Motherfucking fireworks

Hmm I also live South East London and I never hear them except from around this time. We have Indians neighbours a few houses up and they have partied for days with lots of people out in their garden (must be hundreds) and constant fireworks. So anti social!

I am South East, and while there's a bit of an exaggeration, I agree it's still all year round.

There are fireworks for Proms, for weddings, now for engagements - I discover that after an uproar on a local group about another random but very extensive display 😂- for New Year (and that's a good 3 weeks for New year!), the whole of November,

it's weekends, it's on weekdays

And I am not including the little private ones, small but still a disturbance for presumably birthdays, parties, christening. It's all the flipping time.

It's a good thing for me I actually like them, but I do feel sorry for all the wildlife and the pets going crazy at home - and people who really can't cope.

Those of you nobs that reply with 'but-but it's only one night or it's Diwali', can you please explain how people coped celebrating Diwali and Guy Fawkes Night before ear drum shattering mortar bomb fireworks were invented????

I doubt anyone alive can remember that far back. It was a very long time ago.

Those of you nobs that reply with 'but-but it's only one night or it's Diwali', can you please explain how people coped celebrating Diwali and Guy Fawkes Night before ear drum shattering mortar bomb fireworks were invented?????

Is it really fucking necessary to upset so many people and animals just because you're bored? No. It's not. And most of the twats setting off fireworks buy them and set them off because they fucking well can, not because they give a shit about religion or tradition. I doubt most of them have even heard of Guy Fawkes. God this country is full of twats. Rammed full of them.

Once a year here.

Gunfire is far more common.

Normal hours? Fireworks are used at night. If you set them off at noon it wouldn't create such an effect!
I do feel for animals, but 8 pm is not late.

Where do you live??

Fireworks are a feature of daily life. Every day and every night there are fireworks going off here. Could be 3pm or 3am seems to make no matter. Someone is having a display every single evening, it’s often better now as they are often between 8-10pm whereas when it doesn’t get dark until 10pm they are often let off 11pm-2am. Many of them are just the noise ones so nothing to actually see, too,

Hearing and seeing them every day is so normal and unremarkable that I wonder each time I see these threads complaining about one evening. I didn’t notice any unusual fireworks this week, just the standard amount.

It does seem to calm down a bit in the spring, I’ll admit. Feb to April is only occasional but always every day/night all summer, autumn and Christmas/new year season.

How would a loud bang suddenly cause a blockage in an artery?

I think they should restrict them to organised displays tbh. Diwali, November 5th, NYE. Other events need a licence via council.

It’s sad but people shouldn’t be allowed to buy them otc

Actually we don’t, we just know someone making big explosions in the sky, in the most recent case to celebrate some made up stories is more important than the lives of sentient beings.

Yep. You can tell you’re not experienced- the cat was startled and on high alert keeping watch looking for approaching danger- he was prob highly stressed. That initial startle and continued stress has led many animals to suffer heart attacks both domestic and especially in the wild

Well, now you do.

Careful… if the OP hears you, they might explode louder than the fireworks themselves.

I swear fireworks have got louder over the years. It wouldn't be so bad if it was on one or two dates but it's the week before,the week after Bonfire Night. Then New Year, birthdays, weddings, graduations, proms, any excuse for fireworks. People shouldn't be allowed big fireworks for garden displays, they should be banned.

My cat hates them, he goes and hides. You can see the fear in his eyes, although he also hides at Halloween because of all the noise (my area is ridiculous at Halloween as people from elsewhere come). He's a very noise sensitive cat.

I love them. Particularly the noisy ones. However, we only get them on Nov 5th round here. Sometimes the weekend before or after.

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

Yes, you're right. I really should have predicted that some inconsiderate arsehole would have let fireworks off at 11pm (ish) on January 6 and I should have waited before taking my dog out for a goodnight wee. Perhaps until late spring/early summer.

Well if you drive and eat any meat or dairy products, you are inconveniencing these animals far more than some fireworks. HTH.

Firework sales should be completely limited to licensed events.

I hate the noise.

Lol, that’s funny and quite unusual. We did have a cat years ago that was happy to watch the fireworks but he was deaf.

Ok maybe there should be a cut off before that, like 11 pm.

But I think limiting it to 2-4 nights per year (1/2 for Diwali, 1/2 for bonfire night) it doesn’t need something daft like an 8 pm cut off - adults and non-toddler children do need to be allowed to make some noise in the world)

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I agree, there should be a reasonable time limit set. I thought last night (when it was blasting) that 8pm should be the cut-off. We had a message on FB apologising in advance they will be playing till 10:30pm... It was an unpleasant night. The worst thing is they set off the loudest one at the end!

There is respect for religion and/or tradition (not looking forward to bonfire night!), and there's respect for the community/estate you live in.

I think private sale of fireworks should be banned altogether! Aren't they also bad for the environment? And whose job is it to clean up the flyaways the next morning?

This year is the first time we have had a pet in our house at firework season. Adult DD is on holiday so we are cat-sitting. He is just over a year old and completely a house cat.

Last night at about 9pm someone started setting off fireworks near by. He shot up awake out of his bed so I was ready to go and provide comfort and reassurance. However, it turned out what he really wanted to do was go sit in the window sill so he could watch!

I love dogs, well all animals really, but I totally sympathise with you and others who fear them. Good owners make sure that their dogs wouldn’t come near you, but I know there are many inconsiderate owners out there who don’t seem to care about others and think everyone wants their dog all over them. Idiots.

As you say though, there is no comparison to fireworks.