Bonfire night!

[purfectpuss]

AIBU to think that complaining about the noise is ridiculous. My facebook feed is full of people moaning:

"It's too loud, it's affecting my elderly mum and her health condition"
"I can't hear the telly..."
"the cat's hiding"
"how can people afford fireworks- we're in a cost of living crisis?"

Really...?

Yanbu
I certainly think people should act with a bit of thought and not let off loud fireworks in residential areas or very late at night or on random dates that aren't the weekend of bonfire night.
But I do think some people get proper ridiculous whinging about it.
The wild animal thing is fkn ridiculous when we slaughter millions of cows every day and chuck half of them in the bin because they don't sell. When people still out on the moors for several months of the year shooting birds with rifles.
Yeah but 30 mins of fireworks a couple of times a year is just a step to far for poor animals lmao
I say this as a vegetarian.
People are ridiculous. Your little dog getting a bit worried for an hour of their life merits 100 angry posts on Facebook about what cunts everyone are.. Mass daily slaughter = radio silence.
And I know a bunch of veterans with ptsd.. I work in mental health. No one gives a shit about organised firework displays. Stop using these people's experiences to go nuts on social media... it's YOU who doesn't like fireworks just admit it. Stop hiding behind people.
Yes letting off random fireworks in built up areas can effect veterans with ptsd and I do think it's antisocial and shitty. But the organised firework displays are easily dealt with as they are expected timed events that people can avoid or take steps to mitigate.
Of all the things to get angry about loud fireworks existing is just nonsense really. I don't like to be a 'whataboutter' but in this instance I do think 'really? With all that's going on in the world this is what you chose to foam at the mouth about?'
I think it's OK to remind people to take into consideration their local environment if they are planning a home display... fair enough.
But I do see these ridiculous posts saying all fireworks should be banned etc and I do roll my eyes

It's absolutely pointless to complain. I'm a 70s child still living in my home town and it's always been like a war zone, with bonfires everywhere on bonfire night. Everyone just accepted it/enjoyed it.
Since SM though, everybody likes to complain. Including the very people who let off fireworks when their own children were younger.
Leave them to it, they'll be moaning about something else next week.

And you are so right that in a couple of weeks it will be replaced with people whinging about Christmas lights

I was expecting a lot of fireworks last night, but honestly hardly heard any. Maybe it'll all happen tonight.

Unusual though, as bonfire "night" tends to be a week-long event round my area!

We had people whinging about our lovely town square tree being to big so much last year that the council actually took it down and replaced it with this sad looking scrawny thing.
Apparently people in wheelchairs didn't have enough space because the tree was taking up too much of the square.
I'm a carer for my disabled mum who is in a wheelchair and we went to see the tree when it was first put up.. she thought it was lovely, one of the most impressive Christmas trees she had ever seen.. and there was plenty of space for me to manoeuvre her chair around it even with the crowds...
But it got removed. And I bet 90% or the whingers were not wheelchair users.
Some people just love to complain about anything and everything

I get the complaints about bonfire night and firework noise and its negative impact on people and animals even though I kind of enjoy them myself.

What I have noticed in recent years is that after our big community firework display got scrapped in favour of a larger Halloween celebration the amount of fireworks going off locally this time of year every night is way higher. Lots of family perhaps buying them in for their kids, local community groups, football teams and so on as well as lots of teenagers letting them off well into the night.

If it were up to me fireworks would be banned from public sale and there would be a public display of no more than an hour in length that everyone could watch then that would be it.

It's been going on all week here. Tonight will be the grand finale for one of my neighbours who is a firework enthusiast.
Last night i thought artillery shells were raining down on the house and garden.
I can't wait to see what he has planned for this evening, probably preparing the missiles as i type this 😐

You are not wrong. Some pathetic saddos are never happier than when calling for stuff to be banned. They think the world should stop for their dog. And the latest one is that everyone has PTSD from explosions in the past.

Read the rest of the post you quote from. It’s not one person affording it. It’s several people nearby plus an official display which adds up to that.

I like fireworks.
I don’t like spending 4 hours in the cold and rain to make sure my horses don’t kill themselves when I had direct neighbours on 3 sides of me doing big displays (not joking - one went on for 2 and a half hours and they were /big/ fireworks) and didn’t as much as give me a heads up.

Basic consideration…not to mention it’s actually illegal to have them so close to livestock.