How Bad are the Fireworks?

mike65 · 31-10-2004 08:37PM #1

At 6 pm it started in earnest and right now it's like Stalingrad 1943 out by the main road (Ballytruckle area).

Mike.

_sheep · 31-10-2004 08:38PM

I think Ballybeg(waterford) is going to blow itself up.... hopefully, sounds crazy

billy the squid · 31-10-2004 08:39PM

I dont know I have to go up to weston in Limerick later iI'm expecting falujah to be honest.

they have been going off for weeks but we got a little respite when the storm went through

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 31-10-2004 08:41PM

Some little scum bags where letting off bangers beside the exit from the m50 to tallaght at about 8 o'clock last night, i think they were hiding in the bushes......scared the crap out of me

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-10-2004 08:42PM

They've been going for hours in Dublin... since I woke up at around 6pm... I shouldn't expect them to wind down until about 3am. :rolleyes:
It's like a war-zone out there.

smoke.me.a.kipper · 31-10-2004 08:45PM

_sheep wrote:

I think Ballybeg(waterford) is going to blow itself up.... hopefully, sounds crazy

in work tonight, and was out for a smoke. ballybeg sounds like kosovo.

ixoy · 31-10-2004 08:46PM

Bang bang bang BOOM BOOM bang BOOM BOOM bang BOOOOOOM

- IFSC, currently

aidan_dunne · 31-10-2004 08:47PM

Parts of Portlaoise look like Baghdad during the height of the war last year!

I'm just waiting for the UN (let alone the guards!) to come shortly to start confiscating some of these things. I mean, some of the ones I've seen go off (and some of the ones I've seen in person before being let off

) look like fecking Patriot SAMs or RPGs. The size of some of them. Is it just me or do rockets, bangers and fireworks seem to be getting bigger and more explosive every year? The certainly weren't like these when I was growing up.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-10-2004 08:56PM

aidan_dunne wrote:

Is it just me or do rockets, bangers and fireworks seem to be getting bigger and more explosive every year?

Yeah some of the explosions going off around here send vibrations along the floor of where I'm sitting.
I think I'm quite brave to be leaving my window open actually.

Third_Echelon · 31-10-2004 09:13PM

just looking out from my roof.... dublin city centre sounds a bit like beirut at the moment.. as long as it stops when i go to bed...

i somehow doubt it though!!!

KilOit · 31-10-2004 09:23PM

strange so many fireworks,
there was a huge garda crackdown on them this year
not even in the markets you could buy them,
must be coming from the north

sanncoo · 31-10-2004 09:24PM

Ennis, Co Clare

Sanncoo our intrepid reporter is currently holed up in a house on the outskirts of the town. She cannot venture out for fear of her life. The deafening sound of fireworks boom through out the town. The townsfolk have aparently gone mad, and have taken to dressing up as Barney and Snow white........ :eek:

It's mad, as far as I can remember it wasn't this bad last year!

the_syco · 31-10-2004 09:27PM

Its kind of quitened down here in Leixlip, Co. Kildare, buit by "quitened down", I mean they're not as loud. Still one every 5 seconds, but I think the loud ones are all wasted, or they're keeping them till later.

As much as I hate them, I hope no-one gets hurt.

I was once one of them.

gandalf · 31-10-2004 09:35PM

Here I am in Ballinteera just outside Baghdad where open warfare has broken out again. The US 1st Garda division has been forced back to barracks and are currently hiding behind a pile of doughnuts and "cups of tae".

The Insurgents of the infamous Skanger 69th Cider division are running amoke on the streets targeting known collaborators other wise known as the local cats and dogs.

INCOMING !!

smoke.me.a.kipper · 31-10-2004 09:39PM

lol gandalf. that was brilliant.

Sarky · 31-10-2004 09:41PM

Merview, Galway.

They just won't stop. I pity any refugees who came here to avoid explosions. Also, there's a bonfire the size of a bus fifty yards from the factory.

