Your Local Bonfire and Fireworks

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Woodylubber, Oct 26, 2014.

  1. Woodylubber

    Woodylubber Obsessive compulsive name changer


    I can't believe you had them and we dint. With us being the same age and that ;).
     
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  2. Doubt they sold them in your area , bit more expensive.
     
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  3. We'll start selling guns to anyone over 18 as well then?
    Hardly a fair comparison, you need 3 lots of training, a licence, insurance and safety equipment to ride a bike, remind me again what you need to buy these explosives?
     
  4. to be 18 years or older

    The rest of the law of fireworks is here https://www.gov.uk/fireworks-the-law
     
  5. @Top Banana Racing

    I don't completely disagree with you. When I first started looking into buying some fireworks for a then 4 year old fireworks party I was surprised at what you could buy off the shelf. There are also different categories depending upon how far away your 'crowd' is standing ... I couldn't understand why most shops were selling fireworks that needed at least a 25 meter safe radius when most people can't provide that. I would be more than happy to see across the counter retail sales limited to the 5 metre fireworks. You can hopefully see i was looking to be a responsible party host. Mind it was interesting to note that someone else brought 25 metre fireworks along which I set off with just me in the garden, the children were safely behind the patio doors watching from inside, I actually struggled to see a difference between some of them and some of the 5 metre ones. I would have no problems seeing the age raised further to say at least 21.
     
  6. Tuesday wildchild

    Tuesday wildchild I'm a circle!

    Just saying why should all be stopped when its only a few using it wrong.
     
  7. Tuesday wildchild

    Tuesday wildchild I'm a circle!

    I had a mate kill in a head on by a driver who thought he knew best. I wouldn't ban cars as most use them correctly.

    We can all find positives and negatives in life.
     
  8. Last year one of our local shops were selling full display fireworks which said a 50m safety radius was needed.
    Someone set one of the 900mm canons off in the next street over and it rattled our windows.
     
  9. Woodylubber

    Woodylubber Obsessive compulsive name changer

    I really do think the time has come for backyard fireworks to be stopped, it's ok to say that those who use them may hurt themselves but they also hurt others, and it's most likely to be children, At these parties some people like to have a drink and show off their new found skills, it's not really a good combination is it in our cramped little back gardens o_O There is plenty off organised ones and they have better fireworks anyway, Also shop keepers flout the laws all the time in selling them to youths and it's nearly always the same retards who buy and find it funny throwing them around the streets
     
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  10. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    A mate of mine used to make and set off display fireworks, but he was an alcoholic. He once gave me a bag of fireworks that were 4" dia waxy balls. He couldn't remember what they were, or really how to set them off other than "get some drainpipe it'll be alright". I had them for years, never worked out how to set them off safely, then gave them back.

    When I was a lad though we used to have air-bomb repeater fights aiming them at each other. I must be a retard.*

    * probably am, we also used to have a game 2 people about 50m apart, a dart and your schoolbags as shields/catchers. Throw it high was best.
     
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  11. I live next to a river and I was outside working on the bus today when I saw some teenage boys about 30m away from me set off a firework at a swan. :( I was about to jump out and have a go but I must be getting old so I called the police instead. The police turned up in about 5 minutes but the boys had already gone. They went looking for them so hopefully they caught them. I think the swan was ok, it flew off alright anyway.
     
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  12. Woodylubber

    Woodylubber Obsessive compulsive name changer


    No Zed not unless you did stuff like that and proved my point for me, like that post has just done
     
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  13. Ba****d fun police kills another tradition :(
     
  14. Used to fire rockets at the house opposite my mates .
    All i can say in my defence is he was , and still is , a miserable old sod - "move you van , it`s blocking my light " being the latest , hell fire - i was only visiting .
    Mostly it`s just as dawn is breaking and we`ve been on t`sauce all night - never bonfire night either ...
    Haven`t done it for a couple of years , maybe we`ve got sensible in our 50`s ...

    :hattip:
     
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  15. I agree with @WoodyLubber on this one. It's not about stopping people having their own firework parties in their own gardens. I live in a built-up area in the UK's second city, and for 2 solid weeks around Bonfire Night its like a busy weekend night in Beirut circa 1982 around here. Because there are so many people having their own little displays, the noise of fireworks is a constant wall of sound for pretty much the whole evening once it gets dark. If I wanted to listen to that, I could go onto Wikileaks and download one of the US military videos of the American air raids on Baghdad.
     
  16. when i was a kid we used to have bonfire day off school and go round the local residents and empty out all the local cubbie holes [ex coal bunkers in flats]of all the waste ,then locals came with parkin and fireworks and watch the bonfire ,all fireworks lived in a tin and the oldest bloke used to light them ,a good time had by all and useful...:thumbsup:

    later on I went to organized events, but they were never the same..
     
  17. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Air-bomb duelling on the allotments at school lunchtime. No swans involved. :rolleyes:
     
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  18. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    we used to let them off in the tunnel under the railway by us for extra volume
     
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