Bangers (the firework type...)

Dancor

kearnsr wrote: »

Same goes for heroin

Hash and cocaine but thats another topic that has been done to death.

godtabh

Dancor wrote: »

Hash and cocaine but thats another topic that has been done to death.

I was taking the piss

petes

kearnsr wrote: »

I was taking the piss

I got it.

Prof.Badass

Joey the lips wrote: »

In fact I say it now if you buy your kids bangers this year your a direct contributor. Buy them rockets. or better still buy them sparkles.

I wouldn't go buying my kids sparklers if i was you. If you grind up a few of them and use another sparkler to light the powder you've got some seriously powerful shit right there :eek:.

Also, putting a big screamer inside a tunnel was awesome. Possibly the loudest thing i've ever heard. The tunnel in question was about 100m long and went under a road. Thought the road would collapse the first time i heard it . Word of warning: had i been inside the tunnel when the screamers went off I probably would have suffered some sort of permanent hearing loss .

God I hope there's no kids reading this...

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Jim wrote: »

For the past 2 years the field has become home to a group of travellers. There's no more problems with bangers and fireworks from local youths.

Thats the best part, when winter comes they freeze to death!

phasers

Insurgent wrote: »

Aren't most dogs really afraid of fireworks? I know any dog I had they were.

My Jack Russell isn't, she chases them around and when she hears them they don't bother her.

The labrador is terrible though, runs and hides under beds whimpering and all sorts

Jesus Wept

you have a jack russell phasers?
disappointed in you, dude.

Acacia

Idiot teenage scumbags + minature explosives= trouble.

I really despise the fcukin' things. I was walking home from college the other day, and a gang of yoofs were throwing them around them place, near where kids were playing ( ''Won't somebody please think of the children?!":D)

But seriously , they're really loud and annoying, every time one goes off, you hear about twenty dogs howling afterwards.

I don't even get the attraction with them, "Wow, a loud noise and small explosion, great craic!":rolleyes:

It wouldn't be too bad if they were confined to just Halloween night or something, but no, it's mid-September onwards you hear them going off.

orourkeda

Really, we have problems with bangers all over this city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGpcKu7kLuY

stovelid

Can't hear any where I live, thank fuck.

My mum's estate is like a battlefield at night for most of October.

Insect Overlord

The kids in Limerick were pretty late starting this year. One can usually hear bangers going off within weeks of the summer holidays ending, but they waited until the second week of October this year. It's still strangely quiet most nights.

I've no interesting stories though. One time we tried to blow up a glass bottle and the fuse went out because there wasn't enough air in the bottle to keep it lit...

happyfriday74

Used to have great fun with bangers as a kid, getting up to all sorts of badness...the only people at risk were ourselves though, would never do throw them at people or animals.

The sulpher tipped ones flared up and then simmered after being lit. after the initial "flare" they became waterproof and you could toss them into buckets of water/the building sites(unoccupied but full to the brime with exrement) portaloo

They should legalise them. One year a buddy of mine got "real" bangers legally from the north and the rest of us had black cats we picked up around town.

The frightening thing was we were putting them in empty beer bottles...the black cat would shatter the bottle into tiny peices( the buzz was to hide behind somthing before it exploded...in hindsight we were very stupid 11 year olds).

What was shocking was that if we put the legally bought(i.e safety tested bangers) into the bottles they wouldn't break and shatter. We then added two english bangers...again bottle held fast but a single black cat would vaporise them

The English bangers and the blackcats were indentical in appearance and had the same level of noise but the power of the black cat must have been much much more powerful.

Moral of the story is that if the goverment legalised the things you would probably have less missing fingers on october 31st

Jesus Wept

People would still buy the illegal mental ones though.
Dunno if it would be a help or hinderence in the end.

mattfender

Back in the day the lads used to put em in empty cans and all...imagine if you got a shard of metal slicing your jugular :eek:

We leave my dog in with the radio on on halloween night, works pretty well

super_furry

Terry wrote: »

I walked by there about 3 weeks ago and it has all changed. Nobody offered me any bananas or apples and they don't have those shoe stalls at the back of the Ilac any more either.

Peggy "Do yiz want Docs lads?" is long gone.

