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Motherfucking fireworks

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Sandrine1982 · 20/10/2025 22:27

How is this allowed past 8pm, I don't understand.

Cat is terrified, kid took 2 hours to get to sleep only to be woken up 10 min ago by more frigging fireworks.

how on earth is this still allowed??

I hate this time of year.

It's f** triggering. These twats should go and help in Gaza, I'm sure they would not be firing frigging fireworks after that experience !!

thanks for listening :( :( :(

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Harriet9955 · 20/10/2025 22:53

We are in an area with high Asian population and it's absolutely dreadful. just mortar bomb type fireworks going off for hours on end. Someone counted their neighbours setting off 200+ one after another. I appreciate it's Diwali and organised firework displays have been cancelled this year on the golden mile due to safety concerns but this is crazy. Fortunately my dh has been able to take my dog out in the car into the countryside for a couple of hours this evening. He gets himself in such a state it's heartbreaking. people on out local fb page are saying they have had to take their neurodiverse young children away form the area as they are so terrified.

NotNormally · 20/10/2025 22:50

Fireworks need to be banned outside public displays. Horrible dangerous polluting things.

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Sandrine1982 · 20/10/2025 22:50

@CleancleanallIdoisclean Yes I attended a Diwali party hosted by my best friend yesterday. Fireworks were not the main point of the party, but they had some. They stopped at 7pm.

@Bagsintheboot I don't think it's reasonable to have fireworks past 8pm. That's why I hate NYE too. People shouldn't have to suffer other people's noise, especially noise like this. It's unbearable. It's horrible. Especially when one is trying to sleep.

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Bubbles332 · 20/10/2025 22:49

Wednesdaysotherchild · 20/10/2025 22:41

I had my baby in a central london hospital right next to a major NYE fireworks display. My baby was born a bit after NYE but the midwives told me how scared all the newborns in NICU were when the loud bangs went off close by. I will now always think of that when I see the fireworks on TV…

Ahh I had mine in that hospital too! The day after was the London marathon and I watched all the frontrunners come over the bridge from my room.

XenoBitch · 20/10/2025 22:47

Er, so your cat is only terrified by fireworks after 8pm? And not by the ones that were going off at the party you attended.

Wednesdaysotherchild · 20/10/2025 22:41

I had my baby in a central london hospital right next to a major NYE fireworks display. My baby was born a bit after NYE but the midwives told me how scared all the newborns in NICU were when the loud bangs went off close by. I will now always think of that when I see the fireworks on TV…

CleancleanallIdoisclean · 20/10/2025 22:41

You hate fireworks and find them triggering but attended a party with fireworks yesterday?

EchoedSilence · 20/10/2025 22:39

They go on far later than 11 around here.

Bagsintheboot · 20/10/2025 22:37

Sandrine1982 · 20/10/2025 22:33

er .. thanks for enlightening me... I know it's Diwali... I live in London. In fact I attended a Diwali party yesterday, but their fireworks stopped at 7pm. Can it just not be kept under control? And kept within some normal hours???

If you know it's Diwali then surely you can take some preventative measures like calming tablets for the cat, white noise for the child.

Fireworks aren't every night. They are at certain predictable times of the year.

If they were going until 2am you'd have a point. Before 11pm though isn't ridiculous.

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Sandrine1982 · 20/10/2025 22:33

er .. thanks for enlightening me... I know it's Diwali... I live in London. In fact I attended a Diwali party yesterday, but their fireworks stopped at 7pm. Can it just not be kept under control? And kept within some normal hours???

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abracadabra1980 · 20/10/2025 22:32

I feel the same. I have to sedate my dog from the moment the shops start selling them. It’s about a six week ordeal in my house. I used to love the sparklers and Catherine wheels when I was young but now I fucking hate them - they have gone up in decibel levels hugely and are much louder than in years gone by. Having seen how they terrify both domestic pets and wildlife, I’d be happy to see them banned unless in a public display. How they cope at Battersea during Oct, Nov and New Year (plus all the other religious festivals) is beyond me.

Justcallmedaffodil · 20/10/2025 22:31

I’d be in complete support of banning them for general sale. Personally, I’d see them banned altogether, but appreciate some people enjoy them and a reasonable compromise would be to license them for public displays only. No idea why that still hasn’t happened yet.

XenoBitch · 20/10/2025 22:28

It is Diwali. It is a known date for fireworks, just like Nov 5th.

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