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that`s now 9 evenings in a row with my dog hiding under the bed because of the damn fireworks
I'd be happy if they were banned.
Dogs or fireworks?
I can't stand fireworks. They've been going off every night round here for the last 3 weeks. Scallies setting them off before its even dark and they keep setting them off up to 1 am.
My Dog is scared shitless of them too.
Agree they should be banned!
I wholeheartedly agree! My poor dog goes mental trying defend us fom the explosions. It's proper stressing him (and us) out.
I'd like to see one night designated each year based on sensible logic (closest weekend night to Nov 5th?) for all firework displays to take place with fens for anyone caught letting them off any other night.
It's all the random ones that really cause pointless stress to animals.
Someone on our street had some going again tonight so my dog took the opportunity to watch them from the bay window, he loves them.
Sick of them as well. Dogs freaked out every night for going on a fortnight now. I'd ban them outside of organised displays.
If you want to listen to loud bangs and look at bright flashy things night after night, go and live in Damascus and leave the rest of us in peace.
10 month old baby + fireworks = f all sleep...bloody inconsiderate winkers!
I love bonfire night and fireworks but agree it's gone on too long. Hopefully in the future there will be the prettyness without much bang.
its like this every year! Expect to go on until... oooh, about Christmas!
as a non dog owner, i would be happy to see fireworks banned, they should be at organised displays only imo.
my cat likes them though.
This year is particularly bad as the 5th was mid week so everyone thinks the weekend either side is fair game as well.
The wife has had to book 9 nights away in the middle on nowhere with the dog.
Most of these people don't know what they're celebrating anyway.
Organised display across the street form us tonight. That's fine.
Then another private display at the big house. Loud but early enough that I can live with it.
It's now half 8. Just got the kids to sleep (4 month old and a 3 year old) and someone up the street has begun shelling us.
I [i]will[/i] have my revenge:
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I love fireworks. Reminds me of going to the displays as a kid. Makes it feel like it's the beginning of winter, and the start of the run up to Christmas.
Nye rolling in soon. Love fireworks I do.
Wouldn't stop anyone else enjoying them but can't see the attraction myself. It's almost refreshing that people can still buy explodey things. 😀
We had to be a bit more creative in Ireland growing up, where, understandably, their sale was completely banned.
Ooooooh...
Aaaaaah...
I think it should keep going night after night until the next Guy Fawkes volunteers themselves..
like the burnt toast and the new pope business
every year parliament gets vapourised unless they get voted back in for another term.. that would keep the ****ers on their toes
Totally agree. It should be bonfire night not bonfire fortnight. I can understand why people pay to go to organised displays but don't understand why people pay £100's for their own fireworks when they can look up in the air and watch their neighbours for nothing.
[i]Most of these people don't know what they're celebrating anyway[/i]
Course they do. Bonfire Night innit.
I really can't see the issue. And that's coming from someone who doesn't really like them, living in the middle if a city with a 3 year old and a 5month old who've been woken up repeatedly. It's just all about living close to other people, if you wanted silence, move away from other people!
One of my favourite quotes on here ever, think it may have been Druidh. Not verbatim but something along the lines of ' in 50 years time, we'll look back and be amazed that people used to be allowed to buy incendiary devices and people also kept dogs in houses'. Summit like that.
I'm a big fan of both explosive noises and personal freedom, but as I peeled my two year old out of my side of the bed at 1am AGAIN last night I became one more degree intolerant...
I live in East Sussex. Best time of the year here. We love our bonfires. 😀
Where do you people live? The Beirut of firework land? Is it that bad that your children/pets are frightened into a frenzy? Two kids here 8 and 11 now admittedly but we've never had any bother with fireworks. I'm sure If next door were giving it the big "millennium display" at 2 in the morning there'd be issues but houses 10 doors down are hardly causing us bother.
Loads going on tonight round ours, huge things.
Meh. Our dog barks at them but then she barks at the moon, the postman, the dog next door, nothing at all, mars. You name it.
[quote=Nobeerinthefridge ]One of my favourite quotes on here ever, think it may have been Druidh. Not verbatim but something along the lines of ' in 50 years time, we'll look back and be amazed that people used to be allowed to buy incendiary devices and people also kept dogs in houses'. Summit like that.
Close! 😆
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In a couple of hundred years time when folk are looking back at the current era, what do you think they will find more bizarre? That we let unlicensed people loose with incendiary devices or that folk in towns had animals in their houses?
What I really don't get is why the local authority/council ones are always on the weekend?
Where do you people live? The Beirut of firework land?
Yes, Sussex..
Not complaining, just tired, it's been foxes for the week before...
