bonfires

round tower huntsman · 30-10-2010 08:58PM #1

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 · 30-10-2010 09:00PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:03PM

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

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 30-10-2010 09:03PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:04PM

how about maybe.

strokemyclover · 30-10-2010 09:06PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:06PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:07PM

*wonders how many incinerator opponents will be attending bonfires*

round tower huntsman · 30-10-2010 09:07PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:08PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:08PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:08PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:09PM

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

Red Hand · 30-10-2010 09:09PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:14PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:14PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:20PM

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... · 30-10-2010 09:32PM

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

Red Hand · 30-10-2010 09:35PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:43PM

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 · 30-10-2010 09:45PM

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

Minstrel27 · 30-10-2010 10:00PM

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

Snufflemunch · 30-10-2010 10:06PM

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 · 30-10-2010 10:53PM

Snufflemunch wrote: »

Can't we just burn them all?

Yes.

Damo 2k9 · 30-10-2010 11:17PM

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 · 30-10-2010 11:21PM

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 · 30-10-2010 11:46PM

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 · 31-10-2010 12:21AM

Captain Z · 31-10-2013 05:19PM

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 · 31-10-2013 05:20PM

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

MadsL · 31-10-2013 05:29PM

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?

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