Motherfucking fireworks

[Sandrine1982]

How is this allowed past 8pm, I don't understand.

Cat is terrified, kid took 2 hours to get to sleep only to be woken up 10 min ago by more frigging fireworks.

how on earth is this still allowed??

I hate this time of year.

It's f** triggering. These twats should go and help in Gaza, I'm sure they would not be firing frigging fireworks after that experience !!

thanks for listening :( :( :(

I think those who revel in loud fireworks are sadistic attention seekers. Can’t enjoy a lovely light display quietly, no, it has to be loud and draw attention to themselves. If it distresses others, that’s an added bonus.

Im surprised the government hasn’t banned the bastards yet.

I love seeing fireworks but I would totally support a ban on general sale after going to a bonfire funfair and having teenagers shoot them into the crowd.

Now having 2 young kids, I would also support a cap on the noise they can make, especially after bedtime.

We’ve had them very loudly around here for 2 nights and the white noise machines we have for the kid just don’t cut it.

They were going off way past 11pm near me (south east) and I thought it was mad with it being a Monday night. They've been going off here since Friday, so it's not just one day. Most likely we'll have random ones going off right up until bonfire night now and beyond. Then more around NYE.

The biggest issue in my opinion is how loud they make them nowadays. If they could go back to being more of a visual thing rather than replicating mortar bombs then I don't think so many people would get upset. I personally wish we had a government who had the balls to either ban them from general sale (restrict them to private displays only), or have a law that only the "silent" fireworks can be sold (I know they're not silent, but they're much quieter).

Maybe I'm yearning to go back to the simplicity of my childhood where we had jumping jacks, catherine wheels nailed to the tree and pathetic rockets that barely left the garden 🤣

Have you tried a Thundershirt on him?
It's a "swaddle" in a light, breathable fabric.
Not all dogs like them, but it really helped my terrified dog.
I hope your dog is better soon.

And, unlike most of the responses, it's actually quite interesting.

Thanks. He’s not normally bothered by them although I too have noticed they are louder than in the past

the ones Last night were 2 gardens down and being let off randomly for about an hour - and they weren’t even very good ones!!

I don’t understand why thousands of people have their own shitty little displays rather than banding together to have a professional show in the local park or what not

So why the heart-stopping massively eardrum bursting BANG ............cunty chops

To the posters saying that only quiet fireworks should be allowed.. that is somewhat already the case. Comparatively.

Come to china on Chinese new year. The fireworks make the normal British ones seem silent. I've never seen massive roles of 200-500 fire crackers that sound like a machine gun of explosions going off in the uk.. or the banging fireworks that have no light and are just there to create as loud a bang as possible.

That being said, it is only for a small window here and they are as good as banned for the rest of the year. I'm ok with that, it's a reasonable compremise. Have a dedicated set of days, only a few, that you are allowed fireworks without a lisence. Any other time requires a licence. Then you will know that 2-5 days a year you'll have to deal with it, but outside of that it will be fine.

Here, they will probably go on for weeks now (or maybe after Halloween). Then kick off again before Christmas until the new year.

Every night, random times from different houses. No way to predict or manage. You can’t drug animals for weeks on end.

We are so joyless as a country.

A few fireworks past 8pm on New Years Eve, Diwali, 5th November is really not that bad.

It's infrequent, it causes little to no harm, it doesn't damage others property and it doesn't cost you anything other.

If you had a voting button suggesting it was illegal to use them after 8pm I think that would be what most people can agree on.

Very S Asian community here and for some reason some family have decided to celebrate with a nightly mega mortar bomb thing at 00:30 for three night in a row. They must know they are waking up thousands of people around them. Selfish.

Exactly. I used to live in a heavily Asian populated area, it was like a war zone ditch fireworks, literally ever my night, a week long wedding - fireworks in gardens religious celebration -fireworks in gardens (sometimes in the street), random night- fireworks.

Fireworks should be Nov 5, the Saturdays either side, national celebrations eg, jubilees, all organised displays.fireworks shouldn’t be sold to the public at all.

Do people have quite poor windows or are leaving them open? There are lots of fireworks round here too but as long as we keep them indoors & windows closed neither cat seems to notice, the noise is no worse than a tv. They've never woken the DC.

Why, because we don’t want our pets traumatised? We are a nation of animal lovers. The wellbeing of dogs etc of our wildlife come before some idiots right to set off fireworks on a random night.

It's literally Diwali, its not a random night. People claim its all year/for weeks on end, in reality there's always a glut of these posts around Diwali, Bonfire Night & NYE.

Ahh, I had forgotten Divali, that explains fireworks last night. Our dog opened the bedroom door and came in to lay by our beds, normally she sleeps on her sofa in the front room.

It's not just that though. The sodding things have been going off every night for the past week and will probably be going off most nights until mid November now.

Because we enjoy nothing. We have systematically complained our way out of every national celebration.

Here we go. The annual moaning threads about fireworks.

Get over it OP. The world won’t stop for your cat.

Great, isn’t it.

What's the relevance to Gaza what a strange thing to say

More fool you, if you put animals above humans living their lives.

I knew what day it was but had some go off at the back of our house and thought there was a fire.

Then it quietened down. But then I all kicked off again. I think there should be a time limit