Fuck fireworks

Sorry OP but this amused me 😂-thank you, I know It's not an amusing thread!

My dog is petrified too. And I agree about war veterans and everyone else affected by them.

It's other animals too. Farm animals. Horses. Rabbits and guinea pigs kept outside. Wildlife-fuck them though, we're entitled to have loud, destructive fun.

Cat is fine but son (22) hates them.

I don't have an issue with organised displays as I've quite clearly said. I'm glad you had a lovely time.

Much better than setting them off in residential gardens.

Also a lot of veterans are just as likely to be arseholes, just like the general population. A blind veterans home just seems like the most cliche example that could be imagined!

Crikey. Pour the wine, sounds like you need it

We had them last week for Halloween (am in NI). I do like them, but hate people setting them off in private gardens etc. Mainly because I don't believe for one minute that the fuckers to know how to handle them safely. In saying that, there was a big display near us and it was £12.50 for an adult and £10 for a child for 10 minutes of fireworks which we could see by popping our heads up through our roof windows! I know fireworks cost money, but bloody hell😬

This exactly this! Where are the fizzy ones

Don't seem to be able to quote properly on here anymore 😕
YABU.
Love fireworks and this time of year, seeing and hearing them all.
Went to a great display last night.
Love seeing all the ones out of the window too, even go out to try and see them if there's a few going off at once.

Why do people say they should only be for one night, 5 November? Are they unaware fireworks are used for many reasons? Diwali is next, New Year isn't far away.

I think they really mean that fireworks shouldn’t be going off pfor weeks around each of those occasions. I’m not keen on volleys of really loud bangs and pops which are so popular now (what I can hear outside right now does really sound like a news report on heavy artillery fire!), but thankfully in my area we don’t get them for weeks at a time. Just the occasions you mentioned themselves and a few days around.

Well quite. Some massive twat walks her two loudly yapping dogs past my house every morning at 6am and wakes us up. But we have to just suck it up. It's life.

The vast majority of veterans and kids like fireworks and very few are actually scared of them.

My dog is not happy, getting lots of attention and cuddles from us. Not a massive fan of fireworks but I would never begrudge other people having fun a few days a year because I made the choice to have children and pets. According to the OP, having the audacity to say such things makes me a cunt. Yeah, sounds totally reasonable to me.

I don't think people can weaponise all veterans for their anti-firework agenda. Our garrison has a firework display.

Terrorise veterans??!

The hyperbole on this thread is beyond parody.

I've had kids for over 18 years and never know one to be "terrorised" My own small child couldn't give a rats arse.

Someone shared a video of a dog lying on the floor shaking listening to fireworks. The problem there isn't the fireworks, it's the owner.

It’s been over 2 hours already here. It’ll carry on til gone 11 most likely. Same on Friday and Saturday. They started going off sporadically from early October. They’ll carry on now at least once a week most weeks til January, obviously with clusters around Diwali and Christmas and new year.

It drives me mad. It hasn’t always been like this, despite what people say. Even 10 years ago it wasn’t like this. 30 years ago it definitely wasn’t.

Unpopular perspective but we had fireworks in our garden tonight. Cat was fine, both kids now asleep as they still continue around us. It’s one day a year when we do them.

Lmao I agree, if only people who bring up veterans when saying they hate fireworks actually cared about veterans eh.

Not unpopular.
Representative of the vast majority of people.

Commonly known as 'the cunts' I think 😁

Ooh no not continuous- every so often stop for 4 minutes so they can be lulled into a false sense of peace that it's over

Gosh the group we went to the display with included 2 veterans and 1 austic adult. The presumption by OP is so fucking patronising. We get it, you don’t like them and of course you’re entitled to your opinion but for the love of god please stop trying to speak for other people.

I think this thread has been refreshingly honest. But if you don’t like a certain level of bluntness back @FenFairy i suggest not calling everyone who likes and enjoys fireworks a count first. You sort of set the tone

Shouldn't children be a bit more resilient than this? Do a few fireworks really reduce them to crying and shaking wrecks? Mine never batted an eyelid. It's a noisy old world out there.

I hope they have banned the self scan "I don't get paid to scan my own shopping" argument. Every bit as tiresome as the fireworks arguments and also been around for years (not as many years as fireworks have though!!) 🤣🤣