bonfires

round tower huntsman

im in favour. i loved collecting for our bonfire when i was a kid. no one had a problem with fires when we were growing up. sure the whole estate would be around it when it was blazing,parents and kids. bonfires are a tradition and should be allowed.

bonfires yes or no?

Red Hand

If I ever win the Euromillions lottery, I'm buying a fleet of fire-engines, and I'm going to rain on your parade.

Chuchoter

Its all fun and games until someone loses a face...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I used to live in a small little village in the west of Ireland (not Ahascragh) and bonfire night was the highlight of the year
We collected for about a month beforehand, robbing tyres that farmers had for their silage, cycling down the road with a tyre under the saddle, two on each side of the handlebar and the farmers running down the road screaming at you.7
We also stockpiled aeresol cans and car batteries.
There was always a few old couches that would be there and fired into the fire the next morning. These fires were huge, still smoldering two days later
One of my first time being drunk was at one of these, I fell into a drain but managed to get the shift

I have very fond memories of bonfires. Delighted I moved away from that place reasonably young though, they're all muck savages

Saila

how about maybe.

strokemyclover

I'm looking for somewhere handy to burn my father on Endor. If anyone has a bonfire going around the area drop us a PM, Cheers!

-Luke Skywalker

thetonynator

Leland Nutty Band-aid wrote: »

I used to live in a small little village in the west of Ireland (not Ahascragh) and bonfire night was the highlight of the year
We collected for about a month beforehand, robbing tyres that farmers had for their silage, cycling down the road with a tyre under the saddle, two on each side of the handlebar and the farmers running down the road screaming at you.7
We also stockpiled aeresol cans and car batteries.
There was always a few old couches that would be there and fired into the fire the next morning. These fires were huge, still smoldering two days later
One of my first time being drunk was at one of these, I fell into a drain but managed to get the shift

I have very fond memories of bonfires. Delighted I moved away from that place reasonably young though, they're all muck savages

No. 1 reason to keep them then!!!

Capt'n Midnight

*wonders how many incinerator opponents will be attending bonfires*

round tower huntsman

tbh i dont think todays celtic tiger cubs put enough effort into their bonfires. we'd be out for weeks before holloween. we took pride in having a monster blazer. the little fatties today could do with the exercise of pulling pallets and wood to build a decent fire,get them away from the ps2

entropi

We no longer have bonfires in our area, but I used to really enjoy collecting wood for it every year. Me and my mates, and 2-3 other groups would go looking for wood and build HUGE bonfires, have firework displays and they were always supervised and usually had no drunk people around them acting the bollox as there were kids in attendance.

I adore Halloween, the stories behind it and the whole idea of having a bonfire...these days you hardly get kids doing something as simple as trick or treat

tl;dr: A Yes to bonfires.

alwaysadub

We used to spend months collecting stuff for the bonfire-then the estate across the road would rob all our stuff, then we'd rob it all back along with all their stuff, the the Guards would confiscate it all and we'd start all over again.
Good times.:D

Once people aren't annoying me with them, i don't mind bonfires at all

thetonynator

round tower huntsman wrote: »

tbh i dont think todays celtic tiger cubs put enough effort into their bonfires. we'd be out for weeks before holloween. we took pride in having a monster blazer. the little fatties today could do with the exercise of pulling pallets and wood to build a decent fire,get them away from the ps2

Dont be ridiculous everyone has ps 3's these days . . .

Dempsey

They are ok until people start throwing gas bottles and cats into them

Red Hand

Leland Nutty Band-aid wrote: »

I used to live in a small little village in the west of Ireland (not Ahascragh) and bonfire night was the highlight of the year
We collected for about a month beforehand, robbing tyres that farmers had for their silage, cycling down the road with a tyre under the saddle, two on each side of the handlebar and the farmers running down the road screaming at you.7
We also stockpiled aeresol cans and car batteries.
There was always a few old couches that would be there and fired into the fire the next morning. These fires were huge, still smoldering two days later
One of my first time being drunk was at one of these, I fell into a drain but managed to get the shift

I have very fond memories of bonfires. Delighted I moved away from that place reasonably young though, they're all muck savages

Nice. Getting all your lead and essential toxins in one go!:pac:

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Nice. Getting all your lead and essential toxins in one go!:pac:

There used to be furious debate on the ratio of wood:tyres becuase it was seen as very necessary for the smoke to be black at all times but then you needed the wood for heat and flame

starbelgrade

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

*wonders how many incinerator opponents will be attending bonfires*

My perfect Halloween would be to have a huge bonfire with John Gormley on it as the centrepiece.

FunnyStuff

yeah i used to love them. Spends weeks building it up, then the whole road would be around having fun, all the parents would cook sausages and have some beer while we all set the fireworks off. Nowadays the little scrotes would probably try throw a cat on the fire or something.

Kells...

My nephew lives with me and Im contemplating letting him out to collect for next year hes 14

Red Hand

Leland Nutty Band-aid wrote: »

There used to be furious debate on the ratio of wood:tyres becuase it was seen as very necessary for the smoke to be black at all times but then you needed the wood for heat and flame

And a shot of petrol to get it going.

Sharkey 10

Some of my fondest chilhood memories revolved around halloween . Collecting wood for weeks before, going on raiding missions to neighboring estates to rob their firewood.
Going trick or treating to get munchies for the older kids in exchange for cans.