IvyTheTerrible

In my brother's secondary school (which was a bit rough), some lads used to throw bangers into the crowd waiting at the shop. I think I heard that one time, everyone moved away so quick that some young fella was pushed out a window.

delricyo

There was one shop in Maynooth that decided to sell them one year. Made no attempt to hide the fact either (we could see the boxes being brought in)

Of course, it was only a few days before the Guardai found out and shut the operation down (not before I got mine though )

That shop sold the British ones. They were the ones that we went for every year. Some of the Chinese ones were lethal. Paper fuzes etc - they would nearly blow up before you had a chance to turn your face away. If they make them legal - they should try and copy the British safety standards. Far better quality ones too IMO

stovelid

super_furry wrote: »

Peggy "Do yiz want Docs lads?" is long gone.

That brings some memories...

/oxblood, size 10

ah yellow C4.. some memories

shamblertine

Ah I used to love bangers when I was younger. I find fireworks boring, you see 1 firework you've seen them all imho. But with bangers you can be creative and get up to all kinds of badness. It was fun putting them in a bottle, putting a cork on it, then chucking it into a river. Was also fun to throw them in a bin then watch smoke pour out of it for the next 20 mins. I used to do that then walk back to my house which was on a hill and had a birds eye view of this said bin and peer out behind the net curtains with a big smile on my face as people walked by perplexed. If I was old enough at the time I probably would of had an erection as I was watching all this but I was too young at the time to achieve one unfortunately.

Midnight_EG

Mousey- wrote: »

one idiot took all the gunpowder out an light it on th ground and got 3rd degree burns


besides that....just randow fireworks getting thrown in a fire....

roman candle fights

ohh and the time a 70 shot repeater fell over after ten and nearly hit us about 60 times....

great times though :rolleyes:


ohh and you cant forget blowing up ppl leter boxs.... in the country obviously... ones on fences

Big bolded, god I loved them :P

small bolded, had it a few times, great fun.

underlined, possibly the best thing you can do, the noise is incredible, followed by the kedunk of a broken fence and/or mailbox :cool:

Nozebleed

fcukin hate them...


was standing at the bus stop at the junction of camden st & auinger st. last year..waiting for the 65 (1 an hour). the bus stop in question is right beside the flats..and the little wanker kids were aiming screamers from inside the complex at all us dopes standing at the stop..they had it down to a tee..blowing up right in your face from 100 yards..like heatseekers.

Knifey Spoony

Here you go my good people, a warning to ye all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqldx5JBQiI

xsiborg

walking the young lad to school this morning, some youg lads walking in front of us, next thing they just took off running, little f***ers had dropped a banger on the ground right in front of us, of course the new rocks didnt do much to muffle the sound but at least my young lad didnt get any stray sh*t in his face.

i know though where i would have placed my shoe had i known what they were up to!

and yes, of course i messed around with bangers myself as a kid, but i was never as thoughtless as these idiots, they didnt even look around to see a five year old child only inches behind them!

luckily my child was unharmed and his hearing was fine!

jumpguy

A few years ago a friend of mine lit a firework (the type that are meant to go UP) but never planted it in the ground. We all ran, but it went off and flew up towards me. I tried to jump over it but I ended up hittng it with the back of my leg, it deflected and went off about a meter away from me. I swear I was nearly deafened.

sky88

used to love them when i was a kid but i was a little **** with them know i cant stand them hate them now cant stand hearing them

AntoSRFC

delricyo wrote: »

There was one shop in Maynooth that decided to sell them one year. Made no attempt to hide the fact either (we could see the boxes being brought in)

Of course, it was only a few days before the Guardai found out and shut the operation down (not before I got mine though )

That shop sold the British ones. They were the ones that we went for every year. Some of the Chinese ones were lethal. Paper fuzes etc - they would nearly blow up before you had a chance to turn your face away. If they make them legal - they should try and copy the British safety standards. Far better quality ones too IMO

Never heard that what shop was it?

ronbyrne2005

Ah the smell of gunpowder,sulfer and smoke in the autumnal air sure is a sensual experience. One time we fired an "airbomb" from a firework into local garda station, amazing sound from it.

QOTSA90

Roman Candle wars, love em.

Rush lads, Rush in North County Dublin. Anyone wanna have fun come out here

LordSutch

shamblertine wrote: »

Ah I used to love bangers when I was younger. I find fireworks boring, you see 1 firework you've seen them all imho. But with bangers you can be creative and get up to all kinds of badness.

OK, just for the record, and to forestall any confusion "Bangers are Fireworks".

You hear a lot of people in Ireland talking about 'Bangers & Fireworks' as if they are two different things, but 'Fireworks' include Bangers, Roman Candles, Fountains, Rockets, Catherine Wheels, Jumping jacks, Cones, etc.