Yet another night of fireworks, when will this insanity of 10 days of this stuff end?
anyone with pets particularly dogs will know what hell this is also, but even without it is crazy.
My dog is severely traumatised, and refusing to walk on his usual round in the evenings, I'd never appreciated before now just how bad it is for them. But like I say without that, its just too much.
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I'd say 6th November1
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Not a chancedizzee said:I'd say 6th November
There will be partys and organised displays this weekend, then the fireworks go on huge discount sale making them affordable for teenagers.
December it normally stops. My dog who died last year could hear a frickin sparkler a mile away, the first one of the night and hed going into drooling shaking zombie of a dog until the morning. 6 weeks of fireworks every year guaranteed.
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Diwali last week doesn't help either as they celebrate it with fireworks too.1
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Having real bouts of insomnia atm. Saturday night, stayed up to watch a film, then nice shower and off to beddy boo byes. 3.00 in the morning some brainless doasyoulikey cnut let off the biggest firework of the night. Car alarms going off, dogs going garratty... FFS! That's my first night of good sleep down the swanny... I could of cheerfully lit a firework of a similar size, guessing a Saturn 5 and shoved it up the inconsiderate pricks derriere... Twat!!!!1
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Honesty think they should ban the sale of fireworks. Organised displays only.6
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I don't usually mind, but my neighbours were letting them off in their back garden at 11pm last night. Didn't really bother me & we also back onto a railway line so used to noise until midnight but just thought it a tad late to be setting off anything.0
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Agreed. The fireworks sold in supermarkets and on the high street are poxy, cheap and naff. Loud bangs and hardly any light. Not sure how anyone can find them even mildly entertaining. Unfortunately, the people who are stupid enough to buy them are also stupid enough not to realise how annoying they are to neighbours.LargeAddick said:Honesty think they should ban the sale of fireworks. Organised displays only.
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Put the lady right off her SKY movies I bet.golfaddick said:I don't usually mind, but my neighbours were letting them off in their back garden at 11pm last night. Didn't really bother me & we also back onto a railway line so used to noise until midnight but just thought it a tad late to be setting off anything.
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yup they seem to be much later this year too0
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You know you're getting old when you're starting to complain about fireworks.6
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"Insanity of 10 days of this stuff"
The end point is probably about 10 days.3 -
Yep, and as someone who used to go to regular displays and held displays at schools, until I had a dog did not realise the trauma that animals go through.Chunes said:You know you're getting old when you're starting to complain about fireworks.
I can tolerate a few evenings, but the endless nights of it, around here is way over the top. Frankly I am astonished that people have that amount of money to spend going up in smoke. Feel as though it should be restricted to the 4\5\6th and the following Saturday.1 -
Make it illegal1
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Like Ken it really didn't bother me that much until I became a dog owner. She's just turned two in August so this is her third firework season. She slept through it all puppy style the first year, last year wasn't too bad but this year has been awful.0
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Ooh, now this is a thread where I can don my Victor Meldew head.
Totally agree with those saying they should be banned from public sale.
I also find it strange that those people who moan all year round about the cost of living and moan that xmas is coming and can't afford presents for the kids, then think nothing of going out and spending £100 on a box of shit fireworks.
What makes it stranger, is that every year Gravesend council do a free display off of a barge on the thames, which I must admit is excellent, if you have any interest in them.
Also agree regarding pets. My dog won't even go out for a night time wee without me going in the garden with her and although she doesn't bark at them, her personality changes she will follow me into whatever room I go to and won't relax.
Fugging hate the things...............2 -
The children always liked a few fireworks in the back garden and I would imagine other peoples children and adults like and enjoy firework parties still.
I do feel for the traumatised animals but they have to fit in with my world of humans not the other way around.
When dogs learn to stop fouling the footpath outside my house I'll know they are making an effort to fit in with my world.10 -
No problem with them provided idiots don't fire them at each other or innocent members of the public.1
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The law says that you must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am. The exceptions are:
Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am
I agree that they should be restricted to the Saturday before & after 5th November and 5th November plus those dates above. My cats are terrified and can't be let out during the evening for about three weeks around Bonfire night.0 -
So fireworks should only be allowed:ME14addick said:The law says that you must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am. The exceptions are:
Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am
I agree that they should be restricted to the Saturday before & after 5th November and 5th November plus those dates above. My cats are terrified and can't be let out during the evening for about three weeks around Bonfire night.
...between 8am and 11pm from the saturday before 5th November and the Saturday after 5th November aside from on the 3 extra holidays you mention.
