Fireworks tonight - It's like we're being shelled !
Fireworks tonight - It's like we're being shelled !
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catfood12

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1,571 posts

172 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Crikey. Since about 6PM, fireworks non-stop. Still going. It's like I imagine the road to Basra being. Neighbour did hove the courtesy to say he was having a small display with chums, and two 100 shot artillery type charges. It is loosing it's charm now....

jas xjr

11,309 posts

269 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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it is normally very quiet round here but they do love their fireworks around here . not going to attempt an early night smile

Vaud

59,745 posts

185 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Every firework seems to go bang. And not just woosh or pop, but bang.

I'm sure someone has assessed that people want a high bang factor to be satisfied... but personally I like a mix of woosh, pop, sizzle, lots of different light patterns and some bang. Not only bang.

untakenname

5,366 posts

222 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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I'm glad my cats non plussed about fireworks, the local park have a display from 8pm for half an hour and it literally shakes the windows.
Completely over the top imo and surprised H&S don't set a decibel limit as it can't be good for the small kids hearing, had to turn off the car alarm as it was going off constantly.

BoRED S2upid

21,073 posts

270 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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I was only thinking earlier after watching £50 - £100k going up in smoke (at a professional display) then getting home and listening to every other house setting alight hundreds worth. How much goes up in smoke in the UK tonight? It must be a staggering amount of cash!

catfood12

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1,571 posts

172 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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untakenname said:
I'm glad my cats non plussed about fireworks, the local park have a display from 8pm for half an hour and it literally shakes the windows.
Completely over the top imo and surprised H&S don't set a decibel limit as it can't be good for the small kids hearing, had to turn off the car alarm as it was going off constantly.
I treated the cats to a Temptations Snacky Mouse each, as I treated myself to a slab of Moretti lager, tonight. Cat flap blocked up, children, wife and I amused for hours with the cats punching the Snacky Mouse. See others' You Tube videos. Still can't contemplate beddy yet, due to the ongoing ordnance in the vicinity, and I still have a few bottles to sink...

Evanivitch

26,441 posts

152 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Cats are a bit stressed but not overly so.

Doesn't compare to New year's in Austria. Every house had fireworks and I'm talking super powered stuff. It was intense, and tough on my veteran friend.

Wacky Racer

41,390 posts

277 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Just come back from an excellent (free) display at Tamworth Castle.

Full marks to the organisers and council.

clap

RedWhiteMonkey

9,198 posts

212 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Its the entire country celebrating Sunderland finally winning a game.

poing

8,743 posts

230 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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It's very windy here so I'm not sure why they are even bothering. We have 1 neighbour that uses any excuse for the fireworks but it's normally in the form of an olympic sized display for about 30 minutes around midnight.

Tonight they started about 6pm and are still going but it seems to be a pattern of: set off firework, have a few drinks, open the next firework, have another drink, set it up, have another drink, fire it off. I fully expect the big show stopper to be set off inside the house by mistake.

1 cat asleep in the dining room near the radiator not really bothered, the other cat doesn't know what to do with himself and is a bit stressed, he gets stressed at everything so it's hardly a surprise. I get the feeling he's desperate for the loo but every time he plucks up the courage to go out another firework goes off and he shoots back through the cat flap with the accompanying sonic boom.

catfood12

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1,571 posts

172 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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RedWhiteMonkey said:
Its the entire country celebrating Sunderland finally winning a game.
And they beat my locals, Bournemouth. Fair play. What a bunch of twunts Bournemouth played like. Go Sunderland !

PoleDriver

29,603 posts

224 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Our cats, which were found abandoned in a box exactly 6 years ago today, are sitting in the window, as they do every year, watching the fireworks with wide eyes!

jas xjr

11,309 posts

269 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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PoleDriver said:
Our cats, which were found abandoned in a box exactly 6 years ago today, are sitting in the window, as they do every year, watching the fireworks with wide eyes!
genuinely made me smile , trust me that does not happen very often . smile

Rich_W

12,548 posts

242 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Only in the UK would we spend 364 days slagging off Politicians.

Only to spend 1 day a year celebrating that the treacherous bds weren't blown up by a revolutionary.

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ETA

I get it's interesting for kids.

But once you reach puberty, the novelty of standing in a wet/cold field watching gunpowder explode above you, eating over priced and undercooked burgers and going "woooo" and "ahhhh" like a village idiot should have worn off!



Council. laugh



Edited by Rich_W on Saturday 5th November 23:11

Fozziebear

1,840 posts

170 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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catfood12 said:
Crikey. Since about 6PM, fireworks non-stop. Still going. It's like I imagine the road to Basra being. Neighbour did hove the courtesy to say he was having a small display with chums, and two 100 shot artillery type charges. It is loosing it's charm now....
Nope, they tend to fly towards you or go boom next to you wink

caelite

4,282 posts

142 months

Saturday 5th November 2016
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Rich_W said:
Only in the UK would we spend 364 days slagging off Politicians.

Only to spend 1 day a year celebrating that the treacherous bds weren't blown up by a revolutionary.

laugh
Maybe its a Scottish thing but up my end it's very much a celebration of the only bloke who ever went into Westminster with true intentions. biggrin

konark

1,241 posts

149 months

Sunday 6th November 2016
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Go to Aleppo or Mosul, then complain.

Cold

16,733 posts

120 months

Sunday 6th November 2016
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konark said:
Mosul
Is that the fishing village in Cornwall that flooded a few years back?

All that jazz

7,632 posts

176 months

Sunday 6th November 2016
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untakenname said:
I'm glad my cats non plussed about fireworks, the local park have a display from 8pm for half an hour and it literally shakes the windows.
Completely over the top imo and surprised H&S don't set a decibel limit as it can't be good for the small kids hearing, had to turn off the car alarm as it was going off constantly.
What a misery! rolleyes

I was working last night but happened to be parked up on the outskirts of Newark around 8pm and was treated to a great firework display for 10-15 mins or so which was aesthetically pleasing to watch. I just about qualify for the 'old ' category these days but there's too many miseries wanting everything banned and shut down because of their intolerance of other things/people. Live and let live.

aR53GP

21,373 posts

217 months

Sunday 6th November 2016
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Cold said:
konark said:
Mosul
Is that the fishing village in Cornwall that flooded a few years back?
laugh