To want bonfire night banned!!

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Am I? God damn fireworks I am so f**ked off with our neighbourhood sounding like a lively night on the streets of Baghdad every night this past week! If not banned couldn't the gov. only make them legal at professional organised displays?

YANBU at all. i hate it and cannot understand why normally peaceful people what to make noise like gunfire to scare animals and small children. let alone the safety aspect - i have always hated working in the nhs on the 5th November

YABU fgs

YANBU. Can't stand fireworks, just mini explosives, cause injuries each year, disturb everyone for 3 weeks either side of 5th November. I'm a kill-joy too I guess!

and deeply tasteless quip about Baghdad, get a grip!

I wouldn't mind bonfire NIGHT, but bonfire month pisses me off.

unclench.fireworks are fun.if you dont likey turn the telly up and ignore it.or tut loudly

I think the credit crunch is biting-we have had very few in the last week and less tonight (so far)usually it is continual for a month.
I think it should all be on 5th only and people shouldn't move it to a weekend. It is much better than Halloween IMO.

I love em..just got back from my dds we had mini firework party for my dgs and some friends they loved it..now watching local park display out of window
YABU

greensleeves the reference to Baghdad was quite accurate - visit or volunteer in an old folks home around this time of year and see how many people who've been in war zones think they're back there when people get fire-works-happy!

they are explosives so it was an apt reference

yabu

unless you wanted it banned for other reasons

YANBU it has just taken me an hour longer than usual to put the kids to bed as they are being woken every 5 secs by what sounds like a bomb going off and the dog is beside himself he has managed to get right behind the cabinets and is hiding for the duration. We will have them here now til midnight and then randomly til new years

SalbySea you could make the same argument for banning dogs from being out in public, because my octogenarian dementia-addled FIL thinks they are the wolves that savaged him while in prison in Siberia fifty years ago

They're a celebration, they're for kids, buy some earmuffs and take your grumps off to bed with you!

I'm in the 'organised displays only' camp. It's fine here but when I lived in Scotland I remember that same Baghdadian feel of the bloody things going off night after night after night, plus they're dangerous, to me says it's a no brainer that it should be restricted to organised displays. I love fireworks but there's a time and a place.

I'm sitting next to an open window and I jump a bit when a loud one goes off (I must be getting old) but I'm sticking up for the right to have fun.

Oh, I just love it. I've had a couple of my close neighbours and their children round for fireworks in the garden, sausages, my roasted veg tarts and red wine (ok, juice for kids) and it was so lovely. And dh loved his pyromaniac moment. I was doing it for Obama

I just want it banned within a 4 mile radius ofmy house till ds is 5 as he has just been woke up as the house shook and totally ruined corrie for me and then took and age to settle

I love fireworks.

Have spent last hour trying to get 3yr old dd to stay in her bed and go to sleep but she gets up screaming with every bang. (ds then follows her down - in case he gets told he can stay up!)

Still have no problems with that.

It's when some idiot decides to have a display (i.e. 10 mins of fireworks) at 3am that I have a problem. It is often after another idiot (or maybe the same one) has had a dispaly an hour earlier.

When this goes on night after night, it's very annoying (not to mention tiring, lol).

YABU.

Although I do think it should be restricted to bonfire night itself, and the weekend before/after.

Wouldn't have a problem for it to be restricted to professionally organised displays.

OMG hold the fireworks boys, Corrie's on!

rofl

oooh "downtown Baghdad" is an oft-heard quip

I must admit I would be happy if it was banned

I don't see the NEEED and it terrifies animals/young children

Greensleeves you may jest but i have no idea how it ended !!!

hmmm, my brother's in and around baghdad a lot, I don't find having that sort of horror likened to a few fireworks being let off in someone's back garden particularly funny

and I am not usually po-faced

I don't think it is particularly funny, but it is fairly common parlance

never heard it before

lol at "no idea what happened" nappyzone, I'll tell you - someone made a ribald remark in a pub and a load of fag-wizened old factory hags cackled, then some bloke shafted someone on a grubby little second-hand car deal, then someone nobbed someone else's bird, and then there was this close-up of someone standing in the street looking really miserable, and then the credits came up

am I close?