Ah, Halloween, the one day of the year when my faith in humanity is completely and utterly shattered. Well,that and RAG week...

Wertz · 31-10-2004 09:48PM

Dundalk- Centre of the cross border trade in recreational ordinance devices, and after a lull due to bad weather mid week, the flagrant burning of gunpowder in a ritual to ward off the evil euro has reached full instensity.
Always amazed me how the people in this council estate have enough to feed their kids AND have a 3 hour garden display .

Oh wait...that's why the kids are banging my front door asking for fruit and nuts...

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-10-2004 09:51PM

Ooh nearly 9 o'clock, might check out the news, see what's going on out there.

Ba_barbaraAnne · 31-10-2004 09:56PM

Ye should all be in the West. I've just been wondering why there are no fireworks tonight! A few bangers earlier and now dead quiet. A few groups of kids out for sweets - some of them even using their manners!!!! Weirdest Halloween in years.

RicardoSmith · 31-10-2004 09:58PM

Its like Desert storm here. There'll be a few less pianists in the world after tonight. For some reason its suddenly mini skirt season out there aswell.

DMC · 31-10-2004 10:04PM

Sydney's Millennium celebrations are not a patch on Cabra tonight...

Sarky · 31-10-2004 10:05PM

RicardoSmith wrote:

There'll be a few less pianists in the world after tonight.

If it's the only way they'll learn, then frankly go Team Mutilation.

embee · 31-10-2004 10:13PM

Some stupid little geebag blew a hole in his leg this evening from a firework. There was much blood and gore.

It seems the little dude in question (he was about 10) put the firework/banger into a plastic bottle and lit it. Then STOOD THERE LOOKING AT IT. Bottle exploded, plastic neck of bottle tore a lump out of his calf muscle.

OfflerCrocGod · 31-10-2004 10:15PM

Clonsilla, Blanchartstown, Dublin 15. It's been very quiet here not much going on at all. I envy all you lucky people who have something to watch it's been disappointing here

Gileadi · 31-10-2004 10:18PM

offlercrocgod im down in carpenterstown beside clonsilla and its pretty bad here atm

the maze of estates around are being lit up every few seconds,wish i had went to the pub at this stage

Adam · 31-10-2004 10:29PM

has everybody run out of wars to associate their own area with? nobody went with the world wars, everyone wants to be unique

well its like the battle of hastings here at the moment so there ya go, put that in yer pipe an smoke it!

OfflerCrocGod · 31-10-2004 10:35PM

Gileadi wrote:

offlercrocgod im down in carpenterstown beside clonsilla and its pretty bad here atm

the maze of estates around are being lit up every few seconds,wish i had went to the pub at this stage

Well I may have higher expectations from my firework displays because of the amount and size of them in Italy during New Years Eve. They are legal in Italy so you can get them in shops....and you can get the bigger ones elsewhere

Lots of carnage on Capodanno ( N Y Eve ) in Italy.

Burago · 31-10-2004 10:36PM

I thought most of the explosives in my area had been used up last night because there were huge bangs until about 1am. I was wrong, it's like the bloody Falklands here in Kildare :cool:

A lot more callers at the door this year too. I had to go and buy more dental rotting sweets after only a half hour of callers.

OfflerCrocGod · 31-10-2004 10:40PM

fade_to_grey wrote:

well its like the battle of hastings here at the moment

Of 1066? Like no gunpowder, guns, cannons. Only a bunch of Normans on horseback? Must be pretty primitive were you live

JBoyle4eva · 31-10-2004 10:42PM

In the middle of the country, looks like sheet lightning all over the place....lots of bangers. nothing big!

Adam · 31-10-2004 10:53PM

You've hit the nail right on the head there offler, i'm as confused as you are! :eek:
Meh, I don't have to understand the show to enjoy the show

How Bad are the Fireworks?

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