If the 5th November is a Saturday then assumedly not the Friday before or Sunday after, or at any other time.
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Think of the cats !charltonkeston said:The children always liked a few fireworks in the back garden and I would imagine other peoples children and adults like and enjoy firework parties still.
I do feel for the traumatised animals but they have to fit in with my world of humans not the other way around.
When dogs learn to stop fouling the footpath outside my house I'll know they are making an effort to fit in with my world.5 -
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Hate fireworks with a vengeance. Living in the Netherlands, fireworks are let off all year round. It is so bad from the middle of December to the middle of January that our dog has to go in to kennels to save him from a heart attack. The main point is that it is illegal to let off fireworks at any other time apart from 10pm 31 December to 02am 01 January. Most of the problem comes from brain dead adults and not children.0
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Come on now. They're a spectacle and they give people enjoyment, the whole family can get together and watch. Have you ever seen a kid look up at the sky with that look of wonder in their eyes, even if it's just a few crappy rockets? I have such fond memories of watching my Dad let off fireworks in the back garden, and eating a steaming hot, buttery jacket potato that got put in the bonfire, and the smell of the smoke on my clothes.
I'm truly sorry if your dog doesn't like it. But "my dog is upset" doesn't rank high on a list of reasons to ban something that's a centuries-old British tradition, festive and fun.18 -
I agree, and I think most people do Chunes, the complaint is that it goes on for about two weeks when it should be one night - when I were a lad it was November 5th, whichever night that fell on, and that was it. However, it has been spread out over a couple of weeks for many years now, so when folk got their dogs, they were aware that was the case. Not saying it's right, but it's a fact.Chunes said:Come on now. They're a spectacle and they give people enjoyment, the whole family can get together and watch. Have you ever seen a kid look up at the sky with that look of wonder in their eyes, even if it's just a few crappy rockets? I have such fond memories of watching my Dad let off fireworks in the back garden, and eating a steaming hot, buttery jacket potato that got put in the bonfire, and the smell of the smoke on my clothes.
I'm truly sorry if your dog doesn't like it. But "my dog is upset" doesn't rank high on a list of reasons to ban something that's a centuries-old British tradition, festive and fun.3 -
Anything that scares cats should be made even more readily available and encouraged.11
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3 o'feckin clock in the morning!!!! I would suggest that rather than a jolly family get together around the fire roasting chestnuts and sampling delicious home baked potatoes dripping in pure creamy butter whilst watching a modest firework display admirably stewarded by Uncle Derek, the little feckers in my case were standing around gormless, pissed off their tiny minds emptying cheap cans of Stella Artois down their neck and being a complete anti social pain in the arse...Chunes said:Come on now. They're a spectacle and they give people enjoyment, the whole family can get together and watch. Have you ever seen a kid look up at the sky with that look of wonder in their eyes, even if it's just a few crappy rockets? I have such fond memories of watching my Dad let off fireworks in the back garden, and eating a steaming hot, buttery jacket potato that got put in the bonfire, and the smell of the smoke on my clothes.
I'm truly sorry if your dog doesn't like it. But "my dog is upset" doesn't rank high on a list of reasons to ban something that's a centuries-old British tradition, festive and fun.7 -
No VG, it really shouldn't. Having said that my two aren't bothered, they'd sleep through anything.1
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What I find irritating is all of the dogs barking the whole way through my multiple firework displays. It really puts me off the bright colours. Cant we have just a few pet free weeks a year? Pretty selfish of them.11
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One of our little feckers sneaked into my daughters bedroom and pissed all over her Anna and Elsa wigs (Disney Frozen) on Saturday night. Not only did we have the arse ache of hand washing them, we then had to fend of questions in the morning as to why they were on the dryer. "But daddy, they were new and didn't need washing"ValleyGary said:Anything that scares cats should be made even more readily available and encouraged.
Took me ages to get the wigs in the first place and now they've dried they don't look right.
How I ever let my missus talk me into getting cats I'll never know!0 -
and you think you've got problems.0
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Do you live in the westcombe park area? I was woken up at 3 on Saturday night too..soapy_jones said:Having real bouts of insomnia atm. Saturday night, stayed up to watch a film, then nice shower and off to beddy boo byes. 3.00 in the morning some brainless doasyoulikey cnut let off the biggest firework of the night. Car alarms going off, dogs going garratty... FFS! That's my first night of good sleep down the swanny... I could of cheerfully lit a firework of a similar size, guessing a Saturn 5 and shoved it up the inconsiderate pricks derriere... Twat!!!!
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