AIBU to think that fireworks have fuck all to do with Halloween?

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All evening they have been going on with pretty much no let up. I expect it for bonfire night. I expect it for New Years. But why is fireworks on Halloween suddenly a thing?! I've got a terrified dog shaking under my duvet and a 10 month old dd that's being kept up by the nearest ones thanks thin shitty bungalow walls

Pinot it's not just a weekend before and a weekend after. As I said, we've had them all last week. We get them at least once a week all year round. These will carry on now until the new year. People's birthdays aren't a firework occasion unless you're an inconsiderate shit who thinks the world revolves around you.

Loads here too
Tell a dog/animals not to get het up

Owllady how exactly do you suggest we do that?!

There are four days when the law on fireworks is extended so people can let them off later than 11pm. Bonfire Night, New Year's Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year. In an ideal world I'd vote for fireworks only being allowed on those dates, full stop.

If you extend consideration for when it's 'reasonable' to have fireworks to the weekend before and after, then it's an extra six days around Bonfire Night. So the 30, 31, 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8th. And down our way I saw the list of displays had one over at Weston on 21st November - fuck knows why it's several weeks after Bonfire Night...

I spent most of yesterday evening looking after ddog2 - she hates the fireworks at the best of times, and having had a knee operation, drainage of a seroma, and a stomach ulcer in the past six weeks, topped off with sedation and x-rays at the vet hospital yesterday (to assess progress of the bone healing), the fireworks yesterday evening were the final straw for her.

She was shaking and drooling with fear for over an hour and a half.

I love watching fireworks, but I would only go to a proper display - people letting them off in their back gardens is just so unfair to pets.

Goodness gracious, there are some serious humbugs on here.

No, I meant how could you tell them looks at neurotic collie :(

You're right pinot, we're such humbugs, wanting our pets not to have heart attacks and our kids to have a good night's sleep...

Sorry Owllady I missread. Poor collie

Just taken ddog out for her last pee on a harness and lead. In her own bloody garden ffs.

i quite like the fireworks, people are here and alive!

stop being so bottom clenched

we werent expecting it, me and the dog, went out for a quick stroll, to look at halloween decorations. she was scared of the fireworks.
that is my issue

Seeing as a friend lost her beautiful horse to a heart attack last year caused by the idiots next door letting them off at the end of November, no I shall not unclench. It's totaly unecessary.

There's always at least one "I'm alright Jack" to come along and flutter their eyelashes and smarm "oh, I can't imagine why everyone is so worked up about this!".

Because it's annoying and dangerous and the people doing it are twats. It's not hard to understand

And you don't sound worked up about it at all jorah.

People partying and letting off fireworks are twats.

Ok then

I'm not really clenched

I bet the people who are all "they're just fireworks! I like them, get over yourselves" are the same people who set off fucking 'sky lanterns' that cause fires and false alarms being raised with the coastguard and countless wild animals, cattle and horses to need medical attention or die when they eat the wires or get caught up in the debris.

But hey, they're pretty and it's just a bit of fun.

I thought we'd established earlier in the thread that I'm worked up about it, I'm not sure why you sound surprised?

givemushy you're spot on about the sky lanterns.

I would like the people who think I am 'clenched' or uptight about this issue to come and try to console my poor dog when she is whimpering, barking, shaking and drooling with fear - to the extent where I thought it was going to trigger a fit (she is epileptic) - after only a few fireworks being let off by our neighbours!

Maybe if they saw the very real distress she is suffering, they might care a tiny bit more.

Never been known to set off a fucking fire lantern myself.

I bought a sky lantern years ago, read the warning at the back and never let it off :o
The worst I do is listening to absolute 80s whilst doing the housework

pinot have you not got some fireworks to be letting off instead of winding up people on my thread?

lordy yes i am currently enjoying lighting several lanterns into the atmosphere with a musical accompaniment

Winding people up?

On your thread?

If you don't want others points of view don't start a sodding thread then.

You've strapped violins to them?
They won't float....