Why is it necessary to allow anyone to sell fireworks to ANYBODY before the 4th November (ok 3rd at a pinch) and after 5th November??????? >:(
Twinkletoes
Why is it necessary to sell them at all.
Absolutely....its stupid, but actually a lot of them going off round here are on a par with a small bomb. We reckon some are homemade ones as well >:(
HERE HERE, BLOODY PEST THEY ARE.
Pets used to be shut in the house for the night, now its a bloody fortnight, there not fireworks any more, more like Aeriel bombs. >:( :-X ;D ;D ;D
jUST A FORTNIGHT??
Gawds......they go off here from the end of sept (intermitantly through summer too) and carry on til dec. THEN they have the new year ones as well >:( :-\
My first reply might seem I am a bit of a bore, I love a good show of fireworks, but they really should be used in an organised display, also nov 5th when I was a kid was the night to let them off, unless it was a sunday then it would be nov 4th. The things shake the house nowadays so they could be deadly in the wrong wrists. ( he did not learn last year ;D)
For once I would go along with the nanny state if they banned them, after all, it would be more distracting if one flew in front of you when driving, than smoking a ciggie,
I agree that the urchins using them in the street is a bad thing but otherwise I'm all for them. I love fireworks and I love that people get pleasure from them just like me! They are sold before and for a short while after firework night probably for people who can't celebrate on the night itself. If I had to be away from my family on the night (especially with little ones) I would buy them before or after too :) When my siblings and I were growing up, my parents did little displays in our back garden - along with a little bonfire. We also attended the odd display or three. Same when our son was growing up, a mixture of both. Now it's just his nibs and I, we go to the local display in the town park (and it's free, heh)
As for the chavs running round the streets with em, I say light up em, stick em up their a*rse and watch the pretty colours. It was like Beirut round here last year!!! Even the budgie stacked up some sand bags and got his tin helmet on.
I'm sorry SavageBlue but I cannot agree with your sentiment that they are sold early to accommodate people who cannot celebrate on the night itself. I do not believe anybody actually celebrates Bonfire Night - I doubt most even know what it is in "celebration" of - most people seem to set off fireworks because they enjoy the spectacle (as I do in an organised event on the night) or because they enjoy the danger associated with setting off fireworks or because they enjoy upsetting local residents. It surprises me that so many people are able to actually afford to buy so many fireworks to set off - have you seen the prices? I am of the same opinion as ACE I think - when we were little our parents bought a small box of Standard Fireworks which we let off once it got dark (we kids couldn't wait any longer!). They were either set off on the 5th November or the day before if it fell on a Sunday (which we loved as it meant we got to see the display a day earlier!).
I reckon if the guys they sent to Iraq to look for WMD had found a fraction of the amount of fireworks available here, hidden where they thought they would find them - all hell would have been let loose - fireworks are really just "prettified" explosives and most certainly sound like it.
It never fails to surprise me how much danger parents are happy to expose their families to when they buy/set off these fireworks. They very seldom look at the instructions because if they did, I be most would realise but not admit they simply do not have the required distance in their gardens to view the fireworks they are setting off. A lot of the very big fireworks that look like shoe boxes are really meant for organised events which provide the necessary distance from the firework and the viewing area not for Mr & Mrs. General Public's back garden.
Right - that's off my chest for another year. Hope I haven't upset too many people ;)
Twinkletoes
I love a good firework display, & always go to the big organised ones & do me bit for Charidy Mate at the same time as they are all linked to local fundraising. I agree though with the comments sbout not selling them to the general public - we are pretty much tied to staying in every night for the next two weeks as the tykes have started letting the bl***y things off in the woods behind the house.
Apart from scaring the living daylights out of the cat, there's always the worry of one coming streaking over the fence & setting the place alight.
As long as it isn't the urchins running round the streets setting them off dangerously, I think they should be available to responsible people (adults?) for their own private use whenever they like.
hang on isn,t it about burning a catholic because they tried to blow up the houses of parliment because they were being persecuted (not educated but i think thats the reason) in these days of non discrimination I am surprized it,s allowed perhaps it would be banned if it was a non christian being burned !!
alright some one shoot me down with a rocket or two
marg
Guy Fawkes bonfire banned in his home town -
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/10/guy-fawkes-bonfire-banned-in-his-home.html
Quote from: theothermarg on October 23, 2007, 22:05:49
hang on isn,t it about burning a catholic because they tried to blow up the houses of parliment...
When was the last time you heard anyone calling it "Guy Fawkes Night"? It's always "Bommy night", Fireworks night" ect, and has lost it's origins (thankfully) in the mists of time.
There IS an age limit for the sale fireworks, but just as with fags and booze, it's difficult to keep it out of kids' hands. Once again, people think that stopping the majority of sensible people from enjoying an innocent firework party is the only way to prevent plonkers from blowing their nuts off :o
I for one would hate to see them banned from public sale. I have
always had a fireworks night ever since I can remember, and we still hold it as a special time of year for us - even though we don't celebrate setting Catholics on fire ;D
Quote from: Belinda on October 24, 2007, 13:50:14
Guy Fawkes bonfire banned in his home town -
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/10/guy-fawkes-bonfire-banned-in-his-home.html
thankyou for that link. i found it very interesting. I really wish displays were confined to organized ones. i resent the bangs that make my cat (and me) a nervous wreck for weeks around this event.
marg
I think the fireworks on sale now are very different from when I was little. My cousin and I would buy 'penny bangers' (thats 1d not 1p). We would stick one in a cow pat, light the blue touchpaper and retire well away from the ensuing shower of sh*t. Another thing we would do was bury a banger in the bank of the local stream, and do our own quarrying.
The fireworks we had fun with are very far removed from the one's available today.
Alton Towers used to have five nights of firework displays. We didn't need to go out of the house to see them. We used to watch them, but after a few years they got a bit samey, and couldn't be bothered. One of the things I remember was sitting watching TV while the fireworks were going off, and the ornaments on the shelf behind me being audibly rattled, and we live the opposite side of the 'valley'.
I do love a really good professional fireworks display, but sympathise with those of you who find fireworks an annoyance, particularly pet owners.
I understand that the sale of them has been limited, as has the times that they can be let off, but its an already overworked police force that is supposed to govern this.
Could I also add another 'seasonal moan'. Wednesday next week, 31st October, Halloween, I can live with, but trick or ruddy treat = bah humbug.
Don't you just get sick of having to wash the eggs of your car, drive, fence the next morning??
valmarg