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 live in London and don't expect the city to be quiet after 8pm but don't think it's silly to expect private fireworks not to be going off over various days and at all hours.

Most of the activities you mention e.g. sirens, buses, bin lorries, delivery drivers etc are people going about their work and daily business and are an unavoidable aspect of city life - very different from selfish people setting off private fireworks, IMO.

URGH! This kind of attitude is such bullshit. Who cares about terrifying animals (pets, livestock, wildlife) to death - and YES this does happen regularly. Who gives a shit about children or adults with PTSD, anxiety, health problems etc. as long as you can have your moment of fun. Absolutely selfish.

We had some going off at 1am Monday morning! Woke us and the poor dog up
Why do they need to be SO loud and it's not just 1 or 2 days, goes on for weeks
Hate the things

Humans are able to live their lives quite well enough without fireworks, they aren’t exactly a human right.

It was all kicking off on the local FB pages about this last night. Our council have included our area in one of their exclusion zones, but only from 31/10 - 5/11. So can't celebrate bonfire night but Diwali is ok. It really was like a warzone.
I personally hate them, always was scared of the noise, used to hide under the kitchen table with the dog when I was a kid. I don't see why we can't have silent ones. I always feel for all the wildlife and pets, must be terrifying for them.

Or maybe some of us can find joy in activities that don’t terrify people and animals? Fireworks are a prime example of the selfishness of humans.

Loud noise isn’t acceptable after 10pm, and certainly after 11PM.

People seem to have double standards concerning Diwali and bonfire night. Very few people would be forgiving about midnight fireworks on bonfire night, but somehow it is ok in their minds for Diwali.

It is against noise regulations and totally inconsiderate (and is mostly just an ostentatious show of wealth to let £100s of fireworks off over 30 minutes or so).

We don’t need new regulations, just meaningful enforcement of existing ones without fear or favour.

I love Fireworks, I shall be buying fireworks, and having my own party where I let them off.

I have to put up with other peoples Cats & Dogs for 365 days a year. I’m allergic but who cares about that ? Dogs must be allowed in all venues,I love feeding the birds, but had to put up with fledglings being killed be cats this year .. but hey “it’s just what cats do”… and Dog Owners, if you can be bothered picking up your Dog Shit why take it home when you can hang the bag from a tree, or put it on the floor next to an ordinary bin. Not to mention the environmental impacts of feeding your pets and disposing of waste.

I might be anti-social once a year … whilst you lot are anti-social every single day, and then moan at me that your pet is scared.

And those activities seem to be sitting alone with a cat.

I didn't realise literally burning money to create huge bangs was essential for living life 🙄

So your cat is only afraid post 8pm?

Why are you banging on about Gaza?

Well, animals don’t have the right to live fireworks free either. 🤷‍♀️

Humans are above pets really, nuisance though it may be.

I was woken up just before midnight with some going off close by. Goodness knows by who as we are don’t live in a very diverse area. Thankfully there were no more than a handful, so the dogs settled down pretty quickly, but i was awake for ages.

The problem is that it's not only particular days, it's those days plus a window of week or more on either side (not every day necessarily, but some random subset of them), and at unreasonable hours of the night, plus random ones going off in the daytime too.

And every immigrant community thinks they can do it for their celebrations, so round here you get them for 4th of July and Chinese New Year and Diwali and goodness knows what else.

I would be very much in favour of restricting it to licensed displays.

Fireworks are a huge thing in East Sussex, and have been for well over a hundred years. Even small villages have their own "bonfire society", and the various societies travel en masse to each other's "nights" from mid-September to late November.

There'd be riots if they tried to restrict it to Nov 5th. It's a significant aspect of local culture, involves thousands of people and raises money for charities.

People here often have professional standard fireworks for weddings, big birthdays and other celebrations because the local bonfire societies have pyrotechnicians who have the necessary skills to put on professional quality displays for a fraction of the cost of hiring a professional company. They even have them at wakes for people involved in bonfire.

Any firework haters would be well advised not to move to East Sussex.

