To think the fireworks go on too long?

[lurchermummy]

When I was a kid you'd watch Big Ben chime 12 then it would be everyone singing auld lang syne and a big group hug. Now the bloody fireworks go on for like 15 minutes (gets boring after a while) and only then auld lang syne. It's just not the same!

ChestyDog is freaking out! Wish they’d piss off now. Huge awful banging things round here.
Am knackered but darent turn tv off and leave him yet

Hate fireworks !!!! Waste of money and too bomb like for me

Bet a and e will get a few burns in tonight too

Maybe the accountant is so good, he only pays gazillions and not megaubertrizillions like what my husband does.

Display was better than last year's mushroom cloud though! But yes, the music was shite!

I love the fireworks for about 4 mins and then I start to get weird panicky palpitations. Shush now.

Francis Yes - Big Ben followed by fireworks on London Eye. Now cut to a tolerable concert.

If people queued up for 7 hours to watch them, how did they wee?

They were fucking awesome.

Jeez can people stop complaining about absolutely everything

Bucking the trend here! Loved them, you are all misers...

Ariana grande ‘one last time’ brought a tear to my eye, great choice!

Happy new year grumpy MN’rs

We were also questioning who pays and how much it must cost. I love them but the waste is shocking and that ruins it a bit.

High five to Freeniki clearly we are not totally boring yet!

Very new rescue dog here so I’ve stayed in with curtains drawn and music playing just in case as no idea how she’d react....am in zone 4.... it sounded like a war zone outside from about ten to midnight until a few minutes ago (now just police sirens!) luckily ddog has not taken a blind bit of notice, thank goodness! I feel like a right party pooper though, just can’t see the point in making a fuss over it, it’s just numbers.

My STB GrannyIL pays for them as a "gift to the Nation" or whatever that means. But she told me not to tell anyon..... ooops.

I don't mind how long the tv ones go on. After 40 mins of bangs and the air so thick with smoke it is obscuring the tree outside the window, I am ready for the local ones to start tapering off.

Bloody things still going on here. So that’s 40 mins of them... not counting all the ones that went off from 10.00 onwards..

We watched the London ones on TV, until most of us were catatonic and switched it off.

I heard dh say, 'we must go to this next year'...

Ooh yes please. Hours of standing around waiting in the cold and rain then mass exodus for the tubes. Sounds marvellous.

It's a ticketed event and the cost is covered by the sales.

I live inEdinburgh
We have fireworks for every night of the Tattoo
Then end of festival
Spaced out over GuyFawkes
Diwali
Xmas fireworks seems to be a thing now
Torchlight procession
Tonight

Then theres the unofficial ones...
I live near a big open space wherefireworks are set off for birthdaysetc

Dontget me started on Chinese lanterns, the number of times I've had tountangle them from shrubs in the garden

Luckily our cat is not bothered, the rats blasé but my pals dog is cowering

"You can turn it off you know"

What? I can't turn other people's fireworks off. They're in real life you know.

There are kids out the back lobbing fireworks. Aged about 10 - 14. Parents no where to be seen and clearly out.

Fireworks on sale to the public should just be banned. Its idiots mucking about with them that terrify me and give me nightmares.

Seriously guys, we are not even an hour into 2018 and here is a full on moanfest! Lighten up, you never know, you might just enjoy yourselves!

It's a waste of money.
Now it were to be a redundancy payment for shite politicians I'd be ok with it.

They really weren't that long. Really, WTF has happened to MN?

Yes I can lighten up when there a bunch of teenagers about 20metres away trying hard to blow themselves and the surrounding houses up with explosives.

They are currently screaming "I thought I was going to die" as one has just gone off inside their garden.

Fuck knows how they can afford them.

I reverse the right to be a little bit uptight about it.