Fireworks have started already.

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Personally I find them very tedious as I have a toddler.

Sigh.

I like properly organised events, but 100 random garden displays really wind me up! The noise!

Playing Classic FM helps for my animals, for anyone normal on here who doesn’t hate animals for the sake of it

I'm envious.

We get them pretty much all year round where I am, and it has been nearly every night for two weeks now.

I'm so over them.

Yes here too from about 5pm to midnight. Yet apparently everyone is living in poverty.

Fireworks have been going on here since the 28th October for Diwali. There is an organised display here tonight. I think 3rd November is fine, considering Guy Fawkes' Night is the 5th November?

And now you're moaning about the moany threads!

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Just messing with ya!

I wish they'd finish at 2200 tonight

People have to go to work to tomorrow, I think that's when it becomes annoying

Do people like you genuinely believe it’s ok to put ‘fun’ (of which there are a thousand alternative ways to achieve it) above the well being of millions of pets and wild animals?

Humans really are the pits.

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Yes yes to the cats shitting in the garden 😂

Every ounce of celebration is sucked the life out of on MN.

They don't open the door to the outside world as they're so scared of getting off their arses to hand a bag of haribo out.
Easter is full of chocolate and their 8 year old hasn't been exposed to sugar yet so they can't have a bit of Easter egg.
Christmas is lowkey and quiet as nobody wants a fuss. Who wants spoilt kids?
The wedding invitation is an absolute no no because their kids haven't been invited and can't bear to be away from their pre teens for one night. Never ever inconvenience themselves for a wedding.

Then cry when they got a milk tray and a card for their birthday.

In all seriousness, home firework displays need to be binned. Organised displays only, and several weeks warning, so people can sedate their pets/animals - including farmers animals if need be.

Yeah but MN is special. Full of kind, special human beings. Each one a gift to mankind because of their virtues. Not letting off fireworks is one of those virtues.

YES. We've had fireworks on bonfire night for generations and then more recently for Diwali. Not known a pet to die as a result, ever

Thing is @Justcallmebebes and @Ytcsghisn and other posters supporting fireworks in peoples gardens! Fireworks are WAY louder now than they used to be. (10+ years ago.)

My older cat died 2 years ago aged 18, and she was terrified of the loud bangs. My one cat I have left (17 y.o.) is 80% deaf so isn't bothered about them, but next door's dog is terrified of the massive big bangs.

Luckily we are quite rural and it's a middle class area, so very few houses have fireworks in their gardens. Organised displays are OK as people know when they are and can sedate their pets/animals, but fireworks should NOT be sold to the general public. The public buying them should be consigned to the history books.

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They should be banned. There is zero good reason why the public should have access to explosives.

The son of one of my care clients ended up in hospital last night because he thought he was having a heart attack. It was a nasty panic attack brought on by the stress of 3 nights back to back fireworks.
He has severe PTSD from his service in the forces.

Organised displays - fine. But they should not be in the hands of the public

Hate them
Never used to until I had to redecorate my living room after one was put through the window

People who don't mind them probably don't live in an area where teenagers throw them at police, or into a car with a sleeping tiny baby, or into the shops or care home

@Justcallmebebes so because you personally haven't known anyone or any pets die that makes them ok? 🙄 Right o! Why does something personally have to affect you for you to open your mind to the possibility it might affect others?

This made me laugh

You're not the only person with a toddler.

I personally think fireworks should be banned for individual purchase, and official displays should be limited to Nov 5th, the nearest Saturday, and New Year's Eve.

But it'll never happen. Why? Money. Same reason the government won't ban smoking.

Are the government making money from fireworks though....?

Wow! What a bunch of arseholes

I'd support a ban on selling to the general public

I’m up North I didn’t know we had so many Hindus around…

I don’t have babies and animals but I’m against individual fireworks in principle. There are lots of organised displays, not expensive and fun why add more stress for environment?

Don't ever move to east Sussex then

Some people thrive on sucking the fun out of everything

Fireworks are not FUN for everyone. Certainly not for most animals.

You are totally right .

We should bring back dog fighting. Loads of fun for the humans and only the animals that suffered. Ditto animals in circuses. Fun for all the family!