Fuck fireworks

They should be banned for public sale.

Only for one night a year, organised displays only via the council.

Personally I think they should be banned.

I have several cats who get terrified every year and plus its not good for the wildlife.

I feel sorry for the poor animals that suffer.

Are your cats good for the wildlife then?

@Giveuprobot I have indoor Ragdoll cats that dont go out actually

They should be banned for public sale.
Yes, let's ban everything we don't personally like.

Only for one night a year, organised displays only via the council.
Yeah, Fuck other traditions like Diwali for example. 🙄
Who takes precedence? Who gets to decide when is acceptable?
No NYE celebrations, soz - you had your one day allowance in November.
No Diwali fireworks. We've had the allocated one day slot.
Or maybe we should do Diwali fireworks just one day for the year and give up/forfeit Guy Fawkes tradition .
Honestly I swear people don't think through how that would even work

I like fireworks, and I think displays on bonfire night, NYE, religious festivals etc are fine.

However, even as someone who likes fireworks I don't think general public should be able to buy them and it pisses me off that people set them off at random on a nightly basis from mid October to February. Absolutely no need and some people are total idiots with them.

I love fireworks, and we usually have them at home but we've been buying silent ones these last couple of years. I think those ones are ok. For the loud ones we go to public displays.

I have PTSD related to sexual assault and I also love fireworks, specifically professional displays with choreographed launching of high-quality fireworks. I don't love DCat hiding under my sofa night after night because of the bangs from neighbours' gardens.

The PTSD I was referring to was the kind of PTSD that a soldier would come home with after a tour of duty in Basra or Helmand, where loud explosive bangs will trigger flashbacks to roadside IEDs and shelling.

It’s been constant for hours and hours. Last night as well as tonight. So many I just don’t understand how people can afford it. All these mad loud ones cost hundreds of pounds. They’ve been going off in their thousands across the whole city, where are people getting the money from?

Oh how I wish it was only a handful of times a year, but no. We live near an "exclusive country hotel" and every time there is a wedding, no matter what time of year it is, up go the fireworks. Although there was one a few weeks ago that had drones instead. I could have personally kissed the couple who opted for that.

Fireworks are legally meant to stop at 11pm. There is still the odd one going off here now. It's calmed down enough for DCat to come out and sit on me at least but he's still jumping a little every time another one goes off.

If people can't be trusted to stop their fireworks at 11pm when folks have got work in the morning, they shouldn't be allowed to have them.

I don't know if anyone has already mentioned it, but police were attacked with fireworks tonight in Edinburgh. I love fireworks but there are too many dickheads amongst the general public. I do think they should be limited to public displays.

Fireworks are currently going off here at half past midnight. Who knows what time they’ll stop tonight…. Last night (Saturday) they were still going off as late as 3am.

I suspect the “have some fun” and “live a little” posters are oooohing and ahhhhing at a pretty display at a sociable time, not listening to constant bangs and crashes when you’re trying to sleep because you have to get up for work in five hours time.

They should be banned for domestic use as there’s too many selfish idiots who don’t care about waking the whole neighbourhood for days and days on end

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On that basis, should cars, stepladders and kitchen knives also be banned?

Very few of us like to see animals suffer, but they are guests in human society and, like any guest, they have to take their hosts as they find them. Which may from time to time include a few loud bangs. Think of it as payback for all the Pedigree Chum.

If that logic were applied consistently, nobody would be allowed to go carol singing or attend Christmas parties unless they could answer questions about the Gospel nativity narratives. And turned up at church on Christmas Day.

There are a lot of silly, angry people on this thread.

You are on the wrong thread. This thread is not about guns.

My husband too has been to a couple of active hot spots,lost friends,came back with injuries, has PTSD, sudden loud noises from behind make him jump and he has 60pcnt hearing loss- but that does not hinder him organising a display for our children who squeal with joy. Our child with asd is terrified of dogs but we cant even go to the park without over half being off the leash- should we call for a complete ban on the dogs?

😆😆 @tpxq that made me laugh i

This thread is crazy but I'm loving it.

@ImNotReallySpartacus On that basis, should cars, stepladders and kitchen knives also be banned?

Well no because all those things have a significant function in society. Fireworks have absolutely no function whatsoever.

We’ve already had at least one ‘is it too early to put the Christmas tree up?’ thread in 2023.

There will be many of more of them before we get to Boxing Day and all the ‘taking down the tree because I’m fed up with it’ threads start.

In between , yes there will be complaining about 21st century advent calendars (with toys, not even just chocolate) and why can’t people appreciate a nice picture one threads. And complaining about elf of the shelf.

As PP said, also whinging about Christmas Eve boxes, and so many planned and scheduled pre-Christmas activities.

And the ‘have I bought enough presents’ threads mixed in with the people who refuse to buy more than 4 things for their children (complete with reciting that rhyme repeatedly). And threads arguing about bread sauce.

Christmas really is peak MN seasonal
whinging. Halloween and bonfire night are just dress rehearsals for the true bollocks wheeled out at Christmas. 😁

And for those disingenuously citing ptsd as a reason for banning. There is not one part of ptsd therapy that suggests avoidance as a tactic