To think you don't need lengthy NYE fireworks

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Like 20-30 minutes worth of racket at midnight. It's OTT and so unsociable.

I love fireworks but at 1am having been woken at 11 then midnight, I was not happy when the baby woke up as well.

I don't mind them too much, but anything more than a few minutes dead on midnight to signify the new year is senseless and inconsiderate.

I hate them, and my dog is terrified of them. I had a few before midnight but not too bad, they really started at midnight and carried on for 15 minutes. Fine, I can cope with that. But then they started up again and carried on until 1am which is ridiculous!
If they can't be banned we could at least get the silent ones.

Chinese New Year is bad for them but here it's divali where they are particularly bad

We live near a popular wedding venue, so fireworks are year-round here. Fortunately the venue is pretty sensible about what is allowed - and the displays don't last very long and aren't too noisy.

The problem I have with them, is that anyone aged 18 can wander up and buy them and let them off anywhere. On one journey home from work in the winter, a rocket went shooting by the end of the road at waist height. If someone had stepped onto the pavement at that moment they would have been badly injured. They are dangerous and if used incorrectly can cause a major nuisance and serious injuries. Not to mention the effect they have on domestic animals and wildlife.

I wish you would have told my neighbour this last night. I was fast asleep only to be woken by crash bangs and rockets whistling right next to my garden fence grrr. I have enough trouble sleeping and didn't get back to sleep until 4am so in zombie mode today.

Blimey resistance I'd never have thought of that but living by a wedding venue that must be a pain. Good they are fairly quick with it.

A few fireworks at NYE to mark midnight is one thing - not ideal, but I just can't see the need for it to go on so long. I agree that it probably wasn't a thing before the millenium. And they are dangerous. I don't think they should be sold privately, or should be restricted to say the month before fireworks night. I think you never used to be able to buy them so freely.

Effectively it means everyone with pets must have to stay in NYE or worry about their poor pets.

We were kept awake from 10pm to 2am by house shaking booms and very bright flashes. This resulted in a terrified baby, the cat shaking and scratching anything within reach, zero sleep and us all feeling like crap today. Poor Husband was up for work at 5am.
And i've just heard the start of tonight's "displays"
FFS. There is just not enough coffee.

I don’t mind midnight on NYE but last night there were lots going off at 0130 to 0200. Woke me up!

Bit surprised nobody has mentioned the cost of them, provided by our apparently cash-strapped councils who can't afford rather more worthwhile stuff. What do these displays cost, does anyone know?

I loathe the private use of fireworks. We got off relatively lightly last night - only about 30 minutes of fireworks around midnight.

What it means for us is that we can't go out - we have to stay at home because the dogs don't cope without our reassurance and physical proximity. Having decided to stay home because of the expectation of fireworks I had to stay up when I wanted to go to bed and sit with the dogs in the Utility room (smallest room in the house and closest to a 'den') playing Muse (the closest thing I had to classical music on my phone) until it all settled, whilst the littlest dog trembled uncontrollably and the bigger one baked incessantly

Letting off fireworks at midnight for a few minutes.Ok.Although years ago I remember parties,fancy dress,calling in on the neighbours but honestly don't remember fireworks.
Letting them off randomly on and off all night.No
Symptomatic of the same attitude of 'if I want to put masses Xmas lights that flash all night weeks before I will do -wether or not they annoy the neighbours ' And because it's a festive season you're deemed to be a killjoy if you think it's over the top.

When dog owners whinge about fireworks, all I can hear is this:

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You should probably try and educate yourself Hulloa, although you're probably too busy being faux witty with borrowed humour

Hulloa, you've probably not seen an animal such as my dog, whose ears are actually hurt by the sound of fireworks. Maybe you'd be OK with someone randomly and repeatedly setting off party poppers straight into your ears, as that's roughly what explosives sound like to him.
And no, he's not a yappy little dog, he's a strapping great lurcher that doesn't bark. He does, however, whimper a lot when entitled twats set off what sound like depth charges because they think it's hilarious fun.
I fucking hate the ridiculous mini-bombs that pass for fireworks these days and would happily see them banned for sale to the, largely stupid and irresponsible, general public.

We live in a very multicultural area. Bonfire night and New Year I could just about cope with but its also Sikh weddings, divali etc etc. Infact it seems every few weeks there is some sort of bloody celebration that requires multiple fireworks that have to be as loud as they can get it!

I don’t support the sale to the public of fireworks, because they’re dangerous to people and are misused.

But ROFL at dog owners and their objection to public nuisance!

They were going off until 3am here. Small rows of terraced houses. Completely irresponsible. As a shift worker, who had a 15 hour shift today, I was not impressed.

I remember fireworks pre-millenium but it was literally one firework at midnight (but lots of people doing it so they all went up at once, which I always thought was very cool as a child).

Having actual full on displays on NYE seems newer.

But ROFL at dog owners and their objection to public nuisance!

Ruff ruff.

What, because every dog owner leaves their dog off the lead shitting everywhere and not cleaning it up?

Don't tar everyone with the same brush. There are lots of responsible dog owners - just like there are lots of people who don't misuse fireworks. It's the stupid minority of idiots who spoil it for everyone else.

I remember NY fireworks as a child. The difference between then and now was that they would only go off for 10-15 mins around midnight, they weren't as loud and people didn't tend to buy very many because they were expensive and they had better things to spend their money on!

I never minded them too much. Until one got put through my window and went off, I just got out the room and it's destroyed my carpet and cost me over £350 as I needed a full open plan room new carpet
Now I'm terrified when I hear them

There’s a petition before the government at the moment to ban the sale of fireworks to the public, so their use would be restricted to professional displays, and limited to a few set days a year, such as Guy Fawkes night and New Year.
To the PP who asked about the cost to cash strapped councils - it’s free in my area as the local Rotary organise a fabulous half hour display to music, plus massive bonfire for Guy Fawkes.
They go round the crowd with buckets for donations, which covers the cost plus raises a good sum for local charities.
It also means that less well off families can still go along for free or for a few pence in the bucket and nobody knows or minds what their contribution was.