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Here (down here) we often get fireworks throughout the year, for some reason this year has been decidedly.... q u i e t, which is rather odd.
Under normal curcumstances we'dve had kids birthdays, wakes, washing going out on the line all celebrated by the whizzzzzzzz, pop!, bang!! of these visual displays of "I've got £300 to set fire to, lets light em' up".
So come on, where are they?
they're all skint, aren't they? 😉
what John says
there isn't any of the discount firework shops knocking about like there used to be...went in ASDA today and they've got the firework counter up. Has there been a change in when the shop are allowed to sell fireworks?
EU and PC health and safety brigade I expect...or foreigners coming over here and buying our fireworks
TBH I'm glad, having moved up to the NW we used to laugh at the number of fireworks going off at every occasion (Child's first dump in the toilet, Daughters first period, Son's first Jazz Mag...etc)
Banned, hopefully.
Should only be available from 1st to the 5th of November. Will stop cats getting horribly burned.
All the shits that normally set them off are sitting in jail post-riots.
I'm pleased my dog being a failed/gunshy ex-gundog is a total quivering wreck around them.
Get them banned as far as im concerned.
Misery guts. There's been a few round here tonight. Wooo! Ahhhh!
Yes proper misery guts! Thus forum has gone well middle aged tonight, surprised anyone's still up! 😀
Not a sausage here, an I live near crays hill, it sounded like Beirut yesterday...
I shit you not, I drove by Brizzle Zoo the other day and saw an advert for a "Bangless Fireworks Display".
Hmmm, I've just realised typing that, that it's the flipping zoo! No wonder, they're having one. It's only just dawned on me. 😳
I agree with Elfin, given how we're repeatedly told of the terrorist threat I've never quite understood how selling unstable explosives in shops is a good thing
A couple of days either side of Nov 5th is fine, but other than that no thanks.
I don't mind them, except when they go off at 2am, but my dog craps himself - he shakes, hides under tables, throws up and hyperventilates. If he hears them and we aren't in (we never leave him alone round bonfire night), he takes himself upstairs, gets in the bath and wets himself.
It's only just dawned on me.
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I agree with Elfin
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This is more worrying.
I don't mind them, except when they go off at 2am, but my dog craps himself - he shakes, hides under tables, throws up and hyperventilates. If he hears them and we aren't in (we never leave him alone round bonfire night), he takes himself upstairs, gets in the bath and wets himself.
I don't know why fireworks have to be so flipping noisy. Pretty colours yes, no need for such loudness.
Apart from the effect on pets, loud explosions can have a traumatic effect on people too, obviously. My mum hates loud explosions; she was a little girl during the Blitz, and loud bangs bring back traumatic memories. Many older people suffer from similar issues. And I'd hate to think what someone coming back from Afghanistan with PTSD goes through.
Small 'family' boxes with sparkly stuff, and public displays= nice. Loud bangy things just for the sake of noise= bad.
she was a little girl during the Blitz, and loud bangs bring back traumatic memories.
Back when I was a nurse I did a bank shift in an old people home on Bonfire night, I went round the bedrooms at 2am and half the folk were missing..... turned out there was a old dear who grown up in Whitby resident there and the sound of the rockets made here think a ship had run aground and she'd led an expedition into the gardens to scavenge the wreck
last year, on my birthday, my mates sets off some fireworks, and the POLICE turn up (this is on my dads land [top of penhydd trail] which is 'too close' to the main road)[ read **** sargent with pyles who is embarrassing his PC] claims you need a pyrotechnics license, which Adam then produces (he does events) at which point he gets charged under the 'prevention of terrorism act' and get this- given an 80 quid fine. cos lets face it, if your a terrorist 80 quid is gonna **** you right up. FIREWORKS ARE BAD . IF YOU WANT FIREWORKS - YOUR A TERRORIST
Firing fireworks at 2am is against the law, the latest you can have them is 1am and only on Diwali (26 Oct), New Year, and Chinese New Year, midnight on Bonfire night and 11pm the rest of the year.
Over recent years a noise limit has been brought in of 120db, for shop sold fireworks, this is got around my illegal imports, which are of dubious quality.
To sell fireworks all year, you need a special license with a lot of conditions, which costs loads of money to confirm to and then theres storeage. To sell fireworks just for the 2weeks period around bonfire and the short time before new year requires a lot less effort and money, hence why you get the pop up shops.
Bangless or quiet fireworks doesnt mean noise free.
Unstable explosives, all products should have gone through testing and be supplied to the shops in UN cartons which don't are more fire resistant than normal boxes. Also some of the larger fireworks are now packaged in a metal cage called pyro mesh, for added protection.
There is NO such thing as a pyrotechnics license in the UK, there are several trade associations but it's not a compulsory thing. You do need a license to sell, make or store (for more than iirc 14 days) firworks.
Well I'm glad all these fireworks thingummybobs are not being set off at all times of the year. Nothing to do with being a misery guts neithers, just hate the "gone past 11pm" brigade that used to ignore that fact that other people on this planet actually exsist..
Having said that Cowes Week firework display this year was pretty spetacular. I could see it from the beach. After last years 2x Catherine Wheels and a sparkler, this years 3/4's of an hour display was indeed "pretty" and loud. But that stopped at 10pm, perfect timing for all the folks to head off to the bars for beer'idge and hotdog'idge.
I'm off to my club this evening, one of my mates is taking early retirement and he's celebrating that with.....yup... a few fireworks..
Seems I've opened my gob too soon.
We've had them around mine but it's a lot quieter than previous years. Usually would have them from dark until about 10 ad my cats would be hiding but not this year.
Mrs Feet says that when she was young, she & her brother used to say (and I'm not kidding)...
"Peeeeeeeeee...........nissssssss" when fireworks went off 😯