People have kept animals in their abodes for millennia. How would you come to the ridiculous assumption that people would find it bizarre in a few hundred more? Or was it just a silly question?
Not just Guy Fawkes Night is it. Its the whole Samhain and guising tradition. If people really knew it was about speaking truth to power and celebrating the equinox there mighht be more of it. Long may it continue.
My dog has no nose.
🙂
How does he smell?
stop whining,fireworks are great 😐
He can't. He's got no nose. I've told you that already.
Why does no one bother to read anything properly anymore?
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Why does no one bother to [s]read[/s] write anything [b]propery[/b] anymore?
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I saw that!!!
It's just all about living close to other people, if you wanted silence, move away from other people!
I've got nothing against people (...mostly).
Just when they choose to detonate a 1000lb fuel-air bomb at the precise moment that we finally get the baby off to sleep 👿
He's got no legs either.
He's called Woodbine you know.
[i]The wife has had to book 9 nights away in the middle on nowhere with the dog.[/i]
Please tell me you aren't been serious?
My two dogs aren't bothered in the least by fireworks, but then as Working Spaniels its probably a good job that load bangs don't affect them 🙂
b r - this is STW don't forget, the home of the First World Problem.
Agree that they go on too long. 3 out of 4 of my cats aren't bothered but the 4th is scared witless of them 🙁 I think it's the loud screeching fireworks that are the worst for them
I went to a 'silent' firework show last week at Bristol zoo (they did have a disclaimer stating that due to weather conditions they couldn't guarantee silence) thought it was a great idea, sadly they were far from silent and still spooked the animals there 🙁
However, going to a proper big display and having the loud 'booms' shaking you to the core is quite fun, sadly going to Sydney every year would be expensive
My rescued working springer is a jabbering wreck- probably down to the therapy he received to help him get over it 👿
It's years since I've seen a proper bonfire.
When I grew up it was traditional to wait for the bonfire to burn down then jump across it...I assumed this was just teenage boys being silly buggers, but then someone told me it's a tradition that dates back well into the mists of celtic prehistory - jumping through the flames was some sort of coming of age ritual.
Should tax em and tax em high I say!
Make it an "environmental tax" just spent the morning picking up firework litter in our garden and surrounding the house after the weekend display courtesy of our local chav family.
b r - this is STW don't forget, the home of the First World Problem.
Not when you love your dog more than your wife it isnt, its everything.
Bonfire night is nothing compared to the onslaught we get from diwali. All though it seems all the chavs around here saved their benefits until the fireworks were half price and had home displays last night (and I dare say tonight).
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However, going to a proper big display and having the loud 'booms' shaking you to the core is quite fun, sadly going to Sydney every year would be expensive
You don't need to go to Sydney, the same company that have done the. Sydney NYE show are uk based. They do Most of the high end shows here. Jubilee, Olympics, NYE in London etc etc.
Set to music, computerised shows. They are incredible
Neighbour has just started his chavtastic display and im about to get the hose out. Wish me luck.
I live in the middle of a rather large old council estate. We get a few fireworks but not many and none to annoy us. The football ground is 100yds away as the crow flies, so we get to see their display for free. I like fireworks. I look foreward to them every year. And Halloween. Love it.
Dogs, however......
Our next door and across the back fence neighbours have yappy terriers that they let into the garden at random times, usually just before I get up or just after I fall asleep. This happens ALL YEAR ROUND DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY.
So, dog owners, you ain't all that welcome, either
Okay come on. Ten past midnight on a Sunday is officially taking the piss surely?
It took you 24 hours to post that?
I love fireworks, especially the ones that make it look like the footage that came out of the first night of areal bombardment in Iraq.
My dog hates them though, so it's a reall bind. Mind you, a combo of DAP diffusers in the house and a Thundershirt has turned him from a wreck of a thing trying to dig through the carpet to a mildly nervous dog lying quietly at my feet, so my attitude towards them has relaxed more this year. Do think it goes on for too long though...
It took you 24 hours to post that?
I admire your pedantry. 😆
"Ten past midnight on Monday morning" is technically correct but sounds a bit clumsy.
They were odd fireworks though weren't they? All bang, not much of a flash plus they only set off about one per hour.
Yeah I suspect it was probably kids letting one off then running away till they felt brave again.
Or maybe just really tight unsociable adults. 😀
Oh hang on, it's bonfire night tonight! 11 days late and starting at ten o'clock at night ffs. Winkers. 👿
I think they are only sold here for a few days before nov 5th but last night we were up the Coast in a tiny little place in the camper. About midnight some fu$&@? Let off the loudest firework display right beside us - I almost wet myself but somehow the baby slept through it. I'd like to see people doing that made to install all the rockets up their arse.