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

628 replies

FatNoMorePat · 02/11/2018 00:53

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??

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Gingerlover2 · 03/11/2018 21:45

IliveinaZoo

Of course, because you don't have a large amount of fireworks going off then we all must be over reacting. This thread is choc full of people telling you different but all you've done is put your fingers in your ears and sung La La La

Have you ever considered that other people have different opinions and experiences than you or are you always right about everything?

stumpyteapot · 03/11/2018 21:47

Licensed events only and ONLY on the 5th ! Not spread out over the weekend.

Shitlandpony · 03/11/2018 21:47

Iliveinazoo I nearly screenshot posts from my local FB group to prove how many events are listed within half a mile of my house. Then I thought, why should I lose my privacy to justify myself to someone who continually denies other people’s valid experiences and opinions.

I have been in tears tonight as my Dh is away , trying to comfort a distraught dd with ASD and two dogs, one a rescue with an abidive past who is shaking and crying under a table, the other one has not stopped barking for SIX hours now. I have spent money on thunder shirts, headphones, vet prescriptions, adaption plug ins and am blasting out classic FM.

I have played down how awful it is in my house to avoid being seen as hysterical.

You are minimising and goady, enjoy your fireworks, you must live in a very unusual area for it only to last three days (or you are lying).

DamsonGin · 03/11/2018 21:48

Shitlandpony Flowers I hope it passes soon there for you.

Shitlandpony · 03/11/2018 21:50

Thank you, this seems to be the worst year ever for it.

Gingerlover2 · 03/11/2018 21:50

Sending Hugs Shitland, hopefully it will get quieter as the night wears on. Still going strong here, like you I've got a terrified dog behind the sofa.

Shitlandpony · 03/11/2018 21:51

Thank you Flowers sorry I seem to have made it all about me.

spudlet7 · 03/11/2018 21:52

In the past, I might have thought this was a bit snowflake-y but now, having married a man with ptsd, had a child, and owned a dog, I completely agree. YANBU. And of course there's the safety issue too.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/11/2018 21:52

Until you actually live though firework season with someone who is terrified you have no idea just how horrid it can be.

Hope it's over soon, Shitlandpony and everybody else.

Couple of nights my arse.

DamsonGin · 03/11/2018 21:54

I wonder if it seems worse (maybe it is worse) because 5th is on Monday people are choosing to let them off over a series of nights. I know people had some last weekend and others who have some planned for next weekend too. I'd be happy if it was all just on the 5th, or if privately purchased ones were just quieter.

smallchanceofrain · 03/11/2018 21:56

Iliveinazoo. I live in a little village in rural North Yorkshire. We are one of a row of terraced houses. Behind us, and with their back gardens adjoining our back gardens, is another row of houses. In one of those houses lives a family who think it's fun to stage their own firework display in a very confined area. Believe me, all the houses on our street shook.

Neighbourly relations in our rural idyll could have been set back at least two generations by OH and a couple of other neighbours going round to the firework house to "have a word". What they found was a very apologetic couple who said they didn't realise how powerful some of their fireworks were. I think that's part of the problem. When I was a kid the fireworks you had at home were catherine wheels and roman candles. They were pretty and not that noisy. Fireworks now seem to be louder and more powerful.

LookingThroughTheLookingGlass · 03/11/2018 21:57

A firework flew into the hood of my mums coat as a child- permanent scarring.
Ban them completely I say.

Gingerlover2 · 03/11/2018 21:57

Shitlandpony

We've all shared our similar experiences, that's what this place is for, you know we understand and can empathise.

Iliveinazoo · 03/11/2018 21:59

Until you live with somebody who is terrified of dogs you have no idea how horrid it is when your poor child is playing at the park and some big brute of a dog comes bounding over and terrifies the life out of your child.

Perhaps you could all keep your precious dogs on a lead? That goes on all year round.

Clearly by the amount of fireworks going on there are a huge amount of people enjoying them.

anniehm · 03/11/2018 22:00

Fireworks still in full flow here at nearly 10pm. I think a 9pm cut off is reasonable for any winter event (excluding new year which should be restricted to 10 mins following midnight). My dog couldn't care less, still used it as an excuse to get on the sofa (any excuse!) but has just happily walked around the block looking up at the sky without flinching. We have another week of them at least as it's Diwali next week!

SillySallySingsSongs · 03/11/2018 22:01

Clearly by the amount of fireworks going on there are a huge amount of people enjoying them.

Good for them. There are lots of others however that don't and not for trivial reasons either.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/11/2018 22:03

Wow.

Why are you making this about dogs, Zoo?

Yes, some dogs are traumatised, but so are horses, people, birds and so on.

Show some humanity.

Iliveinazoo · 03/11/2018 22:04

Smallchanceofrain obviously people should be using fireworks responsibly. I have obviously been very lucky not to have had idiot neighbours.

Unfortunately like with a lot of things, there will always be people who don't.

Gingerlover2 · 03/11/2018 22:04

Ah, now you've decided to really show what you're all about.

How did you work out in that twisted little head of yours that anyone on here is responsible for dog owners who don't control their dogs?

I guess when you've got zero empathy or concern for anyone but yourself you'll just turn it in to a 'woe is me' discussion about a topic not in the slightest related to the OP's post or what anyone has said on here.

It's called a strawman, look it up and learn something.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/11/2018 22:06

Clearly by the amount of fireworks going on there are a huge amount of people enjoying them

Oh, and clearly by the number of dogs everywhere people are loving their company and there will hopefully be even more of them, everywhere.

Enjoy!

DamsonGin · 03/11/2018 22:06

DS2 is petrified of dogs and had one bound over onto him. I don't expect all dogs to be on leads but I do wish for them to be looked after with consideration for others.

I don't have a dog (but can sympathise tonight), I'd still like fireworks to be less loud for the sake of my scared child.

As far as I am concerned Iliveinazoo, you have no arguement and are being goady and selfish.

Shitlandpony · 03/11/2018 22:08

Ohh, it’s about hating dogs then?

Degustibusnonestdisputandem1 · 03/11/2018 22:08

They were banned in oz in the 80s. Result.... no more Guy Fawkes night.

CoachBombay · 03/11/2018 22:10

SmallChanceofRain

Yes I did something similar year before last, bought a mutlishit box thinking it was small and no issue just a fountain and some small bangs I thought. Man was I wrong, this thing did 100 whistling and banging Arial shots....it was so loud I was flabbergasted! DS was screaming my nan bless her who's half dead said "oh I can hear this one just about" meanwhile me and my mother were stood in shock! I apologised to our neighbour who luckily found it funny!

I now make sure whatever one I buy has a description of what it does! I always just buy two small fountain like ones.

I think rockets and such should be taken off sale to the general public and small fountains/ground display items allowed for home use.

captainprincess · 03/11/2018 22:11

Iliveinazoo so you realise people can have a real fear of things as you mention fears of dogs. Maybe then you can see how people might be scared of fireworks.
Also I am not exaggerating, this is the third consecutive Saturday there have been fireworks and I have heard them at least 3 times during the weeks preceding the weekend. I count that as 3 weeks.