Fireworks....not already!

dbnavan · 16-09-2007 11:23am #1

Was woken up this morning by kids on the street setting off bangers and screamers, its gonna be a long october. Anyone else hear any yet?`

emilyc · 16-09-2007 11:27am

I've been hearing them since August

Terry · 16-09-2007 11:39am

Sparklers, starlights.
D'ya want some bangers, love?

Anto McC · 16-09-2007 11:49am

OP,if you don't mind me asking where are you located? We've had them here the last 2 weeks but not too many thankfully.

constellation · 16-09-2007 12:15pm

That's my cue. Time to go get that Christmas tree....

FranchisePlayer · 16-09-2007 12:34pm

Ah the time of year is upon us again can't remember if it was two years or a year ago but a lad brought to school and light it horizantally and hit went through a bag and made a gash in a girls leg some way to celebrate halloween

g5hn710m4xpdwy · 16-09-2007 1:27pm

|Cookies wrote:

ahh a trip up north is needed soon=)

My thoughts. Do the guards actualy pull over people coming back from the north?

Terry · 16-09-2007 1:32pm

Flunked wrote:

My thoughts. Do the guards actualy pull over people coming back from the north?

The days of border guards are long gone.

As long as you don't drive like a maniac, you'll be fine.

Poxyshamrock · 16-09-2007 3:03pm

Heard a few last night down here in Limerick!

must say i love them!

Anto McC · 16-09-2007 3:04pm

Don't get me wrong, come October 31st, they're f*cking great but anytime before or after they're a pox.

Archeron · 16-09-2007 3:23pm

A massive explosion in the sky last night over the field behind my house caused my timid little red setter to charge into the house at mach 2, lose control on the tiles in the hall, and skid face first into a coat stand causing it to fall over. I love halloween, just cant wait for the huge fires built dangerously close to the houses too.

pretty-in-pink · 16-09-2007 3:46pm

Fireworks can be seen and heard, from August until November, making a guest appearance for new years and christmas weeks in my home town. In fact if they were being let off last night, then that incident may not have happened....

tampopo · 16-09-2007 3:58pm

jaysus, thankfully they've been pretty quiet around here. Used to be, every year from the beginning of Sept or the schools going back it would be beirut every night. TG it's got to mid Sept without too much.

The poor mutt's nerves do be shattered by November rolls around. Hard to get her out for her constitutionals at all at all.

Gillo · 16-09-2007 4:09pm

Archeron wrote:

A massive explosion in the sky last night over the field behind my house caused my timid little red setter to charge into the house at mach 2, lose control on the tiles in the hall, and skid face first into a coat stand causing it to fall over. I love halloween, just cant wait for the huge fires built dangerously close to the houses too.

Please tell me you managed to post it on youtube- hope the little fella is ok.

On a serious note, I don't mind friework's a few day's before Hallowen, but it's a bit too early now.

thefinalstage · 16-09-2007 4:39pm

I hate this time of the year because the local idiots set off bangers a lot and they freak out my dogs.

I would destroy them all given the chance...

Zebra3 · 16-09-2007 7:44pm

It's that time of year for cats to go a-missing again...... :cool:

Happy days.

scruff321 · 16-09-2007 8:53pm

love halloween and all the bangers and that stuff for sum reason

mikemac · 16-09-2007 8:55pm

Hopefully some careless skangers will lose some fingers! Happens every year.

Does that sound cruel and harsh? Feck them, they know the risks and they won't do it again.

Ruu_Old · 16-09-2007 8:57pm

Heard a couple last night, people head over the border to Indiana (about a hundred yards from the Indy/Illinois border) to get fireworks.

Zebra3 · 16-09-2007 9:35pm

micmclo wrote:

Hopefully some careless skangers will lose some fingers! Happens every year.

Does that sound cruel and harsh? Feck them, they know the risks and they won't do it again.

Won't or can't?

McSandwich · 17-09-2007 9:25am

They should be banned and made illegal.. Oh hang on, they already are!

tallus · 17-09-2007 9:30am

Strangely I haven't heard any yet.

North&South · 17-09-2007 9:38am

Hi, I'm in the UK & our fireworks night isn't until Nov 5th......
We also live in Blackpool & have the Fireworks World Championship going on at the moment, every Friday night - spectacular too, but VERY noisy!

We have a deaf spaniel & a VERY chilled out Basset - neither of whom flinch so much as an eyelid when the fireworks can be heard!

Good luck with the run up to your official fireworks evening - let's hope the injury statistics are kinder this year.

Archeron · 17-09-2007 9:46am

North&South wrote:

Hi, I'm in the UK & our fireworks night isn't until Nov 5th......
We also live in Blackpool & have the Fireworks World Championship going on at the moment, every Friday night - spectacular too, but VERY noisy!

We have a deaf spaniel & a VERY chilled out Basset - neither of whom flinch so much as an eyelid when the fireworks can be heard!

Good luck with the run up to your official fireworks evening - let's hope the injury statistics are kinder this year.

Are fireworks legal in the UK?

Terry · 17-09-2007 10:15am

Archeron wrote:

Are fireworks legal in the UK?

Only if you promise not to blow up the houses of parliament.

North&South · 17-09-2007 10:39am

Archeron wrote:

Are fireworks legal in the UK?

Hmmm.... depends on what you mean by legal......

But yes, as an adult, if I wanted to host a fireworks party in my back yard, I could. You cannot use fireworks after 11pm, except for certain evenings - Nov 5th, New year, Chinese New Year, etc etc.
You have to be 18 & over to purchase & use - then there's the standard 'do not set them off in daft places' rules, as expected.

Here in Blackpool, we have a few all-year firework shops :rolleyes:
But on the whole, it's usually this time of year when the kids get their hands on them....

Anyway, Terry... WHY can't we blow Westminster up? Seems like a great idea to me!!

Terry · 17-09-2007 11:10am

Seemed like a great idea to Guy Fawkes too.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 17-09-2007 11:19am

Well time for the Mairt'o family to head north and stock up, costs me a bleed'n fortune every year.

Leeby · 17-09-2007 11:44am

I was sitting outside the gingerman (pub in Dublin, with a two or three tables out the front on the street) and there was only me, my friend and two girls at another table there. One of the girls at the other table suddenly jumped up and started shouting at me to get up, I didn't know what was wrong with her so I just jumped up and moved out of the way, then surprise surprise HUGE bang! Some little knacker kid had thrown a banger in at us and it went off under my chair. Good thing that girl had seen it coming over or I probably would've pissed myself from the shock!