To believe that fireworks shouldn’t be available to the general public?

[FatNoMorePat]

Fireworks at this time of night!!!

I’m partial to a sparkler don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t agree with fireworks being readily available for joe public. Particularly when people let them off after 11pm!

I’m not saying get rid of them all together but make it stricter so they’re only let off in safe environments by people who’ve had adequate training who then clean everything up and it’s all done and dusted before 11pm.

Am I getting old??

Actually my dd is in fear for her life because she doesn’t understand that the bangs aren’t bombs or explosions and no it won’t be over by Monday. Because lots of schools surrounding my house are planning their displays for next weekend, I looked tonight and there are five near us doing them next week. That’s another three days of it, that will be the third week for me.

Then it will be Christmas/new year ones, then the summer concert ones in July and the wedding ones that use the castle.

I really wouldn’t mind one or two nights but it’s not.

That’s excluding the local yobs who were throwing them around until 11:45 last night.
That’s over six hours of a sobbing child and terrified animals. When did people get to be so selfish?

I don't need evidence or links to state the fact that bonfire night is nothing like WW3.

WE ARE NOT AT WAR! They are only fireworks, we aren't being bombed, you are all quite safe.

It's actually a fucking insult to people in war torn countries.

It doesn't go on for 2/3 weeks though does it? Stop exaggerating.

It does.

Guy Fawkes this week, Diwali next, plus a few days extra both sides.

Who's 'she' Ginger?

I think what you are 'imagining' about 'her' concerns for others is just rudeness

WE ARE NOT AT WAR! They are only fireworks, we aren't being bombed, you are all quite safe

This here is someone that doesn’t give a shit about people with ptsd or special needs.

No offence Iliveinazoo, but it's clear you only go on what YOU perceive to be facts and that clearly, no one else's experience or opinion matters.

I bet you're a joy to be around.

As long as everyone does as they are told

I agree it really is an insult if you have never been exposed to combat areas

Liveinazoo - it's NOT "a minor inconvenience". My 2 year old rescue is absolutely terrified - hiding and shaking. We've been working on her confidence and this will have set her back months. On what planet is that a minor inconvenience?

Completely agree having lived in a house with a thatched roof previously.

Tonight the neighbours behind have been setting them off in the alley behind out house. Far too close for my liking. Plus we've had them going off all over the place for two weeks. I'm thankful we have house cats.

You cannot possibly know what WW3 will sound like, Zoo, it hasn't happened, so your guess is as good as anyone else.

Why don't you find something else to be insulted about?

WE ARE NOT AT WAR! They are only fireworks, we aren't being bombed, you are all quite safe

Liveinazoo - FYI - hyperbole - a rhetorical device for the sake of emphasis.

Apologies Iliveinazoo for bad use of the English language.

I should have said my house shook so badly and the noise was so loud it seemed to me (admittedly subjectively in my own little world) as if this was what WW3 might sound like (if indeed there was a war which, as you point out, there isn't). I was not feeling safe though, because my house shook and some smouldering firework remains had just landed on the conservatory / plastic lean-to roof.

I'm sure those of us using that phrase meant absolutely no insult to those people in war torn countries for whom death is a daily threat. In fact given that this is a thread about fucking fireworks those people were not on my mind when I posted. Which they should have been, because then I would be virtuous like you.

I agree with you completely.

My sister worked in McDonalds as a teenager. One night she was on the drive-thru and a group of thugs drove past and tried to throw a firework through the window at her. Luckily they missed.

I don't think they should be freely sold to the public. There are plenty of public displays if you like them.

I'm not insulted at all, why would I be?

I said that bonfire night is not comparable to world war 3. It might be noisy, it might be inconvenient for those with pets/children that are afraid of them. I know a lot about this myself as I have had pets and a ds that were very scared of the noise (though that has been dismissed).

It is not like living through a war, to say so is a complete and total exaggeration.

Bonfire night will end whether it's in 3 days or 3 weeks (I think you're very unfortunate if you live somewhere that is consistently setting off fireworks for 3 weeks), things will go back to normal and life will go on, unlike if we were actually living through a war.

Anyway, back to the thoughtful thread we had going ....

I don't want Bonfire night or fireworks to be banned, but now anyone can buy them, not even thinking about the distress they cause so many people, it means firework night belongs in October and ends a week or so after November the fifth. . London is even worse, as I imagine most cities are.

It's clearly not a 'fun' time for many people

The fuckers have been going off all evening here and my dog is absolutely traumatised.

YANBU

Just putting in fireworks as a search word on twitter and FB shows that lots of people feel the same. Also a lot of people agreeing that it’s going on for many weeks.
It’s pretty obvious that both weekends either side of the 5th November are going to have events as well as Halloween and Christmas. It’s not ‘unfortunate’ or unusual.

It's clearly not a 'fun' time for many people

We're still finding bits of egg from the egging the windows and cars along our street got from that other fun-filled 'harmless' festival known as Halloween.

Totally agree. So many selfish bastards . I feel more incensed about this every year. My dogs are traumatized for weeks.

I'd love to know where the hell some of you live that you're getting fireworks that are literally shaking your house.

I'm on one of the busiest roads in a major city and have heard/seen no fireworks until a handful last night, tonight has been pretty noisy from around 7pm but they're stopping now.

In all of the places I've lived I've only known fireworks to be let of a night either side of bonfire night.

I've clearly been very lucky or people are exaggerating a lot.

For those who think it's just a fun time and we are 'exaggerating' then perhaps this might make you realise how much it affects animals.

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/panicked-horse-ran-died-fireworks-13901064?_ga=2.205373072.1278590031.1541281009-927952343.1539107881

Am now taking my turn sat at the foot of DSs bed, however I have wine while I read through and try to work out of there's anything here that'll make my ds less scared. Saying people out there are having funs with their excessively noisy fireworks in a tightly packed residential area isn't going to cut it.

People are talking about anti social behaviour with egging etc.

People who want to cause trouble will always find an excuse it doesn't have to be Halloween or bonfire night.

WE ARE NOT AT WAR! They are only fireworks, we aren't being bombed, you are all quite safe.

How to minimise ptsd hey. I'll get my SIL to shout 'we are not at war' to my BIL when he has an attack shall I?