Diabhal Beag

All fun till knackers start ****ing around with the fire

Minstrel27

If a bonfire is situated in a safe place and well monitored then I would have no problem. That doesn't happen though.

Snufflemunch

starbelgrade wrote: »

My perfect Halloween would be to have a huge bonfire with John Gormley on it as the centrepiece.

Can't we just burn them all?

starbelgrade

Snufflemunch wrote: »

Can't we just burn them all?

Yes.

Damo 2k9

round tower huntsman wrote: »

tbh i dont think todays celtic tiger cubs put enough effort into their bonfires. we'd be out for weeks before holloween. we took pride in having a monster blazer. the little fatties today could do with the exercise of pulling pallets and wood to build a decent fire,get them away from the ps2

The younger lads on my road (me only being 16) were out collecting 2 weeks ago, had loads of pallets (about 70) and the corporation came up and took them. Maybe thats why there not out collecting 2 weeks before because they keep getting taken off them.
Also, xbox obviously beats ps3 :P

My name is URL

I lived in an estate until I was 12. I remember well collecting stealing wooden crates from a factory down the road.. If I'm honest, that was the most fun part of Halloween.. good times

AnneElizabeth

I don't think they're a problem if they're controlled. It's just if people start messing and doing stupid stuff like throwing oil into them or something stupid like that. I can see why people don't like them though.

argosy2006

Captain Z

Im not against then in theory. However the crowd they attract and the damage caused is generally inexcusable. People have been arriving to the green outside my house in jeeps and vans all day today, dumping rubbish for a fire. A child just missed being run over by a jeep. Unless its cleared by the council or gardai we will be inundated with scumbags this evening. No evening walk or anything.

These morons have been setting fires under and amongst the trees on the green for the past two weeks.

uch

Poll is faulty, there's no "stick it up yer hole" option

MadsL

Now this fire is lit, time to throw some petrol on it...;)

A custom stolen from the English in their celebration of foiling a Catholic plot to blow up Parliament on Nov 5th or an remnant of Samhain, a pagan custom and mirror to Beltane, celebrating the equinoxes.

If the latter, what's with the fupping fireworks?

Uaru

MadsL wrote: »

Now this fire is lit, time to throw some petrol on it...;)

A custom stolen from the English in their celebration of foiling a Catholic plot to blow up Parliament on Nov 5th or an remnant of Samhain, a pagan custom and mirror to Beltane, celebrating the equinoxes.

If the latter, what's with the fupping fireworks?

No it's not. Loads of countries have bonfires to celebrate a multitude of occasions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire

MadsL

Uaru wrote: »

No it's not. Loads of countries have bonfires to celebrate a multitude of occasions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire

...and the fireworks

Uaru

MadsL wrote: »

...and the fireworks

America I'd imagine. Considering its a tradition they stole off us and we stole back its a hybridised Irish/American affair at this stage.

Uaru

I just looked there and apparently they're not used in America. Either way you can't claim the use of bonfires is stolen from the British because of Guy Fawkes as bonfires were prevalent long before Guy and the British parliament existed. Perhaps they stole bonfires from us?

lukesmom

strokemyclover wrote: »

I'm looking for somewhere handy to burn my father on Endor. If anyone has a bonfire going around the area drop us a PM, Cheers!

-Luke Skywalker

Hello Luke
I am your mother

0ph0rce0

If it doesn't have a Car on it it's not a bonfire.

Ahhhh the good oul days.

Puzzle35

Anyone see any bonfires yet?

wazky

Puzzle35 wrote: »

Anyone see any bonfires yet?

I see a raging one in my fireplace?

B.A._Baracus

It's tradition.
And sure, it's also a great way to get rid of any unwanted things in your house

sdanseo

There's a certain irony about reincarnating a necrothread on Halloween :rolleyes:

Medusa22

Bonfires at Halloween is generally a Dublin/East part of the country tradition. We don't have them in Cork at halloween but we have a bonfire night during the summer.

Jimoslimos

Medusa22 wrote: »

Bonfires at Halloween is generally a Dublin/East part of the country tradition. We don't have them in Cork at halloween but we have a bonfire night during the summer.

Yeah noticed that many summers ago in the Gaeltacht, why is that?

Drexel

There was a story on broadsheet.ie yesterday or today showing young Dublin lads with loads of pallets lined up ready to go. Fair play to them they stayed with them all night to make sure no one headed off with em!!

I'm yay for bonfires. Some of the best days of my youth revolved around a bonfire. It's kinda a rite of passage to be allowed to collect for it when I was younger!!

Fighting Irish

29yo

yup

Medusa22

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Yeah noticed that many summers ago in the Gaeltacht, why is that?

I think it is to do with the summer solstice, which is on the 21st of June and the bonfire is on the 23rd, but I think it was a pagan tradition that was christianised so the bonfire night takes place on the 23rd because the 24th of June is St. John's day.

Temptamperu

Of course we should have them, the dead are walking around and the bonfires scare them away.

moxin

Looking through my window I can see a small bonfire at the end of the road. The fireworks scare away the spirits!

Hilly Bill

moxin wrote: »

Looking through my window I can see a small bonfire at the end of the road. The fireworks scare away the spirits!

Just dont blame the Brits

Zombiiiiiieeeee thread.

It's Halloween, night of the zombies soooo

I'll allow it.
Carry on.

fasttalkerchat

Kids are too lazy these days. I saw one bonfire today and it was smaller than a house.
Maybe all the pallets are going for firewood and no one changes their car tyres these days.