They were still going on at 2am round my way. I don't give a fuck about their religious celebrations - it doesn't give anyone carte blanche to be a twat to the neighbours.

When I am finally acknowledged as the Supreme Ruler of the Known Universe ( not long now, not long) the first thing I will do is ban fireworks. They were going off until 1.30 around here, and not little pretty fizzy ones either, those huge banging ones that sound like a cannon. We even had someone with one or two of those ready loaded boxes letting them off literally in the middle of the street next to cars on Sunday, and they left all the rubbish behind afterwards.

Another few days of Divali, then a couple of bangs for Halloween, then a week of November 5 th. Then a break until Christmas and New Year. Grrr.

agree with PP who said we've complained our way out of every bit of joy this country has.

all the posters whining about traumatising animals.. animals are traumatised every single day. They are killed for our food. They are killed by our cars on the road. They are taken away from their mothers so we can have said animals as pets. They go through so much in life for our 'benefit' that really a set of fireworks for a few weeks collectively over a year is the lesser of two evils.

sod your cat, I can't wait for the local display. Most children love them and only a very small amount of children are frightened of them. Again, the world shouldn't stop for the minority. Do you wish to ban driving so we don't end up with injured or killed animals? Do you eat meat?

get your kid some ear defenders and be done with it.

that being said I do think they should be kept to organised events at that.

lets all protest for the fireworks to be banned for the OPs flippin cat 👏🏼

I drive, eat meat and love fireworks.
but then again I'm not a misery and don't believe the world should stop due to my anxieties and contradictory theories.

Hold on, you're saying that bonfire night, which has been celebrated for HUNDREDS of years in the UK is far less culturally significant in the UK than Diwali?
Really? Is that where we are now?

I also hate fireworks. Always have. All that money going up in smoke. I also have cats and When it’s New Year’s Eve and fireworks night, I know the date so can plan for it and keep them in. With Dawali, it sees to go on for a week and it’s not just one date. So inconsiderate.

Yes, festival of light, not festival of bang bang bang. Lights couod be candles, silent fireworks etc. Or limited to certain times. Yes people can give their animals meds to cover an hour or 2's fireworks, but that wears off before it safe to be able to give again. When it 6 non stop hours of it like we had last night that's a bit excessive

Every flipping year, the same complaints.

”my dog/cat is terrified”

well you chose to have them - and I guarantee fireworks were a thing when you made that decision, so you decided to give a dog/cat a home in an environment where there would be potentially scary things happening multiple times a year. No one forced you to.

Also, there are thousands of ppl, adults and. children, who are terrified of dogs, and, unless they stay in their house, can’t avoid them 365 days a year.

“it stops my child from sleeping”
well can you honestly say your child has never disturbed someone else with crying, either thru the walls of your house, or in a shop/cafe? Plenty do, and again, you choose to have a child.

Im saying all this as someone who has a dog, who, while decidedly not happy, isn’t really terrified by fireworks, and a cat that definitely is, but that’s my job to manage, cos I chose to home them in a housing estate where fireworks were let off at times during the year.

My point is that none of us have an absolute right to never be inconvenienced by other people’s life choices, and our life choices aren’t magically better or more important that someone else’s, regardless of how trivial we think the are.

Cat having a right to roam, dog ownership, fireworks, and even having kids, can all potentially impact others negatively, yet are all legal, and all will be important to some, and an irritation to others.

Deal with your choices, live your life, and let others live theirs.

I agree in part, but fireworks provide so many negatives and very few positives. They are something that is unnecessary, it’s silly to compare them to living, sentient creatures that we share the planet with. I know 3 people that have scars from fireworks, one severe facial scars. I don’t spend much time thinking about them, but when I do, it’s crazy to me that they’re not banned

Everywhere I’ve lived in the UK, it’s not just one night for bonfire night or new year, it’s weeks either side. There are generally fireworks from October to January.

How the fuck is a Hindu festival more culturally significant than a historical English event that goes back centuries in ENGLAND?!
The fact you'd cancel an English event to replace it with a foreign event in England says it all really....Ignorant and entitled.