Banging on about fireworks again

[MsD]

New petition here.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petit...RaCB8p0HiN6qk0

[MsD]

Recent debate in Parliament:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Common...WSvahdekmmrwDg

[Sporting]

If you tried this in Valencia you'd get lynched!

[sw2borshch]

Setting off bastard fireworks all the fucking time for a quarter of the year?

[sw2borshch]

Our dad's got some tale about a lad he used to knock about with as a kid having a pocket full of fireworks and them going off and his bollocks being blown to Billog. I should ask him to tell it again.

[Sporting]

Not all the time but for most of the year: festivals, weddings, etc.

[sw2borshch]

Have you not told them they're shit for cunts? What's wrong with a good old bonfire and burning some plastic, eh?

[Sean of the Shed]

Signed. Fireworks should be treated in the same manner as other explosives with only licenced people being able to purchase them from appropriate suppliers. I fucking hate them. Our cat has spent the last two weeks disappearing under the bed every evening and the stray who comes for food 2-3 times a day and usually hangs around has become far more erratic and irregular.

[Auntie Beryl]

There's been some movement on this recently; well, Sainsbury's aren't selling fireworks at all this year.

I would hope that the general reduction in gatherings, allied to official civic events being kiboshed due to the pandemic, might mean a quiter evening than normal.

[DCI Harry Batt]

There's plenty bonfires in Valencia, you just have to know when to go.

[3 Colours Red]

...might mean a quiter evening than normal.

You' d think that, but no. I've still had to put up with a fortnight of what seem to be mortars being set off left, right and centre. I've felt the walls shake at least twice.

[Fussbudget]

A fortnight? Amateurs. Kids around here have been setting some off pretty much every night since September.

[Jah Womble]

Our dad's got some tale about a lad he used to knock about with as a kid having a pocket full of fireworks and them going off and his bollocks being blown to Billog. I should ask him to tell it again.

I once melted a friend's landlord's polystyrene ceiling tiles when I accidentally set off some fireworks indoors - but thankfully I can't compete with that.

I'm in the 'displays only'-camp these days. Must be my age.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I'll go and watch the display on Blackheath (given that it's walking distance) but on two conditions:

1. I get to make sarky "OOOOOH" noises
2. We go to a restaurant / pub / restaurant then a pub after.

Sadly none of this is happening this year. When I say sadly I very much mean this from the contexts of the poor sods in the hospitality game.

[Guy Profumo]

Aota, Lewes bonfire been cancelled, yet trains also cancelled from 19:00 this evening

Meanwhile in Brighton last night, just after lockdown, brawl erupts


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-54822699


GoSbtS, eh?

[Third rate Leszno]

This year it has defo been quieter where I live in the darkness on the edge of town, but don't think the same can be said of the more urban areas.

[Erskine Bridges]

Not a peep in Aberdeen’s leafy suburbs as yet, thankfully.

[sw2borshch]

Been going on here since dusk, but that's fine, it is actually Bommy Night. After this weekend it'll be mainly quiet until Christmas.

[Gangster Octopus]

Much to my surprise, I've just heard a firework. Wasn't expecting any before Diwalli.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Quite a few around these parts but we had quite a few last night, slightly surprisingly.

[Capybara]

Some in the middle of the day here. Nothing so far this evening.

[ChrisJ]

To the surprise of no-one, Glawster's been bangin' and sparrkling' like a good 'un since last Saturday. Cats unimpressed, but with the honourable exception of cheesy Dreamies^TM, pretty much nothing impresses them these days.

I'm usually a "only at public organised displays" firework fascist, but for some reason I'm feeling a little more tolerant this year.

[MsD]

My objections are mainly to the super-loud fireworks (and you know, you can buy quiet ones these days, if you don't get a positive thrill out of being a cunt) and their being let off at random times. Around here, as where I was before in Hackney, they're being let off in the day, right through the evening into the early hours.

The threat of terrorism is currently "severe". If there were to be a terrorist attack, we wouldn't know straight away as we're used to living in what sounds like a war zone. Also, fireworks are ***explosives*** and as I mention every year, my brother built a small bomb by emptying the powder from fireworks into a bottle when he was ten or eleven. Then there are the acts of sadism that I can't bear to read about, kids tying fireworks to cats etc.

When Diane Abbott tried to put a bill through before, Tony Blair said that anti-social behaviour legislation was sufficient. There is no way to catch someone randomly letting off fireworks, it's difficult to prove that they did it, and if it does go to court their defence can make it sound like harmless scampery on a par with knock-down Ginger.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I'm usually a "only at public organised displays" firework fascist, but for some reason I'm feeling a little more tolerant this year.

I'm not. I'd make them illegal.

[ChrisJ]

I'm not. I'd make them illegal.

Totally, or for public sale?