To wish the fireworks would stop

[frogspoon]

Yes I know it's Divali.

Yes I know it's Bonfire Night on Tuesday.

I'm just fed up of all the banging and squealing and screeching and I want it to stop.

Either that or to be put in a soundproof room until it's over.

AIBU

YANBU. I love a big, organised firework display as much as anyone. They are gorgeous to watch, and about as safe as high-level explosives can ever be. And they begin and end more-or-less predictably. However, the endless banging (not to mention emergency sirens) during the hours of darkness from about 29th October through to the weekend after November 5th is completely different. I lived in a war zone for a few months in my 30s, and ever since then the banging you get at this time of year takes me right back. It's annoying, unpleasant and can be deeply distressing for some. Enough already.

Yanbu! I have just had to clear up dd's sick after she cried so much about the noise that she was sick.

I agree. Big organised event, you know when it starts, stops and they're as safe as anything with explosives can be.

YANBU my one year old is petrified, i agree the big displays are fine. But i hate how late they go off now, last night they were still going off at midnight. Tonight they have just started again, the thing i don't get is that it gets so dark early now so why not do them earlier?.

YANBU - It will be 2014 before it stops here. Maybe May.

Yanbu this is third night in a row I've had a cowering dog panting and whining over the noise!

You only get fireworks when it's dark? Lucky you! We get idiots setting off fireworks in the daytime- great when you have a firework-phobic dog who you have walked specially early to avoid any chance of fireworks!

YADNBU. Currently sat in arm chair being squashed by my 24kg dog. He's just nodded off after spending the last few hours shaking and whining. I need a refill but can't bring myself to move him.

Sorry I want more fire works and am looking forward to some on Tuesday.

And then sometime between now and new year I'll let off the box in the pantry.

So there!

I hate fireworks, so does my dog. I tolerate organised displays but people do their own!!

We sit here quivering together!

YANBU!!

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My MIL bought one of these for the dogs and she swears it works.

I love fireworks as long as they stop at a reasonable time.

I think it would be dangerous to let them off on the pantry Star

I love fireworks but I live in a town which has fireworks every weekend in October as part of the illuminations (not Blackpool) it's v important for the local economy etc but poor GGdog is a bit sick of it now!

I hate fireworks - always have done. And why is any knobhead able to go and but what is - in effect - explosives? If I want to use a musket in reenactment I have to have a black powder license, but any numpty can buy a box of fireworks.

I support firework licence.

I love fireworks. We are having a joint birthday/bonfire night with lots on Wednesday. It will begin at 7 though. It does piss me off when they go off at midnight

It sounded like a war zone earlier on tonight but it's pissing down with rain now so that's put an end to it.

I LOVE fireworks but there are a lot of twats that live round here who let them off in the middle of the night/10 in the morning etc etc.

This year I could do without it. A fox got four of my six chickens on Friday in an appalling attack. I feel for the two that are left, still in shock, cowering in their coop with all these sudden noises.

Only consolation is that foxy is probably lying low somewhere as well.

Oh dear. I live in an area where we will be lucky to see any at all. And have to travel a few miles to see them.
Wouldnt like them all the time like the posters on here though.

YANBU. I know it isn't a popular opinion but i'd like a ban on the sale of fireworks and for it to be organised displays only. Frightens animals, children, vulnerable adults, isolated elderly folk etc.

Yanbu, I know fireworks are great fun etc etc but last night I had next door neighbours setting them off for Diwali at 11pm and tonight next door neighbours on the other side have just finished an impressive and very bloody noisy display, at 9.45 ffs.

Its been dark for hours folks! Not after 9pm please, I've got a baby trying to sleep!

YANBU, some prats were setting some off here at half one in the morning. Really loud ones as well for about 20 minutes on and off.

... and I think they can't be good for the environment!

YANBU. And I love fireworks!

We've recently moved from a big city. The idiots there used to go nuts with them every year for weeks on end. It drove me batty.

Where we are now? Someone had a few colourful rockets yesterday evening (about 7ish) and that's been it! We're going to the local organised display on Tuesday. It's on the beach and they have a huge bonfire too. And it's free!

How it should be.

I used to love fireworks night when I was little, though. Baked potatoes cooked in the bonfire, sparklers, hot chocolate... I just think there are so many now, all year round. It doesn't feel special.

It's gone too far now. We get them on and off from Halloween through until New Year, plus weddings at any time.
In an increasing number of civilised countries, fireworks cannot be bought by the general public. They can only be used by licensed operators for public events. Time we followed suit.