wink:

Warren.

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:17 am

roverspeed wrote:Why you think they burn him on a bonfire?

Perhaps they mistook him for Joan of Ark :twisted:

Patrick Church · Post by **Patrick Church** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:22 pm

daffy wrote:Fireworks should be banned for the general public.

Anyone who uses them are just idiots, making a noise and wasting money.

Why waste Â£100's on crappy fireworks in the back garden when you can pay Â£2.00 to see a show, with proper fireworks.

Down here Fireworks have been going off for almost a month now, November the 5th has passed but cod and chips twice please around here haven;t noticed that.

BAN THEM!

Daffy

This saves me a bit of typing.
Could not agree more.
Plus I work nights and it ain't so easy to sleep.

C-J · Post by **C-J** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 2:50 am

was talking to a shop owner that sold them and he told me it cost him Â£10 to get a licence to sell them,they should start selling them at 9am on nov 5th and stop selling them at 6pm the same day

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:32 am

It got closer this year, I almost got wiped out by a falling rocket

Sysdumps garden is littered with them, he wanted to go and shove them up the attendees of some n00by fireworks partys arse!

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:41 am

you set of moaning old bar stewards :wink:

Yup, i agree ban the lot, noisey buggers. Bar Humbug.

sysdump · Post by **sysdump** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:54 am

Martin wrote:It got closer this year, I almost got wiped out by a falling rocket

Sysdumps garden is littered with them, he wanted to go and shove them up the attendees of some n00by fireworks partys arse!

Yeah - just standing talking on the pavement, big bang, then a shower of flak comes falling out the sky!

My car was covered in ash the other morning too :evil:

And yet another 1m long firework 'stick' half buried in the garden less than a couple of metres away from the car - cnuts :evil:

That's 3 this year now!

Chris

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:08 am

FOR FCUKS SAKE!!! It is now 1:08am and they are still at it

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:11 am

Well ring the old bill! It's illegal now to set em off at this time of night!

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:13 am

Nah, I'd rather let my neighbours get woken up. Old bill are too busy in town anyhow.

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:09 am

radddogg wrote:I think they should be licensed products, they're boring anyway. If you wanna see real fireworks come to my house when my mrs is on one

A year later and I am still spreading my comic cheeriness. I want an award!

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:25 am

radddogg wrote:
radddogg wrote:I think they should be licensed products, they're boring anyway. If you wanna see real fireworks come to my house when my mrs is on one
A year later and I am still spreading my comic cheeriness. I want an award!

Err I don't think so! Every one else should get one for having to put up with it :nyah:

Ryan220 · Post by **Ryan220** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:53 am

I love fireworks.

Leaving it all to the professionals would take away all of the fun - like running back to the HUGE air bomb thats tipped over and is pointing towards you.

Or playing Danger UXB (most of you too young to remember that program) on a firework that appears to have gone out without working.

Or doing the frantic firework box shuffle when an errant spark has landed in your open box of fireworks.

Keep it public.

Eric_Ti · Post by **Eric_Ti** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:24 am

They pee me off! :evil:

My poor cats were hiding under beds everywhere terrified.
And it was nearly impossible to watch Simpsons on C4 last night when you are in the middle of Bosnia.
Keep em to displays I say.
No more kids firing them at each other in the streets wasting police and hospitals time and no more tying fireworks to animals and killing injuring them.
Yes another dog this year had a rocket taped to his muzzle when it was let off :evil:

If I saw some kids doing that the next rocket would be inserted up their bum then see how they like it :evil:

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:24 pm

Eric_Ti wrote:If I saw some kids doing that the next rocket would be inserted up their bum then see how they like it

So that's what my boss means when he says I need a rocket up my arse.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:56 pm

how OLD is this thread?

Eric_Ti · Post by **Eric_Ti** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:12 pm

LOL Just noticed that

At least it'll only get dragged out once a year

stuartm · Post by **stuartm** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:28 pm

No, they've started to let them of at new year as well :evil:

Hyper · Post by **Hyper** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:17 pm

What's wrong with recycling

R

Dave400 · Post by **Dave400** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:25 am

This morning I found within a 10 metre radious of my house 15 empty casings...

Does take the tripe n onions severely how many of these are going off, half of them hardly get any height when they go off, as a result when the last bits of burning gunpoweder/debris hit the ground, they are still alight.

Could have been a major fire hazard.

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