To bloody hate fireworks??

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So my 1 year old DS is so ill with a chest infection (as am I) and has just thrown his dinner and bottle up all over his bedroom floor and direct NDN are having their own mini fireworks display in their tiny back garden. DS’s bedroom is at the back of the house closest to their side and he obviously isn’t going to sleep for shit and is just screaming his little head off

I know it’s not extremely late and they could go on until 11 if they really wanted to but they have kids of their own I would have expected to be in bed too by now and DP is 1 more firework away from going round there and shoving them where the sun don’t shine. I really don’t want to start neighbour wars as it’s all I bloody hear about at work, so if it comes to it I will have to go round and politely ask if they could stop now - they do seem like nice people so I’m sure they would.

My DM and DF also live up the road have 6 cats who are all scared stiff and have gone into hiding bless them!

But AIBU to think fireworks at home are so bloody inconsiderate??

FYI - I’m not prepared to be told IABU 😂

Already said on another thread but absolutely detest them! Its actually hailstones and heavy rain here but still they do it! So can't even see anything its just the bloody noise!!

* Other people enjoyment should not be impacted by the fact I choose to have pets and a child.*

But why should my enjoyment of a quiet evening be impacted by the fact that selfish inconsiderate people decide to have a fireworks display in their tiny back garden?

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Tbf I've heard ñothibg but fireworks almost repeatedly for the last 3/4 hours they are getting on my nerves now.

It's the time for fireworks. Young children hate them but then grow up to appreciate them. Some animals hate, them some don't care. It's only a few nights a year. YABU.

A “few nights a year” - are you for real? they started mid October even before Diwali, have gone on every night since and will likely go on for at least another week or 2. That is over a month and is not a ‘few nights’.

I'm still amazed at how it's still legal for anyone (over 18) to buy fireworks over the counter. In many countries it's organised displays only. When I was younger every other advert in the month before bonfire night was a hard hitting cautionary advert about not playing with fireworks. Even in the cinema. The risks seem barely acknowledged now in comparison.

If I was queen of the world I’d ban the horrible things. Except for public displays on the 5th only. I have always hated them but right now my poor, little, old blind dog is sat on my knee a nervous wreck so I hate them more now. I can hear other dogs howling and I’ve locked the cat up.
They are a nuisance. They will just calm down and then start again for New Years. ROLL ON SUMMER

I love a public display, usually a decent show, cheaper than a box of shitty duds, lots of advertisements warning everyone what to expect - what's not to like?

I would be happy to see them banned for public sale. There's just no need for them and they directly impact on everyone around them regardless of whether they like it or not.

If people used them appropriately (considerate time, appropriately sized garden) then maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but dickheads think their fascination of lighting a bit of gunpowder trumps everything.

Don't even get me started on those who stock pile them for New Years and random celebrations throughout the year.

They've been going off here constantly since 4:30. I hate the and always have. I can't even watch a movie because some of them are so loud.

One landed on my car a few years ago and if my dad hadn't been so quick with a bucket of water it could have done a lot of damage. A friend has horses and one was hurt by a paper lantern that had landed in the field. They have a huge impact on wildlife too.

I don't like them either! I have never ever liked them, since I can't stand the loud bang or, the brightness when I am close to them. I'm visually impaired, and they really freak me out. On New Year's Eve several years I was in Thailand, and people were setting them off in the middle of the road, or sparklers or something, and I couldn't see them but I knew they were close to me, and I wouldn't go outside. I was really really not enjoying it. Same thing in Italy, on New Year's Eve, or when they won the World Cup in 2006 Really don't like it.

And one more thing, if you don't like fireworks, don't take off from Heathrow or Gatwick on 5 November in the evening, I did this last year when I had to go to the Philippines. Never, ever again. I thought they weren't supposed to set fireworks off near Heathrow

Yanbu. Having problems getting my DD to sleep. If you have any problems try putting some kind of white noise on you tube on your tablet and leave it running in their room to try drown it out.

Quite honestly I am sitting in South London at 9pm wondering if I have been transported to the front line. Just Ridiculous. Cats are beside themselves and I don’t blame them. Might join them under the bed. Why Do They Have to Be So Loud? Grrrr. Double Grrr.

I live on the outskirts of a small rural village. On our lane alone, we have one NDN who has two horses in her back garden/field, one with chickens, one with five dogs, a dairy farm (with another two closer to the village) and we have sheep. Our neighbours dogs are going nuts, our sheep are huddled in the corner furthest away from the noise (and I've just seen one bolt across the field) and I can hear plenty of mooing from the cows. I am furious with whichever tosspot in the village has decided to let off fireworks. The next village along is doing a big display tomorrow for free. Arseholes.

People are stupid enough to let them off near an airport??!!

I have pretty much the same situation as you tonight OP, we live in a terrace and 13 month old DDs room is at the back where it's noisiest, I've been transitioning her away from cosleeping and Into her own room but she has had to go back in our bed tonight. We've both been a bit poorly and she is teething, the extra interruption of our sleep because of idiots wanting to do there own fireworks display is making me incandescent with rage! It's not safe to let them off in the tiny gardens here, especially as it is back to back terraces, the noise reverberates around and echoes from each bang.

I don't think they should be sold to the public, only available for licensed displays on actual events, let off by professionals. Where is the overzealous health and safety everything else seems to be subjected to when you need it? We have had them for weeks every single night and it is tiresome. I'm sleep deprived enough as it is, my rage might be a tad unreasonable as a result but I don't care! When we lived in Brixton there were teenagers lobbing them across the roads at each other all the time from October onwards, no way should explosives be sold to whomever wants them, it's just asking for trouble.

I think it should be organised displays with permit only. There’s no need for all these sad little back garden displays.

But each display lasts 10 mins max, it’s not really the end of the world is it. It’ll finish after tomorrow...

Hope it's getting better for you now OP.

I can't ever hear a fireworks display without remembering the effect they had on my very lovely childhood friend who had escaped a war zone :( She would almost be sick with terror on Fireworks Night.

Not a reason to never let off another firework again, obv, but I'm with you in loathing the bloody things. Dont' have pets (yet) and DD age 4 can sleep through almost anything most of the time. But I still hate them, they seem to go on for weeks.

My dog is driving me fucking insane tonight. He’s waking my kids up. He’s not scared he wants to fight them.

NDN have now stopped and DS is finally asleep, thank god!

YABU. Still going off round here. We had some in our garden and sparklers - me & my kids love Bonfire night.

It's actually an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to set off fireworks in close proximity to fields/buildings that contain horses & livestock. Fine up to £20,000 and/or sentence up to 6 months. If any posters are having fireworks let off stupidly close to their horse/livestock & causing distress, ring up the non-emergency police & report. May make them think twice about doing it again

I love fireworks and think it's once a year, enjoy it.
Luckily my ds (2) isn't bothered at all, neither is my cat. I'd probably feel different if they were.

I don't mind them on and around bonfire night (i.e. the weekends before and after if it falls midweek) and on NYE but the ones that really do my tits in are those random ones that people let off, usually on a Sunday night, occasionally when it's not even dark, just because they're having a bbq or some sort of celebration. I hate these because they come with no warning and frighten me and my daughter as well as all the dogs in the vicinity.

Tbh op, if they're still going on now and your dd is still awake and upset, I'd give it up as a bad job tonight and camp out in the living room with the TV on and just try and get as much rest as possible. Hope you're both feeling better tomorrow though.